About Chaos: The Oracle by Cyndie Shaffstall

The Gods of Greece

At the feet of Pythia, the greatest oracle in all of Greece, Zeus places an infant destined to become his Oracle and deliver his prophecies. This is the story of Chaos—from which all else came. A story of Titans and Olympians, and the many times they acted against their creations: man, woman, and beast. Is their meddling that of supreme creators—or someone, something, else—as the scholars of Akademia would have her believe?

In 334 BCE, Alexander the Great calls upon Hephaestion, his trusted childhood friend, to escort Zeus’s young oracle to Pella so she can issue him prophecies as he marches on Persia.

Crossing Greece and then Asia, the Oracle hears the theories of philosophers and scholars who suggest the gods—her gods—were mere mortals made more powerful with each generation’s telling of their deeds.

The voice of Zeus dims with the impious assertions, and she struggles to continue to hear his prophecies as requested by the Macedonian king. The teachings of her mentor and friend, Pythia, are challenged and maintaining her faith becomes more difficult in the devastating wake of Alexander’s conquests.

With Chaos, Cyndie Shaffstall, best selling author of Willows: The Creole, has woven a complex tapestry of overlapping stories from Greek mythology, Greek history, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Chaos richly illustrates and breathes life into the ancient world.

Chaos: The Oracle is the fourth book in The Delegate series, and like the stories before it, is told in the first-person narrative—as though you’ve come across her journal…. Each story is independent of the others, but as you read them, they become your journal, your story, and you are transported through time.

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About Ancient Enemy by Mark Lukens:

ANCIENT ENEMY – it’s been asleep for centuries and now it’s awake. It wants things … and you have to give it what it wants.

Seven hundred years ago the Anasazi people built massive cities in what is now the southwestern United States … and then they vanished.

Stella, an archaeologist specializing in Anasazi culture, and David, a mysterious Navajo boy, are on the run from something terrifying. As they flee up into the snowy mountains of Colorado, they are carjacked by criminals escaping a botched bank robbery. Caught in a blizzard, they must take refuge in what they believe is an abandoned cabin. It’s at this cabin that they will face horrors beyond their imagination.

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Author Bio:
I’ve been writing since the second grade when my teacher called my parents in for a conference because the ghost story I’d written had her a little concerned.

Since then I’ve had several stories published and four screenplays optioned by producers in Hollywood; one script is in development to be a film. I’m the author of Ancient Enemy, Descendants of Magic, The Summoning, Night Terrors, Sightings, The Exorcist’s Apprentice, What Lies Below, Ghost Town: a novella, and A Dark Collection: 12 Scary Stories. All of these titles are available on Amazon/Kindle. I’m a member of the Horror Writers Association.

I grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. But after many travels and adventures, I settled down near Tampa, Florida with my wonderful wife, son, and a stray cat we adopted.

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About Pigeon & Shakthi – Great Escape by Ra Kumar:

Shakthi, active girl child in a town in India. Fond of animals. She was taken away by strangers. Locked up in a old temple. How Shakthi’s friends Pigeon and elephant Ramu helped Shakthi to escape. Illustrated with real pictures of old Indian temple, elephant, Shakthi giving a bath to elephant Ramu, pigeons and streets.

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Practising lawyer in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Written books on law – “Buyer Beware”. Written a picture story book Dove and the Ant. Written a book on the need for having a common Indian language to link Indians -“Linking Indians by common language”. Digital versions of both books are available in amazon. Adventure story of five young Indian swimmers is in the final stage. Have a blog “blogcafe.asia.

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About The Sinful Nature of Sheep by Tony M. Smith:

After robbing a string of liquor stores one night in Downtown Los Angeles, California, 18 year old Sam Harper is caught. But not by the law. Now, to pay off his debt he must work in the kitchen of a restaurant owned by a dangerous group of men. Follow Sam Harper as he struggles through all the twists and turns to find out if he’s a sheep or a wolf in an unforgiving environment.

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Tony Smith was born in Southern California in 1986. He graduated from El Camino College with a degree in English in 2015. He currently attends California State University Dominguez Hills where he is pursuing a bachelors degree in English Literature.

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About Bilingual Kids: How to raise bilingual kids, benefits of raising a bilingual child, and common myths about learning in a dual language environment (Motherhood Essentials Collection Book 4):

There are many benefits in knowing more than one language and parents that give their child the head start in learning an additional language when still young are giving them a competitive and cultural advantage from the start.
We can all learn another language but learning that language when young makes the task so much easier. In my book I explain how you can go about getting your child bilingual and offer advice and tips.

In my book I cover;

• Why you should raise a bilingual child
There are numerous advantages to bilingualism and I take a look at them and also any potential downsides just to balance the argument and to give you a rounded argument.

• How to teach your child to talk another language
I explain what you need to do to facilitate learning and to make sure that your child is learning.There are tips that may seem obvious but are easily missed.

• Bilingual Education
Formal bilingual education might be a route you want to take with your child, so I explain the types of bilingual education available to you.

• Myth Busting
You may have heard misinformation regarding bilingualism, so I set the record straight.I go in depth about common misconceptions on the topic, something you will need to know before you make your final decision regarding your child’s learning.

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Author Bio:
Shelley Lawrence is an author of five books. She writes about the topic of motherhood, having raised three children and practiced child care. She enjoys, reading, hiking and spending time with her family.

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About Swept Away:

After Ella Stevens begins a new job in Germany, she stumbles onto a time portal that takes her to 1620 Heidelberg where all her modern day techno-toys and proud self-reliance can’t protect her from the brutal realities of everyday life. Befriended by a convent of nuns who live in fear of the bloodiest warlord in Europe, Ella struggles to survive. With the help of a sexy US Marshal who follows her back in time, she learns the hard way that when it comes to the things that really matter in life—love, trust and friendship—sometimes opening yourself up to others is the only true way home.

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Author Bio:
Susan Kiernan-Lewis has been an equestrienne, advertising copywriter, playwright, and video editor as well as a mother, wife, and novelist. As a writer, she takes her passions–horses, France, cooking, travel, and writing–and puts them in her novels, which always involve an adventurous protagonist faced with the challenge of new, often dangerous situations. Her popular fiction series include the Maggie Newberry mystery series set in France, the dystopian Irish End Game series, the Mia Kazmaroff romantic suspense series, and the Ella romantic suspense time travel series.

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About Gretel:

There is an ancient evil in the Back Country, dormant for centuries but now hungry and lurking. When it sets its sights on an unsuspecting mother one routine morning along an isolated stretch of highway, a quiet farming family is suddenly thrust into a world of unspeakable terror, and a young girl must learn to be a hero.

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Christopher Coleman lives in Maryland with his wife and two children. He received his degree in English Literature from the University of Maryland and has been writing professionally for over five years.

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About Of Woodbridge and Hedgely:

Free October 29th to November 2nd, 2015

In 1820, in the binary country towns of Woodbridge and Hedgely, Gloucestershire, England, Thomas Winter, bachelor of independent means, had a problem. He was in love with a young woman from a prominent family in the area, thoroughly attached to her countryside, but he having always kept a rather itinerant life, working as an engineer about the country, had to prove to her kin that he could be a reliable and productive member of their society before a marriage proposal would be deemed proper. The industrious Mr. Winter therefore endeavored to increase the agricultural yields of the land surrounding these towns by applying the latest science and engineering of the day, yet to his surprise, he soon discovered a large faction of his neighbors, comprised of several of the towns’ farmers, didn’t believe in science! He found himself the target of a propaganda war, alongside his ally, parson Jonathan Moore, who had begun a lecture series focused on natural history, their antagonists motivated by religious ideology and, for the part of a handsome but dull landowner, romantic adversity. This is the story of how manufactured science denial can tear apart two neighborly towns, pitting brother against brother, and how just, right and scientific men do prevail over such.

Science topics explored in the novel: Early geology with an introduction to the grandfather of geology, James Hutton’s ‘Theory of the Earth’, alongside popular competing theories; agricultural science, illuminating master chemist, Sir Humphry Davy and Sir John Sinclair’s writings; and pre-Darwinian evolution, including an introduction to grandfather of Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin’s views on evolution, and arguments against the mechanics of such by William Paley, in his book, Natural Theology.

Other themes and peculiarities in the novel: Subtle satire on climate change denial; Jane Austen inspired characters; sustainability, stewardship of the earth, ecology, Romantic Era style appreciation of nature; and science advocacy.

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Thomas Smyth is a science and clean energy advocate who used to battle fossil industry paid climate change disinformation online. He was an anonymous player in the current propaganda war concerning climate change and sustainable energy. If his faction triumphs, the economy, the middle class and the environment will thrive through the 21st century, and society will be able to progress to the next level of enlightenment. If his faction loses, then no art, nor wealth, nor child being produced today holds any meaning. The antagonists in his book are modeled after the disinformation agents he has battled online for many years now.

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About Carpet Diem by Justin Lee Anderson:

Fifteen years after losing most of his family to a devastating, pudding-related tragedy, Simon Debovar has settled into a life of self-imposed exile from the stinking, selfish morass of humanity. Content that his daily highlights will include hazelnut coffee, a long bath and the occasional jar of olives, his life is completely upturned by the discovery that his ornate living room carpet is the deciding factor in a bet between God and Satan.

When mysteriously well-timed carpet thieves deprive him of the crucial heirloom, Simon is forced to leave his hermit’s existence behind for a world of angels, demons, witches and immortals.

And then it gets complicated.

Halloween sale: Carpet Diem is on sale for just 99c on Amazon for one week only, beginning on Halloween!

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Born in Edinburgh, Justin spent a decade of his childhood bouncing around the US, following his dad’s professional football (soccer) career. He returned to the Scottish capital in his teens and, after a few brief sojourns to Dundee (for an English degree) and the South of France (for his family), settled back in the city that’s always been ‘home’.

In over 15 years of writing and editing for a living, he’s done everything from restaurant, theatre and comedy reviews to training manuals and magazines, including four years as the writer, editor and photographer for an Edinburgh guidebook. Currently working as a Content Editor, he lives with his Brady Bunch family in a permanent state of happy chaos.

He has the same initials as the Justice League of America, and his favourite writers are Neil Gaiman, Aaron Sorkin, Joe Abercrombie and Joss Whedon, in no particular order.

He misses Firefly.

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