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Vietnam vet and VA hospice patient, Charlie Alderfer, has survived a medical catastrophe, only to discover that he faces three final battles--an inoperable aneurysm lurks in his chest; a mute and...

Professional gambler, Johnny Chapman, plays the hand he's dealt, but when he's dealt a series of losers, he decides to up the ante with more money than he can afford to lose. Just when he thinks his...

Grover Moss is bored. A former big-city detective, he misses the mind-numbing parade of bums, drug dealers, prostitutes, murderers, and violence only big cities can provide-until he discovers a...

It's 1954, and Izzy Walsh is at The Mariner's Whisper, Twin Oaks' most popular dinner club, for a girls' night out. But the fun is short lived and the highballs run dry when the chef is found...

An oceanfront estate in the beautiful New England town of Twin Oaks is the ideal setting for Isabelle Walsh and her close-knit group of friends to celebrate their annual girls' weekend in 1953. While...

In 2014, nineteen-year-old budding novelist, Kieran Nash, finds himself inexplicably transported to the desert world of Adeaa, where he meets an equally bewildered squad of German paratroopers,...

Two days before Christmas, shy bookstore owner Scotlyn Carter survived a traumatic bank robbery and subsequent kidnapping. Now, three months later, she still wakes up hearing the robber's promise to...

Alex Hollister was always one step ahead of the rumor mongers. As the reclusive A.H., she was a successful horse breeder, an unbeatable jockey, and a savvy businessman. As the fair Alexis, she was a...

Vietnam vet Charlie Alderfer, survived a medical catastrophe and stopped a serial murderer. But Charlie accepts one more battle--to exonerate a young man whose life, liberty, and education are in...

When Jason Green begins his internship at Sinai Medical Center, there seems to be no limit to what he can achieve. Brilliant, hardworking, and driven by an intense desire to ease people¿s suffering,...

The Internet? Never heard of it. Smart Phones? Who you kiddin'? We're talkin' 1956. Energetic and eager to make his mark on what Time Magazine called the next great boom town, Bucky Ontario leave his...

A chilling locked-room mystery! Impossible for the murderer to escape...yet, he did. Powerful officials conspire against Chief Bucky's attempt to solve the case, including the KKK, whose members...

The apocalypse kills billions. Foes of the US have attacked with a bioengineered contagion that spreads around the world. One of only a few survivors, Penny Castro, ex-USN diver and LA County...

Air Force pilot Captain Jesse Hardin is thrilled when sheAuthor: Dave BullockPublisher: Black Opal BooksPublication Date: Oct 20, 2018Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Kinley Wade is a damned good reporter, but she makes the mistake of volunteering for a not-so-glamorous gig in the dusty town of Bajito, Mexico, reporting on a festival that offers blood sacrifices...

The Lethal FishermanAuthor: J. J. BurkePublisher: Black Opal BooksPublication Date: Apr 29, 2017Number of Pages: 366 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1626946493ISBN-13: 9781626946491

The Lost Kitchen: Reflections and Recipes from an Alzheimer's Caregiver is an honest and heartfelt look at the hidden gifts of living with a parent with Alzheimer's. Miriam Green weaves poetry,...

We are constantly challenged to make decisions: looking at situations and selecting choices from a variety of options. Not only in business and professional situations are we faced with choices, but...

Do any of us know where we are going to end up? Is there any way to actually tell what forces shape our lives. Is a bad event a disaster or a blessing in disguise. Sometimes we have to wait years to...

The Mama Tree lives in the Thicket, a place so wild it hides all kinds of creatures who don't want to be seen. Prayer bundles and gris-gris bags dangle from its matronly branches like ornaments on a...

During two mass immigrations from 1984 to 1991, thousands of Ethiopian Jews were permitted to flee persecution in their country and migrate to Israel. This is their story and how it could possibly...

Travel columnist, Ryn Lowell, has been away from Trout Fork, Colorado, for barely a month when a frantic call from Alma sends her hurrying back. One of the Trout Forkers is in jail for the murder of...

The Murder of Amos Dunn: A Sidney Lake Lowcountry MysteryAuthor: Tim HollandPublisher: Black Opal BooksPublication Date: Sep 27, 2022Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Siblings Matthew and Elizabeth live in Lilac Cottage in Cape Cod where they discovered a time-travel grandfather clock hidden in a secret room. Summer vacation is over, and they now have to plan...

Rachel Ann Maddon is about to become America's next great movie star. Adored by the camera, loved by her public, beautiful Rachel Ann has it all, including a dark secret from her past that threatens...

Six months ago, Joan Bowman's fiance, Duncan Archer, was shot during an ATF sting operation in Arizona. He'd left a message with a friend that, if anything happened to him, she was to call a certain...

It's 2020. The race is on to find the cure for a deadly disease targeting women of color. But a hidden side-effect might kill us all. Time to call in the twenty-first-century Robin Hoods to locate,...

Matt Langdon's oil business is showing a profit. Then his investors back out. As he rushes to meet the one man who can help, he finds an injured girl on the road. If he's late for his meeting, he'll...

It's 2038. Tara Rivers is fourteen, a bit rebellious, and socially awkward. The corporation where Tara's parents work orders them put an implant in Tara's brain to "cure" her autism, or her father...

In a neighborhood full of secrets, everyone's a suspect. Hard-living Detective Eileen Ryan is called to investigate the murder of a popular bartender in her hometown, a tight-knit Irish enclave in...