A Little Blues Story from the Jersey Shore
Liz is an ordinary woman facing ordinary obstacles as she pursues her dream of a full time career singing blues and jazz. Sixteen years ago she was offered a chance to make her dream a reality and didn’t take it. She is now given a second chance. Will she grab for the ring this time? Join her on her journey as she reflects on her life in a series of flashbacks–gaining new perspectives on love, family, and self-realization.
All Is Not Well
Consider this, then, the antithesis of a Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce campaign, an attempt to set the record straight. No judgment, merely a forthright account of what might have been observed during an innocent bystander’s own peculiar experience growing up there in the late fifties through the sixties, when it was abandoned for more enlightened climes, i.e., the city.” Excerpted from All Is Not Well.
All Is Not Well is the story of a town, a sheriff, and a precocious young girl as she matures into womanhood. The girl is a once in a generation athlete, able to beat most of the boys in any sport of their choosing, therefore shunned by the boys who are intimidated by her, and the girls because she is not interested in girly-girl things. She faces a life-altering event at nineteen, and the rest of the story tells how she reacts to this, with the town and the sheriff playing their part in it, and finally finds closure.
Awakening (Mythics and Mortals Book 1)
Percy Jackson meets The Mortal Instruments Christina Jones had always thought that she was normal, just your typical unlucky woman. But this all changes on her twenty-first birthday when she falls, quite literally, headfirst into a world that was thought only to exist in Ancient Greek mythology. With her new friends, Sophie Romain and Lucas Teravin, by her side, Christina has to fight, not only to control her developing powers and remember who she is, but also to fight the demon that hunts her for a mysterious figure called The Master.
By the Hand of Dragons: Rook
Sheath has just learned that he is not a boy, but a Chimera, a weapon created by powerful dragon magic to be the perfect warrior and win a war almost no one believes is coming. One of an army of 300 child soldiers, he must master every art of war and become powerful enough to defeat a threat that frightens even the Council of Dragons. Can a boy, no matter how powerful his magic, win against assassins, politicians, giants, the Blood Soldiers of Loria and all the strange creatures, beasts and monsters that call Fuumashon home? He would say yes.
Coalbrookdale: The Bangham Family Story
Coalbrookdale is a work of fiction based on the life of my ancestor Joseph Bangham, who lived in the Severn Gorge three hundred years ago. He worked for the Coalbrookdale ironworks when Abraham Darby was perfecting the use of coal in the production of iron. These developments facilitated the mass production of iron and as the technology spread, industry thrived. This was a pivotal moment in the history of the modern world.
This is a story of an ordinary family living at an extraordinary time and in the district known as the ‘cradle of the Industrial Revolution’. Their lives changed fundamentally as the agricultural evolved into the industrial way of life. The book traces the story of the Bangham family as they move from Banghams Wood where they have been coppicing for decades, across the Gorge to Coalbrookdale and a very different way of life, regulated not by the seasons but by the demands of the furnace.
Daria’s Secrets
A half century after the Holocaust, Daria Abramson, suffering nightmares of the Lodz ghetto and her time with its infamous ruler, Chaim Rumkowski, turns for help to a sensitive but dogged therapist. During their intense sessions, she lays bare buried memories and faces deep feelings of guilt about the war and the death of her husband. Secrets long held by Daria spill out in fierce succession, revelations disclosed to those she loves most – her daughter, granddaughter, and Ruth, a lifelong friend and fellow survivor. In turn, they expose their own shocking surprises. In Daria’s Secrets, by Jeff Ingber, we travel together with a courageous woman as she attempts to overcome the anguish of the heart’s remembrance, in order to finally live.
Ela Green and the Kingdom of Abud
Ela Green and the Kingdom of Abud is book one of a trilogy and introduces Ela Green, a fourteen-year-old girl. Her first adventure reveals the mysterious bond she shares with Mother Nature and her encounter with Yggdrasil, the wise-tree, charting her own self-discovery along the way. With the help of her best friend, Jo, and her loving Uncle Archibald, who unwillingly has to lay bare an unbelievable secret, Ela summons all her courage to face the many dangers along the road. The adventure starts in the present day at Waldegg Boarding School on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. As Mrs. Green drives her daughter back after the summer holidays, Ela has no idea that the discovery of an ancient bracelet and a scroll she found in an antique desk will change her life forever. The formidable school is the connecting link in an adventure that will time-travel the reader through continents and centuries in search of the mysterious kingdom and the magical Book of Name, the most powerful manuscript ever written… And for a prophecy that must be fulfilled.
Forgotten: One town. Three tales from beyond
Discover the town of Forgotten, a hidden gem nestled in the heart of Maryland, where the boundary between reality and the supernatural is blurred, and the secrets of the past lie dormant, waiting to be unearthed. In this captivating collection, three masterful authors—Keith J. Hoskins, Mark Lee Taylor, and Lisa Janele —invite you on an unforgettable journey through a world of mystery, magic, and enigmatic charm.
Fright House
Fright House is waiting to be unlocked. And she is the key. Penny Winters can see ghosts. Or she’s insane. Desperate and on the run, she lucks into a job at Fright House. But a one time insane asylum turned Halloween attraction is the last place she should be. Workers start disappearing. The walls move. And Penny’s past comes back to haunt her as Fright House’s tormented spirits awaken. Tory Jackson is obsessed with hunting ghosts. So when he and his ragtag team of Paranormal Scene Investigators are brought in to cleanse the old asylum of evil, it may finally be his chance to prove ghosts exist. But the evil within Fright House has plans of its own, and as the night devolves into chaos and terror, Penny and Tory will learn that the line between the living and the dead is one slice of a scalpel.
Ice in the Guise of Fire
Early in the morning, Lieutenant Lauren Riley is sent to investigate a murder in a notorious, wealthy and politically charged resort in the Sierra Nevada. This will be an interagency investigation involving both Plumas and Butte Counties. From the beginning, it will be complicated, but the tangles do not fully reveal themselves until the investigation is underway, and they keep on coming. The Lieutenant was born in Moluku Lake. She is the daughter of one of the tribal council members. The tribe is poised to open a casino in the resort – in direct competition with the current hub of all that happens in Moluku Lake – the Eagle Nest Empire
L.A. Hustle
Meet Digger Sharma, wisecracking half-Irish, half-Indian gumshoe.
As he deftly patrols his usual beat in the City of Angels, Digger attempts to solve two seemingly innocuous, straightforward, and unrelated cases. But the deeper he dives, the more he realizes he’s not only in over his head but also swimming with the sharks. He must unravel the mystery to protect his client, a sultry Latina, and himself with their very lives on the line.
Lizard of Transition
On his deathbed, a World War Two veteran, Joe Rubin, confesses to his son that he murdered a Japanese prisoner in the jungles of New Guinea, seventy years ago. In his last hours, Joe enters the world between life and death, known as the world of transition. He tells of his journey, with an odd lizard leading the way, as he recants the tale of the murder prior to his imminent death. He reveals to his son, Joshua, that he possesses, a Good Luck flag – Hinomaru Yosegaki, that he had taken from the Japanese soldier he murdered on the island of New Guinea during the battle of the Druinimor River. The flag has handwritten messages from the prisoner’s family and friends, which reveals his identity and the village in Japan he came from. His son, Joshua is under tremendous pressure. He’s separated from his wife, who comes to visit her father-in-law, bringing the two together to face their problems under the gut-wrenching veil of his father’s passing. By attempting to reunite the flag with the son of the soldier his father killed, seventy years ago, will the family find their way forward. From the wisdom of the ages, and from the Jewish perspective on death and redemption, “Lizard of Transition” shines a light on how understanding death and dying will lead us to live rich and fuller lives.
LOCKBOX
A riveting, emotionally charged urban psycho-thriller set in the mid 1990’s.
A young Chicago woman suffering from emotional scars and who desperately wants to become a single mother, fights to control her life in the corporate world through lucid dreaming.
Edwina Jennings, an ambitious young bank employee is desperate to have a child.
Along with the burning desire to become a single mother is her ruthless drive to climb the corporate ladder.
With the help of lucid dreaming, she quickly rises to an upper management position but not without paying a heavy price…
Realizing only part of her vision she abandons lucid dreaming and turns to an intriguing form of mystical philosophy introduced to her by two research doctors and a professor.
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Love Letters From The Black Sea
Did you ever want to swim with the fish? Of course you haven’t, because you’re free. Your life is so much different from mine. You see a sea of water, an ocean of freedom, a boundless expanse. You have no concept of life in a cage, where one can’t see all this. But when you crave freedom, you dream, of submerging into the sea and swimming with the multicolored fish. The waves carry you, washing away the pain, and you are in no danger of drowing because of the great levity in your body, The pain in your soul drags you down, but the waves take that pain away. Do you realize how easy it is to drown when soul pain drags down your body?
Midnight Owl (Joe Leverette Mysteries Book 1)
The dismembered body of a young woman is found, each grisly part discovered separately by a member of the community. Detectives Joe Leverette and Philip Marsden are assigned the case, but the outlook is grim, with eerie dreams and hooting owls putting their witnesses on edge.
When Carole Sage joins the team, the police are eager to use her gift of ‘second sight’ to gain an advantage. Will the young sensitive help crack the case, or will she become the murderer’s next victim?
New Elbestran
More than seven hundred years ago, a man with no memories and unprecedented magical power was found near the construction site of a great bridge – a spanner tenganden. Wandering through lonely centuries without purpose and yearning for an ordinary life, he finds direction in the Elbestran Colonies, a land of settlers struggling under the rule of a tyrannical archduke. In the Elbestran Colonies, Spanner Tenganden may, at last, find a place he can call home forever. But when Spanner and his friends engineer a revolution for independence, he discovers that powerful wizards have conspired against him for centuries. Driven by a prophecy that predicted catastrophe at his hands should his life ever find meaning, wizards have worked tirelessly to keep Spanner’s life in obscurity.
Red: Fate and Time Inseparable… A Promise Volume One Book I
Red: Fate and Time Inseparable… A Promise
By: Yen Sun Cheng
Red: Fate and Time Inseparable… A Promise explores themes such as “what is the meaning of true love,” based on fate and soulmates through Tian and San’s romantic rivalry. Readers are reminded that we should not settle for less and do not decorate our dreams, as well as understand that the greatest assets to human beings are our minds and hearts. As individuals one can achieve many realistic dreams and desires. With that said this family drama chronicles the enlightening meaning of true love, beyond selfish human emotion through the essence of time.
Tagalong
Murder and mayhem hit close to home. Someone for Sheriff JD Pickens viciously attacked his father from behind, and his best friend, Leroy Jones, was shot in the back and left for dead. Several other attacks forced Pickens to seek outside help, not only for solving the crimes but for his peace of mind. Never before had Pickens and his deputies had to deal with so many harsh realities of life. Bio of George Encizo.
The 20% Solution
It’s quite simple, really. Twenty percent of the world’s population causes eighty percent of the problems. Kill off those twenty percent, and you will have a wonderful world. And we all know who makes up that 20%. It’s the people in jails, drug addicts, crackheads, homeless people, ghetto dwellers, welfare recipients, and so forth. Oh, there will be some collateral damage, but only a million people or so, but just think how great everything will be afterward. Well, someone has decided to make this happen! Scott Marklee receives a curious message on his cellphone: “The 20% solution has gotten out of control. The cabalists have betrayed my trust. The cabal won’t listen to me now that I’ve finished my work. Meet me in Laughlin, Nevada. Don’t bring anyone, or I won’t show.” Scott ignored it until people around him turned up dead. As an investigative reporter, people called him with leads, but never like this. This was worse than 9/11. Millions of people were dying, and they weren’t all evil.
The Book of Jeremy
Jeremy Meyers is an ordinary bratty twelve-year-old when he has his first prophetic dream. He is too shy to tell anyone at first, but he can see things happening in the world around him that connect to the dreams. Clouds that are narrow strips in the sky, seem to affect trees and animals. But why is he seeing flying saucers? Later, when Mom takes him, his brother Simeon, and sister Anna on a field trip as part of a home school project, the big picture begins to take shape. Living in Silicon Valley, they see unique companies like ‘Weather Wise’, and ‘Action Surgical’ that he can apply directly to his dreams. Jeremy begins to share his dreams with his best friend, Thomas, then his Dad. Now he is fourteen and has just scraped together the nerve to say hi to the girl he likes when God calls him to preach. This sends him into a tailspin. A vision gives him some relief when he sees himself preaching online rather than in person.The family finishes building their home at the lake just before WWIII turns the world upside down, and most of his family heads for the hills, and their place at the lake. Jeremy is in for many more surprises as his family puts together a new life in a very different time and place.
The Chimera Wolf
Austin is an orphaned shifter dropped at the doors of an unknown pack. He was only five when his life changed. Not that he could remember much before the accident.
Now, this is his life. To be raised by the Alpha and Luna, but not equal to their first-born son Brian. Austin often feels like an outsider never truly wanted by this backward pack of werewolves. He is stuck in no man’s land with no one to care for him. He is the packs’ mutt, the butt of all jokes. Worst of all, he is the future alpha’s manservant.
Time will only tell what fate awaits our young shifter. With his eighteenth birthday only months away, will he find his freedom? Will he be forced to flee and go rogue to escape the hell his adopted family puts him through? If he is lucky, someone will finally come forward and claim him. Maybe a grandparent or an uncle, Austin would even settle for his mate at this point if they didn’t come from the Genesis Moon pack of Nebraska. What did the Moon Goddess think when she forged this pack of jerks? Join Austin on his life’s journey as The Chimera Wolf.
The Family Stone
Before the supermarket boom, corner markets dominated neighborhoods where most people did their grocery shopping. These corner markets sold all of your staples. They were hospitable and served as a junction to exchange ideas, beliefs, and gossip in much the same way as barbershops and beauty salons still do today. The Family Stone is set in the memory of these institutions long gone from most American economic landscapes. It is the year following the long, hot summer in America. Abraham and Winona Stone are the proud owners of Willie’s Market, a modest corner grocery store in a working class urban community. The Civil Rights movement is at full throttle. The fight for social equality does not halt personal drama. Intriguing neighborhood sagas of life, death, love, heartbreak, betrayal, hope, faith, and redemption play out against the fiery backdrop of civil unrest.
The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody
The year is 1793, and France has declared war on Britain. Escaping a desperate situation, Eleanor Buccleuch (‘Nell’), a young Englishwoman, dons waistcoat and breeches. Calling herself ‘Ned Buckley’, she enlists in the British army, where she hopes no one will think to look for her. Traumatised and grieving her infant son, she disappears amongst the soldiers of the 69th Regiment of Foot, sent to the Mediterranean where the British hope to take the island of Corsica from the French. After the successful occupation of St Fiorenzo, Ned’s superiors assign him to work with a zealous naval captain by the name of Horatio Nelson, who is spearheading the campaign against Bastia. Ned is to be his ‘liaison’ to the army, which Ned is fairly sure means ‘dispatch runner.’ Recognising Ned’s uncertainty, Nelson makes a point of bolstering his confidence. Ned has one close friend in the army, another rifleman named Jack Mackay. Ned and Jack share a tent with the four other men in their six-man mess, and late one night during the siege of Bastia, an incident occurs that sets off Ned’s post-trauma response, threatening his stability and his disguise.
The Sacred Band Trinity: Part 1 Palladium
The legendary myths of Ancient Greece and Arthurian Britain are brought together in the search for a prized relic of limitless power born from the love and grief of the goddess Pallas Athena herself. The descendants of the Sacred Band of Thebes – one hundred and fifty male lovers and the bravest of warriors – have sworn an oath to defend the relic and protect it from falling into the wrong hands…an honour shared by Six of the direct descendants of King Arthur’s Round Table of Knights. Challenge comes from the Knights’ own former brethren, the Six that believe in an alternative vision of control and order for the world. Both factions have been at war over the centuries…and now comes the opportunity for each to realise their destinies.
The Semblant
They have been living with us for thousands of years, and while once close to extinction, the Semblant are now making a resurgence. These genetically advanced beings with heightened libidos also have psychic abilities that can influence, modify, and alter the experience and memories of others. They can hijack another’s identity – sometimes by mutual agreement, sometimes not.
While detectives are investigating both the mystery of a headless corpse at a popular nightclub, and the apparent reappearance of people that have died, they uncover a mysterious breed of people capable of psychic manipulation (The Semblant).
A concurrent case of a serial killer, known as Daisy, who targets gay men, places increasing concerns and demands on the police. Could these two cases be connected?
The Wedding Ranch: A Novel
A second chance at love awaits two brokenhearted people if they’re just willing to trust each other—and themselves, in USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle’s The Wedding Ranch. When Lorri Walker’s husband gifted her with a mastiff puppy on Valentine’s Day, she believed he was recommitting himself to their marriage after going astray. Six months later, he left both her and their dog for someone else. Since her recent move to Dalton Mill to unbraid herself from the past, Lorri’s graphic design business is now flourishing, her growing mastiff, Mister, has plenty of space to romp, and her ex in Raleigh can fade to a distant memory. Ryder Bolt is haunted by the tragic loss of his wife and young son seven years ago. Thankfully, ranching keeps Ryder busy, and spending time with his niece and nephew—whose venue, The Wedding Ranch, has become a popular tourist destination—keeps him from getting lonely. When Lorri and Ryder met, love was the last thing they were looking for. When they’re together, smiles come easier and burdens feel lighter, and both are embracing the possibility of something deeper. But when a long-buried revelation surfaces, the fate that brought them together threatens to tear them apart.
Things that go bump in the night: Here there be monsters
One city. Two killers. A serial kller who preys on adulterers. A supernatural killer who kills unknowingly once it becomes human again. The city knows bout the serial killer calling himself Sin Killer and leaving a weird poem on his victims. He is blamed for all the murders including the ones he does not commit.
Questions arise throughout the city whether Sin Killer is also capable of cannibalism since his victims are eaten and mutilated.
Poice Captain Frank Penn is under heavy fire. He knows there is more than one killer in his city and one of them is his own nephew.
Tim: The Story of Timothy H. O’Sullivan as a Young Apprentice at Mathew Brady’s Studio
Willy Wonka meets Gangs of New York and Let the Great World Spin
The Story Begins on September 11th, 1850…
Based on the life of Timothy O’Sullivan, Tim is a ten-year-old boy from sleepy Staten Island who is told he must apprentice at Mathew Brady’s daguerreotype studio in 1850.
Tim takes the ferry over to York with his father and rides the omnibus up Broadway to Fulton Street. Across from Brady’s Gallery is Barnum’s American Museum filled with all its relics and wondrous curiosities. As Tim ventures inside, he takes us back into New York’s forgotten past and the history of photography.
The story begins on September 11th, 1850, with Jenny Lind’s premiere concert at Castle Garden near Battery Park — a night that would be remembered for years to come, as the night when the Swedish Nightingale first sang in New York.
All the city is infatuated with Jenny Lind. Great crowds surround her wherever she goes. She is the most sought-after celebrity by all the Broadway photographers, except that her manager, none other than P.T. Barnum himself, will not grant Brady access to Jenny Lind.
Trial and Redemption
SCIENCE MEETS MAGIC… In his latest inspirational and suspenseful novel, Trial and Redemption, Reilly continues the saga of a mystical Janus key and its time-bending influence on 21st-century characters, first introduced in the award-winning Chasing Time. Disgraced scientist Brian Ellis finds an improbable ally in Julie, a college student trying to reset her life after a family tragedy. Guided by a Janus key with magical powers to predict future events, they embark on a crusade to bring a corrupt pharmaceutical executive to justice, prevent a medical tragedy, and restore peace to their shattered lives. However, Brian guards a dark secret that may imperil both their mission and their redemption. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, memorable characters, and heart-stopping suspense, Trial and Redemption is an emotive mix of medical and legal fiction with a touch of fantasy.
Trial and Redemption
SCIENCE MEETS MAGIC… In his latest inspirational and suspenseful novel, Trial and Redemption, Reilly continues the saga of a mystical Janus key and its time-bending influence on 21st-century characters, first introduced in the award-winning Chasing Time. Disgraced scientist Brian Ellis finds an improbable ally in Julie, a college student trying to reset her life after a family tragedy. Guided by a Janus key with magical powers to predict future events, they embark on a crusade to bring a corrupt pharmaceutical executive to justice, prevent a medical tragedy, and restore peace to their shattered lives. However, Brian guards a dark secret that may imperil both their mission and their redemption. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, memorable characters, and heart-stopping suspense, Trial and Redemption is an emotive mix of medical and legal fiction with a touch of fantasy.
Unsaddened (Steel and Desire Book 4)
She’s not looking for love. He’s open to the possibility. Will love conquer all?
Special Agent Molly Masterson is in a dark place after the tragic death of her husband, Sam. If it wasn’t for the nanny, her four-year-old daughter, Justice, would have suffered severe neglect. Her boss finally confronts her along with her three best gal pals, also FBI agents, forcing her back to work with the lure of heading a new task force targeting the newly coined crime: Sextortion. She soon discovers being back at work is exactly what she needed.
Walls
A small community in northern Los Angeles awakens to find themselves surrounded by a mysterious and dangerous barrier of falling light. Led by a fierce and charismatic Hispanic-American policewoman, they experience many challenges in surviving the Walls themselves and the people trapped within. The first in a three-part series, Walls begins their saga.
Weightless, Woven Words
Ever needed a therapist on your nightstand? Well now you can simply get that by picking up this book!
It is dire that everyone pays attention to their own mental health and can be positive about life and sensitive to others. Today, we are shedding more light on mental health issues, and having this book is key. People should find solace and resolve in poetry. In Weightless, Woven Words, we trace poetry from the pensive mind of Umar Siddiqui from themes like “Desperation” and “The Human Condition,” that one confronts to the idea of varying perceptions to the idea that life is a journey.
Poetry is a long-standing art and needs to be practiced and read with self-care. It needs to be approached with a broad mind, and that is what we must do to make the most out of Weightless, Woven Words.