A Life Through Books

The Knolan Cycle, Book 1 Science Fiction (First Contact)/Science Fiction (Romance)/Science Fiction (Military) Date Published: November 26, 2019 Publisher: PhoenixPhyre They’re already here, and no one knows about it...yet. Two bedrock assumptions seem to find their way into almost all science fiction tales of first contact between Earth and a hypothetical alien race. The first is that we will necessarily...

Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Publisher: Page Publishing Fallerman’s Grove Road was the idyllic escape Lewis Fogarty envisioned when he moved here with his wife, Donna. It was his opportunity to leave behind a somewhat troubled past. Everything he wanted was here, including a lot of privacy from distant yet friendly neighbors. All was perfect until a cancer was brought into the peaceful community in the form of Kara,...

A Kitty Beret Cafe Mystery, Book 1 Cozy Mystery Release Date: June 26, 2020 When Ellie Warren opens the Kitty Beret Café, her life revolves around finding forever homes for rescued cats and serving lattes. That is, until a woman’s body is discovered behind her shop—the same woman who’d thrown a hissy fit with Ellie in front of lots of witnesses. With Ellie’s cat, Templeton, supplying clues and the help of handsome...

Contemporary fiction with a speculative element Date Published: May 14, 2020 Publisher:  Black Rose Writing No one knew it at the time, but April 19, 2011, was the most important day in the history of the world. After his only friend and colleague, John Manta, disappears without a word, Dave Randall further entrenches himself in the humdrum life of an unenthusiastic lawyer. But once he begins to understand...

Finance/Economics Date Published: September 22 Publisher: Acorn Publishing   Alexander Baima graduated college with $80,000 in student debt at the age of 23 from one of the top 25 business schools in America. After college he went to work as a financial planner and serviced fortune 500 clients. He created the financial plans that brokers took credit for, and while they grossed millions a year, he made minimum...

Short Stories, Literary Fiction Date Published: June 18, 2020 “Six words to tell a story. Not three, or eight, or twenty. You may ask - is six enough? Well, trust me, six is plenty.” A collection of over five hundred stories, each one exactly six words long. Some stories are funny, some poetic, some vulgar, and some are a little disturbing. Each story has been lovingly crafted to amuse and entertain you in six words.   Doug...

Southern Historical Date Published: June 11, 2020 Publisher: Acorn Publishing Heaven Hill Plantation, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra Degambia is the daughter of a wealthy African American planter and a social-climbing mother who can pass for white. Balancing on the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world of Low-Country society is a treacherous undertaking....

Poems, Poetry, Social Issues Published: May 29, 2020 Publisher: Austin Macauley Diverse indications as to failure of humans to find and follow pathways to peace. Human Kindness Shortfalls is a collection of poems that vary as to topic but all address some problem or issue regarding which kindness is in short supply as we too often resort to harmful efforts at controlling who and/or what is allowed to prosper. These...