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Pearl : Debra Funderburk
Pearl
Anna is a town of affluence nestled behind mature trees and hidden driveways. The place everyone wants to be. It has immaculate streets and is almost crime free. But because of an unspoken rule in Anna, all are not welcomed.
Pearl Swanson has lived in the town of Anna for fifty years. Her life has been one of influence and prominence.
Now she is retiring from her job as Social Coordinator. As everyone is preparing for the social event of the year, secrets are uncovered that will change the town of Anna forever.
See how one person will divide Anna by revealing a secret; but how another one will bring it back together.
Pearl is a story of crime, bigotry, secrets and deception. It will leave you asking yourself does the color of one’s skin really matter above all else?
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Orcblood Legacy: Honor : Bernard Bertram
Orcblood Legacy: Honor
Fangdarr, the orc chieftain of the Zharnik clan, has returned from exile to lead his people to glory. As his conquest grows, so too does the insatiable hunger for more from the orcs of his clan.
Desperate to avoid a war with the fortified dwarves and humans, Fangdarr seeks to buy time by culling a shadow dragon that has tormented the land for centuries.
With the aid of his half-blooded brother, and other unlikely companions, Fangdarr embarks on a quest that will name him the greatest orc in history.
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The Wrong Side of the Room : Norman Mathews
The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater
THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROOM is one man’s brutally honest tale of a harrowing journey to a life of love, music, and theater.
Psychological abuse by a priest and absurdly comic psychotherapy over his sexuality led to a failed suicide at age twenty. From the ashes of this calamity rose a staggering resolve to build a meaningful life.
Byzantine twists paved the way to a career as a magazine editor and eventually a life as a Broadway and movie dancer, working with Barbra Streisand, Dorothy Lamour, and Gene Kelly.
After an untimely injury, he reinvented himself as a pianist, composer, and playwright, creating award-winning works for top Broadway, opera, and concert-stage performers.
His passionate and inspirational autobiography is steeped in dark humor, hilarious celebrity gossip, and backstage intrigue. It is a rare book that can intimately describe a self-destructive trajectory, recount the grisly murder of a Broadway conductor, provide an inside look at the embezzlement of a famed Broadway producer, and give behind-the-scenes insights into the birth of new musicals and operas.
Mathews brings his colorful Sicilian-American family, his triumphs and heartbreaks, and his mine-strewn path to fulfilling love vividly to life.
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The Shadow Kingdom : C.J. Inkson
The Shadow Kingdom (Book One of the Shadow Curse Series)
Elliot West stands vigil as Watchman, on the lookout for signs the Shadow Curse may be spreading across the Barrier Strait to her small northern isle. But in all the centuries since the curse was cast, no one, including Eli, has seen a thing, and even she is beginning to wonder if it’s all some grand hoax. That is, until she’s ambushed by the Lojkin, a warrior clan from the Shadow Kingdom who believe drinking the blood of someone with color will restore their own, stolen generations ago by the Curse.
Against her will, Eli is taken across the sea to the cursed Shadow Kingdom, waiting to be slaughtered as a sacrifice to foreign gods. Just when it seems her death is imminent, a young man with oddly shifting tattoos and a questionable motive, helps her escape, setting them on a dangerous path through shadowy lands in a desperate attempt to reach home.
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Second Chance : Gang Luo and Lee Stone
Second Chance
What would you do if you find out less than 30% of your organs functioned normally whilst the overwhelming majority of them were in appalling conditions?
After long term suffering from dozens of serious disorders, Gang Luo managed to surprise everyone with his healthy glow and decades-younger appearance on the way to his eighties and became the envy of his, and the younger, generation.
An inspirational story of struggle and recovery, friendship and loyalty, this is one man’s true account of battling to a victory over liver diseases and numerous serious conditions, and survival in a chaotic period of human history. With the help of Traditional Chinese Medicine masters, and furthered by the healing power of natural herbal medicine combined with food therapy, he finally triumphed over menacing illnesses and came to radiance at an advanced age approaching to eighty.
From an ignorant novice to a self-care expert, the author reiterates personal success on eliminating diseases, restoring health and his hard lessons learned along the way to the climax of well-being. The author emphasizes the importance of taking charge of our own health, and explicates why we should adopt a proactive attitude to medical treatment and hospital care in order to speed up the healing process and minimize delay and mishaps; he also highlighted the issue of knowing how to self-care properly and wisely with the help of health science. A strong believer in herbalism, a loyal follower of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a beneficiary of integrative medicine, the author advocates the holistic approach to health and practise the oriental art of health maintenance — utilizing every day food, spices and herbs in ailment healing and illness prevention.
Inside this book, there are also personally used and proven herbal remedies, workable food recipes, a private prescription collection from an outstanding Traditional Chinese Medicine master, little-known cancer preventing natural remedy and practical tips to offset common complaints and ailments in the comfort of your own home.
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Captain Black : Edward Black
Captain Black True Stories of a Small Town Cop
As a cop in the small town of Kaufman, Texas for over 20 years, Captain Black has seen his share of the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, side of every day life.
In his book “Captain Black- True Stories of a Small Town Cop” he takes you along with him as he deals with everything from an angry elderly woman with a sledgehammer and a dead mouse, to the hunt for a cold-blooded assassin who gunned down Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse on the courthouse square, and the desperate attempt to find the killer after he struck again, viciously murdering the District Attorney Mike McClelland, and his wife Cynthia, inside their Forney, Texas home.
If you think that small town cops only write tickets and drink coffee, you will definitely change your outlook after reading this book!
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Three Strikes You’re In : Rusty Russo
Three Strikes You’re In
In his early 40’s, Rusty Russo is diagnosed and successfully treated for thyroid cancer. About a year later Russo and his wife are rear-ended in a freak car accident. While being checked out at the hospital doctors discover Rusty has a benign brain tumor. Then, Russo’s thyroid cancer resurfaces. He undergoes a second surgery only to be faced ten years later with lung cancer, his biggest challenge yet. He refuses to accept the diagnosis as a death sentence and engages in the fight of his life. THREE STRIKES YOU’RE IN is Russo’s gut-wrenching and inspiring story of survival.
As an incredibly fit body builder, Russo stresses the importance of being strong both mentally and physically while undergoing cancer treatments. During the time that he is convalescing at home, Russo becomes a certified personal trainer and begins a new chapter in his life, both professionally and physically. Russo also describes his family, especially his wife and sons, and the important role they play in his healing. Throughout THREE STRIKES YOU’RE IN, Russo uses a down-to-earth manner to describe his various tests and medical procedures, surgeries, chemotherapy and experience with alternative therapies.
THREE STRIKES YOU’RE IN is an inspirational story that will touch the lives of anyone who has to deal with illness and suffering. At times humorous and at times heartbreaking, Russo guides the reader through his story, first as a cancer patient and then as a cancer survivor, in the hopes that his triumph will inspire others to stay positive on the path to healing.
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The Weave : Sheila Williams
The Weave
The Weave – a fantasy mystery…
A Romany Witch, a French Count and an English author, all entangled in a lie told centuries ago…
Struggling author Richard Pease joins the Nonesuch Club – a writers’ retreat in France – run by the inscrutable Oskar. At the Club he starts to write again and he thinks his problems are over. In fact they are just beginning.
As he uncovers the secrets in the Club he finds himself trapped in a web of intrigue and deception and has more to worry about than writer’s block… such as escaping with his life.
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Spirit of Gettysburg : S. Elizabeth Calvert
Spirit of Gettysburg: Soulmates Across Time
Epic…Spellbinding…Thrilling Love Story Extraordinaire! Can ghosts die twice? Apparently so!
To prevent her husband’s untimely death at the hands of his personal, implacable enemy, headstrong, vulnerable Maureen McAlister, psychic to Washington, D.C.’s powerful elites, travels back in time to – 1863.
Her mission? Change fate and rewrite karma.
It is a second chance for them, another test of their eternal, devoted, soulmate love.
Fail and he is doomed. Succeed and they are together forever.
She is frightened.
What if she fails him…again?
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The Seer: The Other Side of Red – Book One : A.R. Curtis
Emily Hunts is no ordinary witch. She’s not a true Hunts either, having been left here as an infant. No one knows about the things she sees: nymphs and fairies, mythical creatures, and vampires that lurk on the other side of red, where an epic world of darkness, order and castles exists. From this place, the one person she trusts the most escapes to see her. He is not who she thinks he is.
Every night, he visits in shadow, tutoring her in forbidden magic. Then one night, everything changes. And she’s taken to the other side of red. As she discovers clues about her legendary birthright, she finds it impossible to escape this supernatural realm…alive.
“…an epic magical adventure into darkness…plot-wise, it reminded me of The Phantom of the Opera…A.R. Curtis crafts a lush narrative that weaves in a strong and convincing lore of magical powers, as well as a mythology of darkness and ‘the other side’ that was very exciting to read about. ” -K.C. Finn, Readers Favorite
“The Seer is a very magical and interesting trip through a wonderful world of fantasy that intertwines all the mystical and mythological beings such as fairies, vampires, witches, wizards and demons…Curtis has taken the ideas hiding in legend, myth and fantasy and laced them together in a story line that continuously unfolds to something new. From fairies to mermaids and talking trees.” -Amy Raines, Readers Favorite
“…mythical beings, spirits and shadows, creatures…legends and fears. Secrets, fear, truth, revelation, and magic weave an enchantment over the reader to keep them turning page after page…” – J.J. Simmill, Readers Favorite
“Harry Potter -esque air of magic…” – Caitlin Lyle Farley, Readers Favorite
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