Palette of Secrets Runner-Up in 2016 Best Indie Book
Joan Fallon has good reason to be proud of Palette of Secrets. It is an amazingly well-written story of Nancy Miller, an aging artist struggles to forget the secret that …
Joan Fallon has good reason to be proud of Palette of Secrets. It is an amazingly well-written story of Nancy Miller, an aging artist struggles to forget the secret that …
Take a journey into a world where the hidden becomes manifest and the lines between fantasy and reality blur. This collection of imaginative and entertaining stories about ghosts, sirens, demons, …
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Margaret Riccardelli enjoyed an international airline career and traveled to more than 50 countries before joining the American Foreign Service, but she wasn’t as worldly wise as she thought she …
Charli is convinced that the women in her family are the victims of a curse—they go through husbands at an alarming rate. At a very young age, she begins a …
Ian Lahey, who co-authored The 45th Nail with his father, Michael Lahey, lives and writes in Italy. His appreciation of the culture and the traditions of Italy shine through the …
When Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Lydia Manzo becomes lost in the woods of Maine, then is found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of …
Sara’s Story of Love and Longing Sam and Sara fall in love assuming the difference in skin color won’t matter, but painful prejudices from their own families is only the …
Publishers often separate their books into different imprints. Amazon itself has over a dozen imprints, each with a specialized focus. My previous post listed many of the imprints that are …
Bobbi Carducci is the author of the memoir, Confessions of an Imperfect Caregiver, the true story of the seven years she spent as a caregiver for her mentally and physically …
NOVEMBER 1974: Ali, reeking of tear gas, darts down an alley, listening for the thud of combat boots behind him. Living amidst the overcrowding, poverty, and political violence of the …
The haunting yet beautiful story of a family of four brothers and their widowed mother living in a tiny house in the Kalandia Refugee Camp near Jerusalem as they face …
This is a deep, rich, poignant and profoundly humanistic book. It is also one of the best “political” books I have ever read.
Breakfast in Palestine recounts Dixiane’s introduction to her new Palestinian family, and how she coped with a new language, new culture, new social demands, and her love affair with the …
Caregiver: You Are Not Alone is an anthology of caregiver stories representing varying ages, genders, and family dynamics—all doing the hardest job they ever had to do. Each story is …
Catherine Pomeroy is a writer and child welfare attorney who lives with her husband in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. They have four adult children. Over the span of a twenty-plus year …
The story of one man’s journey to the depths of human despondency.
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Bernie O’Dea is the owner/editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, a small town newspaper, so you’ll get a real inside look at the newspaper world. And no one knows the …
Ms. Grimes writes children’s books and historical mysteries, as well as human interest short stories. She lives on a small horse farm in western Loudoun County, Virginia with her husband, …
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Jean Reeves is a grandmother, an investment and financial advisor, a pacifist, and a very reluctant “private investigator.” She and her three friends mix humor with danger, tragedy with triumph …
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Demon slayer Ariel Malony thought she knew Nick, but she discovers that at the University of Sheldra, he is a respected translator with little time to spare. Now that he …
Dixiane Hallaj lives in the small town of Purcellville, Virginia, with her cat named Dog. After a long career as an educator and a business woman, she earned her Ph.D. …
Don Roberts began his formal education in a one-room country school and ended with a Ph.D. in History at the University of Pittsburgh. In between, he graduated from Slippery Rock …
Growing up is never easy, not even in a small Pennsylvania town in the fifties. Harry Morgan has his faults, but he tries. Judgmental but often clueless, he resolutely makes …
Ariel and Nick Walker face their deepest fears and their greatest challenge as they search for the Master Demon who holds the key to the future of mankind. Slay him …
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Gila Green is an Israel-based Canadian author from Ottawa. Her father is a Yemenite-Israeli immigrant to Canada and her mother is a third generation Canadian. She has lived in Winnipeg, …
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It was the mid-1880s and the dirt farmers were moving West to put fences around the open range. Trouble swirled all around the once peaceful valley, and every time it …
Madame Dorion: Her Journey to the Oregon Country—historically accurate with fun-filled fiction. The fact that the fiction is clearly identifiable was one of the things that attracted me to this …
Maureen writes about what she knows and what she loves: newspapers and Maine. As a third generation newspaper editor, she portrays her protagonist, Bernie O’Dea, with a realism that can’t …
Born in 1894, youngest daughter of a wealthy Peruvian landowner, Lola was seduced at an early age, disowned and forced to leave her father’s plantation. Twice widowed with three children …
Jean Kipfer was born and raised in Southern West Virginia. She spent her childhood following her Grandfather around the farm and orchards, listening to him tell tales of past generations. …
James Knights is a retired FBI Special Agent. He received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. A native of …
Jess Barry loves old architecture, live theater (especially musicals), and astronomy and aerospace news. She studied journalism and German and worked as a technical translator. Her mystery/romance Masquerade plays out …
Jo has never been able to commit to one place longer than a handful of years. Jo currently divides her time between the Netherlands and the USA. She unites with …
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Joy has spent time in several countries. She and her husband of 26 years, Cliff, have two daughters by birth and one son by adoption. She’s a graduate of Goshen …
Krisi Keley is a writer and artist with a degree in theology from DeSales University, who has also studied foreign and classical languages. In addition to Mareritt and Vingede, the …
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When a scream in the night wakes Ariel, she discovers that demons from a hidden realm have kidnapped her mother. She sets off on a rescue mission, but to defeat …
With more twists and turns than an Escher-designed bobsleigh run, Lifting the Lid is a comic thriller about how a single, split-second decision can change someone’s life forever.
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Now with Illustrations Marie Dorion was an incredibly strong and brave woman who not only witnessed history and the opening of the Oregon Country to trappers and immigrants, but she …
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Margaret Riccardelli traveled to more than 50 countries. She enjoyed an international airline career in her early years. Later, she traveled with the American Foreign Service working at our embassies …
Marjorie Rommel lives in Auburn, WA, where she cares for her husband, three cats, 847 birds, 54 squirrels, and a snarky brace of possums in her large back yard. She …
Mary Lewis traveled the world from Hawaii to Bangkok, writing delightful and insightful stories of life as she saw it. Many of these stories were sent home to Nashville, North …
Maureen Milliken is the author of the Bernie O’Dea mystery series, COLD HARD NEWS, which was released by S&H Publishing in June 2015, and NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS, which …
Michael Lahey was born in 1942, in Cleveland, Ohio. He visited Italy in the 1960s and fell in love with it so he moved there to teach English and learn …
Michelle Markey Butler is a Lecturer in the College of Information Studies and the Honors College at the University of Maryland College Park, where she teaches medieval literature and Tolkien. …
From childhood, Myri saw things other people didn’t see, like pulsating arcs of energy and spirits. Her dad had warned her. Best to keep such nonsense to herself. But in …
A grisly discovery in the woods of Redimere, Maine, resurrects Police Chief Pete Novotny’s old case of a missing boy—just one of the ghosts that haunts the town in the …
Newspaper reporter/editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea’s life has been chaotic since her move to Redimere, Maine. In Cold Hard News, which takes place several months before this book begins, Bernie and …
I really like Bernie O’Dea. She’s owner/editor of a small town newspaper in fictional Redimere, Maine.She likes to walk at night, looking at “porch lights or lit windows blinking through …
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Returning to Dad’s home state on an idealistic seven-day trip dubbed The Wise Woman Summit, the Korth sisters trek across Nebraska with hopes of rekindling their childhood friendship. Independent, tenacious, …
Miriam Gil knows little about Israel. Her father won’t talk about his life there or the brother he left behind when he came to Canada. Hurt and angry when he …
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Saints and heathens might be flip sides of the same coin. Perhaps it depends on your perspective. Can you tell which is which? This collection of stories will make you …
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Palette of Secrets Runner-Up in 2016 Best Indie Book Joan Fallon has good reason to be proud of Palette of Secrets. It is an amazingly well-written story of Nancy Miller, …
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An International Anthology of 36 stories from 25 talented authors Short & Happy (or not) brings together authors from English-speaking countries around the globe and a sprinkling of others who …
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Based on the remarkable true story of Sarah Emma Edmunds of New Brunswick, Canada, a little known Civil War heroine Author of the Benjamin’s Field Trilogy Forward by retired astronaut …
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Trainee Warrior Ariel Malony hopes that the great library at Sheldra holds the key to rescuing her mother, but to get there she must negotiate a forest of evil spirits, …
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While the Nazis are being sentenced for war crimes in Nuremberg, someone is getting away with murder in New York City. Four prominent businessmen have been murdered—viciously strangled with their …
Strife, doubt, & suspicion — heroic (and not-so-heroic) characters search for harmony
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Tahlia Newland, author of the multi-award-winning Diamond Peak Series, writes heart-warming and inspiring magical realism and contemporary fantasy. When not reading, writing, reviewing, or mentoring authors, you may find her …
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Dead Men Don’t Send Christmas Cards … Or Do They? A Christmas card from Italy arrived on Robert Svenson’s desk. There was no return address, but when Bob opened the …
Friar Tobe, an ex-novitiate turned private investigator, works to solve modern mysteries where the clues may lie deep within the darkness of ancient fairy tales. Sometimes it takes a leap …
In the mid-1960’s, West Virginia bluegrass trio The Gulch Jumpers was on the verge of musical success, when tragedy struck. Fifty years later, surviving bandmate Ray Jones is broken and …
The Norsemen came to trade silver for timber. The Abbot has his eyes on a greater prize… This tale of unlikely allies and strange betrayals will keep you reading long …
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Theresa Halvorsen has never met a profanity she hasn’t enjoyed. She’s generally overly-caffeinated and at times, wine-soaked. The author of Warehouse Dreams and The Dad’s Playbook to Labor and Birth, …
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Kendle’s job is on the line every time she rescues a Wild teen. But Wilds, with their uncontrolled psychic abilities, need her help. They need the chronically underfunded Warehouse, the …
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The magical realism style provides a touch of fantasy in an otherwise very real story that offers heart-warming solutions to bullying.