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A THOUSAND BEAUTIES by Author Mark Adam Kaplan
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$14.99 - 224 Pages
Author's Website - MARK ADAM KAPLAN Literary Fiction
A Thousand Beauties stars unlikely leading man Rupert Ruskin – overweight, underemployed, rich and jaded – who clings to an obsessive belief that if he can witness a thousand beautiful sights in a single day, his sordid existence will turn to bliss ... just as family legend promises.
But his quest for Beauty is stalled when beloved and eccentric ex-wife, Elaine, bursts back into his life with news of her cancer. Ruskin now has to make room for a more immediate and secret plan ... but should it be for a wedding or a funeral?
GONE AWAY INTO THE LAND by Author Jeffrey B. Allen
Author's Website - JEFFREY B. ALLEN Philososophical Fiction
Gone Away Into The Land is a story about the greatest triumph of them all. It will reach the love, the hurt, and the hate that resides within your heart. It will pry open the deepest corners of your childhood, and then, without a hint of intention, reveal the positive energy of the human spirit. Jeffrey B. Allen will lead you on an unforgettable journey. His vivid imagination and his amazing talent as a writer, transports his readers to a place filled with wonders as original in form asin character. But, be certain to read between the lines, because this, you will discover, is where Gone Away Into The Land shines.
This ambitious yarn follows twelve-year old John Greber who, along with his mother Ellie, is the object of abuse at the hands of John’s father whom he names “The Beast.”
One day, “The Beast” abandons John and his mother while at the same time snatching away John’s six-year old sister Marny. John vows to seek revenge, confront his repulsive father, and rescue his sister Marny. As we discover, all of this transpires during a time where John and his mother will be indirectly involved in a Civil War that has far reaching repercussions that may lead to the destruction of the world.
Tagging along with John and his mother, Allen cleverly uses his mind-boggling world as a vehicle in understanding what life is all about and the human condition. This is particularly in evidence as we witness John’s challenge of making the transition from childhood to adulthood as he self-examines the big questions in life as well as the nature of good and evil, the meaning of life and the quest to understand himself.
ONE CLOWN SHORT by Author Linda Wright
$12.95 - 260 Pages 
Author's Website - UNDER CONSTRUCTION Women's Fiction
Mandy Maloney needs a job. She's had a successful run of flipping burgers at a popular fast food establishment, but the call to higher aspirations, and a disapproving mother, have finally forced her to flee to the classified ads. Soon she finds herself accepting an unlikely dream job-sales training at a circus supply company with great pay and great benefits, marred only by an aloof, sexist boss and a series of strange, surreal events. After befriending her "sane" coworkers, Gary and Violet, Mandy begins to find that things are even stranger, and more sinister, than they seem.
IT'S NOT YOUR MOTHER'S BRIDGE CLUB by Author Michelle Cozzens
Author's Website - MICHELE COZZENS Literary Fiction
This is the character-driven story of eight women who are middle-aged, middle to upper-middle class, and in the middle of each other’s lives. They live in a fictional town in southern Arizona, The Rattlesnake Valley, and each month they gather, forming the Snake Eyes Dice Club. They play the dice game bunko.
A bunko group or dice club is like a book club without a book. Bunko is a device for female bonding. And it’s the device used in this novel to bring the women together to share their decidedly ordinary, relatable lives, learn more about each other, and about themselves.
The women of the Dice Club are funny, smart, colorful and very entertaining. They are the mirror image of every bunko group in America. The characters include Brandy Lynn, a sharp-witted, sharp-tongued mother of five, who also cares for her widowed father; Sylvia Ostrander, a socialite philanthropist, the wife of a prominent attorney, who secretly has Botox injections; Tara Shephard, an aging former beauty queen and alcoholic in denial; Shonah Bartlett, a brainy journalist, soccer mom, who listens to NPR and writes about their lives in her newspaper column; Chloë Forrest, a financially-challenged nurse who takes every opportunity to remind the group of her highly-gifted children and her busy schedule; Tootsie Fennimore, a former LPGA golfer struggling with infertility; Blanca Midnight Fernglen, a multi-racial, divorced mother of three who works as model and is an aspiring painter; and Amanda Prince, a paralegal grieving over the loss of her son.
The story takes place over one year’s time where the truths of everyday lives in suburban communities are revealed, as these women struggle and share what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a sister and a friend
DREAM LIFE by Author Michelle Cozzens
$15.56 - Paperback - 180 Pages 
Author's Website - MICHELLE COZZENS
The story of how one young couple gave up their professional jobs in a major city in California to move to the woods in Northern Wisconsin after buying a resort and opening a disc golf course. Anyone considering owning and operating a resort or bed-and-breakfast needs to read this informative and well-written book.
THE THINGS I WISHED I'D SAID by Author Michelle Cozzens
$14.96 - Paperback - 236 Pages Author's Web - MICHELLE E. COZZENS
From The Things I Wish I'd Said...the other day when my kindergartner announced that she wanted to be in cheerleading, I nearly fell off my chair. First of all, I didn't know they made cheerleaders out of five-year-olds. Secondly, I thought of one of my lifelong regrets in having wasted my best high school athletic years on the sidelines in a short skirt. I almost launched into a history of Title IX and how when I was a young girl we didn't have the opportunity to be much besides cheerleaders; however, I chose a hopeful tone and asked my darling Camille if she wouldn't rather be the one playing the sport instead of the one yelling about it on the sidelines.
A LINE BETWEEN FRIENDS by Author michelle Cozzens
$14.96 - Paperback - 244 Pages
Author's Website - MICHELLE COZZENS
This is the story of a friendship spanning more than twenty years, until the day Noelle Moncada receives a terse, three-line letter from her friend, Joel Rolland, asking her to end all contact. Perplexed and hurt, Noelle recounts the details of her relationship with Joel and tries to determine why he feels the friendship must end. Was it something she did or said? Was it because of his wife, the beautiful Anita Dambra? Or was it because once during a night of passion and release, Noelle and Joel crossed the line between friends?
THE LAST STAGE By Author Jim Cherry
Author's Website - JIM CHERRY Literary Fiction
Michael Gray is an aging professional student looking for a way out of a small town and away from a girlfriend who increasingly wants more from him. He also has ambitions but he doesn’t know how to act upon them, or even admit them to himself. Inspired by a life time of friends telling him he looks like Jim Morrison, and a chance meeting with Ray Manzarek he takes a chance on his dreams and starts a Doors tribute band. He sidetracks a band on their road to fame, and together they experience the exhilaration of being a touring Rock ‘n’ Roll band, the long hours, the agents, the groupies, record company executives and the growing ego of Michael Gray.
On the road Michael meets and falls in love with Caitlin Stewart, daughter of legendary guitarist Jerry Osprey, but she doesn’t trust Michael’s motives does he truly love her? Or is she a career movie for Michael? Or even a collectible item for an ultimate fan?
The band is carried to the doors of stardom when the band is offered the gig of their Rock ‘n’ Roll dreams, playing the Whisky a go-go! In Los Angeles Michael meets former child star Jimmy Stark who shows him the monster fame, celebrity, and stardom can be, crashing studios and parties Michael assembles an entourage of wanna-be’s and has been’s. When Michael and the band meet their destinies on the stage of the Whisky a go-go Michael Gray is afforded the last stage he has.
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