The echo of rumbling motorbikes bounced from the plate-glass of inner-city skyscrapers on a hot, airless night as Suzi Liu pushed the front door of her brothel shut. Her hands shook with fear from the confrontation that had lasted only a few seconds, a confrontation she’d remember for a long time.
She’d remember them: the tall one, young and dangerously handsome behind a wispy beard, and the older, shorter one who did the talking and said they were White Sharks. Suzi reached for her mobile phone, wedged into the top of her leather mini-skirt, and swiped to ignite the screen in the half-darkness of the foyer. She could do no more. Her hands wouldn’t stop shaking.
Her unsteady fingers refused to find the speed dial for the only man who could stop this. She wiped at her eyes and felt the sting of tears and mascara. She cursed. She was tougher than this. She hurled her phone against the wall, angry at herself, at her weakness: angry at Billy Lime.
A heavy thud on the other side front door made her jump away, her body instinctively cowering. It was a muscular beat, the cadence angry and impatient. Just like before. They’d come back: maybe to hurt the girls, to hurt her. Suzi shouted back through the door. “I told you, I don’t know where he is. I ring him. Promise. Give him message. Promise.”
A peal of three heavy knocks returned in response. Suzi Liu shut her eyes tight, repeating her mantra, “Go away; go away.”
“Excuse me, Miss . . .” An effeminate male voice: no biker spoke like that. Suzi exhaled her relief. A customer.
This week we are chatting to Mark Hollands author of Amplify.
Tell us something unexpected about yourself!
Father of two, happily married, living in Sydney. I just started riding a Kawasaki after 30 years gap of swearing I'd never get on a bike. Wife says it's a mid-life crisis. Maybe the book is, too! I am a long-time journalist, working in Australia, UK, S. Africa and Papua New Guinea. Among the many roles are foreign editor and editor, I've also spent time in the tech industry, was Asia-Pacific VP of a IT company called Gartner and then ran commercial for Dow Jones Asia-Pacific.
What kind of books do you write?
Thrillers. Mine are focused on a central character, Billy Lime, who is a music promoter and entrepreneur. The first and coming novels are anchored in the music industry, which is undergoing tremendous change and challenge because of digital disruption. It has all the double-crossing bastardry and scheming that you'd expect in the entertainment industry. The style is aimed at being shameless airport novel, page-turner. I don't think that that is how I write naturally. For these novels, I have adopted the style because I think it fits the market.
What inspired you to write?
Something in me, really. Like many journalists, you think you can write a book, even if you have never bothered to try. It's a fair bit harder than I had imaged! My father was a published author, and he always said I could wrote better than he could. Maybe. Even for a journalist such as myself, writing fiction is such a huge challenge, wide of my comfort zone. I've never been a huge book reader, much more magazines, short stories and rarely fiction. So, I am writing books that I'd probably not read. For that reason, I try to give them an edge.
What makes your writing stand out from the crowd?
There are a lot of good and great writers, and I don't pretend to be one. I don't think my writing stands out, and should I ever come to that conclusion I am sure I will have failed as a writer and I will ask my wife to shoot me. All I can say is that my writing is honest, based on the human spirit that I have witnessed – it's majesty and misery. My writing is focused on the world we live today, so everyone can judge its reality and at the same time become lost in the energy and excitement of the story.
What is the hardest part of writing – for you?
Sitting in the chair an doing it, especially because I have a full time job (I'm excusing myself already!). Another challenge is knowing you have an idea or plot worthy of the investment of time and energy. So, I suppose it's the psychology of writing that really challenges me, and the time management when you work and have a family that doesn't so much have a father as a taxi driver. But that's life for everyone…
Where do you like to write – what is your routine?
I'll drop anchor anywhere. I like cafes and pubs . . . coffee and beer. I like early mornings if I am writing at home. And if I am having a real tough time getting anything productive done, then I'll head out and find a good coffee, stick the iPad on the table and start bashing away. I like energy around me – the consequence of being brought up in a newsroom, I suppose. If I am writing at home alone, then I crank the music right up. The Stones, Foo Fighters . . . they're pretty productive for me.
What do you do when you are not writing – do you have a day job?
I am the chief executive of a media industry body that represents the leading newsmedia publishers in Australia, like News Corp, Fairfax Media etc. I sit on a couple of boards, too.
Do you work with an outline or just write?
Outline. But I know I will never keep to it. My writing always goes deeper than my outline, but I try to keep honest to its essence. If I stray too far, then I will stop, ask myself “what the hell is going on here” and then re-outline. I see an outline like this: I once travelled through Eastern Europe in a car on my own in the 90s just after the Wall had come down. I drove around Hungary Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland for two weeks. On the last day, I realised that I'd actually been using a map of rail lines, not roads. Which explained a few funky things that happened along the way. An outline is kind like a map of railways when you are driving on a road.
What advice would you have for other writers?
I'm not good enough to be handing off advice to anyone. Here's the advice I have taken: Read a lot, especially when writing. Pull the reader into the story, let their imagination do some work. It's more fun for them. Be disciplined. Words are precious. Don't waste them and, of course, the waste paper basket is your friend.
How important is marketing and social media for you?
Marketing is everything. Sad but true for the vast majority of us. Yeah, there are exceptions where there are break-out novels etc., but the reality for most of us is that marketing and social media are vital. Using them is like all selling – it's a slog. Hard, hard work. Many authors say they have to work just as hard on their marketing as they do their books. I never believed them. I do now! I need to get better at it, and to weave it into my existence as an author and writer, not make it an additional task. I haven't done that yet, and I reckon it's costing me sales.
What's your next step?
Write the next novel in the series, weave more marketing into my approach to be an author, carve out more time in my day for writing and try to conserve energy (mostly mental) for all this while maintaining a full-time job. Simply: be disciplined and focused on what I am passionate about.
Amplify: A Billy Lime Thriller by Mark Hollands is available here.
As we get closer to the holiday season what better way is there than to spend the evenings curled up with a book? Here are some books that you should add to your reading list!
Science Fiction
Alexandria Rising: A Novel (Alexandria Rising Chronicles) by Mark Wallace Maguire
Rand O'Neal, an ambition-less newspaper reporter, is given a single task upon the death of his grandfather: Destroy a mysterious map. What should be a simple errand thrusts Rand into a journey across three countries chased by unknown pursuers where he discovers humanity's biggest secret.
The novel has been reviewed as, “Superb,” “Amazing” and “Extremely well written” and has drawn comparisons to Dan Brown, Ian Fleming and Robert Ludlum. The book is labelled an action adventure, but contains elements of conspiracy fiction, science fiction and suspense. It is also linked to a multi-media website which allows readers to engage with the experience in video, images and interactive appendices.
30th Century: Escape (30th Century Trilogy Book 1)
Which side will you be on? The side of the Syndos, genetically-altered humans, or the side of the Naturals.
Captain Jennifer Hero is leading a task force from the thirtieth century on a one-way trip to the Diversion Point. Their goal is to plant a virus that will disrupt the genetic tendency toward sociopathy among the Syndos. After an intense attack on their remote South Pacific island base, Jennifer sends her colleagues back 300 years. But she does not go with them, opting instead to travel alone back to 2015 to grieve the loss of the love of her life, the time machine’s inventor, and to find herself.
“Riveting” * “Twists and turns” * “Dark and Intense” * “Surprising as it is hopeful” The mysterious legend from the Matriarch 12,000 years ago said “The object can destroy. The object can save. But only for the man and woman together. Together, guide the salvation of others.” Her lore is passed orally from generation to generation until….
2021 CE. San Francisco. Peter Gollinger dreams of a woman. A dark-haired woman who haunts him. A woman of great inner beauty, the kind that bespeaks of an inner love. The kind Peter knows nothing of. The kind of woman who is so beyond him. The kind of woman he is destined to save. Or so says the ancient words passed to him by his family's patriarch.
Captain Joshua Drake, a cynical and exhausted veteran, commands a platoon of men on the front lines of a collapsing civilization waging a brutal war against the walking dead.
As the fragile human defenses struggle to hold back an enemy that does not sleep or feel pain, Drake and his men are sent on a dangerous mission deep behind enemy lines.
The small platoon of soldiers set out into the apocalyptic wasteland where they must battle mass zombie hordes, dissension in the ranks and homicidal nomadic humans. To survive against these impossible odds and change the course of the war they will have to trust an unlikely and potentially dangerous ally.
The Man Who Needs You (Southern Men Don't Fall In Love Book 5)
It's all fun and games until the man you're after marries another woman.
And the man who needs you shows up at that wedding.
For Katie Pennington Leigh, love and family seemed to be out of her cards until a crazy woman teases her with a future she never thought she'd want.
Jack Williams wasn't looking for a wife. Hell, he wasn't looking for anything, too concerned with raising his daughters and mourning the love he'd lost years ago.
But when Katie and Jack meet, all bets are off as the two set off on a course that neither ever expected.
Former Delta turned FBI Tactical Commander Rafael Saber doesn’t know how to be anything but the cliché military player with women just waiting for him to show up. New is never easy, but Michelle is, for about 3 days.
When Saber is put in his place by one woman, another finds his charm and panty-dropping smile worth the risk. Assistant DA, Cassidy knows she’s worth more than a Delta Groupie title and makes Saber work for it.
Jump into the world of adventure and laugh out loud situations that keep Rafael and Cassidy’s life interesting. The Providence FBI Ops Field Office is waiting for you.
Beltway Betrayers: A Psychological Thriller (The Beltway Series Book 2)
Beltway Betrayers (Book 2): A Heart-Thumping, Powerfully Seductive Psychological Thriller.
The conclusion of the Beltway Series is a gateway to a universe where vengeance, kidnapping, a merciless chase, and intense passion create a story so unique, it will leave you speechless.
The finale of the Beltway Series is a Genuine Psychological Thriller That Will Hook You.
When Alex meets handsome and mysterious T.J. Gale, she's drawn to him. Unable to resist, she follows her fate. Opening the doors to a passionate LOVE TRIANGLE that tips this edgy romantic thriller into a compelling read even for the most demanding readers.
A journey into the unknown. A rebellion against family, culture, and society. A love against all odds.
From Scandinavia to the Middle East, a young woman travels to discover herself and finds a world of passion and history, war and peace. A whirlwind romance takes a dramatic turn, leaving Olivia caught between countries, belonging nowhere, and with the love of her life in danger far away.
From the award-winning author of The Cosmopolitan Islander comes an uplifting tale of adventure, conflict, and reconciliation that never shies away from brutal reality, yet sparkles with the sheer love of life.
Maggie Erickson-O’Brien always played it safe, always. That is, right up to the moment when she met the man of her dreams while on a work trip. A one-night stand led to dreams of forever, right up to the moment when she realized they could never have a future together. Months later, fate thrusts them together again, and he has to decide if her one small omission will doom their relationship.
Susan Combs had long ago found the love of her life. The only problem was the other party still didn’t know he had been found.
Every day Susan saw Calder Hurtz, her next door neighbor and childhood best friend. They always enjoyed the short drive to school down the dusty streets of their small Texas town. She was happy in those perfect moments, for her life at home was most imperfect. The challenging homestead she inhabited was also the favorite subject of local gossip.
But one autumn day she overhears Calder and another boy having a conversation. This occasion of accidental audience sets Susan’s life on an unforeseen path. In the seasons to come, her future will be changed by two hospitalizations, two confessions of love, and one betrayal.
Dr. Alexandra Rose has everything a woman could want. She's the wife of a renowned cardiologist, the mother of three adorable sons, and a successful chiropractor. But on their twentieth anniversary, her husband shocks her with his affair. Her life spins out of control, and she faces the other side of marriage where dreams implode and people are not who they seem.
Alexandra wants custody of her children, but so does her husband, and he'll stop at nothing. Thrust into a nightmare spawned by chilling deception, a custody battle erupts that's so poisonous it threatens to become murderous.
30-year-old Eve Sharland is browsing a Pennsylvania antiques store when she discovers an old brass lantern tucked away on a shelf. She picks it up and sees something behind one of the sooty glass panes. To her surprise, she finds an unopened letter stuck inside.
The letter is postmarked December 24, 1885, and it is addressed to Evelyn Sharland in New York City. Eve gasps and drops the letter. That’s her name! The letter is addressed to someone with her name in 1885: Evelyn Sharland.
Eve purchases the lantern and the letter, and returns to her New York City apartment. Later that evening, she opens the letter and reads it, astounded by its contents. She stares at the lantern in wonder and alarm, deeply moved by the story of a tragic romance.
She Do Run Run is a fast, double-shot-of-espresso read. Its heart-racing story can be consumed in a few quick hours.
Jennifer is sent into a tailspin after the loss of her husband, Kyle, who died while serving in the military. Her world spirals out of control into a dark world of sex and booze. After a fatal encounter, she has an awakening and decides to leave town for a new start. But her dark past continues to follow her and haunt her every move. And then she meets a cop, Lieutenant Jon Dowling.
Tessa Tarrington's life is swirling out of control. No job. No apartment. Sick Dad…And she's back in high school! Teaching at her Gibson's Run alma mater would be tolerable, except she's sharing purgatory with her mortal enemy, Ryland Jessup. But eight years post-high-school, and after tragedies she can barely understand, Ryland no longer fits her mental image of the over-sized bully he once was.
In fact, much to her disgust, he's finding his way into her heart. After the sudden death of his wife, Ryland hung up his professional shoulder pads and picked up a whistle. Now he's focused on coaching the high school football team and raising his daughter. The sudden return of his childhood crush, Tessa Tarrington, has reawakened long-ago feelings. But if God's giving him a second chance to impress Tessa, the Man Upstairs has a funny way of showing it.
Love Your Body: Lose Weight, Live Longer and Look Younger A New Diet Paradigm
For nearly twenty years, healthy diet, nutrition, and fitness have been a big part of John Griffin's life. Johns passion is researching how food and exercise can reprogram our body’s genes, mitochondria, and cellular health.
John currently works as a Certified Health Coach. He advises people on how they can make healthy changes to their lifestyle to improve their quality of life and their overall health.
Twenty years ago John lost someone he loved very much to complications from Type-2 Diabetes. From that time he has been fixated on finding the best nutritional solutions for diseases.
The Perpetual Paycheck: 5 Secrets to Getting a Job, Keeping a Job, and Earning Income for Life in the Loyalty-Free Workplace
Right now is the perfect time to be looking for a job, because there are more opportunities for employees than ever before.
That may seem hard to believe… but it’s true.
Few people recognize what’s happening in today’s job market. Even fewer people have the tools they need to access those rewards. Today’s workplace may be loyalty-free, but this environment can propel employees to assert their workplace independence and use this unprecedented flexibility to truly soar.
A shake-you-up, get-you-grounded, ignite-your-fighting-spirit guide to overcoming O-Syndrome
If you’re overworked, overstressed, overburdened, overloaded, overcommitted, over-obligated, overtired, overwhelmed, overextended, overscheduled, and just plain over it, you are very likely suffering from O-Syndrome—today’s 24/7 workplace equivalent of the elephant in the room.
What do you really need and want for a satisfying and fulfilling life? By asking this and other tough but necessary questions, coach and facilitator Theresa M. Robinson highlight the need to re-establish clear values and priorities and to set boundaries in our work lives.
Just for kicks, have you ever wondered what your parents really want from you in life? Is it you, or do your parents want you to have no real fun? On any given day, do you want to make your parents proud of you and still do what makes you feel really happy within yourself? Of course you do! But the real question has always been, and still is…how? How can we actually get this done?
Well, with A-C-T like a Kid and T-H-I-N-K like a Parent, a.k.a “the child-part consoler”, you will get past common misunderstandings by learning how to truly talk, hear, and listen to your parents, guardians or caregivers instead of feeling like you have to run to friends to find some sense of acceptance, understanding, and real connection.
Feel Better Every Day: Natural Keys to Healthy Aging
Natural Keys to Healthy Aging
“Don’t worry about reading food labels as most of your food shouldn’t have labels.”
This is my personal mantra, and hopefully yours also. Despite all the latest medical advances, newest prescription drugs, increased doctor visits and plenty of self-help advice, our health as a nation is no better than it has ever been. And for many aging baby boomers it seems to worsen every year.
Having spent most of my life studying how to stay healthy, I wrote this book to help people just like me feel good everyday and enjoy the “golden years”. I am eager
A week before leaving on a big Florida vacation with her best friend Kristy, Sherry Hardt received the news of an aneurysm in the center of her brain.
That’s when she made a decision.
As a student of hypnosis and self-healing, Sherry resolved that she would channel her own inner powers and prayer to heal herself. So, rather than being bogged down with worry and fear, she went on that vacation anyway, with a solemn vow that she and Kristy’s focus would not be on illness but laughter and joy.
One month later when Sherry had interactive brain mapping surgery while awake, doctors found that the aneurysm had miraculously disappeared.
Midnite's Journey: One Man's Improbable Voyage Through America's Reality
Follow Midnite, the genius activist-musician whose mis-adventures, during a dangerous and turbulent time in America's history, lead the reader on a journey of death, slavery,music, corruption and romance. Standing up for justice, while seeking enlightenment,takes Midnite on a dark and foreboding journey.
These unimaginable events will both surprise the reader and awaken hope in America's democracy…….. or will it?
The Omega Fatty Acids Blend: Plant Based Solutions for Your Health
All of us have some failings when it comes to what we put in our bodies. It is a fact that each of us needs to eat better.
In this book, The Omega Fatty Acids Blend, we will discuss how Omega fatty acids can improve our overall health and specifically work wonders for our heart, brain, joints, skin and eyes.
Fatty acids are important for all the body’s systems to work efficiently and effectively and the chapters contained within look at every aspect of these and how they work, including:
The fat fighting properties in Omega 3
Antioxidants in Omega 5
Getting the right ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3
The benefits of Omega 7
How Omega 9 helps with your brain AND your mood
And much more…
Harry Potter took the world by storm 20 years ago and like many avid young readers, Sean Morris was drawn into the world of magic and wizards. Hogwarts became his universe, until years of bullying for being a Potterhead finally ended in a gang violently beating it out of him. Years later working a dead end job in the world of mediocrity, he loses everything.
In an attempt to revisit the heroes of his childhood he reluctantly goes to a book signing of his idol, J K Rowling. There he witnesses something that changes his life forever. Could this encounter finally lead him to the magical reality he has been waiting his whole life for? Or is the world of his dreams too good to be true?
Red Dragon's Keep (The Dragon's Children) (Volume 1)
Demons want to kill him. Dragons need to save him.
Mages, demons, and a talisman that controls Dragons plague first born son and heir Thomas Arach. An intriguing debut YA fantasy novel, Red Dragon's Keep is the first book of The Dragon's Children Series by Natli VanDerWerken.Red Dragon's Keep is a coming of age action packed Young Adult novel.
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Arach wants desperately to earn his father's respect. He's been kept safe from danger all his life and he's bitterly sure he'll never be allowed to learn the arts of war. When danger threatens, will his father finally let him learn how to fight?Demons are attacking the outlying farmlands and Steadings.
Alyssa Mccarthy's Magical Missions: Book 2: Wizardry Goes Wild
After months of living a normal life, thirteen-year-old Alyssa McCarthy faces magic again. Only this time, though, she is cursed with it, thanks to an old depressed skeleton named Errol. Alyssa’s time with her godfather, Alex, will never be the same again, as she can perform sorcery, but never control it.
From letting out enchantments at school to creating outdoor disasters, Alyssa is bound to face consequences. She can only get rid of her powers if she can boost her confidence levels and improve her bravery. But it’s not as easy as it sounds. She must measure those abilities with a special device called a skillometer. Will she be able to get rid of her unwanted wizardry?
The Dance of Dimitrios is a mystery novel that mixes some of the horrors of illegal immigration with everyday events. DCI Lambert, who works for Europol – the European equivalent of the FBI – is sent to Greece in order to solve a cold case. Detective Chief Inspector Mike Lambert knows about people trafficking and the problems it causes governments throughout the world. Greece is the gateway into Europe for countless Middle-Eastern migrants, political refugees and terrorists.
The story involves the discovery of a woman's body found floating in the River Ardas in Northern Greece. Believed to be of Middle-Eastern origin, she is buried in a communal grave along with other Islamic victims of drowning and promptly forgotten.
LOGAN IS THE FIRST PERSON YOU’D CALL FOR TWO-FISTED DETECTIVE ACTION!
And three times Logan means three times the adventure.
1930s Hollywood wasn’t just moving picture stars and backlots. It was also a petri dish crawling with crime. Power breeding corruption, wealth motivating robbery, and revenge leading to murder. In these three tales, Private Investigator, Tom Logan uses his brains, fists, and caustic wit, to first, take on a mysterious organization called ‘The Syndicate,’ which is usurping territory from other mobs and has placed a target on him, and the female witness he’s protecting. In a second story, Tom rescues a fair maiden from the clutches of a racketeer running a gambling boat.
A story of murder, dark family heritage, and intrigue that will keep you turning the pages. The secrets of small town life are laid bare and the main characters must use all their wits to survive.
Philip Campbell dreams of life beyond his small home town of Campbell Crossing atop Sand Mountain in Alabama. It’s the summer of 1944 and World War II is in its final chaotic days.
Philip and his best friend, Harlan, go on a camping trip to their favorite site on a high bluff that leads to danger, mystery, and discovery.
Against a backdrop of the moors and quaint villages of West Yorkshire, a freak accident forces strangers Sarah and John into an encounter neither of them want, or need. Frequent ups and downs blight their progress as they are railroaded by his strange obsessions.
Of all the people around why on earth did Betty, Sarah’s faithful Labrador, have to recruit John to be Sarah’s rescuer?
John has no idea why over the years his mind has become a monster controlling his every move and desire. He can’t see any way out. He has to obey his tormentors, or else!
Can Sarah help him overcome his demons? John scares her but somehow she can’t abandon him. Their journey is an emotional rollercoaster frequently switching between love and hate, hope and despair, fear and security, tears and laughter.
When newspaper reporter Grace Rampling stumbles onto a grisly crime scene while on a routine weekend assignment, she abruptly finds herself at the centre of a police investigation into the death of a Catholic bishop.
As the investigation unfolds, evidence points to a troubling hate crime as Grace finds herself central to the case —not only as a key witness, but a suspect and even potential victim.
Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Adam Davis is thrown by the fierce attraction he feels toward Grace that, if acted upon, could throw the entire case into jeopardy. With Grace at risk and off limits, Adam races to unravel an increasingly disturbing mystery, while he struggles to both protect and resist the woman of his dreams.
Two Tocks before Midnight: A 19th Century Historical Murder Mystery (The Agora Mystery Series)
The Strange Affair of October 24th, 1859: When a flurry of forgeries appear in museums and among collectors, the members of the Agora, a society dedicated to the betterment of man, take it upon themselves to stop the rogues.
But among the members, there is a traitor. Among the forgers, there is a murderer.
As friends betray their own and souls are sentenced to death, suspicions and tensions mount. Only one man, Carl Brooke, has the knowledge and expertise to stop the murderer.
Though she came to live a glamorous life interviewing celebrities and walking international runways as a fashion model, Amina Warsuma's path there was anything but easy. From modest beginnings, she needed grit and a willingness to surrender to fate to make it to the top.
As soon as we decide on a path to achieve our goals, we will be tested–and Warsuma was no exception. Determined to become a successful model, Warsuma immediately had obstacles thrown in her way, testing her resolve. She faced those challenges, and in the end, every encounter, whether good or bad, helped shape her journey.
What is it like to be born fully awake while most of the world lies fast asleep? To grow up in a world where you know people's thoughts and true intentions, while what comes out of their mouths is the complete opposite?
Maddening? Yes. A bit horrifying? Absolutely.
Nalini McNab knows firsthand what it's like.
In her book, Walk A New Way, she takes us down her path less travelled, shows us first hand what it's like and how she navigated two very different worlds. But what emerged was a new path, a new way to walk. And we're all invited to come along. Not to walk her path, but to carve out our own distinct way of being in this world, while not being of it.
“My purpose for sharing my personal story is to inspire those who are hurt to know Jesus and receive all that he died for us to have. The freedom that the Lord offers is for those who are lost, mad, bitter, angry, and hurt. I pray that those who read this book will know that the Word of God contains the answer to every situation that can be encountered.
The Word of God is powerful and has the capability of restoring and mending relationships. For anyone who has been molested, raped, hurt, persecuted, and void of hope, I encourage you to read this book. Hear and allow God to minister to you. He wants to help you to become the person that he died for you to be. Don’t live in bondage.
The Fire Escape Belongs In Brooklyn: A novel based on The Fire Escape Stories
The year is 1968. The world is crumbling around Mike Burns, a disillusioned Brooklyn youth attending his second year of college. His cousin and constant childhood companion, Sally-Boy, went missing two years ago. The two were incredibly close—they called themselves twins because they were born the same day—and Mike still thinks about Sally-Boy relentlessly, even talks to him…but nobody needs to know about that.
Adding to Mike’s problems, his father angrily nags him to cut his hair; a professor fills his head with passionate, troubling ideals; a friend’s draft dodge pulls him into incriminating circumstances; his Jewish roommate is in the doghouse with his own parents for dating the “wrong” girl; and Mike’s love interest—well, she has secrets of her own to deal with.
Coco's Story: The early years (6 books in the series)
The incredible journey of a young French girl embarking upon an extraordinary life. Claudine Cicorre had no idea what her future would hold, but being discovered at sixteen by Janet Goldsmith, who owned the largest model agency in London was not part of her plan. Renamed Coco, and launched into the fiercely competitive world of modelling, it didn’t take long before she was ranked alongside Twiggy and the Shrimp as the ‘in demand’ face of the 60’s. Little did Coco know that modelling would lead to a lonely life of seclusion in the Spanish mountains…that is, until she meets Simon. Kindred spirits, they fall in love…or at least it feels like real love. Unexpectedly, Coco decides to return to Paris.
Arty's Tough Trail (The Adventures of Arty Anderson)
Life moves on at an exciting pace for Arty Anderson! He now faces the opportunity of a lifetime: helping take a herd of over a thousand head of Texas longhorns up the Chisholm Trail! Yes, sirree, it's an authentic cattle drive from the Circle A Ranch in Texas to Dodge City, Kansas!
Along the trail, Arty and the other cowhands encounter such dangers as angry steers, quicksand, lightning storms, stampedes, rustlers and Indians. Over and over, Arty is reminded to trust in God for help and strength. Through it all, Arty's faith in the Lord is strengthened as he finds opportunities to witness for Christ.
The true story of the battle of Xom Bo II that was fought on June 17, 1967. It was a battle that pitted Five hundred 1st Infantry Division soldiers against 800 to 2000 Viet Cong from the 271st Regiment. The bloody clash took the lives of 39 Americans and seriously wounded 150 more. It is the minute by minute story of what happened that day in the steamy jungle and the story of the men who fought so valiantly to survive the ambush. It is the story of the loved ones left behind and the wounded who struggled to become whole again.
A great read for lovers of literary and experimental fiction. This debut collection was written with a compassionate eye for the fragile positions of women, the dispossessed and the poor. While experimenting with different styles and forms of storytelling, Cornelia Fick displays an acute insight into the mysteries of human nature. This collection of forty stories varies widely, from a one-line story to a short novella.
Told in the first, second and third person the stories in the collection are designed to take the reader on a journey. The stories themselves are thought to provoke and often set in Apartheid South Africa. Fick writes with wit, insight and humour.
A cursed witch. A vengeful werewolf. A twisted love spell.
In this world where legendary creatures roam, and magic is ruled by an unyielding High Council, Valeria Lancaster knows, from her strict upbringing as a witch, the value of order, rank and discipline. So when her powers wreak havoc around her, killing people – even her own mother – she has no other choice but to flee.
Unfortunately, the best hideout can’t protect her from Asher Stonelake, a Sanctuary Master and a werewolf with a dire taste of vengeance. The Lancasters have killed his entire family and he won’t rest until the witch who murdered his sister suffers the worst kind of death. When he catches the scent of his enemy and Valeria becomes his captive, Asher can’t wait to break her, until he notices that something or someone may already have.
The Dream Dancer: The First Book in the Dance Series
Lady Bryce has a gift.
She can enter dreams and persuade her will onto others.
It has served her well, especially in eliminating unsatisfactory suitors of her father's choosing.
But when she encounters Lord Rowland she wants him more than any-thing and decides to visit him in his sleep and make him desire her above all others.
When she has driven Rowland to the edge of longing, she extracts a promise that he will marry her.
As time passes, Bryce and Rowland fall in love.
Sam Tilson is a struggling showgirl who’s always relied on her womanly charm and sex appeal to survive. Swept off her feet by a Spanish stud, she thinks she’s finally met the man who will save her. It's not until she's under gunfire and running from the law that she realizes, only she can save herself.
The Jewelled Egg Murders (Dangerous Journeys Book 5)
A Christmas holiday in Vermont turns deadly for Dr Anne McPhail whose hopes for a quiet family celebration with Thomas Beauchamp derail when his children reject her, and his mother falls ill.
Anne flees to her friend Catherine's B&B for comfort and a place to stay, but when she goes for a walk in the snow to the town square, she stumbles across a body in her friend Erin's antique store. A few hours later, Erin disappears.
Is Erin a suspect or a victim? While Anne joins the search, an old adversary, plotting revenge, arrives from Europe. Anne stumbles over another body, and then the killer closes in on her.
A compelling crime drama and poignant love story about a devoted man who must confront the painful legacy of his war torn childhood when he is wrongfully accused of murder. Michael Kieh's struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches the pursuit of justice and the search for love against the instinct for revenge.
Michael is the chief suspect in a murder at one of the world’s busiest airports where he is a full-time faith representative. A series of brief encounters with a soul mate has eased his loneliness and together they come close to uncovering a past major crime, but ultimately he chooses to protect a young witness who could prove his innocence.
On the day that Jeff Ryder learns he is going to be made a partner at Warrick, Thompson, and Hayes, his past catches up with him. The State Bar of California accuses him of coaching witness Marty Lewis to lie seven years earlier while he was working as a prosecutor in order to convict small-time con man, Dillon Reese, of the attempted murder of police officer Christopher Rafferty, a former Navy SEAL.
Jeff loses his million-dollar lifestyle, but sets up his own law office, determined to clear his name, by proving Reese is the shooter. Jeff discovers that Chris was wearing defective body armor made by Armor Up Corporation on the night he was shot. Jeff persuades Chris and his wife Beth to bring a negligence suit against Armor Up and the San Diego Police Department for millions in damages.
Amplify: A Billy Lime Crime Thriller (Billy Lime Crime Thrillers Book 1)
Stage-dive into the exciting crime adventures of Billy Lime, rock music bad boy and impresario.
If you want fast-paced action, then you’ll love award-winner Mark Hollands’ latest rock n roll thriller.
In AMPLIFY, Billy Lime bankrolls the global tour of Californian rock gods, The Pagan Virtue. On the road for more than a year, the band is at war with each other and Billy must keep them off the drugs, out of the bars and on the stage.
When lead singer Jet Kelly is poisoned, and drugs are discovered stashed in music equipment, the cops mark Billy Lime as a killer and drug-runner. In a story that twists and turns, Billy must fight for his reputation and – ultimately – for his life.
Emerging criminal defense attorney Sam Young has always known he had a gift. Or a curse. He thinks of them as minor psychic abilities. When Sam is hired by an attractive young nun named Camille Paradisi, he agrees to help discover the identity of a serial killer in order to prevent Camille's pastor from being exposed for not reporting the man after a confession – thereby allowing another murder to occur. While Sam's psychic abilities increase as he investigates the case and gets closer to Camille, he realizes that the enigmatic nun is not revealing the complete truth.
Camille shares an old journal anonymously mailed to the church, which she believes may have been authored by the killer/confessor.
The Re-Creation of Planet Earth and the Real Account of Life’s Beginnings: A Compelling Analysis of Creation, Evolution, the Big Bang, God, Jesus, and Heaven
Have you ever wondered why there is such a huge discrepancy between what scientists say about the age of our planet and what the Bible says? According to scientists, the planet is 4.6 billion years old. Yet the Bible says that this planet Earth is only six thousand years old. But what if both were right? What if there was an analysis of creation that combined science with scripture in the search for truth—yielding a unique and provocative conclusion about life’s beginning?
After her mother dies from colon cancer, Ashley Marsillas begins to receive messages and signs from the spirit world during her grieving process. She contacts a medium, who confirms that the author is receiving messages from her mother, who is continuing to watch over her daughter. Ashley studies many types of metaphysical systems and people, including psychics, mediums, spirituality, channeling, and anything to do with connecting to spirit.
From her experiences with her own grieving, the author has crafted a book designed to help others who have lost a loved one. She includes meditation techniques and many stories about her connection with the spirit world. Love, Life, and the Spirit Within is a motivational book that demonstrates how an individual can achieve anything they set their mind to.
From the Shadows: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Renewal
AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER
Offering hope and healing, the author retracesher beautiful transformation from suicidal despair to habitual happiness, sprinkling each step with soul-stirring original poetry and journal excerpts.
For decades, she hid her chronic depression from everyone, including herself, until hitting a crisis point. She seemed successful and happy to all, except her closest confidantes; they knew the anguish she wished to end by killing herself. Through self-exploration, she found a pathway to conquer the pain.
Dreamwalking: Based on the TRUE STORY of a defiant young man
DREAMWALKING’ is based on the true story of an athletically gifted young man named J.W.
He is accidentally pushed off a cliff which leaves him paralyzed from the waist down at 23 years old.This happens before the American’s with Disabilities Act, so his life gets much worse after the accident.
He has no money. His girlfriend doesn’t want him any more. His father’s out of the picture.
So, he ends up in a state-run nursing home which turns out to be a ‘cuckoo’s nest' for old people.Initially he is depressed, in a wheelchair and living with a comedic cast of unusual characters.
Mari Gray has always embraced her mixed heritage – garnering her strength from her African-American grandfather and her healing hands from her Native American grandmother. She hopes to draw upon both as she follows in her Jewish American father's professional footsteps as the town's abortion doctor. And with one year of college left, Mari is well on her way. But when a wealthy classmate violates her in the worst possible way, Mari must take matters into her own hands – calling on the powerful and omniscient Mother Moonshun, an ancient Native American deity whose domain it is to protect and preserve the health of women. But will it be enough?
Get ready for the haunting season with ghost stories, terrifying thrillers and chilling crime reads. With Halloween just around the corner we have a selection of books to get you in the holiday spirit. If you don’t want to get a fright, we have reading suggestions for you too! Keep scrolling for romance, fantasy, memoirs and more!
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Horror
The Dead of Winter, by A.B. Gibson
Description: Four young professionals pick the wrong weekend to visit a popular Pumpkin Patch Bed and Breakfast.
It’s the last day of the season, and the weather and the farm are picture perfect. Ma and Pa Winter are the consummate hosts, and they immediately win over Dillon, Tara, Josh and Julia with their homespun authenticity.
Like the thousands of other visitors to Winters Farm and Orchard, the four are eager to pick apples and pumpkins and take the challenge of the Giant Corn Maze.
But Ma Winter has other plans.
A scary moonlight hayride spirals into a frantic twenty-four hours of deception and mayhem, and the group find themselves unwilling participants in a horrific family tradition that could ruin their lives forever.
What is the very dark secret of Winters Farm and Orchard, and can they escape before it’s too late?
Description: A dad with a vendetta. An unsuspecting daughter. A psychiatric hospital known for questionable acts. And staff who keep secrets in the attic.
On a cold, January evening, fourteen-year-old Jeannie Kynde is told that her beloved mother drowned in the murky waters along Florida's Gulf Coast. Her distraught father turns on Jeannie, no longer the caring father she once knew. Four years later, Jeannie is finally old enough to escape her father's clutches, but he has different plans. He imprisons her at Deadwater Manor, a psychiatric hospital with an unscrupulous past. Between endless psychiatric treatments and a hospital staff up to no good, Jeannie faces insurmountable odds as each day ticks away. Will she be locked away forever? Or can she fight against the nightmare that has now become her world?
If you like suspenseful shockers, you're sure to love this psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat and stay with you long afterward. Check out the great reviews on this novel that debuted on the #1 Hot New Releases bestseller list.
The Autobiography of Satan: Authorized Edition, by William A. Glasser
Description: This is the story of Satan's many struggles, across the history of Human existence, to unshackle the Human mind, and open the gates to forbidden knowledge.
From the moment of his first emergence as a single spark in the dimness of prehistory, to the more enlightening force into which he evolves across the full span of human existence, Satan, as he now clearly illustrates, has been urging human beings to open their eyes to the world around them, and to continue seeking, with unfettered minds, for ultimate answers, yet to be found. To do so he must struggle against the persistent attempts to stifle that urge by the “spoon feeders,” as he calls them, individuals who have insisted, within every age, and often with a bloody fist, that they, and they alone, are the possessors of the only beliefs that every human being should accept and live by, without question. As Satan traces the history of their many attempts to stop human beings from thinking for themselves, he also takes his readers on a search for the ultimate source of all evil in this world. Readers will obviously enter the book with the standard concept of Satan as a supernatural figure of evil. They will leave the book, however, with a better understanding of how such mind-twisting concepts have been used to keep people away from the “forbidden” knowledge that lies beyond the borders of entrenched beliefs.
Description: It’s 1911. Someone, or something, is leaving the good citizens of East Texas's Ochiltree County savagely mutilated and drained of blood. Slow-talking Sheriff Reeves Duncan needs to put an end to the murders, and soon. But it won’t be easy. This is the Big Thicket, dark and brooding, haunted by racial tensions and economic despair. Fortunately, Sheriff Duncan can count on the assistance of an undersized but tough-as-rawhide Texas Ranger, two physicians, a mechanical wunderkind, and a soft-spoken idiot savant who knows the sloughs and baygalls of the Thicket like his own backyard. This league of unimpressive gentlemen is about to be tested by the cunning and ferocity of an enemy that walks by night – and the tentacles of a desperate sectarian plot that threatens the very survival of the human race.
Amplify: A Billy Lime Crime Thriller (Billy Lime Crime Thrillers Book 1), by Mark Hollands
Description: Stage-dive into the exciting crime adventures of Billy Lime, rock music bad boy and impresario.
If you want fast-paced action, then you’ll love award-winner Mark Hollands’ latest rock n roll thriller.
In Amplify, Billy Lime bankrolls the global tour of Californian rock gods, The Pagan Virtue. On the road for more than a year, the band is at war with each other and Billy must keep them off the drugs, out of the bars and on the stage.
When lead singer Jet Kelly is poisoned, and drugs are discovered stashed in music equipment, the cops mark Billy Lime as a killer and drug-runner. In a story that twists and turns, Billy must fight for his reputation and – ultimately – for his life.
If you like Lee Child and Stieg Larsson, then you’ll love this cracking page-turner. Pulp fiction at its finest with a cracking rock n roll sound track.
Find out why Amplify is “guaranteed to get your pulse racing,” with 4.7 stars on Amazon and is celebrated by the Australian Crime Writers’ Association.
The Hollows: A Midnight Gunn Novel, by C.L. Monaghan
Description: London 1860
Midnight Gunn is no ordinary detective- born during a solar eclipse as Halley's Comet blazed a trail through the sky- his supernatural birth right is both a help and a hindrance when solving crimes.
Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge, of Scotland Yard, is the only one who knows Gunn's secret.
When the body of a young aristocrat is discovered in a backstreet alley, Gredge enlists Gunn’s help in a race to discover the identity of the notorious Spring-heeled Jack- the monster that is terrorising London.
A trail of clues and victims leads them to discover the horrifying truth behind the killing.
The Hollows, encompasses the thrill of a traditional gothic mystery with an extra twist of paranormal, a splash of romance and a hint of horror! Dive into the past and experience the thrill of the hunt as Gunn- Scotland Yard's best kept secret- chases down a dangerous killer making friends and enemies that will change his life for ever
Description: Breathe in. Breathe out. This mantra gets Tessa Benson through the day.
The man she loves walks all over her, and she just wants to get by without her heart shattering to pieces. If she could find her voice, she’d scream.
Everything changes in one night, when she’s snatched from the streets and tied to a bed, a camera set up to capture her dying moment. And the person who paid to watch her die…is still out there somewhere.
Tessa prowls dark neighborhoods in a quest for justice, but she doesn’t find the killer. Not until they strike again…in the place Tessa is least expecting, and where it hurts worst.
Twisted Doubles: Chillingly Criminal, by Joanie Pariera
Description: A young, seemingly guileless millionaire businessman, an unsuspecting, progressive, middle-class woman who meets and falls in love with him, a tortured ex-cop who gets entangled in their tragic love story, and a hardworking reporter with a never-say-die attitude – these are just some of the characters in this suspense-filled love story about what it means to hold on to everything that makes you, you.
‘Twisted Doubles’ is not just a story about double trouble. It examines human identity as it is defined for us by everyone else. It journeys through the identity trail as set by any bureaucracy, from birth to death and beyond. It explores the irony in trying to walk the legal path, whether tested, proposed, or new, in a world where humans increasingly find themselves reduced to any single thing that identifies them where it matters most.
Set in India, with the South Asian Tsunami of 2004 as a backdrop, ‘Twisted Doubles’ is a universal story of identity crises that will enthrall just as much as it will make you weep.
When Anjali AIyer wakes up in a strange place, drugged and beaten up the day of her wedding, she is devastated. Her trauma takes an absurd turn when she finally makes it back to her hometown, and is greeted by doors shutting in her face, and a family that is convinced she is an imposter. Heartbroken and alone, Anjali must find her way back to her family, her love, and her life itself.
Hemlock Jones & the Angel of Death (Hemlock Jones Chronicles), by Justin Carroll
Description: Ten doors down from the home of a world famous ‘consulting detective’ lives twelve-year-old Hemlock Jones, and her recently arrived housemate and unwitting companion, Edward Whitlow. Hired to ‘demystify’ the mystery of a man's murder by a terrifying angelic spectre, Hemlock and Edward’s investigations will lead them all over Victorian London, uncovering bizarre and deadly foes, figures from Hemlock’s hidden past, and a plot to take over the city…
Hemlock Jones & The Angel of Death is the first of the Hemlock Jones Chronicles, a series of detective adventures for children and adults, set in Victorian London.
The Child on the Terrace (Dangerous Journeys Series) (Volume 4), by Virginia Winters
Description: Anne McPhail, retired pediatrician, shattered by her experience in Bermuda, rents a tiny house in Setenil, Spain, hoping to reconcile what she learned about herself and Thomas after the gunfire in that dark room on the island.
But she sees a child on the terrace of the local cafe who doesn’t seem to belong to her minders and then Ari, the Mossad agent who saved Anne’s life, seeks her out with a plan to rescue the child from kidnappers. Should she trust him? Three days later, she is on the run with Ari and the little girl, with killers Esti and Sergio on their trail. She glimpses a man she thinks is Thomas. Is he, too in Spain? And why?
How far will Anne go to save Naomi?
From Spain to France to Italy, this is Anne’s most dangerous journey.
The Scent of Lies, a Cozy Mystery & Romance (Paradise Valley Mystery Series Book 1), by Debra Burroughs
Description: Book 1, Paradise Valley Mysteries. When 28-year-old Emily Parker's dashing private-eye husband is killed, her world is torn apart. In time, she begins to unravel clues that maybe he wasn't who he had claimed to be.
With the help of her close friends and the new police detective in town, Colin Andrews, Emily takes over her late husband's business and begins searching for answers to his murder, putting Emily's own life in danger.
A story overflowing with murder mystery, close friendships, a bit of romance, and juicy intrigue–think “Stephanie Plum” meets “Nancy Drew”.
Description: When Fredric Ulrich is asked to investigate a devastating cyber-attack, he is drawn into a conspiracy that threatens not only his own life, but the entire United States' economy…
German intelligence operative Fredric Ulrich has been asked to investigate the cybercrime gang who sparked massive unrest in Kenya by taking over electronic transactions. But as he digs deeper, a wiretap on hacker communications reveals this is only the beginning.
Srepska, a shadowy criminal cabal, has launched a massive cyber-attack on the United States.
Taking off for Washington, Ulrich unexpectedly teams up with American gun for hire, Lars Christopherson, and dives head-first into a massive conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the very top of the U.S. Government.
Stock markets have gone haywire. ATMs have shuttered. And Fredric Ulrich is about to come face to face with the men he is sent to find….
From the deadly streets of Budapest to the equally perilous corridors of Washington, Srepska is an action-packed, compulsive thriller that depicts a financial scam terrifyingly close to reality.
Description: No amount of money can disguise the fact that wealthy twenty-eight-year-old Lachlan Maclean is physically and morally repugnant to all who know him.
A broken human being and a killer, only a sick mind such as his could think up the experiment that he calls The Project. His aim is to excavate the deep depravity of the human condition, to create a grisly televised record of the true blackness at the centre of our bestial heart. The ultimate reality show.
Instead Lachie unearths a treasure trove of spontaneous and unaffected joy and light. For the first time in his wretched existence he feels the power and the beauty of genuine love and perhaps even a chance at redemption.
But the beast had been lurking in the shadows after all, a brooding evil borne of one of mankind’s blackest nights.
Now in a dark race against time and tormented by the forces of good and evil, Lachie is possibly the only man on earth who can save his precious new family.
Description: Michael Wesson decides to drop out of college and head to New York to pursue show business. Sure, his parents are a little worried. His sister and best pal think he's making a mistake. Still, Michael is ready to follow his dream of becoming an actor, even if he can barely afford rent and knows nothing about the city, including news of the Silk Stocking Killer. Turns out, Michael arrives in the Big Apple in the midst of the biggest manhunt in thirty years. A psychotic murderer is hunting the rich women of the Upper West Side. The victims are found bound by silk stockings with the name “Gabrielle” written in red across their chests. As the fresh-faced New York newbie struggles to find his way, the media can't get enough of the horrors happening to the rich and beautiful. Why does the Silk Stocking Killer target such high-class women, and who is Gabrielle? Soon, Michael gets sucked into the investigation as he plays the role of his life, trying to stop a vicious psychopath before more women end up dead.
The Band 4: The Air We Breathe, by Marguerite Nardone Gruen
Description: Marguerite is on holiday in London, finally free after 27 years of feeling like a hostage to her strict and overbearing parents. Also in London, and struggling with his thoughts of freedom, is Chase Martin―one fourth of the most successful band on the planet―who knows that freedom can only come at the expense of his band-mates.
They come from completely different worlds, but when those worlds collide―on a rainy night in a small coffee shop―nothing will ever be the same again. Before ever laying eyes on him, his pain and anxiety somehow reaches her, and she feels moved to alleviate it… to offer comfort, which he desperately needs. After years of performing with his band-mates, they are closer than brothers. They are a part of one another, and the compulsion he is feeling to separate from them, is tearing him apart.
The strange bond Marguerite and Chase discover goes beyond attraction or desire. It goes beyond love or lust or anything either of them have ever experienced. It is absolutely terrifying, but to walk away from its pull would be like choosing not to breathe.
This is a story of love, loss and heart-break… of family and friendship. This is their story.
The Wentworth Legacy: A Long Island Novel, by Rosalinda Morgan
Description: A telegram from his family's attorney to come home immediately interrupts Spencer Wentworth's carefree life in England. Spencer A Wentworth, a scion of an old wealthy banking family of New York Gold Coast in Long Island, returns from a three-year Grand Tour in 1927 with a big surprise waiting for him. Thus begins a series of events putting pressure on his personal life. Will he be able to handle the big responsibility given to him?
With the stock market about to collapse, he is plagued with worries that the family will lose everything including Wentworth Hall, his ancestral home. Will he and his family retain their way of life as the country gets deeper into the Depression?
Honoring his promise to preserve his legacy, he is determined to save Wentworth Hall at any cost even if it means losing the only woman he loves. A tale of responsibility, love, betrayal, suspense and redemption during the Gilded Age. It is a fascinating account of the way of life long gone.
Description: A young woman without prospects at a ball in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island is a target for a certain kind of “suitor.” At the Memorial Day Ball during the Panic of 1893, impoverished but feisty Penelope Stanton draws the unwanted advances of a villainous millionaire banker who preys on distressed women—the incorrigible Edgar Daggers. Over a series of encounters, he promises Penelope the financial security she craves, but at what cost? Skilled in the art of flirtation, Edgar is not without his charms, and Penelope is attracted to him against her better judgment. Initially, as Penelope grows into her own in the burgeoning early Women’s Suffrage Movement, Edgar exerts pressure, promising to use his power and access to help her advance. But can he be trusted, or are his words part of an elaborate mind game played between him and his wife? During a glittering age where a woman’s reputation is her most valuable possession, Penelope must decide whether to compromise her principles for love, lust, and the allure of an easier life.
Description: Tessa Tarrington's life is swirling out of control. No job. No apartment. Sick Dad…And she's back in high school! Teaching at her Gibson's Run alma mater would be tolerable, except she's sharing purgatory with her mortal enemy, Ryland Jessup. But eight years post-high-school, and after tragedies she can barely understand, Ryland no longer fits her mental image of the over-sized bully he once was. In fact, much to her disgust, he's finding his way into her heart. After the sudden death of his wife, Ryland hung up his professional shoulder pads and picked up a whistle. Now he's focused on coaching the high school football team and raising his daughter. The sudden return of his childhood crush, Tessa Tarrington, has reawakened long-ago feelings. But if God's giving him a second chance to impress Tessa, the Man Upstairs has a funny way of showing it. Just when Tessa starts to lighten up, Ryland's best friend returns. Will the always-irresistible Joey Taylor stifle any hope Ryland has to ignite the dream of a relationship with Tessa?
Description: Army veteran Sheriff Megan Holloway has a lot on her mind. A dog with a bellyful of smuggled diamonds, a terrified woman hiding at the Bailey’s Boarding House and a mafioso who is likely connected to both of them. What’s that city crook doing in her town, anyway?
Add to that, the man Megan’s been close to for the past year is flirting with another woman and, last night, she relived her personal nightmare of the war in Afghanistan, again…yeah, her life is just peachy. Her psychological trauma has kept her from committing to Aaron; maybe he’s given up waiting for her. Maybe he's begun looking for a woman with less emotional baggage…
Forced to call in the proper government agencies, Megan fights to keep control of the investigation by hook or by crook. Protecting the citizens in her town is her first priority. Fortunately, she has an ace-in-the-hole the Feds don’t. The citizens of Riverview trust her and will help her any way she needs.
Description: Dom Tessier is a space cadet at Vancouver's Space Training Academy. Brain implants have enhanced his memory, and speeded up his learning processes. In another year he's to be fully telepathic, and take his place in the world-wide technocracy.
Lucas, the benefactor who paid for his education, is a convict who's now returned from Mars. Dom is Lucas's clone, and the brain implants provide the avenue for a mind merger.
In the struggle to preserve his autonomy, all Dom's beliefs about the society he's been raised in are called into question.
Description: Even though Nell felt right at home as the palm reader at Scotland’s Baillie Castle, a romantic bed and breakfast, her own love life fell short. Surrounded daily by married and engaged couples, Nell enjoyed her independence, though there was this one sweet crush she had on a fantasy knight in shining armor.
Her delightful end of summer is shoved into a powerful hurricane of mystery when an evil druid battles for her service, throwing her into nightmares and catatonic trances. Will her infatuation with the professional knight rescue her from the darkness or is he entrenched with the dreaded Druid?
The hurricane reaches Category 5 intensity when a magic coin, the diva queen squad and a pair of witches collide at the castle. Will magic be enough to save Nell from a broken heart or cause certain death?
Description: Sometimes the only choices left are bad ones.
New city. New country. Lonely Lexie Carpenter finds a club online. Welcoming, beautiful, people. But they are monsters. They rip out her soul, dividing it into three pieces as prizes in the Club's occult lottery. Left for dead, Lexie is resurrected by a silver-haired young sorcerer. How ironic that he is a monster as well and may want to kill her himself.
The sorcerer's motives are Future Lexie's problem. Right now, death has only been postponed if the two of them can't find the Soul Eaters and put this broken girl back together. Lexie claws her way up the supernatural food chain collecting some odd allies on the way: a massive Shadow Hound with a taste for human flesh, a world-famous rock singer who happens to be a magical half-demon (that's a secret) and gorgeous (that's not), and two celestial Japanese spirits with too many secrets.
Lexie's paranormal learning curve quickly becomes slippery with the blood of demons and the damned. And in the battle for the first piece of her soul, Lexie learns the betrayals go deeper than she could have imagined. Blood deep.
Description: Goddess of the Wild Thing is a dramatic tale of one woman’s spiritual journey where magical happenings, unexpected turns of fate, and unseen forces influence her ability to love and be loved. Eve Sanchez, a middle-aged woman and scholar of esoteric studies, encounters a seductive but frightening man who introduces her to a supernatural world in which the wicked powers of a surrogate mother’s twisted affection threaten love and life. In the mystic realm of Aztlan del Sur, Eve and three friends struggle with whether bad love is better than no love and discover that love is a wild thing.
Description: After the sudden and tragic loss of her child, Laurie sinks into a deep depression, unable to cope with the outside world. Yearning for contact one last time, Laurie dismisses the good intentions of those closest to her and continues to reach out for the seemingly impossible, never underestimating the power of a mother's love.
Remain is a supernatural story about the bonds that we form and how they remain with us forever.
Description: Life is funny – people say ‘one door doesn’t close unless another one opens’. I’m too practical for metaphysical ruminations; I like concrete things, things I can observe and measure, and I don’t believe in fate. Correction – I DIDN’T believe in Fate. How is it you can go through life and not realise you need something desperately and then suddenly wake up to find out it’s vital to your existence?
But I’m getting ahead of myself. I wasn’t happy but I had made peace with my life, or thought I had. It wasn’t perfect, in fact it was a bit of a mess, but it was MY mess. I had a decent job, met interesting people, was starting to make pretty good money, enough money to think about asserting my autonomy once more. Then I took a trip to northern Scotland in the middle of winter to meet a client and it changed everything.
HE changed everything. He showed me the shuttered parts of my soul, shone light on my dark, hidden desires and ignited something in me that is terrifying. Even now, there is part of me that he holds captive that no amount of distance or time will ever make free. My name is Lucretia Davison, and this is my journey.
Smolder: Book Two of Faerie Lights, by Rayna Noire
Description: A smoldering threat looms overhead, waiting to strike and alter lives.
Meara and Rosemary are on a desperate search for sanctuary as they flee war-torn England. But the refuge they seek proves to be unattainable when they realize that the evil they fled has followed them onto the shores of Ireland.
Deemed warrior queens, Meara fears fate has made a fatal mistake. Her magic eludes her, leaving her unable to decipher cryptic messages. If she fails to come into her own soon, her chance of survival will wither away.
Will the dangerous combination of inexperience and evil lead to total destruction for all?
Terror by Rail: Conspiracy Theories, 238 Passengers, and a Bomb Train―the Untold Stories of Amtrak 188, by Lynn Radice
Description: Terror by Rail is the compelling true story of a major catastrophic event: the Amtrak 188 accident on May 12, 2015. After the accident, Lynn’s journey and passion for answers caused her to ask questions about train safety and the bigger global issues that are challenges of the rail. A must read for anyone who travels, lives, or works near a rail system, Lynn’s Terror by Rail is a wakeup call. As the phrase goes: See Something Say Something, and Lynn is doing just that! A born connector as a recruiter, puts the puzzle pieces together, and readers are blown away by what could have been the headline for that day had the story gone just 50 feet differently. This story of a single mom’s heartbreaking journey through hell and back will give everyone facing challenges in their life a bit of hope that nothing is permanent, and it is possible to come through the pain to the other side.
Running Away to Europe: A Memoir, by Nicolette Johnston
Description: In this soul-searching story, Nicolette explores England and France. But her adventure quickly turns into a comedy of errors, leaving her trip to resemble nothing like the dream vacation she envisioned. She leaves her passport on a bus in England, gets pickpocketed in Paris, has a fender bender on a narrow village road in the Loire Valley, and realizes she is truly alone when she can’t communicate in French. Despite blogging her adventures to the world, she internally struggles with which direction in life to go next. Vowing to keep incoming communication to a minimum during her escape; she wanders thru parks, gardens, and the French country hoping to find inner peace. Yet, she knows her biggest struggle still lies ahead. Does she return to John in Florida? The kindest man she’s ever known despite his shortcomings, and why can’t she forget Jett? The man she told herself never to surrender her heart to. But first, she must remember why she ran away in the first place.
With her vacation…err, ‘run’ coming to an end, the thought of figuring out the next chapter is nearly paralyzing, but she knows she can’t avoid facing her future forever.
The Parthian (Parthian Chronicles Book 1), by Peter Darman
Description: When Rome transgresses upon his father's domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains and sent to Italy to live out the rest of their days as slaves. But fate intervenes and Pacorus and his companions are saved from a living hell by a renegade gladiator named Spartacus. In gratitude, Pacorus agrees to help Spartacus build his army as Rome musters its legions to crush the slave uprising. And so begins an epic adventure of glory and savagery played out across the length and breadth of Italy, as Spartacus defeats the armies of Rome and Pacorus leads his horsemen to victory after victory. But will Pacorous and the slave army escape from Italy, and will he win the love of the fierce and proud Gallia before the most powerful man in Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus, takes the field against Spartacus?
The Extraterrestrials! In an Adventure with the American Army, by Ken Patterson
Description: Bored with the usual cattle mutilations and earthling abductions, The Alien Captain and his daring, gray explorers head to Kansas to participate in a crop circle contest. Unfortunately, due in part to a gray navigator’s poor self-esteem and hereditary earwax problems, another crewmate’s random Tourette’s-driven outbursts, and The Alien Captain’s obsession with meeting William Shatner at an upcoming Star Trek convention, the grays unintentionally pilot their flying saucer into The Shite Black Hole. Transported back in time the hapless travelers crash in a remote spot in America’s southwest.
Having no other options, the grays accept an offer from the Roswell Airfield intelligence officer, Major Marcel, to stay in the base’s plush, underground quarters. It soon becomes apparent, however, that Marcel’s seemingly generous offer comes with a condition: the U.S. Army wants the grays to build a working flying saucer. Initially, they accept this offer, but soon find they are not up to the task of constructing an interstellar spacecraft. The grays also quickly discover they are not actually guests, but prisoners. Their host’s promise of free room and board and all the bowling they can handle is not everything it is cracked up to be.
Description: Dad jokes. They make you cringe, they make you groan but the one thing they have in common is they come from dad. Be it during a wedding toast or when introducing your dad to someone you want to impress, dad never fails to insert a dad joke wherever he can.
This dad joke book makes a great gift for the dad who has everything and has heard everything. Or maybe you want to buy it for yourself and come prepared the next time dad wants to have a joke off.
In any event, 101 So Bad, They're Good Dad Jokes will have your eyes rolling into the back of your head faster than dad can strip to his tighty-whities on a hot summer day!
Description: Dr. Alexandra Rose has everything a woman could want. She’s the wife of a renowned cardiologist, the mother of three adorable sons, and a successful chiropractor. But on their twentieth anniversary, her husband shocks her with his affair. Her life spins out of control, and she faces the other side of marriage where dreams implode and people are not who they seem.
Alexandra wants custody of her children, but so does her husband, and he’ll stop at nothing. Thrust into a nightmare spawned by chilling deception, a custody battle erupts that’s so poisonous it threatens to become murderous.
In this stay-up-all-night portrait of a contemporary family, Alexandra’s bittersweet journey of love, loss, and sexuality leads her to a miraculous discovery of self and power. Sex Happens explores the very essence of all we value as women—marriage, motherhood, sex—and what we’ll do for each.
The Lazy Girl's Guide to Life: 100+ Ways to Hack Your Look, Love, and Work By Doing (Almost) Nothing! By Jennifer Byrne
Description: This collection of humorous life hacks features 100 easy, low-commitment solutions to the everyday problems of the twenty-something woman.
Do you have a lot to do but can’t seem to bring yourself to do it? The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Life can teach you how to get things done with as little effort as possible. Learn to simplify your beauty routine, keep up with your friendships, hack the dating game, and get by in the corporate world with these easy, low-commitment suggestions. You’ll find over 100 solutions to your most common problems, including:
-Smoothing out frosting on store-bought cupcakes so they look homemade
-Hiding dirty dishes in a soapy sink before company arrives
-Washing and styling bangs (only) to avoid the limp hair look
-Faking it as a food blogger to snag a dinner reservation
-Reading the plot summary online before a book club meeting
With lazy girl–approved hacks that range from humorous advice to quick fixes, you’ll be able to find a temporary solution to simplify your life in no time!
I've Lost My Mind: How I Found It Again, Tille Bright
Description: “I was sexually abused as a young child and spent many years trying to remember and then trying to forget, while dealing with the aftermath. I struggled with relationships and intimacy, had multiple psychiatric ward stays, several different diagnoses, suicide attempts and periodic unprofessional psychiatric care. How could I become an authentic whole woman? “
I spent close to 30 years as a counselor facilitating both small and large groups. I also volunteered as a Peer Support Worker, both at the Canadian Mental Health Association at their Clubhouse and on the In-Patient Psychiatric Unit. For most of those years I was part of the “walking wounded”.
I came out to Vancouver after college, and fell in love with the West Coast. From the age of 21 I never lived anywhere else. I currently live on scenic Vancouver Island with my tortoiseshell cat among my book shelves and piles of books.
Letorian Descendants- Casey Blane Series (Book 1), by Jodi Ann Fahey
Description: Forced into an action-packed world of vampires, werewolves, and all things mystical, Casey Blane must quickly learn of the great power she possesses as she unlocks the mysteries of her nearly four hundred year old royal family’s past in order to save herself and her coven as the next Letorian Descendant.
Casey Blane Series:
Over 400 years ago, King Davalian, The Letorian King, protected the covens from the Pandions and townspeople during the medieval times of the black plague and the witch hunts. Two very gifted sorcerers were part of his army and fought alongside him. One was a woman named Lily who not only helped him to victory, but won his heart. Lily was not at all interested in King Davalian. Her love was Connell, the other gifted sorcerer.
During King Davalian’s rein, Lily discovered the secret to eternal life through a series of talismans, a reborn vampire, which she tried on herself. Connell was to be next and they were to live out their lives, each generation, with each other. Except, that night, things went terribly wrong and even though both had been blessed with eternal life their bond was never completed. Instead, in a jealous rage, King Davalian cursed Connell and forced him to a life being controlled by the moon and to never forget.
Description: A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old Kerryl Shaw and her family live on a remote farm and think they will be safe, but the plague advances. Despite deaths around them, the Shaws survive. However, this changes when a stranger arrives, and it soon becomes apparent he has brought the infection to their door. One by one the family succumbs, leaving Kerryl alone.
Kerryl is sure it’s only a matter of time before she, too, dies. She decides to record what she thinks will be her final days in a diary. She realises that it will never be read, so she imagines a reader and calls him Adam. As loneliness and isolation affect the balance of her mind, Adam ceases to be an imaginary character and becomes real to her.
Communications break down and services fail. Unexplained events build fear and menace: Kerryl hears her name called in the night; she’s attacked by stray animals; she’s molested when she visits the town; she sees a stranger outside her house, who vanishes when she tries to make contact; objects appear and disappear. The climax comes when she finds a text message on her phone. Who is texting her? How? She thinks it can only be Adam, because by now there is no one else left. Another text invites her to a rendezvous at the Bride Stones, a beauty spot popular with lovers, and she leaves for what she is sure will be a meeting with Adam…
Description: After her father remarries, Britt Kelly’s life becomes a cesspit. She lives in her sister’s two-bedroom tenement apartment with her mother, two brothers, and two young nephews. She starts a new high school where she knows no one. And, even when Britt thinks she’s making friends, the church where she studies in is torn down.
Then, the field commanders of The Demon Wars draft her and her friends to aid the four Gargoyle Guardians who fight the demons invading the city of Trebridge. The fate of the city hangs on Britt’s ability to lead and learn enough self-control to manipulate the natural magic of Grace. Meanwhile, she also needs to decide what to do about Cahal, her chemistry lab partner who is as strong as her and may have interests more than just protecting Trebridge.
“There Be Demons” is a continuation of M. K. Theodoratus’ urban fantasy, “Night for the Gargoyles”. It tells the tale of Gillen and his team of Gargoyle Guardians as they defend Trebridge while teaching Britt and her friends – the untrained “reinforcements. Along the way, Gillen and Britt learn things about each other to make them stronger both together and alone.
Sepp's Epic Perils & Pitfalls: The 7 Sepp-Books Collection, by Helmut Schonwalder
Description: The Sepp’s Epic Perils & Pitfalls collection includes all 7 Sepp-Books the whole saga in epic proportion from Germany to America for one low price of $13.93.
Sepp’s Epic Perils & Pitfalls of an International Hospitality Professional takes us on a journey from the Sudeten Mountains to the West German American Zone and provides a window into Sepp growing up in a 1950-60 Frankenland, before getting his professional education in the International Hospitality Industry during the 1960s. Here he works and earns his living in restaurants and hotels. Sepp develops a strong liking for alcohol and sex. Sepp witnesses how money plays a big role. The ones who have ample cash enjoy understating, while those who do not have it, overstate by acting like being rich. Sepp spends many years in the Hansestadt before his travels and a new job in Andalusia. Moreover, from here Sepp immigrates to South Africa. After working at the Indian Ocean’s shore, he emigrates from Africa to the United States starting out in Kansas City and finally making his home among the Redwoods along the Pacific Ocean front of California.
Splendor from Ashes: The Poetry of Emergence, by Ingrid Rizzolo
Description: From the heartbreaking ashes of abuse, a poet emerges to share a poignant collection of lyrical verse that details her journey as she moves from shame and brokenness to realize resilience and strength. Ingrid Rizzolo, a seasoned New York City educator, opens her heart and her life in her poetry, revealing an honest and authentic portrayal of the pain, fears, and confusion born out of physical and psychological abuse. With raw emotion and painful vulnerability, Rizzolo describes her transformation after she is betrayed by a handsome Romeo and led down a dark path where she must overcome many obstacles-both internal and external-in order to heal and move forward into the future as a stronger, more confident woman. Splendor from Ashes is a moving compilation of poetry that opens the possibilities and provides hope for anyone suffering from life's most complex challenges. “Dr. Rizzolo has captured the essence of true expression through her poetry that gives one an escape to flirt with their imagination, past memories, and often unspoken thoughts. A must-read for all poetry enthusiasts” -Dr. Anthony B. Spivey, DBA, professor
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Description: Four young professionals pick the wrong weekend to visit a popular Pumpkin Patch Bed and Breakfast.
Description: A dad with a vendetta. An unsuspecting daughter. A psychiatric hospital known for questionable acts. And staff who keep secrets in the attic.
Description: This is the story of Satan's many struggles, across the history of Human existence, to unshackle the Human mind, and open the gates to forbidden knowledge.
Description: It’s 1911. Someone, or something, is leaving the good citizens of East Texas's Ochiltree County savagely mutilated and drained of blood. Slow-talking Sheriff Reeves Duncan needs to put an end to the murders, and soon. But it won’t be easy. This is the Big Thicket, dark and brooding, haunted by racial tensions and economic despair. Fortunately, Sheriff Duncan can count on the assistance of an undersized but tough-as-rawhide Texas Ranger, two physicians, a mechanical wunderkind, and a soft-spoken idiot savant who knows the sloughs and baygalls of the Thicket like his own backyard. This league of unimpressive gentlemen is about to be tested by the cunning and ferocity of an enemy that walks by night – and the tentacles of a desperate sectarian plot that threatens the very survival of the human race.
Description: Stage-dive into the exciting crime adventures of Billy Lime, rock music bad boy and impresario.
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Description: Breathe in. Breathe out. This mantra gets Tessa Benson through the day.
Description: A young, seemingly guileless millionaire businessman, an unsuspecting, progressive, middle-class woman who meets and falls in love with him, a tortured ex-cop who gets entangled in their tragic love story, and a hardworking reporter with a never-say-die attitude – these are just some of the characters in this suspense-filled love story about what it means to hold on to everything that makes you, you.
Description: Ten doors down from the home of a world famous ‘consulting detective’ lives twelve-year-old Hemlock Jones, and her recently arrived housemate and unwitting companion, Edward Whitlow. Hired to ‘demystify’ the mystery of a man's murder by a terrifying angelic spectre, Hemlock and Edward’s investigations will lead them all over Victorian London, uncovering bizarre and deadly foes, figures from Hemlock’s hidden past, and a plot to take over the city…
Description: Anne McPhail, retired pediatrician, shattered by her experience in Bermuda, rents a tiny house in Setenil, Spain, hoping to reconcile what she learned about herself and Thomas after the gunfire in that dark room on the island.
Description: Book 1, Paradise Valley Mysteries. When 28-year-old Emily Parker's dashing private-eye husband is killed, her world is torn apart. In time, she begins to unravel clues that maybe he wasn't who he had claimed to be.
Description: When Fredric Ulrich is asked to investigate a devastating cyber-attack, he is drawn into a conspiracy that threatens not only his own life, but the entire United States' economy…
Description: No amount of money can disguise the fact that wealthy twenty-eight-year-old Lachlan Maclean is physically and morally repugnant to all who know him.
Description: Michael Wesson decides to drop out of college and head to New York to pursue show business. Sure, his parents are a little worried. His sister and best pal think he's making a mistake. Still, Michael is ready to follow his dream of becoming an actor, even if he can barely afford rent and knows nothing about the city, including news of the Silk Stocking Killer. Turns out, Michael arrives in the Big Apple in the midst of the biggest manhunt in thirty years. A psychotic murderer is hunting the rich women of the Upper West Side. The victims are found bound by silk stockings with the name “Gabrielle” written in red across their chests. As the fresh-faced New York newbie struggles to find his way, the media can't get enough of the horrors happening to the rich and beautiful. Why does the Silk Stocking Killer target such high-class women, and who is Gabrielle? Soon, Michael gets sucked into the investigation as he plays the role of his life, trying to stop a vicious psychopath before more women end up dead.
Description: Marguerite is on holiday in London, finally free after 27 years of feeling like a hostage to her strict and overbearing parents. Also in London, and struggling with his thoughts of freedom, is Chase Martin―one fourth of the most successful band on the planet―who knows that freedom can only come at the expense of his band-mates.
Description: A telegram from his family's attorney to come home immediately interrupts Spencer Wentworth's carefree life in England. Spencer A Wentworth, a scion of an old wealthy banking family of New York Gold Coast in Long Island, returns from a three-year Grand Tour in 1927 with a big surprise waiting for him. Thus begins a series of events putting pressure on his personal life. Will he be able to handle the big responsibility given to him?
Description: A young woman without prospects at a ball in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island is a target for a certain kind of “suitor.” At the Memorial Day Ball during the Panic of 1893, impoverished but feisty Penelope Stanton draws the unwanted advances of a villainous millionaire banker who preys on distressed women—the incorrigible Edgar Daggers. Over a series of encounters, he promises Penelope the financial security she craves, but at what cost? Skilled in the art of flirtation, Edgar is not without his charms, and Penelope is attracted to him against her better judgment. Initially, as Penelope grows into her own in the burgeoning early Women’s Suffrage Movement, Edgar exerts pressure, promising to use his power and access to help her advance. But can he be trusted, or are his words part of an elaborate mind game played between him and his wife? During a glittering age where a woman’s reputation is her most valuable possession, Penelope must decide whether to compromise her principles for love, lust, and the allure of an easier life.
Description: Tessa Tarrington's life is swirling out of control. No job. No apartment. Sick Dad…And she's back in high school! Teaching at her Gibson's Run alma mater would be tolerable, except she's sharing purgatory with her mortal enemy, Ryland Jessup. But eight years post-high-school, and after tragedies she can barely understand, Ryland no longer fits her mental image of the over-sized bully he once was. In fact, much to her disgust, he's finding his way into her heart. After the sudden death of his wife, Ryland hung up his professional shoulder pads and picked up a whistle. Now he's focused on coaching the high school football team and raising his daughter. The sudden return of his childhood crush, Tessa Tarrington, has reawakened long-ago feelings. But if God's giving him a second chance to impress Tessa, the Man Upstairs has a funny way of showing it. Just when Tessa starts to lighten up, Ryland's best friend returns. Will the always-irresistible Joey Taylor stifle any hope Ryland has to ignite the dream of a relationship with Tessa?
Description: Army veteran Sheriff Megan Holloway has a lot on her mind. A dog with a bellyful of smuggled diamonds, a terrified woman hiding at the Bailey’s Boarding House and a mafioso who is likely connected to both of them. What’s that city crook doing in her town, anyway?
Description: Dom Tessier is a space cadet at Vancouver's Space Training Academy. Brain implants have enhanced his memory, and speeded up his learning processes. In another year he's to be fully telepathic, and take his place in the world-wide technocracy.
Description: Even though Nell felt right at home as the palm reader at Scotland’s Baillie Castle, a romantic bed and breakfast, her own love life fell short. Surrounded daily by married and engaged couples, Nell enjoyed her independence, though there was this one sweet crush she had on a fantasy knight in shining armor.
Description: Sometimes the only choices left are bad ones.
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Description: After the sudden and tragic loss of her child, Laurie sinks into a deep depression, unable to cope with the outside world. Yearning for contact one last time, Laurie dismisses the good intentions of those closest to her and continues to reach out for the seemingly impossible, never underestimating the power of a mother's love.
Description: Life is funny – people say ‘one door doesn’t close unless another one opens’. I’m too practical for metaphysical ruminations; I like concrete things, things I can observe and measure, and I don’t believe in fate. Correction – I DIDN’T believe in Fate. How is it you can go through life and not realise you need something desperately and then suddenly wake up to find out it’s vital to your existence?
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Description: A man drowned an Indian 200 years ago.
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Description: In this soul-searching story, Nicolette explores England and France. But her adventure quickly turns into a comedy of errors, leaving her trip to resemble nothing like the dream vacation she envisioned. She leaves her passport on a bus in England, gets pickpocketed in Paris, has a fender bender on a narrow village road in the Loire Valley, and realizes she is truly alone when she can’t communicate in French. Despite blogging her adventures to the world, she internally struggles with which direction in life to go next. Vowing to keep incoming communication to a minimum during her escape; she wanders thru parks, gardens, and the French country hoping to find inner peace. Yet, she knows her biggest struggle still lies ahead. Does she return to John in Florida? The kindest man she’s ever known despite his shortcomings, and why can’t she forget Jett? The man she told herself never to surrender her heart to. But first, she must remember why she ran away in the first place.
Description: When Rome transgresses upon his father's domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains and sent to Italy to live out the rest of their days as slaves. But fate intervenes and Pacorus and his companions are saved from a living hell by a renegade gladiator named Spartacus. In gratitude, Pacorus agrees to help Spartacus build his army as Rome musters its legions to crush the slave uprising. And so begins an epic adventure of glory and savagery played out across the length and breadth of Italy, as Spartacus defeats the armies of Rome and Pacorus leads his horsemen to victory after victory. But will Pacorous and the slave army escape from Italy, and will he win the love of the fierce and proud Gallia before the most powerful man in Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus, takes the field against Spartacus?
Description: Bored with the usual cattle mutilations and earthling abductions, The Alien Captain and his daring, gray explorers head to Kansas to participate in a crop circle contest. Unfortunately, due in part to a gray navigator’s poor self-esteem and hereditary earwax problems, another crewmate’s random Tourette’s-driven outbursts, and The Alien Captain’s obsession with meeting William Shatner at an upcoming Star Trek convention, the grays unintentionally pilot their flying saucer into The Shite Black Hole. Transported back in time the hapless travelers crash in a remote spot in America’s southwest.
Description: Dad jokes. They make you cringe, they make you groan but the one thing they have in common is they come from dad. Be it during a wedding toast or when introducing your dad to someone you want to impress, dad never fails to insert a dad joke wherever he can.
Description: Dr. Alexandra Rose has everything a woman could want. She’s the wife of a renowned cardiologist, the mother of three adorable sons, and a successful chiropractor. But on their twentieth anniversary, her husband shocks her with his affair. Her life spins out of control, and she faces the other side of marriage where dreams implode and people are not who they seem.
Description: This collection of humorous life hacks features 100 easy, low-commitment solutions to the everyday problems of the twenty-something woman.
Description: “I was sexually abused as a young child and spent many years trying to remember and then trying to forget, while dealing with the aftermath. I struggled with relationships and intimacy, had multiple psychiatric ward stays, several different diagnoses, suicide attempts and periodic unprofessional psychiatric care. How could I become an authentic whole woman? “
Description: Forced into an action-packed world of vampires, werewolves, and all things mystical, Casey Blane must quickly learn of the great power she possesses as she unlocks the mysteries of her nearly four hundred year old royal family’s past in order to save herself and her coven as the next Letorian Descendant.
Description: A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old Kerryl Shaw and her family live on a remote farm and think they will be safe, but the plague advances. Despite deaths around them, the Shaws survive. However, this changes when a stranger arrives, and it soon becomes apparent he has brought the infection to their door. One by one the family succumbs, leaving Kerryl alone.
Description: After her father remarries, Britt Kelly’s life becomes a cesspit. She lives in her sister’s two-bedroom tenement apartment with her mother, two brothers, and two young nephews. She starts a new high school where she knows no one. And, even when Britt thinks she’s making friends, the church where she studies in is torn down.
Description: The Sepp’s Epic Perils & Pitfalls collection includes all 7 Sepp-Books the whole saga in epic proportion from Germany to America for one low price of $13.93.
Description: From the heartbreaking ashes of abuse, a poet emerges to share a poignant collection of lyrical verse that details her journey as she moves from shame and brokenness to realize resilience and strength. Ingrid Rizzolo, a seasoned New York City educator, opens her heart and her life in her poetry, revealing an honest and authentic portrayal of the pain, fears, and confusion born out of physical and psychological abuse. With raw emotion and painful vulnerability, Rizzolo describes her transformation after she is betrayed by a handsome Romeo and led down a dark path where she must overcome many obstacles-both internal and external-in order to heal and move forward into the future as a stronger, more confident woman. Splendor from Ashes is a moving compilation of poetry that opens the possibilities and provides hope for anyone suffering from life's most complex challenges. “Dr. Rizzolo has captured the essence of true expression through her poetry that gives one an escape to flirt with their imagination, past memories, and often unspoken thoughts. A must-read for all poetry enthusiasts” -Dr. Anthony B. Spivey, DBA, professor
