Self Discovery Fiction

Dartmouth professor Dan Jackson did not want to murder his students. Yet, when he finds two pistols perched on top of the mid-term exams in his briefcase, he cannot resist the impulse to pull out the guns and start shooting. Now Dan struggles to find the answer to the question that haunts him: why did he kill 15 of his students? Dan's search for the answer must be pursued through his defense to the criminal charges and possible death penalty.

Have you ever wondered where we came from before we were born? Why we are here? Why supposed bad things happen to good people? The Land of Perception and Time is a fictional tale that provides clues to answer some of these questions. It is a journey of one’s imagination, understanding, and healing. Kenny is a good person who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a terminal illness. But that isn’t the biggest surprise he is about to experience.

Follow the tale of a dog’s ten lives and learn life’s most important lessons from man’s best friend’s viewpoint. Funny, realistic, and sometimes sad, Dogs Get Ten Lives is an emotional roller coaster that provides a different perspective on human relationships and the role of dogs in our lives and the wisdom they provide.

An unorthodox and controversial slap to the face of the status quo, Into the Light Boldly: …an odyssey of self-discovery, an audacious new novel by Amazon best-selling author, Val Edward Simone, is a shockingly frank, honest, and daring undertaking regarding death and dying - a most frightening subject.

As a recent divorcée and newly single mother struggling with the relationship and life she's lost, Amanda is tormented, teasingly, by her younger sister she loves dearly and has always looked up to for her brashness, audacity, and self-confidence Amanda has never known herself. When her incredulous sister suggests the two of them attend "Goddess classes" together, Amanda reluctantly goes along, even as she realizes she's in way over her head and completely out of her own comfort zone.

In this poignant and inspiring collection of 60 poems, Melody Wallack takes listeners on a journey through the highs and lows of life after loss, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. Through her personal story of grief and healing, Wallack captures the beauty and pain of love, the sorrow of loss, and the transformative power of self-discovery.

Marie Kopan is excited to bring you Vol. 2 of her journey of love and self-discovery in poetry. Like Vol. 1, Love's Reflection, False Reflections includes many expressive poems reflecting a myriad of emotions from love to pain, hate, determination, sadness, and then transformation, faith, and life! A lifetime's journey in a woman's heart.

Adam flees his controlling family and unfulfilling religious career only to recreate his former prison on a tropical island. Maya's search for love and belonging begins with hope but is soon crushed with rejection by those she trusts most. At the end of their ropes, they are surprised to find an unlikely, otherworldly guide that leads them to the enchanted lost city of Atlantis and the discovery of their unbelievable power.

Jonathan Antonucci, a 21-year-old, barely-out-the-closet gay man from suburban New York, overnight finds himself a multimillionaire, thanks to a bequest by his late gay uncle. Uncle Charlie has unexpectedly died of a heart attack, leaving him the sole owner of several of the most successful bars in Wilton Manors, Fort Lauderdale’s gay ghetto, making Jonathan the largest owner of gay establishments in town, or the Czar of Wilton Drive.

This story is a trilogy that brings the unknown past and the present together to form the future. Which is stronger? One’s biology or the way one is raised? Could it be a combination of both? Journey through this novel as it parallels the lives of three women, bound by love, heredity, and environment. A powerful and tenacious woman emerges, grounded in the DNA of a robust, high-spirited Irish woman, then nurtured and refined by a religious Italian woman. Bold and courageous, Nicole is now determined to chart her own course of life...

Being able to detect black magic isnt all tea and crumpetsand for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky business! When Sticky Will drags Theo to a magic show featuring the Great Awi Bubu, she quickly senses there is more to the magician than he lets on, setting in motion a chain of events she never could have bargained for.

The first volume of a two-volume collection of unique poems written throughout the author's journey from a young girl's heart to womanhood. These expressive poems reflect teenage first love, the heartache of love lost, inspiration gathered along the way, and even death, while discovering the ephemeral thread that joins them. The underlying themes: Renewal, Rebirth, and Life!

Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others - as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses - as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at 15, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon!

When twenty-six year old Shirin Bayat bumps into Kian at a house party in London, she is taken aback by the immediate feelings that resurface. It’s been a decade since they were close friends at school, before painful events pulled them apart, suddenly and seemingly forever. Ever since, Shirin has lived with the aching weight of things left unsaid between them.

The main characters are police officer Tom Jennings, obese as a mutant Idaho potato in a jiggling gelatin suit; James Odessa-Smith, with his schizoaffective disorder; and young Suanna Morningcloud, a person with albinism, half Nez Perce Indian and half Caucasian. Meeting during a botched bank robbery in Prairie Grove, Kansas, they experience tragedy and trauma. Forever changed and connected, they are forced to ask, “Who am I and where do I belong?"

Rockhard Thicke is a prolific author in the LGBTQ+ community. He is known for taking his listeners on wonderful sex-filled journey. One gets to live vicariously through the characters he creates....

I glance at my open blinds, not really caring who sees me fully naked and glowing in the morning light. This is my morning, my day to do exactly how I please. And today I choose to please myself.

Beth is a creative, contemplative soul and a loving mom. She is at a crossroads in her marriage and without a clear sense of her gifts and inherent worth. When her spirited Aunt Ro falls while turning to toss a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Beth embarks on a journey that leads to her ancestral village in Italy, the discovery of a family secret, and a new understanding of herself.

"Your daddy killed Chris!" When Nikki heard her little cousin utter these four words, she had no idea they would change the course of her young life forever. Had no idea that her beloved father would be ripped away from her, drawn into a protracted legal battle. Had no idea that she would be forced to flee her home and go into hiding with her mother and siblings.

Twenty-eight-year-old struggling San Francisco artist Anne McFarland is determined to get a one-woman show, even though no one, including herself, believes she can do it. But when she buys a coat at a thrift shop with a key in its pocket, strange, even magical, occurrences begin to unfold, and she is inspired to create her best work ever.