Aventine Press

It's the 1980's. The Chapel brothers, proud inheritors of a successful bar located in the very small, very dry, and very hot town of Bowling, Arizona, proceed with their everyday lives completely...

The pandemic changed everything, so catching a killer will require new methods after Cecile Long-Horton is found strangled in her doorway and Lt. Claudia Campbell with the Monrovia City Police has to...

Jacob Barrstein and his friend, James Eaton, have a $1000 bet going. James claims that a group of 21st Century people cannot last a week without smartphones, computers, tablets, GPS's, and the like,...

Jacob Barrstein and his friend, James Eaton, have a $1000 bet going. James claims that a group of 21st Century people cannot last a week without smartphones, computers, tablets, GPS's, and the like,...

Suzanne Morlett heads up a book club at the local library where she works. The members love a good mystery. Little did they know a dead body would turn up after Suzanne invites famous mystery writer...

People with old school ties attend a 30th high school reunion and are shocked to hear one of the attendees say he knows who murdered a classmate years earlier. That knowledge gets him killed. Can...

Through one of Europe's coldest winters, through the largest land battle fought by the United States Army, through Germany's last remaining stalags, one of Hitler's nine million prisoners survived to...

A View From The Jury Box is a journalistic approach to the long and complicated trial of Ron Blaney Jr., a deaf mute, who was accused of murdering and torturing his deaf girlfriend and her mother...

Kurt Nobel, known as "The Real Estate King," invites a mixture of odd guests to his mansion on the Isle of Ease for a week of snorkeling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and general fun in the sun...

Author: Richard Bland MilesPublisher: Aventine PressPublication Date: Oct 26, 2020Number of Pages: 372 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1593309813ISBN-13: 9781593309817

John Class had a lifelong fascination with stories, especially biblical stories. Stories somehow always ended at the grave. The promise of the resurrection of the dead would change this, and he...

Shakespeare said, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." The resurrection will make the evil that men do live much longer and pose more difficulty than...

Lucas Taylor has lived a long life. Though his body is failing him, his memory is still strong as he recounts his journey through life, love, and loss-and shares the incredible lesson he's learned...

God is with you! Today, and every day! Robert J. Corrigan demonstrates the daily reality of Jesus' promise to be with us always. Using true stories, simple and profound, Corrigan uncovers evidence of...

And So I Write is a collection of short stories, essays, vignettes, and a novella that brings the author's travels, experiences, and thoughts into one concise book. Nature, adventure, fun, and human...

In 1993, the MIT Varsity Baseball Team - known more for its SAT scores than its batting average - won its first ever championship. How did this team, without athletic recruiting or scholarships,...

For more than ten years, Troy has written a widely published column called FRESH FROM THE BREWER. He touches on life's greatest lessons. He finds from tons of Texas History, Cowboys and Indians, gun...

From the time he was a child, watching his parents struggle through financial pressures, Stu Feiner, vowed he would find a way to never have money be a problem in his life. And after witnessing his...

From the time he was a child, watching his parents struggle through financial pressures, Stu Feiner, vowed he would find a way to never have money be a problem in his life. And after witnessing his...

Very few people in our world actually walk in peace with themselves and God. As the Bible teaches, this is because we not only sin, which hinders our relationship with God, but through our choices we...

Sitting around a high country campfire, packers and wranglers entertain the dudes with guitars, songs, and cowboy poetry. When it becomes her turn, the old pack cook tells tales of the "high...

Lured out of early retirement, master detective Adam Steer partners with the cops of Precinct 13 1/2 to solve the kidnapping of newspaper publisher, ostrich Madam Griselda Portentsky. But the ransom...

On June 14, 1940, eight-year-old Jacqueline witnesses the Nazis march into her beloved, native Paris. In that grim moment, her cherished childhood is wrenched from her. Now, she's a despised Jew. To...

"I thought he was a pest! Well, there I was, walking along, minding my business. And here he was, hopping along beside me-persistent as always! He never understood the meaning of no! Neither do you!...

Close Calls (Revisited) adds a few more "neat stories" to the many close ones I faced in a military career spanning three wars and a revolution; taking me from the hills of Korea as a U.S. Marine, to...

Barney Holden was one tough character, like most of the hockey players in the 1900's. He played every game as if it was his last. Motivated by the chance to escape the Manitoba lumber mills for three...

For Charley Willey, editor of the Lewis Standard, things were not going well. He was sick, he was going blind, and his paper was losing money. The Iowa Highway Commission made him a promise, broke...

Dare To TrustAuthor: Carol W. HazelwoodPublisher: Aventine PressPublication Date: Sep 14, 2021Number of Pages: 206 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1955162026ISBN-13: 9781955162029

All Patty Harkin has left in the world is her father's new truck. Without any hope of getting work as a mechanic in northern Minnesota, she accepts the job of driving Josh, a mysterious blindman, and...

Letters written in 1878 by a young woman new to the West, and found in an old trunk in the twenty-first century, reveal the daily life of a bygone era in the towns along the Eastern Sierra of...