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- Everything But The Groom
by Christina Hamlett - Semper Fi Christmas
by Kent Faus - Purple Code
by Bette Jane - Parting River Jordan
by Mari Barnes - Parting River Jordan
by Mari Barnes - In The Background
by Devin Wright - Desdemona
by Darryl Hines - Einstein's Road Trip - Winslow to Thibodaux and Beyond
by George Brinner - Bomaw - Volume One
by Mercedes Keyes - The Tourist Trail
by John Yunker
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- Desdemona
- by Darryl Hines
An old quilt knitted by a slave and passed down through generations holds a deep dark secret. The quilt's improbable connection to a missing priceless diamond makes it the focus of a frenzied search. Dahlia Reynolds inherited the quilt and as a result becomes an unwilling pawn in a struggle between a mysterious older man and the Thai Mafia in their search for the diamond. Life changes abruptly for Dahlia and her once safe world as a Pentagon analyst is forever altered as she finds herself a stranger in a foreign land.
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- Semper Fi Christmas
- by Kent Faus
Gunnery Sergeant Robert Christmas, career Marine and hard corps patriot finds himself disgruntled during the holiday season. To bury his disgust he escapes from the hype and commercialization by drinking alone in the only saloon he can find open on Christmas Eve, the Ebenezer Inn. The holiday season is always the most difficult time for Gunny Christmas, not only due to past events, but because of the name he shares with the most celebrated season in the world.
However, this holiday season is different as men and women visit Gunny from his past bringing painful memories to light.
It takes the wise words of a wily old bartender to bring Gunny Christmas’ chaos full circle. He warns the gray haired Marine of his ultimate end if he didn’t change his ways.
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- In The Background
- by Devin Wright
Following in the footsteps of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, In The Background is a richly engaging, unabashedly honest journey alongside an artist's shifting paradigm as he attempts making sense of a world that he has decided to leave in one way or another. Why has he made this decision? There are absolutely too many reasons, or maybe there is just one.
Slowly, the reader is invited into his world, and through his lens shown the ludicrousness of it all, making the argument to how one can feel as he while confined to the environment responsible for his creation. In The Background is more than a narrative, the authenticity of the environment and its representation makes it also easily fit into the genres of self-help and social commentary for it is a reflection of life itself in the tradition of all relevant literature.
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- Parting River Jordan
- by Mari Barnes
Deanna “Dee” Ramsey is NOT nosy; she’s just concerned. And the happenings at Chicago’s River Jordan Church are giving her lots of reasons to snoop. Things go from bad to worse when feuding factions separate into TWO churches and try to share the building they’ve literally split down the middle. After the separation, the Mothers Board quickly hires a handsome young single minister, Pastor Darnell Davis, who soon finds himself doing Romeo and Juliet with his rival’s only daughter!
After an electrical fire disrupts the “Stupid Bowl Service,” Deanna overhears part of a conversation and learns that the fire was no accident. Someone is plotting to destroy River Jordan! Dee rises to the challenge to uncover the plan and save the church Amid fire and football, a “Baptismathon” and romance—can she keep Parting River Jordan from becoming the end of everything?
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- Parting River Jordan
- by Mari Barnes
Deanna “Dee” Ramsey is NOT nosy; she’s just concerned. And the happenings at Chicago’s River Jordan Church are giving her lots of reasons to snoop. Things go from bad to worse when feuding factions separate into TWO churches and try to share the building they’ve literally split down the middle. After the separation, the Mothers Board quickly hires a handsome young single minister, Pastor Darnell Davis, who soon finds himself doing Romeo and Juliet with his rival’s only daughter!
After an electrical fire disrupts the “Stupid Bowl Service,” Deanna overhears part of a conversation and learns that the fire was no accident. Someone is plotting to destroy River Jordan! Dee rises to the challenge to uncover the plan and save the church Amid fire and football, a “Baptismathon” and romance—can she keep Parting River Jordan from becoming the end of everything?
