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Water Under The Bridge : Ross Jennings
Water Under the Bridge: Bedazzled Billionaire Book 1
Abraham Patterson, multi-billionaire, is one of the richest men alive. But with big money comes big problems. Patterson is forced to choose between the love of a beautiful actress and his hot-to-trot female associate.
Complicating matters is an impending business deal with the mysterious Ragnarok Project that gets shadier by the minute. Before he can seal the deal, Patterson finds himself caught in a web of high tech weirdness and sexual manipulation.
“Water Under the Bridge” takes the reader on a wild ride. From the upper echelons of San Francisco’s financial elite, to the seedy underworld of its most nefarious denizens, this book explores every wicked nook and cranny.
Will Abraham Patterson see through the power games and find true love? Or will he get sucked into a vortex of sleaze and mayhem?
Regardless of where his destiny leads, readers should be prepared for a steamy romance laced with the taste of a high tech thriller.
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A Lib I Am! : Bill Hunt
A Lib I Am! An Adult Reader About Children
A Lib I Am! An Adult Reader About Children is a breakout “children’s book for adults” from writer and illustrator Bill Hunt. The book is political satire inspired by Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham, lampooning the hysterically hilarious response of the intolerant left following the election of President Donald J. Trump. A children’s book format is used as it best represents
the perpetual tantrum that is liberalism unhinged.
Guaranteed to have you laughing out loud, this good looking hardcover is a must-have for the coffee table of any conservative, or self deprecating liberal, (if you can find one)!
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Becoming Samantha Colt : Ken Cressman
Becoming Samantha Colt
Samantha Colt and David Larkin have been colleagues, partners and friends for many years. They have had adventures all over the world and have seen people they cared about killed in the line of duty. Retired now, they use their considerable skills to help people in trouble and do favors for those who need it.
But before that, the woman who would become known as Samantha Colt was a nameless, homeless girl growing up on the streets of Baltimore. From a painfully young age she had to learn to take care of herself, to feed and clothe herself, and to defend herself from those who would do her harm. When she’s arrested for shoplifting as a teenager she comes to the attention of a mysterious organization, where she meets Larkin, and everything changes. He becomes her teacher, her mentor, her partner and eventually her best friend.
This is the fourth book in the exciting Larkin and Colt adventure series, this time told from her perspective. It’s the story of how they met, how she was trained, and how they became the formidable team their fans have come to know. This is her story, from her point of view, in her own words, as she learns who she is, what she can do and who she can become.
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The Touch : Robert E Flynn III
The Touch – A Supernatural Story – Part I
The Devil is in the details of this supernatural thriller! Gabriel is a special boy, living in an orphanage his entire life with no memory of his parents. He is considered autistic by many. In reality, he is not. He appears autistic because he is hearing a voice. The voice is real, but it is a supernatural presence. What the voice gives him is a power that he can transfer by touch. Gabriel is the starting point for a change that is happening to many young people just like himself, all over the world. The change is wondrous and difficult at the same time. One thing is certain. The voice holds power beyond anything any of these young people could have ever imagined. This power is changing everyone, one beautiful child after another. The problem with this mysterious blessing is that Gabriel does not trust this voice completely. This distrust never leaves him, and for good reason, but Gabriel finds that the wonder of what he is experiencing is far too great for him to resist.
Below, Gabriel experiences the shock of actually, “hearing” the voice for the first time.
“If only I could tell someone what this is like! God! What is wrong with me? What is wrong?”
Gabriel was screaming with a tremendous power of his own, not with his voice, but with his mind. As soon as he screamed these thoughts, which he had done so many times through the years, he received the one thing he had always been very, very scared of, an actual answer. His body tensed to rigidity as the sound rose from within. As often as he had felt a communication with this presence, he had never had an interaction like this. Before today he had heard “voice” whisperings to his body, mind and soul, and these were very strong, but seemingly subconscious. What was happening now was completely new, and extremely unsettling. He was really hearing now.
To make it even more difficult for the boy to deal with, this was much more than just a voice, it was a sound of so much complexity that the richness of it made Gabriel senseless for a moment. It was the sound of the universe, every timbre of an orchestra, every harmonic of all the tones of every instrument in the world, buzzing together in something beyond harmony. This sound made extreme loudness seem quiet. It was all encompassing, crushing, like a freight train coming straight for you, the ground shaking, and a complete madness. Still, with all this, Gabriel could not resist it, because even with the unstoppable fear, he felt an absolute connection to it that could not be denied.
Curiosity Killed The Craving : Raj Fernandes
Quitting smoking doesn’t have to be intimidating.
Having smoked for over 40 years, I had tried all sorts of methods of quitting. But no matter what I tried, the cravings would always return to haunt me. All attempts to overcome cravings failed until I discovered a simple technique that helped me get the better of them. The secret turned out to be my own mind. So I practiced observing the onset of cravings in a curious, mindful way. This helped me acknowledge the presence of cravings rather than struggle with them.
In this no-nonsense book, I share what has worked for me and guide you through the process from preparing to quit, to the realities of the first few days without nicotine, to making positive lifestyle changes going forward. It is full of practical tips and personal experiences. Quitting is never easy, but trust me, if I can do it anyone can.
So say goodbye to Nicotine (or Mr. Nic as I know him) today!
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Retirement Planning & Investing : King A. Kovacs
Planning to make investments for a retirement portfolio? There are many questions to be answered.
Are exceptional investments that provide an average long-term return of 15% open to investors?
Who are they? How are they be contacted?
Can investments be made without using a Broker or Dealer?
Can changes from one IRA asset to another be made?
What are the risks? What are the minimum investment purchases?
This guide book answers these questions and much much more. Savvy investors scrutinize investment costs; current performance & returns; long-term performance & returns; and income and/or capital gains distributions. And, they make these investments without the service of a Broker or Dealer. The profits and returns are theirs 100%!
Plans and investments have to include 1) the risk; 2) the on investments; and 3) the savings committed weekly, monthly, or yearly to purchase retirement portfolio assets.
In search of successful mutual fund retirement investments, “financial decisions” are based on facts. An excellent retirement portfolio is to build and maintain traditional Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA). Mutual fund investments should provide gains in good times and minimal losses in bad times. The major benefit is all income and capital gains received are tax deferred until the age of 70½. But, all distribution must be reinvested and not withdrawn!
The book, Retirement Planning and Investing give insight to financial prosperity. There are financial reports on 20 equity/stock mutual funds; 4 hybrid mutual funds; and 11 Bond mutual funds. These are exceptional and successful investments. The majority of these mutual funds ranked A+ (1) in their respective financial category. The 5-year average return 24 mutual funds in 24 investment categories are 12.53), ever year.
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Stolen Breeze : Mitch Davies
Stolen Breeze
If you don’t know you’re committing a crime, are you innocent?
All Ben Beck wants is to start over with a new opportunity. So when a millionaire business man offers him a position as a crew member on his yacht, Ben decides to throw himself in the middle of the ocean with a confusing group of strangers.
So what if he’s never sailed before, the job opportunities in his home town didn’t offer Hawaii and Tahiti. How could he pass up an offer that did?
Sailing to exotic locales as a crew member of the luxury yacht, Aurawind, and catering to rich clients willing to pay for a taste of Polynesia, sounded like a dream job, an unexpected windfall experience.
The gleam of sailing to the sun of the southern seas on a shining new yacht blinds his view of what lies ahead.
Not all the members of the operation carry the same glossy hope for the venture. The captain thinks Ben is going to be too much to handle; the other sailor in the crew gives Ben the creeps. After a confusing start to the journey, loaded with misinformation, Ben can’t help but wonder if the other members of his crew are friends or enemies. Maybe it’s time Ben had second thoughts.
No level of smooth sailing could prepare him for being attacked or having a gun pointed in his direction. From the idyllic life of charter sailing and Polynesian island hopping, to a life and death struggle on a tilting yacht deck at night, Ben navigates in hopes of salvaging his dream.
Will the crew, the sea, or the wind shred Ben’s canvas?
The Inn of Fallen Leaves : Mitch Davies
The Inn of Fallen Leaves
Journey to feudal Japan and the banishment of the samurai class. The tale begins at a quiet inn on the Nakasendo highway with a disillusioned samurai, Itashima Chobei.
He is confronted by Akiyama, a samurai on a mysterious errand for his powerful leader, whose actions turned the serene mountain inn of Fallen Leaves into a state of chaos.
At the center of their personal battle is a beautiful woman, Miyo. While she is attached to one, and coveted by the other, both men are driven by the respect for her love. When Miyo abruptly disappears, Chobei must pursue Akiyama across the beautiful yet brutal Japan of the 1860s.
Both samurai will face an ultimate question: is there still a place for loyalty to a clan, or are the lives of individuals more important?
Bribing An Officer : K.N. Kyles
Bribing An Officer: First Charge
Tracy isn’t surprised when a pair of red and blue lights flash behind her while driving late at night, in the wrong part of town. When the young, attractive, policeman approaches the window, asking about an improper tag light, she breathed a sigh of relief. With her birthday an hour away, her natural charm, an obvious rookie, and lots of skin showing, she’d be on her way in five minutes.
She couldn’t have been more wrong.
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“Uh – sure. You can search the vehicle,” I said. See? Nothing to hide here! I prayed reverse psychology would work on him, but his dark eyes twinkled.
“Please step out of the vehicle, ma’am.”
“Hands on the hood of the vehicle, ma’am,” he repeated a third time. “If I don’t find anything else, maybe we can end tonight with a court summons.”
He’d said all I needed to hear to comply.
I put my hands on the car, happy to have found a solution.
Without warning, he pulled my arm from under me, pressing his body against my displayed rear. He stretched both arms in front of me and leaving my chest pressed against the hood.
“More like that,” he said very close to my ear.
Control was the name of the game, and he had it.
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“More like that,” he said very close to my ear.
Control was the name of the game, and he had it.
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He pressed against me with a hardness that had nothing to do with a gun, badge, or anything other than him. Every muscle tensed even as he backed off me and I fought the urge to move into a more comfortable stance, painfully aware of how turned on the domination made me feel.
“That’s perfect, ma’am. Just maintain that position and we’ll get along just fine.”
I turned my head, trying to get sight of him.
“Face forward, ma’am.” He twisted my head with a handful of hair and chills broke over my body.
I had begged – begged – boyfriends to be rough with me and always they were afraid to hurt me. His disregard for my comfort affected me in ways I didn’t expect, but in those situations, I possessed control. Here, I had none.
“Before we begin, is there anything at all on you that I should know about? Any needles, knives?”
“No, sir,” I said, voice small. “Nothing.”
“Are you lying?” His voice was thick with sarcasm.
I winced at the accusation.
His hands started at my shoulders, patting down my back before running down my sides, lightly brushing my breasts in the process. I expected more groping, but he kept moving downward, moving to my hips and down my outer legs all the way to my bare ankles and then journeyed back up my inner thighs.
He cupped me roughly from behind, pinching my mound, encircling my waist with a strong arm to pull me closer. A familiar heat between my legs responded, but injustice reared its ugly head and the feminist in me roared.
A police officer shouldn’t do this! I pushed up from the car in protest but found my position didn’t allow for much movement.
“Stay where you are, ma’am. I don’t want to hurt you.”
I relaxed my arms. What had I gotten myself into?
“I don’t have anything else on me,” I moaned into the hood, trying to disguise the desire in my voice.
“Stop.” I didn’t mean it.
“I’ll make you a deal,” he whispered. “If you aren’t soaking wet right now, we can forget this ever happened.”
He didn’t hesitate at the flimsy bikini bottom beneath ,my shorts. My eyes closed in shame, knowing what he’d find.
He laughed when he found my entrance, slippery and hot.
“Oh, you are in trouble, aren’t you?”
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Possum Kingdom : Larry Yoke
Possum Kingdom
Fiction: Crime, murder mystery set at Possum Kingdom Lake in north Texas
Murders are mysteries much like puzzle pieces that need to be put together to reveal the face of the true killer. Possum Kingdom introduces Detectives, Gloria Ramos and David “Rocky” Brandel who follow a trail of puzzle pieces leading them to an international suspect. Just when they think they know who the killer is they discover another puzzling piece which suddenly gives them multiple suspects, but there is only one murderer.
A torso was found at the lake near the Shepard dam and David Brandel was given the case. Since the body was dismembered to the point where they could not identify the victim, it took CSI, The Medical Examiner’s office, K-9 units, Scuba divers, and a book full of persistent investigation, from both detectives, to finally identify the victim, establish who the killer was among a host of suspects to finally bringing them to justice.
The story has international ties from Panama to Texas. It includes a billionaire shipping tycoon, his son, his lovely daughter, security officer, a local gang leader in Panama, Ralph Morgan and his wife, Melissa, Detectives David Brandel and Gloria Ramos and many law enforcement officers and their canine friends from various agencies in the Great state of Texas.
They all fight the elements and each other to get to the last puzzle piece of who the real killer was. Can you solve the puzzle before these two seasoned Detectives?