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2017 Reader's Favorite Silver Award Winner
White Lake by Susan Amond Todd 2014 Midwest Book Review Honorable Mention Icy Shadows by Rob Robertson |
In Search of Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival by Ashley Oliphant
$14.95
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.
The Artist and the Soldier-By Angelle Petta
$15.95
It’s 1938. Bastian Fisher and Max Amsel meet at a Nazi-American summer camp, Siegfried. Neither boy has any idea what to do with their blooming, confusing feelings for one another. Before they can begin to understand, the pair is yanked back into reality and forced in opposite directions. Five years later, during the heart of World War II, Bastian’s American army platoon has landed in Salerno, Italy. Max is in Nazi-occupied Rome where he has negotiated a plan to hire Jews as ‘extras’ in a movie—an elaborate ruse to escape the Nazis. Brought together by circumstance and war Bastian and Max find one another again in Rome. Exploring the true stories of Camp Siegfried, a Nazi-American summer camp in New York and the making of the film, La Porta del Cielo, which saved hundreds of lives, The Artist and the Soldier is intense, fast moving, and sheds light on largely untouched stories in American and Italian history.
Trust-by Daines L. Reed
$14.95
When Ruthena Gentry escapes an abusive marriage and finds herself homeless and alone for the first time in her
life, she realizes she may not be emotionally or financially prepared to care for herself, her adult daughter, or her maturing granddaughter. She, along with many of the women in her rural Georgia book club, faces familial and
financial challenges including elder care, widowhood, college planning, a single-income household,
unplanned guardianship, and minimal retirement resources. After the newest member of Ruthena’s book club learns the women are operating a frivolous rotating savings pool, she suggests they restructure it into a wealth-building trust fund. Ruthena and her friends embark on a quest for financial literacy in hopes of creating a new legacy for their families. As the unexpected arises, the womenlearn that trust runs deeper than dollar signs.
Return Home by Susan Amond Todd
$16.95
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.
Where Have All Our Daughter's Gone
$19.95
Mitchell Bellison always had an agenda. As a college student at the University of Florida, he didn’t let the fact he lived in a trailer deter him from getting what he wanted. Now, with intelligence and looks, he cunningly charms his way into the life–and arms–of unsuspecting Southern belle Kate Canterfield. Mitchell plays his part to perfection, but it isn’t long after their marriage that Kate begins to see his facade crumble and the abuse begins. Still, due to her upbringing, Kate feels obliged to do her best and fix what’s wrong, no questions asked. With money and power as an attorney, Mitchell eventually decides he no longer needs Kate in his life, and embarks upon a journey of self-satisfaction. Kate thinks it is enough she escaped an abusive marriage, but she can never totally break free of his control now that they share three daughters.
Where Have All Our Daughters Gone is a story of contrasts from love and compassion to narcissistic revenge and resilience, set against a backdrop of the wealth and privilege of Naples, Florida to the quiet charm of the Southern Low Country of South Carolina. Kate’s is a story of compassion, resilience, and survival against the odds.
Darker Than Navy Blue: A Sailor's Memoir of Tragedy and Healing by Nicole Strong
$14.95
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.
Christmas Renaissance: Stories of Grace, Belief, and Spirit
$20.00
This collection of short stories for the Advent and Christmas season is full of gentle reminders about the heart of the holiday. Inspired by events in the author's life and brimming with reflections on human nature, it is a reverential and moving celebration of Christmas.
Secondhand Romance by Jessica Stevens
$15.95
Rita and Luca have been looking forward to their wedding for months only to have the happiest day of their lives turn into a gut wrenching tragedy. In a novel of forgiveness and healing, author Jessica Stevens tells the story of a woman who experiences agonizing loss and works to rebuild her life after it is torn apart. With the help of her charismatic family and her dear friend, Karen, Rita begins her journey towards mending both her broken body and spirit. But will she be able to heal enough to open her heart to someone new? Get to know Rita as she travels a path of heartache and grief in search of peace and the will to love again.
Yesterday's Love-By Jessica Stevens-Eddy
$15.95
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?
White Lake- by Susan Amond Todd
$14.95
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.
Dark Trades by Ken Harris
$17.95
The year is 2018. Slavery still reigns supreme in the United States after the Confederacy defeated the Union in the Civil War. For Harrison, a thirty-five-year-old slave living in the Crops in Baltimore, day to day life is filled with monotony, oppression, and despair. Tired of a dead end existence filled with humiliation and hopelessness, Harrison looks for a way out. His subtle call to action becomes the unintended foundation for revolution. Follow Harrison as he fights past his self-doubts and insecurities in an effort to shake the foundations of the most powerful country in the world. Will one man's journey from captive obscurity and his uncompromising pursuit of equality for all affect the fate of millions?
Splintered by Curt Locklear-Soft Cover
$16.95
Historical Fiction. Second in the Civil War Trilogy-Asunder series. Splintered follows the interconnections among a superbly memorable cast of characters during the middle of the Civil War as they internally and externally wrestle with why they’re fighting, or why they’re not fighting at all. From its heart-wrenching opening scene of stoic grief in a Lincoln White House on the day of his son Willie’s death, to the final heart-wrenching battle scene and surprising assassination plot against Lincoln, Splintered proves itself a novel of sweeping, artfully rendered proportions, and one that is at times deeply moving, while always intelligent and socially conscious.