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Heritage

A jumble of family ties betrayals and criminal behavior relating to racehorses form the basis of Suzanne Knoebel’s novella "Heritage". Protagonist Seth Stevens first becomes a player in the thoroughbred industry when his father drowns... Read More

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From the Heart of a Down Chick

It is poetry’s challenge to say in few words what cannot be said in many. To this end a poet has available many devices to convey meaning and evoke an emotional response in readers; devices like rhythm or rhyme have the power to bypass... Read More

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A Letter From Heaven

Jamie’s mother keeps a beautiful ceramic jar on their mantelpiece. The jar is painted with blue flowers and sometimes Jamie’s mother puts real flowers next to it in a vase. Jamie has been asking his mother about that jar ever since... Read More

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A Canyon Trilogy

“It seems like no job can be completed by the expert doing the work for there is always something unique that their work doesn’t include. So the finishing person is almost always me—choreographing some way to tie that last knot”... Read More

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Company of Spies

"Company of Spies" begins with the cataclysmic bombing of Pearl Harbor that quickly pushed the United States into World War II. Seemingly overnight the American citizenship radically changed the definition of the family infrastructure... Read More

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Fear God and the Shadow of the Muslim Sword

“Muslims are marrying Muslims and the imams in the mosques are pushing for conciliatory changes in the secular law to accommodate Sharia law” writes Mr. Pat. This controversial statement is just one of a number of extremist... Read More

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Web of Spies, Book II

Dr. Margaret Emanuelson’s epic new series Company of Spies presents the events of World War II in an entirely different perspective that of its female O.S.S. operatives. Calling on her own experiences as a covert operative working for... Read More

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