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The Wedding Shroud – A Tale of Ancient Rome : Elisabeth Storrs
The Wedding Shroud – A Tale of Ancient Rome
‘a sensitivity to the realities of life in a very different time and world’ Ursula Le Guin
In 406 BC, to seal a tenuous truce, the young Roman Caecilia is wedded to Vel Mastarna, an Etruscan nobleman from the city of Veii. The fledgling Republic lies only twelve miles across the Tiber from its neighbour, but the cities are from opposing worlds so different are their customs and beliefs.
Leaving behind a righteous society, Caecilia is determined to remain true to Roman virtues while living among the sinful Etruscans. Instead she finds herself tempted by a mystical, hedonistic culture which offers pleasure and independence to women as well as a chance to persuade the Gods to delay her destiny. Yet Mastarna and his people also hold dark secrets and, as war looms, Caecilia discovers that Fate is not so easy to control and that she must finally choose where her allegiance lies.
Exploring themes of sexuality, destiny versus self-determination and tolerance versus prejudice, The Wedding Shroud is a novel that vividly captures a historical time and place while accenting the lives of women of the ancient world.
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The Bipolar : Raj Gadapa
The Bipolar
Krishna, an immigrant from India and an engineer by profession, is diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his late twenties after a failed relationship with Courtney, an American woman who has beautiful blue eyes.
Twenty years later, when Krishna is in his forties and the father of two children, strange gunmen begin following him in fast-moving cars—with the intent to kill. In trying to investigate his stalkers and why they want to kill him, Krishna realizes that his preference for women with blue eyes has made him a target of a white supremacist group.
He also finds out that Neelloc, a waitress and engineering student he had a relationship with, one that ended disastrously, also seems to be associated with the supremacist group.
Will Krishna’s bipolar disorder make his situation worse, or will it help him this time? Will it just save his life so that he can be there for his children, or will it do more by helping him reunite with Neelloc, the woman he still cares about?
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The Day Cancer Died : Dr. Darnell L Huntley
The Day Cancer Died : Myles Dream
One of the best books you will read this year!
Has your life been touched by Cancer? Do you have a loved one, friend, or just know someone who have lost someone to Cancer? Or maybe a Cancer survivor? Cancer hits close to home for many families across this nation and global territories. I lost my grandfather to lung cancer and my father is in remission from Prostate Cancer.
In this book, Myles experience the loss of two family members to Cancer. He petitions God for help. Cancer is illustrated through the form of a personality. Cancer reveals his mission and discusses his knowledge of the ongoing coalition to end his life. Cancer is put on the witness stand to answer why he seeks to pursue the lives of our loved ones. In the pursuit to cure Cancer forever one character discuss the steps she takes to avoid being defeated by Cancer. In the end, CANCER DO NOT WIN! In Myles dream he receives the answer many of us awaits to hear one day soon.
The Doll Dilemma : Caron Pescatore
The Doll Dilemma – Luanna and The Kids’ Court
A headless doll. A boy with a habit of breaking toys. A sister who is convinced her brother is the guilty party.
Eleven-year-old Luanna Porcello is a peacemaker at heart. So it’s no surprise that she wants to help when she overhears twin siblings, Jenny and Jimmy Corbett, fighting over who broke Jenny’s beloved doll. Jenny is positive Jimmy is the culprit, but he claims he’s innocent. To uncover the truth, Luanna decides to start a kids’ court.
With the help of a few friends, Luanna gets to work. Believing in Jimmy’s innocence, she assumes the role of his attorney. Best friend, Phoebe Chen, becomes her private investigator. Jake Crandall, Jimmy’s fiercely loyal, but not so bright, best friend, is thrilled at the prospect of being the court bailiff, because he’ll get to carry a gun. Jake’s thirteen-year-old sister, Heather, is recruited to be the judge. Although she’s way too cool to hang out with “children,” the thought of all that power is too much for her to resist.
As the drama unfolds in court, unexpected facts are revealed by the testimony of each witness. With all the evidence stacking up against Jimmy, Luanna begins to wonder…is her client as innocent as she thinks he is?
Join Luanna and the Kids’ Court as they delve into their first case and try to uncover the truth of who really destroyed Jenny’s doll!
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Bedroom Blossom :
Bedroom Blossom
What can a woman do if unwanted attention comes from an attractive man. Caroline knows the attraction is just lustful when she longs for love. Caroline’s solution may have been a bit extreme.
Caroline is a successful Social Worker in London, until a midlife crisis hits her husband and she is divorced for another woman.
She enters depression but finds a way out. Selling up and moving on, she has grand designs until she is plagued by her sexual desires.
She is trapped and there is only one way out. But her guilt is extreme. Her fate is absolute.
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Life and Death – Making Sense of It : Francis O’Neill
Life and Death – Making Sense of It
A thought-provoking spiritual perspective on our lives.
Sometime, some day, maybe not all that far away, you are going to leave your physical body and move on… This will be the biggest event of your life, and if you haven’t yet considered it, or made preparation for it, then you really ought to read this book…
Written by a reformed sceptic, Life and Death – Making Sense of It, will take you on an adventure to exploring just what it is you have let yourself in for – by coming to the Earth. It offers insight and clarity on our situation. It proposes answers to leading questions about life and death – and these answers are a long way from what we are being taught by conventional means.
The book challenges our increasingly secular take on life, and its denial of the afterlife. It draws on a range of sources, including the paranormal, NDE, past lives, and mediumship. It explores and offers an explanation for the rise of human consciousness. It provides insight, including esoteric perspectives, into the soul, reincarnation, karma and the ‘Other Side.’
In his twenties, the author, Francis O’Neill, was an atheist and existentialist in his beliefs. Only later did he realise he had got it wrong. This was after experiencing one particular paranormal event – he’s had a few – and later coming across a book by C.G. Jung. From that point on he began to explore life from a different perspective. It has become his lifelong study and research, taking him into archaeology, astrology, psychology and esoteric knowledge, to gain a clearer understanding of the human situation.
This book is the outcome and reflection on his personal journey.
The book is available in paperback and ebook versions – Kindle, EPUB and PDF. Get the Introduction and related articles for free – visit the book’s website.
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The Bumpkinton Tales : Matthew Drzymala
The Bumpkinton Tales : Volume One
Welcome to Bumpkinton!
Come in, have a cup of tea and a scone, and lose yourself in five humorous tales from the village.
Follow Father Whitworth O’Grady as he chokes on a penny, Albert Scatterhorn as he becomes the grubbiest Father Christmas ever, and Amelia Goose as she feuds with… well, anybody. Plus a whole host of characters as they attend the village’s first Singles Night with a sex-crazed ladies’ man.
Jump in and find out more for yourself…
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Court On Mount High : Randall Amos Chapman
Court On Mount High
There is growing frustration, discontent, and fear among the animal kingdom. Entire species have become extinct and hundreds more are endangered. There seems to be no end to their suffering.
The environment, too, is being plagued by deforestation and contaminants; both the water and air are highly polluted. The few humans who are rich and powerful wield seemingly unstoppable power while the majority of humanity are helpless, manipulated, and abused.
Finally, one soul summons the moral strength to question the status quo, and the unthinkable happens! Court on Mount High is an invigorating novelette that will inflame and mobilize a passion for the animal kingdom and the environment, which we mutually inhabit.
The characters, acting upon a driving need for change, evoke a universal hope for the future.
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Campanelli : Siege of the Nighthunter : Frederick H. Crook
June, 2110. A serial killer strikes the populace of the City of Chicago. The first victim is a wanted man by Detective Frank Campanelli’s Sentinel Division. His body had been mutilated and, from the evidence uncovered by forensic genius, H. Lincoln Rothgery, it has been partially consumed. The unknown invader leaves a trail of corpses behind in short order, including that of a homicide detective.
To add to the mystery, the DNA evidence retrieved from a stolen vehicle indicates that the killer is former military, but special encoding prevents the murderer from being identified. Frank’s partner, Marcus Williams, seems to know more about what’s going on than he lets on, until the former Navy SEAL calls in a friend from the FBI to help.
“The Nighthunter”, as the media has labeled him, instills terror and virtually shuts down Chicago. Together, Campanelli, Williams, and the agent must work to capture the enigmatic and frighteningly efficient cannibal.
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The Angola Deception : DC Alden
The Angola Deception
“A STORM IS COMING. AND IT’LL WIPE THIS EARTH CLEAN.”
Roy’s Sullivan’s world is falling apart. His wife and son have deserted him. His brother Jimmy, a private military contractor, has vanished into thin air somewhere in the Iraqi desert. All Roy has left is a dingy apartment and a low-paid job at London’s Heathrow airport. And now even that is under threat.
Sammy French, a violent criminal, is in need of a favour, one that a suddenly compromised Roy has no choice but to grant. Forced to take part in a perilous criminal conspiracy, Roy’s future is bleaker than the run-down estate he lives on.
Yet as the walls close in around him a mysterious stranger enters Roy’s crumbling world, a former Navy Seal who knows the truth about the Nine Eleven attacks, a man haunted by demons and hunted by powerful forces, a man who holds the key to the mystery of Jimmy Sullivan’s disappearance while guarding a covert facility deep in the Iraqi desert.
For Roy, this troubled and dangerous stranger will come to represent his only chance of escape, not only from the uncertainty of his brother’s fate and the clutches of a vicious gangster, but also from the coming storm, one that threatens to decimate humanity and usher in a ruthless and terrifying New World Order.
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