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Quantum Voices: A Novel
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 48,520. Language: English. Published: February 27, 2024 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Spotte’s narrative mosaic juxtaposes the dysfunctional, barely literate Hatfield family against Grayson’s sympathetic erudition, weaving a mesmerizing disquisition on friendship, love, notions of time and space, neuroscience, quantum physics, consciousness, and the myths of agency and selfhood.
Bright College Years: (or, If That's Not Life)
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 111,750. Language: English. Published: February 3, 2024 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Coming of age
By turns smart, funny, and heart-wrenching, Bright College Years tracks Jeff and an ensemble cast as they navigate the shortest, gladdest, most complex years of life—and then the rest of it.
Wiseguys in Paradise: A Novel
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 48,680. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Sometimes wiseguys are nice guys! Stephen Spotte’s bittersweet novel Wiseguys in Paradise opens at the start of the 1960s.
Such Stuff As Dreams
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 91,250. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Historical » USA
A struggling Hollywood Golden Age screenwriter collaborates with the world's greatest playwright.
Getting Over Vivian
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 37,330. Language: English. Published: November 6, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
Navigating the loss of a Colorado home. It was an unspoken assumption that Jill Carstens and her family would live happily on Vivian Street forever. But it is lost and so is she, at the age of sixteen, by an ugly divorce. Yet if it weren’t for that exodus, she might not have set off to find new places of belonging. Her searching validates her notion that place does matter.
A Flame Worth the Candle
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 81,880. Language: English. Published: October 29, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Will a family curse lead to an ultimate sacrifice? In this story of heroism and sacrifice, Sam and Diane are swept to a place where nothing is guaranteed and everything is at stake.
Trigger Warning
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 63,190. Language: English. Published: September 20, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Within these halls of learning, one must proceed with caution.
Who Are You, Fred?
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 94,220. Language: English. Published: September 19, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age
High school isn't easy, especially with a learning disability.
Uncle Joe's Senpai
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 58,590. Language: English. Published: July 26, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The band is back! Instead of playing in rundown bars, Uncle Joe’s Band now sell out concert halls.
All's Fair: A Jonathan Benjamin Franklin Mystery
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 59,330. Language: English. Published: July 23, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Jonathan is once again in over his head. Maybe he just should stop digging. Particularly since a Columbian drug lord would like to bury him.
Glassman
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 109,500. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Mark Glassman does a surprisingly good job of feigning confidence, fooling everyone but himself.
At the Seams
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 63,590. Language: English. Published: May 1, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age
Kate’s understanding of her world is shattered when she learns of an uncle who died inexplicably in the hospital just days after his birth.
FA Confidential
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 80,610. Language: English. Published: April 24, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Themes & motifs » Technological
Will a new silicon chip factory subsidized by the US government, an act of sabotage compromising a multi-billion dollar fab, and a Failure Analysis expert on the case lead the world to the brink of WWIII?
Goldfinch in the Thistle
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 131,460. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2023 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom
Set in sixteenth century Scotland against the background of the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance in northern Europe, and the reign of Henry VIII, Goldfinch in the Thistle is a story of unfulfilled promises, loyalties, and shifting perspectives.
Beautiful Ghost
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 71,370. Language: English. Published: November 11, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
During the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic crosses the nation and reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana.
Paris and the World: The Cheapo Snob Visits the City and Its International Community
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 56,980. Language: English. Published: October 16, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Europe
The third volume of the Cheapo Snob series, Paris and the World introduces visitors to the many and varied global aspects of the French capital. This guidebook also provides short biographies and addresses associated with a great number of foreign nationals who spent time in Paris.
Rolling in the Deep
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 79,720. Language: English. Published: August 7, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Mystery & Detective
How far will Sam and his friends go to discover what secrets lay at the bottom of the lake?
Witchy Illusions: A Novel
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 38,720. Language: English. Published: July 10, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Paranormal
She's a comely, kick-ass witch who won't be put to the stake easily!
The Devil in the Dust
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 84,200. Language: English. Published: April 22, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The Devil in the Dust is a story about courage, not only of the physicians confronting the coal companies and their stooges, but the courage of the coal miners to persevere in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, in this stand-alone novel that also continues the stories of those first started in The Sugar Maple Grove.
Startup
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 65,210. Language: English. Published: March 27, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Technological
A high tech AI startup, the Russian mafia, and the downfall of a 'resident adult.'
Everyone Here Is From Somewhere Else: A Novel
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 63,330. Language: English. Published: February 26, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Where do you look once the search has ended? Mysteries, comedy, and atmospheric Irish golf abound in this stand-alone novel that also continues the stories of Phillip and Spencer Elliot first explored in the novel Mr. Wizard.
Uncle Joe's Muse
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 70,460. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2022 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
A down-and-out band, a girl searching for her father, and Jerry’s guitar. Inspired by their experience with Allison and their budding paternal instincts, recollections of Uncle Joe, and a well-played Stratocaster with the initials “JG”, the members of Uncle Joe’s Band begin to play a new tune in a major key.
Only Billionaires Can Play
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 57,100. Language: English. Published: November 1, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Only Billionaires Can Play is frighteningly plausible, and readers will find both its premise and its conclusion highly unsettling as they come to realize that they can never again be certain of anything.
From Tea to Coffee: The Journey of an Educated Youth
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 66,040. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » History » Asian » China
From Tea to Coffee is a story of struggle and triumph during China’s modern-day cultural and political drama, and is a rare and personal account that showcases the Chinese national psyche.
Nevergreen
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 61,200. Language: English. Published: August 16, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
A smart, fast, funny, and incisive portrait of today's liberal arts college scene, cancel culture, and more.
Mind Fields
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 74,820. Language: English. Published: June 23, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
From the Chinese takeover of Tibet in the early 1950s to present-day San Francisco, Big Sur, and Northern California, Mind Fields is a story of adventure, loss, mysticism, and ultimately, the importance of friendship and connection.
The Whisper of a Distant God
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 61,240. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier, Fiction » Historical » General
The untold story of the Angel of Santa Fe and the Gettysburg of the West.
America Reunited: A Relational Solution to Bridging the Political, Social and Personal Chasm Dividing Our Nation
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 37,920. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » General
America Reunited provides the solutions to the challenges America must deal with in order to maintain the democracy we have all cherished for so many years. It is a book of hope and a call to all citizens to join in a most important effort to preserve our humanity and to take an active part in creating a more cohesive nation.
If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 76,910. Language: English. Published: May 14, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Philosophy » Aesthetics
If Ignorance is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic explores the limitations of knowledge and argues that neither reasoning nor direct observation can be trusted. Not only are they unreliable sources, but they do not even justify assigning probabilities to claims about what we can know. This position, called radical skepticism, has intrigued philosophers since before the birth of Christ, yet nobody h
Pot Luck: A James Emerson Harris Mystery
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 58,560. Language: English. Published: February 6, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
Things always seem to go wrong for Jimmy Harris. He stumbles. He bumbles. He’s arrested for murder. He needs to find a way through this maze. The alternatives are unthinkable.
Killer Cocktail
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 58,620. Language: English. Published: February 3, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths
Chicago's Women's Health Clinic Explodes. Emily Winter's Exclusive Report Tonight! Book 3 in the Emily Winter Mystery Series.
Paris and Parisians: The Cheapo Snob Explores the City and Its Famous French Residents
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 53,780. Language: English. Published: January 13, 2021 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Europe
In the second book of the Cheapo Snob series, Paris and Parisians guides visitors to remarkable must-see sites in the City of Light. In addition, this guidebook uncovers authentic French culture by revealing short biographies and addresses of scores of diverse and extraordinary one-time French residents.
Africa Memoir: 50 Years, 54 Countries, One American Life (Seychelles - Zimbabwe)
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 104,630. Language: English. Published: December 27, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Africa
Visit all 54 African countries with an adventurous American guide who has spent over half a century on the continent. Volume III. covers Seychelles - Zimbabwe.
Postcards from the Borderlands
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 92,790. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » Essays & Travelogues
What are borders? Are they simply political and geographical, marked by posts, walls and fences, or should we think of them more broadly? In his third book on travel, history and culture, college professor, historian and journalist David Mould rambles through a dozen countries in Asia and southern Africa by car, bus, train, shared taxi and ferry, exploring what borders mean to their peoples.
Africa Memoir: 50 Years, 54 Countries, One American Life (Libya - Senegal)
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 98,420. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Africa
Visit all 54 African countries with an adventurous American guide who has spent over half a century on the continent. Volume II. covers Libya - Senegal.
Legacy of the Tigers
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 92,820. Language: English. Published: October 20, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American
In China's political chaos, a woman's desperate search for her family and the American pilot she loves. Over thousands of miles between Yunnan and Chungking, the third book of the Tiger Saga trilogy takes readers along another incredible journey.
Natasha's Not My Name: A Memoir
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 94,530. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
Introspective, unapologetic, and brave, Natasha's Not My Name is rooted in a desire to share in heartache and success with other girls on a journey of self-discovery. It is inspirational reading for all women.
From Timbuktu to Duck and Cover: Improbable Tales from a Career in Foreign Service
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 73,780. Language: English. Published: October 2, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
While spending thirty years overseas in the US Foreign Service, and living in eleven countries and working in many more, Ambassador Lucke accumulated many stories that would never have happened “at home.”
Undaunted Optimist: Essays on Life, Laughter and Cheerful Perseverance
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 60,420. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Entertainment » Humor & satire » Form / essays
It’s a complicated world out there and it takes a nimble mind to sort it all out. Rodell does it with style, warmth, an engaging euphoria and undaunted optimism that lets every reader know he enjoys being human and enjoys human beings.
Heaven and Other Zip Codes: A Novel
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 89,530. Language: English. Published: August 28, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
A lonely wife, an unfaithful husband, an awkward son, and his tutor... This contemporary novel explores family, guilt, manipulation, betrayal, and love.
Africa Memoir: 50 Years, 54 Countries, One American Life (Algeria - Liberia)
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 97,500. Language: English. Published: August 28, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Travel » By region » Africa, Nonfiction » History » Africa » Central region
Visit all 54 African countries with an adventurous American guide who has spent over half a century on the continent. Original and authoritative, this one-of-a-kind, three-volume work deserves a special place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in Africa.
The Sugar Maple Grove
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 135,630. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA
An epic Southern Gothic about race, poverty, religion, and barbarism, and those brave enough to dare to see a different society.
Pretty Chrysanthemum and Other Stories
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 79,620. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Historical » USA
These sixteen stories remind readers how family is at the core of human experience and how relationships, especially those between parent and child, rely on the power of love to overcome challenges.
Pursuing Fedhisss: An Outer Space Odyssey
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 50,400. Language: English. Published: April 30, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
When Fedhisss decides to eradicate any concentrations of consciousness in the universe that he deems unworthy of existence, Urr has no choice but to follow the fellow alien to his next stop: the planet Earth.
Mr. Wizard: A Novel
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 64,550. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Two brothers. One mother. One big question. Jeff Wallach’s debut novel features a DNA mystery, strong women, Irish golf, Jewish guilt, and the world’s driest Alzheimer’s joke.
The Triumph of Diversity: Rejoice in and Benefit from the Interconnectedness of Humankind
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 37,550. Language: English. Published: March 10, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » General
Dr. Ciaramicoli shares his observations as a psychologist in clinical practice, his interviews with laymen, clinicians and clergy, and data from current research to conclude, as Thomas Paine said, “My Country is the World; my Religion is to do Good,” and that learned prejudices can be laid bare and redirected to give way to genuine empathy and inclusion over exclusion.
The Ice Palace Waltz
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 111,440. Language: English. Published: February 13, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Historical » USA, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Jewish
In The Ice Palace Waltz, two Jewish immigrant families—the rough and ready Western pioneers and the smooth, “our crowd” New Yorkers—come together in a riveting family saga amid the financial and social tumult of early twentieth century America. Baer's moving multigenerational novel traces the American Jewish experience and the enduring power of family and love.
The Chameleon Shuffle
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 82,420. Language: English. Published: January 14, 2020 by Open Books. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Legal
This satirical novel traces the odyssey of a High Court Justice who involuntarily switches from Conservative to Liberal every few days, riling his Brethren, lawyers, the press and wide swaths of the Republic's citizens.
Clinical Dicta and Contra Dicta: The Therapy Process from Inside Out and Outside In
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 55,410. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2019 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Psychology » Clinical psychology
Clinical Dicta and Contra Dicta explores these issues both visually and in narrative form. Iconic adages and clinical vignettes are presented as well as a treatise on how serial perpetrators use projective-identification to groom and ultimately ensnare their victims.
The Four Trials of Henry Ford
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 115,590. Language: English. Published: October 24, 2019 by Open Books. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography
In recounting the Ford litigation, Piché examines Ford’s parallel manipulation of public media to advance his own political and narcissistic agenda to become a public sage and an American President. It follows the initial rise of his reputation as a Progressive capitalist to its ultimate erosion as a mean-spirited bigot and contributor to the propaganda that fueled the Holocaust.
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