2420 Ruby Lane by Ilan Herman
Three men share a house in Culver City CA circa 2007. An intimate look at the lonely struggle of the American male. Added 10/3/09.
Absent Friend by Wes Boyd
In 1970, a Spearfish Lake kid walked into a patch of jungle in Vietnam, and was never seen again. In an era when many people were tired of the war or just didn't care, most were ready to forget about him - except for his friends, some of whom he'd never met, but who kept the faith anyway.
The Ad Game by Joshua D. Dinman
They say that sex sells. But when Max Cohen takes a job in a Pittsburgh ad agency he learns that sex kills too. Max is hired to work on the account for a multinational steel corporation, but when the client fires the agency, he finds himself on the "Muffler King” account, promoting a local chain of muffler and auto service centers. It isn’t long before Max learns that Big Jim King, founder and president of Muffler King, is a sexual voyeur who uses the agency to source young subjects for his sexual escapades. Max must carefully negotiate big Jim’s desires, the agency’s need to keep Muffler King as a client, and the advances of Kitty Wells, Muffler King’s marketing manager and Big Jim’s duplicitous lover. The Ad Game is both a rollicking look at the world of advertising and a cautionary tale of uncontrolled appetites.
After the
Rain by G.C. Glasser
Glasser begins this adventure in 1969 Mexico
when the Mexican Government was still recovering from the 1968 Mexico City
Olympic massacre where the Army troops killed over 200 student protesters. The
story continues through the ups and downs in his life on a journey into the
economic recession in the early 1980s as a homeless drifter attempting to
hitchhike across the United States. In After
the Rain, Glasser relentlessly drives the reader through the
quintessential post-Vietnam experience reminiscent of the Kerouac On the Road style adventure story.
All God's Children by Eleanor Spencer
A young woman loses her husband in a suspicious traffic accident and is stalked by the man she suspects of causing her husband's death. She moves to her uncle's home in the deep south to start a new life and finds the peace and love that was missing in her life. But the evil from her troubled past has found her again. She is terrified but determined to not run away. This time she will stay and fight for her right to live a happy life without fear as her constant companion... .
Alongside Night by J. Neil Schulman
"I received Alongside Night at noon today. It is now eight in the evening and I just finished it. I think I am entitled to some dinner now as I had no lunch. The unputdownability of the book ensured that. It is a remarkable and original story, and the picture it presents of an inflation-crippled America on the verge of revolution is all too acceptable. I wish, and so will many novelists, that I, or they, had thought of the idea first. A thrilling novel, crisply written, that fires the imagination as effectively as it stimulates the feelings." -- Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange.
Andromeda Chained by Wes Boyd
Brenda Hodunk couldn't believe the sight before her eyes as she jogged down Lakefront Drive. Her new job had already taught her that Spearfish Lake was a little different, but this was a little more different than she had expected. Yet her natural reporter's instinct smelled story, and she decided she needed to know more about what she'd seen -- and it leads her to places and things she never would have believed.
Ash Dogs by Justin Nicholes
Marcus Green has just been discharged after a tour of duty in Iraq. Wounded and disfigured, Marcus returns to a life he barely recognizes… and that barely recognizes him. Stricken by guilt and self-doubt, and spurred on by deep-rooted restlessness, Marcus decides he must embark on a journey to reclaim that part of himself which he has lost. As he explores his past he reconnects with a forgotten half-brother in Mexico and a former hometown love, but he must also come to grips with his accidental family–other wounded veterans and the Iraqis he was supposed to protect.
Barry's World by Dave Jenvey
Barry was always told that he needed some sense knocked into him and eventually much to everyone's relief someone did. Travel through the physical and metaphysical world of Barry Broomfield, a man who has known only one thing: that he is a loser. Note: This a black adult comedy and is not suitable for young children.
The Beard by Andersen Prunty
Seven-year-old David Glum watches as his grandfather is abducted by a legendary herd of elephants. Twenty years later, David returns to his parents' home to focus on growing a beard, a goal he feels sure he can accomplish. Once the beard reaches a respectable girth, uncontrollable things begin happening around him. His mother dies. Maybe. His father might really be a man named Gary Wrench. David is sure of one thing: his family is cursed. It could have something to do with an eternal flame his grandfather stole from a possibly imaginary group of people called the Nefarions. David and Wrench begin a surreal cross-country journey that might have something to do with saving the world. Along the way they pass through a number of absurd towns, meet some disagreeable people, and discover an America that is radically different from the one they thought they knew. And all the while, the beard grows, gaining strength, leading them toward a distant island that most people think doesn't exist. Added 11/2/09.
Beauty in a Scorched Land by Charlene and Kelvin Bueckert
Samuel and Rob are two young men, living in two different worlds, with similar thoughts of romance. Can they overcome their internal secrets and the external threats of war? Will they successfully raise a family? Follow two intertwining stories through three dramatic, humorous, and sometimes horrifying episodes, toward the powerful climax. Can you face the truth?
Becoming by Mark Lichterman
A nostalgic, funny, romantic, sexually frustrating novel. A novel that may remind many of us of ourselves, “way back then,” when God’s most mysterious creation was the opposite sex. A novel about life and the often funny, sometimes sad, day-to-day things that stir the memories of our lives.
Beginner's Luke by Sol Luckman
Who would you be if you could be anyone? go anywhere? do anything? Well, you can! Luke Soloman will show you how. While titillating in the rambunctious tradition of Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac, this visionary debut equally impresses as a work of literary art. Luke’s signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination--for only through it can we reinvent ourselves and our world. “Beginner's Luke to a conventional novel is what an animated film is to a documentary. It is creative, imaginative, humorous and very distinctive” (Reader Views). To read, click on "Free Downloads" image.
Belthar's Garden by Martin Hatchuel
A gentle, poignant novel from South Africa about how an old man gets in touch with his emotions years after having suffered as a child.
The Best Christmas Ever by Eleanor Spencer
Danny Anderson’s death in an auto accident devastates his young family. The tragedy is more than Nadine can cope with and she falls into a downward spiral of depression that leaves her children struggling to keep their family together. When their mother is hospitalized, the children flee rather than face the prospect of being separated in the foster home system. They embark on a journey to find their estranged grandparents and uncle, hoping that they can somehow mend their splintered family back together. The Best Christmas Ever is an exciting, heartwarming story of loss and pain ultimately overcome by faith and love. This is a story that your entire family can enjoy together every holiday season.
Beyond the S-Bend by Martin Pilcher
Ambrose is a politician who believes he has achieved spiritual enlightenment. The truth is, he’s a smug, right-wing, muddle-headed control freak. Nevertheless, he convinces the nation that he will fulfil his manifesto promise "to put the dignity of human beings above all else." He becomes Tory Prime Minister in a landslide victory. But, within months of taking office he announces plans to build six new mega-sized prisons and introduce national identity cards. It is all part of his personal vision known as The Great Thrust Forward which includes doubling the police force, immigration service, customs & excise and the national coast guard. A tale of political incompetence and human delusion.
The Big Tide by Marc Heberden
"The gravel in the parking lot crunched cheerfully under his feet as he made his way across to the boatyard. Although late in the summer, the early morning air was cool and moist, and in the long shadows of buildings cold. With a bright sun coming up into a pale blue sky, the freshness of the air that morning and the bright crackling of the gravel beneath his shoes simply added punctuation to his deeply happy mood. Eric Sumners was a very rich man who was also handsome, intelligent and well-mannered, and he was married to a strikingly beautiful woman who loved him. Of all those things, that morning it was his money that was making him so happy because he was going to be able to do something in an offhand fashion that even moderately wealthy people would have spent a lot of time thinking about. Although he had, indeed, thought quite a bit about this. It was just that he hadn't found it necessary to squander his time worrying about finances. Simply, he was going to buy his wife a boat." Added 10/29/09.
Black & White by Lewis Shiner
"If you lived through those times, or if you are a relative newcomer who over time has become interested in the history of Hayti, you owe it to yourself to read Lewis Shiner's new novel Black & White. Shiner, with exhaustive research, uses the story of Hayti and urban renewal as the setting for a compelling novel that is part detective story, part novel of psychological discovery, and, most important, a story about the complex relationships that African-American and white people share." - Cliff Bellamy in The Durham Herald-Sun.
Black Whole Son by J. Arthur Roth
Dieu LaRue, a devout deviant and playboy, has just found out that his best friend, Howard LaDuke, is about to become a father. In what he sees as a last stab at freedom, he convinces his friend to join him on a cross country journey on motorcycles to chase down a past that never was and a future that can never be. What they are looking for and what they find are not what they expect. Join Dieu and How as they indulge in sex and drugs and sex and motorcycles and sex and magick and sex in a journey through space and time on a plotted course to an unknowable destination. The answers to all of their questions and misgivings reveal themselves in chaos and order.
Bombardirovka by Crystal Allene Cook
Journalist Jada Perlmutter becomes the story she seeks as she travels from Soviet Moscow to the mountainous "South" where her lover Zadik plans to take up being a guerrilla fighter in a new breakaway state. Injured, Jada is transported back to Moscow. Years later, in New York City, the taste of ash in her mouth sends Jada back to the Caucasus to conclude the story she left unfinished.
Both Sides Of The Moon by Michael Kimber
Margaret Marshall and her fourteen year old son Jonathon face some tough decisions when Bill, her husband and his father, is killed in a car crash. Jonathan has taken his first tentative steps across the bridge between boyhood and manhood, perilous enough without the added trauma of bereavement. Margaret is embarking on an equally precarious journey - that between an undervalued mother and downtrodden wife, through widowhood, and then to lover. Follow them as they take their first steps into a new world, and see how their actions, and of those with whom they are in daily contact, can and do, impact on each others lives.
Brass Bay by Christine Cluney
Sydney Smith is sent by Tradewinds Hotels to bring its latest acquisition, Brass Bay Resort, on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Clovis up to corporate standards. Adding a dive operation to the list of hotel amenities seems like a great idea until it leads to drastic consequences for even the most powerful.
Bring the War Home! by Barry Willdorf
Two anti-war students move to Oceanside, California during the Vietnam War to help organize anti-war Marines but their experiences with the soldiers change them more.
Busted Axle Road by Wes Boyd
A snake crawls out of a bathroom drain, and a woman kills it with her hair dryer . . . That's all it takes to set townspeople, media, crooked environmentalists, a country music singer, the federal government and a bunch of dogsledders to getting at each other's throats. Of course, nothing's quite normal in Spearfish Lake!
Cadet's Dream by Toby Griffen
In a surreal dream, the protagonist finds himself at a ball in Charleston’s Hibernian Hall, where he witnesses the suffering of the Lady in the Shiny Green Dress. When she looks to him imploringly, he awakes in a panic and realizes that he must come to an understanding of her anguish before he can do ... whatever it is he is supposed to do. In an extended vision, he descends into what he perceives to be Charleston – or rather, some alternative Charleston - of thirty years earlier, and he joins his soul with that of a distraught cadet returning at midnight to The Acropolis, The Military Academy of the South. Here, Cadet undertakes a journey through love and loss, isolation and unity, and confrontation with religious and political bigotry.
Callipygia by M.C. Envest
Stephanie Daniels, 28, journalist, asks only for a home, a job, a little fun and someone who truly loves her. She has never found good love with a man. Lately, women have been on her mind. Her editor sends her to the South Dakota Black Hills, where a large number of women have disappeared. Rumor has a lesbian slave camp hidden in the forest. She finds delicate Megan, who becomes her lover, and takes her to Callipygia—a hidden colony of beautiful women. The colony has a humanistic goal which is unbalanced by their somewhat disturbing methods. They abduct men who meet certain criteria, for breeding purposes, and wish to create a more sensitive man through proper child-raising. The Utopian world at Callipygia is disrupted when a prostitution ring attacks with the intent of selling these women into the worldwide sex slave market.
Carnival by Ron Sanders
In the summer of 1967, swarms of young people converged on San Francisco’s famous hip community, Haight-Ashbury. They came from all over the country; quirkily political, horny as all get-out, and eager to join just about anything rock and roll. The party they crashed was called the Summer of Love. Three runaways from Santa Monica were caught up in the pacific flow: Eddie, a little-engine intellectual, Mike, a juvenile delinquent jealous of Eddie’s attention, and Kevin, this coming-of-age tale’s clueless protagonist. Religion, politics, the meaning of life, hysteria, hypocrisy, human interest, human agony, the yin and the yang—it’s all here. So grab your stash and get cozy. Growing pains never came so groovily. An adult theme book and not a recommended book for children.
the casino kid by Roger Frederick
A plectrum and spliff filled tale of two guitarists struggling against psychotic bass players, neurotic parents and dodgy music dealers as they climb the slippery slop to rock n' roll nirvana.
A Chronicle of Infidelity by J.C. Moonx
The day Keith decides to cheat on Nanda, his wife of five years, he meets Yuni, a laptop-toting teenage girl who leads him to a mysterious woman who calls herself V. Follow Keith from his seductive adventures into a a bizarre underworld where he inexplicably finds himself breaking up a powerful crime ring.
Click by Kristopher Young
Click’s hero is experiencing glitches in the universe. He may have tapped into a strange ability which gives him control over the world around him. Or, there's the disturbing possibility that he’s a case study in paranoid schizophrenia. After all, they might be after him. He’s falling apart — and to make matters worse, his girlfriend may just be crazier than he is. Forced to face his fears and come to terms with his own flawed nature, he must discover what it means to truly evolve.
The Colour of Sunday Afternoons by Robert Gollagher
Set in the fictitious city of Metropolis, The Colour of Sunday Afternoons is a fairy tale for contemporary times, times in which our dreams and goals get lost in the hectic pace of the modern world. The fable follows the lives of two young professionals, Jane Hamilton and Joe Mathews, who are on the fast track to promotion - and to burnout. They have everything they could possibly want, except peace of mind and happiness. Until they meet their guardian angel.
a comet appears by Jess Moleman
Life is easy. Love is cheap. And everything is so incredibly beautiful. Let’s do drugs. Let’s dance with sexy people. Let’s make love. And everything is so incredibly beautiful. The city lights at night. The fluorescent drinks. The smell of endless summer. Everything is so incredibly beautiful. We can change the world. We are the future. We will make it happen. And then a comet appears… A comet appears tells of a young man’s quest to unify his conflicting ideals. Torn between the ambition to live a good life and the love for the life he lives, the protagonist struggles with happiness and pleasure, dreams and reality. It’s a story about being lost and finding love, an account of growing up and making choices. A comet appears is Brett Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero for the low-cost-airline generation.
County Road by Parker Pruett
Since moving to the snow white beaches of South Walton County twenty years ago, life has been easy for Jake Burns. He's inherited a market on a little beach road and has kept it going despite the lure of easy money from big developers. But when Eden Brockwell, a young woman to whom he is a reluctant father figure, dies by crashing her car into his market, emotions that were dead in him for so long soon drive him to the point of loosing everything he has. But it is a woman named Debbie Baylor who he meets right after Eden's death that starts him to feel again. Disillusioned by the path her life has taken, Debbie has come to the beach for renewal. There is a spark from the start between them that drives Jake to discover the truth behind what happened the night Eden died.
A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer by Jack Zavada
This exciting ebook is set on the Kansas
frontier, in 1886. Struggling single mother Gretchen Norgard and down-on-his-
luck cowboy Pete Beckworth discover one of the most important lessons we can
learn about what truly matters at Christmas.
A Crown of Thorns by Lynda Renham
The Spencer's are an affluent family; Robert is a successful solicitor with his own London practice, while Gina (who later reverts to her given name "Virginia" as the novel unfolds) leads a life of luxurious contentment until a tragedy strikes on their son's birthday, resulting in their eventual move to the country village of Millbridge. Almost as soon as the Spencer's arrive at Millbridge, Virginia meets Rector Byrnes, which is the start of an emotionally charged and passionate relationship. Jonathan Byrnes is in a vulnerable position struggling with his wife's inner demons but with no one to confide in and Virginia, now consumed with hatred towards God and a disgust of life. Somehow they find comfort in each other's weakness with dramatic consequences. Added 10/18/09.
The Crystal Skull: Destiny's Courier by T.K. Lebeau
When Eddie Stevenson, third generation evangelist, sets about his duty to bring a convicted mass murderer back to God, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery centered around an ancient carved crystal skull. The events set in motion following the discovery of this artifact will lead him to question every philosophy upon which his faith is based.
The Crystal Spiral by T.K. Lebeau
Can more than one reality occupy the space and time that humanity calls its' own ? What if every event that has ever occurred and every soul who has ever experienced life exist in this momentous place we call now? From his New Mexico thoroughbred farm, Branch Hackworth, who left pro-football to return home and grieve for his lost wife and children, is plunged into a mystery of the universe in which friends disappear, catastrophes are imminent and even the rocks on his farm seem to be growing.
The Crystal Tunnel by T.K. Lebeau
Jackson Cody has a chance to redeem himself as a writer and to reunite with old friends and family when he receives an assignment to report the events surrounding mysterious deaths at a crystal mine in Arkansas. Forced to stretch his beliefs with direct experience with probable lives, Jackson discovers the key to rescuing the people most dear to him by unlocking the long lost secret to understanding his fears.
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