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The Scarpacci Files
Price range: $14.99 through $20.99A family, living in Carlentini, Sicily, is tired of living the life of a poor farmer. The countryside is beautiful. The ocean, amazing. Yet, the area is as poor as it can be. Times get hard and feeding the family becomes almost impossible. The Scarpacci family decides to move their children to the prosperous lands of America. The new world is much different than the old country. Life is harder, the work is harder, but the money comes easier. They are immigrants so they don’t make as much as an English born American. Still, the freedom that they seek is everywhere if one is willing to work for it, yet it comes with a price.
The Black hand organization runs these streets. The little Italy neighborhood on the south side of Omaha hasn’t been the same since they moved in. They terrorize the neighborhood, extorting everyone and killing anyone who resists. One man falls short of his monthly payments and began to fall behind. After months of nonpayment, he ends up paying the ultimate price, his life. Retaliation is a must. His two sons, Yano and Gino, must react. However, they are too young. Who will do something? Will other neighbors stand up against the organization and fight back, or will they continue to murder and destroy the neighborhood? Someone must stand up and stop them before it’s to late and the entire neighborhood burns to the ground.
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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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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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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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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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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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On Both Sides of the River
Price range: $14.99 through $24.99Mark and his men boarded their rafts with the remaining load of high grade cocaine from a cartel in Colombia. Mark was happy. He was crossing the river for the last time.
“I’ll be seeing you in about a month, Don Narciso,” Mark lied.
Mark found a place on the raft to sit amongst the bricks of cocaine. The dope was wrapped with surgeon masking tape.
Mark never looked back.
In the meantime, Don Narciso’s men set the trap. They were not too eager to intercept the load of cocaine under the cover of the vega on the American side. They were familiar with the routes taken by illegal aliens. Narciso’s men followed a familiar maze of trails made by the feral hogs that fed on tender roots at night and during daylight snoozed under the shade of the jaras and carrizales. The fear in their eyes glowed when fireflies shined only to disappear and appear elsewhere. Even the murmer of the river’s swift current could not soothe the fear Don Narciso’s men were experiencing. It was not so smart of Dan Narciso to double-cross Mark Balbuena. The young man was crazy and violent. But, they had to follow orders or else.
-an excerpt from On Both Sides of the River
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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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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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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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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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Child of Stone
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99In this new fiction book full of action and adventure, Child of Stone tells the story of a teen who is cursed by a dragontail and transformed.
The adventure begins when a dark immortal discovers a realm created by the Light. Darkness invades, a child is born, and a curse summoned.
The Immortals require worthy mortals to be their champions in the battle of light and dark. At the center of the Immortals’ conflict, the child meets many enchanted spirits, a prince, and even a princess. Their songs soon become engaged in their battle.
Can the child grow to make the right choices and find the faith, courage, and sacrifices necessary to break the curse, find a champion, and fulfill his destiny?
If you like a tale of challenge and adversity…
…faith, courage, and sacrifice…
…battle and conflict…
…imaginative creatures…
…a tale of young romance…
…and discovering new worlds…
Then Mount Up-Time to Ride!
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Out of the Shadows: The Saga of Caroline York: Her Days Among the Cayugas
Price range: $3.99 through $35.99“Out of the Shadows” follows Caroline York in the 1760s. Newly-arrived from Ireland, she settles upon her uncle’s farm to administer it. When they were besieged by unsolicited intrusions, Caroline repels them, only to suffer the mysterious death of her uncle, after which she herself is kidnapped by a surly and arrogant British captain. Her daughter and husband conspire to find her. They enlist support from the one-remaining French garrison in the region and a friendly Iroquois chieftain. Caroline is finally rescued. In turn, she vows to literally clean up the New York frontier by seeking to change the status-quo between those with power and those held in subservience. Armed with a beguiling wit and charm, she becomes the mistress of deception and cunning as she prevails upon some of the major power brokers of the day. In due course, she brings about needed changes in the New York socio-political structure which helped transform the colony into the standard-bearer of 18th-century social justice, so carving out her own legacy.
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Prey for the Abyss
Price range: $3.99 through $22.997 years ago, a double murder in the small Town of Brooke Indiana began an intense manhunt leading Marshal Clayton Cooper and the FBI into a dark and ominous search for the Serial Killer known as Blue Eyes. Following a tense horrifying hunt the killer was captured and locked down on death row.
Now, days from his execution, the axis of evil will rise once more. Through the means of inside assistance, the Blue Eyes Killer will taste the sweetness of freedom and end the seven years of peace and tranquility resting in the heart and lives of those involved in his capture. Through the darkness which motivates him, he will once again give birth to the lust and love of killing, and ‘this time’ ‘once and for all’ through the powers of Hell itself, stern determination drives him to accomplish the Sheol inspired goal he MUST fulfill. Hell waits! So, he believes!
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Killing Blue Eyes
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99Killing Blue Eyes
A repulsive murder, the strange resurfacing of an Ancient Biblical Event, and a perplexing threat long hidden from the world mysteriously collide; bringing together an improbable team of dedicated law-enforcers. Focused on the hunt for the elusive Serial Killer called ‘Blue Eyes’; the team quickly realizes this man, or whatever he is, not only proves resilient, but possesses a strong contact within the dark confines of the Spiritual Realm. And at the very center of it all stands Clayton Cooper, Marshal of the small Indiana town of, Brooke. Cooper is taken by surprise and left bewildered when the world’s most formidable killer calls him personally; as if old friends. Pursuant to the contact, the Marshal is visited by Special FBI Agent Bob Lemus, informing him he has now become the agency’s most promising hope of ever capturing the cold-blooded killer… the FBI’s number one target and magically elusive psychopath known around the world, as ‘Blue Eyes’.