Fiction

Unfortunate Events: 31 Short Stories by Frances Hoelsema

Life is often unpredictable. Many times, bad things happen that no one would ever see coming, not even ourselves. And such is the case for the people in each of these stories. Some will be attacked by vicious animals, while others navigate through wild weather. The rest will find themselves in freak accidents, coming face-to-face with the supernatural, being a part of something out of this world, and many other situations that can only be described as unfortunate.

With traces of romance, adventure, humor, thrill, and mystery woven in, there is a story for anyone looking for an entertaining tale while being short on time. And with just the right blend of horror and tragedy, this collection will leave you dreading the possible.

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Wanders Far-An Unlikely Hero’s Journey by David Fitz-Gerald

Wanders Far lived in dangerous times and was faced with one difficult challenge after another. He was a skinny, quiet boy who was raised on the banks of a tributary of New York State’s Mohawk River, hundreds of years before colonists arrived. One lifetime was not enough for Wanders Far’s old soul.

From a very young age, his wanderlust compelled him down one path after another. No village could contain him.

He was happy living a simple life in the physical world during challenging times. The spirit world had other plans.

A wise, enigmatic shaman mentored Wanders Far and helped him cultivate the supernatural visions that haunted him. His guide could only help him so far.

He set out to become a runner, carrying important messages across the lands of his people and their enemies. He ended up fulfilling a much greater destiny than he ever imagined.

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Memoirs of a False Messiah by Pamela Becker

What’s a girl to do when she has a message from God that makes everyone – her family, the media and even the Israeli government – angry? MiMi, a heroine in the vein of June of The Handmaid’s Tale and Dinah of The Red Tent, shapes a unique place for her followers. As her fame and following grow so do the betrayals by some of her supporters and the anger from her family. Memoirs of a False Messiah is her absorbing story.

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Memoirs of a False Messiah by Pamela Becker

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When Morning Comes by Francis Ray

Dr. Cade Mathis learned early that he was not the son of the man who raised him. His adoptive father, a cruel, bitter man, had always been quick to tell him that he was a bastard and an embarrassment to the rich society family whose daughter got pregnant with him. So when Cade received a full scholarship to college, he was only too happy to leave the only home he had ever known behind and never looked back. Now a successful doctor and one of the best neurosurgeons in the state, the only thing he still wants are answers about where he came from. What he doesn’t expect to find is Sabrina Thomas, the new patient advocate at his hospital, or how this woman will lead him to the family he has been searching for and a love he never expected to find.

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Area Bird-Duty Doesn’t Always Follow the Rules by Susan I. Spieth

Change is coming to West Point!

One drives off a cliff. An alarming number of others resign. Something at the military academy is causing the unusually high attrition of women cadets. Jan Wishart aims to find out before she’s the next statistic at West Point. Her second year at the formerly all male citadel should be the fun year. But when one friend shows signs of abuse and another friend suddenly resigns, Jan’s coming of age year becomes anything but enjoyable. The culture of hazing and harassment must be addressed, but it’s almost impossible to get results through the chain of command. In a closed academy environment, sometimes the best way to call attention to an issue is to leak it the press.

In order to fulfill her duty, Jan must break with tradition and the longstanding culture of the United States Military Academy. Yet not everything is as it seems. Once again Jan’s worldview is about to be upended by the secrets of West Point.

5-star Readers’ Favorite Review, 2015 KINDLE BOOK AWARD semi-finalist!

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Gray Girl-Honor Isn’t Always Black and White by Susan I. Spieth

Ten men for every one woman. Those odds are stacked against Jan Wishart as a freshman at West Point. The first year at the military academy is harsh, with exhausting physical and mental demands which beat everyone down. But the women cadets also endure body shaming, sexual harassment and contempt from those who want to see them fail. Charged with an honor violation, Jan must defend herself before an all-male cadet jury. She’s convinced that her accuser is likely the predator who violated a friend. The battle for justice will rage, not only for Jan, but for the victims of the predatory cadet. And one night will change everything–for better or worse.

The grayness of West Point is not only in its buildings and uniforms. Even honor isn’t always black and white. Relying on her wits and a few friends in the hostile environment of the U.S. Military Academy, Jan discovers the value of friendship, the genuine marks of leadership and her own inner warrior.

2014 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award WINNER! 2014 Eric Hoffer e-book fiction WINNER! 2015 Kindle Book Award semi-finalist!

The Gray Girl Series depicts authentic experiences of the early years when the United States Military Academy first admitted women cadets. Jan Wishart is both heroine and troublemaker. She and her friends sometimes create their own dilemmas but mostly solve the larger issues they face while at West Point in the early 1980’s. Gray Girl: Honor Isn’t Always Black and White is the first book in the Gray Girl Series. Area Bird: Duty Doesn’t Always Follow the Rule is book 2. Book 3 is Witch Heart: Leadership Always Requires Sacrifice. All three can be read alone, but best read in order.

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Conquering Your Goliaths: A Parable of the Five Stones by Kathryn Elizabeth Jones

David gathered five smooth stones to meet and defeat Goliath. What did these stones represent, and how can you use them to conquer Goliaths in your own personal quests? Ms. Virginia Bean will show you how.

Travel with her on her own personal journey. See what she does. Learn how she grows. Discover what she becomes.

Conquering Your Goliaths: A Parable of the Five Stones is for anyone desiring to travel beyond mediocrity, pain, and fear. Learn of the great power within you, a power given to you from God, a power that must ultimately be unleashed to conquer the Goliaths in your own life. Come to an even deeper understanding of God and what he wants for you. Come….

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KIDNAP.org by Peg Herring

Did you ever want to shout, “We’re not gonna take it anymore!” That’s what Robin decides when it seems like crooks and cheats are running everything. Robin’s solution is to, um, well, kidnap some bad guys and make them promise to behave. It’s naive, it’s dangerous, and it’s hilarious. You’ll cheer for the best gang of misfit crime fighters since the A-Team!

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The Rainbow Household by Success Akpojotor

Sir Iweala Adichie, a neurosurgeon, husband of an elegant University lecturer, and father to three sons and a daughter, had a blissful life with his family until he received a Benemerenti medal from the Pope same time his wife becomes the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. At a special dinner with his nuclear family and parish priest, he learns that his family’s perfect life is about to keel over as his four children decide to come out of their various closets.

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Tied Lives by Jonathan Finch

A bitter-sweet love romance set in England and Thailand between an older British senior civil servant and a Thai national working as a domestic, and more, in the UK. Everything is fine in England but the relationship seems unable to cope with Thailand and the extreme east.

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Made Of Stone Book One: Satori Stone Series by Desiree M. Palmer

Forget about wands and potions, magic is real. This single mother is about to discover how real as she fights to save her family. In the middle of her ordinary life, she discovers she must learn to wield the powers’ waiting inside her.

Satori Stone isn’t sure why she is targeted, she only knows her world has been turned upside down. Her neighbor teaches her the art of a mystic, and she becomes one of the most powerful people on the planet, thanks to good genes and the celestial alignment when she was born. Along the way, she meets a man who steals her heart. Their meeting was more than fate, however; it was planned.

In a life and death battle, she learns what it takes to manifest her true destiny. Her journey from aimless wondering to purposeful pathing teaches her how to activate the powers that lay dormant within her. She discovers how to access and control universal energies. But, can she be ready in time?

Book one in the Satori Stone series is full of mystery, intrigue, and romance. It will leave you wanting more.

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Dear Margaret by Pamela Ackerson

It was Paradise–Until nightmares and horror reigned.
Dear Margaret,

The whole world had gone bonkers. Two friends try to keep each other grounded by writing letters to each other during WWII. They found a common ground, a way to keep each other sane in an insane world.

From mundane daily chores to life threatening events, these letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.

A time in history that we should never, ever forget.

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The First Ones by Ageless

Thereticus Mortimus is a lonely and depressed vampire after the death of his lover, Kasha. While grieving, he discovers an unusual girl with abilities playing in the forest. His curiosity about who or what she is helps him to cope. However, what he discovers about her takes his life for a thrilling turn because she has the power to save or destroy all humans and vampires

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Why She Left Us by David Dennis

An explosive family of three young sisters and their promiscuous mother descends into suicide and murder in this tragic tale told in five different characters’ points of view, chronicling a critical period of time in the lives of a tormented family of women and their men.

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The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

He’s a high school journalist. She’s protecting her source. Will they make the front page or the obituaries? The West Tech Terrorist is a mystery romance novel. It is a fast-moving easy reading detective story that provides a taste of the home front during World War II America. The novel is set in the fall of 1941 at Cleveland’s West Technical High School, one of the largest and most unique high schools in the country. The United States is on the brink of World War II. Victor Blazek, the sports editor of the West Tech school newspaper, stumbles upon a sinister plot by Nazi sympathizers inside the school. He enlists the help of his girl friend, Doris, to foil the plot. They fall in love as they search for clues throughout the school’s many different departments, everything from aircraft engine repair to horticulture to welding. But their attempt as amateur sleuths puts both their lives in danger.

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The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

About The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

He’s a high school journalist. She's protecting her source. Will they make the front page or the obituaries? The West Tech Terrorist is a mystery romance novel that provides a taste of the home front during World War II America. It is the fall of 1941 at Cleveland’s West Technical High School, one of the largest and most unique high schools in America. The United States is on the brink of World War II. Victor Blazek, the sports editor of the West Tech school newspaper, and his girlfriend, Doris, fall in love as they try to foil a sinister plot by Nazi sympathizers inside the school. But their attempt as amateur sleuths puts both their lives in danger.

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Paranormal Nonsense

About Paranormal Nonsense

Tempest Michaels is the only paranormal investigator in the book.

There’s just one problem – he is convinced the paranormal doesn’t exist.

Tempest Michaels spends his days solving daft crimes that his clients have determined are paranormal in nature. They never are, of course, so he spends a lot of time pointing out that Great Aunt Agnes isn’t a witch, she is just ugly, or you don’t have spirits waking you each night, you just suffer from terrible flatulence.

The daftness is interrupted though when a serial killer dubbed “The Vampire” starts biting throats in his town. Despite being the only paranormal investigator in the book, he could have ignored the case, but a chance encounter with the alluring Officer Amanda Harper and his lonely heart demands he give his help when she asks for it.

Soon hip-deep in vampire wannabes that intend to kill him, aided by friends who are not that helpful, advised by a clearly deluded occult bookshop owner and encumbered by his mother’s attempts to marry him off because she wants grandchildren, Tempest Michaels has his work cut out if he wants to solve this case.

His mother wants him to marry – like literally anyone and produce grandchildren right now.

His Dachshunds want their dinner and maybe a treat under threat of pooping in his shoes.

And mostly he just wants to be left alone to meet a nice lady that he can have a relationship with.

Paranormal Nonsense is a funny, cozy mystery full of action and suspense and is the first in a long series of adventures for Tempest Michaels and his dysfunctional group of friends.

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Fun Stories For Your Drive To Work by R. Scott Murphy

About Fun Stories For Your Drive To Work by R. Scott Murphy

Get this recent #1 on Amazon’s Humor chart free during this promo! Your commute stinks, your job’s a mess, and you didn’t win Powerball. Here’s help! Murphy hit #1 on iTunes last week with his comedy single “Chick-fil-A Makes Me Feel Like Leonardo Dicaprio.” Enjoy embarrassing work stories, misguided coaching, crazy countdowns and take random fun to a new level!

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Daddy 3.0: A Comedy of Errors by Rob Armstrong

About Daddy 3.0: A Comedy of Errors by Rob Armstrong

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What a mess. This was not supposed to happen.

This isn’t where Nick Owen thought he would be by this point in life. He used to be a busy web programmer. Now he spends most of his energy trying to stop his three-year-old twins from playing in a dirty sand pit. Nick thinks of himself as Daddy 3.0, a stay-at-home-dad—but he just wasn’t programmed for this.

He must navigate a new world of jungle gyms and playdates while supporting his surgeon wife. He tries his best to be there for the twins, but he can’t stop making a mess of things. He’s just about nearing the end of his rope when the Swing Incident happens. The Swing Incident, spoken of in hushed tones around Nick’s New York City apartment building, has caused the resident queen bee, nicknamed “Supermom,” to declare him an enemy for life. No matter what Nick does to get back into Supermom’s good graces, he fails spectacularly.

Now Nick’s going to have to learn to fight fire with fire and become the best superparent on the block. This hilarious new book by Rob Armstrong chronicles one man’s journey into the world of modern fatherhood—one botched haircut, playground fight, and dirty diaper at a time.

Stay-at-home-dads have a new hero, of sorts.

Kirkus Review – “An appealing comedy delivers many laugh-out-loud moments for the reader who has dealt with a fractious toddler or attempted to cope as an outsider in any type of clique.”

Red City Review (4 Stars) – “Kudos goes to Armstrong for producing a highly entertaining coming-of-age as well as human-interest tale.”

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