Third Thursdays
Main Street Restaurant
1142 Athens Hwy 78
Grayson, GA 30017
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter Leader:
Charles de Andrade
1142 Athens Hwy 78
Grayson, GA 30017
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter Leader:
Charles de Andrade
Michael R Emmert has been writing fictional love stories for over two decades. After graduating from McPherson College, he spent the next fifteen years serving as a missionary in far-off places like Tanzania, Swaziland, Zululand, and Navajo land writing missionary newsletters. For several years, Michael worked as the Director of Maintenance at adjoining healthcare facilities and as a Microsoft Exchange Administrator on military bases and at Liberty University. During this time, he shifted his writing talents to make up fictional love stories and entertain readers. He’s been a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), East of the Web’s (EOTW) Uncut writing group, and now The Writer’s View (TWV) as a guest panelist. His current novels include “Shunning Ida Mae,” “Gifted Heart,” “Inherited Wife,” “Deception and Depravity,” “Three Strikes,” and now "Wounded Heart." He resides in the greater Atlanta area with his better half who strives to keep him on the straight-and-narrow (without success). Fueled by popcorn, he writes well-loved relationship stories, but one thing remains the same: Love always wins out. Just ask his family and sleepy desk cat. Shunning Ida Mae
$14.95
Shunning Ida Mae In 1886, Ida Lapp, a plucky Pennsylvania woman, secretly loves an Englisher, something strictly forbidden by the Amish Ordnung. When discovered by her parents, her penalty forever changes her life and sends her on a journey to face persecution, at the same time she desires the impossible—to return home to a family who despises her. On an Iowa farm, Anna dies and leaves Joseph Melroy with the daunting task of raising two small children. Faced with the heartache of losing his wife, looming financial troubles, and a promise he is loath to keep, he must do something he’d not thought possible to survive the attempts of the area’s only unmarried woman to corral him before a preacher and to do it before she ruins everything. Ida seeks the job to care for Joseph’s youngsters and discovers that only marriage to the English outsider can extract her from a homeless situation. She acquiesces to a loveless union on the condition she can walk away. Immersed in a local setting where few people comprehend her Amish background, she endures whispers, side-glances, and outright hatred from the town’s gossip who claims matrimonial rights to Joseph. The woman learns of the late-night wedding and spews her venom against Ida. Shunned by her family, and circumventing barbs by those who don’t approve of her, Ida must navigate the corridors of a vastly different culture. Will she stick with Joseph? Will Joseph save the farm? Will Ida return home to her parents who want nothing to do with her? Gifted Heart
$14.95
In 1947 Ray Petriani flees Texas in the middle of the night with his wife and young family. Desperate for work, he takes a job in California and is sent to inland China on a business venture. A gift exchange with the local potentate provides him with two things he doesn't want. Things he cannot reject, and things he is forced to protect. Those gifts change his life. Through his research of the first item, a gilded antique music box said to have belonged to a Chinese Emperor, only uncovers additional shrouded historical doubts which raise further problems as to its real intent. Ray refuses to give up his investigation and believes the meaning of its significance lies hidden in the way it was presented. But it's the possession of the second gift, a pretty female slave, which rocks his work and generates friction with his wife that reaches atomic proportions, and plants a minefield of impossible complications. Town's people, officials, family, and associates, all full of righteous-hatred toward Orientals due to the recent war, seek to purge the area of this Asian beauty who clearly doesn't belong, but who is forbidden from returning to her homeland. Can Ray, his family, and this newly freed slave navigate the corridors of bitter animosity from the people of their two countries, attempts on their lives from both sides of the Pacific and bungling government bureaucracy, to uncover the deep Chinese secrets that have come to entwine their lives? Inherited Wife
$14.95
Inherited Wife Woodrow (Woody) Hancock’s uncle offers him two wagers. First, he would make Woody find a wife sooner than he wants, and second, Woody would build the home for unwed pregnant girls they’ve both dreamed about. Both wagers would happen by the end of the following year. But Woody declines the outrageous wagers because he’s not ready to get married, nor does he have the funds to build the home. When his uncle dies just after the new year, Woody inherits his uncle’s beautiful farm. In addition, $186 million could become his, plus $23 million for a home for unwed pregnant girls, but if, and only if, he’s married by July. Or all the funds will be forfeited to an abortion clinic, a place he abhors. Hounded by fortune seekers, Woody is forced into hiding and starts working at a pregnancy center. The Covid pandemic sweeps the country and the center relocates to Woody’s farm where he’s secluded with four lovely women. But despite the women’s deceptions and secrets, he hurries to woo one of them as his lucky bride. When he selects a woman and marries, his problems multiply. As Woody and his inherited wife attempt to fulfill his uncle’s second wager to build the home for pregnant girls, they must endure threats, fire, lawyers, inspections, and a shooting. They struggle to maintain their sanity against someone who vows their downfall. Can they survive the ever-increasing turmoil? Lynn Hesse won the 2015 First Place Winner, Oak Tree Press, Cop Tales, for her mystery, Well of Rage, a crime novel about a female rookie cop accused of mishandling evidence by her white-supremacist training officer, then tasked with solving the cold case murder of an African American teenager. Her second novel, Another Kind of Hero, was a finalist for the 2018 Silver Falchion Award and won the International Readers’ Chill Award in 2021. The mystery unfolds when a casket full of drugs and money found in the Pick’n Pay in Forsyth, Georgia, put two contentious sisters and an undercover DEA agent in jeopardy. Hesse’s short stories have been widely published and well received. Most recently her short story “Bitter Love,” a humorous view of a bad day involving a murder, appeared in Crimeucopia, The I’s Have It in 2021 by Murderous Ink Press, United Kingdom. “Jewel’s Hell,” a story about domestic violence, was published in 2019 in Me Too Short Stories: An Anthology by Level Best Books and edited by Elizabeth Zelvin. Her short story about domestic homicide, “Murder: Food For Thought,” was published in the anthology Double Lives, Reinvention & Those We Leave Behind by Wising Up Press in 2009. Also, it was adapted into a play. Her 2022 suspense release, The Forty Knots Burn, is based on the turmoil created by a maintenance man coming into the women’s dressing room at the author’s local wellness center and is fueled by Hesse’s intense desire to help the underdog or the outcast as exemplified by her dandelion performance persona. Her recurring interest in flamenco dance sparked her intense research in Roma culture. A retired police lieutenant, Hesse draws from her experiences on the force to create gripping plot twists and multi-dimensional characters. She enjoys a daily yoga practice, and as an accomplished dancer she performs with several dance and theatrical troupes in Atlanta, Georgia. Antoinette is an artist with a desire to inspire young people to live a life with value and purpose. Throughout her life’s journey she has sought to encourage and inspire others to know their creator and to live life to its fullest. She is a member of Great Commission Artists (GCA) and a member of Scribblers Christian Writers Group. As a mother of three, Geri also was involved with children as a Sunday school teacher, Cub Scout den mother and program director at a Christian inner city youth club. She and her husband also led an outreach ministry in Minnesota. Geri has a varied business background in insurance, real estate, banking, and Information technology. She enjoys travel, having traveled to many states in America, as well as Canada, Europe, India, Israel, Mexico and the Caribbean. Geri enjoys painting and is a member of the Great Commission Artists organization. Her first published book, Princess Party Manners, is a fun rhyme with her own illustrations. When she moved to Georgia she became a member of Scribblers Christian Writers Club and has met many new friends among successful local authors. Princess Party Manners By Geri Antoinette Mehta
$12.95
G. Antoinette Mehta is an artist with a desire to inspire young people to live a life with value and purpose. Throughout her life’s journey she has sought to encourage and inspire others to know their creator and to live life to its fullest. She is a member of Great Commission Artists (GCA) and a member of Scribblers writing group. Princess Party Manners is a book designed to help young girls with social skills while they play imaginary dress up or prepare for a tea party or other special party with friends or family. It’s a fun rhyme to entertain young and old with helpful tips on how to have manners when a princess goes to any party or event. Geri was inspired to create the art for Princess Party Manners after she wrote and presented her rhyme as “Miss Manners” at her granddaughter’s own Princess Tea Party. The girls learned manners and enjoyed dressing as their favorite princess. They enjoyed tea cakes, scones and hot tea. |
Snellville GA
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