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A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, race and family, Queenie will have you nodding in recognition, crying in solidarity and rooting for this unforgettable character every step of the way. A disarmingly honest, boldly political and truly inclusive tale that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and acceptance and found something very different in its place.

During the Great Depression, high-profile kidnappings became more and more commonplace. On December 17, 1931, self-made millionaire fashion designer Nell Donnelly becomes the next casualty.

Jorge Salazar is an initiated member of the Latin Kings street gang. When he finds his heroin-addicted mother dead on the bathroom floor, he begins to question everything about his life. Visualizing a high probability of an early death as a gang member, Salazar decides that escaping New York is his only alternative. He enlists in the United States Army, and after basic training, he is deployed to Vietnam where he faces the life and death challenges he thought he left behind.

The citizens of Brotherton, Kansas, contend with a series of attacks from pro-slavery forces. Even women and preachers must bear arms in their defense. But what is the driving force behind all the attacks? Will the assaults ever end?

Jon Zachery moves his wife and two small children to Meridian, Mississippi, in 1968 to begin US Navy flight training. He and his family wind up in the middle of a KKK resurgence. Jon must cope with the winnowing process that is Navy flight training while keeping his family safe. His wife Teresa discovers she is wed to the US Navy every bit as much as she is wed to Jon.

In 1858, Found Grace Church in northeastern Illinois decides to relocate to Kansas. There they will vote to keep the state free, rather than allow it to fall to those who supported the abomination of slavery. The pastor, Preacher Larrimer, declares the wagon train trip a Holy Crusade.

1971. Navy Lieutenant Jon Zachery has flown piece-of-cake combat missions for six months. Then on the last hop of the deployment, all hell breaks loose. On the other side of the world, his wife Teresa is thankful that, at last, Jon's last day of combat flying is at hand.

1971. Navy Lieutenant Jon Zachery has flown piece-of-cake combat missions for six months. Then on the last hop of the deployment, all hell breaks loose. On the other side of the world, his wife Teresa is thankful that, at last, Jon's last day of combat flying is at hand.

US Navy pilot Jon Zachery feels a sense of duty to serve in Vietnam when many are saying, "Hell no. I won't go!" He deploys on an aircraft carrier and rooms with four other pilots and one anti-war oriented officer in the Junior Officer Bunkroom. The JOB, he discovers, operates to its own set of Rules of Engagement.

The lives of a young man and woman become intertwined as they struggle to survive during the Zealots' rebellion, 66-70 AD, against Roman rule in Judaea. Confronted with hostility and death from mercenaries, Roman Legionaries and their own people, they discover something that binds them together as they struggle to live for another day.

The infamous prophecy declaring that the firstborn would be a boy is the last thing Sarah wants to deal with. As if being newly engaged isn’t difficult enough, she’s still coming to terms with the fact that the first 18 years of her life were a farce. The prophecy - the reason she had been secreted away from her family and her royal heritage to begin with - wasn’t supposed to disrupt her life any more than it previously had. But when unexpected events force her to leave her fiancé, Prince Alexander, Sarah must return to her home country of Kyrnidan to face her destiny.

Two pulp adventure stories set in 1940s Chicago: In the first story, the city is under the control of a ruthless crime boss who seeks to unite all illegal activities under his control. Unexpected competition arrives in the person of a masked killer, The Inferno, who uses flame as a weapon. Opposing them both is The Eclipse, a masked vigilante. In the follow-up story, a new crime lord has stepped in to take the place of the fallen gang leader. He sets his sights on obtaining a powerful new weapon that will guarantee him a stranglehold on the city.