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Reason for Existence : Richard Botelho
Reason for Existence
When David Jordan, an extraterrestrial human in appearance, agrees to help U.N. Secretary General Nicholas Straka resolve an escalating nuclear crisis, he also learns he must defuse a horrifying plot to exterminate humanity by a hostile race of beings who despise human culture.
Somehow, he must thwart both crises before a worldwide intervention is launched by his superiors, destroying human innocence in the process. In Reason for Existence, David learns the origins of human conflict, the nature of secret societies, the true meaning of friendship, and the enduring qualities of love.
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Finding Bartholomew : D. Chris Lemme
Finding Bartholomew – A Demented Tale from the Prophet
Life is absurd, prickly and oftentimes indecipherable. In the midst of this realization, sometimes the hardest question to answer is; who am I? Trapped by circumstances of his own making, Steve Mitchell has particular trouble finding the answer to this question.
Married to a woman he doesn’t love, Steve doesn’t recognize the person he is supposed to be. Husband. Father. Lover. His despair materializes as daily and vivid suicide fantasies.
Reality for Steve becomes especially tenuous when friends and strangers start to quote the wisdom from Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet”.
Set in the gritty environs of Chicago, Steve’s life becomes more surreal when he meets the sexually provocative Debra. But the national tragedy of 9-11 jolts Steve’s world off a cliff. “Finding Bartholomew” is an edgy, fantastical and erotic romp through the challenges of the modern family, love and relationships.
““More of a tormented than demented tale, D. Chris Lemme’s first novel will take you to hell and back by way of suicidal digressions, sexual passions and daredevil acts of existential courage.” – Gerald Hausman, editor and author
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Dead Men : Derek Haines
Dead Men
Evolution hasn’t made a lot of difference as far as men are concerned. The end of the chase has changed little over the eons, as he drags his woman back to his cave in the belief he needs to spread his genes. When she rebuffs his advances, he resorts immediately to violence and roars in disbelief at the rejection. Our society may have changed, but as far as the Alpha Male is concerned, little has changed in his belief that he is the dominant hunter and protector.
Although believing we live in a civilised society, when men are rejected by their women, primeval urges are difficult to repress. A hurt male, is a hurt male, so beware. Dead Men is a raw, undignified and sad tale of men who have trouble in accepting their own failings and fragilities, and instinctive need to blame the women in their lives for their sudden demise. Having difficulty in accepting that their women and children are not their possessions, they regress to needing vengeance, retribution and humiliation on their path to renewal. Dead Men is disturbing, uncouth and at times vulgar.
A story that may surprise, offend or shock, but will certainly not be forgotten. Whether you are man or woman, single, married or divorced, you will connect with the characters and their human reactions to the trauma of lost love and rejection. At times ugly, but always too very real.
Review: “Certain lines stay with you after you’ve finished reading a book. Every book has its own memory. That I completed the book in less than 24 hours should give you a hint how gripping it was. Never a pretty read but a stunning work of reality. Beneath all the `ugliness’ (as the author points out) one appreciates the sensitivity of the characters. Not quite perfect, but undoubtedly human. With flaws, regrets, qualities and scars as anyone else. Life, of course, goes on and Hope, at the end of the day, is the fuel we all need to survive. The author makes it clear at the beginning with: “A story that may surprise, offend or shock, but will certainly not be forgotten.” He is, as always, correct.”
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Septimity and The Blood Brotherhood : Derek Haines
Septimity and The Blood Brotherhood – The third Glothic Tale
Finally, the third and last book in The Glothic Tales Trilogy.
Long after HAL and February The Fifth, the Gregorian Royal Family gene pool has degenerated so badly that the next Supreme Potentate of Gloth is destined to be be a boy idiot, whose father died racing him to the Palace garden. His father won the race by jumping from the Palace roof screaming, ‘I win! I win!’ just before meeting his death on a brick pathway alongside a beautiful bed of roses.
The death however, finally provides Septimity and his six brothers the chance to enact Ichor. Planned for eons, their dream is to return a pure blood Glothian to the position of Supreme Potentate and rid Gloth of all the embarrassing Erdean monkey genes that had infected their planet for almost ever.
However as is the way with plans, not everything goes as it was envisaged and as Septimity discovers, the very best way to handle major plan problems is to leave them all until tomorrow and get on with enjoying breakfast.
Join Septimity in this third and final Glothic Tale and have a fun filled giggle around the galaxy.
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Castle on the Hill : Lloyd A. Green
Castle on the Hill : Secrets
Take four high school students who have an ever-increasing interest in one another, add one brilliant-but-mad scientist with a creation/immortality obsession, and then top it off with spirits that desperately need to find a host. Mix them all together and you have Castle on the Hill: Secrets, a speculative fiction novella, which will keep you guessing as the students fight for their lives.
In the year 2067, the High School for Dimensional Arts, also known as the Castle, has opened its doors to its freshman class. The specialized technology of Dimensional Arts enables students to build various forms of art through mental controls. Unfortunately, the founder is conducting his own experiments and plans to use the students as his guinea pigs. Professor Stone calls his newest discovery, Waters of Eternal Life and Liberty or W.E.L.L. He lives by the quote, “Only after you accept that you must die, will you understand that you can live forever.”
Dora, who is also the daughter of the man who created the school, has learned to be cautious when dealing with others but her first weeks at Dimensional Arts have been filled with warm friendships. One of these is a talented young student and childhood acquaintance named Ethan. But even as she and Ethan reminisce under a tree in a nearby park, her new friend Grace has decided that she only has eyes for Dora. Then there’s Phillip who will do whatever he has to in order be everyone’s friend.
You are invited to spend a day at Dimensional Arts and see just how complicated high school can really be.
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Cut In Three : Derek Haines
Cut In Three : The Raw Allure of Revenge
When one door closes, there is alway another, all too ready to slam you in the face!
“Nothing is predictable in Derek Haines’ novella, Cut In Three.”
It doesn’t take long to destroy your house of cards life, when there are those around you who are ready to blow an ill and vengeful wind your way. In Sam’s case, his secure, stable and perhaps, even boringly comfortable suburban life is turned on its head in a matter of hours. Within days, his life is twisted beyond belief, and with the passing of only a few short weeks, his life is well on course for complete and utter destruction.
Yet, no matter the evil one perceives in others, in the end, it is often one’s own deeds that come back to haunt you. Being no angel, Sam discovers that he can’t walk away from his own mistakes, misadventures and misgivings, although his conscience would prefer to blindly ignore his own failings.
His only possible means of escape comes by sheer chance, and an accident, yet he is so blinded by bitterness and hate that he shuns his one true hope of a possible return to reality, and normality.
In doing so, he exposes himself to having his life torn to shreds.
Through his own selfish and inescapable mistakes, he is to be savagely cut to pieces, by three ill and very vengeful winds, who all wish to render their revenge upon him.
Read Cut In Three – a very noir and bitter account of life in the all too real.
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Pelf – Emily’s Men of Greed : Derek Haines
Pelf – Emily’s Men of Greed
Money, murder and greed make very good bedfellows.
Within the space of a few chaotic days, Emily Rhodes not only uncovers the truth about the serial philandering of her husband, but also loses her job, house, marriage and her sense of self worth, as a result of her husband’s lust, greed and lies.
While she attempts to come to terms with the dramatic changes in her life and adjust to the financial hardship, loss of friends and her dignity, her ex husband continues flaunting his new and very young girlfriend around the small city in which they live – but she refuses to leave.
Advised to move away to a bigger city and a fresh start, Emily resists, as unknown to others, she has a family tie that she cannot walk away from, no matter the pain that her staying causes. When she finally secures a new job and with it, a sense that her life might at last be returning to a degree of normality and routine, long kept lies, secrets and the insatiable pelf of those close to her begin to surface, and she is forced to accept, and then fight the ugly truth that they hold.
Money, murder and greed make very good bedfellows, and as Emily unwittingly discovers, the men in her life are also much closer to each other than she could ever have imagined.
Until she can escape from the clutches, their deceit and lust for ill gotten gains, she will never be able to put the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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The Few : Derek Haines
The Few : The sequel to The Sons of Cleito
Three months after his fortunate release, Langley Garret discovers that his abductions certainly were not a case of mistaken identity.
The sound of Chara’s voice, returning from the dead, and interrupting him on an early morning walk starts his unwelcome return to the grip of the Sons, and finally the understanding as to why everyone has been so interested in him. He is the son of the leader of the group, and it is time for him to accept his duty, and to accept Chara as his consort.
Still struggling to understand and refusing to believe, it is only when he and Chara narrowly escape an attack on his apartment that the reality starts to dawn on him. There are those, who he comes to know as The Few, who do indeed want him, but now want him, dead.
When he is taken yet again against his will, but this time without being drugged and restrained, he travels to Lake Como to meet his father, Kratos, and discovers that his own death could well come from either side unless he accepts his destiny. His father warns him that he would kill his own to protect the Sons. Langley’s record of bad luck doesn’t improve, and he has little time to think about his own fate as he is swept into a world of power, money, lies and deceit.
It is only when an old enemy becomes his friend that Langley sees a glimmer of hope at the end of his tunnel of desperation. However, even more danger lurks for Langley as he tries to decide who he can trust.
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Blood Ties : J.D. Cunegan
Blood Ties
For as long as Jill Andersen could remember, her father was a hero.
But heroes don’t commit murder, do they? The state of Maryland said Paul Andersen did just that, three times over, and was set to execute him for it. But Jill and the rest of her colleagues at the Baltimore Police Department come across the murder of a law student that leaves her hopeful that she can clear her father’s name.
While Jill and her colleagues work against the clock to clear her father’s name, new players emerge, hinting to a deeper, darker conspiracy than what was previously known. An enigmatic faction known as The Order reveals itself, and the mystery surrounding Paul’s alleged duplicity leaves more questions than answers.
Along the way, Jill must not only face the possibility that her father was not who she thought he was, but she must also face the prospect of her secret being revealed. The stakes are higher than ever in Blood Ties, the intense follow-up to J.D. Cunegan’s debut mystery Bounty.
Can Jill save her father before it’s too late? Will she even want to?
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The Circles of Life : Anna Aizic
The Circles of Life : My Ukrainian Family’s Odyssey of Secrets, Love and Survival
Anna Aizic’s memoir in letters manages to transcend numerous potential hazards of the form to engage and enlighten her readers. While she initially put this collection together in order to pay homage to her loved ones and preserve for her children the history of their fascinating family, I believe she has also managed to produce an important historical document.
The personal accounts she includes of life during and after World War II in the stunning port city of Odessa, Ukraine, echo with her remarkable extended family’s indefatigable hope and humor and, as Anna would say, love of Life. Yet they are mixed with the tragic realities of existence in a Communist system that had no tolerance for Jews who wished to escape its rule.
Anna Aizic’s memoir follows her family’s eventual yet imperfect escape to Israel, the ultimate goal as taught to all by her beloved Zeida in his secret Ulpan of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It also reveals how, despite a penchant for tragedy that seems to follow her family from Odessa to Israel and even to America, where Anna is eventually diagnosed with — and survives — metastatic breast cancer, the seemingly unbearable is somehow overcome due to her family’s powerful legacy that includes not only hope and humor, but a willingness to acknowledge, savor and share its stories.
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