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Last-Second Decision

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During months of penury from Haiti’s destruction, they selected Inspector Gage Pemberton to join a security team of twenty men. Their primary duty was to give help to the refugees. Pemberton struggles between his leadership role and his love for his wife, and he realizes his arrogance toward the task ahead fools him. The decision to appoint Pemberton should have been taken seriously by the lieutenant. Who felt overlooked and unacknowledged?

Pemberton’s reality began loosening once he steps foot into Haiti. He’s introduced to his faith and the problems that come with it. Surrounded by unexpected fantasies and decisions. The lieutenant is a serpent trying to devour Pemberton’s body. Pemberton kept growing more and more adamant about the safety of his men, struggling with a feeling that he won’t die and refusing to lose hope. Pemberton pondered these words in his heart, “another man’s loss is another man’s gain.” While trying to make the best of the situation, things kept challenging him. I can describe happiness as lost memories being found.

Haitian soldiers fought bravely to capture or kill these men from a misguided prime minister whose primary focus was revenge. Only when James got put down for the actions of Constable Huggins did the men grow stronger together. From there, it was a struggle to go home. They faced obstacle after obstacle—our guys with situations that would break minor men. But, finally, seeing the result was home, and they fought for the chance to return home again. Their home on their lips, they fought to feel such pleasures again. As a result, trust broken, and it made a new form of brotherhood. Will they make it to freedom, or will death be their ultimate decision?

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Little Ships by Sandra Scofield

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After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next day to scoop up the girls and their inconsolable father, Nick, and take them home to small-town Oregon. The women are full of loving resolve, but good intentions are small guns against the waves of adolescence and the young family's shocking history. Besides, the women–at ages sixty and seventy–are at their own crossroads. Across the months of spring, Nick reels from heartbreak and guilt; the sisters drift apart in the shoals of middle school; three marriages are tested; and the grandmothers seek new footing, in their own lives and with each other. There is no best way forward, but making-do offers the girls a path to the future; and the women discover they have surprising futures of their own yet to live.

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Run with Your Heart by Sean Lacow

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Run with Your Heart follows Holly, a shy 12-year-old who moves from a bustling city to a small town where running is a way of life. Struggling to fit in, Holly finds herself unsure until a new friend encourages her to join the local cross-country team. As she trains for the season’s championship race, Holly faces challenges, overcomes self-doubt, and learns the true meaning of friendship and perseverance. Through it all, she discovers that the most important race is the one she runs with her heart.

This inspiring story of growth, teamwork, and determination is perfect for young readers who love sports and stories about finding inner strength.

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The Bowhunter by Norbert Negron

The Bowhunter by Norbert Negron

When a man values his faith greater than his own life, he will fight for godly justice to his last breath!

Ray Rod knows what it takes to live in a harsh world.

Born into a generations-old ranching bloodline, with a lineage of staunch and uncompromising men and women, survival is in Ray’s blood.

Known as “the Preacher,” Ray has followed in the footsteps of his forefathers his whole life – keeping to their traditions of hunting and honoring the Word of God.

Now an acclaimed host of a popular outdoor show and a prominent writer, Ray is no stranger to criticism from those who disagree with conservatives’ traditions – and is more than ready to defend himself and his core beliefs.

And when a gang of dangerous fugitives hiding in the mountains of Montana condemned four girls and a boy to unequivocal abuse and death, Ray must act and trust in his faith, as he has no choice but to enforce justice to protect the innocent.

But there is more than man’s greed and lies at large, as nature dangers, derange characters and hired agents unleashed their power to silence for good the hunters’ and guns’ advocate.

The bowhunter will have to rely on his abilities to try to survive the many threats allowed to test his faith.

Two questions remain…

Will it be enough to save self and those entrusted to him?

Or is there a limit to how much evil and danger one man can overcome alone?

Discover this gripping tale of survival, honor, and relentless courage.

Will peace return to the mountains?

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God’s Illuminating Blindness by Dwight David Croy

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Committed Yahweh followers are forced to navigate military might, political power, and spiritual storms in an increasingly hostile dark world. Naaman, now touched personally by the mighty hand of Yahweh, must lead his family, iron ring, and three boys in the strange walk of faith not understood in their home of Damascus. As new followers of Yahweh, they find themselves pitted against Aram’s darkness, its king, soldiers, Rimmon priests, assassins, and shaman warriors. Motivated by the dark god Rimmon, the god of lightning, storm, and thunder, the king is enraged at the power of Yahweh. King Ben-hadad works to combat the new followers through intrigue. The tribal nation of Aram mounts an attack on Israel to find the prophet Elisha to capture and kill. Naaman and his friends’ lives are forfeit if the king’s attack is a failure. The servants of Naaman find themselves being exploited to attack Israel and capture Elisha. Once again, Yahweh introduces himself to the firepits of Aram and the whole of the Assyrian Empire. Experience how Naaman and his friends show light to a dark world.

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Peace Cries the Soul by Leah Dawkins

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The author’s next adult fiction novel is the second book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long-buried secrets, dead bodies, scandals, and one man’s attempt to stop running and face his legacy.

Sawyer, nicknamed Tripp, is the oldest son of the Beauregard family. He is a career military man as a Colonel in the United States Army. Other than attending his father’s funeral five years ago, he has not been home in decades. But Sawyer receives an urgent call from his younger sister explaining that there is a family emergency and he is needed at home.
The skeletal remains of a corpse have been uncovered, and with the body, long-buried secrets. Sawyer is thrust into the role of patriarch at the family farm. In Venice, Mississippi, Sawyer rekindles his friendship with a local deputy, Grady, and discovers the depths to which his family will go to maintain their position in society. All while dealing with his own demons, Sawyer struggles to hold his family together and protect them from an unknown assailant. And, to complicate matters further, Sawyer is instantly attracted to the town’s bookstore owner, Diane.

As Sawyer returns to civilian life, he finds himself wishing for the battlefield, where everything is black and white. Instead, he finds himself navigating the gray areas of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice—a far cry from the peace he seeks.

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Luminous by Samantha Wilcoxson

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The tragic true story of a radium girl.

Catherine’s life is set on an unexpected course when she accepts a job at Radium Dial. The dial painters forge friendships and enjoy their work but soon discover that an evil secret lurks in the magical glow-in-the-dark paint. When she and her friends start falling ill, Catherine Donohoe takes on the might of a big corporation and becomes an early pioneer of social justice in the era between world wars.

Emotive and inspiring – this book will touch you like no other as you witness the devastating impact of radium poisoning on young women’s lives.

It’s too late for me, but maybe it will help some of the others.
~ Catherine Wolfe Donohue

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The Crimson Triangle by John J. Fife Sr.

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In the shadowy depths of the Puerto Rican Trench, far below the tranquil surface of the ocean, lies a realm where the ancient secrets of the sea whisper among the dark currents. Here, in the foreboding expanse known as the Crimson Triangle, Eliana, a gifted marine biologist, leads her team into the heart of the Bermuda Triangle's mysteries on a perilous quest that will challenge the very essence of their understanding of nature and the supernatural. As sinister darkness begins to rise in the coastal town of Canto Coral, terror seizes its residents, and the stakes soar higher than ever before. Eliana and her team find themselves in a desperate race against time to decode the enigmatic forces at play in these haunted waters.

Their journey will force them to confront not only a chilling evil emerging from the depths but also the ethical shadows of their scientific endeavor. "The Crimson Triangle" is a chilling narrative that plunges readers into the eerie abyss of the ocean-a terrifying fusion of science, suspense, and unseen forces. As Eliana's team delves deeper into the unknown, they face their deepest fears and the monstrous realities that dwell beneath the waves. Will they unveil the hidden terrors of the abyss, or will they fall victim to the dreadful fate that awaits them?

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The Thirteenth Child by Mark deMeza

The Thirteenth Child by Mark deMeza

Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestors, this enthralling World War W2 novel tells of the Kisch family’s heart-wrenching struggle against Nazi oppression.

When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the Jews of Amsterdam know nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. As the measures imposed by the cruel SS become ever more repressive, sister and brother, Rachael and Hendrik, join the Dutch Resistance. Meanwhile, their parents, Franck and Elizabeth, strive to keep their younger brother, Hannes, safe, but time is against them all, as every day more and more Jews are being deported to unknown camps in Eastern Europe. Will the family be able to stay together and survive?

Readers moved by Schindler’s List, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas will be gripped.

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Southpaw by Dennis Sweeney

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There seemed to be a huge gaping hole inside of me. I wanted some answers but didn’t know where to look. I felt like there was a huge worldwide conspiracy afoot to keep me in a state of utter confusion, making me so numb that I had no choice but to give up and let the experts get on with it. What a wonderful thing democracy is. You can say what you want as long as you do as you’re told. It all seemed so superficial, so inadequate. Where would it all lead? Lying in some hospital bed in thirty years’ time, dying of some ‘disease of civilization’; up to my neck in debt, alcoholism, depression, loneliness and insanity.

There had to be more to life than this.I am talking about liberation here. Freedom from the bondage of self. Freedom from our blinkered, prejudiced, opinionated thoughts. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got. The more stoned I got, the more abstract yet somehow meaningful it all became. We were one and the same. I was he. He was me. That bald little Chinese monk on TV was beckoning me to follow the path, the way of the warrior, the way of the Grasshopper. The monk was right; change was the natural way of the universe. Things were not always as they appeared to be. A young Scottish boxer breaks away from the shackles of his environment, only to find himself mixed up with heroin smuggling in Asia. A story of violence, prison, fear and desperation, which leads to inner reflection and finally redemption.

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A Cowboy’s Fortune by E. Joe Brown

About Featured Book: A Cowboy’s Fortune by E. Joe Brown

The cutthroat world of big oil is very different from the life of a humble cowboy, but if anyone can succeed among all the treachery and danger, KELLY CAN!

It’s 1919 and Charlie Kelly has married the love of his life, Susan, and together the newlyweds hope to grow the business empire that Susan’s father, Walter Kramer, built. Charlie’s dream of starting his own oil company becomes a reality, and Susan takes over the leadership of the Kramer Group, but tragedy soon follows triumph. Charlie discovers that the trail to becoming the best oil man in Oklahoma is not as easy as becoming a top hand at the 101 Ranch. It will take more than just financial backing to be a success in the Oklahoma oil fields, especially when family, competitors, business opportunities, and sabotage all compete for Charlie’s attention. When the success of Kelly Oil puts Susan’s life at risk, Charlie will take the bull by the horns and find a way to save Susan as only a cowboy can.

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Surviving Jane by Rodolfo Del Toro

Surviving Jane by Rodolfo Del Toro

From the author of “Chasing Rabbits.”

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Dr. David is looking for a career change. He’s burnt out and is planning a year-long sabbatical to travel and reset before beginning his ophthalmology residency. Counting down the days to his much-needed break, David must contend with all the complications of working at a busy hospital: unruly patients, frustrating senior staff, and growing fatigue.

During these last weeks, David is given a tough patient: young Jane Doe, a heroin addict, is brought in with severe injuries. Jane does not want to be in the hospital. Belligerent, aggressive, and demanding, Jane tests the boundaries of all the medical staff who attend her.

As David grows increasingly disgruntled, a surprising source reminds him why he entered the medical field in the first place: to help people.

An emotional journey featuring addiction, recovery, and hope, Surviving Jane is a richly detailed medical drama that provides an intimate look into life in a busy hospital.

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The Knack by Will Astrike

The Knack by Will Astrike

Frank Bass is a U.S. Deputy Marshal on leave from his district in El Paso, Texas, when he’s asked by an old friend in Cheyenne to investigate the brutal rape and beating of a young girl in Torrington, Wyoming. Bass agrees to travel from Cheyenne to Torrington with the girl’s beautiful Aunt Sally Bloom, and during that trip, their friendship becomes romantic, and eventually, a loving relationship develops. During the story, Bass explains the origin of the Buffalo Robe he carries with him and how it symbolizes his notoriety. Colorful characters come and go, adding humor and insights into prairie life of the 1880s. (see attached)
A crooked lawman and a particularly villainous rancher round out the cast of The Knack. The conclusion is unexpected, satisfying, and a lead-in to the next story in the Buffalo Robe Bass series.

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Refuge from The World (The Beartooth Chronicles, Book 1)

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Embark on an unforgettable journey with Ashley and Caleb. When they learn of the government’s plan to use a geoengineering process to cool the planet and of the dangers outside their community, they realize their generation must fight for the survival of Beartooth. Together Ash and Caleb learn about love, tragedy, and grief as they work to protect Beartooth from deadly predators and ruthless neighbors while searching for solutions to a rapidly changing environment and deteriorating world.

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Victor’s Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer

Victor’s Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer

Meticulously researched love story of the Civil War from the neglected northern point of view. Victor’s Blessing offers a unique perspective of a half Osage blacksmith who journeys to the patent office of Washington, D.C, battle of Wilderness, to the Andersonville prison. For Victor to keep one promise, another must be broken.

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The Ship of State: Book One by Richard P. Ley

The Ship of State: Book One by Richard P. Ley

Can the president, a conservative ex-business executive with no political experience, navigate the shark-infested waters of Washington, DC?

President Donald Burlington’s party doesn’t support him, his wife of 23 years has just filed for divorce, and his country is falling apart from within. Both parties and the entire political establishment are eager to take him down because he is trying to eliminate the way the Federal government caters to special interests and emboldens entrenched career politicians to gain and maintain their political power.

Meanwhile, his trusted assistant, Nicole, grows concerned by the president’s fascination with an international film star. Little does he know that the love of his life might be closer than he imagines.

While trying to lead the nation and the free world, President Burlington must deal with contentious policy issues, foreign crises, terrorism, political enemies, and his own personal issues. He’s dedicated to keeping his campaign promises, and he’s not going to go down without a fight, but the water is murky and sharks bite.

Featuring interesting characters and providing conservative solutions to real issues facing us today, this believable political fiction is what the world needs right now. If you enjoyed the movie, The American President or the hit TV series, The West Wing, you’ll love The Ship of State.

*Note: The original title, Escape from Serfdom, was published in 2014, well before Donald Trump hit the national political stage, and has been “bigly” revised and expanded into books one and two of The Ship of State series.

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Tales of American Idiocy by P.R. Infidel

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“Soon the humans will all wear muzzles and be chained to their homes by their great glowing boxes!”

This announcement by Chester stopped the meeting of the pets of Sunnyside Street cold. Not that they were surprised by the neighborhood conspiracy cat. Chester was full of odd ideas, most of which he announced at inopportune moments.

Chester would turn out to be right about COVID, but he is just one of many Orwellian critters and supernatural shorts populating these Tales of American Idiocy, a darkly humorous collection of short stories commemorating the early 2020’s. Here you’ll find President Brandon’s sketch election. Dwight the alligator will fight forced COVID injections. Delilah the deer’s own “Dr. Foxi,” gets his just deserts, and Black Lizards definitely Matter.

Will Chester and friends’ warnings make repeating the early 2020s unthinkable?

If you like clever allegories, not-so-crazy conspiracies’, and darkly humorous satire, you’ll love Tales of American idiocy, a work Bookviral calls: “A cuttingly Allegorical Read!”

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MEGASTAR by R. J. Eastwood

MEGASTAR by R. J. Eastwood

With a twist of fate and a bit of kismet, nineteen-year-old Addison Stone stumbles upon solace when he discovers his extraordinary singing voice that brings him international fame and fortune. As he climbs the ladder to musical acclaim, he finds he is unprepared for his success. His memories remain tethered to his turbulent childhood, having been raised by a mentally unstable mother who was abused as a child herself and has passed her demons onto Addison, leaving him emotionally scarred.
But amidst the blinding lights and thunderous applause, Addison falls in love with a young woman named Hanna, and she with him. As Addison’s star continues to rise, there is a deafening silence as he loses Hanna’s love for his addiction to his newfound fame and fortune. Emotionally crushed, he vows to win her back.
Journey behind the scenes through the ups and downs and demands of international stardom as “MEGASTAR” takes you on a captivating odyssey.

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Seeking Truth at Ardwick House: Inspector Button Investigates by G J Griffiths

About Featured Book: Seeking Truth at Ardwick House: Inspector Button Investigates by G J Griffiths

Detective Inspector Walter Button is called upon to investigate a violent burglary that takes place at the stately mansion called Ardwick House, in the centre of Manchester. Button’s Victorian police team have become known for investigating ‘flash houses’ and their associated killings and violence. These public houses, amongst other establishments, are implicated in a crime wave of fencing stolen goods – a big problem for many big towns and cities throughout England.

The ongoing investigation of the Ardwick House burglary takes its toll on Button and Kathleen, his wife. His step-son Josh is the young copper on patrol in Ardwick Green and the first to be alerted by broken glass at the rear of the mansion. As events proceed, a number of other knotty problems and plots come to the surface; not discounting two dead bodies, a secret business plan and pressure from the inspector's superiors. How does all of this involve the adult sons of the original partners and iron foundry owners, David Fraser and Mitch McCallum? Can Button disentangle it all to the satisfaction of his senior officers and before he loses his wife forever?

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