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Celluloid : Holly Curtis
Celluloid
Jimmy Clifford is a thirty-year-old movie addict and film memorabilia shop owner. He is also very fed up. He is fed up with his best friend Oswald’s stupid, made-up card games, his drug dealer Pluto’s novelty drugs are losing their novelty and his anti-depressants don’t appear to be working anymore.
But when he discovers that the Crypt – a local, independent cinema that he regards as his ‘spiritual home’ – is to be demolished, he feels compelled to act. Getting together with his friends and a fellow shop owner they decide upon an idea – there will be a ‘Save the Crypt’ cabaret night (featuring local performers) to highlight the situation and raise money in the process.
All Jimmy has to do for his part is get out and find seven acts in two months – not so easy when you’re an agoraphobic and you’re up against giant egos and a psychotic property developer.
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Living with Your Past Selves : Bill Hiatt
Living with Your Past Selves
What would it be like to remember all of your previous lives? Taliesin Weaver (Tal) found out—the hard way. Though he’s only sixteen, his head is crammed with the memories of hundreds of former lives. He nearly drowned in that flood of memories at first, but once he learned how to cope, he realized there were advantages, like being able to use the knowledge and even the skills from his former lives.
Since one of those lives was the original Taliesin, King Arthur’s bard, Tal went from being a mediocre musician to a great one, and it meant that he could work magic. Cool, right?
That’s what he thought too, until he discover that someone else knew his secret and wanted to kill him. The apparition that predicted his death was a hint, but when a shape shifter disguised as his best friend tried to kill him? That’s when he knew he was in trouble. Things got even worse when he and some of his fellow students got pulled into Annwn, the Welsh Otherworld, and nearly got taken prisoner by Morgan le Fay—though Morgan was not the one trying to kill him.
He knew then that if he didn’t figure out what was happening and fast, he would not be the only one to die…
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Loveland – The Octets : Gary Rimmer
Loveland – The Octets
The language is sweet, romantic, and inspired by Shakespeare. If you are a romantic at heart then I think you might like these lyrical octets, or little word pictures. Fifty five new poems exploring the complexities of the human condition and the world around us. Thought provoking and humorous at times. Poems of nature, unrequited love, ambivalent love, suffering, desire, lust, loss, time, and more….
The octet form is a difficult form to write to. It has taken a number of years to build this collection. With an emphasis on detail, and using poetic devises. The end results give a distinct poetic sound.
The poem, The Smile, describes how a simple smile can stir the heart – but not necessarily in a good way! The winter bird poems, The Thrush, Robin, and Hawk allude to suffering and survival. The poem, Dissonance, uses the Mozart quartet to describe the feelings of love and condolence. The poem, Ambivalent Love, dramatically describes the ambiguities found in a relationship.
Wordsworth
My worth is but his words echoed,
He being master of the verse,
So when I write a line, ’tis owed
To him in me and this green Earth.
So gratefully my head is bowed,
And he and me and lovely Earth
Write on – His part the greater sound
In my verse, giving my words – worth.
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Bounty : J.D. Cunegan
Bounty
Jill Andersen is one of Baltimore’s best and brightest detectives, but she harbors a dark secret — a secret that threatens to come out when the body of Dr. Trent Roberts is pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Roberts’ connection to Jill reveals a past that involves a tour in Iraq, a secretive cybernetic experiment, and a conspiracy that involves a native son.
Can Jill solve the case while still keeping her secret? Will her partners at the Seventh Precinct find out what she’s so desperate to hide? What was Dr. Roberts looking into that led to his murder? And perhaps the biggest question of all…
Who is Bounty?
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Dark Breath: A Collection of Poetry : Keishi Ando
Dark Breath: A Collection of Poetry
The dark breath which is like inhaling a miasma of darkness, that sometimes brings with it melancholy, despair and insanity. Life and death, love and hatred, “the dark breath’s” collection of poems elicits thoughts of all of these.
The dark world that is Keishi Ando’s own is portrayed within this poetry. If someone dares to categorize it as an existing genre, it would be a combination of gothic fiction and dark romance with cyberpunk undertones.
Please drink deeply from the well of darkness contained within these pages, from the author’s own shadowy world.
For without darkness, how can you recognize light?
Poems:
I: Scream
Metal Beetle
Master X Climax
Romanticize
Oblivion
Someone Says
Unknown Morning Pain
Li-lala
Shadow Drop
Bitterness of Why
Embalmer’s Art
Meteor Stream: Chaos
A Death
Tick-Tock
Gothic & Dark Fantasy Poetry with Romantic undertones. New-style Poems by an up-and-coming Japanese Poet/Author. Check this Out right now!!!
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Dirty : M C Flux
Dirty: The confessions of a reformed drug addict and soccer hooligan who made it big on the dance scene
MC Flux tells you how it is (or was) in his book ‘Dirty’.
A journey through some of Britain’s’ turbulent times and culture through the eyes of Carl “MC Flux” Thomas and his crew.
The book invites you to pull up a pint and witness the excitement of being one of the leaders in the birth of the Drum ‘n’ Bass rave scene, one that lives on in our youth’s culture today. But it’s not all raves and banging tunes, the book also takes you through the darker times of 80’s football violence and institutionalised racism with brutal honesty and transparency.
MC Flux, is a top drum and bass MC, a UK pioneer in this type of dance music. Inspired in his teens by reggae, back in the 80s he became Youth Champion of the Reggae Young Sounds competition. Talent spotted for top clubs, he was soon the MC of choice for raves such as Innovation, Desire, Dreamscape, World Dance, Innocence and Helter Skelter.
He even formed his own clothing company. Flux has spent plenty of time on the dark side and dicing with the law – he has often been in the front line during violent clashes at soccer matches, and his involvement with drugs led to prison sentences for drug possession and violent disorder. This is his raw, colourful story, written with the help of his close friend Peter Spence, better known in the dance world as Pete Nice.
Vivid and explicit, this is not a story for the faint-hearted.
“It’s the sort of book that should be picked up for a film, or a gritty BBC drama.” (DJ Mag)
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ADHD to Honor Roll : Soozy G. Miller
ADHD to Honor Roll: How I Cured My Child’s ADHD Without Drugs (And You Can, Too!)
When my son was 6 years old, all the ADHD doctors and all the materials I read said there is no cure for ADHD. The thinking was that you can manage ADHD (like diabetes), but the child will always have it. Sometimes ADHD fades with age, but the child might carry ADHD through adulthood. There is nothing else you can do.
That is wrong. It is untrue about ADHD and other behavioral issues associated with children.
If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD or other behavioral challenges, or you simply sense that something is wrong, consider a route other than pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals don’t solve the problem; they only mask the issues. ADHD drug benefits are constantly debated and their toxicity and negative side effects are well known and well documented. Just read my history with them.
If you work with the right practitioner, and if you consider other factors such as environmental, emotional, physical, nutritional, and habitual influences, you will find the root of the problem. You can heal your child forever—naturally—without giving your child unnecessary and harmful medicine. Healing your child naturally will feel better and will result in long-term benefits.
My son went from having ADHD tantrums to succeeding as a High Honor Roll student. And we got him there the natural way, without drugs. You can, too!
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The Accidental Wife : Cj Fosdick
The Accidental Wife
Jessica Brewster comes from a long line of over-achieving, independent women with a penchant for storytelling, smart-ass retorts and marrying late in life. She resembles the great-great grandmother she is named for, who once survived an Indian massacre —and her subsequent prejudice— to fall in love with a green-eyed half breed in a century that had little tolerance for interracial marriage.
When the family’s current heiress dies, Jessica’s life takes an unexpected U-turn back in time. While going through inherited keepsakes, she finds a hidden teacup with a strange hallmark. Taking it to work at Old Fort Laramie, she adds it to the antique donations that stage the restorations at the historic park site. Tourist season is in full swing in 2012 when she takes part in an interpretive 1880’s tea party and finds “Living History” takes on new meaning when she slips back to the wrong year…in the wrong century…in the wrong shoes. In 1886, she’s become her look-alike great-great grandmother, married to the family’s mesmerizing hero and mother to her own nine-year-old great grandmother. Until she can find a portal back to the present, the well-educated, 30-year-old plays the role of a lifetime, immersing herself into character while struggling with guilt and a mouth that keeps spouting Twenty-first Century insights and idioms.
Can a woman who has never known the love of a man or child pull off the charade without losing her own heart? Jessica will navigate checks and balances in the timeless journey of the heart, especially when a mysterious gypsy and her ancestor’s brother shows up with his own dark secret. Does her future lie in the past, or in any era? Her legacy and her life teeter in the balance of discovery.
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Assaie’s Gift : D E Howard
Assaie’s Gift
Human love can last a lifetime, the love of a Goddess is eternal.
“A pantheonic love story with several twists on the theme, I can highly recommend this first novel by this author”
“Amazing book from start to end”
“I shall be recommending it to my friends”
There was a time when the Gods and Goddesses watched over the world, a time when they were worshipped and loved, but that time has passed.
Their names became legends, those legends became myths and eventually even the myths were forgotten… but not by everyone.
When the Goddess Assaie fell for a human she gave up everything, including her identity, to be with him, sacrificing everything she ever knew in the name of true love.
When Kia Deering turned eighteen her ordinary life was changed forever as she learned of the existence of the Goddess and even more so when she met a rather intriguing young man who she couldn’t wait to see again.
Events from the past come together, in this fantastical romance, to change the present and nothing will ever be the same again, for any of them.
Read D E Howard’s début novel Assaie’s Gift and follow a love that began in a time long passed.
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The Spirit: Awakening : KM Riley
The Spirit: Awakening
On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Adele inherited the Kingdom of Iden.
Willful, strong, and independent, her life changed when she discovered she’s more than successor—she’s heir to a mysterious power hunted by an evil spirit. Chaos covers her lands, forcing Adele to flee its reach.
She journeys to unravel the secrets of her abilities, and defeat the enemy shadowing her. Adele refuses to let Iden fall—not without a fight.
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