An inspiring story about survival, choice, and the power of family relationships. “An Epidemic 1,000 Years Before Us” is the fourth book of the Big Little Stories series. All books in this series are related by themes and characters but can be read in any order. All stories have something in common—they are all about change and gives the impression that the reader is the main character of an exciting journey. You will discover the adventures of various characters, but all of them are essential … [Read more...] about An Epidemic 1,000 Years Before Us by Ivan Kuznietsov
FEATURED BOOK: When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay
ON SALE! International award-winner. In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along. American citizens, Herbert Müller and his family, are sent back to the hellish landscape of Germany because of the DNA coursing through their veins. In the panorama of World War II, … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay
Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads by S.R.Mallery
READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL WINNER! WHEN HISTORY, MYSTERY, ACTION, and ROMANCE ARE ALL ROLLED INTO ONE! These eleven short stories range from drug traffickers using hand-woven wallets, to a U.S. slave sewing freedom codes into her quilts; from a cruise ship murder mystery with a quilt instructor and a NYPD police detective, to a couple hiding Christian passports into a comforter in Nazi Germany; from an old Salem Witchcraft wedding quilt curse to a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle … [Read more...] about Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads by S.R.Mallery
It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. A haunting tale of family, friendship, injustice, resilience, and hope...In her evocative latest, the award-winning Jay takes a fascinating look at … [Read more...] about It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox
London, 1735. Covent Garden offers a world of pleasures and diversions, even for a blind man. Tom Finch approaches life with boundless good cheer and resilience, whether he’s pursuing a musical career or pursuing women. And as for his blindness, to him it’s merely an inconvenience. Join Tom for a picaresque romp through high and low Georgian society among rakes, rovers, thieving whores and demi-reps, highway robbers, bigamists, and duelists, bisexual opera divas, castrati, mollies, and … [Read more...] about The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox
All That Lingers by Irene Wittig
The rise of Nazism catapults Emma's once idyllic life in Vienna into chaos. As she grapples with the harsh new reality of her country's betrayal, she desperately clings to her humanity by hiding her Jewish friends. In the aftermath, she finds solace in helping those in even greater need than herself. The war sends Sophie, an innocent young girl, down unexpected paths. She returns to Vienna years later in search of her lost history. Friedrich, Sophie's uncle, teeters on the edge of what is … [Read more...] about All That Lingers by Irene Wittig
Rise of the Maquis by Charles.G.Fournel
With Europe in turmoil due to the tyrannical reign of Germany a small group of brave resistance soldiers fight from the inside to save France from being taken over completely. Together this ragtag group of individuals, including an English SOE, band together to form an alliance, this band of brothers is a family thrown together through necessity. Hiding in plain sight they form a bond that no one, not even Hitler can break. They even have the support of Pablo Picasso, but will it be enough to … [Read more...] about Rise of the Maquis by Charles.G.Fournel
The Diplomat of Florence by Anthony R Wildman
Young diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli combines forces with artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci to thwart the ambitions of a ruthless warlord to dominate Italy. Florence, 1498. The long rule of the Medici is over and a new regime has emerged from the turbulence, a genuine republic of the people. But Florence is weak and threatened by a new warlord who is rampaging across central Italy—Cesare Borgia. Niccolò Machiavelli is young and inexperienced when he becomes second secretary of the … [Read more...] about The Diplomat of Florence by Anthony R Wildman
Those Left Behind by Melina Druga
Change isn’t always for the best. Just ask the Stewards. 1914. The Steward family is eagerly preparing for the event that will forever bind them to the Bartlettes: the wedding of Hettie and Geoffrey. Little do the families know that the winds of war brewing in Europe soon will rip them apart. Hettie and her brother, Freddie, join the Canadian Army Medical Corps. This decision is met with resistance and disapproval, causing a rift in the siblings’ relationship with their … [Read more...] about Those Left Behind by Melina Druga
Angel of Mercy by Melina Druga
She had her entire life planned until the Great War began and everything changed. April 1914. Barrie, Ontario. Hettie Steward is feisty, educated, ambitious and stubborn. Her fiancé, Geoffrey Bartlette, the love of her life since childhood, has been a patient man. He waited while she attended nursing school and worked a year, but now it is time to wed. While Hettie is thrilled to be starting her life with Geoffrey, she laments that marriage means sacrificing her beloved nursing career, and … [Read more...] about Angel of Mercy by Melina Druga
Cleopatra 53-52BC: Gold Is Where You Find It ~or~ Supersize Me! by Marian Marion Kebab
Humorous historical fiction set in Egypt when Cleopatra, at 15, starts to rule with her father (long before Julius Caesar and Marc Antony) -- Book-2 in the series. Not for the kiddies: adult themes and situations, but nothing graphic. An out-of-the-box romp through Ptolemaic Egypt, without elitist aristocratic snobbery and posturing. Even Cleopatra, her father the Pharaoh, and Caesar (in Gaul) are all real people: people you'd recognize from your neighborhood ... like that opera singer across … [Read more...] about Cleopatra 53-52BC: Gold Is Where You Find It ~or~ Supersize Me! by Marian Marion Kebab
Amiga by Matthew Arnold Stern
To deal with her present, she must face her past. In 1985, a young Laura Rodriguez goes to Silicon Valley to start a career as a computer programmer. She finds a job at a quirky startup run by a family with secrets. In 2016, a now middle-aged Laura faces growing professional and family crises and the most divisive presidential election in recent history. She fears losing her job in the wake of a merger and distrusts her new millennial boss. Her daughter has cancer, her son quit a lucrative … [Read more...] about Amiga by Matthew Arnold Stern
