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Rescuing Honey and Her Family by Miranda Rose Barker

Rescuing Honey and Her Family by Miranda Rose Barker

A Heartwarming Dog Survival Story & Hope for a Family

Daisy starts noticing tension growing at home from the demands of work that put her family under pressure. She knows that she and her husband Jon have been drifting apart in their relationship. She realizes that they need to do something about it soon.

And now the situation has started to affect Lyla, their ten-year-old daughter, who is becoming increasingly distant, spending more time alone in her room.

“Jon felt the same as she did. He wanted things to get back to normal. He wanted the good old days to come back.

How could they make this happen, though? It had weighed on his mind.

That was when he came up with his idea. He wanted to surprise Daisy and Lyla with his plan. When they were eating dinner together one day, he told them what he had been planning, now that everything was in place.

“So,” he said, looking from one to the other. “I’ve been thinking.”

Both looked at him. He had their attention.”

With engaging storytelling, and a clear narrative style the author takes you on a captivating journey of a family and a courageous dog they meet, as destiny has some surprises in store for all of them.

How would they react to his plan? Will it even work?

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A Better Heart by Chuck Augello

A Better Heart by Chuck Augello

“Lively, engrossing, fast paced, and spot on when it comes to nailing what’s wrong with animal abuse but in a realistic, not preachy way. A great read, a great beach novel.”
Ingrid Newkirk, founder, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), NY Times Bestselling Author of AnimalKind

For aspiring indie filmmaker Kevin Stacey, it’s another day on the set of his first film, but when his estranged father, a failed Hollywood actor, arrives unexpectedly with a bundle of cash, a gun, and a stolen capuchin monkey, he’s propelled toward the journey that will change his life.

The monkey, Henry, has been liberated from a research lab by animal rights activists. Inspired by his friend Veronica to reevaluate his relationship with other species, Kevin learns about the pain and suffering inflicted on lab animals as he forges a bond with the capuchin. When father and son embark on a road trip with Henry, Kevin is caught between the egocentric father who abandoned him and the temperamental monkey whose fate is in his hands. With both the FBI and his mother’s ghost watching, will Kevin risk his career and his father’s freedom to bring the stolen monkey to safety?

A heartbreaking yet comic family drama, A Better Heart examines the human-animal bond and the bonds between fathers and sons, challenging readers to explore their beliefs about the treatment of non-human species.

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HARRINGTON’S VALLEY by Darrel Rachel

HARRINGTON’S VALLEY by Darrel Rachel

Reminiscent of Lonesome Dove, Cold Mountain and Gone With The Wind, Harrington’s Valley weaves together the lives of three people from very different backgrounds as they embark on an epic journey from the ruins of the defeated South, through the majestic Rocky Mountains, and to the valleys of northeast Oregon. James McKane struggles with the loss of his way of life, his family, and the prejudices of his upbringing. Kate McKane, a woman left on her own, struggles against greed and corruption on the Oregon frontier. Wilford Johnson, a black mountain man, knows the sting of the white people’s prejudices. This unlikely alliance must battle against the forces of nature, prejudices within, and the evil and treachery of men in order to leave a past filled with heartache and despair to triumph against overwhelming odds.Reminiscent of Lonesome Dove, Cold Mountain and Gone With The Wind, Harrington’s Valley weaves together the lives of three people from very different backgrounds as they embark on an epic journey from the ruins of the defeated South, through the majestic Rocky Mountains, and to the valleys of northeast Oregon. James McKane struggles with the loss of his way of life, his family, and the prejudices of his upbringing. Kate McKane, a woman left on her own, struggles against greed and corruption on the Oregon frontier. Wilford Johnson, a black mountain man, knows the sting of the white people’s prejudices. This unlikely alliance must battle against the forces of nature, prejudices within, and the evil and treachery of men in order to leave a past filled with heartache and despair to triumph against overwhelming odds.

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The Portrait Painter by Fraser Oz

The Portrait Painter by Fraser Oz

Mind-reading is dangerous.
Telling people what you see can prove fatal.
Justin Gates is the Portrait Painter. He studies people’s faces for a living. Sometimes he sees behind their eyes, inside their minds, discovering things even they cannot see. Things about the future. Handling such insights isn’t easy. It often leads to trouble.
Imagine knowing that a certain airplane is going to crash, or an entire city is to be wiped out. Should you warn people? Will they believe you? What happens if they don’t? Might they turn against you? If so, how?
Could you tell an investor that he is going bankrupt? An accused terrorist that he will be found guilty? A President that he is going to lose an election?
Justin faces all these issues, and more, in this tale of a child who grows up into a man and learns to live with the gift of seeing tomorrow. But there are two futures he cannot see: those of himself and the woman he loves.

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Espresso Martini by Greg James Coppin

About Featured Book: Espresso Martini by Greg James Coppin

All Clem Wolfson – cad, bounder and knave of Piccadilly – wants is to romance the beautiful and mysterious Caroline. But fate appears to have other ideas for him. So he decides to whisk the lady off to stunning Sorrento. But now he’s mixed up with a priceless, vintage collector's item. An item that seemingly half the world wants – and quite a few of them are prepared to do almost anything to get it. Which does not bode at all well for Clem…

In Clem Wolfson’s first full-length novel, delight in a tale of humour, romance and fiendish skulduggery, all wrapped in an idyllic sheen of continental glamour.

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Return to the Lion’s Den by G.S. Treakle

About Return to the Lion’s Den by G.S. Treakle:

When eighteen-year-old Daniel MacRae escaped his father’s alcoholic abuse in 1981, he left his Indiana hometown, uncertain he would ever return. In the years that followed, he pursued an education and embarked on a very successful career in broadcast journalism.

In April 2005, as Daniel is settling into his new role as a senior network news executive, he receives a desperate plea from his estranged mother to come home and help deal with the affairs of his dying father, Jerome. Despite his reluctance, he returns for a difficult and emotional reunion. While pursuing his new assignment, Daniel resolves to forge a new bond with his father and rebuild his broken family. However, before he can do so, he must first unearth the truth about an unspeakable event from Jerome’s past.

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Starting Over Far Away by Linda B. Myers

Starting Over Far Away by Linda B. Myers

1921. THE ALASKA TERRITORY
Nurse Leona Herkimer arrives in the Tlingit village of Hoonah to help the tribe through frontier plagues and wilderness calamities. Together, she and teacher Ivy Bolton face misfortune, threats to their patients and students, roughhewn men and wildlife. Yet, Leona’s greatest peril is her own past’s hold on her.
1946. WASHINGTON’S OLYMPIC PENINSULA
Ivy, now a senior with attitude, befriends a young amputee fresh from war. She becomes his support through mental and physical recovery. Over lemonade and macaroons on the front porch, Ivy tells him a story of a past he never knew.

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Olive’s Diary: an unputdownable story about hope, loss and second chances

About Olive’s Diary: an unputdownable story about hope, loss and second chances:

Olive is a middle-aged widow living in a small rural city of Canada, who is a lover of good books, cappuccinos and croissants. Olive knows what she is good at and stays in her box. That’s how she has lived her entire life, and after the death of her husband Robert… it’s enough to just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

A year since Robert’s death, Olive’s life looks, on the outside at least, absolutely fine. She lives in the same family house and works at the same local public library. But there is something she hasn’t shared with anyone – even with her good old friend Leila. Ever since her husband passed away, Olive has suffered a lack of self-trust and confidence. To make the matter worse, her step-daughter Lily stopped communicating with her over the past year.

Then quite unexpectedly, on the anniversary of Robert’s departure, something unexpected happens. She meets Maple, a young female mathematician at a local coffee shop – a stranger who helps her navigate one of the worst days of her life. What Olive does not realize is that she and her new friend are about to change her life forever…

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The Munich Girl

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The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Hiter’s mistress hiding? Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after WWII, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. “Hard to put down. Harder to forget.” Ink Drop Reviews

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Waking Up Lost by David Fitz-Gerald

Waking Up Lost by David Fitz-Gerald

Traveling without warning. Nights lost to supernatural journeys. Is one young man fated to wander far from safety?

New York State, 1833. Noah Munch longs to fit in. Living with a mother who communes with ghosts and a brother with a knack for heroics, the seventeen-year-old wishes he were fearless enough to discover an extraordinary purpose of his own. But when he mysteriously awakens in the bedroom of the two beautiful daughters of the meanest man in town, he realizes his odd sleepwalking ability could potentially be deadly.

Convinced that leaving civilization is the only way to keep himself and others safe, Noah pursues his dream of becoming a mountain man and slips away into the primeval woods. But after a strong summer storm devastates his camp, the troubled lad finds his mystical wanderings have only just begun.

Can Noah find his place before he’s destroyed by a ruthless world?

Waking Up Lost is the immersive fourth book in the Adirondack Spirit Series of historical fiction. If you like coming-of-age adventures, magical realism, and stories of life on the American frontier, then you’ll love David Fitz-Gerald’s compelling chronicle.

Buy Waking Up Lost to map out destiny today!

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A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma by Eileen Joyce Donovan

About A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma by Eileen Joyce Donovan:

Based on actual events, this story is set in a newspaper office in Eastern Montana in 1926. A time when the American public was obsessed with newspaper horror stories of what most today would consider ordinary murders or other man-made catastrophes. Anything that could contribute to the roar of the Roaring 20’s was commercialized, became sensational news overnight, and newspaper fodder for many days thereafter. Hence, a flood that could destroy a town became a front-page event. More than anything, Alex wants to be a journalist for a major metropolitan newspaper. a field dominated by men. Harriet Quimby and Nellie Bly notwithstanding. Although she’s covered other front-page stories, including a murder of a much loved and respected rancher, this flood will affect everyone living in Sunset Valley, if they survive. When this life changing story falls into her lap, her editor threatens to assign it to a more seasoned male reporter, or maybe cover it himself. Alex becomes frustrated at being cast aside and is determined to hold on to her right to cover the breaking news. Her story will ring true to all women who have been passed over in favor of a male associate, those who didn’t give in and broke through the glass ceiling and inspire women who are just getting their feet wet in their careers.

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Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh

Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh

Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson – pretty but poor, clever but capricious – has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London…
At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attracts a raffish young nobleman. But, at the first hint of scandal, her guardian dispatches her to her uncle Collins’ rectory in Kent, where her sensible cousin Alicia lives and “where nothing ever happens”…
Here Susan mischievously inspires the local squire to put on a play, with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen. What with the unexpected arrival of Frank Churchill, Alicia’s falling in love and a tumultuous elopement, rural Kent will surely never seem safe again…

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Blood and Shadows by Fiona Forsyth

About Blood and Shadows by Fiona Forsyth:

“Blood and Shadows” can be read on its own but it also ends a trilogy following the life of a young Roman making his way through the deceit and violence of Roman politics, from Caesar’s dictatorship to the first Emperor, Augustus.
Lucius Sestius fought in the battle of Philippi under Brutus and Cassius. – and survived. Escaping to serve with the rebel Sextus Pompey, Lucius helps in the peace negotiations that will get him and his friends back to Rome – and they find the city a very different place. Now he and his friends have to rehabilitate themselves, in their various ways, not always agreeing, but knowing that they need one another. Only a Philippi veteran can know what another Philippi veteran is going through.
Running through Lucius’ journey back to life in Rome is a string of deaths which leads him to a terrible suspicion, and a terrible choice. If he investigates, he may betray a comrade…
The mystery is intertwined with the tragedy of Philippi, but in the end wine, poetry and family will save Lucius.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Undecided by Tony B. Richard

The Good, The Bad, and The Undecided by Tony B. Richard

General Greg Newman didn’t know who to trust. One general appeared to have an overactive imagination, and another powerful general promised him a promotion. Adding to that, he thought he had made a huge, unforgivable mistake.

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Mutt to Megastar Series Box Set: Books 1-3 by Kit James

Mutt to Megastar Series Box Set: Books 1-3 by Kit James

A rescue dog’s funny story
“A dog’s version of life, death and stardom”, Amazon Review.
When a rescue dog is first adopted, he has no idea what awaits him in his new life. Will it be good or bad? That’s all Barney worries about. But sharing his new life between two families, living in two different homes, well that’s an eye-opener. Re-named Elliott, he’s a mutt of a country dog discovering city life in Sydney. But that’s only the start of it, and boy is his life about to change big time when he becomes a celebrity TV animal star. From Kit James, recognised for his humorous canine dialogue, comes a fun compilation of the first three books in the Mutt to Megastar Series.
$0.99 on August 24. It’s a great saving.

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The Winds of Morning by Gifford MacShane

The Winds of Morning by Gifford MacShane

1848: the third year the potato crop failed in Ireland. The Protestant landlords have absconded back to Britain, leaving the Catholic peasants to fend for themselves, while the English feast on the massive amounts of Irish food they’re importing every day.

With two younger brothers to feed, Molly O’Brien takes her father’s place on the road gang, building a road that runs from her tiny village to the river and no farther. Yet fifteen hours of labor a day will not garner enough wages to buy food for her family.

She is beyond despair. Beyond prayer. And so far beyond the tenets of her childhood, she has decided to offer her body to the first man with the price of a loaf of bread.

But when a stranger takes her hand, he will change Molly’s life in ways she could never have imagined.

$1.49 on sale thru 8/31/2022 at most major digital retailers.

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Beyond the Song by Carol Selick

About Featured Book: Beyond the Song by Carol Selick

Beyond the Song is an autobiographical novel based on the author’s coming of age in the ‘sixties and early ‘seventies. A singer-songwriter like her alter-ego Carol Marks, Carol Selick begins each chapter with lyrics she wrote and still performs today. Taken together, the songs introduce the themes of her story and trace the development of her character as she rebels against her strict suburban upbringing to join the counter-culture in hopes of fulfilling her dream of making it in the music business.

The narrator relates her tale in a warm, vulnerable, and irrepressibly zany voice as Carol goes to school in Washington DC, drops out to take a pilgrimage to Berkeley, and eventually winds up living in New York in pursuit of making it in the music business. Torn between romance and career, she continually wavers.

Her quest for freedom lands her in a series of dangerous situations and narrow escapes: she hitchhikes in California at the time of the Manson murders, attends anti-war demonstrations that turn violent, and is nearly arrested when her boyfriend is nabbed in a drug raid.

Along the way, the narrator also meets two important guides who help her sort her priorities, take herself seriously, and develop her considerable talents: Rose, a pioneering black woman songwriter based on hall-of-famer Rose Marie McCoy, Carol’s real-life mentor; and Bruce Pasternak, a fictionalized psychoanalyst who helps her establish the self-assurance to stand on her own two feet at a time when female singer-songwriters had few role models. All inform the heroine’s lyrics and narrative voice as she gradually learns to believe in herself, discipline her talent, and turn her heartbreak into song.

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Requiem for Miriam

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Sidney and Miriam seem to be the perfect, successful New York couple, but their marriage is a tragic sham. When Sidney’s glamorous mistress, Tori, urges him to get rid of his troublesome wife, a murderous series of events ensues. Sidney kills Miriam in a fit of rage, and with her last breath, she curses him; she will haunt him for the rest of his life.
But the killing isn’t over; Tori dies a terrible death at the hands of a vengeful ghost, and Sidney goes on the run. His life is in ruins, and he is haunted by two phantoms: the woman he married and the woman he loved.
Maria, an ambitious young detective with a hidden psychic gift, is on the case. With the help of her Haitian lover, Raphaella, a spirited, rum-drinking voodoo expert, she sets out to track Sidney down and goes undercover in a desperate bid to entrap him. But Maria soon finds herself in mortal danger from the man she is hunting. And it may be too late for Raphaella to rescue her.
Will Maria and Raphaella get their man? And will Miriam find the justice – and revenge – she seeks from beyond the grave?

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Chasing Rabbits by Rodolfo Del Toro

Chasing Rabbits by Rodolfo Del Toro

Winner at the Literary Titan Book Award 2022
Winner at the FAPA 2022 President’s Book Awards

“Let’s make the most of the time, because wasting time is the most expensive thing of all” — Vincent Van Gogh

With an important test quickly approaching, Rudy is sure he is more than up to the challenge. Nevertheless a forthcoming trial unrelated with his academic abilities will test his very soul.

As a driven fourth year medical student, Rudy Dell is all about numbers and school standing. Having previously scheduled a non-demanding clerkship to complete his studies; an unexpected turn of events finds him assigned to the Oncology unit of the University Pediatric Hospital. On unfamiliar territory and answering to a demanding attending physician, things are not as expected.

On a desperate struggle to find time to study Rudy is now surrounded by patients and situations very different to what he has faced before. Still confident in his abilities, Rudy believes he will tackle this new challenge as he always does, head on. Unbeknownst to him, he will face a most unexpected test, as the children of the oncology unit show him he might not be quite prepared for the upcoming weeks, and maybe not quite prepare to become a doctor.

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Whispers Among The Prairie by Michelle Roberts

Whispers Among The Prairie by Michelle Roberts

FREE- Kindle Unlimited. Come and join the journey across the prairie lands of the American West where you will find conflict, loyalty, adventure and a bit of romance. Meet Black Kettle of the Southern Cheyenne’s as he tries to keep the peace with the settlers and US army but also trying to save his people from destruction. His adopted daughter, Morning Dove befriends US Calvary Captain, Clinton McKay, their friendship naturally develops into something more but try to ignore it as they know society wouldn’t accept them. An unexpected event changes everything.

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