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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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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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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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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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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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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. -
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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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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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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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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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. -
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. -
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. -
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 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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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?
