Set against the sweeping upheavals of twentieth-century China, The House Filler is an award-winning historical novel about one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of war, loss, and political turmoil.Born into a society that measures a woman's worth by the sons she bears, Golden Phoenix becomes a "house filler"—a young bride chosen to continue another family's bloodline. Her quiet hopes for a stable life are shattered by the Japanese invasion, civil war, and the rise of Communist rule. As history tears her family apart, she must summon remarkable courage to protect her children, preserve their dignity, and hold on to hope when nearly everything else has been taken from her.Told thr...

Have you ever walked a Civil War Battlefield and wondered how all the carnage was possible? Join our young West Point officers and the families as they continue their journey to the bloodiest single day of the Civil War. “Antietam” picks up where the first book in the Steel and Honor Series, “Cadets to Captains: 1848  - 1860,” ends.

Aghast at American cinema's descent into boundary-pushing violence, famed Hollywood director J. Edgar Schnatz decides to move in the opposite direction-a celebration of sexuality. But making the world's first mainstream adult film comes with its own unique set of challenges, from finding a willing cast and sufficient financing to getting that all-important NC-17 rating.

DRUMMING UP THE DEADA collection of truly compelling, haunting and paranormal stories from childhood to present day written by drummer Jéan Boomer Grenier. A look into the afterlife consisting of spine-chilling horror, the unexplained and validation that there is something after this life as we know it. Jéan Boomer Grenier shares his personal experiences and takes you deep into various aspects of paranormal hauntings, poltergeists, premonitions and unexplainable happenings that he has witnessed first hand.Mystery, bewilderment and the longing to know what comes after this lifetime has always been a question of intrigue. These stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. They provide you...

In a forgotten corner of the Caribbean, where maps shrink and ambitions grow, an ordinary man buys a country... and becomes king.

Carmelo Pinzón was not a hero, nor a brilliant politician, nor a revolutionary. Just a man with enough money and insufficient common sense. But in San Tiburcio del Sur, that was enough to found a kingdom, crown himself sovereign, and begin to rule amid absurd decrees, ridiculous banquets, and increasingly shady business deals.

There have been a large number of presentations based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella, A Christmas Carol, all revolving around the main character Ebenezer Scrooge. Without a doubt, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential and important works that has been the prominent backdrop for publications, cartoons, movies, TV shows, musicals and plays. It is also the most famous published work associated with Christmas, especially the character of Scrooge.Dickens provides enough information about Ebenezer’s childhood and events that impact the development of his demeanor.However, he does not spend much time including the impact that Jacob Marley had on Scrooge. This is the reasoning beh...

The Trotter Plantation is home to Abel, an adult slave blind since birth. Along the banks of the Savannah River, armed only with lessons taught to him by his courageous mother, Abel is determined to save a small boy from the looming horrors of slavery.                                              Sometimes freedom for yourself is not enough        It’s not Roots, Twelves Years a Slave, or even Django Unchained. Shade of the Sun is not the traditional telling of the events of slavery. Then how should Shade of the Sun be described? In a word, Brilliant. ...

Ben Nickerson lives on Cape Cod, one of the premier vacation spots in the country. He doesn’t have a house with an ocean view or live near the beach. He doesn’t own a boat. Ben lives in a sober home because he’s a recovering alcoholic. He works menial jobs and stays below the radar. His closest confidant is a two-year-old child who lived over a century ago.As bleak as his life seems Ben is still trying and he has a plan. A plan to put his life back together, put his marriage and his career back together. And while the road he’s currently on isn’t an easy one or a normal one, Ben has no idea yet how much more twisted it will become.This is a story about hope and reclamation and the ...

 

At sixteen, restless and dreaming of silver, Rory Fraser trades the familiar fields of his family's Indiana farm for the perilous promise of Leadville, Colorado, a legendary boomtown where fortunes are made and lost in a single day.Driven by the siren call of riches in the rugged Wild West, Rory plunges headlong into a world of unforgiving landscapes, backbreaking labor, and dangers he never imagined. Each rigorous mile and every grueling trial chips away at the naive farm boy, revealing a core of hidden resilience. From hopeful prospector to stalwart frontiersman, he forges himself anew against the stark backdrop of a brutal wilderness, enduring bitter cold and backbreaking labor.Along the ...

Superstition, mysticism, and religion weave like tangled vines through the tales of Amelia’s newly discovered ancestry. As a widow struggling to sustain herself and her ten-year-old son, Amy’s modest life is tragically disrupted when a dubious lawyer determines her late mother, adopted at birth, was the estranged daughter of the recently deceased Lexington McClary. Although the net worth of the once enormous estate is petty, Amy decides to travel several hundred miles to attend the funeral, in the hope of at least learning a semblance of her newfound ancestry.After the interment, alone in the secluded rural cemetery, Amy trips and bashes her head against a tombstone, suffering a coma and...

Blow Out Summer is book one of the summer series. Surf, party and romance are at the center of this novel about a group of local surfers who navigate life and the west coast waves. While in the background drug smuggling creeps into the California life style. Our main character has to make a decision that will change her life after a wild summer with her friends.