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because by Jack A. Langedijk

Synopsis Robert had reached the summit of many mountains. His adventures took him to unimaginable heights, yet his greatest achievements were not in conquering these majestic beauties, but in his...

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One Night at the Jacaranda by Carol Cooper

Synopsis One young man dying of cancer.  One struggling journalist.  Six single Londoners.  One night that changes everything....  Dan is trying to conceal a stretch in jail, while time is running out...

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COTTER by Peter Glassman

Synopsis Jacob Cotter survives the Civil War to finish Yale Medical School and confront two more battlefronts–one in Connecticut as a medical student and one in Texas as a surgeon. In 1868 Cotter is...

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Love of a Stonemason (Family Portrait, Book 2) by Christa Polkinhorn

Synopsis The young painter Karla Bocelli is all too familiar with loss. When she was five years old, her mother died in a car crash in the south of Switzerland. Her Peruvian father lives at the other...

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Kings of Brighton Beach Episode #1: Part 1: Gangsters with Guns by D. B. Shuster

Synopsis Kings of Brighton Beach Series  In Brighton Beach, the largest Russian immigrant community in America, criminals and spies live among hardworking immigrants. The mafia rules with an invisible...

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Echoes from the Lost Ones (Song of Forgetfulness) by Nicola McDonagh

Synopsis In this unsettling and mysterious vision of the future, animals are almost extinct and humans are subjugated by the sinister and secretive Agros; nothing is as it seems. And 17-year-old Adara...

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The Wake of the Dragon: A Steampunk Adventure by Jaq D Hawkins

Synopsis No sane airshipman will fly near a storm, but the cover of storm edge offers effective concealment for airship pirates who can strike quickly from above before anyone knows a ship is near....

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Dangerous Waters (The Guernsey Novels Book 1) by Anne Allen

Synopsis Jeanne Le Page is lucky to be alive … 15 years ago she was almost killed in a boating accident which brought heart-breaking family tragedy. Now 31, Jeanne is returning reluctantly to the...

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No Tears For My Father by Viga Boland

Synopsis Trapped in a web of deceit & confusion spun by her father from the age of 11, the author shares her true story of incest in the hopes that by coming out from under years of sexual abuse,...

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Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves : A Jack Sloan Novel by Larry Seeley

Synopsis The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, The Blood of Christ, provide the backdrop for Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves, a tale of murder, revenge and redemption. Jack Sloan, businessman, gambler, casino...

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Joshua's Island by Patrick Hodges

Synopsis Joshua is small for his age. He has been bullied relentlessly for years, and all of his friends have drifted away from him. Eve is a pretty girl who has just been recruited into the popular...

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The Power of Six: Six (plus one) Science Fiction Short Stories by Nicholas...

Synopsis Six science fiction short stories written by the author of Pearseus, the epic fantasy series that has reached #1 on Amazon. This edition includes one extra story, written by Amos M. Carpenter....

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In the Face of Evil: Based on the life of Dina Frydman Balbien by Tema N....

Synopsis Ten-year-old Dina Frydman lives a comfortable middle class life with her family in Radom, Poland in the summer of 1939, just weeks before the Nazi invasion. The love of family and friends...

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The Ferryman by Amy Neftzger

Synopsis Like any significant career move, this one happened by accident. Karen spent a lot of time planning what she was going to do with her life, but Fate had other plans for her, as she often does...

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Mindclone by David T. Wolf

Synopsis WHEN YOU’RE A BRAIN WITHOUT A BODY, CAN YOU STILL BE CALLED HUMAN? Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. He can’t feel his own body, and he doesn’t know why. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him...

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Breakfast the Night Before: Recollections of an Irish Horse Dealer by...

Synopsis This sparkling memoir gives a personal view of Irish rural life from the Economic War of the 1930s to the farming boom and recession of the 1970s. It describes the upbringing of a Protestant...

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South of Good (Hardin Steel Book 1) by Randall Reneau

Synopsis Forced out of the DEA after twenty years, Hardin Steel, Stainless to his close friends, has managed to get himself elected Sheriff of Cameron County, Texas. Twice divorced, with a bit of a...

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Almost a Bride, a western romance (Wyoming Wildflowers Book 1) by Patricia...

Synopsis Dave Currick was everything Matty Brennan wanted for as along as she could remember. Right up until he broke her heart six years ago. Now that she's returned to Wyoming for good, what she...

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Clouds In The Wind by Ian Mackenzie

Synopsis The book’s   title, Clouds in the Wind, is an expression that means futility, and nothing is more futile than war.  In the 1970s  in Southern Africa, successful business man Andrew Mason is...

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Escaping Apartheid: A Letter to My Mother by Nomanono Isaacs

Synopsis A Letter to My Mother is the harrowing, true story of Nomanono Isaacs, a young girl born at the height of South Africa’s cruel and oppressive Apartheid regime. Forced to endure cruelties that...

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Professor Kompressor by Nils Andersson

Synopsis Professor Kompressor is an inventor. He is excellent at inventing, but the inventions are not always excellent. The first book in the series about Professor Kompressor, an ever-so-slightly...

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When Women Were Warriors Book I: The Warrior's Path by Catherine M. Wilson

Synopsis When she was a child, the author happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, "Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune." But she would...

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Sing Me Back Home (Montana Born Homecoming Book 1) by Eve Gaddy

Synopsis Dr. Jack Gallagher, one of Marietta, Montana's most eligible bachelors, hasn't been serious about a woman since his wife died five years ago. He's been content to date occasionally, practice...

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The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez by Ann Swinfen

Synopsis It is the year 1586. England is awash with traitors, plotting to assassinate the Queen and bring about a foreign invasion. The young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of...

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THE BELIEF IN Angels by J. Dylan Yates

Synopsis Jules Finn and Szaja Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply--so deeply it can drown the soul. Growing up in her parents’ crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston,...

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The Field Of Blackbirds: A Jeff Bradley Thriller by Thomas Ryan

Synopsis The Field of Blackbirds begins when Arben Shala disappears in Eastern Europe. Jeff Bradley, a recently retired special forces soldier, promises Arben’s wife to uncover the mystery behind his...

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HYM and HUR by Phillip Frey

Synopsis Hym and Hur are a young couple who never age and have been in love for more than a century.  They also possess an array of magical abilities, two of which are either to play pranks on...

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The Wheel of The Year: A Beginner's Guide to Celebrating the Traditional...

Synopsis Celebrate the ancient and powerful magic held within the Wheel of the Year with this clear and well-ordered guide. This book is much more than a guidebook; it offers everything needed to mark...

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Born With One Foot In The Grave by Harry Greiner

Synopsis A true life story of four generations of a family plagued with kidney disease and death. Finally through the miracle of organ transplants, Harry was the first member of the family to live and...

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Pinpoint: A psychological legal crime thriller by Sheila Mary Taylor

Synopsis A psychological legal crime thriller A lawyer, a murderer and a policeman – caught in a tangled web of love, loss, terror and intrigue in this driving psychological thriller.  When criminal...

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Replica by Lexi Revellian

Synopsis When Beth's eccentric boss at the government research lab asks her to try out his latest duplicating machine, she'd be crazy to do any such thing. She's not cleared for this, insured or...

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Cedric the Demonic Knight by Valerie Willis

Synopsis Known for hunting the supernatural, no mortal man realizes Lord Cedric is one of Sorceress Morrighan’s abominations. After competing in a tournament, he is wed to a Lady of the Court,...

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Off the Grid: Book One (The Jamie Keller Myster Series 1) by EN McNamara

Synopsis When Jamie Keller's father is killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, her mother decides to combat the financial and emotional stress by moving the family from Hamilton, Ohio to the rural town of...

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In the Shadow of Lies: An Oliver Wright Mystery Novel by M.A. Adler

Synopsis Richmond, California. World War II. A cross burning takes innocent lives and unsettles the town. After Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, American Italians start to disappear, a rapist promises to...

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Leon Chameleon PI and the case of the kidnapped mouse by Jan Hurst-Nicholson

Synopsis A humorous, animal detective story for 7-12 year-olds. When Mr Woodland Mouse mysteriously disappears, Constable Mole is quick to enlist the help of Leon Chameleon, Private Investigator, whose...

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Pegasus to Paradise by Michael Tappenden

Synopsis Based on a true story. Ted and Florrie were childhood sweethearts who in 1936, married in the church on top of the Hill where they both lived, unaware of the dark rumblings from Europe, which...

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Trips to the Edge: Tales of the Unexpected by Diane Wing

Synopsis Kick back and enjoy this mini-anthology of spine-tingling short stories from Diane Wing, author of "Thorne Manor And Other Bizarre Tales" and "Coven: Scrolls of the Four Winds."   Another Walk...

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Show Up Dead: A Sweet Murder from the City of Brotherly Love by Lisa Shiroff

Synopsis When people call her a control freak, Peri Milano takes it as a compliment. As the preferred go-to special assistant to Philadelphia’s rich and almost famous, having everything under control...

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The Viscount's Pleasure House (Irresistible Aristocrats Book 1) by Suzi Love

Synopsis Lady Chrissie Wellsby and her two country friends research dozens of rogues before selecting the notorious Viscount Hawkesbury, owner of London’s most exclusive and expensive brothel, to...

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New Sun Rising: Ten Stories by Lindsay Edmunds

Synopsis These are linked stories, in the spirit of Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine. They are about a sixteen-year old girl, Kedzie Greer, who was raised in a utopian community and leaves home to make...

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The Angels' Cut (The Angels' Share series Book 1) by Mac Logan

Synopsis They take his sister, attack his family and mean to kill him with extreme prejudice … What’s a guy to do? BIZZ is a greedy collusion of organised crime, banking, government, business,...

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The Changing Room: A British Comedy of Love, Loss and Laughter by Jane Turley

Synopsis Sandy Lovett's confused mother and chaotic life are having an effect on her waistline. She knows she needs to change her life but doesn't know how until she buys a risqué dress which sets in...

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Mercy Carver: Dark Shadows by Jana Petken

Synopsis When unimaginable calamities strike, Mercy Carver, a poor London woman, wonders what she has done to deserve such immeasurable suffering. It is only when she faces imminent death in the snow...

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Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane, Identity Detective Book 1) by Sandra Danby

Synopsis Rose Haldane is confident about her identity. She pulls the same face as her grandfather when she has to do something she doesn’t want to do, she knows her DNA is the same as his. Except it...

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Chill Waters by Joan Hall Hovey

Synopsis What if evil visited the one place where you feel the most safe? Following the breakup of her marriage, Rachael retreats to the old beachhouse in Jenny's Cove, where she once lived with her...

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Maxwell's Silver Hammer by Andy Rivers

Synopsis After Billy Reeves had survived a poverty ridden and violent childhood on a council estate in Newcastle he thought he had it all; a loving family, money and respect but a face from the past...

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The Albion By Derryl Flynn

Synopsis Fast approaching forty, life’s experiences haven’t mellowed Terry Gallagher. He’s become an angry man. Sickened by the mindless violence all around him while trying to come to terms with his...

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To Dance With Ugly People By Lorene Hill

Synopsis “This novel is a book in which I was able to express a new divine awareness.  I realized I had experienced a lot in life that had left me strewn and unsettled; the book brought about the...

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The Odor of Violet by Ju Ephraime

Synopsis After losing his sight in a terrible accident, only to learn that the woman he was planning to marry did not love him enough to accept him, Damien Falconer was devastated. Struggling to cope...

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The Deep Link (The Ascendancy Trilogy Book 1) By Veronica Sicoe

Synopsis When an unstoppable warlord meets an unyielding rebel, their link becomes a new force of nature.Taryn's dream of forging an alliance with a powerful alien race has become a nightmare. She is...

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