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Saving Phoebe Murrow : Herta Feely
Saving Phoebe Murrow
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO BE THE PERFECT MOTHER?
A story about the timeless struggle between mothers and their teen daughters with a razor-sharp 21st century twist. This harrowing debut novel will make you question what’s needed to keep your children from harm.
Phoebe’s mother, Isabel, is precariously balancing her career and her family. Hardworking and caring, worried but supportive, all Isabel wants, in a world of bullies and temptations, is to keep her daughter safe.
But a cyber-bullying episode aimed at Phoebe pushes her to the edge with horrific consequences. Searching for justice and revenge, Isabel sets out to find the culprit behind this cruel incident.
Saving Phoebe Murrow, set amidst the complicated web of adolescent relationships, tells a story of miscommunication and malice, drugs and Facebook, prejudice and revenge.
Closer Together : Juliet Aharoni
Closer Together
In this remarkable sequel to Together They Overcame, Eyal and Rosalind piece their lives together as a married couple after the tragic accident that left Rosalind fighting for her life.
Struggling to find herself as she slowly recovers, Rosalind returns home with a deeper awareness of what has been troubling her for so long.
While Eyal does his best to nurse his wife back to health amid the tension still present from a mother who disapproves of Rosalind’s German Catholic heritage, his transfer to a base in the Israeli desert comes into play.
Rosalind quickly falls in love with her new surroundings and develops several deep-rooted friendships, but a series of tragic events and devastating betrayals leaves her questioning who she is—and what’s really important.
For fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Closer Together is a passionate tale of a young married couple struggling to find their way and regain their confidence in themselves and the life they are building together.
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Stranger In The Elevator : J.J. Poland
Stranger In The Elevator
Daniel would never think librarians are interesting. Boring people, who always read books. But his neighbor Jane was totally different story.
She was not his type, but something in her caught his attention.
Jane didn’t pay any attention to Daniel. She simply despised him. He was that type of a guy she could never be with.
But life has its own plans.
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The Cygnus Virus : T.J. Zakreski
The Cygnus Virus
“In a story that’s part William Gibson-style cyberthriller, part wacky comedy, the pendulum swings between an investigation of the human soul and off-color remarks …” – Kirkus Reviews
“A seriocomic novel that explores the possibilities of futuristic technology and the classic tropes of a mismatched duo.” – Kirkus Reviews
“T.J. Zakreski’s THE CYGNUS VIRUS is at times a very consciously literate and literary book, drawing its inspiration from such sources as Carl Jung, the rise of Nazism, and even the Tarot deck to string together its elaborate metaphorical schema.” – IndieReader
“THE CYGNUS VIRUS is at times an exciting, very smart, and even sometimes very funny book, never talking down to the reader and moving at a breakneck pace.” – IndieReader
Andron’s life goes into full wtf mode when he accidentally downloads a space virus, after enrolling his old computer in a SETI-like program.
A virus that crashes the entire Internet. A virus that has a name. It’s Cygnus, a foulmouthed digital pest, who was expelled from a dystopian planet Earth.
And it only gets worse.
Cygnus strong arms Andron into doing his dirty work. But, goes too far when someone winds up dead. That’s when Andron discovers Cygnus’ shocking plan.
A plan to hijack a human cloning trial using blood from a burial cloth, so that he can come back as Terra’s Jesus.
Andron comes to the only conclusion he can. That he has to stop this psychopath.
But, how does he stop a digital god who’s holding all the cards?
What if the only person who can help him, can’t decide if she hates him, or just thinks he’s nuts?
The birth’s about to go down in Bathsheba and Andron’s bringing a gun.
This is the story of rum, tarot cards, eternal recurrence and a Second Coming that you won’t see coming.
Murder Across the Street : Alisa Schindler
Murder Across the Street
Could a murderer be living across the street from Molly Davis? Could her neighbor, the same civilized, middle-aged man wearing peach Izods and waving amiably while getting his mail have actually killed his wife? Or could, as her husband and friends seem to think, she be dreaming up the whole sordid affair? Could she once again be creating some drama in her tedious, suburban mom life?
But she wasn’t imagining the sketchy phone call she overheard and she wasn’t imagining the blood she saw staining the sidewalk. So maybe she shouldn’t have taken her baby and followed him, and maybe she shouldn’t be snooping around his house, but once Molly’s nose gets a scent it goes straight to her head. And her nose smelled murder.
With her three kids in tow, a mean batch of cookies in her arsenal and her husband pulling out the last hairs on his head, Molly embarks on a fact-finding adventure to find out there’s a crazy man loose in the suburbs or if she’s just the crazy one.
Work & Wagers : Sherrie Sushko
Work & Wagers
Meet David Wagers, a cool, collected and incredibly handsome Private Investigator in the New York City area. David is hired to investigate the unsolved murder case of Courtney Tabbin, a popular, young woman with a promising future. Along the way, David encounters some interesting and suspicious characters and a complex office drama. Was Courtney’s murder just a random act of violence, or something more personal?
While digging deeper for answers, David also manages to juggle an understaffed office and even forms an alluring, new friendship with Victoria under the unlikeliest of circumstances. With impeccable skills of observation, deduction and razor-sharp instincts, David moves steadily towards solving the case but not without a few twists and turns, and managing to turn a few heads along the way.
Work & Wagers (David Wagers Case #1), a cozy murder mystery, is the first book in the new and exciting David Wagers detective series.
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Plague of Angels : John Patrick Kennedy
Plague of Angels
She’s the Queen of Hell. He’s the Son of God. They’ll end humanity… together.
Nyx is the ruler of the banished Angels. When her flock returns home, she’s stuck on Earth with none other than the Son of God.
Surprisingly, God’s son tells her he was tricked into sacrificing himself for a cause he doesn’t believe in – mankind’s redemption. As his mortal body dies, the Son of God offers the Queen of Hell a paradise on Earth if she completes a single mission: helping him obliterate humanity.
Nyx launches a thousand-year campaign of violence, sex, and betrayal to force God’s people to worship her instead. From the back streets of Jerusalem to the Pope’s bedchamber, Nyx and her companions work to destroy the worshippers of God.
What Nyx doesn’t realize is that her arrangement with God’s son isn’t as simple as it seems. The Son of God has plans that nobody will see coming…
Plague of Angels is the first book in The Descended saga, a series of dark fantasy novels that provide a twist on an old story. If you like fantasy fused with religion, thought-provoking plots, and graphic violence, then you’ll love John Patrick Kennedy’s tale of the underworld.
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Finding Southern Comfort : Regina Kay Roemmich
Finding Southern Comfort in a Not So Comfortable World
A book of poetry and insights into a ever changing world. In this book you will find a young girl growing up into womanhood in small town rural Arkansas, a father working himself to the bone just wanting a few minutes alone, an older woman wishing she was young again.
There are children who have no future and In the future; a humanoid wanting to feel like a human. There is humor, there is sadness, there is hope for the future, There is a beginning, middle and end to each poem. Set yourself down with a cuppa for thirty minutes and feel.
Not Like My Mother : Azra Alagic
Not Like My Mother
Survival triumphs against all odds in the battered Balkan lands. It is an heirloom passed down from generation to generation along with richness of tradition, recipes, love and land.
At fourteen, Samira leaves her childhood home to create a new life with returned soldier Azis. She carries with her visions of romance and babies, but his dark secrets have consequences for everyone around him.
Samira’s love for life and her effervescent spirit are passed on to her mischievous sons and daughters, but the traumas of war return to drive their family apart. Her beloved son, Muhammed, flees home and his father at the tender age of twelve. Though it breaks Samira’s heart, she knows it is the only way for her son to survive.
Years pass, and after wandering from one Balkan region to another, Muhammed joins Anika and her family, who are escaping the oppression of Tito’s communist Jugoslavia across the Austrian border. The young couple look with hope far across the other side of the world, to Australia where they are promised a life filled with opportunity and success. They carry with them the pride of their culture, the traditions of their heritage, and a willingness to work hard and succeed in the golden land.
But happiness is elusive and another Balkan war and religious differences begin to create a rift in the family. Unable to shake the emotional and psychological shadows of their past, it is left to Anika and Muhammed’s daughter, Yasna, to try to repair their fragile domestic peace and break the cycle of anger and displacement. Will her hope and love for her family, the country of her cultural origins and its people save them all?
Not Like My Mother is a poignant story that tracks the spirit, the love and the pain of three generations of women and their families over two continents, as well as examining the divide between three religions that has torn a country and its people apart. A meditation on a country, its people, its politics and its colliding differences.
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The Queen of Hearts : Valérie Lieko
Caribbean Black Jack : Book 1 The Queen of Hearts
At the end of the 18th century, Liliane de la Roche is treacherously abandoned by her wealthy lover on a deserted Caribbean island. Castaway in an unknown and hostile environment, she will do anything to survive.
Centuries later, Andrew Brooks is a card dealer in one of Sint Maarten’s prestigious casinos. One night, a mysterious woman, Soledad de La Cruz, plays Black Jack at his table and will turn his life upside down.
Dive into a nail-biting suspense while discovering Caribbean folklore and beliefs throughout history.
The Queen of Hearts is the author’s second novel and the first part of Caribbean Black Jack, an addictive series containing four books.
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