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The Pineville Heist : Lee Chambers
The Pineville Heist
Seventeen year old Aaron stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong.
Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school.
Terrified, Aaron tells his shocking tale to Amanda Becker, his drama teacher, but it doesn’t take long for one of the psychotic robbers to show up. In the locked down school the pair are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money back and wipe out the evidence.
The Pineville Heist, based on the award-winning screenplay by Lee Chambers and Todd Gordon, “is a young adult thriller with a slick plot, believable characters, and a breakneck pace that will no doubt appeal to adults as much as teens,” noted Walleye Magazine’s Amy Jones. “An enthusiatic five stars!”
“The Pineville Heist is the very definition of thrill, energized with edge-of-your-seat action and suspense!” claims US Review of Books reviewer Mihir Shah.
UPDATE: Twilight star Booboo Stewart (Seth Clearwater) has signed on to play Aaron Stevens in the movie version.
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Ghost Under Foot : Kenneth W. Harmon
Ghost Under Foot: The Spirit Of Mary Bell
“The knocking on the headboard boomed inside my brain. I stopped breathing, my body paralyzed with fear, as I realized I was not alone in my room.”
Ghost under Foot: the Spirit of Mary Bell is the incredible true story of one family’s journey into the realm of the paranormal.
Readers are taken on an amazing adventure as retired police officer Kenneth W. Harmon struggles to understand why their house is haunted and who may be responsible.
With help from the Fort Collins Museum staff, and using old records, family histories, newspapers, and maps, he learns their ghost is Mary Bell Wilson, a young woman who died from typhoid fever back in 1886. Mary Bell’s father operated a sheep farm on the land where the Harmon house is now located.
When a local couple, Duane and Susan Kniebes, who used dowsing rods to locate unmarked pioneer graves on behalf of the State, visit the Harmon’s house, they find an old gravesite in the backyard.
Before leaving, the Kniebes teach Kenneth how to use the dowsing rods to communicate with spirits. Kenneth is now able to talk with Mary Bell. He asks her many questions about death and the spirit world. After learning Mary Bell knew intimate details about his family, Kenneth wondered if she used superconscious telepathy to access this information. Could ghosts call upon the collective wisdom of the human race? To test this, Kenneth asked Mary Bell questions about some of the most famous mysteries, including the JFK assassination, the identity of Jack the Ripper, and the Roswell UFO incident.
Ghost under Foot is supported by photographic and video evidence, and is the first book to offer real proof of life beyond death. It is sure to be one of the most talked about books in 2012.
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Turning Point : Jack Eason
For thousands of years, man in his arrogance has believed that he is unique in the cosmos.
During the last decade of the twentieth century, the day finally arrived when a warlike alien species called the Drana returned to our solar system, intent on re-establishing their rule over the Earth once more. The last time they were here they left a subordinate race in charge of our early ancestors.
When the Drana moved on to conquer more planets in the name of their emperor, the Khaz began to create a stronghold here on Earth, hopefully large enough to one day challenge the Drana.
Over countless centuries all memories of the Khaz and their masters the Drana vanished from the minds of man. However, the Khaz are still calling the shots through a secret government they set up consisting of the world’s political and military leaders, as well as the heads of all the major business cartels.
Meanwhile, our New Zealand born hero Tom is enjoying a well-earned break, hiking through the beautiful mountains of South Westland in New Zealand’s South Island, totally unaware that he is being deliberately drawn to a specific place.
In a valley somewhere in South Westland, artificially hidden from the outside world he meets a dying race of peaceful people from another world called the Nephile, who are hiding from the Drana and falls in love with one of them. Through her and others like her, he is made aware that everything we have ever learned or assumed is untrue. He learns that the ancestors of all the various branches of humanity were brought here from other worlds as slaves of the Drana millennia ago.
After being enhanced, our hero is tasked with bringing in all the other human beings, chosen like him by the Nephile, to be taken back to the valley in New Zealand to form a new species of Nephile/human. While picking up the various groups of humans dotted across the world, his actions inadvertently start World War Three, days before the Drana return to reclaim the Earth, throwing the Khaz High Command here on Earth into total panic.
How to save the Earth and humanity from this nightmare situation? What kind of earthbound weaponry could possibly defeat the Drana? The battle between the army of resistance fighters, led by our hero Tom, and the Drana in New Zealand’s South Island, ends when a worldwide cataclysmic event set in place by the Nephile living in the hidden valley occurs. Will anyone survive?
Globular Van der Graff’s Goblin Tales for Adults, The Forgotten Age, The Next Age, The Guardian, Céleste, Race Against Time, Autumn 1066, The Magisters and The Forgotten People by Jack Eason are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Mack Dunstan’s Inferno : Paul Collins
Mack Dunstan’s Inferno
My recent book is called Mack Dunstan’s Inferno and it was inspired by Bowling for Columbine, where Michael Moore challenged actor Charlton Heston on his role in gun rallies on the week of a massacre at Columbine High School.
Well, the Heston Estate forbid the use of Charlton Heston in the work, but Iuniverse has published it because I changed Charlton Heston into Mack Dunstan and the paperback is called Mack Dunstan’s Inferno. It is about a Charlton Heston type character who succumbed to Alzheimer’s, descended into hell and met victims of his pro-gun policy.
Yes, as he descended into Hades, he met oodles of Hollywood celebrities, including Kelsey Grammar, Sally Struthers, JK Rowlings, Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt, and even a comical scene with Woody Allen too. In such a circumstance, look out for all the American televangelists, including Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, and Jimmy Swaggart. It is a modern day Divine Comedy!
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Deep in the Heart : Staci Stallings
Deep in the Heart
Just out of college and completely alone in the world, Maggie Montgomery has one shot left to save her life from an abyss of poverty and hopelessness.
Clinging to the last shred of fuel and hope, she arrives at the mansion of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayers. Although Maggie is clearly not what Mr. Ayers and his wife have in mind for a nanny, they agree to hire her temporarily until they can find someone more appropriate to fill the position.
However, Maggie’s whole world is about to be up-ended by two way-over-scheduled children and one incredibly handsome hired hand. As she struggles to fit into a world she was never made to fit in, Maggie wonders if she can ever learn to become a perfect version of herself so she can keep the job, or is she doomed to always be searching for a life she can never quite grasp?
Keith Ayers despises his life. As the son of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayers and the fiance to a Senator from Texas’ daughter, it looks great on the outside, but inside, he is dying. He would vastly prefer to manage and train his father’s racehorses. However, everyone else thinks that is beneath him. He needs to get into industry and build on his father’s success. Suffocating under the constrictions of his life, he meets Maggie who begins to teach him that wealth and power is not everything in this life. But can Keith defy the most powerful men in Texas to follow his heart?
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Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself : Shampriest Bevel
Today I Marry My Best Friend: Myself
The women’s fiction book tells the untold story of single women living in a world with limited good men and unlimited drama.
The characters deal with all types of men. They are all in relationships with the type of men who prove not to be ready for marriage. Talia Sands, who is the most ready for marriage, is left broken-hearted after five years by a man who she accidentally learns is having an affair with the neighborhood trick.
This becomes a turning point for Talia. Talia decides not to allow a nugatory man destroy her dreams of marriage. She has an epiphany about the root of marriage, love. She decides to marry herself as a symbol of self-commitment and self-love. Today I Marry My Best Friend, Myself tells the story of how a woman can stop tirelessly and painfully waiting for a man to ask for her hand in marriage. She can follow Talia’s lead by getting her middle finger sized, purchasing her own wedding ring, and marrying herself.
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Bus Stop on a Strange Loop : Shaune Lafferty Webb
Bus Stop on a Strange Loop
If you knew the ultimate fate of those around you, would you try to change it … would you accept it … would you warn them? Would you want to know?
When brothers Nicky and Ethan escape the degraded, dangerous world of the future, they are seeking only sanctuary and peace. All they want is to leave their past behind them, but Ethan’s unique talent, the instrument of their escape, means the past can never be forgotten – Nicky and Ethan have been followed…
School teacher Olivia lives a lonely but safe life in the home of her late foster-parents, a home she is about to lose. After an unsettling encounter with her new neighbours and a series of puzzling break-ins, Olivia is inadvertently drawn into the brothers’ lives, and her own past is brought into sharp relief by her discovery of a cache of her foster mother’s diaries, which raise question about her birth parents. The deeper she delves into the diaries, the closer she draws to unravelling an old mystery that will taint her relationship with Nicky and Ethan and challenge her perception of reality.
As Olivia and the brothers are about to discover, sometimes paths intersect more than once.
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State of Grace : John R. Phythyon, Jr.
State of Grace
When his friend and colleague in Urland’s Shadow Service, Sara Wensley-James, is murdered in the elf nation of Alfar, Wolf Dasher’s mission seems simple: track down her killer and bring him to justice. But nothing is going to be easy about this case.
Sara named Sagaius Silverleaf, Alfar’s ambassador to Urland as the culprit, but he couldn’t have done it. He was in Urland at the time of the murder.
Sent to Alfar under cover as Urland’s new ambassador, Wolf begins the most difficult and dangerous mission of his career. The once-lush and magical land of the elves is decaying. Its once-verdant countryside is putrefying before its citizens’ eyes. Some blame the presence of human occupiers – Urlish military units present to keep order and support Alfar’s shaky coalition government. Some blame losing the message of the great prophet, Frey, and turning away from God’s plan. But many think it is simply the schism in elfin religion that spawned a civil war and daily acts of terrorism by fundamentalist martyrs.
Wolf must navigate this nightmarish environment to find Sara’s killer. Could Silverleaf have been responsible? If so, why? His investigation leads him into an intricate web of assassination, betrayal, and zealotry. With the help of Aflar’s Elite Guard captain, May Honeyflower, Wolf uncovers piece after piece of a sinister puzzle: a psychotic killer, a mad general bent on conquest, an ancient, evil artifact, and a terrorist organization planning a grand act of devastation. But how do they all fit together? What did Sara discover that got her killed?
As the Feast of the Revelation, the holiest day on the elfin calendar, approaches, Wolf and Honeyflower find themselves in a race against time to unravel a plot that could topple Alfar’s government, plunge it into war, and change the balance of power in the world forever.
STATE OF GRACE is the first in a series of fantasy-thriller mashup novels, blending magic, super spies, and politics in an exciting brew of action and adventure. From the chilling opening scene to the pulse-pounding climax, STATE OF GRACE takes the best elements of an espionage thriller and a court intrigue and weaves them into a world both familiar and fantastic.
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The Derailment of the Sunset Limited : Neal Hallford
The Derailment of the Sunset Limited
On October 9, 1995, Amtrak’s Sunset Limited derailed in southwestern Arizona.
With their train sabotaged by a shadowy organization calling itself the Sons of the Gestapo, the passengers found themselves stranded in a remote, snake-infested desert.
Passenger Neal Hallford provides a candid account of the night’s events, leading us from the moment of impact through his later discovery of the chilling messages left by the terrorists.
Painting a portrait of both the incident and the ironic circumstances surrounding it, he gives us a deeply personal snapshot inside the most investigated act of domestic terrorism between the Oklahoma City bombing and the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
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Flesh Worn Stone : John A Burks Jr.
Flesh Worn Stone
Steven Alexander awakes from a drug-induced coma in a cage on a pristine tropical beach, his head covered with a burlap sack and numbers tattooed on his right arm.
Besides his wife, Rebecca, he doesn’t know any of the four other people in blue prison-style coveralls. As the others come out of their own stupor, he remembers the masked and armed men breaking into his suburban Houston home and the murder of his two sons. The group has nothing in common besides the location and the manner of their brutal kidnappings.
Unbeknownst to Steven, he and his fellow prisoners are now part of the Cave, a Colosseum-sized cavern populated with savage cannibals. And they are about to play the Game.
The Cave is a prison like no other–a prison run by the prisoners, and the rules must be strictly adhered to, less one find themselves as the evening meal. The Cave dwellersí lives revolve around the Game, a modern-day rendition of the Colosseum of ancient Rome, where they must compete in acts of murder, rape, and self-mutilation for the amusement of those who watch from behind one-way mirrors, people they never see or hear. Refusal to participate means the dinner pot, and losing means a fate literally worse than death.
Steven soon learns the true meaning of not just slavery, but of abject and relentless hopelessness as he struggles to not only survive, but escape the horrors of the Game.
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