Fiction
Fortune's Retrieval
In the midst of chaos and conflict, the Southerland missionary family in China faces their greatest test of survival. As the snowballing clashes between the Japanese and the Nationalist Chinese government in Nanking threaten to consume the land, the courageous members of the second and third generation find themselves trapped in the heart of the style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">In the 1930s and 40s, when others fled the danger, the Southerlands made a bold choice: to remain in China and continue their missionary work. But their decision comes with a heavy price. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, they were suddenly branded as ...
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A Thousand Cranes
Love, hate, and memories are the drivers that propel us through life's confusing mazes and narrowly missed collisions with others that can change the arc of our fates. A Thousand Cranes tackles some of the issues of the often hidden and lingering effects of the Vietnam war on men struggling to construct useful civilian lives after surviving the uncivil life of that conflict. For college professors like Roland and Alex, or campus cop Butch, not even the relative calm and structure of academic life in a small Southern California college can fully ease the abiding terrors of their Vietnam years. Is it even possible to simply think your way out of deep emotional trauma? Is the presence of loving...
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Ashes and Memories
The fusion of physical and interpersonal crises sometimes triggers the need to make unanticipated and difficult choices in life. When 70-year-old widower Fred Korman suffers a stroke during a long-distance run, his life takes an unexpected turn. As he struggles to recover, he faces a new challenge, protecting his best friend Susan from her abusive ex-husband Tony. But when Tony starts to threaten Fred and his family, Fred must find a way to end the harassment for good. Meanwhile, Fred’s son Aaron is starting a new career and dealing with the news that his girlfriend is pregnant. With pressure mounting from all sides, Fred must summon all his strength and wit to protect his loved ones and f...
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The Hill of Kings
Four moves in thirteen years, and Daniel is desperate to finally live in a place that offers a little excitement. He’s heard Ireland is a great place that’s full of wonder, but he’s doubtful he’ll experience anything preconceived notions are proven wrong when he learns there might be more to the lush green landscape of the Emerald Isle than he few short months later, Daniel’s once predictable world is flipped upside down…6His great-aunt has been magically turned into a flea and now wants to teach him the most important lesson about magic – it can be used for good or for Daniel, Bran, a man he meets, uses it for the latter. Bran wants to summon an ancestor, the notorious Balo...
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2394 'Mirrors of the Past'
2394 Book is a Post Apocalyptic/SYFY/Lesbian Romance set in the year 2394 2394 ‘Mirrors of the Past’ - 1st book in the 2394 series by P. Roscoe On a world ravaged by overpopulation, man’s callous disregard for all life, reigns supreme. Then in the beginning of the 23rd Century, Science makes one fatal error that nearly destroys their planet, changing their World the disaster, the Androids, who were left behind by the last elite and tasked to act as guardians of the human race, have begun rebuilding their devastated World. To assure the survival of the new humans , the surviving humans were kept drugged by the Androids for the past Century and a one clan's leader lives...
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The Darkest Passages - the sequel to The Darkest Gift
Since Stefan, Baron of Vitré, his creator and former lover, turned him into a vampire, Fabien Levesque has been engulfed in turmoil. The nightmare persists as the vengeful voodoo high priestess Raphaella seeks retribution.Together, their formidable evil allows Stefan to possess the body of Fabien’s lover, Laurent Richelieu. Forced to flee the city and the man he loves, Fabien leaves New Orleans and finds refuge in San Francisco, where he crosses paths with vampire royalty and a renowned deadly vampire hunter. When Fabien learns that his powerful allies also have cause to defeat Stefan, united vengeance is the obvious solution. Only somehow, Fabien must convince Raphaella to use...
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Uniformly Undeserved
A powerful and moving novel about the Japanese American community during World War of only looking like the enemy, the Japanese American community was sucked into uniformly undeserved treatment at the hands of their government after December 7, 1941. Eiji Takara was an American-born person of Okinawan/Japanese descent who had been sent back to Japan in the 1930s to be educated and became what was known as Kibei. Despite the intense suspicions about his loyalty to America, he was recruited by the Military Intelligence Service to help translate and analyze intercepted Japanese military communications. He more than proved his loyalty and worth by assisting in the successful interception and ki...
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The Saga of the Phoenix vol.1
The Saga of the Phoenix by Oriano Galvanini is the first entry in a series, a tale of sea adventure and the birth of a new civilization. Giorgio Relli has just assumed the role of the radio operator, receiving radio communications for the steamship named Bayhorse, when a mysterious Russian contact expresses the desire to meet. Although the young man is hesitant, curiosity gets the better of him. He quickly finds himself picking an object from the ship’s pharmacy and delivering it to a destination in the US. After that, he is tasked by its recipient to run a similar mission for Bombay, India. In India, he gains more insight into the mysterious assignments. He finds himself embroiled with a ...
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The Land of Now and Then by Irene Edwards
Step into the wonderful world of the Magic Islands for the third time, as the magical, mystical educational series continues… Still too much of a handful, even when captive, the naughty Purple Wizards are once again exiled for their environmental crimes – this time to a mythical land which shouldn’t exist, a land of extinct animals and ancient fictional beasts. A land where time has suddenly stood still, caused by the same lunar eclipse which brought them there… Wizard Ambrosious needs help to start time up again – or half the Land of Now and Then will be in perpetual darkness, the other half perpetual light, and nothing will grow or thrive. He again needs the...
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Weight For It
In the depths of her desire to shed unwanted pounds, a passionate woman embarks on an extraordinary journey of self-transformation. Consumed by the pursuit of an ideal figure, she experiences an unprecedented encounter with her bathroom scale, sparking a mesmerizing conversation that will challenge everything she believes. Blaming her weight for the loss of her marriage and overall happiness, she braves the pitfalls of a perilous obsession, determined to unlock the secrets of flawless slenderness. Embark on this mesmerizing tale of resilience and unwavering determination, as our heroine navigates a treacherous path toward perfection and discovers the true nature of her own strength
21 Tattoos
ided in his desperate quest for the truth by the young nurse he once scornedDerek’s only hope for redemption lies within his own damaged style="background-color:white;color:#222222;">What can it mean? Are they part of God’s plan for him, a test of his lapsed faith…or a curse brought on by his own arrogance?
And can he get rid of them before he loses everything?
Yuri & the Pig
Inspired by the current war in style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">A farmer and his pig set off on an extraordinary quest across war-torn Eastern style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Entangled in a savage war, the country of Xoraina is fighting for its very existence; but to Yuri, a simple peasant from a remote mountain village, it seems all but certain that the invading Zlaimperians must ultimately prevail. Not that it is of any consequence to him, of course. In Yuri’s view, every form of government is equally bad, so it makes very little difference who holds the reins of power. Indeed, throughout time, t...
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Impossible Tales
containing only one atom! And that one-atom-universe lasts as long as the present one!
The Legend of Sky Diamond
The story of a small-town girl who runs away to become the toast of Dallas, Texas exotic dance, then winds up doing life in an East Texas women's prison. A trip back to the 1970's through 80's night life, Sky tries to escape a family of grifters and make a life for
The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller
‘The Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller’ is a rip-roaring adventure story, filled with horse chases, gunfights and even has a beautiful Pinkerton Detective. But it is more than just an adventure story; the hero, a young man named Teddy Miller, is forced to grow up and make serious decisions for which he has no experience and no adult guidance. Root for him, cry with him, and cheer for him as he travels from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to the tip of Florida and back during the last months of the American Civil War in search of love and Life and Redemption of Teddy Miller' is a multiple-award winner, including the eLit Bronze Medal for Historical Fiction and the Internati...
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Thread
ThreadA Draoithe Saga BeginningKingdom Rising - OpenerUnraveling chaos with each tattered style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;">A thousand years ago, chaos escaped into the dream. By 2016, shadowy evil forces using madness are wreaking havoc on the balance of magic, and erasing necessary parts of an ancient prophecy. In danger of losing its magic, the dream attempts to use broken pieces and replacement parts to weave a new tapestry. Only choosing the right building blocks isn’t style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;">In this exhilarating prequel tale, meet Luke and Eli, two characters with fascinating pasts and complicated secrets, ...
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Suddenly Free, Vol. 1
Suddenly Free, volume 1, is the first volume in a series of six (6) Endtimes volumes of a future Earth immediately before the Coming of Jesus Christ. It is an unexpected chronicle of what life could be like right before the dramatis personae that you meet in this volume will live and breathe, experience life and death. And life again, for some. Others will live to experience the Rapture, and some will see Heaven before Time expires. Volume 2, entitled The Purpose of Joy, digs deeper into the spiritual dynamics of angels and demons, and saints and sinners. Volumes 3 through 6--indeed, all Suddenly Free volumes and stories--take you from Heaven to hades through every kind of life spine...
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An Angel Named Gabriel
While travelling to the southern coast of Norway for a documentary shoot on beavers, acclaimed wildlife filmmaker Gabriel Dahl notices an exit sign for Smalvik. He abruptly exits the motorway and takes a rural route towards the tiny coastal village. Twenty years ago, he was there on holiday as a youngster when he saved a small girl named Anette from being tormented by a gang of wicked style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Gabriel has often wondered how Anette has fared in life as an adult, and now he has the opportunity to find out. But nothing could have prepared him for the savage hostility that awaits him as he gets closer to finding her. Gabriel h...
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Wrong Locker
In a world where Kinsley's the odd one out in his sports-obsessed family, he finds solace in his art and his friendship with Isabella, a talented Latina tagger. When pressured by his parents to find a girlfriend, Kinsley takes a chance and delivers a letter to a girl he finds attractive, only to discover it ends up in the hands of the popular, yet lonely captain of the sports team. Despite his status, he hides behind his fake smile to disguise his sad home life. Having no one to talk to about anything real weighed in on him until one day he opened his locker and discovered a mysterious style="margin-left:0px;"> As they both navigate their own struggles, the mysterious letter becomes a ...
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THE SUPERFLARE
How far would you go to survive in a post-apocalyptic world?When a gigantic solar storm hits the earth in 2051, a worldwide EMP destroys almost all digital devices and power supplies. Life in the clean cities collapses. They sink into barbarism and chaos. The artificial super-intelligence Tron withstands the EMP in a shielded bunker and disempowers the the turmoil of this apocalypse, Julia (17), a girl from a clean city turned living hell, meets Winston, an 18-year-old settler, whose village lies in the wilderness and whose people strictly reject any use of digital technology. The catastrophe made the once separate worlds Julia and Winston have to go through many adventures and battles. Th...
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