‘How Much is Self-Worth?: Ruminations of a Rented Slave’ is an eclectic collection of poems by debut author Michael Centrone that puts a harsh, revealing spotlight on the effects of overthinking our roles as individuals and as a whole. With individualism being a relatively new mentality to our species, Centrone introspectively digs deep into the consuming endeavor of determining self-worth. $2.99 on Kindle.
Forbidden Inheritance
After Larry Cooper helps a neighbor, a simple question makes him doubt his true identity. Is his family really his family?
His parents aren’t talking. In fact, it starts to seem like no one but Larry wants to find out the truth.
What is his family hiding? With nothing left to lose, he digs into a past that he should have seen all along. $0.99 on Kindle.
Princess of Independence
Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso is a forgotten figure of the Italian Revolution
Born into a family of nobility, Belgiojoso learned at a young age what
foreigners interested in ruling the Italian States could be like.
She spent the rest of her life dedicated to uniting her home country and ousting those foreigners
who only brought harm and discord to the country.
After a failed marriage to a prince and being banished to live in Paris,
Belgiojoso met many key players in the French Government, helping to further her cause.
Her social circles were ones that everyone desired to be part of.
When Belgiojoso becomes a mother, with no father to help her, she still works toward her goal of a unified country, raising her daughter to understand the importance of her heritage.
Will she have to choose between being a mother or being a patriot? $3.99 on Kindle.
Falling
After confessing to a series of bizarre murders, a young woman galvanizes her ailing cousin into confronting a forgotten tragedy. And that’s only the prologue of author Marc Burgio’s debut novel.
Spanning four decades, Falling is a sweeping yet intimate epic of love and revenge, exploring the nature of innocence, loss and the mystery of life itself, comprising a multi-genre odyssey of Neo-Noir, Dark Humor, Mystery/Suspense, LGBTQ Romance, Epistolary, Coming of Age, and Horror/Sci-fi genres.
Falling will leave you breathless. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Bowl of Fruit (1907)
Free: The Loser in the Static
With the death of his older brother still haunting him Peyton Pieters rebels against a society that rejects individuality. When he sets off to find the only girl he has ever loved things spiral downward into a self imposed existential crisis. Obsessed with crush Amber, Peyton begins a journey that hearkens back to Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ and Salinger’s ‘the Catcher in the Rye’ which leads to self loathing and destruction Free on Kindle
Our Wild and Precious Lives
During the Cold War two Army brat siblings, Tom and Melly, find themselves stationed with family on an Army base in Germany. Their abusive father, who suffers PTSD, is a World War II hero. Their mother is an Italian war bride. Relying on their inner strength and resilience, they navigate the boundaries of military dependents—American teenagers with the same needs, yearnings and heartbreak as any of their generation. $0.99 on Kindle
It Happened in Silence
Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It’s Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her, she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. The laws are not on her side. Or her brother’s. $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: King Genghis I
King Genghis I is a satirical adventure novel that blends timely realism and political fantasy.
Turan Mugayev, the protagonist of the book, is a New Yorker who travels from the heart of Western civilization to Genghistan, a small, hermetic Asian kingdom, ruled firmly but kindly by an affable, self-appointed benevolent dictator, who like other compassionate dictators is concerned principally with the well-being of his people.
The bond between the two men upsets the kingdom’s conventional wisdom, alters fates, and changes Turan from a broken-hearted and gloomy young man to a love-struck hero. Because, apparently, there’s nothing like the confines of a spunky little dictatorship to spark a new love. Free on Kindle.
Sorrow
Dreams abandoned, out of work and uninspired, guitar prodigy Joe Harper is a sensitive, struggling character, rapidly approaching his mid-30s and haunted by a history of failure. With a promising future in music long forgotten, Joe is resigned to a life of virtual seclusion, listless among his beloved redwood trees. But when he receives word from his long lost love, October, informing him of her upcoming art exhibit, Joe is awash with memories of the past and must ultimately decide if cowardice is reversible. Given a second chance, in more ways than one, can he recover the self-respect he lost long ago? $1.99 on Kindle.
The Nam Legacy
You know Jack. He’s the boy next door.
The one with the pretty girlfriend.
And then he goes to Vietnam.
After two tours of duty, Jack thought killing others to stay alive would be the hardest thing he would ever have to live with.
He was wrong.
Although the nightmare of what he saw and did haunt him constantly, what tortures him the most, is what he left behind.
She’s the country’s golden girl and she’s always been in love with Jack.
But now he’s a soldier.
Will she let his choices break her?
‘Not everyone who lost his life in Vietnam died there, not everyone who came home from Vietnam ever left there.’
The first book in the award-winning series, Return to Nam. $0.99 on Kindle.
Captain Sedition, The Death of the Age of Reason
Ever Winter
In the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse, Earth has become a desolate ice-world, in the grip of perpetual winter.
Broken, altered and tormented by all that has befallen him, Henry must bring vengeance to those that assume him dead. By any means necessary.
Ever Winter is a post-apocalyptic tale of loss, rehabilitation, and revenge with an audio edition narrated by award-winning actor Dan Stevens. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Gift of Stories
Reading is wonderful, but how many times have you failed to finish a novel or lost interest because you’re too busy or exhausted to remember all the details?
So many of us spend all our time doing things for other people and totally miss the simple things that we love and make us happy, like reading. Modern life is busy and difficult, but we need to make some time for ourselves – we deserve it.
The Gift of Stories is the answer. One story a day for 28 days, you’ll experience mystery, suspense, love, fear, and laughter. Get ready for a journey of rediscovery.
Everyone deserves a life filled with wonderful stories. $0.99 on Kindle.
Beyond The Utmost Bound
Free: Wrapped in Green Comfort
An intense love story between a spoiled young woman incarcerated in her bedroom and an ex-convict who lives in poverty at a bedsit in a Leeds suburb. Virginia has secrets that threaten to shame her father and step-mother. Tommy is gullible, but longs to put his past behind him. Their turbulent affair rocks with the twists of steadily exposed information that is often fabricated and perhaps borne from Virginia’s imagination. However, it maybe her father who is the architect of her instability – he too is suspected of keeping secrets that have shaped Virginia’s character. Free on Kindle.
Don’t Call Me Crazy! I’m Just in Love: Book 1 of 2 (Urban Books)
The Silver Baron’s Wife
Hers is the tale of a fiercely independent woman who bucked all social expectations by working where 19thcentury women didn’t work, becoming the key figure in one of the West’s most scandalous love triangles, and, after a devastating stock market crash destroyed Tabor’s vast fortune, living in eccentric isolation at the Matchless Mine. $0.99 on Kindle.
Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories
Is love the most revolutionary of all acts?
In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables.
Join the struggle against stifling societal powers and explore the potency of love.
Join the revolution! $2.99 on Kindle.
Debussy’s Slippers
George Gershwin thinks he could do better, better than Broadway.
Ira Gershwin disagrees, why get funny ideas about writing po-faced Piano Concertos that no one hears, when you’re already getting much respect and much money (and much female attention) from writing hit shows? But what George wants George gets, and soon the brothers are traveling to Europe to meet French maestro Maurice Ravel – you know, a real composer.
Despite dreading this American invasion on his artistic privacy, the haughty Ravel warms to George, the two men share musical ideas and beaucoup du vin. It all turns sour when George returns to New York, unintentionally carrying in his luggage Ravel’s most treasured possession: a pair of slippers that belonged to Ravel’s musical forefather, the French national hero – Claude Debussy.
Now, Debussy’s slippers may reek, they may look slightly ridiculous, but their inspirational power is undeniable. Once George feels their effect, he’s loath to return them, and sets about stalling an increasingly irate Ravel. Things come to a head when Ravel unexpectedly returns Gershwin’s visit. $3.99 on Kindle.
Free: From da Big Island: New York Defined Her – Hawaii Changed Her
CAN’T GO TO HAWAII THIS YEAR THANKS TO COVID? Why not read an enjoyable tale about the Big Island of Hawaii, so you can escape the virus and the lockdown?
How could Hawaii change a New Yorker? “From da Big Island” is a baby boomer coming of age, fish out of water, a woman-centric comedic tale about Ruth, whose life is in peril; she leaves the Big Apple for the Big Island of Hawaii and needs to deal with the customs of the islands, unusual neighbors, marijuana, pigs, & more. Will Ruth accept change and adjust to her new life on the Big Island or will she reject it and return to the Big Apple? FIND OUT- GET IT NOW! Free on Kindle.
The Hypnotist’s Assistant
Down Goes Trump
In satirical style the author combines news and creativity to portray many key characters during the four years of Donald Trump’s administration. Numerous historical figures such as Martin Luther King and General Robert E. Lee also return to offer their perceptions of a turbulent time. Prepare for a stimulating ride. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Christmas Clock and A Song For My Mother
Red Sky Over Hawaii
Inspired by real places and events of WWII, Red Sky Over Hawaii immerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale.
“With effortless prose, Ackerman skillfully navigates the early days of WWII with captivating characters bonded by circumstance. Mystery and magic are woven around Lana and the pages of this book, delivering a beautiful and thoughtful novel that pays tribute to the lore of the islands, their people, and those who stand up for the ones who cannot.” –Noelle Salazar, bestselling author of The Flight Girls. $2.99 on Kindle.