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Hippies

About Hippies:

A beautiful naïve idealism. Blasted by the establishment. Torn by its own contradictions. Navigating psychedelics and war protests, sexual freedoms and personal risks, Jazmine, Ziggy, and their friends discover an LSD-spinoff that triggers past life regressions, pulling them toward a dramatic climax. One fateful month in the hearts and minds of an intimate circle of hippies as they pass painfully and joyfully into adulthood at the end of the 1960s counterculture.

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Under the Grapevine by S. Lee Fisher

Under the Grapevine by S. Lee Fisher

The entire country is in upheaval, and so is she. Can one broken woman survive the coming storms?

Western Pennsylvania, 1925. Olive Westchester brims with bitter, unrealized potential. Refusing to visit her father’s deathbed and forgive him for her beloved brother’s passing, she turns her attention to completing the schooling she always coveted. But her anticipation erupts into rage when a fifth unplanned pregnancy torpedoes her longed-for future.

As the years pass and America suffers from the Great Depression, Olive painfully faces shattered dreams of reaching medical school and independence. And when her youngest daughter inherits her smarts and seizes an opportunity for higher education, Olive’s unhappiness threatens to swallow her whole.

Will she ever find the success and achievement she so desperately craves?

Under the Grapevine is the gripping second book in The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga women’s fiction series. If you like deeply drawn characters, historical authenticity, and true-life dilemmas, then you’ll love S. Lee Fisher’s emotional journey.

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Where Bravehearts Dwelt – 10 Incredible Stories from Indian History by Saurav Ranjan Datta

About Where Bravehearts Dwelt – 10 Incredible Stories from Indian History by Saurav Ranjan Datta:

The history of India is not only fascinating but also very colourful; it narrates incidents of myriad contours. However, till date we have only been exposed to it from an academic point of view. While our mythologies have fascinated the populace of this country repeatedly due to their fantastical elements and also due to the quality of their supreme storytelling style, history has always taken a back seat. With this in mind, this book is an endeavour to present history through fiction to make it more interesting and entertaining. This book is a compilation of real stories based on facts and historical characters. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I did while writing it. God Bless us all.

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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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Razorback by Carter Ettore

Razorback by Carter Ettore

Self-employed and unchained from the shackles of a traditional daily routine, Leon is afforded plenty of time for… himself. Especially since his wife, Pickle, has been spending more and more time staying with her sister.

A habitual procrastinator and ritualistic day-drinker, Leon whiles away his time batch-selecting client emails “Mark as unread”, grilling in the driveway, and building up a strong “yellowwater” buzz for his voyeuristic neighborhood walks to the mailbox. But, with an escalating gush of libations spilling through his mouth, a curious encounter with his neighbor and her soon-to-be-estranged husband becomes the catalyst that sends the compulsively introspective—and judgmental—Leon tumbling into an abyss of sweat-drenched ruination.

Increasingly challenged by what should be mundane exercises in societal engagement, and with the elemental structure of his life in splinters, Leon eventually finds himself face-to-face with the punishing reality of being truly, purely alone… and trapped inside a sprawling pseudo-European chain store famous for their flame-retardant furniture.

Hilarious, absurd, and surreal, Razorback is an outrageous modern take on the “superfluous man”. An epic disintegration of consciousness and composure that questions the true nature of who we think we know, who we may very well be, and the limits of redemption.

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The Lost Wisdom of the Magi by Susie Helme

About The Lost Wisdom of the Magi by Susie Helme:

This engaging, meticulously researched novel, a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards for ‘Best Historical’, tells the story of Sophia, a first century Babylonian Jew who learns ancient languages at the royal archives of the Parthians and secretly studies the magic on cuneiform tablets. She runs away from home, joining a Nabataean incense caravan, studies with the Essenes on the Dead Sea and joins with the militants of Qumran. As the Zealots battle to defend revolutionary Jerusalem against Titus, she falls in love with a Greek freedman, Athanasios, a comrade in arms. Jews and Christians briefly unite with Samaritans and the People of the Land. But messiahs can prove false.

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Take a Chance & Other Stories of Starting Over by T. L. Cooper

Take a Chance & Other Stories of Starting Over by T. L. Cooper

When past and present converge, the characters in these short stories must reexamine the future they planned. Myriad characters and situations populate these stories pushing the characters to decide whether to risk changing their lives as they face loss, love, and revelations. In these short stories of beginnings and endings, of recognizing moments of before and after, of choosing to stay or leave, of facing a future divergent from expectations, lives a thread of hope in life’s ability to transform.

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Trafficked

About Trafficked:

Isabella has everything to live for; a nice job that she enjoys and a boyfriend in the Army who has promised to marry and take care of her. But when she goes to investigate the sounds of a crying child one night after work, it is against her better judgement and against everything that she had ever been taught. And for good reason.

Kidnapped and trafficked by a ruthless gang, she is bound and kept naked alongside three other women, waiting her turn to be sold like a piece of merchandise to a wealthy Mexican cartel owner.

She knows that any attempt to escape will likely result in her death and as she tries to make sense of her situation and make a connection with one of her kidnappers, to try to let him see the human being behind the commodity, she is suddenly confronted by the shocking reality of her situation and how he came to be in it.

Now, with only her own salvation at the forefront of her mind, Isabella is prepared to do whatever it takes to be free once more and to exact the revenge that is burning fiercely inside her.

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Fly Away Home

About Fly Away Home:

Is running away from your troubles the best path to a fresh start?

Claire Perkins struggles with her past, even as a thirty-eight-year-old woman. While attending her abusive mother’s funeral in the town where she grew up, Claire discovers a deeper emotional scar that challenges her definition of home. No longer willing to put on a façade, buried pain triggers Claire’s only logical choice: escape to a quiet place, somewhere far away from the risk of any further disappointment and heartache.

Pigeon Grove appears to be a sleepy southern locale in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. But there’s a unique and underlying charm to this small town that has other plans for those looking to slip into the silence of a solitary life. The close-knit community guides Claire along a different path, one that encourages her deep-seated need to connect with others. Can this small mountain town help Claire connect the dots to create a life she’s always imagined?

It’s never too late to come home.

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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

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

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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ZOMBIE

About ZOMBIE:

ZOMBIE is about a mad president killing Kings and Queens and presidents, anyone in between, that gets in his way, and kidnapping women, holding them hostage, held by a new type of monster in shirt and tie, smooth-talking, willing to kill to get his way.

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The Floating Church

About The Floating Church:

Thirteen-year-old Susanna Assheby is on the cusp of womanhood. She longs to be Queen of the May, and for her sweetheart, James Joseph, to return.
But when he does, he is not alone.

Minister Creedance Halley arrives in the isolated village of Hope Ghyll, bringing news of the queen’s death, and vehemently anti-pagan views. He proceeds to implement changes.

Susanna is accosted by the river, but feels compelled not to say who did it – she is, after all, merely a girl. And then comes the flood.

Inhabitants of Hope Ghyll take refuge in the church. Personal slights become magnified. Unchristian acts follow.

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Just Say It by Tessa Barrie

About Just Say It by Tessa Barrie:

Doc Martens takes on Dior as a workaholic daughter finally rebels against mollycoddled mother. After forty years of verbal incontinence, will the two ever see eye to eye? Will the twain ever meet?

Just Say It covers the period 1940-2002 and is set in Gloucestershire, London and Portugal.

In 1999, Lisa Grant, once a well-known columnist for a leading UK magazine, turns forty. Attempting to avoid a midlife crisis, she finishes writing a therapeutic spoof about her life, but it only scratches the surface of the problem – the rocky relationship she has always had with her narcissistic mother, Elizabeth.

Realising she needs to break the negative emotional hold her mother has over her, Lisa harnesses her journalistic skills to investigate her mother’s life before she came to London in 1957 as a seventeen-year-old debutante and is shocked by what she finds.

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Blind Fold: Book Seven – Technicians Series by Olivia Gaines

About Blind Fold: Book Seven – Technicians Series by Olivia Gaines:

One Way has always done things on his own terms. However, changes in his life are happening faster than he has time to react.

Uncertain if the woman and boy he assists depend on him or it is the other way around. However, things get tricky when life comes at them fast and the meaning of family and friends becomes a saving grace.

Now, if he can just get the woman to listen…the rest will fall into place. The blinders come off for everyone when One Way removes his Blind Fold.

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Speaker for the God by Henry Millstein

About Speaker for the God by Henry Millstein:

The world of Yirmeyahu—known to the later English-speaking world as Jeremiah—is crashing down around him. The tiny kingdom of Yehudah, the last remnant of the people of Yisra’el, lies caught between superpowers, Egypt and the new, and aggressive, empire of Babylon. Yirmeyahu, a speaker for the war god Yahweh, warns his uncaring people of threatening catastrophe, throwing himself into a maelstrom of political intrigue, as kings strive desperately to play one power against the other. And his own life is no happier than his nation’s: he has been haunted from his earliest youth by visions of a goddess whose surpassing beauty makes any merely human woman pall in comparison. She blocks his path whenever he seeks another lover. As Yehudah girds itself for its final, fatal battle against empire, Yirmeyahu goes to war with the goddess, until, in exile, a new series of devastating revelations leads him towards reconciliation with the god, the goddess, his people, and himself.

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DOG BONE SOUP by Bette A. Stevens

About DOG BONE SOUP by Bette A. Stevens:

“Adventures and misadventures to the likes of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry”

Whether or not You Grew Up in the 1950s and 60s, you’ll find Dog Bone Soup (Historical Fiction) to be soup for the soul. In this coming-of-age novel, Shawn Daniels’s father is the town drunk. Shawn and his brother Willie are in charge of handling everything that needs to be done around the ramshackle place they call home—lugging in water for cooking and cleaning, splitting and stacking firewood…But when chores are done, these resourceful kids strike out on boundless adventures that don’t cost a dime. Dog Bone Soup is the poignant tale of a dysfunctional family struggling to survive at a time when others were living The American Dream.

This family drama and the emotional world of the characters are timeless and relatable.

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Foundations, Funny Business & Murder

About Foundations, Funny Business & Murder:

The best of intentions shouldn’t include murder.
An HR specialist and trauma counselor, Stacie is on the board of a fledgling non-profit foundation set up to benefit victims of domestic violence. After a slashed tire, attempted break in, and a murder, Stacie isn’t buying coincidental bad karma. Someone wants her off the board – at any cost. Her fancy surveillance equipment, impressive alarm system, and a ferocious Maltese dog offer only so much protection. That may not be enough when politics are involved. Enter Kevin McNair, a smooth talker with piercing blue eyes. Can she trust him with her heart or her life?

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ZOMBIE by Clifford Benjamin

About Featured Book: ZOMBIE by Clifford Benjamin

Cost: $1.99 eBook
ZOMBIE is about a mad president killing Kings and Queens and presidents, anyone in between, that gets in his way, and kidnapping women, holding them hostage, held by a new type of monster in shirt and tie, smooth-talking, willing to kill to get his way.

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Laughing Dolphins: a novel of coincidence

About Laughing Dolphins: a novel of coincidence:

…Tales of the City, without the sex and drugs, stretched over 20 years, many cities, and thousands of miles…
One dream. Two journeys.
1980s Boston art students follow different road signs for twenty years.
Sandy, believing she lacks talent, leaves her dreams.
Jeff, content to wander, plays with art and life.
Stepping onto parallel paths, chasing art trends and love…
from Boston’s Dunkin Donuts to California’s Starbucks…
from computer networks to soul networks

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