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Attitude Reflects LeadershipLeo Hamblin
Attitude Reflects Leadership is an honest glimpse into what it takes to be an exceptional leader. People naturally follow the attitude of their leader. Whatever attitude, behavior or belief you want your employees to have, you must lead with it first...
Sunset & VinePer Hampton
Explosive intrigue is found only in the movies for most of the world, but in Hollywood, it's real life. Dotty Henderson seemed to be nothing more than a charming waitress at Schwabs, a restaurant at the legendary corner of Sunset & Vine. She never dreamed she’d become the envy of...
Monster's ChildrenDan Hansen
The Queen of Order and the Trickster gods originally formed an alliance to defend against the dreaded beast they called the Monster. That alliance was dashed with the Monster’s defeat. The war that erupted with the alliance’s dissolution has ripped the land apart for millennia. With...
MoonlinerDonald Hanzel
It’s the year 2069 and Cedric Davis, a graduate student of telecom, is on the brink of a major scientific breakthrough; the ability to transmit audio signals into the past via laser beam. At a point when life couldn’t seem better for Cedric, dating a local news reporter and nearing his PhD, tragedy suddenly...
Road King Chronicles: Blue Ridge RunHarry Harrigan
Master Sergeant Roman Keane is six hours and one last salute from retirement. After twenty-three years and three combat tours with the 75th Ranger Regiment, he’s got a Silver Star, a titanium knee and a plan to see America on his Road King motorcycle. No more patrols, no...
Missing BooksBrian Harris
This is a book for the book-lover. As the author writes, ‘great and wondrous things can happen around books. Boswell met Johnson at Tom Davies’s bookshop in Covent Garden. Karl Marx planned to remodel the world in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Jorge Luis Borges conceived a...
InsatiableShary Hauer
In her professional life, Shary Hauer was a confident, successful, high-caliber executive coach who advised big-time corporate leaders around the globe—but her personal life was an entirely different matter. When it came to love, she was insecure, clingy, desperate, willing to do anything and...
Faithfully ReligionlessTimber Hawkeye
Discover the difference between feelings and emotions, the disparity between truths and facts, and the countless benefits of mindful living. When his pursuit of happiness in Corporate America feels counterproductive, Timber Hawkeye escapes the flourescent-lit hell of his cubicle in...
McGhee in the GloamingBob Hazy
In a modernist approach reminiscent of James Joyce’s Ulysses, McGhee in the Gloaming chronicles the meandering life of the narrator, Fran McGhee. In travels from Alaska to New Orleans, Dublin to Istanbul, he searches for purpose and seeks to exorcise the ghosts...
Cloud DancerGary L. Henson
Ravi was enchanted by clouds. The majestic images and shifting configurations were dreamlike, hypnotic, and they held the mysteries and dark secrets of life. The boy’s imagination wandered and danced in the purity of silence, and his inner visions beheld the truth of past and future days. Cloud...
Billy GoganRoger Higgins
The Billy Gogan story is a fictional memoir told by an old Army general of his adventures as a young man. Billy Gogan, American, opens with recently orphaned Billy Gogan fleeing Ireland on the eve of the Great Hunger – either because he is the son of a dangerous revolutionary, or because his cousin...
Window of ExposureRoccie Hill
As a prestigious F-16 fighter pilot, Captain Kate Cardenas grew disillusioned with the endless harassment and sexism by her colleagues in the US Air Force. Now she faces even greater challenges as a secret operative for the Defense Intelligence Agency stationed in the south of France. Her...
The CommitteeTerry E. Hill
New Orleans voodoo and American politics collide when the secret society behind the country's most powerful figures decide the United States is ready for the first female president. They use the power of a century-old black candle, mysticism, manipulation and murder to ensure their candidate...
The Canine Handler, PaybackMaria C. Hillegas
Sarah Gavin believes she has left her dark past behind. College diploma in hand, successful in her job, she is now aiming for the FBI Academy. But as a volunteer search and rescue canine handler, ghosts from her past come back to haunt her. In conflict with herself...
Peanut Butter & NaanJennifer Hillman-Magnuson
Fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants mom Jennifer Magnuson knew her spoiled suburban brood needed a wake-up call—she just couldn’t find the time to fit one in. But when her husband was offered a position in India, she saw it for what it was: the perfect opportunity for her...
The Lies We TellJamie Holland
The Lies We Tell is a coming-of-age novel set in 1974, after the Watergate scandal has left the country grappling with an unnerving sense of deceit. Although she doesn’t fully understand, thirteen-year-old Martie Wheeler, whose father has suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack...
Idee des Sozialismus
Trotz eines wachsenden Unbehagens lässt sich gegenwärtig jedenfalls kaum jemand dazu hinreißen, in ihrem Namen noch einmal Vorstellungen einer Lebensform jenseits des Kapitalismus zu entwerfen. Wie ist das rapide Veralten dieser einst so faszinierenden Idee zu erklären? Und...
The Idea of Socialism
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life...
You'll Do Anything for HerMaureen E. Hosier & Berta Hosier Conger
Dearest, What I want most is to feel cared about and loved by you. I've tried everything, but it's not working. What more can I do? I love you so much, but I don't feel like there are two of us in our relationship. When you fell for her, were you so crazy in...
You'll Do Anything for HimMaureen E. Hosier & Berta Hosier Conger
Dearest, What I want most is to feel cared about and loved by you. I've tried everything, but it's not working. What more can I do? I love you so much, but I don't feel like there are two of us in our relationship. When you fell for him, were you so crazy in...
Submission
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure. It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century Decadent...
Transforming FaithFred Howard
The Golden Rule of "do unto others" has often been called the essence of religion. But Fred Howard's own spiritual journey takes a decidedly less traveled path when he faces a situation where the Golden Rule simply isn't adequate. Embarking on a deep spiritual quest away from literal...
Loving DangerouslyLynda Cain Hubbard
How do you discover yourself after heartbreak? Travel with a young artist on her true adventures in the 70s-a time of free love, drugs, the peace movement, and an explosive art scene as she searches for meaning in her own life. After heartbreak at home, she wins a...
MadisonvilleJ. A. Huff
Something isn’t right at Madisonville, Idaho’s most secluded penitentiary for its hardened criminals, and prisoners keep disappearing. Six college students are sentenced to Madisonville after almost getting away with the perfect crime. After a few short weeks behind bars, the six...
The Eclipsing of Sirus CDaniel B. Hunt
Major Jean Joyce's estranged brother, Rafe, is a talented hacker and a deserter from the Federation Marines-and the penalty for desertion is death. But the Federation's intelligence agency has other plans for the wayward marine. The Bureau of Intelligence and
Acanemia: A Memoir of Life in the Halls of the Higher LearningLawrence E. Hussman
An irreverent appraisal of America’s higher education players—administrators, faculty, and students—offered by an emeritus professor at a university established in the 1960s.
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Be a Better You Inte & Chiara Alfonso
Life is an adventure. In order to live it to the fullest, we must embrace the power of love, honour and respect. For ourselves, and the world around us. It doesn’t require radical action or global outreach. It only requires a simple change in outlook, a new set of choices, and the...
Freedom FlightFrank Iszak
On the rainy afternoon of Friday, July 13, 1956, seven desperate young people boarded a twin engine DC-3 in the People’s Republic of Hungary, with the intention of diverting it to West Germany. They had no weapons, no map, and no idea whether the plane carried enough fuel to...
The ColossusRanjini Iyer
Maxine Rosen, a demure, clumsy Chicago caterer, gets more than she bargains for when she discovers her father’s coded research document linked to health pills unearthed from the ancient Indus Valley civilization. The pills, she learns, carry frightening secrets about the true nature of her...
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DrivenRick Jacobs, Sr.
The victim of a traumatic childhood event, Angela Harwell's life is forever changed. As she grows up, she trains relentlessly and becomes a Domestic Violence Detective for the Memphis Police Department. A disturbing case of abuse puts Harwell on the trail of Tyrone "T-Bone"...
Alienation
The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent...
Heist during the Rio GamesDexter James
From a desolate cell located at a remote, state-of-the-art prison facility in Northern Ontario, inmate Brian Beasley plans his escape. Convicted of embezzlement when he masterfully infiltrated a bank's computer system, Beasley and a would-be journalist assigned to...
Back Street to HappyGary D. Jefferson
La Gina is a smart, Hurricane Katrina survivor who used her physical gifts to achieve material gain. La Gina is now settled in a new life with her husband, Earl Cuyler, a police detective with strong convictions and a wandering eye. Although Earl claims to love La Gina, her friends think otherwise, but...
Blushing in BostonPrakash Jha
This book is a collection of 27 short stories, with roots in three continents, North America, Asia and Europe. It is appealing to all ages ranging from young adults to senior citizens. Readers have called these stories elegant, touching, emotionally charged, hilarious, scary...
A Schizophrenic WillWilliam Jiang, MLS
A Schizophrenic Will is an inspirational autobiographical account of living with the dreaded disease of schizophrenia. His story is one of rare genius, olympian strength, torrid romance, academic dominance, and, finally, professional accomplishment. Mr. Jiang leads us on a...
Faith as an Option
Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to...
Universe of OneJ. R. Johnson
To everyone who knows him, Father Jason Xavier Roberts seems to have it all. Tall, rugged, and handsome, he’s as brilliant and sharp minded as he is devoted to his faith. But behind those cheerful blue eyes lie memories of a tragic past: the unforgettable wounds suffered in combat and the brutal...
#Apprehended Phil 3:12Sandra Y. G. Jones
Appreheneded Phil 3:12 offers an intellectual and spiritual aspect to the daily encounters that every man or woman must face in their pursuit of purpose. It allows the reader to traverse the storms that come to possess their minds as they work towards freedom in...
A Complicated Love SongLynda Jones-Burns
A captivating and complex beauty, Bettina Charles has exactly what it takes to make it big in the music industry of the 1980s—gorgeous looks, striking intelligence, and undeniable talent as a singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer. As she maneuvers to take the world by storm...
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The Damascus CoverHoward Kaplan
In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks. In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be...
Surviving Mental IllnessLinda Naomi Katz
Written from the perspective of someone whose life has been challenged by mental illness, this book offers help, hope, and inspiration to others struggling with psychological disorders. It provides information about mental illness in general – and mood...
Peter & LisaCharles Katz and Linda Baron Katz
A children’s book about two different mental illnesses, depression and mania, Peter and Lisa makes it easier for children to understand these mental conditions. It is a story about two people affected with such illness and how they got better and recovered through the...
Remembrance of Blue RosesYorker Keith
Remembrance of Blue Roses follows a man and a married couple in New York City, whose intricate relationship oscillates among friendship, love, love-triangle, and even obsession. Its romantic ambience is interwoven with classical music, opera, art, family...
Say It OnceKysa Kelleher
Say It Once is your go-to handbook for successful childrearing. The overall concept is simple: empower your children, and learn how to say "no" with love and a smile. Change your home for the better as you teach your kids to pull their own weight, and to discover for themselves how good...
Quatre-vingt-treize
Figure des transformations que connaît la France, le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis (93) s'inscrit, avec l'importante présence musulmane, au cœur des bouleversements démographiques et migratoires – de la marche forcée de la désindustrialisation à...
Resilience in CurlsNatalie Keshing
She waited for him. Not because she loved him but because she was scared of him and what she was contemplating. He walked in through the kitchen door wearing his black short sleeved turtleneck and his dark sunglasses. Olive skinned, handsome, slender and buff. Staggering a bit...
Shattered TranquilityJohn M. Keshishian
Determined to enjoy a quiet seaside vacation with his wife, Dr. James Bishop instead stumbles upon hints of buried treasure from a 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck – and is drawn reluctantly into a frenzied race for the rest of the bullion. Thrust into a murky, violent world of gold fever...
The Clothes That Make YouL.S. Kilroy
It's 1967, the world is changing - and so is a quiet misfit named Sally Fiore. After the sudden death of her father, Sally turns to comfort in the small things – her beloved books, her new interest in sewing, and her slight infatuation with the handsome, young custodian at...
You Call This Living?Bill Kingsley
Can humanity continue on the present course of environmental destruction and over population? Or is the ship of state foundering under the weight of primitive delusions and beyond salvage? Be advised: This is a controversial, insightful and humorous account of the human...
His Name Was David FreemanRuth Kipnis
With the sudden death of his father, seventeen-year-old David is Forced to leave the security of the estate his father managed in Prussia in search of an uncle living near Kiev in the Ukraine. Carrying with him the dream of owning a grand farm of his own someday. Fate plays...
What Matters MostHelen Bea Kirk
Meagan Morris has lost everything. Her family is dead, and all that remains of them, all that was endowed to her, has been stolen.Desperate to retrieve her legacy, Meagan disguises herself and attempts to rob King of her grandmother’s pearls at gunpoint. When Officer Dell arrives at the scene, King doesn’t...
The FigureheadBill Kirton
Aberdeen, Scotland – 1840 Return to an age where sail was being challenged by steam, new continents were opening, and the world was full of opportunities for people to be as good—or as evil—as they chose. When the body of a local shipwright is found on the beach, neither the customers...
BreatheKelly Kittel
Kelly Kittel never questioned her Mayflower Society mantra—"Family is the most important thing"—until the day her fifteen-month-old son was run over by her sixteen-year-old niece. Nine months later, Kittel’s doctor made a terrible mistake during her subsequent pregnancy...
This Changes Everything
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political...
Some Rain Must Fall
The fifth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect — he wants it so much that he gets...
Goose FeathersRobert Koermer
Join Lucie and Gomer Goozer and their twenty-seven goslings in the Castle Lake animal community of geese, beavers, foxes, ducks, owls, turtles, and others. Share their experiences competing in a basketball game, rescuing a baby elephant, building a toothpick factory, and...
The Invitation: A Weekend with EmmaDawn Kohler
Despite having a loving fiancé, Kate Edwards is haunted by a feeling that something is missing in her life. After losing her job as a reporter, a sense of inspiration is ignited by an invitation to spend the weekend with Emma Daines, a retired professor of social anthropology...
The Sixth Extinction
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact...
Hesitation WoundsAmy Koppelman
The acclaimed author of I Smile Back, Amy Koppelman is a novelist of astonishing power, with a sly, dark voice, at once fearless and poetic. In Koppelman’s new novel, Dr. Susanna Seliger is a renowned psychiatrist who specializes in treatment-resistant depression. The most difficult cases...
Soul on the RunRobin Korth
Soul on the Run is the gut-wrenchingly honest portrayal of one woman’s search for herself, and her refusal to continue playing the game of let's pretend everything is okay. What's more, it reminds us-when we are honest with ourselves-that we can start life over at any age. Korth's words are...
Something Is Rotten In FettigJere Krakoff
Told in a wry, understated voice, Something Is Rotten in Fettig satirizes the travails of Leopold Plotkin, a failing kosher butcher with a pathological aversion to conflict. After Plotkin commits an act that ignites a crisis in his Republic, he is...
A Road Ran Through ItTony Kreit
‘A Road Ran Through It’, is my story. It is a young man’s story. It takes us to times of rebellion against my enforced induction into the Royal Air Force in 1960. It is also about the realisation that some important actions taken against me by the military authorities, at...
Living Through the PainCathy A. Kurtz
Imagine waking up to your worst nightmare. In 1976, Cathy Kurtz, at the tender age of sixteen, lost her father, mother, oldest brother, and sister-in-law in a private plane crash. In 1989 she lost her surviving brother to AIDS. As a single mother, Cathy...
The Conditions of LoveDale M. Kushner
The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the...
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Core HollowAnne Lafferty
As for Core Hollow, it's not true that I've never been back there. I have. It's full of ghosts. I should know. I was pulled back to its emptiness... once... pulled back by family ties and lies... and of course, those family secrets. The kind of family relationships we all have, right? They're...
The Light: A Modern-Day Journey for PeaceJudith T. Lambert
Religion’s common denominator? The Light. God does not have a religion. God does not speak a language. God does not have a culture. It is we who require these things. Why has humankind always sought the Light? What do pharaohs and prophets and festivals...
A Mother Goddess for Our TimesJudith T. Lambert
More than 18 million people have traveled to the tiny Bosnian village of Medjugorje to witness daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary and experience her healing powers. Author Judith Lambert, a skeptic, was among them. Events that occurred during her four pilgrimages there...
EmancipationMichael R. Lane
Emancipation is a compilation of linked-stories focusing on a cross-section of Americans. Gratey Johnson is a PSTD war veteran whose combat hell has left him a shattered man struggling to corral his demons. Parents, grandparents, children, lovers, executive, thief, cop...
The Gem ConnectionMichael R. Lane
Clinton Windell is murdered and robbed of twenty million dollars in uncut gems. C. J. Cavanaugh is hired to root out the murderers. There's only one catch. C. J. and his partner must keep mum they're working the case. Between the killers, Homicide Detective Pendleton, and their...
UFOs and GodMichael R. Lane
UFOs and God is not single-themed but a medley of characters kayaking their way through the erratic channels of life. Some of these stories are sharp edged and made to cut you emotionally to the quick. Others are inviting like a warm cozy room on a bitter cold day. In "Wake Up," a...
A Little Sammy MusicSuzanne Lane
A Little Sammy Music is a dog book. Author Suzanne Lane is, by her own admission, a "born rescuer," having taken in, at various times, dogs, cats, a pigeon, a fiancé, and a husband. As one by one the objects of her rescue die or move out, she becomes determined to spare herself the...
Vein of JusticeSharon Langdale
How much would you risk to solve your mothers’ murder? The bizarre death offered no clues as to who or why. Authorities soon let the case languish as unsolved. Lynn Mason’s emotional balance teeters on the edge as she searches for motive, means, and opportunity among residents in the...
Unspeakable GiftCarole Lauweryssen
Unspeakable Gift is the story of a woman's reunion with her biological family. Adopted as a baby, Carole was reunited at the age of thirty with her roots, history, and the promise of new completeness. Be engaged as you follow her path through the unknown, not only...
Blood on the EarthJohn Laví
In a rush one morning, a college professor drives over a boy on a bike, killing him. When the boy turns out to be the son of a mobster, the professor pays the ultimate price. He disappears, permanently. His death leads to more revenge killings. To stop them from escalating, the...
Where Angels Live, Work, and PlayWilliam J. Lavin
In late 2012, the New Jersey State Firefighters’ Mutual Benevolent Association was committed to providing much needed advocacy and ongoing support for firefighters, their families and their communities struggling from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Just two...
The Garrington GardenBenjamin Lederer
Peter Trenton knows everything about Fort Garrington, Illinois, and he'd like to help his coworker Jeff Hansen learn the tricks of the town. Peter hoped to make a friend in Jeff, and when that falls through, Peter seeks other means to fill the void. Meanwhile, Jeff...
March to NovemberByddi Lee
Five people and eight months, lives end, lives begin. March to November navigates the entangled points of view of Tracey Duggan and her circle of friends and foes in modern day Belfast, Ireland as they struggle with bereavement, broken marriages, broken dreams and broken...
The Full CatastropheKaren Elizabeth Lee
In 1998, after having been married to Duncan — a bully who'd been controlling her for the fourteen years they'd been together — Karen E. Lee thought divorce was in the cards. But ten months after telling him that she wanted that divorce, Duncan was diagnosed with cancer — and eight months later...
Indictment of Johnson CountyWinston Legge
A South Alabama "black belt" county is the central location in a triangle of crime with the Chicago Mafia and a Mexican drug cartel. In this rural environment, extensive character development explores life of the residents as they experience the apathy, despair...
Miracle ManWilliam R. Leibowitz
Miracle Man by William R. Leibowitz has been unanimously heralded by reviewers and readers. One of Amazon’s Top 100 Novels of 2015, a New York Times Best Seller, an Amazon Top 10 Best Selling Thriller, and winner of a national Best Thriller award, the enthusiasm for this unique novel has been...
How Fast Can You RunHarriet Levin Millan
Set across a backdrop of refugee migration that spans Africa, America and Australia, How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring story of Michael Majok Kuch and his journey to find his mother. In 1988, Majok, as a five-year-old boy, fled his burning village in southern Sudan when the North...
The Geometry of LoveJessica Levine
Why is it easier for a woman to be a muse than to have one? Can one be fully creative—in art or life—without the inspiration of erotic love? These are the questions asked in The Geometry of Love, a novel set in New York in the 1980s, then fast-forwarding to Northern California 20 years later. Julia, an...
Dream of CivilityJeffrey Scott Liebling
Dream of Civility unfolds 1500 years ago upon the Isle of Britannia in their Dark Age. The Romans abandoned Britannia eighty years before. King Arthur's father, Warlord Uther Pendragon, struggles to hold sway in a strife-torn realm. Then Arthur, through the schemes of the wizard Myrddin, comes to...
The Kurdish BikeAlesa Lightbourne
"Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation." With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds...
Freedom or Serfdom?Hal Lillywhite
The Issue is Freedom: The liberty our founders gave us, or an increasingly intrusive government. If we give up our freedom, what will that do to our lives and our economy? At 390 pages plus an extensive index, this book presents what is undoubtedly the most comprehensive case...
Agnes Canon's WarDeborah Lincoln
Agnes Canon is tired of being a spectator in life, a small-town schoolmarm and an invisible daughter among seven sisters, meat for the marriage market. The rivers of her Pennsylvania countryside flow west, and she yearns to flow with them, explore new lands, know the...
Table for One PleaseRed Lipstick
I am a woman in my late-20s and have a voice that needs to be heard. The voice of all women out there who feel they aren't good enough and struggle by being seen purely for their status, "single", in that they are viewed as an imperfection rather than something to be valued. With all my...
IHoodJill Little
"IHood: Our GPS for Living is a thought-inspiring book that provides a compass for those of us navigating the waters of life." - Jack Luchsinger, attorney and author, The Thirteenth Disciple-Soldier or Saint "If you've ever had an ego problem through false pride, where you think more of yourself...
Palpable IronyMartin L. Lockett
Martin Lockett grows up in a tough neighborhood in Portland Oregon and by the time he's fifteen, his parents don't know what to do with him. He and his homies steal cars, drink, and smoke dope and even though Martin's bright, the only time he does well at school is when he gets kicked out and has to...
TropomorphosesYulalona Lopez
The forms presented here are an extension to the Metamorphoses, the Latin masterpiece by Publius Ovidius Naso, written in the year 8 A.D., that recounts a series of transformations of humans into animal, plant, and mineral forms. Ovid's stories range from remote mythic times to the...
Supernatural DestinySidney Lovato
Mystic Manor is a grand and magnificent home that sat unoccupied for nearly eighty years. Its silent halls and neglected walls serve as both an invitation and a warning to the curious strangers and unwary residents that meet their end inside its doors. For years it has sat empty, waiting for its next...
America's Bank
A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the...
Beneath the Coyote HillsWilliam Luvaas
Beneath The Coyote Hills explores the influence of choice and chance in our lives. Do we control our own destiny or is it dictated in part by mysterious forces beyond our control? Tommy Aristophanos is a luckless man, homeless freegan, fiction writer, and epileptic...
A Mile in Her ShoesJudy Lytle
“A Mile in Her Shoes” is a semi-fictional tale that combines storytelling, a bit of science, and a bit of magical realism to transport the reader through 60 years and across two continents. Judy Lytle presents a “life flashed before my eyes” scenario with a twist, an amazing journey that starts in...
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Living LoveMaetreyii Ma
Living Love is practical mysticism at its best. This rare and wonderful work, based in the ancient teachings of yoga, is a poetic and penetrating therapeutic guidebook for transformation and awakening, giving the reader opportunity to explore how day to day experience can change...
The Pink HouseTrish MacEnulty
Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing...
Fling!Lily Iona MacKenzie
Is it possible to come of age at 60 or 90? Is it ever too late to fulfill your dreams? When ninety-year-old Bubbles receives a letter from Mexico City asking her to pick up her mother's ashes, lost there seventy years earlier and only now surfacing, she hatches a plan. A woman with a mission...
Ann-Sophia and The Sceptre of LightHenry Y. Madukwe
At age eight Ann-Sophia Golding lost her mother. Her father was wrongly convicted for a crime he did not commit. She goes to live with Aunt Molly who is a witch and with her children made Ann-Sophia’s life hell. An Angel appears to Ann-Sophia and gives her the mandate to get the...
My Heart BeatsV. Maree
Childhood trauma versus poor adult choices. What's the connection? Emotional and behavioral problems are among the most prevalent chronic health conditions of childhood that largely go unrecognized and undiagnosed until a child grows into adulthood. My Heart Beats is a...
The Keepers of MerciaJames I. Marino
While Binette awaits her father in the large trade village of Riversplit, she encounters an elder who confirms scant rumors being spread by merchants that a religious legion in the far west, known as the Jebedah, have been pressing villages into its ranks through sadistic means. Stirred by the...
Dispatches for the NY Tribune
Marx is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. He tackled an abundance of topics, from issues of class and the state to world affairs. Moving pieces highlight social...
Paper in the WindOlivia Mason-Charles
Paper in the Wind is a compassionate and riveting story depicting a single father’s dedication to his daughter. In the midst of the overwhelming struggles that accompanied autism, he continues to persevere. Her father’s love enabled her to overcome insurmountable...
Fishing With HyenasTheresa Mathews
Fishing with Hyenas is a love story between girlie girl Theresa and commercial fisherman Captain Bart, who convinces her to crew on a ninety-two-foot tuna boat plying the North Pacific Ocean. Trading cashmere and high heels for rain gear and rubber boots, she becomes a deckhand, confined for...
Three SummersDN Maynard
Three summers and The Greatest Game bind their lives together as they journey through the joys, sorrows, and experiences of life. A relationship forged in the first summer blooms nine years later during the second summer, when Nathan and Dennis hitchhike to San Francisco. The...
Building 8Anthony C. Mazzella
"You Know If You've Been There." "Been where?" "Where is 'There'?" Let me tell you, or should I say, let the people in these stories tell you? They, not I, will tell you where "There" is. You see, it is about real life. It is about right and wrong. It is about good and evil. It is about you! We are all these...
Bittersweet ManorTory McCagg
After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family property—her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck...
The Maui Magical Mystical TourKathy McCartney
The Maui Magical Mystical Tour is an entertaining, heartwarming story about a single mother, Katie who has aspiring dreams outside of her workaday office job, who longs to write her first book and be an artist on Maui. Turns out God has a strange sense of...
Mystery on the SeineTerry McGhee
Death is a stalker on the luxury river cruise ship Grand Queen. Retired security investigator Jake Vincent and his wife, Barbara, have accepted a grateful FBI’s gift of a Paris vacation. The five-star hotel stay and Seine River wine cruise is a thank-you for Jake’s efforts in helping solve a seventeen-...
Harry Hid ItJJ McKeever
Harry Hid It is an adventure like you have never read before. For one thing, the reader can be involved in solving the book's ultimate mystery... and have a chance of up to $500,000 in prize money! Harry Strickland is a minor thief who decides to up his game for a bigger payday...
How to Be a Grown-UpEmma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
From bestselling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a timely novel about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a boss half her age. Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible...
Wounded Warrior, Wounded WifeBarbara K. McNally
Imagine sending your spouse to war with a heavy heart, then receiving a life-shattering phone call telling you he's been badly injured. Your beloved returns to your arms, but changed, broken, angry, conflicted, and in need of around-the-clock...
Ghost HorseThomas H. McNeely
Set amidst the social tensions of 1970's Houston, Ghost Horse tells the story of eleven-year-old Buddy Turner's shifting alliances within his fragmented family and with two other boys—one Anglo, one Latino—in their quest to make a Super-8 animated movie. As his father's many secrets begin to...
The Girls in Pleated SkirtsStephen F. Medici
Billy Simon had two deep loves; his country and Carol McGovern, his college sweetheart. His plan was to marry Carol and serve his country. But when they each betrayed his loyalty, the decorated marine waged a war of calculated vengeance against both. By planning and...
Evil RunsVince Milam
Does living evil walk among us? Demons don't exist – at least not according to Cole Garza, sheriff of a small Gulf Coast town. He doesn't believe in much of anything since the day his wife was killed. When the French priest Francois Domaine walks into his life claiming that a recent mass murder...
The Supernatural Pet SitterDiane Moat
Every animal can talk to you. You just have to know how to listen. Pepper Neely is better at this than most, especially because she is in charge of pet sitting all the familiars in her neighborhood. A familiar is a pet magically linked to a witch or warlock. As a gnome, Pepper is no...
Cash ChroniclesJames Monticone
It's the 1880's, and the West is riddled with Mutations, some who wield powers beyond those of Regular folks, others with fearsome but crippling deformities. Samson Emmanuel "Sammy" Cash is a Mutation with a shady background. He can make rings of fire and shoot flaming bullets...
Arkansas SummerAnne Moose
Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, and Catherine has joined her father in Arkansas after her grandfather's death. She's a California college student, and it's her first visit to her grandparents' farm since the summer she was...
Mad About MenMadelyn Morgan
Mad About Men is: - A (mostly) true, laugh-out-loud account of a successful executive single mother's search for love. - "Racy, raw, sometimes vulgar, always hilarious," according to a guy in Chapter 32 who actually read it. - An account of dating and sex from a liberated, confident...
Apron StringsMary Morony
At seven years old, Sallee Mackey is wary of the grown-ups that populate her Southern world – especially her mother, Ginny – and with good reason. Ginny is flat out dangerous and not the kind of dangerous that threatens mortal harm, though at times death might be preferred...
The Black Wall of SilencePaul F. Morrissey, OSA
In the midst of the sexual abuse crisis that is tearing the Church apart, a Catholic priest is caught between fighting for the victims of sexual abuse and his bond of loyalty to the Church. What makes this conflict unique is the internal struggle of the priest who is gay, in a...
A Season to KillMichael Mucci
Chris DeAngelo, a known drinker, is appointed as the new sheriff of the small hunting town of Macon, Pennsylvania. In an attempt to make his predecessor who gave him a chance proud, he dives right in to the job, making plenty of mistakes along the way. Surprisingly, while investigating a local...
The Past And Future KingWarren M. Mueller
The Past and Future King transports the reader to another world filled with compelling characters that move the imagination. More than a fantasy book, it is a story with ageless relevance to the great themes of life such as adventure, love, redemption, and...
Zulu WayRobert M. Murphy
The year is 1858. Zulu Way is the story of Danny, a young man sent on an adventure by his father up the Mississippi on his Uncle's new steamship to sell his family crops to the mills in Baton Rouge. Circumstances take him past Baton Rouge up to Vicksburg, then up the Mississippi to Memphis...
The Chapel of Eternal LoveStephen Murray
Known for its lavish hotels and casinos, beautiful showgirls and sumptuous buffets, Las Vegas is home to an abundance of wedding chapels. Follow Rosemary, the wedding organizer, and Buster, her dachshund with a nose for matrimony, as they guide you...
Among FriendsHeather Murray
Among Friends is an account of one woman's exploration of Cuba, as the country begins to find its feet in the post-Fidel era. With an eye for the telling details of daily life, Murray first explores Havana and then other provinces to the west and east in visits spread over a period of eight years...
The Man Without Qualities
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation...
Fuel on the Fire
The departure of the last U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of 2011 left a broken country and a host of unanswered questions. What was the war really about? Why did the occupation drag on for nearly nine years, while most Iraqis, Britons, and Americans desperately wanted it to end? And why did the...
Hive-MindGabrielle Myers
Evoking the lyrical precision of Annie Dillard and the exquisite food writing of M.F.K. Fisher, Gabrielle Myers takes us on a Northern California idyll through her 2006 internship at the Tip Top Farm and Produce in Vacaville. Here, the beauty of the land - light streaming through fig branches, carnelian...
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He Who Leads GodsM. A. N.
Amare, the new Chief of the Akachi clan, must find a way to avenge his father's death while still leading the clan to prosperity and new beginnings. He will combat his way through Earth, Ocean, Skies, and the Stars themselves to lead his clan to the promise land. A true coming of age story is...
FourteenLeslie Johansen Nack
After her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and doesn't end until she begins to fight back at Fourteen. Her father, a larger-than-life Norwegian, assumed full custody of Leslie and her two sisters and move...
The Ballad of Johnny ArcaneJim Nail
Seven summers pass without a champion climbing the silo to claim the Cornfest Prize. Enter young Johnny Arcane, who brings down the hive of bees, the townspeople hefting him onto their shoulders, crying, "Arcane! Arcane!" The legend of Johnny Arcane is born...
My Brother My EnemyAdrienne Nairn
Adrienne Nairn is a former British resident now living in New Zealand. Her autobiography provides a record of her first hand experiences of the issues of elder abuse, the waste of Police and Social Services resources, misuse of Powers of Attorney and matters of how...
The RegimeGeorge Nassif
“His screams of pain had been drowned out by the overwhelming sound of the machine gun. But I could hear him now. He was a short chubby boy; no more than seventeen years old... The boy’s name was Sami. He was my closest friend.” When his best friend Sami is killed in a peaceful protest against the...
Love Notes from HellRoy Nelson
Everyone has vices – negative habits we use when life gets stressful and we need relief. Some people take these vices to the extreme and become addicted. Whether its food, drugs, sex, alcohol, gambling, shopping, or some other activity or substance, addictions cause untold suffering. Those who...
Jemima's StoryMarylin Nelson
A great deal has been written about the brave, hardy men who "conquered" the great western prairies, but not as much about the women who worked alongside them and how they helped settle the plains. This praise is long overdue. Jemima's Story, from the perspective of one...
Burn ZonesJorge P. Newbery
Life was good for Jorge Newbery. A high school dropout and serial entrepreneur, he built a real estate empire of over 4,000 apartments across the USA. Taking risks and working tirelessly were the ingredients to his rise. But, he took one risk too many. An ice storm on Christmas Eve 2004...
Strength Is What You HaveHarrison Newhouse
This is a step forward in thinking and action with a intrinsic outlook on things. We are all connected and share power in a normal natural way. Don't you think it's time we come together on this?
Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the NazisJud Nirenberg
In 1933 Johann Trollmann won Germany's light-heavyweight boxing title. The Nazis would not accept him as the winner because he was Sinto. Many Sinti and Roma (or "Gypsies") had long been involved in the sport, but Nazi ideology demanded that only...
The Train to OrvietoRebecca J. Novelli
The Train to Orvieto, set in Orvieto, Florence, and Milan, Italy, and in the heartland of America, is an intimate story of love, loss, betrayal, and reconciliation that unfolds against an historical background of war and dramatic social change. It is a story enacted by fascinating three-dimensional...
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Beyond DerrynaneKevin O'Connell
Wed in an arranged marriage to a man nearly fifty years her senior, sixteen-year-old Eileen O'Connell goes from being one of five unmarried sisters to become the mistress of Ballyhar, the great estate of John O'Connor, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Ireland. When...
Trinity StonesL. G. O'Connor
Anxiety-ridden New York investment banker, Cara Collins, has little to smile about on her twenty-seventh birthday between a hostile work environment and her impossible romantic situation with her longtime friend and first love, Dr. Kai Solomon. But before the day ends, she learns she has...
Jerome and His WomenJoan O'Hagan
Rome, 382 AD. The Empire is fragile, the pagan beliefs that sustained it are fading. One man stirs up controversy like no other – Jerome. As rumours circulate about his alleged affair with Paula, his enemies plot to dispose of Jerome once and for all...
Founding GrammarsRosemarie Ostler
Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard...
The Lucky OneSherry V. Ostroff
Ita was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. The place was the former Pale of Settlement which was a large swath of land in western Russia where Jews were forced to live for centuries. The year was 1918 and Russia was in the midst of two revolutions. The first occurred with the...
A New View of Society
In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new...
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The Unwinding
American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift...
PossessedDelilah Packet
Edwina moves into a five hundred year old cottage and inadvertently enters a time warp, which takes her back to Medieval England, where she meets Edward, her former self from a previous incarnation. She is devastated to learn of Edward's plight when he becomes a sex slave whilst working...
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En 1939, el barco S.S. Saint Louis, con novecientos judíos que lograron huir de Alemania, estuvo fondeado varios días frente al puerto de La Habana a la espera del permiso para los refugiados. El niño Daniel Kaminsky y su tío esperaron en el muelle a que desembarcaran...
They Sleep with the FishesVaughn L. Paragamian
What if the lives of your family members were threatened by thugs and you knew the authorities didn't care. Perhaps your first response would be to handle it yourself until you realized you needed a Godfather. This is an exciting new book showing a different side of the Mob and...
SnowfallJeffrey Parfitt
Maddox is a fallen angel, a tortured soul lying only just on the right side of the law. An undercover operative with the Serious Organised Crime Agency in London. He is a 21st century avenger, ‘There’s a nice guy in there trying to get out’. Maddox' close friend Ryan Fletcher is also an undercover operative...
Our Lady of InfidelityJackie Parker
It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California. Seven-year-old Luz Reyes, whose family was killed by death squads in her native land and whose mother is gravely ill, is the first to see it...
Anonymous CallerSusan Parker
Caitlin Rourke is a young, restless reporter who feels like she's going nowhere fast, that is until she gets a fateful phone call from a woman reporting a rape, which propels her into a world of corruption and organized crime. Her car is torched and her dog is poisoned to scare Caitlin off the story. Her...
The Nordic Theory of Everything
A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. Moving to America in 2008, Anu Partanen quickly went...
Cliff WalkingStephen Russell Payne
Set on the rocky and at times unforgiving coast of Maine, Stephen Russell Payne's emotionally powerful debut novel, Cliff Walking, shares a poignant tale of loss and love that weaves together the lives of three desperate people who struggle mightily to find a way to save...
HardwiredRamona Pedron
Take a view into the raw living that occurs in households across the planet as it is displayed in this fictionalized personal memoir of an abuse survivor who is determined to collect the data required to sort out reality, survive, and most importantly, tread the narrow path of life that forces you to...
Forbidden FruitGail Pellett
Can a lusty North American woman find truth, meaning and love in post-Cultural Revolution China? In 1980, Gail Pellett, a producer for radio and TV, moved from New York to Beijing to work as a "foreign expert" at Radio Beijing, China's equivalent to the Voice of America. Invited for...
13 Dreams That Tell the Whole StoryShelly Perlman
Lisa is a happy newlywed with a gorgeous husband, an apartment in Manhattan and a promotion coming up at work. Living the dream life she always wanted until she begins to dream of herself in chapters and finds herself consumed with a whole other dimension...
The MacBrides: Logan and RJJ.L. Petersen
Logan, the eldest of the MacBride clan, is thrilled at his brother Clay's pending nuptials to Sandy. But when Sandy's sister RJ arrives at the family's ranch, Logan's world is turned upside down. However, the sisters' shared past has created scars and barriers against love...
The Dark HurtsJohn Phillips
How can just one day change so much in so many lives in the city of San Francisco? An 8.9 earthquake does not pick and choose its victims or survivors, some it takes, others it leaves to cope with the aftermath. Tom Cousins was hurting both physically and emotionally. He was...
Life with My Idiot FamilyKathy and Gary Picard
Seven-year-old little girls love their daddy. Kathy was no exception, so when her daddy started paying "special" attention to her, she felt "special" in turn. Her daddy loved her... what could be better than that? Few betrayals run as deep as the betrayal of being sexually...
Tim Cratchit's Christmas CarolJim Piecuch
Tiny Tim is all grown up in this continuation of Charles Dickens’s beloved holiday classic A Christmas Carol, and this time, a certain ghost shows him the true meaning of Christmas cheer! In A Christmas Carol, evil Scrooge was shown the error of his ways by three helpful...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But...
Lost Among the BainingGail Pool
In the late sixties, Gail Pool and her husband set off for an adventure in New Guinea. He was a graduate student in anthropology; she was an aspiring writer. They prepared, as academics do, by reading, practicing with language tapes, consulting with the nearest thing to...
In Hell ExhaleBen Porter
A story driven by greed, revenge and the boundaries that push friendships to there absolute limits. Jennifer finds herself in a world she never grew up in, on the run from a maniacal ruler hell bent on getting to her at all costs. But are things really what they seem, or is there someone behind the...
Porter Brothers' TragedyGlenn & Steven Porter
The Porter brothers, Glenn and Steven, were in their twenties and had their whole lives in front of them. They found jobs and worked at a business where the wealthy owners had two beautiful daughters. Glenn and Steven pursued these two girls with hopes of marriage...
Smoke from Small FiresAnne Powers
It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving...
Our Kids
A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It's the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and...
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Revising GenesisJames Quatro
It might seem inconceivable that the Book of Genesis would need revising after all these millennia. But that is exactly what this author shows using the latest methods and evidence available, including a literary analysis of the Genesis text, testimony from the most ancient...
