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Price of Justice : Alan Brenham
Price of Justice
His focus is on solving the murders–until the unthinkable happens…
Recently widowed, Austin Police Detective Jason Scarsdale works to solve the murders of two pedophiles, while trying to be both mother and father to his five-year-old daughter.
During his investigation, Scarsdale is forced to navigate between the crosshairs of two corrupt police commanders out to get him. Drawn to Austin Police Crime Analyst, Dani Mueller, who has also suffered tragedy, Scarsdale fights both his attraction and his suspicions that something just isn’t right…
She is hiding a secret, one that could not only cost her a job–it could end her life…
After her daughter was brutally murdered, Dani exacted her revenge then changed her name and fled to Austin. But if her secret ever gets out, she knows there is no place she can hide from the murderer’s vicious family.
Pulled into a web of malice and deceit, Scarsdale and Dani discover the value of breaking the rules. Then just when they thought things couldn’t get worse…they do.
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Exodus : Geoff Livingston
Exodus: Book One of the Fundamentalists
A dark stranger arrives in the middle of the night, ripping open a centuries-old wound in post apocalyptic Harpers Ferry. Religious zealots have risen from the South, conquering all that stands before them. Now Jason must help his fellow villagers escape to a land far away to preserve their culture and buy enough time to build a defense. Can they succeed without any technology in the face of a rugged American continent?
Blogger and author Geoff Livingston confronts America’s worst fears with a world destroyed by technology and dominated by Christian fundamentalism. Don’t miss the opening salvo in The Fundamentalists Trilogy. “Author Livingston (Marketing in the Round, 2012, etc.) presents the perils of medievallike life with unflagging realism. A wondrously executed parable, sure to attract readers from every walk of life.” – Kirkus Reviews
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Godless Americana : Sikivu Hutchinson
Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels
In Godless Americana, author Sikivu Hutchinson challenges the myths behind Americana images of Mom, Apple pie, white picket fences, and racially segregated god-fearing Main Street USA.
In this timely essay collection, Hutchinson argues that the Christian evangelical backlash against Women’s rights, social justice, LGBT equality, and science threatens to turn back the clock on civil rights. As a result of this climate, more people of color are exploring atheism, agnosticism, and freethought.
Godless Americana examines these trends, providing a groundbreaking analysis of faith and radical humanist politics in an era of racial, sexual, and religious warfare.
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Goad of Honor : Stephen P. Byers
Goad of Honor
In the game of life, the rich get richer despite themselves; the rest struggle on, dying in war, going to jail, making their way against the odds, but there’s more, much more, hidden behind this axiom. Who are they? And how did they get in this mess.
One of them is the son of the third generation wealthy man and his money-hungry wife who abdicate parental responsibilities to a hired Nanny and imported servants, imparting no family values to the unqualified offspring who will inherit the money machine. Another is the son of the illiterate security guard who accepts a distasteful task only because he is promised an education for his children he knows he cannot otherwise provide.
The third is an arrogant opportunist who emulates his unsympathetic tyrannical father in a self-centered existence. The time is the summer of 1937, four years after the end of prohibition and the problem to be unraveled is what really happened at the distillery during the thirteen years of illegal whiskey production and how did they get away with it?
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Leadership by Virtue : Jaro Berce
Leadership by Virtue
The book Leadership by Virtue is written as a novel following the daily life of a CEO who accepted the challenge to merge two companies. The book uses provocative approaches to reorganization in order to successfully merge the companies. The older telecom company still majors on older technology (like landline phones) and is staffed with long term employed people that do not adapt to changes as quickly as the younger generation of the other company does. Many issues and problems arise from this particular difference between the two companies.
In the book different settings are also well intertwined. We follow this manager at his office, martial arts practice as well as in the private life at home, where he and his pretty much supportive wife »wrestle« with their teenager son who is immersed in modern technology. While practicing martial arts the main character learns concepts and many secrets of Far East mentality through his mentor, Shifu, and it is where from he takes his unusual insights, approaches and solutions to apply them at his business.
The book, therefore, is not just a simple fiction novel, it is an eye opening and challenging, it provokes thinking and is altogether a tremendous learning experience of a substantially different approach to the leadership. An exceptional presentation of how to blend the eastern and the western practices and thinking for improved and more successful leadership process. If you are involved in any kind of a leadership, the book is a must read, although it proves to be a good read sitting next to a fireplace, too.
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Always and Forever : S.P. Cervantes
Always and Forever (Secrets of Shadow Hill, Book 1)
Twin sisters Ava and Hannah were ripped from their peaceful seeming lives into a whirlwind of attacks and war only to learn the real truth about their existence.
Nothing was as it seemed anymore and may never be again. They had already lost their father in childhood now they have to cope with their mother’s kidnapping as they watch those sworn to protect them risk their lives.
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Revelations : George Davidson Greenly Jr.
Revelations
Between the Fourth and Fifth Crusades, both sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church with the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the sacred “Holy Land” from Muslim rule, there occurred another Crusade. Launched in 1209, the Albigensian Crusade’s goal was to eliminate the “heretical” Christian Cathars of Occitania in the south of modern-day France.
It was a decades-long struggle that in the end found both the Cathars and the independence of southern France extirpated. Prior to the fall of Montsegur, the last bastion of the Cathars, on the 12th of March 1244, Cathar “treasure” was spirited away from Montsegur.
Was it gold, religious artifacts, or perhaps ancient documents of great significance to the Catholic Church? The physical efforts required in surreptitiously removing a “treasure” from Montsegur, the mountain top fortress, during a siege by the Pope’s army, dictates documents! Questions virtually scream from the corridors of time: What documents prompted a Crusade of Christians against Christians? Who wrote them? What happened to them? What revelations do they contain?
And now, why and by what means is the Roman Church attempting to find the parchments? How and why does the trail lead from the Middle East to the Languedoc region of France, to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, to Oxford University in Great Britain, and finally to Rome and the Vatican’s secret archives? The documents long lost to antiquity are found in l’ Archivio Segreto Vaticano, the secret archives of the Vatican and translated; a plot that resulted in the crime of murder is revealed and additional murders are contemplated and foiled. A nefarious plan including terrorist like actions to stop the probable distribution of the documents contents is hatched by unknown individuals.
The plan, if successful will change everything.
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America Never Promised Us Happiness : Dr. L. A. Lemmons
America Never Promised Us Happiness (Only the Right to Pursue It)
We are all intimately familiar with the false version of happiness—the one that oozes with sugar, spice, and everything nice, the one of “happily ever afters.” But there is another version, the true version: the version that has nothing to do with the welfare of people. This becomes easier to understand when one considers that it was politicians, in 1776, which gave the American people the right to pursue happiness. But when in the history of mankind have people been able to trust politicians?
America Never Promised Us Happiness (Only the Right to Pursue It) argues that there is a hidden agenda behind the pursuit of happiness: the American people are the mouse, happiness is the cheese, and a trap is waiting to snap.
There is no better way to protect your life and liberty than to wise up to the happiness hype. This book shows you how.
Mischief : Laura Parker
Mischief
One night of passion can build a world. One memory can tear it down.
As Napoleon invades Persia, clever but shy Japonica Fortmon is chosen by the ailing English Viscount Shrewsbury to arrange his escape from Baghdad.
To get him out, Japonica must enlist the aid of the infamous Hind Div, a man as mysterious as he is ruthless. Whispered to be a spy, an assassin, and even a sorcerer, Hind Div agrees to help Fortmon, and all it will cost her is a night of passion.
A year later and the war is over. Freshly widowed Japonica arrives in England, wishing only to settle her unruly step-daughters with Devlyn Sinclair, the new Viscount, and to return to France, and the son conceived on that one night of surrender.
She is stunned to recognize the new Viscount, for he is none other than Hind Div, only scarred by war and missing any memory of the merciless man he once was. If his memory returns, he could claim back his son and destroy Japonica.
She must live with this man who once ignited her passions, and has started to once more, and to restore to him a sense of pride, of honor, of identity, even if it costs her everything.
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Going Nowhere Fast : K.D. Bloodworth
Going Nowhere Fast
Leave your mundane cares behind, sit in your favorite chair and be prepared to travel the road of love, loss and no return. Travel down roads most women would never dare.
Delve into the lost and found of life’s trials and tribulations by ‘Going Nowhere Fast.’
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