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  • Also Known as Jaime Dorn

    by Karen Emilson

    When your whole life is a lie, how do you tell the truth?

    Jaime Dorn is a tough-talking, wannabe artist whose train-wreck past has left her uninspired and insecure. Tired of the lies and desperate to outrun a police investigation, she hides her grandfather's ashes in a knapsack and jumps on a bus for the West Coast. Finally free of her shady, so-called parents, she vows to keep one final promise to Gramps and live an honest life.

    But when she becomes stranded ... more

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    The Man Who Made an Angel

    by Ivan Blake
    The year is 1921. A young scholar, unable to cope with the turmoil unleashed by a devastating family tragedy, flees to a war-ravaged Germany in the vain hope he might find tranquility hidden away in the archives of an abandoned university. There he encounters a former biology professor, still living within the bowels of the shuttered campus. The old man is also one of the few remaining followers of Monism. a once-popular German philosophic movement that advocated the integration of science and r... more

  • Two Thousand Miles from Omaha

    by S.D. Goldman
    Ryan Collins is isolated. A thousand miles from friends and family, his days are spent working, while his nights are shared with women whose names he doesn’t remember, all in an attempt to drown reminders of a past prison sentence and the cynical love he abandoned years ago. Soon, changes arrive – first in the form of a career promotion and then a new romantic interest. Ryan believes that all this will lead him away from his grief, but it isn’t long before his idyllic life becomes upended. Faced... more

  • The Veil

    by Michael Tobin
    Burdened by talents beyond his years, Jake Klein struggles to straddle two worlds: The golden medina of late 1950s America and the horror of his parents’ experiences at Auschwitz. Brilliant and tormented, he unwittingly drags his three childhood friends into his Holocaust distorted worldview. On the surface, the tight knit foursome are poster children for the American Dream. There is Jake, a talented writer and fierce football player; Mike the baseball prodigy and Jake’s loyal best friend; Mar... more

  • Your Move

    by Warwick Wood
    Your Move is a work of fiction based on an actual event that occurred in north-eastern Poland just months after the war ended in 1945: The arrest and disappearance, from a small village, of around 600 people. But our story begins in 1973 when two strangers – a young man, Evelyn Copeland (researcher for a visiting professor and historian at the Birkbeck, University of London) and a young woman, Krystyna Lewandoska (professional student and daughter of the Polish Cultural Attaché in London) – m... more

  • Coffee Klatch

    by Lorrie McCabe
    Coffee Klatch begins in 1950 as the story of five young women (all wives of American World War II veterans) living in their mass-produced homes on the same remote street in the recently established Levittown New York. Norma Lewis, Anna Marino, Jane Flynn, Betty Carter, and Ella Schmidt are as different as their new houses on Strong Lane are identical. Norma, glamorous and secretive, hides behind her witty remarks. Level-headed and compassionate, Anna becomes the block’s peacemaker. Spontaneous J... more

  • The Little Things We Miss

    by Mae East
    One Man. One Woman. One Marriage. One plan to destroy it all. The Second World War may be over, but for Katherine Thompson, other battles are only beginning. When she marries Robert, the only man she has ever loved, her life changes forever. She finds herself living the perfect dream with the perfect man. A man she loves completely and, in return, loves her just the same, or so she believes. However, Robert has another love stirring in his soul. An obsessive calling claims his past, while a d... more

  • REUNION BY THE LAKE

    by james gilbert
    Richard Collins knew he had only a short time to live, and it was vital to inform his three sons. But beyond he news of his impending death, he needed them to grasp the significance of his will and how it would continue to shape their lives, even after his passing. Gathered in the house by the lake, Richard anticipated the disclosure of his final wishes would be a solemn affair. However, he couldn't predict the tumultuous reaction each son would have to his revelation. In this painfully ... more

  • Sea Tigers & Merchants

    by Sandra Wagner-Wright

    In 1790 the United States has a new Constitution. George Washington presides as the first elected president. Abroad, France and Britain are at war. And by 1795 seafaring Americans are accosted on the high seas by French privateers and British naval ships.

     

    Tensions rise as American merchants continue to trade. Among them, Hasket Derby and Captain George Crowninshield busily build maritime empires while their sons seek a new way forward.

     

    Captain Elias Derby... more

  • Sea Tigers & Merchants

    by Sandra Wagner-Wright
    In 1790 the United States has a new Constitution. George Washington presides as the first elected president. Abroad, France and Britain are at war. And by 1795 seafaring Americans are accosted on the high seas by French privateers and British naval ships. Tensions rise as American merchants continue to trade. Among them, Hasket Derby and Captain George Crowninshield acquire wealth and build maritime empires while their sons and other adventurous young men take risks on the high seas and in th... more

  • The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany

    by Katherine Koch
    Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishi... more

  • Camp Salvador

    by Marcia Meurs
    Hop in! Were going to Baja, baby! Things are about to head South. Join Ellis and her cast of characters on a pet friendly, wild adventure. A journey that is full of surprises with twists and hairpin turns. This hilarious, and sometimes deeply insightful, story leaves you with an ending you will never forget. It's the trip of a lifetime. Don't miss it!
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    After the Earthquake

    by Levi Rogers
    What if disasters were a portal into a new future? On a Halloween night in the near future, the Cascadian Subduction Zone triggers a massive earthquake, sending tsunamis and shockwaves across the Pacific Northwest. As the disaster hits, six disparate characters cross paths as they survive (and thrive) in the aftermath. Reluctant stay-at-home dad Levi is stranded in downtown Portland, cut off from his family. As he makes his way across the river and back home, he meets a former love interest who ... more

  • Songs of Lost Things: Sonata for the Sun

    by Monica McCollough
    In this coming-of-age narrative, Lavender Adair—a budding and musically gifted teenager—navigates adolescence within her tumultuous home life and equally chaotic Newark city neighborhood. Her father is her pillar and prods Lavender to focus on music and education and none of the typical distractions of their surroundings. However, Lavender will find herself having to deal with complex family affairs, hardship, and surprising turns. When she rises to conquer these obstacles as a young girl, what ... more

  • INFINITE STRANGER

    by Wendy Skorupski
    On a snowy morning in 1978, 18-year-old Leah Cavanagh meets Brother Matthew while on a Retreat with her girls’ school. The four days she spends at Greystones Abbey in the wilds of North Yorkshire will have a profound impact not only on her own life, but also on that of her single mother Molly, who never recovered from the murder of her fiancé in 1956. Brother Matthew and Leah start writing to each other and soon an unspoken attraction develops, shared vicariously by Molly. When Leah leaves h... more

  • Marie-Madeleine

    by Kit Sergeant
    Can one woman stop the Nazis’ advance? 1940: The air is dense with the thick, acrid smoke of German bombs as Marie-Madeleine departs Paris, utterly alone in the world. Her destination is hundreds of kilometers away, where Navarre told her to meet him. Surely he would have a plan to get back at the Boches and fight for their freedom… But is she willing to sacrifice everything for the cause? Torn between defending her country and safeguarding those closest to her, a startling twist of fate f... more
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