Kenna is the daughter of a celebrity America loves (if only they knew…) Rachel was her surrogate mother and she’s now a grieving widow. Kenna needs help and needs it now, Rachel needs a reason to keep going. Together they’ll embrace an epic road trip toward new places and new lives. $2.99 on Kindle.
Motion of Intervals
August 2, 2023 By
Exits
July 31, 2023 By
Stephen C. Pollock’s poetry collection Exits nods to the literary traditions of years past while simultaneously speaking to the present moment. Multilayered and musical, the poems in Exits have drawn comparisons to the work of Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney. With bold imagery, attention to form, and a consistent through line rooted in the theme of mortality, Pollock’s collection responds to contemporary anxieties surrounding death and the universal search for meaning in life’s transience. $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: Stories
July 20, 2023 By
Four remarkably unsuccessful stories by one remarkably unsuccessful author. Yet each has its moments.
All I Longed for Long Ago Was You – A story of love that echoes through time.
The romance in this book is gorgeous and the emotions expressed by the characters are very strong, especially the love and longing for each other.-Shaz-Goodreads
AMANDA – A story of forgiveness and second chances.
The plot tugs at the heart without guile, grown from a simple, touching seed-crystal: the author’s stumbling on a memorial plaque to a lost child. Moore’s prose, as direct and open-hearted, engages and drives a classic story-Lost in Romance Books.
The Christmas Story – How a Christmas Stocking helps keep precious memories alive.
I loved reading this book. It is short but powerful. Sad when we lose someone we love. Even sadder when we try not to remember them just so we don’t get emotional. This book made me cry. Happy tears of course! Robyn Micheals-Goodreads
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The Mist – How three friends conquer their fears and save an ancient civilization from extinction.
Three friends are connected to the past and have to deal with monsters, myths and mayhem to find a way to make things right. This book is a different tale than I was expecting, but is a good, short read that holds the reader’s imagination and attention. P.S. Winn-Goodreads
Free on Kindle.
Free: The Chianti Chronicles: Volume One – Tales of Vietnam Vets
July 12, 2023 By
The Vietnam War ended decades ago, but its heroes are still here. They are as diverse as America itself, but all of them have key things in common: love for their country, love for their families, and love for that greatest of vintages, Chianti.
A young boy learns the truth of his father’s service in Vietnam. An imposed tour in Vietnam separates two young lovers. A survivor of Ia Drang Valley contemplates ending his life right before Christmas. A charismatic, but troubled Vietnam vet longs for a woman he can never have. An Air Force Major, part of Operation Babylift, returns home to New York to bury her beloved brother. A “tunnel rat” saves a woman from her abusive boyfriend. A Silver Star recipient performs one last act of selfless courage and discovers what waits for him on the other side of life. A beloved community veteran suffers a senseless act of violence. A Special Forces operative pulls off the heist of a lifetime. Three old friends reminisce over the loss of a veteran and local legend.
Settle in with your beverage of choice and prepare for a collection of short stories that will touch your heart and remind you of the real people hidden behind the history. Free on Kindle.
Free: Magnolia Song
July 12, 2023 By
Magnolia Song is the explosive saga of two Memphis families whose intertwined fates spiral out of control over four generations of heartbreak and renewal. It’s a rollicking gallop of a novel, a stampede over rough terrain, where the absurd leavens a yeasty mix of sin, sacrifice, and redemption, imbuing the least of the characters with an irrepressible dignity.
“It’s not often that a tale this breathtaking manages to sweep up in its headlong trajectory such a gallery of complex, authentic, and utterly mad characters. Nor is it often that such a swift, page-turning narrative can touch such depths and achieve such wisdom along the way. In J. Robert Towery’s Magnolia Song, the South is a carnival of comedy, danger, and heartbreak. The book is a flat-out wonder.” — Steve Stern
“The first comparison that came to mind when I read Magnolia Song was Balzac. We almost never see novels of whole societies anymore, but this is one on a grand scale. The full complexity of the new South isn’t well understood, even by the people who live there—it’s too new, too big. Yet here it is, widescreen. More than breadth, Magnolia Song has depth. Its interweaving stories are all rooted in a philosophic consciousness of history, particularly in its treatment of race relations. On that delicate subject this novel embodies both a cool distance and a compassionate intimacy. When hatred appears, as it must, it hits with a jolt. As for plain old story, this is one of those novels that grabs you and doesn’t let go.” — Thomas McNamee Free on Kindle.
Free: Giver of Gifts
June 28, 2023 By
A lyrical and insightful meditation on mortality and spiritual life, Giver of Gifts tells the story of a schoolteacher who has lost his daughter and becomes estranged from his family and his life. Now, facing untreatable cancer, he needs to rediscover how to give of himself. Free on Kindle.
Free: Crawford’s Affair (Act I): Family Portrait
June 25, 2023 By
Bridgerton meets Virginia Woolf in a modern comedy of manners! Love and scandal…all in beautiful prose. Horatio Crawford ignites the summer social season. But youth rebels with romance. And enemies scheme. Can he discover truth before secrets ruin his family? Free on Kindle.
The Dead-Honest Truth According to Tazz
June 20, 2023 By
We follow the young and dead-honest Tazz Iverson from one shithole to the next as she searches for fulfillment and revolution, starting off in a holiday resort in Scotland. $2.99 on Kindle.
Lavonne on the Job: The Hair Salon
June 16, 2023 By
Lavonne Mack has left corporate America behind, but she is taking her experience as a marketing manager to another job she never thought she would have . . . at a hair salon. It will be one experience she will never forget. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Sacred Flow
June 13, 2023 By
May the poetry in this book serve as a reminder to honor and respect your sensuality.
Consciously use your senses to understand the world around and within you.
Release past shame or guilt from your body and heal.
Forgive yourself for having shared your physical temple with strangers.
Bathe in the power of your creative and life-birthing center.
Allow the free expression of body movement in the form of dance.
Be like the element of water which adjusts and accepts without seeking to control.
Faithfully trust and go with the currents of life by transforming the urge to resist change.
Embrace the sacred flow within to answer the necessary questions:
• Who am I?
• What is the meaning of life?
• Why am I here?
Let the answers which arise manifest as your legacy to this world.
Sacred Flow is the sixth in a series of seven poetry books. It is composed of poems associated with topics of the sacral chakra. The sacral chakra is the second chakra. It is associated with yin and feminine energy, sexual connection, sensuality, pleasure, relationships, creative expression, emotions, sensitivity, and fluidity.
Free on Kindle.
The Humbling and Other Poems
June 8, 2023 By
An “Editor’s Pick” in the June 20, 2022 issue of Publishers Weekly, this masterful, inspiring, and critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection features over 100 memorable poems on humility, hope, love, justice, peace, and more.
Fans of Robert’s poetry will be elated to find Obsidian with Sheens of Gold, Interior Kingdom, The Song of Walt Is Our Song, Amid the Jersey Turnpike Whales, Love’s Special Relativity, the Phoenix poems, and many other favorites are included here along with new writings.
Newcomers to Robert’s poetry soon discover his accessible poems span an ever-expanding array of interesting topics and unique styles, ensuring there is “something for everyone” to be found in his carefully crafted works.
As part of Robert’s ongoing efforts to promote accessibility in poetry, he has included a glossary of poetry terms, reading suggestions, three brief essays, an author biography, and more in his book.
You can follow Robert on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, AllPoetry, or his website (www.RobertJTiess.net) as he posts new poems, participates in poetry challenges, engages with fans and other authors, and promotes the awareness and appreciation of poetry. $2.99 on Kindle.
Dead Letters
May 26, 2023 By
“If you want to find me, search within these pages.”
Bestselling author Richard Debden is missing. The only clue: a copy of his unpublished final novel delivered to his ex-girlfriend, Amy. When Richard’s closest reunite for his memorial, Amy turns to his former best friend, to help unravel the mystery. Can they unlock the secrets of Dead Letters, or will more sinister forces get there first?
$3.76 on Kindle.
When You Get Older
May 23, 2023 By
They call it custody, a term used for prisoners, but maybe it’s all one and the same with these unjust systems we’re forced to live with, vindictive mothers we’re forced to accept. When You Get Older is an emotional story told through poems of a bright young uncle and his relationship with his older brother and niece. Due to his parents’ absence throughout his life, he’s always looked up to his older brother like a father figure–and his niece is more like a little sister to him. He wouldn’t change this family dynamic for anything. But it’s not meant to last, and fate tears their family apart. After a period of separation where he questions himself and life, will he be able to find a way to bring back the family he never had? Or is his niece destined to repeat the same kind of childhood as him? $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Juxtapositions from the Good Vibe Lounge
May 20, 2023 By
Set in Central New Jersey, the Good Vibe Trilogy is a coming-of-age story following the lives of two young people raised in diverse yet dysfunctional environments during the late 1970s. When their lives connect, it impacts the destinies of their friends and family over a forty-year span.
Volume One, The Paradise We Create, introduces Andrew ‘Drew’ Reubens. As a teen, he is a girl-crazy, self-involved kid at the center of a clique of performing arts geeks. One of the many females in his sphere is unfiltered and misunderstood Alyona ‘Yoyo’ Zalenkov, being raised in a rural cult environment with warped family values.
The result of their unlikely relationship is represented in the modern-day events of the story, as Andrew hosts a celebration at his Central Jersey establishment, The Good Vibe Lounge. When the younger generation of his family expresses a desire to understand more about their back story, Andrew pivots, between modern times and 1977, his climactic senior year of High School to weave the story of Drew and Yoyo… and a collection of characterful events and relationships along the way.
With the help of some of his oldest friends, Andrew takes a tour of the often comedic, sometimes tragic.. but all-so-typical journey of adolescents faced with the transition to life as adults in the real world.
The Good Vibe saga is a forty-year history of characters who navigate thru the wonders, challenges, and destiny of human interplay. Along the way, they take on these dynamics, with juxtaposed tales of adolescent frivolity, dysfunctional family, enduring friendship, the depth of romance and sensuous love, criminal behavior, deception, success, failure, the thrill of knowledge, personal progression, and… a good dose of recovering from regrets.
And ultimately seeking to balance ‘what might have been’ with everything happening at the place where reality meets up with all of it… for a reason. Free on Kindle.
Lifetimes & Life’s Lines
April 30, 2023 By
****Newly Released Poetry Collection****
“Lifetimes & Life’s Lines” is a delightfully wordy, profoundly bodacious YAWP about all things living. $0.99 on Kindle.
Lifetimes & Life’s Lines
April 30, 2023 By
**A Newly Released Poetry Collection** In “Lifetimes & Life’s Lines,” you will find inspiration & refuge during these challenging times. There’s a celebratory sense of faith, hope, and nature in this reassuring chronicle of life’s journey. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Atlanta Fish Fry
April 28, 2023 By
Life’s a Fish and then you Fry
Growing up as a kid in Louisiana, AJ Joiner’s all-time favorite thing was his grandmoh’s Fish Fry. Now that he’s all grown up in Atlanta, GA, AJ is working a job he doesn’t like and living in a neighborhood he doesn’t love – at first.
But when gentrification threatens to strip the community of its authentic charm, AJ hosts a Fish Fry to get to know his neighbors, and he begins to fall in love with each one, despite their eccentricities.
But this tight-knit community doesn’t have the money to fend off rich developers and determined city planners, helped by one of their own: Eddison Fisher.
So AJ decides to throw a second Fish Fry to raise some cash. Despite increasingly-serious issues with his health and his marriage, the event is a huge success.
But it’s still not enough.
Can AJ and his new friends throw a Fish Fry big enough to save their neighborhood?
Or will Eddison and his outsider allies destroy everything they love about their home? Free on Kindle.
Free: Semi Gloss
April 28, 2023 By
Waking up next to a dead girl is no brunch-time delight for Sammy, the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Enter Penny, a runaway with street smarts, and the two embark on a wild ride of healing, art, and friendship in this funny, fast-paced tale of redemption. Free on Kindle.
They Called Me Margaret
April 21, 2023 By
Margaret Manning has spent the better part of her life conforming to the expectations of other people–her father, then her husband. Breaking away from this ruinous tradition, she
becomes a cozy mystery writer and decides to open her own bookstore “Thn’e Indie
Book Nook.” But when her husband mimics the behaviors of some of the more unscrupulous
characters in her books, she fears that she is losing him, or even worse that
she is losing her mind.
While abandonment is nothing new to Margaret (she has not seen or heard from her mother since she was six years old) the fear of losing her husband is devastating. She struggles to find the strength to mend her shattered marriage while also coping with obscure health
issues, her daughter’s precarious behavior, a disingenuous neighbor, and an
unpredictable mother-in-law.
Who in Margaret’s life is friend and who is foe is not always apparent, and it’s up to her to figure it all out. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Death of a 10-Year-Old Boy
April 20, 2023 By
The Death of a 10-Year-Old Boy is a heartbreaking, once-in-a-generation novel about a man who takes his dying son on a hunt for a bear that’s killed two people.
The man wants the boy to see something in life beyond school and sports, beyond everything he’s ever known. Ultimately the book is about what’s left when we’re facing the end: what are we and what does it mean to be alive? Free on Kindle.
Free: The Final Frame
March 30, 2023 By
He sacrificed his family for ambition — but now they’re all he has left.
Cameron Parrish became Hollywood’s #1 action director by refusing to use AI-assist technology. Every film is a box office success, but neither fame nor fortune makes up for the fact that Cameron’s dying to make real cinema — an Oscar-worthy movie that will show the world he’s an auteur, not the clever hack that the critics make him out to be.
But mere hours after being greenlit for the film he knows he was born to shoot, director Cameron Parrish is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. There’s no treatment, and if he’s lucky, he might make it another year, but more likely, he’s got a few months left.
As word gets out about his illness, Cameron realizes he has no true friends. No real family either: his obsession with finding perfection behind the camera lens has long since alienated his ex-wife and his adult son.
Desperate to make his final days matter, he signs up for an experimental program that promises to help him discover the meaning of his life — and his death.
Accompanied by an artificial intelligence named Sofia, Cameron embarks on a bucket list journey — from the Maldives and Bhutan to Toledo and Morocco — designed to round out his unbalanced life and help him make peace with his impending death.
But what if it’s too late for Cameron to see the world through a new lens?
Eat, Pray, Love meets The Bucket List in this vibrant but poignant story exploring the possibility of second chances and the unexpected beauty of an imperfect life. Free on Kindle.
Free: As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back
March 12, 2023 By
Two classics, The Lovely Bones and The Beach, meet in this girl-and-her-backpack story—except this teenager, Carlie, isn’t merely traveling.
Carlie steals ten thousand dollars from her parents to get as far from them as possible: Southeast Asia. There, the Lonely Planet path of hooks, heat, alcohol and drugs takes on a terrifying reality.
Landing in Tokyo in the late 1980s, teaching English and practicing tai chi, Carlie has the chance at a journey she didn’t plan for: one to find the self-respect ripped from her as a child and the healthy sexuality she desires. Free on Kindle.
Men Without Hate
March 12, 2023 By
a searching and powerful account of the effects of war on three generations of men in the Raines family, beginning at the Battle of Gettysburg, and ending after the war in the Philippine’s during World War Two $5.99 on Kindle.
Free: Sweet and Sour
February 15, 2023 By
Discover poems that tackle both the benefits and pitfalls of love and relationships. The first section focuses on being unattached and full of hope. The second is all about being in a relationship that’s full of love but also worry. The third looks at being single again after the collapse of a relationship. Free on Kindle.
Xerxes: Sailing the Wings of Morning
February 14, 2023 By
Spies, forbidden romance, and Mideast intrigue converge in this novel of high seas adventure and cyber sabotage.
Two determined women and the men they love are caught in an international espionage manhunt. It begins with deceit and daring and ends with the dueling of three intelligence services culminating in a climactic offshore encounter. $4.99 on Kindle.
