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Defective by Susan Sofayov

Defective by Susan Sofayov

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Her mood swings drove away her would-be husband. Can she slow life down before she’s left behind?

Maggie Hovis battles herself daily. Scrambling to pick up the pieces after something possesses her to pelt a shoe at her fiancé, the law student quickly takes up the suggestion to see a therapist. But she’s crushed when she receives a stigmatizing Bipolar II diagnosis and fears her shot at normal just died.

Now saddled with a label and terrified she’ll end up like her institutionalized great aunt, Maggie delves into her family’s storied history of mental illness. And with tensions at a breaking point and her emotions on a hair trigger, she worries what others say is true: she’s permanently broken.

Can she learn to fully accept herself and decide her own future?

Defective is a beautifully empathic women’s fiction novel. If you like journeys of self-discovery, hard subjects thoughtfully handled, and blossoming passions, then you’ll love Susan Sofayov’s touching story.

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Atlanta Fish Fry by Anthony “AJ” Joiner

About Featured Book: Atlanta Fish Fry by Anthony “AJ” Joiner

Atlanta Fish Fry will be free from 4/25/2023 through 5/16/2023.

Life’s a Fish and then you Fry

Growing up as a kid in Louisiana, AJ Joiner’s all-time favorite thing was his grandmoh’s Fish Fry. Now that he’s all grown up in Atlanta, GA, AJ is working a job he doesn’t like and living in a neighborhood he doesn’t love – at first.

But when gentrification threatens to strip the community of its authentic charm, AJ hosts a Fish Fry to get to know his neighbors, and he begins to fall in love with each one, despite their eccentricities.

But this tight-knit community doesn’t have the money to fend off rich developers and determined city planners, helped by one of their own: Eddison Fisher.

So AJ decides to throw a second Fish Fry to raise some cash. Despite increasingly-serious issues with his health and his marriage, the event is a huge success.

But it’s still not enough.

Can AJ and his new friends throw a Fish Fry big enough to save their neighborhood?

Or will Eddison and his outsider allies destroy everything they love about their home?

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Sexual Awakening

About Sexual Awakening:

Teenager Cassandra Economos loves five things: Her awesome friends. Her big fat, dysfunctional, Greek family. Rock music. Her plan to move to Chicago. And Kurt Cobain. Soon, she’ll gain another love. Sex. Stifled by her family’s rules, how will Cassie explore her sexuality?

Everything I know about sex I learned from health class diagrams and from reading erotica books I secretly borrowed.

Boys never paid attention to me in middle school. Then it happens. Keith Cook starts a conversation with me. We play Seven Minutes In Heaven, and somehow he’s my boyfriend. My sister tells me he isn’t a great one because he never calls, and he keeps pressuring me do things I’m not ready to do. After Kurt dies, I realize life is short and nothing’s stopping me from having sex with Keith. Except for one thing – he betrays my trust.

That same week, Todd Miller comforts me when I ditch class to mourn Kurt. Todd’s definitely an upgrade from Keith. He listens and can hold an intelligent conversation. He cares about my opinion. And he has a body all the girls drool over.

Our first kiss is mutual. The first time he touches me is mutual. When he pops my cherry, that’s mutual, too, even if I am jail bait. We said we’d wait until I turn 17, but we just couldn’t. We want to be together so badly it hurts. I never feel pressured with Todd. That’s how it’s supposed to be, isn’t it, when a guy cares about you?

Book one in The Rock Star’s Wife series, a series about sex, family, and rock & roll. It contains coarse language, sexual situations and adult themes, and is intended for mature audiences.

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Coach Me Casanova: Serenades & Escapades

About Coach Me Casanova: Serenades & Escapades:

Can a dating zero become a romantic hero?

All I had to do was fall into a different century.

Okay, my name is Jason Tryon, I’m a 21st century college freshman. I’m mastering in robotics, but when it comes to ladies, I’m a master of disaster.

So, after another crushing rejection, (who’s counting) I needed a break and went to Venice to try to keep my love from sinking. Instead, I fell off a gondola and was really sinking until I was pulled to the surface by a man in a carnival mask…Casanova!

And, unbelievably, he also seemed to have pulled me into the 18th century.

Hey, I’m no dummy, I’m now in the city of sexy signorinas. And maybe, just maybe, this legend can transform me from a lovable loser into a babe magnet.

So, please, Coach me Casanova.

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The Death of a 10-Year-Old Boy

About The Death of a 10-Year-Old Boy:

The Death of a 10-Year-Old Boy is a heartbreaking, once-in-a-generation novel about a man who takes his dying son on a hunt for a bear that’s killed two people.

The man wants the boy to see something in life beyond school and sports, beyond everything he’s ever known. Ultimately the book is about what’s left when we’re facing the end: what are we and what does it mean to be alive?

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One Visit

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In sleepy, rural North Wales, Frankie Gibbs, a recently laid off, aimless twenty-year-old on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his younger brother out of the care system. He single-handedly takes this upon himself while their alcoholic, cocaine-addict, single-parent father, Guy Gibbs, heaps misery on their lives through systematic abuse and his never-ending wild parties. After Guy is sent to prison, Frankie is coerced into opening his home to Justin, an acquaintance from his school days now turned drug dealer, while his own addiction and self-worth spiral beyond recognition.

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The Chess Queen – Codex 1

About The Chess Queen – Codex 1:

Theophano is a young woman living a peaceful and sheltered life among people who love her. Her father raises her as an equal to his sons and his only ambition for her is to be happy. However, everything will suddenly change when she is forced to move to a distant and inhospitable foreign land where she will have to face insults, challenges, and grave dangers. Will she find the strength to survive, or will she be lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages among people who hate her?

This novel is set in the second half of the tenth century (950-999) and moves between history and myth. It follows a basic historical framework, but most of it is fiction. My inspiration was the life of a great Greek Byzantine woman who became queen of a big Western Empire and managed to influence European civilization like no other. She was the woman that became the Queen of chess.

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One Soul’s Journey: Second Collection of Short Stories (Book 2 of The Soul Series) by Barbara Daniels Dena

About One Soul’s Journey: Second Collection of Short Stories (Book 2 of The Soul Series) by Barbara Daniels Dena:

One Soul’s Journey is an eclectic and extraordinary collection of short stories. The ingredients: imagination, a dash of real life, inspiration, and lots of love. If you’ve read and loved her first collection, “For the Soul,” this book will delight you. Filled with funny short stories about the unexpected life can bring like a temp agency hiring a Con, what really goes on in the backroom of a flower shop, and much more! (Both books are on sale through April 30th, 2023)

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The Munich Girl

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What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and
uncovers a tangled web of long-buried family secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer

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The Melancholy Strumpet Master by Zeb Beck

About Featured Book: The Melancholy Strumpet Master by Zeb Beck

Gilmore Crowell’s anthropological study of Tijuana sex workers had his dissertation advisor cheering him on. But that was years ago, before his best sources in the streetwalker community up and vanished. Now he’s living in a downtown Los Angeles boarding house for seniors and listlessly trying to jumpstart his research anew. The faculty elders have grown impatient, he’s too broke to pay his parking tickets, and his girlfriend recently dumped him. To stay afloat, Gil takes a job teaching in a juvenile detention center, using his salary to pay the sex workers to speak with him. In a madcap act of self-sabotage, he begins sleeping with them, as well.

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The Grateful Fates by P.C. Zick

About The Grateful Fates by P.C. Zick:

Four women. Four decades of friendship. Four secrets that seal their fates.

Roxanne – the popular beauty who faces Ted Bundy and survives. But she’s left with a burning desire for revenge.

Jackie – the peacemaker who settles for a marriage of revenge that backfires. Yet, she manages to keep a secret for forty years until she’s forced to tell the whole story of her marriage to Adam.

Charlene – the smart one who makes the most unconventional choices and ends up successful. Until she faces losing her daughter to the truth.

Wendy – the broken child who rises above her abusive childhood to find her way back to the only man she ever loved. But she risks losing it all when forced to reveal her past.

Intertwined in the friendships are the men who range from the scoundrels to the heroes. The bonds between them all are tested when the past is resurrected to either destroy or uplift.

The Grateful Fates is a story of marriage and divorce; death and birth; love and hate. Four women and a lifetime of heartache leads to the fateful day when they must make the ultimate sacrifice. They must learn how to forgive.

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The Final Frame by Harmony Reed

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Free for a limited time from 3/25/2023 through 4/10/2023

He sacrificed his family for ambition — but now they’re all he has left.

Cameron Parrish became Hollywood’s #1 action director by refusing to use AI-assist technology. Every film is a box office success, but neither fame nor fortune makes up for the fact that Cameron’s dying to make real cinema — an Oscar-worthy movie that will show the world he’s an auteur, not the clever hack that the critics make him out to be.

But mere hours after being greenlit for the film he knows he was born to shoot, director Cameron Parrish is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. There’s no treatment, and if he’s lucky, he might make it another year, but more likely, he’s got a few months left.

As word gets out about his illness, Cameron realizes he has no true friends. No real family either: his obsession with finding perfection behind the camera lens has long since alienated his ex-wife and his adult son.
Desperate to make his final days matter, he signs up for an experimental program that promises to help him discover the meaning of his life — and his death.

Accompanied by an artificial intelligence named Sofia, Cameron embarks on a bucket list journey — from the Maldives and Bhutan to Toledo and Morocco — designed to round out his unbalanced life and help him make peace with his impending death.

But what if it’s too late for Cameron to see the world through a new lens?

Eat, Pray, Love meets The Bucket List in this vibrant but poignant story exploring the possibility of second chances and the unexpected beauty of an imperfect life.

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Picasso’s Motorcycle by Marc Sercomb

About Featured Book: Picasso’s Motorcycle by Marc Sercomb

France, 1940.
An unexpected gift of an old motorcycle with a tragically romantic past hurls a young orphan into the thick of things as war breaks out and his life changes forever. Half-French/half-German Daniel must find a way to survive in a world that mercy seems to have abandoned.

This book transports the reader to Nazi-occupied France, where Daniel unwittingly and unexpectedly finds himself working for the Resistance, and ultimately to the Russian Front in a twist of fate so startling that no one can see it coming. In turn quirky, heartwarming, beguiling and uncompromising, author Marc Sercomb weaves together many moods and colors to tell young Daniel’s story. Beyond engaging, Picasso’s Motorcycle has been hailed as a genuine “page-turner” by those who have so far encountered it.
If you like “The Book Thief” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” you’ll love this book!

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Orphans of War

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In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Christiaan joins the Resistance to fight for his country’s freedom, while his ruthless brother works for the Bureau of Jewish Affairs. Floris’ wife, Nora, defies him by secretly joining the Resistance to save orphans from the transport train. As ambition, fear, and desperation collide, no one is safe. Not the Jewish. Not the Dutch. Not even the powers-that-be.

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Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies by Evy Journey

Sugar and Spice and All Those Lies by Evy Journey

Gina’s grandfather was a French chef whose life was cut short by a robber’s bullet. The only legacy he could leave his family was his passion and talent for cooking, a legacy Gina inherits. To her, cooking a great meal is an act of love. An art that sustains and enhances life.
A world of new challenges, new friends, and new loves opens up for her when she’s chosen to cook for a Michelin-starred restaurant.
But danger lurks where one never expects it. Can her passion for cooking help Gina survive and thrive in this world of privilege, pleasure and menace?

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Share the Pain

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A story of tragedy and sacrifice
He arrived in the derelict village as a broken man, having left behind all he once knew and severing his attachments with the world. He wanted to be left alone.

His world now consisted of an old, rundown bed and breakfast and a long-forgotten pub in an abandoned village. His personal tragedy was too much to bear, and he sought an end to it all. Fate, however, had other plans for him, plans that would take him on a journey far beyond his imagination.

Haunted by demons from his past and personal tragedy, his present and past became entwined in unexpected ways. Memories of regret filled his mind, and as he attempted to make amends, he found it was too late.

When he decided to end his pain, his plan took a tragic turn, leaving him lost and alone in a dark, treacherous forest. As the rain fell and the wind howled, his own tragedy materialized, and reality and hallucination became indistinguishable. Only a miracle could save him.

Lost and alone, contemplating a way out, he met a gentle woman with her own painful history. Soon, emotions grew, and despite her love being one-sided, she saw him as her salvation and offered to share her pain with him, hoping to alleviate his suffering. Their fates became intertwined, and he found himself bound by the vow they had made. But when the woman disappeared without a trace, leaving him a circumstantial suspect in the eyes of the police, he regretted ever setting foot in the village.

He was teetering on the brink of madness, tormented by sickening voices in his head as he waited for an end to this harrowing episode of the disappeared woman.

This is a story of love, tragedy, and regret, a tale of redemption and absolution, and the conflict between emotions and actions that can weigh heavily on the conscience. It is a haunting reminder that the past is never truly gone. This story will leave a lasting impression on the reader, offering a profound understanding of the human experience.

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The Ghosts of Summer

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For fourteen years, since the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, it has been just the two of them – Eva and her beloved grandmother Millie, and they have forged a seemingly unbreakable bond. Now though, Eva has turned eighteen and she wants answers – answers which Millie has always been either unable or unwilling to provide.

Millie’s inability to satisfy Eva’s need for the truth only makes her more determined to learn about her family and her mother’s fate. Her quest takes them to Greece where their bond will be tested to the limit as Millie has to confront her past, Eva discovers the sacrifices love entails, and they both finally have the chance to uncover the truth about the enduring mystery at the heart of their lives. But will their experiences in Greece bring them closer together or tear them apart?

The Ghosts of Summer combines a coming-of-age story with romance and mystery, set in a vibrant Greek landscape.

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Sweet Baby Mine

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Set in Paris, Sweet Baby Mine is about the secrets, lies, and betrayals that take a toll on those who think they’ve found true love. The tale is brutal, oftentimes heartbreaking, but always hopeful in its message. On the road to self-discovery, you quickly learn that no matter what anyone says—no matter what flawed message you believed about yourself growing up—you are a good person and deserve love.

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