In God We Trust: A Novel

In God We Trust: A NovelThey’ve all been touched by his name. But he’s the one who ends up moved by the journey…

1976. Jack Sampson’s faith is spent. Grieving the tragic loss of his father, the ten-year-old sees no reason to agree with the sentiment on his hardworking mother’s tip money – “In God We Trust.” And as he ponders the phrase, he decides to make his own mark by signing his name on both a $1 and a $100 bill… changing the lives of everybody who would touch them next.

Sparking imaginations with every new exchange, Jack’s signature catches the attention of high-rolling poker players, down-to-earth firefighters, and many others. But as the mourning boy grows into a struggling man, he still has no idea the tremendous impact his simple scrawls could have on his future.

Will Jack learn to see the bigger picture and find his belief restored?

In God We Trust is an inspiring literary fiction novel. If you like wide casts of diverse characters, heartfelt messages of hope, and stories that come full circle, then you’ll love Heather Hummel Gallagher’s salute to something greater.

Buy In God We Trust to make a down payment on eternity today!
$2.99 on Kindle.
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In the Hall of Mirrors

In the Hall of Mirrors

A collection of short poems that are reflective of life, love, society, circumstances, and understanding. The concept of the book is that every page is like walking up to a new reflection in a wall of mirrors. Each reflection is different from the last, showing a person a different view of themselves. Most these poems were written with deeper meaning and subtext, although, many are straightforward and on the nose. To provide that similar feeling of being in a hall of mirrors, there is no order in how the poems were selected and placed in this collection. $5.33 on Kindle.

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Free: Asymmetrical Woman

Asymmetrical Woman
A woman in a disintegrating marriage, on the brink of having an affair, develops Bell’s Palsy, paralyzing her face, and forcing her to reexamine her marriage, ambitions, and self. Asymmetrical Woman explores the inherent contradictions and dilemmas of contemporary women—the disappointments, compromises and anguish of marriage, motherhood and work. Free on Kindle.

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A Distant Horizon

A Distant Horizon

1851 Ireland.

After enduring years of a devastating potato famine, Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. Crop failures and a descent into poverty changes her from a happy wife and mother to a woman struggling to keep her children alive.

When several shocking events occur, it forces her to make an enormous decision.

But will the colony give her the security and happiness she longs for, especially when she has left her heart behind?

Can Ellen thrive in a strange land?

Or has she made the greatest mistake of her life? $0.99 on Kindle.

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Discovering How Complacency Leads to Government Control by Analyzing Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

By bridging Marxism and Deconstructionism, this essay proves how Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four parallels the modern-day complacency among Americans. Typically, most will point out the obvious similarities like constant surveillance through screens (phones, televisions, computers), the ever-increasing wage gap between the rich and poor, and the creation of new laws that interfere with our constitutional freedoms. The objective of this essay is to circumvent these themes by first deconstructing them, then using Marxism to explain how the deconstruction of the themes relates to our current times. $7.16 on Kindle.

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Free: Sins in Blue

Sins in Blue

A young man on a mission. An aging musician with a dream. Society perched over a racial divide. It’s the 1960s, and nothing reflects the cultural revolution more than music. Sins in Blue is a novel about lost dreams, crippling grief, and the healing power of an unlikely friendship. Free on Kindle.

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Bell Hammers

Bell Hammers

“Schaubert recounts a mischievous man’s eight decades in Illinois’s Little Egypt region in his picaresque debut. Remmy’s life of constant schemes and pranks and a lifelong feud with classmate Jim Johnstone and the local oil drilling company proves consequential. This is a hoot.” – Publisher’s Weekly. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Polk, Harper & Who

Polk, Harper & Who
A police visit and then a dinner party threaten to unravel all that Adam and Eva hold dear… A tender, thorny, frequently hilarious contemporary story of complicated friendships and family relationships, and ultimately of the triumph of imperfect London love within imperfect London lives. “beautifully encapsulates what love is” Kirkus Reviews. Free on Kindle.

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The Color of Cold and Ice

The Color of Cold and Ice
In a Manhattan coffee shop, five characters, all at turning points in their lives—the loss of a spouse, the search for meaning, a bad diagnosis, the need for love, and the angst of loneliness—come together. Through a series of coincidences, a trip to Amsterdam, the colors of the chakra system, Van Gogh, and the clarity of the cold, their lives are altered forever. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnotes

Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnoes

Lying and Making a Living contains more of the irreverent, hard-hitting, exhilarating, ironic, and emblematic prose we’ve come to expect from the writer and painter William Dunlap. His stories, some as short as a single page, leave the reader gasping for breath and wanting more. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Free: Cucina Tipica

Cucina Tipica
Escaping to Italy was the easy part. Figuring out how to stay forever is where the adventure begins… When disheartened American Jacoby Pines arrives in Italy on vacation, he has no idea that a family photograph from the previous century would start a search for ancestry through the streets of Florence and the hills of Tuscany. Free on Kindle.

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A Gentle Mind on Fire


An amazing bundle of poems written in a time of mental transition. $9.00 on Kindle.

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Blind Fold: Book Seven – Technicians Series

Blind Fold: Book Seven - Technicians Series

One Way has always done things on his own terms. However, changes in his life are happening faster than he has time to react.

Uncertain if the woman and boy he assists depend on him or it is the other way around. However, things get tricky when life comes at them fast and the meaning of family and friends becomes a saving grace.

Now, if he can just get the woman to listen…the rest will fall into place. The blinders come off for everyone when One Way removes his Blind Fold. $3.00 on Kindle.

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Rising Wind: The Weeping God and The Book of Hope (Book 3 of the Series)

Rising Wind: The Weeping God and The Book of Hope (Book 3 of the Series)

Book Series Overview Given by Readers Favorite & 5-Star Awarded Review for The Rising Wind Series Books 1 thru 3.

The Weeping God and the Book of Hope, part three in the Rising Wind series, is actually a prequel to the first two books, so it’s unnecessary to read those first. The lead characters, Sage Dalton and L.W. are the parents of the main character in the other Rising Wind books. Although the characters are different and set in an earlier time period, the book’s tone is very similar.

This time they discover an ancient text in a Mexican desert tomb that leads Sage, L.W., and a group of fellow explorers to Tibet, where they find themselves in the middle of a war. Even with danger at every turn, they still manage to discover secret caves that lead them toward an elusive yet powerful Book of Hope.

First and foremost, her books have a superb cast of characters that readers can easily relate to. They care about each other, work together to achieve a common goal, laugh together, and cry together.
Second, her stories revolve around rare ancient discoveries found all around the world. Much like the great Indiana Jones films, each new discovery comes with an element of danger.
The third common theme is an embracing of all world religions. Religion is somehow intertwined with each rare find that the characters make. Readers will appreciate the way Ms. Olsen always characterizes the religious elements in her stories in a positive light, as the hope of mankind rather than the way most works of fiction portray religion in a negative sense as humanity’s biggest problem.

This is a fun read filled with colorful characters and lots of action. I recommend it for fans of character-driven adventure who like to learn about science, ancient civilizations, and world religions along the way. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Fifth Man

The Fifth Man
National bestselling author James LePore’s searing novel Sons and Princes riveted readers with its depiction of a man caught between crime and conscience. LePore’s characters return to a life eight years later and overwhelmingly changed.

Chris Massi now has more power than he ever could have imagined. When his son Matt finds himself drawing the attention of the Russian Mafia, the risks become all too immediate and the reaction all too crucial for Chris.

Rippling with tension, The Fifth Man is a story of strength and consequences, of the price of the past and the perilous path to the future. $1.99 on Kindle.

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The Eyes of a Wolf

The Eyes of a Wolf
Ex-military Zev Evans is a drunk – and a neurotic one at that. He believes the weird thoughts that plague him – his ‘tics’ – might have something to do with his brain surgery three years earlier.

Carol Harris, the surgeon who mended Zev’s brain, makes a desperate call, sending Zev out west for his first case as a fixer – the person you call when there is nowhere else to turn.

In his own bizarre yet oddly incisive style, Zev narrates his task to save and avenge Carol…and find his true calling in the process. $1.99 on Kindle.

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The Coldness of Objects

The Coldness of Objects
London 2030. The news a young postman delivers will cause 70-year-old Anthony Pablo Rubens to reflect on all the adversities and joys of the past, while he begins to prepare for the menacing surprises of the future.

“Thoroughly gripping… a chilling vision of an abnormal ‘new-normal’ to come.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) $0.99 on Kindle.

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All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany

All Things Deserve to Perish

All Things That Deserve to Perish is a novel that penetrates the constrained condition of women in Wilhelmine Germany, as well as the particular social challenges faced by German Jews, who suffered invidious discrimination long before Hitler’s seizure of power. It is also a compassionate rumination on the distractions of sexual love, and the often unbearable strains of a life devoted to the arts. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnotes

Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnotes

“Lying and Making a Living”– a collection of short stories, contains more of the irreverent, hard-hitting, exhilarating, ironic, and emblematic prose we’ve come to expect from the writer and painter William Dunlap. His stories, some as short as a single page, leave the reader gasping for breath and wanting more. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Pianist in a Bordello

Pianist in a Bordello

“Pianist in aBordello is so well crafted it compels readers to surrender and enjoy this irreverent, madcap portrait of a politician. A steady flow historic nuggets, shrewd insights, passionate encounters, and all-out hilarious moments, make it difficult to stop reading.” $2.99 on Kindle.

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Whippoorwill Chronicles

Whippoorwill Chronicles

Sam and George are childhood friends, sharing a deep loyalty that is cemented when George saves Sam from drowning. When the consequences of their choices unfold, Sam faces the frailty of relationships. Returning home again, Sam begins a long journey to regain a sense of what is real, what is true and what is his responsibility. $0.99 on Kindle.

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The Accidental Suffragist

The Accidental Suffragist

It’s 1912, and protagonist Helen Fox is a factory worker living in New York’s tenements. When tragedy strikes in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Helen is seduced by the Suffragist cause and is soon immersed, working alongside famous activists. $0.99 on Kindle.

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Mazie

Mazie

A BURDENED WIDOW.
A RECLUSIVE BACHELOR.
A COLLISION OF FATES THAT TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES FOREVER.
After tragically losing her only child when he was just a boy, then facing her husband’s death two years ago from Alzheimer’s, 72-year-old Mazie questions why God doesn’t take her too. Her overwhelming grief leaves her aching to escape her lonely existence and join her husband and son in the grave.
When Brian, a reserved bachelor in his early thirties, moves next door, Mazie takes a special interest in him–even attempting to set him up with her young friend, Claire. Then, there’s the odd little girl across the street who is determined to be his friend. Brian doesn’t know what to make of the spunky old woman or the persistent young girl who both nudge their way into his life when he just wants to be left alone.
When a sudden tragedy leaves Mazie battling for her life, Brian steps in to help the old widow, and both discover that life’s purpose is often revealed in the unexpected.  $2.99 on Kindle.

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The Legend of Naughty Cleopatra, Egypt’s Last and Most Glorious Queen: As Related by Herself and Others, Chief Among Them Rome’s Mark Antony

The Legend of Naughty Cleopatra, Egypt’s Last and Most Glorious Queen: As Related by Herself and Others, Chief Among Them Rome’s Mark Antony

A literary-deep-irreverent take on the story of Cleopatra. For lovers of ancient Egypt and Rome looking for an unconventional perspective on their favorite civilizations, with plenty of comedy and philosophy. $0.99 on Kindle.

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All Things Small

ALL THINGS small
In the back streets of Old Rome, near the famous Bernini monument, The Fountain of the Four Rivers, La Dolce Vita turns from sweet…to sour. A naïve American tourist gets involved with poets, the Mafia, an opera singer, a movie star, and a film being shot at Cinecittà. In the grand tradition of Mark Twain, Norman B. Schwartz recounts the comic misadventures of an innocent abroad—neither an Ugly American nor a Quiet one—but someone young who soon learns that within the Eternal City one cannot stay that innocent for long. $4.99 on Kindle.

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