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FantasyHis memory lost to an injustice in his past, a stranger enters Earth-Shaker's City in the Land amid the Sea. There, everyone but he knows his name, but none speaks it, lest it curse the land fatally. Against his will, he... See More
FantasySnerin lives among Those Who Walk in Harmony with the World on the south rim of Great Canyon. They treat her with suspicion, as it's clear to them she'll grow up to be a horned demon of the desert -- a bad thing in legend... See More
FantasyWhat purpose does a being of topaz light have for a lowly librarian? What would you do if ancient evils invaded your homeland? What would you do if your house were commandeered as a meeting place for ghosts? In this fallen... See More
Kentucky's early history has gotten lost in legend and one-sided histories. Kentucky's human habitation began, not with a pioneer in a coon-skin cap, but with ancestors of today's Native Americans. In the thousand years... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The murder of a powerful political boss and a dramatic commission from a Supreme Court justice send Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to Frankfort, Kentucky, on the most difficult case of the great detective's career... See More
History
The Civil War in Kentucky was replete with personalities and events stranger than fiction. Gallows humor was very much part of the war. Inevitably, religion mingled with politics in the national fight over slavery. Radically... See More
Genre FictionHave you felt that you were born in a wrong place and time -- that you belong to another world? Your feeling may explain humanity's fascination with Atlantis. The land almost surely never existed in the form in which Plato... See More
HorrorEach tale of the Mythos awakens a question in its readers. Are we sure of understanding a Great Old One's speech to us? What's the message of the "Mad Prophet of the Shakers?" What does an unknown star in dawn's fire herald... See More
Religion & SpiritualityAs a kingdom founded on faith was falling because of apostasy, the prophet Jeremiah taught lessons valuable for us today. His people had turned God's temple and God's Ark of the Covenant into idols, and had even turned aside... See More
FantasyWhat do you do when the end of the world looks like your best option? Baran, sixth in line to the throne of the Star-Begotten, must answer this question when Olarak, fallen Messenger of the Light, launches a surprise attack... See More
FantasyGregory, a lucid dreamer, gains the power to travel though dreams to the world of the Hopewell Exchange of central Ohio. He is dreaming of visiting the Native Americans who once lived at the mounds on his family property... See More
The Civil War's most notorious personality and its most shocking event have inspired legends. These have largely blurred the truth of an event too important to yield to false reports. How a man who could have been a... See More
Religion & SpiritualityEzekiel's vision of God's glory, seen amid his exile among fellow Jews to Babylon, is one of Scripture's most misunderstood passages. Some have built on it extreme teachings that have led religious leaders to restrict study... See More
Centuries before the Good Shepherd would speak of the prodigal son, prophets were speaking to God's people in parables, stories using everyday objects to teach eternal truths to those in trouble. Often, these parables spoke... See More
After decades of misrule by tyrants rejecting Moses' Law, the House of David gets its last hope in Josiah, an eight-year-old boy. Despite his youth and his parental examples, he becomes a faithful reformer, spurning... See More
Spreading the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul reaches Athens, city of countless gods. There, when he has debated the pantheistic Stoics and the atheistic Epicureans in the marketplace, he is summoned... See More
FantasyWhy must an amnesiac murder a prophetess who promises a return to the earth? Why does an honest winged maintenance worker get caught up in an interplanetary drug-smuggling ring? Why must a former graduate student steal from... See More
Science FictionAs Barnabas is growing up amid a philosophical settlement in the Oort Cloud, four centuries of peace for humanity burn in religious fanaticism's fires. A militant priesthood claiming that an alien plaque has taught them a... See More
Largely overlooked in Civil War history's big picture, Kentucky was a vital theater of the war and hosted events worthy of remembrance. The battles at Camp Wildcat, Middle Creek, Mill Springs, Richmond, Munfordville, and... See More
Happiness: all desire it; not all find it. What lets some find it, but makes others miss it? Answers to this question abound, but aren't always helpful. Over two thousand years ago, sacred poets of Ancient Israel passed on... See More
Action & Adventure
Crossing the deep desert to lead the woman whom he loves to a marriage with his hated enemy, Timbalis, an emerald-eyed mage of seven proficiencies, learns that the caravan is being shadowed by a trans-lunar spirit of... See More
Amid aspiring builders of Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America, the Shakers, who called themselves Believers in Christ's Second Coming, stand out. In New England and in the Midwest, they built communities of faith and work... See More
FantasyIs healing a demon-hunter mercy or torture? What is a secret society's true secret? Why have professional grifters overlooked an easy mark? What lesson can a lost land teach you? How far would you go for a glimpse of the... See More
Science Fiction
When Tennil, a young dedicata, becomes a detective aboard her world's first circumglobal passenger train, she can't imagine what lies before her. Demands of nobles, intrigues of churchmen secretly arranging an ecumenical... See More
FantasyTwo short stories previously professionally published headline a collection of two novellettes and six short stories about human beings dealing with life-changing questions. How will the god of Atlantis reply to a king's... See More
FantasyIn this sequel to A Name Concealed, Malachi Dent must adjust to learning that he's one of the Svare, refugees from a lost land that their neighbors in Kentucky's Bluegrass mistakenly call Atlantis. As he works for a name... See More
Religion & Spirituality
Why should you study the Medieval Church? Because it and its time still influence us today, for ill -- and for good. The Middle Ages were centuries of creativity and change that shaped the world in which we live, and the... See More
FantasyFound wandering by a roadside as a three-year-old, Malachi Dent is living modestly as a historian of the Civil War in Kentucky's Bluegrass, but, like any other adopted child, has never stopped wondering about his past. One... See More
Science FictionHalf of Tennil's journey is over, but the most dangerous half is left. A world's width from home, she must overcome fresh intrigue aboard the first circumglobal passenger train, Flower of the Inner Sea. Advanced to the... See More
When you, as an aspiring fantasy writer, set out to describe your first battle scene, you may be relying on what you've learned from movies or from other fantasy writers who may know no more of war than you know. Beware! In... See More