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New Growth & Native Roots : Jayne Menard
New Growth & Native Roots
Former FBI agent, Mathew Heylen, is in his prime as he founds a vineyard in the Oregon wine country. With the fields planted, handsome Mathew desires to find someone to share his life but his childhood fear of rejection stands in his way. Moreover, old and new business with the FBI disrupts his life by pulling him back into work for the FBI.
Mathew is drawn to his neighbor’s niece, Callie, who visits occasionally but is married and lives in California. Callie’s marriage to an arrogant alcoholic tests even her sweet, steadfast heart. Soon she has to decide what is best for herself and for her daughter.
As the plot unfolds, Mathew is required to step up as the leader. During his work to resolve cases against wily and dangerous adversaries, two criminals appeal to his innate goodness and sense of justice. Mathew must balance pursuing a solution acceptable to the FBI while recognizing the realities of deal-making with known felons and their enemies.
Even while the path to his future seems blocked at every turn, Mathew must overcome his personal barriers and resolve dangerous situations. Even with bullets whizzing around him, he travels to California, Paris, London and back to the United States. Aggressive criminals challenge him and his team from several directions, endangering those he loves.
Mathew becomes a man who must assess himself in the mirror and decide if he can fill his expectations for himself without disappointing his country, his friends, and his new found love.
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Protect Your Kids! : Steve Kovacs
Protect Your Kids! The Simple Keys to Children’s Safety and Survival
In “Protect Your Kids!” the author uses his experience in surviving violent attacks along with a treasure trove of training to help others survive and be safe.
The reader will find what parents and children both need to know to lessen the chance of children being a victim of sexual abuse and physical attacks. The book explains the 40% statistic, which when understood, can help parents save children from sexual abuse. How knowing three simple facts can cut the chance of children being abused by 50% is explained, as is how to stop bullying dead in its beginning tracks.
Children’s self-defense issues and what type of people to be wary of and to stay clear of, is covered. “Protect Your Kids!” helps parents and caretakers understand what they must do to help save their kids and also how they can teach their children to stay clear, and handle the perverts and predators who look for children to use and abuse.
The Heart’s Journey Home : Nikki Jackson
The Heart’s Journey Home : A Layover in Doppelganger-ville
Picking up where The Heart’s Journey Home: California Blend Summer Vacation leaves off, book two in the series follows seventeen-year-old Tori Logan as she and her best friends, AJ and Kalea, accompany Tori’s archeologist father to Israel.
Tori Logan is used to her life looking a little different from the lives of other girls her age. She’s also used to having plenty of adventures, so when she and her best friends see an excavated quarry in one of Jerusalem’s most famous archeological sites, they waste no time checking it out for themselves. Adventurous and fiercely independent, Tori leads her friends into the quarry where they happen upon what appears to be a secret passageway. As the trio laughs and jokes, small rumblings turn into big quakes and the walls start to crumble around them. Kalea and AJ escape, but the site collapses before Tori can find her way out.
When she regains consciousness, Tori realizes she’s traveled back in time to ancient Jerusalem. With her quick wit and drive to survive, she concocts a story about why she, a foreigner, is there and finds shelter with a widow woman named Judith – who looks exactly like her father’s live-in girlfriend, Rachel.
As Tori encounters other people who are spitting images of loved ones back home, she must reconcile truths about herself with the hard realities about the situation in which she finds herself. But will these lessons last once she’s back at home?
Will she even make it home?
Lycantis : Rage of Wolves : Malaena Medford
Lycantis : Rage of Wolves
Milavenai is a young woman from the strong Norse-like seaside village, Piascas Dulu. Her people’s way of life has always been the same – peria farmers trading frost-hardy fruit in the northern regions of Gordanadar while illegally hunting dangerous beasts and game to feed her village. An ominous foreboding surrounds the land like a shoal of deadly lurkers.
There is no question that it is a time of human oppression.
One day, Milavenai’s life is forever changed when she is pulled into an ancient prophecy. Together with two new-found companions, she must travel throughout the southern regions -where vicious werewolves and vampires populate the lands – as well as to the far north, in hopes of finding truths about herself and her people that have been kept secret for centuries.
As Milavenai is propelled into an adventure that causes her to awaken a furious beast hidden long ago by her oldest ancestors…nothing is certain. Now,as the world of Zxy’Araei hangs in the balance, Milavenai desperately searches for answers without any idea of what she is about to uncover.
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My View from the Summit (VFS) : Nicole Thomas
My View from the Summit(VFS)
She’s spent a good portion of her life in search of happiness—struggling to find her place, and to discover her worth. But if there’s one thing Nicole Thomas has figured out, it’s that every experience contains an important lesson, and that God has been there for every step along the way.
So with that knowledge, she began to blog. From the ins and outs of divorce and child-rearing, to important conversations with friends, her everyday reflections have served as a creative outlet, documenting moments of laughter, tears, joy, and sorrow.
Now, for the first time in print, Thomas’s blog entries make up an intimate and fascinating portrait of a life—one that is far from perfect, but filled with inspirational lessons that she (and readers) will never forget.
Sometimes lighthearted, at times touching, but always thoroughly relatable, My View from the Summit is a compilation of the most impactful stories from Thomas’s blog—each one containing a profound “gem” of wisdom to accompany the author’s unique voice and worldview.
Wish You A Goode Journey : Marcy Heath Robitaille
Wish You A Goode Journey
After losing 17 year old daughter Makenzie Mia Goode in a tragic accident, Makenzie’s mom, Marcy felt compelled to share their story. Although initially consumed in grief with her daughter’s unexpected departure, Marcy has since found joy and healing as the additional chapter of her daughter’s life unfolds. Makenzie saved six lives through her organ donation.
Tremendous blessings are received as the reader gets a glimpse of how Makenzie has changed so many lives for the better. In the book, letters and stories are shared about the organ recipients and Makenzie’s family as they get to know one another. Kenzie continues to show off her fun-loving spirit as little gems are left for her mom as her mom searches in what she has coined “the treasure hunt of her life”. One of the biggest finds, a tiny slip of paper,which was a Chinese fortune pasted to a mirror. So inspirational was the message: “Wish You a Good Journey”. This was a pivotal moment for Marcy in flipping her emotions. A quest to find joy and happiness has been first and foremost in honoring her daughter’s memory..
This book is filled with surprising signs “Godwinks” from above as God offers hope and joy in these “AHA” treasure finds. Come along on this Goode journey by reading about Makenzie and her amazing gifts.
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#Thoughts : Nicole Thomas
#Thoughts
Life is hard, and everyone needs a little bit of inspiration along the way!
Find the personal pep talk you need in short order with this collection of inspirational quotes collected by author Nicole Thomas.
A compilation of life’s most valuable truths, rephrased and repurposed by Thomas for personal use, these quotes have the power to help you stop, reconsider your circumstances, reframe your choices, and then commit once more to living your best life as the best version of yourself.
You don’t have to read this book in one sitting, either. Grouped into thematic sections, the quotes can be read on the go, providing quick inspiration for the areas of life you need most—when you most need it.
With motivation to help you face difficulty in relationships, life changes, self-confidence, adversity, and much, much more, this book also includes reflective exercises to help you process your thoughts and feelings along the way.
Don’t fall prey to the belief that you must travel the road alone! Find inspiration and motivation for the journey—and then share it with others—from this powerful book of quotations.
Twisted : Sarah Reeves
Twisted
Claire Manson is an ordinary girl living an ordinary life, and she already has the entirety of her life planned out for herself: inherit her grandmother’s bakery, fall in love, start a family, and essentially, live happily. Along the way, she hopes to find a sense of adventure in her dreary life, and love seems to be that adventure she is oh-so desperately seeking.
And she finds it, but not in the way she had, or could ever have, imagined.
Moving from the city of London to the quiet town of Louth seemed like a dream come true—there, she had spent many unforgettable summers of her childhood. But she quickly comes to discover that it’s everything but peaceful.
It’s a living nightmare.
Death as a daily spectacle, people living in constant fear, a terribly corrupt police force, all because of a power-hungry gang submitting its domination and power through force and violence. Claire finds herself in the midst of their fury, and she has no choice but to turn to an even more dangerous organization which, strangely, becomes her only source of haven.
And there she meets Heath.
Meeting Heath turns her entire world upside down—morally and logically. He’s everything her mother warned her about, and he’s far from a knight in shining armor. Being with him comes danger, death, and fear, but he’s everything she never knew she wanted, and the more she falls for him, the less of a chance there is for her ever turning back.
In a world where loyalty is nonexistent, can she trust him with not only her life, but her heart?
Birdwoman : Anne Carlisle
Birdwoman: Memoirs of a Lovesick Siren (Diaries of a Siren, Book 1)
Hot romance and the paranormal-among-us are brewed together in this funny, racy, coming-of-age memoir from 23-year-old Destiny Dragoman. She is a sexy siren in human form, which has its ups and downs. The word “dragoman” means interpreter or guide, and Destiny’s popular syndicated advice column, “Ask Dear Destiny” has turned her into an international hotie.
Everything from computer dating to sexual fantasy is explored in her columns and blogs. She also possesses gifts of mind-reading and musical genius — not to mention vestigial wings and talons covered by fashionable gloves and capes. Destiny flies like a migratory bird between Pinnacle, Wyoming, and Key West, Florida, two small towns where extremes in sex and religion are the norm.
Along the way she attracts a flock of sirens from antiquity and chronic family problems. Although Destiny’s predatory powers outmatch any human’s, she experiences heartbreak over and over again. She lives under the shadow of a family curse — the women can have any man they like, so long as they like him dead. In her memoirs she refers to herself as a “damned creature.” What terrible event is she afraid to reveal?
If she is the vanguard of a new human species, Is she a force for evil or good? If for good, how will she defeat the curse and find true love?
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Search for the Truth : Kathryn Freeman
Search for the Truth
Sometimes the truth hurts …
When journalist Tess Johnson takes a job at Helix pharmaceuticals, she has a very specific motive. Tess has reason to believe the company are knowingly producing a potentially harmful drug and, if her suspicions are confirmed, she will stop at nothing to make sure the truth comes out.
Jim Knight is the president of research and development at Helix and is a force to be reckoned with. After a disastrous office affair he’s determined that nothing else will distract him from his vision for the company. Failure is simply not an option.
As Tess and Jim start working together, both have their reasons for wanting to ignore the sexual chemistry that fires between them. But chemistry, like most things in the world of science, isn’t always easy to control.
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