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Planet Urth (Part 1) by Jennifer Martucci

Genre(s): Science Fiction & Fantasy

**FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY** PLANET URTH (Part 1) is being offered at 99 cents as part of an introductory promotion!!

Jennifer and Christopher Martucci, coauthors of the hit series Arianna Rose and Dark Creations, would like to take you on an exciting new journey. They invite you to visit Planet Urth…

More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen.

Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror.

After losing her father, Avery is the sole guardian of her eight-year-old sister, June. Avery is now charged with June’s safety as well as her own, a nearly impossible task.

Forced to hide deep in the forest and away from the cities overrun by Urthmen, Avery and her sister are constantly hunted. Danger awaits them at every turn. They fear they are the only human beings left, that they are the last of their kind.

But are they truly alone?

Find out in this raw and rousing first installment of the Planet Urth series.

ALEX (a Psychological Mystery Thriller) by Sidney Knight

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense

The Best Selling Number 1 Thrillers & Suspense Debut

On 1st June, 2010, an unspeakable act of murder was committed–a crime so evil that its perpetrator, Alex Merton, could never be forgotten. He left behind not just bloody fingerprints staining the city, but also debate, confusion, and question upon question as to why he did it.

How could a man in possession of such genius–a man so deeply in love–unleash such horror on the living? How could a man so seemingly invisible in the community become the face of a nation’s nightmares? And who was the mystery somebody who knew of his murderous blueprints way beforehand, yet decided to do nothing until it was too late?

This is the story of Alex Merton–the truth behind the mystery, the man, the monster…

Rupee Millionaires by Frank Kusy

Genre(s): Travel

“Mr Kusy is clearly capable of writing vivid and enticing portraits of India – his past as a travel writer shines through, and we see India as if we are there first hand.” Harper Collins ‘Authonomy’ reviewer.

“A rip-roaring tale of dodgy dealings and hilarious happenings.” Mark Roman, author, The Ultimate Inferior Beings.

“Wonderfully encapsulates the vast, breathtaking country that is India. You feel you are there on the elephant’s back.” John Patrick, author, Dropping Babies.

When Frank teams up with Spud he thinks he’s got it made. But he hasn’t. He”s made a deal with the Devil.

‘Dodgy’ Frank Kusy, born into poverty from immigrant parents, learns to live on his wits––first as an unwitting money collector for Ronnie Kray, later as a Buddhist trader in London’s St Martin’s-in-the-Fields market. Then he meets up with thuggish ‘Spud’ who is so good at scaring people, notably the Petrovs, two encroaching Russian gangsters, that he hires him on the spot as his business partner.

But it’s a deal with the Devil. Spud is a loose cannon, liable to blow up at any moment. The two travel to India to become the largest wholesaler of hippy-Hindi glad rags in the UK, and to fulfill their dream of becoming rupee millionaires.

Along the way, they pick up a motley crew of kooky characters––Ram, a lovable, crutch-bound Rajasthani, George, an irascible American, Nick and Anna, a quirky Canadian couple, Susie, a Dagenham girl gone ‘native’, and Rose, the secret love of Ram’s life. These become the ‘Pushkar Posse’, a group of oddball traveler-entrepreneurs who meet once a year to have fun and make money in equal measure.

Join Frank on this wild rite of passage through India.

Maid for the Billionaire (Book 1) (Legacy Collection) by Ruth Cardello

Genre(s): Romance

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author!

Book 1: Maid for the Billionaire

Dominic Corisi knew instantly that Abigail Dartley was just the distraction he was looking for, especially since having her took a bit more persuading than he was used to. So when business forces him to fly to China, he decides to take her with him, but on his terms. No promises. No complications. Just sex.

Abby has always been the responsible one. She doesn’t believe in taking risks; especially when it comes to men – until she meets Dominic. He’s both infuriating and intoxicating, a heady combination. Their trip to China revives a long forgotten side of Abby, but also reveals a threat to bring down Dominic’s company. With no time to explain her actions, Abby must either influence the outcome of his latest venture and save his company or accept her role as his mistress and leave his fate to chance. Does she love him enough to risk losing him for good?

Book 2: For love or Legacy

Nicole Corisi will lose her inheritance if she doesn’t find a way around the terms of her father’s will, but she will have to partner up with her estranged brother’s rival to do it. As pretense becomes painfully real, Nicole will have to choose between Stephan or the family he is driven to destroy.

Stephan Andrade has been planning his revenge ever since Dominic Corisi unscrupulously took over his father’s company. With Corisi Enterprises gambling its reputation on the success of a new software network for China, Stephan finally has his chance to take back his legacy. Dominic’s younger sister, Nicole, asks Stephan for his help and provides him with an opportunity to exact his revenge on a personal level.

It all goes smoothly until he falls in love.

Book 3: Bedding the Billionaire

Lil Dartley’s life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month. Years of middle class rebellion have not prepared Lil for handling diplomats or paparazzi.

Jake Walton knows a train wreck when he sees one. Lil was trouble from the first day he met her, but since her sister is marrying his best friend, he has no choice but to help her or this wedding will be in the news for all the wrong reasons. Teaching Lil how to fit into high society would be a whole lot easier if she didn’t drive him insane both in and out of the bedroom.

Book 4: Saving the Sheikh

Rachid bin Amir al Hantan is fighting for the sovereignty of his small country. He needs to find some powerful allies – and fast. Attending the wedding of Dominic Corisi is as much about reconnecting with old friends as it is about celebrating nuptials. The last thing he needs right now is the distraction of a woman.

Zhang Yajun is a self-made billionaire who can’t believe she accepted her friend’s dare to kiss Sheikh Rachid before the end of the wedding.

When impulsive words lead to even more impulsive actions, these two will discover that sometimes the last thing you were looking for is the one thing that can save you.

Book 5: Rise of the Billionaire

Dreaming of Alethea gave Jeremy Kater the strength to survive a difficult childhood. Now that he has influential friends who owe him some big favors, he’s determined to become the kind of man Alethea would be interested in: rich and dangerous. Jeisa Borreto was hired to help Jeremy morph into that man. It’s a job she would enjoy, if it weren’t tearing her heart to pieces.

How can she help him change once she’s realized she’s fallen in love with the man he’s always been?

Hint: Sleeping with him doesn’t help.

Book 6: Breaching the Billionaire (Coming Winter 2014!)

As the Lightning Strikes by Tabitha Taylor

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction

The world knows James Spilling as a hardworking lawyer, aspiring local politician, devout churchgoer and doting father.
But that is all a lie.
Behind closed doors, the real James is a screaming, violent, pill-popping, uncontrollable drunk.
His wife, Trisha, bears his abuse and the resultant injuries for years in silence, but when James’ wrath threatens their young daughter, she makes the hardest choice of her life.
Once she kills James and buries him in their backyard, Trisha escapes to a new life, a new job and the prospect of new love in a small Kentucky town.
But then it all goes horribly wrong. Her nightmare continues.
James isn’t quite as dead as Trisha thought he was.

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One Summer in France (prequel to ‘Bunny on a Bike’) by Bev Spicer

Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs

The summer of 1979 was the best summer ever! Pretty, blond and dangerously impetuous, Bev and Carol head for the sun, lucky beneficiaries of a generous university grant.
They are full of enthusiasm and the dazzling spirit of adventure that only seems possible when we are young. Essential swimwear is selected and Lipton’s vegetable oil is perfumed with patchouli for the perfect tan.
They end up in Argelès-sur-Mer, on a campsite close to the coast and not far from the border with Spain. Every day brings new challenges: how to hold a meaningful conversation on a naturist beach, what to do about a precocious teenage stalker, how to transport a gallon of port on a moped… all of which they meet head-on, with dubious philosophy and irrepressible optimism.
‘One Summer in France’ is a humorous tale based on a three-month study break the author took as part of her languages degree course at Keele University in 1979.
‘Would you do it all again?’ asked Carol.
‘Like a shot!’ I said.
And I would.

‘One Summer in France’ is the prequel to Bev Spicer’s ‘Bunny on a Bike’ (humorous memoir of a Playboy Croupier).

Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca? – An Adventure in the Frying Pan of Spain by Alan Parks

Genre(s): Travel

A MUST READ BOOK FOR ALL ANIMAL LOVERSFIVE STARS – “This was an enchanting read. I regularly laughed
out loud and as an animal owner, so many of the scenarios were terribly
familiar. I would recommend this book to anyone (and I have been) and in
particular animal lovers.” – Amazon Review

Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca?’ is the frank and charming story of a brave couple who risk everything to move to Spain to breed alpacas. Their intention is to make a living, but first they must negotiate their way through the Spanish property market, local characters, rogue builders and the worst weather Andalucía has seen for 100 years.
In this memoir with a difference, you can even hear what some of the animals have to say about their new home.

Alan and Lorna experience the joy, but also the heartbreak of alpaca breeding, picking up an assortment of stray animals on the way.

‘Seriously Mum, What’s an Alpaca?’ may be full of glorious highs and monumental lows, but it is essentially a story of endeavour and spirit, living each day as though it may be the last.

The Summer Set by Jay Province

Genre(s): Teen & Young Adult

Fourteen year-old Peter ‘Chumbucket’ Miller and his best friend Mike DeSorcier begin the summer on a mission to capture a baseball championship but soon uncover a group of extra-dimensional beings infiltrating their league. During their breathless escape, the boys discover two things: they are in mountains of trouble and they need help. Assistance (and more trouble) arrives in the form of two daring and mystifying girls – the unusual Karen Croft and the alluring Jo Munro. Together, the teens must solve the mystery of the Noqumiut before a fateful August lunar eclipse. Unlikely sources aid their efforts: an Eskimo shaman, a magic stone carving of a lively seal, a ferociously loyal dog, and an opponent from Roswell, New Mexico whose talents (and origins) may literally be out of this world. The Summer Set is a humorous, intense, action-packed story about friends, enemies and the pursuit of winning it all. The novel is for all story lovers ages twelve and up.

Princess Sultana’s Daughters by Jean Sasson

Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs

Readers of PRINCESS were gripped by Jean Sasson’s powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil. Now, in the compelling sequel, Jean Sasson and Princess Sultana turn the spotlight on Sultana’s two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani.

As second-generation members of the royal family who have benefited from Saudi oil wealth, Maha and Amani are surrounded by untold opulence and luxury from the day they were born. And yet, they are stifled by the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, driving them to desperate measures.

Throughout, Sultana and Sasson never tire of their quest to expose the injustices which society levels against women. Princess Sultana once more strikes a chord among all women who are lucky enough to have the freedom to speak out for themselves.

The complete Princess trilogy is also available as an ebook for the first time. For the 3-in-1 ebook, please visit: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Princess-Trilogy-Daughters-ebook/dp/B00A3XIDOE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354645728&sr=1-1

PRAISE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PRINCESS:

“Absolutely riveting and profoundly sad…” –People magazine

“A chilling story…a vivid account of an air-conditioned nightmare…” –Entertainment Weekly

“Must-reading for anyone interested in human rights.” –USA Today

“Shocking…candid…sad, sobering, and compassionate…” –San Francisco Chronicle

Ready or Not (Aggie’s Inheritance) by Chautona Havig

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction

Fresh out of college, Aggie Milliken thinks she’s prepared for anything life can throw her way. Think again, Aggie!

After the abrupt loss of her sister and brother-in-law, Aggie is stunned to find herself the sole guardian of their eight lively children. If learning basic parenting skills wasn’t complicated enough, she must also battle the children’s half-crazed grandmother, survive a massive remodeling project, and navigate the waters of new friendships-alone.

She has little experience with children and none with housekeeping, and it shows. What she has going for her is grit, a double dose of determination, and the confidence that this is exactly where the Lord wants her to be. With an unlimited P-mail account and enough hymns to keep her spirits bolstered, she tackles one catastrophe after another.

It seems like nothing Aggie does is right, but ready or not, here she comes!

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Blood in the Past (Blood for Blood Series) by Jordanna East

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense

Ten years ago…

Jillian Atford falls for an older man, a handsome Philadelphia cop, whose mystery is that he’s married, a reality Jillian refuses to accept. Lyla Kyle finds her mother dead on the floor from an apparent suicide. She blames her philandering father and wastes no time taking her revenge. Detective Jason Brighthouse Sr. is in the wrong place at the right time to attempt to save a colleague from his burning home. When neither of them make it out alive, his son can only harp on their last argument. He shoots himself in the head…with his father’s gun.

Three lives. Three deaths. One story of consequences, revenge and obsession.

To understand the future, you must visit the past. Blood in the Past: an introductory novella to the upcoming Blood for Blood Series, coming Winter 2013.

Queenie Baby: Out of Office by Christina A. Burke

Genre(s): Romantic Comedy

“I love ‘Queenie Baby’ Diana Hudson – she’s one part Stephanie Plum and one part rock goddess! I can’t wait to see what she does next!”

– Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author of the High Heels Mysteries

From author Christina A. Burke comes the second installment in her wacky, romantic comedy series about the misadventures of wannabe rock star, Diana Hudson…

There’s no turning back now for temp-by-day and rockstar-by-night, Diana Hudson. She’s left Annapolis, Maryland to take a chance on love and to track down the singer who’s stolen her song. What starts as a romantic rendezvous with new love on the paradise island of Puerto Rico, quickly becomes a wacky cross-island adventure featuring a high speed guitar chase, a bull fight, and a swashbuckling pirate. Love blooms amid the lush landscape, until a hot bodyguard from Diana’s past exposes her new love’s secrets, turning her world upside down. Back home on dry land, Diana prepares for the annual Renaissance Fair and a visit from The Grands. With her career heating up, her family closing in, and her heart on the line, how will Diana keep it all together?

What readers are saying about QUEENIE BABY:

“I <3 this book! What a fun light read! The supporting characters were hilarious and made me laugh out loud.” ~ Goodreads Reviewer

“I laughed my ass off as the characters were introduced from the ‘Free balling’ granddaddy to the sister who supports but also nags the hell out of the main chica mixed in with rednecks and honestly its like being at home. Plus add a side of hotties and to me you have an awesome story.” ~ Goodreads Reviewer

“This book has everything. Romance, comedy, bad guys. There was never a dull moment in this story. I could not stop laughing at some of the antics that took place. Definitely looking forward to the next book.” ~Amazon Verified Review

On Sanctified Ground (The Jesus Catechism) by John D. Garrison

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense

The apocalypse draws closer and the Jesus scrolls are in danger. Rebecca and Mackay are running for their lives while war is breaking out in the Middle East and fire is raining down on Israel. Satan is coming and Arrowsmith is in the way.

Arrowsmith is now the face of the New Christian Movement which has grown out of the Gospel of Jesus. Many oppose the Gospel of Jesus and deem Arrowsmith the Devil’s disciple. Opposition is growing to drive Arrowsmith out of the city of Gulfview.

A great Satanic evil has also arisen in Gulfview that seeks Arrowsmith’s death and the destruction of the New Christian Movement. Evil is abroad in the land, seeking to devour all who are not under God’s protection.

My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City (As Remembered by Actors, Artists, Athletes, Chefs, Comedians, Filmmakers, Mayors, Models, Moguls, Porn Stars, Rockers, Writers, and Others) by New York Magazine

Genre(s): Travel

From the staff of New York Magazine comes the perfect gift for the Manhattanite in all of us. My First New York is a glorious collection of recollections and reminiscences as fifty of the city’s most famous residents recapture the kicks and thrills of first arriving in the Big Apple. Actors and athletes, rock stars and porn stars, writers, artists, and politicos—from Yogi Berra to Liza Minnelli, from Chloe Sevigny to Andy Samberg to Diane Von Furstenberg—they all share their hilarious, touching, frightening, amazing early big city adventures in My First New York.

You Had Me at Good-bye: A Novel (Drama Queens) by Tracey Bateman

Genre(s): Christian Fiction

Everything is on the line for aspiring editorial diva Dancy Ames when she’s fired by her publisher. Could this be the time to risk it all on her writing career–and maybe even love?

Dancy Ames has an enemy: Jack Quinn. The man who swoops in, steals her dream job at Lane Publishing, and fires her, saying she just doesn’t have what it takes to be an editor. Now that she’s unemployed, Dancy must find a new career. Coffee barista, English teacher, literary agent. Hmm. Maybe she’ll write a novel–a nasty invective, featuring a relentless job-stealing, coffee-drinking stalker who falls in love with a coffee barista. She’s got time on her hands, so when her friends dare her to send Jack a proposal, under an assumed name, she takes them up on it. If he likes it, she’ll have her ultimate revenge. But what will she do when it turns out that Jack is interested in her book–and maybe more?

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Trucking in English by Carolyn Steele

Genre(s): Travel

Almost Ice Road Truckers, except for the tulip bulbs… “So here’s the plan. I’m going to train to drive a truck and go long-haul. I can get paid and maybe write a book at the same time. What do you reckon?” “Go for it Mum, how bad can it be?” This is the tale of what happens when a middle-aged mum from England decides to actually drive 18-wheelers across North America instead of just dreaming about it. From early training (when it becomes apparent that negotiating 18 wheels and 13 gears involves slightly more than just learning how to climb in) this rookie overcomes self-doubt, infuriating companions and inconsiderate weather to become a real trucker. She learns how to hit a moose correctly and how to be hijacked. She is almost arrested in Baltimore Docks and survives a terrifying winter tour of The Rockies. Nothing goes well, but that’s why there’s a book. Trucking in English began as a blog from the cab and became a popular podcast before taking book form. It is part of Carolyn’s ‘Armchair Emigration’ series.

E.A.T. An Italian Mother’s Guide to Going Casein-free in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Josie Dovidio DDS

Genre(s): Special Needs

If your child is on the autistic spectrum and you are considering a casein-free diet, this is the book for you. Sharing her experience with the diet, the author takes a complicated subject and simplifies it by explaining the theory behind the casein-free diet as well as outlining what you need to know to implement it.

A must read for anyone struggling with the “I don’t think I can do this!” mentality, this book includes useful recipes to jump start the process, lists replacements for your child’s favorite dairy items and details food sources and supplements that will help meet your child’s daily nutritional requirements for calcium, magnesium and vitamin D.

Also includes a troubleshooting section that will equip you to navigate the casein-free diet in various challenging situations. Additional recipes and support are available through the author’s website: www.SharingMom.com.

The Christmas Tin (A Holiday Novel) by Roderick J. Robison

Genre(s): Chick-Lit

Jesse Maclean is concerned that the commercialism of the holidays has distracted his daughter from the real reason why Christmas is celebrated. He determines to tell his daughter a Christmas story. One that conveys the true meaning of the holiday. And he knows just the story. The year is 1968 and Jesse’s father is serving a tour in Vietnam. Jesse and his mother are struggling to make ends meet. He gives little thought to the approaching holidays. That changes however, when he is befriended by Ardella Calder, an elderly customer on his paper route. During a visit, the woman shows Jesse her Christmas Tin. Inside it are gifts from her most memorable Christmases. As she tells Jesse the stories behind the gifts, he slowly comes around. But just when things are looking up, the Macleans receive a telegram with dire news about Jesse’s father. It is during this time that Ardella tells Jesse a final story, a poignant, war time holiday story. A story to guide Jesse through his grief and show him that sometimes faith and hope can bring light to even the darkest of places.

REVIEW

“An especially appropriate read during the Christmas season, The Christmas Tin would make a popular addition to personal, family, and community library collections.” The Midwest Book Review

Just Out of Reach by Belinda Stevens

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction

When high school freshman Katherine Boyd meets David, her life is forever altered. Their romance experiences the turmoil of Mississippi in the sixties, family relationships that keep them apart, and political differences that threaten to destroy them. Through the death of JFK and James Meredith s admission to Ole Miss, Katherine s growth means being progressive in a traditional Southern family, accepting the loss of those closest to her, and learning to cope with her family s darkest secrets. Just Out of Reach is the story of a young woman forged in desperate times and a love that changes her life forever.

Sisypuss: Memoirs of a Vagabond Cat by Patricia Halloff

Genre(s): Literary Fiction

If You Care About Animals, Don’t Pass This Five-Star Cat Memoir By.

“Ms. Halloff does for stray cats what Richard Adams did for rabbits. This book is more worth downloading than anything else I have seen on Amazon this year.” T. Ormiston-Smith, “T.C.”, Amazon Reviewer

“Patricia Halloff is an excellent writer. There is absolutely no doubt she knows and understands the nature of cats.” D. Blankenship, Amazon reviewer

“It is beautifully written and tells a painful truth about how humans treat animals.” Fierce Goose, Amazon Reviewer

Sisypuss, a feline optimist and true believer in luck (though most of his is rotten), reminisces about the homeless journey through truths and lies, danger and safety, love and enmity, made with his brother Bob and an odd assortment of characters, animal and human met along the way.

Three paws in the grave, Sisypuss interweaves memories and his current life as Booley’s cat companion with Booley’s seriocomic troubles with drugs (he enrolls in clinical trials as a work alternative), unfaithful women, and poetry editors.

Sisypuss tells how, among other things, he and his brother survive an animal shelter, a research lab which wrecks their health, the death of a loved guardian, a godforsaken wood where his try at love with a feral heartbreaker leaves him singing the castrato blues, and finally the overwhelming event leading him to Booley and safety.

Sisypuss:Memoirs of a Vagabond Cat has received 18 5-stars out of 21 reviews.

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Dakota Blues by Lynne Spreen

Genre(s): Travel

In this award-winning debut novel, workaholic Karen Grace is fired after attending her mother’s funeral in her Midwestern hometown. Now Karen is fifteen hundred miles from home, just one more middle-aged worker out of a job in a tough economy. To make matters worse, her husband recently left her for his pregnant girlfriend. At a crossroads, Karen must find the courage to change. Needing time to think, she agrees to take an elderly neighbor on one last road trip, but on a deserted highway in Wyoming, Karen is forced to make a lethal and life-changing decision.

Chalk Valley by D.L. Johnstone

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense

#1 on Amazon Movers & Shakers!

Amazon Top 50 Thriller Bestseller!

In a remote mountain valley in British Columbia, a human monster preys on innocent lives. After teenagers discover the body of a missing girl in Chalk Valley, searchers find the remains of two more victims secreted deep in the woods. A serial killer is at work.

“Chalk Valley grips the reader from the opening page.”
-Jenny Hilborne (Author of HIDE AND SEEK)

Chalk Valley police detective John McCarty is picked to lead a task force to find the murderer but inexperience, politics and McCarty’s own inner demons quickly overwhelm him and the investigation falters.

“Chalk Valley presents a balance of action, police technique, and character development that is incredibly rare to find period, and damn near unheard of in a debut.”
- Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White

Meanwhile, on a dark, lonely highway many miles from Chalk Valley, RCMP Sergeant Dave Kreaver comes across a van crashed at the side of the road. The driver is anxious to leave the scene but Kreaver discovers an unconscious teenaged girl in the van. Kreaver feels in his gut that the driver could be the serial killer everyone’s looking for, but his inquiries are ignored.

“Devilishly creative … terrifyingly macabre and realistic story. Definitely keep the lights on when reading ‘Chalk Valley’!!”
- Bibiliophilic Book Blog

The task force is in well over its head, buried by thousands of leads and potential suspects. Kreaver’s supervisors tell him to back off and let the task force do its job.

“Chalk Valley is probably one of the best crime novels I have read in a very long time.”
-My Little Book Space

Kreaver is in a deadly cat and mouse game with a murderous psychopath, a race against time with innocent victims in play. Operating alone and without official sanction, can he stop the Chalk Valley Killer before he claims more lives?

“Johnstone impresses with his tantalising and absorbing debut – a great thriller.”
- Verdict Book Reviews

The Good Life by Jodie Beau

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction

Roxie Golightly is a fun and carefree spirit…until she marries a wealthy man and her role as a trophy wife leaves her isolated in a condo with an ironing board and an obsessive desire to impress people.

When her marriage ends after seven years, Roxie’s identity is buried under layers of furniture polish and piles of designer shoes. She doubts she can ever be the person she once was.

When Roxie’s charmed life is turned upside down, her best-friend creates The Good Life List to help turn it back around. The instructions are simple: Complete each task on the Good Life List by the end of the summer.

With list in hand and the help of a sexy and charismatic guy from her past, Roxie is only a few check marks away from living the good life, even if it means getting thrown out of a bar or skinny-dipping in the neighbor’s pool at 3am.

Down from the Clouds (The Unspoken Series) by Marilyn Grey

Genre(s): Literary Fiction

BOOK 2 OF THE UNSPOKEN SERIES

What Readers Are Saying

“This series is like Downton Abbey meets today’s world. I love the old-century ideals mixed with the culture we have now. Refreshing!”

“I love that this book is different from the first book. The idealism in the first book is sweet, but this book brings us down from the clouds and back to reality as Gavin discovers that his future depends on the choices he makes now.”

“The relationship between these two characters is incredible, their bond is so strong it feels like they’re real people, and what is even more surreal is that I feel like I know them.”

“This book was so beautiful. I love Marilyn Grey’s writing both in ‘Where Love Finds You,’ and now even more so in ‘Down from the Clouds.’”

THIS IS BOOK 2 OF THE UNSPOKEN SERIES

Gavin Kessler is one of the most sensitive and emotional people you’d ever know, except you’d never know it. Trying to find out how he feels is like pulling a one-hundred pound bucket of water out of a seventy foot well. But when he finally falls in love and meets the woman of his dreams, who is set on getting to know every part of him, for better or worse, his walls crumble as he is forced to stand face-to-face with the past he’s been avoiding.

Continue the stories of your favorite characters from Where Love Finds You in this sequel written from Gavin’s perspective.

This can be read as a stand-alone, but is best when followed by Where Love Finds You (the first book in The Unspoken Series)

Song of Slaves in the Desert by Alan Cheuse

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction

The Legacy of Slavery

The Loyalty of Family

The Lure of Love
He has no history in the rice fields, no background in being a master. Plantations are as foreign to him as the African plain that birthed the slaves his uncle owns. Surely, though, he knows his own heart. She has no say in his decisions, his day, his life. She doesn’t even have a say in her own. But when Nathaniel Pereira plunges into the murky mysteries of freedom and survival in the suffocating Southern heat, Liza can see how she might change her life forever.
Tracing the thread of slavery from sixteenth-century Timbuktu, Song of Slaves in the Desert explores one man’s struggle to understand a world where honor is in short supply yet dignity cannot be sold. His mission in peril, his mind nearly undone, Nathaniel’s obsession binds him to his fate more tightly than chains ever could.
“Cheuse shows that in one way or another, we all experience slavery, and that freedom is never given but must be taken at all cost. The book’s epic vision is deeply human and humane.”

Helon Habila, author of Waiting for an Angel and Measuring Time
“Alan Cheuse, one of our most respected men of letters, has written a daring, provocative novel. Some readers will be captivated by his depiction of the horrors of slavery and Jewish involvement in the peculiar institution, and others will be troubled and perhaps even offended, for the subject of race in America is always controversial, but no one who reads Song of Slaves in the Desert will emerge from its pages unaffected.”

Charles Johnson, author of the National Book Award winner Middle Passage
“A novelist’s dream is to conjure up a whole world, one the reader can tumble right into and inhabit. I fell into Alan Cheuse’s Song of Slaves in the Desert like that. I confess I felt a twinge of envy at Cheuse’s success, his fully imagined song and its people. But the envy immediately gave way to gratitude for having had the chance to enter and treasure the world he’s made here.”

Josephine Humphreys, author of Dreams of Sleep
“Cheuse passionately evokes a vanished world of master and slave, Jew and Gentile, all hurtling toward the tumult and destruction of war. The novel is full of the loss and longing that come with a world divided forever, people from their people and from their past. Fascinating.”

Lynn Freed, author of The Servants‘ Quarters
A masterful writer skilled in both accuracy and nuance, Alan Cheuse grapples with the nether parts of our history, the murky boundary between right and wrong, and the wild tendency of love to break free.
For more than two decades, Alan Cheuse has served as NPR’s “voice of books.” He is the author of four novels, including The Grandmothers’ Club, The Light Possessed, and To Catch the Lightning (winner of the 2009 Grub Street National Prize for fiction), several collections of short stories, and a pair of novellas. He is also the editor of Seeing Ourselves: Great Early American Short Stories and coeditor of Writers Workshop in a Book.

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Red Tide by Peg Brantley

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense | Thrillers

See Peg Brantley’s author page for a video trailer of RED TIDE.

“For fans of the serial killer genre, Red Tide is an engaging, well-plotted story with characters you won’t forget.”
— L.J. Sellers, author of the bestseller Detective Jackson mysteries

“The characters were engaging and as the stakes kept rising, I worried about them as if they were old friends….Brantley manages to cover a lot of ground and gives her characters depth and complexity.”
–Jaden Terrell, author of RACING THE DEVIL

“This book will go a long way in introducing Brantley to readers as a force to be reckoned with in the thriller/mystery niche.”
–The Dirty Lowdown, Blogcritics.org

When both old and new secrets are uncovered at a burial site, the timetable of a madman moves up…

Jamie Taylor and her human remains detection dog set out to find some bodies buried for more than a decade. They found them–and some new surprises as well. Some families would find closure while others would have their lives ripped apart.

Agent Nicholas Grant becomes embroiled in the case while battling his own demons.

A madman watches from the distance while officials expose his clandestine playground, forcing him to speed up his plans for devastation.

Can a dog handler and a troubled FBI agent stop him before he kills thousands of innocent people?

Love & The Goddess by Mary Elizabeth Coen

Genre(s): Contemporary | Romantic Comedy

‘Sex and
the City’ meets ‘Eat,
Pray, Love’ in a search for love & meaning.

Love & the Goddess

One woman, One myth, Three Goddesses

A woman’s voyage of self discovery begins on the internet leading all
the way to Brazil and onto the Andean highlands of Peru.

Devastated from her relationship break- up, Kate Canavan is
at a loss until she re-discovers a hidden painting of the triple Goddess from
Greek mythology. Her interest in mythology and spirituality is re-ignited. A
voyage of self discovery begins with internet dating using the names of each of
the Goddesses in the triple myth.

When a health scare intervenes Kate and her friends go together to visit a
famous healer in Brazil and a spiritual guru in Peru, where all three friends
begin spiritual journeys of forgiveness, gratitude and learning to live in the
now.
Read it to find out if Kate finds love along the way.

Ferdia Mac Anna
(author of cult book to movie Last of the high Kings) says:-

“Funny, informative heart-warming and wildly entertaining. This
novel takes the reader on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride though modern
romance, internet dating, Peruvian Gurus, wannabes, has-beens and lotharios and
brings them home safe and almost sound. This book rocks!’

Lani and Jake – Monster Hunters – The Monster In The Woods by R. E. Knight

Genre(s): Fantasy & Magic

Jake is kidnapped and taken to the Monster Realm where Monsters love to eat kids. It is up to Lani to go in after him with her trusted grumpy unicorn Sour Puss and bring him back home.

Will she succeed? Will they survive?

Check it out yourself, come to the Monster Realm and follow Lani and Jake’s scary adventure.

Bring sweet candy…. Monsters “Love” candy!

The Imperial Connection (The Connection series) by Edward Charles

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense

Recently retired Air Force Intel officer Mike Foley discovers the guy who took a bullet for him during the Gulf War may be a homeless guy living in a small desert town. He leaves Chicago to find him. After arriving he finds a local, and very beautiful woman, who aids the homeless. With her help they locate “Homeless Rick.” To their surprise, the next morning he’s found drowned in one of the many irrigation canals.

As the suspense rises so does the love affair between Mike and Andy. They start nosing around and find Rick got mixed up in a large Chinese Mafia smuggling operation working out of Mexicali, Mexico. They are chased over sand dunes, through mountains and into Orange County, staying just one step ahead of death while trying to unravel the mystery. For help, Mike contacts his old buddies at the FBI and CIA and gets them involved. There’s hi-tech warfare, mystery and suspense, a love affair and crooked politicians who are involved in a payoff scheme.

The California Imperial Valley is where where there’s sand dunes, desert, Border Patrol, a major Naval Base and two of California’s largest prisons, all tucked together to make a perfect backdrop for this novel.

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Crossing the Moon by Paulette Alden

Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs | Authors

“So how was it, I wondered, that I had arrived at this point in my life: almost thirty-nine years old, no child? When I looked back, I could see why, and even when, I took a sharp turn away from motherhood. I could also see why motherhood would catch up with me.”

CROSSING THE MOON is Paulette Bates Alden’s memoir of the years that followed, when having a child became the most important thing in her life. Raised Southern in the fifties, Alden had turned her back on the “virgin-wife-mother” path before her, and chose a writer’s life instead. When with some ambivalence she and her husband embark on a course of infertility treatment, it is a journey with many unexpected returns. This is a wry and poignant tale of the choices that women must make–and learn to live with.

Dear Bob and Sue by Matt Smith

Genre(s): Travel | Essays & Travelogues

This complete version of Dear Bob and Sue chronicles the journey of Matt and Karen Smith, who took a mid-career break to travel to all 59 U.S. National Parks. Written as a series of emails to their friends, Bob and Sue, this is one couple’s perspective on the joys and challenges of traveling together. Dear Bob and Sue is the next best thing to visiting all the parks in person.

Paradise Lost: With bonus material from The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper by John Milton

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense | Thrillers

This free e-book edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost contains bonus materials by internationally acclaimed bestselling author Andrew Pyper, including

· EXCLUSIVE extended excerpt of The Demonologist (on sale March 5, 2013, in development with Robert Zemeckis and Universal Pictures)
· “Paradise Re-Read: An Essay”
· Q&A with Andrew Pyper
· “Demons of the World: A Selection”

A chilling and spellbinding literary horror story, The Demonologist follows Columbia professor David Ullman’s modern-day descent into hell. When his daughter, Tess, disappears, Professor Ullman–a lifelong skeptic–finds that he must suspend his disbelief and use his knowledge of demonic mythology, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, to rescue her from the Underworld.

Color Her Red by Crystal Shaw

Genre(s): Literary Fiction | Romantic Suspense

Life can be cruel and wicked – for Emma Grant these words sound true. Her passive and trusting character is overshadowed by a seething mix of agony and rage as her perfect life and loving husband are viciously torn from her. News of a scandalous affair between her husband and an unknown woman begins a horrifying, yet passionate, journey that will forever change Emma’s life.

All My Life (A First Things Series) by Rucy Ban

Genre(s): Coming of Age | Romance

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

“A sweet read with lots of quirky banter, angst and a touch of smexy.” – Tamsyn Bester

“This is THAT story…the one that grabs you from the first page and you just can’t seem to put the book down till you find out the ending!” – NovelGrounds Book Blog

“A really smartly written, funny new adult romance…no cliffhanger!” – Poppy (An Amazon Reviewer)

Seventeen-year-old Kari meets Neil Mars. “Neil as in Armstrong and Mars…as in Bruno.” A boy who beats every vampire, werewolf, highlander fantasy Kari has ever had. But she knows she can’t get close to him. Not ever. Because that would mean telling him everything. Coming clean. And Kari can’t bear the idea of changing the way Neil looks at her. Like she’s the only girl in the world. His reverence is something too precious to lose. Perhaps even at the cost of losing him.

But Kari doesn’t know why Neil calls her his ‘Angel’ and when she finds out, she realizes what love is all about. Boundless joy, unending longing and a fuckload of heartache.

***

Full length New Adult Contemporary Romance.

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Chronicles of Kassouk Book One: White Tiger by Vijaya Schartz

Genre(s): Fantasy & Futuristic | Adventure

On the frozen plains of Kassouk, where a few aliens rule as deities on a medieval Human world, Tora — a Human warrior trained by tigers — seeks her father’s murderer. But what she finds at the point of her sword confuses her. How dare Dragomir, the handsome Mutant, question her bloodline and her loyalties? And could a new enemy control the savage hordes of the fringe?

Dragomir offers to help, but Humans and Mutants are forbidden to fraternize under penalty of death… Should Tora trust her mind, her instincts, or her heart?

In the vortex of war, treason and intrique… among blizzards, avalanches and ambushes… will Tora solve the mystery of her father’s death and unveil the secret of her birth? Can she and Dragomir escape persecutions long enough to save their planet from the invaders and fulfill their destiny?

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World’s Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell

Genre(s): Education & Reference | Travel

For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth–Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth.

From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, Visit Sunny Chernobyl fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it’s time to start appreciating our planet as it is–not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere’s most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us.

Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue’s gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer–and approaches a deeper understanding of what’s really happening to our planet in the process.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Genre(s): Teen & Young Adult | Historical Fiction

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak’s unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

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For the Thrill of It by Simon Baatz

Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs | True Accounts

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals–too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state’s attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice.Set against the backdrop of the 1920s–a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy–For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery.

The Abomination: Book One of the Carnivia Trilogy (Carnivia Trilogy, The) by Jonathan Holt

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction | Thrillers

Set in two Venices, the modern physical world and its virtual counterpart, The Abomination by Jonathan Holt is a propulsive tale of murder, corruption, and international intrigue–the first book in an outstanding new trilogy in which Carabiniere Captain Kat Tapo must unravel a dark conspiracy linking the CIA and the Catholic Church.

By the stunning white dome of one of Venice’s grandest landmarks a body with two slugs in the back of the head has been pulled from the icy waters. The victim is a woman, dressed in the sacred robes of a Catholic priest–a desecration that becomes known as the Abomination.

Working her first murder case, Captain Kat Tapo embarks on a trail that proves as elusive and complicated as the city’s labyrinthine backstreets. What Kat discovers will test her loyalties and remind her of a simple truth: Unless old crimes are punished, corrupt forces will continue to repeat their mortal sins.

The Abomination is book one of Jonathan Holt’s Carnivia Trilogy.

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Edge of Mercy (Young Adult Dystopian)(Volume 1) (The Mercy Series) by C. C. Marks

Genre(s): Dystopian | Teen & Young Adult

Charlie hides her true identity inside a community made up only of males, but her presence places everyone around her in danger. This community is surrounded by Draghoul, once-human creatures bent on infecting others. Left with no choice but to remain, she fears her secret will be discovered, and she’ll be thrown to the creatures she dreads. Yet, the longer she stays with these survivors, the less benevolent they appear.

In this new and dangerous version of the world, where the friend beside you might be an enemy and an enemy might be your only friend, seventeen-year-old Charlie protects her baby sister and herself from grotesque monsters outside the community as well as human ones inside. Will the truth she discovers about her protectors save her or ultimately doom her to a fate worse than death?

This is the first full-length novel in the Mercy Series.

Dakota Blues by Lynne Spreen

Genre(s): Travel | Personal Health

In this award-winning debut novel, workaholic Karen Grace is fired after attending her mother’s funeral in her Midwestern hometown. Now Karen is fifteen hundred miles from home, just one more middle-aged worker out of a job in a tough economy. To make matters worse, her husband recently left her for his pregnant girlfriend. At a crossroads, Karen must find the courage to change. Needing time to think, she agrees to take an elderly neighbor on one last road trip, but on a deserted highway in Wyoming, Karen is forced to make a lethal and life-changing decision.

Courting Miriam (Out of Darkness – Amish Connections 3 (An Amish of Lancaster County Saga)) by Ruth Price

Genre(s): Christian Fiction | Amish

Amish Fiction New Release in the AMAZON BESTSELLING SERIES OUT OF DARKNESS – Limited Time Discount Price!

Must Read for Lovers of Amish Romance Novels: Can Samuel and Miriam build a future together, or will her secret tear them apart? After a harrowing journey from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Elkhart County, Indiana, it seems there’s something special between Samuel Hershberger and Miriam Umble, but when the road is behind them and secrets are revealed, will the couple’s fragile relationship survive Miriam’s homecoming? And what about Andrew Kauffman, the handsome Amish widower who promises Miriam everything that Samuel can’t give? Find out in this third and final novella of Amish Connections, part seven of the Out of Darkness Amish romance series.

A Lifetime Of Secret Recipes: 500 Southern Recipes From A Mother’s Kitchen by Bernice Craddock

Genre(s): Cookbooks Food & Wine | Special Occasions

Southern Recipes: From A Mother’s Kitchen To Yours

Every year our family would grow this large garden behind our home. A 50-by-30 yard garden seems immense when you are a kid. By the time it hit the kitchen table, it was “ummhh & awnn (using a country style Mayberry, USA – Andy Griffith dialect). “This is the best I ever put in my mouth!” After several years of that repetition, my sister and I would just look at each other and bust into a gut-wrenching laugh.

All those fine, home-grown ingredients are what went into my mother’s cooking to help it become so infamous. And those same homemade southern recipes are being passed down to you today.

Bernice G. Craddock focused her entire life on being a great wife, mother, and homemaker. At 78 years young, she decided to write her own southern cookbook. Her greatest challenge was narrowing it down to her 500 “most favourite” recipes.

Inside her collection, you will be able to enjoy popular southern recipes like:

Chicken Corn Soup
Clam Chowder
Casserole recipes
Sweet Potato Souffle
Sweet N’ Sour Chicken & a variety of chicken recipes
Gingered Pork
Biscuit Recipes

And 400+ more salad, appetizer, main course, beverage and dessert recipes for you to share with your family.

Pick up A Lifetime Of Secret Recipes: 500 Southern Recipes From A Mother’s Kitchen and begin sharing the best collection of southern cooking with your family.

Ocean of Dust by Graeme Ing

Genre(s): Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult

Fourteen-year old Lissa is snatched from her home and finds herself a slave on a trading ship traveling on a waterless ocean of nothing but gray dust. A feisty, curious and intelligent girl, her desire to explore the ship earns her the hatred of the cruel first officer, Farq.

Fascinated by the ocean of dust, Lissa becomes embroiled in its mysteries, sensing things that the crew cannot, while cryptic whispers in her head are leading her toward a destiny linked to the dust itself. Only one man aboard can help her make sense of her new talent, but can she trust him? All is not as it seems, and she must unravel the clues before it’s too late.

When a sinister plot casts her adrift on the barren ocean, her best friend is left in the hands of the treacherous crew. Everything hinges upon her courage, quick wits, and her ability to master her new talent.

The Book Hookup: “That was wild! The author’s imagination is amazing.”

Christine Rains, Author: “…excellent world building and characterization.”

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The Way Is a River of Stars: A Buddhist’s Journey Through Northern Spain on the Camino Pilgrim Route by Helen Burns

Genre(s): Spirituality | Travel

In a memoir of saints, sages, and swollen ankles, Helen walks across the Catholic heartland of Northern Spain. Her chosen route is the picturesque Camino Way, a Christian pilgrimage revered since medieval times. Ancient towns and villages, each with a distinct culture and cuisine, mark the way.

Memories and miles intertwine, spanning not only the countryside but also her Christian upbringing and later life as a Buddhist. What is it that compels her into the cathedrals and rustic churches she finds during her month-long journey?

‘Just as I walked from Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela – a different woman now to the one who began – I also travelled from one religion to another. Perhaps I put on pilgrim boots to better understand the message of each – the verbs of their prayers – what it means to engage with life, the joys of aloneness and the delights of company.’

Through recollections of meditation retreats, monasteries in Burma and encounters with the gilded Saints and Madonnas of Spanish cathedrals, Helen contemplates the heart of two religions, in her quest for deeper meanings that can unite us all.

Blazing Nights (A Night Games Novel) by Linda Barlow

Genre(s): Romance | Contemporary

When you pretend to be a witch, you risk attracting a witch-hunter!

Shakespearean actress Kate Kingsley is portraying one of the three witches in Macbeth when she playfully reads the palm of a sexy stranger. But Daniel Haggarty turns out to be a muckraking Internet crusader with zero tolerance for Kate’s fortune-telling, her psychic mother, or her reincarnated cat.While protecting her ghost-whisperer mom from the skeptical Daniel, Kate is irresistibly drawn by his dark sensuality. Soon they are playing a dangerous game. As the fires of love threaten to consume them both, it is no longer obvious who is practicing magic and who is under a spell.

A sexy new series

Welcome to Book 1 of Linda Barlow’s contemporary romance series, Night Games. The series is about a group of college friends who have stayed in touch since graduation via an online game that one of them created. They offer love and support for each other through their various life crises.The books are each complete and separate, but in some respects they build upon one another. Characters are introduced in the first novel, Blazing Nights, who appear again in later books. While it’s possible to read the stories in any order, readers will probably have the most fun if they read them sequentially.Each of these books was published previously in some form, but they have been completely rewritten and bear little resemblance to the originals. All are considerably longer, with new characters and different events. Blazing Nights was inspired by Linda’s classic romance (long out of print), Bewitched. Linda is also the author of the bestselling historical romance, Fires of Destiny.

Accolades

“Linda Barlow’s sexy, suspenseful page-turners are pure pleasure to read.” Susan Elizabeth Phillips.”Linda is a wonderful story-teller. She grabs you on the first page and plunges you straight into the tumultuous lives of her fascinating characters.” Jayne Ann Krentz.

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Superbia (Book One of the Superbia Series) by Bernard Schaffer

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense | Thrillers

The Most Dangerous Police Book Ever Written…
In Superbia, it’s not what happens on the streets that’s scary, at least you know those people are trying to kill you. It’s what happens inside the station.
Small-town police detectives get the job done any way they can while constantly trying to subvert the power-mad efforts of their administrators. Not-Even-Promoted Detective Vic Ajax and his protege Frank O’Ryan face off with rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and a six foot bunny rabbit that beats the truth out of criminals.
Written by a police detective who was subsequently stripped of his rank after the book’s publication, Superbia is the funniest, scariest, and “Most subversive police book since Serpico!”

What the Dog Ate by Jackie Bouchard

Genre(s): Chick-Lit | Contemporary Fiction

The vet handed Maggie Baxter a plastic specimen bag containing a pair of size-tiny lavender thong panties extracted from her dog; but they were not hers. Or rather, they were hers now since she’d just paid $734 to have Dr. Carter surgically remove them from Kona’s gut.

This is how Maggie Baxter, a practical, rule-following accountant, discovers that her husband of seventeen years is cheating on her. All her meticulous life plans are crushed. When he leaves her for the other woman, Maggie and her the-world-is-my-smorgasbord chocolate Lab, Kona, are left to put their lives back together. As Maggie begins to develop a Plan B for her life, she decides to be more like Kona. No, she’s not going to sniff crotches and eat everything that isn’t nailed down; rather she’ll try to approach life with more ball-chasing abandon. Finding herself in situations where she begins to go through her usual over-analysis of the pros and cons, she stops and instead asks herself: What would Kona do? With Kona as her guru, Maggie begins her quest for tail-wagging joy.

“What the Dog Ate” is a funny, tender story of mending a broken heart and finding love and a new life right under your nose, with woman’s best friend at your side. If you enjoyed Claire Cook’s “Must Love Dogs” or Allie Larkin’s “Stay,” you’ll love “What the Dog Ate” and be rooting for Maggie and Kona.

Love at Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks

Genre(s): Humor | Romantic Comedy

Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist
“Highly recommended!” - Midwest Book Review“The book is a hilarious read! - BookGeeks (UK) “Laugh-out-loud funny!” -NY Times bestselling author Darcie Chan
Love At Absolute Zero is a comic romance about Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old star physicist at the University of Wisconsin who’s determined to meet his soul mate within three days using the Scientific Method. As he channels his inner salmon for speed dating, he accidentally steps on the toes of a visiting Danish schoolteacher–and his life turns upside down.

“Watching Gunnar and his band of nerds apply the scientific method to romance will keep you laughing and deliciously engaged,” says author Lynn Hightower (HIGH WATER, FORTUNES OF THE DEAD). “Gunnar negotiates the puzzling world of women who are just not that into him. Finally, the shoe is on the other foot. Refreshing, delightful, and unique.”

“As if Einstein didn’t struggle hard enough failing at a unified field theory,” says Philip Persinger, author of Do The Math, “Meeks ups the ante by tossing philosophy, anthropology, hashish and love (with a capital L) into the mix. And while we’re so sorry, Uncle Albert, in Love At Absolute Zero, Meeks succeeds absolutely.”

“I’ve read both of Meeks’s short story collections and The Brightest Moon of the Century,” says author Kevin Gerard (Conor and the Crossworlds). “I roared through Love At Absolute Zero in a day and a half. Meeks’s prose is carefully crafted, his characters compelling and entertaining. I love everything he writes, and I recommend Love At Absolute Zero without reservation.”

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The Lady Astronomer by Katy O’Dowd

Genre(s): Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult

Lucretia’s life as an astronomer is quickly turned on its head by her eldest brother when he is commanded by the king to build the grandest telescope in the land. Her nights spent on rooftops gazing at the stars are replaced by adventure as the family move to be nearer the king. In a race to build the Forty-foot telescope on time, misfortunes take their toll. The lady astronomer finds court life to be more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Can she find the strength inside to overcome the obstacles threatening her destiny? Only the stars will tell.

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Special Note:
We are proud to publish our first novel from an author who lives outside of North America. Katy hails from Ireland. When reading this novel, please keep in mind that English is not spelled the same everywhere! Because she is from Ireland and her characters also dwell in Europe, we maintained her uses and spellings. Enjoy!

Deadly Election (Asian Intrigue) by Arthur Crandon

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense | Crime Fiction

***** No.1 on Goodreads List (out of 1,382) “Little Known Authors Worth Reading” *****
The tension starts to mount, even from the prologue as an innocent girl is defiled and killed in front of her dying father by heartless soldiers.
The pace does not let up. The plot takes you through the steamy jungles of the Philippines as ruthless men lie, cheat, and bribe their way to the very top.
More innocents will die as the evil Senator Consuelo murders and schemes towards the presidential election. The old soldier, Paul, is the only one with any power to stop this desperate man from or becoming the president. Can he survive to thwart to powerful senator’s plans or will he too meet his end?
Chloe, the beautiful, young, long-suffering wife of Consuelo is left with agonizing decisions to make. Can she save her husband? Does she want to? The actions increases apace as Election Day nears, with many twists and turns distracting the ruthless man. After police and army raids, street battles, and daring escapes he eventually wins the election. Or does he?
Anyone who has any knowledge of the Philippines will know that the fictional event may not be too far from the truth. But any readers of political or crime thrillers will enjoy the book.

Jonny Bails Floatin and the Luck of the Bioluminescence by J.Lee Glassman

Genre(s): Action & Adventure | Contemporary Fiction

Jonny Bails, Key West’s favorite beer-guzzling, barnacle-scraping street performer, has a night-fishing problem and a penchant for finding bales of marijuana, and trouble. One day, he discovers that he has contracted an unusual case of bioluminescence. His fingers and other extremities begin to emit subtle blue-speckled glows of light.

Jonny Bails speculates on the several scenarios that might have resulted in his rare condition. He works to understand the condition and use it to his advantage, while juggling a new relationship with the short-stayed tourist called Leila. And he must fend off his arch nemesis of the Mallory Square performers, The Biggest One Man Band (or The BOMB, for short) who will stop at nothing to steal the bioluminescent gift.

Once Jonny Bails gains control of his new power, he is able to use it to his advantage. But as with many cases of sudden fame, Jonny is a target. Along the way, he has run-ins with questionable doctors, scheming lawyers, and friends from the past before he finally bumps into an old philosopher who has a few eye-popping answers for him.

Unsafe Acts (The Jack Carston Mysteries) by Bill Kirton

Genre(s): Mystery Thriller & Suspense | Police Procedurals

An offshore platform in the turbulent North Sea is a dangerous place…

…there’s the isolation, the machinery and the constant battle with the whims of nature. For Ally Baxter, a safety officer on Falcon Alpha, those whims take an odd turn. When his workmates decide he’s gay, an evening ashore turns ugly as they indulge in queer-bashing, and later his body is found along the route the group followed.

For DCI Jack Carston, the case seems simple enough until a second murder is discovered, this time it’s the prostitute Ally always visited–a young mother with a baby son. Complications mount as Carston must deal with an inexperienced officer under his command and a disciplinary charge brought against Carston himself by a vindictive superior officer.

The obstacles pile up and combine to get in the way of his investigations, just as he uncovers evidence of a plot to wreck the platform itself.

The Artful Traveller: The Flâneur’s Guidebook by David Tuffley

Genre(s): Self-Help | Travel

The Flâneur is an idea originating from the French poet Charles Baudelaire. In Baudelaire’s world, the Flâneur was an idly-rich dandy, who wandered about the streets of 19th century Paris seeking a remedy for ever-threatening ennui.

In this book, the 19th century Flâneur is re-born in the 21st century as the Artful Traveller; a person, not necessarily wealthy or idle, who seeks an authentic experience of a city by strolling about it in an unstructured way, responding intuitively to what they encounter. The Artful Traveller remains detached, non-judgmental; appreciating the nuanced perceptions that come their way.

This portrait of the Artful Traveller is painted from several perspectives; it begins with Baudelaire’s original artful stroller as the outline, then the details of the portrait are fleshed out using Pyschology and Cognitive Science, with finishing touches from a Zen-Taoist perspective.

Introduction. Travel is an expression of the human instinct for freedom and it is an instinct we share with every other creature on this planet. We all instinctively need freedom so we can find what we need in life.

For many people living in the world today, travel is a luxury afforded once or twice a year, if at all. Living sedentary, indebted lives that keep us tethered to one place, the instinct to travel is frustrated but not extinguished.

When we do manage to get away, do we really enjoy the experience? Not if we approach it with the wrong mind-set. The same journey can be a source of pleasure or misery depending. When travel is done with an open mind, it can be a transformative experience. When approached with a rigid, judgmental mind, every encounter is unpleasant.

The Artful Traveller is a handbook for people everywhere wishing to deepen their appreciation of the gentle art of travelling. In all likelihood, if you are reading this, you are such a person.
Read this book with an open mind. Suspend judgment long enough to absorb the message, and then decide.

What people need. Today, most of the problems of survival have been solved. We live mostly sedentary lives where our needs are met by a abundance of consumer goods and services. Yet stroll about a the city streets or shopping malls and look objectively at the people around you. Notice how few of them seem happy with the abundance that surrounds them. Most walk about with a blank expression, some look downright unhappy.

This is probably because while people’s basic needs for food and shelter are being met, their middle and higher order needs for a meaningful life, for self-esteem and self-actualisation are not being met. The psychologist Abraham Maslow describes this phenomenon in his Hierarchy of Human Needs model. To be happy, people need to satisfy the lower-order needs for food, shelter, sex, then middle-order needs for safety and security, then the higher middle-order needs for love and belonging. Above these is the higher-order need for self-esteem. But the highest need of all, sitting like the capstone on a pyramid is Self-Actualisation.

The Artful Traveller is someone who has progressively learned how to satisfy their lower and middle order needs, and who is now using travel as a way to achieve self-actualisation. Of course travel is not the only way a person can do this; it is simply one way, and a very enjoyable way it is too.

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Bluegrass Undercover (Bluegrass Brothers 1) by Kathleen Brooks

Genre(s): Romance | Romantic Suspense

This is the first book in the Bluegrass Brothers series, which includes USA Today BestSelling titles Rising Storm, Acquiring Trouble, and Relentless Pursuit. This is the follow-up series to the bestselling Bluegrass Series.

Cade Davies is an ex-Army Ranger, teacher, and the new head coach of the high school football team in Keeneston. He barely has time to adjust to all of the changes in his life before he runs into the school’s fiery new guidance counselor and a new threat to the peaceful town of Keeneston.

DEA Agent Annie Blake was undercover to bust a major drug ring preying on high school athletes across the South. After her transfer from Miami to Kentucky, Annie looks to make her career by solving the biggest case the DEA has open. What Annie didn’t count on was becoming the local gossip. Amid marriage bets placed by the entire town, a priest as a landlord, and a trio of thugs after her, Annie looks to Cade for help in bringing down the drug ring before anyone else is hurt. But can the unflappable Annie deal with the feelings that follow?

Teaching English in a Foreign Land: Travel Adventures of a TEFL Teacher by Barry O’Leary

Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs | Travel

Follow Barry around the world as he tells the story of how teaching English as a foreign language changes his life. After doing a TEFL course in London, he flies to South America alone. He has no job to go to but hopes that teaching English will fund his travels – ultimately, it opens up opportunities all over the world.

During Barry’s two-year TEFL adventure he has several nervy encounters with local louts in Ecuador and Brazil, collapses after a trip to Machu Picchu, gets stuck next to ecstasy raving loonies and a transvestite on a Greyhound Bus across America, struggles to settle Down Under, finds himself working for strict Catholic nuns in Bangkok, and meets some sex mad Babushkas on the Trans-Mongolian railway.

This book is essential for anyone who wants to see how rewarding it can be to teach English in a foreign land.

Out In The Country by Kate Hewitt

Genre(s): Family Saga | Contemporary

Widowed a year ago, Lynne Marshall believes she’s ready to start a new chapter in life. She plans to exchange the bright lights of Manhattan for her home country of Scotland and open a country hotel with her childhood friend Jess and her fiancé Rob. Her daughter Molly will manage the home front as she starts her first year of teaching in one of the city’s toughest schools. When those plans are suddenly and tragically ruined, both Lynne and Jess are left shaken–and unsure what the future holds for either of them.

A weekend trip to Lynne’s husband’s home town in rural Vermont brings new opportunities, decisions, and a second chance at love for both Lynne and Jess… if they dare to risk their hearts again. Meanwhile Molly faces difficult choices of her own, and must decide where her heart truly lies.

Previously published as a magazine serial, Out in the Country is a heartwarming novel celebrating the strength of family, friends, and second chances of all kinds. Written by USAToday bestselling author Kate Hewitt.

Annabeth’s War by Jessica Greyson

Genre(s): Religion & Spirituality | Teen & Young Adult

With King Harold away at war Lord Raburn has his eye on the throne. Those who dare to stand in his way fall beneath his power. All but one. A girl named Annabeth. Can a common, ordinary girl, with love for king, country, and her father, achieve the impossible?

Trained by her father, a master swordsman, outlawed Annabeth has only her sword, her wits, and her disguises to keep Belterra from falling entirely into Lord Raburn’s clutches. Can she rescue her captured father and Prince Alfred? Will one girl keep the kingdom from falling?

The White Aura (The White Aura Series) by Felicia Tatum

Genre(s): Romance | Paranormal

How do you live with the gut clenching truth that the one you love will die if you meet them? Twenty year old sorcerer Scott Tabors is learning how. After seeing seventeen year old Olivia Whitehead outside of a coffee shop, his heart will never be the same. He longs for her, he wants her, and he knows she will be his. They are heart mates. …but due to a curse on his family, he can’t meet her. Not yet. So for now, he visits her in her dreams. Her dreams where he can tell her everything but his name.
Olivia Whitehead is a typical junior in high school. She and her best friend are having the time of their lives, but she can’t help but notice the changes happening to her. Especially the changes in her heart after she begins dreaming about a mysterious dark haired young man. But what will happen when the school heartthrob decides he wants Olivia? Will she realize the dream man is real or will she move on?

The White Aura–Book One–Available now!
The Vessel–Book Two–Available now!
Devlin’s Descendent–Book Three–Coming soon!

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The Conservancy by T.T. Escurel

Genre(s): Teen & Young Adult | Science Fiction

A school where the teachers don’t teach, the students are prisoners and the walls house a sinister secret.

When Josh is invited to attend class at the Conservancy, it looks like the perfect school. You can study any subject. You can read books or watch movies. There are no tests or homework. You are free to spend your time doing anything you want.

Unless you want to leave.

Trapped in a surreal world with time constantly shifting around him, Josh desperately searches for a way out.

What he finds could change the world forever.

Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray and Still Loving My Neighbor by Jana Riess

Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs | Religion & Spirituality

This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Riess begins with great plans for success (“Really, how hard could that be?” she asks blithely at the start of her saint-making year), she finds to her growing humiliation that she is failing – not just at some of the practices, but at every single one. What emerges is a funny yet vulnerable story of the quest for spiritual perfection and the reality of spiritual failure, which turns out to be a valuable practice in and of itself.

“It’s clear from the start of this sparkling and very funny memoir that Riess means well. But as she readily admits, she’s a spiritual failure. She intended to devote an entire year (“a year-long experiment”) to mastering 12 different spiritual challenges, including praying at fixed times during the day, exhibiting gratitude, observing the Sabbath, practicing hospitality according to the rules set by St. Benedict, abstaining from eating meat, and amply demonstrating her generosity. But nothing turned out as planned. Rather than being moved by Therese of Lisieux’s The Story of a Soul, she instead dismisses the saint as a “drama queen.” And Riess is unregenerately practical. The best month to fast, she reasons, is February, at the height of winter; conveniently, it’s also the shortest month of the year. Furthermore, at best, she’s a “lukewarm vegetarian.” Although her spiritual quest falls far short, she can still proffer spiritual lessons. Anyone who has failed to live up to expectations, which means most everyone, will love this book.” – Booklist, September 15, 2011

STARRED REVIEW – Publishers Weekly – “Punchy humor and unpretentious inquisitiveness combine in this absorbing memoir in which former PW editor Riess (What Would Buffy Do?) commits to both adopting and studying a new religious practice each month for a year, while simultaneously reflecting on her spiritual progress. Choosing such diverse disciplines as fasting “like a Muslim during Ramadan,” exploring lectio divina, observing an Orthodox Jewish Sabbath, practicing Benedictine hospitality, and engaging in the Liturgy of the Hours, the author shares frustrations and insights in a manner likely to amuse and comfort readers, especially those who have attempted such exercises and also found them challenging. For example, Riess’s description of her internal dialogue during Centering Prayer, concludes, ” ‘Shut the hell up!’ yells Spiritual Mind,” while her experience of practicing mindfulness, with annoying help from the never sainted Brother Lawrence, leads to a sympathetic observation that he’s “an underappreciated housewife.” Supporting quotes from saints and writers (St. John Chrysostom, Dorothy Day, Thornton Wilder) pepper the text. The author’s declared “failures” make her a sympathetic witness, while such “successes” as her description of how “[g]ratitude practically tackles me,” prove genuinely moving. A witty, inspiring read.”(Nov.)

“Jana Riess may have flunked at sainthood, but she’s written a wonderful book. It’s both reverent and irreverent, and it will make you want to become a better Christian — or Jew, or Muslim, or Zoroastrian, or Jedi, or whatever you happen to be.” – AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically

“Warm, light-hearted, and laugh-out-loud funny, Jana Riess may indeed have flunked sainthood, but this memoir assures us that she is utterly and deeply human, and that is something even more wonderful. Honest and sincere, she will endear you from page one.” — Donna Freitas, author of The Possibilities of Sainthood

Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt

Genre(s): Contemporary Fiction | Mystery Thriller & Suspense

Coroner is the perfect job for Dr. Martin Gänsewein, who spends his days in peace and quiet autopsying dead bodies for the city of Cologne. Shy, but scrupulous, Martin appreciates his taciturn clients–until the day one of them starts talking to him. It seems the ghost of a recently deceased (and surprisingly chatty) small-time car thief named Pascha is lingering near his lifeless body in drawer number four of Martin’s morgue. He remains for one reason: his “accidental” death was, in fact, murder. Pascha is furious his case will go unsolved–to say nothing of his body’s dissection upon Martin’s autopsy table. But since Martin is the only person Pascha can communicate with, the ghost settles in with the good pathologist, determined to bring the truth of his death to light. Now Martin’s staid life is rudely upended as he finds himself navigating Cologne’s red-light district and the dark world of German car smuggling. Unless Pascha can come up with a plan–and fast–Martin will soon be joining him in the spirit world. Witty and unexpected, Morgue Drawer Four introduces a memorable (and reluctant) detective unlike any other in fiction today.

Morgue Drawer Four was shortlisted for Germany’s 2010 Friedrich Glauser Prize for best crime novel.

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How to Study with Mind Maps: The Concise Learning Method for Students and Lifelong Learners (Expanded Edition) by Toni Krasnic

Genre(s): Education & Reference | Study Skills

The #1 student recommended book on learning with mind maps

HTSWMM is a book for students and professionals on how to mind map and how to use mind maps to improve thinking and learning in school, work, and life.

Mind mapping book by a mind mapping expert

HTSWMM is written by a long-practicing mind mapping professional who’s well respected in the mind mapping community and is a decade-long college professor. The book is based on author’s real-life experience on mind mapping with students, teachers, and business professionals.

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To help you get started with mind maps immediately, HTSWMM comes with a FREE 1-year trial of ConceptDraw or MindMeister. E-mail the author with your proof of book purchase and program preference to get your free access code.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

FIRST PART of the book discusses the foundation of mind maps as a learning tool, describes the benefits and uses of mind maps, and shows you how to draw mind maps, step-by-step, with a mind map diagram at each step. Even if you’ve never drawn a mind map before, you’ll learn the basics and more in this one chapter that takes you through all the essentials of a mind mapping process. It also gives an overview of mind mapping uses, programs and their features, and is accompanied by extensive resources on book’s website.

SECOND PART of the book shows you, step-by-step, how to use mind maps to improve your thinking and learning via CLM. With CLM, meaningful learning is achieved through a five-phase process that involves meaningfully organizing and connecting key concepts in a mind map, critically thinking, and asking key questions. This chapter is also accompanied by a full case study.

THIRD PART of the book explains how to use mind maps and CLM for lifelong learning. Included in the chapter are also tips on developing your Personal Learning Network and designing your personal learning plan. Although it’s written with professionals in mind, students will also find value in the chapter, especially those students about to graduate.

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O N C E : Ask Me Anything, Not Love by Mian Mohsin Zia

Genre(s): Romance | Religious Fiction

What would you do if you hurt the woman you loved beyond what is in human nature to forgive? That is the problem that Morkel has to overcome.

As the celebrated author, ‘M—, No Time for Love’, Morkel has vowed to never write a love story, or a story with a female protagonist. A staunch bachelor, Morkel is set in his ways; he has vowed to never fall in love. However, during a holiday in Kiev Morkel meets a ‘person of interest’; someone who will change his life forever. Though, as his name suggests, he still has ‘no time for love’.

Unfortunately, as he is about to learn, love has time for him and it has come knocking at the door of his heart. Will he open the door or ignore the knocking? Will he abandon the title he has worked so hard to create, and, by so doing, forge for himself a new title and destiny?

How long can love wait for Morkel?

How long will Morkel wait for love?

The Valley Of Heaven And Hell – Cycling In The Shadow Of Marie Antoinette by Susie Kelly

Genre(s): History | Travel

“A wonderful read. I laughed and laughed. If you have an interest in France and her history, you will love this book.”

In her fourth travelogue, Susie and her husband take to their bikes to explore the Marne valley, following in the carriage tracks of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI in their abortive escape attempt from the French revolution.

Susie is not a born cyclist, as she discovers within the first five minutes of a journey that will last three weeks. Neither does she look her best in Lycra cycling gear. While her husband whirls along effortlessly, she frequently grinds to a halt and has to be rescued. But the pair keep pedalling. From the glitz of Versailles to the hilly Champagne vineyards, via a hair-raising ride through Paris.Through quaint provincial towns and sombre World War II battlefields.

Like the bestselling “Best Foot Forward – a 500-mile Walk Through Hidden France”, and “Travels with Tinkerbelle – 6,000 miles Around France in a Mechanical Wreck”, “The Valley of Heaven and Hell – Cycling In The Shadow Of Marie Antoinette” is an enjoyable mixture of travel and history, told in Susie’s characteristically light-hearted and self-depreciating style. One for armchair travellers to enjoy, or a good holiday read – fans of France, fans of travel writing, fans of Bill Bryson and Peter Mayle will love this book.

“As someone who enjoys reading about travel on foot or bicycle I can say its as good as any I’ve read and is a massively entertaining and satisfying read.”

“When it’s funny it’s laugh-out-loud funny, and when it’s sad it is heart-breaking.”

“Susie rides again! Susie has done it again. This is a thoroughly entertaining read combining self deprecating honest comments with lesser known historical tales and anecdotes. I think this is the best so far of those that I have read.”

“Utterly fascinating.”

“This book manages to combine history, humor and the best of travel writing all in one.”

“Best of all is her humour, her description of seeing herself in a mirror after a days cycling was so funny.”

25 Simple Candy Recipes by Cooking Penguin

Genre(s): Cookbooks Food & Wine | Desserts

Are you looking for new and exciting ways to satisfy your sweet tooth? Shopping at fancy candy stores can become very expensive but, luckily, it is easy to make your own candy at home! This book is full of simple recipes to make your very own homemade candy from classics like chocolate truffles and peanut brittle to unique recipes like chocolate peanut butter pretzel balls and maple glazed walnut clusters. Once you get started you may find that you have more candy than you know what to do with – don’t be afraid to share with family or friends and remember that homemade candy makes a great gift!

Passage Graves by Madyson Rush

Genre(s): Action & Adventure | Mystery Thriller & Suspense

Archeologist David Hyden is hell-bent to disprove his Biblical archeologist father’s religious theories. After his father is found dead at the center of Stonehenge with a strange glowing spiral engraved into his palm, David decides to challenge his father’s theory that Maeshowe–a passage grave ruin in Stenness, Scotland–possesses metaphysical powers. However, the morning after his arrival in Stenness, David wakes to find everyone else in town is dead.

NATO pathologist Brynne Thatcher is trained to recognize the subtle features of subsonic death, a unique forte and her only leg-up in a career dominated by men. Sound is the ideal weapon: an indiscriminate killer that leaves almost no trace upon its victims. She is testing an acoustic cannon in the grasslands a short distance from Stenness. Thatcher is certain her weapon caused the Stenness massacre, but all bets are off when she pinpoints Maeshowe as the source of deadly noise. The ruin erupts with low-frequency sound every 77 hours. Each explosion is larger and deadlier than the last. The only clues to stopping Maeshowe are the spiral petroglyph glowing inside its central chamber and the lone survivor, David.

Investigating the connection between the two glowing spiral symbols, Thatcher and David uncover Brenton’s most bizarre theory: There are four locks and four keys lost throughout antiquity. Any man who finds a matching lock and key will gain one of the powers of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (Conqueror, War, Plague, and Death). Displacement of a key awakened the passage grave. Unless the “key” is placed into the petroglyph “lock,” the ruin will kill every living thing.

Finding the key won’t be easy. A clandestine brotherhood known as the Abaddon is sworn to protect the keys. As Maeshowe’s eruption spreads across northern Europe, the leadership of the Abaddon crumbles. A new leader of the dark society seeks to become Conqueror, and a race to the Apocalypse begins.