Amolibros


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Amolibros is a consultancy run by Jane Tatam. She has worked in the publishing business for thirty years, initially in the marketing role for companies such as Kogan Page and Sweet & Maxwell. She has been managing director of two publishing companies, during which time she has worked with many authors and has become fully conversant with the skills of the publishing process. Amolibros is committed to working with a range of specialist suppliers who are experts in their own particular fields.

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Cedric    by Paul Miller
Price: $7.50 USD. 128300 words. Published by Amolibros  on May 31, 2012. .

When a young boy is found on a Cornish beach in the year 1085, many of the suspicious locals are all for throwing him back into the sea. But he is saved and brought back to the village only to end up enslaved and in the hands of a villager who has brought pain and suffering to others for a long time. The boy has no recollection of his past save his name – Cedric.
The Hand of Chance    by John Saxby
Price: $5.00 USD. 88020 words. Published by Amolibros  on May 31, 2012. .

When Jonathan’s health fails, he needs a kidney transplant, but his handicap makes him ineligible for one. When his liver also fails, his surgeon suggests removing poison wastes from Jonathan’s blood by cross-circulating it through his comatose twin, David. It isn’t long before the surgeon has an even better idea…
Cobwebs in Time    by Lois Fenn
Price: $5.00 USD. 85160 words. Published by Amolibros  on May 31, 2012. .

Murder, abduction, and family tragedy mixed with extraordinary psychic happenings give this story a fantastical quality as it follows in the footsteps of The Magic Mooncat. Lois Fenn has a wonderful gift for creating believable characters as she deftly interweaves the threads of this family tale to create a compelling yet comforting picture of rural life through the generations.
The Magic Mooncat    by Lois Fenn
Price: $5.00 USD. 112150 words. Published by Amolibros  on May 30, 2012. .

It is September 1941 and nine-year-old Hannah Flynn is about to leave her native Hull and become one of that illustrious number known as ‘them townies’. Standing at the station, with few possessions in the little case she is clutching, she is ready to leave that scarred city to experience life as an evacuee in rural Lincolnshire, an environment as far removed as any foreign country.
Some Lessons In Gaelic    by McCawley Grange
Price: $7.99 USD. 119030 words. Published by Amolibros  on April 18, 2012. .

When an eleven-year-old English boy arrives in Southern Ireland, walking on his hands and quoting Shakespeare, the natives begin to treat him with suspicion. The town he finds himself in is a small mid-century (1950) maelstrom of snobbery, nationalism, sexual repression and quaint quintessential Irish intolerance, presided over by a clergy, discharging duties of guidance and tutelage.
Careers in Caring: A Practical Guide to your First Job    by Gill Pharaoh
Price: $7.00 USD. 32760 words. Published by Amolibros  on April 18, 2012. .

This book is written for the man or woman who is thinking of working as a carer. First impressions are important and this book can offer the new carer some insight as to what may be involved, some advice on managing the work, and, most of all, some confidence to begin so that they can appreciate the real pleasure and satisfaction to be had from working with people in the community.
Fall    by Iain Mackenzie-Blair
Price: $7.99 USD. 59350 words. Published by Amolibros  on January 4, 2012. .

Seven apprehensive thirteen-year-olds enter a famous Public School as members of Ansell’s, the most prestigious House. The reader is inducted with them into claustrophobic, arcane, degenerated traditions which educate them intellectually, morally and sexually into ruined senior boys who precipitate the shocking tragedy and its shameful aftermath which still haunts the narrator.
Blood    by Iain Mackenzie-Blair
Price: $7.99 USD. 58120 words. Published by Amolibros  on January 4, 2012. .

Seven apprehensive thirteen-year-olds enter a famous Public School as members of Ansell’s, the most prestigious House. The reader is inducted with them into claustrophobic, arcane, degenerated traditions which educate them intellectually, morally and sexually into ruined senior boys who precipitate the shocking tragedy and its shameful aftermath which still haunts the narrator.
Drift    by Iain Mackenzie-Blair
Price: $7.99 USD. 57770 words. Published by Amolibros  on January 4, 2012. .

Seven apprehensive thirteen-year-olds enter a famous Public School as members of Ansell’s, the most prestigious House. The reader is inducted with them into claustrophobic, arcane, degenerated traditions which educate them intellectually, morally and sexually into ruined senior boys who precipitate the shocking tragedy and its shameful aftermath which still haunts the narrator.
At the First Fall of Snow    by Ivar Rivenaes
Price: $7.99 USD. 150570 words. Published by Amolibros  on January 3, 2012. .

The German Cardinal Karl Richter, the Vatican’s most talented theologian, politician and apologist, has been invited to spend some days with Professor Matthew O’Keefe at his home on the Gulf of Mexico. O’Keefe nurtures one ambition – to become The Moral Voice of America. In order to get national attention he needs a major cause, and the Catholic Church becomes his target.
Annie Rae    by Ivar Rivenaes
Price: $6.99 USD. 176500 words. Published by Amolibros  on January 3, 2012. .

Annie established her own business and soon learned that she had entered a man’s world; a universe where chauvinism, hypocrisy, condescension, intolerance and inequality flourished. She did not give up; at the height of her career her business empire spanned several continents. But Annie discovered that her success came with a price; a failed marriage, two alienated daughters and no social life.
Glorious Gloucestershire    by Wallis Peel
Price: $6.99 USD. 84930 words. Published by Amolibros  on October 11, 2011. .

As far from dry-as-dust history as it is possible to achieve—a rollicking romp through the history of the most fascinating county of Gloucestershire. Wallis Peel’s account is of a thriving place, where she delves into a rich and varied past of interest to both visitors and inhabitants.
Kyselak was Here    by Michael Robin
Price: $5.99 USD. 52850 words. Published by Amolibros  on September 8, 2011. .

Kyselak Was Here is a fictional account of his life as it might have been, following its youthful hero on his adventures, amorous and otherwise, from Vienna to the four corners of the Empire: the Vienna Woods, Bohemia, Slovenia, Transylvania.
Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child    by Mike Mitchell
Price: $6.99 USD. 65330 words. Published by Amolibros  on September 8, 2011. .

Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child is a story of obsessive passion set in Podolia, now part of the Ukraine but in the nineteenth century a backward, multi-racial corner of Europe where the Russian and Habsburg empires met.
Birth of the English    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 60890 words. Published by Amolibros  on September 8, 2011. .

A fast-paced tale with a firm basis in historical fact, Birth of the English is the story of Aethelstan (c895–939), the Saxon king and illegitimate son of Edward the Elder.
Those Who Leave    by Ivar Rivenaes
Price: $6.99 USD. 314350 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 5, 2011. .

Angelo Vargas was an enigma, a man from nowhere who had followed a perilous path through a restless and eventful life. Time had come to leave his diplomatic activities behind, settle in England and search for his shrine. His partner – the unrestrained and incorrigible Japanese Tadashi Ishihara – shared Vargas’ dream, but there was one more assignment looming over the horizon…
The Deer Shelter    by Phil Clarke
Price: $0.99 USD. 57890 words. Published by Amolibros  on May 13, 2011. .

Phil Clarke’s gripping novel explores the inner strength and human spirit of two different individuals, and how they overcome the traumas of war and social disadvantage across the generations. The ruthless leader of a gang of professional poachers threatens to destroy everything, with Thornton’s long-repressed nightmare now looming large and casting its shadow over every exciting page.
Die Eine und der Andere    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 31310 words. Published by Amolibros  on March 31, 2011. .

Nachdem Alexander in der Nacht zuvor entführt worden war, erlangt er sein Bewusstsein zurück und stellt mit Schrecken fest, dass er gefesselt in einem kalten, düsteren Keller gefangengehalten wird. Er wehrt sich gegen die aufkommende Panik und fragt sich:Warum?
After Eden    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 36450 words. Published by Amolibros  on March 31, 2011. .

Having been kidnapped the night before, Alexander regains consciousness and finds himself tied up – legs and feet – imprisoned within a cold and dismal cellar. He fights the rising panic and asks himself: where am I? How did I get there? Is this because of Tunchen? His suspicion that he is deemed responsible for East German Stasi crimes gradually turns into certainty.
Stumme Schatten    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 3520 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

ie Aufteilung Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in zwei voneinander getrennte Staaten hat viele Menschenleben beeinträchtigt, und viele im Ostteil Lebende wurden zu Opfern eines unnachsichtigen Systems. Anni besucht nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer ihre alte Heimat Aschersleben, jene kleine ostdeutsche Stadt, aus der sie mit zwanzig Jahren flüchtete.
The Methuselah Factor    by Vernon Eric Bridges
Price: $4.99 USD. 53850 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

An environmental disaster is brought about by an American cargo plane blowing up its deadly cargo of biological weapons over England. Survivors set up a new community, guarded by wolfhounds. One of the settlers, Otto, invents an anti-gravity drive, enabling him to visit Mars. He discovers the remains of a once-flourishing civilisation and vows not to repeat the Martian errors of judgement.
Echoes    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 49690 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

The common thread running through all twelve stories of this collection is that they are based on subsidiary characters of Eva’s novel Silent Shadows. Mostly, the stories are snapshots of life in the former GDR or they afford glimpses into the re-united Germany, and in this they are unashamedly political. But, above all, each story is about the trials and tribulations of the human condition.
Silent Shadows    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 69440 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

The division of Germany into two separate countries during the Cold War disrupted many lives, leaving many in the East to become the victims of a vicious system. Anni struggles to come to grips with memories of those who sought to oppress her and vivid recollections of a passionate love affair that ended with her escape to the West.
Law of the Wild    by H M Peel
Price: $4.99 USD. 43980 words. Published by Amolibros  on November 29, 2010. .

Follow the life of a dog fox during the last part of his life. The description of English countryside and the behaviour of the animals who inhabit it, are the result of the careful observation and close attention by the author Hazel Peel, who has already written successfully for children about animals and the countryside. These books include Pilot the Hunter and Untamed.
Holy Crosses & Nazi Flags: Pope Benedict XVI and The Catholic Church    by Garry O'Connor
Price: $9.99 USD. 67970 words. Published by Amolibros  on September 5, 2010. .

Holy Crosses & Nazi Flags shows for the first time in fascinating detail the impact on Pope Benedict XVI of his early years during the rise and fall of Hitler’s Third Reich. Concentrating as Garry O’Connor does on that period, the portrait reveals that underneath Benedict is in many ways an entirely different being from the one he is generally supposed to be (and often demonised as).
Pride of Mercia    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 60230 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 24, 2010. .

A tale set in the seventh century with family and political infighting at its core. When King Penda dies after losing the battle to King Oswiu of Northumbria, the Mercians are devastated to realise they will be subjugated and have to pay tribute to their hated enemies. Elfrida and Alicia are the two women of this tale: Elfrida, feisty and courageous, Alicia, shrewish and devious.
Bold Spirit    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 69260 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 21, 2010. .

Anne Howard young, bold, but bullied as a young cowgirl finally revolts when her master dies, and walks away from the farm to try her luck in Bristol. On her first night sleeping rough she is awoken by voices is in the middle of the night. She investigates, is challenged and flees, but is captured by a highwayman. He abducts her and, after raping her, takes her to his London home.
Battle Royal    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 56980 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 21, 2010. .

Set around the county of Gloucestershire, this is based on true historical events when the Celto-British, Romano-British and Saxons were jostling for supremacy. It is a tale set in the sixth century with family and political infighting at its core. Ceawlin King of the Saxons but knows he must take the south west before he can hope to have Middle Britain.
Spirit of Defiance    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 62430 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 21, 2010. .

It is the first century, and the Romans seek total control of Britain. Jodocca, British tribal warrior and female champion, meets a high-ranking Roman officer Marcus Gaius on a trading trip. She is attracted to him even though he is the invading enemy. He falls heavily for her but learns nothing about her because she is suspicious of all Romans. This is a relationship with no future…
Republic    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 92380 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 20, 2010. .

Exciting historical adventure set in the time of Oliver Cromwell. Sarah Turner is a young Bristol widow, and works as a courier for Parliament. She seems to lead a charmed life until on one visit she stumbles upon an horrific scene which changes her whole way of life. With Charles II in exile, and the Puritans increasing their dull sway, the future of England is in the balance.
Sea Gem    by Wallis Peel
Price: $7.99 USD. 140150 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 9, 2010. .

When Mary meets Duret, he instantly falls for her and persuades her to come back to his island, Guernsey, and marry him. The very next day she meets Victor, and there is instant attraction between them. The stage is set for turbulent times as time marches them towards the War and the German occupation of their island.
Evil on the Wind    by Diney Costeloe
Price: $7.99 USD. 109030 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 9, 2010. .

Living with the rising tyranny of the Nazis and their determination to make their Reich Jew Free, Ruth and her family run a desperate race to escape the Nazi terror as it marches inexorably to its ‘final solution’ of the Jewish Problem. This is compelling and immensely moving historical fiction that takes you into the depths of Nazi Germany and the sheer terror of those times.
Death's Dark Vale    by Diney Costeloe
Price: $7.99 USD. 129690 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 9, 2010. .

A sequel to The Ashgrove, Death’s Dark Vale is also set in St Croix, in a France under German occupation. At the convent of Our Lady of Mercy Adelaide and the sisters truly walk in the valley of the shadow of death as they try to protect the innocent from the evil menace of the Nazi war machine. A powerful novel that brilliantly conjures the era.
The Ashgrove    by Diney Costeloe
Price: $7.99 USD. 128920 words. Published by Amolibros  on July 9, 2010. .

Eight ash trees were planted in 1921 as a memorial to those men from the village of Charlton Ambrose who were killed in World War One. Rachel Elliott, reporter on the Belcaster Chronicle, is intrigued by the whole story and she decides to find out more. But there is a mystery, the Ashgrove includes a mysterious ninth tree, never officially planted—in whose memory is this tree and who planted it?


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