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Published: Sun, 09/11/16
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BLOOD OATH by Michael Lister
About BLOOD OATH by Michael Lister
From New York Times Bestselling author Michael Lister
John Jordan is once again carrying a gun and a badge—and he’s going to need them. Balancing family life with being a cop and a prison chaplain takes grit and grace—and John has plenty of both. Working two cases that may or may not be connected, John is investigating the disappearance of a young army ranger home on leave and one of the most sadistic serial killers he’s ever encountered.
BLOOD OATH — the 11th crime novel in the popular, award-winning, and critically-acclaimed John Jordan mystery series.
“Michael Lister is a giant talent with a unique vision. His landmark John Jordan Mystery series is a treasure of contemporary literature.” Florida Weekly
Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review: “Lister gives fair clues for the surprise solution, thus combining a compelling account of his hero’s spiritual struggle with a top-notch whodunit.”
“Another great ride with a very assured driver behind the wheel.” Michael Connelly
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New York Times bestselling and award-winning novelist, Michael Lister, is a native Floridian best known for his literary suspense thrillers DOUBLE EXPOSURE, BURNT OFFERINGS, and SEPARATION ANXIETY, as well as his two ongoing mystery series, the prison chaplain John Jordan “Blood” series (BLOOD SACRIFICE) and the hard-boiled, 1940s noir Jimmy “Soldier” Riley Series (THE BIG HELLO).
The Florida Book Review says that “Vintage Michael Lister is poetic prose, exquisitely set scenes, characters who are damaged and faulty” and Michael Koryta says, “If you like crime writing with depth, suspense, and sterling prose, you should be reading Michael Lister,” while Publisher’s Weekly adds, “Lister’s hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction.”
Paper in the Wind by Olivia Mason-Charles
About Paper in the Wind by Olivia Mason-Charles
Paper in the Wind is a compassionate and riveting story depicting a single father’s dedication to his daughter. In the midst of the overwhelming struggles that accompanied autism, he continues to persevere.
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Paper in the Wind is dedicated to my daughter who was diagnosed with autism at 18 months. For years, words failed her, but her imagination never did; it continues to soar. I am honored to be a part of her story.
Someone Has to Die by Jim Baton
About Someone Has to Die by Jim Baton:
In the midst of a global clash between international terrorism and an American congressman’s peacemaking effort, a poor Muslim-majority neighborhood in Indonesia holds the keys to victory. While some in the neighborhood are making efforts to understand the truth behind the Muslim-Christian divide, and build new bridges across it, others are determined to perpetuate and intensify the hatred that has plagued the region for years.
When a young man from the neighborhood is recruited as a suicide bomber, both Muslims and Christians have to put aside their differences to work together and stop an assassination. In doing so they discover a new way forward for peace.
In memory of 9/11, this ebook will cost only $0.99 all September long.
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Jim Baton has spent the last 20 years living in the Muslim world, where he’s been involved in a variety of peace and reconciliation activities including interfaith dialogue, training elementary through university students in peace principles, and bringing Christians and Muslims together to pray. His novels explore both the deep issues behind Islamic terrorism (including ISIS) and hopeful, concrete paths toward peace.
The Camino Ingles by Susan Jagannath
About The Camino Ingles by Susan Jagannath:
The Camino Ingles is one of the Northern Caminos, a Galician pilgrimage trail ending in Santiago de Compostela, a great doable walking adventure for anyone of moderate fitness. You may have heard of the Camino, called variously, St. James Way, or Jacobsweg; but there are in fact, many Caminos, and the English Way or Camino Ingles is one of them.
Walking the Camino was a goal of mine. But, I didn’t have the time for 500 miles, then, I heard of the Camino Ingles. No more excuses! The shorter time and distance of the Camino Ingles was the clincher, and I set out on a quieter, less travelled and less well documented hike through Spain.
This book helps you to set a practical goal and achieve it, by showing you exactly how to walk the Camino Ingles, a Galician route as old as the Camino Frances, prepare for the 100+ km walk, travel light, plan your travel, use strategies to overcome obstacles, and, find more information.
Follow this book to complete a real pilgrimage trek in only 6 days, there is enough detail to guide you each day. Go on, what’s stopping you? It’s only one step at a time!
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Susan Jagannath successfully combined a passion for reading, a love of writing and a fascination for technology, to create a career in technical writing. With over 50 technical manuals (not) to her name, “RTFM” could have been the motto for her life; but she didn’t let the idea that no one ever reads the manual stop her from thoroughly enjoying her work.
As an army brat, her childhood included seven different schools, three universities and a couple of emergency evacuations from conflict zones. Travel and adventure were a normal part of life. She now believes in seizing every opportunity to have a new adventure. Whether it’s camping on the beach in Australia, trekking in the Himalayas, kayaking in Queensland, whitewater rafting down the Ganges, or walking the Camino in Spain, her philosophy is to pack it into one or two weeks to create memories for a lifetime, (and disconnect from television and computer games).
Susan is now on the next adventure of her life, writing books that are not technical manuals, training to be an awesome grandmother, and planning her next getaway.
Twisted Trails: Least of the Beast by Alex Hutchinson
About Twisted Trails: Least of the Beast by Alex Hutchinson:
In the heart of Rhode Island lies the small college town of MacAskill. Founded by mountain bikers who wanted a place to live their sport, it attracted cyclists both influential and infamous.
Andrew Gamble was the most decorated pro cyclist in history until he lost it all in a brazen doping scandal. Forced to flee the country he left his wife and teenage son Connor behind. Five years later a mysterious masked racer begins stealing wins at events across the nation. Now an avid racer himself, Connor is convinced his father has returned and is determined to unmask him in front of the world.
Local artist Darwin Camot became famous for a story that guided an entire generation. His notoriety has since soured into divorce, drinking and debauchery. One foolish escapade lands him behind bars. With the townsfolk lending a helping hand Darwin battles his demons seeking the same sense of purpose he had inspired in so many others.
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By day he is the award winning writer of the Twisted Trails series. By night he is a humble Airport Shuttle Driver. Alex Hutchinson is a slacker of all trades. His convoluted life path has lead to a vast array of interests and adventures that he turns into fiction. He is married to an amazing woman and has three evil cats who protect him while he sleeps.
Mother At Seven
Mother at Seven is the shocking, inspirational true story of a little girl’s tragic childhood, and how she endured and overcame a decade of unspeakable abuse at the hands of her cruel and sadistic family.
Set in Sochi, Russia, near the banks of the majestic Black Sea, Mother at Seven tells of those critical moments in a child’s life when the only thing standing between the life and death itself was a pure and innocent belief that better days lie ahead. It teaches that by fighting through hardship and pain, miracles can still happen, and that life can still be amazing as long as hope is never lost.
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Veronika Gasparyan, author of “Mother at Seven,” was born in the beautiful city of Sochi, Russia in 1981. She is a proud descendant of many generations of Armenian ancestors from both sides of her family. Today she lives in her own home, in Smithfield, Rhode Island with her two sons.
From a very young age, Veronika enjoyed playing piano which resulted in her attending a music school for ten years, and eventually, the prestigious Sochi College of Arts and Music. Other than the music, Veronika has always displayed a profound love of reading, and at a very young age, read dozens of books from her grandfather’s vast, personal library.
Veronika possesses an innate passion to help others in any way that she can, which has displayed itself in many situations throughout her early years and adult life. She considers herself to be a true survivor of what many would call a traumatic and brutal childhood, but has still found a way to not lose her kindness, patience or hope for better days.
Veronika is a strong believer in laws of attraction and positive thinking and is working on other books that she hopes will provide emotional support to those who are in need — those who have given-up or have already lost their hope for better days and a joyful life.
Veronika believes her lifelong mission is to help one person at a time while making the world a better place for us all.
Battlegroup by T. Jackson King
About Battlegroup by T. Jackson King:
Jacob Renselaer and his fleet of eight ships are all that stand between a new attack by wasp-like aliens and the survival of the Kepler 10 colony world. His girlfriend Daisy helps as the new XO, while Jacob relies on a grizzled Marine to educate him in the ways of war. Jacob sends the Marines to attack a wasp ship. While the raid succeeds, things turn upside down when the relief fleet arrives from Earth, led by an admiral who takes overall command. Then a wasp attack fleet of 36 deadly ships shows up. Can humans defeat this giant fleet? Can they survive the artificial black holes created by the wasps? If they can’t, 71,000 colonists will die. Jacob’s ship will die. And any hope to stop humanity’s first interstellar war will also die. Jacob must do what he never thought he could. He must lead his ship and his people and be the daring hero his father raised him to be. This is an 88,000 word SciFi novel of new combat in space between Humans and the Swarm, a wasp-like species. New battles happen in the Kepler 10 star system, a place with known exo-planets and site of a human colony. The story is told from six point of view characters. Those POVs are Richard the Marine, Jacob, Daisy, Aarhant Bannerjee who conspires to take command of the Battlestar from Jacob, Swarm leader Hunter One, and Swarm Support Hunter Seven, who stayed behind after the Swarm’s last disastrous battle with Jacob’s fleet. While the Earth fleet aims to learn how to speak in pheromones in the hope of achieving an armistice with the wasps, a new wasp leader is having none of it. He commands a new fleet that vastly outnumbers Jacob’s fleet and when he arrives, the colony world Valhalla will face a final reckoning.
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T. Jackson King (Tom) is an Amazon bestselling science fiction author whose popular series include the Vigilante, Assassin, Escape, Aliens, Brother, and Retread Shop series. Opening novels for each of these series are STAR VIGILANTE, STELLAR ASSASSIN, ESCAPE FROM ALIENS, EARTH VS. ALIENS, LITTLE BROTHER’S WORLD and FIRST CONTACT. He is a lifelong reader of SciFi stories and his favorite authors have included Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Andre Norton. Outside of SciFi he has enjoyed the novels of Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. He has degrees in Archaeology and Journalism.
Tom began writing SF novels at age 38, when he discovered he had read all the Human-Alien first contact or encounter novels in his local library. So he decided to write his own, thanks to an overactive, very visual imagination. Those early years produced FIRST CONTACT and RETREAD SHOP. When the New York City publishing houses ignored his later novels because they had no Hollywood tie-in, he went to several small presses, then began self-publishing as an Indy author in 2011.
Several of his novels have hit Amazon super-bestseller status in Space Opera. They were STELLAR ASSASSIN, EARTH VS. ALIENS and most recently BATTLESTAR, the first novel in his StarFight series. He loves that readers in Britain, Canada and Australia are some of his most loyal readers!
Before becoming a bestselling author, Tom worked as a federal archaeologist and newspaper journalist. Those jobs paid the bills for his three kids and wife Leslee.
However, college years spent in Paris and in Tokyo led Tom into antiwar activism, hanging out with some Japanese hippies and learning how often governments lie to their citizens. The latter lesson led him and a college buddy to publish the Shinjuku Sutra English language underground tabloid in Japan in 1967. That was followed by helping shut down the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1968 and a bus trip to Washington D.C. for the Second March on Washington where thousands demanded an end to the Vietnam War.
Temporary sanity returned when Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in Archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States.
A funny thing happened on the way to normality. When RETREAD SHOP was published by Warner Books in 1988, he discovered he could not stop writing. It was off to the writing races and Tom’s many voyages of imaginative discovery have led to 24 published novels, a book of poetry, and a conviction that when Humans reach the stars, we will find them crowded with space-going Aliens. We will be the New Kids On The Block! This theme appears in much of Tom’s short fiction and novel writing.
Tom lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and hangs with a group of smart and tolerant Westerners. Divorce taught him to smile a lot and to work at being a Nice Guy. Which earned him the love of his wife Sue. Still, he is pretty weird. Has been since fourth grade when he began reading SciFi. Since then, he and Authority have rarely been in agreement.
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