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Shakespeare’s Cuthbert : Patrick Barrett
Shakespeare’s Cuthbert
This is the first book in the Cuthbert comedy series. A fictional Valley where time stands still is home to larger than life characters.
These people interact and spark off each other with often chaotic and dire results. Shakespeare is rumoured to have been a teacher at the local Mandrake Hall whilst hiding from Elizabeth I after writing the critical play know as Shakespeare’s Cuthbert.
Does a transcript still survive? Several strangers moving into the Valley believe it does. Can the even stranger inhabitants prevail?
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Memento Mori : Keith McCarthy
Leo Bannister is a mediocre and unknown artist and sculptor until the muses begin to talk in his head.
Taking his beloved wife, Penelope and their daughter, Simone, Leo flees from his jealous father-in-law Martin Waldeyer, leaving behind the memories of the terrible, dark things that happened in his house in Herefordshire.
Now, in hiding and with Penelope dead, he has dedicated both himself and Simone, to commemorating her life in an astonishing way, as perhaps only he could.
When Leo attempts to show his father-in-law something of his achievement, there are terrible consequences. These result in the introduction of not only Police Inspector Beauchamp and his mysterious sergeant, Jeremiah Brierley, but also Natasha Vogt, Martin Waldeyer’s great niece, and her boyfriend, pathologist Tom Newman.
Gradually, they all come to realise how much danger Simone is in, because Leo’s muses will stop at nothing to ensure that he completes his commemoration of her mother.
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Escape Through The Wilderness : Gary Rodriguez
Escape Through The Wilderness
Sixteen-year-old Savannah Evans walks with a slight limp thanks to a gymnastics’ accident that dashed her Olympic dreams, but that doesn’t stop her from attending an adventure camp in Idaho for the summer. At Camp Arrowhead, she quickly befriends Jade Chang and Rico Cruz, but Conner Swift taunts her because of her injury.
When the four are teamed together for an overnight white-water rafting adventure, what was supposed to be a fun expedition, turns into a nightmare when there’s a serious incident that no one could have predicted.
When the four finally drag themselves out of the river, they’re bruised, beaten, lost, and twenty-five miles from camp. Adding to their concern was the threat of encountering Vexel, who they had heard about during the Fright Night tales around the campfire. He is a vicious animal that roams and hunts in the nearby woods.
Savi becomes the unlikely leader and tries to guide the group back to Camp Arrowhead, but limited supplies, injuries, and ongoing concerns about Vexel—who she and the others fear is stalking them, complicate the harrowing return trip.
Readers will enjoy dramatic survival scenes and the group working together, solving problems, and learning to overcome adversity.
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Rules For Riders : Natalie Scott
Rules For Riders
Rules for Riders is a fast and furious young adult romance and coming of age novel set in the world of equestrian riding.
After a near fatal riding accident, Bebe Barkley is banned from riding and sent off to boarding school. There, she meets her roommate and fellow equestrian rider, Finn Foxley. The girls devise a scheme to get themselves kicked out of boarding school in order to return to the world that they love. Once back on the circuit, former friends become deadly rivals.
Enter Bebe’s handsome trainer, Billy O’Reilly who will reinforce seven rules in order for her to successfully compete.
Through a series of tragic events, both girls are forced to abandon their dreams of Olympic gold. Bebe ventures down a dark road of self-destruction as she breaks every rule Billy taught her, only to be forced to relearn them in order to reclaim her life.
Rules for Riders is a tale of lost dreams and the struggle to create new ones.
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First Experience : Simone Freier
First Experience : The Introduction of a Young Woman to Openness, Trust, and New Experiences of the Submissive Kind
Contemporary erotic romance: Suitable for mature readers, aged 18+ years.
Sam meets Kelly, a beautiful but troubled woman half his age, leading to a ‘first experience’ exploring the surreal world their fantasies. Sam realizes that he desires more than a play partner. And Kelly knows that she needs more than a lover: Someone to whom she can expose her inner soul; someone whose values transcend the ordinary; someone who will fulfill her own dark fantasy world.
Experiences: Book 2 is 111,000 word, 17 chapters, 374 print pages
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Watson Manor Eventually : Ronald S. Craig
Watson Manor Eventually
Watson Manor Eventually is the first book in a romantic mystery series.
Jenny Stevens is a dedicated teacher with a passion for nurturing young hearts and minds in a small town middle school. She is caring, trusting and open to the world. Too trusting, it turns out, as she is ultimately forced to leaving the teaching job she loves in order to escape an increasingly abusive boyfriend who won’t respect a restraining order. Her trust shattered, she engineers a tenuous flight out of state.
Charlie Watson (“CW”) is an enigma to strangers, but an open book to his few dear friends. Honest to a fault, ruggedly handsome and tough as nails on the outside, Charlie hides a deeply wounded heart. Seven years into a bitter divorce, he has made a lifestyle escaping behind endless hours as a long-haul trucker, and copious one night stands – which leave him in an empty, quiet desperation.
But Fate ultimately draws these two battered souls together until try as they may, they cannot remain apart. At first they rediscover their sense of humor, and then slowly, haltingly, their trust in true human kindness. Love almost does not come to pass, but they soon realize they are truly soul mates with a shared dream.
Their journey is not easy or straight. Along the way, Charlie is forced to deal with the abusive ex-boyfriend, and makes short work of him. But the challenges do not end there. On the way to establish their new life at ‘Watson Manor’ fate keeps dealing them new cards. Through a series of chance events and encounters, Jenny and Charlie are led on a new life of adventure and service rescuing souls in trouble and re-uniting families before they can even think of forming their own.
The deliciously complicated plot will have you alternately puzzled and perched on the edge of your seat. It is filled with good guys and bad guys (and gals) and characters who muddle in the middle. In the end Charlie and Jenny come to truly know whose side they are on – each other’s.
If you like a good romantic mystery, you will love and devour this book from cover to cover and be chomping at the bit for Ron Craig’s sequel, Watson Manor Unfolding, soon to come!
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The Lion Trees : Owen Thomas
What happens when you get the life you aim for and it hurts like hell?
The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague’s daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusations involving a missing student and the legacy of Christopher Columbus. And young Tilly, the black sheep, having traded literary promise for an improbable career as a Hollywood starlet, struggles to define herself amid salacious scandal, the demands of a powerful director, and the judgments of an uncompromising writer.
By turns comical and poignant, the Johns family is tumbling toward the discovery that sometimes you have to let go of your identity to find out who you are.
Recent Praise for The Lion Trees:
“[A] cerebral page turner…a powerful and promising debut.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[FOUR STARS]… In its structure and nature, [The Lion Trees] reminds me above all of John Updike’s wonderful Harry Rabbit novels and their ability to summarize the essence of change in American society across a decade at a time.” – BookIdeas.com
“[FIVE STARS]… [A] powerful, gripping and realistic story…Wonderful… The Lion Trees does what so very few great novels can: it will take a lot out of you, but leave you with much more than you had when you began.”—Pacific Book Reviews.
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Morality : Eva Caye
Morality
Princess Grace Encino-Sinclair can handle relentless duties, using her scientific knowledge and consummate social skills to support everyone in the Imperial Family.
Her real struggle is to have a nice, normal private life, quite difficult to achieve since she has been trained in Grandmother’s stelluric science and is constantly followed by Sentinels. As she handles one mind-boggling near-disaster after another, with objectivity but also with heart, she can’t seem to find the right man, one who understands her duties to the Imperial Family come first, one who will support her great destiny instead of his own.
Stuck in her perceived limitations, she meets the magnificent Carlo, and all her dreams seem to come true. Suddenly, the most unthinkable assassination of all occurs, focused on Grace and Carlo; will this tear the Imperial Family apart? When Grace stumbles over long-embedded corruption and must work with the stargate scientists to remedy the situation, she suddenly finds herself the most highly trusted person in the Empire, the power behind the Imperial throne….
Discover the power of ladies as the backbone of Demesne society in this novel of social intrigues, ethics, and justice, as Princess Grace proves to the Emperor she will go beyond the call of duty for any member of the Imperial Family!
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Tears At Midnight : A. B. Leake
Tears At Midnight
Libby secretly wants everything she has never had, a real best girlfriend, a boyfriend, and that perfect first kiss just like the characters in the novels she reads. When sent to the small town of Titan, Texas to spend the summer with her father and new stepmother, Libby realizes that here she has that chance, if she is brave enough to try.
To the outside world, Toby Weston has everything. As the quarterback of the high school football team, guys want to be him and girls want to date him. They have no idea how his life has fallen apart, and he wants his old life back. When he meets Libby, he starts to feel like his life is getting back on track.
While Libby and Toby walk hand in hand down the halls of Titan High, someone is watching, planning and plotting revenge. Will they find the strength to fight for what they have together and Libby’s happiness?
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Toe Up To 10K : Steven Fujita
Toe Up To 10K : A Journey of Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury
In June 2012, the author went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with meningitis.
Days later, he lost partial consciousness, and upon regaining consciousness, he could not speak, eat, breathe independently, control bodily functions, nor move his legs.
This book is about the author’s journey to recovery from the ICU to regaining ownership of his body. It is a story of determination, of hard work, gratitude, and of drawing inspiration.
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