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A Journey of Souls by Michael Mckinney

About Featured Book: A Journey of Souls by Michael Mckinney

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After ten people reach the end of their earthly life they awaken to find themselves in strangely familiar surroundings. In a realm where the past, present and future flow freely in and out of each other without contradiction they encounter a mysterious woman named Brianna who greets them in their soul’s journey. From an innocent child to a vicious serial killer, from a lovingly faithful wife to an unrepentant sex addict, all are directed to a destination woven from the fabric of their own individual histories and personal life stories. Contained in these pages is a powerful glimpse of what lies beyond the boundary of temporal human experience.

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Furious Justice by Jacob Ralph

About Furious Justice by Jacob Ralph:

When love and sentiment impede justice, nature becomes the jury. An incorruptible jury that passes an unclear sentence: an Imprisonment without parole, a sentence to death by a spontaneous disintegration of the soul, or a disastrous injury or death caused by nature’s manipulation. Luckily, nature pardons her convicts when they repent. This is good because we are all convicts.

Fred, a journalist who was bored by his regular job routine was invited to record an origin reveal of an abnormal fossil called the Ferretorex. The supposed archeological lecture turned out to be a remarkable one.
The event wasn’t just an origin reveal. A popular archeologist and professor told a story of the living Ferratorex. The archeologist also revealed his long-time secret; he divulged his ability to incarnate again and again for thousands of years.
He told a story that seemed mythical; a historical mythical story of romance, betrayal, deceit, war, and crime. The story was like Greek mythology because he mentioned Neptune, Poseidon, Adonis, etc. These titans are popular in myths and legends. That was why Fred concluded that the famous archeologist was making the story up at first. But an unnatural phenomenon that led to the man’s disappearance made Fred believe the whole story.

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What Heals the Heart by Jen Telger

About What Heals the Heart by Jen Telger:

Eleven-year-old Annabelle and her friends live in the sleepy town of Pullman Station, where summers consist of neighborhood potlucks, backyard baseball games, trips to the community pool, and the heavenly aroma of warm sugar wafting out of Bohler’s Bakery. It’s idyllic, with nary a care save for one: Annabelle’s house sits between the two nastiest old bats in town, who happen to hate each other’s guts.

When seventy-something former best friends Cilla and Nattie had a falling out several years ago, Annabelle and her family got caught in the crosshairs living between them. While Annabelle’s mama stresses the importance of carrying out one’s Christian duty via kindness to all, she maintains a precariously delicate balance keeping both “gasoline” and “gunpowder” happy. As for Annabelle and her friends, they avoid both women, Cilla’s dog, and Nattie’s starter pistol, at all costs.

When a tragic accident shakes the neighborhood to its core and Cilla’s past comes back to haunt, will the sworn enemies find common ground and forgiveness before time runs out, or will they drive the entire neighborhood crazy until the bitter end?

“What Heals the Heart” is a funny, heartrending story of friendship, small-town life, the search for forgiveness, and what it might take to heal the heart. If you love women’s non-romance fiction that harkens back to the sweet nostalgia of childhood while navigating the pain of adulthood, you’ll love this story by author Jen Telger. Head over to Pullman Station today!

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My Dearest Miss Fairfax

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My Dearest Miss Fairfax by Jeanette Watts
A retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma from Jane Fairfax’s point of view

It is October 1814, and JANE FAIRFAX is attending the wedding of her bosom friend, SOPHIA DIXON. The two girls have been raised together, and mourn their separation. Sophia will be going to Ireland with her new husband, Jane will begin supporting herself as a governess.

Before parting forever, the two friends, plus Sophia’s husband and COLONEL AND MRS. CAMPBELL, take a trip to Weymouth. There, they meet FRANK CHURCHILL. Handsome, charming, engaging, and clearly interested in Jane. The chemistry is irresistible on both sides, and Frank proposes. But there’s a catch: Frank needs the permission of his wealthy AUNT CHURCHILL in order to marry. He asks her to agree to a secret engagement until he can obtain her permission. Jane agrees to the arrangement.

Conveniently, Jane’s AUNT BATES lives in Highbury, the very same town as Frank Churchill’s father, MR. WESTON. Jane visits Aunt Bates, so that the lovers can see each other while awaiting the needed permission. But Aunt Churchill is so sick, she cannot be bothered to talk of matters besides her own health.

Frank eventually manages to pay a call upon his father and his new wife. It allows him to see Jane under the pretext of paying the expected call upon a bride. He takes stock of the situation in Highbury, starts a flirtation with EMMA WOODHOUSE to prevent the residents from suspecting the truth of his engagement to Jane, and sends Jane a pianoforte to provide some comfort while she is stuck waiting for his aunt’s recovery.

Jane miserably waits. She plays the pianoforte, listens to her endlessly-talking aunt, helps care for her grandmother, attends social gatherings. Jane despises the endlessly-gossiping inhabitants of Highbury. She is convinced Emma Woodhouse is a rather stupid person. She fends off romantic overtures from the grumpy and rude MR. KNIGHTLEY. The local vicar returns to town, newly married, and MRS. ELTON enters her life.

Mrs. Elton becomes Jane’s daily torturer. Pushy, ignorant and pretentious, she forces her attentions onto Jane, who finds herself walking and dining frequently with the Eltons. Frank’s return to Highbury to throw a ball, just to be able to get a few dances with Jane, gives her a brief respite from the agony of living among the residents of Highbury, but then once again he leaves and she is alone with them.
Frank manages to get his sickly aunt relocated to a mere nine miles away. While his visits can be more frequent, the lovers still need to preserve their secret, which gets harder and harder to keep. Jane fends off constant offers of help from Mrs. Elton, who insists she needs to be looking for a governess position immediately and insults her endlessly with her claims that Jane is too ignorant to find a place without her help. Jane uses the excuse that she will take no position until Colonel and Mrs. Campbell return from visiting Sophia and her new husband in Ireland. Her rationale falls on deaf ears.

All the various stresses in her life come to a head at a strawberry-picking party. Her ears are tired out by her aunt’s endlessly-wagging tongue, she cannot stand another word of insipid gossip, which is all the Highbury residents know how to talk about. She had written to beg Frank to come and provide a bit of relief from the company of a bunch of people she can’t stand, but he doesn’t show up, and Mrs. Elton finds a very advantageous governess position for Jane, and insists that Jane accept it. At her wits’ end, she leaves the party, only to encounter Frank as she is walking home. They quarrel. The fight continues the next day at an outing to Box Hill, where Frank flirts with Emma Woodhouse and goads Emma into insulting Jane’s aunt. That night, Jane accepts the governess position with Mrs. Elton, and writes to break off the engagement with Frank.

A sleepless night collapses into a full nervous breakdown. Her aunt fussing over her does not help, Emma Woodhouse making overtures, no doubt to try and apologize, does not help. Mrs. Elton bringing remedies and sitting at her bedside does not help. Only Frank’s arrival, throwing himself on his knees in a panic, to tell her his aunt has died and he now can officially propose, apologizing for everything he has put her through since Weymouth, stops her downward spiral.

Jane forgives him, and predictably, the entire town knows the gossip that they are engaged before sunset.

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Frostburg Burning by James Rada, Jr.

Frostburg Burning by James Rada, Jr.

Between strike violence and a bootlegging war, no one is safe in Western Maryland.

Western Marylanders are anticipating a short visit from President Harding during the summer of 1922. While the local movers and shakers want to impress the President, Matt Ansaro discovers a coal miners’ union plot against the President. Matt sets about trying to disrupt the plot while maintaining his undercover identity as a coal miner.

The fallout from David Lakehurst’s time in Western Maryland continues. Before he fled the area, Lakehurst wrote a letter to the area union organizer, outing Matt as an undercover Pinkerton agent. Now, the union is trying to turn Matt into a double agent, so they avoid the law and strike the hardest against the coal mining companies.

Enos Ansaro is enjoying his time making moonshine deliveries because he loves driving. However, as the price of moonshine escalates, more people are looking to cash in on the profits. Some of them are dangerous, and the area verges on the brink of a bootlegging war while the strike violence continues.

The area is a tinderbox waiting for something to ignite it. That might be the kidnapping of Samantha Havencroft. She is Matt’s girlfriend and the daughter of the state college president. The bootlegging war has brought in federal agents looking to shut down operations, but the kidnapping will bring in the state authorities, too.

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Bed, Breakfast & Bedbugs by Sandra Bass Joines

About Bed, Breakfast & Bedbugs by Sandra Bass Joines:

Book 1 of the Blossom Inlet Series.
Welcome to Blossom Inlet… Where Memories are Made and Secrets are Protected.

Secrets not only affect the lives of the secret keepers, but also can torment future generations. Leora Van Leer has serious commitment issues. Why wouldn’t she? Her mother abandoned her like an unwanted kitten right after she was born, and she has no idea who her father is.

When Leora inherits her grandmother’s bed and breakfast, she discovers that she must live in and operate it for one year, or ownership will go to a children’s foundation. It seems simple enough, but she has a history of running as fast as a streak of lightning every time she becomes too attached to anyone or anything.

As if that’s not enough, she’s also inherited three quirky residents with the B&B. Miss Sophie has Alzheimer’s and drifts in and out of the now as fast as the snap of a finger. Preacher is a retired minister who takes Bible verse liberties. Eduardo is a young artist with absence seizures, freezing into a statue without warning.

Everything that can go wrong with reopening the bed and breakfast goes wrong. As well, her controlling mother is determined to steal her inheritance and a brown-eyed stranger with a lopsided smile has stolen her heart.

While Leora adjusts to a new upside-down life, her mother does the unimaginable, leading Leora to uncover a secret so horrifying, her life will never be the same.

She has two options: come to terms with the past and continue the Van Leer legacy as she promised her grandmother;

or RUN.

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Confidence John by Harmony Reed

About Featured Book: Confidence John by Harmony Reed

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A coded journal. A buried treasure. A dangerous journey.

In the early 1800s, as the Spanish surrender Florida to the United States government, Emily Bisset reunites with her estranged mother Simone to solve a family mystery and seek revenge on the man who abandoned them both: Confidence John.

As they make their way to the southern coast, intending to enter the legendary poker game run by Emily’s con-man father, they encounter escaped slaves, Seminole warriors, Florida patriots, and Spanish missionaries — some friend, some foe, some both.

Soon another mystery presents itself: who is the stranger that pursues them, and how does she know so much about their quest?

Confidence John is a stand-alone novel by Harmony Reed. Fans of Daughter of Fortune and The Sisters Brothers will feel right at home with Confidence John.

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The Unnamed Girl by Mike H. Mizrahi

About The Unnamed Girl by Mike H. Mizrahi:

In the fog of battle, Confederate Private Woody Woodard stumbles across a gold-cased ambrotype of a little girl near the body of a dead Union soldier. Somehow she becomes his only respite from the nighttime demons of war that torture him. He must find her.

An award-winning historical novel, The Unnamed Girl is the saga about one soldier’s quest for peace and purpose. And love. It’s 1862 in Virginia, and Woody has no more stomach for war. He leave his comrades temporarily to find the girl’s family, return the likeness, and give witness to how her father fell in battle.

Woody is wounded and captured; his mission interrupted. After escaping from a deadly Union prison camp, he resumes his search for the girl’s family in enemy territory, which leads him to the widow Rebecca Johnston. A conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio, Rebecca’s farm is in disrepair. She seeks Woody’s help as a hired hand, and in exchange she will help him find the girl in the photograph.

The Unnamed Girl maintains a sweeping storyline that ultimately takes Woody and Rebecca deep into Confederate territory to rescue a former slave in Lumpkin’s slave jail, and back to Ohio in search of the girl. A love that hangs by a thread because of lie stands in the balance. This is a story of renewal and transformation that transcends the pages of a novel. A romp that leaves readers satisfied and wanting more.

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Fenian’s Trace by Sean P. Mahoney

Fenian’s Trace by Sean P. Mahoney

A great story for getting into the mood for St. Patrick’s Day! (Audiobook narrated by Irish actor Liam Carney available on Audible / paperback or ebook on Amazon) FENIAN’S TRACE is the story of two young men raised as brothers in the west of Ireland during the early 1900s. Though they choose different paths when the rebellion comes, they both take a fancy to the spirited and alluring Maria upon her homecoming from America. It’s told by a gruff old Limerick publican named Mr. Clancy, who refuses to let his gentle inebriation or any distractful facts trouble his tale. It’s a story of secrets and sacrifice, fathers and sons, loyalty and love.

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Testing the Limits by Kate Lance

About Testing the Limits by Kate Lance:

“I can’t recommend this series highly enough: the writing is brilliant, the story wonderful, obviously well researched; and you can’t help but fall in love with the characters. Great stuff!” Amazon review

1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end.

A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it’s not quite the life she expects.

Eliza’s brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Billie Quinn can teach him. Pete calls her a sarcastic, scowling Amelia Earhart, but it’s Billie who knows how much Pete has to learn.

Eliza’s aunt, actress Izabel Peres, hides a secret from the world. Then she falls for lawyer Felix with his buccaneering smile, and a case of shellshock he believes is behind him.

Doctor Harry Bell, Eliza’s old shipmate, loves fascinating Charlotte, but Charlotte just loves flirting and gambling — especially with flyboy Pete’s heart.

For Eliza’s friends, the days of contentment are fading before the gathering dusk of war. And when a great white barque encounters the coast one foggy night, more than an era of sail finds itself tested to the limits.

Currently only $0.99. Testing the Limits is the first book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Non-Fiction.

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The Curse of Beauty by Lauren Lee Merewether

About Featured Book: The Curse of Beauty by Lauren Lee Merewether

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A gripping historical drama—the origin of Greek mythology’s Medusa is uniquely explored and reimagined in this allegorical work of historical fiction that takes us back to Ancient Greece during the rise of the Mycenaeans.

In 1650 BC, King Oceanus, a self-proclaimed lord of the sea, arrives with his soldiers on the shore of Tiryns and begins a struggle for power and dominance.

Thais, the Tiryns chieftain’s daughter, is caught between her father’s wish for peace without bloodshed, and the senior councilman’s desire to wage war. Yet the biggest threat to the people of Tiryns is not the soldiers in the plains but the growing division within the city.

Seeing no other option to end the pending war, Thais’ mother strikes a bargain with their Mother Goddess, trading her life for her daughter’s future. Thais is left to discover what her mother bargained for while lies, deceit, and secrets propel her and all of her people into one epic struggle for survival.

If you like to read stories about redemption, perseverance, and the power of courage and kindness, then you will love this historical saga of a Tiryns woman behind the myth of Medusa in this standalone installment of the Ancient Legends series.

“…an unstoppable read…The Curse of Beauty delivers everything you could possibly hope for in a historical drama. Unmissable.” – K.C. Finn for Readers’ Favorite (★★★★★)

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“…a powerful book overflowing with drama, intrigue, love, hate, passion and violence…an exceptional story…” – Teresa Syms for Readers’ Favorite (★★★★★)

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Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation by Alice McVeigh

Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation by Alice McVeigh

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HARRIET is an intriguing and original “take” on Jane Austen’s immortal EMMA, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Prize quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh.

Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty boarding-school pupil, and to matchmake her as eligibly as she can… But how is she to guess that Harriet has a secret?

Meanwhile, the brilliant, penniless Jane Fairfax consents to a clandestine engagement with Frank Churchill – though not daring to confess, even to him, that she is being relentlessly pursued by her best friend’s husband.

HARRIET sidelines Emma herself in favour of the ingenious Harriet and the fascinating Jane Fairfax. It is EMMA – but an EMMA with a surprisingly believable twist in its tail.

“A dynamic take on a revered classic. This is still Austen’s EMMA—but the story that unfolds through the recollections of these two “side” characters feels remarkably fresh… With or without an understanding of EMMA, HARRIET contains a fully-formed narrative that should satisfy even the choosiest Austen fans… Readers will rarely find the words ‘page-turner’ and ‘Jane Austen’ in the same sentence, but McVeigh’s impeccably written HARRIET certainly fits the bill.” (IndieReader)

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Waking Up Lost by David Fitz-Gerald

Waking Up Lost by David Fitz-Gerald

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

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

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

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

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

Buy Waking Up Lost to map out destiny today!

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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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Seduction of the Seducer of Seducers-Another Platitudinous Upanishad by Inderpreet Kaur

Seduction of the Seducer of Seducers-Another Platitudinous Upanishad by Inderpreet Kaur

A hungry Pythoness on the prowl for Eternal Truth…

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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

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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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