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Genetically Privileged : A. W. Daniels
Genetically Privileged
Kirkus Indie, a Kirkus review service writes “An inventive, intriguing novel. Daniels skillfully develops a sense of threat.An animated plot and thoughtful questions posed about genetic manipulation.”
Genetically Privileged is a compelling, socially relevant read, addressing the advancements of technology and science as Daniels speculates on the social impact of those developments in a variety of entertaining ways.
The story begins with a couple desperate for parenthood and, upon finding an old friend they believe can be trusted, take the step towards achieving their parental goals. But the story grows to include the achievements of their undoubtedly superior children and the challenges they face in a society that doesn’t quite understand them, yet doesn’t hesitate to use their abilities for it’s own purposes.
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Time Killer : Todd M. Thiede
Time Killer
Witness a gripping thriller that will surely hook you from start to finish in Time Killer…
Have you ever stood in a line at a grocery store while a person in front of you argued every price and then at the very end they pulled out a book of coupons? Have you ever waited in a drive thru as the person in front of you took forever to order his food? There is a person in Rockton Illinois that has had this happen to him and he is doing something about it. He is getting rid of the Time Wasters in Rockton.
Detective Max Larkin has a pretty simple life in Rockton. He wakes up every morning and goes to the police station to solve small town crimes. However, today is going to be different. Not only is he getting a new partner, Jesse Fairlane, that he doesn’t want, but he is getting assigned to a murder case where the murderer writes TIME WASTER on the wall in the victim’s blood.
Follow them as they attempt to solve the murder mystery case and find out if their tandem would work in Time Killer.
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A Sealed Fate : Lisa Gordon
A Sealed Fate
A chain of tragic deaths across Dubai spanning two decades, only Valda knows they were not accidents, but murders. Her name is next on that list. Spunky singer Valda ditches her old life in Cape Town for a new start in glittering Dubai. Armed with just her cigarettes and some attitude she sets about reigniting her career and putting to bed the heartache over her former boyfriend Richard.
Valda does indeed find success and to her astonishment love, but all is threatened when she is introduced to a billionaire Sheikh. Her clandestine liaison with the Sheikh, propels her into a murky web of deceit and when newspaper clippings of seemingly accidental deaths across Dubai are posted anonymously to her it is clear she is rushing headlong into the same fate.
No one dare cross the Sheikh and she can hardly hardly turn to the law, so with few options open she confides in Larissa. As an astrologer, Larissa predicts that Valda and the Sheikh’s destinies were sealed from the moment of their first meeting; however she keeps the dire fate that she reads in the charts a secret. Lara resolves to help Valda flee Dubai and the ever tightening grip of the Sheikh; but should Valda be putting all her faith in her new friend and guru of the grimoires.
Together, Valda and Larissa take a gamble in a game of cosmic Russian Roulette where the stakes are their lives and their adversary, Fate itself.
A thoroughly modern cocktail of intrigue, passion and suspense set against the exotic locales of Cape Town and Dubai with an eclectic mix of characters, a perfect beverage if you like a tangy lemon peel in your drink as this one has a twist at the end too, but you’ll have to read it to discover it.
Lisa Gordon tells the story at a cracking pace and it passes the time quite amiably. You get a real feel for the settings of Dubai, its exotic colour mixed with danger, which is interesting to read. –The Astrological Journal When I started this book it seemed to be light holiday reading but as I read on the suspense tightened and I found I was reading a really good thriller. -Richard Llwellyn of Api-uk.org –The Astrological Journal
Most entertaining and well worth reading! It is well written and engaging, rushing you along with some surprises and twists which really keep you guessing until the last page! –Nina Lazarus, Esoteric Book Review This novel can offer sumptuous feast to the lovers of esoteric fiction. –Express Starteller –Nina Lazarus, Esoteric Book Review
“For a slender offering, it is a complex novel, written with great care. It is also one of the hardest books to categorize as it fits in both in the thriller genre as well as the much overlooked esoteric fiction genre. It makes you wonder about things such scary things as destiny, fate and karma. She has an affinity for place in this and it turns A Sealed Fate into something a bit more complex than I initially thought. This is the debut novel by Lisa Gordon and it was a very competent one”. – My Favourite Books –My Favourite Books
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Elasticity : Tiffany Romigh
Elasticity
Brooke, Whitney, and Tripp have something chasing them that former nerds everywhere fear—their ten-year high school reunion. Even worse, they’re also running from crippling addictions that have left their lives a mess. With only thirty days to go before hitting their former school’s gymnasium, the women make a drastic promise: together they will clean up, go to the reunion, and turn the tables on the classmates they left behind.
Brooke, a Holly Golightly-meets-Macgyver fashionista, wants the perfect life with a Hollywood beau, an amazing wardrobe, and a drool-worthy job, all while shopping her way into a financial hole and trying everything from fraud to dumpster-diving to stay afloat.
Whitney can’t say “no.”An overweight and people-pleasing wardrobe stylist on a popular self-help TV show, she’s a go-to girl by day and a raging compulsive eater by night.
And Tripp is an heiress to a manufacturing dynasty famous for creating the clothing snap. A corporate vice president, she has an anything-but-corporate vice: OxyContin.
Within one month the women’s lives will change, with a class reunion that culminates in a surprise speech that strengthens friendships, shows off a dose of reversal of fortune, and leaves more than a few bruised egos in its wake.
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Cephrael’s Hand : Melissa McPhail
Cephrael’s Hand: A Pattern of Shadow & Light Book One
“All things are composed of patterns…” And within the pattern of the realm of Alorin, three strands must cross:
In Alorin…three hundred years after the genocidal Adept Wars, the realm is dying, and the blessed Adept race dies with it. One man holds the secret to reverting this decline: Bjorn van Gelderan, a dangerous and enigmatic man whose shocking betrayal three centuries past earned him a traitor’s brand. It is the Adept Vestal Raine D’Lacourte’s mission to learn what Bjorn knows in the hope of salvaging his race. But first he’ll have to find him…
In the kingdom of Dannym…the young Prince Ean val Lorian faces a tenuous future as the last living heir to the coveted Eagle Throne. When his blood-brother is slain during a failed assassination, Ean embarks on a desperate hunt for the man responsible. Yet his advisors have their own agendas, and his quest for vengeance leads him ever deeper into a sinuous plot masterminded by a mysterious and powerful man, the one they call First Lord…
In the Nadori desert…tormented by the missing pieces of his life, a soldier named Trell heads off to uncover the truth of his shadowed past. But when disaster places him in the debt of Wildlings sworn to the First Lord, Trell begins to suspect a deadlier, darker secret motivating them.
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The Adventures of Penelope the Tea Cup Pig : Lisa McDonald
The Adventures of Penelope the Tea Cup Pig
Beginner Fiction~Penelope is a tiny Tea Cup Pig who one night goes off to seek adventure and fun.
But the small piglet needs to be brave and also has to lend a helping hand to a fellow farm animal that’s got into quite a pickle! Written in joyful rhyming words this tale will capture children’s imagination and they will love listening to it read over and over again.
A great bedtime story for young children!
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In His Stead : Judith Sanders
In His Stead – A Father’s War
Filled with both tense action and heartbreaking tenderness, “In His Stead” captures the essence of family life in wartime—the good, the bad, and the hopeful—and explores what it means to be a father and a man.
Follow Retired Army Ranger Thomas Lane’s tumultuous battle as he navigates the United States Army, its JAG corps, a vengeful officer, his reckless son, and his own wife, who has the Solomon like choice of sending either a husband or a son to fight in Afghanistan.
Lane once burned for the taste of gunpowder and the thrill of the battle. But as he struggles to cope with his own PTSD and the death of his eldest son who was killed by an IED in Afghanistan, Lane has to face the fact that the National Guard is calling his youngest son to now serve.
Lane knows he will do anything to save his child—even if it means going in his place, a pursuit unheard of since the Civil War when the rich, like JP Morgan, sent poor immigrants to fight in their place.
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Excerpts From the Heart of a Mom : Jennifer Laurent
Excerpts From the Heart of a Mom
Excerpts from the Heart of a Mom was originally written as a gift to my son.
This book contains 25 conscious parenting concepts that help parents foster their children’s innate wisdom and keep children connected to their authentic selves.
The book is not intended to be read as a “how-to” but rather a heartfelt offering of ways to consciously connect with our children.
Its intention is to inspire parents to open their minds and hearts, and connect with the fulfillment, joy, and peace of parenting.
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Earning a Motorcycle : Pete Thompson
All I Needed to Know About Projects, I Learned As A Kid Shoveling Snow: Earning a Motorcycle
[ . . . ] it didn’t matter, because one word, “sure” in the context of motorcycle ownership, gave Pete permission to buy one. All he had to do now was earn the money. [ . . . ] When Ms. Strickland answered the door she looked at the stoop and noticed that it had been shoveled.
Since they were both holding shovels, the first thing she said in a rhetorical tone was “Did you guys do that? Thank you” Before they could get a word out, she continued with “I guess you are here to shovel my drive! Or did you do that too and now you want your money” Without missing a beat, Mel replied, “Yup! Twenty bucks” In a scolding almost frantic tone she replied with, “Well I’m not paying.
“I have the lawn service under contract. Not very smart business boys. You can’t just ask people to pay for a service they didn’t request” Pete just stood there in shock when Mel said, “OK, we’ll put it back” She paused for a moment with a look of horror on her face until she realized Mel was joking and started laughing.
She said “I’m sorry boys, but I’m already committed” Mel replied, “That’s OK, we understand” As they were walking toward the next house, they heard Ms. Strickland’s door open and she started yelling, “Boys? Boys? Wait” Mel and Pete exchanged glances wondering what now? “Come back! I changed my mind! You can shovel my drive Pete jokingly said to Mel, “It looks like we’re both gonna make $20 on this drive since our price just doubled”
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A Poet’s Passion : Jim Traylor
A Poet’s Passion
Passion! Take me into your arms,
Embrace my eager body.
Guide me through my brief existence,
That I might know
And have
And be
All that life does offer.
Passion! Fuel my thirsty soul
With the fury of your flames.
Light my path to prosperity,
And the madness of amour.
Passion! Intoxicating elixir,
Give me drink from your magic chalice,
Whet my appetite with ambition,
Strengthen my resolve.
Quick, my passion!
Push me ever forward.
Look! The sky grows ashen,
The sun will soon be setting.
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