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Your Brain’s Still Flashing by Jim Lively

About Featured Book: Your Brain’s Still Flashing by Jim Lively

After being discharged from Parkland Behavior Health Hospital, all young attorney, Simon Steed wanted was to live a normal life. As word of his mental issues spreads, he cannot even get appointed to represent indigent clients in
criminal law cases. Simon’s fortunes appear to have changed when he suddenly gets a phone call from a woman named Veronica Steele, a Highland Park socialite who is seeking to divorce her wealthy husband. Things get mysterious when
Veronica reveals that her sister was Simon’s nurse while he was inpatient at the behavior health hospital. The sister recommended Simon because he suffers from the same type of mental illness as Veronica and thought he could relate to her. Simon begins to suspect that Veronica chose him for another nefarious reason. To add to his stress, he starts becoming infatuated with his beautiful enigmatic new
next-door neighbor.

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The Soul of Ruby Lord

About The Soul of Ruby Lord:

A cursed lineage. A demonic siege. The inevitable embrace of death.

Born to a bloodline that was cursed by Lucifer himself generations ago, Ruby is caught in a relentless battle to keep her daughters untouched by their family’s dark legacy. No corner of her life is safe from the demonic forces that plague them.

Caught in the malevolent schemes of a demon, Muth, Ruby and her daughters have their everyday existence turned into a fight for survival against hellish foes.

Muth is hell-bent on dragging their souls to the depths of the Hellfire Realm, turning their lives into a nightmarish tug-of-war between good and evil. Every decision Ruby makes is impacted by Muth, weaving the very destiny of her family.

What sacrifices is she willing to make to break free from the curse that haunts her family?

The Soul of Ruby Lord is a gripping paranormal women’s fiction novel that blends the thrill of age- old curses with the unwavering strength of a mother’s love. This is a must-read for anyone who likes their demonic forces with a side of guardian angels and unconditional love.

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A Grave Every Mile: A Pioneer Western Adventure by David Fitz-Gerald

A Grave Every Mile: A Pioneer Western Adventure by David Fitz-Gerald

Embark on a harrowing trek across the rugged American frontier in 1850. Your wagon awaits, and the untamed wilderness calls. This epic western adventure will test the mettle of even the bravest souls.

Dorcas Moon and her family set forth in search of opportunity and a brighter future. Yet, what awaits them is a relentless gauntlet of life-threatening challenges: miserable weather, ravenous insects, scorching sunburns, and unforgiving terrain. It’s not merely a battle for survival but a test of their unity and sanity.

Amidst the chaos, Dorcas faces ceaseless trials: her husband’s unending bickering, her daughter’s descent into madness, and the ever-present danger of lethal rattlesnakes, intensifying the peril with each step. The specter of death looms large, with diseases spreading and the eerie howls of rabid wolves piercing the night. Will the haunting image of wolves desecrating a grave push Dorcas over the edge?

With each mile, the migration poses a haunting question: Who will endure the relentless quest to cross the continent, and who will leave their bones to rest beside the trail? The pathway is bordered by graves, a chilling reminder of the steep cost of dreams.

A Grave Every Mile marks the commencement of an unforgettable saga. Start reading Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail now to immerse yourself in an expedition where every decision carries the weight of life, death, and the pursuit of a brighter future along the Oregon Trail.

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MEGASTAR

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With a twist of fate and a bit of kismet, nineteen-year-old Addison Stone stumbles upon solace when he discovers his extraordinary singing voice that brings him unexpected international fame and fortune that he is ill-prepared for. As he climbs the ladder to musical acclaim, his heart remains tethered to a past he can never escape having been raised by a mentally unstable mother that left him emotionally scarred. From mother to son, the legacy of Addison’s turbulent childhood persists.
But amidst the blinding lights and thunderous applause, Addison falls in love with a young woman named Hanna and she with him. But soon there is a deafening silence as Addison loses Hanna’s love to his addiction to his new-found fame and fortune. He sets out to win her back.
Journey through the intricate roots of Addison’s life as “MEGASTAR” takes you on a captivating odyssey.

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True Grace by Karen E. Osborne

True Grace by Karen E. Osborne

A powerful story about love, courage, sacrifice, resilience, and hope. True Grace, set in 1924 during the Harlem Renaissance and Roaring Twenties, chronicles the journey of an immigrant, mixed-raced woman from The Congo, England, and Jamaica, fighting for her family’s survival.

Inspired by the author’s grandmother, Grace must navigate the misogyny and racism of the courts, banks, child welfare system, and bad actors to her hold her family together. Calling on her grit, determination, and grace, she must overcome harrowing circumstances. Readers will find themselves hooked from the first riveting chapter and cheering for Grace each step of the way.

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Margery

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“A lone hiker is drawn deep into the woods and emerges into a community set apart from the real world. What unfolds for him there—and the secret he discovers—isn’t what you might expect. With its rich descriptions of the natural world, its wise and articulate insights, its cast of humane characters, Margery addresses the deepest and most important issues we face. It’s Jeffrey Penn May’s best book.” – John Dalton, prize winning author of Heaven Lake and The Inverted Forest

Introverted backpacker Jeremy wanders off trail and discovers an eccentric, otherworldly town nestled in a mountain basin. The people he finds there are pleasant but a little bit peculiar. He befriends a reticent doctor and his quirky wife, and Margery, who regularly leaps from a cliff in death-defying bungee jumps.

Why, he wonders, do the otherwise healthy and upbeat townspeople seem to be disappearing? Does it have anything to do with hallucinogenic mushrooms and the transition from life to whatever lies beyond?

“This graceful, lyrical, and delicate novella lets us live in the mind of a fellow human who seeks solace and escape in the wilderness. May is brave enough to tackle and illuminate the big mysteries: how and why we keep going, how we face death, how we connect or fail to,

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The Hybrids by Quentin Eckman

The Hybrids by Quentin Eckman

An unlucky gambler, the essence of an alien being, and a brilliant, beautiful, doctoral candidate embark on an adventure unlike any they could imagine.

This a story about a gambler who was very lucky for a long time, then very unlucky for just long enough to find himself in serious trouble.

This is also the story of a young woman of surpassing beauty and remarkable intelligence, sometimes known as Ringo. Her father, the world’s greatest Beatles fan, is in the declining stages of dementia.

This is also a story about an alien from a planet twelve lightyears from Earth tasked with the unenviable undertaking to repair the damage he caused to Earth thousands of years ago.

Who are the Hybrids? They are us, or is it we are them?

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Mr Perkins takes Charge by Suzanne Stephenson

Mr Perkins takes Charge by Suzanne Stephenson

This is a very different story about a cat. One day Mr Perkins strolls into a lawyers office out of nowhere .Is he just a stray or a magical cat, who can make changes to the lives of people he meets at the law offices? The antics of Mr Perkins will amuse and sometimes mystify you. This is a Retiredstory for anyone who likes cats ,or a story for those who work in an office and think “what if”. Come and meet a very superior cat who may just bring a bit of sunshine to your life.

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Emma’s Perfect Puppy by Maleena Imbeah

About Featured Book: Emma’s Perfect Puppy by Maleena Imbeah

Emma has wanted a puppy for as long as she can remember. She is eight years old, almost nine, and on a mission to achieve this long-standing dream. It’s now or never, she believes. But her parents and older sister think she is not responsible enough to own a puppy. Despite the many obstacles in her way, she is unwavering in her quest for a puppy of her own. She is determined to do whatever it takes to get and keep a puppy forever. It’s a story of determination, challenges, love, and surprise. Will her long-standing dream ever be fulfilled?

Maleena Imbeah was born in Ghana, West Africa. She was educated at Achimota School in Accra and then at the University of Ghana, Legon. She then went overseas for postgraduate studies. After her studies, she lived and worked in different countries for over forty years.

Maleena self-published her first children’s book, Akos Moves Back to Africa in 2015, in paperback format. She had previously self-published a Ghanaian language book Let’s Speak Fanti in 2014, in paperback and audio formats. Both of her books are selling on Amazon. She also self-published a memoir about her 40 years of travels, in 2016, to share her experiences with family and friends.

On her retirement in 2018, she returned home to Ghana where she lives with her husband. They have two adult daughters. Maleena has since resumed writing and has also taken up gardening and fish farming as hobbies.

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Shades of Mortality by Jamal Barbari

About Shades of Mortality by Jamal Barbari:

Gather around the immortal fire and listen to time traveling, universe hopping, interdimensional storytellers who share with you the stories of life, death, love, and despair across the cosmos in Jamal Barbari’s debut short story collection, Shades of Mortality. Paired with each tale is a unique illustration drawn by 9 different talented artists who show their interpretation of 20 unique stories. This collection weaves the audience through dynamic tales across the multiverse and will have you question the very essence of mortality and what it means to you.

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David God’s Chosen Crucible by Joseph Ganci

David God’s Chosen Crucible by Joseph Ganci

Witness the heart-pounding and narrow escapes from the vengeful King Saul.
Eventually, and in desperation, David seeks sanctuary with Achish, the Philistine prince who calls David a friend, even giving him a Philistine village and inviting him to battle against Israel.
Be a party to the kidnapping of David’s two wives and his ferocious battle against the shapeshifting Amalekites.
Be a witness as he wins them back and, in doing so, captures a vast treasure trove of flocks, herds, and gold.
Come and join the battle at Mount Gilboa and the destruction of Saul and his sons foretold by the witch of Endor.
Celebrate the fall of the city of waters and the last puzzle piece needed to establish the empire of Israel.
Look down from the high walls of Rabbah and learn of the needed destruction of Uriah the Hittite.
Stand invited to the marriage ceremony of David and his soulmate Bathsheba, the future mother of Solomon, the future king of Israel.

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Concerning Intelletual Suicide in The Human Race by Massimo Fantini

About Concerning Intelletual Suicide in The Human Race by Massimo Fantini:

Intellectual suicide corresponds to the more or less conscious decision to switch off the brain and renounce rational thought in favor of attitudes dictated by superstitions, by established habits, by prejudices, by common places. The effects of irrational choices – made with the brain switched off – can be devastating for oneself and for the others. Examples range from conformism, to religious superstitions, to ideological fundamentalism, just to name a few possibilities.

Tommaso, the protagonist of this debate, is the victim of his parents’ intellectual suicide, perpetrated through procreation. Procreation – the unilateral act by which a couple throws innocent individuals into the stillicidium of life, without weighing the consequences that the hell of existence will have on them – is the most heinous form of intellectual suicide in the human race, not least because of the scale of its consequences.

The author’s intention is to shine the spotlight on the one reality that unites us all, that accompanies our lives from birth until death, but which is casted to our periphery: the human condition.

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The Tales of Zren Janin by ML Dunker

The Tales of Zren Janin by ML Dunker

“A deliberately paced work, but one with an expansive and ultimately engrossing setting.” – Kirkus review of A Gift of the Stars
“…new readers will fall for Zren, who often doubts himself and his abilities but tries his hardest to be whatever his friends need him to be. Although this fantasy tale is written for young adults, it’s sure to appeal to adult readers as well.” – Kirkus review of War and Wrens
“…engaging adventure-series” – Kirkus review of Exile: A New Beginning

The Tales of Zren Janin are stories of adventure, political intrigue, soldiers, spies, and bravery where no one is safe, promises are casually broken, and justice demands a price. The five book series is complete, and there is a sixth bnous book containing short stories in the Zreniverse.
For readers who like great worldbuilding in a South Pacific setting, heart-pounding escapes, stories about spies, saboteurs, and survivors when the odds are never in their favor.

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The Tales of Zren Janin boxed set by ML Dunker

The Tales of Zren Janin boxed set by ML Dunker

Three strangers race across two countries with only one goal: to survive.
Kerek, Matasi, and Vikland are three countries squabbling like quarrelsome siblings. The Kerek King has allowed banditry against anyone with a different language or skin color, and the Vikland Empress has had enough of her travelers injured and killed outside of her borders. Matasi has also suffered from Kerek’s brutality but has the money and power – or so the Triune Council believes – to break Kerek without bloodshed.

In a war of words and weapons, who will win? For when blood is shed, it is always the young and the poor who pay the greatest price.

The Tales of Zren Janin are stories of adventure, political intrigue, soldiers, spies, and bravery where no one is safe, promises are casually broken, and justice demands a price.
For readers who like great worldbuilding in a South Pacific setting, heart-pounding escapes, stories about spies, saboteurs, and survivors when the odds are never in their favor.
“A deliberately paced work, but one with an expansive and ultimately engrossing setting.” – Kirkus review
“…new readers will fall for Zren, who often doubts himself and his abilities but tries his hardest to be whatever his friends need him to be. Although this fantasy tale is written for young adults, it’s sure to appeal to adult readers as well.” – Kirkus review of War and Wrens
“…engaging adventure-series” – Kirkus review
The boxed set of The Tales of Zren Janin contains all five of the previously published books and a sixth book, What Zren Didn’t Know, comprised of bonus stories of what happened to the Wrens before Zren’s stories begin, events in the books told from others’ point of view, and what happened to the survivors.

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Home Cries the Soul by Leah Dawkins

Home Cries the Soul by Leah Dawkins

The author’s debut adult fiction novel is the first book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long- buried secrets, dead bodies, scandal, and one woman’s journey from discarded to redeemed.

Laura Lynne, youngest daughter of the Beauregard family, receives a call from her uncle. He is in jail for murder. Laura Lynne’s adult life has involved a divorce, remarriage, blended family, move, and career change. She has become a confident and successful woman in her new life. But one call and she feels like a teenager back in Mississippi being cast out of her parents’ home and privileged life for circumstances beyond her control. She has not returned to the family farm, Tea Olive Plantation, since 1985.

Skeletal remains have been unearthed, and along with them secrets and demons, demons that Laura Lynne has kept hidden well and has no desire to unleash. Faced with family obligations and her past, Laura Lynne returns to Venice, Mississippi. Here she rekindles relationships with her best friend, Grace, and her high school English teacher, Mary. Laura Lynne discovers a pattern of missing girls, stories all too similar to her own that fateful summer of her sophomore year. While she works to hold on to the amazing life she has created, she knows she must confront the evil that has haunted her for decades and bring to justice the man who is still actively pursuing other victims.

What she discovers is chilling and freeing.

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DUPLICITY by Jann Tomasko

DUPLICITY by Jann Tomasko

Conspiracies and the theories that surround them. The nature versus nurture debate continues as you follow this Author’s journey through political assassinations, The World Trade Center falling, loss of personal freedoms and the advent of welcoming conveniences that ultimately spy on us such as our own cell phones and internet services and the effects these have on an individual. Enter Boyd Balaban, you will see an impressionable young man and how these events shape and mold his psyche through his adult lifetime. This book was published to acknowledge the 60th anniversary of the JFK murder, unfortunately we will never know the real truth.

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Surviving Jane by Rodolfo Del Toro

Surviving Jane by Rodolfo Del Toro

Free today!!! New book from the author of Chasing Rabbits

Dr. David Schulz is looking for a career change. He’s burnt out and is planning a year-long sabbatical to travel and reset before beginning his ophthalmology residency. Counting down the days to his much-needed break, David must contend with all the complications of working at a busy hospital: unruly patients, frustrating senior staff, and growing fatigue.

During these last weeks, David is given a tough patient: young Jane Doe, a heroin addict, is brought in with severe injuries. Jane does not want to be in the hospital. Belligerent, aggressive, and demanding, Jane tests the boundaries of all the medical staff who attend her.

As David grows increasingly disgruntled, a surprising source reminds him why he entered the medical field in the first place: to help people.

An emotional journey featuring addiction, recovery, and hope, Surviving Jane is a richly detailed medical drama that provides an intimate look into life in a busy hospital.

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Too Cold To Handle: An 80s Church Lady Novella by Riley Blake

About Too Cold To Handle: An 80s Church Lady Novella by Riley Blake:

Too Cold to Handle, the third novella in the 80s Church Lady Mini-Series, is set in the Christian Women’s Club Mystery series.

About Too Cold To Handle:

When a small-town church picnic becomes ground zero for a crime scene, fingers are pointed at those with access to a particular poison. As the suspect pool gains momentum, a televangelist becomes a person of interest. Soon, Baduga residents begin to question one another as Harper Kay lands in the middle of a crime scene. And some believe that wherever the young church secretary goes, trouble is sure to follow.

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Shadows and Fury

About Shadows and Fury:

“Shadows and Fury” was born from my creative vision during my time in Oxford back in 1995. As both the writer and the illustrator, I poured my heart and soul into crafting each tale with intricate prose and bringing them to life with my own illustrations.

Within the pages of “Shadows and Fury,” readers will find themselves transported to a world where darkness and magic intertwine in captivating ways. Each story is a testament to the complexities of human nature, exploring themes of love, loss, and redemption.

Working on both the writing and the illustrations allowed me to fully immerse myself in the creative process, weaving together intricate plots and rich characters I invite readers to join me on a journey through enchanted forests, treacherous kingdoms, and the depths of the human soul.

“Shadows and Fury” is more than just a collection of fairytales; it’s a reflection of my passion for storytelling and my dedication to the craft of illustration. It’s my hope that this collection will inspire readers to rediscover the magic of fairytales and embark on their own creative adventures.

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A Citzen of All Times

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The Schönaus are a German family from the educated middle class who, at the beginning of the story, in 1913, lead a comfortable and peaceful life in Leipzig. The three children Charlotte, Dorothea and Heinrich – all named after characters from Goethe’s works – are raised in a humanistic spirit with high moral values. Life seems stable and the future is promising. But the turbulent 20th century soon descends upon the Schönaus. The first volume accompanies the family through World War I and the shattering of their familiar world. During the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, in a politically unstable time, the three Schönau children take their first steps into adult life. While Charlotte’s sister Dorchen enjoys the liberal cultural life in Berlin, her brother Heinrich is drawn to the wrong circles. Charlotte herself experiences the versatility of being a university student and suffers the first painful loss of her life.

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