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In Dreams Awake
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Welcome aboard to a flight where your morning dreams are quickly turned into your worst evening nightmares. In a morning that began with Tom Jordan making plans for a lifetime with his love, Alex Sanders, brought about the next sunrise clinging to a raft, fighting for his very survival.
Alex Sanders will wake up to an empty bed, which should have been occupied by Tom, who was supposed to arrive home via a deadhead flight from Paris. Her nightmare would soon become a reality when she learns that Tom’s plane is missing, and no one seems to know where it might be.
Alex has to move fast and call in some favors when after three days the search is called off. It is by an act of faith that the famous British submarine, the H.M.S. Conqueror rounds the coast of South America and finds the doomed airliner adrift. Look through the periscope with the captain, as a covert spy operation becomes a rescue mission under the cover of darkness. You won’t want to miss this.
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The Last Hard Man
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Matt and Becky Jensen had the perfect life, waking up every morning to the rising West Virginia sun. Their perfect life, however, would soon be interrupted by a series of earthquakes in Ecuador, with aftershocks that migrate down to the coal mine that Becky worked in, and had for all her adult life.
The small town of Hope would soon become the epicenter of a disaster that affected the lives of many families in this close-knit community. After 13 days of searching, the search for the four miners comes to an end due to safety reasons. Moving against time, and at the direction of a reclusive cold war spy, Matt has to take things into his own hands if he ever wants to see Becky in his bed anymore.
This novel tells a gripping tale about the determination and distance a man will go to save his love and his family. Come with Matt as he takes the trip of his life to the bowels of the earth to bring his beloved Becky home for Christmas.to miss this.
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The Life and Times of Sgt. Joseph Thomas “Tom” Biway, USMC
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99This is really a story of two men, one an unscrupulous Marine and the other, an upright Chicago policeman who became increasingly disillusioned with the department and eventually coerced to join the Marines. Once in the Marine Corps, the policeman was placed under the command of the former. Not long afterwards, the two developed a mutual loathing for one another culminating in the murder of one and a court martial for the other.
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A Light in the Darkness
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Angela Fujiwara enters her sophomore year of high school with a world changed. She apprenticed herself to a necromancer classmate to learn magic and hasn’t told her parents about it. But some of her friends do know, and the final exam will be pass or fail.
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Tales from a Far Off Place Called Home
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Hickshaw, Georgia is home to Mave and Shirley, life-long friends that separate after high school graduation. They each travel far from their small town beginnings but remain true to their values while happening upon a revelation on their journey into adulthood. Mave is a promising student about to graduate and accomplish great things, except life circumstances mandate she marries, and for Shirley, life takes her on an adventure after her parents’ failed attempt at marrying her to the town’s most eligible son.
Spanning 20 years beginning in 1965, the women grow into extraordinary women. Mave struggles with the role she has been given as wife and mother all the while longing for the independence and freedom to pursue her dreams. Shirley, on the other hand, travels the world in search of the thing that she discarded so easily years ago.
Tag along as these two women face heartbreak and disappointment forcing them to choose different paths. As their friendship is tested by separation and betrayal, follow these two women as they remain close to one another, even when it seems their friendship might not last the pettiness and intrusion that characterize this fictional small town. Tales from a far off Place Called Home is about a journey of self-discovery that comes at the price of growth.
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The Spanish Teacher
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award
“…De la Cuesta’s novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader’s attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordóñez, but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading.”
-Tom Tolnay, publisher,
Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest Primeval
“Barbara de la Cuesta’s The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you-pace, a great balance of description, gesture and action, charmed, perfectly-tuned dialogue, and most notably, a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right there inside the story with him… So many books show us a character who seems to capably hang and move like marionettes from the strings of a fairly competent puppeteer, but rarely do we see a full drama like this, where every bit of the writing extends from, grows out of, is part and parcel with the author’s complete realization of and connection to her character…”
-Don Berger, judge for the Gival Press Novel Award
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A Midnight Clear: A Dog’s Christmas
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99A black Lab dog, Max, is abandoned as a puppy and adopted by a landscaper. They live in a ranch house across from a golf course where they and neighbors take their dogs on walks. Max befriends other dogs until their masters show prejudice. Max and his best dog pal leave in a winter snow storm and meet an Hispanic couple with the wife about to give birth on Christmas Eve. Max and his friend find them shelter in an allegory of The Nativity and all ends well with the dogs’ masters finding them and restoring the centuries-old pact between man and dog.
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Old Ways, New Hope
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This is the story of a freelance translator who is invited on an archaeological search because of a strange language. His travels take him around the world, and he becomes the leader in the search after the death of a close friend. He falls into the greatest discovery of mankind that leads him toward the origins of man and a great many inventions. How he deals with the discovery will lead him into outer space and the old ones. Then he has many choices with what to do to change the world.
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Six Notch Road: The Joshua Trail Trilogy (Book 1)
Price range: $3.99 through $12.95SIX NOTCH ROAD the first book in The Joshua Trail Trilogy, is an epic western in the tradition of The Outlaw Josie Wales and The Searchers. It is the story of a peaceable Welsh Coal Miner of immense size, but easy disposition who pursues Six Brothers who murdered his wife from the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania to the Gold mines of California. Over the course of this pursuit, he learns how to be a deadly gunfighter, but a new love clouds his reason just when he needs the killer instinct the most.”… Eli checked The Colt Peacemaker he kept in a cross-over holster. He hefted it to assure himself it was ready if need be. Once an awkward feeling to hold, it was now a source of much comfort to him. Now, it belonged in his hands and he had total confidence in his ability to use it. Where a pick axe handle had once felt comfortable in his hand, but was a source of drudgery and pain – the feel of a gun handle was now a source of power and joy. Then, his thumb felt the handle of his Peacemaker absent the one notch he wanted most of all …”
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Outlaws are Optional: Book IV of the Cruickshank Chronicles
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99As CEO of the world’s most successful outlaw band, Don Orlando should be laughing all the way to the bank, but he’s not laughing today. An exiled duke, complete with toadies, minstrels and huntsmen has set up camp in the forest, just a short ride from outlaw headquarters, and that’s the sort of thing that plays hell with the asset-redistribution business. And the busy seasons just about to begin. In desperation, Orlando turns to Mission Implausible, Albion’s premier adventure team. It’s true that their appetite for beer and gratuitous violence is notoriously insatiable and it’s also true that Andrew Cruickshank, their mage, combines the efficiency of the postal service, the predictability of the weather and the destructive potential of a strategic nuclear weapon, but hell, what have you got to lose? Quite a bit, actually.
While Cruickshank studies the Shakespeare play As You Like It for clues on how to get rid of exiled dukes, his Designated Opposite, the black mage Montmorency arrives on the scene and begins to start stirring things up. As if that were not enough, Titus Handcarte, the First Speaker of East Castellian, wants to put Don Orlando out of business by establishing a Rural Roistering Experience in the outlaws forest and has persuaded usurping Duke Roger to spearhead this operation.
Things do not look good for Don Orlando, caught between an exiled duke on one side, and a usurping duke backed by East Castellians army on the other. But Mission Implausible is up to the challenge. They can, and do, call upon gratuitous violence, improbable disguises, forgery, blackmail, dubious transvestite rituals, shameless piracy of Shakespearean plots and occult incompetence. Handcarte, usurping Duke Roger and exiled Duke Frederick don’t stand a chance, especially when Montmorency is persuaded to lend his formidable occult and diplomatic skills.
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Clouds Over Pemberley: Sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99CLOUDS OVER PEMBERLEY, Temptation and Temperance, is a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Reverend Mister Collins researches a new sermon which tests the marital fidelity of newlyweds Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane and Charles Bingley and others in the Bennet family. The sermon is at the urging of Darcy’s dowager aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh who believes Elizabeth and the other Bennet’s are inferior in class to her and her nephew Darcy.
Collins’s research is conducted with the help of a tantalizing handsome young couple from Ireland that Collins assigns to entrap the Darcy’s, Bingley’s, and Bennet’s. What George Wickham and his wife Lydia are up to is very modern. Also off-kilter are Elizabeth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. It’s an 1812 Regency serio-comic romantic romp spiced with some of today’s looser morality. Jane Austen might think it a bit naughty, but nice.
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Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99The theory of peculiar affinity implies that Black people and White people in the 21st-century United States are connected by family, kinship, surnames, and genes. Peculiar affinity is profoundly implicated with racism in the United States. Peculiar affinity remained after the demise of slavery, but it transformed and adapted to the system of separate but equal. Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made presents the discovery of a vital socioeconomic interconnection and interrelationship between White slave owners and enslaved Black women of the antebellum South during the second slave era of the 19th century, the domestic slave era. This interconnection and interrelationship consisted of a very strange dialectic of sex, which led to the reproduction of the bodies of the slave owners and their female slaves.
On a grand scale, and implemented on a consistent basis, this dialectic of sex transformed to a nexus of sex and reproduction of human bodies as commodities. The visual aspects appeared as a kind of veil that obscured actual family and kinship relations. In the antebellum South, the slave owner was the father, and the female slave and his wife were the mothers. The children from the slave owner’s female slave and the children from the slave owner’s wife were real and objective brothers and sisters with the same biological father.
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The Murder of the Month Club: Murder is a Charade, Until…
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Six senior citizen residents of an old inn in a village on the Channel Coast in England form a club to do in six other seniors whose factory smoke creates a killer smog. They merely plan a charade of murder, one a month from spring to autumn. But those on their list do die, and in the order and by the method they choose. Who is actually doing in those on their list?
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The Manuscript: An American Story
Price range: $3.99 through $19.95Dr Zielgard has written FAITH. It is a baseball story involving Manuel, his magic bat and the world’s series of 2008. Rosa Maman Tour de l’Isle is a sorceress that wishes the doctor dead because she blames him for being responsible for her daughter’s death. Since the doctor died the day she announced and she claimed after the fact full responsibility for the dead, D.A. Ollie Devott accused the witch of murder one. She will be found guilty and executed ten years later.
Real estate agent Phil Leclerc finds the Faith manuscript into the Zielgard’s house, send it to lawyer Morin that shows the piece to his friend Peter Artritis who works at Oracle publishing. Artritis will steal the material and publish it years later under his own name. Faith will prove a resounding success. Hollywood will make a movie out of it. Artritis will be invited to the David Letterman late show.
Meanwhile, Irma Sanchez will read FAITH and recognized herself, her mother and mother’s boyfriend in the book. Enough for her to conclude Artritis can’t have authored the tale. She gets herself invited in the show and will confront Artritis in front of an audience of million.
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Going Home Again
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Louise did it! She left home and was excited to find out what “real freedom” felt like. No more rules from Daddy. No more trying to be the picture perfect daughter without an opinion. No more competition for attention and validation. No more of this, or that. Louise had finally left home, and she was determined to enjoy her new found freedom.
But for a girl that had never made her own decisions, never managed money, lived under the rules of her over baring and over protective father, and no experience with men nor ever even dated, Louise finds out the hard way that leaving home wasn’t what she thought it would be.