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A Very Powerful Gift
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99About the Book
Stewart the spider is afraid to jump to spin fancy webs like all of the other spiders. His mom gives him a special hat to help him have the faith in himself he needs to spin his webs. When a human waves a broom at the spiders’ webs to destroy them, Stewart must face his fear of jumping-or else!
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Tobie
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99New Mexico Territory
Sandia Mountains 1826
A Mountain Trapper rescues a baby boy found alive with his Indian mother, dying in the winter snow. She lives long enough to utter the infant’s first name, TOBIE; then dies. Taken to San Felipe de Neri Catholic Church in Alburquerque, the baby is left to be placed in an Orphanage. It is here he remained until the age of eight. When on a cold stormy night, – his mind filled with boyish dreams – he runs; but his youthful reverie proved unfit for the rigors of nature, and he nearly dies. Found by a Ute Warrior, young Tobie is taken to his village and raised as family, until the age of 16; when fate again turns amiss. Wounded but believed dead during an attack by Army Soldiers he survives, while all others are killed. The village is left burning. Now at age 16, Tobie is left with one prospect, venture into a world filled with unknowns. The year 1842; a time in American history when the country is moving fast forward. Now, with great apprehension, he rides alone, into a strange and ill-defined world.
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Field of Oleander
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99When Raymond Karr is approached by a murderous gang to become a drug smuggler bringing narcotics from Africa, he immediately rejects the proposition. A straight-shooting immigrant, he abhors besmirching his family’s honor. But his deep-seated passion to attend George Washington Medical School is unmatched by his dismal financial capability, causing him to vacillate as his better instinct struggles with his ambition.
Eventually, through a series of coincidences and inertia, despite the re-occurrence of an eerie dream in a field of Oleander, he is swept along the road to criminality. After a tempestuous affair with a beautiful Latina whom he determines to impress into a permanent relationship, it’s game on.
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Alumni Fund
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Abington College, very small, antique, once women-only New England college, is venerable and broke, hires a butch Jewish PhD from Brooklyn to salvage what can be in the face of crashing enrollment and desperate need to retain full paid tuition students despite their academic deficiencies. Add to this crisis management, Amanda Hyde (with Jekyll as foreground), English, former au pair girl employed by a New York mafia family, now head of the Abington College Alumni Fund, a picaresque rise from au pair to stripper at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan and by means of forged documentation to eligibility for her current position, aided in her financial and professional success by a hit man and a plague of fatal accidents among the alumni. All part of the larcenous tale you are about to read if you are lucky enough to get a copy of this book.
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Arabic Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99تحب والدة سيندي خبز الفطائر والكعك والحلويات اللذيذة الأخرى! ولكن في أحد الأيام، سئمت أمي من القيام بكل أعمال الخبز والتنظيف بنفسها، وتوقفت عن الطهي تمامًا. تفتقد عائلتها رائحة خبزها الرائعة. ولكن كيف يمكنهم أن يظهروا لها مدى امتنانهم؟ وهل ستخبز أمي فطيرة التفاح الخاصة بها في عيد ميلاد سيندي؟ الفطيرة، الفطيرة! يعلم الأطفال أهمية إظهار تقديرهم للأشياء الرائعة التي يفعلها آباؤهم كل يوم – ومتعة المشاركة والمساعدة!
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: German Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Cindys Mutter liebt es, Torten, Kuchen und andere KÖSTLICHE Desserts zu backen! Doch eines Tages wird Mama es leid, das ganze Backen und Aufräumen selbst zu erledigen, und sie hört ganz auf zu kochen. Ihre Familie vermisst den wunderbaren Duft ihres Backens. Aber wie können sie ihr zeigen, wie dankbar sie sind? Und wird Mama zu Cindys Geburtstag ihren besonderen Apfelkuchen backen? Der Kuchen, der Kuchen! vermittelt Kindern, wie wichtig es ist, ihre Wertschätzung für die wunderbaren Dinge zu zeigen, die ihre Eltern jeden Tag tun – und wie viel Spaß es macht, mitzuhelfen!
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Italian Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99La mamma di Cindy adora preparare torte, torte e altri dessert DELIZIOSI! Ma un giorno, la mamma si stanca di cucinare e pulire da sola e smette del tutto di cucinare. Alla sua famiglia manca il meraviglioso profumo dei suoi dolci. Ma come possono dimostrarle quanto sono grati? E la mamma preparerà la sua torta di mele speciale per il compleanno di Cindy? La torta, la torta! insegna ai bambini l’importanza di mostrare il loro apprezzamento per le cose meravigliose che i loro genitori fanno ogni giorno e il divertimento di contribuire e dare una mano!
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Japanese Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99シンディのお母さんは、パイ、ケーキ、その他のおいしいデザートを焼くのが大好きです。 しかしある日、お母さんは自分でパンを焼いたり片付けたりすることにうんざりして、まったく料理をしなくなってしまいました。 彼女の家族は、彼女が焼く素晴らしい匂いを懐かしんでいます。 しかし、どうやって彼女に感謝の気持ちを示すことができるでしょうか? そしてお母さんはシンディの誕生日に特別なアップルパイを焼いてくれるでしょうか？ パイ、パイ！ は、両親が毎日してくれている素晴らしいことに感謝の気持ちを示すことの大切さと、協力して手伝うことの楽しさを子供たちに教えます。
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The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell!: Korean Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99신디의 엄마는 파이, 케이크, 그리고 다른 맛있는 디저트 굽는 걸 좋아해요! 그런데 어느 날, 그녀의 어머니는 혼자 굽고 청소하는 일에 너무 지쳐서 요리를 아예 그만두었습니다. 그녀의 가족은 그녀가 굽는 냄새를 그리워한다. 하지만 그들이 그녀에게 얼마나 감사하는지 어떻게 보여줄 수 있습니까? 그리고 그녀의 엄마는 Cindy의 생일을 위해 특별한 사과 파이를 굽을까요? 파이, 파이! 이는 아이들에게 부모가 매일 하는 훌륭한 일에 대해 감사를 표하는 것의 중요성뿐만 아니라 참여하고 돕는 기쁨을 가르칩니다!
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HYBRID
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99IN HYBRID, a sequel to BLUE FIRE, R.J. Mikelionis M.D. offers a riveting and even surpassing tale, in his unique, spare, hard-hitting style.
Dr. J. Cameron returns from his Blue Fire journeys to the Medical Wards, a superb clinician now adding research to his hectic schedule. Enormous implications of the research for patient care and longevity collide with cold, bureaucratic politico-economic realities, threatening to destroy him.
In one of many parallel battles, Max-Cameron’s buddy and Intern-becomes embroiled in a war reminiscent of the backstreets he’d left behind, in a quest to free his girlfriend from the mob.
The odds are stacked against the doctors, their friends, patients.
But in times of need, their ordinary lives accept extraordinary choices. Their lives lock into wars between life and death, and quests for the just vs. the shadow dragons of evil.
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Seekers of the Dogazoids
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Seekers of the Dogazoids is the story of wayward aliens who wind up on planet Earth by accident, a fuel crisis. They can change their appearance via shape-shifting and are quite intelligent. But they know nothing about this planet or the beings who live here, us humans. The one thing they do know is that they need fuel for their ship. So they set about seeking fuel while trying to fit into a small town atmosphere, not doing very well at first. But they learn and get better at it. Although the aliens don’t get real good at fitting in, they do just enough to proceed with their mission, narrowly averting disaster several times. Humans are not the stars of this story. It’s a story of a different race who didn’t plan on being here but had to make the best of their bad situation.
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The Passage: A New Beginning
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This story unfolds when a young psychic woman, Kelly Brown, begins searching for the meaning of a premonition that came to her in a dream and has kept haunting her, surrounding the
death of the previous owner of a beautiful 1900 antebellum home she has recently purchased. Unknown to her, she becomes a key player in an unsuspecting game of revenge as this bitter, unsettled spirit draws her deep into its hold on her while laying a plan for the revenge for his murderer. Kelly is being used as a pawn for this unsettled spirit’s revenge until she is pushed too far. When that happens, she reaches for her inner self to draw strength upon. She holds strong to her spiritual dedication, and in the end, she brings the spirit of the vengeful man and the spirit of his murderer together in union. -
Pure Luck
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99What would you do for buried treasure?
Best friends Randy and Jennifer are confronted with that very question in Pure Luck. It all began with the metal detector they received for their twelfth birthdays. The two old coins they find on the beach lead them on a fantastical treasure hunt ending in a treacherous cave at the edge of the ocean. They enlist the help of a trusted teacher to retrieve the chest they find there. Assailed by rising tides, a storm that floods the cave, and an injury leaving their trusted teacher with amnesia, the two best friends soon find themselves in a pickle trying to juggle all their secrets. It was Pure Luck that they found the treasure chest, but now Jennifer and Randy are asking themselves was that good luck or bad? -
With Dangerous Aim
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99The Alexander Hamilton Foundation in Washington, D.C. needs someone to escort a Chinese defector from Shanghai, China to America. The defector has vital top-secret security information for America. Lieutenant Commander Pilar Marshall volunteers for this clandestine assignment. At the final pickup point off the coast of Shanghai, a submarine is to collect the defector. Suspense builds as they move through the city to the marina, followed by an unknown watcher. As they are ready to cast off from the dock, the watcher appears with a gun. They scuffle with the watcher who is knocked down. He fired one shot, which hit a member of her team. They escape to the pickup point. To avoid being caught by the Chinese patrol boat, they hide in the coastal fog. Little do they know, there is no submarine to pick them up. A zodiac picks up the group to a waiting U.S. destroyer. One member of the group is a Chinese sleeper spy. The spy accompanies the team to America. In a tense scene, the sleeper spy locates the defector. With dangerous aim, does the assassin accomplish her task?
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The Beacon
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Life sometimes takes us to task.
So we seek our knowledge from the past,
Only to learn that life is an ever changing path
that rolls us in and out of the shadows.
Like a captain of your ship a sail,
Without a Beacon, you’ll surely fail
To find your way upon the seas of life,
And run aground in tears and strife.
That’s why the Beacon came to be,
To shine its light on you and me,
And help guide us safely to shore,
To be lost in life’s seas no more -
Education Of A Native Son
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Education of a Native Son begins where the novel, Native Son, by Richard Wright ends.
Thomas, a Black young man who grew up in Harlem is accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university in New England. While in college Little, as he is known, will be confronted with the pressures of the everyday college student, being Black at an all-white university and being Black in America. In addition to adjusting to college life, he will soon learn the secret of his parent’s past, a past the could lead to the destruction of his family, friendships and ultimately his life. What takes him from a proud feeling of triumph when entering the university to feelings of betrayal, abandonment, self-hatred and the brink of self-destruction.
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El Monstruo de la Pradera
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99La historia está a nuestro alrededor, pero no siempre sabemos dónde hallarla. ¿Se nos ocurriría mirar en el patio de nuestra casa?
En el libro del autor Ronald S. Martínez Sr., El monstruo de la pradera, dos niños juegan, como suelen hacerlo todos los días. Pero, esta vez, descubren huellas que se asemejan a las de las pequeñas lagartijas con las que se entretienen. En su imaginación, establecen conexiones, visualizando una criatura más extraña que la realidad. Pero, con la ayuda de un sacerdote que comparte su entusiasmo, descubren que ¡el monstruo de la pradera existió de verdad! Al descubrir las huellas de dinosaurios en los lechos de los ríos en las áridas praderas al sur de lo que hoy conocemos como La Junta, Colorado, los niños y el sacerdote deciden emprender una emocionante expedición para dar a conocer la existencia del monstruo de la pradera a un mundo que lo desconoce.
El monstruo de la pradera es una historia cautivadora con referencias históricas. Al embarcarse en este viaje de descubrimiento, los niños y el sacerdote se convierten en testigos, y también contribuyentes, de la historia de Colorado en desarrollo.
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A Roof Over Our Heads and Food on the Table
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Pat Kavanaugh wanted to major in English at Nutmeg State University. His parents persuaded him to major in accounting because it would be more practical than being a writer. At NSU, he met his roommate named Sean Donnelly. Both Irish-Americans, they became friends despite Sean’s troubling secret. Pat then becomes a cashier at Delacroix’s Grocery Store. After graduation, Pat continued working at Delacroix’s, but the chances of advancement are rather slim.
Pat then began a job search. Along the way, he moved to his own apartment, attended Sunday Masses at All Saints Church, became friends with another parishioner, and met a young woman. He also invested in a business that his parents felt was unethical. In the end, Sean was always there for him. -
The Black Phoenix Selah Chronicles
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Who am I and why should you read my story? My name is Max Faraday. Nobody is going to believe me, but here I am putting it all down on paper. I am a man of two time periods. Forgive me, this sci-fi stuff is new to me.
A week or more ago, in July 2002, I came home for my 1982 high school class reunion. I was staying with my friend Jamie Scott and his family. On the way home from the reunion, we picked up his kids at the babysitter. Their little girl comes out and bounces a ball that tumbles out of her hands into the street.
Just as we arrived, a car speeds up and my instincts take over. I picked her up and get her out of the way, but I was then hit by the speeding car! Stunned, I wake up in September 1978! I am a thirty-eight-year-old man in a fourteen-old’s body! I can’t tell anyone, or they would lock me up, thinking I’m crazy! I know I would.
So here I am in the eighth grade all over again. When I went to bed in 1978, I woke up in a coma in 2002, wondering about the driver who ran me over.
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From Destroyed Webs to Masterpieces
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Mike belongs to a group of spiders that spin fancy webs and in order to spin these types of webs, these spiders have to have wonderful imaginations. However, Mike lives in a house
where the lady destroys his webs when she cleans (which is constantly).Now most spiders may not care if their webs are swept away, but Mike’s webs are artistic masterpieces. A decision is made, and Mike moves out of the house into the backyard. He discovers a wonderful, magical land of trees, shrubs, and flowers. As a result, Mike decides to use the bush by the backdoor as his canvas for creating his artistic designs. I could tell you the rest of this story, but it is more fun for you to open this book and discover what happens to Mike as he creates some amazing designs as he spins his webs. In the end, you might want to have a paper and colored pencils next to you so you can draw colorful, magical webs as well
and become part of the group that draws amazing and unusual webs.
From Destroyed Webs to Masterpieces – This short story starts in the living room of the house owned by the lady with the broom and ends with fantastic webs designed in the back yard. Discover how the sun shines brighter, more smiles are occurring as many come to inspect these artistic webs. Yes, this book is part of a series. This book about Stewart’s brother, Mike, is
the second book of the series.
From Destroyed Webs to Masterpieces – This short story starts in the living room of the house owned by the lady with the broom and ends with fantastic webs designed in the back yard. Discover how the sun shines brighter, more smiles are occurring as many come to inspect these artistic webs. Yes, this book is part of a series. This book about Stewart’s brother, Mike, is the second book of the series -
Heaven Scent
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Sammy is hunting for something, but he doesn’t know what it is. Even though he can’t find it, he doesn’t give up. He continues his search until he finds the greatest treasure ever.
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SICQ: Spanish Edition
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99El Presidente y el Vice Presidente son elegidos de dos partidos diferentes. Son viejos amigos, pero se desarrolla un conflicto cuando se descubre la posibilidad de un contacto extraterrestre real. Una multitud de personajes se infunden en la relación entre los dos.
A medida que se confirma progresivamente el contacto con extraterrestres, el cisma político deja de ser un problema. Los efectos sobre la humanidad pasan a primer plano. Aceptar la verdad provoca disensión y desconfianza. En última instancia, se realizan las eleEl Presidente y el Vice Presidente son elegidos de dos partidos diferentes. Son viejos amigos, pero se desarrolla un conflicto cuando se descubre la posibilidad de un contacto extraterrestre real. Una multitud de personajes se infunden en la relación entre los dos.
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The Big One: The First 52
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99The author examines the invaluable gift of time within the context of eternity, through the lenses of profound themes in the forms of storytelling and poetry. Employing urgency and directness, these poems encourage you to consider knowing Christ, and to make Him known, your priority. The command of The Great Commission dominates your thoughts more completely as you read and meditate on the truths confronted herein. From questions about the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace, to the importance of decision making and the potency of the blood of Jesus, The Big One uses a simple and straightforward style to convey a message of joy, faith, peace, and hope. The benefits of struggles in the life of the believer and the power of God’s love are conspicuous throughout. These discussions are centered not only on the eternal destiny of mankind, but also on the possibility of living successfully and abundantly in this life. The Big One flowed from a loving relationship between the author and his Savior and is a unique gift from God. These verses portray fundamental concepts in a lucid, unpretentious and honest manner. As you read, you will experience a magnetism which pulls you to the secret place of the Most High and propels you toward the real reason you are alive-to fear, obey, enjoy, and glorify God.
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Whose Coffee Is It?
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99I met June Seese in a class on writing fiction. As a teacher, one of my biggest kicks was that moment when the writers first read something they’d written. It was a nervous time-many writers shaking inside, for the first time showing their work to strangers, sympathetic, but nonetheless, strangers. June was remarkable. What has flowered since was already sturdy, strong distinct. She read with a confidence that moved beyond the personal, a faith outside herself in the certainty of her work. Here was a writer who had risen to that essential power where her work becomes necessary to her, a gift as sure and heedless as her pulse. She was right on track, and would move, beyond discouragement or criticism or even appreciation, into the strength, that difficult ease that’s the mark of a writer who will continue regardless, achieving an undeniable, unmistakable voice.
What makes a writer? Originality, a delighted care for language, a commitment to push words into new music and finally into pure emotion. June has these gifts-and her writing’s strengths- toughness, speed, lyricism, observation acuity and, ultimately, a compassion that’s never unsteady, never weak-make her the best kind of writer-impatient, hip, timely and transcending.
-Paul Evans, Editor, Southline Press
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Sam Larsen Mysteries
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Detective Sam Larsen is faced with her most challenging case when a murder in her jurisdiction appears to be related to an unsolved case she faced many years earlier in another state. Adding insult to injury, it appears that the cases have another very personal and heartrending twist that involves a person she loves.
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The Other Wife
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Janice Bordeaux is an American woman from New Orleans, who lives and works in Chicago. WANDA ARRINGTON AKOREDE Janice and her cousin Melinda share an apartment. They are both young and ready for love and marriage. Janice finds her true love when she meets a Nigerian name Olufemi (Femi) Adegoke, who is completing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Janice is employed at the University as an Administrative Assistant. They meet at an Africa party and romance blossoms. They become engaged and get married despite their cultural differences. Olufemi is from an upper class Nigerian family. He has lots of money and takes Janice on an extended honeymoon in Europe. They plan to settle in Nigeria afterwards. It is upon their arrival in Nigeria, that the other side of Femi is revealed. He kept from her the fact that he was already married. You see in their culture, it is legal to have more than one wife. But for Janice, this was culture shock! Devastated and distraught, Janice tries to live in their culture, rather than return home. Her love for Femi is very strong and she hopes that one day he will come to his senses and see that she is all the woman that he needs. But being faced with a very strong and male dominated country and living in a strange and sometimes overwhelming country, she finds it difficult to deal with her husband’s infidelity. She feels cheated. He should have told her about his other wife, and she
would never have married him. Omolola (Lola) is Oulfemi’s Nigerian wife. She waits two long years for him to complete his education and return home to her. She had not bargained on him marrying an American woman and bringing her home. She had planned to have a family and enjoy the fruits of his success upon his return to Nigeria. Instead she was forced to share him with Janice. Omolola knew that her husband has taken another wife before they arrived in Nigeria. It was part of their culture for a man to have more than one wife. Several of her relatives were actively living in polygamy. They tried to live together, each woman sharing their husband equally. But Lola was not satisfied with their arrangement and schemes to have Olufemi to herself. She uses any means at her disposal including juju (witchcraft). While Janice who is innocent in this is losing the battle to maintain her marriage. Consequently, Janice catches Olufemi and Lola in bed together and decides that she had had enough of their culture and polygamy and leaves for America. But she takes with her their unborn child; she is several months pregnant. So the tie is binding. -
Shifting Air: A Royals Quest
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Could he ever have wanted this? Laithrum, the forsaken prince, is thrust from his unloving home and into war. At first, the call felt like insanity, but as he faces harrowing battles, and uncovers the long-buried secrets of his lineage, Laithrum realizes his importance. Back home, his half-sister Freyja is forced into a perilous journey. Violence shatters the palace walls, and Freyja is thrust into a fight for her life. But something stirs within her-a dark and untamed power that she cannot explain. As magic weaves itself deeper, the siblings grapple with the truth they were sheltered from-they had less control than they ever imagined. They are cast into a brutal world teeming with dragons, elves, and mystical creatures they once thought mere legends. Branded as “demons” by those who fear their powers, Laithrum and Freyja must choose: Will they embrace these accusations, or will they rise to challenge the tyrant pulling the strings from the shadows?
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Something To Crow About
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This story is about a young crow who worries about his diminutive size and wishes he might be larger and prouder. Moe the Crow, feeling puny and tiny, turns to his mother. She gives him
the family history tracing Moe to a time when his ancestors ruled the earth as dinosaurs. The story changes Moe’s perspective making him believe that life’s best is what lies ahead. The book gives young people a perspective of how dinosaurs evolved and a new way they can look at the birds around them. This book provides entertaining rhyme, colorful pictures, a scientific story, and a reminder of the bond between parents and their young. -
Impossible Beginnings: A Love Story
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Merry Morehouse, a city girl carrying a life-crushing secret, is betrayed by a woman she believes to be her best friend. This friend backs out of a planned camping trip to the mountains at the last minute. Although she has never camped out before, Merry is set on being a big girl and decides to make the trip alone. Lost at night in these mountains with few people, she decides to go home. Turning around, Merry crashes vehicles with a man who recently lost his beloved wife to cancer.
Doc Adams, a disabled combat vet in danger of being fired from his job, who holds no romantic interest in another woman after losing his much-loved wife, becomes the crash victim. He lives alone on this desolate mountain that becomes the crash scene. Merry accepts his offer to sleep at his home but panics when he pulls off on the dirt road leading to this isolated place. Their vastly different beliefs quickly become the foundations for arguments concerning God, guns, law enforcement, and news media reports. Overloaded with fear and difficult memories from her teen years, Merry is terrified of what he might do to her. Her choices for the night narrow with no place to stay, no vehicle, no way to protect herself, and a cell phone that won’t work in these mountains.
After this rough start, they work to get along with each other, and Merry struggles to become accustomed to mountain life. False accusations take them to court where the charges are dropped. They get married. Merry’s father, a big-shot lawyer, causes problems during their wedding and is ushered out. He shows up at the reception and tries to take his family home. Shots are fired, and total bedlam ensues. -
The Angels of Opi
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Seven Boys Held Captive for 11 years! When Daniel Ciarletta and his father, Pete, boarded a boat in 1947 bound for Italy, to visit Pete’s ailing father, they could not have known what awaited them. Everything changed for Daniel and the Ciarletta family. Daniel was abducted and taken to Opi, a rural mountain community that had survived for centuries by sheep herding until 1943, when retreating German soldiers seized all the boys and able-bodied young men as work prisoners. Daniel soon became a work prisoner as part of a devious plan by the citizens of Opi-including the local priest who had evidentially lost his “moral compass”- to abduct young foreigners to take the place of the men they had lost. With no idea of where he was or why, and unable to speak Italian, Daniel began working in the fields and plotting his possible escape. Meanwhile, back in America, the once happy and loving Ciarletta family began to slowly disintegrate under the burden of conflict, anger and guilt caused by Daniel’s mysterious disappearance.
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The Devil In The Cave
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99When a World War II Veteran, Archibald Arthur, a United States Serviceman retired from active military duty in November 1943 after a grueling experience fighting the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, he must battle to rebuild his civilian life and emerge from the ashes. The Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder was intense, but finding a job at the Anchorage Hotel in Downtown Alaska provided a safe haven for him to revitalize and start over. But when he met a vacationing young lady from Zagreb, Croatia at the Hotel, his world was turned upside down after a beautiful picnic with her in the foot of the Alaskan Mountains.
The Devil that must have killed her in the woods was too powerful, but he must face him to avenge her demise and, in the process, discovering it was far more complicated than he had previously imagined. It took years of living in the mountain foot, surviving bitter winters and learning for him to discover that the battle that he must fight was not only carnal, but spiritual as well. Deep inside the cave with his loyal dog, Gossiper, they came face to face with the Devil and that marked a new beginning for them both……
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Spunky’s Special Friend
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Spunky’s Special Friend is the adorable story of a friendship between a puppy and a butterfly. It has a wonderful moral message that we need in our world today. It shows how differences can bring us together, not keep us apart.
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War Is Hell: A Tale of War And One’s Man’s Search for Meaning
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99This story is told by a soldier who was a part of the bloody war in Burma, the executive officer of a rugged group of American jungle fighters. He tells us in great detail what the war did to him and how he feels about taking another man’s life even to protect his own as he searches for meaning in it all…
World War II is winding down in the summer of 1945, but not for Major Jenkins and his band of Merrill’s Marauders. They have spent months combing the Burmese jungle for the notorious Japanese commander Colonel Maruyama and his troops. Major Jenkins, Captain Beltrans and what was left of their band were outnumbered two to one; so, they had to devise a plan that would overcome the odds. But after they settled the score with their enemy, they had to march hundreds of miles through the jungle back to their base near the Indian border. It was now August, and the war was over, but how would the local civilians living along the only trail out of Burma view the American soldiers?
Their journey back home was fraught with unexpected dangers and facing unplanned enemies through an unforgiving jungle. They had never been taught at West Point how to fight their new enemy.
After the war, Captain Beltrans is convinced that he should return Colonel Maruyama’s samurai sword to his descendants in Japan. However, what he thought would be a routine side trip to a modern country turned into a harrowing adventure in Japanese politics and a thousand-year-old culture. He ended up in an ancient Zen Garden in Kyoto wondering if he had done the right thing by killing enemy soldiers and civilians during the war. Does he get help from his deceased native grandmother?
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Janine: Tale of an Abandoned Wife and Mother
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Janine is left homeless and penniless when her husband deserts her. She is left to explain all his thefts and misdeeds as she loses her friends and status. All the while, she must protect her children as she builds a new life. When Janine discovers a way to recover some of her money, she resorts to wits and stealth. Many women are caught unawares by the deeds of their spouses. Not everyone is as eventually fortunate or brave as Janine.
Mark Eric Johansen is a retired bus mechanic. He began seriously writing when he had time to devote to retelling the events he had heard and seen. He is working on a chronicle of forty years in a diverse, racist, bewildering work environment. Mark and his wife have always lived in the Chicagoland area.
Janine is Mark’s first completed fiction piece.
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A Reason for Living
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99It is the mid-1960s in Kingston, Jamaica, and the country is steeped in social, political, and economic inequities. Howard Baxter, the heir to a real estate empire, has no interest in seeking or managing wealth. Painting and deflowering Jamaican maidens are his passions. As he combs the streets looking for greater meaning in his pathetic life, it soon becomes apparent that Howard’s journey will not be easy. Bernaldo Lloyd, a member of the Baxter clan, is a medical student who is sensitive to the hopelessness of the Jamaican masses. Inspired by his close friend and Howard’s cousin, Ras Robin Pone, and their ties with the Rastafari movement that calls for social and economic equity, Bernaldo is determined to overthrow the corrupt government. As Howard, Bernaldo and Robin become influenced by The American Black Power and Civil Rights movements demanding equal rights for African Americans, the women in their lives both love and criticize them. But when revolution breaks out, Howard finally discovers a purpose for his twisted life that leads him in a direction he never anticipated. In this tale of love, passion, and self-discovery, three Jamaican men become caught up in a 1960s revolution that reveals injustices, oppression, and a purpose for one of them.
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Forgiven! Redeemed! Reconciled!
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Paul Tanner, a stressed senior pastor who threw away his life. Sara Petersen, a pastor’s daughter who was gang raped. Zach Petersen, a young, traumatized husband who thought the worst. What do they have in common besides sharing some DNA? Peer into the lives of peo-ple who squander their spiritual heritage and see how their lives af-fect those around about them. Not everyone ends up in the pigsty, but everyone needs forgiveness, redemption and reconciliation. See what blessings can come from broken, shattered, and scarred lives. Yes, all things can work for good for those who love the Lord.
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The Dark Shines Bright
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Human beings fall into three distinct groups. There are those who spend the better part of their life playing by the rules and trying to do good while contributing to the betterment of their fellow humans. There are those who spend the better part of their lives breaking the rules and taking whatever they can from their fellow humans, no matter what the cost. Finally there are those who are neither good or bad human beings. They just live day to day, come what may.
The question is where did the rules come from that define what is good and what is bad?
The only thing for sure is that no matter how a person lives his or her life, everyone has one thing in common. Everyone who is born, one day must die. How did human life begin and what happens after it ends?
“The Dark Shines Bright” answers both questions in a carefully crafted, page turning story.
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The Noble Rebellion
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99Freshman Congressman Max Noble gave up his career as a magazine publisher to pursue a life of public service. A botched assassination attempt may have changed his mind. Excused from the arrogant President Cole’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Max’s life is spared the murderous rage of a terrorist who declares himself the new “Sultan.” Armed with the United States’ military facilities, Sultan begins to govern the former democracy under Sharia law in a Taliban-like manner as the “Islamic States of America.” Despite having no legitimate claim to the presidency under the Constitution, Max is determined to do what he must to restore freedom to the nation.
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A Siren’s Call
Price range: $4.99 through $20.99Tess is a thief of the highest caliber. Years of expertise and the support of her criminal family have led her to the biggest job of their lives. But when her life is shattered by a bullet of betrayal, only revenge will sate her raging bloodlust.
Paige on the other hand, is a romantic, filled with a shy adventurous side that wishes to stay by the man she loves, and care for nothing else in this world. When her facade begins to crack under the pressure though, who will she be in the end?
These two personas clash in the ring of love and bloodlust, with only a winner, and the other who must disappear forever. Through the combat of dodging cameras and living double lives can they decide who will be who in the end.
Tim Wolfe is a growing author from the San Diego area who has been inspired by the concepts of society, and a deep yearning to convey those beliefs through his writings of romance and the adventure that is life. Tim enjoys spending time with his family, learning about history and science, and strives for a peaceful, carefree tomorrow.
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The Wrath of the Divine Scepter
Price range: $5.99 through $12.99There is a strong rumor that the final resting place of the biblical Ark of the covenant is somewhere in modern day Ethiopia. But when yet another strong rumor arises from the East African country that the rod, or stick, used by biblical Moses to produce water from a rock, and to part the red sea, had been found by a boy who was also predicting dooms – day for the world if the stick is not promptly returned to its rightful owner in heaven, the United Nations Special Archives Unit hires a firm that specializes in investigation of unique world issues to substantiate the rumor. The firm, Aden Communications Ltd, sends one of its field operatives, Kiron Day, to Ethiopia to investigate the issue. As Kiron gets closer to the facts, he also finds out that the United Nations was not the only interested party, and that some of these other parties were hell bent to claim the rod for themselves. Clashes become inevitable as the different parties scramble to lay their hands on the priceless artifact, but Little did they know that the mysterious artifact had its own deadly secrets. It’s a winner take, or ultimately lose, all in this Kiron Day action adventure. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking!
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The Riverndish
Price range: $8.99 through $16.99The Riverndish is a beautiful, magnificent creature from the planet Valarious. It ‘s mystical power grants everyone’s special wishes while it keeps it’s planet magically hidden. This story takes you on a journey of how one special wish took a little longer to reach it’s destination and how hard the Riverndish worked to make sure it came true.
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The Last Western
Price range: $9.99 through $16.99CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865, origin of today’s political, economic and social conflicts and the 19th Century national transformation from farm to factory, town to city, pioneer to wage slave Bible to Darwin, honor to profit. The story of this historic pivot set in Colorado 1882. Strong characters in a vortex of political corruption, genocide, drugs (Merck, the start of big pharma, founded in 1827 to produce morphine and later cocaine; Union army purchased 10 million morphine tablets for field hospitals and more than 200,000 addicts returned home after the war), gun violence (endemic after 650,000 fratricide in the Civil War), abortion, homosexuality and abiding hope. Not to be missed!
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The Boy in the Box: A Jolene Mystery, Book 4
$10.99The tranquility of Ellison Bay, WI, a quiet town nestled within a dense forest, is shattered when a hiker discovers the skeletal remains of a five-year-old boy in a cardboard box deep within the woods. The townspeople are gripped by shock and sorrow, their once peaceful haven now marred by a chilling mystery that demands answers.
Detective Jolene and her two FBI agents examine the fragile remains of the child wrapped in a weathered blanket and take on this cold case. The identity of the young boy is a puzzle, as there are no missing children reported in the town or nearby areas. Forensic expert, Dr. Omar Cann uncovers an arrow had been through the boy’s heart like all the rest of his victims appeared and determines his broken bones were the result of severe beating.
The townspeople are on edge, and whispers of a long-forgotten legend
resurface – a legend that speaks of vengeful spirits and curses.
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Hansello and Gertrude Hood Fables (1)
$12.99From Heal The Hood Foundation of Memphis , the creative forces that brought you the Wake Up Tour and the Evolution Comic Book Series, presents Hansello and Gertrude, the 13th and 14th children of Larry and Shantae.In this magical fairy tale from the Hood Fables Series, Hansello and Gertrude take a magical journey that blurs the lines of fact and fiction. This amazing parody gives you an urban twist on an old fable that takes you from cold cuts to candy ladies. Join Hansello and Gertrude as they meet up with other friends from the Hood Fable Universe while finding out that following instructions can keep you from cavities and a lifetime of trouble. It’s the first story out of the gate of side-busting humor that will have you reading, laughing and telling everyone about these amazing stories. Let the fun begin!
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Leroy and the Turnip Green Patch (2)
$12.99“Leroy and the Turnip Green Patch” explores the life of Leroy and his mother that have hit a dead end. They face extreme poverty and Leroy is left with no other option but to use his lunch money to purchase magical turnip green seeds with hopes of getting a magical lottery ticket from a giant that lives in the clouds.
This familiar story is retold in a way that brings in new readers ready for a modern-day adventure. . Written by LaDell Beamon, Founder of Heal the Hood Foundation of Memphis and illustrated by Aaron AJ Liddell, this story continues to take the readers deeper into the Hood Fables Series. The series merges familiar characters together along the journey. You will be surprised at who pops up in this amazing parody that will have you laughing, cheering and learning.
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A Haunted Symphony
Price range: $12.99 through $22.29A stolen priceless Stradivarius violin, a poisoned dart, a haunted music library, and a jilted lover present a captivating mystery for the Palms Symphony Orchestra. Who has the motive and opportunity?
Join the Conductor to save the orchestra from thieves, ghosts, and recover the valuable instrument.
THE MOVING WORDS REVIEW
BOOK INFORMATION:
Title: A Haunted Symphony
Author: Michele Wallace Campanelli
Publisher: Author Reputation Press, LLC Publication
Date: November 16, 2023
Review date: November 24, 2023
Genre: Mystery, Supernatural Fiction, Drama
BOOK REVIEW:
Our story begins with Maria, a passionate and dedicated orchestra volunteer, who starts a new role filled with unexpected twists and turns. The symphony, a place of harmony and artistry, soon becomes the background for occurrences that hint at a supernatural presence. The other members and volunteers, each with unique personalities and stories, find themselves involved in secrets and past connections that slowly unravel as the story progresses.
Maria and her colleagues discover that their beloved symphony hall is haunted by more than just the echoes of music past. Strange sounds, unexplained events, and ghostly apparitions begin to stir, bringing to light old legends and tales long thought to be mere folklore. Amidst this, the characters deal with their personal challenges and relationships, adding breadth to the story.
What are the hidden secrets of the symphony’s past, and how are they connected to the mysterious occurrences within its walls? This was the start of a book that promises to keep one fascinated until the very end.
Set against the backdrop of an orchestra, the story peeks into the lives of its characters, including their relationships, secrets, and past events. Michele Wallace Campanelli truly shines in her storytelling in A Haunted Symphony. She created a vivid and attention-grabbing world. For example, the descriptions of the symphony, its music, and the characters’ interactions with their tools and environment are so detailed that readers can almost hear the music and feel the emotions (e.g., Donnie losing a limb).
Campanelli’s characters are well-developed-each with their individual backstory and motivations. How she intertwines their lives and reveals their connections and secrets as the story advances is satisfying. As the pages flip, readers can appreciate the seamless integration of supernatural elements into the tale-the ghostly aspects are handled with a deft touch, ensuring that they enhance rather than overpower the plot.
Overall, A Haunted Symphony is well-paced, balancing moments of tension and mystery. Building suspense is one of its strongest suits, keeping readers guessing and on the edge of their seats. The twists and turns of the story are well-executed, with surprising yet believable revelations. It’s a novel that will appeal to fans of mystery and the supernatural, as well as those who appreciate well-crafted, character-driven stories.
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Fools and Children
$14.99Enjoy a romp through the 1950s with two small town boys hell-bent on action and adventure. Fools and Children is an unblinking and touching collection of memorable childhood escapades as it chronicles the outlandish and often dangerous exploits of these creative but naïve lads. Ed Frye and Herb Bierly, with their rogues’ gallery of friends, create havoc and consternation for town residents when they flood a section of town, loose a horse on the streets, and plan a bank robbery. Caves, creeks, hills, and farms are scenes of perilous undertakings.
Millheim provides their earliest up close and personal experiences with death, as well as poignant lessons for life. Along the way, they experiment with guns, horses, the sins of the world, and girls. Frye and Bierly skip none of the rites of passage, but almost always with a twist. Both learn early that the difference between hero and victim is often too close to call.
Filled with leisurely-told tales, colorful characters, cultural references to the Golden ’50s, and humor, Fools and Children takes Baby Boomers back to their own youthful years. With the freedoms available to these young adventurers in a simpler time and place, their zeal for life is reflective of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
What would a reader expect in a collection of leisurely-told tales? Danger? Humor? Sex? Insight? Naiveté? Creativity? Stupidity? Fools and Children provides them all.
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Too Close to Call
Price range: $15.99 through $22.99Homicides are down in the cities, but accidental death rates are up. Why? Buf Collins investigates and gets embroiled in presidential re-election politics.
William Buford (Buf) Collins, VI is trying to help an old friend find out what happened to her husband who turned up dead in a hotel room. They are sure that he was murdered, but the city officials do not agree. There was no gunshot or knife wound. So, according to them it’s an accidental death.
It turns out there is a lot of this going around in all the major U. S. cities.
Someone in the FBI notices this and writes a report and the sitting president appoints a special prosecutor to look into the matter.
Buf Collins’ father-in-law is a very wealthy and powerful man and he gets the president to name Buf Collins as the special prosecutor. The opposing party suddenly loses its presumptive nominee for the presidential election and the old man somehow is able to get Buf nominated! Crazy!
The president is now in a classic political quandary: He appointed Collins to look into the possibility of corruption in the cities, but now his appointee is his opponent. He can’t dismiss him as this would look like he is using his power to his own advantage. And, as Collins is unable to get a continuance on the case, he is precluded from campaigning.
The judge on the case decides to let the media cameras into the courtroom. The president feels like he can’t compete with Collins who is fighting city hall on national t.v. and seeming is winning. So, he tries to undermine Collins’ case in order to ensure that he loses and thus will look bad to the public. He gets the charges to be upgraded from corruption to conspiracy. But, Collins is ready and handles the change seamlessly. Then, the president gets the Attorney General to upgrade the charges from conspiracy to cover up. And, Collins handles this as well.
All the time the election is getting closer, and closer . . .