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Just Like Daddy
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99This is a story of L.A life the hustle & struggle of two young men, and the life changing decision they’re left to make. African American, Romeo Jackson Mexican American, Romero Ramirez grow up in Los Angeles challenged by neighborhood struggles and society’s expectations on different sides of our racial palisade. although these two young men are different culturally, they yet share similar destructive addictions to L.A. gang lifestyle, in search of money, power, and respect. With only one truly positive goal in common and that’s raising their sons to be more than just another Black and Mexican product of Los Angeles’ destructive trend. They will bond as brothers in their struggles to survive “The Game” All the while, watchful eyes and impressionable souls pay close attention.
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Ex-detective Agency
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This novel is a fast-moving murder mystery adventure about two call girls (the fruits) living in Chicago Illinois. When one of them believes she has killed a client, the two of them head for Jazmin’s uncle’s cabin on clam lake near Sheboygan Wisconsin. Along the way they meet a bounty hunter and an ex-detective.
A storm occurs while all of them are headed through Wisconsin. One of them ends up in a tornado and one of them disappears under suspicious circumstances.
Bodies are uncovered but whose bodies, are they?
The Ex-Detectives Agency whose motto is ‘You hide the body and we will find it and you’ gets involved in finding the person who is taken by the tornado and the person who is missing. Relationships develop throughout the novel.
The story takes you through a comedy mix of characters and circumstances including the trails and tribulations an apartment owner goes through with his renters.
Enjoy the hilarious adventure of these misfits as they try to survive.
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America’s Deceit
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99America’s Deceit is a gripping political thriller that reexamines one of the most shocking moments in American history-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But this story goes far beyond Dallas, 1963. What begins as a historical tragedy unravels into a modern web of corruption, espionage, and betrayal at the highest levels of power. Through decades of buried evidence and silenced witnesses, the novel exposes the intricate machinery that keeps the truth hidden-a machinery still at work today. Was Kennedy’s death the act of a lone gunman, or part of something far more sinister?
From the corridors of Washington to covert operations overseas. America’s Deceit pulls readers into the shadow of power where patriotism collides with conspiracy-and where one man’s search for answers could change everything we thought we knew about our nation’s past.
The deeper you dig into history… the darker it gets.
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Skeleton Crew Manhunt
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Familiar characters return and new ones hit the ground running in this stand alone sequel to Blue Undertow. Sergeant Morrow and his squad of rogue cops fight internal corruption and solve minor crimes unaware that the notorious Skeleton Crew bank robbery team is headed their way.
FBI Agent Anthony Donovan collects clues and closes in on the motivated and well trained bank robbers. But who are these skilled criminals? Former military? Law Enforcement? They must use their wits if they want to keep one step ahead of the law.
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Summer’s End: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99As a music composer and author, KATHRYN B. HULL is a member of ASCAP and SCBWI. She is a State and Nationally certified teacher of music with an active studio in La Quinta, California, having taught music in elementary schools and college. She has written children’s books as well as this novel. She volunteers her time with numerous community organizations with a focus on the arts and education. She is listed in The Top Ten Registry and several Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who of American Women.
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Solomon Levi MacKeefer: A Gypsy with a Very Great Heart
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99He was a gypsy, part of a gypsy band. His name was Solomon Levi Brown. His coming was not a part of his parents’ plans but was more of an example of the old saying that “accidents cause people.” As a consequence, he ended up as a child of the whole band of gypsies, dined with anyone handy, and slept wherever he could lay his head.
They called him Solly MacKeefer, and he started his life on a rough road. He learned compassion as a young boy as he watched a girl cry over her lost pet. He eventually found love with a beautiful gypsy woman, and they brought a child into the world. However, tragedy struck this happy family when they moved to Canada, and nothing was ever the same again.
Still, Solly persevered even after facing terrible loss. No matter how cruel the world, Solly refused to be the same. He found friends in unexpected places and even died a hero. At his funeral, crowds came from all around, proving that one man changed many lives. This is Solly’s story-a gypsy boy who grew into a man and left a legacy of kindness and love.
The author, having grave concerns that in the present situation, there is too much discrimination and persecution for the least fortunate of this world and because of his belief that the vast majority of the people as a whole are a kind and benevolent society and quick to respond to the plight of their fellow man. He has tried to show that in this story.
And we should all be reminded that someone once said: “and as ye shall do unto the least of my brethren likewise shall I do unto you”. -
My American Terrorists: Home Grown Family Terrorists…Does She Escape?
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99In this gripping and emotionally charged narrative, America shares an unforgettable journey through the trials of life; driven by the relentless pursuit of love, happiness, justice, and peace. The story unveils shocking revelations of deceit, contempt, racketeering; and hidden sex offenders within her own circle. Determined to break free from abuse and jealousy, she embarks on a courageous fight to reclaim her life and create a world rooted in kindness and truth. This compelling tale is a testament to resilience and the unyielding desire to transform pain into peace.
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Gunfighter Jake: The Most Unusual Gunfighter the West Has Ever Seen
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99“My husband has been an avid Western fan and horseman all his life. He wanted to write a Western that was completely different from the typical ones, and he succeeded in doing so with this book. His main character, Jake, is unlike any character that has been portrayed in Western movies or novels. What makes the gunfighter unusual is not only that he is the fastest on the draw that ever lived, but also that he has a unique way of handling those who try to make a name for themselves by challenging him to a gunfight, making them realize they wouldn’t have a chance. This book contains many stories about Jake’s life, as well as other interesting characters. The last story in the book is about a woman seeking revenge. Jake teaches her how to use a gun and become a deadly fast draw. He then helps her get her revenge. This story is both interesting and exciting, and the method she uses to seek revenge is unusual and unlike any story ever told.”
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Secret Lovers
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Samantha, a successful business owner, welcomes a new employee. She finds herself stuck between two lovers and things go from good to bad. In the end, Samantha finds herself choosing between the new employee or her high school sweetheart
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Forceful Fliegers Minus Folly
Price range: $3.99 through $9.996 to 7 different ISBN’s find their ways together, beelined, balanced with smith words of wills, wishes, & whim afloat upon the age of eyes where we all shall begin.
To the poetic spirit within us all,
to clear the paths of positivity,
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The Junk Drawer: A Place for Our Dreams
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99The Junk Drawer: A Place for Our Dreams introduces us to two groups of teens growing up in Memphis, TN, in the late sixties. One group is black and the other white. Their initial meeting almost ends with devastating consequences, but the hopes and dreams of these teens are put to the test in an effort to bring about racial reconciliation following the death of Dr. King and the violence that follows. This story is tempered with the unforgettable good times of Washington Park in North Memphis. Rickey Alan Smith demonstrates that every person, even in war-ravished Vietnam, has dreams. No obstacle can stand in the way of true love. The Junk Drawer shows just what we should do to keep our hopes and dreams alive.
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VieVie La Fontaine
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When I first published this book in 2018, wars raged in various parts of the world, just like today. Hourly, we were allowed to follow the horror and depravity as it unfolded. On June 14, 1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Paris, marking the start of the German occupation. At that time, there wasn’t the ease of news delivery at citizens’ fingertips. Instead, acts of bravery that we seldom consider occurred. Despite the possibility of severe punishment, the underground press distributed newspapers to offset the Vichy and German propaganda. Often, coded messages relayed instructions to members of the Resistance. An attempt to distribute and obtain daily news was itself a death sentence if found out. Yet, the spirit of the oppressed was undaunted.
VieVie La Fontaine is the story of two souls drawn together by a force they couldn’t comprehend.
Facts are intertwined with Fiction as this tale of incredible bravery unfolds. Maybe, there existed a Mark and VieVie. We may never know, but I offer VieVie La Fontaine in honor of the strength and determination of so many. -
The Secret Guy: A New England Diary: A New England
$29.99It does not matter who he is, my Secret Guy. The only thing which matters is that he is mine. We meet in private. Nobody can comment. No one can interfere. If it becomes necessary to meet in public, we require anonymity within a crowd of strangers. When our story is finished, then finally, others may know it. Future readers of these pages will know it, in due time.
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A People Set Apart
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99When chance, the flamboyant scion of a well-to-do family, makes it to the United States from his war-torn Biafra, it doesn’t occur to him that life isn’t going to be the same as it is in his homeland.
But he learns fast. And by sheer will and personal grit, he is able to bulldoze his way in his new abode. Turning adversities into advantage he develops one of the most enduring relationships ever imagined. Turnkey, his nemesis turns friend, and over a short period of time, that metamorphosis yields an instant result. Chance schools him to change course and makes him to understand that he can buy himself out of the box seemingly reserved for him and his ilk that will place him in low level of society’s cadet in perpetuity. Having seen the light, they hit the ground running. Their friendship bossoms, and Chance becomes his greatest confidante.
When Chance offers to take him and a group of his American friends to his homeland of Biafra, a country remembered in flashpoints of war and pillage and destruction, and man’s inhumanity to man, Turnkey is there to defend his friend and dispel all erroneous notions of a people he hasn’t met except one man.
Biafra, plundered since time immemorial, and thought dead, has risen from the ashes of pillagery by dint, and indefatigable spirit of her irrepressible people to hoist her flag in the firmament for all to see. In Biafra, Africa is unbound.
Turnkey, a fortuitious child, and even luckier than a cat with more than nine lives, doesn’t leave anything to chance. Like his father, he toils from a young age knowing where he’s coming from but also with an eye to where he’s heading to. Yet, it’s him that the mighty God has had his path cleared before him.
And when fortune smiles on him owing to a huge bequeathal of his granduncle, it’s to Chance that he turns to, and it’s in his friend’s homeland that he chooses to invest his largesse because he wholeheartedly believes that they’re a people a set apart in spite of the challenges right and about them.
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Not For Women Only: Short Stories for a Lazy Day
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Zygier’s first book, Not-For-Women-Only, Short Stories for a Lazy Day is written for people that can sit somewhere quiet with a cup of coffee or tea, OK, maybe with a glass of wine, and read. Though the title might suggest that only women can or should read it, doesn’t mean men can’t. The stories might also imply that it’s only subject is a woman and a man
bumping into themselves on a street corner, though that’s not a bad idea, it’s really much more than that. Yes, they do meet, otherwise what is the point? So, yes, they do meet in a street, on an elevator, parachuted into Afghanistan with a special force’s unit to a young woman that feels that she should have the same equality as men in Victorian England and dresses like a man then finds herself in love with an aristocrat that thinks it’s his sister and both end up in India. Since Zygier had a stint in the army, he takes that thought in many ways. Some sad, some funny and some serious. Such as an officer in Afghanistan that saves a female reporter from a sniper to a General that doesn’t want to get involved with women till he’s stuck on a plane with one. Though this is Zygier’s first book, he started to write as a hobby and later joined a writer’s group. There he was encouraged to put some stories together and publish them. -
Red and the Egg Pie
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Red is best friends with her Granny. Red also loves visiting friends, and her granny reminds her to mind her manners. What happens when Red doesn’t listen? Join Red as she realizes that learning a lesson doesn’t always taste good.
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Warriors of the Deities: Orisha Bloodlines
Price range: $3.99 through $34.99This book is a tribute to the ancestors who walked before us and the power that still flows through our blood.
It is fiction, yes-but it’s also truth, myth, memory, and resistance. To read this is to reclaim something forgotten.
This story isn’t just meant to entertain-it’s meant to awaken.
As you journey through the Yoruba land of Ilaro, ask yourself:
What traditions are worth fighting for?And what truths are you brave enough to reclaim?
Myth meets memory.
Bloodline meets destiny.
And silence meets revolution.
This is not just a novel. This is a calling.
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The Arkansas Traveler
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99Reliving his masterpiece.
Dive into a journey of creativity and humor as one man turns life’s challenges into unforgettable poems. Discover how a little wit can change everything. This book shows how laughter, poetry, and resilience can transform even the toughest of times.
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The Road from Money: The Journey Continues Part 2 (1937 – 1955)
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99The Road from Money, the Journey Continues (Part 2) 1937 – 1955, Estella arrives in Chicago from Money, Mississippi, during the Great Migration north for millions of African Americans. She leaves behind the Jim Crow South and the cotton fields to the promise of a better life in the north. Seeing the vast difference between a big city and a small rural town, Estella finds it both exciting and challenging. With her family’s help, she settles in to find new friends, romance, and employment during World War II. She soon realizes that racism is not just in the South; it exists everywhere. Like thousands before her migrating north, her strength of character and perseverance paves the way for her success and enduring spirit. Set in the backdrop of Chicago’s Bronzeville community, the Harlem of Chicago, the reader will feel the beat of the city’s nightclubs on South Park Avenue, the sound of church choirs, the dangers of a big city, and the emotions of a nation at war. Estella experiences a new world with the coming of the television age and the beginning of the civil rights movement. She and her family find love, discrimination, and opportunities. They live and work together to overcome the obstacles placed before them.
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The Road from Money: The Journey Continues PART 3 (1956 – 1968)
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99The Road from Money, The Journey Continuous, part 3. Join Estella as she continues her path to success during the joyous and turbulent times of the 1950’s and ’60s; including the Korean and Vietnam War, the beginning of the space age, ongoing civil rights demonstrations, and assignations of key civil rights and political leaders. All set in the background of Chicago’s Bronzeville and Hyde Park neighborhoods. Watch Estella as she accumulates several apartment buildings, and experience the music, movies, culture and racial dynamics of the era.
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A Reason for Living
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99It is the mid-1960s in Kingston, Jamaica, and the country is steeped in social, political, and economic inequities. Howard Baxter, the heir to a real estate empire, has no interest in seeking or managing wealth. Painting and deflowering Jamaican maidens are his passions. As he combs the streets looking for greater meaning in his pathetic life, it soon becomes apparent that Howard’s journey will not be easy. Bernaldo Lloyd, a member of the Baxter clan, is a medical student who is sensitive to the hopelessness of the Jamaican masses. Inspired by his close friend and Howard’s cousin, Ras Robin Pone, and their ties with the Rastafari movement that calls for social and economic equity, Bernaldo is determined to overthrow the corrupt government. As Howard, Bernaldo and Robin become influenced by The American Black Power and Civil Rights movements demanding equal rights for African Americans, the women in their lives both love and criticize them. But when revolution breaks out, Howard finally discovers a purpose for his twisted life that leads him in a direction he never anticipated. In this tale of love, passion, and self-discovery, three Jamaican men become caught up in a 1960s revolution that reveals injustices, oppression, and a purpose for one of them.
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My Journey with the United Nations and Quest for the Horn of Africa’s Unity and Justice for Ethiopia
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99The book is focused on vital issues for the institutional development of various countries including human settlements as well as the need for cooperation and mutual support of the countries in the Horn of Africa plus the achievement of the justice required by Ethiopia for the huge war crimes perpetrated by Fascist Italy with the Vatican’s complicit support.
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BABY SIS AND ME
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99A perfect story for little ones learning about family, pets, and the special things that make their world feel like home, from the loving bounds that bring them together to the small details that make each day feel bright and exciting.
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Janine: Tale of an Abandoned Wife and Mother
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Janine is left homeless and penniless when her husband deserts her. She is left to explain all his thefts and misdeeds as she loses her friends and status. All the while, she must protect her children as she builds a new life. When Janine discovers a way to recover some of her money, she resorts to wits and stealth. Many women are caught unawares by the deeds of their spouses. Not everyone is as eventually fortunate or brave as Janine.
Mark Eric Johansen is a retired bus mechanic. He began seriously writing when he had time to devote to retelling the events he had heard and seen. He is working on a chronicle of forty years in a diverse, racist, bewildering work environment. Mark and his wife have always lived in the Chicagoland area.
Janine is Mark’s first completed fiction piece.
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War Is Hell: A Tale of War And One’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This story is told by a soldier who was a part of the bloody war in Burma, the executive officer of a rugged group of American jungle fighters. He tells us in great detail what the war did to him and how he feels about taking another man’s life even to protect his own as he searches for meaning in it all…
World War II is winding down in the summer of 1945, but not for Major Jenkins and his band of Merrill’s Marauders. They have spent months combing the Burmese jungle for the notorious Japanese commander Colonel Maruyama and his troops. Major Jenkins, Captain Beltrans and what was left of their band were outnumbered two to one; so, they had to devise a plan that would overcome the odds. But after they settled the score with their enemy, they had to march hundreds of miles through the jungle back to their base near the Indian border. It was now August, and the war was over, but how would the local civilians living along the only trail out of Burma view the American soldiers?
Their journey back home was fraught with unexpected dangers and facing unplanned enemies through an unforgiving jungle. They had never been taught at West Point how to fight their new enemy.
After the war, Captain Beltrans is convinced that he should return Colonel Maruyama’s samurai sword to his descendants in Japan. However, what he thought would be a routine side trip to a modern country turned into a harrowing adventure in Japanese politics and a thousand-year-old culture. He ended up in an ancient Zen Garden in Kyoto wondering if he had done the right thing by killing enemy soldiers and civilians during the war. Does he get help from his deceased native grandmother?
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The Devil In The Cave
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99When a World War II Veteran, Archibald Arthur, a United States Serviceman retired from active military duty in November 1943 after a grueling experience fighting the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, he must battle to rebuild his civilian life and emerge from the ashes. The Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder was intense, but finding a job at the Anchorage Hotel in Downtown Alaska provided a safe haven for him to revitalize and start over. But when he met a vacationing young lady from Zagreb, Croatia at the Hotel, his world was turned upside down after a beautiful picnic with her in the foot of the Alaskan Mountains.
The Devil that must have killed her in the woods was too powerful, but he must face him to avenge her demise and, in the process, discovering it was far more complicated than he had previously imagined. It took years of living in the mountain foot, surviving bitter winters and learning for him to discover that the battle that he must fight was not only carnal, but spiritual as well. Deep inside the cave with his loyal dog, Gossiper, they came face to face with the Devil and that marked a new beginning for them both……
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The Angels of Opi
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Seven Boys Held Captive for 11 years! When Daniel Ciarletta and his father, Pete, boarded a boat in 1947 bound for Italy, to visit Pete’s ailing father, they could not have known what awaited them. Everything changed for Daniel and the Ciarletta family. Daniel was abducted and taken to Opi, a rural mountain community that had survived for centuries by sheep herding until 1943, when retreating German soldiers seized all the boys and able-bodied young men as work prisoners. Daniel soon became a work prisoner as part of a devious plan by the citizens of Opi-including the local priest who had evidentially lost his “moral compass”- to abduct young foreigners to take the place of the men they had lost. With no idea of where he was or why, and unable to speak Italian, Daniel began working in the fields and plotting his possible escape. Meanwhile, back in America, the once happy and loving Ciarletta family began to slowly disintegrate under the burden of conflict, anger and guilt caused by Daniel’s mysterious disappearance.
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The Man Who Transformed Africa: The Rebirth of a Continent
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99The novel opens with Vatican intrigue between liberal and conservative Cardinals leading to the unlikely selection of an Indonesian Pope. Seizing the opportunity, the new pope uses Ex-Cathedra (papal infallibility) to declare poverty an immoral human condition. Deciding to lead by example, the pope takes the provocative step of selling the Vatican treasures, to fund a long-term project to build a strong African middle-class society. This project is estimated to take twelve to fifteen years to complete. This novel covers the first two years of the pope’s African project.
Project leaders during the first two-year period understand if Africa is to be successful in building a strong middle-class society a number of events must first take place.
African social order must change; Africans must feel safe in their homes and community.
The African political structure must be restructured to focus on serving the needs of Africans. Africa’s health care system needs a major overhaul.
Africa must have an intra-continental highway, connected to four deep seaports, for the distribution of agricultural products to a global market.
Africa must have dependable electricity that services all homes and businesses.
Africa’s tropical savannas’ land, which contains 63% of the worlds arable farmland, must be restructured to allow for optimal farming while at the same time protecting native wildlife.
The pope’s project, Build Africa Together, will be responsible for implementing these basic goals, which will eventually allow Africans to build a strong African middle-class society. -
Impossible Beginnings: A Love Story
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Merry Morehouse, a city girl carrying a life-crushing secret, is betrayed by a woman she believes to be her best friend. This friend backs out of a planned camping trip to the mountains at the last minute. Although she has never camped out before, Merry is set on being a big girl and decides to make the trip alone. Lost at night in these mountains with few people, she decides to go home. Turning around, Merry crashes vehicles with a man who recently lost his beloved wife to cancer.
Doc Adams, a disabled combat vet in danger of being fired from his job, who holds no romantic interest in another woman after losing his much-loved wife, becomes the crash victim. He lives alone on this desolate mountain that becomes the crash scene. Merry accepts his offer to sleep at his home but panics when he pulls off on the dirt road leading to this isolated place. Their vastly different beliefs quickly become the foundations for arguments concerning God, guns, law enforcement, and news media reports. Overloaded with fear and difficult memories from her teen years, Merry is terrified of what he might do to her. Her choices for the night narrow with no place to stay, no vehicle, no way to protect herself, and a cell phone that won’t work in these mountains.
After this rough start, they work to get along with each other, and Merry struggles to become accustomed to mountain life. False accusations take them to court where the charges are dropped. They get married. Merry’s father, a big-shot lawyer, causes problems during their wedding and is ushered out. He shows up at the reception and tries to take his family home. Shots are fired, and total bedlam ensues. -
Something To Crow About
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This story is about a young crow who worries about his diminutive size and wishes he might be larger and prouder. Moe the Crow, feeling puny and tiny, turns to his mother. She gives him
the family history tracing Moe to a time when his ancestors ruled the earth as dinosaurs. The story changes Moe’s perspective making him believe that life’s best is what lies ahead. The book gives young people a perspective of how dinosaurs evolved and a new way they can look at the birds around them. This book provides entertaining rhyme, colorful pictures, a scientific story, and a reminder of the bond between parents and their young. -
Just Killing Time
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Wrongly incarcerated for borrowing a vehicle, young Brent “Buzz” Galen is moved to Glen Cove Correctional Institution on the rural coast of North Carolina, where he meets Chuck Charles, a man who suffers from medical ailments. Within the prison, the two become good friends and work to find ways to fill the idleness of prison life, killing time any way that they can.
Not long into his prison stay, Buzz witnesses a number of illegal activities, primarily with the staff who are bringing in serious items of contraband. The ringleader of all of this activity is an inmate who’s serving time for a man-slaughter charge.
Secrets began to reveal themselves at Glen Cove, and long-standing illegal arrangements begin to unravel. But nothing is safe in the world of prison. As the culprits are being exposed, the level of danger rises, and many within Glen Cove are forced to make life-changing decisions…
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Ancient of Days: (Author of All You Survey)
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Born in Indiana, Grover “Grumpy” Pitman grew up the second youngest of six siblings. He and his lovely bride, Deborah, have been married for over 40 years, and they have one son, one daughter-in-law, and five beloved grandchildren. In his free time, Fagan enjoys golfing, fishing, and praying. His alter-ego and penname, Grover “Grumpy” Pitman, was created by his grandchildren.
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Almost Heaven
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Almost Heaven was originally titled Ballengee. I wrote during the early 80s while driving an eighteen-wheeler across the fruited plain of America and Canada. The characters of Almost Heaven are based on my memories of folks I knew while spending time with my summer parents on the farm in Ballengee, West Virginia. My Summer parents were named Lester and Fonda Lively. Ballengee was a farming and dairy country filled with unique folks. I started going there in 1954 and continued each summer until 1965. I always thought fiction was born of truth, and I filled Ballengee with fictitious characters from impressions of the folks I met there. The storyteller of the work never revealed his name, but if he had, it would have been Ragamuffin. It was a name given to me by Lester when asked who the little boy was hanging around him in the summer. Lester said, “Why, he is my Ragamuffin.” Ballengee is a real place, and I turned it into a small town filled with interesting folks who made it Almost Heaven.
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Shifting Air: A Royals Quest
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Could he ever have wanted this? Laithrum, the forsaken prince, is thrust from his unloving home and into war. At first, the call felt like insanity, but as he faces harrowing battles, and uncovers the long-buried secrets of his lineage, Laithrum realizes his importance. Back home, his half-sister Freyja is forced into a perilous journey. Violence shatters the palace walls, and Freyja is thrust into a fight for her life. But something stirs within her-a dark and untamed power that she cannot explain. As magic weaves itself deeper, the siblings grapple with the truth they were sheltered from-they had less control than they ever imagined. They are cast into a brutal world teeming with dragons, elves, and mystical creatures they once thought mere legends. Branded as “demons” by those who fear their powers, Laithrum and Freyja must choose: Will they embrace these accusations, or will they rise to challenge the tyrant pulling the strings from the shadows?
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The Other Wife
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Janice Bordeaux is an American woman from New Orleans, who lives and works in Chicago. WANDA ARRINGTON AKOREDE Janice and her cousin Melinda share an apartment. They are both young and ready for love and marriage. Janice finds her true love when she meets a Nigerian name Olufemi (Femi) Adegoke, who is completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Janice is employed at the University as an Administrative Assistant. They meet at an Africa party and romance blossoms. They become engaged and get married despite their cultural differences. Olufemi is from an upper class Nigerian family. He has lots of money and takes Janice on an extended honeymoon in Europe. They plan to settle in Nigeria afterwards. It is upon their arrival in Nigeria, that the other side of Femi is revealed. He kept from her the fact that he was already married. You see in their culture, it is legal to have more than one wife. But for Janice, this was culture shock! Devastated and distraught, Janice tries to live in their culture, rather than return home. Her love for Femi is very strong and she hopes that one day he will come to his senses and see that she is all the woman that he needs. But being faced with a very strong and male dominated country and living in a strange and sometimes overwhelming country, she finds it difficult to deal with her husband’s infidelity. She feels cheated. He should have told her about his other wife, and she
would never have married him. Omolola (Lola) is Oulfemi’s Nigerian wife. She waits two long years for him to complete his education and return home to her. She had not bargained on him marrying an American woman and bringing her home. She had planned to have a family and enjoy the fruits of his success upon his return to Nigeria. Instead she was forced to share him with Janice. Omolola knew that her husband has taken another wife before they arrived in Nigeria. It was part of their culture for a man to have more than one wife. Several of her relatives were actively living in polygamy. They tried to live together, each woman sharing their husband equally. But Lola was not satisfied with their arrangement and schemes to have Olufemi to herself. She uses any means at her disposal including juju (witchcraft). While Janice who is innocent in this is losing the battle to maintain her marriage. Consequently, Janice catches Olufemi and Lola in bed together and decides that she had had enough of their culture and polygamy and leaves for America. But she takes with her their unborn child; she is several months pregnant. So the tie is binding. -
Sam Larsen Mysteries
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Detective Sam Larsen is faced with her most challenging case when a murder in her jurisdiction appears to be related to an unsolved case she faced many years earlier in another state. Adding insult to injury, it appears that the cases have another very personal and heartrending twist that involves a person she loves.
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Whose Coffee Is It?
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99I met June Seese in a class on writing fiction. As a teacher, one of my biggest kicks was that moment when the writers first read something they’d written. It was a nervous time-many writers shaking inside, for the first time showing their work to strangers, sympathetic, but nonetheless, strangers. June was remarkable. What has flowered since was already sturdy, strong distinct. She read with a confidence that moved beyond the personal, a faith outside herself in the certainty of her work. Here was a writer who had risen to that essential power where her work becomes necessary to her, a gift as sure and heedless as her pulse. She was right on track, and would move, beyond discouragement or criticism or even appreciation, into the strength, that difficult ease that’s the mark of a writer who will continue regardless, achieving an undeniable, unmistakable voice.
What makes a writer? Originality, a delighted care for language, a commitment to push words into new music and finally into pure emotion. June has these gifts-and her writing’s strengths- toughness, speed, lyricism, observation acuity and, ultimately, a compassion that’s never unsteady, never weak-make her the best kind of writer-impatient, hip, timely and transcending.
-Paul Evans, Editor, Southline Press
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DESOLATION: Part One
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Visited by the spirit world, a Hopi woman, an Aborigine man, and a Rabbi are told the earth will soon undergo worldwide desolation. They are divinely united to reveal the message to all humans that live upon Mother Earth. It all begins with a thermonuclear war between India and China over greed, which starts the cataclysmic events that alter the entire planet. They were told that man’s carelessness with his scientific technology will cause a cascade of events that will literally change the face of Mother Earth. Will Sarah, Yirawala, and Rabbi Raboy be able to warn all the humans in time to prepare themselves for these cataclysmic events? This book is part one of the Desolation trilogy. Mother Earth purifies herself and completes her rebirth in books two and three. William F. Covey is an electrician, doctor and author. He currently resides in Santa Clarita, California. Although this book is pure fiction, Covey hopes humans will eventually make their number one priority managing their technological progress so they will stop poisoning the earth on a daily basis. He believes that if the humans do not start taking better care of earth’s ecological system, they will have to pay a very costly price to repair earth’s ability to nourish and reproduce life as we know it
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SICQ: Spanish Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99El Presidente y el Vice Presidente son elegidos de dos partidos diferentes. Son viejos amigos, pero se desarrolla un conflicto cuando se descubre la posibilidad de un contacto extraterrestre real. Una multitud de personajes se infunden en la relación entre los dos.
A medida que se confirma progresivamente el contacto con extraterrestres, el cisma político deja de ser un problema. Los efectos sobre la humanidad pasan a primer plano. Aceptar la verdad provoca disensión y desconfianza. En última instancia, se realizan las eleEl Presidente y el Vice Presidente son elegidos de dos partidos diferentes. Son viejos amigos, pero se desarrolla un conflicto cuando se descubre la posibilidad de un contacto extraterrestre real. Una multitud de personajes se infunden en la relación entre los dos.
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Heaven Scent
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Sammy is hunting for something, but he doesn’t know what it is. Even though he can’t find it, he doesn’t give up. He continues his search until he finds the greatest treasure ever.
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Trouble in Tangiers: Islamic Incursions, Portuguese Perfidy? 1661
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In 1661 Charles II put an end to the diplomatic wrangle between European powers to provide him with a wife. He announced he would marry the sister of the disabled King of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza. As part of the marriage treaty Portugal ceded the strategic north African port of Tangiers to England in return for three thousand English troops to assist Portugal maintain its independence from Spain. The instability of both Portuguese and Moroccan politics and conflict within the city itself forced Charles to send his agent Colonel Luke Tremayne to investigate the general situation and forestall any attempts by Moroccan war lords to undermine English influence. Their possession of an emerald and silver ring becomes crucial to such an end.
Geoff Quaife, born and educated in Melbourne Australia has been a university lecturer, historian and academic administrator spending most of his working life in Armidale in regional NSW. He is the author of academic works on witchcraft and sexual and the fifteen earlier Luke Tremayne adventures.
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Brides for A King: Fathers, Daughters and the National Interest: England & France 1660-1
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Luke is ordered by the King to investigate the intrigues and deaths surrounding the King’s forthcoming marriage-with particular emphasis on England’s foreign policy and national security.
The increased attacks on past mistresses and potential wives might be central to these concerns or stem from the simple jealousy of women anxious to obtain the King’s favour or lying about their past relationships, conflicts often within the same family; or do these current problems stem from events that occurred during the King’s decade in exile; or the current greed and ambition of powerful noble dynasties.
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THE ROBOTIX SAGA: Book 1: THE HUMAN ELEMENT
Price range: $3.99 through $28.99Robot, or human? Regardless! Shilloqwai was committed, vowing to fulfill the quest entrusted to her. She was left with the unenviable task of bridging the gap between the two factions, a void left after an all-out war between them. Robots ruled the world, Humankind sought to regain its power. Robots claimed to be protecting humans from themselves. Humankind insisted its rights were being violated, privacy inparticular. Tensions between the two factions were mounting again. An attacking intragalactic AI force, left the factions with a life-changing decision — continue fighting one another — and likely be destroyed — or fight together in an attempt to save their existence, and
that of Earth!
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A Roof Over Our Heads and Food on the Table
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Pat Kavanaugh wanted to major in English at Nutmeg State University. His parents persuaded him to major in accounting because it would be more practical than being a writer. At NSU, he met his roommate named Sean Donnelly. Both Irish-Americans, they became friends despite Sean’s troubling secret. Pat then becomes a cashier at Delacroix’s Grocery Store. After graduation, Pat continued working at Delacroix’s, but the chances of advancement are rather slim.
Pat then began a job search. Along the way, he moved to his own apartment, attended Sunday Masses at All Saints Church, became friends with another parishioner, and met a young woman. He also invested in a business that his parents felt was unethical. In the end, Sean was always there for him. -
El Monstruo de la Pradera
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99La historia está a nuestro alrededor, pero no siempre sabemos dónde hallarla. ¿Se nos ocurriría mirar en el patio de nuestra casa?
En el libro del autor Ronald S. Martínez Sr., El monstruo de la pradera, dos niños juegan, como suelen hacerlo todos los días. Pero, esta vez, descubren huellas que se asemejan a las de las pequeñas lagartijas con las que se entretienen. En su imaginación, establecen conexiones, visualizando una criatura más extraña que la realidad. Pero, con la ayuda de un sacerdote que comparte su entusiasmo, descubren que ¡el monstruo de la pradera existió de verdad! Al descubrir las huellas de dinosaurios en los lechos de los ríos en las áridas praderas al sur de lo que hoy conocemos como La Junta, Colorado, los niños y el sacerdote deciden emprender una emocionante expedición para dar a conocer la existencia del monstruo de la pradera a un mundo que lo desconoce.
El monstruo de la pradera es una historia cautivadora con referencias históricas. Al embarcarse en este viaje de descubrimiento, los niños y el sacerdote se convierten en testigos, y también contribuyentes, de la historia de Colorado en desarrollo.
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Education Of A Native Son
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Education of a Native Son begins where the novel, Native Son, by Richard Wright ends.
Thomas, a Black young man who grew up in Harlem is accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university in New England. While in college Little, as he is known, will be confronted with the pressures of the everyday college student, being Black at an all-white university and being Black in America. In addition to adjusting to college life, he will soon learn the secret of his parent’s past, a past the could lead to the destruction of his family, friendships and ultimately his life. What takes him from a proud feeling of triumph when entering the university to feelings of betrayal, abandonment, self-hatred and the brink of self-destruction.
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Spear of Odin
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Based on the Norse myth of Thor fighting the Frost Giant Hrungir. When the giant’s weapon is smashed by Thor, a piece falls to the arctic. Olaf, a son of a Jarl, on his manhood quest, forms an alliance with a wizard to keep the talisman from falling into the hands of the dark forces seeking the power of the metal from the stars to lose evil that has been imprisoned for ages. Dark machinations fuel a mercenary invasion across the lands of the Norse. Far across the ice flows, in a squalid seaport Olaf hears of the assault upon his people and vows to be the Spear of Odin, the weapon against the evil that threatens his homeland.
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Dashell and Caroline
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99“For Caroline, a woman whose identity is a mystery, nothing is certain – except the love she and Dashell share. Now that crucial missing documents have been found, she has the answer to one of her biggest questions: her real name. With that information in hand, she and Dashell can now begin to plan their wedding and her future as Lady Lonsdale.
Dashell and his youngest brother Maxwell travel up to Yorkshire to find out what they can, and what they do discover greatly saddens them.
Another search commenced by Dashell’s aunt, Lady Smythe, has uncovered one more surprise for Caroline – a blood relative. It’s a shocking revelation for both Caroline and her new family member, who thought he had no relatives. Once the man recovers from his surprise, he shares information that may hold the key to the truth. As answers emerge it seems that every mystery of Caroline’s past will be revealed. But within the joy of discovery lies the heartbreaking story of how one person cruelly deceived Caroline’s mother. Isobel.
Will the truth set them free – or will the lovers find themselves ensnared in a bigger mystery than they imagined?”
