I handle the ebook catalog for Zarahmela Books. I hand-code the Kindle versions and publish them region-free and DRM-free. The ePub versions for Apple, Sony, Kobo and others are distributed via Smashwords.
The ebooks are priced at $3.99 or less.
Angel Falling Softly by Eugene Woodbury
Rachel Forsythe's daughter is dying of cancer. Milada Daranyi, chief investment officer at Daranyi Enterprises International, has come to Utah to finalize the takeover of a medical technology company. When a chance encounter brings them together, Rachel makes an unexpected and dangerous discovery: Milada is a vampire, and the only person in the world who can save her daughter's life.
Brother Brigham by D. Michael Martindale
Like many young boys, C.H. Young had an imaginary friend. In C.H.'s case, it was his ancestor, the Mormon prophet Brigham Young. But C.H. grows up and leaves his childhood fantasies behind. Or so he thinks. One day decades later, the very same "Brother Brigham"—now quite real—pays him a visit, making demands that will tax his faith, his marriage, and his sanity.
The Death of a Disco Dancer by David Clark
Returning home to Arizona to assist his dying mother, Todd Whitman reflects on the pivotal summer of 1981 when he was eleven years old, a Mormon kid growing up in the American suburbs. This vivid depiction of the torture and hilarity of navigating adolescence becomes a meditation on the meaning of sacrifice and the transforming responsibility of familial love.
Dispensation edited by Angela Hallstrom
A collection of the best Mormon short fiction written in the past two decades, each of these extraordinary stories represents a potent individual voice, from nationally acclaimed authors Brady Udall and Orson Scott Card, to well-respected Mormon literature veterans Douglas Thayer and Margaret Blair Young, to up-and-coming writers Lisa Madsen Rubilar and Todd Robert Petersen, and many more.
Dispirited by Luisa M. Perkins
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Cathy sees things that are invisible to everyone else. Her new stepbrother's bizarre behavior. An abandoned house in the woods. Discovering that a young boy's spirit can shake literally loose of his body, she sets out on a daring quest to restore everything to its proper place. But what she doesn't see is how they're all connected. And what she doesn't see just might kill her.
Hooligan by Douglas Thayer
In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West—fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in a river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II.
Hunting Gideon by Jessica Draper
As an agent in the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, Sue Anne Jones stalks the V-Net, the ultimate virtual-reality interface. She and her partner, Loren Hunter, have been ordered to hunt down a scripture-quoting cyber-terrorist who calls himself "Gideon." Hunting Gideon sends Sue and Loren on a wild chase as they scramble to avert the ultimate online disaster.
Kindred Spirits by Christopher Bigelow
Born and bred deep in Mormon Utah, Eliza Spainhower has carved out an independent life for herself in Boston. Though still a believer, she has "fallen into sin" and been disfellowshipped from the LDS Church. Trying to repent, she connects with local native Eric Abercrombie, and soon she's prodding him in a race against hormones as the couple navigates the baptism and wedding hurdles of modern Mormonism.
Light of the New Day by Darin Cozzens
In the shared setting of fictional Balford, Wyoming, the characters in Darin Cozzens's stories demonstrate both the follies and the virtues of rural Mormons in the late twentieth century.
Long After Dark by Todd Robert Petersen
In these award-winning stories and a new novella, Todd Robert Petersen takes the reader on expeditions to Utah, Arizona, Brazil, Rwanda, and into the souls of twenty-first century Mormons caught between their humanity, faith, and church.
No Going Back by Jonathan Langford
A gay teenage Mormon growing up in western Oregon in 2003. His straight best friend. Their parents. A typical LDS ward, a high-school club about tolerance for gays, and a proposed anti-gay-marriage amendment to the state constitution. These elements combine in a coming-of-age story about faithfulness and friendship, temptation and redemption, tough choices and conflicting loyalties.
On the Road to Heaven by Coke Newell
In a style reminiscent of Jack Kerouac, Coke Newell's groundbreaking autobiographical novel traces an LSD-to-LDS pilgrimage across two continents. From Colorado's 1970s hippie heyday to the coca fields of Colombia, it's a journey through Thoreau ascetics, Ram Dass Taoism, and Edward Abbey monkey-wrenching to the mission fields of one of the world's most conservative contemporary religions.
Rift by Todd Robert Petersen
Jens Thorsen's retirement is not what his wife, Lila, was expecting. Rather than tending to things around the house, Thorsen has thrown himself into a life of charity. When he's not nursing a feud with local bishop, that is. Then the bishop's daughter moves home and there are suddenly too many egos in one place. The little town of Sanpete starts to pull apart at the seams.
The Tree House by Douglas Thayer
When Harris Thatcher's father dies, the boy's journey into manhood is complicated by questions of faith, the meaning of life, and the capriciousness of death. After preaching the Mormon gospel in West Germany following the devastation of World War II, Harris returns home only to be drafted into the Korean conflict, where even more harrowing physical, emotional and spiritual ordeals await him.
Wasatch by Douglas Thayer
This compilation of short fiction represents the next chapter in Douglas Thayer’s recent literary success. Described by Richard Cracroft as “LDS literary fiction at its finest,” Thayer's third collection of his stories presents a dozen of his career-best work, including several that have never before appeared in print.
What of the Night? by Stephen Carter
"By proving contraries, truth is made manifest," said Joseph Smith. A good thing, because Stephen Carter's religious life is full of contradictions. This collection of award-winning personal essays wrestles the "used tin foil, the ratty teddy bears, the rusty bicycle frames, the dog-eared magazines, the empty toilet paper rolls" of Carter's life into stories compelling, candid, and insightful.
