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My Little Sister : Papa God’s Mighty And Marvelous Works Kindle Edition  

About My Little Sister : Papa God’s Mighty And Marvelous Works Kindle Edition

With its sound biblical teachings, this book will motivate children to discover more about Jesus’ unconditional love for all of us and develop a strong personal and friendly relationship with him. Through the story, prayers, songs, Bible verses, and activities, readers will love and appreciate Jesus more for being our divine Father and friend.

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Author Bio:
This is Noverene’s first children’s book. She has been a teacher to students of all ages and different nationalities for over fifteen years and holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Education. Noverene also worked as a school principal but was called out of the regular school system twice by God to a life of full-time ministry. After completing a Master of Divinity for pastoral work, she was sent by the Lord as an apostle, on missionary assignments to fulfill a purpose. As an ordained minister of the gospel, Noverene is devoted to spending her time doing God’s will and thus pleasing him. With her zeal for the things of God, she enjoys creating programs of advancement that motivate and inspire young people and children to flourish in Jesus Christ. God has placed in her heart a special and unreserved love for children. She cares for them, and in so doing, helps to nurture their growth and development along the pathway of righteousness. Jesus unexpectedly and miraculously transformed Noverene’s entire life from being ‘tragically incapacitated’ to a life of hope and abundance. As a result, she is completely ‘sold out to God’ and would love for everyone who has not yet experienced the unconditional love of God to do so. Noverene was born in Jamaica but resides in Canada.



The Tortilla Star  

About The Tortilla Star

In The Tortilla Star, Bette finds that love can come in different forms – one that unlike her professional work as an accountant, she doesn’t control, that isn’t orderly, and is highly unpredictable. Though she’s six inches taller and hasn’t gotten past Spanish 101, she relishes being drawn into a rich, passionate adventure with Marco, an undocumented immigrant. As a volunteer teaching English, she is introduced to a new culture which welcomes her into its folds of family, long-held customs, and fiestas, as well as poverty and racism. She experiences first-hand some of her students’ challenges in the U.S. and also shares their joys – a child’s first time in a swimming pool, the wonders of a county fair. On this journey with Marco and her other Mexican immigrant friends, she hopes desperately that her expanding sense of family will not dissolve as the government makes rules that destabilize their lives.

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Author Bio:
Abbey Carpenter is an author, an editor, and a creative spirit. When not writing she can be found gardening, volunteering, hiking, yarn bombing, playing the uku, birdwatching, or building something. She has worked, taught, and volunteered in areas of social justice and environmental sustainability. She lives in Silver City, New Mexico on the edge of 3.3 million acres of national forest which she explores as often as possible.

Abbey was a CHID major – Comparative History of Ideas – at the University of Washington and has two graduate degrees from Prescott College in Sustainable Community Development and Creative Writing. Her curiosity about the world and its inhabitants keeps her studying and exploring and then trying to relay what she finds in writing. Her stories and essays have been previously published in Muse It Up, Sustainable Ways, and Read It Here.



Two Princes  

About Two Princes

Gets under your skin and into your heart. – Romantic Fanatic

New York Times and USA Today BESTSELLING AUTHOR, Victoria Danann, dishes up story with sizzle.

“A hot, sweet romance that will make you laugh and sigh.” – Cafeworld

Two brothers, unknown to each other, are on a crash course with destiny. One finds love. One finds the piece missing from his soul. Both find each other.

Brigid was a graduate student at the University of Texas. It wasn’t hard getting her thesis approved, but finding a Hill Country motorcycle club willing to give her access to their lifestyle was starting to look impossible. Then she got a lead. A friend of a friend had a cousin with family ties to The Sons of Sanctuary. Perfect. Or so she thought.

Brash was standing in line at the H.E.B. Market when his world tipped on its axis. While waiting his turn to check out, his gaze had wandered to the magazine display and settled on the new issue of “NOW”. The image on the cover, although GQ’d up in an insanely urbane way, was… him.

After reading the article, he threw some stuff in a duffle and caught a plane to New York, on a mission to find a mysterious asshole walking around with his face.

“Victoria Danann is Queen of alpha males.” – Slashed Reads

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Author Bio:
Eight Times Amazon #1 Bestseller
TWO MILLION DOWNLOADS

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Victoria Danann.

In addition to the brave and beautiful vampire hunting knights, Victoria writes other paranormal romances that often touch on scifi/fantasy along with contemporary bikers for those who love it when the bad boys are soooooo good.

Victoria’s signature humor (“Everybody was staring at me because I was on the subway in fits of laughter and couldn’t stop!”) creeps into each and every book whether she intends it or not. But the heart of Victoria’s books is romance, the real kind that lasts and lingers like a charge in the air. Forever.

The rich characterizations and quirky personalities that readers so often comment about come from being a lifelong student of behavior – casually (love to people watch), and a serious student of behavior academically. She has also studied comparative religion, myths, and Dark Ages history.

Victoria lives in The Woodlands, Texas with her husband and a very smart, mostly black German Shepherd dog.



Half-Born (Half-Blood Chronicles #1) by Ivy Baum  

Half-Born (Half-Blood Chronicles #1) by Ivy Baum

She never wanted magic. But to survive, she’s going to need it.

Kes Adler just wants her old life back—the one she had before her father walked out.  

The night she accepts a ride from the mysterious Sol Kyrion, Kes learns that there’s another world out there.  A world of magic—and danger.

Now she’ll have to embrace her new powers…or be hunted down by those who have marked her for death.

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As a child, Ivy spent most of her time scribbling stories in spiral-ring notebooks. They were uniformly terrible.

After years of trying to talk herself into more sensible pursuits, she’s back to doing what comes naturally—spending time in made-up worlds and having conversations with people who don’t exist.

She writes books where magic is real and everyone has an endless supply of snarky banter. Because she has a short attention span, she tries to leave out the boring parts.

Ivy lives in frozen New England with her husband, three children, and golden retriever—who is easily the best-behaved of the bunch.

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Harvest Deep Book One  

About Harvest Deep Book One

“There must be hundreds of vehicles down here… How many people have they killed?”

Seeking to reconnect with her deceased mother’s past, Liz Chilton, a photojournalist on assignment with her husband and friends, take a road trip in their RV to a remote town in the West Desert of Utah. The former gold rush settlement of Mammoth, her mother’s birthplace, is now a ghost town. The cavernous old mine, dormant… or so it seems.

After her friend, Scott, has his drone shot out of the sky, a series of disturbing events soon has them fighting for their lives. Confronted by the family she never knew and the mine’s horrifying purpose, Liz must save herself and her friends from their captors—or fall prey to what lurks in the caverns below.

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Author Bio:
Trent Pettry grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, spending his early years playing soccer, baseball, living in the woods behind his home and escaping into the world of role-playing games… often in the form of neighborhood battles inside of the World of Greyhawk between demigod characters and their minions.

Trent Pettry is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. When he’s not writing or reading, he shares his time between his family, his day job as an Information Technology professional, and other creative endeavors. Prior to college, Trent served in the US Navy on a nuclear fast-attack submarine.

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



Mark of the Medallion by Mike Shelton  

Mark of the Medallion by Mike Shelton

He lost his family. He’s got voices in his head. And he’s more powerful than they ever imagined…

Fifteen-year-old apprentice Kyril is sick of being bullied. And after a tragic fire leaves him orphaned with out-of-control thoughts and powers, he can’t wait to escape constant taunting at the wizard academy. So when a dicey faction entices him with companionship, he ignores the grim warning signs.

Even as Kyril’s power grows within the group, he’s left out of the crew’s dangerous plans to derail the authorities. And when being accepted comes at the expense of making questionable choices, he fears his newfound friendships aren’t worth the deadly price.

Can Kyril master his new magic before his shady companions send him to his doom?

Mark of the Medallion is the spellbinding first novel in The Wizard Academies YA fantasy series. If you like sword and sorcery, enchanted adventures, and suspenseful coming-of-age stories, then you’ll love Mike Shelton’s action-packed tale.

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Author Bio:
Mike is now on his fourth YA fantasy series. For information on his new releases, book reviews, and other relevant info, please join him at www.MichaelSheltonBooks.com.

Mike was born in California and has lived in multiple states from the west coast to the east coast. He cannot remember a time when he wasn’t reading a book. At school, home, on vacation, at work at lunch time, and yes even a few pages in the car (at times when he just couldn’t put that great book down).

Other than reading, Mike enjoys the outdoors, disc golf, and spending time with his family. He has worked in corporate finance for most of his career, publishing his first books in 2016. He has now published 15 YA fantasy books full of adventure, magic, and wizards!



Someone To Kiss My Scars by Brooke Skipstone  

Someone To Kiss My Scars by Brooke Skipstone

Hunter needs to remember. Jazz needs to forget. They need each other to heal in this teen thriller of survivor love.

Hunter’s past is a mystery to him, erased by a doctor at the direction of his father. But memories of the secret trauma begin to surface when Hunter sees other people’s memories—visions invading his mind with stories of abuse, teen self-mutilation, rape, and forbidden sex.

His best friend Jazz has dark and disturbing memories of her own that she hides behind her sass and wit. Hunter discovers he can rescue the victims, even though he risks adding their suffering to his own.

Hunter and Jazz kiss each other’s scars and form a bond of empathy no two teens should ever need.

Silver Medal Reader’s Choice Book Award in Young Adult Thriller
First Place PenCraft Award in Young Adult Abuse Fiction

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Author Bio:
Brooke Skipstone lives in Alaska, where she watches the mountains change colors with the seasons from her balcony. Where she feels the constant rush toward winter as the sunlight wanes for six months of the year, seven minutes each day, bringing crushing cold that lingers even as the sun climbs again. Where the burst of life during summer is urgent under twenty-four-hour daylight, lush and decadent. Where fish swim hundreds of miles up rivers past bear claws and nets and wheels and lines of rubber-clad combat fishers, arriving humped and ragged, dying as they spawn. Where danger from the land and its animals exhilarates the senses, forcing her to appreciate the difference between life and death. Where the edge between is sometimes too alluring.



Shattered Lives Broken Dreams: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines Protest Holocaust by Barbara Miller  

About Shattered Lives Broken Dreams: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines Protest Holocaust by Barbara Miller

Can there be new facts about the holocaust? This is one of those rare holocaust narratives of resistance to the holocaust by Australian Aborigines – a world away from the fray.

They were not even citizens in their own land but, after Kristallnacht, made a brave stand. William Cooper led the Australian Aborigines League in a protest against Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, which resulted in shattered lives and was recognised as the start of the Holocaust.

They protested the “cruel persecution of the Jews” by marching to the German Consulate in Melbourne on 6 December 1938 three weeks after the 9-10 November pogrom in Germany, Austria and Sudetenland that saw 91 Jews killed, Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues destroyed with shattered glass or fire. About 30,00 Jews were sent to concentration camps.

This book follows how the story was lost to history and then found with William Cooper being honoured in many ways by Jews in Australia and at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Israel. His family has carried on his legacy and the story covers his family’s trip to Israel and Berlin in 2017 to continue his work.

Of holocaust books, it has a twist. Aboriginal William Cooper was a noted civil rights leader for his people but the only protest march he led was for the Jews. Read this inspiriting story. This book has facts about the holocaust that will be new and startling to you but it adds to the history on Jews and the history of Australian Aborigines.

This book covers his story and his grandson’s work to fulfill his unfinished dreams and how he has been honoured in Australia and Israel, even having a federal Australian electorate named after him and an Academic Chair of Resistance to the Holocaust named after him at Yad Vashem.

Australian Aboriginal William Cooper has been described as Australia’s Martin Luther King Jnr, Mandela, Gandhi or even an Aboriginal Moses by various commentators.

“I think of the great Jewish leader Moses as he stood on Mt Nebo in present-day Jordan and looked at the Promised Land which he was prevented from entering (but he led others to enter in)… In Martin Luther King Jnr’s famous speech “I have a dream, made in 1963 in Washington, we see how he paved a path for Black Americans to freedom, equality and human dignity. But he was cruelly gunned down before he saw it achieved… William Cooper … was not there to see his dreams come true, though most of what he worked for has been achieved in succeeding generations.” Barbara Miller, White Australia Has A Black History.

“… an indigenous man who too did not enjoy full rights in the country of his birth, should have found it within himself to stand up for the plight of Jewish People. That man was William Cooper and I do not think it inappropriate to refer to him as the Martin Luther King of Australia.” Rob Schneider, CEO Australian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“… by the Ti-kun Olam he (William Cooper) constantly demonstrated, together with the leadership of delivering his people to their ‘promised land’ of civil rights, human rights and land rights – I believe make him a contender for the title of ‘The Aboriginal Moses’.” Abe Schwarz, Convenor William Cooper Legacy Project

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Barbara is a historian, pastor, mediator, psychologist, sociologist, teacher, social justice advocate and sought-after speaker. She lives in Cairns, Australia with her husband Norman, an Aboriginal artist and pastor. They founded the Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace in 1998 and travel widely overseas speaking at conferences including 10 trips to Israel facilitating Christian conferences and leading tour groups. She has been recognised by Who’s Who for her international humanitarian work.

Her memoir White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards in 2018 for the main prize, the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance.

Barbara’s first book on the Holocaust was the biography called William Cooper, Gentle Warrior: Standing Up for Indigenous Australians and Persecuted Jews in 2012. Cooper was a Christian Aboriginal Australian who, as well as being an activist for his people, led one of the few private protests worldwide against Kristallnacht in 1938.

Barbara’s own history of activism and her work for Aboriginal organisations such as the North Queensland Land Council which she helped establish in 1975 and the Aboriginal Coordinating Council (ACC) of which she was CEO in the 1990s, have given her an insider’s view. The ACC was a statutory body representing remote Aboriginal local government councils. She wrote The Dying Days of Segregation in Australia: Case Study Yarrabah detailing the work of Aborigines to get human rights, land rights and local government.

If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 100-year-old Lena Goldstein’s Miracle Story is Barbara’s second book on the Holocaust and is a gripping biography of a Warsaw Ghetto survivor.

Barbara has just published a book called White Australia Has A Black History: William Cooper and First Nations Peoples’ Political Activism. He was a pioneer of the Aboriginal movement for civil rights and shaped Australia’s political activism, building a platform for following generations who he mentored. The book covers Indigenous efforts to secure human rights right up to 2019 including current calls for Voice, Treaty, Truth.

Her seventh book is the one you are holding and it brings the story up to December 2019 of the honouring of William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines’ League who he led on a protest to the German Consulate in Melbourne in 1938 re Kristallnacht. It weaves in Australia’s reaction to Evian and Jewish refugees and the Cooper family’s efforts to keep his legacy going.



One Phone Call by Shannon Eggleston  

About One Phone Call by Shannon Eggleston

One phone call was all it took to change their lives forever. Paige and alan Matthis desperately wanted to become parents. After years of failed infertility treatments, they finally turned to adoption. This brought them a whole new set of obstacles. Then, they finally received the call – they were going to be parents. That one phone call brought them the greatest gifts they could ever have imagined. It also brought them their worst nightmares.

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I have always loved telling a good story. As a little girl, I would make up short stories, write and perform plays for my family and try to create beautiful works of poetry. One of my favorite things was being able to curl up with a book and lose myself to another world.

I have spent most of my adult life working in law enforcement and public safety. I still love creating stories that capture people's attention and imagination. I currently live in a small town in rural North Carolina with my three children.



God’s in the Garden by Cory B. Scott  

About God’s in the Garden by Cory B. Scott

An exhilarating memoir about one man’s journey through physical, emotional, and spiritual injury to find an inspiring personal awakening. He was shaken by the loss of his mother and drained by his pursuit of a doctoral degree. Most of all, he was conflicted over his experiences with illegal and unethical activities in the churches and Christian organizations where he worked and attended. Dr. Scott asked himself, where is God, and how can he be real in a twisted world filled with abusive and horrible people. Through original artwork, creative writing, and rigorously honest introspection, Cory calls into question everything he was taught to believe. With courage, honesty, and wit, Dr. Scott shares the story of his awakening through an imaginative and colorful safari into the dark experiences he has survived. This journey takes us on an unforgettable adventure through pain, triumph, devastation, faith, and renewal. Exuberant, messy, and brave, Gods in the Garden is a celebration of hope, self-realization, and victory over the darkness and doubt caused by abuse. His unique and imaginative way of describing his struggles with spirituality are honest and relatable. Cory can help victims of abuse find a way to relate too and acknowledge God in their lives once again.

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Dr. Cory B. Scott has had an adventurous career that has afforded him the honor of such titles as, Doctor, Deputy, Lieutenant, Director, Executive, Reverend, and finally, his true passion, Professor. But those were just titles; He is really just, Daddy, Husband, Brother, Friend, Uncle, Mentor, writer, and finally, in 2019, he was awarded his true love, Grandpa. Cory has survived some devastating and tragic events along his path as well as some personal failures. These experiences have given him deep insight and a desire to help others overcome personal obstacles and transform their tragedies into strength and hope.

Cory weaves original artwork, poetry, and stories in an incredible memoir titled, "God's in the Garden." This book captures the essence of a survivor's journey through abuse, pain, loss, betrayal, and enlightenment. Cory is the author of the "Inspiring, Metaphoric, and Psychedelic Stories of Oopy Loopy Provenance." A series of stand-alone stories set in the murky provenances of the heart and the human condition. These adventures explore the depths of our humanity. Some are cautionary tales; others are heartwarming and inspiring. They are all sure to bring life, awareness, and strength to each person who reads them. These crafty works are designed to inspire and help the reader use the power of metaphor to identify and overcome common hang-ups that hold us back from enjoying this life and reaching our full potential.


 
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