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Rock and Roll Children: An 80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story

About Rock and Roll Children: An 80s Hair Metal Garage Band Story:

Mix one dash of high school and two jiggers of teenage angst with a metric ton of heavy metal, and you have the recipe for the improbable wild ride of five kids with limited means and big dreams.

Seventeen-year-old Sean needs a lot of things: He needs his parents to stop hassling him. He needs his car to start. He needs his Jewfro to grow out into heavy metal hair. But most of all, he needs a band…

Without one he isn’t sure that he’s ever going to make it out of this two-horse town.

He’s been trying to put a band together for as long as he can remember, but finding like-minded metalheads in rural America has been challenging. Finally the stars align and a band is born.

It’s magic. But can these five talented metal kids keep things together long enough to play the show of a lifetime?

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Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb

About Featured Book: Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb

It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him.
“I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.”

Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he’s headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he’s a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he’s just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too.
Everybody’s trying to figure out what makes Calvin tick in this quirky, fast-paced metaphysical romp through the heart and soul of 1950’s America.

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The first Wolf Pack: A Dog’s Fable

About The first Wolf Pack: A Dog’s Fable:

An exciting and heartwarming journey told from the perspective of a modern dog, you will discover what every dog knows about the true beginnings of human civilization and the connection between man, wolf, and dog. You will find yourself wondering if it really did happen this way.

It was the age of the lone wolf, an ancient time of isolation and hostility. Arn and Versa, two of the most powerful wolves to ever roam the earth, clash in a mighty battle. Only by helping each other can they survive certain death. Forced to trust each other, they overcome the poisoned blood of the lone wolf and forge a super-partnership never before enjoyed by any other carnivore.

Fully healed, they become The First Wolf Pack, a hunting machine dominating all lands they choose. Lone wolves, pressed to survive, form alliances in an attempt to destroy The First Wolf Pack. While their adversaries assemble, Arn and Versa must teach their extraordinary offspring the secrets of pack life.

For The First Wolf Pack to survive, the most gifted of their young offspring, Tria, must grow up quickly, battling countless foes and her own deep flaws. Soon she becomes the invincible wolf others fear; destroying all enemies in her path, but her spirit remains empty and broken. Suffering great internal struggles to overcome her unparalleled power, brutality, and suspicious nature, Tria must learn to forgive and trust those who misunderstood her.

She embarks on an epic sojourn across continents and time in an attempt to change the course of wolf, dog, and human history. But the question remains—can she fulfill the improbable destiny that awaits her?

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The Silver Lake Murder

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Blake Rivers and his girlfriend Rose left Silver Lake for New Orleans a few years ago, he swore he would never come back. Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans has caused a separation between Blake and Rose. He has been looking for her in New Orleans for months. He knows it’s a long shot but thinks maybe she went back home to Silver Lake.

Upon his arrival to Silver Lake, he notices the new sign up ahead that reads, Welcome to Silver Lake. As he pulls up closer to the sign, he can see a police cruiser and a white sheet on the ground. The sheet has the word, Human written on the side of it. There is red blood seeping through the sheet. It is confirmed coming back to Silver Lake is already a mistake, but there is no turning back now.

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No Going Back

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Delve into the mind of a paranoid novelist who’s terrified of becoming famous. No Going Back is a slow burner of a novel about Brian Weathers, a writer who’s had his fair share of success. However, he’s always avoided fame at any costs and prefers to remain out of the spotlight. So what’s going to happen when a single photo threatens his precious anonymity?

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Azalea House by Clare Castleberry

About Azalea House by Clare Castleberry:

On her sixteenth birthday, Marianne’s world gets turned upside down. After her parents die suddenly in an accident, she and her brother, Marcus, must fend for themselves as they adjust to a new life with a dysfunctional extended family. Marianne begins to unravel one dark secret after another, revealing a sinister past and awakening the spirits who inhabit Azalea House, the Southern Louisiana estate owned by her family for generations. Among those spirits are her dead twin brothers, who drowned under mysterious circumstances before Marianne was born. A gardener at Azalea House was blamed for the murder and incarcerated, giving rise to family tensions upon his release. But as Marianne listens to the buried whispers of the past, she discovers the truth is much worse than she suspected–and much closer to home.

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The Blood of Bones

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The boy’s name is Tesfahun.

Nestled in the vastness of Ethiopia’, he lives among an ancient tribe in the Omo Valley untouched by modern civilization. His people live an isolated life where revenge killings are required and ruled by superstitions where mingi or cursed babies are thrown into the river for the sake of the tribe.

As friends are forced to avenge the tribe and children disappear in the night, Tesfahun begins to question his people and his beliefs, growing further from his grief stricken mother and hardened father. After his initiation into manhood, Tesfahun discovers a terrible secret about his family and himself.

Fearing for his life and the demons he tried to flee, Tesfahun crashes headlong into his blood-soaked fears and must come to terms with the violence inherent in his bones in order to find salvation.

Reminiscent of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, The Blood of Bones is a mythic, coming-of-age tale that speaks to the struggles of humanity across cultural boundaries. Themes of belief vs. violence, community vs. the individual, and, above all, the quest for peace are imbued in the narrative. Based on actual, current practices among tribes in the Omo Valley, The Blood of Bones is a testament to the resilience of hope in even the most hostile circumstances

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In The Absence of Light by C. L. Ferrari

In The Absence of Light by C. L. Ferrari

Change is coming. Evil is descending like a swarm of locusts. First one terrible thing happens, then more, and soon the residents of this rural midwestern town feel the darkness like a current pulsing through the air. It’s an uneasy gut feeling, the kind that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

For people who live here, life had seemed normal. A quiet town with school activities and jobs, weekends of hunting, fishing, and gardening, Sunday mornings at church, these were the traditional lifestyles of Gibson Glen’s population. But not now, and no one is willing to say it out loud.

That is, until Gabe Matheson arrives in town. The college friend of a local pastor, Gabe has traveled the country for two decades, going where he is led, fighting spiritual battles alongside the Warriors of the Angelic Host. He discovered in college that he had a divine gift, the vision to see beyond this dimension into the worlds of the heavenly and of the damned. And now, in Gibson Glen, where Gabe has come for the most crucial battle of his life, he meets a young boy with supernatural abilities greater than his own.

War is looming. A battle of both flesh and Principalities, evil from high places and in unseen realms, Angels and Demons. But even Gabe isn’t aware that losing would have drastic global effects and that the fate of humanity rests in his hands.

Because darkness reigns – In the Absence of Light.

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Sounded Forth the Trumpet: The Pursuit of Lee from Gettysburg by James Sagerholm

Sounded Forth the Trumpet: The Pursuit of Lee from Gettysburg by James Sagerholm

The book is a fictional account of what might have occurred if the president, the Secretary of War, the general-in-chief and the commander of the Union Army of the Potomac had aggressively used all forces available to them in order to prevent Lee’s escape with his army to Virginia after his defeat at Gettysburg. If such an effort were made and succeeded, the war would have ended in 1863, saving over 300,000 lives and millions of dollars.

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All That Is Hidden by Laura DeNooyer-Moore

About Featured Book: All That Is Hidden by Laura DeNooyer-Moore

Are secrets worth the price they cost to keep? Ten-year-old Tina Hamilton finds out the hard way. In 1968, trouble erupts when northern exploitation threatens her southern Appalachian town. Her father’s hidden past collides with the present, mirroring the clash of progressive ideas and small town values.

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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 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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Bonfire of the Beasts

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The most controversial satire of political correctness ever written.

BONFIRE OF THE BEASTS is the story of animals who rise up against their human oppressors and attempt to create a society finally free of bigotry and hate. What unfolds is a depiction of the all-too-human way in which sympathy and love can pave the way for unimaginable horrors.

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HEIMAT by Pau Marzell

HEIMAT by Pau Marzell

Heimat is the story of four young men who left Germany in 1929 for the United States to find a better future and leave Germany’s dismal post-World War One economy and humiliation of defeat behind. Matthias, a baker, also went to avoid an intolerable family situation. Josef, a watchmaker, left on a whim to join Matthias. Edo, a tailor, left to escape government-sanctioned anti-Semitism and to prepare for his family’s emigration to follow. And, Feliks, an ethnic Polish, teenager because his family’s farm could not support him. Each hoped to return someday as an American citizen and a shining example of American success.
On the way to the TS Bremen for its maiden voyage to America from Bremerhaven, their plans began changing when they saved an American diplomat‘s life from the tracks in Berlin’s Bahnhof. Their heroic act bonded them and the diplomat in a friendship that sustained them through broken promises, misconceptions of the American dream, the Great Depression, Prohibition, assimilation into American culture, and World War Two.
Before the outbreak of the war, Matthias’s commitment to his plan wavered as letters from his mother, girlfriend, sisters, and others urged him to return to Germany as the Nazi regime improved Germany’s economy and raised its national pride. However, the war severed contact with his family for five years and sent him and his friends on separate paths. To a shipyard to build ships to carry the means to destroy Germany and their Heimat. Into the US Army to fight in the Pacific after surviving the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Conscription into Germany’s Wehrmacht to invade France, Russia and fight in the Battle of the Bulge against American forces. And the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

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A Dress the Color of the Moon by Jennifer Irwin

A Dress the Color of the Moon by Jennifer Irwin

Prudence Aldrich is a sex addict. Five weeks ago, she checked into the Serenity Hills rehab center to prevent that addiction from ruining every important relationship in her life. Now Prue must face the trail of destruction she left behind, including mending the broken bond with her teenage son, finalizing the divorce with her husband, Nick, and using a newly learned set of skills to ward off her insatiable cravings for male attention—a compulsion that puts her friendship with lifelong pal Lily to the test.

Adding ever further complications to the hurdles in her path is the arrival into town of Alistair Prescott, her in-rehab romantic obsession, and the one person in the world most capable of throwing Prue off her recovery. Meanwhile, Serenity Hills counselor Mike Sullivan is undergoing a crisis of his own—one that will drive him to the rediscovery of a lifelong passion . . . and causing him to cross paths again with Prue, his former patient.

A Dress the Color of the Moon tracks the rocky and sometimes disastrous path to recovery—a recovery that will require Prudence and her friends to face down the demons of their pasts while learning to accept the fearful uncertainty that comes with living life on your own two feet.

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Dog Days with Aggie and Pepper by Clay Reeves

About Featured Book: Dog Days with Aggie and Pepper by Clay Reeves

Well, I’m sure all of you dog lovers think you know your precious babies quite well, but… I”m here to inform you that they have a dark side – a hidden side – that you just might not understand. I doscovered that my two rescue dogs – Aggie and Pepper – can get themselves into mischief in spite of me. This second book in the Aggie and Pepper rescure dog series chronicles some of the misdaventures my dogs have gotten into. Have you ever encountered an alligator with an attitude, or a wild pig with anger issues, or a hungry eagle, or a shark searching for a meal, or an Afirican lion? Sounds farfetched doesn’t it? Well, Aggie and Pepper faced those very challenges, armed with only quick feet and sharp minds. It was fascinating, funny, and downright wonderful to see how they handled all of that! There are even a couple of stories about two other rescue dogs – Joan and Jett – that are exciting, poignant, and heart-breaking. We also meet two incredible cats – Sagittarius, the toughest cat around and Cornflake, the coolest cat on four legs. This book has it all!

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50 States

About 50 States:

An Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they escape an Oregon wildfire. A young couple takes a reckless turn off a state highway in Utah and find themselves in a nightmarish government biohazard area.

These and 46 more shorts make up an anthology that will surprise readers with each new thought-provoking story as they skip across different genres, moods, and states of mind. Together, they provide a character-driven sampling of the American experience over the last 60 years — the kind and the cruel, the heroic and criminal — in unpredictable and suspenseful ways.

50 States is a debut collection of short stories that captures the human condition. The book spans several literary genres with each short story set in a different state.

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The Seven-Day Resurrection by Chevron Ross

About Featured Book: The Seven-Day Resurrection by Chevron Ross

A failed novelist awakens one morning to find that his mother has come back to life, seven years after her funeral.

Len Holder thinks his mother is dead – until she reappears one morning in his living room.

She doesn’t remember being dead. She’s just confused.

And instead of her burial clothes, she’s wearing a Dallas Cowboys warmup suit.

At seventy-eight, Len considers himself a failure. He spent years taking care of Mom while his brother Joey became a famous sportscaster. Now he lives alone, tinkering with a novel he can’t seem to finish.

For a week, Len relives a strained relationship with Mom while other mysteries pile up. He keeps hearing fragments of Joey’s radio show. His sister reports disturbing phone calls. Strangers he meets look like people from his past. Another stranger has taken over his insurance office.

Then Len gets word that his beloved boss Miranda has been gravely injured in a car accident. Eventually, Miranda’s fate and a shocking secret from the past reveal that Sharon Holder’s resurrection is not what it seems to be.

The Seven-Day Resurrection is a must-read for anyone who has been thrust into the role of caregiver.

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She’s Obsessed

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In the suburbs of Chicago, Jayceon and Leah were all set to start their new lives together as husband and wife. In Jace, Leah thought she married the perfect man until she accidentally stumbles across his deleted secret that quickly turns her sanity, and their marriage, upside down.

The night before Jayceon marries Leah, he hits the record button on his iPhone when the curvaceous dancer—Jessica Fox—from his bachelor party makes her way back to his hotel suite. Soon after, the nasty recorded mistake comes back to haunt Jace, and the stripper, in the worst way possible.

The life Leah planned with Jace rapidly spins out of control when she becomes obsessed with the X-rated video, and the girl in it. Leah will do whatever it takes to right her new husbands wrong, even if it means getting rid of Jessica Fox for good . . .

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Under a Sky of Memories

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From the bestselling author of The Last Correspondent comes the powerful story of three brave women who go to war—and end up fighting for their lives.

Sicily, 1943. Three American women, all nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, are determined to do all they can for their country. Vita is fun-loving, Dot shy and sweet-natured, and Evelyn practical and determined, but for all their differences, a life of military service pulls the three together as firm friends.

When they’re selected for a daring mission, the women are proud to play their part. But disaster strikes when their plane crash-lands behind enemy lines in occupied Albania. Together with twenty-three other medics, they find themselves trapped, cut off from all communication with the squadron, and in terrifying and unimaginable danger.

As days and nights pass without hope of rescue, the group must travel on foot across unfamiliar terrain thick with Nazis and their violent local allies. Can Evelyn, Vita, and Dot survive the perilous journey through enemy territory—and finally find their way home?

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Saving Madeline by Cricket Rohman

Saving Madeline by Cricket Rohman

What a cast! A young actor, a wounded warrior, an amazing dog, a suspicious neighbor, mice—yes, mice, and Alzheimer’s. This novel may change the way you think about mother-daughter conflicts, blindness, or memory loss. SAVING MADELINE is a delicious triangle of life on life’s terms. Bring tissues. You will laugh, you might cry, and you will be highly entertained.
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