Biographical Fiction

November 1967. Dara and Silloo Baruchas' serene life is interrupted when the British occupation announces its swift exit from the country. Things take a violent turn when they are targeted by members of the revolution: the family business is seized, Dara is whisked away as a political prisoner, and Silloo is put under house arrest with her three young children and mother-in-law. As the couple embarks on their separate harrowing journeys, in the hopes of being reunited, they are bombarded by challenges. The looming question: Will they make it out alive? Based on a true story.

Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectations, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won acclaim as a battlefield nurse to bring the profession out of its shadowy, disreputable status and elevate nursing to a skilled practice and compassionate art.

It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal, and she's completely broke. But she’s just been hired as assistant to photographer Slim Aarons—famous for his vibrant pictures of high society, royalty, and Hollywood stars—and she knows this opportunity is her ticket to something better. From the bright beaches of Acapulco to glitzy parties in New York, Margo is thrown headfirst into the glamorous jet-set world she so covets, observing its ways from behind the camera as Slim’s sidekick.

Yosseleh Karlinski was born to a family of great Jewish rabbis. Gifted with a keen mind and unique talent for chess, he earned the respect and admiration of those around him–especially his childhood friend, Christina. But everything changes when the Germans conquer Lublin, forcing Yosseleh into a new reality in the cramped Lublin Ghetto.

Living A Meaningful Life is a series for adults and teens of all ages. Book 10 of the series, "The Substitute," is a very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment which moves the series deeper into allowing the listener to experience the very deep, complex, and meaningful relationship between father and son. The themes are still very much about sacrificing to do what is right, but also shows us what a loving parent and child relationship can look like. This is a particularly fun and amusing installment, and Rudy does not disappoint.

In 1800 France, twenty-year-old Barbe-Nicole inherits her great-grandfather's uncanny sense of smell and uses it to make great champagne, despite the Code prohibiting women from owning a business. When tragedy strikes and she becomes a Veuve (widow), she must grapple with a domineering partner, the complexities of making champagne, and the aftermath of six Napoleon wars. When she falls in love with her sales manager, Louis Bohne, she must choose between losing her winery to her husband to obey the Napoleon Code, or losing Louis.

Simon Zane is an average guy that sometimes finds himself in extraordinary situations as he stumbles through life from one venture to the next. He navigates a dysfunctional childhood that drives him to run an ultramarathon. As he moves through life, he defends his country, spies for love, takes risks in business, and much more, all while keeping his ordinary day job.

Rescued from being euthanized, Odin becomes a Patrol Tracking Canine, partnered with Adam Slater. As only Odin can narrate, he and Adam journey through mountainous challenges and ferocious fights with inhospitable terrain, remorseless subjects, and potentially spirit-shattering injuries. K9 ODIN is a redemptive story which demonstrates that anyone, or any dog, is capable of employing their courage and heart to transform a community and inspire the world.

Greg Ellis had a fascinating legal career. He grew up in Chicago. He graduated from Law School in Chicago in 1980. He defended Chicago mobsters and later prosecuted the worst mob murderers as a State’s Attorney. His first case out of Law School was a life changer. While working for a prominent criminal defense lawyer, Greg represented the two Marlborough Diamond Thieves. It is a 45-carat diamond in a necklace, stolen from a London jewelry store in 1980. It has never been recovered. This book follows its trail for the past 42 years. Where it has been and where it is now.

April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man she’s only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way.

This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating consequences.

When Emilia Lennox loses everything after her husband’s lands and title are confiscated, her beauty is her best bargaining chip with the only man who can restore their fortunes: King Charles II himself. But the king’s favour comes at a price. He will pardon Emilia’s husband only if she agrees to be his mistress. Torn, Emilia comes up with a condition of her own: she will consent, but not until her portrait hangs among the famed Windsor Beauties, a series commissioned by the Duchess of York to showcase the fairest women in the royal retinue.

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence.

Jim Nolan, a would-be hero, becomes a truck driver in Vietnam's Central Highlands. Despite the unglamorous role, he finds mobility that leads to exciting, sometimes funny, and often sad situations. Jim's changing attitudes about himself and the world around him affect the American soldiers he interacts with. He struggles internally between good and evil, trying to comprehend the difference.

The Almost True Memoirs of a Quirky Cat Burglar follows the adventures of Henry Sears O'Connor, a quick-witted and resourceful protagonist, and his accomplice, Antonio Rossi, during the Great Depression era. Henry, a skilled cat burglar teams up with Antonio, a handsome Italian getaway man, to pull off daring heists targeting the wealthy elite in upstate New York.