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Antler Jinny and the Raven : Chris Dews
Set in 65 CE, Antler Jinny and the Raven combines beautifully descriptive narrative and page turning action in a story populated by distinctive, colorful characters. At the book’s center is a young, disabled Celtic girl, Jinny, and the raven princess she is sent to serve as a slave. Both have suffered terrible reversals in their lives and both have overwhelming, irreconcilable reasons to become Queen of the Dragons.
Steeped in magic and the otherworldliness of druids, ogres, and faeries, Antler Jinny and the Raven is a finely tuned coming-of-age story about a young girl overcoming her fears, handicap, and the machinations of her enemies to ride the dragons as their queen against the villainous Fomors, the ancient feeders of hate, jealousy, mendacity and all that is evil.
Celtic mythology, early Scottish superstition, and the history of the Britons inspire and suffuse this tale of Celtic life in 65AD southwest Scotland.
Antler Jinny and the Raven shares some characters with The Druid and the Bracelet, including Druid Lailoken, Erbert the Ogre, and Grizel the faerie. You can read the books in either order, but both are enthralling, and having read one, you WILL want to read the other!
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Venice Is Gone : Emanuele Missinato
Venice Is Gone
The future is now.
An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of climate change.
A fragile and unique city. A complicated relationship ‘Father & Son’. A journey through a country in ruin.
What are we really doing to contain the effects of global warming?
“Make Think”
She’s Trouble! : Gara Shaw
She’s Trouble!
She’s Trouble!
A Romantic/Comedy/Caper
Nicholas Steel, a top C.I.A. agent finds the worst assignment of his career is protecting a pampered young Heiress.
Desirae Stone, 21, sheltered most of her life and is now a restless woman/child with a wild streak. Her life is endangered when someone in Mexico begins using her father’s property to smuggle drugs. The C.I.A. responds to a kidnap threat by assigning one of their agents as her Bodyguard. The handsome and charming agent, Nicholas Steel, experienced an instant dislike of his feisty charge…and the sentiment was returned.
The pair travels to Mexico posing as boyfriend and girlfriend. With one eye on Desirae, Nicholas intends to find which of her father’s employees is double-crossing him. As Desirae and Nicholas’ passionate dislike transforms into a passionate love, deception threatens to tear them apart. As the heat increases on all sides, the C.I.A. Agent realizes he will do anything, including risk his career and life for the woman he loves.
She’s Trouble! A romantic comedy, caper. A fun and action packed, Novella.
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Kicked Around : Carmine Slate
Kicked Around
Erik is a shy, introverted computer nerd. His primary interests in life are hacking, online gaming and hardcore pornography.
One day, the girl of Erik’s dreams walks into his life, and his world turns upside down. Finally, Erik has the opportunity to become something else.
Meet an interesting cast of characters as Erik’s misadventures of sex, drugs, and technology lead him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery.
Can Erik find himself in this new world or will he continue down the same path that he has known his entire life, being kicked around by other people?
Kicked Around is Open Source Hacker Erotica licensed through the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-CS-SA 4.0).
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Improving Your Sudoku Skills : Patricia O’Connor
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN TO SEE THE POSSIBILITIES.
This book is designed to help readers improve their skills while solving challenging puzzles. The puzzles in Improving Your Sudoku Skills: One Step at a Time can be solved without guessing or writing in tiny candidate numbers.
The reader’s eyes are gradually trained to look at the entire grid, knowing that the answer to a particular square is there waiting for them in plain sight if they only looked hard enough. This is the process by which the author improved, and she thinks it can help many other people to enjoy the game more.
Throw away the eraser and only write down the correct answer. The puzzles can be solved in one of two ways: Readers are led through the puzzle, square by square and can peek in the back of the book for the answer if they have to, or they can choose to work it in their own order, which is the harder of the two alternatives.
This book works best for individuals with prior Sudoku experience.
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That Lucky Old Son : Mark Cote
That Lucky Old Son: Re-Discovering My Father Through His World War II Bomber Command and POW Experiences
A moving work of autobiographical creative nonfiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War.
Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing from basic training through to being shot down and captured by the Germans. He poignantly communicates the terror, uncertainty, and fleeting hope felt by the crew, transporting readers back in time to 1940s Europe.
Having lost his father when he was only eight years old, Cote embarks on a quest to discover the man who left him too soon, but who left behind a legacy of courage, love, and faith. That Lucky Old Son is a book that will educate, inform, move, and inspire readers of all ages.
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My First Love : Miranda Taylor
My First Love
Jennifer thought realising she was in love with her childhood friend and neighbour AJ, was the beginning of a relationship that was meant to be.
What she didn’t count on was his big brother Daniel, saving her from drowning at the beach and insisting on a date with her in return. When he introduces her to an irresistible cocktail called Japanese Traffic Lights, Jennifer’s life takes an unexpected and unwanted turn.
When she finds out she’s pregnant at only seventeen, she chooses to keep her family together and moves away with Daniel. She tries to make a happy home for her and her new son, but a feeling that Daniel is hiding something to keep her with him and away from AJ just won’t disappear, no matter how desperately she tries to love him the way she loves AJ.
When AJ overcomes his grief at losing her, he spends time with her and her baby, but suspicions lead him to discover the shocking truth behind his brother’s lies and he decides to confront him, even if it means losing Jennifer forever.
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The American Dream : Cynthia McDonald
The American Dream: A True History Of All The United States’ People Book 1
While it may be true that there are many books in print about the history of the United States, it is my sincere belief that most of them are missing the complete history of this country.
After spending quite a bit of time talking to many people who were limited in their knowledge of the truth about many of the minorities in this country and their history here. I decided to research these stories myself, and what I found was even more shocking than what I thought I knew.
I spent the next several months digging deep and learning everything I could about the actual history of the United States. As much as I could, I wanted to be truthful, no matter how unattractive and even downright heinous that truth might be.
This is the beginning, the first chapter in a series of books about our country and every group of people that live in it. This first book tells the story about the United States from its inception through the Civil War.
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No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List : Richard Murphy
No. 46 on the Greater Boston Hit List: A Murder Case with Many Twists and Turns
At age thirty-three I studied a murder case, which inspired this fictional story. I always thought it was an interesting and bizarre story and had all the ingredients for a good novel.
At age thirty-nine still playing pick-up basketball I ruptured a disk in the lower back and was advised by the doctor to lie flat on my back for several weeks. Bored out of my mind I started writing this book longhand while flat on my back.
When I recovered I had completed about fifty pages and friends who had read what I had written gave me a great encouragement and so I figured I’d resume writing the book the newt time my back went out.
Always meaning to complete the book I kept the files and news clippings despite many moves over the years. However, the next time I injured my back they no longer prescribed total bed rest, so I never got back to the book until 2018 at age eighty-one.
Now with a reverse shoulder replacement and Parkinson’s disease ruining my mediocre golf game I needed another passion so here I am as a beginning author. I liked doing it and if this book pleases some maybe I’ll try another one.
This novel is a quick read that tells about a murder which was first thought to be a gangland slaying but it became more complicated leading to a trial that produced unexpected results.
Tasting The Oyster : Alexandra Stowasser
Tasting The Oyster – How an ordinary woman became a covert agent
In 1982 the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, backed by the Australian government at the time, formed its first highly secret special covert operation group to support secret service operations overseas.
This team was to comprise entirely of highly trained civilians who still held a daily job as a cover.
The team was intended to be similar to UK’s Special Operations Executive that was formed during WW11 and was government deniable.
The team that trained intensely for just one year ended ingloriously during the notorious Melbourne Sheraton Hotel raid at the end of 1983 and then became the subject of a highly political Royal Commission into the activities of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.
At just 25 years of age, Alexandra Stowasser, then Alexandra Dickie, was the only woman recruited to that team.
In Tasting The Oyster she relates the many paths from childhood to adulthood that led her to that fateful year of intense and often highly dangerous training and the challenge of leading a secret double life.
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