Fiction
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Grant’s Wish
T.S. Pollard
About the Book
Grant’s Wish is a delightful tale of a very old and historic hotel that’s fallen on hard times and is rundown. The 150- year-old Silver Swan Inn once boasted famous overnight guests, such as authors, US presidents, and noted military leaders like Ulysses S. Grant, who stayed there occasionally during the Civil War years.
Lee Nieman, manager of a posh Atlanta hotel, has been demoted for engaging in local politics and exiled to Plainview, Indiana, where the Swan Inn, the hotel chain’s least profitable property, is located. His job is to ready the hotel to be sold or torn down. Dispirited initially, he grows to cherish the antique-filled hotel’s charms and its rich history and eventually aims to buy and restore it. But there are obstacles: a down payment he can’t afford; the haughty, rich great-granddaughter of the Swan’s founder; and an old Indian, whose tribe has a legendary grudge against the hotel. The story, sprinkled with history, reads like a mystery with surprising turns of events all keeping readers turning pages and perhaps gaining a view of our nation’s 18th President that likely differs from what they learned in school.About the Author
Journalist and playwright T. S. Pollard, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Ohio State University, has been involved in public relations and the print media field for many years, principally serving as a writer and editor for major news organizations, including the Kansas City Star, (the former) St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and the Cox Newspapers of Ohio. He also served as adjunct professor in news writing for several years for Miami University of Ohio and has authored articles for popular and trade publications. He is the writer of a two-act stage play, Grant’s Wish: The Play, based on the novel. He maintains a retirement home in Middletown, Ohio. -
The Big Yellow Thing Called Bus
About the Book
Little Emmitt is a three year old who has a big imagination thinking a big yellow bus has eaten his big sister. He’s determined to find out the truth.About the Author
A farm girl named Williean Badon Berry was born and raised in Tylertown Mississippi. A grandmother who at 56 decided to pursue her dream to become an author. -
PINE CONE COUNTY
Revised Edition
Lee Carson
About the book
Lee Carson is eighty-six years old and has been married to Velma, his wife, for sixty-six years. They have a married son, Scott, daughter-in-law, Dee, daughter, Perian, two granddaughters, Megan Carson, and Haley Metzner who is married to Paul with a son named Carson Metzner. Carson is a retired teacher who has spent most of his life working and teaching in the crafts of machinist and mechanic. He has taught Sunday school classes for children and youth most of his adult life, served as a camp counselor for children at youth summer camps, and as a vacation Bible school teacher, and currently teaches a senior adult Sunday school class. Also an avid bible student, he has served as and taught lay speaking, held most of the lay positions in his local church, and served as a delegate to the United Methodist Church’s Texas Jurisdictional, and General Conferences. He uses his life experiences in writing this book. ALPH is another book written by Mr. Carson that carries readers back to the first century to explore what everyday life was like for the people who occupied Judah and Galilee during the time of Christ. A thoughtful, rich, and inspiring depiction of ancient life, it follows two generations as they cope with issues of faith and daily living without the blessings – or burdens – of modern conveniences. Full of historical facts and biblical truths it is sure to both enlighten and entertain. Available on Amazon. -
Barefoot Barbie
Bruce Sweet
About the Book
A young woman is able to work in a place where she doesn’t seem to belong.About the Author
Bruce Sweet is a retired minister living in Kitchener Ontario Canada with his wife. He now has time to explore some of his literary interests. He is also a Forest Therapy Guide who spends much time on the wooded trails. -
Gildor
The Forbidden Land
Arthur Woodring
About the Book
Ben Thomas is about to celebrate his eighteenth birthday with his friends at his grandfather’s lakeside estate. His best friend, Jack Foster, has invited Megan Dills, a relatively new student at Franklin High, to the birthday party and surprises Ben by telling him just before the party begins. Little does Ben know that the adventure of a lifetime is about to begin. After the party ends, Ben and Megan are thrown into a dilemma together through no fault of their own.The party is a success, but Megan receives a phone call afterward, and Ben notices that she is upset. When he asks her what’s wrong, she tells him that her father, an investigative reporter, had an accident and needs her help right away. After Ben drives Megan to FRU’s lab, they are stopped by armed guards and taken inside as prisoners. There, they discover that Megan’s father is dead and that they will be sent to Gildor, a secret underground facility to keep them silent. Once they are in Gildor, the two teens find that every day brings a new fight for survival. Gildor is a dangerous primitive world full of strange humanoid and beastly genetic inhabitants, outcasts never before known to man.
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Hightower III
The Reckoning
D.F. Sparks
About the Author
D. F. Sparks was born in Middletown, Ohio, in May 1944 to Isaac Sparks and Virtie May Wilhoit. His mother had three previous children, Tom, Martha, and Charles. As Sparks’ father work on pipelines, they lived nomadic lives and traveled constantly. When he was six, his mother was killed in a car wreck and his father remarried shortly thereafter.
After the military, Sparks worked various jobs in the oil fields of Midland Monahan and Odessa, Texas. He worked on ranches and, one time, on river barges in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At 21, he starting driving a truck coast-to-coast and did so for the next 45 years. He retired on his 66th birthday.
In 1987, Sparks was reunited with his siblings after 37 years. His brother Charles died of a heart attack and his sister died soon after. He remained close with his bother Tom until Tom’s death. Tom had always urged Sparks to write, as he has become an accomplished musician and singer. Determined to keep the past of this great nation alive, he began writing about the West in 2014, a series entitled The Broken Badge. The rest, like his memories, are history. -
Too Many Pets
Mark Anderson
About the Book
A young man explains to his friend why he doesn’t think he has too many pets at all.About the Author
Mark Anderson is a retired librarian and lives in Greeley, CO.About the Illustrator
Asa Crowe is an artist in several different media and lives in Iowa City, Ia. -
Temple
E.G. Jones
About the Book
Governments, powerful individuals, even churches all over the world will do absolutely anything, legal or not, to possess the discovery that will rock our culture, our history, our beliefs, the way we look at life. The Cancun vacation Ed Bailey and Diane Quintero began turns into a marathon of the highest stakes ever known to man, to prevent World War III. They have to win this race!About the Author
E.G. “Joe” Jones grew up in Palm Springs, California where he started his career in law enforcement a police detective for almost ten years. He then opened his own Private Investigation firm. Not counting the major civil litigations he was involved with, he worked on sixteen murder cases, seven of which involved the death penalty. He is now retired and divides his time between Southern California and Panama. -
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Ryan Martin
About the Book
A war rages throughout the Multiverse. One full of deadly consequences. Many different stories from different times and Dimensions takes us to different individuals who know nothing of what’s going on. But they will learn quickly. They have no way of knowing each other, but are all connected.In 1953, Henry Brown is faced with an Agonizing decision. He can either publish a photo of the Extraterrestrial that landed in his yard or listen to those who oppose the idea, including his Wife, Blue Book, and even the Men In Black. Others however, have other plans for Henry Brown. A force of Celestials allow Henry to know that he is a chosen one who can save the Multiverse. Henry and his family must go on the run, but he will learn that the universe has you where it wants, when it wants you there.
In 1953, but in a dimension far from earth, chaos is awaiting. In a world where people are on horseback but have cell phones, where racism is still an issue but the Caucasians get most of the heat, where World War Two began, but has not yet ended, Rhiannon Legg, agent of MI6, stumbles amongst an Infinity-Orb. A powerful object that opens doors to other portals. She is then told that she is the Chosen one. She must get the Orb to a magical Pyramid on the island sKoog. But it is not an easy task, as a hit-man with his own twisted motives, wants the Orb for himself.
In 2021, in a world like ours, Brian and Joe Critten travel in search for The Temple of Universal Knowledge. It has a frightening Legend. Those who enter are granted with Universal Knowledge. But the greatest gifts always come with a deadly consequence. Most who enter the Temple leave it with insanity from all the knowledge. Only those with the strongest minds can go untouched. Those with strong minds, are never seen again.
The Multiverse and time itself faces more trouble than it ever has before. NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM is a breathtaking intro to a much longer adventure that will keep you up and make you late for work. It will have excited for a sequel while your questioning things even after you turn the final page. NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM is a must read.
About the Author
Ryan X Martin was born April 25th 2000. It was always his dream to be a published Author. He has been inspired by other Authors works, like Stephen King, Stan Lee, and Dan Brown. Ryan is known for his interest in the supernatural and paranormal, which is in a lot of his novels. He currently lives in Thayer Missouri with his dog Stan Lee. -
The China Affair
J. T. Gooch
About the Book
See how the writer in THE CHINA AFFAIR leads the reader from Chinese romantic encounters, attempted rape, defiance of Chinese courts, the smuggling of a woman OUT of China, to an illegal entry into the United States, to a Chicago Police Department “”sting”” operation, to joint Chinese-American cooperation, and, oh, yes, to what happens with the Willis Tower bomb. Along this journey from China to Chicago, there are many human interest events, funny stories, and enough twists and turns to cause the reader to wonder just what the hell is happening next.PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW
J. T. Gooch takes the reader into the lives of two people, an American named Jack and a Chinese woman named Angela. After Angela teaches a few months, the headmaster charges her with subversive activities and causes her to be placed on trial. The Chief Investigator realizes she and Jack are two love birds from different countries. This amazing book shows there is no depths or bounds with love.
-Rae C. Bernard
“”She fell asleep wondering whether her troubles were over or whether they were just beginning.””
THE U. S. REVIEW OF BOOKS
Gooch presents a frenzied, romantic rendezvous in communist China between Jack, an American and Angela, a Chinese woman. When Angela visits Jack in his dorm room, it is reported later–WHEN IT REALLY MATTERS. When Jack learns Angela is on trial for crimes against the state, he makes it his mission to rescue her. The story moves quickly and readers will root for them in the most unlikely circumstances.
-Cristen M. Fitzpatrick
About the Author
A graduate of the University of Evansville and of Indiana University, J. T. Gooch has taught sociology, World War II, the History of the Vietnam War, and U. S. History survey courses at Madisonville Community College, Madisonville, Kentucky, since 1970. He is one of the founders of the Historical Society of Hopkins County and served as the first treasurer. He has studied Chinese history and has taught two summers at Changsha Education College, Changsha, China. He likes to tend his Indiana farm and to restore farm tractors.
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