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August 19, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: JANET TODD
Eccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and the poet Shelley, she finds one.
Jane Austen is such a presence in Fran's life that she seems to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend.
Fran’s conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her – but Fran is ready for change after years of teaching, reading and gardening. An encounter with a long-standing English friend, and an American writer, leads to new possibilities. Adrift...
August 14, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: CONSTANTINE DHONAU
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Argonauts (Nelson) meets See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die (Rollins) in this raw & rattling Memoir-meets-Chapbook spanning more than 10 years of writing! Rummagings of journals, shoebox scraps, forgotten notes, and letters to loved ones come together to tell one writer's coming-of-age and his quest for unconditional self-love by dissecting his darkness. Each one-year chapter explores love, regret, identity, existence, ambition, depression, and the insanity of it all, neat...
August 9, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: KATHRYN ELIZABETH JONES
Have you ever felt like one of the least of these?
What do you know of the woman at the well? What led her to the well that day - the exact day Jesus would be there? What of the lepers, the blind man, the woman who dried Jesus' feet with her hair? What of the Centurion who said at the cross, "Surely this was the Son of God”?
Stories of Jesus. You have heard them since you were young. But what about the parts that you’ve never heard?
The stories that need to be told? The stories...
August 5, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: RODNEY ROSS
Tara Atwater holds the right combination of numbers to the record-breaking Ohio state lottery. But what to do about the boyfriend, stabbed to death, on the kitchen floor? It was, after all, his ticket. A diversionary fire might be the answer. Left in her grandparents’ care as her reckless mother worked the carnival circuit, Tara learned about sleight-of-hand flame, purposely created to distract from something far bigger, at age nine. As decades flicker past, from the 1970s until ...
August 2, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: DAVID GARDNER
Writing for a cheesy Boston tabloid, Jeff Beekle fabricates a whimsical tale about a mob-built CIA prison for ghosts.
Which turns out to be true.
Now both the mob and the CIA have Jeff in their sights.
Even worse, Jeff discovers that his great-grandmother is an inmate and that she and the other spectral residents are being groomed as CIA spies. (And why not? They’re invisible, draw no salary, and won’t hop into bed with enemy agents.)
To his horror, Jeff learns that ancestors held too...
July 31, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: DERRICK GRAY
Second place, no matter how talented, is never celebrated, even though there is only one other individual or team that’s better. In fact, if every single person in the world were to be ranked against one another, there still could only be one number one. So, here’s the question: Is winning really all that it is cracked up to be? Absolutely, it is. If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t be writing this book. The win God has in store for you though is quite different.
Tit...
July 26, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: BLAIR DENHOLM
ABOUT THE BOOK
Violent crimes. Missing people. Dark secrets. Only one driven detective can unearth the truth.
Jack Lisbon travelled halfway round the world to escape his troubled past. Mutilated bodies were never part of the plan.
A body found in the mangroves at first appears to be evidence of a frenzied crocodile attack. But it soon becomes obvious this is a horrific murder.
And when a popular MMA fighter disappears, police now face a possible double homicide. The list of suspects grows longer,...
July 22, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: LINDA LOVELY
ABOUT THE BOOK
Managing an HOA can be murder.
Murder victims in separate Lowcountry homeowner associations seem to have only two things in common—they antagonized neighbors, and their dead bodies were posed to shock. Are HOA feuds provoking these murders? Kylee Kane, a retired Coast Guard investigator, agrees to help her friend’s HOA management company find an answer. After uncovering decades-old links between the murder victims, Kylee IDs the killer’s next target. Can she foil the third act in ...
July 19, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: MIKE MARTIN
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Sgt. Windflower is on a special assignment in St. John’s and adjusting to life in the big city. He is navigating traffic, a difficult boss at work and what seems like an epidemic of missing girls. He becomes more interested when he discovers that one of the girls is from Grand Bank. Then a girl approaches his RCMP van one night and he is pulled into the underlife of the capital city.
Safe Harbour is a twirling, swirling mystery in the foggy streets of one of the oldest cities in N...
July 15, 2021
FEATURED AUTHOR: SHARON BAZANT
Geckos & Guns: The Pakistan Years is the latest installment of Sharon Bazant’s riveting travel memoirs. Following on the heels of her 2019, Nine Years in Bangkok: Lessons Learned, this new title Geckos & Guns tells of the time before Bangkok. It is a prequel that follows the first impulses of the Bazant family to break out of the mold, to leave their comfortable Canada home. With two teens in tow, they took a “hardship” posting for the United Nations in Islamabad. The book opens w...
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