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1. Desire of the Gods: Apollo

   About Desire of the Gods: Apollo:

   Paula Willis humours her superstitious neighbour by carrying out a love ritual with a little image of the Greek God Apollo. When he appears – incredibly golden, arrogant, muscular and overbearing, promising to grant her heart’s desire – she assumes that’s her ex Nick, who’s walked out on her just weeks before their wedding.

   Or isn’t her heart’s desire – just a bit – this impossible immortal?

   Apollo’s a vain, insensitive so-and-so, and when Eros sneakily puts a love dart in him, he snaps his eyes shut and insists on a blindfold. It wouldn’t do at all for the Sun God to fall for an ordinary looking woman like Paula; he’s got an image to keep up, after all.

   Will the bossy Love Goddess Aphrodite help sort out their problems?

   This funny and sensual romance novelette is the first part of Marianna Green’s new series, ‘Desire of the Gods’.

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   Author Bio:
   Marianna Green comes from the UK and does her best to write page turners. She loves the Greek myths, and decided to write a little about some of her favourite Immortals and Semi Mortals. She’s interested in weight training and body sculpting, is a names geek, an indifferent cook and people pay her not to sing. She’s got a wicked sense of humour and is either being very lazy or working flat out.

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2. Journey To Landaran by Judy Goodwin

   About Journey To Landaran by Judy Goodwin:

   Aidah and her twin brother Tavish have always had a knack for getting into trouble. From pie stealing and pranks to hunting for magical creatures, they have always escaped notice in their tiny mountain village.

   Until now.

   Aidah begins seeing visions through her brother’s eyes. He’s a Firestarter, gifted with the Talent to control light and heat, destined to become a Sun Mage in the great city of Landaran. But he doesn’t want to leave without his sister. As storm clouds gather, Aidah dreams of a beautiful man, a frightening man, calling to her.

   She fears the truth. That she may be developing a Talent of her own, one that will change their lives forever.

   The power to read minds. To possess bodies. To travel inside dreams. In the world of Ernid, Spirit is the ultimate power.

   Nations will go to war over them.

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   Author Bio:
   Judy Goodwin developed a passion for writing at a young age, creating picture books from the time she could read and write. She continued this passion throughout her schooling, earning her BA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. In her day job, she works as a technical writer in the healthcare field. She enjoys sharing her love of books and fantasy with her daughter and partner. They live in Gilbert, Arizona, with two Shiba Inu (Japanese) dogs, one wiener dog, and four black cats. You find her novels and short story collections on Amazon and other online retailors.

   Reach her on Twitter @judygoodwin6

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3. Steam City Pirates by Jim Musgrave

   

   About Steam City Pirates by Jim Musgrave

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   Beneath Central Park in New York City

   The Steam City Pirates have Invaded!

   Like Alice’s rabbit, a strange “mechanical-like man” leads 1869 New York Detective Pat O’Malley down into the world of steam power. A group from the future calling itself the World Scientific Advancement Society for Progress is living secretly beneath Central Park. These pirates are inventors whose only goal is to keep the Earth in the Steam Age in order to save it from a future nuclear holocaust.

   In this new Steampunk Science Fiction book, five alien assassins from other universes are ordered to kill O’Malley and his group, and each alien has a unique ability to do the job. As the Steam City Pirates build a steam-powered amusement park on Coney Island, O’Malley and his group are hunted down in the streets of New York City. The future of the world is at stake in this mystery and adventure featuring a twisting plot, steampunk time travel, romance, steam men duels, crafty inventions, and monsters from other planets.

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4. Troublesome Neighbors

   About Troublesome Neighbors:

   Lord Gorsfeld preys upon his neighbors, but he covets Lady Renna’s lands. When she rejects his suit, his hirelings increase their attacks her villages.

   A veteran of the Far Isles Half-Elven’s Rebellion, Renna wants to live in peace and build her weaving business. But she’s duty bound to protect her people. Renna find a way–without fighting— to stop Gorsfeld on her own terms.

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   Author Bio:
   After being hooked by comic books at an early age, M. K. Theodoratus became intrigued by fantasy when she discovered the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. She has traveled through many fantasy worlds since then. When she’s not reading about other writer’s worlds, she’s creating her own — mostly that of the Far Isle Half-Elven where she explores the social and political implications of genetic drift on a hybrid people.

   A sixth grade English assignment introduced her to story writing. The teacher asked for a short story. She got an incomplete, 25-page Nancy Drew pastiche which turned into a novel the next summer. Theodoratus has been addicted to writing ever after.

   Now she writes about the problems genetic drift causes in an mixed elf human population as shown in her Far Isles Half-Elven series as illustrated in the lives of Mariah, the instigator of the Half-Elven Rebellion, and her friend, the Lady Renna. Theodoratus also writes in other fantasy worlds, including Andor where the gargoyles fight demons.

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5. California Woman

   About California Woman:

   A brutal rape…A murdered child…An enduring love…And one woman’s twenty year quest for revenge…A best-seller when originally published, this historical thriller is about an extraordinary woman who pursues revenge and justice over a twenty year period against a rapist who also intentionally caused the death of her infant child. During the same two whirlwind decades, through wit, her own beauty, sexual cunning, luck, sacrifice, great physical risk and determination, Esther Cable rises to unimagined wealth and prominence amidst the lawless California gold rush, the Comstock silver madness and the building of the transcontinental railroad. All the while she dreams not only of revenge, but a nearly impossible reunion with the husband she left behind out of shame — but still loves after all these years of separation.

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   Author Bio:
   Daniel Knapp was born in New York City where he attended public and private schools before becoming a scholarship athlete at North Carolina State and New York Universities. He has written and edited fiction and non-fiction for such national publications as TIME, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Life, The New York Times Magazine, Reader’s Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, West Magazine, Performing Arts, People, Show, and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. His Esquire profile of Mao Tse Tung, “A Day In The Life Of The Chairman,” has been translated into a dozen languages, and included in anthologies and university textbooks. He is the author of the bestselling “as told to” biography Going Down With Janis, a scathing look at the underbelly of the early rock world and the life and times of rock star Janis Joplin. He also wrote Baccarat, a study of the high roller game and the man who brought it to Las Vegas after escaping Cuba’s civil war. When the print edition of his novel, California Woman was originally published, it sold approximately a half million copies. He is presently at work on a stand alone sequel to California Woman entitled THE WOMEN IN TYLER’S WILL. He now lives in Salt Lake City with his wife of 34 years, Leslie, and their two Burmese cats, Bodhi and Mandalay. Formerly head of the division of biological anthropology at the University of Cambridge, his wife is now the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah. They have travelled the world together pursuing primate research and new subjects for fiction.

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6. DESIRE & PREJUDICE by Jean-Louis McMillan

   About DESIRE & PREJUDICE by Jean-Louis McMillan:

   Desire and Prejudice is about the healing power of true lovemaking and the damning power of ethnic bias.
   When Jasmine and Adam first meet, they are both totally caught by surprise; their inner feelings are the magnetic force that draws them to each other. Their burning desires toward one another are unstoppable, but they are condemned by their separate lives – he is a French official and she is a Muslim.
   They find ways to be with each other when they couldn’t.
   The poetic letter takes the reader into the minds of two lovers desperately wanting one another, but each holding back because of their cultural backgrounds and the fear of getting caught in their dangerous game.
   The erotic descriptions are vivid enough, but scarcely the right quantity of description to know precisely what is going on.
   Desire and Prejudice is much more than “boy meets girl, they fall in love”; it tells a realistic, believable story that readers haven’t heard before.
   These characters, nor the twisted end of the story, are definitely not the stereotypical a reader can predict.

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   Author Bio:
   JL McMillan is a retired freelance journalist and first-time author.
   He was born in Oran on the Mediterranean coast in Algeria, but left Algeria after a restless childhood and settled in Paris, France, where he earned a degree in Philosophy.

   Now, after a turbulent youth and a career that had thrown him into the heart of the hardest battles in the Middle East, Jean-Louis wanders between the Orient and the Occident. Love gardening, travel and classic music.

   He writes as a means to explore, and to heal.
   “Desire & Prejudice” is his first published book.

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7. Magic of Speech Evaluation: Gain World Class Public Speaking Experience by Evaluating Successful Speakers

   About Magic of Speech Evaluation: Gain World Class Public Speaking Experience by Evaluating Successful Speakers:

   After reading Magic of Speech Evaluation you will have acquired the experience of applying the most effective public speaking techniques used by 1000 of the world’s best speakers. You will be able to clearly see what makes each speech effective and what can improve it even further. This ability will make you a more experienced speaker who can create a captivating speech from the first attempt.

   Magic of Speech Evaluation contains numerous demonstrations of common mistakes that speakers make and effective applications of public speaking principles. After watching and evaluating 15 short speeches of successful speakers you will develop the ability to clearly see how to improve your own speeches. You will master 3 enormously powerful public speaking principles that are more effective than all other techniques combined. In addition, you will learn a highly effective evaluation system that will allow you to make other speakers successful. Reading this book might not make you a world-class speaker instantly, however it will definitely get you several steps closer to this goal.

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   Author Bio:
   Andrii Sedniev, MBA, is the founder and trainer of the Magic of Public Speaking system which has helped hundreds of speakers worldwide to unleash their potential in public speaking in a very short period of time. Andrii’s students say that the Magic of Public Speaking system is the most complete and powerful public speaking training that they have ever experienced. At the age of 19, Andrii obtained his CCIE (Certified Cisco Internetwork Expert) certification, the most respected certification in the IT world and became the youngest person in Europe to hold it. At the age of 23, he joined an MBA program at one of the top 10 MBA schools in the USA. Being the youngest student on the program and at the age of 25 he joined Cisco Systems’ Head Office as a Product Manager responsible for managing a router which brought in $1 billion in revenue every year. These experiences have taught Andrii that success in any endeavor doesn’t as much depend on the amount of experience but rather on the processes that you are using. Having dedicated over 10 years to researching and practicing a variety of different techniques, Andrii has created the Magic of Public Speaking system. This system is a comprehensive step-by-step program that will enable you to achieve in 2 months what most speakers never achieve in 10 years.

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8. The God King by James A. West

   

   The God King by James A. West

   Heroes are not born, they are forged in the fires of apocalypse…

   Mercenary Kian Valara wants nothing more than to retire from a life of blood and butchery. But when an arrogant princeling offers him enough gold to buy a throne, Kian straps on his sword for one last mission. And besides, what could be easier than guarding a prince who wants to sow his royal seed in every backwater fortress and village throughout the realm?

   Turns out, dying would’ve been easier.

   Kian discovers too late that the prince’s ambition has shattered the foundations of the world, and that he intends to remake all Creation.

   As the moons collide and the skies burn, Kian and his devastated company of warriors hound the demented prince across a nightmare realm. At every turn, Kian must fight for his life against demons escaped from the underworld, and those who they have transformed into blood-hungry terrors.

   Along the way, Kian meets a powerful and beautiful woman who prepares him for a battle he has small hope of winning. To triumph, Kian must summon all his skill and courage, he must sacrifice more than he ever imagined he could, and he must embrace the dark secret that binds him to the power-mad prince.

   Only one thing is certain: if Kian fails, the world of men will burn in the fires of apocalypse, and the God King will rule unchallenged and unpunished.

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