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1. Secrets of San Miguel -

   Alice Denham is the highly-praised author of Sleeping With Bad Boys, AMO, My Darling from the Lions, and many stories and articles. Alice is the only Playboy Playmate who ever had a short story published in the same issue of Playboy magazine. Her story was made into a festival prizewinning movie. When Alice made Phi Beta Kappa at UNC Chapel Hill, her English professors helped her get a scholarship to graduate school. Alice’s literary publications and family papers are being preserved in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC Chapel Hill. Alice Denham is a founding member of the National Organization for Women and currently splits her time between Greenwich Village and San Miguel.

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2. Drums (Southern Seas Series) by Gwendoline Ewins -

   I write stories set on remote south seas islands because I lived on one for many years - I know what it's like to watch sensual dancing under the moon and see a rare ship sail out of the bay. I also know what it's like to live through a hurricane or two. "My" island was discovered by descendants of Polynesian seafarers who settled Havaiiki - wherever that might have been - 4,000 years ago. They were beautiful people. Intelligent, with a wanderlust and lusty appreciation of sex. They sailed on frail trimarans that should have sunk. They should have run out of food or fallen overboard. Instead they survived. Europeans had a wanderlust too, and for all sorts of reasons came to "my" island. Some of them were good people, some bad, and some in between. They came as sailors and traders and sandalwood gatherers, as botanists, artists and beachcombers. They were usually men - and with all the sex so freely available might well have thought they'd died and gone to heaven. Then late in the 1700s the missionaries came, those appointed by the London Missionary Society came with wives and a very different idea about morality. This is the setting of the Southern Seas Series.

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3. DSLR Photography for Beginners -

   Brian Black Lives in Nashville, Tennessee, accompanied by his wife and three kids. Over the years, he has moved on from being a simple enthusiast of photography, to become a professional photographer. Site seeing and photography have been his main areas of interest, and most of his expertise have been acquired through research, experience and practice. Recognizing the difficulties that managing a digital SLR camera may pose, he has decided to create a very enlightening guide that covers all the core areas of digital photography.

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4. Breakthrough -

   For years, Michael Grumley dreamed of writing action thrillers the way he thought they should be written; stories with unique plots that move, and keep the reader guessing until the very end. Enter Breakthrough, a story with a fascinating plot which takes the reader on an exciting ride and makes it virtually impossible to guess the ending. Michael C. Grumley lives in Northern California with his wife and two young daughters where he works in the Information Technology field. He’s an avid reader, runner and most of all father. He dotes on his girls every chance he gets.

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5. At Long Last -

   N. DeRaj is a penname that the author would like to keep a secret. There isn’t much more on this mysterious person, except that they’ve authored a number of successful fantasy novels.

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6. The Halfwit Knight -

   At first, when asked what inspired him to write, Najeev Raj Nadarajah excitedly spoke of that one faithful winter day when he picked up a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and fell in love with the fantasy genre. But upon further reflection, he wound back the clock to the autumn of 1991 when he was first introduced to Robert McConnell’s classic children’s book, Norbert Nipkin. With a lack of cable television and video games, Nadarajah turned to reading books and watching fantastical films as his pastime. If you’re looking for the spark that blossomed into what is now his love for writing and storytelling, look no further. For four long years, he worked on a manuscript to an epic fantasy novel called Helmdör, which he poured all of his free time and energy into. Countless rejections later, discouraged, and at the end of his line, he self-published and soon discarded the novel out of frustration knowing that he could do loads better. Failure after failure, mixed with years of ill-fortune soon led to many sleepless nights and countless bad dreams. It was while struggling to find his way through life, and while struggling to find an original idea that he found his way to the University of Toronto, St. George Campus in downtown Toronto where he landed a job as a security guard at Robarts Library. Two weeks later, woken by yet another nightmare, Nadarajah left behind the discomforts of his bed and made his way to work a few hours ahead of schedule to clear his mind of a post-apocalyptic vision. It was while walking about the streets of the campus that his original idea struck him as if it had always been harbouring in the back of his mind, waiting for the right moment to present itself. And that’s how Dream Caster came into existence. Within mere weeks, four novels were planned in the series, and Nadarajah has not looked back since. Nadarajah continues to live in Toronto, Ontario, and continues to work at the University of Toronto. He still lacks cable television, prefers books over video games, and still enjoys reading fantasy classics and watching movies with all forms of fantastical elements (and yes, he loves SciFi, too). When not reading and writing, Nadarajah plays hockey, plays with his cockatiels, and continues to go on random escapades that leaves others scratching their heads.

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