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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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. -
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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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”. -
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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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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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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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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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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Interesting Sayings & Argumentative Quotes Plus Spiritual Sayings and Quotes of the BIBLE
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A Siren’s Call
Price range: $4.99 through $20.99Tess is a thief of the highest caliber. Years of expertise and the support of her criminal family have led her to the biggest job of their lives. But when her life is shattered by a bullet of betrayal, only revenge will sate her raging bloodlust.
Paige on the other hand, is a romantic, filled with a shy adventurous side that wishes to stay by the man she loves, and care for nothing else in this world. When her facade begins to crack under the pressure though, who will she be in the end?
These two personas clash in the ring of love and bloodlust, with only a winner, and the other who must disappear forever. Through the combat of dodging cameras and living double lives can they decide who will be who in the end.
Tim Wolfe is a growing author from the San Diego area who has been inspired by the concepts of society, and a deep yearning to convey those beliefs through his writings of romance and the adventure that is life. Tim enjoys spending time with his family, learning about history and science, and strives for a peaceful, carefree tomorrow.
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Cargo 3120 Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4
Price range: $5.99 through $12.99In the year 3120, Marcus La’Dek, leaves the brutal life of a mercenary, a life he barely survived. He returns home to keep the family’s interstellar shipping business afloat, and care for an ailing niece.
In desperate need of money, Marcus embarks on what was supposed to be a simple cargo run, but ends up at the center of a galactic conflict that’s fueled by politics, organized crime, and a mysterious alien race-to which someone close to him has an ominous connection.
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Duppy Conqueror
Price range: $5.99 through $10.95The title Duppy Conqueror should resonate with most Jamaicans. No, not because of the reggae song by the same name, but because it has been a title conferred upon a very tough person, a force of nature. The story is about a young man born in the mid nineteen sixties, confronted by gangs, the rude bous, and other more frightening focs of a paranormal nature. William’s strength is informed by his religious parents and the Bible; but are they enough to keep him safe and alive in the concrete jungles of Jamaica? The story draws upon the real-life experience of family and friends. This is a work of fiction; however, the impact of the Holy Spirit is no fiction.
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The Riverndish
Price range: $8.99 through $16.99The Riverndish is a beautiful, magnificent creature from the planet Valarious. It ‘s mystical power grants everyone’s special wishes while it keeps it’s planet magically hidden. This story takes you on a journey of how one special wish took a little longer to reach it’s destination and how hard the Riverndish worked to make sure it came true.
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The Mystery of Grimly Manor
$9.99Leira MacGregor is anxiously awaiting the arrival of two new families into her neighborhood. She is hoping desperately that someone will finally move in with children her own age. They may be able to help her solve the mystery of Grimly Manor.
The spooky manor, which was built long ago, has an ancient cemetery behind it. Accordingly, to whisperings, there is a scary man who lives there but no one has seen him except on Halloween. Candles flicker in the night and on holidays, decorations appear around the manor like magic.
Families in the neighborhood try and ignore these strange happenings. Over the years, children have only been to conquer their fear on Halloween by knocking on the decaying door. When the door was opened, they were “greeted” by someone in a frightful mask and costume and vicious growling in the background.
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An Adventure in Arizona
$10.99Leira and her new Best friends Addy and Skye are thrilled when Leira’s Mom, Mrs. MacGregor invites them to Arizona to visit her sister for winter school vacation. Skye has never flown on an airplane and Addy has never stayed at a hotel. However, that is only the beginning of the adventure. In Arizona, the girls receive an invitation to spend three nights in the mountain camping with Leira’s eighteen-year-old cousin Luke who is an eagle scout. The adventure bring them in contact with Indian lore, reptile, animals and much more. However, the trip turns into a nightmare when the group confronts mysterious happenings and a tragic accident find them in a mortal danger!
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Germania: Hitler’s Twisted Fantasy
$11.99in this “what if” fictional tale of Hitler’s world, we see in his neurotic mind the conflict of Evil versus Good. In his sleep, he takes us on a journey in which his twisted fantasy will reveal thoughts of World War II events such as the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Lebenstraum, Oktoberfest Blitzkrieg, Operation Barbarossa, Lindbergh-Hitler Connection, the Jewish Exodus Plan, the Pacific Summit, World Government, and Germania-Good Life.
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Patches and Leif
$12.99Patches, the farmer’s favorite scarecrow, is very dedicated to his job. Day after day he stands in the corn field, keeping watch over the corn. Then one day, he is surprised by a new friend, who comes floating out of the sky!
Leif is an adventurous traveling leaf. When he was pulled off the branch on which he was raised one windy day, instead of floating safely to the ground with his family and friends, he took advantage of the opportunity and sailed away to see the world on the wind.
He shares his adventures with Patches, the first of which is his discovery of a school, where he peeks in on children who are learning the alphabet, counting, and a little bit about animals and plants. He passes what he has learned on to Patches before sailing away on more adventures, but promises to return to teach the scarecrow what he learns.
With charming illustrations and straightforward language, Charles R. Abbott employs Patches and Leif to teach children valuable lessons about friendship, learning, and taking chances.