Essential Indie Books

It is 1992 and banks are merging at an astonishing rate, but none of them are being held accountable. Teddy DeMarco, a banker with a conscience, strives to hold his financial institution to a higher standard. Indeed, First Northeastern Bank (1NEB) must atone for years of redlining and racial bias in its mortgage lending. Thus Teddy negotiates agreements with two activist groups that champion fair mortgage lending practices for African Americans. But sinister forces, both internal and external, arise to block Teddy's efforts and make his life miserable as the bank’s in-house politician.This novel—both funny and keenly serious—is filled with characters who are true believers. It delves u...

It is 1992 and banks are merging at an astonishing rate, but none of them are being held accountable. Teddy DeMarco, a banker with a conscience, strives to hold his financial institution to a higher standard. Indeed, First Northeastern Bank (1NEB) must atone for years of redlining and racial bias in its mortgage lending. Thus Teddy negotiates agreements with two activist groups that champion fair mortgage lending practices for African Americans. But sinister forces, both internal and external, arise to block Teddy's efforts and make his life miserable as the bank’s in-house politician.This novel—both funny and keenly serious—is filled with characters who are true believers. It delves u...

The brutal murder of an 18-year-old Hispanic girl shocks her community, but the case takes an even darker turn when it's discovered that her baby boy has been stolen.

Los Angeles Homicide Detectives Reggie Hough and Anne Collier are thrust into a chilling race against time to track down the killer—and find the baby, who may still be alive. The trail leads them across state lines to Texas where they uncover a possible connection to another stolen child. 

As the clues narrow on a seemingly caring nurse, the detectives push the boundaries of the law to bring the truth to light and justice to the victims.

Three different stories, one intention; encourage laughing while learning important morals. Holy Fruit Toots Rosie helps children understand our pets can get allergies too. What Should Hootie Do? teaches children how important owls are in our ecosystem (and to always be yourself) and Because You Care For Beany Bear reminds us how being accepting and kind to others can lead to lasting relationships.

Bright and colourful pages; fun for the whole family.

K47 is a robot who is becoming human against his wishes. Unable to complete his programming due to the metamorphosis, the robot finds himself in a battle with an untested emotion chip, the law, and the very people who stand to profit from his mission.

He’ll have his day in court to fight for legal rights for androids, in an epic battle between AI and humans. But surviving the challenge may be too much for his system to bear.

Madeline Kloppleman and Kim-Jack Donaldson are a couple in their mid-twenties. She’s white, Jewish, privileged, and ready to marry, but only if the ceremony is in Antarctica on New Year’s Eve. He’s a black, inner city, high school science teacher, trying to keep his students alive until graduation. Madeline is singing her way toward a recording contract. Kim-Jack is about to invent the perfect pizza box. When one of his students is arrested on Christmas Eve, hours before they’re scheduled to depart for the frigid nuptials, he’s assigned the task of legal guardian, but the student has to be with him around the clock...even at a wedding at the South Pole.

“You’ve really been married to him for forty years?” Kelly sighed. “That’s true love.” “No, that’s called persistence. True love is when it’s raining and the umbrella is too small for both of you and your husband holds it over your head to keep you dry. True love happens when there’s only one toilet available and you both have to go, but he lets you go first even if it means peeing in his pants. True love is him taking the middle seat on an airplane even though there’s an obese person sitting next to the window whose flab is overflowing into his space.” Margie shook her head. “Forty years together has nothing to do with true love. A forty-year prison sente...

When online dating fails, is a singles cruise the best answer or the last resort?

Sixty-year-old accountant, Yancy Dellacort would rather lose a battle with the IRS than take another cruise. Yet when his wife of thirty-five years passes away and his attempts at online dating fail, his only recourse to find a life partner is to sign up for a Caribbean singles cruise on the Wind Seeker. Putting his best effort into the onboard search, Yancy discovers that romance at sea is worse than a ship without a rudder and that love and sex are often inseparable, even for senior citizens.

The introduction of a successful vaccine against Covid has produced the unintended side effect of rendering all gunpowder in the world inert. Every weapon from a six-shooter to an atom bomb is now useless. However, on a fifty-seven-acre island in the middle of the Doubs River that divides France and Switzerland, a dairy farmer's prized cheese spread has gone into short supply and the world is about to go to war over its loss. “Boulong's Cheese” is 70,000 words of spitfire humor, biting satire, and just what the world needs now that the end of the pandemic is in sight. It pits the Queen of England against the new, bald President of the United States, and gives the Pope a way out of a...

Against Stewart Goldfarb’s wishes, his eighty-one-year-old grandfather has decided to buy an alpaca ranch in Okaloosa County, Florida, and move south. However, his twin sister Kate, a geriatric nurse, would rather see their grandfather in a nursing home than a cowboy hat and insists that Stewart convince Grandpa to abandon his plan and remain in New Jersey where she can watch over him.

Their fears may be justified, as there are powerful people at work in Okaloosa County who want the grazing land that the alpacas need, and they’re willing to do anything to take that land away.

“Duke couldn’t blink. No words came from his mouth. Finally, he took a long deep breath, but the air in his lungs was frozen. His throat hurt when he swallowed. The more he looked at The Ghost, the more impossible it became to force his gaze in another direction. He’d seen those eyes before. He knew it in a place so deep inside that the feeling was without question. The Ghost wore an expression that no one could ever forget. It was the face of death. Duke Garvey was seeing the eyes of a nightmare from some time long before he was born.” Duke Garvey, a Jamaican-born detective newly promoted to the 84th Homicide squad in Brooklyn, NY never gave much thought to his Rastafarian upbr...

From childhood innocence to a lifetime of faith and devotion, From the Sandbox to Marriage, Faith & Ministry tells the moving story of Earnest and Ruby—two souls destined to walk life's path together. From when Earnest and Ruby met as children in the sandbox, their lives became intertwined by fate, faith, and an unbreakable bond. Through the trials of growing up, the joys of first love, and the challenges of marriage, they leaned on each other and God to navigate life's winding path. As Ernest rises from humble beginnings to become a bishop and found his own church, Ruby stands beside him as his greatest supporter, bound by love. Their story is a testament to faith, sacrifice, and the ...