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The Beholder, a Maddie Richards Mystery by David Bishop
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Maddie Richards is an efficient and resourceful detective with a secret wish that she could handle her messy personal life as well as she handles her work life. As a homicide sergeant for the Phoenix, Arizona Police Department, she has one of the highest solve rates in America. Her success leads her chief of police to assign her a serial killer case. Some sicko the press calls the Beholder is killing beautiful women. Her chief describes the case as “a career maker or breaker, get me?”
She has an ex-husband she still cares for, but who was bad for her and her ten-year-old son. Her widowed mother who lives with her is both a blessing and a trial. And, oh yes, her ex-husband has married an extremely wealthy and politically connected woman who cannot give birth. So, Maddie’s ex is filing a motion to obtain permanent custody of their son, citing the risks attendant to Maddie’s police work endanger the boy.
If that were not enough, the brother-in-law of the chief of police is using his position as an administrative assistant to sexually harass Maddie. She could file a formal complaint, but the good-old-boys network in the department is watching how she handles the situation.
Further complicating Maddie’s life is two love interests: Gary Packard, a hunk who recently moved in across the street, and Lincoln Rogers, a confirmed bachelor, who lives thousands of miles away and works for the FBI.
As the case develops Maddie learns that the victims all wore the same bra size. She must decide if this is merely a coincidence or a criterion the killer uses when selecting his victims. She also finds that each of the victims is somehow connected to the Phoenix police department. This realization isolates her further as she must pursue the killer without disclosing this theory to her department because, if her suspicion is correct, the Beholder would learn she is closing in.
As the story races toward its climax, Maddie is betrayed by those closest to her, and she begins to believe her own name may be on the killer’s list.
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Welcome to Fred (The Fred Books) by Brad Whittington
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Christianity, Christian Fiction
# 2 in Fiction / #1 in Christian Fiction (December 2012)
Mark Cloud has his doubts. He’s not sure if he’ll ever feel at home in Fred, Texas. He’s not sure that he can work up the nerve to declare his love to the girl of his dreams. He’s not sure he will survive another ride with Darnell Ray, Terror of the Back Roads. And he’s not really sure he buys the whole God thing. Which is an uncomfortable position for the son of a Baptist preacher.
This award-winning novel is a moving and hilarious tale set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1960s and rural America. It is the timeless and classic story of Everyteen in the hands of a master storyteller.
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The 12 Essential Low Carb Cooking Skills: Plus, 49 Simple, Scrumptious Low Carb Diet Recipes by Alan Kosloff
Genre(s): Cookbooks Food & Wine, Special Diet, Diabetic & Sugar-Free, Low Carbohydrate, Low Carb
E ating low carb is an exercise in trade-offs.
On one hand, powerful science and millions of success stories attest to the amazing fat loss and health benefits of low carb diets, like Atkins and Protein Power. Indeed, carbohydrate restriction may just be a silver bullet capable of preventing or reversing dozens of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and even cancer.
On the other hand, cutting carbs kinda sucks! 
Admit it. All our favorite treats are carb-filled: donuts, cakes, piping hot oven fresh bread, etc. These foods are not only scrumptious, but they’re also superabundant, cheap and easy to prepare.
* Going “low carb” means you may have to give up these cherished foods, perhaps forever. Yikes!
* What’s more, eating healthy “real” foods, like fresh meat and non-starchy vegetables, can be waaaaay more expensive than eating cheap processed carbage.
* Preparing such meals can be also confusing, messy, and even dangerous, if you don’t know your way around the kitchen.
If you’re on Atkins or the Paleo diet or any other carbohydrate controlled plan, you probably can relate. People react differently to this challenge.
Some find solace in a handful of “go to” meals. For instance, a weekly breakfast menu might read:
* Monday – bacon and eggs
* Tuesday – bacon and eggs
* Wednesday – bacon and eggs
* Thursday – bacon and eggs
* Friday – make it stop!
Desperate for variety, others embark on a mad quest to collect as many recipes as possible, hoping to find the answer in a million cookbooks.
Others just add more carbs back into their diets. But this “carb creep” can tragically undo the weight loss and cause yet more frustration. Argh!
What’s the real problem, here?
The real problem is that we lack SKILLS. We’ve never been trained how to think effectively about cooking low carb. We need more than just recipes; we need to master the fundamentals. As the old expression goes: “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day; teach him to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
We need to “learn how to fish,” metaphorically speaking, when it comes to preparing and cooking low carb.
The $64,000 question is: who can teach us these skills?
The answer is simple: Alan Kosloff.
An environmental lawyer by trade, Alan is also a highly regarded, self-taught chef, whose recipes have wowed friends and associates for decades. Alan is a food obsessive who’s so devoted to his craft that he apprenticed himself to work in a restaurant just to learn the nuanced secrets of Egyptian-French fusion cuisine.
For several years, Alan has used a controlled carbohydrate diet to manage health issues, and he’s truly mastered the fine art of low carb cookery.
In “The 12 Essential Low Carb Cooking Skills: Plus, 49 Simple, Scrumptious Low Carb Diet Recipes,” Chef Alan reveals the secrets he uses to whip up masterworks such as Fennel, orange, olive and arugula salad; Boneless Rib Roast (caveman style); and Merzula en Salsa Verde, a classic dish from the Basque region of Spain.
Even more critically, Alan “teaches you to fish” by guiding you through precisely what you need to do to stock your pantry, fridge and freezer; what equipment you’ll need; and what special techniques you can leverage starting today to save money, time and hassle… all while vastly increasing the diversity and general scrumptiousness of your repertoire.
Free yourself permanently from the “bacon and eggs yet again” blues. Let Chef Alan help transform your kitchen… and your low carb life!
How to Write Web Pages on Any Topic Fast: Smashing Through the 8 Obstacles to Online Writing Productivity by Adam Kosloff
Genre(s): Business & Investing, Skills, Business Writing, Education & Reference, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, Writing Skills, Reference
B rilliant writing takes time to craft. Or so we’ve all been taught.
Not entirely true!
Maybe you’re a struggling online writer who yearns to make more money as a ghostblogger or web content writer.
Or maybe you’re a professional who craves a faster/easier/simpler way to write emails or update your website or blog.
In any case, the “writing stuff” is killing you.
It’s your pinch point – the big constraint on your productivity.
In a dream world, you’d love to be able to pump out web pages, blog posts, eBooks, emails, etc, in an effortless fashion, rapidly. Ideally, your content would engage and delight your audience and transform you into a literary rock star.
Guess what? Your near-delusional dreams of effortless hyper-productivity are about to come true!
In this book, Adam Kosloff reveals the EXACT systems and methods he’s used to become the web’s most prolific content writer — 31,000+ original web pages written since 2003. That’s over 15 MILLION words published!
All while web writing PART TIME.
Call Adam a “churnalist” if you will, but he’s developed masterful techniques to pump out bestselling, critically admired eBooks in a week. He has an unmatched track record for creating high quality web content, rapidly, on literally ANY topic under the sun — dating advice, obesity science, aluminum extrusion machining, you name it.
Adam holds nothing back in this clear, step-by-step guide to surfacing and annihilating the 8 main constraints that are choking your productivity.
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Boxcar To Boardrooms by Mannie Jackson by Mannie Jackson
Genre(s): Business & Investing, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Sports & Outdoors, Basketball
M annie Jackson is President of Boxcar Holdings LLC, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball of Fame, Chairman of the Board and owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, and Chairman and a founder of the Executive Leadership Council. After a brief professional basketball career in the National Industrial Basketball League and with the Harlem Globetrotters, Jackson went on to distinguish himself in corporate life as a senior executive with Honeywell Inc, and as one the first African-Americans to serve on multiple (six) Fortune 500 boards of directors. Jackson, a former All-Ten point guard and captain of the University of Illinois basketball team, has two honorary doctorate degrees. He built a career at Honeywell as president of that company’s telecommunication business, which he built as a venture start-up by acquiring seven regionally interconnected companies and sourcing a highly publicized technology agreement with Sweden’s LM Ericsson Co. Jackson went on in his career to rescue the Harlem Globetrotters from bankruptcy in 1992, when he became the first African-American to own outright a major sports and entertainment organization. In a short time the organization was revived as a dominant global brand reaching top quartile Q-ratings and accruing fourteen consecutive years of growth at an average annual rate of 14 percent. Mannie Jackson’s inspirational memoir is an odds-beating story that spans his history-making careers in sports and business and chronicles his journey from being born in a rain-soaked railway boxcar to leadership and significance.
The Ghost of Squire House by Joanne Pence
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary
F or decades, the home built by reclusive artist, Paul Squire, stood empty on a windswept cliff overlooking the ocean. Those who attempted to live in the home soon fled in terror. Jennifer Barrett knows nothing of the history of the house she inherited. All she knows is that she’s glad for the chance to make a new life for herself.
It’s Paul Squire’s duty to rid his home of intruders, but something about this latest newcomer’s vulnerable status…and resemblance to someone from his past…dulls his resolve. Jennifer would like to find a real flesh-and-blood man to liven her days and nights–someone to share her life with–but living in the artist’s house, studying his paintings, she is surprised at how close she feels to him.
A compelling, prickly ghost with a tortured, guilt-ridden past, and a lonely heroine determined to start fresh find themselves in a battle of wills and emotion in this story of love, time, and chance.
[This story was previously published under the pseudonym JoMarie Lodge.]
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How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Professionals & Academics, Journalists, Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Satire, Literature & Fiction, British, Humor & Satire, Politics & Social Sciences, Women’s Studies, Nonfiction
“ Caitlin Moran is the profane, witty and wonky best friend I wish I had. She’s the feminist rock star we need right now.”
–Ayelet Waldman, author of Bad Mother“Caitlin Moran is so fabulous, so funny, so freshly feminist. I don’t want to be like her–I want to be her.”
–Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My DaughterCaitlin Moran puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of women’s issues today with her irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious How to Be a Woman. “Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary,” (Elle UK), Moran’s debut was an instant runaway bestseller in England as well as an Amazon UK Top Ten book of the year; still riding high on bestseller lists months after publication, it is a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Now poised to take American womanhood by storm, here is a book that Vanity Fair calls “the U.K. version of Tina Fey’s Bossypants….You will laugh out loud, wince, and–in my case–feel proud to be the same gender as the author.”
Laiden’s Daughter (The Clan MacDougall Series) by Suzan Tisdale
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance
S cotland, 1344
She believes men are not honorable nor are they kind-until she meets one that changes her heart forever.
Betrayed by lies told before her birth, Aishlinn is raised by a harsh and cruel stepfather. Her life is forever changed one horrifying night when she is forced to flee England for the safety of the Scottish Highlands. Rescued by a fierce band of highland warriors, Aishlinn soon learns that honorable men do exist. She finds a strength she never knew she possessed and it will be tested to the limits when she is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision…allow the English to kill those she loves, or surrender for the crime she committed.
She is everything he never knew he wanted in a woman….
As a fierce highland warrior, Duncan McEwan has survived numerous battles, bed countless women, and survived a horrific storm at sea. He has scaled mountains and even survived hand-to-claw battle with a cat-o’mountain. But none of that could have prepared him for how his life forever changed one fateful spring day when he rescued a lass from a freezing stream. He will do anything to keep her as his own and will risk everything to keep her out of the hands of the English.
Guardian’s Grace (Guardians of the Race) by Jacqueline Rhoades
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Occult, Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Fiction, Paranormal
G race Masters always dreamed of a family she could call her own and always knew that for her, those dreams would never come true. Yet here she is, in an old Victorian home, living and loving under the cover of night. Who knew the source of her lifelong torment was really her gift as a Daughter of Man or that this gift could be controlled and used for something good? Who knew there was another race called the Paenitentia who live side by side with humans? Who knew that demons were real?
Grace certainly didn’t until one fateful night when her world falls apart and comes together again in a place where she finally belongs. Sometimes a person just knows when something is right and destined to be. Sometimes convincing someone else of that fact is a little more difficult. Canaan ad Simeon is that someone else.
Canaan is Liege Lord to a House of Guardians whose job is to protect the Race from a demon threat many no longer believe in. Already breaking away from the outdated traditions that are depleting their numbers and threatened by a hierarchy resistant to change, the last thing Canaan needs is to fall for this innocently sexy Daughter of Man. But fall he does, with a mixture of comedy, drama and tantalizing sex that will touch your heart.
Half Way Home by Hugh Howey
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Teens, Fiction
F ive hundred of us were sent to colonize this planet. Only fifty or so survived.
We woke up fifteen years too early, we had only half our training, and they expected us to not only survive … they expected us to conquer this place.
The problem is: it isn’t safe here.
We aren’t even safe from each other.
Fade the Heat by Colleen Thompson
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, United States, Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
“ First, you gotta find the perfect bottle,” the Firebug rasped. “Too hard, and it won’t bust when it hits the floor. Too thin, and it explodes on impact with the window, splashing you with the fuel mix and burning you to hell.”
Someone is setting fires in the Houston barrio, and Dr. Jack Montoya is the first intended victim. Is there some connection between the torching of his apartment and the gorgeous blonde from his past who appears at his clinic that same day? For sure, Reagan Hurley turns up the flames of his libido, but these days the beautiful firefighter is more interested in putting out conflagrations than fanning old sparks. Yet when a hotly contested mayoral race turns ugly, when Reagan’s life is threatened and Jack’s career almost destroyed, when desire sizzles uncontrollably between them, it seems that no one will be able to… Fade the Heat.
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DANCING LIGHTS by Inge Moore
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Literary, Short Stories, Single Author, Fiction, Literary Fiction
I n this short story a young woman, Carla, finds herself pregnant. Her boyfriend, Saul, wants her to have an abortion. Instead, Carla flees to the farthest place she can reach. Here, Native legends and a black husky named Raven lead Carla’s life in an unexpected direction.
For more stories by Inge Moore, check out Trees In The Wind and Other Stories, and As Crazy As You, A Collection of Short Stories, both available on Kindle.
Curly Bill and Ringo: They Rode to Hell Together by Van Holt
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Westerns, Romance, Western, Fiction
C URLY BILL AND RINGO
Why did the legendary gunfighter, Ringo, come to Boot Hill? Rumors and innuendo ignite the small frontier town.
Did the wealthy rancher, Willy Gibson, hire him to combat the cattle rustlers? Was he here to even up some old grudges? Or to hunt down the men who tried to kill him?
Miss Sarah, the most beautiful woman in town, seemed in a much different mood after he checked in at the hotel where she worked.
Curly Bill knew who he was, or thought he should, since they rode together for a time. Curly also remembered that around Ringo, you always watched for signs of trouble, if you were smart.
“Would you mind telling me why you’re in Boot Hill, when you’re supposed to be in hell?” Curly asks.
Ringo glanced at him out of those cold clear blue eyes. “I came back,” he said quietly. “I got lonesome down there. Kept thinking about some fellows I should have taken with me.”
More old West gunfighting stories by Van Holt:
Dynamite Riders: 9/11 in the Old West
The Last of the Fighting Farrells
The Bushwhackers
Hellbound Express
Wild Desert Rose
Rubeck’s Raiders
The Fortune Hunters
Coming soon by Van Holt:
The Stranger from Hell
Blood in the Hills
The Man Called Bowdry
A Lovely, Indecent Departure by Steven Lee Gilbert
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Literary, Chick-Lit, Domestic Life, Fiction, Genre Fiction, Family Life, Literary Fiction
A Lovely, Indecent Departure is the riveting and emotionally-charged debut from a promising new voice in literary thrillers, and a captivating story of a mother’s love and desperation set amidst the heart wrenching landscape of child custody.
Anna Miller wants only one thing, her son, and she will do anything to keep him. When a district court awards custody of Oliver to his father, she abducts the five year old and flees to Italy where with her family’s help they disappear into the fabric of her native homeland. Told in prose that is both stripped-down and overpowering, Gilbert shapes the everyday conflict of child custody into a stunning search for sense of worth. Standing in the young woman’s way is Evan Meade, the boy’s guileful and mean-spirited father, who hires a private investigator when the efforts of the embattled local sheriff, Monroe Rossi, fail to track them down. But as the investigation draws them all closer to Anna, Evan’s true nature betrays itself and the question of what’s in the child’s best interest becomes not so clear anymore.
Objectively detailed, in a voice that refuses to intrude on the minds of its characters, A Lovely, Indecent Departure, captures in stark detail a world in which modern archetypes are turned upside down and shows what an extraordinary splash Steven Lee Gilbert has made with his first novel.
Triangle: False Mirror by D. G. Speirs
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction
“ It was a Talent neither ever wanted, yet it might just be what will save all of us.”
Imagine if Clive Cussler and Spider Robinson sat down for a cup of coffee and decided to write an adventure thriller together, featuring an unlikely pair of heroes thrown in among stone-cold killers, a shadowy organization whose true motives are unclear and a device that could literally start Doomsday.
That’s TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR, the brilliant debut novel from D. G. Speirs.
Steve Tate and Amy Rogers are Talents – people cursed with an extra ability gifted to them through tragedy – for Amy, the death of her adoptive parents in a car crash that she alone survived; for Steve, the brutal murder of his sister and mother. Each thinks they are alone and unique, until the day their paths cross in the Bahamas – when Steve discovers the woman who murders Amy’s boyfriend in front of them is the same one from his past.
Chasing this killer plunges Steve and Amy headlong into a much larger conflict – a fight led by TRIANGLE, an organization that works in the shadows to keep humanity safe from all types of chaos. Triangle wants this woman as badly as Steve and Amy do, but for an even more urgent reason – she’s after the FALSE MIRROR, one of Triangle’s most dangerous projects, a device that in the wrong hands is capable of destroying the world as we know it.
Now Steve and Amy must quickly learn to work together as they pursue their quarry across the globe, from the deserts of New Mexico to the waters of San Francisco Bay, from the beaches of the Caribbean to the streets of Tokyo, and from deep underground to the very edge of space itself. Yet even as they draw closer to her, they discover clues that she may hold the key to an even greater mystery…
…who they really are.
TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR is a fun, high-speed thriller that jumps straight out of today’s headlines, races around the globe at a breakneck pace, yet also questions how much we take for granted about the way things work, and how vulnerable that makes us all.
“You’ve written a real page-turner!” –– Mark Palmer, screenwriter (“Kim Possible”, “Penguins of Madagascar”).
The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising (Volume 2) by Jocelyn Murray
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Ancient Civilizations, Teens
A ge Level: 12 and up Genre: Teen/Young Adult – Historical Fiction
Pompeii AD 79…
Fifteen-year-old Anna Moore is whisked back in time through the forces of a mysterious mirror to the first century AD during the Roman Empire.
The year is AD 79 and Anna finds herself in Pompeii just days before the deadly volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. As forces conspire against her, she struggles to escape the catastrophe that threatens the lives of thousands.
Set within historical events that rocked the ancient world, The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising is a dramatic reenactment of the lavish seaside town of Pompeii in all its glory, and the terrible fate that befell it. It is a tale of danger, courage and survival that brings the past to life.
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In the Blood: A Genealogical Crime Mystery #1 (Jefferson Tayte) by Steve Robinson
Genre(s): Education & Reference, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Historical, Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
K indle edition reduced from £2.49 / $3.99 / €2.68 for a limited time as an introduction to the series.
IN THE BLOOD: A Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Crime Mystery #1. 110,000 words.A dark secret locked in the past. A family historian trying against the odds to unlock it.
One of Amazon UK’s ‘Best Books of 2011′. A ‘Kindle Customer Favourite’ with over 400 five-star reviews worldwide.
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Family history was never supposed to be like this…
When American genealogist, Jefferson Tayte, accepted his latest assignment he had no idea it might kill him. But while murder was never part of the curriculum he is kidding himself if he thinks he can walk away from this one.
Why can’t I trace them? What happened to them?
Driven by the irony of being a genealogist who doesn’t know who his own parents are, Tayte soon finds that the assignment shares a stark similarity to his own struggle. Someone has gone to great lengths to erase an entire family bloodline from recorded history and he’s not going home until he’s found out why. After all, if he’s not good enough to find this family, how can he ever expect to be good enough to someday find his own?
Set in Cornwall, England, past and present, Tayte’s research centres around the tragic life of a young Cornish girl, a writing box, and the discovery of a dark family secret that he believes will lead him to the family he is looking for. Trouble is, someone else is looking for the same answers and they will stop at nothing to find them.
REVIEW
From Amazon Vine Voice, Cathy G. Cole of Kittling Books:
– The mystery surrounding the Fairborne family was excellent. By book’s end I hadn’t figured it out. This is the first book by Steve Robinson, and I am definitely looking forward to reading more!
From the worldwide Amazon community:- I recently read Oliver Potzsch’s book The Hangman’s Daughter and The Dark Monk so I started an Amazon search for something similar. You have to read “In the Blood” you will be hooked! Karen FH 3 July 2012 – It’s not often somebody takes the murder mystery in a different direction and succeeds as well as this author has done. More please! G.Beech 25 Mar 2012
– Just finished this and can honestly say it is the best crime novel I have read in the past year. I. Clements 22 Feb 2012
– This family secret laden story truly suggests not only [Robert] Goddard but EARLY Goddard at his best. Highly recommended! Hans Wollstein (Goodreads) 21 Feb 2012
– I don’t even know where to begin singing the praises of this book. It was, to me, that brilliant. Tori 21 Feb 2012
– Parts are reminiscent of Daphne Du Maurier but with a modern edge. Rosen Trevithick 13 Dec 2011
– This is a great, cleverly-written book by an author with a descriptive style that is really much better than we have any right to expect from a narrative thriller. Matt James 8 Nov 2011
– This author has written a début novel of such quality it stands up easily among best selling main stream authors. Mrs S.A.Blane 14 Sep 2011
– The combination of genealogy research, heavenly setting, believable, witty dialogue and cliff-hanging action created one bang-up read. Marcia Pitts 12 Aug 2011
– If you want a great mystery that thrills right to the end, you cannot choose better than In The Blood. G.Robbins 4 Aug
BOOK CLUBS
Kindlers Club book of the month for August 2012.Voted reading choice for November 2011 by the Kindle Users Forum.Goodreads UK Kindle Forum book of the month for August 2011.
OTHER BOOKS BY STEVE ROBINSON
To the Grave (Jefferson Tayte #2 – June 2012) – Awarded Your Family Tree magazine ‘Seal of Approval’The Last Queen of England: (Jefferson Tayte #3 – November 2012)
Beyond Parallel by Matthew Turner
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Teens
O ne boy. One girl. One insignificant moment that changes their lives forever.
Bella and Clark are two young twenty-somethings, finding themselves in a chaotic and crazy world. One craves love; the other avoids it. Will they find one another, or will a single what-if moment send them down different paths?
In the same mould as Sliding Doors, Uncertainty, and Smoking/No-Smoking, Beyond Parallel flips between two parallel tales. One follows Bella and Clark as a couple, the other as if they never meet.
Friendships, careers, dreams, fantasies…their lives are no different to yours or mine.
Follow their journey over a fast paced, mazy two-years. Highflying careers, book tours, teaching teenagers, hipster warehouses, coffee shop hangouts, a despicable salesman…they’re all confronted.
It’s incredible how a small, everyday decision can affect how you look, where you live, the people you love, and who you become. We could all live a billion lives, but we’re only given one. Is it all a game of chance, or are Bella and Clark meant to be?
Live from the Road by P.C. Zick
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Travel, United States, West, General, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Regions
M eg Newton and Sally Sutton seek a change in the mundane routine of their lives. “Is this all there is?” Sally asks Meg after visiting a dying friend in the hospital. That’s when Meg suggests they take a journey to discover the answer. Joined by their daughters, they set off on a journey of salvation enhanced by the glories of the Mother Road. Along the way, they are joined by a Chicago blues man, a Pakistani liquor store owner from Illinois, a Marine from Missouri, a gun-toting momma from Oklahoma, and a motel clerk from New Mexico. Meg, mourning for her dead son, learns to share her pain with her daughter CC. When Sally’s husband of almost thirty years leaves a voice mail telling her he’s leaving, both Sally and her daughter Ramona discover some truths about love and independence.
Live from the Road takes the reader on an often humorous, yet harrowing, journey. Death, divorce and deception help to reveal the inner journey taking place under the blazing desert sun as a Route 66 motel owner reads the Bhagavad-Gita and an eagle provides the sign they’ve all been seeking. Enlightenment comes tiptoeing in at dawn in a Tucumcari laundromat, while singing karaoke at a bar in Gallup, New Mexico, and during dinner at the Roadkill Café in Seligman, Arizona. The four women’s lives will never be the same after the road leads them to their hearts – the true destination for these road warriors.
Butchered by Bradley Convissar
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction
“ Butchered” contains 2 new short stories from the author of “Dogs of War”, “King of the Merge”, and the Pandora’s Children collection of short stories.
“The Butcher”- A mass murderer discovers that he may have bitten off more than he can chew when he abducts his latest victim (3,700 words)
“Drop House”- A trio of men patrolling the Arizona border discover something terrifying while searching for a group of illegal immigrants (7,700 words)
Between Boyfriends (After Valentine’s Day Sale) by Sarka-Jonae Miller
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Humor, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
S ome people are between jobs. Jan is between boyfriends.
After being dumped by her latest mistake, Jan Weston vows to quit dating and embarks on a hilarious adventure in pursuit of happiness as a single lady. It’s a journey that gets her to grow as a person, make new friends, and meet a hot Latino from her massage therapy class. Because of her vow she can’t date him, so she does the next best thing – becomes his friend.
Can she keep her promise to stay single?
Hollywood & Vine Magazine states that Between Boyfriends “presents a unique twist on the chick-lit genre.”
Best-selling author Jan Moran (Scent of Triumph) calls Between Boyfriends, “a delicious slice of chick-lit.”
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Line of Control- A Thriller on the Coming War in Asia by Mainak Dhar
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Political, War, Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers
F rom the Amazon.com Bestselling author of Alice in Deadland comes a technothriller that’s been called by military experts as `better than Tom Clancy’
It is 2012, and the world is a more dangerous place than ever before. Revolutions have swept aside one Middle Eastern regime after another. A regime allied to Al Qaeda has swept to power in Saudi Arabia, and uses its oil wealth and modern arsenal to further spread Jihad around the world. Yet another military coup brings a fundamentalist regime to power in Pakistan, which initiates an audacious plan to strike the first blow in this new global Jihad. As unprecedented terror attacks stun India, the stage is set for a conflict that brings the Indian subcontinent to the brink of a nuclear apocalypse.
With a broad cast of characters that puts the reader into the thick of the unfolding crisis, a fast-paced storyline ripped from today’s headlines, and explosive action, Line of Control is a thriller uniquely suited to the times we live in.
Praise for the Indian paperback edition:
“An outstanding book. Better than Tom Clancy any day. I wish I had/could have written such a book.” – Air Commodore Jasjeet Singh (Retd.) Director, Institute for Air Power Studies
“Captures very well the cut and thrust of combat. A thrilling read.”
- General V.N Sharma (Retd.) Former Chief of Army Staff, India
“Dhar brings us a scenario that seems possible yet apocalyptic.”
- The Hindustan Times
“Other than being a great plot, the author seems know how weapons work, which is a great relief to the readers and spices up the novel.” – Frontier India
“The characters seem real, with abundant mention of various historical characters and national heroes. Dhar has done equal justice to characters from both sides of the border. By placing readers in the thick of action, similar to the circumstances that we find ourselves in today, Dhar has actually managed to find a connect that cannot be missed easily.” – HT City
“A page-turner right the word ‘go’, Line of… is also very timely. With utter chaos all around and many internal battles fought in the name of religion, Line of … couldn’t have been timed better. This racy war-thriller is exciting, to say the least, as the reader is drawn deep into the action of war. Mainak Dhar’s characterization deserves a special mention too, as each character, be it the Pakistani or Indian, is sketched in detail, complete with their eccentricities and ordinariness.” – Deccan Herald
“The spine-chilling war scenario entertains, by all means, with skilful plot, well-drawn variety of characters, thrilling action, a high degree of intrigue, suspense and tension, grim humour…There is no gainsaying the fact that in the wake of recent Mumbai terror strikes, “the war thriller”, delineating serious and topical concerns — fundamentalism fuelling terrorism, burgeoning instability in Pakistan, reaction of other countries to the chronic and mounting tension between India and Pakistan — will attract much wider readership.” – The Tribune
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Splintered Energy (The Colors) by Arlene Webb
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Romance, Fantasy & Futuristic, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Paranormal
S plintered Energy is an Earth-based science fiction/suspense/romance novel, the first in a four book series and not a stand-alone story. Book 2, The R Word, picks up where Splintered Energy leaves off. House of Seven, book 3, leads to book 4, Under Color, the final in the series.
Waves of pure energy are quite happy hanging in the cosmos, traveling at the speed of light to brighten up the sky–until dawn breaks. Literally.
When sentient light fractures, it zaps into human bodies and becomes trapped. Without any memories to guide them, a handful of confused beings whose skin tones are now specific colors, struggle to understand humanity while it’s quite clear they shouldn’t be in this world. The few humans clued in to Earth’s invasion don’t flutter, but are drawn to their fiery fate with hearts wide open as they fight to survive.
California. A widower’s twelve-year-old son is rather young to bring home a woman, especially a collapsed green beauty too frightened to open her eyes.
Arizona. A divorcee blinks hard, but the gorgeous red guy stepping in front of her car is still red. She swerves to avoid hitting him and ends up in the ditch. When she comes around, she wonders which layer of hell she’s fallen into.
Ohio. A teen also fears he’s dealing with the demonic, but no matter how dangerous things become, he’s determined to stand by a man with inhumanly blue eyes.
The Serpent and the Grail (The Perilous Order of Camelot) by A. A. Attanasio
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Epic
T he narrator is Rna, a clan woman 90,000-years-old. She is eldest of the Nine Queens of Avalon.
The place is Roman Britain, A.D. 491 on an alternate Earth, where Camelot is a monumental quantum gate to other worlds–including the one world among all possible worlds where you join Merlin and Arthur inside Rna’s story…
Weaving together the hallowed lore of Arthurian legend and the marvels of quantum science, The Serpent and the Grail places you on the quest for the Grail.
Rna the Ice Age queen–beckons: “Why did we create this spell, our retelling of King Arthur’s long-ago story and our news from Avalon, except to summon you? … We need your help.”
Previously:
The boy-king Arthor has beaten back the berserker wolf warriors of the Saxon god, uniting his island kingdom–but at terrible cost. The Grail, chalice of the Last Supper and magical shield of Britain, has been disappeared.
Without the Grail’s protection, Britain lies parched and barren, a demon-haunted landscape.
To find the Grail, Arthor’s mother, Ygrane, must strike a dark bargain with Bright Night, elf-prince of the “pale people,” in the hollow hills. Merlin alone can show the way. But it is Arthor who must confront the Serpent, sword in hand, to fulfill the ancient blood rite of kings–and transform himself to King Arthur.
Regent (Godsland Series: Book Four) by Brian Rathbone
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Epic, Fiction, Teens
R egent, book one of The Balance of Power trilogy, is the much anticipated continuation of the World of Godsland fantasy series, which began with The Dawning of Power trilogy.
In the years since the end of The Herald War, the world has become complacent despite Catrin Volker’s warnings. When the darkness of her visions comes to pass, no one is prepared, and the fate of humanity will rest in her hands.
The Gilded Mirror: Corfe Castle (Volume 1) by Jocelyn Murray
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Renaissance, Teens
A ge Level: 12 and up Genre: Teen/Young Adult – Historical Fiction
England 1643…
Fifteen-year-old Anna Moore discovers an antique mirror that whisks her back in time to seventeenth-century England. The year is 1643 and the English Civil War is underway. Anna finds herself at Corfe Castle with the Bankes family when the castle is laid siege. Against all odds, she helps the family defend the castle from rebel forces who hopelessly outnumber them. What will happen and will Anna be able to return to her own time?
Inspired by true historical events, The Gilded Mirror: Corfe Castle, is an adventurous tale that crosses centuries in time through the forces of a mysterious mirror. It is a story of friendship, tremendous courage in the face of adversity, and the indomitable human spirit.
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