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142 Wellington Place
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The suspense in this engaging crime narrative is riveting and keeps building up until it reaches a most unexpected climax filled with excitement and pathos.
Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call from Celia, the wife of his best friend, Don. It seems Don has been unfaithful, and the proof stands in the hallway of the couple’s home: Ada Hamilton, a young, fragile, pregnant girl who clutches love letters written in Don’s hand. Unfortunately, Don is in London, and Celia wants Ben to fi nd out if her husband truly is a liar and a cheat.
Ben heads up to London to confront his old friend and then returns to Celia’s house to deliver the sad news that Don has admitted to the affair. But then things take a strange and sudden turn. Two police inspectors arrive minutes later and reveal that Don’s body has been found in his rooming house at 142 Wellington Place. Whether his death was by suicide or murder, they can’t–or, more accurately, won’t–say.
The authorities open up an inquest into Don’s death, and Ben accompanies the police back to London, where they interview witnesses and gather evidence. Tracking down Don’s mistress complicates things and there is a great twist when a second ‘Miss Hamilton’ turns up. Something is certainly rotten at 142 Wellington Place.
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2023: World War III
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99In 2023: World War III, the Peoples Republic of China explodes out of its borders. This book presents China’s political, social and economic rationale, military preparations and grand strategy for such a disaster. It discusses the lack of political and military preparations by the West, the consequences for China’s neighbors, and how the world in general and the United States in particular will respond. Events in today’s world makes it all possible. The only way to prevent World War III is to plan for it now.
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A Broken Wing
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99A Broken Wing is a children’s fable that will teach kids of all ages how selfishness and greed will result in nothing good.
Arlene Treherne has written several handbooks, “Title One Parent Advisory Council” and the “Title One Parent Advisory Council Revised Edition.” She is recognized by the United States Department of Education Title and Parent Advisory Council as a Parent Advocate, a New York State Department of Education Advocate and a previous Advisory Board member, a certified New York Department of Education Parent Leader of the New York City Public School Districts 2,9, 27 and the dismantled 85 from 2000-2012. A faithful servant of Jesus Christ and the mother of two adults, aunt of eight, and a great aunt of 10 school aged children. She resides in the South Bronx but recognizes the communities of Norwalk and Stamford in Connecticut, Cambria Heights, Jamaica, South Ozone in Queens, Sugar Hill in Manhattan, and Flatlands in Brooklyn, and of course The Bronx.
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A Fish Called Bad Eyes : Finding Marsha’s Glasses
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Our bespectacled fish reveals his curiosity and caution as he befriends both humans and ocean dwellers beneath the water’s surface. Ultimately, he brings together a community of Pacific Coast reef inhabitants to help save their home. For many of the fish swimming in the Pacific reefs, a boat on the water’s surface signals “terror in the sky.” But when a young girl named Marsha loses her glasses over the side of one of these “floating islands,” they serendipitously land on the face of a speedy little “Manini” fish known as “Bad Eyes.” In a gesture of friendship, Marsha leaves her new finned acquaintance this miraculous gift . From there, the detailed characters and action draw interest while his questioning dialogue weaves in an educational component that relays information about creature characteristics, habits, and the ocean’s decline in this a magical and creative foray into the ocean realm of a myopic fish. Even a big-eyed, noodle-legged octopus brings a teachable moment, commenting that “beauty comes from what I can do, not how I look.” Character interactions are brought full circle with Marsha’s return in the final chapter, and the story ends on a positive note, teasing more adventures with Bad Eyes and Marsha to come.
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A Light in the Darkness
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Angela Fujiwara enters her sophomore year of high school with a world changed. She apprenticed herself to a necromancer classmate to learn magic and hasn’t told her parents about it. But some of her friends do know, and the final exam will be pass or fail.
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A People Set Apart
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99When chance, the flamboyant scion of a well-to-do family, makes it to the United States from his war-torn Biafra, it doesn’t occur to him that life isn’t going to be the same as it is in his homeland.
But he learns fast. And by sheer will and personal grit, he is able to bulldoze his way in his new abode. Turning adversities into advantage he develops one of the most enduring relationships ever imagined. Turnkey, his nemesis turns friend, and over a short period of time, that metamorphosis yields an instant result. Chance schools him to change course and makes him to understand that he can buy himself out of the box seemingly reserved for him and his ilk that will place him in low level of society’s cadet in perpetuity. Having seen the light, they hit the ground running. Their friendship bossoms, and Chance becomes his greatest confidante.
When Chance offers to take him and a group of his American friends to his homeland of Biafra, a country remembered in flashpoints of war and pillage and destruction, and man’s inhumanity to man, Turnkey is there to defend his friend and dispel all erroneous notions of a people he hasn’t met except one man.
Biafra, plundered since time immemorial, and thought dead, has risen from the ashes of pillagery by dint, and indefatigable spirit of her irrepressible people to hoist her flag in the firmament for all to see. In Biafra, Africa is unbound.
Turnkey, a fortuitious child, and even luckier than a cat with more than nine lives, doesn’t leave anything to chance. Like his father, he toils from a young age knowing where he’s coming from but also with an eye to where he’s heading to. Yet, it’s him that the mighty God has had his path cleared before him.
And when fortune smiles on him owing to a huge bequeathal of his granduncle, it’s to Chance that he turns to, and it’s in his friend’s homeland that he chooses to invest his largesse because he wholeheartedly believes that they’re a people a set apart in spite of the challenges right and about them.
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Adam
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Dr. Jeffrey Mongroll II created a monster out of his grief for the loss of his father. He vowed that he would create the perfect humanoid that would thrive in this world to take over humans as we know. It escaped into the waters of the Willamette River of Portland, Oregon. This creature if left to live will be the extinction of all mankind.
Detective Pete Rodrequiz, a transplant from the state of Texas, and his new partner, Johnny Rodrequiz, are given the assignment. Death occurred caused by this vicious illusive creature. The invisible killer baffled Pete. Why is there death of the innocent? Pete confronted Dr. Mongroll. There seemed no way to stop this killer until his team is given a break. The creature was seen. Pete requested help from Dr. Robis, a marine biologist, Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues, and the Navy SEAL Team.
The story will take you into an intense ride of fear–a fear of what lurks in the depth of the river.
In the depth of the Willamette, the creature attacks the Navy SEAL Team and the submersible with Dr. Robis and Dr. Mongroll and his colleagues. They stared on as the creature killed many of the SEAL Team.
Back on the deck of the coast guard ship, the battle for life between man and the creature and life as we know it began.
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Adam To The Rescue!
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Eleven year old Adam Elgin is an avid baseball player who has been playing the piano since he was four years old.
An orchestra is to be formed in his small elementary school in order to participate in a Gala for the Year of the Child Project. They have teamed up with another small elementary school to expand the orchestra’s numbers. All interested students must audition for the orchestra. Adam gets the audition music for the piano, from the school’s music teacher and has a short time to prepare for the audition.
Everybody who plays an instrument, wants to be in the orchestra and so they practice, and practice, and practice for their audition. But on the weekend
before Adam’s scheduled audition on Monday morning, he gets ill and misses his audition. Two students are chosen for the piano, one is to be the alternate, and rehearsals begin.
But a lot is going on to prepare for his school’s customary year-end festivities, taking place the last week of school: the winter concert on Tuesday, the play on Wednesday, and the orchestral debut in a dress rehearsal on Thursday, school is closed on Friday, plus the school has started a gigantic fundraiser to help with expenses for the Year of the Child gala. Both teachers and students are “stretched to the limit” in these endeavors.
It is the last day of school before the Christmas vacation, and the first dress rehearsal, but at this first dress rehearsal the two students chosen for the piano, fail to perform their best and the dress rehearsal comes to a screeching halt.
Without a reliable pianist, the gala seems unlikely for these two schools. Can the Principal fi nd a suitable replacement that can play without fear of the crowd and the pressures of performing, someone who can take them to the Gala!
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Agatha and Frank: New Adventures
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Agatha and Frank had been on a road for the last year and a half going across the Central and lower parts of the USA. But now it was time to go find a new place to leave. Houston, TX had been their home since they had returned from the island. But it just wasn’t home anymore! They loved their kids, but after the last storm, and their house getting flooded, twice! It was time to find a place where the weather wasn’t so extreme. They both agreed Oregon would be the right place. A friend of Aggie’s (Larie) needed to sell their house, so they offered it to them for a great price. Larie had lived there for over 20 years, they wanted someone that would love it as much as they did.
During their travels they had visited and explored many places. As far as Agatha (Aggie) and Frank are concerned, traveling in their RV to see this wonderful country of ours, was the only way to go! It was fantastic waking up in the same bed every morning, and then walking out of their RV to a new place, view, and new things to explore. Never knowing what they will discover in the new area. There were always so many things to see and do during their travels. But it was time to have a place to call home. With their “New Adventures” just over the horizon.
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Agatha and Frank’s Story: Stranded on Rosland Island
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Agatha and Frank finally retired and planned on sailing around the islands off the east coast, for a few years. But that dream was put on hold went they got shipwrecked on an island. It wasn’t just any island they learned in time.
They were stranded and there was nothing around as far as they could see. This book is about their discoveries and their adventures on the island. Agatha kept journals, with the hope of someday they would be rescued. This is from her journals.
They called the island Rosland Island. They learned later it was once a mountain range connected to a mainland, and as time passed the mountain range sank into the ocean. Only Rosland Island was left, where once a land mass had existed. The island has two mountains on it, one at each end. There are many stories to tell about Agatha and Frank’s adventures, and about who lived on the land mass, besides the Merbeings.
This is important to know, because of everything they discovered!
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Ahuitzotl: A Novel of Aztec Mexico
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99Arrogant pride and an impassioned love of a woman bring to ruin the mightiest of Aztec warrior-kings, Ahuitzotl.
He embarks on conquests that make him the undisputed master of his world. At the dedication ceremony of the Great Temple in his capitol, he orders, as a climactic exposition of his pride, the largest mass sacrifice ever known, an orgy of excess seen by the priests as outraging the Gods, and for which he will suffer their wrath. He leads his people to their most glorious heights, only to bring calamity upon them. He manipulates the lives of his two most beloved women to serve his own selfish purposes, and alienates his closest allies with his quest for domination, setting into motion forces that culminate in a cruel retribution against him. The world of the Aztec ruling elites, with its intrigues, politics, and gory rituals comes to life for the reader in this epic work.
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Alexis Sheppard
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Alexis Sheppard follows the life of a brilliant young African American woman and how she tries for live up to her father›s legacy by following in his footsteps. In this story we find out how Alexis and her mother Catherine deal with the loss of a loving father and husband. In the process of following in her father’s footsteps she finds inconsistencies surrounding her father’s death.
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An Adventure in Arizona
$10.99Leira and her new Best friends Addy and Skye are thrilled when Leira’s Mom, Mrs. MacGregor invites them to Arizona to visit her sister for winter school vacation. Skye has never flown on an airplane and Addy has never stayed at a hotel. However, that is only the beginning of the adventure. In Arizona, the girls receive an invitation to spend three nights in the mountain camping with Leira’s eighteen-year-old cousin Luke who is an eagle scout. The adventure bring them in contact with Indian lore, reptile, animals and much more. However, the trip turns into a nightmare when the group confronts mysterious happenings and a tragic accident find them in a mortal danger!
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Appy, the Appaloosa Cowpony
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99When Appy the Appaloosa is born in the dead of winter on the prairie, there’s little doubt in anybody’s mind that he’s different from all the rest. Handsome and regal, he was born for greatness.
Follow along as he grows from a nervous, insecure colt to the leader he was born to be.
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Arundel Haven: Mordecai And Raven Including Saviour’s Day (Book One)
Price range: $3.99 through $28.99Mordecai Jefferson was a lonely high school student, seemingly alone. He had been bullied by three bullies who were all-state players at Oak Ridge, where he had attended, and had received no support for his depression from his family since his cousin Amelia started college two years ago. He suddenly started having dreams about a large dragon, claiming he was one of the two prophesied by a fairy queen on her deathbed a century and a half before to be his bane. When the jocks left him in the woods after beating him up, he met a beautiful black fairy, and his life changed forever. The dragon continued to appear in his dreams and had recently made an alliance with a world-renowned geneticist, Dr. Haman Von Braun, who had a secret obsession with finding fairies and the hidden fairy kingdom of Arundel Haven, and U.S. President Ahmad Faroiuk to find the young man and keep the prophecy of his death from coming to pass. Soon, Mordecai will learn his role in the Prophecy of Queen Hephzibah and how he and another will bring about the end of the dragon.
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Ashes of the City
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Ashes of the City is a gripping Young Adult dystopian novel that delves into the struggle for survival in a city shattered by disaster. When a massive earthquake devastates their urban home, a group of high school students is left stranded in the ruins, cut off from rescue and forced to confront a new reality where the old rules no longer apply.
Maya, a responsible and compassionate leader, steps up to guide the group, clinging to her belief in unity and hope. But her vision is challenged by Jace, a charismatic rebel who believes in a more ruthless approach-one where only the strongest survive. As their differing philosophies clash, the group fractures into factions, with the city’s remaining resources becoming the center of a dangerous power struggle.
As Maya battles to hold onto her humanity, Jace’s tactics grow increasingly harsh, leading to violent confrontations and impossible choices. Amidst collapsing buildings, dwindling supplies, and the ever-present danger of aftershocks, both leaders are forced to face the cost of their decisions. In a world where trust is fragile and survival comes at a price, Maya must decide how far she’s willing to go to protect her friends and what kind of leader she truly wants to be.
Ashes of the City explores themes of leadership, morality, and the loss of innocence in a brutal, post-disaster world. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies, this powerful story will keep readers on the edge of their seats, questioning what it means to survive when everything you once knew is gone.
