Headline Books Announces Forthcoming Books

Introducing the 2011 Book of the Year Award Finalists!

Many Genres One Craft: Lessons In Writing Popular Fiction Named Finalist

NEW RELEASE!

Castle Bravo Castle Bravo by Karna Small Bodman, 6 x 9, 320 pages, Paperback ISBN 9780938467458, Retail $19.95, Hard Cover ISBN 9780938467380, Retail $24.95 White House Director of Homeland security, Samantha Reid, receives intelligence about a possible new threat to the countrys national security. The idea is staggering. What if a hostile country or group gets hold of a small nuclear device and then, instead of aiming it at one of our cities, they intend to detonate it high in the atmosphere? The result would be the creation of an Electro-Magnetic Pulse or EMP sending shock waves that would fry all electronics on the ground in its line of sight. There would be no electricity, no internet, no computers... communications... transportation... refrigeration... ATMs... it would set us back to the year 1910! Could it happen here? White House officials are too skeptical and too focused on other threats to pay attention to Samanthas warnings. The love of her life, Tripp Adams is sent on a business trip to a foreign country where just such a plot is simmering. Will Tripp become embroiled? Will he be trapped overseas while Samantha races to pull a team together to foil a sinister plot? This gripping tale spans the globe and is filled with international action and political intrigue at the highest levels, made all too real by the authors inside The White House details. It gives the reader a seat at the table in the Situation Room, the meetings in the Oval Office, and the frantic search for a way out. Its a trip on a wild ride of an all-too-real scenario for the future of our country. [More...]

Methuselah's Pillar Methuselah's Pillar by W.G. Griffiths, 6 x 9, 416 pages, Paperback ISBN 9780938467465, Retail $19.95, Hard Cover ISBN 9780938467410, Retail $24.95 1ST Place Winner at The Hollywood Book Festival From the cradle of civilization, to technology beyond control, Methuselahs Pillar takes readers on an urgent race across time and faith, where myth and science wrestle for truth. Prehistoric legends are resurrected into the modern world of greed, espionage and bio warfare. On a remote hillside in Afghanistan, a shepherd minding his flock thinks he hears thunder. As rockets whoosh overhead, he runs for his life. A missile explodes nearby and opens a deep crevasse. The shepherd dives into it for cover. There he finds a hidden sanctuary and a lost ancient artifact known as Methuselahs Pillar. According to legend, Methuselah received a pillar from his seven times great grandfather, a man called Adam, whose mysterious origin and knowledge was finely etched into the stone. Was the pillar divine, or did actual scientific data help Methuselah to become known as the oldest man who ever lived? The legend also claims that Moses possessed the enlightening pillar before he single-handedly delivered Hebrew slaves from the powerful Egyptians with deadly plagues. Soon after the pillars discovery, American unmanned reconnaissance drones spot strange anomalies in the craggy northern mountains of Afghanistan. The Army sends special ground forces in to investigate. They were completely unprepared for what they found. Samantha Conway, a renowned archaeologist and ancient language expert, is called to decipher the pillars writings, as deadly plagues dating from the time of Moses return. [More...]

Secret Blood Secret Blood by Don Stansberry, 6 x 9, 400 pages, Paperback ISBN 9780938467489, Retail $19.95, Hard Cover ISBN 9780938467472, Retail $24.95 Award winning author, Don Stansberry, writes a daring novel about cloning Jesus that rivals any bestseller in the stores. Written with flair and page turning twists and turns, this amazing story will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you question that which you think you know. From the Beatles, Central Park, and Cleveland to a TV evangelist and the Oval Office, this remarkable story hits home with real questions about current technology and the men who control it. A covert CIA operation has achieved the unthinkable, the cloning of Jesus Christ. Is this an abomination of everything we hold holy or is it part of a divine plan set in motion two thousand years ago? [More...]

Please Forgive Me Please Forgive Me by Anne Bird Joseph Beatty, 6 x 9, 480 pages, Paperback ISBN 9780938467441, Retail $22.95, Hard Cover ISBN 9780938467434, Retail $29.95 James and Caroline Mayfield had lived for thirty-seven years never knowing their only child, Emily Mayfield, who was kidnapped at birth and taken from her rightful parents. A kidnapping and murder of many innocent people lead to an emotional journey of learning to forgive in order to lead a life of normalcy instead of being consumed with hatred. How can one crime affect so many innocent people? Cassie Buchanan would have to learn to live and live by forgiving after hearing a woman's last dying words that turn her world upside down. When the person you trust the most in life lies to you, who do you turn to? Cassie's lifelong friends and her husband surround her as she tries to accept her past as a lie and start her future as the unknown for a new beginning. [More...]

Surviving Cancer After Surviving Cancer Surviving Cancer After Surviving Cancer by Kevin L. Murphy, 6 x 9, 128 pages, ISBN 9780938467403, Retail $19.95 "You have cancer." Every day, over three thousand people hear these words, and their lives and relationshipschange forever. With each passing year, we learn more about prevention and treatment of cancer. A cancer diagnosis is no longer tantamount to a death sentence. With treatment, people are living longer, and better, even after the cruel hand of cancer clamps their shoulders. But what about after treatment? For many couples and families, even after successful treatment of cancer, the end of one battle signals the beginning of another, when a clean bill of physical health comes with a hefty price tag, and ends up costing the end of a marriage or relationship. [More...]

The Legend of See Bird: The Last Long Drive The Legend of See Bird: The Last Long Drive by Karl L. Stewart, 5.5 x 8.5, 191 pages, pb, ISBN 9780938467281, Retail $15.95 It's the final cattle drive for Bar L Ranch manager "Big Jim McCarty, but a first for Choctaw Indian-turned-cowboy See Bird Carpenter. And what a drive it turns out to be. As he rides the round-up from Texas to Kansas, See Bird gains a profound understanding of the lesson his father taught him: "A man makes his own life and generally gets what he believes he deserves." [More...]

And We Helped! And We Helped! by Melinda Chambers, ISBN 978-0-938467-37-3, 8.5 x 8.5, HC, illustrated, 32 pages, Retail Price $16.95 Remember those wonderful smells wafting from Grandmother's kitchen? Remember getting your hands all gooey with pie crust and biscuit dough and those special treats from the oven that you helped bake? That's aroma therapy to the max and we all have memories triggered by the wonderful smell of bread and cookies baking. More..