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Alluring by Sarah Curtis  

About Alluring by Sarah Curtis:

The first time she saw him, she knew she was in trouble.
Alexis Taft fills her days and nights working to pay off her mother’s medical debts and put her sister through college. She doesn’t have time for fun or men. Her life is predictable if boring, that is until she meets Jack. Then life is anything but predictable.

The first time he saw her, he knew he wanted to make her his.
Handsome, wealthy, powerful, Jackson Cole could have any woman he wants and often does, that is until he sets his sights on Alexis. With her unsurpassed beauty, he was hooked with just one look from her amber eyes.

Unfortunately, Alexis is the one woman who doesn’t fall easily for his charms, and Jack has to do something he’s never had to do before. Pursue a woman. However, Jack always gets what he wants, and Alexis would soon discover, she was no exception.

But there’s someone else that wants Jack. Someone that would stop at nothing to have him. Someone that wants Alexis out of the way.

And Jack and Alexis have to stop them or lose all chance at happiness.

***This is a full length novel with no cliffhanger. It is part of a series, but each book is a stand alone centering on new main characters. This is a steamy contemporary romance. Due to sex and language, it is recomended for persons over 18.*** HEA

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Hi everyone,

I’m Sarah Curtis (that’s a pseudonym of my kids names). I’m a 45 year-old mother of two, grandma of 2 and live with my husband of 28 years in Southern California.

I love to read, and it’s always been my dream to write a book. Well I finally did it. I’m so excited. I hope you enjoy it.

I’m new to social media, but I’m trying to learn it all. So far you can contact me at sarahcurtisauthor@gmail.com and on www.facebook.com/sarahcurtisauthor
You can also follow me on Twitter @sarahcurtisathr

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The Werewolf Whisperer by Camilla Ochlan & Bonita Gutierrez  

About The Werewolf Whisperer by Camilla Ochlan & Bonita Gutierrez:

Lucy Lowell, The Werewolf Whisperer, and her partner Xochitl Magaña are thrown into chaos when the Kyon Virus turns a disturbing number of Angelenos into werewolf-like creatures. As the outbreak expands to epidemic proportions, Lucy’s uncanny ability to control the creatures makes her “the silver lining in our werewolf apocalypse.”
Battling their own personal demons born of family history and bad choices, the women join together in the pursuit of helping those afflicted. But all is not as it seems. Not for Lucy. Not for Xochitl. And not for a society just coming to grips with the new world order.

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What happens when two fangirl actresses turned award-winning, short film screenwriters collaborate? The Werewolf Whisperer, that’s what.

Camilla Ochlan
Camilla grew up on fantasy and fairy tales, finding David Eddings, Katherine Kurtz, Guy Gavriel Kay, Mercedes Lackey, Marion Zimmer Bradely early on. To the dismay of her parents, she spent her high school weekends playing Dungeons & Dragons and obsessing over Greek mythology and anything supernatural. College split her time between Theatre Arts and English Literature.

An alumna of Playhouse West in Los Angeles, Camilla still occasionally acts but focuses the majority of her time, energy and (in)sanity on writing. Currently, her interests revolve around activities that add to her writer’s toolbox — travel, the arts and voracious reading.

Camilla lives in the hills of Los Angeles with her husband — actor, audiobook narrator and dialect coach P.J. Ochlan, two sweet rescue dogs and two rascally Abyssinian cats.

Bonita Gutierrez
Referred to by her mother as “Sarah” (as in stage actress Sarah Bernhardt), Bonita found her way to the stage at the early age of 5. Not surprising to her family, she continued to study acting through high school and college, earning her BA in Theatre. Later, she moved to Los Angeles to get into “The Biz.” Over the years, Bonita has played many roles from actor to producer, screenwriter to filmmaker – and now novelist.

A mixed martial artist, Bonita has a background in Jeet Kune Do Kung Fu (Bruce Lee’s art), Kenpo Karate MMA and Kali Escrima. She’s an avid runner, student of film and a lover of music. Apart from her love for her husband, Bonita’s greatest passion is for all things Star Wars and Buffy.

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Yoga For Beginners: A Simple Guide To A Slim Body, Stress Relief And Inner Peace by Nicole Talbot  

About Yoga For Beginners: A Simple Guide To A Slim Body, Stress Relief And Inner Peace by Nicole Talbot:

“Yoga For Beginners – A simple guide to a slim body, stress relief and inner peace” contains proven steps and strategies on how to perform many yoga postures and techniques at home with no prior experience. Every posture features a step-by step description with an accompanying photo and a list of related physical, mental and emotional benefits. The book touches on the spiritual side of yoga but you can also use it as a practical guide to creating your own exercise program to help you reap all the amazing physical benefits.

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Hi everyone, my name is Nicole Talbot, I have been a student and teacher of yoga for 10 years. Based in Seattle, I run a small Yoga class 4 times a week. Yoga has been a big passion of mine and I enjoy teaching it and practising it regularly. I have Bachelor of Science in majority exercise science and wellness.
I wrote my book to share my passion and knowledge of yoga for the rest of the world.

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Crashing the Net (Game On in Seattle #3)  

About Crashing the Net (Game On in Seattle #3):

Hockey star Cooper Black and professional party crasher Izzy Maxwell return in this sequel to Crashing the Boards.
 
Jealous boyfriends and glitzy parties can be a recipe for disaster. When the gorgeous yet controlling Cooper interrupts a party Izzy was paid to crash and almost ruins her career as a professional party crasher, Izzy kicks him to the curb. She learned early in life not to count on anyone, and she will not relinquish her independence, not even to a sexy-as-sin pro athlete who can melt her heart with one wink.
 
As the Sockeyes hockey team opens their inaugural season in Seattle, Cooper finds himself minus a girlfriend and plus a surly teenaged nephew. Cooper doesn’t want to be a surrogate dad, he doesn’t want to play in Seattle, and he doesn’t want to be alone. He misses Izzy, but seeing her with other men at parties turns him every shade of green. Regardless, he wants her back, and he’s willing to change, if only she’ll give him a second chance. Aware of her precarious finances, Cooper makes an offer she can’t refuse by hiring her to be responsible for his nephew when he’s traveling with the team.
 
Fearing Cooper isn’t capable of changing his control-freak ways, Izzy resists his efforts to turn their financial arrangement into a personal relationship. He needs a sweet, docile girlfriend, and Izzy cannot be that woman. Yet, when tragedy strikes, Izzy is there when Cooper needs her the most, and love has a way of getting what it wants, no matter the circumstances.

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USA Today Bestselling Author Jami Davenport is an advocate of happy endings and writes sexy contemporary and sports romances, including her two new indie endeavors: the Game On in Seattle Series and the Madrona Island Series. Jami’s new releases consistently rank in the top fifty on the sports romance and sports genre lists on Amazon, and she has hit the Amazon top hundred authors list in both contemporary romance and genre fiction multiple times.

Jami lives on a small farm near Puget Sound with her Green Beret-turned-plumber husband, a Newfoundland cross with a tennis ball fetish, a prince disguised as an orange tabby cat, and an opinionated Hanoverian mare.

Jami works in IT for her day job and is a former high school business teacher. She’s a lifetime Seahawks and Mariners fan and is waiting for the day professional hockey comes to Seattle. An avid boater, Jami has spent countless hours in the San Juan Islands, a common setting in her books. In her opinion, it’s the most beautiful place on earth.

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Forty Days at Kamas  

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Kamas, Utah. 2024. In the totalitarian dystopia that America has become after the Unionist Party’s rise to power, the American West contains vast Restricted Zones dotted with ghost towns, scattered military garrisons and corrective labor camps where the regime disposes of its real and suspected enemies. Kamas is one such camp.

On a frigid March night, a former businessman from Pittsburgh, Paul Wagner, arrives at a labor camp in Utah’s Kamas Valley, a dozen miles east of the deserted resort town of Park City, which prisoners are dismantling as part of a massive recycling project.

When Wagner arrives, he is unaware that his eleven-year-old daughter, Claire, has set off to Utah to find him after becoming separated from her mother at the Philadelphia Airport. By an odd quirk of fate, Claire has traveled on the same train that carried her father into internal exile.

Only after Wagner has renounced all hope of survival, cast his lot with anti-regime hard-liners and joined them in an unprecedented and suicidal revolt does he discover that Claire has become a servant in the home of the camp’s Deputy Warden. Wagner is torn between his devotion to family and loyalty to his fellow rebels until, on the eve of an armored assault intended to crush the revolt, he faces an agonizing choice between a hero’s death and a coward’s freedom.

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I wrote Dynamite Fishermen and Bride of a Bygone War to clear my head after eleven years of government service in places like Beirut, Cairo, Tunis, Jeddah, and Amman. I had already decided to write novels at age fourteen, during my first year as a boarding student at Exeter. My English instructor, a World War II combat veteran, advised those of us who wanted to follow the path of Melville, Conrad and Hemingway to first go out and live some adventures so that we would have stories that people might want to read. My adventures started in the Middle East and continued in Washington, Europe, the Russian Far East, Maui, Utah, New York and Boston. Particularly in the Middle East and Russia, I saw failed states and failed societies but was often surprised at how much their people had in common with Americans. This made me think about whether America might someday suffer its own breed of failure. During the 1930’s, Americans watched Germany, Italy and Russia and asked, “Could it happen here?” Today, one might look around and ask the same. After writing Forty Days at Kamas and Star Chamber Brotherhood, my greatest concern has been that the novels gain attention before the events they describe become reality.

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Harbored Secrets by Marie F Martin  

About Harbored Secrets by Marie F Martin:

In May of 1935, Blinny Platt’s homestead shack burns to the ground forever leaving her family asunder, scattering them like the embers flew on the Montana wind. She was only eight-years-old, sent away and in charge of her little sister. She could handle that because Platts take care of Platts.

However, it is the hidden secrets of her parents smoldering beneath the charred remains that haunts Blinny until 1982. She once again leaves the home place to build a house for herself. As the foundation is poured and the walls go up, each of the hurtful memories are uncovered. Finally the mystery, left in the ashes of the burned home, is revealed. How could her mother do what she did?

Harbored Secrets had had over 140,000 kindle downloads and carries a 4.4 on 340 reviews.

Blurbs from a few Five-Star Reviews:

This is a tale so well told, you can smell the sage, feel the heat, and pain this family shares. I wish more authors crafted their characters so well. Renita Hulsey Five-Star Reader Review.

The author was a master at weaving the past with the present. Quaintreader Five-Star Reader Review

Martin knows family dynamics and human frailties. From these she has crafted a heartbreaking story, of love, loss, and endurance. Barb Ward Five-Star Reader Review

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Marie Martin lives in a fertile valley at the base of the Rocky Mountains where laughter comes easy, love easier. Marie and her siblings were raised on ten acres of clump grass and bull pine trees.

They roamed nearby creeks, woods, and the cemetery. In her blog, Shady Nook, you may read stories of her childhood growing up in a rural area filled with unique people and a landscape known as the Big Sky County.

Marie is the mother of four grown children and now shares her life with a cocker spaniel by the name of Katie Lou.

Links to her two blogs are available at www.mariefmartin.com

Face book author’s page https://www.facebook.com/mariefmartinauthor

Twitter link is https://twitter.com/mariefranmartin

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6527420.Marie_F_Martin/blog

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Xavier: St Griswold College for Abandoned Boys by E.M. Cooper  

About Xavier: St Griswold College for Abandoned Boys by E.M. Cooper:

In the first book of the Xavier fantasy series, a 13 year old boy’s life is pitched into turmoil after his parents abandon him at St Griswold College deep within the Mourn Forest. What secrets have Xavier Jones’ parents hidden from him? Why is the principal, Ms Ratchet so eager to unearth them? Alone and afraid, Xavier hates his parents for what they have done yet desperately longs for them. The ruthless teachers and strange boys tell him, ‘They don’t come back… You just have to accept it. We all have.’

While the world changes outside the school walls, evil brews at St Griswold. Xavier discovers the school and its inhabitants have strange customs and dark secrets – and then there are the voices. Everything he knows and believes about the world shifts.

He befriends Ethan, a long term student and Gabe, an eccentric new arrival. Through them he discovers humour, hope and courage – and the first stirrings of his abilities. In a magical world teeming with angels, demons, shape shifters and the Darklaw, the boys meet Beth, a young seer from Ambrosia. First impressions count for nothing. Using their abilities and devices, they must discover who they can trust among those they meet including the ethereal Boundary Keeper, a vain messenger angel and a magical watchmaker. Together the teenagers journey across a country infiltrated by sinister forces in the hope of saving the children of Griswold. On this journey, they witness the terrifying first strike, a celestial battle between angelic and demonic armies. And Xavier learns of his destiny and a frightening prediction.

Xavier: St Griswold College for Abandoned Boys will be discounted 25-27 February 2015.

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I’m an Australian author living in Canberra, who loves writing, art and design.

In my spare time I enjoy running over the hills and mountain bike trails of the nearby pine and eucalypt forests of Mt Stromlo.

I love to read fantasy novels aimed at upper middle-grade and younger YA readers, particularly those that concentrate on magic, adventure and suspense.

Twitter: XJ_emcooper

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The Compromised Land:By Dr.Juan Reyna Tapia,translated by Emily Del Rosario  

About The Compromised Land:By Dr.Juan Reyna Tapia,translated by Emily Del Rosario:

The Compromised land:By Dr.Juan Reyna Tapia PHD is translated by Emily Del Rosario Vansant.

A compilation of short stories concerned with Mexican life around the turn of the century.The themes reflect the Hispanic tradition and its continuity of values and origins.This volume contains stories about buried treasure,ghosts,the devil,the astuteness of the peasant farmer,fables of extraordinary feats by the Indian,and the legalistic mind of the “borrachito” or drunkard.The central theme of the volume is that of the immigrant who crosses the border from Mexico to the United States in search of work and a better way of life. The immigrant who although remains forever in a world of new customs and language,wishes to retain his sense of pride,personal and ancestral values,passing them on to successive generations.This book is of significance to all Spanish speaking people in the United States.This collection will also be found in courses dealing with Spanish American literature,in the Spanish version.

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Dr.Juan Reyna Tapia PHD,was born in Ajo,Arizona.He was a veteran of World War 11, Korea and Vietnam. Served in the active Army from 1948 to 1965. Major Juan Reyna Tapia received seven purple hearts,three bronze star medals for Heroism and many other medals.LLB degree 1960,Juris Doctor degree,1961 Blackstone School of Law,MA degree 1966;Doctor of philosophy ( PHD.) “The order of Don Quixote,” the highest honor bestowed by the National Spanish society,Sigma Delta Pi,usually awarded to only one professor a year in the US for outstanding achievement in teaching excellence and Hispanic affairs. Author of several books and articles,including the Compromised Land in the Spanish version.

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