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The Shade Under the Mango Tree by Evy Journey

The Shade Under the Mango Tree by Evy Journey

Gold medalist in Contemporary Fiction, Global Book Awards
Finalist, International Book Awards
Finalist, Self Publishing Review
Breaking out of her safe cocoon, Luna hungers for adventure and steps into a world steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. Can she survive unscathed?
Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don’t stop him. His decision changes his life.
An epistolary tale of love—between an idealistic young woman and her grandmother and between the young woman and the young architect. A tale of courage, resilience of the human spirit, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.
“Aided by strong thematic undertones, subtle symbolism, high stakes and an ultimately hopeful narrative voice, Evy Journey has delivered a captivating story” — Self-Publishing Review
“A tender and captivating story that delves into the many existential questions we ask ourselves frequently… with a nuanced understanding of different cultures backed by a worldly sensibility of travel, poetry, and design. The prose reads like a painting adding depth and complexity, making for some beautiful imagery.” — Reedsy Discovery

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Crow

About Crow:

I am a menace to society who takes lives without blinking. I was bred this way by the devil himself, by the man who raised me. When the time comes, I’ll bury him too, but until then, the little starling feeding the birds in the park has my full attention.

With raven-colored hair and disarming eyes capable of infusing oxygen into my dead, cold heart, she’d have the best chance of piecing me back together.

Her efforts will be pointless, though. Because the monster inside me is the strongest of them all, and when he comes out to play, more than her wings will be clipped by his wrath.

This book is nothing like the 80’s movie. It’s about finding love against all odds.

Crow is a dark romance about surviving against the odds, and finding love despite this. It has scenes that may be distressing to some readers. Caution is advised.

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Made in England

About Made in England:

An unashamedly feel-good romantic comic novel to escape into and fall in love with.

It is twenty years on since his debut novel, Only in America. Milly is married to Mitch with two daughters and living the writers dream in LA. But three movies down and the beginnings of a career plateau, she is in need of inspiration.

Step forward, her oldest and best friend, Jonson Clarke. Married to Anna, with three kids and living in London, Jonson’s life continues to be a series of colourful mishaps. Trouble just finds him and most recently in the shape of a priceless violin. Left on the London underground by its troubled owner, a beautiful young virtuoso musician called Sidhu. Of all the Londonders using the tube this Friday night, who should stumble across it, but Jonson Clarke. Jonson is on the TV news and in the newspapers. The story mushrooms and brings Milly back to London, reuniting old friends for a fabulous new adventure of unrequited teenage love with a supporting cast of billionaires, a world-renown violinist, unscrupulous journalists and corrupt private detectives. Made in England is a comic caper and a beautiful love story. Written with wit and verve, it is a compelling read, providing laughs, cheers and a euphoric ending.

Holland writes books that are unashamedly feel-good. Stories that make readers feel happy. Made in England is a wonderful novel that can serve as an anti-dote from the last few extraordinary years. Written in lockdown but without a single mention of Covid 19. A timely novel for anyone wishing to escape and feel good about their world.

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Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories by K.

Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories by K.

Is love the most revolutionary of all acts?

In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables to sci-fi thrillers, starring teens and drifting husbands, futuristic automatons and talking dogs, gardeners and gatekeepers, a blind girl, a young father, and many more.

In “Calamity Jane,” see love through the eyes of teenage boys obsessed with the calamitous girl of the title; revisit the famous Greek love story in “Orpheus and Eurydice”; Dan’s mechanical automaton seems to be his truest friend in the harshly conformist world of “Automatonomatopoeia”; a Crimean revolutionary gets waylaid at a mysterious gate in “The Invitation”; on a construction site in Yugoslavia, a young man tries to come to grips with unconventional fatherhood in “Vikings”; and in “The Conversation”, a blind woman manages her relationship with a hectoring mother while finding other types of love.

These are just a few of the tales in Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories. Anyone interested in the struggle against stifling societal powers and the potency of love will see some of themselves in these pages. By turns exciting, meditative, and funny, these enjoyable, thought-provoking stories will linger long after the book is closed.

Let the revolution begin!

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The Heart’s Journey

About The Heart’s Journey:

May the poetry in this book serve as a reminder to remain humble and kind towards all beings.
Embody divine, deep, and unconditional Love for self and others.
Openly give of yourself to the rest of the world.
Smile more, forgive often, and let go of wrongdoings.
Tune into your heart’s rhythm to understand your life’s purpose.
Always stay true to your heart’s desire.

Follow the sacred path of the heart to answer the necessary questions:

Who am I?
What is the meaning of life?
Why am I here?

Let the answers which arise manifest as your legacy to this world.

The Heart’s Journey is the fourth of the seven poetry books series. It is composed of poems with topics related to the heart chakra. The heart chakra is the fourth chakra. It is the one associated with compassion, trust, forgiveness, ability to receive and give love to self and others.

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Chasing Time by Thomas Reilly

Chasing Time by Thomas Reilly

A Literary Titan Gold Award winner, Chasing Time takes the reader on a thrilling adventure as history professor Tony Lucas seeks to unravel clues from an ancient time-bending key in an effort to save his wife from the throes of a devastating and deadly disease. The story takes the classic medical drama, historical fiction, and fantasy genres, and turns them all completely on their heads. With its sharp, precise, and witty style, Chasing Time is an engaging, must-read story like nothing like you have read before.

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The Death and Resurrection of Baseball: Echoes from a Distant Past

About The Death and Resurrection of Baseball: Echoes from a Distant Past:

n the year 2166, a post Second Civil War America is finally back on its feet. Among the countless personal and cultural casualties of the war, the sport of baseball has been dead for over a hundred years. 12-year-old Joe Scott lives in the northern Illinois city of McHenry and goes exploring in the woods one day in a no man’s land that a hundred years earlier was the site of the bloodiest battle of the war. While there, he discovers a relic from the distant past, from before the war. It sparks a search for its meaning. Little does he know that the wheels of Providence have been unwittingly set in motion which leads to a stunning discovery in Dyersville, Iowa.

This second discovery has a direct connection with the relic found in McHenry. As events unfold, Joe finds himself at the center of the rediscovery of a sport long lost and forgotten by the ravages of time and war. With no living person having any first-hand knowledge of the game, can he figure out the pieces of the puzzle to resurrect the game of baseball? Will his friends take to the game? What will the adults think?

Soon, the answers begin to unfold, and a magical sequence of events leads to an epic finale on a national stage.

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Black Ivory by Jo Squire

About Black Ivory by Jo Squire:

As a young wildlife biologist, Lou operates in a harsh world. She’s also isolated. Between the corruption, greed, and an apathetic government, she knows the road ahead won’t be easy to navigate. But Lou is determined to save Masaranga National Park’s elephants and preserve Kenya’s natural heritage.
Ivory trade has exploded. With poachers hungry for more, Lou’s efforts place her in jeopardy. A poaching gang has its evil eye on her elephants. Their leader is a force to be reckoned with. He’s not like ordinary poachers. Soon enough, Lou will discover the difference.
In Africa’s isolated wilderness, the dark forces of illicit trafficking reign supreme. Lou will travel from the savannah to the coast. She will be forced keep her plans hidden and overcome her personal demons to protect what matters most. Can Lou trust her brother or even the enigmatic Steve, who appears to be a fellow free-thinker?
Follow her journey as crime, passion, and the fate of the African elephants collide in this literary action-adventure novel.

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When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay

When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay

International best-seller. In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along. American citizens, Herbert Müller, and his family are sent back to the hellish landscape of Germany because of the DNA coursing through their veins. In the panorama of World War II, these are the high-stakes plots and endearing characters whose braided fates we pray will work out in the end.

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Waiting for Paint to Dry by Lia Mack

Waiting for Paint to Dry by Lia Mack

A Goodreads “Best Contemporary Women’s Fiction” Listopia Book
A Goodreads “Favorite Chick-Lit/Women’s Fiction Books” Listopia Book

From the author of “Hard-Hitting Fiction, with a Dose of Healing-Humor” comes a serious yet laughter-filled healing story of one’s woman journey to reclaim her life, find inner-peace, and stumble into love…

5-STAR AMAZON REVIEWS
“A beautiful book about hope and recovery for sexual abuse victims.” – Dr. Patricia K. Martin, Clinical Psychologist, Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Gripping Tale of Healing with a Dose of Humor.” – GranJan, Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Complicated and hard to put down.” – SusieS, Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Expertly written.” – meg, Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Wonderful book – written from the Heart!” – Laurel E., Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Prepare to cry.” – quilter 218, Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Want to experience sunshine after the rain? Read this novel!” – YZPat, Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“A great explanation of the effects of rape and post-traumatic stress.” – Edna A., Verified Purchase Amazon Review
“Sensitive Approach to a Traumatic and Difficult Topic– Particularly as the First Time Book of This Author.” – Sheila, Verified Purchase Amazon Review

For the past decade, Matty Bell has lived safe in a self-made monochromatic life of work-eat-sleep-survive. Living vicariously through her best friend Claire’s perfect life wasn’t the plan, nor her ideal. However, Matty learned long ago that it’s easier to run and hide from life than to deal with the pain of the post-traumatic stress she’s suffered from since being raped at sixteen.

When Claire announces her family is moving, she asks Matty to come too. Having grown up Navy, Matty’s no stranger to picking up and starting over. However, moving half-way around the world to play nanny to Claire’s children doesn’t sound like the new beginning Matty yearns for. Nor does she want to leave without first confronting her fears and coming full-healing-circle. She can’t let another decade slip by before she’s able to trust again.

Endorsed by Award-Winning Director and Survivor Advocate, Angela Shelton, WAITING FOR PAINT TO DRY is a late coming of age story of what it takes to save and find yourself again.

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Southern Duty: A Story of Georgia Pioneers by Brian Paley

Southern Duty: A Story of Georgia Pioneers by Brian Paley

Southern Duty is a biographical story tracing the lives of Malinda Field and Joseph Donaldson as they strive to raise a family during the antebellum period in the U.S. South. Due to a family tragedy, Malinda is forced into an arranged marriage at the age of twelve. After her controlling husband dies, she reunites with and marries her childhood friend, Joseph, and they move to a wilderness area called Cherokee Nation. In spite of the trials of pioneering, the Indian Removal period, slavery, major business failures, and raising a large family, they rise to become the richest family in Cherokee County, Georgia. Finally they are faced with deprivation and reconstruction efforts due to the Civil War, as well as the tragic death of their youngest son.
Southern Duty is an inspiring story of the indomitable human spirit driven primarily by duty: to family, to community, to the Southern way of life, and ultimately to all fellow human beings. The book provides clear and sometimes intriguing links between events of the past and the environment of today.

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The Craigslist Incident by Jason Fisk

The Craigslist Incident by Jason Fisk

In The Craigslist Incident, Edna Barrett takes an advertisement out on Craigslist: I’m an 18-year-old female and I want to take a hit out on myself. Joe Dolsen, a 20-year-old who has suffered from periodic blackouts his whole life, answers the ad. What would bring two people to such ominous points at such young ages, and will they actually go through with it?

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TRIUMPH: A Novel Of The Human Spirit

About TRIUMPH: A Novel Of The Human Spirit:

If Hate Is Taught, Love Can Be Learned
Two Youngsters Ignore the Narrow-mindedness of Society
At a time when the world needs more warmth and acceptance, two little girls – Mercy and Annie, take us on a journey where color doesn’t matter, and character and heart are the only things that do!

Deep in the Louisiana swamps in 1903, five-year-old Willy is kidnapped by a Voodoo Priestess. One day, he will fight bloody battles in France and come face-to-face with the horrors of voodoo.

While in bustling New Orleans, bachelor Jack—a former Texas Ranger—has an encounter with a young beauty hiding in his hotel room. What she wants and needs will change his life forever.

1958 St. Louis, two girls of different races, Mercy and Annie, meet in the fifth grade. Together, they secretly explore St. Louis via bus and streetcar, encountering cultural prejudices at every turn— including from within one girl’s own family. The turbulent times and the Civil Rights Movement will test the girls’ loyalty and affect their choices on the way to adulthood.

In a saga spanning from 1903 to 1968, three families navigate the stormy paths of life in New Orleans, St. Louis, and Texas until they all collide startlingly and dramatically.

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Don’t Ask by Gina Roitman

About Don’t Ask by Gina Roitman:

“Don’t Ask” poses the question: who packed the baggage we carry from birth? In this literary thriller, a Jewish woman agonizes over her mother’s suicide and is thrown into turmoil over her romantic attraction to a German.
Hannah Baran is 45, a successful Montreal real estate broker with a highly lucrative client who, like her parents, is a Holocaust survivor. Born in a German DP camp, she is the only child of Rokhl and the late Barak. One day, she arrives to find her mother gone and a mystifying note that reads: I am not her.
Throughout Hannah’s life, Rokhl’s notes have been all the guidance she received from a laconic, emotionally-remote mother, a foil to Hannah’s voluble father who rescued Rokhl from Auschwitz. When Hannah announced that she must travel to Germany on business, Rokhl threatens that should Hannah ‘go to that land of murderers,’ it would be over her dead body. Three days later, Hannah locates her missing mother in the morgue.
Secreted away in a confessional journal for Hannah to find one day is Rokhl’s confession about a life filled with loss, betrayal, and guilt. The mother’s story is woven into the intrigue over a contested piece of land in the Quebec Laurentian mountains, a struggle between two real estate moguls, and an impossible love affair, all of it weighted down by the baggage of history.

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Spitting Image by Harmony Reed

About Featured Book: Spitting Image by Harmony Reed

What if you had a twin – who was a better version of you?

When Everett Reyes loses his adoptive mother – the only person who ever believed in him – his bullying stepbrothers find a way to keep Everett’s inheritance. They won’t even let him keep Mom’s cookware, though she’s the reason he became a chef.

All he has left is a failing cafe, a rattletrap car, and an ex-wife he can’t stop fighting with. Bereft of family, he hires a private investigator to track down his biological parents. He’s not surprised to learn that they’re dead, but he’s shocked to discover that he has a twin brother, alive and well in Austin, Texas. The similarities between Everett and his brother Evan are amazing. They’re both chefs, they both married aspiring musicians, and they’re both fathers – evidence of their deep twin bond. But the more Everett learns more about his brother, the more he feels like he’s looking at the life he should have had – would have had if they hadn’t been separated.

It’s embarrassing how Evan seems to be more successful than Everett in every possible way. His friends tell him to start with a phone call, but Everett decides to drive to Austin and surprise Evan on their shared birthday. After all, what better gift could a man receive than to be reunited with his long-lost twin brother?

Spitting Image is a new novel by Harmony Reed, author of Confidence John and Drink.

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Afro-Bougie Blues: A Collection of Short Fiction by Lauren Wilson

About Featured Book: Afro-Bougie Blues: A Collection of Short Fiction by Lauren Wilson

Afro-Bougie Blues is a collection of twelve original, engaging, and occasionally edgy short stories that dig into the souls of ordinary black women and men meeting life’s challenges with courage and care. A newlywed considers her past abortion after having a miscarriage. An Army veteran subdues his war memories with alcohol. A woman who loses weight watches her marriage crumble around her. A single father reflects on his pre-teen daughter’s complicated questions about love. A married woman falls in love with a jazz singer. Watch as the protagonists find their way, find love, or find themselves amid the chaos. Explore the world of Afro-Bougie Blues. An extraordinary assortment of stories awaits you.

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Jane Austen Lied to Me by Jeanette Watts

About Featured Book: Jane Austen Lied to Me by Jeanette Watts

What college girl doesn’t dream of meeting Mr. Darcy? Lizzy was certainly no exception. But when Darcy Fitzwilliam comes into her life, he turns out to be every bit as aggravating as Elizabeth Bennett’s Fitzwilliam Darcy. So what’s a modern girl to think, except…

How could my hero be so wrong?

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A Dozen Strange Tales by William See

About Featured Book: A Dozen Strange Tales by William See

A Dozen Strange Tales is twelve stories from the mind of William See. Unexplainable coincidences, strange sightings, misguided adventures, legends, and outright fibs are wrapped together in one entertaining collection. Set in multiple locations during various eras of time, these stories range from unbelievably impossible to completely true. In the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe and O. Henry, quickly-paced plots curve through multiple layers and surprise you as they provoke a “could it be?” This book deserves a place on your shelf for the times when you desire an adventure that challenges your expectations. These stories are a timeless blend of history, fantasy, and tall tales sure to entertain and amuse.

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