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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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The Widow’s Dilemma by Kimberly C. Miller

The Widow’s Dilemma by Kimberly C. Miller

In an effort to escape the pain of her past, Emma Jones answered an advertisement to become a mail order bride. When she became Adam’s wife, she never imagined that she would be widowed just a few months later. Alone and with a homestead to care for, she receives an offer from a neighboring cattle rancher that she finds hard to refuse. But her late husband’s best friend is determined not to let her give up that easily.

Clay Andrews wants nothing more from life than to run his family’s horse ranch. But duty binds him to watch over his friend’s widow, whether she likes it or not. And he’s not about to let her run away when things start to get tough.

Emma’s independent spirit and her fear of the secrets of her past being discovered make it hard for her to accept help. Clay’s sense of responsibility and guilt make it hard for him to leave her alone. Will either of them be able to lay aside their stubbornness long enough to find some common ground—and maybe even a fresh start and a chance at love?

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If the Moon Had Willow Trees by Kathleen Hall

If the Moon Had Willow Trees by Kathleen hall

No one expected Detroit to burst into flames on July 23, 1967, or did they? Before the last ember died, eight Freedom Riders circled Clyde & Blanche Webster’s chipped blonde-veneer dining-room table and formed The Detroit Eight — eight working-poor civil rights activists ready to bring the establishment to its knees.

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Infinite Stakes: A Novel of the Battle of Britain

About Infinite Stakes: A Novel of the Battle of Britain:

1940: Hitler’s aerial assault on England reaches a crescendo on Battle of Britain Day when, against all odds, the Luftwaffe is turned back by the outnumbered pilots of Fighter Command.

Infinite Stakes—picking up where Breaking Point left off—puts you both inside the cockpit as the pilots duel and at RAF Headquarters with Winston Churchill on that fateful day and through the year that follows, when Britain must fight on alone.

Johnnie Shaux, a battle-hardened fighter pilot, now leads a squadron of brave American volunteers against superior forces until he is forced down and imprisoned as a POW.

Meanwhile, Eleanor Rand, a brilliant mathematician, is tasked to predict Hitler’s plans and to help persuade America to join the war.

Written with historical accuracy and page-turning speed, Infinite Stakes takes you to diplomatic conference tables with Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, to desperate battles over France, and, finally, on another fateful day, to Pearl Harbor.

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Lost Weekend in May

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Stuck in Huwabola, Indiana, high school sophomore Tyler Puspoon’s world has turned upside down. His parents are newly divorced, and they worry him to no end. His Dad, a Marine Corps Recon Ranger, is 10,000 miles away, getting shot at in Vietnam while his Mom, Twyla, a CCU nurse, is being wooed by a slaggy traveling salesman who wishes Tyler was old enough for the draft. To make matters worse, the Summer of Love is three years in the past, and Tyler’s afraid the sexual revolution will be over before he joins it. But he’s got an even bigger problem looming. After a weird and wonderful make-out session with Darlene Wantel, who he barely knows, he discovers a wallet loaded with cash and gets kidnapped by a gang of murderous bank robbers while trying to open a savings account. Tyler’s abduction sparks a statewide manhunt by a joint state and federal task force led by FBI Special Agent Carol Kramer, the agency’s second black female agent. After Kramer finally catches the break she needs, she bucks Agency regulations to team with Tyler’s Dad, Major Jack Puspoon, to attempt a rescue and maybe capture the gang.

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The KHAN

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This action adventure story begins when cashiered ex –Federal Agent David Dunn runs across the trail of an old nemesis, the international arms dealer, known only as THE KHAN. David and his boss, Olivia, follow the Khan’s bloody trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Denver, Colorado and then on to New York City. Afterwards the action shifts to the mountains of the Middle East in the Kurdistan region. This action packed hard- boiled detective thriller will hold you mesmerized as the hard-boiled detective ruthlessly pursues his goal of revenge against the Khan. If you like breathless action with gun battles, knife fights, airport explosions, and associated mayhem, this novel is for you.From the American Southwest to urban ghettos, the wastelands of Asia, and the deserts of Mexico, this techno-thriller delivers riveting action and heart thumping excitement.This book is filled with nonstop action as members engaged in the illegal arms trade stop at nothing to deter David in his quest to find THE KHAN.

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Does Planet Earth Have Friends?

About Does Planet Earth Have Friends?:

Often, kids seem to have an incredible imagination and wonder about the world around them. Jade is just like any other curious kid! She is curious to know whether the planet Earth we live upon has friends. She fears that Earth may be lonely. Jade’s mother comforts her, saying that God created a friend for everyone and everything. In times when we think that no one is there, God sends us a friend! Little Jade discovers this amazing blessing through her mother!

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The Return

About The Return:

The Return is a story about learning where you come from, and embracing the parts of your past—the parts you’ve experienced yourself, as well as the genealogical ones that have followed you through history—that make you who you are. Author George Pascal Amemo delivers a heartfelt and expansive look at the reality of the world some of us find ourselves in, where certain citizens are forced to hold their tongues or express themselves with an expected level of savoir faire. The tale cuts deeper than that, however, looking beyond those challenges, and into more narrow concepts of individuality, personal growth and cultural history.

Is the life you were born into a determinant of the life you will live? What does it take to raise yourself out of your circumstances? Can one unexpected event bring a family together?

Born to hardworking parents who endured their share of hardship and heartache, Jasmine finds herself navigating the blessings and obstacles on the road laid out for her. Armed with grit and a passion for justice, Jasmine’s life is a journey to leave it better than she found it while remaining true to herself and her modest upbringing.

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Susan, A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh

Susan, A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh

Susan is a Jane Austen Prequel (or Pride and Prejudice Variation) brilliantly capturing Austen’s own Lady Susan as a young girl.

As the BookLife review put it for Publishers Weekly: “McVeigh’s prose and plotting are pitch-perfect. Emma mingles with Pride and Prejudice in a delightful confrontation between the two books’ worlds… This Austen-inspired novel echoes the master herself.”

Familiar characters abound – Frank Churchill, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Darcy himself – but Susan – mischievous and manipulative – is the star. This is Austen that even Austen might have loved, with a touch of Georgette Heyer in the romantic sections. Fans of Bridgerton will also relish this classic regency romance, the first in a six-book series.

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson – pretty but poor, clever but capricious – has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London.

At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attracts a raffish young nobleman. But, at the first hint of scandal, her guardian dispatches her to her uncle Collins’ rectory in Kent, where her sensible cousin Alicia lives and “where nothing ever happens.”

Here Susan mischievously inspires the local squire to put on a play, with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen. What with the unexpected arrival of Frank Churchill, Alicia’s falling in love and a tumultuous elopement, rural Kent will surely never seem safe again…

(Book opens with substantial discount: ebook at 99cents.)

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Forbidden Blossom (Skyline Mansion Book 1) by Nola Li Barr

Forbidden Blossom (Skyline Mansion Book 1) by Nola Li Barr

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A decades-old scandal. A mysterious inheritance. Can a young woman survive a family desperate to keep their past buried?

2010. Anne Huang never cared to call anywhere home. But her carefree lifestyle of blogging and travel is interrupted when a stranger with ties to her family bequeaths her a fortune. And with no knowledge of her history, she soon finds herself thrown in with a nest of billionaire vipers determined to lock away their skeletons.

1946. Seventeen-year-old Rose Chen’s quiet life is shattered when she’s dragged from Taiwan and forced to immigrate to the U.S. And her nightmare continues when she arrives in San Francisco, only to be shipped off by her parents to serve in a wealthy American’s household. But her dutiful-daughter status soon comes under threat when her risky friendship with her white employer’s son transforms into something taboo.

Confronted by jealous rivals, Anne battles distrust and hidden agendas as she tries to understand more about her birthright and learns the value of love. And as Rose wrestles with her complicated feelings in a private journal, she unwittingly leaves a stunning legacy to a granddaughter she’ll never know…

Can their lives come full circle to close one door and open another?

Forbidden Blossom is the heartfelt first book in the Skyline Mansion women’s fiction series. If you like soul-searching heroines, paths to self-discovery, and stories of perseverance and inner strength, then you’ll adore Nola Li Barr’s generation-spanning tale.

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One Child Too Many by Lesley Elliot

One Child Too Many by Lesley Elliot

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, she 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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Neither King Nor Country

About Neither King Nor Country:

It’s the greatest secret in American History.
So powerful it could topple Mount Rushmore itself.
And someone has found it!

Rob Callahan was a man who wore many hats; Father, teacher, hockey player, husband and friend. He lived his life in a delicate balance and he lived it to the fullest.
His teammate Lindsey loved being just one of the guys. She had played hockey all her life and never let anyone stop her from following her passion.

“I have recently gathered in my possession, various documents and letters from my father concerning our Treaty with the British…”

Rob and Lindsey had no idea what those words meant or what they had to do with Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son but they knew it was something terribly important.

So despised he was erased from history…

There was no time for any of this. Rob’s marriage was falling apart, his boys were taking different sides in a family civil war and the only thing keeping him sane- his beer league hockey team was about to fall apart if he and Lindsey made the wrong move.

It was a secret that could tear America apart, perhaps buried by the Founding Fathers themselves.

But where did their loyalties lie? Should they honor Rob’s grandmother and follow this crazy historical trail? Should they just ignore the secrets and each other to keep Rob’s family together? Or should they follow their heart, their passion and just let the chips fall where they may? How could they resist? How could they ignore one of the greatest secrets in America, a secret buried for more than two hundred years?

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Infinite Stakes

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1940: Hitler’s aerial assault on England reaches a crescendo on Battle of Britain Day when, against all odds, the Luftwaffe is turned back by the outnumbered pilots of Fighter Command.

Infinite Stakes—picking up where Breaking Point left off—puts you both inside the cockpit as the pilots duel and at RAF Headquarters with Winston Churchill on that fateful day and through the year that follows, when Britain must fight on alone.

Johnnie Shaux, a battle-hardened fighter pilot, now leads a squadron of brave American volunteers against superior forces until he is forced down and imprisoned as a POW.

Meanwhile, Eleanor Rand, a brilliant mathematician, is tasked to predict Hitler’s plans and to help persuade America to join the war.

Written with historical accuracy and page-turning speed, Infinite Stakes takes you to diplomatic conference tables with Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, to desperate battles over France, and, finally, on another fateful day, to Pearl Harbor.

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