Fiction, Friendship
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It's About Time
by Frances Schepp Ruh
Friendships last a lifetime in It’s About Time, and each begins and ends with stories—stories ranging from the daily struggles of child rearing and marital strife to an unresolved, forbidden love, and the loneliness of widowhood. It’s About Time ...
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My Summer with Vi
by Susan Jonson
A deep friendship develops between a twelve year old girl and an elderly woman that will change both of their lives. Althea's thirst for a world bigger than her own, leads her to Violet who welcomes the opportunity to share her experiences, her ...
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Changganli
by Jiwen
This story received Chinese National Best Network Novel Award for 2019. In the fictional Chinese city of Nandu, the ancient walls have enclosed the neighborhood of Changganli for 600 years. In the 1950s, as the citizens wanted to develop as fast as ...
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Thaw A Frozen Heart
by Debbie Nelson
It has been twenty years since Ben broke Kate's heart. Kate has built a life for herself in the years since she left her home town, the memory of her last day with Ben carefully tucked away. When she encounters him at their high school reunion, the ...
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Snapshots of Life
The Story of Pinnie and Bella by Frank Maraj
“As Bella looked back over her shoulder, she saw the outline of a form staggering into the roadway. It was Vindoo. She had not killed him. But, he was still coming after her.” The novel begins with the brief intersection of two young lives: Pinnie ...
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Anahita
by Nazanin Sahebnassagh
After a simple farmer finds a dead little girl who’s been mystically resurrected in front of his eyes, he can have no way of knowing that she has unique powers… something the lost little girl doesn’t know either. Years later, that little girl, ...
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Diamonds on the Danube
A River Cruise Novel by Cheryl Dougan
Adelle is bored of retirement and ready for adventure. When her travel agent friend falls ill and asks Adelle to step in for her as a tour host for a group of four women on a two-week river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, Adelle jumps at the ...
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The Original and Thrilling Tale of Ricky Sweetman
by Maurice John Weistra
The quiet neighbourhood was lined with majestic old-growth oaks, the faded, cracked roads and sidewalks bordered with once grand family homes still hanging onto a sliver of their former presence. One would be likely to assume it a subdued and ...
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Cherry Hill Farm
by M.E. Hembroff
It's 1809, and Shannon and Daniel Healy are about to embark on their new life in the New World with their many friends and family after a turbulent voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from their Irish homeland. Their adventure begins as their ship ...
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Harley's Bootstraps
by Lois C. Henderson
Harley, named after the iconic motorcycle and the youngest of nineteen children, is dying on the vine of neglect. Anxiety wakes her before dawn each day, and she braces herself with coffee and her first smoke of the day, wading through dirty dishes ...
