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  • Ambition, Arrogance & Pride

    by Bublish, Inc.

    Three Weddings—Two Rival Families In 1735 Richard Derby, a ship’s master in colonial Salem, Massachusetts, married Mary Hodges, a merchant's daughter.

    The alliance was good business, and Mary Hodges was a willing bride. Richard prospered, retired from the sea, and founded his own merchant house. With one exception, Richard's sons went to sea. Hasket Derby stayed ashore, learning to manage the trading network his father built. George Crowninshield was the youngest of ... more

  • A Little Rain

    by Bill VanPatten

    WINNER OF THE 2022 BRONZE MEDAL FOR SELF-PUBLISHING REVIEW BOOK AWARDS

    Sixteen-year-old Alexander Chance’s love of another boy has turned into an obsession—and the consequences have pushed his family to the brink. Sitting in a courtroom, he reflects on the past four months and what led him to the present situation. His father watches a quiet and dissociated son during the proceedings, forcing him to confront his own secretive past and the repressed sexuality that destroyed a... more

  • Maria Isabel

    by Petru Plesa
    The novel is a combination between mystery and suspense which introduces you to the subject from the first page. The book reveals the extremes of the human condition from the most absurd to the most uplifting, a condition that has been present with us at all times. Maria Isabel is a fiction novel that unfolds in three dimensions, intertwining in a harmonious and intriguing way.The first dimension is a historical one, an account of life, people and places, from 17th century Spain. The second i... more

  • R & R: A Sex Comedy

    by E.M. Schorb
    \tSerge Bering-Strait, a young poet living with his activist mother and aunties has just been employed as copywriter for “Women’s Omnibus” magazine. His boss, Bettina Battle, the “Battle of Britain,” hails from “Swinging London”—the magazine as well as the city—and is out to deflower him. On the sly, he’s writing Resurgius, a novel set in a universe governed by women, where the Dongs are in revolt.

  • An Eternity of Mirrors: Best Short Stories of Johnny Townsend

    by Johnny Townsend
    From over 500 short stories published over three decades, author Johnny Townsend presents several of his favorites. A gay couple steals from the rich to support their favorite charities. Two young women vie for the affection of the same missionary. A father with a speech impediment is forced into the spotlight after his daughter survives a school shooting. A reporter seeks the identity of Salt Lake’s new superhero—a masked man wearing temples clothes who mysteriously shows up at crime scenes... more

  • Scar Songs

    by W. Royce Adams
    SCAR SONGS contains nine stories dealing with male protagonists at various stages in life who experience events that leave either a psychological or physical memory scar. The stories cover dilemmas such as struggles with family loyalties, guilt after catching a shoplifter, suffering the loss of a loved one, the inability to forgive, and the breakdown of a professor while teaching his class.

  • When a Phoenix Rose Nevermore: Cycles of the Phoenix II

    by C.A. Nicholas
    Dear Literary Traveler, Another life-affirming journey between you and C.A. Nicholas awaits! In this standalone sequel to Cycles of the Phoenix, you will encounter tragic tales and surreal comedies, as well as degrees of horror. Yet the heroes of these diverse, interlaced, and multigenerational stories share a desire to show you how to find happiness amid persistent sorrow; their mantra is this: you are wonderful because you exist.

  • The Servant of Helaman

    by M.D. House

    While a mighty nation reels following the assassination of its chief leader, its greatest enemy prepares to launch another bold invasion aimed at the subjugation of the free people of Nephi, about fifty years before the Savior’s long-prophesied advent to the world.

     

    Caught up in the swirling cacophony of events is a young soldier and spy, a former orphan whose growing testimony of the coming Christ will be tested and refined as he engages in momentous battles to preser... more

  • The Barabbas Legacy

    by M.D. House

    In this poignant capstone to the trilogy, the man called Barabbas—infamous former thief, murderer and prisoner turned Christian—and his wife Chanah continue their mission of spreading the gospel across the known world as cauldrons of political and military chaos boil across the Roman Empire. Nero is increasingly erratic, and it’s only a matter of time before the sharp knives of imperial politics finish him off. Various successors vie for position. Who will strike first, and ... more

  • Pillars of Barabbas

    by M.D. House

  • I Was Called Barabbas

    by M.D. House

  • The Final Words of T. Harley

    by Rex Eloquens
    In a suicide note riddled with the taste of life, Terrance Harley recounts the diseased tales of his youth. Never quite fitting in, the venomous ire he has for the masses warps his life into something he can no longer enjoy. As a result, the affections he nurtures mythically inflates his loved ones to a universal scale. The only issue is, what happens to them when Harley's darkness takes over?

  • Levinson of Harvard

    by L.M. Vincent
    At the turn of the 20th century, a young Jewish immigrant living in the North End of Boston yearns to be a college man, no matter the cost. Five decades later his grandson embarks on his own college education and comes face-to-face with the unexpected secrets of his long-dead grandfather. Through dual narratives across time, LEVINSON OF HARVARD traces the parallel stories of grandfather and grandson, as each grapples with misguided aspirations, antisemitism, the loss of innocence, and the weigh... more

  • Anangokaa

    by Cameron Alam
    Upper Canada, 1804, on the edge of Chippewa territory. Flora MacCallum wakes from a malarial coma and witnesses the staggering loss her siblings have endured during their first days on the mosquito-infested banks of the Chenail Écarté. Lured by Lord Selkirk’s promise of fertile grazing land and freedom far from the Highland clearances, Flora’s father staked his life to bring his family across the Atlantic. During the struggling frontier settlement’s first bleak North American winter, Flora ... more

  • Those People Behind Us

    by Mary Camarillo
    Beneath the affluent veneer of a Southern California housing tract, five neighbors (a realtor, an aerobics teacher, an ex-con, a Vietnam vet, and a teenage boy) confront death, betrayal, financial decline, and loneliness, while trying to raise teenagers and care for aging parents. Set in the politically tumultuous summer of 2017, each character searches for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.

  • Hibernaculum

    by Anthony Doyle
    Seth has finally decided to do it. Yumi has already done it. Walt’s wife is doing it right now, again. And Meghan wants to understand why anyone would want to do it at all, and why one particular consortium is so eager to make sure they do. Set in a very near-future world where synthetic human hibernation has become a reality, with purpose-built hibernation facilities in most major cities, Hibernaculum explores the many facets of a technology that promises to unburden a world on the brink of c... more
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