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2019 Independent Book Publisher's Association-Benjamin Franklin Silver Award
The Artist and the Soldier by Angelle Petta 2017 Reader's Favorite Silver Award Winner White Lake by Susan Amond Todd 2014 Midwest Book Review Honorable Mention Icy Shadows by Rob Robertson |
“When people are dying, it’s easier sometimes. You can be
all-powerful—even heroic. You don’t have to think about how much courage it takes to dwell among the living, to fight for your own life. Lots of caregivers get addicted that way.”
When a category five hurricane threatens a Galveston hospital, patients and nonessential personnel are required to evacuate.
Doctors Danica Diza and Shaka Sen, a chief family medicine resident and a surgical attending respectively, are tapped, along with a skeleton crew, to stay during the storm and care for remaining patients. Their facade of confidence is shattered, however, when the hospital’s inhabitants are exposed to a weaponized strain of a virus with a forty percent death rate. Forced into quarantine, they must struggle to survive the ravages of the hurricane, a shortage of supplies, and the virus that threatens them all.
Written by physician and debut author Dimple Desai, this striking medical thriller provokes readers to consider the dangerous trends happening in our world today and the global changes needed to abate them.
WHO IS IN CONTROL OF A DEMENTIA-SHATTERED MIND?
IS IT THE SOUL, THE BRAIN’S AUTOPILOT, OR SOMETHING ELSE?
A nuclear crisis and a good man’s life spiral out of control
as the ravages of dementia turn him into someone else.
Craig, the man in charge of a nuclear weapons facility, can
no longer manage the spiraling crisis or his personal life as
his employees and family react to the unrecognizable person
he’s become.
Told from the perspective of Craig’s departed soul recounting his life on Earth, Next Voice You Hear explores the issue of duality—or a person’s soul versus mind—and duality’s relationship to a Christian man’s drastic personality change during dementia.
My immediate thought, I don’t belong here, rebuffed before the half day’s end. Maybe I didn’t have multiple personalities or talk to myself or have mood swings so bad that no one could be around me, but the truth was plain. I needed to be here. I did belong here.
Welcome to The Last Resort—a sanitarium for residents who feel imprisoned in their own minds. Whether staff member or patient, everyone finds themselves at the center of a complex system that, at its best, provides therapeutic care and, at its worst, blurs and blends the boundaries of what constitutes sane and insane. Regardless of the role each individual has to play, all of them are here for a reason and will be forced to examine themselves from every angle.
Told from various perspectives, The Last Resort is a frighteningly real novella from Allie Coker that reveals the vulnerable side of humanity and forces readers to stop and ask, “What is normal?”
Emma Troxler is struggling. She isn’t very happy in her job as a security installation salesperson. She’s always in conflict with her mother. She has few friends. And her marriage is not what it appears to be.
The Beekeeper’s Wife follows one woman’s journey of learning how to let go of what keeps her stuck, and finding out how to open her heart to life. Exploring the power of loss and love, New York Times bestselling author Lynne Hinton weaves a story of courage, friendship, what we need to feel secure, and what is required to move forward.
Emma Troxler is struggling. She isn’t very happy in her job as a security installation salesperson. She’s always in conflict with her mother. She has few friends. And her marriage is not what it appears to be.
The Beekeeper’s Wife follows one woman’s journey of learning how to let go of what keeps her stuck, and finding out how to open her heart to life. Exploring the power of loss and love, New York Times bestselling author Lynne Hinton weaves a story of courage, friendship, what we need to feel secure, and what is required to move forward.
If the things you count on can vanish, then can you really count on anything?
In the time it takes him to drive through a stoplight at the Four Corners of Law, Dr. Landon Ratliff-distracted by the finest birthday present he's ever received and won't remember-has his midlife crisis delivered to him in an instant.
Then when his father, with whom he has never been close, is diagnosed with a terminal condition, Landon goes home to be with family. His resulting journey through illness, injury, suffering, healing, love, and redemption takes him to places he's visited before and places he never thought he'd be. And, for the first time, he doesn't have to travel alone.
Written with ease and eloquence, Eddie's Boy explores the things we take for granted, and the things we never knew we had.
Led by a vision, Judie Kate Wilson lands on romantic Ocracoke Island for the Ocrafolk Music Festival. There she encounters Joe Clark, the man she has loved since she was a teenager. Now she must, in just four days, convince him that they were meant to be.
As she pursues Joe, she finds herself stuck between an infamous island stalker who thinks she's a goddess, and a religious "loon" who is certain God has a plan for the two of them. Adding to the chaos are a date gone horribly wrong, a past full of sadness, and Judie's chronic insecurities. Amidst these obstacles, she sees her chances with Joe begin to slip away. Just as she's ready to give up, she realizes the one thing standing between her and the love she's always dreamed of is herself.
At twenty-one, Nicole joins the Navy and excels through basic training and the rigors of firefighting school. She even proves herself a real-life G.I. Jane by passing every arduous physical and mental text for qualification into the elite field of Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
All she has to do now is persuade her current command to authorize a transfer into her dream job. But soon trapped aboard a ship and the target of sexual predators, Nicole must find a way to survive, and her survival means ultimately facing the internal demons from a troubled childhood.
Darker Than Navy Blue is the true story of a scandal the Navy kept hidden, until now, and of a young sailor’s remarkable resiliency despite every attempt to dehumanize her.
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After a family tragedy, Cynthia Lewis finds herself on an extended stay in England, with no indication of when she might be able to return to her home on St. Simons Island. How can she leave when she knows her brother’s family needs her? To Cynthia, needing to be in England is a sign—her budding relationship with Daniel Benton isn’t meant to be. After all, her heart is still recovering after the loss of her husband, Philip.
When she finally returns home, Cynthia expects to fall into her same old life—but when you’re out of touch, people and places change. Her family, her best friend Purvell, her friends on the island, and even Daniel have changed—but she hasn’t. Why can’t she move forward? And why does she keep running away? Once again, tragedy lurks at Cynthia’s doorstep when someone from her past returns to darken her world. Suddenly, Cynthia is forced to face her fears—and her future—head on.
Return Home is a heartwarming story of family, friendships, home, and second chances that you won’t want to end.
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Cynthia Lewis was living a predictable life in suburbia. Big house, daughter in college, son in his last year of high school, career as a nurse at the local hospital, and a successful husband. Life was good. She and her husband Philip were so close ... she knew him so well ... or did she?
After many years of marriage, Cynthia is encountering a doubt all women may have considered unthinkable. Unexpectedly, she is forced down a path to confront that doubt and more, as a secret is exposed and her world unravels in a way she never imagined. This was not the life she dreamed of or planned.
Cynthia’s new life evolves into a mundane safe existence until the good intention of her best friend Purvell stirs things up. In a panic, she runs away to the only place she could go, a destination removed from interference, where she searches for the answers to move on.
What would you do if you found out your parents were keeping a secret from you? A huge, life-changing secret? Sixteen-year-old Katie wasn’t looking forward to spending an entire summer helping her dad at his archeological dig in Italy. At least, not until her two best friends let slip that Katie’s dad isn’t exactly the person she thought he was. In fact, he’s not even human, leading Katie to question who—or what—she is. Add in a missing book and a mysterious man in a black coat, and Katie realizes her boring summer might end up as something else entirely.
Much to her mother’s dismay, Carolina girl Livie Green has long resisted the Southern débutante lifestyle, opting instead for cheap cigars, Ernest Hemingway novels, and Jimmy Buffett’s early albums. But when her career as a college professor becomes a drudgery of meetings and reports, she realizes that academia might not be for her, either. In a leap of banana-colada fueled faith, she heads to Key West, Florida in search of Buffett and a carefree lifestyle. What she finds instead will reshape and revitalize her life and her heart.
Yasmine had been Jonas’ biggest supporter long before they were married. Their love marked by a mutual devotion that allowed them both to succeed. Now, after years of selflessly allowing his aspirations to drive their lives, Yasmine finds herself blindsided and alone stateside while her husband hastily pursues his dream of taking his career international. Filled with a sense of betrayal and utter disbelief, she’s faced with juggling his absence, delicate family tensions and unresolved grief of her own. Will she keep putting others first at the sake of her own dreams or will Yasmine have the courage to put herself first for once and follow the desires of her own heart?
