From the Depths is Chicago Tribune editor/reporter Gerry Doyle's speculative thriller pitting the CIA forensic scientist with a Navy SEAL team investigating deaths aboard a North Korean submarine defecting to the US. McBooks Press, Fall 2007.

Gerry Doyle is the night reporter for the Chicago Tribune and has held positions there as a copy editor and city editor. His articles cover subjects as varied as designer dogs, serial killers, million-dollar postage stamps and high-profile lawsuits. Several of his short stories have been published internationally.

R.R. Smythe

Into the Woods

Young Adult novel.

Scotland, 1840.  Callum and his friends are in a race against time to decipher why and how their parents have fallen into a mysterious coma.  In each sleeper's room, roots have grown wild out of the closet and wrapped each comatose patient in a root sarcophagus.  On each closet door is a riddle, which the children must solve in order to free their parents from the place known only as The NetherWood.  Will they make it in time to save their parents?

Available now from most major book sellers. (If it is not in stock they can order it.)

Joan Donaldson'S

By My Own Hands, a Young Adult novel, takes place in Rugby, Tennessee, a utopian community founded by Thomas Hughes in 1880. The book examines the conflict between the Englishmen who invaded the Cumberland Mountains and the highlanders who lived there. Sixteen-year-old mountaineer, Dicey Walker, based on the real-life Dicey Fletcher, whose weavings are housed in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, vows to expel the foreigners from her ridge. Passionate about all aspects of weaving, Dicey takes pride in her creations and living by the work of her hands. When Dicey becomes friends with two settlers, Charlie and Seamus, she must reexamine her attitudes. Publisher: Holiday House

Lance Martin's

"The Little Hermit"

In the middle of nowhere there lies a peaceful little community called Hermitville. The Great Grand Wise Old Hermit warns his fellow hermits to avoid the strange land over the horizon. Hermy, a curious little hermit, sets off on his journey in search of this strange land. Publisher: Highland Press

Eric Fullilove's

THE ZERO DAY EVENT takes place against a backdrop of the near future, where terrorism, far from being defeated, continues to plague a world growing more desperate to somehow contain it and willing to take more desperate measures and deploy more sinister weapons against it. When Damien Stroud, scientist, achieves a major breakthrough against extreme odds, it has terrifying consequences that no one envisioned.

John Neiman's

The Amazing Rabbitine with illustrations by Karen Lawrence is a magical story in rhyme for youngsters and for the young at heart.

Coming Soon!

Photograph by Gisele Wulfsohn

Alexandra Levin

Marie Antoinette, Diana and Alexandra:
The Third I (nonfiction)

Alexandra, named several times on the list of best dressed women in South Africa and friend of presidents and their wives, writes of her psychic connection with Princess Diana and the court of Marie Antoinette.

Brynn Chapman's

Bride of Blackbeard

1718

In leaving behind Bristol, England, Constanza Smythe bids farewell and good riddance to a tumultuous childhood and her alcoholic surgeon father, for the life of a Governess in America.

However, her dream for a new life in the colonies quickly darkens into a nightmare. Her new plantation home is fraught with terror. It seems the estate sits beneath a cloud of doom.  The livestock and slaves are sick and dying; chains on the tiny school desks, and nighttime screaming make her fear for her life.

And worst of all, she has unwittingly captured the attention of the most infamous pirate ever known-Edward Teach. Or as he is known to Outer Banks townsfolk- Blackbeard.

James J Valko

The Find

A reporter investigating an archeology dig in the Grand Canyon where all members have been found dead follows through to discover the astounding spiritual secrets of an ancient civilization and the deadly "master plan" for world domination of a present-day secret society.

Anne Kimberly

Dark Well of Decision

This is a 24,000-word young adult fantasy, involving a thirteen-year-old girl as she searches for answers to her spiritual questions. Zoe struggles to understand her unfamiliar thoughts and feelings, and the existence of God; is he real or a figment of her grandma's imagination?

She is given an opportunity to uncover the truth when a strange force pulls her down into a deep dark well, where she is trapped and completely alone. Crying out to a God she is not sure exists, she finds herself in the midst of another world, a world where people are small, and things are perceived with spiritual eyes. She is shown wondrous and frightening things, finds herself faced with the biggest decision of her life, and is pitted against a powerful evil that uses her greatest fears and insecurities in an effort to destroy her.

Marie Krohn

The Flame of Learning: The Life of Louise Pound (nonfiction)

A turn-of-the-century New Woman (1872-1958), Louise Pound welcomed challenges in scholarship and sports and advanced the cause of women in both fields.  
American Legacy Media, 2008