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Shades of Gray

by Carol Lynn Stewart

Confederate Captain Alexander Hunter wants nothing more than to put a stop to the slippery, fast-riding Yankee scout who has been reporting the maneuvers of Hunter’s reconnaissance and re-supply missions to the enemy Union army. When... Read More

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Women Of Magdalene

by Aimee Houser

During the nineteenth-century, asylums for “fallen women” opened that were named for Mary Magdalene: a saint that many remember as a sinner. Though administrators and clergy proposed to offer reform and rehabilitation, the asylums... Read More

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Broken Gourds

by Elizabeth Allen

Take a quick getaway to another time and place merely by opening a book. Billed as “inspirational folklore” "Broken Gourds" by Beresford McLean transports the reader to Albion a rural Jamaican village in the early 1900s. Sumptuous... Read More

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A Cabinet of Wonders

by Peyton Moss

In our entertainment-surfeited era, with everything from cables to satellite signals flooding our homes with hundreds of television channels, thousands of movies, and millions upon millions of Internet sites, we rarely remember or... Read More

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An Unchaste Life

by Elizabeth Allen

Most people know of Henry VIII. The notorious King of England married annulled and/or had executed six wives. His obsessive search for the perfect woman (and the perfect heir) highlighted the Tudor era’s preoccupation with the control... Read More

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The Turkish Lover

“I gave the world a shadow of me,” writes the author, “a me who looked like me but wasn’t. I reserved the real Esmeralda in a quiet, secret place no one could reach. I kept that me so hidden I was invisible even to myself.”... Read More

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"I Will Be Meat for My Salish"

Walking Coyote, a Pend d’Oreille Indian from western Montana, circa 1878, was in trouble. He already had a wife, but he took a second, risking the disappointment of the fathers of the St. Ignatius Mission and punishment by his tribe.... Read More

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Auschwitz Lullaby

by Vyvyan Lynn

“I open a smile in his neck the size of a summer squash and he’ll be dead in a minute… The life is oozing out of him and I feel good,” states Dr. Isaac Jonah in this audio play, which retells the story of the malignancy that was... Read More

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