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Quotable : Kathy L Wheeler
Quotable
Genna Lyndsey is not a people person. A short, too-skinny, wild haired waif with crazy hair and sturdy nerdy glasses lives through books. So it’s lucky she and her best friend own their own bookstore. Her academic degree in Library and Research Sciences taught her more than she bargained for: that dating was too unreliable to depend on others. It was then she started resorting to obscure quotes to shield herself from others who ventured too close.
Harrison Merrick Johnson, Fraud Insurance Claims Investigator, is assigned to look into an unusual number of claims filed by one Genna Lyndsey. He suspects she is sabotaging her own property for insurance money. Imagine his surprise when his investigation uncovers an adorable introvert determined to keep everyone at bay, while someone else resolves to put her out of business—no matter how great the risk.
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Cryptic Spaces Book One: Foresight : Deen Ferrell
Cryptic Spaces Book One: Foresight
Willoughby sees patterns where others don’t. His brilliance in mathematics allows him to uncover puzzles hidden in plain view.
When a carved symbol leads him to the barbershop of Antonio Chavez, he finds himself in a world where nothing is as it seems, where the fabric of time itself is a puzzle to be explored.
With a team of equally brilliant, if odd, companions, headlined by the talented Sydney Senoya, Willoughby uncovers a threat that could change everything. Will his newly emerging skills be enough to help him save his friends and safeguard reality as he knows it?
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Parker : Stephanie Macneil
Parker
Gay. Gay and bullied. Gay and bullied and in love. Gay and bullied and in love with a straight boy.
Artistic 16-year-old Parker didn’t choose this. Who would choose to be thrown against the lockers every day and harassed in gym class? It’s no easy life, but it’s his life, and Parker is simply trying to make something of it.
It really doesn’t help though when the love of your life is the one always protecting you from danger and you can’t even tell him how you truly feel. That would ruin everything. And after the past that he’s had, he just can’t risk being abandoned again.
Parker is the coming of age about a courageous boy who discovers who he is and what he’s capable of through the hits that life throws at him. Through turmoil and despair, secrets and heartbreaks, Parker must decide if this world is really worth all the pain. If his life is really worth fighting for.
Diary of a Christian Woman : Rebecca Reilly
Diary of a Christian Woman: How I Used 50 Shades of Grey to Spice Up My Marriage
Food is not a great substitute for sex, but it’s all I’ve got.
It’s not that I’m not happy in my marriage. I am. George is a good man, and I love him. I love our two children. I love our home. I love our church. And I love my job. I love everything I have.
And I’m bored out of my mind.
I know God created sex for marriage. And not just for beautiful people, either. Sex is supposed to bind a man and wife; to give them an intimacy they share with no one else. Sex is supposed to be fulfilling. And fun! I think we’re supposed to want to have sex with our spouse.
I look at the college students walking around the campus where I work, and I think they are getting way more out of sex than I am.
And that is just not fair.
George and I did it by the Book. We are the ones that should be tingling, panting, and dripping with lust. We’re the ones who should be the models of sexual satisfaction.
I should feel as the bride in Song of Solomon felt: “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is more delightful than wine….Take me away with you–let us hurry. Let the king bring me to his chambers” (Song of Solomon 1:2, 4).
But even Song of Solomon hasn’t helped spice up our boring chambers. And most of the time, I think George would rather have wine.
I needed something else. I needed more specific instructions to liven up our life. But where does a sexually uptight, Christian woman (with a reputation to protect) go for help?
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Pat’s Collectibles : Patricia Crandall
Pat’s Collectibles
In the short stories, The Crazy Jug, The Pink Victorian Lady, Frogs, Gnomes, Hikers and Bottle Miners, The Conjurer, and The Rescue, Gert Carver and Nina Westacott meet an eclectic variety of characters as they trade-off collectibles and old bottles at flea markets and solve gentle mysteries involving neighbors, relatives, past students, farmers and hicks in and around the upstate New York community of Indian Falls.
Gert and Nina are likeable protagonists, and Patricia Crandall has revealed a life unknown to most city dwellers. The following is a quote from a past review in The New York Times Sunday Review of books:
“In the wake of 9/11 (and the terror attacks that have followed; e.g. Aurora, Boston and others too numerous to mention), Americans seem to crave the reassurance of straightforward tales about good people trying to live good lives, who believe in love and friendship, work and honor and charity, the prosaic but immense forces that dignify most of our lives.”
Beachfront Press publisher, Peter David Orr, says, “Author, Patricia Crandall, has whipped up some real, down-home cooking, brimming with friendship, and served with three sides of simple adventure.”
Join these down-to-earth folk in their pursuits: Clive Mason in The Willowbrook Inn, Julie Keel in The Wedding Reception, Federal Agent Tony Barlow in The Bogus Man, Lew Golden in In Not Suitable Viewing for Children, Hattie Perkins, a.k.a. Tia Gale in Love Interlude and, Maya Bull in A Catty Arrangement.
You are guaranteed a good read.
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The Mother of Ten Thousand Things : Alexander Roussel
The Mother of Ten Thousand Things
Evelyn Doorn is a young girl lost in a world of magic and dark secrets.
Thrust into the middle of a land where good and evil have long battled over control, she befriends the few remaining rebels for the cause of the rightful ruler fight against powerful oppressors.
Evelyn is caught in the middle of an age-old feud, one that’s only hope for any end are rumors and promises of coming revolution.
Experience the magical, the vile, and the truly extraordinary as Evelyn searches for a way back home from this place called Orvia, in The Mother of Ten Thousand Things.
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The Dying Dance : Ricardo Fleshman
The Dying Dance: A Detective Byone Novel
“How do we reconcile the beauty in death?”
The Dying Dance is the story of retired New Orleans Police Department Detective turned Private Investigator Moses Andre Byone, self proclaimed skeptic of voodoo and the dark arts turned believer, who uncovers an underworld of darkness and betrayal in the shadows of the human heart as he searches to understand the death of a wealthy white lawyer from Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
On his journey to solve the case, Mose discovers a mysterious silver box that may hold the secrets to the intricacies of the motivations in the darker human behaviors of greed, lust and power than he ever suspected and must find a way to protect not only himself, but his beautiful young Creole ward Lisette St Germain, lest they meet with their own gruesome demise.
Filled with a wonderful cast of complex and unforgettable characters set against the alluring, grimy but mysterious backdrop of 1970’s New Orleans, the tale is sure to thrill and entertain as Mose searches to discover the truth of The Dying Dance.
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Blood and Shadows : Dayne Edmondson
Blood and Shadows
Shadows stretch across the land as the denizens of the underworld unite under a single deadly leader and threaten to bathe the magical kingdom of Tar Ebon in blood, dooming mankind. To answer the threat comes Dawyn Darklance, the champion of the king and time bender.
Along with his companions, the fierce druid Anwyn, the fiery mage Alivia and the flamboyant minstrel Favio he must travel across the terrified Kingdom to bring justice upon the leader of the assassins, Lord Garik, and his allies, the mysterious veiled assassin and arrogant mage.
Along the way, Dawyn and his companions will encounter dangerous enemies, stout allies and uncover a secret threat that could yet doom the world.
This novel, the first in a series by a talented novelist, introduces readers to the world of Tar Ebon, a place where magic pervades and dangerous creatures lurk in the far reaches of the world. This book will leave you entranced by the characters and begging for more.
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Survival of the Fittest : Robin Hawdon
Does God really exist?
Are science and religion incompatible bed fellows?
Charles Darwin shook philosophy to its foundations with his theory of evolution, yet strangely he himself refrained from commenting in depth about the religious implications for fear of adding to the furore.
But suppose that he did in fact write down his conclusions as a secret Addendum to his seminal work, ‘Origin of Species’. And suppose his beloved wife Emma, a devout Christian who kept her own secret journal, was the only other person to know of this hidden postscript.
This is the modern day story of the search for these two hugely significant works. An eccentric London antiquarian book dealer is hired by an equally eccentric American billionaire to track down the documents for his world famous collection of original manuscripts. The complex investigation ranges across England, and involves a series of encounters ranging from the criminal to the romantic and the revelatory.
Along the way it explores the spiritual struggle within the extraordinary Darwin household, and the effects of that same struggle on the creation of the atom bomb and on modern terrorism.
A dramatic investigation of man’s spiritual dilemma which occupies the spaces between authors Dan Brown and Richard Dawkins.
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Phantom: The Last Nephilim : Gabriel Common
Phantom: The Last Nephilim
Phantom is a series of Sci-fi books that tells the story of a Divine Federation attempting to bring down an evil empire of Summoners and warrior demons. The only thing that can stop this evil from prevailing is the Federation’s elite warriors called Arcs. In the first book, a unique young man named Traiven who has no knowledge of his origin is thrown into a life of adventure and danger where he faces unknown challenges and a new life style. He starts as an average high school student with a good future and a good family, until one day he encounters two dark strangers who reveal his unearthly origin
He is then taken against his will from his life on Earth and is trained to become an Arc in order to replace his missing brother Raven who he’s never knew about his entire life. Since Raven was a big asset with his unique abilities, Traiven is expected to be the same. With the help of a fellow Arc Shawn and Mentor Rukaryo, Traiven must learn in a few weeks what took Raven a life time in order to prevent the evil empire from raising their powerful dark lord.
This story not only entertains the readers, but inspires them and opens the doors to new creative possibilities by showing that nothing is impossible no matter how big the goal is. It is the first in its series of four original books.
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