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Published: Mon, 12/08/14
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Swab (A Young Adult Dystopian Fiction)
About Swab (A Young Adult Dystopian Fiction):
Swab Plot Synopsis
Cat repeatedly dreams of fighting a green-skinned scarb woman with red hair. At the end of every dream, she dies. She chalks these dreams up to the effects of the scarb killing her parents two years ago when the mutated human creatures invaded her town. She and her brother, Nate, have found refuge with a pocket of human survivors on an island surrounded by a lake high in the Rocky Mountains of Southern Colorado. She has fallen in love with her best friend, Ray, and though life isn’t perfect on the island, at least they are relatively undetected by the scarb. That all changes when Ray is taken captive by the same red-haired scarb Cat has been seeing in her dreams.
Cat is determined to get Ray back. At first, the island community doesn’t believe her. Scarb always kill, they never take live captives. Nate believes her and so does Derrick, an attractive country boy with a penchant for going against the crowd. With Derrick and Nate, Cat manages to rally the island community to attack the nearest scarb colony. But the attack quickly becomes a slaughter. Cat, with the last few remaining humans, including Derrick and Nate, are taken captive. Cat awakens to find herself turned into a scarb. Nate now has wings, Derrick pointed black ears, and they all communicate telepathically. But even among scarb, Cat finds herself standing out. She refuses to embrace scarb life within the colony and is bent on finding Ray who disappeared from the colony before her capture. Her heart becomes confused as she develops feelings for Derrick, who remains loyally at her side. Emerald, the queen of the colony, has other ideas for her though. Cat learns she is a bearer, the only female scarb in the colony capable of reproduction and only one of a small percentage in the entire world. To make things more confusing to her shattered heart, she learns that Derrick is her match. Emerald wastes no time utilizing Cat’s potential. Scarbs are quickly nearing extinction, and Emerald intends to use Cat to breed an army of new scarb.
After refusing to cooperate with Emerald’s plans, Cat and her loyal friends are imprisoned deep within the underground colony. Emerald threatens to kill Nate unless Cat yields to her. Just as Emerald is about to slit Nate’s throat, Iva, the red-haired scarb, reveals herself among Emerald’s guards and tells Cat to, “Bow to no one, for you are a swab.” Cat discovers she is more than a bearer; she has the potential to become a queen herself. Using the telepathic link, she commands Emerald’s guards to release her brother. A battle ensues in which half the guards turn to her, but Emerald escapes with Nate.
Cat faces an entire colony of angry scarb bent on killing her and does her best to convince them to join with her against Emerald. Threats mount as Fuchsia, Emerald’s sister from a neighboring colony, joins forces with her against Cat. Derrick, Iva and Cat fight their way through the colony and have a final confrontation with Emerald. Emerald nearly kills Cat, but Derrick saves her and she kills Emerald. They race to free Nate just as Fuchsia’s forces arrive, forcing them to flee the colony.
With Fuchsia thirsty for revenge over her sister’s death, Cat leads her small group of loyal scarb through the Arizona desert in search of another human refuge where Cat hopes to find Ray. He is there, and he is still human. She expresses her love for him, but he sees her as nothing more than a monster now. She learns from the refugees that other swab are capturing human children in hopes of making them bearers. Broken hearted, with dozens of scarb dependent upon her to lead them and a desire to protect the innocent humans, she faces an unknown future.
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About Finding Southern Comfort:
Harper Kirkpatrick is not what Cameron Bennett expects for the bachelor party in his Savannah mansion. She’s desperate when he sends her home. Jobs are scarce and eviction looms. Former boyfriend Billy took off for California and she’s too proud to head home to Chicago.
Although Cameron may not go for her cheerleader kicks, he does admire Harper’s spunk. When she answers his ad for a nanny, she’s horrified to find herself back at his mansion. But she can’t turn down the generous salary or Bella, the toddler with troubled eyes and an eating problem. Youngest in the Kirkpatrick clan, Harper’s not an expert on kids. Neither is the young widower.
Her head-strong personality soon puts her at odds with Cameron and his TV personality girlfriend, Kimmy Carrington. When she stands in for Kimmy at a Savannah gala, Harper and Cameron spark a fire that nearly burns down the dance floor. Never has the wrong man felt so right. Never has a boy from the south worked so hard to rev up the charm. A trip home for his father’s funeral reveals a whole different side of the successful renovation expert. Will the Windy City girl be able to put the heart back in his home? Can he convince her that his southern comfort has staying power?
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Barbara Lohr writes contemporary romance, both adult and new adult. A flair for fun and subtly sexy love scenes is her trademark. Always a bookworm, she began by teaching writing and lit, while penning theater and book reviews. When her career broadened to healthcare marketing, her love of literature and writing remained. Her Windy City Romance series launched in 2013. In her work, feisty women take on hunky heroes and life’s issues. Family often figures in her stories. “No woman falls in love without some family influence, either positive or negative.” Dark chocolate is her favorite food group, and yummy food often figures in her work. Barbara lives in the Midwest and the South with her husband and a cat that insists he was Heathcliff in a former life. Sign up for her newsletter by going to her website. Friend her on Facebook or send her a Tweet!
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About The Pitcher:
Library Guild Selection
Movie Rights Sold
A boy with a golden arm, but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. In the tradition of The Natural and The Field of Dreams, this is a mythic story about how a man and a boy meet in the crossroads of their life and find a way to go on. You will laugh and you will cry as The Pitcher and Ricky prepare for the ultimate try out of life.
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REAL SANTA MOVIE RIGHTS SOLD Vicki Rocco of Modern Family optioned the movie rights of William Hazelgrove’s Real Santa for her production company Small But Mighty Productions with an eye to a feature or a made for television movie. Ms. Rocco has to her credits, Modern Family, Arrested Development, Stand and Deliver, U23D, Empire Dreams, Heather, Britany Spears Live, and sees Real Santa as a classic that will pull in people hungry for a new take on the Christmas movie. “No one has done this. No one has taken on the physics of being Santa Claus. It is funny and heartwarming and has all the things we look for in any great Christmas movie.”
William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of eight novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa and the forthcoming Jackpine and The Pitcher 2. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Richmond Times Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, WGN. His most recent novel, The Pitcher is a Junior Library Guild Selection and was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors. net. His next book Jackpine will be out Spring 2014 with Koehler Books. A follow up novel Real Santa will be out fall of 2014.
He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.
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About Bouncer:
When the ex-mayor’s putrid body shows up buried in a field outside the town’s ritziest neighborhood, the Monroe Police Department decides it needs help pronto since their chief investigator just landed up in the hospital. Unfortunately, the only ones available are the prickly local private investigator Fox and a clairvoyant out-of-towner named Thayne who clash within the first five minutes. Just as the bodies start to pile up, only the clues from a mysterious child nicknamed ‘Bouncer’ can lead the oddball detective team of Fox & Thayne to the murderer before he sharpens his knife again.
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Tyan Wyss longed to be a writer since the age of 14 when she wrote the first chapter of a never-ending novel still aching to be completed. Educated at the University of California with a Master’s Degree in Literature she has been a teacher for over 30 years. After working 12 years in California instructing Middle and High School English she moved overseas with her family to teach in International Schools living in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Hungary, Korea, and South Africa. Tyan concentrates mostly on children’s fiction, picture books, and adult mysteries. She also writes romantic mysteries featuring dynamic women sleuths and heroines under the pen name of Loren Lockner. Tyan is married and has two adult children.
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About The Pride:
Nightmares aren’t supposed to walk among the living. A mother searches for her daughter and a soldier searches for himself. They are thrust together to combat an enemy they cannot imagine. The lives of their daughters and perhaps the fate of human kind is at stake. Pray for the day, because The Pride rules the night.
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Richard Tabaka lives and works in central Wisconsin, along the mighty Wisconsin River, where he hunts and hikes the vast forests of the northwoods. When he’s not writing he can be found in the wilder reaches of the forest and his own imagination.
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About A Vampire’s Christmas Carol:
This holiday season has bite.
Ben Prescott hates Christmas—he’s a vampire, and to him, there’s certainly nothing jolly about the holiday season. While the humans are running around being merry, he’s hunting in the shadows. Ben plans to spend the holidays his way…by stalking deadly prey.
But fate has other plans for Ben.
Three visitors are coming Ben’s way…A demon who will force Ben to face his past, a ghost who will show Ben the present he could have, and a shifter who will reveal the darkness that waits in Ben’s future. Unless Ben can change his ways, he may just turn into a real monster, one who can’t be saved by anyone or anything.
‘Tis the season…to be undead.
Ben’s redemption rests in the hands of the one woman he loved and lost—Simone Laurent. If Ben is going to have a chance at being more than just the beast in the darkness, he has to prove himself to the lovely Simone. A very hard task, considering that, once upon a Christmas Eve, Simone died in Ben’s arms…
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Award-winning author Cynthia Eden writes dark tales of paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World, and IndieReader best-seller. Cynthia is also a two-time finalist for the RITA® award (she was a finalist both in the romantic suspense category and in the paranormal romance category). Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over fifty novels and novellas.
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About What’s So Funny About Murder?:
What’s so funny about murder? For only 99cents, these 7 authors prove that humor, from smiles to belly laughs, can delight and entertain while still getting a really good mystery. Some of the books are 7 award nominees, winners, and all are highly reviewed authors.
What’s So Funny About Murder? #99cents. Boxed set of 7 humorous Mysteries
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7 award nominees, winners, and all are highly reviewed authors
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About Mistletoe Wedding:
99 cent Kindle Countdown Deal until 12/9!
Event planner at the Bar V5 Dude Ranch, Meg Redstone is dreaming of a white Christmas with twinkling lights, sparkly decorations and strategically placed mistletoe. She loves making dreams come true for others, whether planning a holiday wedding or giving her young daughter the best Christmas ever.
Ranch foreman Tyler Murphy loves the holidays, but his newest employee has taken over his barn with her over-the-top decorations. He admires Meg’s desire to give her daughter the perfect Christmas while planning a winter wonderland wedding, but he wants to show her that a Montana Christmas is more than glitter and lights.
After raising his younger sister, an instant family is not on Ty’s Christmas wish list. But he finds himself falling hard for the single mom and her little girl. Meg, however, is not interested in a romance with a cowboy like Ty, or any man. Getting her under the mistletoe is going to take a Christmas miracle . . . or a little help from Santa.
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With a degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Melissa McClone worked for a major airline where she traveled the globe and met her husband. But analyzing jet engine performance couldn’t compete with her love of writing happily ever afters. Her first full-time writing endeavor was her first sale when she was pregnant with her first child! Since then, she has published over thirty romance novels with Harlequin and Tule Publishing Group. She’s also been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s RITA® award. When she isn’t writing, you can usually find her driving her minivan to/from her children’s swim practices and other activities. She also sends care packages to deployed service members and fosters cats through a local no-kill animal shelter. Melissa lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three school-aged children, two spoiled Norwegian Elkhounds and cats who think they rule the house. They do!
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About Real Santa:
Movie Rights Sold to Producer of Modern Family
Starred Review Booklist
STARRED REVIEW BOOKLIST
“If somebody doesn’t make a movie out of this book, there’s something wrong with the world.
David Pitts Booklist
“The author marries the everyday dramas found in the novels of Tom Perrotta and Nick Hornby to the high camp of Carl Hiaasen or Dave Barry. Adults looking for a funny holiday-themed tale that doesn’t lose its sense of wonder in the face of realism will find a treat here. A lovingly crafted comedy about the madness that fatherhood inspires.”
Kirkus Reviews
Best-selling author Hazelgrove (e.g., Ripples; Tobacco Sticks) captures the human need to believe in something good. This book will satisfy readers looking for a happy Christmas story.– Library Journal
“This heartwarming and humorous Christmas story shows the determination of one man to bring magic to his daughter’s childhood.”
Foreword Reviews
George Kronenfeldt is an unemployed engineer with one shot to keep his daughters belief in Santa intact. When Megan tells him the only way she will believe in Santa is if she can videotape him and then tells her fourth grade class she will prove the existence of Santa Claus by posting her video to YouTube, George realizes he must become the Real Santa.
Real Santa is a funny heartwarming story of parenthood gone wrong and illuminates what lengths parents will go to keep their children happy.
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William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of eight novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa and the forthcoming Jackpine and The Pitcher 2. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Richmond Times Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, WGN. His most recent novel, The Pitcher is a Junior Library Guild Selection and was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors. net. His next book Jackpine will be out Spring 2014 with Koehler Books. A follow up novel Real Santa will be out fall of 2014.
He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.
http://www.williamhazelgrove.com
Authors Own words
Born in Richmond, Virginia, and carted back and forth between Virginia and Baltimore, I blame my rootless, restless personality on my father. He was and is a traveling salesman with a keen gift of gab, great wit, a ready joke, and could sell white tennis shoes to coal miners.
It was during these sojourns up and down the east coast I soaked up the stories that would later be Tobacco Sticks and Mica Highways. I think authors should exploit their family history before raping the rest of the culture for material.
Dad finally got tired of the east and moved to the Midwest when I was fourteen. We settled outside of Chicago. It is here I came of age and went off to college for seven years — two degrees and one novel later I returned to Chicago and lived in many different apartments, trying to get a little two hundred page manuscript called Ripples published.
When a local printer said he would take a chance on my book, I jumped and had my first novel published by a man who had never published anything. Great reviews and moderate sales put me back to my jobs as a janitor, baker, waiter, construction worker, teacher, real estate tycoon, mortgage broker, professor, security guard, salesman — anything to make a buck and keep writing. The printer lost his mind and published my second novel, too. That landed me with Bantam after some rave reviews and a paperback auction for my second novel, Tobacco Sticks.
A third novel, Mica Highways, was sold on less than one hundred and fifty pages to Bantam and then I did a strange thing — I settled down to writing in Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois. I have since been looking for the Great American Novel up in the old red oak rafters and I think I might have finally found one…. My new novel, Rocket Man, is an exploration of what the American Dream means today. A man moves to the suburbs and his life falls apart in one week. It is a satire but with events now, it seems very timely.
A fifth novel, The Pitcher will be out in September 2013. The story of a boy with an incredible arm but no way to make the highschool team. When an old World Series pitcher agrees to coach him, he finds that a dream is sometimes all you have. A sixth novel Real Santa has just been released.
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About Icarus Rising by Robb Manary:
Brandon Fahr, international playboy and world-renowned artist, has set his sights on a new conquest. A conquest so bold that he’s decided to chronicle it in a diary. Further, he’s given himself a deadline — thirty days to capture the heart of Rachel St. Claire.
Rachel, a Rock Goddess, has been at the top of the charts for years and has finally let go of her tumultuous relationship with her controlling manager/boyfriend. Now that he’s gone, it’s the perfect time for Brandon to strike.
Rachel feels the heat as soon as she meets Brandon, but what if she finds his diary and learns that it was just a game to him, a conquest? And what if Brandon finds that he might actually be falling in love… for the very first time?
This is a rock star erotic romance written by a man with a male point of view. It is the first of a trilogy, but it stands as a novel by itself. No cliffhanger!
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Robert Manary is an international playboy and man of mystery, with the charm and sophistication of James Bond shaken not stirred with a couple ounces of Cyrano de Bergerac, a dash of Rasputin, and garnished with the rapier wit of Thurston Howell the Third.
That’s how he sees himself, anyway.
The truth is Robert Manary is a construct created to protect the dubious reputation of his Clark Kent like mild-mannered writer/puppeteer/the man pulling the levers and breathing life into the Great and Powerful Oz (don’t look too closely behind the curtain).
Robert Manary’s alter ego dropped out of Radio Broadcasting College to pursue a lucrative career bartending at a seedy gentlemen’s club, played around stocking shelves at a small grocery store until he screwed up badly enough to be given a promotion, and finally left the glamorous life of fighting with Parmalat representatives over the quantity of soy milk required for a small Northern Ontario town to function adequately, for the bright lights of New York.
Manary is an award winning blogger, an erotic romance novel writer, the author of a pretty decent romantic comedy, and for a brief period in the early nineties served as dictator of a small South American country.
Most of that is true.
New York, New York, if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Manary couldn’t make it there, and with only a little prompting from law enforcement agents returned to Canada, and chronicled the journey in that pretty decent romantic comedy mentioned in a paragraph above.
Manary is also an experimental artist who has no clue how to write an Author’s Bio, and definitely no idea how to end one.
He has only been in love once, and that didn’t work out so well, but he dreams and dreams of that girl he’s loved all along. Can a taste of love be so wrong?
P.S. He is also a shameless plunderer of pop culture.
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Earth Vs. Aliens by T. Jackson King
About Earth Vs. Aliens by T. Jackson King:
Jack Munroe grew up in the Asteroid Belt and learned to never take anything at face value. In space, you assume, you die. So when Aliens show up in the distant Kuiper Belt, out beyond Pluto, asking for a First Contact ‘chat’ with his crewmates on the comet hunting spaceship Uhuru, he warns his captain not to trust words but to get the heck away. His evolutionary biology studies have taught him that bright skin colors, shark-like teeth and talons mean these Aliens are star-traveling predators! But that violates the ‘feel good’ society promoted by Earth’s Unity government. A bloody fight ensues and Jack realizes these Aliens are keystone predators aiming to add Sol system to their home territory. Jack leads a battle to ensure Humans will never be slaves to Aliens. If someone has to die to make space safe for humanity, then those dying will be Aliens! This novel is book 1 in a four book series, but is a standalone story. Also, there is a modest romance for the Jack Munroe character. Thirdly, a supporting character is Maureen, 78, a grandma battle veteran who becomes vital to Jack’s efforts to kick Aliens out of Sol system!
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T. Jackson King (Tom) is a professional archaeologist and journalist. He writes hard science fiction, anthropological SciFi, dark fantasy/horror and contemporary fantasy/magic realism–but that didn’t happen until he was 38.
Before then, 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 campus 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 paid the bills, led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States, and helped him and his wife Leslee raise three kids.
A funny thing happened on the way to normality. By the time he was 38 and doing federal arky work in Colorado, Tom’s first novel STAR TRADERS was a stage play in his head that wouldn’t go away. So he wrote it down. It got rejected. His next novel was published as RETREAD SHOP (Warner Books, 1988). It was off to the writing races and Tom’s many voyages of imaginative discovery have led to 14 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 Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA and hangs with a group of smart and tolerant Westerners. Divorce has taught him to smile a lot and to work at being a Nice Guy. 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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Based on True Stories Collection by Ninie Hammon
About Based on True Stories Collection by Ninie Hammon:
SOMETIMES THE TRUTH IS BETTER TOLD WITH FICTION.
This is a collection of THREE books inspired by actual events that includes the NEW RELEASE When Butterflies Cry, published Dec. 4, 2014–at $4.99!
FACT:
On May 3, 1989, federal authorities busted what they called the Cornbread Mafia, the largest domestic marijuana growing operation in U.S. history. They confiscated 182 tons of pot with a street value of $400 million, and arrested 56 men in 5 states…but they all came from one small town in Kentucky.
FACT:
On March 4, 2009, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the president of the East African country of Sudan, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was the first warrant ever issued against a sitting head of state. Under al-Bashir’s leadership, more than a million Sudanese people were massacred, another 2 million displaced, and 150,000 to 300,000 women and children have been sold into slavery.
FACT:
On October 21, 1966, a massive pile of coal waste collapsed and slid down a mountainside into the mining village of Aberfan, Wales, burying 20 cottages—and a school—under 40 feet of sludge. One hundred forty-four people died instantly, 116 of them were children between the ages of 7 and 10—almost half the children in the village.
And on February 26, 1972 a coal slurry dam on Buffalo Creek, West Virginia collapsed, releasing 132 million gallons of black waste water on 16 coal camp towns in Buffalo Creek Hollow below. One hundred twenty-five people were killed, 1,121 were injured and out of a population of 5,000 people, 4,000 were left homeless.
Home Grown and Sudan are suspense fiction, political thrillers that detail the historical reality of dope growing and human trafficking—modern-day slavery. When Butterflies Cry is based on accounts of two disastrous coal slurry avalanches. They’re not the true stories of these events. But they are as REAL as what actually did happen.
SUDAN
Sudan 2000—the largest East African nation has become a killing field…
two million tribal people have been slaughtered in systematic genocide. But human rights photojournalist Ron Wolfson is there to chase a different story, a mystery—what scoffers call pure historical fiction. He’s investigating rumors of women and children in chains, sold on the auction block into slavery.
When Arabs kidnap a little Dinka girl named Akin to sell on the slave market, her father, Idris, goes after her and Ron joins the simple villager in his desperate mission. But the two are caught and incur the wrath of a ruthless slave trader. Now, Ron and Idris face savage retaliation and a heart-breaking end to their quest.
Awaiting dawn and an unthinkable execution broadcast live around the world, the American journalist and the Dinka villager are forced to place their lives and the fate of their mission in the hands of a bloodthirsty mercenary and an orphan boy. Together, they forge a reckless plan, the only hope of escape and of finding Akin. But it may already be too late for Ron and Idris. And too late to save the little girl before she vanishes forever into the shadow world of human trafficking.
HOME GROWN
Somebody murdered Jim Bingham…
shot him dead in front of his own newspaper office in the small town of Brewster, Kentucky. Now his daughter must abandon the world of academic journalism for the real world of running the newspaper he left behind.
But Sarabeth Bingham soon discovers that marijuana-growing has corrupted the idyllic small town where she grew up.
The sheriff can’t get a marijuana conviction because the county’s jury pool is tainted.
Her cousin grows weed and has lost his wife and daughter to the world of drugs.
Sarabeth finds herself falling for a handsome bourbon distillery owner she’s convinced is financing his business with dope money.
And a ruthless farmer named Bubba Jamison will do anything—absolutely anything—to protect his empire.
After 3 children find dope money in an abandoned building and the dopers kidnap them to get it back, Sarabeth heeds the words on the plaque that has hung above her father’s desk for as long as she can remember: “Don’t mess with a man who buys ink by the barrel!”
In a blazing front-page editorial in the next issue of the Callison County Tribune, Sarabeth declares war on the marijuana-growing industry! Now, the growers have to shut Sarabeth up and she soon learns a terrifying lesson: dopers fight dirty.
WHEN BUTTERFLIES CRY
On August 11, 1969, two anguished voices on opposite sides of the planet cry out in terror at the exact same instant and their desperate pleas release a strange power. That power will change the destiny of a West Virginia family who live in the hollow below a 300-million-gallon coal slag lake—held in place by a makeshift dam high on the mountainside.
Grayson Addington
…returns from Vietnam to his wife, Piper, and 2-year-old daughter a broken man, ravaged by post traumatic stress syndrome, a chaplain who left his faith in the jungle mud with his massacred unit.
Piper Addington
… doesn’t know her husband anymore. In his absence, she turned to his brother Carter for support. Now, she must choose between them.
Carter Addington
… is in love with Piper and intends to have her by framing the shell-shocked returning soldier for a heinous crime he didn’t commit.
Maggie
… is a mystery. A strange, battered child with amnesia, she shows up on Piper’s porch and instantly bonds to Sadie, a cripplingly shy toddler. When Maggie runs away and takes Sadie with her, the warring brothers must team up to search for them, unaware that Piper’s raging older brother is also in the woods—with a deer rifle, intent on shooting Carter and Grayson on sight.
But something more than chance has brought the child called Maggie to this wounded family. And nothing less than destiny will be fulfilled by her incredible sacrifice…
… on the foggy morning when the makeshift dam on the mountain above them explodes.
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If Ninie Hammon had to choose between telling stories and eating, she would starve to death.
Ninie spent a quarter of a century as a journalist before she tried her hand at writing books and discovered it was a whole lot more fun to design her own armed robbery or add a mystic to a murder investigation than to report the facts. Since then, she has published a biography, God Said Yes, and six contemporary novels: Sudan, The Memory Closet, Home Grown, Five Days in May, Black Sunshine and The Last Safe Place. Her seventh novel, When Butterflies Cry, was just released Dec. 4, 2014. Her novels are packed with action and tension–suspense, women’s fiction, thrillers and mysteries. Most are unexpectedly inspiring and deeply moving. But however diverse, they all share one characteristic: they are peopled with gloriously complex characters who drag the reader into the story to live it, to take the journey with them. A small town girl from Muleshoe, Texas, Ninie now lives a mildly vagabond life. She and her husband, Tom, travel between their home in Louisville, KY and one in the village of Great Linford in Buckinghamshire north of London where Tom directs Young Life in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia. The couple has six children and eight grandchildren.
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About The Essene Conspiracy:
Kindle eBook Countdown-12/08-14/2014. With conflict growing regarding the future of Jerusalem’s sacred Temple Mount, I thought fans of historical fiction might want to take a look at a specially discounted e-copy of The Essene Conspiracy.
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S. Eric Wachtel was born and raised in New York City . While in college he crafted his first historical based short story.
Starting his business career on Wall Street, he was later vice president of an international conglomerate, and then founder and president of an innovative medical technology company.
A history buff, in his novel, THE ESSENE CONSPIRACY, he draws on his extensive international business experience.
Eric lives with his wife, and Russian Blue cat in Washington, D.C. and Vermont. A member of International Thriller Writers, he is at work on a new thriller.
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When Loves Comes, Diamond Creek Alaska Series (Book 1) by J.H. Croix
About When Loves Comes, Diamond Creek Alaska Series (Book 1) by J.H. Croix:
Loss, unexpected discoveries, and finding the courage to love are the themes in J.H. Croix’s contemporary romance novel, When Love Comes.
Hannah Gray has returned to Diamond Creek, Alaska, after several years away. Back home, Hannah discovers that the loss of her parents, who died in a plane crash while she was away, isn’t the only thing she must face. Once wild and impulsive, Hannah shut her heart off to love and adventure after her parents died.
Burned once before, Luke Winters has committed himself to nothing but casual dalliances with women. Rugged, handsome and sexy, Luke finds no shortage of women happy to oblige.
When Hannah and Luke meet, their attraction is instant. Both fight the depth of their feelings—love is not part of the plan.
Hannah’s sense of identity is shaken when she unearths a surprising truth about her family. Meanwhile, Luke’s interfering family and complications from his past challenge Hannah and Luke to face their true feelings for each other.
Can two people who don’t believe love is worth the risk find the courage to face their fears and open their hearts?
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J.H. Croix lives in the historical farmlands of Maine with her husband and two spoiled dogs. Before publishing her first novel, she had a successful career as a clinical social worker, including work in Alaska and a stint in Ivy League academia. Her career in social work has been punctuated by sunrise bush plane flights to Alaskan villages and the occasional standoff with curious moose.
A voracious reader, Croix has been writing since college and dreamed of writing professionally. Swept up in her non-writing career, she continued to write on the side. Now, she is excited to have published her first novel, When Love Comes. This contemporary romance is set among the stark beauty of Alaska, where she lived for over a decade, and her love for wildlife and the outdoors bring the story to life.
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Tears of Innocence by T. R Robinson
About Tears of Innocence by T. R Robinson:
At the age of five this young girl suffered a loss which was to have a massive impact upon the rest of her life. Her innocence, loving nature and incredible naivety combined with her natural beauty where taken advantage of by family and strangers. After escaping from attempted sexual abuse she falls into the hands of an occupying force who torture and violate her and leave her for dead. Rescued by a local family she is ultimately, after many hardships, restored to her relatives through whom she meets a foreign national. Domestic violence leading to attempted suicide, near insanity and the contemplation of murder follow.
Now available as and e-book from Smashwords.com for only $3.99.
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In writing my autobiography I have been honest, truthful and, with some limitations, uncompromising. Many of my experiences were violent, cruel and painful and as a consequence the descriptions of those people involved are unpleasant and critical. Of course not everyone I knew was like that and there were and are many good, caring and kind people. As implied in the disclaimers to my books I do not wish those still living or the relatives or decedents of those mentioned to be upset, embarrassed or to have to face public shame. I also wish to protect my own family and relatives. Consequently I am unable to post a photograph of myself as naturally these people could be traced from it. The image I have used is of my own roses and reflects the pleasure I derive from gardening.
I am a retired lone woman who, after a full and busy life, as recorded, just wishes to enjoy some peace and quiet. Unfortunately age, illness and ignorant inconsiderate people do not allow me that pleasure. However, I endeavour to enjoy what I can and to remain as stress free as possible. I found it difficult to write my autobiography because of all the memories it brought back but it did occupy a fair proportion of my time over recent years, which helped me get through the darker days.
I do intend to do more writing. Initially I propose to write my grandparents and parents stories. These will be based upon actual events although there will naturally be a degree of fictional content as it will be necessary for me to surmise some of the events. I also intend to complete my own story.
I enjoy gardening. From my earliest years I have gained great pleasure in watching how plants and trees grow and develop, it is truly fascinating and exciting. How they survive harsh weather conditions both cold and hot and bud and flower again in the spring is truly a marvel. I also gain a sense of real achievement when I see seeds or stones I have planted come to fruition. And of course I love the aromas and colours of flowers and fruit tree blossoms.
As a very young child I had many pets each of which I loved intensely. Unfortunately after those early years I was unable, with one exception, to have pets. Nevertheless, I do love animals and take great pleasure in watching them both in life and in documentary, natural history television programmes. I get very incensed when an animal is treated badly and often say that the owner should be subjected to the same treatment to see how they like it. Of course I have never actually done such a thing but it is often very tempting.
I also have an avid interest in current affairs both national and international, although I do get upset at the injustice and violence that is so often reported. Why do people have to be so cruel and inconsiderate to each other?
Whether this counts as an interest or as a requirement I am not sure. As a result of self-publishing my book I have of necessity had to become a social media student. There is so much in this field that it sometimes confuses and overwhelms. However, I think that at last I am becoming more adapt at it.
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Just Beginning: A Prequel to Just Destiny by Theresa Rizzo
About Just Beginning: A Prequel to Just Destiny by Theresa Rizzo:
From award-winning author, Theresa Rizzo, comes this prequel to bestselling Just Destiny.
Twenty-something Jenny Campbell’s life has been a series of screw-ups, and the latest one endangered her little brother’s life. But when she falls for sophisticated Gabe Harrison, she has a chance to turn her life around…if she can keep her past a secret.
Gabe’s career as a successful doctor has left just enough time for his teenage children and little else. But when beautiful, vivacious Jenny comes along, she breathes love and happiness into his lonely life. There’s only one problem: their families are opposed to their relationship. Money and age differences mean nothing to Gabe as long as they have trust, love, and respect.
But can two out of three be good enough?
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Theresa Rizzo is an award-winning author who writes emotional stories that explore the complexity of relationships and families through real-life trials.
Born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she currently lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with her husband of thirty-one years. She’s raised four wonderful children who are now scattered across the country.
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Success Principles That Can Change Your Life
About Success Principles That Can Change Your Life:
What’s the difference between people who succeed in life and people who don’t? The difference is people who are successful followed, either knowingly or unknowingly, very specific principles that have led them to their success. This book provides those principles in a straightforward manner. The book is concise and packed with useful information and practical applications. You can finish it in one sitting, so that you don’t have to spend many hours reading just to come away a few concepts. It’s a road map for people who want to succeed.
It doesn’t contain long and elaborate case studies to prove a principle and has minimal repetition of the same concept. The principles are practical and simple but may not necessarily be easy. If you apply them in your quest for reaching your goal, they will speed up the process many fold. If you don’t have a goal yet, it may motivate you to have one and help you reach it. It can also serve as a reference you can refer back to remind yourself when you get sidetracked.
Between December 8 to December 10, the book will be free on Amazon.com
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My name is Beck Bat. I studied self-help for about 7 years. During that time I had some insights about why some people are successful and some people are not. I read many books on the topic. I applied what I read and learned from them. This is what gave me first hand knowledge about what makes one person successful and the other one does not. So, I wanted to share what I learned with people but I couldn’t bring myself to write a book. But finally, after a couple of years, I did it. I did it using one of the principles I mentioned in the book. In case you are curious, I used the principle of believing in oneself.
Writing process was amazing because I learned and relearned the principles while I was writing. I was my own teacher. This led me to believe that while I was in process of writing, something other than my usual self writing the book.
I hope you enjoy the book and find it useful to your life.
If you have any questions, you can contact me at: beckbatj@gmail.com. You can also visit my blog at www.thesuccessdynamics.com where you will find more in-depth principles that will accelerate your progress towards your dreams.
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About The Vanishing Wife:
Mild-mannered accountant Mason Seaforth is living a quiet, perfect life with his wife Sami in the sleepy community of Gulfport, Florida. At least it’s quiet and perfect until Sami vanishes during the night of their 20th wedding anniversary, plunging Mason into a new life that he could not possibly have imagined. Mason finds himself in a dark world of deception and murder and his heart-stopping race to find out what happened to his wife forces him to reluctantly exchange his spreadsheets for a Glock 17. And just when he thinks his situation can’t get any worse, he finds out his daughter’s life is also in danger. With the help of Sami’s irrepressible close friend Marcie Kane, he follows a trail that leads them from Florida to Canada’s capital of Ottawa where he is required to make choices. Each choice is more dangerous to him and his family than the last – the wrong one will be disastrous. The only thing that will awaken Mason from this nightmare is to determine what has happened to his beloved Sami, and uncover the secret that she has been hiding throughout their marriage.
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In 2009, Barry Finlay went up a mountain as an accountant and came down as a philanthropist. After over thirty years in various financial roles with the Canadian federal government, he took his life in a different direction and climbed Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro at age sixty with his son Chris. The climb and their fundraising efforts to help kids in Tanzania led to the award-winning book, Kilimanjaro and Beyond: A Life-Changing Journey. He followed that up with the hilarious travel memoir, I Guess We Missed The Boat, which was named Best Travel Book of 2013 by Reader Views. Now, he has completed his debut fiction book, The Vanishing Wife. On the merits of The Vanishing Wife, Barry received a Canada Book Award for “accomplishment and dedication to the publishing world.” Barry was named to the Authors Show’s list of “50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading” in 2012. In 2013, he received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee medal for his philanthropic work in Africa. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his wife Evelyn.
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NUMB by Casey Quinn with Petrina Collins
About NUMB by Casey Quinn with Petrina Collins:
Old habits die hard. Just ask Cynthia Howell. Her unusual and quite illegal method of coping with stress started innocently enough with best friend and fellow dental student, Andy Caulfield. They had become quite adept at justifying their lapses in moral character. Upon graduation, it was agreed that their indiscretions would remain secret. Until now, when Cynthia receives an ominous letter, simply reading: You said it would be over. With these words, Dr. Andrew Caulfield – renowned maxillofacial surgeon, former best friend and author of the note – has unknowingly sealed his fate. Dr. Cynthia Howell, is a woman living on the edge. As a wife, mother, daughter and pillar of her community, she finds the burden too heavy to carry. Debt has become her unwelcome companion. She volunteers her time and services at a free clinic and is devoted to her ailing mother, who is slowly dissolving into the abyss of dementia. Cynthia needs a release and knows only one way to achieve it. Upon the arrival of a mysterious note, she concludes that, old friends or not, this has now become a matter of survival. And, not Andy Caulfield’s. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself rooting for the “bad guy” in this story with an unusual twist. Yes, Dr Cynthia Howell has issues, but who doesn’t these days?
NUMB Kindle version will be available on KDP Countdown from Dec 8, 2014 – Dec 10, 2014 at a discounted rate – www.amazon.com/dp/B00ELICULY AND on Tues, Dec 9, 2015 NUMB in paperback will be offered at a 50% discount!! www.createspace.com/4882416, Enter discount code: RNVB4448
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Casey Quinn and Petrina Collins are neighbors by chance and great friends by choice. LIVING THE DREAM ON A BOX WINE BUDGET is Casey Quinn and Petrina Collins’ first book. It is a collection of short humorous essays about family life (their families, in fact). Their second book, and first novel, NUMB, is a departure from that genre, as it tells the story of one woman’s unconventional and quite illegal method of coping with stress.
After graduating from Loyola University of Chicago with her Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene and Minor in Psychology,Casey Quinn spent the next twenty-five years working in a clinical private practice setting, while raising her four children. She currently lives in St. Charles, IL with her husband, and anywhere from one to three children, as their single lives dictate. It is Casey’s sincere desire to one day be an empty-nester…
Petrina Collins boasts a colorful college resume. She began her undergraduate studies at Illinois State University (which she had confused with the University of Illinois, thus leading to bewilderment when she was deposited onto the Normal, IL campus). Soon after the start of school, she concluded that Illinois did not offer the climate she felt was conducive to her academic pursuits, so she fled to the sunny skies of Florida to continue her studies at the University of Southern Florida. Petrina is happy to say that she did, eventually, graduate with her degree in Education, leading to the disturbing realization, on her first day as a teacher, that she had made a huge mistake. She then stumbled upon her career of twenty-five years in the corporate world of pharmaceutical sales and currently holds the position of District Sales Manager. She currently lives in St. Charles, IL with her husband and two children she hopes will one day move out. That last sentence is open to interpretation…
Please visit their blogsite, Life On A Box Wine Budget at www.boxwinebudget.com and enter their world of snarky observations about life and the things that really bug them.
You can also follow Casey on Twitter @boxwinebudget and they would LOVE it if you “Like” their Facebook Pages: Casey Quinn & Petrina Collins and Life On A Box Wine Budget
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