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Imperfect Rose (Patrick’s Garden)  

About Imperfect Rose (Patrick’s Garden):

Patrick MacRae had a habit of pigeonholing people, and his four daughters were no exception. Rose was the smart one; Lily, the beauty; Violet the sweet one and Daisy was his athlete. Now two years after his death, the four sisters are still trying to work themselves out of the boxes he put them in.

Rose grew up hearing people compare her to her sisters and she hated it. As soon as she finished college she moved to New York to begin a new life. Just as she’s on the verge of having everything she’s ever dreamed of her mother calls insisting that she come home. It isn’t that Rose doesn’t love her family, but she doesn’t want to go back to the place where she remembers feeling like the ‘ugly duckling’ next to her sister’s ‘beautiful swan’.

However when Rose learns that her much anticipated romantic weekend is canceled and Charles isn’t going to propose as planned, she decides that a short trip to Texas may just be ‘the ticket’. It will give her time to relax and regroup and maybe push Charles to make up his mind about their relationship.

But her trip turns out to be everything but relaxing. Rose arrives home to find things in chaos. A hunky, but arrogant, gardener has moved in with her mother and the family business is in financial ruins. If that weren’t enough, Margaret MacRae has had an accident and is in the hospital with amnesia. The sisters turn to Rose to step into her mother’s shoes and help pull the family through the storm.

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Celeste Messer (www.celestemesser.com) is a ‘Realtor’ by day and ‘Author’ by night writing long before the sun comes up. Though born and raised in the Midwest, Celeste has spent the better part of the past three decades in Texas. Celeste enjoyed writing and all kinds of creative endeavors growing up but when it came time to choose a major in college she followed the advice of those around her and chose to get a degree that gave her the best chance of getting a job. With both an undergrad and graduate degrees in business Celeste, much like her character Margaret MacRae in the Patrick’s Garden Series (www.patricksgardenseries.com), lived the next twenty years of her life pretty much from the Left Side of her Brain.

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The Littlest Cowboy by Maggie Shayne  

About The Littlest Cowboy by Maggie Shayne:

Baby on his Doorstep!

Sheriff Garrett Brand has raised his entire brood of siblings single-handedly, and he’s done his best to teach them some values, to mold them into honorable, responsible, and trustworthy human beings. So when a baby lands on the doorstep of the Texas Brand, his first question is which younger brother is in for a butt-kicking? But the little fellow isn’t named after Ben, or Wes, or Adam, or Elliot. The little feller is named after him–Garrett Ethan Brand–according to the note his mama left behind.

He’s still racking his brain to figure it all out, when a woman shows up at the ranch in the dead of night, spitting, fighting mad, and accusing Garrett of murdering her sister and stealing the baby!

Chelsea is confused, heartbroken, and too mad to think straight, and the same trouble that found her poor sister is right on her tail. But of all the places she and the baby could’ve wound up, Garrett thinks this ranch is the best one.

Because this is one family that knows how to pull together and trouble doesn’t stand a chance against The Brands of Texas.

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New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne has published 61 novels and 25 novellas as of the end of 2014. She has written for 7 major publishers and 2 CBS Daytime Dramas (Guiding Light and As the World Turns) and also had a long running newspaper advice column, now a nonfiction book Shayne On You. She has racked up 17 Rita Award nominations and actually, finally, won the prestigeous award in 2005 for Her Best Enemy. She’s also won two National Reader’s Choice Awards from the Oklahoma Romance Writers, Best Book of the Year from Romance Reviews Today, The Daphne Du Maurier Award from the Mystery & Suspense Writers of America, Favorite Anthology of the Year Award from Bookstores That Care, A Sapphire Award from the Fantasy Romance Online Bookstore, The Golden Leaf Award from the New Jersey Romance Writers, The P.E.A.R.L Award, and several awards from Affaire du Coeur Magazine.
RT Book Reviews Magazine has regaled Maggie with 12 Reviewer’s Choice Awards, 2 Career Achievement Awards, a WISH Award, and a Gold Medallion.

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Contractor Heaven: Bringing Out the Best in Your Home Improvement Contractor by L. Hartwig  

About Contractor Heaven: Bringing Out the Best in Your Home Improvement Contractor by L. Hartwig:

Home repairs: Did you know that one-day jobs hold the greatest risk of overcharging? Find out how to prevent being overcharged by saying a few words in the first 90 seconds of the phone call to the contractor.

From hiring a handyman to home additions, this book will guide you to a great project for a fair price. Why does demanding 30% off—and getting it—mean you’re probably still overpaying? The contractor with lowest price—what two things must you ask before giving him the job?

This is the best book in town for homeowners, landlords, and house flippers. Get work done on your house for a reasonable price and no funny business.It’s the perfect house-warming or graduation gift.

Buy new or repair? Check out our list. Know when calling a guy who installs new ones only means spending thousands of dollars needlessly. Don’t cramp your lifestyle or go into debt by using half the lifespan of household components. Doing that adds up to tens of thousands of dollars in a decade for no difference at all to your health or comfort.

Find out the four no-cost ways to resolve issues with any business that work better than going to court.

Find out the few simple questions to ask the estimator that quadruple the odds of being happy with the outcome. Whether hiring a handyman for a two hour repair or deciding to be your own General Contractor for a home addition, this book tell you what you need to know to hire good tradesmen for home repairs, home improvements, renovations or fixing the last Do-It-Yourself project that didn’t turn out right.

This book covers to handle callbacks for a good outcome, how to protect your pets, and much more! Get your free kindle copy January 16-18. Paperback is $18.81.

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L. Hartwig is an engineer, cost estimator, and Habitat for Humanity crew lead with over 25 years of contractor-hiring experience living in Westford Massachusetts. In addition to running a business focusing on contractor qualification and milestone achievement verification, currentech.org, hobbies are building furniture in the basement and being active in IANE, the Inventor’s Association of New England.

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Four and a Half Shades of Fantasy  

About Four and a Half Shades of Fantasy:

4 (and a half) thrilling fantasy/romance novels in one!
From bestselling author W.J. May – each shade is a different genre of the fantasy, paranormal and romance – all from different series!

RAE OF HOPE – THE CHRONICLES OF KERRIGAN
How hard do you have to shake the family tree to find the truth about the past?
Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family’s history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed.
Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter?
As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her sixteenth birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It’s up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family’s past and have a ray of hope for her future.

SEVENTH MARK Part 1 – THE HIDDEN SECRETS SAGA
Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible incident occurs at an outdoor party. Rouge may be the only one who can find the answer.
An ancient journal, a Sioghra necklace and a special mark force life-altering decisions for a girl who grew up unprepared to fight for her life or others.
All secrets have a cost and Rouge’s determination to find the truth can only lead to trouble…or something even more sinister…werewolves.

SHADOW OF DOUBT – Part 1
What happens when you fall for the one you are forbidden to love?
Erebus is a bit of a lost soul. He’s a guy so he should be out to have fun but unlike the rest of his kind, he is solemn and withdrawn. That is, until he meets Aurora, a law student at Cornell University. His entire world is shaken. Feelings he’s never had and urges he’s never understood take over. These strange longings drive him to question everything about himself.
When a jealous ex stalks back into his life, he must decide if he is willing to risk everything to be with Aurora. His desire for her could destroy her, or worse, erase his own existence forever.

RADIUM HALOS – THE SENSELESS CHRONICLES
Everyone needs to be a hero at one point in their life.
The small town of Elliot Lake will never be the same again.
Caught in a sudden thunderstorm, Zoe, a high school senior from Elliot Lake, and five of her friends take shelter in an abandoned uranium mine. Over the next few days, Zoe’s hearing sharpens drastically, beyond what any normal human being can detect. She tells her friends, only to learn that four others have an increased sense as well. Only Kieran, the new boy from Scotland, wasn’t affected.
Their senses develop into stronger, supernatural powers. Fashioning themselves into superheroes, the group tries to stop the strange occurrences happening in their little town. Muggings, break-ins, disappearances, and murder begin to hit too close to home. It leads the team to think someone knows about their secret – someone who wants them all dead.
An incredulous group of heroes. A traitor in their midst. Some dreams are written in blood.

COURAGE RUNS RED – Except from the BLOOD RED SERIES
What if courage was your only option?
When Kallie lands a college interview with the city’s new hot-shot police officer she has no idea everything in her life is about to change. The detective is young, handsome and seems to have an unnatural ability to stop the increasing local crime rate.
When a raging blood feud between vampires spills into her home, Kallie gets caught in the middle. Torn between love and family loyalty she must find the courage to fight

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W.J. May grew up in the fruit belt of Ontario. Crazy-happy childhood, she always has had a vivid imagination and loads of energy.

After her father passed away in 2009, from a six-year battle with cancer (which she still believes he won the fight against), she began to write again. A passion she’d loved for years, but realized life was too short to keep putting it off.

She is a writer of Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction and where ever else her little muses take her.

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Breath: The inner essence of meditation and prayer  

About Breath: The inner essence of meditation and prayer:

This little gem beautifully elucidates the flow of our mind, heart and soul during meditation and prayer. It explains how we can guide our inner being to moments of spiritual contemplation.

In a concise and poetic language, Jonas Yunus Atlas clarifies the core aspects of meditation and prayer. He does not discuss their outer forms or technical sides, but reveals their mental forms and deeper spirit. And, while doing so, also rephrases our relationship with the divine.

Many meditation books focus on bodily exercises and physical postures that are needed to open distinct energy channels. The verses in this book, however, describe the different ‘spiritual postures’ that open the ‘channels of the soul’ between ourselves and God.

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Jonas Yunus Atlas is a scholar, mystic and activist from Belgium. For many years he writes and lectures on religion, spirituality and God-focussed life. Jonas was born in a Christian tradition, immersed himself into Eastern religions during his youth, studied philosophy, anthropology and theology at different universities and eventually became active in various types of peace work. His texts, essays and books can be found at www.jonasyunus.net.

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A Wishing Moon  

About A Wishing Moon:

Arabella Landry is a witch on a mission.

She is desperately seeking for the incredible lover that has been setting her dreams on fire. With the help of the powerful women in her family, she finds him. Unfortunately, he is completely paralyzed from a devastating rock-climbing accident.

Jade Landale, a conservative Texas Congressman falls head over heels for the beautiful woman that refuses to give up on him. Soon, his world turns topsy turvy as he finds himself embroiled in a world of magic, murder and the hottest, sweetest love-making imaginable.

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Sable writes saucy romances. She splits her time between Louisiana and Texas. Her goal as a writer is to make her readers laugh, cry and sweat – in a good way.

The world she creates in her books is one where right prevails, love conquers all and holding out for a hero is not an impossible dream.

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The Village Green  

About The Village Green:

Kelsey stood in a long line of ragged people waiting to receive her meager rations for the week.
Kelsey Cooper, a girl of fourteen, lives with her father in the village of Green, a ran-down community of small cob dwellings and outdoor toilets. It offers its inhabitants few comforts but many restrictions.
Kelsey and her beloved father live alone since the death of her mother, a teacher who became a threat to the authoritarian powers that be. She and her friends, Rosy and Derek, are now at the age of full-citizenship, meaning that they will be given their life-long positions in the society.
Everything in Kelsey’s life is well regulated and uneventful until the day that she and Derek decide to visit the ruined city outside the limits of their village. There Kelsey finds the journal of Henry Martin and her eyes are opened to life as she knows or thought she knew.
This one seemingly accidental event is the spark that sets her world on fire. Finding out that Derek and his family are part of an underground resistance, that her best friend Rosy has been brain-washed, and that her mother is still alive is astonishing enough, but nothing compares to finding out that she is the prophesied liberator of her people.
Does Kelsey have the courage to leave everything she knows and everyone she loves to fulfill her destiny?

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Before writing The Village Green I had never written more than a letter, contenting myself with drawing and painting. But my main character, Kelsey, came to me in what I can only call a vision and I had to tell her tale. After many hours in coffee shops and libraries writing and rewriting, the book was finally finished, that is until the edits began.
When I’m not writing you can find reading, teaching my four children, or visiting some new place. My family and I are traveling across the country full-time and learning to get along with six people in a 35ft trailer.

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Where Power Resides by Michael Cody  

About Where Power Resides by Michael Cody:

Far Sight is the ultimate surveillance, spy tool. The very best the CIA or NSA agencies ever came up with. What would they do to put a program that spies on American citizens into place? How far would they go? And what else can Far Sight do? Some say it can kill… Spies working their trade against American citizens!
After a brutal and public murder of a nationally known and syndicated writer working for the Washington Post, two FBI agents find themselves in a national political tug of war between the powers in office and the powers in actual control. Fast paced with political undertones “Where Power Resides” will make you wonder who is really running the country! How far will they go to bring American citizens in line and keep them under control? Find out in this fast paced, action packed, roller coaster of a read!

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Mr. Cody, Now residing in Washington D.C. was born in Asheville, N.C. and raised in the small town of Macon, Ga.
Music and reading became a passion early in life and led to a lifetime affair with Jazz, Classical, R&B, Funk music and thousands of books.
Writer, musician, Urban cyclist, car-free enthusiast and foodie.
Where Power Resides, the first in a series of action/thriller novels explores the question of who really is in power, who pulls the strings in Washington and the Pentagon. Would our own government really spy on US citizens? Find out in this fast paced roller coaster read!

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Shriek of the Harpy  

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Film archivist Muriel Sharpe’s dreams come true when she is tasked with salvaging a derelict movie theater and uncovers a treasure trove of lost film prints from Hollywood’s golden age. Instead of reporting them to her bosses as she was instructed, resentful Muriel decides to have her own private film festival to experience the forgotten gems as they were meant to be seen — on the silver screen. But what the opinionated young woman isn’t prepared for is Shriek of the Harpy, a notorious horror picture directed by a sadistic, misogynist auteur that features a terrifying female monster drawn from ancient mythology. When running the twisted bit of celluloid proves too great a temptation to resist, Muriel unwittingly unleashes a nightmare that seeks to destroy her mind, body and soul.

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Sebastian Bendix is a Los Angeles based writer and musician, as well as the host of a popular midnight horror film series, Friday Night Frights at the Cinefamily. He attended school at Emerson College for writing and has had pieces published in both in print (Mean magazine) and online (CHUD.com). He has written several screenplays in the fantasy/horror genre, one of which, The Black Cradle, is in development as an independent feature. The Patchwork Girl is his first foray into the world of prose fiction. His second novel, The Stronghold, is nearing completion and will be out to publishers in 2015.

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Sally  

About Sally:

Sally is a self-confessed player and party girl. Her life revolves around fun nights out, casual encounters and no emotional attachments other than with her best friend and colleague, Becky. When she is faced with a ghost from her past – Gareth – all the walls she’s carefully constructed around herself fall apart, revealing old wounds she thought had healed a long time ago. He wants a second chance, and she’s shocked to find that maybe she’s not as over him as she would want. Meanwhile, her current suitor, Becky and Sally’s charismatic manager, Mark, is keen to take their casual relationship to the next level.

Sally’s uncomplicated life is about to become very messy indeed.

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Call me “H.” or Hedonist if you prefer. I’m a Romance writer based in London and I’ve always been a dreamer. You’ll not find flowery language and poetry in my work. What you will find though is believable characters, none of whom perfect, going through life and trying to find happiness. Just like the rest of us.

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Fantasy of Frost (The Tainted Accords: Book One)  

About Fantasy of Frost (The Tainted Accords: Book One):

I know many things. What I am capable of, what I will change, what I want to become. But there is one thing I will never know.

Being the Tatuma of our world, the next to rule, should have given me a privileged life. One full of friends, love and happiness. If my mother did not hate me, I probably would have had all of that. Instead, she has kept me veiled from birth, turning the possibility of this distant dream into a living nightmare.

Shunned by the court, abused from childhood, I am trapped within this material barrier and will never know my own face. Only two friends and a determination to become Tatum keep me sane.

I am unaware everything in my life is about to change when the peace delegate arrives from the savage world of Glacium. Hidden agendas, past secrets and my struggle to stay alive–while still becoming the person I want to be–careen wildly out of control.

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When Kelly St Clare is not reading or writing, she is dreaming up a story in her head; the cause of many headaches for her friends and family, who have struggled to encourage her participation in normal activities – such as everyday life.

Books have always been magical and mysterious to her. One day she decided to start unravelling this mystery and began writing. Her aim: To write stories she would want to read.

A New Zealander in origin, Kelly currently resides in Australia with her soon-to-be husband.

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Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail  

About Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail:

William Wright, M.D., the award winning and bestselling author of Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax is back with more stories about the life of a doctor – this time inside the county jail.

Dr. William Wright gave up a suburban practice as an ear surgeon to become the doctor at Colorado’s maximum-security prison. After that, running a medical clinic at the county jail should be a snap, right? Oh, brother…

Hoards of desperate people fresh from the streets, homeless addicts, illegal aliens, and gangbangers all ruled by a corrupt sheriff and his concubine sidekick made the supermax look almost pastoral.

Told with humor and biting wit by the best-selling author of Maximum Insecurity, Jailhouse Doc follows Dr. Wright and his struggles with scamming inmates, corporate bureaucrats, and a sheriff who wants to be a doctor.

Peek behind the bars at the operations of a city jail and the daily battles to deliver medical care to a population on the edge.

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William Wright, M.D., currently Medical Director of the Cheyenne Mountain Re-entry Center, is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. A private pilot, he is the holder of three black belts and instructor certifications in Tae Kwon Do and Aikido. He is a commercial artist (www.WilliamWrightArt.com) and plays guitar poorly in his spare time. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Mollie, and a variable number of fur-bearing companions. His first book, Maximum Insecurity, is a memoir of his eight years as the physician in Colorado’s supermax prison. Jailhouse Doc is a memoir of his time as Medical Director of the El Paso Criminal Justice Center in Colorado Springs.

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Billy Bobble Makes A Magic Wand  

About Billy Bobble Makes A Magic Wand:

Everyone needs a little magic in their life.

Twelve-year-old Billy Bobble and his best friend Suzy Quinofski didn’t mean to change the universe. Billy, a quantum physics prodigy, just wanted to find a way to help his hoarding, schizophrenic mother – and maybe impress a coven of older girls in high school. Suzy, his intellectual equal, wanted to help her friend and cling to her last remnant of childhood, a belief in magic. Together they made Billy a real, working, magic wand, and opened a door to the Quantum World where thoughts create reality, and all things – good and bad – are possible.

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R.S. MELLETTE, originally from Winston-Salem, NC, now lives in Sherman Oaks, CA where he slaves away at turning his imaginary friends into real ones. While working on Xena: Warrior Princess, he created and wrote The Xena Scrolls for Universal’s New Media department. When an episode aired based on his characters, it became the first intellectual property to move from the internet to television. Mellette works and blogs for the film festival Dances With Films as well as From The Write Angle.

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