Essential Indie Books

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 ...

Dorena thought she had life all figured out, until Arcadius, younger and unexpected, stepped into her world. What started as flirtation turned into feelings she hadn't felt in years. But secrets, silence, and Friday night visits began to blur the lines between love and convenience. As their connection deepens, Dorena finds herself torn between what tempts her and what heals her. Is he the love she was waiting for or just another beautiful mistake? A Friday Night Secret is a tender and complicated story of rediscovery, resilience, and the quiet strength of letting go.

🚀 The Novel Multiuniverse That Changes Everything ✨If Interstellar moved your soul & The Matrix opened your mind — this saga will transform how you see reality, love, life & your place in the cosmos. 📖 Not just a book. A portal.🧠 Science + Soul + Art, fused into a new genre the Novel-Multiuniverse of Transformational Fiction.🌟 A mind-bending epic where quantum physics meets raw human emotion and love reshapes reality across timelines.Imagine a world:Architected by David MitchellMystified by BulgakovMythologized by TolkienScientifically grounded by Michio KakuCinematically envisioned by Christopher NolanDream-woven by David Lynch… and then given to a shaman to w...

🚀 The Novel Multiuniverse That Changes Everything ✨If Interstellar moved your soul & The Matrix opened your mind — this saga will transform how you see reality, love, life & your place in the cosmos. 📖 Not just a book. A portal.🧠 Science + Soul + Art, fused into a new genre the Novel-Multiuniverse of Transformational Fiction.🌟 A mind-bending epic where quantum physics meets raw human emotion and love reshapes reality across timelines.Imagine a world:Architected by David MitchellMystified by BulgakovMythologized by TolkienScientifically grounded by Michio KakuCinematically envisioned by Christopher NolanDream-woven by David Lynch… and then given to a shaman to w...

Does everyone have secrets?When four very different teens are invited to meet after school the butterfly effect of this one small event soon changes their dreams about their futures. Over time the four start helping each out through challenging times and begin to see they are more alike than they’d thought. Then one disappears and this upends not only the lives of them all but it also creates a ripple effect that over time shapes what happens to other people from their community, their country—and even the world.  « A-M weaves together youthful dreams and trauma with serendipitous moments in profound celebration of lives. » Anne M. Smith-Nochasak, author of the...

After experiencing a tragedy in her family as a child, Becca felt abandoned and unseen by her parents and older sister. Her saving grace was her beloved grandmother, Rachel, with whom she spent her summers growing up.As she approaches her 30th birthday, Becca yearns for something more in her life. Her relationship with her tong-term boyfriend is going nowhere. The constant bickering with her mother has become hostile and frustrating. Her only relief is her best friend, Ashlyn and the other members of her Cambridge Creative Quilters bee.Craving something new, Becca sets out on an adventure prompted by a treasured gift from her beloved ‘Gran’ who had taught her to quilt as a child. The gif...