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Tujunga by Carlos Alvarado

Tujunga by Carlos Alvarado

A thrilling novel of discovery as to why a government cover-up prevented further Apollo manned missions to the moon in 1972 and, decades later, resulted in the death of the researcher investigating it.

In 1955 West Virginia and upon a high-school sexual conquest, Curt sets on a course toward manhood. In preparation for a 1972 covert military moon mission, a restive passion challenges everything he had learned of being a man.

Thirty-two years later in Los Angeles, Xochi, a genetic anthropologist, tests a recently found batch of astronaut blood samples and finds clues to the origin of a catastrophic pandemic. When forbidden to go public with her research findings, she destroys the data but sets a path from the allegories of a favorite poem that leads to the discovery of a shocking conspiracy.

After Xochi’s suspicious death, and as if spiritually led, her grieving fiancé goes on a cross-country journey to find the truth about her tragic death and the catastrophic details of her research findings. Confronted by the intolerant morality that forced Curt and his wife Claudia into a loving silence, Robert must decide on whether to claim revenge.

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Beyond the Song by Carol Selick

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Singer-songwriter Carol Selick traces her coming of age in the tumultuous ’Sixties and early ’Seventies in a new autobiographical novel, “Beyond the Song.” Beginning each chapter with lyrics she wrote and still performs today, Selick breezily describes the development of her alter-ego, Carol Marks, as she rebels against her strict suburban upbringing and joins the counter-culture, hoping to make it in the music business.
Along the way she lands in a series of dangerous situations and narrow escapes – hitchhiking in California at the time of the Manson murders, attending anti-war demonstrations that turn violent, and nearly being arrested when her boyfriend is nabbed in a drug raid.
In her journey, she also meets two important mentors who help her sort her priorities and take her goals seriously. One, based on Music Hall of Famer Rose Marie McCoy, helps her develop her considerable talents; and the other, a fictionalized psychoanalyst, helps her establish the self-assurance to stand on her own two feet as well as realize that much of her father’s over-protectiveness stems from losing his family in the Holocaust.

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MONICA’S WAR by Jo Horne

MONICA’S WAR by Jo Horne

Monica’s War follows the life of Monica Beresford Wichfeld, who has always lived on her own terms. The story cultivates a vivid world of the rich and famous in Copenhagen, where she proceeds to both raise a family and foster an ongoing affair with a neighbor—with her husband’s approval.
But, Monica’s main act to defy convention is still to come: when the Nazis invade her country, she turns her home into a pivot point for the Resistance and refuses to allow them to intimidate her or infect her world. As she makes a conscious decision to stay and fight rather than flee, Monica evolves a sense of responsibility motivated by visions of her children’s’ futures, accepting her role as an individual who can make a difference against all odds.

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SILENCERS OF THE CODE (Hunt For The Miscreant Code) by EDWIN RIVERA

SILENCERS OF THE CODE (Hunt For The Miscreant Code) by EDWIN RIVERA

In this story telling masterpiece, read how the continued hunt by bounty hunters lead by Romin Slade has been taken to a historic new level. The world is consumed by the rule of an evil one world order government. Citizens of the earth will not just go away into this way of life. Code Silencers have become more powerful than ever before and have been on the hunt to bring all of the one world order government to supreme justice. It is not over, it will never be over with the Silencers of the Code. Even as the resurgence of an old enemy rises, Silencers of the Code bounty hunters are determined to bring this evil government and an ancient enemy to its end. Once and for all, the existence of the new world order government will come to a complete halt. Romin’s number one pupil, reveals the truth on Romin and his past. The information provided to the reader, will bring the audience to be shocked and thrilled. Get ready to embark on this most amazing fiction story telling.

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Wonders In The Deep: A Tale of Healing by Chuck Carr

Wonders In The Deep: A Tale of Healing by Chuck Carr

Love. Loss. Hope. Heroism. Is there safe passage through the torrents and storms of life?

Wonders In the Deep is a dramatic illustration, an emotionally charged depiction of the elements that keep us human, fuel our spirit, and give us the courage to continue.

The life of eighteen-year-old Brandon Lawrence is one riddled with questions. Pained sore inside, he seeks answers that have been swallowed deeply by his own grandfather, whom he lovingly calls Pap. How did his parents and grandmother die? Why does his grandfather resent Natalie, Brandon’s best friend since childhood? Why is he forbidden to step foot on a boat, to ride the waves of the sea? Will he ever find answers?

Pap’s journals. Could they hold the secrets?

Set in the rocky and rugged coastline of Maine, the story uncovers Brandon’s world in the summer of 1998. The 1930s and 40s of his grandfather’s world are now over, along with the flat plains of a corn-belted Illinois town he had decided to leave as a young man. What had happened to cause a man to run from a life he couldn’t handle? What had turned Pap into a man withdrawn from life? A man holding tight to the secrets of his life.

Sitting alone on the same weathered dock Brandon had come to with Pap every Thursday growing up, he tries to piece together the puzzle of an unspoken life. Face to face with the only solution he knows, he must choose between honor and answers; an act of thievery plagues him hard, haunting and jolting his conscience. If his grandfather is too brokenhearted to speak of such things, could Brandon steal the answers he needs from the journals?

Wonders In the Deep is a soothing balm, medicine to a hurting and wounded soul. Faced with the harsh realities of grief and loss, two men embark on a great journey to find healing in the deep and uncertain oceans of life. As you journey with Brandon and Pap, you may identify with their struggles.

Is there true triumph over adversity? How far will one go for answers? How far will you go?

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The Great Escape

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Dogs are the best judge of character.

Eliza Jacobson loves volunteering at Pretty Paws shelter, where she meets Athena, a Great Dane with high anxiety. When Elizabeth takes a job at Thetalife Supplements and meets the CEO, Tony Costos, she thinks she may have finally found her Prince Charming. But when he adopts Athena to use as the Thetalife mascot, Eliza finds herself shielding the dog from Tony’s temper, and the Great Dane’s increasingly anxious behavior mirrors Eliza’s own growing unease. Will Athena’s friendship give Eliza the courage to stand up to Tony before his dark ambitions destroy everything?

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The Road Remembered by Kaye D. Schmitz

The Road Remembered by Kaye D. Schmitz

In the final months of World War II, Sam Ryan is trained to kill as a new soldier in the 89th Infantry Division on the front lines in Europe. But since the thought of taking the life of another human being contradicts the way he was raised, how, he wonders, will he ever reconcile the action his head dictates with the way his heart feels about it?

On the other side of the war, Gerda Ziegler is appalled at the monster her beloved Germany has become, but she finds a way to whisk Jewish children out of harm’s way, right under the noses of the brutal Nazis. When one of her fellow resistance fighters is discovered and killed, she is terrified, but determined to save more children than ever. But at eight-months pregnant with a suspicious husband, how many more will she be able to rescue?

Sam and Gerda face their enemies head-on, but they also battle internal elements on their own sides of the fighting that violate their shared values of humanity. They meet under the worst of circumstances but find a way to help each other through the trauma of war.

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The Scare by Robert Shaw

About Featured Book: The Scare by Robert Shaw

Is a zombie bully committing murder in Emerald Bay? Are his victims coming back to life to do more killing? Ethan, Shay and their friends must solve the mystery to stay alive.

Haunted by the murder of his little brother, sixteen-year-old Ethan Harris finds a kindred spirit when Shay Cassidy moves to Emerald Bay. Like Ethan, Shay is the product of a guilt-ridden, broken past, and Ethan is drawn to her.

But town bully, Viktor Sols, harbors his own dark desire for Shay, and will stop at nothing to get her. When Sols is killed during his latest rampage, a series of grisly murders begins, and Ethan is convinced that Sols is coming after Shay from beyond the grave. His friends agree to help investigate, but mystery and death follow their every step.

After Shay vanishes, Ethan refuses to accept that she’s dead, believing instead that Sols has taken her. He and his friends must launch an attack on the dreaded Sols House to try and rescue Shay.

Can they save her before it’s too late, or will the horrifying secret of the Sols family kill them all?

Set in the stormy coastal town of Emerald Bay, The Scare is a contemporary Gothic horror story in which love and friendship triumph over bitter jealousy and brutal lust. It is not for the squeamish: there are nasty bits and mean bits; love, laughter and tears; good friends and deadly enemies. There is blood and there are screams… and a fight to the death

If you like Stranger Things and IT, you’ll love The Scare.

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The Fifth by Mario Kiefer

The Fifth by Mario Kiefer

This is not a new tale.
Everyone knows the story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. First told by John of Patmos in the Book of Revelation, it has been told and retold a thousand times by a thousand people in a thousand different ways. What makes this story different?
Perhaps it is that the story is told from the viewpoint of the Horsemen themselves. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death: what do they think of their role in the End of Days? Does it really matter? Or maybe, it is that John of Patmos left out a part of the original story — the part about the Fifth Horseman; the one that nobody knows about.
To bring about The End of Days, The Fifth must come into being. Each Horseman has his or her part to play subject to the constraints they are given and the whims of their own personality. While traversing time and space, each does so. Pestilence spreads not just a virus to infect the body but a far more sinister one that infects the spirit, while War beats the drums that will bring the tribes of man to each other’s throats. Famine delivers scarcity from abundance, and Death, well, Death does what he has always done – he ferries the souls to their determined destination.
All of this is done to give birth to The Fifth.
But who is The Fifth?

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The Last Sketch by Gosia Nealon

About Featured Book: The Last Sketch by Gosia Nealon

On sale for 99 cents from 10/20/21 to 10/24/2021

They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil?
Poland, 1944. Wanda Odwaga will never stop resisting. As the Nazis occupy her beloved homeland, the twenty-three-year-old artist vows to do whatever it takes to help the underground movement mobilize against Hitler’s forces. But she’s devastated when the Gestapo storms her house in search of rebel leaders, killing her heroic father and leaving the face of his murderer forever etched in her mind.

New York. Finn Keller longs to balance the scales. Having escaped Germany with his mother as a teen, he’s disgusted his estranged twin brother has become a ruthless Nazi henchman with a vicious reputation. So when a covert government agency approaches him with a dangerous undercover mission, Finn willingly risks his life to play his part in turning the tide of war.

Still grieving her unforgivable loss, Wanda’s thirst for revenge takes an unexpected leap forward when she once again encounters her father’s killer. And as Finn dives deeply into the role of impersonating his cold-hearted sibling, he’s captivated by the beautiful Polish woman frozen in front of him… her eyes blazing with the promise of murder.

Can these two players in a deadly game survive the ravages of a sadistic conflict?

The Last Sketch is a breathtaking World War II historical fiction novel. If you like engaging characters, exhilarating espionage, and a dash of enemy-to-lovers romance, then you’ll enjoy Gosia Nealon’s powerful drama.

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For the Soul (A Collection of Short Stories) by Barbara Daniels-Dena

About Featured Book: For the Soul (A Collection of Short Stories) by Barbara Daniels-Dena

(Kindle Ebook Pre-Holiday Sale for .99 cents! Begins 10/16 thru 10/23, 2021.) "A Readers Favorite 5-Star Awarded Book Review."

Memories and fiction fill this amusing-filled collection with heartwarming compassion, inspiring, and spine-tingling fright from the author's own experiences and imagination she can barely control.

Quilts, children, and dogs have always played a large part in the author's life. Therefore, it is not surprising to find stories buttons and warm quilts wrapped around her fictional tales or tall tails. "A delight to read!"

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Recycled Hope by Linda Drugan

About Featured Book: Recycled Hope by Linda Drugan

Linda, now middle aged, relishes reminiscing about her childhood and what people commonly refer to as the good old days. This is especially prevalent when she gets together with her siblings, and their now extended families. One particular Saturday afternoon’s visit to her mother’s townhouse, which is located on what was once the McDowell’s Farm, Linda is reminded of the events that transpired there when she was a young girl growing up in the sixties. Though at one time the farm was profitable and bustling with activity, by the time Linda’s family moved to the neighborhood, McDowell’s farm was overgrown and uncared for by a crotchety, old farmer and his kind hearted wife.

This sets the backdrop for this whimsical and nostalgic tale which takes many unexpected twists and turns. Linda’s strained relationship with her older sister, Karen, does a complete 180 due to the fateful events that occur one fall afternoon in 1967, when they take a shortcut through McDowell’s farm on their way home from school. One wrong decision leads to a chain of events that one would never anticipate and takes the reader through a journey which is tragic and heartwarming.

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A Beautiful Land by Susan Beth Miller

About A Beautiful Land by Susan Beth Miller:

A Beautiful Land is a story of menace, the maternal imagination, and the forest primeval.

Raissa, middle daughter of three, watches her family flee their violence-torn homeland. But she stays behind, bound to her birthplace by memories of a sweet young man.

Driven by danger and grief, Raissa struggles toward a mysterious forest and imagines solace through the unexpected allure of a child.

Raissa joins many who have fled their beautiful homeland. Each speaks in turn as they parse their tangled stories and consider whether they dare return to what once was home.

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Chocolate-Covered Chaos

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They can’t trust him with their shoes, but they can trust him with their hearts.

Since Nick Marshall’s wife died, he’s been struggling to keep a lid on his PTSD and raise his stepdaughter Chloe and her younger half-sister, Abby. He’s always run a tight ship, but when he learns that Chloe’s flunking out, he becomes even more rigid and controlling: no extracurricular activities, just chores and schoolwork until she brings her grades up.

It’s only after she gets into a fight at school that he realizes there’s a deeper problem that he has no idea how to handle. Worse, his late wife’s sister is working with Chloe’s biological father to take custody away from him.

Out of desperation, he takes her teacher’s suggestion and brings home a dog from the Pretty Paws Shelter named Max. The girls bond with Max, but the dog’s playful enthusiasm drives Nick crazy — he craves calm, not chaos.

Can Max help Nick reconnect with Chloe before her meddling aunt and deadbeat father split the family for good?

Chocolate-Covered Chaos is the third book in the Soul Mutts series, heartwarming stories of lost dogs finding new homes with the humans they were born to heal.

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Secrets My Mothers Kept by Rebecca Tucker

Secrets My Mothers Kept by Rebecca Tucker

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“Tucker exhibits mesmerizing story-telling skills in this heartfelt, honest story of love and betrayal…Fluid dialogue and a tightly formatted storyline set this novel aside in a refreshingly unique category all its own.” – Readers’ Favorite

“Tucker has delivered an evocative, poignant read that lovers of literary fiction won’t want to miss.” – The Prairies Book Review

Austin Nobel is preparing for a summer trip to France, which includes obtaining a passport. However, when she receives her birth certificate in the mail with the wrong name on it, Austin uncovers that she was adopted, something her parents had kept secret from everyone.

Austin pursues more information about her birth parents and their complicated history against the wishes of her family, while struggling with the impact this revelation has on her status within the Reform Jewish community. Is she really Jewish in the eyes of her community? In her own eyes? The support of a new romantic interest and an old family friend helps Austin find strength, resilience, and forgiveness as she searches for answers about her own origins and identity.

“Her thoughts, half-formed, tumbled over one another, nonsensical and overwhelming. Images of her parents, her mom mostly, flickered through her mind as a realization grew within her, rising from the pit of her stomach, finally forming the coherent thought that there were going to be repercussions for the conversation she’d just had with Jeremy. Her world would change—it had already, though she couldn’t yet feel it and couldn’t fathom what those changes might be. The foundation built of all she knew was shifting beneath her feet as she wobbled.”

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Alice Black by J. Schlenker

Alice Black by J. Schlenker

At eighteen, right out of high school, Alice Black leaves her clinging mother in Queens, New York to live with a rebellious Columbia University law student in rural West Virginia. After five years, she returns home to take care of her mother as well as to seek answers before her mother dies regarding her father’s disappearance years ago. Her mother takes the secret to her grave. Alice is ready to give up hope of ever knowing what happened to him until she receives a visit from a detective and a cryptic message from a fortune cookie.
Finalist in the 2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards and a 5-Star Readers’ Favorite

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Floating Underwater by Tracy Shawn

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Part psychological fiction and part mystical fiction with a dash of magical realism, Floating Underwater follows a woman’s astonishing journey through the extraordinary and, ultimately, to her own self-actualization and power.

Fearful that her lifelong premonitions not only predict the future but can also change its very course, Paloma Leary is devastated when her latest vision foretelling a third miscarriage comes true.

Falling into a mystifying world of increasingly bizarre phenomena, including a psychic connection with her mysterious neighbor, out-of-body experiences, and visits from her long-dead mother, Paloma grows desperate for answers. She is also desperate to start a family. But when a life-changing vision reveals a tragic secret from the past, Paloma learns to accept her gifts and embraces a far different future than she ever could have imagined.

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A Life for a Life by Lynda McDaniel

A Life for a Life by Lynda McDaniel

“My life was saved by a murder. At the time, of course, I didn’t understand that. I just knew I was having the best year of my life. Given all the things that happened, I should be ashamed to say it, but that year was a blessing for me.” ~Abit Bradshaw

That’s how this story of suspense and self-discovery begins in 1985 in the small mountain town of Laurel Falls, N.C. After decades as a crime reporter in Washington, D.C., Della Kincaid thinks she’s moved away from all the violence. But a walk in the woods changes everything when she finds a body.

The sheriff calls for what amounts to a coverup. Not so fast, Della argues. She’s spent her life searching for the truth, and she’s not about to stop now. Without her usual sources, she teams up with new friends, including her neighbor–Abit Bradshaw, a teenager struggling to find his rightful place in the world. Along the way, they encounter all kinds of interesting characters, including the best one of all–the lush natural setting of the N.C. mountains.

Will they find the truth before they become the next victims?

Can they find peace in their own lives?

You’ll love this suspenseful story because who doesn’t dream of second chances?

Find out why critics and readers are praising Lynda McDaniel’s unique voice in murder mystery novels.

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A Life for a Life is the first novel in the Appalachian Mountain Mysteries series. If you like atmospheric settings, fascinating characters, and suspenseful investigations, you’ll love this series.

“A real treat, highly recommended for its fine attention to both detail and the psyches of investigators who confront themselves as much as the threat at hand.” ~Midwest Book Review

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THE ETERNAL DARKNESS: 159 TALES OF TERROR

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159 tales from the deepest depths of the psyche. Vampires, werewolf’s, zombies, axe wielding serial killers and other creatures that go bump in the night. Are you ready to read this book in the comfort of your warm bed with the lamp casting its fleeting ethereal light? Did you hear that? A creature of the night prowling outside your bedroom window? What was that? Something downstairs? Are you ready to read this book…?

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Butter and Whiskey: The Ballad of Maggie Doyle by Judith S Glover

Butter and Whiskey: The Ballad of Maggie Doyle by Judith S Glover

The time – the late 1970s; the place Southern Ireland.
After an affair with a local priest, Maggie Doyle, an unhappily married woman, gives birth to a baby with tiny wings. Is it a miracle or some freak of nature? One thing is for sure, The Vatican means to take control of the infant and Father John has left for the mainland in disgrace. Alone and friendless, the horrific course of action Maggie is forced to take will send her spiraling into madness and despair, but which ultimately sets the course of her life off in a direction, she could never have imagined. Yet, can Maggie ever truly recover and can Father John overcome the sense of guilt he feels for his part in her suffering?
Years later and unbeknownst to either, they both find themselves in London where their fates become once again entwined. Each pursues a new life against the backdrop of eighties London and each finds love and friendship in unexpected places. Back in Rome, however, forces in the Vatican cannot forgive Maggie for cheating the Catholic Church out of establishing the truth about the apparently miraculous birth and are biding their time.
On the night that their paths finally cross, the past too catches up with them in a shocking denouement. The situation seems bleak, yet will it finally afford Father John the opportunity to atone for having abandoned Maggie, in her hour of greatest need?
Butter and Whiskey: The Ballad of Maggie Doyle is a story of courage, love, friendship and redemption – served up with warmth and humor. Oh! and of angels, though they may not always be so easy to spot! It is a stand alone novel, though Maggie’s story continues in the sequel – What Cannot be Cured: The Continuing Ballad of Maggie Doyle

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