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Whispered Word

“LOOK. GO. SEEK.”

Those words are whispered to Joe, but from who? He only hears the voice.

Joe is an out-of-work investigative reporter drowning in drink, prescription drugs, and a disgrace not of his own making. In the bleakness, he stumbles across the case of Maggie, an inmate who has always maintained her innocence, even after being convicted of child neglect.

Spurred on by the inexplicable voice, Joe sets out to uncover the truth of Maggie’s mysterious case. Joe corresponds with Maggie from prison along the way, and they develop a connection as he journeys from his antiseptic apartment in New York, to a quiet corner of Oklahoma, to a dusty Texas border town, finally finding himself in the hardscrabble countryside of Mexico.

Ultimately, Joe must contend with a looming threat, seeking to guard a long-held secret in Whispered Word, a work of fiction based on a true story.

Author: Alec Klein

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825310348)

FICTION / Christian / Suspense

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Crisis Communications

Crises happen. But how they are handled makes all the difference in the world.  

It’s 2019. A gunman enters Trask International, a suburban Washington, D.C. office, leaving three people dead and dozens injured. One of the biggest differences between this tragedy and the many others that have unfortunately occurred recently? They were ready for this. Trask International had a comprehensive Crisis Communications plan.

No, the plan didn’t deploy bulletproof shields, nor did it call upon a secret superhero to fight off the gunman. But the plan did spell out how the business should respond in public to what happened, keep the focus on the true victims and not position the business as one, and how the business could—and would—get things back to normal as quickly as possible.

Crisis Communications and the Art of Making Nothing Happen is a fast-paced story told in two parts—the first tells the tale of the shooting itself, while the second presents a deep dive into how a business prepares for a crisis. It takes a close look at the teamwork involved with crisis communication planning, and, ultimately, how preparation helps keep a bad situation from getting worse. 

Author: Joe Diorio

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825310362)

NON-FICTION / Business & Economics / Public Relations

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Light of Day

The Louisiana Crime Syndicate. Software that threatens national security. A vengeful hitman. Jack Patterson is faced with a case determined to see him lose—either in court or his life—in the sixth novel from former Associate Attorney General of the United States and award-winning author, Webb Hubbell.

Every now and then, more frequently than he cares to admit, antitrust lawyer Jack Patterson gets involved in a case more complicated, more dangerous, than just defending big companies who’ve run afoul. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s about to take on a new client: the grandson of the head of the Louisiana crime syndicate in New Orleans.

Young David is a computer genius who has invented a software program considered to be a serious threat to both national security and most major technology companies. So when the FBI throws him in the DC jail without bond, and a conglomerate of tech companies sue him in Federal Court, Jack figures he can at least get the young man out on bail and be home for the weekend.

He couldn’t be more wrong. Before he can even meet with the client, his bodyguard is drugged and Jack is left for dead in the swamps of Cajun country. He must make his way back to DC, wage a battle in court, and dodge a hitman who lurks around every corner. Can Jack save his client and overcome those who will go to any length to prevent the software from seeing the light of day?

Author: Webb Hubbell

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825309403)

Ebook: $14.99 (ISBN: 9780825308222)

FICTION / Thrillers / Political

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October 2023: These books will put a SPELL on you 🎃

Monday, October 16th, 2023

If the broom fits… fly it to a bookstore!

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When Men Betray is the first book of fiction from author, lecturer, and political insider Webb Hubbell. A departure from his previous book, Friends in High Places, an account of his rise and fall in Little Rock, Hubbell crafts a deft narrative of mystery and political intrigue. Set in a fictionalized version of his home town of Little Rock, Arkansas, readers will be immersed into the steamy world behind the southern BBQ and antebellum facade-a seedy underbelly of secrets and betrayals. Clever readers may recognize the colorful personalities and locales of the Arkansas political scene.

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After a highly publicized fall from grace, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the chaos and ends up in a community that has been neglected and ignored by everyone, rural Ham, Mississippi—a place of abject poverty, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.”

When a troubling discovery is made, the entire neighborhood is rocked, and “Mr. Jimmy” is forced to confront his own past in order to help the community have a future.

Police chief William Templeton is still trying to come to terms with being a widower when a local woman’s body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket. He is stunned to learn an identical coin was discovered on his wife, Catherine. Historian and Blackbeard expert, Eva Knightly is just as perplexed by this revelation.

As the two team up, secrets are revealed and William and Eva find it hard to ignore the growing attraction between them; but in order to have a future, they’ll have to look to the past to keep Eva from being the victim of a modern day killer.

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Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way

James Henry Ferguson doesn’t belong here.

After a highly publicized fall from grace, James attempts to flee from the chaos in his life. He ends up in a community he had never heard of before, one that has been neglected and ignored by everyone in rural Ham, Mississippi. A place of abject poverty, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.”

Within a place forgotten by the rest of the world, politics can be a dangerous game. When a troubling discovery is made, the entire neighborhood is rocked to its core and James is forced to confront his own past in order to help the community have a future. He will have to find the strength to fight for the neighbors he once disregarded and avert a heart-breaking disaster.

A self-identified failure is forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Full of never-ending twists and turns, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store. Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a story about failure, self-discovery, empowerment, and the possibility of redemption.

Author: Jeffrey Blount

Hardcover: $24.95 (ISBN: 9780825310324)

Ebook: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825309106)

FICTION / Literary

350 pages

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Pocketful of Poseys

When your dying mother has one last request, how can you say no?

Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are forty-something twins whose lives have gone in very different directions. Grace, now a private school teacher in coastal Connecticut, was a PhD candidate at Yale when an unexpected pregnancy threw her plans into a tailspin. Brian, an adventure travel executive in Seattle, barely scraped through an obscure New England college and recently married Ella, after three years in an intimate relationship with a charismatic man from Jamaica.

When their widowed mother Cinny, a charter member of Woodstock Nation, is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Grace and Brian are there for her last days in hospice care. This is where Cinny reveals her staggering plan for the siblings: They’re to sprinkle her ashes, mixed with their father’s, at a series of exotic locations around the globe—some remote, some challengingly public, all known and loved by the Poseys.

Joined by their own immediate families, Grace and Brian set off on a funereal odyssey that uncovers more about their parents’ relationship, and themselves, than the twins find it easy to admit.By turns hilarious, profound, jarring, and poignant, Pocketful of Poseys bounds dizzily across the United States to New Zealand, Thailand, Italy, and more, as the last of Cinny Posey’s secrets are exposed, and her survivors are forced to confront the strength of the ties that bind them all together—for worse and for better.

Author: Thomas Reed

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825310263)

Ebook: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825309014)

FICTION / Family Life

370 pages

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The Seafarer’s Secret

Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past.

William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman’s drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine’s body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine’s case, originally deemed a tragic accident, has been reopened, forcing William to step down as police chief.

Historian and Blackbeard expert, Eva Knightly, is brought into the investigation to help identify the coins and can’t understand why her good friend Catherine never mentioned anything about it. When more coins surface at a local church, Eva and William know it’s more than mere coincidence. With the entire town whispering about Blackbeard, cursed coins, and lost treasure, it becomes hard to separate what is true and what is a myth.

The Seafarer’s Secret is a thrilling cinematic mystery featuring the exigent slow-burning romance between William and Eva as they work together to reveal the secrets and lies of Eden, North Carolina. Though, in order to have a future, they’ll have to look deep into the past to keep from being a modern-day killer’s next victim.

Author: Carol Ann Collins

Paperback: $17.95 (ISBN: 9780825310287)

Ebook: $9.99 (ISBN: 9780825309076)

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth

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Spring Cleaning MEGA SALE!

Thursday, April 6th, 2023

Happy Spring, readers! For the entire months of April AND May, we have the biggest sale happening to put the spring back in your step. Get your ebook copy of any (or all) of the following titles for only $1.99!

We love a good series… here are a few of ours that are on sale!

Click through to see the rest of our MEGA sale happening now until the end of May!

And yes, this ebook sale is happening just about EVERYWHERE! From Amazon to Barnes and Noble, we’ve got you covered.

Book Signing: “Reflections on a Life in Exile”

Saturday, September 28th, 2019

Book signing with Wisconsin author J.F. Riordan, author of the “North of the Tension Line” series. Event starts at 5:30 and is free and open to the public.

Book Signing: “Reflections on a Life in Exile”

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Book signing with Wisconsin author J.F. Riordan, author of the “North of the Tension Line” series. Event starts at 5:30 and is free and open to the public.

THE WOMAN IN THE PARK News!

Thursday, August 29th, 2019

10 Chilling end of summer thrillers

It’s starting to get dark at 8 o’clock now, instead of 9. Any activities after 5 pm are going to start requiring a jacket. Oh, and pumpkin everything is officially back on the market. You know what this means: fall is approaching. With the end of summer quickly approaching, here are my top ten end of summer thrillers to devour before the sweaters and jeans start to circulate your wardrobe.

The Woman in the Park by Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist

There was no holding back when it comes to the writing power in this novel. It’s psychologically brilliant, cinematically stunning and features a powerful heroine and pacing that will make your heart race. Sarah Rock has it rough. Her therapist is clinical and emotionless, her husband and his mistress are the worst and her kids show her no respect. This could be a love story when she meets a really handsome man in the park and she is immediately crushing on him… but this is no love story. When a woman goes missing in the same park, Sarah is the prime suspect. Her mystery man is nowhere to be found, her husband doesn’t have her back, and her therapist is working with the police. This one is relatively short at under 250 pages but jam-packed with suspense, reveals and an ending that will blow your mind. Pack your SPF for this beach read – I say that because when I read this one, I was so wrapped up in the story that I suffered a major sunburn.

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THE WOMAN IN THE PARK News!

Thursday, August 29th, 2019

ARC / BOOK REVIEW: THE WOMAN IN THE PARK

“It’s books like this that make me wanna start a book club page so we can discuss, Reader! The Woman In The Park is a debut novel that had me captivated at the start. The Prologue drew me in so effortlessly.

In the beginning, I felt a little sorry and sad for Sarah. She believes her husband is having an affair. Her kids are in boarding school. She religiously goes to therapy (nothing wrong with that). And she has A LOT of time on her hands. Life is going on without her and you feel it too.

When Sarah meets Lawrence, I was a bit surprised she begins an affair with the ever-so mysterious man (even though the synopsis clearly states she has a lover). I didn’t think Sarah really had it in her to cheat on her husband. She just seems like a fragile bird.

However, when the facts and the details of this thriller began to NOT add up (when as a reader you get this sense that something is just not right), I teetered between feeling a bit sad for Sarah who is going thru what appears to be a midlife crisis to being a bit weary and cautious as she doesn’t seem to be all there mentally. And I LOVE it. I love how I was forced to think of Sarah as both the victim and the potential perpetrator.”

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THE WOMAN IN THE PARK News!

Thursday, August 29th, 2019

BOOK Q&As WITH DEBORAH KALB

Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist are the authors of the new novel The Woman in the Park. Sorkin is a television producer and Holmqvist is a writer, investigator, and actor.

Q:  How did you come up with the idea for The Woman in the Park, and for your character Sarah?

A: We put ourselves in the mind of a woman who really does not know what is real and what is not and imagined an elegant New York woman who meets a mysterious man in Central Park and gets dragged into something darker.

We both have children and have spent many hours in the park with them and the story grew out of that common experience and observing people. We are both storytellers and observers, Teresa as a writer and producer of TV and film and Tullan as a private investigator and writer with a background in acting, and we both love a character-driven approach to stories.

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For more information about The Woman in the Park, click here.

“Reflections on a Life in Exile” Author Meet & Greet

Saturday, August 24th, 2019

With award-winning Wisconsin author J.F. Riordan. 1-4pm.

THE WOMAN IN THE PARK News!

Thursday, August 15th, 2019

Review: SUMMER THRILLER, TERESA SORKIN AND TULLAN HOLMQVIST’S PAGE-TURNER IS THE BEACH READ YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

You may not know the term “domestic thriller,” but you probably have read one—that is, if your library holds books by Gillian Flynn, Greer Hendricks or B.A. Paris. This summer, add two new names to that list: authors Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist, whose novel The Woman in the Park (Beaufort Books) promises to be one of the best new iterations of the genre.

The story kicks off with a mystery: Police arrive at the New York City apartment of Sarah and Eric Rock, to ask Sarah about a missing person—a woman in the park. From that scene-setter to the epilogue, chapters told from Sarah’s point of view alternate with a psychiatrist’s session notes. We get to know the stylish, 40-something mother in therapy with a doctor who uses hypnosis in treatment. Adultery and madness, as well as erotomania, where a person believes another person is in love with them, are explored, deepened with quotes from Émile Zola’s classic novel of passion and murder, Thérèse Raquin. To reveal more would spoil the surprises in this delicious tale, but suffice it to say, the authors have brought to life Sarah’s self-doubt, personal fears and face-off with reality on every page.

To read the full interview, click here.

To learn more about The Woman in the Park, click here.