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The Duffel Bag Murders: A Jolene Mystery, Book 3
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Jolene was worried for it had been over a month since Agent Haines had called Jolene, so she was worried they didn’t want her to help them anymore. But Agent Haines and Agent Blay showed up at her door with three different cold cases. They wanted Jolene to chose which one they would work on. She picked the Duffle Bag murders. Skeleton remains buried on empty lots and vacant homes. There was very little to go on for the murders were never investigated by the local police. She was really excited they wanted her to work with them. The FBI made her a temporary Agent with a badge.
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The extra ordinary life of an extra ordinary bear
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99Richard Henry was born, raised and educated in New York City. After his service in the United States Marine Corps, which included a tour in Viet Nam, he returned to New York where he worked as a teacher and coordinator of Alternative High Schools.
In 1983, he moved to Oklahoma to serve as the Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution for four counties under the direction of the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. In 1990, he moved to California and set up a training program for formally incarcerated youth. In 1992, he served as the “Economic and Business Development Coordinator” for military base closures.
He published his first book of poetry, “Beyond the Skull” in 1976. His novel, “Of Days Gone By” was first published in 1990, followed
by his second novel, “Short Timer” in 2002. His third book, “The Extraordinary Life of an Extraordinary Bear” was published in 2023.
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The Faithful and The Damned: Demon of the Swamp
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99A demon is born and the clock is ticking. The town of Clearmont, Massachusetts becomes a place of terror overnight. As disappearances and gruesome murders stack up, reports of a monstrous beast becomes the norm. Jonathan Bailey, a retired folklorist, and his estranged son, Philip, travel to a distant land in search of mythical powers to stop the demons in their quest to destroy the only defense protecting humanity from the terror devouring the town. In this contest of good vs. evil, will the residents of Clearmont find the heroic within themselves? When all seems lost, the most unassuming among them will step forward to selflessly face an enemy more powerful than any human being.
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The Fifth Day Lady: Can She Make It Work?
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Josephine goes undercover as a rich married woman in Siesta Key in Florida, where she purposely meets a dentist named Julio, suspected of having too much money as a dentist with a million-dollar polo team. A former barrel racer in rodeos at an early age, can Josephine help Julio, hurt on the field, win a Polo match in West Palm? Josephine also risks exposing her cover with military skills in a chopper attack by a Miami drug king. And Julio’s mother, Lucia, jealous and suspicious, plans to kill her.
In Buenos Aires, Josephine, at odds with her affection for Julio, convinced Julio that his mother smuggles drugs through her business. With a huge network discovered, new members join the mission to stare down death. In a final drug war, can the team destroy a smuggling system when no one else could? -
The Findog
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99This book is more of a collection of poems from the last twenty years. Some may be thoughts or include events leading to but most like this book is the return value of being single. Or suppose, my compromise didn’t work.
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The Game
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99A terrified girl takes refuge with a stranger and pleads for her help in escaping the pursuit of the mob. Marie agrees, and takes Ann into her home and works to hide her from her pursuers. They confide in each other and become friends. They think they have evaded the mob, but when Ann is spotted again, Chicago becomes too hot for them, and they flee to London.
Once in London they relax, but all too soon they realize that their followers have found them again. Only when Marie plucks up her courage to strike back at the shadowy menace does she discover the strange twist in the story, and then the truth comes out at least.
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The Grottos of Barigoule: A Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99In April of 1545, a horrific massacre of more than 3,000 “heretics” in southern France occurred. In one small village, twenty-five women and children hid in a secret grotto in the hills above town. But they were betrayed. Royal and papal troops built a fire in the mouth of the grotto and murdered them all by suffocation. So much is an established historical fact.
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The Happy Harrow Murder Trilogy: Murder to Music, Murder in Marriage, Murdered Mothers
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99Murder to Music Rick Harrow, a British racehorse trainer, and his Kentucky-born wife, Happy, are thrilled when twin opera stars, Fran and Carla Purcell, enter their yard. Shortly after the twins buy horses, Carla is murdered. Three more famous artists in the music world are murdered, as Happy hones her skills as a sleuth to find the serial killer, her quest taking her to Australia, Scotland and Monaco. Murder in Marriage Rick Harrow, now the father of three, and his wife, Happy, become embroiled in a double death, which the police cannot decide is a suicide/murder, or what? While working as a horse trainer and buyer in Miami, Rick had strayed from the marital bed while Happy gave birth to their third child. Rick has had a scorching affair with Lois Blair, a wanton wife from the central-Florida town of Sunblair. On Christmas morning, Lois’s step-son arrives at the Harrow’s rented Miami cottage, and accuses Rick of having murdered his father. Had Rick killed the Senior Blair, an eminent attorney and scion of the founders of Sunblair? Had he murdered Lois as a cover-up? Happy travels to the central-Florida horse country, to Disney World, and into a swamp area to do her sleuthing. Murdered Mothers Rick Harrow, who has come up in the world of valuable racehorses thanks to winning races, particularly one in Tokyo with his Kentucky-born wife Happy in the saddle, suffers through an excruciating experience in Miami before being thrust into the throes of an horrific series of murders in Kentucky. There, in what was the peaceful town of Honeyville, the Harrows are caught up in four murders by a serial killer who targets new mothers. Meanwhile, they attend the equine Olympic events in Hong Kong, travel to Dubai, where again a femme fatale enters their lives in the shape of Mafalda, an Egyptian seductress who veers from international playgirl to Muslim Fundamentalist.
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The Haunted House Kid
$3.99Alex Connelly’s parents are getting a divorce. To make matters worse, they have refused to let him use their garage this year for the haunted house he has put on since he was very young. Fortunately for Alex, he has been temporarily allowed to live with his adoring maternal grandmother, inadvertently gaining himself a new venue for his spooky hobby, his Grandma Ruth’s near-empty garage.
When Alex’s mom acting all kinds of weird, and Grandma Ruth is away from home all the time (because she’s managed to pass her driver’s license test, after several years without a license) and he starts to notice strange things going on during the construction of his “latest and greatest spook galley” stranger than normal, that is he considers scrapping the project entirely.
Yet…something is driving Alex to finish his haunted house at all cost! All he knows is that he has to get it finished by opening night just before Halloween!
Meanwhile, Alex left with a lot of free time to work alone and undisturbed in his grandmother’s garage is worried about his little sister, Maggie, being alone with his Mom who has begun acting very strangely and is gone from home most of the time. And his heart is breaking for his dad, who is sad and living across town in a lonely apartment. But, unbeknownst to Alex and the rest of the family, Grandma Ruth is trying desperately to find a way to keep her daughter, Allison, from embracing the family roots into witchcraft a tradition Grandma Ruth herself, has spent a lifetime trying to deny and from which she has always tried to protect her daughter.
Long lost relatives come out of the woodworks. Mythical monsters are being summoned from distant quarters of the earth. Everyone is worried about Alex too because of the strange way his mother is acting toward him, a well as for the strange way Alex, is acting.
But at least new friends offer comfort along the way.
Alex just hopes that somehow his haunted house is going to save his family!
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The Hawk of Yonezawa: Historical Fiction with J.S Bach
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The Hawk of Yonezawa is a short novel, or novella, about the fictional adventures of Johann Sebastian Bach who is transported to the island of Japan. Bach is on a rare trip outside his world of Leipzig, Germany, a little after the year 1742. The coach breaks down and he misses the concert that would have featured George Frederic Handel performing his own works by him. On the return trip he meets a twelve-year-old boy and his young mother.
They find that he knows how to play the organ and so they invite him to fix the one at their church. Bach refuses graciously, but once more the stage coach breaks down, and Bach is transported in a dream with the boy and his mother from him to Japan, where he is beset with adventures while trying to fix the local church organ. This novella is written for a general, religious and musically inquisitive audience. It is family fare, also suitable for high school and college readers.
Donald D. Joye is a retired professor at Villanova University. He has been enthusiastically involved in classical music since he was thirteen years old.After growing up on Long Island, New York, attending college in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he settled in Philadelphia, where he and his wife Claudia raised their three boys.
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The Helpmate
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This is a well-orchestrated prose-work, fiction. Although events in the narratives are mirrored to reflect real life occurrences. It is a tragic story. A tale of struggles, hardship, fortune, survival and death. The Book has fifteen chapters in total running into 108 pages with intriguing starting ending narratives which qualifies the story as comical tragedy.
It touches on some cultural demeanors of people from certain tribes in Africa (Nigeria as a focus) where extra-marital affair is silently prevalent despite legality to engage in polygamy. The book: Helpmate muckrakes the evil of broken-homes and parental negligence on young adults. The strenuous roles of fending for self as a child and taking up the responsibility of an adult in the process of survival is pivotal incident within the pages.
Man’s love for beast is not always without the influence of what they could produce. This statement is justified by the roles the Dog: ‘Riro’ plays on Dara’s path to fulfillment. These unique roles have usually been sanctioned to be the reason why many pet-owners (especially in Africa) own their Dogs and cater for them and not really because of unaligning love for these animals. The story justifies this more with the dramatic risk of life efforts ‘Riro’ (the Dog) had to make to preserve Dara’s life whle the Dog owner-Dara could not be said to attempt similar efforts to the turn of substituting his own life to rescue the Dog when her own (the Dog’s) critical situation beckoned.
We dream, we hope, we expect with longings in life, but we do not know what tomorrow holds. This is explained by the unexpected and sudden end of Riro. For this sudden and unexpected end of Dara’s lover bring him back to a zero level of fulfillment, bruising his desires like the impact of the sun upon a fallen leave…
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The House on Becket Lane
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Lord Dashell Lonsdale is considered one of the most eligible bachelors in London, but few-even Lord Lonsdale himself-know that despite appearances, his family fortune is not as secure as he believes. When a chance encounter with an unknown lady on the street shakes his seemingly stable world, the young lord has no idea how to react. She collapses at his feet, a frightened child in her arms. She is whisked away before he can even learn her name. She is Caroline, the younger of two daughters of a family that carries a burden of secrets as well. All they know is that their mother’s tongue is silenced not by pride but by fear-and she took her secret to her grave. Now Caroline lives in a house with only her stepfather to guide her. Lord Lonsdale exploits his station to learn of her identity and where she lives. His arrival triggers an angry quarrel between Caroline and her stepfather. Horrified to have caused such tension within her family, he departs with the promise to return the next day. But duty calls him away before he can keep his promise. He learns that, thanks to the gambling debts of his brother, his family is on the brink of financial ruin. He has no choice but to turn his attention to restoring the family’s fortune and honor. Now Caroline has her own secret to share-and what she must tell him may end their love before it can begin.
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The Hunter: How It Started
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an Operator with a secret organization called the company. Justin used to be Larry Walker. Larry had a whole other life before he came to the company to be Justin.
In this book, Justin takes a trip to Ireland with Janine, his handler from the company. They have been working together for a while, but since the mission in Taiwan, when Justin found out that he had also been Larry, they had gotten closer.
After a couple pretty intense missions in Germany and Portugal, they finally were given some time off. Now they are going to find out just how much they have in common, as they spend time together, not on a mission.
Justine is determined to let Janine know there is more to his past than even she is aware of. They are both in for quite a surprise when they find out who they were before the company. It’s amazing how small a whole world can be.
There may be a short mission at the end to watch for!
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The Hunter: Portugal
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an agent with a secret organization. He, along with Janine, his handler from the organization, and John, another agent who has a group of agents who always seem to be there to help with each mission.
When Justin, Janine and John get together, you know something interesting is going to happen. Once again, the author takes them places where he’s traveled, giving the reader a chance to experience different places around the world.
So, sit back and enjoy the latest adventure of The Hunter, as he takes on a mission in Portugal.
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The Hunter: Southeast Asia
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This book is another in the series of The Hunter. The Hunter is Justin Hunter, an agent with a secret organization. He, along with Janine, his handler from the organization, and John, another agent who has a group of agents who always seem to be there to help with each mission. When Justin, Janine and John get together, you know something interesting is going to happen. Once again, the author takes them places where he’s traveled, giving the reader a chance to experience different places around the world. So, sit back and enjoy the latest adventure of The Hunter, as he takes on a mission in Southeast Asia.
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The Island of Madness
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99A group of college students are taken from a charity event and taken to the island of Oasis. The Island is filled with bizarre experiments and tainted creatures that only exist in your nightmares. They must find each other and pull themselves together to escape the Island of Madness with their sanity intact.
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The Isle of the Dragon: The Last Flight of the Bugs Bunny
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99In The Isle of the Dragon, author Rolf Stibbe portrays the heroism and courage of United States Army Air Corps flight crews during combat in World War II against the forces of Imperial Japan.
In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese swept all Allied military threats from the South Pacific, including the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Dutch East Indies, Guam, and the Wake Islands. Facing peril and with death likely, a unique cast of characters make for a suspenseful, riveting read.
Stibbe interviewed a World War II combat veteran who flew the B-25 Mitchell Bomber nicknamed “Bugs Bunny,” in New Guinea. It sparked his interest to write this jungle adventure story. Readers will be thoroughly drawn into the story and entertained as they follow the plight of the lost bomber crew.
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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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The Lady In The Movies
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99The story opens with Sam Ryan and his move to his new office in North Hollywood. The case deals with a woman that has been missing from her husband for two decades. She began as an actress that got her start in the movies in nineteen-fifty-eight. She was involved in a scandal back then that made the headlines. She had to go into hiding without telling her husband. In the movie, she portrayed one woman in the all-women band in the movie ‘Some Like It Hot.’ Sam has some issues with his girlfriend, Kathy, who was injured while helping in his last case. In the end, everything is solved and resolved.
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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 Last Laugh Is Mine
$2.99This novel is about the struggle by a young man to change an age-old traditional matrilineal system of inheritance and its consequences. The hero Owia Atta is forced to become a farmer, contrary to his wish to be educated to play a leadership role in this fictionalized African community of Wofakurom. He works to create his father’s wealth but is disinherited at his father’s death when the assets are given to his father’s nephew in accordance with tradition and customs. Owia Atta’s resistance against this practice provides moments of tension in the novel, leading to his clash with tradition and consequent felony for which he is punished. But his daring efforts have a big impact on his society. The novel reflects the reality of an ethnic group’s worldview and draws attention to its potential to create social unrest. It interweaves political, social, cultural, and economic issues, bringing together historical developments and the place of the traditional African society in the modern world.
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The Last Letter
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99Mike and Lily met in high school. It was love at sight and no matter how many miles or years separated them that love always burned hot when together. But can a once in a lifetime love survive new relationships, new lives, and tragedy?
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The Legend of D’Woof-ta: The Little White Wolf
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99ln the beginning of time, all the free people roamed the fields, plains, and forests of the new world and grew in numbers until the lands became overcrowded. The animals became hungry. Father Time saw the problem and, one moonlit night, brought forth the Great Mother Wolf from the waters of the first spring. He then charged her to take from the free people the old, sick, and injured so that the strongest and fittest would share the gifts of the new world. Soon the Mother Wolf became overwhelmed with the task that Father Time had given her. She went to Father Time and begged for some helpers. That night she was given four new cubs that looked just like her. The animals were very unhappy and went to Mother Nature to complain that they could not rest because of all the new wolves.
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The Legend of the Grizzly Spirit
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99The Legend of The Grizzly Spirit by Charles L. Holcomb Jr. tells the tale of Matt Saxton, a young man from New York who travels across the country on the Oregon Trail, as he makes his way to Portland with a band of other Americans.
Matt has always been the kind of person who stands out in the crowd, as he is resourceful, smart, brace, and cunning.
Throughout the novel, Matt faces the conflict of growing up, as he is forced to understand what is right and wrong, while using his natural ability to protect others.
This western themed novel follows his adventures as he has run in with Indians, wild animals, and treacherous conditions of nature. As the narrative goes on the fable of Matt grows, as he tames a wild horse, saves the lives of multiple men, and charms four different ladies to fall in love with him. As we follow along the journey to achieve American Expansion, this epic novel binds together elements of historical fiction and romance. One-part tall tale, and one part legend, Holcomb’s book is sure to entertain.
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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 Madhouse Projects
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99The Madhouse Projects is mainly about automotive engineer Dick Thurman who is dismissed from a California University and begins work at an underground research and development installation in Arizona called the Madhouse due to all the activity there. He meets various people who work on projects there for an organization called BOSS which stands for Backers and Organizers for Sensible Solutions. He builds fly-wheel-power electric Indy cars which are raced at the 2037 Indianapolis 500.
Dick’s wife Kate starts working at the Madhouse after the Thurmans are considered killed in an accident. She used a virtual reality program which gets information out of a South American drug lord that nails people with drug charges. Later she develops a micromachine system that allows people to experience good mind trips.
Dick also develops levitated flying cars that use a double-field motive system to levitate and field displacement to fly like UFO. Dick and Kate’s Christmas vacation to Europe and to Russia also needs a Madhouse which he helps organize with the help of the Russian President. It also deals with projects that are carried out in places around the world for the betterment of society and to improve the conditions of the world.
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The Malevolent Isle: Murder, Magic and Mystery: Yorkshire 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke’s first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This marquis is undermined by a rebellious son who openly supports the work of an outlawed Catholic priest-and indulges in shady land deals.
Luke’s investigation confronts a defrocked Anglican vicar, several promiscuous women and a series of murders whose motives may lie in the present, or in the distant past.
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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. -
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.
