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2021 Hollywood Book Festival Awards-Honorable Mention in the General Fiction Category
The Book of Hannah  by Ellen Gelerman

2021 American Fiction Awards-Finalist in the Women's Fiction Category
The Book of Hannah  by Ellen Gelerman

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

Never is Now (Hard Cover) by Timothy L. Rodriguez

$29.95

In the rural Southern community of Random in 1982, Billy Blake, son of Will and Agnes Blake, has just been shot and then burned beyond recognition. Nobody can fathom the savagery of the murder, especially Agnes whose oldest son, Andy, was declared MIA during the Vietnam War.

Four days later, the body of a young woman named Wendy Allen is discovered in a cornfield not far from where Billy was killed. After having been snatched while running, she was raped, tortured, and killed.

No one can make a connection between the killings, the investigation at the sheriff’s department flounders, and the families of the victims have to intervene. Now it’s up to Boggs, a disgraced cop turned private detective, to find the murderer—or murderers.

Never is Now (Soft Cover) by Timothy L. Rodriguez

$17.95

In the rural Southern community of Random in 1982, Billy Blake, son of Will and Agnes Blake, has just been shot and then burned beyond recognition. Nobody can fathom the savagery of the murder, especially Agnes whose oldest son, Andy, was declared MIA during the Vietnam War.

Four days later, the body of a young woman named Wendy Allen is discovered in a cornfield not far from where Billy was killed. After having been snatched while running, she was raped, tortured, and killed.

No one can make a connection between the killings, the investigation at the sheriff’s department flounders, and the families of the victims have to intervene. Now it’s up to Boggs, a disgraced cop turned private detective, to find the murderer—or murderers.

Guardians of the Keys (HARD COVER) by Megan J. Wheless

$29.99

After losing her two beloved great-aunts in a car accident, small-town librarian Elaine Colemar discovers a skeleton key in their antiques store. When she reads the foreign phrase engraved on it, the key’s imprint burns into her hand. Clearly Elaine’s stress is getting to her—her aunts are dead, she’s drowning in debt, each contact with the key leaves her disoriented—and now she’s seeing things … right?

After meeting with Edmund Wallace, an esteemed professor and the director of a local history museum, Elaine seizes an opportunity to rid herself of the key—and alleviate her financial woes—by selling it to him for a generous sum. It is only when the key and Professor Wallace go missing that Elaine learns about her aunts’ connection to an ancient Apothecary’s Guild and the story of the five keys, which are portals to mystical places.

Knowing she must finish the task her aunts started, Elaine sets off to locate the missing source key before dark purposes prevail.

Guardians of the Keys (SOFT COVER) by Megan J. Wheless

$19.95

After losing her two beloved great-aunts in a car accident, small-town librarian Elaine Colemar discovers a skeleton key in their antiques store. When she reads the foreign phrase engraved on it, the key’s imprint burns into her hand. Clearly Elaine’s stress is getting to her—her aunts are dead, she’s drowning in debt, each contact with the key leaves her disoriented—and now she’s seeing things … right?

After meeting with Edmund Wallace, an esteemed professor and the director of a local history museum, Elaine seizes an opportunity to rid herself of the key—and alleviate her financial woes—by selling it to him for a generous sum. It is only when the key and Professor Wallace go missing that Elaine learns about her aunts’ connection to an ancient Apothecary’s Guild and the story of the five keys, which are portals to mystical places.

Knowing she must finish the task her aunts started, Elaine sets off to locate the missing source key before dark purposes prevail.

PRE-ORDER The Wall (Book 5 of Sanctuary Chronicles) Soft Cover by Greg Rode

$15.95

They hold their place, a grisly array of the dead, finally a true army in front of us … we’re in a crapload of trouble no matter how much damage the mines and minigun are going to do.

Winter lurks just around the corner, and our little group is reluctant to spend it in upstate New York, freezing our asses off in the cabins again. Head south for the cold season? Why not? Maybe true sanctuary can be found at the beach. It’s worth a try, so we split up-Morgan and Bob go ahead first while everyone else comes with me to investigate some suspicious morning thunder.

There’s our first mistake.

Two new members join us but at a heartbreaking cost. Bob and Morgan nearly run out of gas and are lucky enough to find help before discovering horrid secrets and enemies in the woods. But we eventually make it to the beach, where it’s all fun in the sun and sand. Sanctuary at last.

Yeah, right.

We have been through a lot over the years, but this time, we face a horde larger than ever, led by an alpha who is far more powerful than all the others put together.

This is the end, one way or another, no matter the cost.

One by Greg Rode

$14.95

“The rest of northern Pennsylvania is peaceful and dead quiet, and it isn’t long before we hit the border and the “Welcome to New York” sign. The Empire State, once mighty and arguably home to the most important city in the world, now brought to its knees in a virtual blink of an eye. I picture what the City must have been like at the end-lots of people means lots of zombies, and the carnage must have been horrifying and rapid. This is why we seek the much quieter northern section; no sense staying in the southern, heavily-populated areas and inevitably running into more former bankers-turned-flesh-eating-monsters than we can handle.”

Okay ….

We managed to kill the zombie queen and her horde, but it’s still time to leave North Carolina. In the past, there was nothing quite like a road trip, so we’re heading to upstate New York. I know the area, and while it’ll be really damn cold there in the winter without power, it should give us a break from any other monsters for a few months, since if they’re outside, they’ll be zombiesicles. And, since nobody’s actually been moving to upstate New York in a really long time, how much trouble can we get into?

As it turns out, plenty.

DeeDee, Eve, and Amelie come along in the search for sanctuary, but the journey is unlike anything we’ve had to deal with before. It turns out New York isn’t as quiet as I thought it would be. Not only are there more leveled-up zombies hanging around, but we also have to deal with other humans, and we’re not sure we can trust all of them. There are tough decisions to make, a group to protect, battles to fight, and none of it is going to be easy.

But it’s going to be fine. Everything will work out as long as we all stay together.

Here we go again.

Shotgun Finish Book 1 of the Sanctuary Chronicles (Soft Cover) by Greg Rode

$14.95

“It came pretty damn fast, though I couldn’t tell you what the source was. One minute, everything was ‘fine,’ and then we all went down the proverbial toilet faster than my Challenger R/T goes from zero to sixty.”

… Seriously?

All I wanted to do was spend a few peaceful hours on the golf course. I’d been cooped up inside my house for months and it was boring as hell. (And sure, a little lonely too.) I just wanted to get a quiet round in and pretend it was a perfectly normal day.

But no.

These damn zombies are relentless, not to mention much smarter, faster, and more organized than I expected. And then they go and drop off some roommates on my doorstep. Normally, I’d be happy for the company, but between the eclectic trio of women and the jackass guy they delivered, they are more than a handful. Oh, and the zombie leader-because that’s a new thing-has given me an unspeakable deadline.

I’ve only got a few weeks to figure out how to save everyone, kill the zombie horde, find some sanctuary, and not lose my friggin’ mind in the process.

Oh yeah. This’ll be fun.

Gathering by Greg Rode

$15.95

"I stand at the foot of the porch steps and stare mindlessly out across the lake I've looked over my entire life, trying to find comfort in the view and the memories of all that has happened. It's hard to conjure up an optimistic view of the future.

Only a few days have passed since first Top, then Amelie, and then DeeDee have been removed from my life (and theirs). I haven't spent the time doing much other than moping around the family property that now feels even bigger than when I was a child."

How did it all go so wrong?

We were a team. A group of survivors ready to take down anything that came our way. But in less than a day, they were all gone. Now it's just me and the dog. I'm left wondering about my future. What do I do now? Should I stay in case Eve comes looking for me? Should I leave and go look for her? Does it matter?

I worry about Eve.

She stayed behind to take care of her dying father, but there's no way he is going to last long, and a nasty winter is coming. Without heat and company, will she make it? She's probably cold and alone in a house with a dead body.

My big sister, Morgan, is one of the precious few people left who made it through the zombie apocalypse and is heading my way. She's far out west, but once she puts her mind to something, almost nothing can stop her. Not zombies, not a group of humans sheltering themselves and their secrets behind the walls of a madcap fortress, and not even a pirate.

Survivors and zombies alike are gathering. And no one will be able to predict what's coming.

Time for round three.

Sanctuary by Greg Rode (Book 4 of Sanctuary Chronicles)

$15.95

"We have no clue what we're about to discover, but it will lead us to everything else."

The good news: we finally killed all the local zombies. The not-as-good news: I've been bitten. But assuming all goes well, and no one has to shoot me in the face, we'll finally have peace, quiet, and sanctuary ... until we decide to go play golf, where we make a stomach-turning discovery and run headlong into a deeply traumatic experience from Morgan's past. And Morgan being Morgan, this means she's going to pick a fight, which turns into another (reluctant) group road trip.

We're going to go back to the fortress she stopped at on her cross-country trip and save the people trapped there from Marcus, his thugs, and their twisted ideas, even though we're outnumbered like usual. We've got a solid plan to rescue the people who want to leave and bring them back with us. Then everything will be totally great. Of course, nothing is simple or goes according to plan.

It's a battle on two fronts this time—one against humans, the other against zombies--and it's going to take everything we have to survive.

It's kill or be killed.

Higher Education: Chronicles of a Dumpster Fire by Dr. Ashley Oliphant

$18.95

Dr. Livie Green is an associate professor of English at Clary-Smith University and it’s fixing to snap her very last nerve. While Green and her wickedly sharp colleagues attempt to keep the school’s dysfunction from driving them to drink (any more than they already do in faculty meetings), their feckless dean works jigsaw puzzles in his office, and schedules utterly useless meetings to pass the time. Meanwhile, the even more aimless administration attempts to shut down the scandalous—but totally true—underground faculty newspaper that exposes the ineptitude of the institution’s leaders at every turn.

Author of five books and a professor with twenty years of college teaching experience, Dr. Ashley Oliphant drops the mic on academia in this uproariously funny prequel to Jimmy Buffett: A Key West Revival, and offers comedic insight into the unfortunate state of higher education in America today.

Fearless by Paula Dáil (Hard Cover)

$32.00

Having grown up the oldest of seven children in a motherless, impoverished, Southside Chicago Irish-Catholic family, at age seventeen Maggie Corrigan struggles with two choices: marriage and bearing more children than she can possibly care for, or entering the convent. She decides to dedicate her life to God, but never forgets her roots, or that her mother died in childbirth after too many pregnancies. As the Church’s Vatican II reforms and the wider women’s movement takes hold, she realizes that by labeling birth control as a sin and abortion as murder, the patriarchal Catholic Church is severely endangering women’s lives. Never doubting her vocation, she decides she can no longer remain silent and, no matter the personal cost, is compelled to take up the fight for women’s reproductive rights within the wealthiest, most powerful institution in the world—ruled over by a cabal of middle-aged men with no familial responsibilities. Some label her a heretic and others call her a saint, but everyone agrees that Sister Maggie Corrigan is fearless. Inspired by a true story, Fearless is a gripping and empowering tale about one woman’s perseverance in the face of patriarchal and religious oppression.

Fearless by Paula Dáil (Soft Cover)

$19.95

Having grown up the oldest of seven children in a motherless, impoverished, Southside Chicago Irish-Catholic family, at age seventeen Maggie Corrigan struggles with two choices: marriage and bearing more children than she can possibly care for, or entering the convent. She decides to dedicate her life to God, but never forgets her roots, or that her mother died in childbirth after too many pregnancies. As the Church’s Vatican II reforms and the wider women’s movement takes hold, she realizes that by labeling birth control as a sin and abortion as murder, the patriarchal Catholic Church is severely endangering women’s lives. Never doubting her vocation, she decides she can no longer remain silent and, no matter the personal cost, is compelled to take up the fight for women’s reproductive rights within the wealthiest, most powerful institution in the world—ruled over by a cabal of middle-aged men with no familial responsibilities. Some label her a heretic and others call her a saint, but everyone agrees that Sister Maggie Corrigan is fearless. Inspired by a true story, Fearless is a gripping and empowering tale about one woman’s perseverance in the face of patriarchal and religious oppression.

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 Trials of the Imperium (HARD COVER) by Lyndsey Garbee

$32.95

Princess Liliana Storidian is brilliant, gifted, and destined for nothing. Such is the fate of the third born. Ellegance Fournier craves the thrill of adventure but has settled for the taste of keeping the family bakery afloat. Consigned to their respective realities, both women squeeze out every drop of life and power their roles allow.

However, one exhausted king’s abdication changes everything. When the weary King Leo invokes the Monarchic Trials, all those who bear the mark of Imperium, God of power, are invited to contend for the throne and a glimpse of the power Imperium’s followers seek.

With this declaration, what is possible shifts for both women. Liliana, given the opportunity she has dreamt of, refuses to give in. Ellegance, finally allowed an escape from the monotony and a chance to improve the lives of those in her family, can’t afford to lose.

Both women will fight and claw their way to the crown, no matter who stands in their path.

The Trials of the Imperium (SOFT COVER) by Lyndsey Garbee

$22.95

Princess Liliana Storidian is brilliant, gifted, and destined for nothing. Such is the fate of the third born. Ellegance Fournier craves the thrill of adventure but has settled for the taste of keeping the family bakery afloat. Consigned to their respective realities, both women squeeze out every drop of life and power their roles allow.

However, one exhausted king’s abdication changes everything. When the weary King Leo invokes the Monarchic Trials, all those who bear the mark of Imperium, God of power, are invited to contend for the throne and a glimpse of the power Imperium’s followers seek.

With this declaration, what is possible shifts for both women. Liliana, given the opportunity she has dreamt of, refuses to give in. Ellegance, finally allowed an escape from the monotony and a chance to improve the lives of those in her family, can’t afford to lose.

Both women will fight and claw their way to the crown, no matter who stands in their path.

The Right Words (Hard Cover) by Meg Rosenthal

$29.95

When a short story contest was announced with publication as the first-place prize, Ember Owens figured it could be the ticket to secure her future. As an added challenge, though, entrants must write their stories with a partner, and choose their genre from a hat. In a cruel twist of literary fate, Ember must now co-write a love story with Matt Callahan, a popular lacrosse player at her school who is incapable of feeling anything and isn’t even an English major!

But when secrets from Matt’s past are revealed, Ember’s carefully crafted walls begin to crumble as she realizes he might not be the unfeeling guy she thought he was. Perhaps writing a love story is in her wheelhouse after all. However, if she can’t make sense of the relationships she’s known and redefine what love is, the contest—and Matt—may be lost to her.

The Right Words (Soft Cover) by Meg Rosenthal

$18.95

When a short story contest was announced with publication as the first-place prize, Ember Owens figured it could be the ticket to secure her future. As an added challenge, though, entrants must write their stories with a partner, and choose their genre from a hat. In a cruel twist of literary fate, Ember must now co-write a love story with Matt Callahan, a popular lacrosse player at her school who is incapable of feeling anything and isn’t even an English major!

But when secrets from Matt’s past are revealed, Ember’s carefully crafted walls begin to crumble as she realizes he might not be the unfeeling guy she thought he was. Perhaps writing a love story is in her wheelhouse after all. However, if she can’t make sense of the relationships she’s known and redefine what love is, the contest—and Matt—may be lost to her.

Poster Girls by Meredith Ritchie (Hard Cover)

$29.95

After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte’s largest wartime employer––the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant.

Meanwhile, military wife and Alabama native, Kora Bell’s steadfast determination enables her to navigate the challenges she faces as a Black woman seeking employment under Jim Crow.

A shared love of literature spurns an unlikely friendship between Kora and Maggie, and the two work together to unify the plant’s workforce. Stringent rules are necessary when the air is charged with gun powder and polite society, until Maggie and Kora must break them in order to support their families, end the war, and bring their husbands home.

Told from two perspectives, Poster Girls is driven by the true but forgotten events and accomplishments of a diverse group of ordinary American women, both relevant and necessary to stop modern cycles of misunderstanding.

Poster Girls by Meredith Ritchie (Soft Cover)

$16.95

After an unwanted southern migration, an upside-down world in 1943 offers military wife and mother, Maggie Slone, a job at Charlotte’s largest wartime employer––the massive and dangerous Shell Assembly Plant.

Meanwhile, military wife and Alabama native, Kora Bell’s steadfast determination enables her to navigate the challenges she faces as a Black woman seeking employment under Jim Crow.

A shared love of literature spurns an unlikely friendship between Kora and Maggie, and the two work together to unify the plant’s workforce. Stringent rules are necessary when the air is charged with gun powder and polite society, until Maggie and Kora must break them in order to support their families, end the war, and bring their husbands home.

Told from two perspectives, Poster Girls is driven by the true but forgotten events and accomplishments of a diverse group of ordinary American women, both relevant and necessary to stop modern cycles of misunderstanding.

When the Moon Winks (fiction) by Hope Andersen

$16.95

Where the Wind Blows by Hope Andersen

$16.95

Life's Fortune by Susan Amond Todd

$16.95

Living in Northern Wisconsin is all thirty-five-year-old Rebekah Hayward has ever known. A "good girl" who has never complained and always done as she's told, she loves God; her family; baking; and her minister husband, Ethan, whom she married at the age of eighteen.There isn't a day that goes by where Rebekah doesn't think about her older sister, Dee, who left home when they were children, never to be seen again. Though Rebekah's parents might control her life, they can't control her secret desire to find Dee.Rebekah has other secrets as well: her desire to open her own bakery someday, and her love of and success with playing the lottery-a fact she must keep hidden from Bible-thumping Ethan. She soon realizes, however, that she isn't the only one harboring secrets. Life's Fortune is the first in a four-book series that shares the life, love, family, and friendships of Rebekah Hayward as she embarks on a delayed quest for personal growth, self-discovery, and all the sweetness life has to offer.

White Lake- by Susan Amond Todd

$14.95 $8.95

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.

Return Home by Susan Amond Todd

$16.95 $8.95

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.

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