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The Finish Line
Donald A. Dery
About the Book
Ashley Webb suffered two devastating losses: the death in combat of her fiancé, and later the death of her husband from the Boston Marathon bombing. Her sole comfort was her young son, but depression prohibited her from embracing the romantic overtures of a third man. She could not bring herself to open up, convinced she was not entitled to the love of a third man. He was determined to prove her wrong, so they could cross their own finish line.About the Author
Donald A. Dery is a former journalist and senior executive
in marketing and corporate communications, with extensive
experience in the U.S., Europe and Canada. He currently is a
consultant in both disciplines. He is the author of a three-volume
history of the sugar industry and slavery in Antigua,
West Indies. The Finish Line is his third novel. He lives in
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Guideless The Rivers’ Course
Stefano Duetagli
About the Book
“Stefano Duetagli’s debut novel is an ambitious exploration of an array of issues including gender identity, bigotry, hypocrisy, wrongful incarceration, and ultimately, hope.“Guideless the Rivers’ Course” follows the story of Stuart Walker Purloin. Given the name Margarite at birth, Stuart lives into early adulthood feeling uncomfortable in his woman’s body. After enduring the prejudice of a small southern town full of people who judge his “transvestite” lifestyle, Stuart completes gender reassignment surgery in Holland.
Upon returning to his hometown, Stuart becomes a convenient solution to a murder for which he is falsely accused; he lands in Florida’s largest maximum-security prison. In prison, Stuart begins a journey through hell much like the saga of Dante’s Inferno. Like Dante who had Virgil to guide him through hell, Stuart meets three Virgil-like saviors who guide him through the hell of prison.
When Stuart is finally released, he devises a plan to confront his false accuser. Stuart plots to commit the same heinous crime for which he was once imprisoned.
“Guideless the Rivers’ Course” tells a story of self-exploration, resolution, and redemption for a good man who lived inside a good woman. Along the way, Margarite and Stuart discover that not only are there many shades of gray between good and evil, but sometimes the differences between the two are indecipherable.
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About the Author
Stefano Duetagli, which translates from Italian to English as “Stephen Two-Edged,” is the penname chosen by this first-time author, a professor of psychology turned university administrator.Duetagli is an eighth-generation Floridian who has lived a varied life—aside from his current vocation, he has co-owned a bar, been a colonel in the Virginia Militia, waited tables, and spent time as an itinerant professor for the Department of Defense in Western Europe.
In the writing of “Guideless the Rivers’ Course,” Duetagli draws on his three years’ experience teaching college courses to inmates in the Florida prison system.
More information about the author and his work is available at StefanoDuetagli.com.
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Sweet Misery
Sandra Allison-Chatman
About the Book
Love has no limits
Passion has no boundariesThings come to a boiling point for Sydney when her cruel husband verbally attacks her at their daughter’s school for differently abled students. It’s the final straw! She refuses to take anymore of his abuse. The experience gives her courage to leave a broken marriage and start a new life for she and her two young children.
While embracing her new life, she encounters an unwanted suitor, Jeremy Thomas, who admires her from afar. A reluctant Sydney finds his flirtatious smile and air-of-confidence an immediate turn off. All too familiar with the game’s bachelors play, to seduce women, she sneers at his advances. But Jeremy’s determination and irresistible charm, combined with Sydney’s need for male companionship, eventually weakens her defenses and creates an opening to her heart.
Cautious, but still-vulnerable, Sydney allows herself to love once again and gets caught-up in the passion of romance. However, emotions spiral out-of-control as Jeremy’s thwarted past catches up with him and leads to a deadly surprise.About the Author
Sandra Allison-Chatman was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The first of five children born to the union of Floyd and Elizabeth McMurray. Life wasn’t easy as a child living in a home with an alcoholic father. Everyone suffered from his illness. After a bitter divorce, her mother moved to Detroit, Michigan, were she was raised and educated. Month’s after moving to the big city, her father was found murdered. Dealing with her emotional loss and unfamiliar new environment, caused her to become extremely reserved. She found it hard to make new friends, so she learned to express herself through writing.It is with great pleasure that she presents, Sweet Misery. A story of real passion, an uncoated romance with all the strengths and weaknesses that makes it an extraordinary tale. Sweet Misery, embodies the challenges and the truths that mass audiences can relate to on their journey to find true love.
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Dance at Sunrise
West of the Divide Book Three
A.G. Graham
About the Book
Lia, Lia, Lia! She could still hear the chants from the thousands who’d come tonight to see her perform, as Jaycee Williams, her security escort, walked with her back to the dressing room. Emilia Hanson had come a long way as a child living with her mother on a small farm in Chino Valley, Arizona to become an overnight superstar. But as much as she loves performing her music she feels she’s becoming lost within an image that doesn’t suit her.Dance at Sunrise is the exciting third book in the West of the Divide series and continuing saga of the Hanson family. The Hanson’s youngest son Soren, a talented song writer, is rescued from obscurity by Alondra Jefferson, and reunited with members of his band Tumbleweed. His lead guitarist, Mark Best, is the father Emilia has never been allowed to know. As she grows into maturity in the midst of the Southern California music scene Emilia falls desperately in love with a young self-destructive musician from her past, Eric Shipman. Lost in the midst of the tumultuous love affair, she returns home alone and pregnant from her tour of Europe.
A.G. Graham began writing later in life as a gift for his granddaughter, Miranda. After five years Mr. Graham has completed seven novels and seen two of them published. The majority of his life has been spent as a visual artist and teacher. Growing up in the plains of Colorado reading was always an essential part of his young life. And after spending years as a painter he readily admits that story telling was the real talent that lay dormant within him. He lives happily and at peace with the love of his life in the Bradshaw Mountains of Northern Arizona.About the Author
A.G. Graham began writing later if life as a gift for his granddaughter, Miranda. After five years Mr. Graham has completed seven novels and seen three of them published. The majority of his life has been spent as a visual artist and teacher. Growing up on the plains of Colorado reading was always an essential part of his young life. And after spending several years as a painter he readily admits that story telling was the real talent that lay dormant within him. He lives happily and at peace with the love of his life in the Bradshaw Mountain country of Arizona. -
One in a Million
A Story of Destiny, Passion and Love
Christine Marie Blai
About the Book
Three years after a devastating divorce from an adulterous husband, twenty-four-year-old nursing student Mariette Stuart leaves her home state of Ohio to vacation in San Francisco. The city is not only beautiful but also romantic, and Mariette finds herself surrounded by legendary cable cars, the atmospheric Fisherman’s Wharf, and the lovely Golden Gate Park.Soon, she meets Christian Stanislaus, a thirty-six-year old virtuoso pianist who she can’t help but admire just as much as she admires the city. She is drawn to his music, as well as his undeniable good looks. Christian is similarly taken with Mariette. Although he travels often, they decide to date and spend passionate nights together whenever they’re in the same town.
After dropping Christian off at the airport in Ohio, Mariette is approached by her ex–music teacher. He tells her that Christian is notorious for playing as many women as he does piano keys while on tour. Having dealt with unfaithfulness before, Mariette now must decide if she trusts Christian enough to continue loving him, at the risk of another broken heart.
About the Author
Christine Marie Blai is a retired caregiver with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing om University of California at Davis’ She has published short fiction stories, as well as erotica, under the pen name Lucy Blue. Born and raised in San Francisco, CA, she now lives in Oakley, CA. -
The Paradise Chronicles
Rufus Yates
About the Book
This short story was written before the virus that changed the world forever I’m sure there will be many books written on the subject, being confined by the virus reminded me of my story.We never know what lies around the corner in life but we all must try to survive, and we will God willing
About the Author
THE PARADISE CHRONICLESIn the year 2025 the country finds itself heading for a new war, one that would change many lives forever.
Iran and the USA are at the point of no return it seems, our characters live in Va. Where the most likely target site for the country just happens to be. When Jim Osborne gets a job offer in California it will be a life changing event. The Osbornes find new friends as well as new adventures, they must seek shelter from nuclear fallout and find a new world while trying to survive in their underground world.
Just a short adventure of the lives of a few ordinary people, in a not so ordinary time.
Hope you enjoy it.
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To My Best Girl
Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates
Steve Magnusen
About the Book
Behind all descriptions of historical events are the stories of real people. This is the extraordinary true story of a citizen soldier and the girl he loves, as both become embroiled in the cauldron of our nation’s Civil War.
Rufus R Dawes will emerge from a troubled family background to become an officer in a famous unit thrust into horrific battles in the eastern theater. But before those stirring war scenes, there is the early life of a proud and intelligent descendant of leading Revolutionary War figures, ancestors who helped form the United States, the Northwest Territory, and the state of Ohio.
Rufus will meet beautiful and vibrant Mary Beman Gates and fall in love. But there is separation due to distance and social standing, apparently little reciprocal feeling, and competition by others better situated than he. Can it ever become more than infatuation? The outbreak of war intervenes. Faced with the doubt of his own survival, is it possible to fulfill any dream of a life with Mary?
Mary is a girl with a loving family who becomes a young woman while witnessing many acquaintances and suitors, along with an only brother, march off to war. Tragic battle losses soon mount. Will she—should she—become involved with a soldier whose life is in daily jeopardy far away?
The drama unfolds upon Rufus and Mary, and upon family members and soldiers who experience their own battles, trying to survive while patriotically performing their duty to the nation. Based on many letters and diary entries, most never published, this is a timeless story of love and courage.About the Author
Steve Magnusen enjoyed a nationally recognized engineering career in north suburban Chicago after receiving his degree from Purdue University. He has led several professional and non-profit organizations, and served fifteen years as an infantry and armor officer in the US Army Reserve.
Steve’s particular interest in the Civil War’s elite “Iron Brigade” led him to diligently research the life of Rufus R. Dawes, the intrepid young commander of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Extensive original documentation not only revealed extraordinary battlefield heroism, but also an incredible wartime romance involving delightful Mary Beman Gates of historic Marietta, Ohio. Steve was inspired to bring their captivating personal saga to life in To My Best Girl. -
Shooting in the Ivory Tower
Joseph Katz
About the Book
Before presenting his thesis defense, Fredrick Davidson plants a gun
in the first-aid kit of one of the university’s science labs, preparing
for whatever might lay ahead. Sweating and delusional, he watches
the potential victims file in. When the defense is set to start, his
thesis director, Dr. Liang, offers a quick, light-hearted introduction
but delusional Fred believes that the committee is purposefully
mocking him. Enraged, he heads to the first-aid kit and begins the
rampage, eventually murdering three of his professors in cold blood.
Based on true events, Professor Joseph Katz presents this horrible
tragedy through his own eyes. In fact, his perspective is certainly
unique: he was supposed to be in the room that day but was running
late from a last-minute meeting one floor below. Shooting in the
Ivory Tower chronicles this violent event through multiple
perspectives and gives the reader insight into what led up to the
murders, based on trial coverage and first-hand discussions with the
victims and Davidson himself.About the author
Dr. Joseph Katz is a professor at San Diego State University, born in
Budapest, Hungary. He is married and has three children. Joseph
belongs to engineering organizations such as the AIAA and SAE and
enjoys restoring old cars, playing soccer, petting his cats, and driving
fast cars (he has the speeding tickets to prove). He is the author of
several books on aero/fluid mechanics including the popular Race
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MR. NICE GUY
Larry Couchmanos
About the Book
A man’s goddaughter is kidnapped from under him and the kidnappers put him through a series of obstacles and trials to get her back forcing
him to travel the world in search of retrieving her. While in transit, he engages in political discussions with his fellow travelers.
The book will elicit a reaction out of you both viscerally and intellectually. It will force you to look at common topics in new ways.About the Author
The author is a fundamentalist Ayn Rand objectivist that was born in the south, grew up in the Midwest and spent his adult life in New York City. He has travelled to 40 countries and writes daily political stories at larrycouchmanos.blogspot.com -
But of Course
Tatyana Dickinson
About the Book
Alex moved to US from ex-USSR in early 1990 and leaving the American dream with her husband Dave. The old skeletons from the clothed still hunting her and she do what have to be done to get rid of them, permanently.
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