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Boogeyman Land : Risa Christy Peris
Boogeyman Land
Nine-year-old Jessa Martin goes missing in the White Mountains of Arizona at a holiday festival. Her bloodied jacket is found in the snowy, dark woods. Who took her? The Slender Man or the Boogeyman or something even darker lurking in the woods?
Petra Blue, a reluctant child abuse investigator with a mysterious and complicated past, goes looking for Jessa as her own life begins to unravel and sets her on a collision course with the child she is trying to find. With each nightmarish sleep, she begins to learn who she is and why she returned to the shadowy mountains.
Petra also discovers the truth of the watcher in the woods – a man following her since she returned to her childhood home in Greer, Arizona. Is he involved in the disappearance of Jessa or more intricately connected to her life?
Boogeyman Land is a psychological mystery that explores the ramifications of abuse and the transformative power of discovering the truth.
An Afghan Immigrant : Ahmad C Ansari
This memoir explores relevant issues of international importance, especially now with the world in turmoil and the United States in a position to help find solutions to reduce it.
The story is based on events in the life of Ahmad Ansari, an Afghan teenager during the 1970s when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. It is a tale of a young boy badly injured during a rocket attack on his house and how he has faced life’s challenges since then.
He graduated as the valedictorian of his French high school in Kabul and earned a French government scholarship that he almost lost because the communist government at the time considered him “unpatriotic.” With the help of his parents, he managed to leave Afghanistan and go to France to pursue his education. After earning a doctorate degree in engineering, he immigrated to the United States to join his refugee family who had escaped political persecution and war in his homeland.
Through his life story, Ahmad shows how unrealistic foreign policies and unfounded idealism of powerful countries can lead to global disasters that can impact us all.
Readers will understand the role the United States played to support the Afghan Mujahedeen and foreign fighters, including Osama Bin Laden and his followers, to defeat the Soviets. It also clearly shows how the lack of a coherent and well-thought-out post-war foreign policy by the United States, by abandoning Afghanistan after succeeding in giving the Soviets their own “Vietnam,” enabled an environment for Regional Powers such as Pakistan and Iran to ignite and expand a civil war in Afghanistan.
Pakistan with the creation of the Taliban movement, wanting to control Afghanistan, did not realize the consequences of its action and the danger it created for the entire world. The Taliban in Afghanistan played a major role in allowing Osama Bin Laden to become the de facto leader of that country. Emboldened by the defeat of a Superpower (The Soviet Union), Osama Bin Laden found a base to start terrorizing the United States and the West from there.
The author points out how subsequent tragedies and wars could have been avoided if, after getting involved in the Afghan conflict and playing a crucial role in defeating the Soviet Union, the United States had not abandoned Afghanistan.
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Love,Time Is Gone : Joseph Bartley Haltom III
Love,Time Is Gone
A poetry collection from a Mississippi native expressing his unconditional love for his long lost love, April.
The author hopes to express a woman’s true value, and make it known to the world; because, the divine lives within us all.
Woman such as April are goddesses to be adored. Love is a sacred emotion.
The author confesses his love for April in this work.
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From Virgin to Porn Star : Jack Falworth
From Virgin to Porn Star
“From Virgin to Porn Star” is an erotic novel that describes the adventures of Holly Carson, an eighteen year old girl from a small town in the American mid-West, who is eager to lose her virginity.
After seducing her stepfather, she is thrown out of home by her mother. Holly then heads for Los Angeles where she finds work as a stripper in a night club. One of her clients is a rock star, Mickey Sharpe, who is friends with an X-rated film director, Max Mercurio.
Holly auditions for a role as a porn actress, and makes over a dozen X-rated films in her first year. She has only a small part in the first film, but her performance is so outstanding that Max Mercurio gives her the lead in his next film.
The second film is about a silent movie actress called Selena West, who is murdered in her Beverly Hills home at the height of her career. Selena’s ghost haunts the house, having sex with anyone who happens to spend the night there.
The film is a big success, and at the Adult Film Magazine awards ceremony that year, Holly receives a total of three AFM awards—for Best Sex Scene, Best Porn Starlet and Best Porn Actress.
Holly is proud of her being America’s top porn actress and has absolutely no regrets about the way she has achieved the American Dream!
Length of story is over 45,000 words.
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For the Love of Armin : Michael Kramer
For the Love of Armin
In September of the year 9 A.D., the three Roman legions under the command of Publius Quintilius Varus were engaged in battle by the forces of Armin, who was known to the Romans as Arminius. The result of this was that the three legions were wiped out to a man, other than those who were spared so that word of this major Roman defeat would be taken back to Rome. After the news of the defeat was taken to Rome, the emperor Tiberius recalled all Roman units from Germania and they did not return there.
After that time, Armin began to aim at becoming a king of the Germanic tribes who would at times associate and join together for defensive or offensive war for their common good. These tribes (over three hundred of them) were all fiercely independent and it was because of these fiercely independent attitudes that Armin was finally killed by the members of his own family.
Martin Luther thought that the name Arminius came about because of poor translation of the name Herman, but this has been proven to be incorrect by linguists. His name was Armin and when the Romans Latinized it, they did so by simply putting ius onto the end of his name.
Armin was survived by both his wife called Thusnelda and his son who was Thumelicus. It is thought that Thumelicus died at what may have been sixteen, seventeen or eighteen years of age and that he died as a gladiator. However, no-one really knows for sure due to the fact that the historical records about him are missing. some believe that these records were destroyed during the violent times of ancient Rome or the war and other events since then.
The book starts with the first gladiator’s contest of Thumelicus and then goes onto to describe the way of life of the ancient Germanic tribes and Romans. This is told by the ghost of a Germanic warrior.
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The Blue Room: A BDSM Murder Mystery : Madison Barry
The Blue Room: A BDSM Murder Mystery
Katie arrives on Evan’s doorstep in a rather unusual fashion. On the run from an abusive boyfriend and looking for a place to hide, she knocks on his door, expecting to find an old friend there. Instead, she finds herself being welcomed into a stranger’s home, which also happens to be the site of a popular, private BDSM dungeon called Club 92. Katie has no experience with BDSM and is skeptical, but as her relationship with Evan develops, he and his business partner Dustin begin to introduce her to the lifestyle.
Eight months later, Katie is found dead in a private playroom just as a party is getting underway.
Suspects range from Evan himself, to a party guest with whom she had some conflicts, to the abusive ex she’d escaped. Detective Laura Holcombe begins to piece together Katie’s history, trying to zero in on a suspect. Jealousy and financial problems come to light as potential motives, but then Detective Holcombe comes across three similar deaths at other dungeons, leaving her wondering if she might actually be tracking a serial killer.
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Resolving the Anxiety Dilemma : Dylan M. Kollman, PhD
Resolving the Anxiety Dilemma
NOW THERE IS A WAY TO RESOLVE ANXIETY PROBLEMS
Worry. Panic attacks. Unpleasant anxious feelings. In the past, these and other problems were very hard to treat. People would spend years in therapy with minimal improvement.
With the development of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), things have finally changed. CBT is an evidence-based treatment that strategically targets anxiety symptoms. Studies show that this approach is highly effective, rapidly improving anxious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
This is the goal of RESOLVING THE ANXIETY DILEMMA — to help readers understand the nature of anxiety problems and resolve them with the powerful tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Using the latest research, Dr. Kollman reveals the surprising factor that drives anxiety issues. He also shows how changing our response to anxiety leads to a great reward: a freer and less anxious life within a wider world.
The Truth of Rock and Roll : Matthew Keville
The Truth of Rock and Roll
A nameless young man is watching his dreams slip away when a man who let his own dreams die long ago sits down and begins to tell him a story: a story of young love and teenage dreams and rock and roll magic. A story about being young and being brave, and the girl who taught him how to be that way. As the story unfolds, the young man begins to wonder if there’s something more to this older man and his strange story…if maybe, just maybe, rock and roll magic is real.
A modern-day fable, The Truth of Rock and Roll is a cautionary tale about being young, being brave, and holding onto your dreams.
The House on 4th Street : Connie Wesala
The House on 4th Street
A perfect summer read —
Karen Johnston has never known her biological father, but now that both of her adopted parents have died and she is back in Oklahoma selling their original home she begins to wonder where he is. In the process of listing the 1920’s cottage, she discovers an old trunk in the attic. A series of diaries from the 1800’s through the 1970’s pushes her toward a search for her own past. The strong women Karen encounters in these journals gives her the strength to face both her troubled marriage and her long lost father.
Readers who love a character driven novel and historical stories woven within a present day plot will enjoy this first novel by Connie Wesala.
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Ella The Enchanted Princess : Rosaria L. Calafati
In a beautiful kingdom, hidden beyond the Enchanted Forest, lived a young princess named Ella. She was different from other princesses. She had no hair. She often tries to hide her head with scarves and headbands and doesn’t like looking into mirrors.
Ella always dreams of one day exploring beyond the majestic doors of the castle. However, to do that, she must pass through the Grand Hall, but there are so many dreaded mirrors on the walls.
These mirrors are the guardians of the castle, and will not let anyone pass unless they are recognized.
Join Ella on her first adventure through the Grand Hall! Why don’t the mirrors know Ella, and what will she have to do to leave her room and explore?
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