Intrigue on the white sands of the Indian Ocean. A lonely widower seeks escape in Kenya — what he finds is temptation, truth, and a second chance at life.Harry Gardner, a recently widowed American publisher in his late sixties, sets off on an uncharacteristic adventure to Kenya, lured by a charming travel arranger and the promise of leisure, comfort, and maybe a little illicit fun. With a soul weathered by grief and a life dulled by routine, Harry seeks escape—but ...

No job? Fresh out of school? Laid off? In the rapidly emerging gig economy, millions of workers will never have a job. But they can have a lifetime of profitable and satisfying assignments and projects. Written by an adept consultant who hasn’t had “permanent employment” since 9/11, this handy little book will help you survive – and thrive – as an independent contractor. Don’t wait for someone else to decide your future – here’s how to write your own story.

If you're a fan of pop music and you're curious about what goes on behind the cameras - you'll enjoy this ride!GOLD Winner 2023 IPA Awards, Finalist 2023 Amor Romance Novel Awards, Silver 2023 The BookFest Awards.Mick McGraw is an aggressive Hollywood agent who reps famous singers. Moira Halimi-Joubert is a headstrong criminal defense attorney who studied opera. Brad Davenport is an arrogant billionaire hedge-fund manager who has a soft spo...

Milton Reynolds didn't invent the ballpoint pen. But he boasted, "I stole it fair and square." His mild-mannered, square-dealing son Jim wanted nothing to do with it.When a smooth-talking entrepreneur discovers a strange new pen in the final days of World War II, he becomes convinced it’s the next great consumer sensation. His son Jim—a Stanford-trained engineer who craves stability instead of chaos—is dragged into a whirlwind of outrageous deals, impossible promis...

A devastating stroke leaves eighty-year-old Clifford Klovis trapped inside a world where memories surface without warning and the line between truth and imagination grows increasingly uncertain.After suffering a devastating stroke during a friend’s birthday celebration, eighty-year-old Clifford Klovis awakens in a hospital trapped inside a world where memory, identity, and reality no longer align. Though physicians and caregivers believe he has lost the ability to ...

Searching for Jonah offers a fresh, eclectic, and indisputably imaginative approach to interpreting one of the most famous stories in all of literature. The author, a lifelong Bible scholar, applies evidence from Hebrew and Assyrian history and etymology, along with scientific and archeological discoveries. The author concludes that Jonah was a state-sponsored evangelist and diplomat, acting on behalf of an official cult in Bethel. He was sent to Nineveh in Assyria to make allianc...

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and ***Preacher Finds a Corpse.***In 1892 Paris, Julius Stewart painted The Baptism, a Vanderbilt family scene that contains an embarrassing secret. In the present day, art historian Grace Atwood becomes obsessed with the painting and its hidden clues for reasons that have more to do with her personal ghosts. Either her doting husband is trying to make her...

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and Preacher Finds a Corpse. Christmas Karma is author Gerald Everett Jones's homage to Anne Tyler, whom he regards as his literary mother. It's about the travails of a dysfunctional family around the holidays, narrated by an angel who has a wicked sense of humor. Main character Willa Nawicki is bewildered by a series of curious karmic events that ...

In this historical essay, freelance writer Gerald Everett Jones correlates the few details known about the death of the last Greek-speaking philosopher with the religious and political revolution that overtook her. Jones explains how, centuries earlier, Egyptian priest Manetho and Greek mystic Timotheus created the cult of Sarapis at the behest of pharaoh Ptolemy Soter. Hypatia's identification with this religion got her killed and her works suppressed, but the philosophy today's scholars ...

From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and Preacher Finds a Corpse.This short book has six stories and one essay. The essay "Boychik Lit" is the think piece, offering Gerald Everett Jones's thoughts on the genre which he named. "Chemistry" expands on the self-evident premise that you can't tell teenagers anything. The narrator of "Not Quite After Lisette is a forty-some...

Call Richmond went missing. Twenty years later he showed up on a family member's doorstep. He was homeless, broken, and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For the next fourteen years, his sister Rebecca took on the struggle to restore him as they faced the dark traumas and painful memories of their past. The Light in His Soul: Lessons from My Brother's Schizophrenia is her intimate memoir of helping Call as she learns that his extraordinary gifts are helping heal her and her family. Bo...

In the heart of rural Missouri, former physicist-turned-preacher Evan Wycliff is no stranger to mystery - or pain.In the second installment of the Evan Wycliff mystery series, part-time preacher and reluctant investigator Evan Wycliff finds himself pulled into another web of secrets hidden beneath the quiet surface of rural Missouri. What begins as the disappearance of a troubled teenage mother and her infant quickly becomes something far darker. Melissa Benton van...