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The Mercy of the Tide Keith Rosson Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening―a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the... |
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The Autumn Crush Andrew Eustace Anselmi Guy Bennett was one of America's post-World War II success stories. Born of Italian immigrants during the Depression, he became a captain of industry, with a skyscraper in New York City and a son in the United States Senate. The applause mutes and friends grow scarce, however, when... |
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The Snake and the Condor Robert Southam Santiago, Chile, at the height of Pinochet's reign of terror in the late twentieth century. Julieta, the Juliet of this 'Romeo and Juliet' story and the daughter of a senior government official, is to be married to the army officer of her father's choice. She attempts to escape... |
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Beneath the Coyote Hills William 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... |
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Rise, Trifecta Series Luis Almonte The South Haven Academy for the Gifted and Talented not only houses the exceptionally intelligent, but unknown to the normal students, a number of “gifted and talented” witches attend class with them every day. Among the student body is fifteen-year-old Alexia Wick, a witch of the white-magic-... |
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The Portal Volk Caldera The Portal was written for those who still have within themselves the playful spirit of their childhood, no matter how deeply it is buried. A time when you ran with a kite secretly hoping the wind rushing to send it soaring would also lift you up until you flew with it; when you believed that you had... |
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Thinking Rationally in an Irrational World Alex Burdeshaw Have you ever been involved in a contentious, fruitless discussion about politics, science, or current events with a coworker, friend, or family member? Burdeshaw explores why those conversations get so contentious, and he offers easily applicable... |
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Palpable Irony Martin 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... |
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Before the Darkness Annette Creswell In pre-World War Two London, Penny works as a maternity nurse at the Royal Women's Hospital. Happy in her work and with two really good friends and several doctor suitors, little does she realise how her life will be changed by a chance lunch-time encounter. Who is the ruggedly handsome... |
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Harry Hid It JJ 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... |
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A Cyber Affair Lonz Cook Tiffany Wilkes, "SanFran Pearl," spends hours on dating websites. She’s tired of guys who can’t charm the lid off of a garbage can and sick of God awful blind dates, and mindless encounters. Meeting men at work is a competition and a risk of breaking a dating policy that results in... |
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Sunset & Vine Per 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... |
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Jerome and His Women Joan 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... |
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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... |
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Rubbing Stones Nancy Burkey Dr. Jane O'Neil, an American psychiatry professor, books her family on a rafting trip down the Zambezi River, seeking redirection and reconnection with her troubled son. Katura Masaku, a smart but impulsive teenager in Botswana, sneaks across the border to Victoria Falls, naively confident... |
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March to November Byddi 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... |
