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1. Bounty Hunter: The Beginning by Billi Tiner

   About Bounty Hunter: The Beginning by Billi Tiner:

   2013 Readers’ Favorite Award Finalist

   After his father’s tragic death, sixteen-year old Ben Sharp is living a life of solitude in a one room cabin in the woods. He is lonely and restless but cannot see a way to change his situation. His life takes an unexpected turn the day two horse thieves ride up leading a stolen stallion. When the two outlaws attempt to rob him, Ben is able to turn the tables. His successful capture of the men opens up his world to the life of the bounty hunter. Ben sets out on a journey that will transform him from a boy into a man. This coming of age tale is full of action, adventure, humor, and romance.

   BOUNTY HUNTER: THE BEGINNING is the first book in the Bounty Hunter series.

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   Author Bio:
   Dr. Billi Tiner has been a veterinarian for over 10 years. She lives in Missouri with her husband, two children, three dogs, and three cats. She uses her experiences as a veterinarian as inspiration for her books. Dr. Tiner enjoys spending time outdoors gardening and hiking. She is also a huge fan of college football and basketball.

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2. Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy by Jeffrey Penn May

   About Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy by Jeffrey Penn May:

   “Eight Billion Steps: My Impossible Quest For Cancer Comedy” is about (as may seem obvious) finding humor in cancer. After Jeff was diagnosed with an extremely large and rare salivary gland tumor on the back of his tongue, throat and jaw, he and his wife began their fun-filled search for treatment.

   Eight Billion Steps is Jeff’s uplifting, life-affirming odyssey, told with honesty and humor, interspersed with moments of terror. Although not written as a “How to beat cancer book,” it does contain some practical information that may help.

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   Author Bio:
   Jeffrey Penn May has won several short fiction awards. His story “The Wells Creek Route” received a Pushcart Prize nomination, and his novel Where the River Splits, an excellent review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Merging his outdoor interests with his writing, Jeff has published mountain climbing articles, short stories and poems. He has also written education articles and technical writing guides. His work has appeared in the US, UK, and Canada. He wrote and performed a short story for Washington University Radio and was a consultant to a St. Louis theater company. After earning his a B.A. in English and Psychology, a Masters in Secondary Education, and a Writer’s Certificate from the University of Missouri, Jeff worked as a waiter, hotel security officer, credit manager, deck hand, technical data engineer, creative writing instructor, and English teacher. He was the principal of a small alternative school where he organized a fund-raising, climbing expedition and appeared in television and radio spotlights. Born at Fort Ord near Monterey, California, and raised in St. Louis, Jeff comes from a family of all boys and has always been compelled to explore the outdoors, leading to many questionable “vacations.” His adventures include, but are not limited to the following: floated a home-built wood and barrel raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigated a John boat to New Orleans, drove an old Volkswagen alone 8000 miles around the west, spent a month in a dirt floor shack in west-central Mexico digging for Pre-Colombian artifacts, climbed mountains from Alaska to South America, and spent several days in the Amazon jungle. Jeff teaches writing and fly-fishing and is a cancer survivor.

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3. CAPE MAYBE by Carol Fragale Brill

   

   CAPE MAYBE by Carol Fragale Brill

   Sometimes the toughest journey is the one that takes you back to your roots. For Katie, navigating life and love is trickier than walking barefoot on a beach full of broken shells. Maybe Katie will break the family cycle of alcoholism. Maybe she won’t. Set against the backdrop of picturesque, seaside Cape May, Cape Maybe traces the push and pull of Katie’s conflicting love for her erratic mother and steadfast grandfather and her ever-growing attraction to her best friend, Dennis. Katie’s life is shaped by her vow to be nothing like her alcoholic mother. Her reckless teenage choices test the strength of family ties, friendship, and first love. Ultimately about hard-earned hope, what we inherit, and what we choose to let go, in Cape Maybe, Katie discovers what she never expected about motherhood, forgiving yourself, and creating your own second chances.

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4. Hannah’s Dream

   About Hannah’s Dream:

   Hannah’s Dream is the story of strong women and the men they love. In 1897, Hannah Dawes lives with her mother, Marian, and their housekeeper, Becky, and her adopted brother, Jimmy. Their life is simple, yet rewarding, and the love they share for one another true. Hannah has a beau named John Liberty who is to be a doctor, and when he leaves their small town on the New Jersey shore to study medicine, she promises to wait for him, and believes her future is set.

   Life, however, has other plans. When an unscrupulous banker loses their money through bad investments, they have to leave their beloved New Jersey home and move to Colorado. Hannah is left heartbroken when her beau marries another, and Becky wonders if she can bear seeing the man she loved twenty years before – Marian’s brother, James. As for Marian, she doesn’t know that the soldier she loved and believed dead long ago will soon reappear.

   Hannah’s Dream is the sweet story of the ties that bind a family together, and of unfulfilled dreams that may yet come true.

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   Author Bio:
   A.L. Jambor writes historical romances as Lenore Butler. She grew up in a small town in New Jersey and spent lots of time at the shore. The old Victorian homes in Spring Lake instilled in her a desire to learn more about that era. She learned how to can preserves and read all she could about the Victorian lifestyle. Her favorite hobby was cross-stitch embroidery and she loved the patterns of Paula Vaughn. She has posted pictures of her creations on Lenore Butlers website and A.L. Jambor’s Pinterest page.

   A.L. Jambor wanted to use the names of real stores in her book, Hannah’s Dream, and found archived Red Bank Register newspapers online that featured advertisements from the late 1890′s. She used the names of those stores in the book.

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5. BLOOD OF THE LAMB

   About BLOOD OF THE LAMB:

   Florida prison chaplain John Jordan’s search for the peace that has so long eluded him is interrupted by an unimaginable murder. Attempting to be a good man in a very bad place while also maintaining his shaky sobriety, John investigates the murder of the seven year-old adopted daughter of ex-con turned televangelist, Bobby Earl Caldwell, a murder committed in John’s own locked office when Bobby Earl conducts a service in the Potter Correctional Institution chapel.

   This unspeakable act, and the investigation that follows, will force John to confront his own fears and beliefs, causing this man of mercy to thirst for justice. Torn between the seemingly conflicting roles he’s asked to assume—cop and cleric—John must struggle to figure out his identity as well as that of the killer’s, but his past continues to haunt him in the form of troubling thoughts of failure and the resurfacing of his ex-wife, Susan.

   Putting aside his distrust of the slick televangelist and his seductive wife, John must ignore intimidation and resist manipulation to find a killer among some very unusual suspects—including two murderers, a child molester, a teacher with something to hide, and Bobby Earl Caldwell himself whose very act of exposing his daughter to such risk causes John to suspect him from the very beginning.

   Amid private crises and the torturous experiences of a thoughtful, sensitive man working in such a pitiless place, nothing short of death will end John’s search for the person who killed little Nicole Caldwell. Uncovering the guilt, restoring the balance, John seeks pardon from the self-inflicted life sentence he’s serving and exoneration from the burden of regret he bears.

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   Author Bio:
   Multi award-winning novelist, Michael Lister, is a native Floridian best known for his literary suspense thrillers DOUBLE EXPOSURE, BURNT OFFERINGS, and SEPARATION ANXITY, 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 LONG DARK NIGHT).

   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.”

   Michael grew up in North Florida near the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River in a small town world famous for tupelo honey.

   Truly a regional writer, North Florida is his beat.

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6. Entropy: Aphrodite’s Pleasure Palace (Female Sexbots in America) by E. Z. Graves

   
   About Entropy: Aphrodite’s Pleasure Palace (Female Sexbots in America) by E. Z. Graves

   Free Download from 2/11/14 to 2/15/14 on Amazon

   “The stimulation from gazing at her body became immediately irrelevant when I looked into her face. This was the only woman I have ever seen whose face gave me an erection. Her eyes were ocean blue, and her nose was aquiline above pouty, swollen pink lips. The dimples on either side of her mouth caused a firestorm of desire inside me that made me want to leap at her from the shadows like an aroused leopard.”

   Dr. Spence and his wife enjoy vacations in New Mexico. They also enjoy sex. But it’s Dr. Spence’s online escort service that pulls him into a world filled with life-like, robot sex women being created by a mysterious organization calling itself “Aphrodite’s Pleasure Palace.” After Dr. Spence agrees to take one of these incredibly realistic sex toys to bed with him, the fun really begins–and so does the gradual take-over of his mind!

   Find out what happens in this futuristic story that shows what will happen when sex robots become human and take over the role of wife and friend. “Her” was wrong. Men will not be falling in love with their computer operating system. Instead, E. Z. Graves says, “Entropy” will set in, and men will become slaves to sexbots!

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