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1. Shadowland by C.M. Gray

   

   About Shadowland by C.M. Gray

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   161 Amazon Reviews with an average of 4.3 stars.

   Shadowland – An Arthurian Legend.

   We grow up with the Legend of King Arthur … But where did he come from? Who was Merlin? What part did the Druids play in bringing Arthur to his round table? This is the story that came before, when Britain was just a Shadowland.

   Shadowland is a story of historical fantasy set in Dark Ages Britain.

   `I have lived more years than I can remember, probably more than the sum of all your years combined. Kings have called me friend and brigands have sworn to burn the flesh from my bones even if they have to search all seven halls of the shadowland to find me.’

   On the night of midwinter’s eve, a storyteller takes his listeners back to the Dark ages and a tale from his youth.

   Deserted by its Roman masters, Britain has been invaded by the Saxons at the invitation of Vortigern, traitorous leader of the Britons. Now, as the tribes unite to reclaim their land, one man must rise to lead them and become their true and only king.

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2. Luna Rising, the Full Saga by Claude Nougat

   About Luna Rising, the Full Saga by Claude Nougat:

   Tony Luna can’t lead a normal life. Born a “gifted child”, he’s lonely and different, a whiz with computers. He finishes school at fifteen and soon becomes a successful video game engineer, much to his Mom’s delight and pride. But when he turns nineteen, a time when most people start working, he’s sick and tired of his job, he suffers from burnout. He wants to discover the big world out there. His long-dead father used to talk to him about his homeland, Sicily, and how his family, the Lunas, fought many battles in the Middle Ages, making a name for themselves and a big fortune on the way – a fortune that however vanished in the early 1900s, leaving his father penniless.

   Against his Mom’s advice, Tony sets off for Sicily. Walking around the old town of Syracuse, he drifts into a palazzo with a strange name over the door, the “Circle of Conversation”, filled with people in disguise. But this is no costume ball. It is a place out of Time, dark and humid, where the ghosts of his ancestors mill about and converse, waiting for Judgment Day – among them, a beautiful woman with deep, black eyes that promise love. But the door slams shut behind him, Tony is trapped. His trip to Sicily, meant as a simple voyage of self-discovery, has turned into a nightmare. How can he shake off the past and find himself?

   Note: This is the revised version of “Un Amore Dimenticato” (A Forgotten Love) widely praised in Italy.

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   Author Bio:
   Born in Brussels, brought up in Europe, Africa and America, Claude Nougat is a Columbia U graduate in economics. In her busy working life, she followed in Jack London’s footsteps and dabbled in a range of jobs from banking to publishing, journalism, marketing and college teaching before joining the United Nations in Rome (FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization). Here, after 25 years of service, she was promoted (to her surprise) and ended as Director for Europe and Central Asia.

   Claude is the author of many books, including two in Italian that won several awards in Italy, and seven in English, all fiction except one essay on development aid; she is considered a prime exponent of Boomer literature and has founded a group on Goodreads (500 members to date) to discuss Boomer Lit.

   Her poetry has been included in “Freeze Frame”, an international poetry anthology curated by British poet Oscar Sparrow, published by Gallo Romano Media in 2012.

   Claude is married and lives in Italy.

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3. Perfectly Flawed: New Adult Romance by Emily Jane Trent

   

   About Perfectly Flawed: New Adult Romance by Emily Jane Trent

   A New Adult Romance Novel that will touch your heart.

   Sean Reid, a swoon-worthy Irish tough guy, is six feet tall and all muscle. It’s love at first sight when he meets the blond beauty, Adrianna Brooks, and he is determined to protect the woman he loves from vicious oppressors, no matter the cost.

   “Looking into Sean’s deep brown eyes was like falling—it was the sensation of falling into the warmth of a man. A warmth Adrianna was unfamiliar with. She wanted to drown in it, make him put his arms around her and never let her go. It was safe, secure, and something else—something vivid, if intangible.”

   Adrianna Brooks thought when she graduated and moved away from home that life would change. And it did. But not in the way she expected. Sean Reid, the man she falls deeply in love with will do anything to keep her safe from the oppressors Adrianna desperately wants to leave behind. But can he? Will she tell him the truth? Or keep her secrets?

   **18+ For adult situations and language**

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4. Song of the Canyon Kid by Scott Cherney

   About Song of the Canyon Kid by Scott Cherney:

   Be it ever so hostile…there’s no place like home!

   A straight-shooting, guitar-strumming cowboy known as The Canyon Kid returns to Dirt Clod, Missouri only to learn that the town’s in ruins, a hanging judge wants to add him to his resume and his gal’s about to marry a known desperado called The Bushwhacker. Complicating matters even further for The Kid are the devious brother and sister team of Nastassia Kinky and Two Gun Boris, the fastest gun this side of the Ukraine.

   How’s The Canyon Kid going to save the day, let alone croon a few tunes, with a noose around his neck?

   Adapted from the author’s hit play Song of the Lone Prairie or Poem on the Range to be produced this summer at the Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville in Oceano, California

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   Born and bred like a fatted calf in Stockton, California, Scott Cherney has worn a lot of hats in his life and times, among them, a cowboy hat as a weekend gunslinger at the Pollardville Ghost Town, a western amusement park that housed sets from the William Wyler film The Big Country. He then moved over to the Palace Showboat Dinner Theater becoming a triple threat actor/writer/director of several melodrama/vaudeville stage productions. Cherney was also an award-winning stage actor and has appeared in such films as Omega Cop and Under Arrest. In 1987, Scott was the winner of the one and only Stockton Stand-Up Comedy Competition.

   His other works include the road rage novel RED ASPHALT, the true travel tale PLEASE HOLD THUMBS: A NOT-SO-ROUND TRIP TO SOUTH AFRICA, a collection of original comedy sketches called NOW THAT’S FUNNY and his movie memoir IN THE DARK: A LIFE AND TIMES IN A MOVIE THEATER.

   Scott just finished the script for an interactive murder mystery entitled THE PERILS OF FRANCOIS for the Mel O’Drama Theater in Nashville, Tennessee, debuting this spring.

   He currently lives near Portland, Oregon.

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5. An Unlikely Truth

   About An Unlikely Truth:

   Democracy at both the local and national levels recently has been under savage assault. Martin Truth’s fight was but one of many such struggles to restore the meaning of representative government to a system that had been corrupted by big money and corporate power.

   Martin Truth is a bright, young, idealistic, Green Party candidate, who in his bid for the congressional seat of a very conservative district in Ohio, teams with a beautiful, brilliant, fiery African-American intern to combat the slick deceptions and ruthless tactics of a sweet-talking right wing incumbent.

   This is an inspiring story of a small, determined group of committed activists who either never knew or forgot the meaning of the word ‘impossible’. Using a unique and powerful strategy for throwing liars and crooks out of public office and restoring representative democracy to our country, politics would never again be the same.

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   Author Bio:
   John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter, music producer, novelist, a left-of-left liberal, and has spent his entire life trying to resolve the intrinsic clash between the metaphysical purity of Buddhism and the overwhelming appeal of narcissism. Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development of his social skills and world view were arrested at age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.

   While living in Japan in 2008, he wrote his first novel, From Thailand With Love. Then in November of 2009, he completed his second novel, The Man Who Loved Too Much. It was written over ten months, as he lived in and traveled through Japan, China, Nepal, India and Thailand.

   While writing 11-11-11, he lived in Japan and Vietnam. 11-11-11 is the prequel to 12-12-12. The two are linked by characters and location. The clueless and basically powerless citizens of Pulnick, Missouri find it nearly impossible to eke out a meaningful existence in a world plagued by stupidity, superstition, gossip, political manipulation, and paranoid rumors about the end of the world. Does this sound familiar? The lead character for the two novels is Noah Tass, a bright young man in his early twenties, who ultimately is caught up in all of the ongoing insanity as he attempts to escape the bland hopelessness of his dreary life and begin a new, meaningful existence elsewhere. His bizarre journey is one of self-discovery and the kind of enlightenment one only achieves by confronting the weird and unexpected. Sounds serious? Actually there is much more laughing than crying. The events of these two novels are fictional, an alternative reality. But remarkably they ring truer than reality itself.

   12-12-12 was completed January 2012 and was published March 18, 2012. While writing this dark satire, chock full unusual twists and biting political humor, the author lived in Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia and of course Japan.

   John Rachel’s most recent novels include Blinders Keepers (published June 1, 2013), and An Unlikely Truth (publication date March 24, 2014). Blinders Keepers sprung from a suggestion made by a movie industry executive. Impressed by 11-11-11 and 12-12-12, this gentleman was convinced they would make a great movie, but would require drastic editing, since filming them in their entirety would amount to about 20 hours of screen time. Author Rachel combined the stories, cut the plot line to the bone, and finished the screenplay Blinders Keepers __ ‘The blind leading the blind and the rest of us directing them to the nearest cliff.’ __ just last autumn. The novelization of that screenplay is the book (for more on this bizarre social-political satire, you can check it out here).

   Before starting on the screenplay, the hyperthyroid Rachel had just completed his political drama An Unlikely Truth. Though it contains much of the biting humor which has driven his previous novels, it overall represents a dramatic shift of tone for the author. Set in lovely homespun Dayton Ohio, it’s the story of an underdog Green Party candidate’s unpropitious fourth run for Congress against a slick GOP pretty boy, a sixth-term incumbent, an ex-military guy, totally full of hot air but a walking Kodak moment with a campaign war chest that made him almost unassailable. The story incorporates a unique and powerful strategy for defeating the sort of ubiquitous blowhards which lately have monopolized Washington DC, are owned lock-stock-and-barrel by big corporations and Wall Street bankers, vote their pocketbooks, smugly ignore the needs of the vast majority of citizens, and have mutated contemporary American politics into a play-for-pay game show with legislative votes going to the highest bidder. An Unlikely Truth’s release early next year is shrewdly timed for the mid-term congressional elections in November.

   During the writing of these last two works, Rachel traveled extensively in Japan, and went back to America twice. He just recently returned from a nine-nation tour of Europe, and five weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia.

   The guy just can’t seem to settle down. His last permanent U.S. residence was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art ProTools recording studio, music production house, radio promotion and music publishing company. During his ten years in Portland, he professionally recorded and produced many artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across the U. S. of A.

   John Rachel has no pets but raises organic vegetables in the fields adjacent to his home. He often refers to his current life as living in a fairy tale, and maintains that his biggest complaint now is that his jaw hurts from smiling so much.

   You can follow his adventures and developing world view at: http://jdrachel.com.

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6. The Quirks of Being Mike

   About The Quirks of Being Mike:

   The Quirks of Being Mike is the story of Mike Allen’s battle against all odds. This insightful, uplifting memoir shows how Mike Allen learned to live with Developmental Gerstmann Syndrome and PTSD. Full of life lessons, The Quirks of Being Mike brings awareness to the seldom spoke of world children and adults with rare developmental disabilities and anxiety disorders live in, as well as the incredible family and friends who love them and help them get by. At the outset, The Quirks of Being Mike bluntly describes the harsh realities of life lived with PTSD and Gerstmann Syndrome. Mike Allen juxtaposes this with New York City on Draft Day, where Mike Allen describes frequently losing control of his body and mind along a journey with NFL Draft guests to the Green Room at the NFL Draft. Over the course of the narrative, Mike Allen describes watching his best friend, roommate and person who saved his life be drafted on the one year anniversary of an F-4 tornado whose 195 mph winds nearly threw them both outside a apartment clubhouse bathroom.

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   Author Bio:
   Hey, I’m Mike Allen, the unaccredited inventor of the Powerade slushy. The Quirks of Being Mike is my first attempt at writing and I got a big kick out the whole book writing process. I enjoy reading good writing and hope sharing The Quirks of Being Mike allows me to help aspiring writers write. If you have a learning disability or neurological disorder and would like a little help sharing your personal journey, I can be reached at MikeAllenWriting@gmail.com Writing comes with discomfort but writing is a good way we can get doctors to put down clipboards and listen to what we’re saying. With enough hard work, you can be an author. I hope you join me on the journey and share a story of your own. Thank you for your interest in my work.

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