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Love Bites: Vol. 1
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Love is one of the most profound, mysterious, and complicated emotions known to human beings. There are many types of love, which can be expressed in numerous ways. We seek to establish a means of relating to another to achieve deep and meaningful fulfillment that nurtures and sustains us. Love is commonly experienced by way of a romantic relationship with a partner with whom we feel compatible.
Loving another has many events that can affect us several ways. We can experience joy, anguish, longing, desperation, and confusion. Love Bites illustrates the story of emotions experienced by two people who share a connection unlike any they have ever known and provides a visual perspective to explain feelings that can be difficult to express in words.
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Love in the Darkness
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Angela Fujiwara enters junior year at Lucas Valley High. She has a boyfriend she needs to keep in the dark about the other wizards and an apprentice of her own. But she’s become estranged from her tutor, and life is swirling in new directions.
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Love Made Well-The Trilogy to “How I Killed My Father” and “Connections”
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Join Claudette King-Welcome as she enters the worlds of three extraordinary women who play out their innermost fears over a period of fifteen years.
Gabrielle Fairchild can no longer violate her conscience, and her secret life is about to become public. Millions of dollars are at stake…all of which she’s willing to walk away from just to see her children happy and at peace.
Her estranged sister, Marlene, and stepmother, Mrs. Tate, thorough pride and prejudice, are pitched hard against the harsh realities of life, while their fractured lives keep unfolding, God, the fixer of all things, is doing all the mending.
King-Welcome, creates a cast of unforgettable characters and a thoughtfully compiled novel where the readers an grasp the phenomenon and the sufficiency of forgiveness.
Love Made Well, is truly inspiring, funny, and thought-provoking work of fiction.
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Love vs Life
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99This book has multiple genres going on. This book will have your eyes glued to your seat. Love makes you do some crazy things. You will walk down your own memory lane as you read this book. It’s about love, betrayal, trust and all of that sums up to life.
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Maggie, I Love You
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Brent Stewart, once a military policeman in Saigon during the Vietnam War in 1975, is Vice President for an insurance company in New York City. All he ever wanted was to become a private detective, but he couldn’t pursue it because of financial reasons. Fortunately for him, winning the million-dollar lottery and investing the money in the stock market brings him into the limelight of being an independent, wealthy bachelor in New York City, living a life of every person’s dream.
He resigns from the Insurance company and opens an private investigation firm. One day Alex, Brent’s co-policeman in Vietnam, seeks his help concerned the disappearance of his wife, Maggie. But Brent’s team must deal with a Mafia group based in Hong Kong (AKA Chinese Mafia) in connection to Maggie’s disappearance and her father’s blunder against the gang.
The story is about a woman named Maggie Lomax in the story entitled ” Maggie, I Love you,” the story is about a woman who is too desperate to turn from rags to riches even if it affects her family. This book also tells how power and dedication to work, as exemplified by Bent Stewart, the detective in charge, can easily solve any case.
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Michael and the Ice Princess: A Mystical Romance
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99A lyrical novel with a fairy-tale plot, this fresh presentation of the enduring quest story is a fascinating literary introduction to Western mystical thought. “Drawing on rich and eclectic sources, Mary Mendenhall has produced a memorable tapestry of great power and beauty,” a London reviewer wrote about the first edition.
An unpaid debt. A cursed king. The chilling reminder, “There is a power greater than yours,” when his wife dies in childbirth, his daughter is lost, and his kingdom crumbles.
Sensing that all is not right, the forgotten princess embarks on a journey of self-discovery alone, misunderstood and confused, wandering in search of home… So begins the story of Michael, a medieval craftsman craving fulfillment who stumbles across a cold and aloof stranger. But the Ice Princess is not like the fairy-tale figures of the Snow Queen, North Wind, or the White Witch: she is a flesh-and-blood woman with a quest of her own.
Reminiscent of the storytelling styles of Elizabeth Goudge and George MacDonald, Michael and the Ice Princess: A Mystical Romance offers an ideal ‘bedtime story’ in the old oral tradition. Suitable for older youth and anyone who craves spirituality linked with old-fashioned romance, this classic novella is an enchanting journey through the world of sages of long ago who still have something to say to modern souls.
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Micropolis – The Adventure of Johnny Redblood
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Johnny Redblood and his best friend Ashley are two of the fun loving inhabitants of Micropolis – a city located within a cheerful ten-year-old girl named Sarah. Besides them, Micropolis is also filled with different types of single-celled creatures that live and work together and play a vital role in what Sarah does and how she feels.
As a red blood cell, Johnny Redblood has a very important job. He works for the Oxygen Delivery Service, bringing the valuable resource to the residents of the city. But his daily routine abruptly changes one day when Sarah steps on a spiky sea urchin, and Tyrus the Virus enters the lower valley. As the virus begins to cause serious damage, Johnny and his friends must find a way to stop Tyrus and save their beloved city!
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Mindtalk
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99Mindtalk
Private Investigators Alex Stone and Joe Hardon stumble upon a covert American/Russian project named MINDTALK; the secret development of a serum allowing telepathic communication between injected humans and some animal species as well. In a desperate fight to free an innocent mother and her two children, they themselves are taken captive and made human guinea pigs for the serum’s dangerous advancement. Determination fueled by impeccable self-discipline, unthinkable human endurance, and cold-blooded reasoning place them in the most fearsome fight of their lives. Both very quickly learn that DISCRETION IS NOT ALWAYS THE BETTER PART OF VALOR!
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Mobile Tales: Short Stories for Positive Change
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99It’s a new world order: Have Fun and Be Kind, once everyone gets The Message it’s time to clean up here on Planet Earth. Mobile Tales is a collection of short stories that tell about characters you met in “The Gods Played Here” and have met in your real life, who are doing what they can to heal our Planet. A look at a few of the 23 short stories in this book.
I Hear Music sounds off about a young man’s journey for his heart’s desire that saves him and the rest of us, as the final step that puts an end to war.
Changing Places about ways people share their best stories to change their world.
The Puzzle Box a liberating story of how Ed breaks out of jail and never returns.
Catch The Great American Review on tour, starring Cherry Hill prostitutes and their Madame.
Plus 19 more stories about our Planet healing ways that look like fiction but are happening now.
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Murda Mansion
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99In the darkened basement of an old Mansion lies a mystery; an enigma powerful enough to change the world as we know it today. Young Riley McCaden and best friend Bowdie Pager accidentally stumble upon it and come face to face with the most difficult challenges of their lives.
An old map showing the way to an Ancient City thought only to be myth; becomes the focus of a desperate race against time. Torn from their families and armed only with courage, the boys embark upon a journey like none they have ever known.
Filled with danger, risks and daring, they travel into the past and down the road of high adventure; where along the way they meet up with the kind of people who change your life forever! MURDA MANSION… the dream of a life time! -
Murder and Mayhem in Cedar Falls
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99John Brennon, a college professor of astronomy, and Denise Cole, a college professor of music, both dabble in helping the police solve crimes of almost any kind. They live in Cedar Falls, a small Midwestern town that has crimes of rape and murder to solve, with a coven of witches to muddy up the water.
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Murder at the House of Funerals
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99It’s almost Halloween! The perfect holiday for sweet munchies, monsters, and murder! Attorney Tracy Brubaker Shane is especially looking forward to October 31, 2019, because a childhood hero will be returning to the small screen – live! Former horror host Richard George, aka Dr. Mort Itchin, comes out of retirement to again present a classic horror film from his House of Funerals, and Tracy will be in the studio audience. She even manages to be invited to rehearsals. But soon after her arrival behind the scenes, she realizes everyone is not wallowing in happy nostalgia. The thorn is everyone’s side is Carl Jeffries, who once-upon-a-time played Dr. Mort’s sidekick, Nagging Skeleton. Jeffries daughter, Megan Wallace, is producing the program. But there’s no love lost between father and child. The show’s director is in love with Megan and isn’t too pleased with the friction Jeffries is causing. Other crew members have their own reasons for despising Jeffries. When the violence finally erupts in a most appropriate, if grisly, fashion, Tracy is right there to begin her investigation, especially when her hero is charged with the crime. Not surprisingly, she discovers multiple possible motives including buried secrets, sheer hatred, and old-fashioned showmanship. But can Tracy find the truth in time so the show can go on? It’s another Tracy Brubaker mystery filled with tricks, treats, and surprises. Happy Halloween!
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Murder at the World’s Fair
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Vatican has given permission for one of its greatest treasures to be exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. As America prepares to receive one of the most revered works of art in the world, others are planning for the greatest heist of the century. Into this mix of celebration and theft planning come, two buddies, Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz who are studying for the priesthood. With them is a girl from Georgia, Susan Liguori, who fancies one of them. Together they find themselves searching for a dead body, matching wits with a police detective, trapping mobsters, spying in the United Nations and finding justice for a murder victim and an accused murderer.
“Murder at the World’s Fair” will have you rubbing elbows with diplomas and prelates, escaping the clutches of henchmen out to kill, uncovering a secret love, witnessing faith come to life, entering the realm of the underworld, revealing plots, clues, and true identifies while combating rage which turns the white Carrara marble red with innocent blood.
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Murder in Mellifont
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99“The blood splattered chancel stone glistened as if the life force spread across the limestone could tell a story of its own…”
And so begins the mystery of the Lady in Black and the quest for what she sought. Once again two friends on leave from the sessions of the Vatican Council in 1965 find themselves embroiled in murder, mystery and ancient prophecies. This time the detective duo of Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz is joined by a girl from Georgia, Susan, and Ron’s sister Jan not to mention their new friends on a research holiday in Ireland. There amongst the ruins of Mellifont and ancient castles and Hermitage of Medieval Monks a story as old as the mystical Nuatha who came to settle the Emerald Isle and as new as greed possessing mere humans is discovered. There amongst the footsteps of St. Patrick, St. Malachy and St. Erc they find themselves struggling with their own feelings of who they are and what they are called to be. There in Ron’s arms a dying woman sends him on a journey to find the truth.
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Murder in the Vatican
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99The Second Vatican Council meeting in the Eternal City of Rome is about to open the windows of the ancient Church. While that fresh air is about to fi ll the world with hope, along the banks of the Tiber River a shocking attack is taking place. It is one which will bring light to a plot set shortly aft er the end of World War II rocking Italy to its foundation. Th e attack is being witnessed by two seminarians who are Council Assistants from the Apostolic College.
So begins a new mystery for Ron De Cenza and Bob Wentz to solve. Only this time the duo is expanded not only to include that fake Southern Belle whose heart belongs to one of them but also Ron’s sister who has come to Rome for her college studies.
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Murder Unincorporated: A Windsor Grove Novel
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99When Al asks his favorite niece to become the interim manager of his restaurant, Unincorporated, she hesitantly agrees. Ashley’s lack of experience in the industry makes her apprehensive, but her recently earned degree hasn’t attracted any job offers. Hopefully, hard work and dedication on her part, and swift surgical recovery on Al’s part, will prevent the venture from becoming a disaster.
Struggling in her new role, Ashely is confronted with an antagonistic chef, a gruesome murder and personal threats, all testing her attitude and self-confidence. A demanding role in a community fundraiser, a damaging storm and lack of strong local friendships put Ashley’s life in a state of turmoil.
The homicide investigation continues to lead authorities to Unincorporated, to its employees and to Ashley. Temptation to bail on her commitment
grows by the day, but devotion to her Uncle Al is the determining factor. Finding the strength to remain in her position, she vows to take on whatever challenges get thrown at her. As she becomes increasingly embroiled in the unpleasantness Ashley becomes convinced that her insights and intuition
can solve the crime, putting the whole unpleasant episode to rest.
But can she really succeed where the professionals are failing?
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My American Terrorists: Home Grown Family Terrorists…Does She Escape?
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99In this gripping and emotionally charged narrative, America shares an unforgettable journey through the trials of life; driven by the relentless pursuit of love, happiness, justice, and peace. The story unveils shocking revelations of deceit, contempt, racketeering; and hidden sex offenders within her own circle. Determined to break free from abuse and jealousy, she embarks on a courageous fight to reclaim her life and create a world rooted in kindness and truth. This compelling tale is a testament to resilience and the unyielding desire to transform pain into peace.
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My Ancestor’s Path Is My Future Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99This book is intended to tell the story, both in words and in pictures, by enabling my audience to envision my journey and ancestor’s path unfolded through my vey own eyes, supported by genealogy, research, interview, and my dream visions. Take a journey with me and them down the path to spiritual freedom. This was rehearsed and written for seventeen years by the little girl Anajat jaguar who was gifted with keen sight like the beautiful but noble and loyal jaguar, my spirit animal. In addition, my book is intended for the restoration of the soul in all the essence of life. People must continue to believe in a higher calling to obtain inner peace with harmonious love for creation and all inhabitants in our society.
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My Journey with the United Nations and Quest for the Horn of Africa’s Unity and Justice for Ethiopia
Price range: $3.99 through $22.99The book is focused on vital issues for the institutional development of various countries including human settlements as well as the need for cooperation and mutual support of the countries in the Horn of Africa plus the achievement of the justice required by Ethiopia for the huge war crimes perpetrated by Fascist Italy with the Vatican’s complicit support.
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My Scottish Empress
Price range: $3.99 through $36.99A masterful combination of romance, suspense, subduction and a touch of humor which will capture the heart of the hopeless romance seeking reader.
Abigail Fox strives to regain her emotional and financial independence despite the opposition from pirates, shady business dealings and a powerful Scottish chieftain named Gabriel McKenzie. A potent fictional love story based in the early 1800’s, Abigail must use her wit and charm to out fox and outrun her adversaries in a time when women were expected to be subservient.
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My Son Phillipe
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Do you know that mothers never stop loving their kids? They did, do, and will put themselves in great danger to protect their children.
In the memoir My Son Phillipe, the author tells of her saga to rescue her little son, Phillipe, who became trapped in Jerusalem during the Palestinian uprising known as Antifada. Phillipe is one of the first Americans to experience terrorism and its strategies in action. He saw suicidal bombers, smelled the gas of the explosions, and was beaten up, dragged by his hair and starved. Due to tremendous humanitarian efforts of the United States and its allies, the special agent on the terrorism, Nadia Phillips, guided by the war veteran John Koss with the support from President Ronald Reagan and Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, rescued Phillipe from the iron grasp of war that devastated the nations involved.
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My Words Were All I Had
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99Although Sebastian isn’t all words, he would also take action in seducing Valerie. He’s always put so much into his words and has always counted on them. From flirting to advice, and even life lessons. He would do best through his words. When he lied to Valerie and damaged her trust in him, he tried doing and saying anything to get her back and get her to forgive him. She refused to hear him out and forgive him, since he tried to seduce her with his words from the beginning. But now, to win her back, he feels that all he ever gives was his words. and all he was left to use were his words. Since even his actions didn’t work, all he can provide is his words. She’s the one that has to choose whether to forgive him or not.
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Mystery at Higby Ranch
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Allison’s problems were just beginning. After an argument with her father, she goes looking for Mr. Molly, her cat. Instead of finding him, she finds a dead body in the pump house. She runs to get her father and when they return, the pump house is empty. When Allison and her best friend Trish set out to find the disappearing body, they encounter more strange happenings at the ranch. Mysteriously a light turns on in the barn and when the girls investigate noises inside, they find the barn empty. Determined to solve the puzzle, Allison and Trish enlist the aid of Robert and Brad. Just when the four get close to finding the answer, the boys disappear. Trish goes for help and Allison is left on her. Things couldn’t get spookier, she thinks . . . until she hears something in the cellar.
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Never Yours
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99This is about the story of a family who lived on a sheep ranch between 1910 and 1926. Times were hard for most people who lived at that time, but there were still “good honest morals” practiced, which were handed down from one generation to another. This is one family’s story of their world of love, problems and promises.
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Nobody’s Angel
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99Detective DAVID KINCAID, is obsessed by finding out who a dead Jane Doe is, and how she came to be in that garbage ridden New York Alley. He believes her death was not an accident overdose, but murder. His quest takes him to the small town he was raised in, and to an older woman who seduced him when he was just sixteen.
To his dismay, he still attracted to the woman, and still loves the fantastic sex they had and finds himself unable to stay away from her. He is caught off guard by the fact that the Jane Doe was her daughter…and maybe his. Determined to find out who killed her, it looks like someone from his hometown may have killed her… or not. When he find out who killed the girl, someone very close to him, four more people are dead, a Brazilian steroid outlet is discovered, and when the killer’s identity was revealed, it is the ultimate betrayal.
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Not For Women Only: Short Stories for a Lazy Day
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Zygier’s first book, Not-For-Women-Only, Short Stories for a Lazy Day is written for people that can sit somewhere quiet with a cup of coffee or tea, OK, maybe with a glass of wine, and read. Though the title might suggest that only women can or should read it, doesn’t mean men can’t. The stories might also imply that it’s only subject is a woman and a man
bumping into themselves on a street corner, though that’s not a bad idea, it’s really much more than that. Yes, they do meet, otherwise what is the point? So, yes, they do meet in a street, on an elevator, parachuted into Afghanistan with a special force’s unit to a young woman that feels that she should have the same equality as men in Victorian England and dresses like a man then finds herself in love with an aristocrat that thinks it’s his sister and both end up in India. Since Zygier had a stint in the army, he takes that thought in many ways. Some sad, some funny and some serious. Such as an officer in Afghanistan that saves a female reporter from a sniper to a General that doesn’t want to get involved with women till he’s stuck on a plane with one. Though this is Zygier’s first book, he started to write as a hobby and later joined a writer’s group. There he was encouraged to put some stories together and publish them. -
Old Ways, New Hope
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99This is the story of a freelance translator who is invited on an archaeological search because of a strange language. His travels take him around the world, and he becomes the leader in the search after the death of a close friend. He falls into the greatest discovery of mankind that leads him toward the origins of man and a great many inventions. How he deals with the discovery will lead him into outer space and the old ones. Then he has many choices with what to do to change the world.
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On Both Sides of the River
Price range: $14.99 through $24.99Mark and his men boarded their rafts with the remaining load of high grade cocaine from a cartel in Colombia. Mark was happy. He was crossing the river for the last time.
“I’ll be seeing you in about a month, Don Narciso,” Mark lied.
Mark found a place on the raft to sit amongst the bricks of cocaine. The dope was wrapped with surgeon masking tape.
Mark never looked back.
In the meantime, Don Narciso’s men set the trap. They were not too eager to intercept the load of cocaine under the cover of the vega on the American side. They were familiar with the routes taken by illegal aliens. Narciso’s men followed a familiar maze of trails made by the feral hogs that fed on tender roots at night and during daylight snoozed under the shade of the jaras and carrizales. The fear in their eyes glowed when fireflies shined only to disappear and appear elsewhere. Even the murmer of the river’s swift current could not soothe the fear Don Narciso’s men were experiencing. It was not so smart of Dan Narciso to double-cross Mark Balbuena. The young man was crazy and violent. But, they had to follow orders or else.
-an excerpt from On Both Sides of the River
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On My Rod
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Francois was a male stripper at a gay bar in downtown Montreal. He planned a hitch hiking trip that would take him from the east coast of North America to the west and as far as Alaska in the north.
He not only explores his sexuality with both gay and straight men, he also encounters dangers that threaten his life and challenge his wit in order to escape. Without a cell phone and in remote areas, no mobile connection, Francois had to be both curious and bold in his quest to explore his sexuality with numerous strangers. Francois delves into his sexuality and discovers that men both gay and straight have desires and fantacies with other men. In this book based on a true story, Francois tells us everything about his erotic sexual experiences.
Perhaps many of you have dreamed of taking a similar journey but for reasons of your own it never happened. Francois invites you to join him for an erotic and sometimes dangerous adventure. There were spectacular panoramas, diverse cultures, hardships and sexual exploits that most of us only dream about. Prepare to see America in a way no other has seen before.
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Online: Delta State
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Stories happened in a fictitious world inside computers and internet, that a hacker sneaked into a Dell laptop (called Delta State) through deceits and finally controlled this state by bloody suppression. Three performers from game Daea plotted an assassination but failed, only one of them luckily escaped from Delta State. He will experience a series of thrilling adventures in the internet world to seek an eccentric warrior, the only one who can rescue Delta State.
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Operation Vinegar Joe
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99China uses a ploy to attack North Korea with the blessing from the United Nations with the promise of eliminating North Korea’s nuclear weapons. China continues its deception in order to sell Hong Kong to the English with the true purpose of plundering its riches and attack Taiwan. The United States, having no military bases in an Asian region, is forced to connect a massive floating base for the safety of the world.
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Out of the Shadows: The Saga of Caroline York: Her Days Among the Cayugas
Price range: $3.99 through $35.99“Out of the Shadows” follows Caroline York in the 1760s. Newly-arrived from Ireland, she settles upon her uncle’s farm to administer it. When they were besieged by unsolicited intrusions, Caroline repels them, only to suffer the mysterious death of her uncle, after which she herself is kidnapped by a surly and arrogant British captain. Her daughter and husband conspire to find her. They enlist support from the one-remaining French garrison in the region and a friendly Iroquois chieftain. Caroline is finally rescued. In turn, she vows to literally clean up the New York frontier by seeking to change the status-quo between those with power and those held in subservience. Armed with a beguiling wit and charm, she becomes the mistress of deception and cunning as she prevails upon some of the major power brokers of the day. In due course, she brings about needed changes in the New York socio-political structure which helped transform the colony into the standard-bearer of 18th-century social justice, so carving out her own legacy.
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Outlaws are Optional: Book IV of the Cruickshank Chronicles
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99As CEO of the world’s most successful outlaw band, Don Orlando should be laughing all the way to the bank, but he’s not laughing today. An exiled duke, complete with toadies, minstrels and huntsmen has set up camp in the forest, just a short ride from outlaw headquarters, and that’s the sort of thing that plays hell with the asset-redistribution business. And the busy seasons just about to begin. In desperation, Orlando turns to Mission Implausible, Albion’s premier adventure team. It’s true that their appetite for beer and gratuitous violence is notoriously insatiable and it’s also true that Andrew Cruickshank, their mage, combines the efficiency of the postal service, the predictability of the weather and the destructive potential of a strategic nuclear weapon, but hell, what have you got to lose? Quite a bit, actually.
While Cruickshank studies the Shakespeare play As You Like It for clues on how to get rid of exiled dukes, his Designated Opposite, the black mage Montmorency arrives on the scene and begins to start stirring things up. As if that were not enough, Titus Handcarte, the First Speaker of East Castellian, wants to put Don Orlando out of business by establishing a Rural Roistering Experience in the outlaws forest and has persuaded usurping Duke Roger to spearhead this operation.
Things do not look good for Don Orlando, caught between an exiled duke on one side, and a usurping duke backed by East Castellians army on the other. But Mission Implausible is up to the challenge. They can, and do, call upon gratuitous violence, improbable disguises, forgery, blackmail, dubious transvestite rituals, shameless piracy of Shakespearean plots and occult incompetence. Handcarte, usurping Duke Roger and exiled Duke Frederick don’t stand a chance, especially when Montmorency is persuaded to lend his formidable occult and diplomatic skills.
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Paradise in Ruins: A Novel (View) of the Pacific War
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides of the conflict, as well as local populations of the Pacific islands whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the brutal events that exploded eastward from Japan in 1941.
Perhaps you had family members among the many thousands of young men and women who got transported across the Pacific Ocean to those mysterious islands that they were ordered to recapture from the Japanese.
If you have occasionally wondered what Grandpa (or Grandma) did in the war, you are not alone. The generation that experienced World War Two is notorious for not speaking about what they saw and learned in that previously unimagined multilingual, multicultural environment. They just didn’t know how to describe their adventures to loved ones at home afterwards, so they chose silence instead.
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Patches and Leif
$12.99Patches, the farmer’s favorite scarecrow, is very dedicated to his job. Day after day he stands in the corn field, keeping watch over the corn. Then one day, he is surprised by a new friend, who comes floating out of the sky!
Leif is an adventurous traveling leaf. When he was pulled off the branch on which he was raised one windy day, instead of floating safely to the ground with his family and friends, he took advantage of the opportunity and sailed away to see the world on the wind.
He shares his adventures with Patches, the first of which is his discovery of a school, where he peeks in on children who are learning the alphabet, counting, and a little bit about animals and plants. He passes what he has learned on to Patches before sailing away on more adventures, but promises to return to teach the scarecrow what he learns.
With charming illustrations and straightforward language, Charles R. Abbott employs Patches and Leif to teach children valuable lessons about friendship, learning, and taking chances.
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Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99The theory of peculiar affinity implies that Black people and White people in the 21st-century United States are connected by family, kinship, surnames, and genes. Peculiar affinity is profoundly implicated with racism in the United States. Peculiar affinity remained after the demise of slavery, but it transformed and adapted to the system of separate but equal. Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made presents the discovery of a vital socioeconomic interconnection and interrelationship between White slave owners and enslaved Black women of the antebellum South during the second slave era of the 19th century, the domestic slave era. This interconnection and interrelationship consisted of a very strange dialectic of sex, which led to the reproduction of the bodies of the slave owners and their female slaves.
On a grand scale, and implemented on a consistent basis, this dialectic of sex transformed to a nexus of sex and reproduction of human bodies as commodities. The visual aspects appeared as a kind of veil that obscured actual family and kinship relations. In the antebellum South, the slave owner was the father, and the female slave and his wife were the mothers. The children from the slave owner’s female slave and the children from the slave owner’s wife were real and objective brothers and sisters with the same biological father.
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Picture Them Dead
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99When his Uncle Hobart passes away, private eye/actor Sam Ryan must travel to California, at his aunt’s request, to attend the reading of the will.
Due to his fear of flying, Amtrak is his only way to get there. Unfortunately, Sam’s plans quickly go astray when he meets Marilyn Williams, a stunningly gorgeous model, on the train. When she learns about Sam’s profession, she says she wants to hire him for a case.
Before Marilyn can explain her case, she is found dead and the police are eyeing Sam as their number one suspect. With only the few words he exchanged with Marilyn and a gold key that she left in his possession, Sam sets out to clear his name. He quickly finds that there are people out there who are willing to kill to keep the secret, but with the help of some new friends, Sam will not quit until he unearths the truth.
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Playing Hurt
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99BRIAN is playing his last high school football game. When he gets hurt, the coach tells him he must stay in the game since there isn’t anyone to replace him. Brian is worried about his future and his love for DEANIE, a beautiful cheerleader.
After the game, trouble develops when BILL, Deanie’s old boyfriend returns to town. Brian is distracted by e beer party and mischief with the rival school. Deanie is with her girlfriends when Bill appears. Deanie is coerced into his car and forced to have sex. Deanie doesn’t tell Brian. Bill leaves town, promising to return in the spring.
In February, Deanie tells Brian she is four months pregnant. Brian counts the months back and suspects that Bill might be the father. Deanie confesses and Brian is devastated. When Bill returns, Brian lures him out of town. Bill is severely beaten, but when Brian’s back is turned, Bill manages to get into his car and grab his pistol. Brian is shot in the arm. With the barrel pressed against Brian’s head, Bill blurts out that he had sex with Deanie many times. Suddenly there is another shot, but this time a bullet slams into Bill’s chest. Deanie is holding Brian’s rifle. Bill dies at the hospital.
In the summer, Deanie gives birth to a baby with dark hair and eyes like Bill’s. Heartbroken, Brian enlists in the army. Aboard the bus, he agonizes over leaving Deanie. Alone and afraid, he slumps back in the seat. Then, he remembers what his coach said about playing hurt, and he realizes that he must go on, even if it does hurt.
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Polyxena: A Story of Troy
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99After Troy falls, Polyxena, daughter of King Priam, faces death for having rejected the advances of her captor. She relates her thoughts to Aphrodite, the Goddess she holds responsible for having orchestrated her fate, to find solace and overcome her fear of death. She recounts how she was sent as an envoy to the Amazons to secure them as allies in the war and how she becomes a captive of Achilles when he defeats them and the two find romance in each other. After returning to Troy, she tries to keep their forbidden love a secret but, through treachery, her brothers learn of it, leading to a tragic outcome for them both. As she tries to make sense of it all, Polyxena’s introspection leads her to surprising conclusion about the life she has lived. All the personages associated with the Trojan myths – Helen, Cassandra, Priam, Paris, and others—are given fresh life in this epic retelling of the classic story.
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Portersville
Price range: $3.99 through $27.99A flicker of lightning behind a thunderhead then a deep rumble marked the approach of a storm. Selena squeezed the hand of her handsome Greek husband. Together they peered across the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico while digging their toes into the cool sand. A weathered lighthouse offshore split the darkness, casting its light across the treacherous waters.
They braced themselves against the wind gusts and pelting rain. Between lightning strikes, they watched the squall line draw nearer. A dark tendril reached skyward attaching itself to the cloud above. The waterspout danced along the outer sandbars then crashed ashore ripping and tearing before dissipating among the pines and sand dunes.
Only twelve miles to the north, hotels glowed like jewels scattered along the shoreline. Bandstands blasted out music across the bay as vacationers danced under the stars and giant oaks. Children carrying torches and nets squealed and laughed while chasing crabs in the shallow grass beds. Lovers whispered as they walked along the banks of the bay. Old people sat in the glow of lantern light on their porches reminiscing of times gone by, legends of pirates, fast schooners, floating spirits, and the lost art of voodoo. Lightning on the southern horizon gave warning that the evening was about to change.
Cy and Selena fled Greece to avoid a personal storm and protect their families. They knew that this same storm could cross the ocean and track them to Portersville. Dripping wet and chilled, they vowed never to run again.
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Prey for the Abyss
Price range: $3.99 through $22.997 years ago, a double murder in the small Town of Brooke Indiana began an intense manhunt leading Marshal Clayton Cooper and the FBI into a dark and ominous search for the Serial Killer known as Blue Eyes. Following a tense horrifying hunt the killer was captured and locked down on death row.
Now, days from his execution, the axis of evil will rise once more. Through the means of inside assistance, the Blue Eyes Killer will taste the sweetness of freedom and end the seven years of peace and tranquility resting in the heart and lives of those involved in his capture. Through the darkness which motivates him, he will once again give birth to the lust and love of killing, and ‘this time’ ‘once and for all’ through the powers of Hell itself, stern determination drives him to accomplish the Sheol inspired goal he MUST fulfill. Hell waits! So, he believes!
