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Rashai: The Forbidden Moran
by Ted WaldeAll her life, Rashai has wanted to become a warrior. Every time she stops by the Emanyatta, she thinks of her father, Kapshan, who forbade her from ever joining the morans. When she overhears plans from the neighboring village to kidnap her father and plunder Etikinya’s uranium mines, her life takes a terrifying turn. Against everyone’s better judgement, she follows the perpetrators to their hideout in the train station to stop them in their tracks. Up until now she has no idea the enemy is s... more -
Sudan: Escape from Voi
by Ted WaldeA genius genetic engineer discovers a protein that will protect the last surviving northern white rhinoceros from poaching. Upon publishing his paper on the Stone-man syndrome, some mysterious men kidnap him and take him to Voi where he is forced to perform the same operation on a human patient under the false pretense that it is going to be a corrective back surgery. While in Voi, he meets Sudan, a feral child who was raised by animals in the grasslands of Tsavo East National Park. He studies ... more -
Lady Be Good
by Pamela HamiltonA moving portrait of Dorothy Hale, the legendary 1930s American socialite immortalized in one of Frida Kahlo’s most celebrated paintings.
In her vibrant debut novel Pamela Hamilton delivers glamour, romance, tragedy, a close and stormy friendship with famed playwright and Vogue and Vanity Fair editor Clare Boothe Luce and an enchanting story of a woman navigating incredible wealth and power in New York, Paris, Hollywood, and grand estate... more
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Who Do You Think You Are? COVID-19 in Psychotherapy
by Natan P.F. KellermannTo save the world from the corona pandemic, a psychologist accepted the virus as a patient. This enabled him to get inside the mind of the virus and find out what he was actually up to. But he was faced with an impossible task: while he tried to cure his patient, he also wanted to stop the pandemic. -
No Names to Be Given
by Julia Brewer DailyIt is 1966. Three young unwed women meet in a maternity home in New Orleans to relinquish their babies for adoption and return home as if nothing transpired. Twenty-five years later, they are brought together again with a blackmailer threatening to expose their secrets...all the way to the White House. -
The Bastard of Colonia
by T.J.S. HayesThe Bastard of Colonia is the first volume in the anticipated historical fiction series, The Song of the Francs. Set at the end of the seventh century, the novel recounts the early years of the life of Charles Martel, son of Pepin of Herstal and grandfather of Charlemagne. -
Love & Loss in the Time of Covid
by Phil Dourado“A moving and funny memoir of love & loss in a time of turmoil.” Love & Loss is the first novel set during the time of Covid to be written and published in real time, as the events described in it were happening in the real world. Part grief memoir, part Covid chronicle, it tries to make sense, through the experiences of one family, of the world turned upside down that we have all lived through, and are still living through. Love & Loss starts with three sudden losses for the central character i... more -
18
by MEGDAD ZAATREHMy novel, 18, takes place in the near future. A talented psychiatrist, Dr. Theodore Parker’s life changes irrevocably the day he meets James Grady, a billionaire known for his robotics and supercomputer technology. Grady was impressed by Dr. Parker’s idea to radically change the healthcare sector: under certain insurance plans, patients would be able to opt out of any medically necessary operations and instead receive the cash equivalent of eighteen percent of the would-be medical costs; they ca... more -
Turn Of The Silver Wheel
by Shawn Keller CooperSuspicion, deception, and fear are chasing Penelope Prince from her picture-perfect life. As the dark energy escalates, she realizes her sanctuary is a trap she willingly walked into decades ago to escape the paralyzing pain of a college nightmare. Stalked by secrets from her past, Penn is discovering her greatest battle may be with herself. The pursuit to reclaim the free-spirited artist she once was quickly deteriorates into a desperate and dangerous fight to save her life. Two years after Dr... more -
50 States
by Richard R BeckerAn Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they escape an Oregon wildfire. A young couple takes a reckless turn off a state highway in Utah and find themselves in a nightmarish government biohazard area.
These and 46 more shorts make up an anthology that will surprise readers with each new thou... more -
The Covid Chronicles
by Stu WhitneyAs coronavirus rages through South Dakota, a newspaper editor blasts the Republican governor’s hands-off approach while forming an ethically dubious alliance with a Democratic mayor. When the editor’s son joins a potential state champion football team and militia members attack the mayor’s policies, the editor is caught in the crossfire, exploring how far he can go before his own freedom is in doubt. -
A House in the Wild Berry Tundra: A Story of an Iranian Woman Emigrating to Alaska
by Akram DidariThis heartwarming novella celebrates one woman’s emotional journey to joy, with the story of a journalist who flees her home in war-torn Iran to emigrate to the United States. Starting her new life in a small town in Bush Alaska, she takes on a Native newborn baby found abandoned during a blizzard by their mother. Now she must explore what it means to be an immigrant in Alaska, navigate cultural differences, and come to terms with the memories of her own violent past, to find home and h... more
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Crazy Free
by Tori StarlingThere have always been glaring holes in Emily Sharp’s family history. Her mother, Pam, a high-strung attorney, rarely speaks of the father she despises or of the mother she never knew. But when Emily, a journalist for a local magazine, receives an assignment to investigate the sale of an old mental institution in a nearby town, Pam reluctantly opens up and shares that her mother, Kora, was a patient there and died shortly after she was committed. As Emily digs deeper into the tarnished asylum’s ... more -
A Gathering of Broken Mirrors: Memories of New York Survivors
by Anthony E. Shaw“I search for answers to questions that, I suspect, are as old as human time itself.”
This collection presents memories, from a variety of New Yorkers, in different places and times. These are the lessons of life in the city:
· Can people whose lives are filled with wicked acts also be loving and kind?
· Why do only some people suffer cruel and unexplained tragic events?
· Who will help when someone is slipping blindly into harm?
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THE M & M BOYS
by LARA REZNIKA tender tale of coming-of-age meets baseball heroes. Who wouldn't want to be in that kid's cleats when two of sports' greatest legends move in next door? In the summer of 1961 a Little League player’s joy of making the All-Star team evaporates when his father, too busy with a girlfriend, misses his triumphant opening game, and his mother spirals into a bed-ridden depression. Then, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle move next door as they battle to break Babe Ruth's home run record. Based on hi... more -
Fighting To Breathe, Third Edition
by Jong YiA gripping story of one nurse's fight against racism in the medical industry, set against the horrific backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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