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General Fiction (including literary and historical)

  • Existential Masques

    by Steven Furr
    Existential Masques is a fictional coming of age story of friendship, love, tragedy, and quests for answers. The narrative delves into mental health, marital problems from a child’s perspective, loss of loved ones, and physical and emotional trauma. While fictional, the book’s subject matter was inspired by events that the author experienced during adolescence. Set at a small private university in the fall of 1977, the story opens during a nightmare that William, a college freshman, is experi... more
  • Erev: The Evening Years of Reuben Gurewitz

    by Anne Shmelzer
    A retired Ottawa physician continues to grieve the death of his wife as a resultof a tragic accident five years previously. He resolves that he must restrain his constant ruminations and accept her death. He decides to re-visit the central Ontario city where he was born and bred, finds his once vibrant Jewish community in decline, but remembers Laura, his cherished freind of early years, finds her, and they unite in a twilight-years romance full of hope.
  • Ellington Hall

    by C.J. Sweet writing as Caden St. Claire
    After her mother’s mysterious death, all Phoebe wants is a quiet life as a fashion designer—not marriage. But her uncle threatens legal action to take the cottage and land she’s loved since childhood. In order to prevent him from stealing her inheritance she must find the father she never knew and enter into a marriage of convenience. Soon she journeys with her new husband to South Africa in the days leading up to a Boer war, struggling to a past and a future amid assassination attempts, betray... more
  • If Only

    by Matthew Tree
    In Saint James' Park, London, the police apprehend a young man who is carrying a bag full of high explosives in one hand and a collection of letters sent to his grandfather by the writer Malcolm Lowry in his inside pocket. In the course of the following interrogation, we discover the strange past and secret phobias of the detainee, and the emotional link between his actions and the Lowry letters.
  • WAITING FOR PAINT TO DRY

    by Lia Mack

    Since sprinting away from her sister's wedding (and knocking over a bridesmaid in the process) Matty Bell has lived in a self-made monochromatic life of work-eat-sleep-survive.

    In and out of work, she hasn't seen her family in over a decade, lives vicariously through her best friend's seemingly perfect life. And the only goal she has (other than filling her stomach) is to avoid any and all reminders of her birthday. It only brings her pain.

    But when life catc... more

  • The Difference

    by C. D’Angelo

    When anxiety-prone Rachel Granza learns that her growing sense of emptiness is affecting her relationship with her almost perfect boyfriend and that she’s jeopardizing any possibility of a marriage proposal, she knows she must pull herself out of her funk. But how? A dream apartment in New York City, a thriving psychotherapy practice, and her unique obsessions with topics like the Titanic don’t even make her feel grounded anymore. Red alert!

    Trying to find... more

  • The Visitor

    by C. D’Angelo

    Fiercely independent Mary Pontrelli is blindsided when the New Orleans building housing her New Age store and upstairs apartment is listed for sale. Worse yet, a developer wants to destroy it and her high school ex-boyfriend—ahem, nemesis—is leading their charge. But this budding sweet spot for that weasel from the past can’t happen since traitors never change.

    The best chance Mary has to save her cherished French Quarter building is to join forces with the other busin... more

  • Scoundrel in the Thick

    by B.R. O'Hagan

    Colorado, 1882. When his best friend’s fiancée is kidnapped, an unlikely hero must battle robber barons, bandit gangs, the US Cavalry, and Cheyenne warriors to bring her home. Along the way he will also have to foil a plot to steal a country.

    Civil war hero and adventurer Thomas Scoundrel didn’t expect the search for his friend’s fiancée in frontier Colorado to be easy. He also didn’t expect to be beaten and tossed into a d... more

  • Wake Up the Night

    by Kenneth A. Silver
    This is a collection of stories, of words and ideas that flow like a dream, but is there anything less predictable or quite so fickle as a dream? Ken Silver creates narratives that are decidedly daring, and he is never afraid to reach, but never beyond the point at which (with lawyerly precision) he is unable to support his conclusions, scientifically or otherwise. Make no mistake though, it is hardly a tame piece of writing, but a rich harvest of beautifully imagined and thoroughly engrossing t... more
  • 979-8714216039

    by Isaac Kal
    As the clouds of war and anti-Semitic feelings gather pace in 1930’s Europe, Abraham recognizes the danger that he and others are facing and decides to leave his comfortable life in Germany and travel with his family to Israel. There he intends to make a new life, far from the gathering storm, but life as an exile means a different set of hardships and as a means to support his family he eventually enlists in the British Royal Pioneer Corps, the only unit in the British military where an enemy... more
  • On the Precipice of the Labyrinth

    by Brian Snowden

    The novel takes place in the late 1930s and involves William Benning, a young American man who finishes college and has had a strong introduction to the Spanish language. Benning graduates from the University of Virginia in 1937 and has learned about what is happening in Europe in general, and Spain specifically, during that tumultuous decade. His interest in continuing to learn the Spanish language and see for himself what is happening in Spain compel him to begin the improbable journey.

  • On the Edge of Twilight

    by Aaron T Knight
    World War II split the world into the free world and an axis of oppression. This novel explores how close fascism came to ruling the world. All the chips were on the table when General Eisenhower made the decision to begin the largest invasion force in history across a channel famous for its fickle ways. We could have lost the war in Europe if the Nazis had enough time to put into action a number of super weapons actually in existence in 1944. The allies were unaware of the futuristic machines ... more
  • Do Over

    by Juliet Rose
    Samantha Rutliff has spent her life trying to stay in the middle of the road, running when things got tough and suffering from an undiagnosed dissociative disorder. After committing a terrible act, she ends up hundreds of miles away in a random beach town, with a large knot on the side of her head and all of her belongings in the back of her car. Determined to stay and start over, she takes a job at a beachside restaurant, which leads to forming a friendship with Smitty, a local lifeguard and su... more
  • We Don't Matter

    by Juliet Rose
    At fifteen years old Aidan Osher lost his older brother to a drug-induced suicide. Now, at twenty-two, about to graduate from film school in Seattle, he is struggling with knowing who he is or where he belongs. A chance meeting with another skateboarder, Zeke, launches Aidan into an unfamiliar world both inside himself and out. As their friendship unfolds, Aidan is drawn to Zeke in a way he can’t explain. Zeke’s openness about his own homosexuality and abuse from the family and church he was rai... more
  • Before the Time Machine

    by Lisa M. Lane
    What would happen if a historical scholar of today could meet a budding writer from a century before? In 19th century England, young H.G. Wells struggles to overcome his lower-class origins to pursue his dreams of becoming a science teacher. In present-day California, middle-aged Katherine dedicates her historical studies to young Wells’ life, traveling to England to immerse herself in his world. Their trajectories converge across time, creating a friendship as inspiring as it is unlikely. It’s ... more
  • The Island Classic

    by Bill Thesken
    Randy Chevois lives an unhurried life. His idea of settling down is deciding what board to ride that day. Lives in a house on the beach, owns a semi-successful surf shop. Does what he wants when he wants. The only thing missing from a perfect life is his name on the perpetual surf trophy for ‘The Island Classic’ local surf contest, which is coming up in a couple of days. But when his girlfriend’s biological clock starts ticking, and his young niece and nephews pay an unexpected visit, his life ... more
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