Sandra Carrington-Smith is an Italian-born author who relocated to the United States in the late 1980s. Writing has been Sandra’s deepest passion since childhood, yet her dream of becoming a published author was put on hold for several years as she raised a family and learned her new language.
In her late thirties, Sandra wrote The Book of Obeah, which tops today’s Buffet. A group of independent investors is organizing a film project based on the novel. Meanwhile, Sandra has completed a sequel to Obeah and her murder mystery Killer in Sight was published last yeaer.
Set in New Orleans, Obeah tells the story of a young girl named Melody, who discovers she is the next link in a prophetic chain of events that will drag her into the heart of some chilling legends of the Deep South. It will leave you wondering which part is fact, and which was fiction.
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The Book of Obeah (The Crossroads Series)
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Upon the passing of her beloved grandmother, Melody Bennet is assigned the startling task of taking the ashes of Grandmama Giselle to southern Louisiana.
Melody must step far outside her comfort zone in the suburbs of North Carolina to fulfill this dying wish. She finds herself blindly navigating the exotic, sometimes hostile environs of New Orleans and Bear Bayou, and immersed in a subculture based on an ancient West African religion. At this unexpected crossroad, she discovers new cultures and beliefs — and new dangers — and awakens to a new way of seeing the world and her role in it.
The Promise
Historical Fiction
When pastry chef Jane Gray tries to sell her daughter’s locket, she becomes the unlikely subject of a massive police hunt and fodder for London’s tabloid press. Secrets unravel, lies are exposed, and the Duke of Rutledge demands custody of his niece.
Charming and handsome, the duke’s brother Finn spends his leisure time between the sheets of London’s most beautiful, wanton women. The seasoned rake is perplexed by his attraction to demure, virtuous Jane… definitely not his usual type. Finn soon learns there is more to Jane than meets the eye and he longs to possess the passionate woman hidden beneath her modest facade.
When publicity draws the attention of a madman from Jane’s past, Finn enters London’s dangerous underworld in a heart-stopping race to save her.
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Mysteries & Thrillers
Memoirs Of An Antihero
Comics & Graphic Novels
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Windigo Soul
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Endurance – A Novel of Terror
Horror
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Silent Counsel
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Changes (The Randall Lee Mysteries #1)
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Torch Ginger (Lei Crime Series)
Drama
Courthouse Cowboys: A Modern Tale of Murder in Montana
Coming of Age
Miss Me Not
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Madison Hanson’s past demons have given her a “shadow” of an existence. Like so many others who feel lost, she believes suicide may be her only way out—then she meets Dean Jackson, a popular boy from school who gives her hope, and shows her the power of love and acceptance.
With Dean’s help, Madison discovers a desire to live, and learns to embrace life and all its gifts.
Sword of the Raven
Romance
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Delaney Morgan’s ho-hum life begins to fray around the edges when her cop brother is framed and imprisoned. Determined to exonerate him, she starts poking her nose where it doesn’t belong. Things go from extra-ordinary to extraordinary with her discovery of Mr. Tall, Dark, and Naked washed up on a deserted Oregon beach.
Recently escaped from the clutches of the Sorceress Cearde, he’s drawn to Delaney’s intense, newly awakening Powers. She learns her brother possessed similar Powers, and his “situation” is entangled with the magical forces he tried to shield her from.
City of Whispers
Action & Adventure
When an epidemic turns most New Yorkers into vampires, a handful of remaining humans find themselves struggling to survive in a quarantined Manhattan. As their numbers dwindle, Ailis Laurent undergoes a transformation of her own: she becomes a hardened vampire killer.
Slow Burn (The Fitzgerald Family series)
Romance
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Ten years ago, Ashley Fitzgerald witnessed the death of her parents in a tragic fire, and her mind blocked the memory. She pretends to have moved on, is a successful artist and photographer — until she opens her door to a stranger, assumes he’s a model and asks him to strip to his briefs.
He plans to expose the truth…
The Weight of Glass
Contemporary Fiction
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Hidden in Amy Macon’s memoir, as much a mystery as a survival guide for a torturous childhood, is the need to stitch together the fabric of a family’s dark history. Her brother, Lee Macon, can’t forget waking up inside his mother’s coffin or the memory of the man who put him there. That’s a secret he’s kept from Amy for 30 years.
But if there’s one thing they understand, it’s out of a houseful of children, only two of them remain alive. Now, in the wake of their youngest sister’s murder, Amy must have the truth, knowing it will ease the scars brought on by time, if not the ones carved in her wrists.
Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0
Advice & How-to
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Mind Mapping is a note-taking system which allows you to take better, faster, and more efficient notes. In conventional note-taking, you write down information line by line. With Mind Maps, you organize the information more in the form of a diagram, starting with a central key idea drawn in the center of the paper.
In addition to enhancing your note-taking skills, Mind Maps help you improve your studying, writing, presenting, brainstorming, and creative skills. It is one of the best skills anyone can learn.
Painted Blind: A Modern Retelling of the Myth of Cupid & Psyche
World Literature
Psyche Middleton has always been judged by her looks. When she meets a guy that can make himself invisible, she must decide if love is truly blind. He takes her a palace in an idyllic kingdom, but his affection has one condition—she may not see him.
Enchanted, intrigued and not wholeheartedly believing he’s real, she betrays his trust for a glimpse of his face, and ends up at the mercy of his controlling mother. Psyche must complete three impossible tasks to prove her love—or die trying.
Betrayed
Biographies & Memoirs
McCabe explores a broad spectrum of social ills resulting from the contemporary tragedy of the Madoff Ponzi scheme crimes uncovered in 2007 and the subsequent collapse suffered by thousands of American families.
Wally and Poppy Stroud discover that they have lost their entire life’s savings to two nihilistic criminals. The couple are once more be betrayed and abandoned by the regulatory agencies they have turned to in desperation. Wally slips into a state of attenuated depression. Consumed by his own grief, he does not see that his wife, Poppy, has tumbled into an even deeper chasm of despair.
Khe
Fantasy
Khe loves her simple life on a farming commune, until she discovers that her gift for pushing the crops is a death sentence. Fleeing across the treacherous wilderness, she makes her way to the city of Chimbalay, searching for the orindles who might save her.But Chimbalay has its own dangers. The Powers are there–the secret rulers who have chosen Khe to be the mother of a monstrous new race.
Test Pilot’s Daughter: Revenge
Action & Adventure
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Romance, adventure, murder and revenge, Christina Matthews does it all. An obsessed fly-girl with the Right Stuff and True Grit finds love in the oddest place, the cockpit. A beautiful and brainy college girl born with jet-fuel in her blood is haunted by a gripping family tragedy and the violent murder of her best friend. The only thing she truly fears is sleep. Tortured by nightmares, this test pilot’s daughter has to find a way to save her sanity or die. Mike Clark, call-name Lazer and a real Top Gun, looks to be the best kind of therapy.
With dreams of becoming an Astronaut-Commander, Christina struggles through heart-stopping perils in the cockpit and crash-lands on a deserted island. Without hope for rescue, she concocts an oddball plan to return survivors to civilization.
Guitar Adventures: A Fun, Informative, and Step-By-Step 60-Lesson Guide to Chords, Beginner & Intermediate Levels
Arts & Entertainment
Guitar Adventures is 90-page book and video course for learning chords, songs, guitar techniques, and music theory. Geared toward beginner and intermediate guitarists, it follows a step-by-step lesson format where each lesson builds on the previous one in a clear and easy-to-understand manner.
You will learn the chords, techniques, and music theory through songs, which you can play along with on the free, Play-Along Videos. A lesson checklist at the end of the book helps you keep track of your progress and plan out your practice goals.