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Eighteenth and Western

by Laura Jenski

Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women’s rights. She failed in 1970, but now she’s in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago’s Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center’s deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from her grandmother’s ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean’s future.

Kill Me Now

by Christopher Ridley

KILL ME NOW is a satirical whocareswhodunnit centered around Damien, a gay man found dead in the street of the Hollywood Hills, wearing only a ratty pair of briefs and a cherry-blossomed kimono. Here you'll play detective, the testimonials of those closest to him-his best friend, her girlfriend, his two exes, boss, new best friend, and even his cat-laid out before you. These tea-spilling Angelenos will take you on absurd tangents under the guise of providing deep insights into Damien's murder. ... more

Insect Zoo

by Paul Rood

A satire of office politics and radical feminism, which is set in an archive during the pre-computer age. A false accusation of sexual harassment threatens the career of a trainee archivist named Tom Barnet. His only ally is an eccentric colleague nicknamed Bugman who collects insects for a hobby. Bugman provides the main theme of the story—that life in an archive is similar to life among insects. In the book-ending reverie, radical feminists plan a “final solution” for men.

Tatae's Promise: You will live... you will tell

by Sherry Maysonave and Moises J. Goldman, PhD

Based on the never-before-told, true story of Hinda Mondlak’s mind-boggling survival during the Holocaust and her daring escape from Auschwitz with her younger sister.

Synopsis: Hinda Mondlak was eighteen years old when an axe crashed through the front door of her home in Zielun, Poland.

Nazi soldiers swarmed inside. Their guns cocked at Hinda and her family, they commanded the Mondlaks to leave their rightful home... the so... more

Neil Vickers

by Neil Vickers

Born in the late fifties, went to school in Derby England, mainly midstream education. It was a lack of concentration that made me lose my place at the top grammar school, the exams went disastrously wrong. It was never a good thing asking me to concentrate, my mind would always be somewhere else, thinking all the time about other things. Being at school was a secondary chore in place of a primary, although I was always marked good for turning in every day. I had little absences from school but ... more

If Not the Whole Truth

by Claire S. Arbogast

Gritty Courage and Love in the Endless Struggle for Power A young woman struggles to ferret out her place in the counterculture of the late 1960s era only to find in 2022 America that everything she holds dear, even her own life, is in jeopardy. Connie Borders sees the changes coming down in 1969 and refuses to let them pass her by. Rejecting her parents’ outdated lifestyle and the narrow, whitebread path prescribed for her, Connie leaves Indianapolis for California to stop the Vietnam Wa... more

Mit Out Sound

by Rick Lenz

Would-be movie producer Emily Bennett didn't believe the legend of a lost movie, starring James Dean and John Wayne. But when she meets two uncannily talented celebrity impersonators-Jimmy Riley and Tom "Duke" Manfredo, and stumbles upon the elusive film editor who stole the master negative of Showdown, it dispels her doubts, fills her with a courage she didn't know she had, and she sets out to complete the movie. But as Emily and her stars prepare for day one of shooting, they find themselv... more

Raising Women

by Shannon Waite

You are on the precipice of womanhood and have become obsessed with an ex-convict, Roman. She introduces you to the dangerous and honest side of life that no one else has been able to. As she unapologetically places you in scandalous situations, you begin making self-destructive decisions. Depending on which decisions you choose, you may taste Roman’s blood, get branded with a searing screwdriver, or date a married man – all while each choice challenges what it me... more

Porgy and Bess - The Sequel

by Denisha Hardeman, Harold Goldberg, Frada Goldberg

What happens when Porgy sets off for New York to rescue Bess from his arch-enemy Sportin’ Life? If you have ever wondered, this sequel is the book for you. When Porgy, a crippled Black beggar, returns to Charleston's Catfish Row from jail, he learns that Bess, the love of his life, has been drugged and taken to New York by Sportin’ Life. Porgy is determined to rescue her, and must overcome immense obstacles to get to New York to find her. In her cocaine haze, Bess yearns for Porgy but fee... more

Roll the Sun Across the Sky

by Barbara Linn Probst

From the ruins of Egypt to the privileged life of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Roll the Sun Across the Sky is the story of a woman’s odyssey through the maze of love, loyalty, recklessness, and remorse, as the consequences of her acts ripple through the generations. Approaching a milestone birthday, Arden Rice has seen it all: three marriages, hardship and wealth, choices she both regrets and defends, all fueled by the same fierce desire—to give her daughter the best possible life. At leas... more

Black Witch Moth: A Man's Spiritual Journey to Find His Destiny

by C. Michael Curry

Julian Valladares is on a spiritual journey. Julian’s father Ramón, Ernest Hemingway’s Major Domo at the Finca Vigía and a Palo priest, has died, leaving Julian uncertain of his future. While Julian’s work is infused with the Palo and Afro-Cuban spirituality so prevalent on the island, his connection to this heritage is tenuous and he is more desperate than he cares to admit to visit his father in the spirit world. Traveling with his close friend and collaborator Max Albury and their partners ... more

Patton Mountain

by Ian Feldman

A secret document concealed since WWII reveals a shocking truth, that Allied Commandos had not thwarted Germany’s nuclear bomb by destroying Norsk Hydro in Norway, they had only driven it underground forcing the creation of a device hundreds of times more powerful than the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima. But only one man can stop its detonation in a major British City and the British don’t trust him; he’s a Nazi. Preview Statement of the Novel Prior to the end of WWII, an ultra secret Nazi... more

A Siren Called Truth

by Patricia Roberts Wright

A siren’s call. Fantastic fossil discoveries. Two driven adversaries. It’s post-Civil War America, the period of western expansion—and the golden age of paleontology. Edward Cope, the genius, self-didactic naturalist and scion of a prominent Philadelphia family, is determined to unearth the fossils of America’s extinct creatures. But in O.C. Marsh, Cope confronts a powerful rival; Marsh’s expeditions are well funded through his uncle George Peabody’s endowments to Yale. Hell-bent on becoming the... more

Dionysus and Hestia: Rise and Fall of the Olympians, Second Edition

by Dennis Wammack

Dionysus, oldest son of Zeus and a disciple of Titan Queen Kiya, does the best he can to alleviate the damage inflicted upon the world by the we-want-it-all Olympians led by Hestia, oldest child of Cronos and Rhea. The very survival of civilization is at stake. Who won is not entirely clear. Third in the six book series, "The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True" which supposes mankind's Protohistory as inspired by Canannite, Greek, and Egyptian myths.

Bridge of Stones

by Alan Taylor

The Closing Days

by Isaac Kovach

A taut drama set in the smoke-filled cafes and cobblestone backstreets of Vienna, The Closing Days follows an American college student entangled between the woman he loves and her family's past.

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