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In his first collection of poetry, Raminder Bajwa offers verse on a wide range of topics that question life, explore fear, and embrace innocence. Through contemplative reflections, Bajwa examines personalities, current affairs, the influence of faith in the modern world, and why humans are either...

The novel TRACKS: a story from the Vietnam War operates on the surface as a suspense drama structured around a triangle. At the center is Ingrid, a sultry young German woman who is fought over by Paul Carroll and Ralph Benson: friends on the surface but, as both will discover, enemies underneath....

Like many girls, author Joan Hobart was horse crazy when she was growing up. She had always wanted a horse of her own, but her parents had no money for that kind of luxury. In For the Love of a Horse, she chronicles how that dream became a reality and changed her life in deep, profound ways. In this...

Sixteen year-old Clara and her two brothers have a secret – one that could destroy their commune if anyone found out. When a race of people, thought to be long-extinct, appears outside their home, their secret is exposed. In the same day, a strange woman “spills” out of the computer that powers...

Jenny Harding, codename Omega, barely escaped from Grey’s Tower with her life. Going back in is more dangerous still. The mysterious Nuke has asked Jenny to resume her employment with Grey’s Tower: to spy on them from the inside, to uncover their secrets. Surrounded by people who don’t trust...

Oh lucky reader, on these pages, you will be looking over 'Buzz' Banks shoulder as he performs old fashioned police work in the rarefied High Desert of the Victor Valley, CA. back when a CHP Officer had to manage pretty much on his own, with thin technical support and far away resources. These early...

From crime and corruption to the ups and downs of romantic love, Lynn Snyder brings sharply etched characters to life as they grapple with decisive events in their lives. A blackmailed politician gets away with murder, a young graduate student uncovers corruption in her condominium complex, a group of...

On July 12th, 1949 my father’s first wife, Eva, allegedly committed suicide by leaping off the eight floor fire escape—backwards—of the Century Building, located in the heart of the Cultural District of Pittsburgh. Neither my father or anyone else in the family considered it a suicide and we...

It is three days until Christmas. As the clock ticks slower than usual, Gracie, Natalie, and Ella wonder if Santa will ever arrive. Thankfully Bernard, the family’s beagle, is about to come to the rescue. Prompted by their mother, the girls’ father helps pass the time by weaving a captivating tale...

After being left behind there by his mother, ten-year-old Randy Davis now lives at the ranch where his dad, Jake, works as a ranch hand. Fitting in and winning the love of his father, a rough and stern man, is turning out to be a struggle. Ranch life is very different from his former life in Crane,...

Gene Upchurch is a native of Durham and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a sportswriter and editor in Chapel Hill and Charlotte before embarking on a 28-year career in public affairs, community relations and legislative advocacy for BellSouth and Progress Energy. He lives in Raleigh with Lisa Piercy and their two dogs, Shelby and Hootie.

Book Five in the Forging of a Knight series! For the sake of a forbidden love, Qualtan will find himself on the run with a Mah-Zakim to free her from her curse, or be consumed by it. No longer a knight, his friends now turned against him, how great will the price be that must be paid? Can a Mah-Zakim...

The Writer's Toast Here's to all the ex-wives in my life, Here's to all my money lost, and all the strife. Here's to all the friends I know, Here's to all the bad debts I owe. Here's to the glass I lift and say, Here's to another happy Zinfandel Day. KM Many thanks to my family, (especially Jill)...

Land of Canaan is a collection of short vignettes recounting the experience of a suburban family that moved to the country in the late 1950’s. The head of the family, Dr. Heimat, acquiesced to his wife’s desire to move to a farm. He is soon embroiled with the wily folk of rural eastern Kansas...