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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...

Heaven's Eyes Jacqueline J. Andrews

Macklin, Mississippi is a town where everybody knows everybody – a place where there is no such thing as a secret. The town has seen its share of scandals, especially when the legendary Shirley Brown swept through town. The women in town thrive on the juicy gossip that they hear about each...

Enter: The Champion Erik L Welchoff

Imagine a world where all living creatures, including humans, are genetically engineered for special purposes. Imagine a super-race of Warrior humans who are manufactured in cutting-edge laboratories deep inside the planet, where they are trained to use their unimaginable athletic capabilities in...

Fourteen Leslie 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...

Chasing Grace Sanya Richards-Ross

"For as long as I can remember, life has been measured in seconds. The fewer, the better." Most people equate success with having more, but Sanya’s quest was always for less. She started running track as a little girl in Jamaica and began competing when she was only seven. At 31 she's had...

Almost Invincible Suzanne Burdon

"She is singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything else she undertakes, almost invincible." Mary Shelley began Frankenstein in 1814, when she was eighteen. By then, she had been living for two...

Alienation Rahel Jaeggi

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...

First Responder James Summers

Centrally located between Malibu Creek and Topanga state parks is a lonely stretch of road the locals refer to as the ‘Mulholland Dieway’. Here first responders frequently rally to save those unfortunate enough to find themselves stranded and in need of assistance. For years...

Chinese Pearl Patrick Aaron

Chinese Pearl starts in the year 1917 in Nanking China with the birth of Zhu, an albino with psychic abilities, who is adopted by the midwife Xiulan and her husband Shu. The child is a welcome blessing into this couples life and becomes an asset to their business, an apothecary, as her...

The Butcher's Daughter Florence Grende

What was it like to hide with your family in the dense forests of Poland for two long years, as Mameh did, living in a hole in the ground, while alert, always alert, to the sounds of Nazis and their dogs? How was it to be both hunter and hunted, as Tateh was, taking up arms...

Venus Figurines Roy Chesnut

Venus Figurines is a novel about Anya and James whose pursuit of love is obsessive and ritualistic. Together they navigate the fine line between the veneration of love and the exploitation of it for its pleasures. Dark and erotic, mirthful and witty their journey crosses boundaries in ways...

Across Great Divides Monique Roy

Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle — apartheid in South Africa. Sixteen...

The Past And Future King Warren 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...

The Munich Girl Phyllis Edgerly Ring

Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a...

Welcome to Saint Angel William Luvaas

After his wife dies in a plane crash, iconoclastic inventor Al Sharpe moves to Saint Angel Valley in SoCal's high desert to rebuild his life on beloved "Second Chance Acres," building his young daughter a tree house in a giant oak tree and inventing the Sharpe Smoke...

Shady Place David Byrne

Shady Place is a fifty-five and up planned community in Florida. It's full of vibrant seniors enjoying the the sunset years of their lives. Shady Place the novel is about those people. Shady Place follows the antics and exploits of Jim Phillips, are tired police detective from Philadelphia, as he...