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Friends in High Places

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About Friends in High Places:

When model Angel Donovan wakes up dead as a spirit guide in training her greatest adventure begins.
Will she be able to face down the same evil that shattered her own chance at true happiness on earth and save the three children she loves and protects from a human monster who lurks waiting to snatch them. And will Angel succeed at causing the lives of two women and one girl to intersect at just the right time so they can each find the love and acceptance that eluded her as a beautiful and successful celebrity. She longs to completely heal her own troubled soul in the process be closer to the day she might finally earn her wings.

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Benjamin Street

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Why would a wealthy 74 year-old man want to renovate a dilapidated apartment building in a poor area of a crime-ridden city. Jack Bartlett is driven by memories, both wonderful and horrendous, from his tenure there in 1943. Inner demons now make resurrection of this tired building his one and only priority.

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Fortune’s Son

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Heads you win. Tails you die … Can one man’s revenge become his redemption?
Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. The future appears bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbott. His reward is fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania’s remote highlands.
Luke escapes, finding sanctuary with a local philanthropist, Daniel Campbell, and starting a forbidden love affair with Daniel’s daughter, Belle. But when Luke is betrayed, he must flee or be hanged.
With all seeming lost, Luke sails to South Africa to start afresh. Yet he remains haunted by the past, and by Belle, the woman he can’t forget. When he returns to seek revenge and reclaim his life, his actions will have shattering consequences – for the innocent as well as the guilty.
Set against a backdrop of wild Tasmania, Australian Gold and African diamonds, Fortune’s Son is an epic story of betrayal, undying love and one man’s struggle to triumph over adversity and find his way home.
– Praise for Jennifer Scoullar –
‘Scoullar, it turns out, is a writer of documentary calibre … lovely, lyrical prose.’ The Australian.
‘Jennifer is a writer of great imagination.’ Author Andrea Goldsmith
‘The people, the animals and the places … such vivid and vibrant story-telling which wholly swept me away’ Beauty and Lace

Previously Jennifer Scoullar’s books have only been available in Australia. Now they are going global with Pilyara Press. Buy Fortune’s Son to discover why Scoullar is one of Australia’s favourite storytellers!

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Castling The King by Martin Archer

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About Castling The King by Martin Archer

Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. Castling the King/The Sea Warriors is another exciting book in the action-packed saga of Cornwall’s Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and often witty read that sticks pins into the Church and nobility along the way.

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Can’t Buy Me Love by Martin Humphries

By Elizabeth Fogg

About Can’t Buy Me Love by Martin Humphries

It’s the sixties, and London might be swinging, but not for our girl, Edith. Raised in a miserable home full of anger and hate, life for poor Edith seems to hold little hope. But she finds plenty when she teams up with her older gay cousin, Ronnie, who makes her his mission with a plan to re-shape her into the fabulous young woman he knows she deserves to be.

Once free of her father and her weak, defenseless mother, her transformation is swift and dramatic. Suddenly, life is an exciting adventure, full of twists and turns, as Edith’s coming of age becomes a roller-coaster ride of glorious highs and frightening lows, including a father who comes back to haunt her. But where will it take her, and how will it end? Who will win, and who will lose?

This special ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ BONUS EDITION offers the first two of six volumes in the ‘The Cost of Loving’ Series. If you like stories of success over adversity, family dramas and sexual diversity, then you will love Martin Humphries’ bitter-sweet voyage of discovery through some of the most exciting years in living memory. Years chock full of changes of every kind, when being gay usually spelt trouble with a capital T.

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The Infinite Now by Mindy Tarquini

By Elizabeth Fogg

About The Infinite Now by Mindy Tarquini

Just $.99 through September 7th. Regularly priced $9.99

“A well-woven tapestry of history, character, and charming mystery.” — Kirkus Reviews
Winner: 2018 Foreword Indies
Winner: 2017 USA Best Book Award
2017: Today show Winter Book Selection

In flu-ravaged 1918 Philadelphia, Fiora Vicente, the freshly orphaned and forward-thinking daughter of the local fortune teller, has goals. She has ambitions. But when faced with a future she hasn’t planned, she has second thoughts–and casts her community into a stagnant bubble of time.

Inside the bubble, life among Fiora’s superstitious neighbors continues, but nothing progresses, swamped by a steady stream of unspent seconds. As the pressure builds Fiora realizes she must find the courage to collapse the bubble–or risk trapping her dreams in an unbearable, unyielding, and infinite Now.

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Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye

By Christine Liston

About Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye:

It was the weekend before Thanksgiving. More than 100,000 fans were jammed inside Michigan Stadium, on their feet, to witness a heated football rivalry that had spanned more than 100 years. As the football was kicked into the snow-filled sky, they were about to get the shock of their lives, as long-foretold Bible prophecy came to pass before their very eyes, causing many to vanish into thin air without a trace.

But what they soon realized was that it reached far beyond Michigan Stadium. Chaos of unimaginable proportions ensued worldwide. Shock, fear and panic filled each heart and mind. It was just the beginning of things to come, as life as humanity had known it was forever changed in the blink of an eye…

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Refugee by Reece Pocock

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About Refugee by Reece Pocock

One man’s journey from tragedy to find happiness.
By prize winning author Reece Pocock

Essential reading for fans of #Ken Follett, #Raymond Khoury and #Clive Cussler.

Refugee is a moving, stunning piece of literature that enthralled, entertained and enchanted me from the very first page. Aimee Anne.

Rolf Krieger was left devastated after WW2. Now a refugee, he immigrates to Australia. There he meets Elaine, a gorgeous war widow. They fall in love, but the war and its trauma interferes in their future and the lovers must solve interfamily pressures that could destroy their lives.

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The Progeny

By Christine Liston

About The Progeny:

The Babe is Back !
The greatest baseball player in history was Babe Ruth. History tells us he was married twice and both times adopted a little girl, but what is he had a child of his own? The Progeny explores the very real possibility / probability that such a child existed.

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The Progeny

By Christine Liston

About The Progeny:

Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all time. History tells us that he was married twice and both times adopted a little girl. But, what if he fathered a child of his own?

THE BABE IS BACK!

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Redemption by Stephanie Baldi

By Christine Liston

About Redemption by Stephanie Baldi:

Carrie Overton is in deep trouble. All she wanted to do was escape her alcoholic and drug-addicted mother and leave the memory of the son she gave up for adoption behind. Carrie’s opportunity for freedom comes at a high price when she leaves home with Travis Montgomery, a man, twenty-years her senior. A man who harbors an awful secret connected to her past.

After a botched robbery in which Travis forces her to help him steal two million dollars from a drug lord, leaving two people dead, Carrie decides to add a third victim to her list. Blinded by her thirst for freedom and determined not to live life looking over her shoulder, she pulls the trigger again and Travis is left lying on the floor. Eager to start over, Carrie takes the stolen money and travels to the small mountain town of Laurel, Pennsylvania where she lies about her past and relaxes into her new life.

Before long, Carrie’s lies are piling up in Laurel, and her past is about to catch up to her. Travis has survived the shooting, and he is determined to find Carrie and reveal the secret he’s been keeping from her. But neither of them is aware of a bigger threat about to bear down on them.

Nicholas D’Angelo is at the top of his profession. Known as a ghost, a contract killer for one of the biggest drug lords in Miami, his assignment is simple. Find the people, who stole the two million dollars, recover the money and eliminate them. Nick has never let outside distractions get in the way of a job until now. Inexplicably drawn to Carrie he begins breaking all the rules planting the two of them directly in the path of his drug lord boss.

Before long, Carrie must make a life-threatening choice. Trust the hitman who vows to disobey his orders and protect her. Or stay in Laurel and face the drug lord determined to end her life. Either one might kill her.

This is the story of what happens when people try to deny their past. Redemption is what they will seek as they are compelled to face who they really are.

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A Curve in the Road, Julianne MacLean

By Christine Liston

About A Curve in the Road, Julianne MacLean:

From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a suspenseful, emotionally-charged novel that explores the secrets and hidden truths within a seemingly perfect marriage.
Abbie MacIntyre is living the dream in the picturesque Nova Scotia town she calls home. She is a successful surgeon, is married to a handsome cardiologist, and has a model teenage son who is only months away from going off to college.
But then one fateful night, everything changes. When a drunk driver hits her car, Abbie is rushed to the hospital. She survives, but the accident forces unimaginable secrets out into the open and plagues Abby with nightmares so vivid that she starts to question her grip on reality. Her perfect life begins to crack, and those cracks threaten to shatter her world completely.
The search for answers will test her strength in every way—as a wife, a career woman, and a mother—but it may also open the door for Abbie to move forward, beyond anger and heartbreak, to find out what she is truly made of. In learning to heal and trust again, she may just find new hope in the spaces left behind.
Book club discussion questions are included in the book.

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Hollywood Daze

By Christine Liston

About Hollywood Daze:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, June 2015: A freshly dug grave.
Halloween, 2014: Mona arrives in Los Angeles.
Mona is lonely and heartbroken, All she knows is how to cut movies and all feeling off. Her brother is directing a Hollywood rom-com. Joost wants to use his shot to represent, to turn the world upside down. Mona just wants to drink and float in the pool. Working for her brother is a drag, always turning into major drama.
Then she meets Elki— a Koreatown native, who spends her days chasing obscure memorabilia, healing a traumatized puppy, and acting as de facto leader of a group of unruly girls.
Meanwhile, Joost pulls Mona into his mess like never before. And when everything spirals out of control, Mona is forced to decide where her loyalties lie.
About to put her only friend in mortal danger.

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Hollywood Daze by Simona Moroni

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About Hollywood Daze by Simona Moroni

A great beach read for a time limited offer of 0.99USD.

“A delightful book, fun, edgy, unforgettable.” -Mary Kennedy, Best-Selling Author of the Dream Club Mysteries

A seventeen-year-old high school dropout with a hidden talent, Mona, is sitting at the counter of the Fountain Coffee Room, trying not to attract the attention of Maddy Miller, a feisty, unfiltered, hotshot producer, who’ll decide if her brother Joost Larvink, gets to make his Hollywood debut. But before she knows it, Mona is kneedeep in Hollywood politics and some desperate characters, including a stoner screenwriter, engaged to Maddy’s daughter, an action hero jock lost in the closet and an overly dramatic A-list star about to become box office poison. All Mona wants to do is drink and float in the pool. But with her brother’s career at stake, Mona is determined to bend the town at her own will.
Enter Elki Daniels– a carefree K-town native, who spends her days chasing obscure movie memorabilia, healing a traumatized puppy, and acting as de facto leader of a group of defiant girls. Elki is a Hollywood insider who can explain this duplicitous town, and why not, even life.
While steering her brother towards success and away from another nervous breakdown, Mona hooks up with the wrong guy, goes along on a burglary spree, has to save a deranged Mexican gardener and even risks her own, and her best friend life, in Moroni’s gleeful and riotous takedown of Hollywood. (less)

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Whispers Among The Prairie by Michelle Roberts

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About Whispers Among The Prairie by Michelle Roberts

Historical Fiction novel set on the prairie lands of the American West in the 1860’s The Southern Cheyenne’s led by Chief Black Kettle find themselves in conflict with the US cavalry and settlers wanting to take their land. Through this conflict an unlikely friendship develops between Black Kettle’s adopted daughter, Morning Dove and Captain Clinton McKay of the US cavalry. Will their friendship turn into love or will they stay on opposing sides? Come and join them on their journey in “Whispers Among The Prairie” and find out.

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Hippies by Gary Gautier

By Christine Liston

About Hippies by Gary Gautier:

By 1970, the hippie scene was faltering, a victim of both inner contradictions and external forces. The Vietnam war resistance, psychedelic drugs, sexual openness, the freedom of the commune – it seemed that everything about the 1960s could be incredibly liberating or wildly destructive. Against this backdrop, Jazmine, Ziggy, Ragman and a coterie of hippies discover an LSD-spinoff drug that triggers past life regressions as they head toward a dramatic climax. This epic tale of hippiedom is intimate in the lives of its characters but panoramic in its coverage of the sights, sounds, and ideals of the Age of Aquarius. Hippies is well-suited to readers of historical fiction, literary fiction, and anyone interested in the 1960s or the history of countercultural movements.

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When The Well Runs Dry

By Christine Liston

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In a country divided by civil war, one city stands above the chaos. Since the system collapsed, citizens are struggling to survive. Marauders are destroying what little is left. However, not everyone is quite ready to surrender. The Alder and her loyal supporters find themselves caught in a life or death struggle to save, not only themselves but also those around them. The future of the nation is at stake. When The Well Runs Dry is the first book in M J Dees’ dystopian series set in a future where resources have all but run out. Read this book while there is still a future in which to read it.

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Kitchen Canary

By Christine Liston

About Kitchen Canary:

Kitchen Canary is an historical fiction novel described by Midwest Book Review as, “Exceptionally well written, thoroughly absorbing, consistently entertaining.”
Boston, 1868…Two young Irish women immigrate to work as domestics (kitchen canaries) for the Brennan family. They soon become entangled in the secrets and lies of their employer. They are violated and humiliated and hide their shame even from one another. They each carry the guilt of their lost virginity and the fear of the fate they will suffer if their secret is exposed. In four short years, Katie O’Neil and Moira Murphy experience the evil and good of others, love, despair and redemption, as they pursue their dream of an American life. Welcome to their journey.
Kitchen Canary offers little known historical facts about the Irish famine, the Boston political scene, and plight of immigrants and negroes freed after the Civil War.
A recurring theme in reviews is, “I couldn’t put the book down.”

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Mysteria – An Anthology of Spooky and Mysterious Tales

By Christine Liston

About Mysteria – An Anthology of Spooky and Mysterious Tales:

Be prepared to be spooked, but also be prepared to expect the unexpected. These are written to come at you from an entirely unexpected direction. There is more than a touch of the Gothic and macabre about these stories. In fact they are steeped in it. They are flesh-crawlingly delicious, and a treat for devotees of the paranormal. This is a collection of short stories. They are long enough to grip the reader, but brief enough to be read in a tea break or on a train – but why not treat yourself to a good spook-fest, and read them in the comfort of your armchair as the rain patters against the windowpane, and the wind howls its mournful tune – well, you get the idea. Read it wherever you feel most comfortable (or uncomfortable!). Just for good measure, I have also included a handful of stories (and a poem) from other authors who are friends of mine. You will find these scattered throughout the book at random intervals. So if you see the story title, and then a name, this will be a story from one of my friends, so watch out for Bernie Morris, David Clarke, Ann Perry and Lesley Hanson. See you on the other side!

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The Munich Girl

By Christine Liston

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The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the end of World War II, Anna is plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. “A story of enduring friendship and the lengths people will go to for love.” Stellar Review

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