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Going, Going, Gone!
by Steve HermanosThe quest: write the most exciting baseball novel ever.
Description: An earthquake decimates San Francisco’s baseball stadium. Two players and their manager are trapped. With water rising, the trio crawls through a gash in the wall. Naked and penniless, they climb through the muck onto shore. Downtown San Francisco is on fire. They can not find their stadium, or any new buildings, or the parking lot with their fancy cars. No one has a cell phone to call for help. André Vele... more
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Byron
by Robert M TuckerUpon graduating from Harvard University in the field of molecular biology, Byron MacKenzie recalls the adventuresome and traumatic events of her childhood in a Louisiana backwater town during the social and political turmoil of the ‘60’s that shaped her future and her quest for integrity and truth. -
Medicine Goes Corporate
by Jack Spenser, M.D.This is a book about injustice. Two large corrupt companies motivated only by greed and power attempt to destroy the careers and lives of two emergency room doctors, a physician hospitalist, and finally a lone pathologist/physician. It’s also a gripping medical/legal thriller with conflict, duplicity, heartache, and legal brinksmanship. Medicine Goes Corporate is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the current condition of American healthcare. -
Secrets and Sunflowers
by Joann KederThree women. Two new lanes of asphalt. A whole lot of trouble. In the sequel to the award-winning novel, The Story of Keilah, the entire town of Sandy Salts is divided over the addition of two more lanes of highway running through town the center of town. The handsome road foreman, in town to construct the new highway, has caught Keilah's eye. When he discovers a mysterious room underneath her coffee shop, it brings the two of them as they try to solve its origins before the highway covers... more -
On the Waterfront
by Mike McCoyAt thirteen years old, Danny Novak faced challenges of self-acceptance, abuse, mortality, and death. It was the best summer of his life and the darkest days he ever lived.
When Danny arrives at Camp Baker in June 1978, he is happy to be away. Away from his mom, his bratty little brother, their crappy house, and his sad life. Danny is the youngest boy hired to work as camp staff, but he’s confident he’ll fit in. He quickly learns that he doesn’t.
Mark Colby, at si... more
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The Chaos Agents
by F. Fox NorthTold in four inter-connecting narratives from the mid 50s through the early aughts, The Chaos Agents explores the impact and implosion of Saffron, a mid-century musical phenom led by Baron Templeton & Edmund Hammond – whose breakup is the stuff of legends. From a small British town in the 50s, to young brothers struggling with the grit of NYC in the 70s, to two camp counselors falling in love to a backdrop of 90s rock, to a secluded cabin in the early aughts where the offspring of Edmund ... more -
The Wisdom of Winter
by Annie SeylerTangled influences compel a young girl to hide her true nature until one weekend in her mid-20s when the truths she’s been suppressing call her to a crossroads she can’t avoid.
Insulated from societal mores by her glamorous mother and humble father, six-year-old Beatrice—barefoot in ratty overalls—tunes into animals, senses the unspoken, and thrives. But when tragedy penetrates their rural Vermont bubble, Beatrice is thrust into a world that tells her she has no ... more
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The Renunciation
by Alex McGlothlinMichael Winston is on the verge of losing everything. He’s lost his girlfriend. His job is hanging by a thread. His future, it seems, hinges on flying thousands of miles to the wilds of Costa Rica to track down a championship surfer who, for unknown reasons at the height of his career, became a recluse three years ago. Though Michael’s searching for a story, what he finds in Costa Rica is of far greater significance than a mere ripping good yarn . . -
RIDE the WILD WIND - Book II - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - The Witch's Grave
by Josephine AshtonRide the Wild Wind, Book II - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - the Witch's Grave, is a sequel to Book I - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies. However, it's a stand-alone book, like the first, mystery, murder, love, loss, life, new friends, new enemies, in this fictional southwestern rural town and county, circa 1965, who live in, or pass through, or threaten this home-town in southwestern New Mexico. Like Brigadoon, Aragón Valley is there, it's inhabitants revolve around the hub who is t... more -
RIDE the WILD WIND - Book I - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies
by Josephine AshtonRIDE the WILD WIND - Book II - Sheriff Robert Gallegos - Friends and Enemies Sheriff Robert Gallegos, tall, handsome, quiet, friendly, Native American/Hispanic, an ex WWII Marine is determined that the encroaching Juarez, Mexico drug cartel that will stop at nothing to take over his Southwestern New Mexico, Aragón Valley - will not, on his watch, succeed. But as intimidation, rape and murder stalk the rural community, the reality of the threat, this summer of 1965, grows ominously closer. Galle... more -
LITTLE BRAVEBIRD and the Grandparents' Gifts
by Josephine AshtonLittle Bravebird and the Grandparent's Gifts is fiction, and, like the classics, for both children, youth and grown-ups. Its is historical fiction in that there are parallel stories: one that of Little Bravebird's Navaho and French - American grandparents, WWII and the Navaho Code-Talkers and life after that; the other, a coming of age story of their orphaned grandson, Little Bravebird, age 5, who, through struggling with learning, and in particular, reading has an awesome memory and is, in the ... more -
The Road to Kedarnath: Everyone is entitled to improbable gifts of grace
by Immanual JosephArjuna travels to the sacred Kedarnath mountain in the Himalayas to kill himself. Once a successful software engineer in the United States, he has spent the past three years in the streets of India as a beggar, mendicant, madman, thief, and murderer. The universe sends Arjuna a lifeline in the form of a humble but enlightened tea-seller, who convinces Arjuna to spend the winter with him in a cave atop the mountain. What follows is a journey of inner healing and spiritual metamorphosis, and Arjun... more -
Man in the Bath
by Kit DerrickThe ‘Man in the Bath’ videos were an overnight internet sensation. Dr David Dunn was as surprised as anyone when his philosophies and thoughts on the World went viral, and he unexpectedly gathered a huge cult following from the numerous occupants of cyber-space who seemed lost in life, desperate for answers, and happy to accept his wisdom, insights, and guidance, as gospel. But the internet can be an untameable beast, and before he even realised the extent of his new influence, some followers ... more -
Under the Moon in Illinois
by Kipling KnoxThis collection of interconnected stories is set in the fictional town of Middling, where ghosts conspire to redeem a troubled community. We follow a group of eccentric characters yearning for something better--a well-intentioned criminal takes on a corrupt pastor, a young man chases a ghost to impress his first date, a legendary phantom hitchhiker fulfills a dangerous promise, the spirit of a guilt-stricken ad man tries to fix a corrupt councilman. Combining social satire with humor and tragedy... more -
Lost Souls of Leningrad
by Suzanne ParryJune 1941. Hitler’s armies race toward vulnerable Leningrad. In a matter of weeks, the Nazis surround the city, cut off the food supply, and launch a vicious bombardment. Widowed violinist Sofya and her teenage granddaughter are cornered in the crumbling city. On Leningrad’s outskirts, Admiral Vasili Antonov defends his homeland and fights for a future with Sofya. Meanwhile, Yelena’s soldier fiancé transports food across the Ice Road—part of the desperate effort to save Leningrad. With thei... more -
Nine Days
by Judy Lannon
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