About Shadows of the Stone Benders

For fans of Dan Brown, a riveting archaeology-based murder mystery. Scientist Anlon Cully is swept into the thick of a suspense-riddled adventure when his archaeologist uncle, Devlin Wilson, dies under suspicious circumstances.

Not long before his “accidental” fall off a cliff, Devlin made the discovery of a lifetime – unearthing undeniable proof that an advanced society thrived on Earth long before archaeologists thought possible!

The key to this shocking evidence? A set of mysterious stones forged by a long forgotten race of ancient mariners. Instilled with formidable powers, the stones draw the attention of villainous thieves hell bent on their acquisition by any means possible…including murder.

With the help of friend Pebbles McCarver and police detective Jennifer Stevens, Anlon must follow traces of bewildering clues left by his uncle in a chase to unravel the stones’ secrets before the killer strikes again and makes off with the priceless artifacts.

In celebration of the launch of book 4 in the Anlon Cully Chronicles series, Priestess of Paracas, Shadows of the Stone Benders, book 1 in the series, will be discounted to $0.99 from December 17 through December 22.

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K. Patrick Donoghue is the author of two series; the Anlon Cully Chronicles, an archaeology-based mystery-thriller series, and the Rorschach Explorer Missions, a new sci-fi thriller series.

Patrick’s inspiration for the Anlon Cully Chronicles is rooted in his long-standing interest in ancient civilizations. In particular, a series of still-unexplained archaeological discoveries that suggest at least one advanced society thrived on Earth long before consensus views.

In similar fashion, Patrick takes a contrarian/alternative view toward deep space exploration, the existence of extraterrestrial life and ancient aliens in the Rorschach Explorer Missions.

His books include:

Shadows of the Stone Benders
Race for the Flash Stone
Curse of the Painted Lady
Priestess of Paracas (new release: December 17, 2019)
UMO
Skywave
Magwave (new release: July 31, 2019)

About Frey

Frey lives in a world where humans are fairy tales.
Where the powerful rule and her magic is broken. That life is a lie. Dark secrets unravel as she risks everything to rise above a dangerous past.

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Melissa is the author of the Frey Saga, Descendants Series, and Shattered Realms. She is currently working on the next book, but when not writing can be spotted collecting the things she loves at Goodreads and Pinterest. Contact her through the web at www.melissa-wright.com

About Aethereal

Emrys has not come to court of Wyst for the royal wedding. Nor does she care for the politics of magic and science. Raised by the mysterious and reclusive Lord Bruma, she has come to clear the Bruma name from a long-ago disgrace and reclaim the family’s legacy – a powerful tool of alchemy, one that can harness the Aether itself – from the very royals who’d denounced its existence. But nothing at court is as she expects, nor is everyone what they seem, including the Crown Prince himself. As Emrys searches for the lost Bruma legacy and the truth behind its theft, she finds herself increasingly embroiled in courtly drama, affairs of honor – and of the heart. With the prince’s wedding approaching, international relations straining, and the age-old debate of science versus magic reignited, Emrys’ loyalties are pulled in different directions and the danger may be closer than she realizes.

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Kerry Reed graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and then from George Mason University with a Masters in Literature because apparently she couldn’t get enough of the books. She loves transatlantic accents, blackberry frappes, and old-school British detective novels. She writes YA Fantasy but enjoys a good story wherever she finds one. After a whirlwind seven moves in eight years she now lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and three young sons.

About The Watenabe Name

Japanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the secrets surrounding his father’s murder for many years. When a detective calls in 2002 hoping to solve the case with new information, Kenji takes immediate action to keep the truth from becoming public. Yet, Kenji would rather die than reveal the secret.

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About Spanish with a Twist – The 1000 most common Words in 10 Hours by Languages with a Twist

According to a study, the 1000 most common Spanish words make up over 85% of the spoken language. This allows you to express almost anything you want. With Languages with a Twist, you will quickly develop a Spanish vocabulary of 1000 words using innovative Mnemo techniques. Improve your Spanish in record-breaking time using unique learning methods!

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Languages with a Twist offers a new unique learning system which allows you to learn a new language in the most efficient way. Our learning techniques, tested and approved in seminars and workshops with thousands of participants, are specialized on the quick memorizing of vocabulary. Revolutionizing the conventional dull vocabulary training while having fun and being creative instead. These are not only memory hooks, but also established learning techniques that improve your memory and brain performance. In this way, you are able to learn in an efficient, creative and sustainable way.

About Tales From Elliseran Book One Hooded Bluff

Tales from Elliseran told by Brogan Kragbeard of the Mountain Dwarfs. Follow Giggles on her first adventure on the island of Hooded Bluff as she tries to get the egg of the Shadowleaf bird. Only by stealing the egg from Gildryd The Jealous One can Giggles free her brother from his glass prison.
But first Giggles must face many challenges from the Men of Stone through to making her way through the mysterious and dangerous Knotley Forest. Then there are the Tils to deal with. By the way have you ever had a conversation with a pie?
This book is part of an entire system bringing fantasy adventure to children and offering a website where it is possible for your child to visit the fantasy world of Elliseran – Land of the Five Islands.

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Ken Long is a retired teacher. After retiring from teaching Ken worked as lead programmer on the two highly successful education programs, LessonMaker and the Primary Explorer Series. Both packages were used in primary schools in the UK and across forty countries worldwide. Ken now lives in France where he works on his creation, the fantasy land of Elliseran – Land of Five Islands. on which he bases his books as told by Brogan Kragbeard of the Mountain Dwarfs. Ken uses his skills in IT to enhanced the stories with 3-D character pictures unique to Elliseran. These same characters can be seen singing, dancing and moving around Elliseran on the Elliseran website. This multitasking has allowed Ken to produce and continue to produce a unique total book experience.

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About The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Monkey’s Paw” is a hair-raising supernatural horror that has gripped readers since its publication in 1902. This story has taught my own students about the craft of building suspense throughout a story and the art of using dialogue to bring a tale to life. W.W. Jacobs is a master at capturing readers’ attention, and for this reason, I highly recommend “The Monkey’s Paw” for those seeking to deepen their understanding of story craft or simply looking enjoy a riveting short.

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His three listeners leaned forward eagerly. The visitor absent-mindedly put his empty glass to his lips and then set it down again. His host filled it for him again.

“To look at,” said the Sergeant-Major, fumbling in his pocket, “it’s just an ordinary little paw, dried to a mummy.”

He took something out of his pocket and proffered it. Mrs. White drew back with a grimace, but her son, taking it, examined it curiously.

“And what is there special about it?” inquired Mr. White as he took it from his son, and having examined it, placed it upon the table.

“It had a spell put on it by an old Fakir,” said the Sergeant-Major, “a very holy man. He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it.”

His manners were so impressive that his hearers were conscious that their light laughter had jarred somewhat.

“Well, why don’t you have three, sir?” said Herbert White cleverly.

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W.W. Jacobs was a prolific author of short stories and novels. While alive, he was best known for his comedies; however, today “The Monkey’s Paw” (1902) is his most famous work.

About Tiny Life & The Monster Head

In a world gone mad with competing ambitions, every dream has its price.

A mouse-crossed mutant called Tiny – unseen in a land of giants – uses scavenged materials to build a city with nobody in it. A teenage beekeeper called Frankie has a dangerous dream to become an artist, but according to his father, the only “drawing with prospects” is a mathematical money graph.

Until a mutual love of paint brings them crashing together, they live as strangers in a rural idyll with a far off city view. But there is carnage in the grasslands, where salt is a chemical weapon. And behind the walls of a nearby laboratory, bigger creatures are being tortured for their genes. When the secret is set loose, and a beguiling art dealer comes knocking, both their lives are thrown into turmoil.

Tiny Life and the Monster Head is a tale of survival in strange times, as diverse in its appeal as the genre tags it defies: for younger readers, it’s a real-science fiction adventure fantasy. For adults, it’s a darkly humorous send-up of humanity’s belief in its mastery of nature.

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Rai Gbrym has been at various times a shoe string filmmaker, a six string busker, a stop-motion animator, an explorer, a food salesman and a factory robot, but throughout it all he has always been a writer. Tiny Life and the Monster Head is the first novel he finished and the the third that he started.

That's the snappy third person summary and now, if you’re still here, let me tell you a little about the journey behind the story. The seeds of Tiny Life were sewn in India long before the place got swamped by Honda mopeds and Western hairstyles. At that time, it was a land of otherness where the words and pictures on the walls invited people to think of themselves as spiritual beings with immortal souls, not mindless consumers with material desires.

It would be another nine years before I started writing the book – and in fact I began a different one in between – but the character of Tiny and his city of dreams kept on growing side by side with the babble, bustle and fuss of the atomised metropolis I had come back to, as well as all the little people busying about it in their daily battles to beat the clock and to beat each other.

I wrote most of the novel in England inside a shed. Yes, a shed! Not a revolving one like Roald Dahl's – and a lot smaller besides – but still a space that was inside yet outside at the same time, and a place to build a world that was nagging to be built.

Later on, I exported the strange architecture of this world to Berlin where I tinkered with it some more inside a DDR time capsule with a coal oven and a TV Tower view, which undoubtedly added some texture. Our graffiti strewn building was one of the last hold outs of Prenzlauer Berg, two thirds intact with trees and a communal garden where the bomb had demolished the Vorderhaus. It was a little oasis and I counted myself lucky to have been one of the last commoners to have lived there before it was eventually gentrified for the more deserving rich.

I felt a strong connection with that city, its people and its history. It's an empathy thing – deep in the pores, like ground-in dirt. And let's face it, there aren't many places left where you can inadvertently wander into a catacomb of rusty spiral staircases and abandoned surgical apparatus and find William Burroughs, returned from the dead, performing a one man symphony of feedback using only two notes. That's the stuff Tiny's dreams were made of.

About Boyd and Sarge – NYPD Law and Disorder

Officer Boyd and the Sarge are quite possibly the dumbest cops in the NYPD. They’re definitely the last people you want to call in an emergency!

Incompetent yet somehow lovable, hapless Boyd and grumpy Sarge have become a huge hit on Twitter. Their legion of loyal fans eagerly await daily episodes full of ridiculous humor.

If you’re a fan of The Far Side by Gary Larson, there’s a good chance you’ll love Boyd and Sarge.

Packed with puns, dad jokes, black humor and fantastic illustrations, everyone will love Boyd and the Sarge

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BLAIR DENHOLM is an Australian fiction writer and translator who has lived and worked in New York, Moscow, Munich, Abu Dhabi and Australia. He once voted in a foreign election despite having no eligibility to do so, was almost lost at sea on a Russian fishing boat, and was detained by machine-gun toting soldiers in the Middle East.

His first book is a delightful children’s novel, Escape from Passing Winds. The perfect middle-grade reader for young girls who love reading, and a great book for boys to discover how awesome girls can be.

Denholm’s debut crime novel, SOLD, is the first in a thrilling noir trilogy, featuring the detestable yet lovable one-man wrecking ball Gary Braswell. Watch out for the next exciting book in the series, SOLD to the Devil, coming very soon.

Another addition to the bookshelf is the first illustrated volume of Boyd and the Sarge. Denholm’s legion of loyal followers on Twitter have gone made for these two hilarious NYPD cops and their crazy dialogues.

And next year, he’ll be releasing a couple of crime series, one of them with a vampire twist!

About The Falcon and the Viper by Clive Du Cros

A bizarre aerial duel to the death takes place in the clear blue skies over Kent during the Battle of Britain in 1940. Some seventy years later, a group of aviation enthusiasts discover a Hurricane fighter buried deep under the wetlands of Romney Marsh. The wreckage of the crashed fighter gives up secrets that lead to a trail of treachery, corruption and murder in the highest echelons of the present day British government.
Charlie Britton, a tough, no-holds barred investigative journalist, helped by cub reporter Samantha Cox, slowly unravel the intricate web of clues and evidence and discover a plot to overthrow the new, popular UK government elected after the chaos of Brexit. Should the conspirators succeed, then the United Kingdom will be annexed by a Germany once again ruled by ruthless, fanatical Nazis. The fascists are determined to achieve what the Fatherland set out but failed to do in 1940, and will not rest until all of Europe is finally under their control.
In a desperate race against time, Charlie and Samantha try to stop an assassination attempt crucial to the conspirators’ plan of overthrowing the UK government, when they stumble across an attack of even greater magnitude by ISIS jihads. An attack that if successful will wreak havoc on the City of London, killing thousands of citizens and plunging the country into economic disaster for years to come.

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I have been involved in similar situations to some of the action scenes in the book, such as being chased by Spanish customs boats and helicopters in the Straits of Gibraltar (by mistake!) and also having a boat sink under me. I’ve driven FF & F3 cars in supporting races for F1 GP’s on race tracks in the UK, useful for the car chases. Flown vintage aircraft, including a Spitfire at air shows and crashed one! I greatly enjoy writing and have written articles for sailing and aviation magazines as well as engineering journals. I am now retired, though still very active, riding fast motorbikes, driving powerful cars, taking part in sports and am currently writing two further novels, now that I finally have the time! cliveducros@hotmail.com

About Phobia

“Detective Sergeant Honor McVey is returning to work after six months stress-leave from the City of London Police. A bizarre suicide is her first catch, but it’s not long before she realises that the death is anything but a suicide.

Thrown headlong into a terrifying game of cat and mouse with a killer who seems able to move without detection, Honor finds herself chasing a murderer like no other – one who kills his victims by exposing them to their greatest fears.

As the body count begins to climb, Honor finds herself exposed to her own terrors, as one by one the killer hunts down anybody who tries to identify them.

And then they up the stakes again. Now, you’re not just going to die from your greatest phobia – the rest of the world is going to watch too…”

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Dean Crawford is the Sunday Times best selling author of more than thirty thrillers, crime, action and science fiction novels. His books have sold in over twenty countries around the world and attracted the attention of Hollywood film producers.