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Saving Toby : Suzanne McKenna Link
Saving Toby
Loving someone through their hard fall from grace takes a lot of grit.
In school, Toby Faye was a moody kid who sat in the back of class and looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there. Claudia might have forgotten him if it weren’t for the two fatal circumstances surrounding his family. In their small town, the Faye name was infamous.
An unexpected job offer drops Claudia back into Toby’s life, and that of his widowed mother. Older now, Toby is a mass of muscles and unruly hair; a real head-turner. Despite Claudia’s attempt to stay away from Toby, his blue-grey eyes expose a need she cannot ignore. Toby’s world is a place where sadness lingers and old wounds run deep. Touched by the family’s plight, Claudia vows to help Toby and his mother move past the hurt.
When a local hate crime is linked to Toby and his friends, doubts are cast. Old friends become enemies. Animosity between Claudia’s father and Toby strains the father-daughter relationship. Taking Toby’s side means Claudia will be forced to face situations she never imagined. She will have to be tougher than she’s ever had to be. Does Claudia have the grit to love Toby through his fall?
Saving Toby is the first book of a two-part series that follows the emotional and inspirational tale of a young couple’s journey to find themselves.
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Mia’s Journey : John Rebell
Mia’s Journey
Mia, a sexually abused girl hides in plain sight with “invisible handcuffs.” She writes novels to save her sanity. Her husband, a powerful, well connected political figure is a controlling sexual sadist.
She meets a fellow writer online and their worlds spiral out of control. One wants to escape her hideous present situation, the other wants out of his violent past. It has an explosive ending you won’t see coming.
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Awakenings : Mary D. Brooks
Awakenings (Intertwined Souls Series: Eva and Zoe Book 4)
It’s 1950 and Eva and Zoe find themselves in Larissa, Greece. The journey home for Zoe to reclaim her inheritance after the Greek Civil War had ended is a bittersweet homecoming.
Eva and Zoe have have weathered every obstacle that fate has put before them but now they have to find the strength to confront their haunted wartime memories in Greece. Eva also has to terms with a woman from the past who is a quiet, gentle soul but has extraordinary paranormal power of visions through time.
Faced with a physical reminder of her tortured past, Eva needs all her courage, strength and resilience to confront her harrowing memories and content with the secrets that are bubbling to the surface. Zoe contends with her own soul shattering memories of helplessness, heart-rendering pain and loss.
They leave Greece with a new friends and family. In Germany they discover that Eva’s grandmother — the matriarch of the Muller clan — is not a woman to be taken lightly nor ignored. Shocking family secrets that have been hidden for generations are revealed.
Pick up Awakenings and follow Eva and Zoe’s journey of love, resilience and the strength to face down unredeemable foes in this historical lesbian romance series imbued with urban fantasy and mystery.
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Rendezvous : Nowick Gray
Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisted Tale of Wilderness Survival
Rendezvous is a taut yet poetic wilderness adventure, with a paranormal twist. A young family is inspired to embark on a romantic quest to the heart of the British Columbia mountains. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion from one side of Mirror Pass. His wife, Faron, departs from their homestead in the next valley, bringing their 3-year-old daughter, Suze. Overcoming obstacles of logistics and physical endurance, they achieve their rendezvous at a Christmas-card cabin in the pass.
That night a storm buffets the walls and rattles the roof. The real adventure begins for Will when, in a haunted series of dreams, he finds himself enclosed in a dark, oblong box lined with a series of doors. One by one he tries them and is thrown back to try again. Each time, he thinks it is morning: that he has woken to find Faron flirting with Matt; or that on the way back down on the eastern slope, he and Matt are attacked by a grizzly. One scenario finds him inside Suze’s nightmare of plunging off the road in the truck. Another door brings Will all the way around to home in a desperate search for Faron and Suze, still missing. A final choice finds him stranded in the cabin with a broken leg, refusing to open any more doors.
At last, morning arrives unchosen, with its grim outlook of sleet and fog. Any descent today would be dangerous; yet the hikers from both sides have jobs to return to, and their own investments of pride and confidence to uphold. Finding that the way down has more routes than the way up, Will must summon his last reserves of wisdom and strength to turn potential tragedy into survival.
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Goldplay : Roger Scouton
Goldplay
Ex-FBI agent Jack Fields and his stunning femme ex-Special Ops partner Amber Reyes, hired to do a security review of a firm that stores gold for the wealthy, fight to thwart an elaborate theft/fraud plan.
Following her tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an unofficial Ranger, Amber Reyes is discharged and moves to California. Amber maintains her need for excitement by racing her Ducati motorcycle between cars along the freeways of Southern California. She meets Jack Fields, a seemingly pleasant but older, ex-FBI agent, and together they form 3-D Security.
After four years of intermittent small security jobs, Jack and Amber get their big chance. A London insurance representative contacts them to perform a complete security review at the Isili Corporation gold depository, known by some as the Ft. Knox of the west. The simple job will provide needed cash flow and could just be the opportunity they need to take 3-D Security to the next level.
The simple job soon becomes anything but, as Jack and Amber race to put the clues together to thwart a huge theft and at the same time escape from a relentless criminal mob.
I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career : Jane Horan
Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics
Reframing thinking on workplace politics providing the reader with an understanding of corporate politics from a positive perspective, using case studies to teach the essentials of organizational dynamics, power networks, and the decision-making processes and dilemmas involved in business. Examining corporate politics and the barriers many managers face in their efforts to reach the top, the book works to build awareness and strategies for business and career success.
Taking a refreshing new approach to workplace politics, the book presents new ways to think about embracing opportunities in order to achieve personal and organization-wide career satisfaction. Rather than encouraging employees to move on and start their own businesses, it instead details how to move up within their current companies by learning to understand power bases and conversation more thoroughly.
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Ruby Silver : Randall Reneau
Ruby Silver: A Trace Brandon Novel
Geologist Trace Brandon and his partner Will Coffee are just back from Liberia, West Africa. Cashed-up and looking for a new venture, they once again team up with Cyrus “The Virus” McSweeny.
This time the quarry is the silver-rich ore of the old Ruby Mining District. And this time they’ll not only have the Pantelli crime family to deal with, but also lumberman Autry Ollinger—three hundred pounds of obnoxiousness whose preferred method of negotiation is a right hook.
When the Pantellis unleash a bizarre extortion plot to seize control of Ruby Mining Company, Cyrus is forced to bring former clandestine operative Marion Thistlewaite out of retirement. Marion’s unique expertise may give them the edge they need to hold on to their company . . . and their lives.
A mining, murder, short-selling, offshore-trading, mobbed-up, suspense/thriller.
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Assume The Physician : John F. Hunt, MD
Assume The Physician
ASSUME THE PHYSICIAN is a spicy, eye-opening, tear-jerking, belly-laughing romp, and is chicken-soup for anyone who struggles in the medical system of America.
A novel written in the humorous and radical style of Catch-22, M*A*S*H, and House of God, ASSUME THE PHYSICIAN lays bare the core problems with our current health care systems and the causes of medical hyperinflation, all from the perspective of a thoughtful young physician, Dr. Eddie Marcus, who is fighting to stay kind and caring while engaging in battle against the many agencies and authorities who like to make oh-so-many rules.
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Amman – A Tribute To My Mother : JK Sachin
Amman – A Tribute To My Mother
A refreshingly simple story from an Indian author about a mother who goes through vicissitudes of life with the ammunition of faith, self-belief and positive thoughts and action. An inspiring story about how the much-vaunted middle class goes about living its life.
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Hidden Truths : Mary D. Brooks
Hidden Truths (Intertwined Souls Series: Eva and Zoe Book 3)
In the third book of the Intertwined Souls Series, Hidden Truths continues the journey of two extraordinary women, Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros, from war-torn Europe to Post-War Australia.
It’s 1950 and Eva and Zoe have settled in Australia, but events from their homelands beckon them back to Greece and Germany. Along the way, they are reunited with family and friends and are forced to contend with their own haunted memories and unexpected revelations that tests their courage, strength, and faith.
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