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Daimones : Massimo Marino
Daimones: The Daimones Trilogy, Vol. One
Dan and his family awake one day in a world where everyone is dead but nothing points to a cause. Initial searches for survivors yield nothing and, in panic, the family turns their house into a stronghold.
Eventually, they find Laura, a survivor who wins their hearts…and leads Dan to temptation. Laura describes her panic encounter with strange entities which Dan recognizes in his childhood hallucinations. He forces himself to find and confront them: An older power controls the fate of men.
A few selected will face the ultimate quest: a painful genetic transformation and work toward the rebirth of a new human race, or oblivion and death in isolation.
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It’s a King’s Life : Emily Randolph
It’s a King’s Life in Carmel-by-the-Sea
“Follow your nose! Life is an adventure!” So says Sadie, the Cypress Inn’s doggie concierge to Happy and Lady (two Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Cavaliers) when they arrive in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Carmel is a magical place where dogs of every kind are given the warmest of welcomes by everyone they meet. The enchanting Cypress Inn becomes Happy and Lady’s treasured resting place for a weekend of sand, surf, food, fun, friendship, frolic and mischief in their very first great adventure in ‘It’s a King’s Life’ series.
Follow your nose and come along!
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A Mole in the Hand : Walter Frederick
Could there ever be a coup d’état in Britain??
It is 2014 and Britain is being torn apart by civil unrest as Trades Unions and protest groups join forces to fight aus- terity measures causing so much hardship. The Coalition Government is coming towards the end of its first term in office, and city centre riots have forced the Government to impose special powers with nightly curfews.
Richard Mastin, a public relations expert, receives an unexpected visit from a long-time American friend Spencer Boyd, now a senior CIA officer. Boyd issues Mastin with a challenge to fly to the US to meet with former KGB agent Mikhail Limonov. At first Mastin cannot make the journey, but his commitments change and he makes the journey to meet with Limonov.
Within days he realises there is a plot for a British coup, and his adventures begin. Very quickly Mastin finds him- self pitted against ex-KGB officers, who are preparing to unleash hundreds of moles, working undercover for decades. Mastin soon discovers MPs, senior civil servants, and police officers, who are part of the plot, all of whom were re- cruited during the Soviet Era.
It is not long before Mastin’s life and family are threatened, and he quickly finds it necessary to enlist help from old British friends as well as new American friends. A key recruit is beautiful TV Producer Juliana Weston, whom he meets on his first flight across the Atlantic.
He travels backwards and forwards across the Atlantic as his efforts to fight the planned coup escalate. In a dra- matic ending he flees to rural Tuscany with all of the computer files without which the coup cannot be launched.
Gamblers Fight Back : Greg Elder
Gamblers Fight Back
“Something had to change. I could no longer live like this. I needed to find an occupation that brought passion and excitement back into my life. I was determined to find something fulfilling.”
After reading a book about a guy who gave up everything, moved to Las Vegas to become a professional gambler with only $6,000 to his name, and went on to become a millionaire, Greg Elder’s mission was set. For the next year, he decided to support his wife and daughter as a professional gambler. He wasn’t exactly sure HOW he was going to do this, but he couldn’t wait to get started.
The odds moved slowly in Greg’s favor as he discovered the method to making professional gambling a career. Over the course of 12 months, he became an expert on the world of casinos. He investigated everything from the most beneficial tactics to the psychological warfare that is used to deter unsuspecting gamblers. In the midst of this, he discovered a new purpose for himself, one that allowed him to do what he loved without losing himself along the way.
Be prepared to have your eyes opened and your perspectives broadened as you follow Greg’s journey through the busts, folds, and jackpots of being a professional gambler.
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Avalanche Effect : Merita King
The Lilean Chronicles: Book Four – Avalanche Effect
It’s been more than two years since Vincent, Farra & Kyle returned from their harrowing experiences on Drycenia and their idyllic family life is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious stranger and the dreadful news he brings them.
Going against the wishes of the Lilean spirit people, Vincent and Farra race from world to world in search of Gabriel and as faces from the past re-appear, they discover the links between a dreadful war, a medal won for valour and a legendary angel.
It began with a broken promise and ended with a change to the path of destiny. A small action taken in a moment of desperation that causes massive changes to the destiny of others.
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How to Survive When the Bottom Drops Out : JT Sather
How to Survive When the Bottom Drops Out
There is a new epidemic sweeping the world these days. Unlike the spread of the previous strain, this one seems to have the ability to self-propagate. The people of this Earth are transforming into the Zombie-Borg before our very eyes. Not from a bite, or a scratch, but through the overwhelming circumstances that are beyond their control.
Everyone has suffered the symptoms to some extent, but the condition is reversible. Here is a guide on how to live and enjoy your life with happiness, regardless of how bleak your situation has become. I’ve been high on the mountain, and fallen into the abyss more than twice in my life, and yet, I have found a path to the surface each time, and discovered that no matter how far down the rabbit hole goes, there is always a way out; a way to once again feel the sunshine on my face… and smile.
Help me avert the Zombie-Borg apocalypse, and avoid being assimilated. If I can do it, so can you. Join JT’s army, and together we can do the same thing I do every day: *Try to take over the world!*
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The Dragon’s Call : K.W. McCabe
The Dragon’s Call
In a thoughtless final act of destruction, humans wake the one creature of legend they have no protection against.
Years after the complete subjugation of the human race, Derek, heir of the Dragon Queen, and Cecily, create a tentative friendship.
But something or someone is stalking the human enclave. Cecily and Derek must find out who and why before she’s next.
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You Want Me to Do WHAT? : B. Lynn Goodwin
You Want Me to Do WHAT? Journaling for Caregivers
Are you a caregiver experiencing stress? You are not alone. Over 50 million caregivers spend every spare minute driving to medical appointments, stopping at the pharmacy, cooking, answering questions, paying bills, and helping with matters that used to be private. They feel trapped in an endless loop and need to release the stress of caregiving.
B. Lynn Goodwin’s new book, You Want Me To Do What? – Journaling For Caregivers allows users to process their stress and celebrate what is right. It gives readers open-ended instructions on spilling their guts in the safety of a private journal and offers two hundred sentence starts to help them begin writing.
Caring for oneself is as essential as breathing, but caregivers lose site of that fact. Think of the flight attendant who says, “Put on your own oxygen mask before helping those around you.” Journaling is a caregiver’s oxygen mask.
“As someone steeped in the therapeutic value of writing during pain and loss, I think B. Lynn Goodwin’s book meets a need that has yet to be addressed.” ~~Sharon Bray, Ed.D, founder and director of Wellspring Writers offering therapeutic writing groups for men and women with cancer, San Diego, CA
“Trying to find words that really matched how I was feeling was a very powerful experience for me. I feel I can see myself a bit more clearly.”
~~ JoAnn McGowan, full time mom and caregiver, Santa Clara, CA
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Even the most harrowed caregiver owes herself that much. ”
~~A. Sigmon, travel writer and blogger
Author B. Lynn Goodwin is a freelance writer, former caregiver, and retired drama and English teacher who owns Writer Advice, writes numerous guest articles and stories, and is working on a YA novel.
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The Second Daughter : J. Jeffrey
The Second Daughter
YOU try turning out all right after you overhear your mother wishing you hadn’t been born.
It had started out well. Umbrellas tangled. A storybook romance followed. A wonderful wedding. A beautiful, sweet first daughter. They were complete, a family, happy.
And then they went and had another daughter.
Her charming and witty fraud of a father Theodore starts disappearing, then worse, coming back. Her once allegedly sweet older sister Regina angrily resents her, and the sisters are at constant war. Her poor harried mother Helen is so busy what-iffing about the life she might have had that she overlooks the life she is actually having. Everyone blames younger daughter Debra for pretty much everything as the family slowly, then quickly, then one day explosively disintegrates. Along the way there are secrets and lies, heartbreaks and betrayals, plus the dramatic unexpected death of a central character at a pivotal moment. Debra, now a young woman, finds herself living awkwardly alone with her embittered mother when the phone rings—and her mother’s secret past suddenly crashes back into the present. Their life may be about to change forever; or rather, perhaps, revert back to what it should have been all along.
But not exactly because of that phone call, as it turns out.
Because of the remarkable second daughter. For what Debra Gale has is unyielding determination. What she has is an irrepressible capacity to love.
And now at last what she has is a chance.
The complex dynamics of a changing family. Mother, daughters, sisters, and the father who both divides and unifies them. That dramatic unexpected death, plus a fair amount of banana cream pie. Welcome to The Second Daughter: a funny but poignant, unusual but beautiful love story.
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John Dante’s Inferno – A Playboy’s Life : Anthony Valerio
John Dante’s Inferno – A Playboy’s Life
The life of one of the Great Lovers of all time, John Dante lived the life of a bachelor’s fantasy, going from his humble beginnings in a small Italian village to the Playboy Mansion, where he lived for 26 years with Hugh Hefner and 40 of the most beautiful women in the world.
John Dante was a key figure in the first years of the Playboy empire, hiring Bunnies, training Bunny Mothers, and managing the Playboy jet. He befriended some of the most popular and important figures of our time, including Hugh Hefner, whom John paints as a “fascinating, complex man,” as well as Shel Silverstein, Lenny Bruce, Linda Lovelace, Don Adams, James Caan and myriad other personalities and stars.
A first hand, inside look. An important book from the life of the second-in-command.
“This is a highly original way of telling the story of John Dante, self-made namesake of the more famous Dante. Using the medieval poet’s vision of Hell as a kind of running parallel narrative, Anthony Valerio weaves a fascinating tale of ambition, excess, friendship, and rocking good times back in the day of the Playboy Clubs, replete with Bunnies, orgies, and hedonistic fun.
Valerio writes with verve and compassion about men and women who ran after their dreams and their pleasures with abandon, living as if youth, potency, and beauty would never end. They did, of course, and this gives a poignant quality to the book.”
Prof. Rebecca West, Chicago
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