General & literary fiction Books

Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. But the local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever,...

From its inception, The Fictional Café has been about publishing the most interesting and innovative forms of poetry, fiction, fine art and audio arts. We celebrated our 10th anniversary in May of 2023, and remain steadfast in this mission. We've grown...

"What's the big deal about Fermat's last theorem?" Yuri asked."It's famous," I said. "So simple anyone can understand it, but it took centuries for mathematicians to prove it's true."* * *With a note scribbled in the margin of a book in the 1600s, Fermat...

Jonathan Flite's fame is on the rise. Ever since the suicide bombing at his mother's press conference last summer, his alleged "past-life memories" of Minnesota's long-lost Idle County Seven have piqued the curiosity of people everywhere-including new...

When military violence destroys his childhood and his family, reluctant rebel Nazir and his peers rally against the greed-driven injustice. The setting is Alue Rambe, a rural village in Aceh, at the epicenter of one of the world’s richest oil and...

A Spirited Life is a must for any dog lover. This full color, loaded with personal photographs walks you through the life of an amazing dog. If you ever feel like life has given you a raw deal this is the book for you. This dog was given a hand of the...

Martin has shut himself off from life. Too many people he loved have left him: his wife, his mother, his father, his best friend. Once a fearless adventurer and world traveler, he now works in a mind-numbing federal job, raising his two children on his...

Candy's Shop is the hottest beauty salon in Harlem. But the romances happening inside of it are even hotter!Candy has the body of a goddess, the most expensive cars and exclusive fashion that money can buy, Her business is the envy of every woman she...

"Get it how you live it," is the foundation of the street lawmakers. When two well-connected Arabs enter the city limits of Durham, North Carolina, they do so without knowing the rules of the land. Pay close attention to the main character of...

After discovering the true identity of his father, Money takes a major step back in his relationships with his mother and Karma. Driven by an insatiable need to find him, Money spends his nights on the beat asking any and every one of Jimmy's...

Patrick Alexander thinks he's going crazy. At age 30, he's frustrated with his life in the small Mississippi town where he grew up, stifled by his unhappy marriage and his soul-crushing pizza-delivery job. But when he drinks, his world becomes populated...

Edited by Jasper Magazine founder and editor Cynthia Boiter, The Limelight - A Compendium of Contemporary Columbia Artists, Volume 1 is a serialized collection of first person narrative essays written by Columbia, SC writers and artists about Columbia,...

Teen age, a time of change, of reflection, of charting new paths. Now, Peter Bennings, 13, can explore his own sexuality and fantasizes sexual encounters with real and imaginary girls, while struggling with his awkwardness in real-life experiences...

Justice is back! In her hometown of Chicago, she is trying to live a normal life for once. But as demons from her past start to rear their ugly heads, she is forced to confront them head on. Beneath her shrewd business persona lies a dangerous woman who...

"A collection like a circus of daredevils. . . . A bravura debut." -Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical NovelHonorable Mention in the 2021 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding...

Two young brothers are exploring the caves near their Tuscan hill town when one is kidnapped by migrants on their way home to their own village in the upper Apennines. Set in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century, this novella explores the life of...

Rich struggles to lead a crime-free life and save his relationship, but Vanessa feels their bond can't be restored until everyone who weakened it is dead. Candy is caught between her hunger for get-back and the fear of the slim odds of her and...

Andie attempts to survive in her volatile family home. After she learns that she was adopted, a quest for discovery begins that takes her close to the edge. Along the way, she encounters a shadowy character determined to keep her bound and supernatural...

After a supposedly mythical race of desert warriors invades the human territories and destroys every city in its path, five former enemies must travel together into the netherworld and harness the unpredictable power of demons to defeat the seemingly...

TRUST NO MAN is an urban street tale told in such vivid detail and with such gritty and compelling style it s like watching a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Terrence aka Youngblood is a young and jiggy stick-up kid in...

When Infinity suddenly shows up offering Tanisha her forgiveness, yet asks explicit details about Tanisha s previous affair with her husband, Roscoe, Tanisha has every right to be suspicious. Despite her gut feeling, she accepts Infinity s friendship. As...

Annie is afraid to lose everything she knows. John is starting over after his wife's death. Can they find their way together?As a divorced mother, Annie Gerhard’s friends and social life are enmeshed with the California coast. It’s the...

The nine authors featured in this anthology are members of the Breach House Gang and live in and around Moncton, New Brunswick.

Imagine a malign force dismantling your mind by insidious degrees, stripping away a lifetime of knowledge, cherished memories, and human connections. Now imagine being intimately aware of the process, but helpless to arrest it. Would you be afraid?For...

The Angel of Christmas is a beautifully written story. With the visitation from the Angel of Christmas, hearts are opened for families to create new Christmas traditions based on caring, sharing, and a respect for the natural world.

Impetuous provides an insight into our world getting flooded with illicit drugs by going back to the 1990s when a street dealer of drugs and fake emeralds had the idea how to improve the drug trade and avoid the detection of smuggled drugs and the...

Fate cannot be controlled and is frequently quite unpleasant. Yet, a bad hand that is dealt by fate can be the start to new and better phase in life. It all depends on how it is played.Fate dealt the protagonist a bad hand when he ended up by chance in...

Things left under a Christmas Tree aren't always gifts. Or from Santa.In this second book in the Four Seasons Series, Detective Lewis, Nate, Superman (the detective dog), and Nate's spunky mom have a laundry list of suspects, including a tobacco-spitting...

Millie Bryson discovers Shawnee Indians in her family's past. It's 1925 and memories of the Indian Wars, and what happened to some of the early settlers, are still fresh in some of their minds. The kids in her eighth grade class at school tease her and...

There’s a lot of drama within the walls of some churches!!Pastor James Miller recently became the pastor of a small, but quickly growing church in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Lady Vivica, have been happily married for almost 30 years, and, from...

"The woman you truly are, right now, is perfect for where you are on your path, but you must look at yourself honestly and not through some distorted lens — a lens formed by the ideas of someone else.”Women today, at the beginning of the...

This long-forgotten factional novel was the literary sensation of its day. The Poet Laureate Robert Southey said of it 'Truth is often stranger than falsehood; and so it is in this case'. This is the account of the privateer William Williams's adventures...

Best friends meet again years after their wild university adventures. Zac has become wealthy through the family business, Olly is now a well-known chef but has debts and a broken marriage behind him.They open a restaurant together and Ella, the girl they...

A compelling book about spirituality in the modern world. We shadow a Spiritual master as he deals with matters of the heart and soul. Based on amazing true stories of current and past Sufi mystics and saints. A must read.

In the late spring of 1991, dedicated health professional, football nut, devoted father, and angling obsessive Ken Barlow upped sticks from his home in Tyneside and took off for south-west Scotland in search of a new life.He certainly found it.Ken and...

"I have what is called locked-in syndrome. Yes ... Read that again ... Locked. In. Syndrome. The trouble is that I'm the only person to have figured this out."Meet Dave. Dave is an eighteen-year-old blind, quadriplegic victim of...

Irish teacher, Meghan Dorney, breaks away from her floundering engagement by accepting a six month posting to Mallawa in outback Western Australia.Widowed wheat farmer, Dusty Nash, of Sunday Plains pastoral station, desperate to let go of his...

A distinctly unfortunate inventor discovers that he doesn't exist. Finding himself in this nightmare situation he consults Sherlock Holmes and presents the sage of Baker Street with one of his most baffling challenges.Is it a simple case of amnesia or...

When Sherlock Holmes recovered a compromising photograph and saved the reputation of the King of Bohemia he thought the case was closed. However, the attractive villainess, Irene Adler - now a respectable married woman - summoned Holmes a year after her...

Ten years on from Holmes and Watson's sleuthing days, something is amiss at the prestigious and exclusive Abbey School.Young Lord Whitechurch is accused of stealing money from the headmaster's office. But as one of the wealthiest pupils, the question...

Hunter is the eighth book of Cap Parlier’s epic To So Few series of historical novels.  In the wake of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the American volunteer fighter pilots serving in the Royal Air Force in England seek transfer to the...

It tells the tale of renowned scientist Thomas Nicolas, whose brain functioned as quickly as a computer.Only machinery surrounding Nicolaas' life. To learn more about some shredded pages from his history, he was working on the project "Tik- Tik." He is...

From Angola - scene of one of southern Africa's longest and bitterest colonial struggles - comes the refreshing comedy of "Mestre" Tamoda. The archetypal bush lawyer, mock rhetorician and speechifier, Tamoda is the creation of Uanhenga Xitu, one of...

"This fierce little novel tells the story of a political con­frontation in a remote village in Argentina. Obscure differences between Peronist supporters and leaders escalate in a crescendo of violence to the final massacre. The characters, who with...

"If it is a sin to lie to others, what is it to lie to oneself ?" Amber Hanson suffers two demoralizing whammies when she breaks up with her longtime boyfriend and loses her job as a result of corporate downsizing. For some R&R, she escapes from the...

Randy Johnson, a former green beret platoon leader in Vietnam, has now settled into the peaceful life of an Idaho rancher. It holds a kind of a magic, a new freedom, a relief from a cunning invisible enemy left behind in the dangerous jungles of Vietnam...

Love in the Time of Terror is about an American woman, Rebecca Bartholomew who is stranded in London after a breakup.  She meets MI5 agent, Peter Reed, who is on a mission to find the terrorist involved in the bombings in London.  They have an...

Poems, essays and shorts stories written by the students of Jerry Zucker Middle School of Science in North Charleston, South Carolina.