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The Secret Gift

by Joseph Tristan

“The Secret Gift” is a story that exemplifies the positive virtues of life. A story of family, friends, faith, and love, and how life becomes complete when you bond all four together. “The Secret Gift” is the story of a gifted heart surgeon, Landon Rief. Landon retires after thirty-five years of treating people with heart conditions. Landon begins his retirement life by traveling abroad to initiate his bucket list. While traveling through Germany, a mysterious stranger visits him and he le... more

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by P.A. Callaro

In this collection of twelve insightful and evocative stories, vivid characters bruised by their relationships, their decisions, or by life itself are compelled to move in new directions. These are everyday people tempted, or forced, to search for truth, guided by the signposts of their urban world. But along the way, each discovers a primordial truth: that the world is indifferent, and its signposts are ambiguous, often concealing truth rather than illuminating it. Written with fearless intr... more

Psychosis & Guitars by Batson Sludge

by Batson Sludge

Batson Sludge lives in an abusive household. He is placed in a mental hospital. He develops imaginary helpers as coping mechanisms. He discovers his gift for making music. He is released from the hospital and starts a band. Music becomes his therapy and coping mechanism. He becomes a legendary, infamous rock star.

The Making of Genevieve

by Judy Lannon

Living a privileged life on the shores of Newport, RI, sixteen-year-old Genevieve Lemaire has her future carefully planned. She will finish high school, graduate from college, and become a sought-after interior designer. Marriage, a husband, and children are not in the immediate plan.

However, it is the year 1940, and world events are about to take unexpected turns as they intertwine with Genevieve’s choices. Do her choices begin with her new neighbor, the handsome Nicky Reynolds,... more

The Faces of Unborn Butterflies

by Mariela G. George

"The Faces of Unborn Butterflies" is a deeply moving and thought-provoking novel that skillfully delves into a myriad of societal issues while navigating the complexities of trauma, loneliness, and the quest for self-discovery. The narrative artistry weaves an intricate tale that employs metaphors and poetry to convey profound messages about human existence, relationships, and personal growth.

The story primarily follows Investigator Adriana Denkova, a Bulgarian immigrant with two deca... more

Tallstone and the City: A New Heaven and Earth, Second Edition

by Dennis Wammack

Tallstone and the City is first in a six-book series. It tells the simple story of two members of the Clan of the Serpent from their birth through their death—Pumi the stonecutter and Valki the gatherer. Pumi and Valki—through innocent altruistic acts of living—invent sex, create a city, domesticate wheat, establish science, create animal husbandry, and thereby lay the foundation of civilization. The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True is a character-driven suis generalis ser... more

Head Fake

by Scott Gordon

Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he’s struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach. Every instinct tells Mikey to get as far away from this school as possible. Coaching these kids, who have been arrested for who-knows-what, would be difficult for... more

Bridges Between Our Hearts: Book Three in the Love That Does Not Die Trilogy

by Jennifer Collins

Bridges between Our Hearts continues Larissa's winding journey through the anguish of grief as she resolves to live life to its fullest. Challenges in the world around her and changing family configurations create emotional chasms she never imagined. Faced with choices between connection or further loss, opportunities to build bridges emerge - allowing Larissa to see clearly that love does not ide. Quite the opposite.

We Are Not Saints: The Acolyte

by H Les Brown

It’s hard enough just being fifteen… Randy Carter might as well be on his own. He’s an only child whose mother and stepfather have better things to do than raise him. Raised by the Davis family next door, his two great passions are his skateboard and his church. He dreams of becoming a priest like Father Sean, his pastor and confidant. As a gay boy, he worries the church he loves might not accept him. And then he meets Michael, a new boy in town, and their chemistry is instantaneous. Whe... more

Elysian Fields

by Twila Gingerich

Quiet and unworldly Imogen has spent twenty-four years locked in a mind hell-bent on her demise. Isolated from her peers by the oddities of her mental illness, she’s more acquainted with counsellors’ and doctors’ offices than classrooms or house parties. On the precipice of graduating from university and happy with her boyfriend Jesse, Imogen can finally see the possibility of a normal future. When an unwanted pregnancy threatens her well-being and compromises the medication she depends on, ... more

No One Is Good Except God Alone: God's Ultimatum for the Church to Pierce through Darkness, Defeat Evil, Conquer the World

by Hanh Nguyen

This book unfolds the reality of Isaiah 5:20-21 of the present world where evil is called good and good is called evil. In contrast to such confusion of good and evil, the Goodness of God surpasses all human conception and stands alone with its unique and supreme standards that cannot be changed by man's opinions. As the Church is called to rise and shine the Glory of God, her only avenue is to know the Goodness of God, operate by the direction of the Goodness of God so she can conquer the world... more

The Ghosts of the Past

by Luigi Pascal Rondanini

Antonio and Giorgio, two old friends, recall their adolescent years when their friendship was interrupted for no apparent reason. They retrace the choices and life paths that led them away from each other. They face old grudges, jealousies, and misunderstandings. On this day of revelations and new awareness, the two friends discover that they have changed and no longer know each other as they once did. Yet, the bond that united them emerges intact, ready to be renewed, if only they know ho... more

The Childgrove

by John Goldsberry

In the summer of 1966, nine-year-old John is thrust into a mystery where his own voice beckons him towards a truth he has carried since birth—a truth with an unspeakable cost. Meanwhile, across the years, in 1914, another young soul named Edward grapples with the haunting family secrets that bind him. Linked by threads of tragedy, redemption, pain, and triumph, their parallel journeys converge, and the bond between the two boys transcends the limitations of time itself, imparting lessons that ec... more

Genesis: The Grail Knight (Footnail)

by AK Howard

What power does the lost Holy Grail hold? In the heart-stopping fourth installment of the Footnail series, Genesis and her team face her most challenging quest yet. New clues emerge leading to the search for the lost Holy Grail. Leading her group to be fragmented into different paths, and the trials that were supposed to unite them have pulled them apart. As Gen confronts the echoes of her fractured team, she discovers a dual battle awaiting her. In her visions, a mysterious white stone... more

Zodiac Pets

by Eric Giroux

In his follow-up to Ring On Deli, Eric Giroux returns to the hard-luck hamlet of Pennacook, Massachusetts, for a comic novel about small towns and democracy. Wendy Zhou has just lost her father and is off to a brawling start in Pennacook, where floods have canalized roads and “dumpster living” is the next big thing. She finds a new sense of mission after joining the other middle-schoolers staffing the town paper, the Pennacook Beat. But when dark forces--includin... more

Talmadge Farm

by Leo Daughtry

It’s 1957, and tobacco is king. Wealthy landowner Gordon Talmadge enjoys the lavish lifestyle he inherited but doesn’t like getting his hands dirty; he leaves that to the two sharecroppers – one white, one Black – who farm his tobacco but have bigger dreams for their own children. While Gordon takes no interest in the lives of his tenant farmers, a brutal attack between his son and the sharecropper children sets off a chain of events that leaves no one unscathed. Talmadge Farm is a sweeping dram... more

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