January Book Recommendations from BooksGoSocial

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 January Book Recommendations

 Children's Books


 

Go-Cart Gertie

When a young girl named Gertie Gilbert decides to race go-carts, her older brother laughs and says, “You're a girl and girls can't race!” With the girls on one side and the boys on the other, the race is on. Gertie sets out to prove that girls can do anything boys can do! This action-packed adventure will have readers cheering.

The storyline deals with stereotypes, discrimination, sibling rivalry, and family bonding. Does Gertie win the local go-cart race? Grab your copy today and see which team gets the checkered flag.

Science Fiction


 

Aftershocks

Aftershocks is a companion to the author's first novel, the successful and award winning Paradise Girl. However, both books stand alone, and it's not necessary to have read one to enjoy the other.

A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide, eventually reaching the UK. The Shaw family live on an isolated Pennine farm. They think that their remote location will keep them safe from the infection, but they are wrong. A stranger comes to their door and brings the disease with him.

Lander Shaw, the twin brother of Kerryl, the ‘paradise girl' of the first book, leaves the farm and embarks on a journey to discover more about the infection and to seek a better future.

The Colony

Dimensions could not keep them apart, but can the A.I. controlling his world?

Lydia felt him before she heard him. His presence filled her, he warmed her soul. His voice moved her, awakening the life inside her that she thought was lost forever. For he was her soulmate, Jordan, and he lived in another plane of existence.

When he pulled her through spacetime to be with him in his dimension, she found herself in a world without him. A world controlled by an artificial intelligence – the Guardian, whose sole purpose was to protect the power source that ran the planet. But it did so at the cost of all who lived outside of its perfect city.

Self Help


 

7 Powers of Man

7 Powers of Man beautifully unleashes the truth that all people have power. These are the 7 powers needed to accomplish anything in life; however, they are often dormant or underused.

This book will inform, inspire and re-fire the reader to be all s/he was meant to be.

Non-Fiction


 

Lobbyist or Barber

If you are passionate about any cause you need this book.

Whether you are a teacher, a nurse, a doctor or a barber, building the right relationships is critical to success. 

Inspired by city council members, school administrators and mayors who came in for a haircut and passionate political debates in the barbershop where he worked, Bob Keaton has written a refreshing guide to principled lobbying. 

“Lobbyist or Barber” illustrates just how incredibly lucky Americans are to live in a country where we are free to jump in and become a part of the political process.

Cancer Secrets

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, and will soon overtake heart disease as the #1 killer. This year alone in the United States, there will be 1.7 million new cancer cases, and over 600,000 cancer deaths. The lifetime risk of developing cancer is now 1 in 3 people, and is quickly approaching 1 in 2. Despite billions of dollars devoted to cancer research, we are no closer to a cure. Sadly, we are losing the war on cancer.

Patients diagnosed with cancer, as well as their family and friends, are left with a difficult decision: do I follow the standard of care, consisting of chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, or do I seek alternative treatments on my own? Do I listen to my doctor, or do I follow advice from the internet? Who do I listen to? Who can I trust?

Mystery


 

Olive Park

*Named one of Top 5 Mysteries of 2012 – Reader's Favorite Awards*
* Awarded Best Mystery 2012 – Global E-Book Awards *

A picture in a black frame…
Two quarters clutched in a dead child’s hand…
A knotted rope…

The OLIVE PARK Murders

1997 – Olive Park, California – the bodies of three children are found buried in shallow graves, brutally murdered. One of the most intensive investigations in California history fails to find any trace of the killer and the case goes cold.

Spiral Into Darkness

He blends in. He is successful, intelligent and methodical. There are no clues. There are no leads. The only thing the FBI and local police have to go on is the method of death: two bullets to the face- gruesome and meant to send a message. But it’s difficult to understand any message coming from a dark and damaged mind.

Two adopted boys, struggling in their own world, have no idea they are the next targets. Neither does their family. And neither does local law enforcement.

Thriller


 

A Sign of Signs

A thriller that will keep your attention. As one event leads into another, skeptics abound, especially when the only person to believe any part of it is CIA Chief James Newman who has a deep respect and admiration for super-psychic Gladys Lawson. Gladys is not one to accept fools gladly and tries her utmost to warn the authorities about what she sees.

Everything about the story is believable and the excitement comes to a crescendo when catastrophic events synchronize and crystallize at the end.

Romance


 

A Separate Heaven

A DARK, SEXY THRILLER

The enigmatic Dominic Gianelli is a man whose immense wealth and power have earned him respect and admiration from the social elite of both Europe and America. But his legitimate wealth has long been rumored to mask the secrets and dark corners in his world. Nearing fifty, he lives by a strict code and allows few people to know him.

Beyond his carefully crafted image of sophistication, Dominic is a man with a tight grip on those around him. But a chance meeting with twenty-year-old Paige Hamilton forever changes his life.

Paranormal Romance


 

Sarah's Home

Sarah's Home is a character driven paranormal romance that brings Sharon Tanchak and Zach Fields together with the interactions of Sharon's dead sister's spirit.

After her twin sister Sarah's death, Sharon Tanchak is faced with the heartbreaking responsibility of selling her sister's sanctuary in the country and move on with her life.Zach Fields escapes his fractured past in Chicago to start anew, hoping to find solace and rebuild his life in a small house in rural New Hampshire.

Through paranormal intervention and circumstances, Sarah works to bring Zach and Sharon together to stir lost feelings and help each other heal their wounded souls.

Prince's Reward

Join the OWO team in the desert for this otherworldly ride!

Moody Vampire-Wizard Valdus Drujec has met his match. Quinn is the sweet bubbly human that turns his head and captures the 900yr old’s heart. With the City overrun by shifters, unethical witches, ferals and a biker gang that traffics women and kids. The OWO sends in a reluctant cavalry.

Historical Romance


 

Whispers Among the Prairie

Journey back in time to the American West, where the ancient prairie lands are stained with blood from the battles being waged between the Indians and White Man.

The Indians wish to continue living in freedom as they always have, but the White Man see them as savages who need to be eradicated.

Chief Black Kettle, of the Southern Cheyenne Indians, and his adopted daughter, Morning Dove, try and keep the peace with the Whites, wishing to protect their people from the needless bloodshed sweeping across the land.

Enter Clinton McKay, a veteran of the Civil War, who re-enlists in the cavalry and crosses paths with Morning Dove. 

Fantasy


 

Tamisan

An illegal experiment.

Mortally wounded Zhenna Rhodarma has had her consciousness transferred into the body of a Waikari, a native of planet Althar 3. Her new form has two hearts, psychic abilities and can breathe underwater.

A dangerous escape.

When her new mind-reading talents reveal that her saviour, Dr Starrick, isn’t what he seems, Zhenna has to escape from his clutches and into the wilds of Althar 3.

A quest for survival.

The Dragon Orb

A magical barrier.

Civil war.

Power-hungry Wizards.

The fate of a kingdom rests on the shoulders of three young wizards who couldn't be more different.

As the magical barrier protecting the kingdom of Alaris from dangerous outsiders begins to fail, and a fomenting rebellion threatens to divide the country in a civil war, the three wizards are thrust into the middle of a power struggle.

Contemporary Fiction


 

Cover Stories

COVER STORIES; 8 Classic Songs Remixed As Short Stories

A new kind of book that takes some of pop's greatest tracks and “covers” them as short stories.

Praise for “Cover Stories” “Funny, smart, chilling, moving and ultimately heartbreaking – if you like music, space travel, satire, counterfactual history, love and the human condition… you'll love these…  This deserves to be on every music lover's – and everyone else's – bookshelf.” – Lysette De Montmartre, Amazon. 

So would you like to find out…

Where The Beatles' Dear Prudence went out to play?

LGBT


 

You Can't Buy Love Like That

Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the '60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men. 

The watershed point in Carol's journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses. 

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