The Neon Bible: A Novel by John Kennedy Toole

“A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel).

John Kennedy Toole—who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces—wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole’s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.

“Heartfelt emotion, communicated in clean direct prose . . . a remarkable achievement.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“John Kennedy Toole’s tender, nostalgic side is as brilliantly effective as his corrosive satire. If you liked To Kill A Mockingbird you will love The Neon Bible.” —Florence King

“Shockingly mature. . . . Even at sixteen, Toole knew that the way to write about complex emotions is to express them simply.” —Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune

The Million Dollar Marriage by Gloria Z Duran Duran

Why does the importance of God’s assistance in our daily lives be so crusial? As well fidelity, love, romanticism, respect, and communication play major roles in marriage relationships. The importance of nurturing each other with the prior elements are essential to be applied in our marriages. It is imperative to apply them all in our daily living just as the water we drink, the food we eat and going to the bathroom activities are essential to do daily to survive. The same way nurturing our spouses with all of these aforementioned elements are vital ingredients required to survive your marriage relationship. It is like understanding the gravity force, the one who understands the gravity force understands marriage. Live your marriage with a peace of mind, with happiness and free of resentment. Live your marriage happily ever after!!!

Non-Negotiable: Ten Years Incarcerated- Creating the Unbreakable Mindset by Wes Watson

This book is about the MINDSET and The NON-NEGOTIABLE daily HABITS I applied everyday in prison to make it thru Hell and stay sane while thriving?

My MINDSET while INCARCERATED and these HABITS I stick to religiously made me a Multi-Millionaire within’ 4 years and I did it saving lives all over the world!!!

The False Color Divide: A Peaceful Solution to Racism. Arguments Over, Case Closed by Robert Albert Aymar

Author’s awakening to the truth to our racial divide. Our racial framed positions by Color have always from elementary learning till now at age 65 have seems wrong and dishonest.

The Red, Black, White, or Yellow of our races have always been a theory with no facts of scientific or medical proof. Understand these races were created in medieval times and it is time to evolve from all the mistakes of mankind’s decisions from our past histories.

May we all evolve to see we are all one of a kind as DNA proves which makes each of us a masterpiece made by God. I can assure you we are all One Race with One God. America is my home, where I hope this can lead not only you but our leaders all to lead us as to what we should be One Race, One Nation under Our One God.

We once upon a time believed our pledge of allegiance was what kept our nation together and it did. Help mend our Indivisible Spirits to come back to our hearts and accept all our citizens as one native breed of Americans by birth and homeland

The History of NBA Basketball That Nobody Talks About for Kids: With Unbelievable Inspiring Stories & Forgotten Stats by William Lawson

There are few places more exciting than the basketball court… Yet few kids realize just how exciting the whole story of the game really is.

210.2 million people follow the NBA league across its various social media platforms, making it the most popular sports league in the world.

So why is it that no one really understands its history?

If your kids aspire to be the next LeBron James, they’re already hungry for basketball knowledge… and a deeper understanding of the rich and colorful history of the sport is only going to improve their practice and deepen their love of the game.

Even for kids who don’t play but love nothing more than watching the New York Knicks work their magic on the court, all their favorite heroes will come to life when they get to know a little more about the inspirational stories that happen outside of the spotlight.

If you’ve ever watched your child dribble the ball across the driveway narrating their all-star play with a creative commentary, or heard your teen raving about the last Bulls game, you know they’ve got basketball fever… and this one’s a fever that deserves to be fed!

The NBA was founded in 1946, and there have been many dramatic twists and turns to get it to where it is today.

For kids who look up to the likes of Kevin Durant and Zion Williamson, understanding a little more about the history of basketball is a game-changer.

Watch their passion soar and their determination fly when they hear the inspirational stories behind the NBA’s forgotten history.

History of NBA Basketball That Nobody Talks About for Kids delves right inside that history, uncovering all the most inspirational gold. Inside, you’ll discover:

— The question you didn’t know you needed to ask, answered – what exactly is NBA basketball?
— How basketball has evolved from its humble beginnings (the full story from 1891 to the present day)
— A closer look at 15 of the best basketball players in the history of the game – as identified by the NBA
— The greatest basketball player nicknames of all time (no kid will be able to resist coming up with their own contender!)
— Fascinating forgotten facts from the depths of NBA history (dinner table conversation is about to get super interesting!)
— The inspirational rags-to-riches stories from key figures like LeBron James
— 8 of the greatest underdog moments in NBA history (nothing inspires a kid like an underdog story!)
— Eye-catching cartoon illustrations to bring the stories to life and spark your child’s imagination
— And much more.

The basketball court has been exciting kids all over the world for years… Yet few know just how colorful its history really is.

Do your kid a favor: Give them the tools they need to explore the players and stories that make the game what it is today… And who knows? Maybe you’ll have the next big star of the NBA on your hands!

Lady, Behaveby Cerise Deland

She was a Diamond with a few very tiny flaws—and the desire to be good.

He was a rogue with the sense to reform—and to help her to be bad.

Adelaide Devereaux flabbergasts most men she meets. She’s a Diamond, petite, mild-mannered—the perfect picture of a demure lady. She has one ambition—to kiss every man she likes until she finds one whose lips make her hear church bells chime.

In Brighton, she meets confirmed bachelor Gyles, Marquess of Heath, who is felled by her charm. Though he vows to kiss her until she’s felt the earth turn on its axis, he cannot claim her unless he fixes his parents’ refusal to accept her. They’re too high in the instep to accept a wayward Irish lass who’s the granddaughter of a notorious rascal.

Pride might stall their romance, and lust might motivate a scoundrel to try to carry Addy away, but when love is the only passion that matters, do not all objections fall before its power?

Note: This series is part of Dragonblade’s Flame line, so this is a sexy, steamy, and scorching-hot read with multiple sex scenes. Be advised.

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Secret of the Old Towerby Carol Amorosi

A family secret. Two dead bodies. The penalty for murder is death.
The year is 1768. Angus MacKay returns to London after five years in the American colonies. He arrives full of hope for the future, but his lack of education soon leaves his dreams shattered. He learns you can never go home again.

Yearning to prove his worth, Angus heads north to Scotland, to a home torn apart by rebellion, and is catapulted into intrigue. Killers often strike again, and the body count is rising.

Secrets are dangerous, testing loyalties and family ties. It seems everyone has a motive. Can Angus make sense of it all and unravel a solution? With his life on the line, the stakes have never been higher.

Travel to the Scottish Highlands in the 18th century. Escape to a land rich in folk traditions and superstitious locals. Secret of the Old Tower is book 2 in the Mackay Mysteries, a historical fiction murder mystery series.

Desolation Run by James Snyder

70-something Oreny “Big” Johnson has a problem. Actually, he has two. Or maybe three. The first is that he’ll be dead from cancer, less than a year, which doesn’t particularly concern him: “The things I’ve been through, dying is just one more page in a long bad book.” But spending his last living days, taking his last living breath, behind steel bars does. That’s the second problem: Inmate #78903 in the notorious level-four Washington State prison known as Horseneck Bay.

Then there’s the money. Two million dollars of stolen military payroll, supposedly buried in some remote and mysterious south-Texas mountain range called Los Despoblados, or The Uninhabited, which sounds to Oreny like one of those places his mama Maybell always told him to avoid. But he’ll worry about that later. He has to get there first. Problem number three.

That’s when he brings those two smoldering dynamite sticks he’s attached himself to—his Luke-boy and Jaime—on board to help his tired old body break out of Horseneck and go dig up that money and then hightail it across the border into Mexico. And when they do break out, and Luke decides to bring his girlfriend Lauren along, and her enraged ex comes after them, and then the manhunt starts multiplying faster around them than those cancer cells inside him, Oreny still thinks he can control them. The problems, that is. At least, until Cade arrives.

Cade, the prison investigator Oreny knows is dangerous and unpredictable as a six-foot-two wolverine on eight gallons of adrenalin gone bad. And who won’t stop until he catches them and does to them what Cade does best.

Cade, Oreny knows better than anything else, is their biggest problem of all.

Other Wise by Mary Lou Bagley

OTHER WISE introduces a cast of characters who will find their way into your dreams and beyond.

Sixty-two-year-old Margaret Meader is both a native Mainer and an outsider. Though she’s not “from away,” many in her community deem her an oddity, an “other.” Plain-spoken and direct, Margaret is gifted with second sight—an intuitive ability to see beyond ordinary perception and distill what is seen to its practical essence.

For decades her gift has benefited many while frightening others, often making her a target for jealousy, suspicion, and hatred.

She has her friends and protectors, including the young Emily Donne, whom Margaret encourages to recover abandoned gifts of her own, the mystery that is her mother, and to learn who her long-dead father truly was.

But even as Margaret supports friends in need and helps find those who are lost, some old business is coming back around, setting the stage for confrontations rooted in tragedies of the past.