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1. Clementine’s Shadow by Peggy Rothschild

   About Clementine’s Shadow by Peggy Rothschild:

   After moving to the California High Desert for a new start, Deputy Casey Lang faces a hard truth: She must work through her fear of shooting another child or kiss her career goodbye. The disappearance of a six-year-old girl from a summer concert puts Casey’s resolve to the test. The only member of the local force with experience working a kidnapping, Casey knows she is the department’s best chance for finding the child.

   Set in a scorched landscape of played out silver mines and dry riverbeds, Clementine’s Shadow tells the story of a child snatched by a predator and the desperate hunt to find her. As the temperature rises, three unlikely heroes emerge to help Casey with her search.

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   Author Bio:
   Peggy Rothschild grew up in Los Angeles. Always a mystery-lover, she embraced the tales of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys before graduating to the adult section of the library. An English major in high school, she switched to art — her other passion — in college. At present, Peggy lives in the beach community of Ventura with her husband and their cats. In her spare time she focuses on transforming their yard into a drought-tolerant paradise.

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2. Rolling Thunder by Mark Berent

   About Rolling Thunder by Mark Berent:

   Rolling Thunder is an historical novel about the decisive role politics played during the Vietnam war. Its characters range from men in the field to the Pentagon and the White House. Fighter pilots and Special Forces warriors try to do their best but are hampered by President Johnson, Secretary of Defense McNamara, and their staff members who despise the military. Only one aging USAF general, who fought in Korea and WWII, is on their side. His clashes with his Commander in Chief, Lyndon Johnson, are epic in proportion and startling in content.

   In Rolling Thunder, the time is late 1965 and 1966 in war zone places such as Saigon, Hanoi, Bien Hoa, Da Nang, and Tahkli. While back in Washington, LBJ sits over lunch and personally picks bombing targets in an attempt to fight a limited war. In Vietnam the war knows no limits.

   There, as the hostilities escalate, the fates of three men intertwine: USAF Captain Court Bannister, overshadowed by a famous movie star father who fought in WWII as a B-17 gunner, driven to confront missiles, MiGs, and nerve-grinding bombing raids in order to prove his worth to his comrades — and to himself…Air Force First Lieutenant Toby Parker, fresh from the States, who hooks up with an intelligence unit for a lark, and quickly finds his innocence buried away by the lessons of war…and Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert, who ventures deep into the jungle to rescue a downed pilot — only to discover a face of the enemy for which he is unprepared.

   Airline stewardesses come under attack when they are forced to spend the night on a fighter base in Vietnam after their airliner develops a problem.

   Through their eyes, and those of many others — pilots, soldiers, lovers, enemy agents, commanders, politicians, profiteers — Rolling Thunder shows us Vietnam as few other books have, or can. Berent captures all the intensity and drama of that searing war, and more, penetrates to the heart and soul of those who fought it. Rolling Thunder rings with authenticity.

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   Author Bio:
   Lt Col Mark E. Berent, USAF (Ret), was born in Minneapolis, graduated from Cretin High School in St. Paul, and Arizona State University with a BSME.

   Berent began his Air Force career as an enlisted man then entered pilot training at Columbus and Laredo. He served three combat tours, completing 452 combat sorties, first in the F-100 at Bien Hoa then the F-4 at Ubon. He spent two years in Cambodia flying things with propellers and, through a fluke, ran the air war for a few weeks.

   He has logged over 4300 hours of flying time, 1084 of those in combat missions in the F-100, F-4, C-47 and U-10 over South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. He has flown 30 different aircraft.

   His decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star, Air Medal with twenty-four oak leaf clusters, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Cambodian Divisional Medal, and numerous Vietnam Campaign ribbons. He also earned US Special Forces and Cambodian jump wings.

   Since retirement, he established international operations for the sale of spares for combat aircraft; flew foreign aircraft such as the Swedish Viggen and RAF Jaguar and Hawk; wrote numerous articles for the Air Force Magazine; and was a pilot/reporter for the Asian Defense Journal. He wrote five Vietnam airwar novels (Wings of War, see www.markberent.com). Recently flew his T-6 in airshows.

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3. The Red Cross of Gold I:. The Knight of Death by Brendan Carroll

   About The Red Cross of Gold I:. The Knight of Death by Brendan Carroll:

   A grumpy Scottish alchemist going on 800 years old is sent on an assassin’s mission to America in order to ‘deal’ with a deserter from the Order of the Red Cross, a division of Knights Templar left over from the Middle Ages. As one of the twelve man, semi-immortal ruling council members, our alchemist is a respected Knight of the Order, but when he is ambushed and doused with a half-baked alchemical concoction, he temporarily loses his memory. Unable to understand who and what he is and what he is doing in America, he falls prey to a rival order looking for the key to immortality. While he is trying to regain his memory, he breaks his vows and falls in love with one of his captors. When his Brothers of the Order learn what he has done, they come after him, hell bent on taking him home, dead or alive. Torn between the woman he loves and the life he has lived for the past eight centuries, he must fight not only his kidnappers, but his own Brothers and life-long friends while deciding what to do about his predicament, a seemingly no-win situation.

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   Brendan Carroll is a retired public servant, ex-school teacher and Navy veteran. He has written over 30 novels now published on Amazon.con. His various interests and obsessions, hobbies and musings have led him to publish across the genres including historic romance, epic fantasy, horror and time-travel adventure with a little mystery, a lot of humor and just enough sex and violence to keep up with the current fashions.

   Brendan lives in Deep East Texas, hates mosquitoes and fire ants, does a little amateur bird-watching and a lot philosophical thinking. His major goal in life is to write the Nobel Prize winner in the literary category. His minor goal is calculating what he will do with the prize money.

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4. The Three Kitties That Saved My Life

   About The Three Kitties That Saved My Life:

   AN UPLIFTING TRUE STORY OF LOVE – from love and loss to love renewed – a feel-good read

   #1 Amazon bestseller in Love and Loss, December 2013

   Losing loved ones is an awful fact of life; losing one’s loving spouse, one’s day-to-day partner through life, especially in the prime of life, is one of the most unbearable tolls that we humans are forced to endure. This is the true story of my journey from grieving widower, not caring if I lived or died, to the once-again happily married man I am today, a man who both loves and cherishes life. My three kitties have given me a new zest for living.

   My story begins with loss and tears, but it ends with lots of love and laughter. I hope that you will find yourself both entertained and inspired by my journey.

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   Writer of of mysteries, thrillers, humorous fiction, and non-fiction: Love and romance, laughter and tears, thrills and fears.

   My INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION currently has two books: COVERT DREAMS, Book One; and DEADLY EYES, Book Two.

   My CONTEMPORARY/HUMOROUS FICTION COLLECTION currently has two books: THE FAMOUS UNION, Book One; and THE SURVIVAL OF MARVIN BAINES, Book Two.

   THE THREE KITTIES THAT SAVED MY LIFE was my heartfelt attempt to make things right again in my own life, and putting this true story of love down on paper worked. It was something that I just knew I had to do.

   I have resided in and have visited many places in the world, all of which have contributed in some way to my own published writing. I have literally traveled throughout the world, on numerous occasions. I have lived in Finland, Germany, Thailand, Saudi Arabia (where COVERT DREAMS – INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK ONE – is set), and the U.S. Virgin Islands (where DEADLY EYES – INTERNATIONAL SUSPENSE COLLECTION BOOK TWO – is set). I gained the wanderlust to see the world, to experience other cultures, at an early age, and this desire has never left me. If anything, it has only gained in intensity as I have aged. I try to travel internationally at least once a year. In the interim, I spend lots of time traveling around both my home state of California and other nearby states.

   Among the many unique things that have happened to me in my world travels, I have walked the streets of Istanbul with a detective, searching for a pickpocket who got me good. I have ridden on the back of a motorcycle in Tehran while the driver, who spoke not one word of English, pointed out all the sights to me. I have wrestled an Iranian soldier who tried to break into my hotel room in Tehran. I have had the paint completely stripped from my car as I drove across Saudi Arabia in a sandstorm. I have stood on the stage of a busy nightclub in Tokyo, singing “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes” to an audience feeling no pain from the Sake they were drinking. I have been chased by a family of mongooses (yes, that is the correct spelling) on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Croix. And that is just the beginning of my long list of worldly adventures.

   As a recent retiree from a forty-year career as a professor of writing, I now live in Southern California wine country with my wife, Kitty, and our two adorable rescue cats.

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5. Jodi by Harley Bennett

   

   About Jodi by Harley Bennett

   This is a middle grade fantasy book.

   Jodi’s vacation to the 1887 frontier town of Moss Point, Arizona was supposed to be fun. Horseback riding in the mountains and forests of Arizona was fun. Meeting White Feather and his Apache hunting party was fun. White Feather even gave her an Apache name, Konantanihi, which he translated as Fire Princess. Fishing in the wilderness was fun. Spoiling the stagecoach robbery was a lot of fun. Riding Mark’s big Quarter horse in a race was fun, and attending a nineteenth century baseball game with Hallie was fun. But, there were all those other things, those things that did not belong. Those were not fun. Some of the things that Jodi had to deal with were downright scary.

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6. Ruby Silver by Randall Reneau

   

   About Ruby Silver by Randall Reneau

   Geologist Trace Brandon and his partner Will Coffee are just back from Liberia, West Africa. Cashed-up and looking for a new venture, they once again team up with Cyrus “The Virus” McSweeny. This time the quarry is the silver-rich ore of the old Ruby Mining District. And this time they’ll not only have the Pantelli crime family to deal with, but also lumberman Autry Ollinger—three hundred pounds of obnoxiousness whose preferred method of negotiation is a right hook. When the Pantellis unleash a bizarre extortion plot to seize control of Ruby Mining Company, Cyrus is forced to bring former clandestine operative Marion Thistlewaite out of retirement. Marion’s unique expertise may give them the edge they need to hold on to their company . . . and their lives

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