About Carl Hare: My life has followed many routes from the beginning. I won the Rutherford Gold Medal when I graduated with an English Honours Degree, and later I finished an MA in English with a thesis dealing with Shakespeare, both degrees at the University of Alberta (I was born and brought up in Edmonton). But in between the two degrees, for a year I taught English and Philosophy at Victoria College (before it became the University of Victoria), went to the Royal Academy of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Carl Hare
Featured Free Book: Tina and the Big Bad Wolf and Other Stories by Jason Ryan Dale
Featured Free Book: Book is free from 06/19/2020 until 06/22/2020 If the dates are the same, book is free one day only. About the Book Just past the Philadelphia city limits there are a cluster of neighborhoods no one on the outside pays much attention to. It's a nice place to live, with ballfields and takeout joints around every corner. The people who've raised their families for generations in the rowhomes and brick houses teach their kids to work hard and keep out of trouble. But … [Read more...] about Featured Free Book: Tina and the Big Bad Wolf and Other Stories by Jason Ryan Dale
Tree of Lives by Elizabeth Garden
Tree of Lives by Elizabeth Garden Based on true events, Tree of Lives is a riveting two-track story of a horrific public murder in 1930 that became a long buried family secret. The lost ghost of the murderer, Raymond, roams the earth until his abused great niece, Ruth, a promising artist, confronts her deeply troubled family. It is a story of unfolding forgiveness, survival and triumph over unaddressed trauma as this determined woman navigates her thorny life path. … [Read more...] about Tree of Lives by Elizabeth Garden
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese Imagine you are 18 and fall in love with a handsome, wealthy young man. Your romantic dreams have come true - except his family hates you! Montreal, 1951. Rebecca Wiseman, 18, a bright college student, lives with her working-class parents. At a local dance, she meets a handsome young man but has little hope of seeing him again. When Sol Gottesman asks her on a date, her joy mingles with disbelief when she learns he is the son of a wealthy businessman. Sol … [Read more...] about Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2) by Tam May
Sometimes no father is better than a false father. In 1898 California, Jake Alderdice comes of age as a shy and contemplative youth who is passionate about art. On vacation in Waxwood, now a fashionable resort town, he meets Harland Stevens, who takes an interest in the young man's artistic ambitions. Stevens seizes upon the fatherless young man to counsel him toward a path to manhood inspired by Teddy Roosevelt and Thoreau. He introduces Jake to The Order of Actaeon, a secret society built … [Read more...] about False Fathers (Waxwood Series: Book 2) by Tam May
Interview with Author – Tam May
About Tam May: Tam May grew up in the United States and earned her B.A. and M.A in English. She worked as an English college instructor and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher before she became a full-time writer. She started writing when she was 14, and writing became her voice. She writes fiction characters who examine their past in order to move into their future and are influenced by the time in which they live. Her first book, a collection of contemporary short stories titled … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Tam May
Featured Free Book: Sands Rising: The California Ballot Killings Book I by H. M. Wilhelmborn
Featured Free Book: Book is free from 10/20/2019 until 10/20/2019 If the dates are the same, book is free one day only. About the Book Dystopia meets family drama as a loving mother of four faces the consequences of her choices in San Diego, California at the onset of the longest drought in US history. Janet Whitaker Virdis believes herself happy, devoted, and loyal to her husband until her workplace unearths forbidden desire as the world heats up, which changes everything. Download … [Read more...] about Featured Free Book: Sands Rising: The California Ballot Killings Book I by H. M. Wilhelmborn
Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt
Fantasies, dreams and reality swirl together in this time when humankind and our beautiful blue planet face terrible social and environmental crises. And just at this moment we see a significant movement to empower women. We are already seeing the benefits for families, communities and even nations. For this author it was a siren call to build a story where women were central to preserving the future. And so the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy was born to explore the possibilities. What if our Earth … [Read more...] about Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt
Interview with Author – Roger B. Burt
About Roger B. Burt: I'm supposed to tell you about me. The problem is I'm still trying to figure out who I am even as I move into advanced years. I'll try. One essential part of my life has been to explore the "what if". I don't believe much of anything is to be taken for granted. Early in life I thought I would go into nuclear physics because all this strange stuff was being discovered. But I ended up getting a doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Roger B. Burt
The Day to Eternity by Joanne Monte
A sweeping story filled with scenes of love, war, and great personal sacrifice, "The Day to Eternity" follows three characters who struggle to find their place, and one another, against tremendous odds. Set in the early 1950s against the backdrop of chaotic, war-torn Korea and and an enchanting but fragile postwar Japan, the reader is taken deep into the lives of characters whose responses to present adversity and the tortuous pull of the past crucially shape their destinies. Targeted Age … [Read more...] about The Day to Eternity by Joanne Monte
Interview with Author – Lily Iona MacKenzie
About Lily Iona MacKenzie: About me? A Canadian by birth, a high school dropout, and a mother at 17, in my early years, I supported myself as a stock girl in the Hudson’s Bay Company, as a long-distance operator for the former Alberta Government Telephones, and as a secretary (Bechtel Corp sponsored me into the States). I also was a cocktail waitress at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, briefly broke into the male-dominated world of the docks as a longshoreman (I was the first woman to work … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lily Iona MacKenzie
Interview with Author – Susan Welch
About Susan Welch: SUSAN WELCH grew up in Minnesota and Wisconsin with either her nose in a book or her toes in the water. She earned a Masters in International Management and built an international career in the brewing industry, and now works for a company focused on regional agriculture, new technologies, and craft brewing. When not traveling for work or pleasure, she spends her time either on the family houseboat in Seattle or in a cabin in the woods of Lummi Island, preferably with her … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Susan Welch
