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The Big 5-OH!

Religious Fiction > Romance

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Author: Sandra D. Bricker

Olivia Wallace has a birthday curse . . . or so she thinks. It was a broken heart on her 16^th, a car accident on her 21^st, pneumonia on her 30^th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35^th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38^th, 39^th, and 40^th; and six days before her 45^th, she lost the love of her life to a heart attack. Numbing grief stole that birthday and a couple more to follow and, on the morning of her 48^th birthday, she received the call she’d dreaded ever since losing her mom so many years ago…she was diagnosed with stage-3 ovarian cancer. The doctors didn’t hold out a lot of hope, but Liv survived and maintained her faith. Months of surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation treatments followed.

 

From Manhattan with Revenge (The Fifth Avenue Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Author: Christopher Smith, Brandi Doane (Illustrator)

Carmen Gragera is a gifted international assassin.So was her lover, Alex Williams, before he was savagely murdered by a powerful syndicate who considered each end-of-cycle.

Carmen escaped their wrath while within her, with Alex dead, her own wrath grew.

Now, through unusual means, she’s seeking her revenge against the syndicate for Alex’s death.

Assisting her is an eccentric, Park Avenue-based seasonings heiress and a 103-year-old former psychiatrist whose contacts run deep. Also joining her is fellow assassin Vincent Spocatti, with whom Carmen has worked before, and for whom she has the utmost respect.

But is the respect mutual?

Genre Fiction > Action & Adventure

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Author: Laura Rizio

Nick Ceratto, a young, cracker jack litigator looking for a partnership in the prestigious Philadelphia law firm of Maglio, Silvio, and Levin discovers his firm’s dark seceret for increasing it’s bottom line while preparing a medical malpractice case for trial.The partners are setting up major cases by seriously injuring and even murdering their clients to produce huge jury awards. When the firm discovers he knows, Nick’s only hope is to stay one step ahead of the hitman long enough to intentionally lose his case and expose the firm’s corruption. As his mission careens towards an explosive climax, the only question left, is whose lives will be sacrificed along the way.

Diets & Weight Loss

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Author: Kevin C. Myers

Are you feeling angry, upset, fearful or sad about your weight… how about jealous or envious? Good! Fantastic! Maybe you’ve reached the all-important “tipping point!”

Losing weight, just like gaining weight, is an emotional experience. Weight Loss for Wimps is the solution you’re looking for to learn HOW to channel your negative emotions and let your positive emotions run wild. This is the process of “getting your mindset mojo!”You Might Be a Weight Loss Wimp If…
* Your favorite restaurant is an all-you-can-eat buffet
* You start thinking about your New Year’s resolution in June
* The longest you ever stay on a diet is 4 days, tops
* You count ketchup as a “vegetable”
* You don’t want to go to the wedding or class reunion because of your weightFinally, a book that includes (among many other things) a step-by-step action plan to combat the most powerful diet busters (Bad Boys) known to man:* How to deal effectively with Hunger (real and fake)
* How to knock-out any and all Excuses
* How to control and conquer Emotional Eating
* How to minimize Stress in your daily life (easier than you think!)

Genre Fiction > Family Saga > Friendship

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Author: Jennifer Hudson Taylor

A Sanctuary of Secrets…Gavin MacKenzie, a chieftain heir who is hired to restore the ancient Castle of Braigh, discovers a hidden village of outcasts who have created their own private sanctuary from the world. Among them is Serena Boyd, a mysterious andcomely lass, who captures Gavin’s heart in spite of harboring a deadly past that could destroy her future.The villagers happen to be keeping an intriguing secret as well. When a fierce enemy launches an attack against them, greed leads to bitter betrayal. As Gavin prepares a defense, the villagers unite in a bold act of faith, showing how God’s love is more powerful than any human force on earth.

 

Francesca of Lost Nation

Genre Fiction > Historical

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Author: Lucinda Sue Crosby

This book is a light romance, adventure and coming of age novel, about an unconventional 59-year old woman, Francesca, and her resourceful 10-year old granddaughter, Sarah, who share the adventures of a lifetime over the summer of 1947 in Lost Nation, Iowa. Together, they enchant barnstorming pilots, wow Clinton County Fair attendees, conquer the skies, confront an escaped arsonist, discover how Lost Nation got its intriguing name, and eventually demonstrate to one another the greatest truth about love.Anyone seeking a fun read with an old-fashion love story with some suspense, adventure, history and family saga will enjoy this book.

Fiction > Family Saga

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Author: Melody Carlson

Betty Kowalski isn’t looking forward to the holidays. She just can’t seem to find Christmas in her heart. There’s church, of course. But who can she bake for these days? And who would care whether or not she pulled out the Christmas decorations?

Her new neighbor just adds to the problem. He’s doing home improvements that don’t appear to be improving much of anything. These days when Betty looks out the window, she sees a beat-up truck, a pile of junk, lots of blue tarps, and–horror of horrors–an old pink toilet.

But when a mangy dog appears at her doorstep, the stage is set for Betty to learn a very important lesson about what Christmas is all about. This contemporary Christmas story is a timely yet gentle reminder that God can work miracles through something as seemingly insignificant as a little brown dog.

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The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine

Health, Mind & Body > Disorders & Diseases > Immune Systems

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Author: Bryan Rosner, Julie Byers, Michael Huckleberry

New Lyme Disease treatments are desperately needed. This book provides them. The book identifies ten cutting-edge conventional and alternative treatments and gives practical guidance on integrating them into a comprehensive treatment plan that maximizes therapeutic benefit while minimizing side effects. On the pages of this book you will find the most accurate, current Lyme Disease information available. Discover the tools and resources to reclaim your health using the best of conventional and alternative medicine. Lyme Disease is one of the most stubborn, treatment resistant infections on earth. It is also spreading rapidly on all continents. Borrelia Burgdorferi – the elusive and dangerous Lyme Disease bacteria – can mimic many seemingly unrelated diseases, resulting in frequent misdiagnosis of the infection. Government health officials are beginning to recognize Lyme Disease for what it is: a growing threat to public health and safety. Statistics show that there are over 200,000 new Lyme Disease infections per year in the United States alone. Read this book to find out about the following breakthrough Lyme Disease treatments. Five Core Treatment Protocols: The Antibiotic Rotation Protocol, The Marshall Protocol, The Salt / Vitamin C Protocol, Detoxification, and Electromedicine (Rife Machine Therapy). Five Supportive Supplements: Systemic Enzymes, Mangosteen, Lithium Orotate, Coenzyme Q10, and Magnesium.

Religious Fiction > Historical

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Author: Rita Gerlach

In 1775, Hayward Morgan, a young gentleman destined to inherit his father’s estate in Derbyshire, England, captures the heart of the local vicar’s daughter, Eliza Bloome. Her dark beauty and spirited ways are not enough to win him, due to her station in life.Circumstances throw Eliza in Hayward’s path, and they flee to America to escape the family conflicts. But as war looms, it’s a temporary reprieve. Hayward joins the revolutionary forces and what follows is a struggle for survival, a test of faith, and the quest to find lasting love in an unforgiving wilderness.

Romance > Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost

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Author: Jes Young

Yesterday Tab Bennett was a bank teller. Today she’s at the center of a centuries old war between Light and Dark. Tomorrow – well let’s just say she’ll be lucky if she lives to see it.Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, employed at the local bank, and finally living on her own for the first time at twenty-four years-old, Tab Bennett has no interest in a fairy tale life. She’s perfectly happy with the normal one she already has. But when her sister is murdered on a moon-dark night, revealing a world of power and magic she never dreamed existed, a fairy tale is exactly what her life becomes. Figures it would have to be the Grimm kind.

Just like that, the life she had planned is over. Instead of cashing checks and handing out lollipops, Tab is unraveling clandestine assassination plots and learning to wield the magic that is her birthright. And as if fulfilling her destiny isn’t hard enough, she’ll also have to choose between Robbin, a man who’s turned out to be a lot more complicated than the proverbial boy next door, and Alexander, the handsome prince whose smile leaves her weak-kneed and weak-willed.

Now, while Tab struggles to hold on to the human world she’s always known and understand her place in the magical one she’s just discovered, dangerous forces are gathering close to home. If she wants to live to see happily ever after, she’ll have to figure out who she can trust, who wants her dead, and why. The answers will change everything she believes about herself, the people she loves, and the place she calls home.

Fiction > Horror > Occult

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Author: Michael Clary

Book 1 of the Guardian Interviews.It was a warm summer morning when the dead began to rise up and feast upon the living. El Paso was overrun in a matter of hours.

The military acted immediately. They closed all the exits leading out of the city in order to contain the outbreak. They shot anyone trying to escape.

Their methods were successful. The outbreak was contained, but all hope for the people trapped behind the gates . . . had been lost.

The internet was the only form of communication still available to the survivors. It was there that the legend of the General began to take root. He was a hero that fought back against the zombies . . . a hero that saved lives. The survivors once again found something to believe in, but the rest of the world wondered if the man truly existed.

They were about to find out.

Mystery > Women Sleuths

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Author: Lee Hanson

When her best friend is murdered, Julie O’Hara, a body language expert, packs up her suspicion and flies to Boston for his funeral. Who could have killed rising artist Marc Solomon, and what does Castle Cay, the Solomon’s mysterious Caribbean island, have to do with it? Before long, Julie’s sixth-sense pulls a hidden string that unravels a deadly conspiracy…and her own troubled past.

 

Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters: Real-Life Stories of Supernatural Events

Christianity > Christian Living

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Author: James Stuart Bell

Inspiring True Stories of God’s Interventionin Lives TodayThese inspiring real-life stories explore what happens when people encounter spiritual forces, and how their lives are undeniably changed. This dramatic collection includes accounts of contact with angels, near-death experiences, powerful prayer testimonies, and unexplainable miracles. Every story displays the victory of Christ and his kingdom over difficult circumstances and opposing forces. The outcomes include increased faith, a sense of the loving providence of God, a realigning of priorities, and a greater desire to share the gospel. In turn, the reader’s faith will be strengthened knowing that if God can steer individuals through these unknown territories, he certainly will care for their everyday lives.

Paris Adieu

Women’s Fiction > Contemporary Women

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Author: Rozsa Gaston

Paris Adieu is a coming-of-age tale of life lessons, romance, and self-empowerment all wrapped in the sights, sounds, and smells of Paris.The first time Ava Fodor visits Paris as a nineteen-year old au pair, she has no idea who she is. Paris introduces Ava to the type of woman she’d like to become. Her French boyfriend introduces her to the concept of being comfortable in her own skin. She’s intrigued. If only she knew how…

When she gets into Yale, she returns home, but four years later she’s back for an encounter with a Frenchman that awakens her to womanhood. If only she could stay…

Romance > Contemporary

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Author: Stef Ann Holm

A girls’ night out is exactly what Jillene McDermott needs after her carefully planned life on a small Washington island, goes adrift. Suddenly responsible for her late husband’s failing coffee shop, Jillene’s single-minded determination to save her family from impeding disaster is complicated when her two mischievous daughters take matters–and their mother’s happiness–into their own hands.

True crime writer and Blue Heron Beach’s favorite son, Vince Tremoni, comes home to contemplate the gloomy forecast of his writing career–which took a tragic and unexpected turn thanks to a fan-turned-serial killer. Now, with his future on hold, the last thing he needs is a beautiful widow complicating his thoughts and reminding him that there’s more to life than his flagging career.

But when Jillene and Vince find themselves tangled up in an unplanned summer fling, can either of them deny there’s more to what they’re feeling than a casual affair? Suddenly coffee’s not the only thing heating up at Blue Heron Beach!

 

Hall of Mirrors: Volume One

Short Stories > Horror > Single Author

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Author: Mike Bennett

Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and the Grotesque. Volume One. Three original stories from award-winning novelist, Mike Bennett. Expect violence, horror, strong language and adult situations.

“If you’re into King, Barker, or any of the other masters, buy this now.”
Andrew Rothman. Amazon.com review of Hall of Mirrors Volume One.

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Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When (The Snipesville Chronicles)

History & Historical Fiction > Europe

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Author: Annette Laing

What a nightmare.
Hannah Dias, California Girl with Attitude, and Alex, her laid-back brother, have moved from exciting San Francisco to boring Snipesville, Georgia. Life doesn’t improve when they meet Brandon, a dorky kid who is plotting his escape from the Deep South, and the weird Professor, who has a strange secret.

Suddenly, the kids are catapulted thousands of miles and almost seventy years to England during World War Two.
They fall into a world of stinging nettles, dragon ladies, bomb blasts, ugly underwear, stinky sandwiches, painful punishments, and non-absorbing toilet paper. They learn so much more than they could ever learn in a history class. Not that they want to learn it.
But they can’t go home unless they find George Braithwaite, whoever he is, and whatever it is that he has to do with Snipesville. (Ages 9 and up)

Roaring Mountain

Biographies & Memoirs > Adventurers & Explorers

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Author: Shirley Gray

When my son, Gary Gray, was killed by an avalanche while climbing Mount Shuksan in the North Cascades, he was buried under tons of ice and snow. I was told his body might never be recovered and that perhaps I should consider him now a part of the mountain. It was the beginning of a journey unlike any I had taken before. For the next few years I traveled through devastating grief and tortuous self-doubt while unsuccessfully searching for reasons why my son’s life was taken by the very planet he was trying to save. Was it his destiny, kismet, or fate? Or was it just plain old bad luck? I had to try to find out.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Action & Adventure

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Author: L. J. Martin, Bob Burton

Brad Bennedict, adventurer, bounty hunter and P.I., lives quietly in Montecito, and works in a blender of crime, corruption, and killings. His job is manhunting, and he and his crew at Quiet Ops do it better than anyone in the land. When billionaire Grenwald Stanton calls to report his beautiful twin daughters have been ‘ruffied’ and hooked on heroine by rapper Jo Jo Bling and that he’ll pay large for their return, Brad and his boys, T-Rex and Cocoa are on the hunt, and his main lady bounty hunter, Monique, is in the middle of it all. Then when Stanton is kidnapped without paying, ka ka hits the fan. From gold plated Montecito to the gator and snake filled swamps of Florida, it’s an action packed manhunt.

 

Dance of Desire

Romance > Historical Romance

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Author: Catherine Kean

Desperate to save her brother Rudd from being condemned as a traitor, Lady Rexana Villeaux must dance in disguise at a feast for the High Sheriff of Warringham. Her goal is to distract him so her servant can steal a damning missive from the sheriff’s solar. Dressed in the gauzy costume of a desert courtesan, dancing with all the passion and sensuality in her soul, she succeeds in her mission. And, at the same time, condemns herself. Fane Linford, the banished son of an English earl, joined Richard’s crusade only to find himself a captive in a hellish eastern prison. He survived the years of torment, it’s rumored, because of the love of a Saracen courtesan.

Make A Cake From Scratch With 31 Homemade Cake Recipes! (Tastefully Simple Recipes)

Cooking, Food & Wine > Baking > Cakes

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Author: Jenny Collins

There is nothing like the welcoming aroma of home-baked cakes as you walk into a kitchen, this book “Make a Cake from Scratch With 31 Homemade Cake Recipes” is a collection of cake recipes for you to try out at home from the classic Victoria Sandwich Cake to a Blackberry and Almond Picnic Cake.Some of the best cakes in the world are home-baked and is still a great way to get the family together in the kitchen. Easy to follow recipes for beginners to the more advanced, no matter what your standard or experience of baking this recipe collection of fantastic cakes are sure to delight.

Thrillers > Suspense

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Author: Donn Taylor

The United States, caught in a dangerous game of global espionage, turns a CIA agent working deep under cover as a drug pilot in Colombia to protect a powerful and prominent woman held hostage in Columbia. Trapped in an industrial conspiracy that threatens to destabilize the Americas, the reluctant pair seeks to prevent an international terrorist strike aimed at the heart of the United States. Held captive in a remote Andean valley near the Bolivian border, the couple fights to save themselves and their respective counties. With action ranging Havana Cuba to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, San Juan Puerto Rico and beyond this fast-paced narrative features unexpected plot twists, thrilling flight sequences, and emotionally charged confrontations.

Cooking, Food & Wine > Professional Cooking

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Author: Bethany Dasko

1. Looking for the best iced coffee recipe?
2. Want to learn how to make a frappuccino?

In these economic times, many people have had to cut back on their coffee expenditures in order to save some money.

In this book, you will learn from an ex-barista just how simple and easy it is to make your own iced and frozen espresso drinks and coffees without special equipment or expensive machines!

 

Lily and the Tarantula

Children’s eBooks > Animals > Bugs & Spiders

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Author: John Murnieks, Dori Murnieks

“Cute story with beautiful illustrations. This story kept my 5 year old twins attention and when it was over they both said “read it again”. Great way to teach children to be respectful of all living creatures.”

Lily finds a surprise while looking for toys in the garage. It’s a tarantula spider! Though at first she is frightened, her father calms her and explains why she shouldn’t be afraid. After a short adventure and a dream, Lily learns to respect all creatures – no matter how big and scary!!!

The beautiful illustrations in this children’s book are sure to captivate young readers, and parents too!. Based on a true life experience, the story will help children learn respect for the environment. For ages 3 and up. Pre-readers will love the pictures, and new readers will also enjoy reading this bedtime story.

 

Tales from the Pantry: Random Rants & Musings of a Stay-at-home Mom

Humor > Parenting & Families > Motherhood

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Author: Shari Owen Brown

“Tales from the Pantry: Random Rants & Musings of a Stay-at-home Mom” is a collection of witty, funny, and sometimes gut wrenching stories told by a 40-something mother of two small children. Based upon the popular blog ‘Don’t Make Me Count to Three!’, Shari Owen Brown uses humor to navigate the daily slings and arrows of motherhood. Many parents can relate to the often unspoken challenges of child rearing. And for those who have yet to have children…consider yourself warned!

 

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Malky Joe in the Great Cruise Caper

Children’s eBooks > Animals > Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs & Squirrels

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Author: Nadine Donovan, Nadine Donovan, Geraldine MacLean

Malky Joe Mouse wants to know what rodent in his right mind would stow away on a cruise ship. Sure, there are midnight buffets, room service and no cats, just like fast-talking Rankin Mouse promised. Yet every time the two mice get within a whisker of the good life, something terrible happens, like spin-cycling in a batty lady’s handbag or getting pinned under the bananas of a fruit basket. But just when life onboard gets about as bad as bilge water in the brig, it’s, ‘Ships Ahoy!’ for Malky’s biggest and best adventure, ever.

 

Building a Business of Your Own

Small Business & Entrepreneurship > New Business Enterprises

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Author: C.J. David

This is the book for you.
The information contained within this book will get the budding entrepreneur going in the right direction.
Some of what you will find in this book:
* Common traits of successful entrepreneurs
* Choosing the right niche
* Creating a business plan
* Choosing a business structure
* Managing the business
* And much more
Building a Business of Your Own will provide you with helpful ideas on what it takes to build a successful business.

 

God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana

Genre Fiction > Westerns

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Author: Carol Buchanan

Ruffians rule and murder is tolerated in the Alder Gulch gold fields during the winter of 1863-1864. Daniel Stark, lawyer and radical abolitionist, fears he will not survive to take his gold home to New York and redeem his family from the disgrace of his father’s embezzlement and suicide. When a friend is murdered, Dan prosecutes the suspect, whose five lawyers are Confederates. The trial reveals a widespread criminal conspiracy, and Dan joins Union and Confederate sympathizers in a Vigilance Committee to establish the law. As Vigilante prosecutor, Dan faces the horrible prospect of hanging both a friend and the husband of the woman he loves.

 

A Firefly Tale (Fun Rhyming Children’s Books)

Children’s eBooks > Animals > Bugs & Spiders

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Author: Lily Lexington

If your child enjoys stories from authors like Kate DiCamillo, Cynthia Rylant,
Mem Fox or Gary Paulson then your child will love this beautiful firefly tale told by Lily Lexington in this children’s picture story book complete with a valuable lesson.Maisy the firefly has a job to do each summer. One warm summer’s day at dusk she finds a new girl to play with. Without warning she is captured by the girl and put in a jar to be her friend forever. What will Maisy do and how will she ever escape?

History > World > Jewish > Holocaust

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Author: Timothy Braatz, Anatol Chari

When German soldiers invaded the Polish city of Lodz at the start of World War II, they confined the local Jewish community to a miserable, overcrowded ghetto. Through family connections, a Jewish teenager named Anatol Chari became a ghetto policeman. Because they were sometimes viewed as collaborators, ghetto policemen who survived the war kept their past a secret. In From Ghetto to Death Camp, Chari reveals that hidden story, describing the policemen’s duties—guarding food, rounding up prisoners for transport—and the privileges it brought them. Those privileges ended when the ghetto population was transported to Auschwitz. As a slave laborer, Chari went on to various work camps, endured long marches and an Allied bombing raid, and ended up in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. To survive the camps, he now says, you needed help, smarts, and most of all luck. He depicts a seemingly senseless world where guards could be decent or cruel, where some prisoners were sent to hospitals and others to gas chambers, and where food was everything. Written with remarkable honesty and unexpected wit, this unique memoir is in many ways a reflection on the human condition.

The Violet Collar

Romance > Romantic Suspense

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Author: Samuel Solomon

A Dominant/submissive love story, painted to show it as the beautiful, exciting, powerful dynamic that it truly is.Roaming the dusty streets of 1901 New York, young Jessie’s destiny is about to take a crash course. In just one night, she encounters an unusual man, is forced to flee from a gang she thought she could avoid, and leave her life behind forever. A new city awaits, but her dream of escaping her old life is threatened by new dangers, and perhaps a new love. Dominic, also trying to leave his life behind, finds his dream slipping through his fingers, and is forced to fight for what he is most passionate about… though the fight could cost him his own dreams, his own future. Still he offers his best, his greatness, represented in a small, simple, monumental gift…

Genre Fiction > Action & Adventure

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Author: Thomas Kirkwood

Here is a truly original thriller, comparable to the very best of vintage Le Carré. It is set behind the Berlin Wall in the heart of the East German police state and it features one of the most unique and winning heroines since Lucy in Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle. Her name is Käte Frassek, a resistance fighter since the age of eighteen, who over the course of twenty years leads a double life in her courageous campaign to rouse her countrymen to revolt against their repressive regime. She is a wife, a mother, a scientist, a lover… and an assassin. Against a backdrop of the Cold War in the 1960s, an abiding love develops between Käte, while still the young wife of an East German official, and an American physician innocent of who she is and what she is doing. In the remarkable climax to her years of plotting against the head of the State’s secret police, she finally must risk not only her own life but her son’s and lover’s as well.

The Rise of Planet Rubicon – Part One

Science Fiction > Adventure

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Author: Dasrim Hasik

The story is about Jack, a teenager who lives in a dysfunctional Missouri family. Jack loves chemistry and astronomy. His is fascinated looking at photos of planets, stars and galaxies. He wants to major in Aerospace Engineering and even work for NASA in some capacity. Yet, the environment he lives in is not encouraging at all.His parents constantly fight. A father who gets out of control after a few drinks, a mother who just feels obligated to deal with her son, and a sister who, when not being cruel, just tolerates him, describe the place Jack is growing. While he has good grades at school, his family situation attracts jokes, stares, and feelings of pity from his peers.

Often, he gets bullied. Feeling that he is neither accepted nor loved, he often visits his imaginary world–planet Rubicon–a place where things are as he would like them to be. In this world people focus on their passions, never get bullied or laughed upon, and everyone’s opinion is valued.

Science Fiction & Fantasy > Contemporary

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Author: Paul D. Nancarrow

“This is going to be difficult for you to understand but it’s going to be even harder for you to believe. I do not even know where to begin, but you need to at least know the basics. Fairytales are real, monsters are real. Everything you’ve ever heard about magic, mythical creatures, and the supernatural is all true. It exists in a world beyond the one you see out your window, and it’s where your parents came from. It’s where you came from and we need you to come back.”

When Nero Cassidy first heard these words, he could not believe his ears. After all, he was a normal teenager living in a normal city in America. But after only one week from hearing these words, Nero had battled nightmarish creatures, had befriended a little girl with the ability to appear and disappear at will, and had nearly been eaten by a carnivorous flower. It was enough for him to know that the yellow-eyed man, Soto, had not been lying.

Now Nero just hopes that Soto is mistaken about everything else, because if Soto is correct and Nero is the “Living Light,” Nero’s path will never be normal again.

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The Month of Zephram Mondays (The Zephram Tales)

Children’s Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy & Magic

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Author: Leslie A. Susskind

Thrillers > Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue

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Author: D. D. Marks

Olesia Anderson – sharpshooter, quick-talker, and corporate spy-for-hire – has been given a second chance by her shadowy employers, the Blackrock Association. A Lockheed engineer has stolen the schematics for a new missile defence system, and Lockheed wants that data back… along with whoever he was planning to sell to.

It’s supposed to be an easy job – get in, shake down the engineer, get out. But with a gorgeous foreign agent and a gang of uzi-toting teenage thugs thrown into the mix, Olesia will have a hard enough time keeping her head on her shoulders, let alone keeping her pants up around her waist. Dirty deals are going down in Bethesda, and when the bullets start flying, you’d better be the one holding the gun…

Who Is Hiding On The Farm? A Fun Guessing Book For Little Ones (baby – age 5)

Children’s eBooks > Animals > Farm Animals

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Author: Cindy Bracken

Who is hiding behind the fence?

Your child will have fun guessing which animal is hiding, and will reveal a cow, pig, horse, sheep, donkey, bunny, chicken, and more, with the biggest surprise waiting at the end.

A great addition to the bedtime routine, Who Is Hiding On The Farm is fun for parents and kids alike.

By bestselling author Cindy Bracken.

 

Teaching with Khan Academy: Biology (A curriculum guide to Teaching Biology with Khan Academy)

Schools & Teaching > Curricula > Biology

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Author: Beverly Fields

This Biology guide covers the California high school standards (Standards can be found online). However, it can also be used for junior high school. I do use text books and other resources as well. Certain areas of the state standards weren’t completely covered by Khan Academy. But, for most of the areas required to be covered, Khan Academy does a wonderful job of explaining the concepts. I have also included other online resources I used.

I put the sequence of lessons in an order that I thought was progressive. That way, as the lessons went on the vocabulary was repeated and some concepts already covered. I found evolution to be the easiest theme to start with to get us on our way. It introduces so much vocabulary and just an overall view of biology before we start to look closer into each area. So the order is not necessarily as the standards are listed in the California Standards guide.

 

Larry Swirlyberry

Children’s Fiction

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Author: Don and Candace Love

Larry Swirlyberry Series set of Books #1 and #2. This set includes Larry Swirlyberry and The Business Deal and Larry Swirlyberry and The Ruffian Robbers. The first two stories in this series follow Larry as he starts a business and overcomes obstacles. He’s a hard worker and faces challenges with courage and creativity. Both boy and girl young readers will enjoy the action in these chapter books and younger children will love having the adventures of Larry Swirlyberry read to them.

 

Medicine Men: Extreme Appalachian Doctoring

Medicine > Doctor-Patient Relations

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Author: Carolyn Jourdan

Follows bestselling “Heart in the Right Place”, ranked #1 on Amazon in Biography, Memoir, Science, and Medicine in August and September 2012.

A collection of the most memorable moments from old-school rural physicians who each practiced medicine for more than 50 years in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Hilarious, heroic, heartwarming true stories of miracle cures, ghost dogs, and much madcap medical mayhem.

Jourdan’s work is often compared to James Herriot and Bill Bryson. Her first book is on hundreds of lists of best books of the year, best book club books, and funniest books. “Heart in the Right Place” was chosen as Family Circle magazine’s first ever Book of the Month, won the Elle magazine Reader’s Prize, named #7 Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller.