About Northfighters – The View From the Chrystallis by Colm Dowd

What happens when you start to write a book for your kids to compete with Pokémon but you take so long to write it, it ends up more influenced by Smallville, Lost, Lord of the Rings and The X-Files? (To name a few)
You end up with ‘Northfighters – The View from the Chrystallis’.
This is not your typical fantasy book, but it is a fantasy. And it has it all.
Eleven year old Chris Talbot is the likeable protagonist, with his nerdy friend Josh, his bully nemesis Mike, and his heart’s desire Sylvia. All four of them end up avoiding near death on their school trip near Seattle. They are being pursued by ghoulish monsters that have been sent after them by the charismatic yet maniacal super villain Salazon. Salazon ‘The Evil’ as he would prefer to be known has supreme psychic powers and a pretty big chip on his shoulder. He has an elaborate scheme to trigger a massive battle between two of his world’s people that, he just doesn’t want to have around anymore.
Salazon has been given a forewarning that this boy Chris is somehow going to be a thorn in his side. Luckily for Chris and his friends, they are taken through a portal to a strange and beautiful land by the heroic Talbar, a lord of the Northfighter people. Talbar, with three of his fellow men, make it their duty to guide the children on a trek with war and deceit all around them, to try to find the real reason the kids have ended up here.
The spectre of Salazon builds throughout the book, but he is not the only stuff of legend that is to be found in this land. Fables tell of great and powerful beasts, the true Northfighter’s, namesakes of the people that came after. Do they exist? Salazon and Talbar both believe that they do. And this may be where the children are to come in.
Back in the real world the tough and cynical detective Janet Lansing is perplexed by the mystery surrounding the missing kids. Where this is all going and why is anyone’s guess. But it’s an entertaining ride, come jump on.

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About Just Add Water (Hetta Coffey Series, Book 1) by Jinx Schwartz

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JUST ADD WATER IS THE FIRST IN THE 10-BOOK HETTA COFFEY SERIES, AND WINNER OF THE NATIONAL EPPIE AWARD FOR BEST MYSTERY. .

MEET HETTA, A SASSY TEXAN WITH A SNAZZY YACHT, AND SHE’S NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!

She’s is a globe-trotting civil engineer with a swath of failed multi-national affairs in her jet stream, and is ready for a new adventure.
Plying the San Francisco waterfront, trolling for triceps, her attention is snagged by a parade of passing yachts—especially their predominantly male skippers—and experiences a champagne-induced epiphany: If she had a boat, she could get a man.

In spite of a spectacular ignorance of all things nautical, Hetta buys her dream boat, but a shadowy stalker, an inconvenient body, and Hetta’s own self-destructive foibles imperil her goal. Hetta Coffey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “sink or swim!”

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An Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, Jinx has written fourteen books, including ten in the award-winning Hetta Coffey series.
Raised in the jungles of Haiti and Thailand, with returns to Texas in-between, Jinx followed her father’s steel-toed footsteps into the Construction and Engineering industry in hopes of building dams. Finding all the good rivers taken, she traveled the world defacing other landscapes with mega-projects in Alaska, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Like the protagonist in her series, Jinx was single, with a yacht, when she met her husband, Robert “Mad Dog” Schwartz. They opted to become cash-poor cruisers rather than continue racing the rat, sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge, turned left, and headed for Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, where many of her books are set.
After losing the love of her life to cancer in 2016, she has divided her time between her boat, traveling the Baja, and writing. She is now setting out on a new adventure in her RV, wandering around and hoping to meet many of her readers.

About The World According To Good Gods by Greg Oliver

What our modern world needs most are deeply motivated people who are sophisticated, open-minded global thinkers overflowing with new ideas. Reading this book will surely help you to become one of them, especially when you do so in an unbiased fashion, with willingness to accept new ideas and novel thoughts on many different subjects and topics.

This is a book for truth seekers. And it is – for the most part – aimed at people who possess a broad-spectrum academic knowledge. In essence, it is an intellectually engaging textbook, which offers a novel approach to Scientific Naturalism. And so, it is not intended for people with limiting religious views or for those who are harbouring various modern-day dogmatic beliefs.

It is a comprehensive and well-researched book, which contains many new theses. That’s why you do not need to just read this book. You need to put the book down for a time and then come back to it again, instead of reading it at once from the beginning to the end. In other words, you need to take your time and digest it slowly…

There are many profound insights covered in its chapters that will make you think. It explores in depth the nature of our existence and investigates the scientific basis of happiness. “The World According To Good Gods” contains many self-explanatory truths, which on the whole supplement the general framework of the new-fangled worldview presented on its pages. Therefore, many references, which support the observations presented in this book, are deliberately omitted – as they are clearly not needed for people with adequate general knowledge.

Reading this book will help you take a step back and look at the big picture. Your life picture.

Are you truly happy?
Is there something important missing in your life?
Do you often ponder what the meaning of your life actually is?
Do you often query whether there is a God?
Do you sincerely think that you have a really good education? In any case, do you know beyond any doubt what a truly good education is?

Do you relate to any of these questions? If yes, then you must read this book.

“The World According To Good Gods” consists of six separate parts which deal with the complexity of these intertwined issues.

Part one is titled: “Myths, happiness and the sense of life”. It deals with the general theory of happiness. It makes blatantly obvious that being happy is the combined summation of all reasons why we exist.
Part two deals with various subjects like: genesis of all existence, chaos, good and evil, natural ethical principles, science and laws of nature.
Part three is about important characteristics of natural and man-made laws and cognitive optimism.
Part four talks about natural personal identity, various social aspects of our happiness, gender balance, metaphysics of culture and disintegration of the spirit.
Part five is dedicated to such topics as the concept of ‘satan’, dogmatic systems and the spiritual evolution of the human race.
Part six explains what the top quality, free and universal system of education and upbringing actually is.

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I am a retired teacher and world traveller, who has now devoted his free time to writing.
The wide scope of my tertiary studies included physics, mathematics, political sciences,
pedagogy, history of philosophy, psychology, macroeconomics and agriculture.
I have many passions. These include research of general history,
and unconventional investigations of the history of human thought.
I proudly call Australia home, where I live and write.
The fruits of my creative work and extensive philosophical explorations are represented
by my unique & vivid world vision, which is explored within the pages of my books.

About Desolation Run by James Snyder

70-something Oreny “Big” Johnson has a problem. Actually, he has two. Or maybe three. The first is that he’ll be dead from cancer, less than a year, which doesn’t particularly concern him: “The things I’ve been through, dying is just one more page in a long bad book.” But spending his last living days, taking his last living breath, behind steel bars does. That’s the second problem: Inmate #78903 in the notorious level-four Washington State prison known as Horseneck Bay.

Then there’s the money. Two million dollars of stolen military payroll, supposedly buried in some remote and mysterious south-Texas mountain range called Los Despoblados, or The Uninhabited, which sounds to Oreny like one of those places his mama Maybell always told him to avoid. But he’ll worry about that later. He has to get there first. Problem number three.

That’s when he brings those two smoldering dynamite sticks he’s attached himself to—his Luke-boy and Jaime—on board to help his tired old body break out of Horseneck and go dig up that money and then hightail it across the border into Mexico. And when they do break out, and Luke decides to bring his girlfriend Lauren along, and her enraged ex comes after them, and then the manhunt starts multiplying faster around them than those cancer cells inside him, Oreny still thinks he can control them. The problems, that is. At least, until Cade arrives.

Cade, the prison investigator Oreny knows is dangerous and unpredictable as a six-foot-two wolverine on eight gallons of adrenalin gone bad. And who won’t stop until he catches them and does to them what Cade does best.

Cade, Oreny knows better than anything else, is their biggest problem of all.

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James Snyder was born in Memphis, Tennessee and fell in love with the cadence and sound of storytelling as a child, listening to the meandering tales of his Southern grandmothers and great aunts. While still a child, his family moved to Napa Valley, California where he attended middle and high school, and began taking writing classes at the local college. He left after a year to join the military, and was a soldier with a tactical mobile operations unit in Germany when, pulling a Harz mountaintop guard duty one night during a snowstorm, he had the chance encounter with another soldier that ultimately became the genesis for his debut military thriller AMERICAN WARRIOR.

He is also the author of the suspense thriller DESOLATION RUN, the literary coming-of-age THE BEAUTIFUL-UGLY, the short story collection TALES OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, and other literary works.

“Berlin Diaries” is his blog where he occasionally ponders the realpolitik of his, and other, writings.

He currently lives in Texas.

About The Abiding Church by Nate Sweeney

Leading a church can be frustrating, exhausting, and fruitless. In an increasingly hostile modern world, it can be difficult to stay relevant as churches compete against hundreds of alternatives.

Nate Sweeney, directional leader of the Catalyst Church and Abiding Network, shares his stories and steps on how to speak up and be heard, in a world which has become increasingly unwilling to listen.

The Abiding Church is updated and revitalized, and on a special .99 promotion for the first week – grab a copy today and learn what it truly means to become a fellowship of Christ in the modern age.

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Nate Sweeney is an author, pastor and family man, and has led several ministries since graduating from Bible school in 1997. His work and experience rest and are exemplified in his most recent titles, now further updated for the new millennium.

About SURVIVOR

A civilization destroyed. A species doomed to wander the cosmos. A lone survivor feared by all, her voice silenced and her face veiled behind a metal mask.

The Atlantia is all that remains of humanity: a former military fleet frigate turned prison-ship now hunted by a terrifying force and haunted by escaped convicts threatening the survival of her beleaguered crew and civilians.

Trapped in orbit around a foreign world, damaged and low on supplies, the crew of the Atlantia are forced to make a deal with the devil to forge an alliance of murderous convicts, exhausted soldiers and terrified civilians in a last-ditch attempt to confront the technological horror that has consumed mankind.

Humanity’s last stand begins here, and only one woman stands between annihilation and our future…

Survivor is the first volume of the “Atlantia” space opera series from internationally best-selling thriller and action adventure author D.C. Ford. Just $0.99 for a limited time only.

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D.C. Ford is a pen-name of Sunday Times best selling author Dean Crawford. The author of over thirty novels, his work has featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent and many other major publications. His books have sold over half a million copies worldwide.

About Right Under My Nose

My life couldn’t get any more ridiculous.

A few days ago, my son’s teacher wanted to berate me on my parenting style.

I politely told her to f*ck off, in so many words.

And now? She’s sitting across the table from me at my first blind date in years.

You can’t make this shit up.

Nothing has been easy since my wife left me and Hunter years ago. And yet, we persevered.

He’s my whole world, and the last thing I have time for is a woman.

But this beautiful teacher disagrees. She wants to help me find the right girl for me and my boy. My best friend agrees. It’s time.

To shut everyone up, I go along with it. How bad can this get?

Don’t ask.

The right woman has been under my nose the whole time. And without realizing it, I’ve fallen deeply in love with her.

I can only hope she’ll stop her silly search and accept my offer.

Be mine.

Forever.

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Ali Parker is a full-time contemporary and new adult romance writer with more than a hundred and twenty books behind her. She loves coffee, watching a great movie and hanging out with her hubs. By hanging out, she means making out. Hanging out is for those little creepy elves at Christmas. No tight green stockings for her.

She’s an entrepreneur at heart and loves coming up with more ideas than any one person should be allowed to access. She lives in Texas with her hubs and three kiddos and looks forward to traveling the world in a few years

About Harvest Deep

Something deep in the earth has evolved…

Hidden in the West Desert of Utah, the gold rush town of Mammoth is a shell of its former glory. But for Liz Chilton, a photojournalist on assignment, it’s the place she was born and where her mother grew up. Forty years after fleeing the area, Liz seeks to reconnect with her now-deceased mother’s past.

Unspeakable deeds concealed in darkness…

What begins as an adventurous road trip for Liz, her husband, and another couple, takes a horrific turn when they discover a slaughtered man at an RV park. Something has partially consumed him—something inhuman.

The group is dragged into a twisted conspiracy tied to the old family mine, marked by a massive hole on the side of the mountain. Confronted by her mother’s hidden past and the mine’s dark purpose, Liz and her friends must fight to survive or fall prey to the secret nesting deep within the caverns.

Harvest Deep will be free on Amazon October 20, 21 and 22nd.

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Trent Pettry is a graduate from the University of North Carolina, and has been an Information Technology professional for over twenty years. Prior to college, he served in the US Navy as a sonar technician on a nuclear fast-attack submarine. Trent is also an artist and inventor.

Trent lives with his wife and children in the Salt Lake City area.

About Abundance: An endearing romance novel by Shanna Swenson

Misfortune comes to us all in some form…

For Natalie Cameron, misfortune came in the most unspeakable way imaginable, now she must try and rebuild her life while fighting her own dark demons, the town speculation, her arrogant brother and her raging desire for the kindest man she’s ever met.

Natalie Cameron, along with her young daughter, Dallas, is on the run from a past that threatens to destroy her sanity. When her car breaks down on the side of a two lane Texas road, Jack Kinsen, her parent’s ranch foreman, unknowingly comes to her rescue. His kind eyes and sincere charm make him an easy target for Natalie’s trust issues and pent-up aggressions. But it doesn’t take her long to realize that her attitude towards him has a lot less to do with jealousy and a lot more to do with the fact that his closeness sets her on fire like no one else ever has. His sincerity begins to disarm the front she guards so vigilantly. If she isn’t careful, she could find herself lost to him….

At first glance, Jack Kinsen is fascinated by Natalie Butler Cameron and her child with her most curious gift. Natalie is the beloved only daughter of Jack’s employers and he’s not only baffled by her indifference to him but mystified by her unwarranted anger. She starts to awaken something primal within him, but will his compassionate nature be enough to break down the walls she hides behind or are her wounds simply too deep to heal?

Just as Natalie’s fate begins to turn around, unknowing danger lurks on the horizon. Natalie’s disturbing past is about to make an unexpected return…and with vengeance.

Abundance is a charming novel that will sweep you away with romance, drama and suspense as it expresses the depth of raw human emotion and the strength it takes to overcome tragedy.

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Shanna Swenson is the author of Abundance and Return to Abundance, endearing romance novels that showcase how true love can conquer any tragedy. She hopes to release her next book in the series in early 2019.

Shanna is a Georgia native who spent many of her childhood summers traveling across the south to her father’s home state of Texas, which only served to fuel her love of travel and family. Shanna has gone from being a bartender to a 911 dispatcher to performing cardiac ultrasounds, but writing has always been her true passion. She started writing her first works, the groundwork for her first three novels, at the age of fourteen and writes predominately romance, including paranormal and fantasy.

She married her own “knight in shining armor” in 2015 and when she’s not typing away at her next novel, she enjoys traveling, watching football, hiking, yoga, movies of the action and horror genres, photography, music, reading books of all kinds and being on the water.

About Mt. Everest in Flip-Flops by Terence Shannon

By any standard, it was an impossible crush I had on her. She was Mt. Everest, a knockout nurse seven years older, in 1972 the difference between Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Almost nowhere else could I have caught her, except for the one place we were, a Catholic summer camp, where isolation, proximity and time could suspend normal convention just enough for it to happen. “Jake, she’s out of your league,” a friend says. “She’s Mt. Everest, and you’re wearing flip-flops.”

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I worked at a Catholic summer camp for four years in the 1970s. We all went to private, same-sex Catholic high schools. This was how we spent our summers.

About The Wildes of the West #2

It’s Mexican mayhem as sinister sex traffickers, banditos and a murderous, masked mad man are only the beginning when beauties, bad hombres and plenty of bullets mix it up in the part one of the Danger Down Mexico Way trilogy.

Settling into her new life in 1913 Arizona Allie Mastluehr is plunged deeper into the 1870’s escapades of the Wilde sisters and their forays south of the border fraught with danger, intrigue and a healthy dose of sexual adventuring.

Enthralled by Catalina and Cassandra’s battle to stop the terror of The Reaper of the Rio Sangre Allie also finds herself in a war of her own…against the family of her new love Connor Kincaid and before all is said and done the Wildes will live or die as the shocking secret of Cedar Ledge will be revealed…the very secret that helped lead Allie to the desolate ruins of Half Breed Haven.
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With sharp wits and guns blazing, the fair-skinned Cassandra, Asian Lijuan, mulatto Honor Elizabeth, and Mexican Catalina-The Daughters of Half Breed Haven, were a force to be reckoned with as they fought and loved their way from the deserts and streets to the bedrooms of 1870’s Arizona and beyond.

The Reaper of the Rio Sangre is the latest installment of a female lead novel series, The Wildes of the West, where action, sibling suspense and bawdy romance combine in this female adventure novel forming a tale worthy of the wicked Wild West.

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A.M. Van Dorn enjoys flipping the script on Westerns believing “Cowboys shouldn’t have all the fun” by replacing the usual lantern-jawed cowboy hero with four bold, beautiful and brave half-sisters in the Wildes of the West/Half Breed Haven Series. Combining a love of old character-driven tv westerns such as Bonanza, The Big Valley, and The High Chapparal A.M. Van Dorn pays homage to these 1960’s classics with a decisively 21st-century bent.

About The Dark Awakening

I never knew what real, honest-to-God pain was until the night of my high school graduation when someone I loved more than life itself drove a knife deep into my chest. By the grace of God, I survived. But just as I was beginning to piece myself back together again, the handsome and enigmatic Caleb Blackwell stepped out of the shadows and told me the truth about my past…and my identity.

Now here we are. Face to face. He says he knows me. That I belong to him. But how is that possible?

I’m both intrigued and frightened by Caleb. And if what he says is true, my life will change forever. According to him, I’m an original member of a centuries-old coven of witches whose sole purpose for existence is to seek out and destroy the supernatural dark forces which threaten mankind. And if that weren’t enough, I have to learn to harness the powers I never knew I possessed and use them to slay those demons and banish them from Earth.

I have a choice to make. I can run and hide from my calling, or I can stand my ground and fight to save not only those I love but all of mankind. Deep down, I know what I must do. After all, it’s not just my newly discovered life…it is my destiny.

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D.L. Blade grew up in southern California, but relocated to Colorado with her family in 2014.

She always loved writing, concentrating on poetry rather than prose when she was younger. That changed however, when she had a dream one night and decided to create a story about it.

In her spare time, D.L. enjoys a wide variety of hobbies, including reading, attending rock concerts and volunteering at local animal shelters where she can indulge in her passion for all forms of life.

In the future, D.L. hopes that she can continue to write exciting novels that will captivate her readers and bring them into the worlds that she creates using her imagination.

About Professor K: The Final Quest by Gabriel Farago

A desperate plea from the Vatican. A kidnapped chef. An ambitious mob boss. One perilous game.
When Professor Alexandra Delacroix is called in to find a cure for the dying pope, she follows clues left by her mentor and friend, the late Professor K, which lead her on a breathtaking search through historical secrets, some of them deadly.

Her old friend Jack Rogan must step in to assist while also searching for kidnapped Top Chef Europe winner Lorenza da Baggio.

He joins forces with his young friend and gifted psychic, Tristan, a dedicated mafia hunting prosecutor, a fearless young police officer, and an enigmatic Egyptian detective on a perilous hunt for a notorious IS terrorist.

Together, they stand off with the head of a powerful Mafia family in Florence and uncover a network of corruption and heinous crimes reaching to the very top.

Will Rogan and his friends succeed in finding Lorenza and curing the pope, or will the dark forces swirling around them prevail in their sinister plots?

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Gabriel Farago is the international, bestselling and multi-award-winning Australian author of the Jack Rogan mysteries and thrillers series for the thinking reader.

As a lawyer with a passion for history and archaeology, Gabriel had to wait for many years before being able to pursue another passion–writing–in earnest. However, his love of books and storytelling started long before that.

Born in Budapest, Gabriel grew up in post-War Europe, and after fleeing Hungary with his parents during the Revolution in 56, he went to school in Austria before arriving in Australia as a teenager. This allowed him to become multi-lingual and feel ‘at home’ in different countries and diverse cultures. Shaped by a long legal career and experiences spanning several decades and continents, his is a mature voice that speaks in many tongues.
Gabriel lives in the Blue Mountains in Australia just outside Sydney, surrounded by a World Heritage National Park.

About Summary & Analysis of Aware by ZIP Reads

If you’re looking for ways to improve your mental health and overall well-being, Aware provides an in-depth look at the ways in which the past can affect the present, and helps you change the way you react to every-day stimuli.

With detailed discussions of brain and nervous system function as well as your connection to quantum physics and energy flow, this book profoundly demonstrates the interconnectedness of all people and the planet while providing valuable tips to practice Siegel’s “Wheel of Awareness” technique.

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About Eve

They never thought that the symbol of their love could carry so much power. Jesse and Evelyn faithfully nurture their taboo relationship (despite, and with, the ‘help’ of supernatural forces) while uncovering the dark secrets of their families’ pasts. The bond between the two could be the only hope for erasing global segregation and returning the great First Pyramid to its former glory.

Make your way back to the saga that started it all …

The Tower of Babel has been cast down, segregating Pangea and Mankind alike …
Can Love reunite opposing Creeds?
Their journey will make you believe!

EVE

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Jay Horne is a husband and father of four out of Bradenton, Florida.