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Come Into the Light [MultiFormat]
by Janet Lane Walters
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D.O.N. Johanna Gordon is very involved with Hudson Community Hospital. She's never worked elsewhere. While struggling with the budget cuts demanded by the CEO, she suspects he has a scheme that might destroy her career. She has to discover his purpose. At the same time, her life expands with the return of an old flame and the arrival of a new man in her life. For years Johanna has lived in the shadows. Is she ready to step into the light? (Published: 2004)
Words: 64405 - Reading Time: 184-257 min.
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A Mother Scorned and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Michele R. Bardsley
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Bestselling author Michele Bardsley cooks up stories about hearth and home, love and loss, truth and hope in her anthology: A Mother Scorned and Other Stories. The collection includes the dark suspense story, A Mother Scorned, which won the Grand Prize in the 72nd Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition as well as the EPPIE-winning novella, Midnight Intentions. Go on ... take a bite of gourmet fiction! (Published: 2005) EPPIE Award Winner
Words: 62209 - Reading Time: 177-248 min.
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Beyond Stone And Steel: A Memorial to the September 11, 2001 Victims [MultiFormat]
by Brian Vaszily
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The tragedy of September 11, 2001 left us each trying to fill a uniquely unfamiliar void in our spirit with something that will make us whole again. Somehow we need to feel the experience in a way that following the news coverage just doesn't accomplish. Brian W. Vaszily found a way, and shares it with us in this brilliant anthology of thoughts, feelings, desires and dreams that were cut short on that terrible Tuesday. Through imagined characters he does what no news story or survivor's account ... more info>> (Published: 2001) Quasar Award Finalist: Cover Art
Words: 18482 - Reading Time: 52-73 min.
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Broken Promises: A New Beginning [MultiFormat]
by Susan K. Droney
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Farrel Drake wants a normal family life for herself and her two daughters from her first marriage. She meets and marries Robert, and their two families combine. Shortly after their marriage, verbal abuse, beatings, and broken promises become an almost everyday occurrence. Robert makes sure she is isolated, with no friends. But during a trip to the hospital after another beating, Farrel meets a woman who recognizes her suffering and refers her to a counselor. She gets help, gets out and settles i... more info>> (Published: 1998)
Words: 54001 - Reading Time: 154-216 min.
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Chapter and Verse [MultiFormat]
by Barri Bryan
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Chapter and Verse has one theme--love. Yet there is diversity within that unity, both in form and substance. The poems run in length from a few short lines to several verses. The rhyme schemes are many and varied. The subject matter addresses the charm, the mirth, the drama, the chivalry, the bliss, the gravity, and the mystery of love. Each poem speaks directly to the heart with its symmetry of ideas and its eloquent development of thought. Each one is finely wrought, well crafted, and easily u... more info>> (Published: 2004) EPPIE Award Winner
Words: 9185 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
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Child Support [MultiFormat]
by Betty Craker Henderson
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What happens when a woman who has enjoyed twenty years of easy living is betrayed and dumped by her husband? Although Cheryl Foster finds the situation tough to handle, she's positive Paul will see the light and come crawling back ... until he actually weds Belynda. Now, Cheryl screws-up big time. One little overnight mistake equals one humongous mess. Trying to fix job problems, mend shaky relationships and decide what she will do about this pregnancy at the same time all join together to force... more info>> (Published: 2001) Missouri Writers Guild Award Winner
Words: 70121 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
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Dispatches From a Found Notebook [MultiFormat]
by Dave Rosi
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A teacher and a tattered notebook would seem to have little in common, but both carry stories of loss and desperation. The teacher longs to reclaim his integrity. The notebook's writer yearns to rise from ruin. The events of one day will allow their paths to cross, and provide each a chance to give the other what he most desires. [Cover art Sonia Grineva] (Published: 2006)
Words: 70724 - Reading Time: 202-282 min.
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Farley Brothers Drugs & Sundries [MultiFormat]
by Kathryn North
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Farley Brothers Drugs & Sundries is a collection of short stories set in small towns. Sissy, tomboy protagonist in the title story, types wills for a lawyer, pitches softball, and yearns for "a life." Her yearnings bubble to spill-over point when not one, but two eligible men move to town and put the moves on her. In "Allie's Daring Adventure," a middle-aged housewife decides to add zing to her love life and plots to seduce her fisherman husband. "Cousin Stan Turns on the Charm" features Stan, w... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 55669 - Reading Time: 159-222 min.
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The Hills of Home [MultiFormat]
by Jory Sherman
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Jory Sherman's portraits of people and places in the Ozarks hills transport the reader to a land of haunting and timeless beauty. His lyrical prose captures the chromatic harmonies of language in his vivid descriptions of a homeland hidden in the heart of America. His words have the taste and feel of a summer breeze riffling through the trees and caressing a quiet lake or stirring the waters of a meandering stream winding through deep hollows and lush green meadows where the deer graze on long g... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 33071 - Reading Time: 94-132 min.
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The Sweet Shade of a Chinaberry Tree [MultiFormat]
by Janice Ward Parrish
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Gaynell McGowan, forced to spend the summer of 1963 in her little town of Beulah, Alabama, returns home from college to face a provincial purgatory until classes resume in the fall. But history is about to strike Beulah like a deadly tornado. A federal order to integrate the high school shakes the town to its foundation and pits friend against neighbor. White citizens polarize into integrationists and segregationists with both sides claiming the favor of God and vying for the favor of reporters ... more info>> (Published: 2005) EPPIE Award Finalist, Dirk A. Wolf Award Honorable Mention
Words: 93052 - Reading Time: 265-372 min.
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Visions of a Lost Girl [MultiFormat]
by Jory Sherman
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THERE IS confusion here in this mountain place, all because of a girl I lost over twenty years ago. She was buried in memory for so long I thought she would never reappear, but she has, and I must try to put her into focus. Especially now, now that I'm happy and married to the dream I had all my life. The lost girl came back to me in the form of a phone call, then took on further flesh in a letter, and I saw her once, a few months ago, so that she became suddenly real again, suddenly confusing. ... more info>> (Published: 2001) Independent eBook Award Nominee
Words: 17409 - Reading Time: 49-69 min.
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What Will Suffice [MultiFormat]
by Barri Bryan
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This collection of one hundred poems is charming and introspective with vivid and recognizable impressions, originality of diction and variations in tone. The author's devotion to craftsmanship lends immediacy and expressiveness to a wide variety of poetic images. The subject matter of What Will Suffice is diverse and varied. Each poem has a life of its own. The theme is that common thread of humanity that speaks to the heart through many forms, melodious language and personal emotions. (Published: 2006)
Words: 8439 - Reading Time: 24-33 min.
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