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Voices in the Past, The First Journey, Part I (The Journeys Saga)

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Voices in the Past, The First Journey, Part I (Journeys Saga) by M.F. Erler

What if the key to healing your family was locked inside the lives of ancestors you never knew? In a world of time travel and family secrets, thirteen-year-old Cinda Parker and her brother Ian meet a mysterious stranger from the future and discover they are far more than typical mid-twenty-first century children. Revised Second Edition, 2026. Previously published as “Voices in the Past: Journeys Beyond the Peaks” (2021). [Read more…] about Voices in the Past, The First Journey, Part I (The Journeys Saga)

An Irish Odyssey: Journey’s Beyond the Peaks (The Journeys Saga) by M.F. Erler

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Beware the Shifting Sands by Mark Macedonia – Murder and Secrets in 1920s South Dakota

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Release Date: March 15, 2024

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In 1928, war veteran turned New York City detective Parker Simms returns to his South Dakota roots, seeking refuge from a Teapot Dome Scandal fallout. But when a sinister killer links their gruesome crimes to “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Simms is thrust into a relentless pursuit of justice.

Recruiting the help of former flame turned schoolteacher, Sandra Groves, and her fiancé, history professor Archie Yeager, Simms dives into a labyrinth of secrets, exposing extortion, nativism, prejudice, and racism within the 1920s Black Hills society.

As they follow the twisted clues, suspicion blankets local law enforcement, Klansmen, indigenous Lakota people, and even the intended victims themselves. Simms must unravel the enigma, where fiction and reality blur, and deceit conceals the true monsters.

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The Frisian, A Medieval Historical Novel by Author, Richard van der Ven

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The Frisian, A Medieval Novel by Richard Van Der Ven

Release Date: Jan 15, 2024

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A Viking raid. A life in tatters. A young warrior’s dangerous quest to shape his destiny.

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‘Crescent Moon’ illuminates little-known era, the Ottoman Empire

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Mark Macedonia, author of “Beneath A Crescent Moon,” looks through his book Friday, March 10, at his house in Adams Township. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle
Mark Macedonia, author of “Beneath A Crescent Moon,” looks through his book Friday, March 10, at his house in Adams Township. Justin Guido/Butler Eagle

A retired Seneca Valley Intermediate High School history teacher’s expertise came into play in his second published novel that uses a little-known period as a backdrop.

Mark Macedonia’s “Beneath A Crescent Moon” offers a story of love, betrayal, and survival during the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. [Read more…] about ‘Crescent Moon’ illuminates little-known era, the Ottoman Empire