Lemony Snicket meets Bonnie and Clyde in this short story about a woman who teams up with her brother-in-law to exact revenge against her husband’s abductor.
Author: Ayah A
Rating: 
5 reviews
Kyrgyzstan 2008-2009: A Love Story by Kate Cooch
How far would you go to save the one you love? Fran Stewart has fallen in love with the little boy she is set to adopt from the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Just as she enters the final stage of the adoption process, a sinister coalition of politicians, bureaucrats and cynics begin working to halt international adoptions. Fran’s fight get her son home, based on the real life six year drama over international adoption in Kyrgyzstan, is the subject of “Kyrgyzstan 2008-2009: A Love Story.” Fran is too seasoned, too plain, and too practical. In short, she is no one’s ingénue heroine. Nevertheless, she rises to the circumstance into which she is thrown. She works to get her boy home while struggling to determine how far ethically she can and should go to try and save her child from a horrific future. Should she sacrifice a budding romance, her body, her freedom? “Kyrgyzstan 2008-2009: A Love Story” is a novel about devotion, faith, and action. It is a race against time in which Fran must figure out what to do before an adoption moratorium stops any chance for her son to have a healthy future. Fran’s background, beliefs, and what she knows of history push and pull her toward one awful act that just might get her child to safety.
Author: Kate Cooch
Rating:
5 reviews
Shadows Of The Heart (Inward Ties Series Book 2) by Leanna Sellers
Journey through time, where you go I will follow. My heart is forever and never hollow. Shadows of love, where time stands still in the shadows of the heart.
Author: Leanna Sellers
Rating:
5 reviews
Found – The Andersen Saga (The Andersens Book 4) by Jacie Middlemann
Claire Andersen Slavik was exactly where she needed to be. The last couple of years had been good ones even if at times filled with difficult moments. She had moved in with her mother when it was obvious she was needed. And never had a single regret for doing so. There had been days filled with joy and others with heartbreak. Now her mother was gone and the world she’d known had once again shifted out of balance. Claire was determined to take this time like a stolen moment to come to grips with the change in her life the loss of her mother had made. It didn’t matter that her kids called almost every day. She understood. But she needed this time away. The quiet and the peace she’d found in this little heaven on earth allowed her…forced her to face this new void in her life honestly. Little did she know her peace and quiet was about to be disrupted. Her solitude on the brink of collapse.Patrick Andersen had a lot to think about as he drove through the mountains of Arkansas. There was even more floating around in his mind that he wanted to say to his sister Claire now that he and his brother knew where she was. But just as important was everything he wanted to find out from her. He believed she had the answers to many if not most of the questions that had surfaced in the weeks since their mother’s death. Not for the first time he wondered grimly if some of those answers was why she’d taken off so suddenly as she had.Will the youngest of Livia Andersen’s grown children find the tranquility she seeks in the mountains of Arkansas? Can she make her brother understand the reasons for the choices she’d made and the secrets she’d kept? Will the place that brought their family so much joy remind them of the strong foundation from where they came…and the possibilities they have only to reach for?The Andersen Saga is a story of family. It is a story about joy and loss, hope and sorrow, betrayal and regrets, unconditional forgiveness, high expectations, and unwavering loyalty. It reminds that at the heart of who we are is the family we come from, the family who stands behind and beside us and at times against us. And who we become isn’t just a result of those still with us but those too that we’ve lost along the way. It is about the twists and turns every family deals with, the conflicts from within, and the never ending desire for acceptance and respect.Found is the fourth book in the ongoing Andersen Family Saga. Other books in the Andersen Family Saga include Betrayal, Resolute, Broken, Choices, and Regrets.The Andersen Family Saga is a series of novellas, classified by Amazon as Short Reads. If you love sitting down with a novella style book you will love the Andersen Family Saga. These books fall between the forty-five minute to two hours reading time category of Amazon “Short Reads.”
Author: Jacie Middlemann
Rating:
5 reviews
The True Story of Happily Ever After by Melodie Starkey
“…and they all lived happily ever after…” We’ve all read that line, sighed and wished it was us. But what is happily ever after? Set in the Bay Area during the Reagan era, The True Story of Happily Ever After chronicles the story of playwright Ari Singer as he moves to the San Francisco area to get a fresh start after a bad breakup with his first serious boyfriend. He never plans to befriend a budding novelist with a load of relationship baggage of her own and an entourage of colorful friends who accept him into their ranks without ado. Follow Ari and Seymour’s journey toward that elusive “happily ever after,” as they walk an unconventional path through non-monogamous relationships, bisexuality, marriage, and parenthood.
Author: Melodie Starkey
Rating:
5 reviews
The Woulds: and other stories by Freddy Gonzalez
Author: Freddy Gonzalez
Rating:
5 reviews
The Situations (Volume 1-3): Stories (3-Book Box Set) by Rash Salim
The Situations is a collection of British, literary short stories about people pushed into situations that force them to make decisions, and face the consequences. Also including stories ranging from the darkly comic to the poignant. Volume 1:* A struggling middle-aged man discovers his lucrative new job comes at a price – one he must decide is worth paying or not.* Travelling alone on a train, a woman’s harassment leads to a fatal reaction. * The revelation of long kept secrets forces a group of lifelong school friends to question the future of their friendship.* Young men discover unexpected outcomes of dreaded trips, and elsewhere, how looking for love in the wrong places can backfire.Volume 2:* A frazzled husband finds his only sanctuary compromised.* The survivor of a tragedy returns to his hometown a year later. * An innocent bystander faces the worst threats at an isolated train station.* A young woman is faced with a secret admirer at work.* A teenager is caught in the grip of a religious extremist organisation.* Neil Diamond fandom causes havoc at an East London college. Volume 3:* A city professional will not be undeterred in his mission to pursue a romantic conquest. * After a chance encounter, a young man pursues a criminal around the London Underground – where their paths crossed years earlier.* A social outcast shares a secret with his college classmate, crushing her perception of a trip in their past.* A man learns, sometimes, you really should listen to your friends.* Could love blossom between an adorable waitress and her sociopathic customer? * A group of schoolboys’ truancy results in the ultimate humiliation.* A graduate at an advertising agency must handle a mischievous, Premier League footballer’s antics.* A man recalls the incident that led to his expulsion from school, and the scandal that followed. For fans of T.C. Boyle, John Green, Jay Asher, Junot Diaz, Martin Amis, Nikesh Shukla, Sam Lipsyte, and Chuck Palahnuik. Author’s note: This book contains strong language.
Author: Rash Salim
Rating:
5 reviews
A MEMORY FOR MIRRY: THE SCATTERED SEEDS TALES FROM THE GREAT MELTING POT (The Scattered Seeds Tales from the “Great Melting Pot’ Book 3) by MAURA CLU GALLAGHER
“We are a country of immigrants and every family has a story to tell.” A MEMORY FOR MIRRY, a literary historical novel, is set on the Atlantic coast of America in the 20th Century. Thirty-three year old, Mirry McPherson has learned to accept her memory losses, apparently the result of an injury from an automobile accident in 1951 at nine-years old. However, in 1975, after years of having unexplained attacks, including fainting spells and blackouts, she is determined to find out what is making her so sick. Now pregnant with their second child, she and her lawyer husband, Gavin, and their two-year old daughter (Lizzie) return to the old lighthouse estate in the ‘Village of Bellevue at Hallowed Sound’, a port town on the Atlantic Ocean on the southeastern coast of America. Mirry has inherited the estate from her paternal great grandfather, Ivor MacIvor, a direct descendant of Bellevue’s ‘Founding Father’, Donovan Angus MacIvor, a Scottish builder of lighthouses. Despite the locals advising them that ‘Ivor’s ghost haunts the old place’ and that he had conspired with the Nazis during the war, they move forward with their plans to reconstruct the estate into a modern day ‘Bed and Breakfast’ Inn and Nautical Museum. Not long after arriving at the Lighthouse, Mirry becomes very ill, experiencing multiple unexplained blackouts and fainting spells. Gavin is worried but Mirry is adamant that she wants to continue with their plans to refurbish. She remembers promising Ivor “never to forget”, quoting the words of his Scottish family motto: “Numquam Obliviscar”. However, as hard as Mirry tries, she can’t remember what it was that Ivor had told her ‘not to forget’. The more she tries, the sicker she gets. As Gavin takes on his first case as the defense lawyer in a appeal trial of a man convicted of a murder in 1950, his investigations lead him back to Mirry, when she was eight years old and living with Ivor at the MacIvor Lighthouse Mansion.
The novel is appropriate for young adult and adult readers of all ages. It is the third stand-alone and non-sequential volume in the author’s collection of books launched in 2014 and titled, THE SCATTERED SEEDS, TALES FROM THE ‘GREAT MELTING POT’. These stories are American fictions set in history depicting the lives of the many immigrant families that have become a part of the ‘great melting pot’. The first volume, ANEW, and the second volume, DARBY’S ROAD are available in paper at createspace.com and Amazon.com or as Kindle at amazon.com. They are also ‘print-on-demand’ at your favorite bookstores in worldwide distributions and available at your favorite libraries upon request.
Maura Clu Gallagher is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, U.S.A. A retired Art/Computer Teacher in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, she is enjoying her senior years engaging in her ‘passion’, Writing. For more information about her and her work, please visit her personally designed website, “You like to read. I like to write. Together, we make a great pair.” www.clugallagher.com/
Maura continues continues to live in the Pittsburgh area and in her ‘home-away-from-home’, Ocean City Maryland, with her husband of forty years and her family, including eight grandchildren.
Author: MAURA CLU GALLAGHER
Rating:
5 reviews
The Monkey Tribe by Michael Vaughn
When the man who cost him his job offers Jack Teagarden a beachside house-sitting assignment, he latches on to it like a man overboard. For a child of Silicon Valley, the counterculture freakiness of Santa Cruz is hard to deal with, until Jack’s life coach takes him to an all-night drumming party. Under the spell of a thunderous stream of percussion, a pigeon-raising witch named Audrey LaBrea and a tragically unmarked plate of brownies, Jack wakes up with grass stains all over his body and rumors that he initiated a naked light-saber battle. So what’s harder, fighting the freaks? Or realizing that you are one? From the award-winning author of The Popcorn Girl and Nature Boy.
Author: Michael Vaughn
Rating:
5 reviews
A Fragile Kingdom by Andrew Crouch
Robert Gaze, the renowned war photographer, waits in hospital for the results of a battery of tests he has endured. A terminal diagnosis sharpens Gaze’s inclination to record his experiences of the Vietnam War, in particular the story behind the photograph that catapulted him onto the world stage.
Gaze has resisted many invitations over time to discuss the photograph, satisfied merely with the name of the Marine, and the knowledge that he never came home.
As Gaze traces the journey of the young subject of his photograph, he begins to recount his own story of how he arrived in Saigon; on the path towards the photograph that in turn would define his life.
Author: Andrew Crouch
Rating:
5 reviews