Imagine your mind floating back in time and reading about the summer of 1971—the care free days. Well… almost carefree. Ten year old Gerty prevents that from happening. Every summer, Gerty spends one week with her granny. Seems normal… right? It turns out not to be so normal when this precocious little girl does a naughty thing. Unlike past summers, something different happens in 1971. Gerty's Aunt Bessie gets a telephone party line. Quickly, Gerty learns that she can listen in on the neighbor's … [Read more...] about The Party Line by Lora Lindy
Loyal To A Degree by Horst Christian
Based on a true story, a young boy in World War II Germany is forced to become a man well before his time, or perish. Karl Veth is 14 years old and as mandated by German law, a member of Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth). He is the assistant to the leader of a KLV camp in Poland - an air raid evacuation camp where 120 German boys under the age of 12 were sent to protect them from the bombings in Berlin. As the Russian army advances and breaks through the German defense lines, Karl is put in command … [Read more...] about Loyal To A Degree by Horst Christian
The Cantor Dimension
In Rochester, New York, a woman disappears. The memory of her existence is wiped clean from everyone who knew her except for one friend with a crazy aunt. In Utica, Illinois, a young man disappears. Nobody cares except for the one person who doesn’t believe in UFOs. In Memphis, Tennessee, Max disappears after a bank robbery leaving his clueless best friend Brody in charge of hiding his secrets from the police. What do these three disappearances have in common? The Cantor Dimension... Albert … [Read more...] about The Cantor Dimension
Lynna’s Rogue by Kitty Margo
Lynna, the sheltered and reclusive daughter of Frances wealthiest man, is sent from her home by the threat of kidnappers and straight into the arms of a lusty sea captain. During the time it takes to travel to America, to live with her aunt on a cotton plantation, Lynna learns more about the facts of life than she did in all her previous seventeen years. She learns that devilishly handsome sea captains are not to be trusted, best friends can also be your worst enemy, and, the most … [Read more...] about Lynna’s Rogue by Kitty Margo
Flying Solo by Jeanette Vaughan
"Sometimes in life, the choices we make have devastating consequences." French Cajun Nora Broussard Greenwood was born with the wanderlust. However, her adventurous spirit doesn’t fit the sedate expectations of 1960s catholic New Orleans suburbia. On a whim, she takes flying lessons to become a pilot. Nora discovers the liberating freedom of flight, but an illicit affair with her pilot instructor complicates all. Confronting her ruthless husband for a divorce, Nora is temporarily … [Read more...] about Flying Solo by Jeanette Vaughan
Brambleman by Jonathan Grant
Down-and-out Atlanta writer Charlie Sherman has no idea what madness awaits him when a mysterious stranger convinces him to finish a dead man’s book about a horrific crime that’s gone unpunished for decades. What Charlie inherits is an unwieldy manuscript about the mob-driven expulsion of more than 1,000 blacks from Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912. During the course of his work, Charlie uncovers a terrible secret involving a Forsyth County land grab. Due to its proximity to Atlanta, the … [Read more...] about Brambleman by Jonathan Grant
A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE: A Novel Of The American Civil War
A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE tells the story of 12 year old Jonathan Berkeley, a Confederate drummer boy serving with the famous Orphan Brigade, and his uncle and Godfather, Alexander Wythe, an abolitionist lawyer and captain serving in the Federal army. They wrestle with God and their own inner demons as they confront devastating personal tragedies and search desperately for faith, love, and meaning in a torn and tragic world of civil war. Featured in the novel are the Battles of Fredericksburg and … [Read more...] about A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE: A Novel Of The American Civil War
Puritan’s Empire by Charles Coulombe
A Catholic Perspective on American History. History is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose beside. For them, history is the unfolding of God's Will in time, and the attempts of men either to conform themselves to or to resist that Will. But American Catholic historians have generally refrained from exploring their own national history with these principles, preferring instead to adopt the analysis of their … [Read more...] about Puritan’s Empire by Charles Coulombe
The Shopkeeper by James D. Best
71 customer Reviews for 4.5 Stars In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight. Dancy believes this barbarian act has closed the episode. He is wrong. … [Read more...] about The Shopkeeper by James D. Best
Cherries – A Vietnam War Novel by John Podlaski
When a soldier leaves for war, those left behind often wonder what their loved ones are experiencing. Letters home are always cheerful and vague - no sense in worrying the family. Then upon returning home, these young soldiers do not want to talk about their experiences. Family and friends allege they are now distant, changed, and not the same person they remember from several months earlier. What causes this? Although the backdrop for this novel is the Vietnam War, "Cherries" exist in … [Read more...] about Cherries – A Vietnam War Novel by John Podlaski
The Whiskey Tide by M Ruth Myers
At the height of Prohibition three sisters in a genteel Massachusetts family turn rumrunners to save their family. Desperate to provide for their newly widowed mother and little brother, they use the family’s pleasure schooner to smuggle whiskey from Canada. Kate, the bookworm, hatches the plan, sacrificing her last year at Wellesley to make every grueling and dangerous trip. Rosalie risks her engagement to a clergyman to help on the home front, and tends Kate’s gunshot wound from … [Read more...] about The Whiskey Tide by M Ruth Myers
GRACE NOTE by P J Parsons
To most people it would have seemed like an obscure article in an obscure academic journal. To author P.J. Parsons, it was a challenge. The article called into question the authorship of music attributed to twelfth century mystic Hildegard of Bingen. This is the story of two women, Hildegard and her childhood friend Lysanor of Rupertsberg, both ahead of their time in many ways. Hildegard becomes a twenty-first century saint and icon. The other is but a grace note – an embellishment of … [Read more...] about GRACE NOTE by P J Parsons
