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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…

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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

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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

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“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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My Canvas Bag

About My Canvas Bag:

Mark is a young man born into a bad family situation. He lies about the reality of his life to hide his shame. Mark escapes from the chaos of his home by spending time in some nearby woods. He keeps a canvas bag hidden close to his house. It contains blankets, a flashlight, cans of food, a transistor radio, things to read, and more. The canvas bag makes his time in the woods possible.

Mark’s life is a constant struggle to avoid the judgments of his family being placed on him. He feels helpless against his parent’s unstable relationship constantly bringing him into embarrassing situations.

As he gets older, Mark’s anger and resentment toward his family increases. He makes some bad decisions. There comes a time when he must choose a path for his life. This begins Mark’s tremendous struggle to separate himself from the dysfunction of his family and his past mistakes.

Mark discovers his ability to write and then discovers himself.

When he graduates high school, Mark realizes he is not his parents. He no longer has to pay for their mistakes in life. Mark knows his struggles have made him stronger and more determined than anybody around him. After making peace with the past, Mark is able to move forward into adulthood

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THE MAYOR’S RACE by Travis Casey

THE MAYOR’S RACE by Travis Casey

Cory Logan retired from boxing after winning millions of dollars, but he never won a world title. When he dies, all he’ll have is a headstone that no one will visit. To live in infamy, he wants a sports facility named after him. The only thing that stands in his way is the mayor of Hilton Head, who insists it be named after an African American.

Yvette Tyson is frustrated since she divorced her cheating husband. She struggles with her new life, embarrassed by her past and unable to gain the respect she once had. Does she really have to spend the rest of her life working the graveyard shift at the supermarket?

When Cory runs into Yvette, their past lives converge. It soon becomes clear that Yvette winning the mayor’s office would benefit both of them.

It’s a simple case of Black and White.

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THE PROPHET, The Extraordinary Life of Joseph Jeremiah Danielson, The Expanded Storyline Edition by Stan The Man Griffin

THE PROPHET, The Extraordinary Life of Joseph Jeremiah Danielson, The Expanded Storyline Edition by Stan The Man Griffin

He exposed them for the crooks they are. Joseph Jeremiah Danielson becomes known to the nation, and the world, as THE PROPHET. God wrought signs and wonders by his hand, and real miracles that hadn’t been seen since Christ and his Apostles walked the earth. Televangelists were losing money, dying when facing The Prophet, and scared to death. They wanted him out of the way. They’d do anything to get this man out their way. The millions that they were looting from Christians were drying up. There was too much at stake. So these crooked televangelists decided to take matters into their own hands. What a mistake that was. The Prophet is the book that Televangelists don’t want you to read. The Prophet is the book that exposes them as crooks, money-hungry charlatans. They prey on your gullibility and your sincere desire to see God move in your life, only to get you to send them money so they can buy mansions and expensive Jets. And they brag about how well they’re living to get you to give more, believing you’ll get what they’ve got. Then, behind closed doors, they call you suckers as they live high on the hog. THE PROPHET, The Extraordinary Life of Joseph Jeremiah Danielson, The Expanded Storyline Edition.

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

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. Dig in.

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Within and Without Time by D. I. Hennessey

Within and Without Time by D. I. Hennessey

When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds the start of a profound journey. For Jimmy Moretti it is the beginning of an adventure that will forever transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike.
WITHIN & WITHOUT TIME, melds powerful Biblical truths with an imaginative and engaging story that envelopes the reader in an intense range of human experiences. Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing as Jimmy experiences the most profound truths of God’s immense power and immeasurable love.

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And Trouble Followed

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In this work of historical fiction, set in 1868, four Union soldiers, two white men and two black men who are former slaves, are finally discharged from the army. There is an undeniable bond that has developed between the men having faced the adversity of combat together. They struggle with saying goodbye but then leave for different parts of the country to start their lives anew. Dalton heads to Missouri. Shadrach back to Alabama. Harrison to Boston and Emmet to Ohio. But in a country still shattered by disunion, trouble followed.

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Ten Threads by Richard R Becker

Ten Threads by Richard R Becker

An Idaho farmer who earns a second chance at life finds that the past has a hard time letting him go. A young girl navigates funeral-goers, family, and the unusual circumstances of her grandmother’s death in Pennsylvania. A risk-averse young man must make a bold move after stumbling into a nightmarish government biohazard. An aging alcoholic vigilante is asked to find common ground with a teenager in a secret witness protection program.

These and six more short stories continue and intersect with 50 States, the debut anthology that surprised readers with 50 thought-provoking stories across different genres. Together, these new stories stand on their own and expand upon a growing body of work that takes place across the American landscape.

Ten Threads is a brisk 125-page companion to Richard R. Becker’s award-winning debut, 50 States. It is presented as a Kindle exclusive, a glimpse into his next anthology and future novel.

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Victory at Hawaii, December 1941: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor by Frank Jefferson

Victory at Hawaii, December 1941: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor by Frank Jefferson

What if earlier in 1941, the United States had specific intelligence about the upcoming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and had acted upon this information? In Victory at Hawaii: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor- the decades old question is explored-how could the US be so surprised and defeated on December 7, 1941 by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? And how could just six months later, in June 1942, the US Navy deal a crushing blow to the Japanese Fleet at the Battle of Midway? We all know that the US had some important intelligence indicating that the Japanese were going to attack us at Midway Island. But what if earlier in 1941, America had specific intelligence about the upcoming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and had acted on it?
In this exciting new novella, Victory at Hawaii: America Defeats the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, by Frank Jefferson, a time traveler goes back in time to 1941 to warn President Roosevelt and his military leaders about the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor. Read this compelling page-turner to see if President Roosevelt and his advisors believe him and act on this information, and see how the Pacific War could have worked out differently.

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The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 1 by Sophia Lambton

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Lost are the creatures destined never to be understood.

1926. Professor Josef van der Holt obtains a post at an all women’s college overseas. Stuffy London suddenly becomes the site for the unseemly exploits of his half-Dutch and half-German daughters Anneliese and Isabel. When tragedy carves out a hollow in their lives, a severed soul sends the sororal twins along a jagged path: while Isabel takes flight in sensual hedonism Anneliese skirts danger in her role as sleuth. Elusive are the sentiments they seek: swift stopovers of fleeting feeling. Lopsided loves and passions scarcely probable veer each away from the predictable.

And when the obvious appears unstoppable the opposite may achingly be true.

Spanning the twentieth century’s five most volatile decades, The Crooked Little Pieces is a series about inextricable entanglements. Perverse relationships pervade a glossary of scenes. Plots criss-cross over a rich tapestry of twists and tension-fuelling characters: some relatable, others opaque and many “crooked”.

It is television drama. Novelised.

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