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Order In Court : David Osborne
Order In Court
Toby Potts, fresh from Bar School, and clutching his graduation diploma, is a young, aspiring barrister, full of hopes and dreams and intent on becoming the leading criminal advocate of his time. He can hardly wait to get on his feet and impress the jury with his incisive cross-examination, his mastery of all things legal, and his spellbinding final speeches.
Sadly, reality kicks in, and Toby finds the path to fame and fortune far from smooth and uneventful. His trials and tribulations take Toby from his Call to the Bar, his experiences in pupillage, his first brief when he represents the wrong client, through to his great tour de force at the Old Bailey when he goes head to head with the Honourable Mr. Justice Boniface, known to one and all in the profession as Old Sourpuss, and many adventures in between.
Chambers politics, strange clients, solicitors who come and go on a whim, and even stranger and eccentric judges, all have their part to play in Toby’s climb up the greasy pole. Moments of courtroom drama, and many more moments of high fiasco, mark Toby’s initiation into the heady world of the Criminal Bar. So much to learn, so little time.
Will Toby succeed where so many have failed? He has the determination, he has the self-belief, but does he have what it takes to reach the pinnacle of the profession? Only time will tell.
One thing is certain – never a dull moment! Why be ordinary, Toby was once told, if you have it in you to be extraordinary?
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Beyond the Ocean’s Edge : D. Andrew McChesney
Beyond the Ocean’s Edge: A Stone Island Sea Story
The Stone Island Sea Stories combine Age of Sail/Naval Adventure, as in C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander, with a unique Science Fiction/Alternate World twist.
“No, sir! Not that, sir!” Hotchkiss was nearly beside himself in his fright, and it fast approached a full panic. Odd, that such a slight distraction could affect Pierce’s friend that way. Isaac had always been the cooler of them.
Hotchkiss continued on. “Ed! You didn’t see it?” The use of his captain’s first name on deck attested to the first lieutenant’s growing apprehension and maddening confusion.
“See what, Isaac, my old friend?” Pierce recognized his shipmate’s state of mind and did not correct his lapse of quarterdeck etiquette. Clearly, a more personal and comfortable approach was needed.
“The stars! The stars, Ed! We weren’t just looking up at ’em. We were amongst them. There was the sea, and then there wasn’t. An’ the stars were below us as well! And we were there, right among them, like we were the stars themselves, or the moon, or….”
“I’m sure you saw what you’ve described. Unfortunately, I chanced not to see it, although I have had a strange feeling of timelessness.”
In 1802 Royal Navy Lieutenant Edward Pierce is on half pay during the Peace of Amiens. He gains command of a vessel searching for a lost, legendary island. When found, Pierce and crew discover the island exists in an entirely different world. Exploring around Stone Island, HMS Island Expedition sails headlong into mistaken identities, naval battles, strange truces, dangerous liaisons, international intrigue, superstition, and ancient prophecies. Detained by the equivalent of Great Britain, Pierce struggles to free ship and crew. Despondent over surrendering and possibly never seeing Evangeline again, Pierce’s discovers new friends working to liberate him and his crew.
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Guitars and Gardenias : Sierra Ann Hill
Guitars and Gardenias
Country western idol Matson Daley had always been surrounded by gorgeous women. But the party was getting old. He was ready to fall in love with the right woman. His woman.
He’d had thousands of miles of highway to think about what she’d be like, and the fantasy turned real when he met Leah Hayes. Matson believes he’s found his true love in Leah, with her incomparable supermodel beauty, knowledge of the music business and kind, generous heart.
Theirs is whirlwind fairytale romance that evolves into something authentic and pure. But Leah possesses a terrifying, life-altering secret that she must reveal to Matson, though she’s not sure how and when.
And Matson Daley has demons of his own. Unknown to him, by becoming his lover, Leah has become a target for murder by some of his violent, obsessed stalker-fans.
Quicksand Paradise : Mary Keith
Quicksand Paradise
Quicksand Paradise is a historical novel offering a candid look into the Deep South during the Civil Rights Era. It tells the horrendous story of one privileged white Southerner’s abuse of power. I believe my book to be the only one of its kind to capture the complete psychotic nature of a misguided Southerner and Ku Klux Klansman at his worst.
Louis Abellard was the only son of a Prohibition-era bootlegger. Wealthy and a prominent member of his Louisiana community, he was also a bully, a drunk, a rapist and a diehard member of the Ku Klux Klan. Louis’ son Charles wants nothing to do with any of this, but how do you turn your back on money, power and a father who manipulates you like a puppet? How do you escape a Quicksand Paradise?
Louis Abellard is led astray early on in life by the influence of an unprincipled father. Set in the Deep South in the 1920’s through the early 60’s, this novel tells his turbulent story as he leaves life after life in chaos–or worse. He doesn’t even stop at murder in the name of the Ku Klux Klan.
Driven by his sadistic nature, he relishes the idea of joining the local Ku Klux Klan. Quickly rising to power, he plots and commits unspeakable crimes that leave him craving more. With anything he wants becoming an obsession, he has no qualms about stealing his son’s girlfriend through manipulation and lies. But a slight happenstance arouses suspicion, and his son uncovers his treachery; Louis’ web of deception finally unravels.
“Looking for a book that will shake you to the core? Look no further! Get inside Louis Abellard’s deranged mind as he lives up to his billing of “the epitome of evil.”
“A thrilling family saga filled with history and riveting drama. I loved it!”
–David Bischoff, New York Times Bestselling Author
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Hot Times In Goa : Linda Banana
To love too much is to lose everything
Traveller’s tale, psychiatrist’s chair, scorching love story
Lee Habash’s diplomat husband dies, leaving her richer and friskier than expected.
Among coconut palms, she meets Rod, retired London villain, and embarks upon a steamy and stormy love affair, reflected in Goa’s social upheaval.
There are demonstrations against the proposed rail link with Bombay.
Moral watchdogs, the Noble Order of Buffaloes are up in arms about the liberalisation of Goa’s annual carnival.
The Hindu festival of Shivaratri is about to turn nasty.
Against Rod’s wishes, Lee helps her landlord’s daughter become Carnival Queen, with explosive consequences.
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Loving Meg : Skye Taylor
Loving Meg
Book #2 in the Cameron’s of Tide’s Way Series
Struggling with guilt and post-traumatic stress, can Meg find her way back to Ben and the life they built together before she deployed?
When Meg Cameron joined the Marines to get an education, she never counted on being deployed to a war zone. Now that she’s home, both she and her husband Ben are struggling with the toll war, separation and regrets have taken on their marriage. Meg is tormented by guilt over the death of a military dog and the kiss she shared with her commanding officer as he comforted her. Her husband, Ben, is the love of her life, how could he possibly forgive her if he knew the truth?
Ben Cameron is just happy that his brave, beautiful wife is safely home with him and their young sons. Everything seems fine–at first. In bed, he and Meg are perfect together, until the nightmares come and she calls out a name that’s not his. She’s hurting and he doesn’t understand, but he’s trying. If only she would talk to him about what’s bothering her.
Then there’s Kip, a police K-9 who lost his handler and his spirit to a perp with a gun. Ben has been asked to help rehabilitate the grieving K-9. Can Ben help these two wounded warriors find peace? Can he convince Meg to trust him with her nightmares? As Meg debates returning to active duty, a move that would surely end in another deployment, Ben’s frustration and fears climb. What if her pain and confusion take her back into harm’s way again, and he lost her forever?
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Cigerets, Guns & Beer : Phillip T. Stephens
Cigerets, Guns & Beer
Murder, sex, bank loot and UFOs
Dodd breaks up a convenience store robbery when his car breaks down in Sweet Water Falls, Texas. What’s the thanks he gets? The sheriff won’t let him leave, the car lot can’t find the parts and everybody wants him for something—sales pitch, church membership, and even stud pony.
But most of all, it seems a family named Dodd were shot down robbing the bank in 1949 and the half million they stole remains missing. Everyone thinks Dodd returned to dig up the loot and no one intends to let him leave until he finds it—along with (or so the legends go) a long lost flying saucer.
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Dark Horse : C Fleming
Dark Horse
Dark Horse tells the story of Londoner Abigail Daycock, a fashion graduate drifting through her twenties in a stream of temping roles, whilst waiting for the man of her dreams to sweep her off her feet.
After making an innocent computer error that brings down the banking system, Abigail is forced to go on the run from the police with nothing but a tent and a handful of cash to survive on.
She hides out in the sleepy hamlet of Sloth, where she meets a cast of characters from a horse racing community that change her destiny forever.
“A thoroughly enjoyable read – fun, witty and engaging”
Amazon UK reader.
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Warrior King Legacy : Anthony Hogger
Warrior King Legacy
Warrior King Legacy is a dramatic piece of Historical Fiction.
It tells the story of Vercingetorix, the king of the Arverni tribe, who in 53 BC became the king of all the Gauls. It depicts his need to triumph over adversity and follows him through his bloody battles against the legions of Rome led by Julius Caesar.
Warrior King Legacy has at its heart the theme of a man driven to fulfil the dream of a domineering father. The name Vercingetorix meant “Warrior King”.
Against the odds, “Getorix” unites his nation’s disparate tribes and they rise up against Rome’s tyranny.
From the struggle to build his army, to the battle to save his hometown, to the famous siege of Alesia and beyond, Warrior King Legacy is a story of courage, of love, of vengeance, and of tragedy.
What do you do when the most powerful nation in the history of the world wants to take your land, your children, your way of life? You fight!
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Memoirs From The War In Heaven : John H. Doe
Memoirs From The War In Heaven
Important things happen from time to time, mostly without warning. Things that give purpose to a life, even the reason why you were born at all.
I am a child of God, to whom was revealed strange and wondrous things, things I must relate to show something of why life is as life is, why the world is as the world may be. This is my story, perhaps with the mundane washed away, to distill the range of experience of how I was given my own true purpose why–why my life walked the path it did. From a running start, a typical Friday night turned suddenly epic.
I have seen awesome things unfold before my eyes, and these were of the War in Heaven (the real one, not a metaphor for something other). I was a soldier in God’s army, and I fought beside angels in the casting of Satan and his own from Heaven. I’m sure you’ve heard the tale. What if it were real, what if it really happened? And the dispatching of Lucifer to Hell? What if the stakes were higher, what if the prize was all of creation? Indeed, this is the story I tell: I am the white rabbit. Do you want to see just how far the rabbit hole goes?
And what is beyond sometimes touches down, sometimes through your very fingertips. See for yourself.
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