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Impetuous Heart Nadine Gallo brings us to the countryside of Ireland in 1917. Nora, Gallo’s feisty, romantic protagonist, plunges us into the atmospheric intrigue that was Ireland during the years preceding the Irish War of Independence. The homespun dress she wore seemed the color of a distant hill. She was shoeless as usual. The colors woven into her dress were like a rainbow trout’s. When they all blended together they were like mist over a lake. Through this fifteen-year old adventurer, we see the misty hills of Eire, hear the brogues and turns of phrase and explore the politics of the times. |
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Poison, Perennials, & A Poltergeist When you buy an old house, you don't always know exactly what you're getting ... |
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Echosis Transcending the headlines today that suggest political and military solutions to world problems, ECHOSIS, working with the premise that “everyone is creative,” presents an eclectic group of characters exercising artistic expression that proves to be a potent weapon against a world populace wishing to function with independence, but feeling impotent in a growing terrorist world. As such, ECHOSIS questions the value of unbridled imagination and the consequences of its loss. The story is set in New York City, a remote island off the coast of Maine, the isle of Jamaica, and European locations of Mikonos, Greece and Lisbon, Portugal. Renowned sculptor, thirty-five-year old Derek Turrel, looks at himself and other artists around him, and finds the proliferation of mediocrity in the arts and entertainment world is more than can be ignored any longer. He sets out to create Echo Life, an independent organization of artists whose primary goal is to empower. He convinces an initial group of artists to join him on an island off the coast of Maine. There, a new paradigm for coping with the world’s chaos is initiated. Realized as an alternative to mainstream media’s offerings, Echo Life’s collective approach and compelling message is realized by millions through satellite TV, radio, streaming video and interactive networking on the Internet. Millions of everyday people as well as professional actors, poets, composers, et al, evolve from being skeptics, to staunch believers in Derek’s philosophy…and themselves. Seeing Echo Life as a major threat to his bottom line, Stoppard Denning, the founder and CEO of OST, the world's largest media conglomerate, sets out to destroy their existence. |
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Consensual Infidelity: The True Story of One Ordinary Couple's Experiment with Swinging In the suburbs, swinging isn't just for the playground. |
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Heart of the Witch Zerrick Dhur holds a dangerous secret. As the Pastor's son, it is his duty to uphold Iahmel's ways, the ways of the church. But he practices magic, feels it singing to him through the jungle outside the colonial town walls. As witch burning fever strikes his home town, Zerrick must decide whether to stay true to his father's words, or follow the calling of his heart. In his journey, darkness and madness threatens. An untrained witch can lose his or her grip on reality.
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Banned After being expelled from Abe Lincoln High School in Baltimore City, Luke Bowens runs away from his dysfunctional family to live in the confinement of his grandparents’ house in the suburbs. He soon finds solace in the arms of his beautiful math teacher, Ms. Blanc, and suddenly his life changes as he trades his thug existence for a much more satisfying life of forbidden love. Luke never thought he’d end up in a complicated relationship with Ms. Blanc, one filled with violent jealousy and secrecy, as he fights to keep his affair on the down-low. But is Luke the master of his fate, or is he still just a boy—the victim of an older woman’s criminal seduction?
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Active Shooter Lanesboro College has been asleep in the Berkshire Mountains for decades. But it is sent reeling when a sexual predator descends on the campus. Jake Paris has been hired to manage the many risks facing the college. His new job immediately blows up in his face when the crimes begin on his first day. Now he must guide the college as it deals with one horrendous event after another. Not everyone wants him to succeed. Detective Dave Cawley thought he could escape his past by relocating to the mountains. But the past follows him as he hunts down the sexual assailant. He has always been at odds with the state police, but forms an uneasy partnership with a female officer that could lead them both into a relationship neither wants. As the pressure on campus builds, Jake Paris tries saving Lanesboro College from itself. Dave Cawley tries to save it from a psychotic criminal. But worse things can happen to a college than its students becoming prey to a sexual predator. And that worse thing is about to step onto the campus…
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Mirror Deep Danger and romance roll like thunder through horse whisperer Kat Bonner’s world, when a known felon comes to the ranch to drop a bomb about her past. Kat turns to Pierce for help; the same Pierce who bucks her every chance he gets, and whose feverish investigation lands them in trouble with the law and directly in the path of a serial killer.
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Caprice What if your office crush almost killed you with a kiss? Danny Marx has an innocent infatuation with the cute, quirky new girl, Caprice. When she meets him in the stairwell one day and surprises him with an unprovoked, yet passionate kiss, he thinks his fantasies have finally come true. That is until moments later when he becomes violently ill and collapses. |
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The Bum Magnet Charisse Tyson’s got it all going on . . . She’s a savvy, successful real-estate agent with a quick wit, a low tolerance for BS, a gorgeous size-14 body, and a thirst for top shelf vodka. Despite her dream house, luxury car, and appetite for life’s best—like fine dining and hot men—she seems to have her own special talent for attracting players. Why do all of her ex-lovers belong in the Losers Hall of Fame? There was Lamar, the hazel-eyed Adonis who sowed more wild oats than Quaker. . . Sean, an expert at juggling relationships . . . Marcus, whose lips wandered as often as his eyes . . . and others, too. But just as Rissey swears off sex and vows to dump her emotional baggage, she meets house-hunting client Dwayne Gibson. There’s no way she can resist his seductive smile and rock-hard body. . . . Will Dwayne turn out to be the biggest bum of them all? Or will this time be different? |
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Murder & Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction An Old Mystery In 1932, John Hobb, father of four, is a witness to a bank robbery. He identifies the robbers and testifies against them. They are later pardoned by the governor. In 1935, Hobb is found in his idling car by the side of the road, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. The circumstances surrounding his death are a mystery, and the killer is unknown. In 2010, John Hobb's murder is still unsolved when Tess Tremaine moves into his former house. She finds a job at the local bookstore, which is owned by Lou Stafford, the youngest daughter of John Hobb. During renovations to the old house, Tess finds a mysterious old key, labeled "trunk." Mayhem ensues when she attempts to find the owner of the key: Her house is broken into twice, but nothing is taken; she finds cigarette butts and footprints outside a bedroom window; she gets threatening phone calls and ominous messages in the mail; she and a friend are attacked on the street. All of this has the opposite reaction than was intended--it doesn't scare her away, it strengthens her resolve to find John Hobb's murderer.
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Static Mayhem Harrisson Cody is driving home from work when the world as he knows it suddenly ceases to exist. In a blink, everyone disappears and the landscape is reduced to a smattering of random buildings and fragments of highway. Harrisson appears to be the sole survivor and he spends his days cruising I-91 in New Hampshire, finding dead dinosaurs, advanced technological gadgets, and lights that function without any apparent source of electricity - but no other people. This all changes one day when he hears a woman's voice on the radio, urging all survivors to head towards Chicago. What follows is an epic journey through a bizarre landscape populated with advanced technology, dragons, magic, and destruction. Through the journey, Harrison learns that scrambling the world was just the first part of a horrific plan. The second part of the plan will destroy every remaining survivor. He is the key to stopping it but doing so will come at an unbelievable sacrifice. One he might not be willing to make. Static Mayhem is a #1 Novel on TheNextBigWriter.com, a semi-finalist in Amazon.com's Breakthrough Novel Award contest in 2008, and the 2008 Winner of the Strongest Start Novel Competition. |
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The Coffee Diary Two years after her father's brutal murder, Veronica returns to Guatemala to decide whether to sell her family's coffee farm. Stumbling upon the journal from her teenage years, she recalls crucial events from the past, in particular the arrival of her younger, illegitimate half-brother. This trauma changes her, and forever links her family to Jaime, the man who later becomes the town's corrupt mayor. Born into the lower class and yearning for respectability, Jaime turned to illegal activities to break the inevitable cycle of poverty. Now he is determined to have Veronica's farm by any means possible. During the years she lived away, memories of her country faded: the haunting landscapes, the beauty of the coffee farm, traditions, and faith. Upon returning she discovers, despite corruption, violence, and organized crime, a sense of belonging not experienced elsewhere. The country casts its spell on her and she realizes that Mayor Jaime, the villain she thought threatened her, is just a man shaped by the unforgiving nature of Guatemalan society. |
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For the Love of Babies What takes place in the neonatal intensive care unit is the high drama of real life. The author pulls back the curtain to show the inner workings of this area in the hospital that is unfamiliar and frightening to most people. Hall, a longtime neonatologist and former social worker, writes with caring and compassion about the challenges each fragile baby must surmount in order to survive and thrive, all the while conveying a sense of life-and-death urgency that permeates neonatal intensive care. She expertly weaves the social and emotional threads of each family’s journey into their baby’s story, and also speaks candidly about the stresses and difficult decisions that neonatologists and their tiny patients’ parents routinely face. This book is for anyone who has wondered how doctors and nurses work under intense pressure to diagnose and treat the smallest of patients, and how parents of these infants cope with the emotional ups and downs that are part the daily rhythms of life in the NICU. |
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The Prodigal Housekeeper Caroline is a gorgeous product of our 'greed is good' times. She has no sense of moral responsibility and unashamedly enjoys exploiting the frailties of rich men to feed her insatiable desires. She acts spontaneously and is not controlled by any social norms. The besotted Oswald, one of her suitors, describes her as 'the freest person he has ever met'. His baffling entanglement leads to adventures in the South Seas and encounters with a Shaman. Is Oswald acting out of the iron necessity of natural law, or are there deeper explanations for his inexplicable attraction? This is both a frivolous read and one that supplies plenty of food for thought. A fast moving and humorous page turner to take on vacation or read on a winters evening - one you will keep to read again and talk about with friends and family. |
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The Promise Cassie Jayne Bishop grew up in the sleepy town of New Salem, NC, the only non-believer in the tradition and power of the town Coven. When a stranger comes to New Salem, everything she thought was normal about her life unravels around her. Ethan makes her question everything, even her sister’s death in a car crash years ago. As Cassie discovers the full truth about her heritage, and the clues start to pile up, she becomes determined to find out if the Coven was actually involved in her sister's death. What she uncovers terrifies her. Her fate lies at the very heart of the secret the Coven protects. It’s the reason she was born. Now, betrayed on every side, can she find a way to survive or will she be the catalyst that triggers a centuries old act of vengeance. |
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This Time You Lose Lisa Kaamp operates a small childcare business out of her home in the sleepy little town of Nogeksum, Michigan. Highly respected and known for going the extra mile for her daycare kids, Lisa thought she had handled every daycare emergency possible. But nothing prepared her for the nightmare she now faced. Lisa awakes one morning to find herself bound and gagged, four strange men in her home, and the daycare children being held hostage in the next room. Terrorized by her captors as the authorities work to meet the ransom deadline, she tries negotiating with the men for the release of the children, and soon realizes that at least one of them has no intention of letting anyone go. With the deadline quickly approaching, Lisa must do the unimaginable to protect the children and get everyone out alive. |
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The Memory Eater: Stories That Erase the Past to Save the Future The Memory Eater is an anthology consisting of 27 uniquely illustrated stories based on a device with the ability to locate and destroy any memory in the human mind. |
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The Side Effect In the 1930s, a German anthropologist researching a primitive people makes an amazing discovery. Eighty years later this leads to the development of a miracle drug that could be one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of man’s fight against disease. An American physician suspects the drug might have a serious side effect with dire consequences for ethnic Jews. He begins an investigation not knowing that the scientist who created the formula is someone who’ll stop at nothing to hide the truth. The story ranges from the jungles of New Guinea to the laboratories of Nazi Germany and the boardrooms of the modern pharmaceutical industry. Profit, prestige, and an undercurrent of racial intolerance provide the motivations for keeping a deadly secret from the world. Physician Scott Cutler races against time and powerful forces to expose the attempt at full-blown genocide. |
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On a Wing and a Dare In Tremeirchson, a barn leader’s children are expected to follow their parents into the sky, becoming riders of the magnificent winged horses that are the medieval Welsh village’s legacy. Neither Emma nor Davyd, however, want to follow that tradition. |
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Girls from the Trailer: Phoenix Rising When love goes wrong, what next? An educated woman, Carlena Pellhouse, marries her best friend, but now he wants her dead. In a small Florida town eccentric women befriend her. She will do the unthinkable to save her life because she's a woman who will not surrender. This tribute to women and their friendships is like Carl Hiaasen meeting the Fried Green Tomato girls. |
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Prosetry at Work A poetry journal covering from April 16, 2012 to May 31, 2012. |
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Get the Picture When surgeon Jack Lansing is just getting his life back together following the death of his wife, he happens to meet beautiful Erica Anderson, and it seems at first just what the doctor ordered. But then another woman enters the picture, one from out of his past, and Jack suddenly finds himself hunted by a powerful U.S. senator and members of organized crime. Though he learns his involvement in a drama of revenge and murder was no accident, it is too late to back out now. ultimate targets of the killer, Jack must face the fact that events in his past, for which he was unwittingly responsible, are the cause of the rampage. Available in Paperback |
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Songbird There are defining moments in life when everything changes. For Dani Mays, it was the day she witnessed her brother's murder. Afterward, she bounced between her alcoholic mother and foster homes until she found a permanent place. And a reason to want to stay: Reece Tyler. He's her best friend, yet Dani wants more from him. Faced with losing Reece, Dani struggles to escape her memories, even as people from her past reappear. Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Nook |
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Eolyn "Vigorously told deceptions and battle scenes will satisfy fans of traditional epic fantasy, with a romantic thread."– Publishers Weekly Available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Nook |
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The Grateful Undead: They're So Vein Be careful what you pray for. I merely asked to live a long healthy live and hinted that I wouldn't mind starting over while keeping the knowledge I had accumulated in my 58 years. And if a better set of tits and less wrinkles were involved, I certainly wouldn't complain.
Well, I'm here to tell you, God does listen… to everything… and he's got quite a frigging sense of humor.
I'm the undead proof.
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Blood, Sweat and Demon Tears (The Grateful Undead series) Susan's sister is in one hell of a mess (literally); confined to servitude with the demon, Rafael.
When Rafael gifts JoAnn with an Earth-to-Abyss cellphone so she can communicate with her sister, Susan soon finds out that JoAnn has gone from servitude to concubine, and no longer wishes to come home. Only problem is that JoAnn really loves her new cell phone and the frequent calls--time really moves like Hell in the Abyss--are driving Marcus and Susan batty! In their attempt to retrieve JoAnn, THE GRATEFUL UNDEAD team ultimately finds themselves knee-deep in vamp critters, demons, rogues, and a host of new and colorful characters, when the mission takes them from their home in Florida to the streets of New Orleans.
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Gator Baitin' (The Grateful Undead series) Susan's budding romance is taking a back seat in book 2 of THE GRATEFUL UNDEAD series, and her sexy immortal lover, Marcus, is having none of it.
In book one, THEY'RE SO VEIN, the women in the Stech family went from dentures to fangs, Depends to thongs, Dr. Scholl's® to stilettos, and bumbled their way into an undead lifetime of Critter Control when one of them inadvertently turned a raccoon into a vampoon. GATOR BAITIN' (book 2) begins as the team is dispatched to destroy a vamp-gator wreaking havoc at Gatorland in Orlando, only to get sidetracked by a serial killer investigation, a vamp-bull at a rodeo in Kissimmee, and a colorful demon named Rafael. Between bronco busting, dragon riding, Jesus-freak chasing, gator hunting, demon summoning and dead bodies popping up everywhere, Susan's finding it hard to fit in a little romp time.
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