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The Ramblings of a Poetic Fool : Richard Stephen
The Ramblings of a Poetic Fool
“The Ramblings of a Poetic Fool” is Rick Stephen’s first collection of poems, poems drawn not only from the life of the author but of the reader’s as well. Exploring themes common to the human experience, these poems leave the reader with an experience not easily forgotten since many times they hit close to home.
Rick Stephen invites us to look into the mirror and examine our deepest feelings of desire, love and loss, ecstasy and pain, hope, disappointment and desperation.
Honest, frank and often cathartic these poems bring the depth of the human condition to the surface. His unique style manages to capture what is often so difficult to express. It seems he writes about us and to us, transforming our life into a permanent memento of words or as the author calls them, “ramblings”. Beautiful, captivating and intriguing – as only a Poetic Fool can pen.
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From Behind the Curtain : Sierra Kay
From Behind the Curtain
Dee spent most of her life on welfare, watching her often-absent father struggle with addiction and, lately, watching her mother’s battle with cancer. Dee had paid her dues.
When her Auntie M brought her to live in Atlanta, things were supposed to get better. In Atlanta, Dee had new clothes, a full fridge, and her own bedroom. However, she soon realized there were other issues. The most important was the apparent overdose of Pastor Clifton, her aunt’s best friend and secret love. Pastor Clifton was trying to clean up the neighborhood. So how did he end up slumped over his desk-dead? And why, in a church full of gossips, was no one saying a word?
In Dee’s world, that level of power wasn’t unheard of. But here, it was difficult to distinguish the players and, more importantly, who was managing them from behind the curtain.
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The Way of Life : Sue Curran
The Way of Life
People are never what they seem to be.
Take four women, friends since school. Add four men, six days and ninety-five miles of breathtaking Scottish Highland scenery, and you have a recipe for a journey filled with secrets and lies, accusations and apologies, laughter and tears, aches and pains, blisters and midge bites.
Joy is a perfectionist who doesn’t do failure. Will her most protected and guarded secret revealed the night before the holiday blow apart the fragile mask of her perfect marriage?
Kathy’s pleasant demeanour hides a demoralised woman with little self belief. Has she the courage to put her secret D-T-Day plan into action and start a new life?
Ruth is caring, lively and funny but also lonely and bored. The last place she expects to find a new challenge is in the middle of the Scottish Highlands.
Trish, a straight talking woman, who cares deeply for her loved ones, tests her marriage when she refuses to follow her own ‘honesty is the best policy’ approach.
As the miles roll on, the unrelenting heatwave saps their energy. Feet are weary and blistered, tempers become frayed and accusations are made. With nowhere to hide in the solitude of the mountain footpath, emotions are exposed in all their rawness, and truth and honesty finally find their voice.
The Way of Life is a story of relationships, secrets, trust, honesty, and discovering that being true to yourself sometimes means being strong enough to make changes, no matter how difficult that may be.
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Cake, A Fairy Tale : Dina Keratsis
Cake, A Fairy Tale
She has nothing left to lose…
When Breena stumbles into the enchanted borderland of Cake, she is given the choice to return to her world or face the unknown. Unable to bear returning to her empty life, she embraces the challenge, much to the annoyance of the handsome, brooding Rune.
He wants redemption…
Long ago, Rune failed in his duty to guard the Queen Likely and vowed never again to let desire rule him. Then he meets Breena, the last Likely, and least likely, to succeed. Sworn to protect her from the killer who seeks to destroy Cake, Rune is forced to face his awakening desire for the one woman he can never have.
Together, they embark on a magical journey to save Cake and while Rune abandons his heart, Breena discovers that she has everything to lose.
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Against His Will : Brigette Manie
Against His Will
Protecting her had been the plan. Persecution, hers, was the result. Naomi swore that she would never forgive Barry for the trust he betrayed.
Ten years later, getting his inheritance depends on information she has. But will she help him? When an intruder invades his house at gunpoint, contacting Naomi becomes expedient. A million dollar inheritance is motivation for murder, and both Barry and Naomi are in the line of fire. He reaches her just in time to save her life. It’s déjà vu as once again he finds himself in the role of protector. He vows not to fail this time.
Naomi’s not sure that she can trust him with her safety, but she’s out of options. Sticking with him is about survival, for he has the skill sets to keep both their hearts beating. They work together, trying to stay alive and to get Barry’s inheritance before time runs out.
Thrown together by circumstances, love reignites and burns between them. Barry craves Naomi’s love and needs her forgiveness. The man she sees now reminds her of the man she had loved once. Naomi finds herself falling for him again, and she wonders if she has judged him too harshly. Had his action on that long ago night been against his will?
A Christian Romantic Suspense
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Liberty Awakened : Alicia Dean
Liberty Awakened – Isle Of Fangs Book 1
Evil lurks beneath the surface in the beauty of the tropics…
After graduation from her small, Oklahoma high school, Liberty Delacort is looking forward to a fun-filled summer before college. But when the people she trusts the most betray her, and a letter arrives claiming her deceased father is still alive, she jumps at the chance to travel to an exotic island to meet him.
But her excitement is short-lived. Her father is dying, and he doesn’t want her around. And, in spite of its outward tranquility, the island is filled with danger and ominous secrets. The secrets soon begin to unravel, and she discovers she is a descendant of Van Helsing, the vampire hunter.
The one up side is her budding romance with the sweet and sexy Ryan Kelly. But even that is threatened when—in spite of her fear of him—she finds herself attracted to an insolent, formidable vampire. Her plan to stay away from him fails when she learns he is the only one with the ability to train her to fulfill her destiny—to save humans from a faction of vicious vampires.
Will her inexperience lead to her death—and the death of others—or will she rise to the challenge and realize her full potential as a Hunter?
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American Amaranth : J. R. Ortiz
American Amaranth
Olivia and Julian Stansfield had lived the perfect romance. Julian, a young US Naval officer on a nuclear submarine, and Olivia, a Classic Studies major at Dartmouth, had hopelessly fallen in love after meeting at a mutual friend’s Christmas party on Key Biscayne, Florida in 1975. Together they had raised four wonderful children as Julian Stansfield simultaneously rose through the Navy’s ranks.
Olivia, a political exile from the island of Cuba, had lost her father to Fidel Castro’s Revolution. He had been executed by firing squad after the Bay of Pigs landings. Her deep emotional losses as a child had eventually led her to Dartmouth College and her studies on the origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece. Her love of America was profound and her personal concept of “American Amaranth” was carefully engrained in all her children as they grew older. Julian Stansfield had learned the truest meanings of freedom from his wife.
The three Stansfield sons had all graduated from Annapolis and entered the services of the United States Navy. Rebecca, the only daughter, was a world renown concert pianist.
By early 2015, the world was at the brink of war. Olivia was also dying. Shortly before her death, Admiral Julian Stansfield had been named Director of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon. Julian had promised Olivia that he would use all his resources to end the coming war as quickly as possible and get their boys home safely.
The story begins in May 2016 as world war finally comes. It follows Admiral Stansfield as he helps direct the order of battle for the US navy. It also follows his sons and their unique duties during this war. The story unfolds with repeated reminiscences by the admiral of his life with his beloved Olivia and of her “American Amaranth”.
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Adam and Eve : Denis Swenson
Adam and Eve
The Book of Genesis describes the birth of the world and how God created Adam and Eve – but the portrayal of life in the Garden of Eden and the events that followed is short on detail…
What if we could hear the story in Adam’s own words? To know what it felt like to become conscious as God breathed his spirit into lifeless clay, to understand the wonder that Adam felt as God taught him about the world and how to talk to him through prayer, and to feel Adam’s joy when God creates warm, wise and witty Eve to be his wife.
But we would also have to share his fear and pain when Eve’s inquisitive mind listens to the serpent and he tempts her to sin…
What if Adam and Eve had shared the story of their early years in the Garden of Eden and their struggle to survive in the wilderness after they were cast out? And what if those stories had been written down, right then and there?
These are The Adam Scrolls – a precious, secret parchment record passed from generation to generation, that survived the Great Flood and escaped the sun-worshipping pagan priests who sought to destroy them. They reveal God’s close relationship with our earliest ancestors and make clear that there is one Living God who loves us all.
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Stray Bullet : Simon Duringer
Stray Bullet
When Jack Shaw’s parents are involved in a random and tragic car accident, Jack’s devastation leads him down a path of self destruction; until an unconventional friend comes knocking and lures him into a world where he can learn to live again whilst exorcising his inner demons…
DC Harvey Walters wakes in a hospital bed, with a bullet wound to the chest and an impaired memory; whilst hailed a hero, he dos not feel heroic though he is reported to have dived in front of a moving bullet to save the Vatican envoy’s life…
As Jack and Harvey’s paths cross, a dark secret is revealed, a secret which will endanger their lives…
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Kerri’s War : Stephen Douglass
Kerri’s War – Volume 3 of The King Trilogy
You are about to read Volume 3 of The King Trilogy, the story of a thirty-three year old woman who chose to go to war with the greed and avarice of big business, the overwhelming power of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and a billion dollar shareholder lawsuit against her. Simultaneously, she chose to fall in love with a man who was engaged to marry another woman.
Kerri King’s dedication and tireless work ethic had taken her to the top. She was the president and CEO of Iacardi & Sons, one of the largest and most successful commodity trading companies in the world. Everything was perfect, until the company was nearly decimated by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Tormented by the loss of all but three of the company’s New York employees, and driven to provide a source of income for the families and loved ones of the Iacardi employees who died on that terrible day, she begins the fight to rebuild the company.
Virtually all of the cards and circumstances are stacked against her. The company is broke. Charles and Mario Iacardi, the company’s founders and financial providers, are dead. Peter Tavaris, Walter Deaks, and Billie Dukes, the three surviving New York employees, are vehemently opposed to Kerri’s continuing leadership. Enerco, a gigantic Houston based energy trading company, conspires to purchase Iacardi & Sons, and employs every dirty trick in the corporate playbook to accomplish that objective. Desperate to salvage value for their Iacardi stock, the shareholders launch a billion dollar lawsuit against Kerri, and vote to have her removed as president. In her quest to provide financial relief to the estates of deceased Iacardi employees, Kerri choses to give away to the Iacardi estates every cent of the fortune accruing from her father’s tainted trust. Her decision triggers disastrous consequences doled out by the Internal Revenue Service.
Kerri’s troubles are not confined to the corporate world. Just when she thinks she has at last found the love of her life, she is horrified to receive an invitation to his wedding in Naples, Florida, on New Years Eve, December 31, 2001. The wedding is like no other she, or any of the invitees, have ever attended.
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