Cindy Bauer Books

AUTHOR: Anastasia Cassella-Young

 

 

Anastasia Cassella-Young's Short Stories

Fiction

 

Anastasia Cassella-Young's Short Stories has stories in it such as 'Just Like Grandma' about a grandmother and her three grandchildren that are being subjected to an alcoholic father and his demise. Also 'Small Blurb' which is about a small blurb in a New York newspaper about a woman who died on the IRT subway going to Long Island Rail Road station. How about a scary story for Halloween? 'You're Supposed to be Scared' is about a man who has won tickets to a haunted house and what happens there. There are other short stories as well.

 

Murder, Secrets and Injustice in a Small Town

Fiction

 

 

with Theodocia McLean

Anastasia Cassella-Young’s and Theodocia McLean’s book: ‘Murder, Secrets and Injustice in a Small Town’ accurately depicts small town America with its good and it’s bad. Come follow Ana’s story about murder, secrets and the injustice in the small coastal town of Cherryfield, Maine. Who really murdered Marco, a migrant worker and Sherman Stanhouse? What is the secret Don Terrance wants to tell Ana?

 

The Rogue Bear (A Short Story)

Fiction (based on a true story)

 

 

Based on a true story. A rogue bear terrorizing a Downeast Maine ranch of 4 acres. Look into the true life of living with wild animals in the State of Maine.

AUTHOR: Theodocia McLean

 

The Nephilim Phenomenon

Fiction

 

 

Theodocia McLean’s book, 'The Nephilim Phenomenon', is a unique approach to the "Nephilim" (offspring of fallen angels and human copulation). This might possibly be Theologians best kept secret. This is a fictional account of the "Nephilim" Phenomenon briefly described in the Bible. Her premise is that fallen angels survived the great flood that wiped out the earthbound Nephilim. This fictional accounting is set in the backdrop of a convention of people who are experiencing encounters with these fallen angels who have both de-evolved and evolved with an insatiable lust and the question remains, is this half-breed among us today?

 

 

Time Traveler’s Postscript-Journal of a Time Traveler

Fiction

 

 

Theodocia McLean’s book 'Time Traveler’s Postscripts-Journal of a Time Traveler' began as a class project, took on a life of its own and is now the first book in a series that she is writing. Her main character says, “Think about the job interview that changed your life. For me, it was the interview for a reporter position with ‘Time Traveler’s Postscripts’. As it turns out, my job description is beyond my wildest imagination. They want me to travel back in time, in what they call a ‘Diamond Pod’. It is the year 3010 and our ‘Diamond Pod Missions’ begin”. Come travel with her and take an adventure in a ‘Diamond Pod’ back into Biblical history.

 

AUTHOR: Billy W. Pennington

 

Cullenville

Western Mystery

 

 

Steve Wilks is the sheriff of a small cattle and farming town where his only duty is to break up fist fights between the cowboys and farmers and arrest dunks. That is until the body of the area's biggest rancher is found in an alley in town. Suddenly he has to deal with a murder investigation with which he has no experience at all. When two more of the towns founding citizens are found dead, the sheriff has to find out why they are being murdered before he can find the killer. With the help of his deputy, a crippled ex-sheriff, the town doctor, an old stable hand and a young boy he searches for the killer of Cullenville original settlers.

 

AUTHOR: Cody Tedford

 

Powerful Secrets

Historical Fiction

 

 

The Greatest Conspiracy of ALL TIME - A Powerful Brotherhood…A Dominant World Plan...An unthinkable Secret

Thirty-Five year old Princeton Professor Dr. Bruce Vaughn has lived a life of achievement and sophistication. After an abrupt call from the Dean of his department, he is quickly thrown onto a mysterious trail of clues that harbor murder, wealth and prestige. Along with the beautiful Kara Spencer, whose grandfather’s bible started the puzzle, Vaughn travels the United States East Coast through famous libraries, enchanting churches, college campuses, prisons and high rise cities to connect the dots and uncover the Powerful Secrets of the Brotherhood of Death.

 

AUTHOR: Susan Markle Wolfe

 

Don't Mess With Granny

Fiction

 

 

Granny thought when people got old they lost interest in thoughts of love, hate or jealousy. Now she realized, just because people are old, they haven’t lost all their senses, and she was finding it out firsthand. Granny thought the world of Adam and felt safe around him. Now someone was getting into her space. She was feeling empty and lonely, and she wanted that comfort feeling back. It’s either I fight for what I want, or lose it to someone else, she thought. She was painfully aware that the joy in her life had vanished, and she felt insecure, alone and perplexed. She wiped a fallen tear from her face and slipped down the corridor in silence—her shoulders slumped, heartbroken, and defeated after witnessing her beloved Adam sharing his love with another woman. Adam kept a secret from Granny, but he would tell her in time.   

 

AUTHOR: J. Ann Snow

 

What If the Sky Should Fall

Fiction - Family Drama 

 

 

The Makers, a large impoverished family once again in dire need were forced to seek assistance from the state. With unexpected help from humanitarians, they were finally able to see light at the end of the tunnel. However, much to their horror, it proved to be just another train, driven by the Owens, the privileged foster parents whom they had entrusted their daughters Jody and Natalie with. Stunned when blind-sided, caught up in the system, under investigation from Child Protective Services, with enraged emotions and erratic behavior, terrified of losing their children, nonetheless Al and Emma Maker had to prepare for their day in court. Bonds of unconditional love and commitment are strong in both families. But no one could have prepared any of them for the revelations disclosed on that day or the realization that no one is exempt from life's fury.

                           

AUTHOR: Quentin Mark Pierson

 

The Revelation of Lucifer the Divine 

Fiction

 

 

Written by the author during a time when he was hearing strange voices and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, The Revelation of Lucifer the Divine is an enigmatic allegory that gives chilling solutions to mysteries such as the names of the three Beasts of the Apocalypse and the principle of Creation. Whether The Revelation of Lucifer the Divine is inspired madness, divine Revelation, or false prophecy is a question without an answer.

 

AUTHOR: V.J. Capanelli

 

Cruze's Quest

Historical Fiction

 

 

Henry’s life changed the day Captain Peters was murdered by pirates. From that day on he made it his life’s work to cure the Islands of this murderous band. He would join the Island Defense Fleet, established by the governors of the Caribbean, funded and recognized by the English government to combat the rising evil the pirates readily inflicted. This is the story of Captain Henry Cruze and the fighting ship Quest in the service of the IDF.

 

AUTHOR: Feather Schwartz Foster

T: An Auto-Biography

Historical Fiction

 

 

I am a Model-T Ford. You can call me "T" for short. This is my auto-biography. Get that? An AUTO-biography! I've had a lot of adventures in my long life; lots of owners, lots of good times, and a few not-so-good times. But all in all, it's been a fine life.

It started in 1920. Maybe 1921. I forget. But it was a very long time ago. I rolled off Mister Henry Ford's assembly line bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and spanking-shiny new. I was jet black and polished to a high gloss. I had a running board and a spare tire, and real leather seats. Oh, I was a handsome fellow, just waiting for somebody to buy me and start me on a life of excitement. I was going places!

 

Garfield's Train 

Historical Fiction

 

 

Garfield’s Train is a novel of the New Jersey Shore, when Long Branch was the “Gilded Strand” of the Gilded Age. The wealthiest families in the country built elaborate 30-room cottages along the seacoast, frequented the casinos and racetracks, and lived the good life. Then President James Garfield was shot by an assassin in 1881. He lingered in pain for three months, and was finally brought to Long Branch to die. The fictional Dunbar family interacts with a supporting cast of General Grant, Roscoe Conkling, James G. Blaine, Susan B. Anthony, and of course, the whole Garfield family, recreating the bygone era of Long Branch’s proudest hours.

 

AUTHOR: MaryAnn Hayatian

 

Love Is Blind, But the Neighbors Ain't 

Fiction
 

 

Lynna, her life stands in the city of Montreal in the early 1970’s. A university student majoring in advertising, someday she will explain her emotions with pictures. Her friends Celia, Antonio, Syd and James have seen a glow from her that no one has. But, she herself doesn’t know what this glow defines. And then along came Scott, businessman-like model, brushing her feet away from the present and placing her in la-la land. Could she be with the right one? Only if she glows, she will know. From memories of her past, she asks herself, “Maybe James could be the one?” Her feelings seem to be not quite set away. Curiosity awakens her and, in the end, destiny leads her to where she belongs - if James feels the same. Advice from her best friend Celia and her older sister Hayley makes her realize her love life is going backwards. Will she stay with Mr. Businessman or will James walk her way? Join Lynna and the gang in their captivating adventures.

 

AUTHOR: Miralee Ferrell

 

The Other Daughter

Contemporary Women's Fiction

 

 

The girl standing at the door took a deep breath, pulling her suitcase a little closer to her trembling legs. "My mama’s dead. He’s my daddy."

Susanne Carson knew that she could trust the love of her life—her husband, David—until she discovered a strange, unkempt young girl on their doorstep, claiming to be David’s daughter.

Not that their marriage had ever been perfect—David’s decision to embrace the Christian faith had strained their relationship. Susanne may not have agreed with his beliefs, but at least she trusted him. Had David been hiding this not-so-little secret from his past? Her husband wanted Susanne to believe in God, but believing hadn’t done much to keep David out of another woman’s arms. What else could her husband be hiding?

As David confronts the truth of his past, Susanne must face her own moment of truth as her marriage is taken to the breaking point and the life of one young girl is left in her hands.

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AUTHOR: A.W. Nutter

 

Daddy's Game 

Fiction

 

Michael Wilson is a man trying to escape his torturous past. Regardless of how far he travels, his dead father continues to draw him back, to play the game, to finish what was started in the beginning. While in prison Michael learns of an individual willing to pay for a child. With money as the driving force, he kidnaps a young boy. Michael soon discovers that this little child has the ability to deliver him from his dead father’s grasp. Deciding to keep the boy as his own, Michael takes the boy with him. On the run from the individual he double-crossed, the police, and his dead father, Michael comes to a final dramatic confrontation with all three.

 

AUTHOR: D.K. Christi

 

Arirang: The Bamboo Connection 

Fiction

 

Born in the arms of forbidden love, Melani lives life “on the edge”—finding herself abandoned in a German blizzard, stranded in a Baghdad, Iraq, airport, and escaping disaster aboard the yacht, Obsession…

“A wall of water…barely visible through the port…as the boat pitches and rolls. The roar of the wind and the endless grinding of the engines…one continuous groan against the pounding of the sea.…any attempt to rise brings on waves of nausea…The cupboard door suddenly flies open, turning hours of careful stowing into flying missiles that continue to roll around the sole…Tears of helplessness stream down my cheeks. ‘Dear God,’ I pray, ‘Will this nightmare ever end?’”

Romance threads through seven continents, stitching a love story—an adventure—as Melani meets life’s challenges head on. Grab your passport and come aboard.

 

AUTHOR: Woodrow Walker

 

Vampire 

Horror

 

Legacy of Adrian Blackthorn, Vampire is the account of a young Englishman of noble birth who, after being cast out by his father because of an indiscretion, must leave Blackthorn Castle and seek his fortune in the army, where he is able to buy a junior officer’s commission. It is 1854 and the Crimean War takes him to the Ukraine, where he is wounded in battle. Waking up on a battlefield littered with the dead bodies of his comrades, and weak from his wound, young Blackthorn seeks shelter in a cave, unaware that it is home to Drago, a thousand-year-old vampire. Drago turns the young officer into a vampire fledgling, keeping him as a slave. Despite being a vampire held in bondage by the mad Drago, Blackthorn is determined to return to England and claim his birthright.

 

AUTHOR: Amber Rigby Grosjean

 

Cursed Blood

Horror

 

 

Cursed Blood is based on the experiences of a woman who must deal with a demonic curse. Born with the curse, she has learned that running away from everyone, including herself, is the only way people can survive on her birthday. This was until the day Donna met Jack Green, F.B.I. He claims there is a cure and the bureau has it. Will the cure be what Donna is looking for to end her misery? Will the cure work? And how will her new relationship with Jack be affected if it doesn’t work?

 

AUTHOR: Michael Smolanoff

 

The Oval Portrait 

Horror
 

 

This novel draws from a wide variety of source material. In his scenes of seduction, the vampire Plutarch quotes verses from the French, Italian and German love songs of the Renaissance. The Latin verses quoted are taken from poems such as those that were popular among the upper classes of the mid-seventeenth century. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait is referred to in several instances; the text thereof has been distilled somewhat but the language has not been altered. The erotic poetry of Paul Verlaine is also quoted, as are Anton Chekhov and Salvador Dali.

The character of Plutarch, as he appears in this novel, is to a large extent based on the character Des Esseintes from J.K. Huysman’s brilliant and shocking nineteenth-century novel A Rebours (Against Nature). Indeed, his bizarre book served as the fundamental inspiration for this novel. Finally, as to the historical Plutarch, he of course did live, born in A.D. 45 at Chaeronea in Boeotia.

One of the great classical scholars, Plutarch adopted the philosophical standpoint of a Platonist. His historical works were written later in life—it is known that Shakespeare used Plutarch’s writings as source material for his own work. As for his personal habits as portrayed in this piece, I have clearly taken many liberties.

 

AUTHOR: Anne Lebrecht

 

Memories of a Forgotten Past 

Contemporary Fiction

 

 

Abandoned by her parents and placed in a Catholic boarding school at age five, Janet Selmann is forced to confront cruelty, rejection, and hostility. Unanswered questions and confusion about her past are a source of constant anxiety. Ten years later, and after the death of her mother, Janet’s father feels compelled to bring her home. Home and family are foreign to her. Her father’s new love, Annie, befriends Janet and shares many secrets of Janet’s past. Annie’s brother, Seymour, and Janet fall in love. Friendship and love are lost when a tragic accident takes Seymour’s life. Faced with loss and grief, Janet must try to rebuild her life once again. From 1940 to 1992, from Montreal to Los Angeles, Janet continues to search for the truth. Painful memories and many setbacks hinder her search. She struggles to find closure to her past so she may find happiness in the present.

 

Discoveries of a Hidden Past

Contemporary Fiction

 

 

Marion Selmann has just graduated from McGill University, as a Doctor of psychology. She now faces major decisions. To live in Montreal the city she loves or Los Angeles and close to her Mother and where she grew up. An unexpected proposal of marriage further complicates her life, along with a passionate love affair.

Marion has also made the shocking discovery of just whom her father is. She must now reconcile her life in spite of lies, and betrayals, from those she thought had loved her the most, and accept a past that was not as it seemed.

She struggles with her determination to help her patients, while at the same time she must try to balance her own needs with those of her loved ones. This book is a sequel to Memories of a Forgotten Past, and is a continuation of the lives and people in that book.

 

 

The Daughters of Nora Crawford

Contemporary Fiction

 

 

Once strangers, the three sisters, Sylvia, Alice, and Monica find themselves bound by one single event. They share in their mother’s name, Nora Crawford and in her death. Raised in different homes under foster care, they now meet eighteen years later. Their lives are forever changed.

United in a search for their father, clothed in mystery, they bond in a relationship shared by ambitions for power, love, and of secret confessions, as each pursue happiness, love and closure to their past. Each of the sisters has a story to tell, and a past to forget. Each has faced their lives with a different outlook and searches in their own way for peace of mind.

Some will make you cry, some you may hate, but all will be remembered.

 

AUTHOR: Inez Brinkley

 

Embracing the Light

Fiction

 

 

Jennie's baby had been born, but she watched a stranger hold him, heard his cry that wrung her heart as they carried him away to be the next sacrifice.

This novel about Joseph and Jennie's passionate love brings them places they never dreamed they would go. Joseph loses his faith as he loses the woman he loves, the child they bore, and his career as a cop.

But the forces of hell cannot prevail.

 

AUTHOR: Daisha Marie Korth

 

Noble Courage 

Fiction
 

 

The Darktower name held the power to make one shiver with trepidation as it rolled off the tongue. Thorne Darktower stood tall and ominous, resentful of his own existence and plotting against his family’s life-long enemy, until he is touched by the heart of an angel and shown the promise of life as she lifts the wool of hatred from his eyes.

Aspen Tiller found herself as an unsuspecting pawn in a strategic game of self-preservation. With her innocence and child-like ideals, she reaches deep within herself to accomplish the impossible, command the respect of those around her, welcome the love of all who know her and face the wrath of the devil who covets her. Embedded in her character is a courage so noble that it refuses to allow her to give in to defeat as she trudges through the obstacles in her path to emerge anew—but does it destroy the woman so many love?

 

AUTHOR: Marion W. McKenney

 

Dem Church Folk

Mainstream Fiction

 

 

When Bubba Lee was a boy, his family would spend all day on Sundays in church. He would sit there and watch those old ladies just a jumping, shouting, and dancing down the church aisle. He would peek out at them from under his momma’s arm just to see if they were really filled with the Holy Ghost. It seemed to him they just wanted folk to see them in their new outfits!

When Bubba Lee grew up, he became a preacher and had problems with his own flock. After being pastor of Shiloh Community Church for six years, Bubba Lee had about enough. People were mad at each other. Children were being disrespectful to adults. It all brought back memories of when he was a child back in Mississippi. “Dem church folk” were causing more and more problems. Marion W. McKenney was born in Dyersburg, TN. Graduated from Bradley University with a BS in Elementary Education, a minor in English. She currently lives in North Carolina.

 

Author: AJC Mackey

 

A Dream Come True  

Fiction   

 

 

All of us have dreams. Most of the time they don’t come true. Well, this book is about a dream that did come true, about a teacher who was so excited about finally realizing her dream, and then finding out that things aren’t always the way you think they should be. Support was not there; she was all alone. She found out that the same things that exist in other professions—jealousy and backstabbing, also exist with teachers. Basically everyone is out for themselves.

 

AUTHOR: Beth Vishnevsky

 

The Devious Man...How Utterly Twisted

Fiction

 

This is a fiction story about a man named Darius who witnesses his father being abusive to his mother growing up and aims to follow in his footsteps. When Darius meets a young innocent young woman named Dana who has run away from her home for personal reasons, he believes he has found the perfect woman and will go to any length to keep his deceits from her. We meet Darius' mother along the way, a very kind, but weak character who does nothing to defend her honor and seems destined to remain in a loveless relationship indefinitely. Darius' father shares his views about his wife and alleged son, while taking us down his own personal hell. We also hear from friends of both Darius and Dana to get a better idea of what kind of individuals they really are. When Darius agrees to marry Dana, it isn't long before he starts to abuse her. All the while, Dana and Darius' mother are becoming stronger women due to their bonding and friendship, a move that leads to tragedy, pain, and enlightenment.

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