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Being Ethel (In a world that loves Lucy) by Michele Olson

About Being Ethel (In a world that loves Lucy) by Michele Olson:

1979 is getting on Piper Penn’s nerves. Struggling to survive past tragedies, she finds comfort in Old Hollywood movies in her native San Francisco. Seeing no reason to adhere to man-made rules after her first-hand look at the ultimate in hypocrisy, Piper does what she wants, and trouble follows.
An unexpected inheritance on a tiny Midwest island in the Straits of Mackinac provides an escape. The mandated stay at the island’s glorious Grand Hotel gives her spirits a much-needed boost, especially when she catches the eye of a handsome groundskeeper. Taking part as an extra during the filming of the island movie Somewhere in Time adds to her excitement about this turn in her life.
When mysterious accusations and headstrong residents send her into a tailspin, she finds friendship from a quirky, I Love Lucy loving nun who challenges her embittered look at life and faith. Can Piper survive the baffling attempts to derail her inheritance before it’s too late or has she fallen for a well-planned ruse while falling in love?

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The Road to Delano by John DeSimone

The Road to Delano by John DeSimone

It’s 1968, and a strike by field workers in the grape fields has ripped an otherwise quiet central California town down the middle. Jack Duncan is a Delano high school senior who is on his way to earning a baseball scholarship, hoping to escape the turmoil infesting his town. His mother has kept from him the real cause of his father’s death, who was a prominent grower. But when an old friend hands Jack evidence indicating his father was murdered, he is compelled to dig deeper. This throws him and his best friend and teammate, Adrian Sanchez, whose father is a striking field worker, into the labor conflict led by Cesar Chavez. Road to Delano is the path Jack and Adrian must take to find their strength, their duty, and their destiny.

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Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

About Featured Book: Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso is a forgotten figure of the Italian Revolution
Born into a family of nobility, Belgiojoso learned at a young age what
foreigners interested in ruling the Italian States could be like.
She spent the rest of her life dedicated to uniting her home country and ousting those foreigners
who only brought harm and discord to the country.
After a failed marriage to a prince and being banished to live in Paris,
Belgiojoso met many key players in the French Government, helping to further her cause.
Her social circles were ones that everyone desired to be part of.
When Belgiojoso becomes a mother, with no father to help her, she still works toward her goal of a unified country, raising her daughter to understand the importance of her heritage.

Will she have to choose between being a mother or being a patriot?

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William Ottoway’s Utopia by Christopher Griffith

About William Ottoway’s Utopia by Christopher Griffith:

‘Come, Manou, this is superstitious clap.’ So says William Ottoway to his island’s priest, for the modern world has surely extinguished any notion of the supernatural? But some who have lived before our technological revolution hold grave concerns about this new reality which has all but supplanted the numinous element of human existence. Despite warning from his best friend’s mother against attempting to replicate paradise, William puts faith alone in idealism to create a utopian society in the tropics. All seems well, until his serpent brother appears with temptation…

William Ottoway’s Utopia concerns the dream of a man who seeks to escape stresses of everyday life for promised ease in this world’s tropics; to his dismay, he is unable to flee influence of the one appliance which has arguably shaped all our experience in the last half century, the humble television set! William is a good man, but will he be ravaged and ruined by his brother Tom who brings discord and disharmony to his island paradise?

Rick With A (Bipolar) View details the experience of a young man suffering from bipolar disorder who wants to be a professional DJ. Unsure whether or not the repetitive beats of electronic music and his obsession with trance and techno may be the cause of his illness, he nevertheless accepts offer of a Friday night gig and ‘takes the roof off’ the nightclub, coming down back at home in glow and reflection of his achievement.

If all this sounds too intense then do please head over to Break Out the Bubbly!!, a comic piece set in a supermarket whose Manager is acting in very strange manner indeed. The initial boredom felt by our hero Emily is quickly shattered by Carol’s arrival and subsequent farce as she seems intent on closing the shop during opening hours to conduct inquisitions in the boardroom! The champagne keeps going missing, you see, and she needs to find the culprit. Is he, or she, a little closer to home than everyone thinks?

Fantasy for the next story, Saman’s Revenge, in which our titular hero is seriously miffed with the Earth-goddess Thera; she’s punished him an aeon ago for misdemeanour which he firmly believes really wasn’t his fault at all. Anyway, when you’re immortal and old as the hills themselves it doesn’t bother you too much to wait a few millennia before exacting your revenge on modern day teenagers Jack, Roxie, her boyfriend Mark and his brother Norman. But what is the young people’s relation to Thera, and temple ruins on top of the village hill, Shadyridge?

Which leaves Young Shakespeare, my imaginative retelling of some of Will’s ‘lost years’ when he reached London; after all, who wouldn’t want to fall in love with Anne, listen in awe to Sir Walter Raleigh’s perorations on, well who knows, meet his future friend and rival Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe, then cogitate at length upon the Reformation against whose profound change the budding writer begins to conclude he might wish to work?

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Uncommon Relations: Who should be forgiven?

About Uncommon Relations: Who should be forgiven?:

An ordinary young married man? Or a bizarre dupe caught up in a labyrinth of secrets and shame? 
This psychological suspense series begins as Terry’s humdrum life is about to change forever. Transfixed by the unexpected sight of a double during his morning commute, Terry rushes after him to learn who he is and make sense of the mystery. Excited and disturbed he returns home to tell the news to his wife, but she’s strangely avoidant, so he begins a secret search for his origins. He’s forced to re-examine what he’d thought were facts about himself. Who is he, and is it too risky to find out? His dull, predictable life alters to confusing, then bizarre. Soon it will become shocking. Enjoy the many colourful characters in Part One of this “mesmerizing and penetrating” series. If you loved The Dilemma and Girl on a Train, this series is for you. 
“Stunning writing this, with a hint of the mystique that lies in the following pages. The difficulty? Waiting for the next volume to consume! Highly Recommended.” San Francisco Review of Books

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Golden Lion Café Complete (Flagler Beach Fiction Series Book 2) by Armand Rosamilia

Golden Lion Café Complete (Flagler Beach Fiction Series Book 2) by Armand Rosamilia

Flagler Beach Florida is quite the small town, eclectic and quirky… and filled with many unique characters.

The Golden Lion Café has been a landmark for twenty years, with so many characters as both customers and workers!

The second book in the Flagler Beach Fiction series. Contemporary Fiction and a fun beach read!

Includes 10 short stories set in Golden Lion Café!

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Warriors and Monks: Pons, Abbot of Cluny by Michael A. Ponzio

About Warriors and Monks: Pons, Abbot of Cluny by Michael A. Ponzio:

Pons, born to a noble family in the south of France in 1075, is given to the Church at the age of four. He becomes a Benedictine monk and thrives in the monastery as a devotee of the Order’s rules, working, praying, and studying.
Reaching adulthood, he falls in love with Primavera, a woman in the nearby village, but the Church’s renewed enforcement of celibacy endangers their relationship.
It is a lawless time when people of the land are threatened with violence as they cultivate their fields or travel on pilgrimage. The monks are compelled to become warriors, defending themselves with farm tools and walking staves.
Pons is elected as Abbot of Cluny Monastery. He is torn amidst his sense of duty as the powerful leader of Cluny, rivaling the Pope, his love for Primavera, and the calling to join the crusade to save Jerusalem.
The novel is number three of the Warriors and Monks Series, but each book can be read on its own.

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Love Uncovered

About Love Uncovered:

The heart reveals what the mind cannot fathom.

As a lawyer, Sheri Smith has a heart for victims of injustice, the abused, and the poor who are unable to afford professional help.

After losing a custody case that emotionally devastates her, Sheri’s pain is exacerbated by grief over the death of her beloved grandparents who raised her. She leaves the legal system and goes home to pursue a lifelong dream of turning their estate in southern Alabama into an upscale bed-and-breakfast inn and resort.

Bradley Jenkins has been Sheri’s best friend since first grade when they lived on adjoining acreage, roamed the woods, fished the streams, swam in the creek pool, and lived the perfect childhood. He returns home from Atlanta and opens an architectural business in the nearest town.

Bradley harbors a desire to be more than friends, but Sheri adamantly refuses to be romantically involved with a bestie who seems more like her brother… Until a beautiful and sexy office assistant brings out the secrets of Sheri’s deep-seated hang-ups and makes her second guess her ideals and desires.

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The Existence Of Amy by Lana Grace Riva

About The Existence Of Amy by Lana Grace Riva:

Amy’s life portrays normality. She has good friends, a good job, a nice enough home. This normality, however, is precariously plastered on top of a different life. A life that is Amy’s real life. The only one her brain will let her lead.
A raw, heart-breaking, yet hopeful story portraying a life with mental illness.

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The Mysterious Fall

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Marlo Campbell’s life was going nowhere. Dull job, a meek personality, depressing looks, and no relationships. Something had to change, and it did: he came across a Victorian diary of a young lady and soon his life was set on an incredible path through time that would change everything….

Follow our hero into 1886 as he attempts to bring a serial killer to justice in order to save the life of a girl who has already been killed, and along the way prepare to give your mind a workout. This novel is innovative, peppered with subtle humour, and unlike any story you may have read before.

It is a mix of genres, comprising crime thriller, historical fiction, fantasy, paranormal and a soupcon of romance. People say that every plot has been done before. Perhaps this one introduces something a little different…..

Example reader review: “Fantastic! 10 stars for concept, plot, creativity, style, twists and just plain readability!!!”

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The Road to Delano

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It’s 1968, and a strike by field workers in the grape fields has ripped an otherwise quiet central California town down the middle. Jack Duncan is a Delano high school senior who is on his way to earning a baseball scholarship, hoping to escape the turmoil infesting his town. His mother has kept from him the real cause of his father’s death, who was a prominent grower. But when an old friend hands Jack evidence indicating his father was murdered, he is compelled to dig deeper. This throws him and his best friend and teammate, Adrian Sanchez, whose father is a striking field worker, into the labor conflict led by Cesar Chavez. Road to Delano is the path Jack and Adrian must take to find their strength, their duty, and their destiny.

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One Child Too Many by Lesley Elliot

One Child Too Many by Lesley Elliot

One Child Too Many is a gripping family relationships novel.
Sara Caldicot has an uncomplicated life that she shares with her close-knit family. Her younger sister, Lyn, is spoilt and self-centred, but she has always been loved and protected. When Lyn becomes disruptive at home, Sara’s mom asks her for support. Sara tries her best to help, but in the process uncovers a secret. A secret that is so dreadful it threatens to tear the family apart. Can Lyn be made to see sense or will her selfish actions destroy more than just relationships?

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Vex and Valor

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Vex and Valor (meaning tormented and fearless) is the story of two families from different sides of the track. – Tim and Vee Crawford are the parents of four children who are lifelong residents of Brookton, PA. Georgia and Zeke Hayes struggle to make ends meet after moving four of their seven children there from Tennessee. They become intertwined through the marriage of their two youngest children – Ella Crawford and Ben Hayes.
The story begins with a fight between the married couple. The argument is overheard by their two young children hiding in a closet with their 10-year-old daughter watching through a crack in the closet door. Following the altercation, a neighbor finds Ella unconscious with no witnesses as to what happened to her. And the children are nowhere to be found.
As Ella fights for her life, a search ensues for the children who are found safely. Both she and Ben’s families gather, all waiting on word of Ella’s condition and looking for answers. Many believe it was an accident, while others think Ben was drunk and pushed her.
The action of the first section begins in 1969 and takes place over a three-day period. The chapters are short, moving from character to character and place to place. Section 2 takes place 15 years later over a period of three days.
Throughout we watch the families become even more entangled and continue to search for answers about Ella. We see the Crawford and Hayes grandchildren grow into adults, each with their own stories to tell. The saga comes to a climax when the truth is finally revealed.
If you love Vex and Valor, the saga of the Hayes and Crawford families will continue!

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Cute for a Black Girl by Amy Watkins

About Cute for a Black Girl by Amy Watkins:

Cute for a Black Girl is an insightful coming of age story that follows Chloe Wilcox, a beautiful, smart and talented African American girl with a promising future. Though her beginnings were rough, she was adopted by a rich, successful, and loving father then whisked away to a great neighborhood with a great school system. Unfortunately, her complexion sets her up for being an outcast in the new community. Insecurity sets in as a result of common belittling. Abandoned, Chloe is left unconscious in the ER. Foul play is suspected, and it will take a diverse group of unlikely associates to unify and discover the truth.

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Enduring Times by Betty Godfrey

About Featured Book: Enduring Times by Betty Godfrey

The story begins in Pittsburgh’s in the early 1900s, where we meet Jennifer, her husband Bill, and their children. Bill works for Jennifer’s father’s bank. Jennifer’s mother raised her and her sister on a tight lease allowing them very little freedom Jennifer defied her mother when she enrolled in a Nursing Academy and again when she eloped with Bill. Her mother screamed, “You’ll regret the day you married him, then never spoke to her again.
Five years went by and Jennifer felt she was the happiest
woman alive. She lived in a beautiful house on ten acres of farmland, with her handsome husband and three beautiful children. One morning Jennifer noticed her son Andrew had a high fever and urgently called their family doctor. He quickly arrives and examines Andrew. His throat and ears are infected. The doctor gives Jennifer medicine that she must give him every four hours.
Bill stays by Andrew’s bed during the night and in the early morning, falls asleep. After two hours he suddenly awakens and notices that Andrew is not breathing. The family doctor rushes over, and tells them that Andrew has passed away. Bill blames himself for the death of his son and spirals into alcoholic addiction. Bill disappears and is discovered half-dead in an alley by a faith-healing church’s pastor. Bill has lost his memory and the pastor takes care of him. When Bill regains his memory he returns to his family. Jennifer is happy to have her husband home until he tells her he has joined the Savior’s faith healing church. He is no longer
Catholic and insists Jennifer and the children join his church. He becomes abusive when she resists. After weeks of fighting she agrees to go to his church for the children’s sake, but secretly continues to go to the catholic church. Bill refuses to work at the bank and devotes his time to the church receiving little salary.
After a few years Bill is offered a position as a missionary in the jungles of Cartagena, Columbia. South America. Bill will preach the word of God to the natives and Jennifer will teach school and take care of their illnesses. They leave for Cartagena by freighter, prepared to stay for five years. When they arrive at the port it is crowded and dirty and very few speak English. Hours later someone from the village arrives and they take an eight horse and buggy ride to the jungles. They arrive at a dirty broken down shack where they are expected to live. After the initial shock they adapt nicely to the primitive environment and the children enjoy their new friends.
Three years later Jennifer becomes pregnant. Upon discovering her pregnancy, the tribal chief tells Jennifer and Bill, “When your baby is born, I will give you a great honor. I will make your child my own.” They refuse as they do not want to give up their baby and the chief becomes angry and says “It will happen.” Jennifer is hysterical she doesn’t want to give up her baby and they decide to return to the United States. They wire the church for money and are told they must stay. They pay for their passage by working on a freighter as nurse and preacher. After weeks at sea they anchor in Philadelphia at the height of the great depression where conditions are disastrous. They call their family for money and told their parents have lost everything. They don’t know what to do! They have three children, another on the way, and no place to stay. They find help and the family struggles to survive. Not only must Jennifer grapple with starvation and hardship but also with a volatile husband who becomes fanatical. Could you endure what Jennifer goes through???
I tried to creates an evocative portrayal of harrowing experiences that will emotionally attach readers to the principal figure Jennifer. Ushering readers through time and space in situations where women faced heavy restrictions in day-to-day life,

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The Tattered Black Book by Lexy Duck

The Tattered Black Book by Lexy Duck

The Tattered Black Book is a story about the unlocking of secrets; secrets about love forbidden by prejudice, death at the hands of unbridled hate, and why a family history was expunged because of societal inequities.

The saga begins with eight-year-old Danny finding Charlotte’s diary and wedding photo. Curious about the people in the photograph, Danny asks her aunt, “Did you know them, Auntie?” “Yes.” she answers and explains, “This book is the story of an Indian boy who dared to do what one Caucasian girl’s father deemed unforgivable.”

Alternating between Charlotte’s story starting in 1883, and Auntie’s exposé in 1951, Auntie tells Danny and Danny’s mother Diana the truth about Charlotte Wickham. Charlotte, the daughter of prominent attorney Tobias Wickham, meets Tey Aihamson, a Lenape Indian in grade school and they fall in love. But Charlotte’s father Tobias harbors a prejudice against Indians that is so deep it scarred his very soul. Unbeknownst to Tobias Charlotte and Tey run off together setting off waves o
The saga begins with eight-year-old Danny finding Charlotte’s diary and wedding photo. Danny is curious and asks her aunt about them. Auntie answers, “This book is the story of an Indian boy who dared to do what one Caucasian girl’s father deemed unforgivable.” She then starts telling Danny and her mother, Diana about a woman named Charlotte.

Alternating between Charlotte’s story starting in 1883, and Auntie’s exposé in 1951, Auntie tells Danny and Diana the truth about Charlotte Wickham. Charlotte, the daughter of a prominent attorney, meets Tey Aihamson, a Lenape Indian in grade school in 1883. They fall in love. But Charlotte’s father, Tobias hates all Indians because his family was brutally slaughtered by renegades in his youth. Unbeknownst to Tobias Charlotte and Tey run off together setting off waves of heartbreak and death that follow Charlotte for years to come.

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Bauhinia Star

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A man. A heartbreak. A boat. Afloat. What do you do when your wife kicks you out of your home and you’ve got nowhere to live? Well, if your name’s Matthew Swain, you live on a boat. It doesn’t matter that you don’t know anything about the sea or that the person who sold you the craft is dodgy boat dealer Garry Jones. What could possibly go wrong?

Matthew Swain is a devoted father of three, deeply in love with his wife and owner of a struggling English tuition centre in Hong Kong. His world is shattered when he tragically loses his eldest daughter. His life becomes further unhinged when he discovers his wife is having an affair with an ophthalmologist.

Swain is forced to find somewhere new to live and out of sheer desperation comes up with the idea of living on a boat in the local marina. While fighting his inner demons, Swain is also confronts external challenges as the boat almost sinks (twice) and almost blows up (once). Despite the urging of his companions, an immoral boat dealer and a Filipina domestic helper, to loosen up and make a fresh start he unswervingly tries to piece his damaged family back to together.

But unable to consummate his grief for his lost daughter and at the mercy of his capricious wife, Swain is pushed to breaking point until – at the brink of insanity – something has to give.

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Run With the Wind by Jim Cole

Run With the Wind by Jim Cole

Run With the Wind is the story of how Sarah, a young Galveston widow whose son is crippled from polio, helps her boy achieve his heart’s desire to overcome his affliction as WW 2 explodes upon the world and German submarines threaten. Before the blanket of war settles over the Gulf of Mexico a stranger is murdered in Sarah’s front yard, and a romantic but secretive older man offers the young widow promises of love. As the events of WW 2 cascade about Sarah, her life falls apart when she learns that her young son has a secret he dare not tell, her lover carries secrets that could topple a government and her great uncle, family patriarch and Galveston pioneer, has secrets of war that must be carried to his grave.
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Journey Through A Land Of Minor Annoyances by Al Kline

About Featured Book: Journey Through A Land Of Minor Annoyances by Al Kline

After being diagnosed with three months to live, 20 year old misfit Chaz Chase decides a road trip will help him find the meaning of life–and along the way apologize to certain people for being a jerk. He adopts a dog as a traveling companion, but questions his own sanity when Max suddenly talks, claiming to be the reincarnation of a famous Hollywood director. Chaz meets many colorful characters along his journey, some bordering on hallucinogenic in the actions they perform and the wisdom they proclaim. And then comes Clitty, a pistol-packing femme fatale dreaming of Hollywood stardom. In the most important piece of the wisdom puzzle, Chaz falls in love. They drive to Salton Sea where a reincarnated Max directs the final scene of Chaz’s brief but quirky life.
Kirkus Reviews said: “Rambunctious from the get-go, this zany tale still has plenty of lessons to teach.”

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Mason’s Law

About Mason’s Law:

Growing up in a system that dictates every aspect of a person’s life, Katie has always known her place in the world. As a member of the highest Stream she is destined to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a politician. But as she enters her final years of education she realises not everything is what it seems. Fighting to overcome her self doubt and find her voice, Katie seeks a path to challenge a corrupt government and overthrow her father’s regime.

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