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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

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“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.
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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.

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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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The Bully by Wiley K. March

The Bully by Wiley K. March

Never safe for a moment, she learns from too young and tender an age, that she is all alone in a cruel and hostile world, where even those who were meant to be her protectors are her enemies. Sold, beat down, and abandoned, a young girl struggles to survive against all odds, struggles to find balance and peace between anger and indignation.

The reader encounters Carissa Locke near the end point of her eighteen year journey as she lay in a bloody heap recalling the shattered life that led her down a path from which there may not be a way to redemption. The fierce defiance and violent temper that has saved her life again and again, may well prove to be her undoing during a police investigation that will decide whether she is to be charged with the attempted murder of her lifelong friend Danielle.

While Carissa is a hard person, she is not a difficult person for which to find empathy. Many difficult and painful choices brought her to the this moment in her life and it seems to have been the inevitable outcome. But as the story twists through her wiles, manipulations and brutal acts of violence, one comes to understand and embrace the wounded child within who was fighting desperately for the right to live, to be heard, to be loved. She is also a soul who stands up, who fights back for others who are abused like her, but is she helping them, or is she manipulating them to meet her own ends? Is she so different from those she has despised, whose demise she has plotted in one way or another?

Time cut far too short with those who had loved her, helped her, but were always ripped away from her too soon. But did they leave behind enough love, enough lessons to save her from a cruel destiny that seems bent on her death before she even gets a chance to live?

In search of deliverance, for forgiveness, desperate to believe she is a person worth saving, or that there is anything of her at all that is more than a war child. Carissa’s soul searching, her introspection, leading us back to where we found her, self pity seeping away with the realization that the rage and loathing she had visited upon the world, the weapons that had saved her life would be the very ones that led her to this precipice of self-destruction.

As her best friend lay dying, Carissa will do anything to heal the wound of the fight that has ruined their friendship and may ultimately cost Danielle her life and Carissa her freedom. In her grief over what she has done, Carissa implores Danielle’s forgiveness, learning that Danielle perfect veneer has been a lie all these years, she has soul-shattering secrets of her own. Carissa has only just begun the inner battle against the Bully she has become. She has realized the most dangerous enemy any of us will ever face is ourselves.

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Buried Treasure : Lost Worlds, A Search for Aztec by Hep Aldridge


About Featured Book: Buried Treasure : Lost Worlds, A Search for Aztec by Hep Aldridge

In 1521, the Aztec empire fell to Spanish Conquistadors in bloody genocide. The Aztec ruler, Montezuma, was murdered, and his treasure… disappeared.
Legend says the treasure was spirited away by Montezuma’s elite Eagle warriors, headed for an unknown desert location in the southwest of what is now the United States. It has never been found.

Dr. Colten X. Burnett and the Risky Business team have a lead. Will the unexpected map they now have in their possession guide them to the long-lost treasure in the land of the Mescalero Apache?

Join this bold, inimitable team as they face new dangers and uncover secrets that the mountains and deserts of New Mexico hold as they search for the lost Aztec treasure.

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JOURNEY: The Story of an American Family Vol.2

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This second volume in the JOURNEY series finds that James, a free born Black man, has returned to the family farm in Pennsylvania. Even though he served in the District Militia (Alongside Francis Scott Key) and fought the British in 1814 when they tried to burn the city, his status as a free men is always in peril. He came back to the farm with Abigail, a slave whose freedom James purchased from Key as a payment for services James had done for his family. Together with Luke, a runaway slave from Virginia that James had hidden away at the farm, they brought the farm back to life and made it prosper. But the threat to his, and now his growing family’s freedom in unrelenting. He is forced to fight for that freedom and helps start the Underground Railroad start a route through their little valley to help others seeking to breath free air. As the Civil War approaches, the stream becomes a flood of desperate people fleeing north. Will the farm survive? Will the family?

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The Good Audit

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The Good Audit – a true-to-life satire poking fun at the work, environment, and culture inside today’s largest public accounting firms.

In a world where titles matter more than real names, Manager’s jovial and laid-back personality makes him different from his peers. People actually enjoy working with him and clients see him as far more practical and pragmatic than any other auditor they know.

However, the team’s new client, Widget Maker, will become the bane of Manager’s existence. Hitting all the artificial deadlines while meeting everyone’s unrealistic expectations mean that making it through this audit will take a minor miracle. After all, the Widget Maker finance team consists of the most incompetent group of un-professionals ever.

Will Manager’s easy-going attitude and laid-back style be enough to accomplish the impossible?

Find out now as you journey straight through the unexpected twists and turns in this seriously funny office comedy!

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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

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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?

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

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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

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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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