The “End of Days” Cycle
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 432 KB
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- Publisher: Chris J; 1 edition (September 8, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002OHD1VW
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prophecy, 2012, climate
Description
Do you know what the prophets told us about the end of the world, or why they told us about it? They actually didn’t tell us about the “end of the world,” or even the “end of the world as we know it.” The world will change, just like they said it would, and those who know what to expect are going to be the ones who inherit a new generation of humanity. The prophets didn’t mention anything about a miraculous being that would save everyone who believed in miraculous beings. What they told us includes a leader of humanity, anointed by God. But he’s not going to whisk anyone away to the safety of Heaven during the destructive events. Instead, he’s going to suffer at the hands of humanity for being who he is, and then lead the way for those who want to survive.
Of course you knew that the world would be destroyed by fire. Everyone who was raised in a religious home knows that. But do you know what will cause that fire? Did you know that the prophets told us that pollution would be the cause? Can you think of any kind of pollutant that could cause the earth to burn? Could “global warming” be what the prophets were warning us about?
This book is about prophecy of the Old Testament. It includes the primary prophecies and how they are relevant today, even though they were written thousands of years ago and most are thought to have been fulfilled previously. Also included is the reasoning behind the birth of the religions we have today, and how they were predicted by the prophets. This book is not a religious book, because no particular religious beliefs are followed as many misunderstandings that that have been made by various religions of our world are untangled.
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Interview for a Wizard
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- File Size: 288 KB
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B002PDOO98
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Fantasy series, Fantasy adventure, Wizard
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Interview for a Wizard is the first of a series, The Salem Concord. On Halloween, the greatest vacation spot in the world is about to be scared to death, and with only seven days remaining, time is running out. Jesse and the special wizard agent Ch-U-Ch race against time to stop the mad wizard Raven Claw, but unfortunately, no one is alive to recognize him.
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The Rendering
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- File Size: 365 KB
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- Publisher: Outskirts Press (August 29, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002OSXNLY
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paranormal mystery, paranormal romance, supernatural
Description
Mike Lot served twenty-nine years for murdering the one he loved “more than anything,” yet even now, Ruby has not relinquished her hold on him. Something sinister threatens her, even in death, and he will never be free of the past until he can find a
way to help her. But first he must find her lost spirit. His search leads him
from a backwoods dowser to a small-town P.I. to a dying young artist, and
culminates in a psychic battle on the brink of hell itself.
Part mystery, part supernatural thriller, The Rendering above all is a quest
driven by love that rewards both Mike and the reader with a poignant message of
hope.
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Yeshua A Personal Memior of the missing years of Jesus
- Paperback: 268 pages
- Publisher: INHOUSEPRESS (October 5, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0973187239
- ISBN-13: 978-0973187236
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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historical fiction, memoir, Jesus
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The novel is based on a statement by Edgar Cayce, the late American prophet, that Jesus had visited “Persia, India, Syria and Egypt to complete His education.” The author has thoroughly researched early Indian and Middle-Eastern history. He illustrates conditions in which such an education might have taken place to prepare Jesus for his ministry. As the story unfolds, Satia, the son of a wealthy caravan owner. meets the 12-year-old Yeshua (Jesus) as the latter flees in rebellion from his Essene teachers. The two become fast friends and stay that way for the 18 years not covered in the Bible – the years between the finding of Jesus in the Temple and the beginning of his short ministry. In addition to several novels, Law has written other books under his own name, Stanislaw Kapuscinski, which cover esoteric topics such as the Key to Immortality, Visualization, and The Dictionary of Biblical Symbolism.
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From the Shadows
- Paperback: 66 pages
- Publisher: Sacred Oaks Press (September 17, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0984247505
- ISBN-13: 978-0984247509
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
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dark poetry, gothic fiction, paranormal romance
Description
“From the Shadows” is a collection of dark poetry. Stevens’ work rekindles the great lyrical storytelling style of Edgar Allen Poe with a dark imagination influenced by such masters as Neil Gaiman and H. P. Lovecraft.
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http://www.myspace.com/e.j.stevens (blog)
http://tinyurl.com/FromTheShadows
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Get A Job! Your Guide to Making Successful Career Moves
- Paperback
- Publisher: W 3 Group, LLC; 1ST edition (2006)
- ISBN-10: 1605859044
- ISBN-13: 978-1605859040
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Career, job, resume
Description
Get A Job! Your Guide to Making Successful Career Moves, is a comprehensive job search guide loaded with real-world advice that really works, so you can, too! It contains valuable tips, information, and resources useful to anyone considering a job change, from entry level to seasoned C-level executives. The book is designed to help you stock your “job search tool box” with all the tools you need to get a better job, faster, earn more money and navigate the “corporate monkey bars” more effectively.
Get A Job! is about more than just getting a job, it’s also about helping you make a good first impression, continue to succeed in your career, and more. Networking skills, negotiating, sales skills, and international career moves are also covered in the book.
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Iron Desire: The Legacy of Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 2415 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Lulu (August 15, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002OSXNK0
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Sports, Football, Coaching
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In the world of football, Frank Leahy was as important as Beethoven to music, Shakespeare to dramatic poetry, Michelangelo to sculpture. Greatness was not thrust upon Frank. He achieved it through hard work and determination. But, first, he had to have the makings. From those makings, he was capable of going to town. By applying his formula for success, nothing could have kept him from achieving the heights he reached.
The life story of Notre Dame football coach, Frank Leahy, is one of fiery inspiration, humor, and unwavering determination. From the family farm, to one of Knute Rockne’s fighting Irish, to head football coach at the golden dome, Leahy’s philosophy and antics, both on and off the field, illustrate a model for greatness and the fantastic stuff of legends.
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One Just Man
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: INHOUSEPRESS (October 8, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0978026764
- ISBN-13: 978-0978026769
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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suspense, visionary, metaphysical
Description
A promising career of a young physician is cut short by an enigmatic gift of healing. He rebels against his destiny, until a will greater than his own takes over and, unwittingly, he learns how to overcome death itself.
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Elohim – Masters and Minions
- Paperback: 340 pages
- Publisher: INHOUSEPRESS (March 1, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0978026756
- ISBN-13: 978-0978026752
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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mystery, spirituality, fantasy
Description
Sequel to One Just Man: As Superpowers struggle for supremacy, Dr. Peter Thornton continues his lonely battle with his gift of healing. Eventually, he enters a realm where only gods dare to tread.
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The Avatar Syndrome
- Paperback: 356 pages
- Publisher: INHOUSEPRESS (September 11, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0973187255
- ISBN-13: 978-0973187250
- Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 1 inches
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spirituality, fantasy, thriller
Description
Sequel to One Just Man: As Superpowers struggle for supremacy, Dr. Peter Thornton continues his lonely battle with his gift of healing. Eventually, he enters a realm where only gods dare to tread.
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Preacher’s Kids ~ Secrets & Salvation
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (April 19, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449504418
- ISBN-13: 978-1449504410
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
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Christian, Fiction, Young Adult
Description
Knowing the twisted and sometimes alarming secrets of church members generates more enemies than friends for Mia Griffin.
As long as her free thinking best friend is by her side, Mia can laugh her way through anything. Mia’s young faith will be tested when she suffers the greatest betrayal imaginable. As she begins to ask hard questions you will be astounded by the answers and perhaps learn something about the tests that God brings us through.
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Mirror Mirror Seven Years Bad Luck
- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (December 4, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1436384591
- ISBN-13: 978-1436384599
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
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paranormal, fantasy, supernatural
Description
Spring finds more than peace and solitude when she flees to her grandparent’s estate home in Maine. Her decaying marriage has consumed her thoughts, leaving her feeling vulnerable with little self esteem. She discovers the old antique mirror stored in the creepy shed, which reveals that it holds more than just her simple reflection. The visions of an old woman in the mirror frighten her, and she wrongfully believes it could have something to do with her deceased grandmother’s psychic ability coming back to haunt her. Her grandmother warned her that her own vainness would be her downfall; her words meant little, until she is morphed into another dimension. Smashing the mirror in a rage, takes the superstition seven years bad luck to whole new level. The mirror world is a cold, harsh place, and having a sentence there, will be a living hell, unless she can find another way to escape. Her only hope is her twin sister. Her twin sister has marriage woes of own, which lead to her murdering her husband in a very unique way. She does manage to save her sister from the mirror world, but the cost is exchanging places with her. Every mirror is a two way mirror to this secret world, and they observe us and wait for us. The guardian of the mirror world Alvaro is a strong presence, and it’s hard to decide if he is friend or foe. The mirror world makes one reflect their inner beauty, and takes you to hidden deep dark crystal caverns, where ones outward appearance has little value.
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Tales of the Whosawhachits
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (November 26, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1436384575
- ISBN-13: 978-1436384575
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
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Fairy, Trolls, Gnomes
Description
An enchanting tale revolves around a young boy Kyle Janis. His journey begins when he stumbles upon the entranceway to the secret underworld realms of fairies, trolls, gnomes, and mysterious whosawhachits. He is held prisoner by the impish purple whosawhachits; and the realms must go to war to free him. He finds himself caught in their battle for the title of key holder of the realms and possession of the magical diamond key. The young boy befriends the fairy girl Annastarlis and the pixie boy Nerby. Their conflict is an adventure which has many twists and turns, some humorous, overlapping into the human world. The boy discovers that the underworld realms are responsible for many unexplained mysteries such as crop circles, and Bigfoot sightings. Kyle is rescued by the gnomes and returned home, only to find that no one believes the missing boys tales of secret lands and magical creatures. This book and its charming characters will capture the hearts of both boys and girls. This is book one of the series.
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The Gate
- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: INHOUSEPRESS (December 11, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0978026705
- ISBN-13: 978-0978026707
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
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memoir, spirituality, biography
Description
A fictional biography of an eighty-year old women spending the last years of her life at the Institute of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The problems she must face are as different as they are unexpected from anything one can imagine in the ‘outside’ world, not the least of which is her husband’s gradual deterioration under the unforgiving progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Surprisingly, the book is spiced with abundant humour….
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Lycanstein
- Paperback: 196 pages
- Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (April 3, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1441517154
- ISBN-13: 978-1441517159
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
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werewolf, horror, thriller
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LYCANSTEIN is the result of a scientist’s obsession to play GOD. When combining the DNA of multiple living organisms, sometimes the combination can create a “new” life form. Or it can over develop the natural abilities of ancient ones. These experiments can become uncontrollable and spawn horrors from our darkest nightmares. While searching for cures to terminal diseases, Dr. Tim Lycan, with a DNA sample from a prehistoric archeological find, starts a chain of events that could destroy mankind.
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http://www.myspace.com/pappatimscool
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Outsmart the Unexpected: Grow Your Creativity the Edge-of-your-seat Way
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 126 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: CreateSpace (December 22, 2008)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001UQ5BM0
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lateral thinking, creative problem solving, decision making
Description
“Outsmart the Unexpected” will help you to become a more quick thinking and creative problem solver. Each short, cliffhanger story in this collection unfolds a rather unusual (to make it more fun), no-time-to-lose predicament.
You’ll need to think outside-the-box in order to figure a way out.
These dilemmas will have you stretching your imagination and discovering the boundaries of what you’re capable of mentally, morally, and emotionally when faced with a situation you didn’t see coming. And because no challenge would be complete without a bit of sparse, misleading, or perplexing information, there’s some of that in the mix for you to wrap your ingenuity and deductive reasoning powers around as well.
Everyone has the capacity to think on their feet and be creative, but those mental muscles are often left untapped or undeveloped. Solving these edge-of-your-seat predicaments will build your problem solving muscles and confidence in handling any surprise that comes your way.
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Paul, Betty, and Pearl
- Paperback: 322 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (March 2, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1441473815
- ISBN-13: 978-1441473813
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
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World War II, adultery, Pearl Harbor
Description
Paul is a young Army officer in Hawaii in 1941; Betty is the wife of a naval officer–and the mother of a six-year old girl. This is the story of an adulterous love affair, beginning just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, continuing for years through official investigations into the matter of who was to blame for the fact that America was caught by surprise on December 7, 1941.
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Daddypaul and the Yo-yo War
- Paperback: 302 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (April 1, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442119527
- ISBN-13: 978-1442119529
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
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child molestation, Korean War, McCarthy Era
Description
Paul, still a young Army officer, his wife, Betty, and her daughter, Rosalie, became a family in “Paul, Betty, and Pearl” (Volume I of the trilogy, “Paul’s Three Wars”), just after World War II. In this Volume II, they must face new problems: child molestation, post-partum depression, bureaucratic infighting in the Pentagon, Paul’s service in combat in Korea, and false accusations of pro-communist behavior during the witch-hunt era of American politics, 1951-1954.
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Gran’paul’s Family
- Paperback: 326 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (April 13, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442136219
- ISBN-13: 978-1442136212
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
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espionage, homosexuality, anti-war movement
Description
This final volume of the trilogy, “Paul’s Three Wars,” sees Paul and Betty moving into retirement, closing Paul’s military career in the 1960s, and Betty’s musical career later. Meanwhile, the focus turns to their son, Danny; Betty’s daughter, Rosalie; and Paul’s nephew, Teddy. The family must cope with failed marriages and new loves; Rosalie’s music career; Teddy’s Army service and his investigation of a case of Soviet espionage; fears of homosexuality; and the Vietnamese War. Danny’s involvement in the anti-war movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s threatens to tear the family apart.
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Candles in the Window
- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: American Literary Press (December 14, 1999)
- ISBN-10: 1561675288
- ISBN-13: 978-1561675289
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1950s, college sex, psychology
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A novel about college life in the 1950s, a coming-of-age story, “Candles in the Window” is part romance/sex, part psychology, part nostalgia, part comic, part tragic. The various characters try to understand the stunning and talented Silky, a stand-out for her blond hair, her magnetism, and her serial boy-friends; they are puzzled by her relationship with a supposedly homosexual priest. Available only in paperback.
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- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 170 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: CreateSpace (August 20, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002MD0DP0
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spoof, sex-bites, action
Description
Good vampires are humans with a metabolic need for little sips of blood from willing normal human doners. Bad vampires sip to kill. Good Vampire Lance gets his sips from his normal human girl friend, Carol; he uses lancets so as not to bruise her. Together, they battle Bad Vampire Elmer and his cohort, Mad Scientist Dr. Beasly, who are trying to create a movie to hypnotize potential victims, using a giant diamond named Gladstone for focusing. After many car chases, ambushes, and explosions (of Mad Scientist laboratories, for example), the issue remains in doubt–until the very end….
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Peculiar, MO
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 495 KB
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- Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (June 30, 2007)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0011ECV42
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horror, science fiction, alien invasion
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Welcome to Peculiar, MO. For most, life is good in this idyllic Midwestern town, until a falling star brings an unearthly menace. Soon animals are found dying of a mysterious disease. At night, beasts begin to cry out in voices that sound almost like words, as they are drawn to a burned clearing to serve an alien will.
Local widow Kelly Ross, who is struggling to make ends meet after the death of her husband, sends her young son into the forest on an errand, where he makes a frightening discovery.
Spencer Dale, the town’s mechanic, whose past contains a painful secret, begins to experience strange dreams and visions, as he relives memories that are not his own.
Nine-year-old Rachel, a child of nature, becomes linked to an unspeakable crime that took place more than eighty years in the past, while a military operation moving inexorably towards the meteor’s impact site makes its presence, and its plans, known.
All their lives are linked together as an alien life cycle reaches its terrifying climax.
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Reinventing Alvin
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (September 21, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1448696887
- ISBN-13: 978-1448696888
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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Comics, Humor, Coming of Age
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Alvin Thomas has less than three weeks to produce the girlfriend he told the former love of his life he already had. To find one, he’ll have to get out of the comic book store and into the singles scene. But when “just being himself” leads to one humiliation after another, he forms a new plan: be someone else. It works so well it becomes addictive. From black belt to Buddhist, from park ranger to music producer, Alvin soon has more identities than he can handle, and his new girlfriends are starting to catch on.
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DanteKleinberg.com
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Teseyende: The Embrallykana Prophecies
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (July 2, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1448611571
- ISBN-13: 978-1448611577
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
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angels, apocalypse, fantasy
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A good-intentioned Fallen Angel wants to stop the Apocalypse that she set into motion. She needs a girl named Brittany Stephens to help her, but Brittany would rather not. Brittany seems to be an average girl, but she harbors strange and amazing power. She is dragged into the reality of a secret world existing alongside her own – a world of myth that throws history upside-down. While Brittany tries to survive high school, a Soulless creature is attempting to render the physical world into non-existence, and the Angel stumbles around in moral gray area telling the story. Thousands of years before, the Queen Embrallykana gave a prophecy to the Angel. A prophecy about a girl who escaped the disappearance of Atlantis, who would save the world…
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Pyromancer
- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (September 26, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449527795
- ISBN-13: 978-1449527792
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
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erotica, romance, gay
Description
One desperate night, a rent boy hot enough to scorch the motel sheets, and Christian is doomed to burn for love.
Christian Ryder is rich and lonely. When the people around him keep dying, Christian forgoes personal attachments. The thought of his Pyromancy hurting anyone else, isn’t something he’s willing to risk.
Tanner O’Bannon is broke and desperate. The recent loss of his father has thrown Tanner into a tailspin of debt he can’t afford to pay. Working as a rent boy allows him to pay the mortgage and his college tuition, but it’s eroding his soul in the process.
Through the machinations of Male Companions – the escort agency for which Tanner works – the men are thrown together. Through a series of startling revelations and danger, Tanner and Christian both face changes. Smoldering embers of desire fan the flames of love, but will it be enough to make Christian overcome his fear of love, or to save Tanner from the fire? Only one thing is certain; both men will burn.
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A Bit of Knowledge
- Paperback: 306 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (August 19, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442186321
- ISBN-13: 978-1442186323
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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Family, Contemporary Fiction, Relationships
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Francine O’Malley is a confused seventeen year old trying to survive life with her whacky, unwed, devout Catholic mother and her gruff but gentle-spirited eighty year old uncle.
During her senior year in high school, Francine learns some of lifes hardest lessons.
In spite of it all, hope is at the ore of the young girls being.
A Bit of Knowledge is a drama with insight into the family, mother-daughter relationships and characters both young and old. It is unpredictable and real.
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Get out of Debt, Repair your Credit, Accumulate Wealth!
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 261 KB
- Print Length: 80 pages
- Publisher: Inspired Creations (September 26, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002QJZ9SG
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finance, economics, Fred Fitts
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In a book presented to you by The Bold Approach, headed by CEO Millionare Fred Fitts, learn how you can get and STAY out of debt, turn your life around financially, and begin accumulating wealth. This book contains many helpful facts and tried methods to help guide you into fiscal responsibility.
Do you find yourself constantly worrying about your financial future?
Do you never seem to have quite enough money to make both ends meet?
We want to help you improve your standard of living, repair your credit, get out of debt,
learn about borrowing, and help you make good financial decisions so that you can
accumulate wealth!
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http://theboldapproach.webs.com
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Behold the Dawn
- Paperback: 330 pages
- Publisher: PenForASword Publishing (August 24, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0978924614
- ISBN-13: 978-0978924614
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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historical fiction, middle ages, action
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Marcus Annan, a tourneyer famed for his prowess on the battlefield, thought he could keep the secrets of his past buried forever. But when a mysterious crippled monk demands Annan help him find justice for the transgressions of sixteen years ago, Annan is forced to leave the tourneys and join the Third Crusade. Wounded in battle and hunted by enemies on every side, he rescues an English noblewoman from an infidel prison camp and flees to Constantinople. But, try as he might, he cannot elude the past. Amidst the pain and grief of a war he doesn’t even believe in, he is forced at last to face long-hidden secrets and sins and to bare his soul to the mercy of a God he thought he had abandoned years ago.
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The Game Day Poker Almanac Official Rules of Poker, by Kelli Mix
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Flying Pen Press LLC (June 8, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0979588928
- ISBN-13: 978-0979588921
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
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poker, texas hold em, poker rules
Description
The Game Day Poker Almanac Official Rules of Poker is the poker rulebook of the Poker Almanac brand of poker reference books. The rulebook is one of the most complete set of poker rules ever published. Chapters include the Elements of Poker, Robert’s Rules of Poker, the Poker Tournament Directors Association Rules, the World Series of Poker Rules, Poker Etiquette, and an extensive Glossary. Includes index and six illustrations. The author, Kelli Mix, is a professional poker player and plays in various top-rated poker tournaments around the United States. The Game Day Poker Almanac is an annual almanac of poker-related information, and is also a series of poker reference books.
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In Too Deep
- Paperback: 254 pages
- Publisher: Mercier Press (September 2, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1856356337
- ISBN-13: 978-1856356336
- Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
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irish fiction, irish short stories, short stories
Description
With its stories of lost love and shared secrets, tender moments, and little victories, In Too Deep is a wonderful follow-up to Billy’s collection In Exile.
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Owe Nothing
- Paperback: 154 pages
- Publisher: Trafford Publishing (April 9, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1425172350
- ISBN-13: 978-1425172350
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
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canada, adventure, fiction
Description
“Jack Owen has gotten himself in over his head. At his low-paying day job, employees are leaving suddenly, and there’s a car full of bullet holes stashed in his boss’s maintenance shed. It’s all starting to make him wonder just what kind of a car wash he’s working for.
At home, his best friends Mike and Chris need to separate their mother Regina and their abusive step-father Ted before they kill each other. Maybe they can get rid of Ted somehow, without Regina finding out…
Then there’s that old drunk in the neighbourhood who’s been beating his dog. Somebody should do something about that guy.
How did Jack’s life ever get so complicated, and how will he keep it all from his Dad and his sister?”
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FELONIOUS JAZZ
- Paperback: 274 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (May 8, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442173084
- ISBN-13: 978-1442173088
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
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mystery, thriller, suspense
Description
Jeff Davis Swain digs up evidence for a Raleigh, North Carolina, trial law firm. Like Raleigh, Swain is Southern with blue-collar roots but now finds himself more at home in an Audi convertible than a rusty pickup. When one of the firm’s clients comes home to find his McMansion burglarized — and his new wife’s dog dead in the kitchen — the man suspects his ex-wife. But Swain senses this is someone far more dangerous. From a stolen minivan, washed-up jazz bassist Leonard Noblac watches as Swain begins to investigate. He’s ready to perform his next crime to punish the zeros in the soulless suburb of Rocky Falls, and he’s happy to have Swain in his audience. Used to working from the shadow at the back of the stage, Leonard intends to put down a throbbing beat of crime and destruction in Rocky Falls — a jazz album of felonies, the performance he knows will finally make him famous. Jeff must find Leonard and stop him — but that will put those closest to Jeff in mortal danger.
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So You Want to Be Blessed: A Devotional Commentary of Psalm 1
- Reading level: Young Adult
- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Trafford Publishing; 1st edition (July 6, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1412060087
- ISBN-13: 978-1412060080
- Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.1 inches
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Christian Self Help Books, Christian Counseling Books, Trusting God Books
Description
Sometimes life is tough. While Psalm 1 is a very brief passage of Scripture it remains one of the best sources of reassurance and hope during the uncertain and troubling times of life. This book offers some timeless truths to promote a healthier, spiritual, inner well-being.
The book draws from the four habits of the “blessed man” listed in Psalm 1. It reveals how life-changing these habits can be if one chooses to seriously live by them. These habits touch several subjects such as obedience, holiness, true faith, spiritual maturity, proper Christian behavior and others. The book reveals how true prosperity and blessings are not necessarily money and possessions but it is a quality of life that far surpasses material possessions. All these things and more are expounded upon in an interesting and easy-to-read style. The author has used several anecdotes to create a classic that is bound to be a blessing to all who read and practically apply it.
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SKYBOARDERS
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 83 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Biggs Books; 1 edition (September 4, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002Q0Y2JC
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adventure, post-apocalyptic, science fiction
Description
Skyboarders is an exciting new serial fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world lost in the distant future.
It is the year 1277 according to the City Calender of the Valley of Karr. It has been seventy-six years since the last Emperor, Melakur TeRasa, was brutally assassinated and the Palace burned. His two sons were either killed, or mysteriously vanished. Now people say that both must be dead, or one of them would have stepped forward to claim the throne.
In that time, the southern Houses have gained strength and power, looming over the last free packs of the north, and an ancient threat is growing deep under the ground. People are vanishing, strange armored men with no faces are appearing at night, able to fly without a skyboard, and half-demon “von-men” with glowing eyes are roaming the streets dragging unsuspecting peasants down to subterranean imprisonment.
In the northernmost tip of the Valley of Karr, a young warrior named Tarek has mastered the art of skyboarding, but he still searches for clues about his missing past. He’s fought his way into a position of authority in the roughest ‘boardpack in the Valley, the Jelka, but his fight isn’t over yet.
Episode 1, Jelka, follows Tarek as he uncovers treachery among his superiors which will ultimately change the fate of the Empire.
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Obsession Everlasting
- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Black Lyon Publishing (July 1, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1934912182
- ISBN-13: 978-1934912188
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
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Vampire Romance, Paranormal Romance, Romance
Description
A World of Dark Secrets …
Simon Clairmont is Vampyre. Reclusive, elegant and wealthy beyond imagining, he has lived centuries in the sultry shadows of Savannah, Georgia. Now, caught in the midst of a bloody quest for power among his own kind, he must choose between the one lovely mortal who has ever captured his heart and the tenuous peace maintained within the Vampyre realm.
The Love of an Eternity …
Suspicious doesn’t begin to describe journalist Fallyn Mitchell’s frame of mind when she’s called to an exclusive on-site interview in the mansion of one of the world’s most mysterious men. But as the truth behind Simon’s dark secret unfolds, she’s drawn into a nightmare of death and war—and the dream of an obsession everlasting!
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
- Paperback: 132 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (September 22, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 144952883X
- ISBN-13: 978-1449528836
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
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civil war history, company aytch, sam r watkins
Description
Of the 120 men who enlisted in “Company H” (Or Co. Aytch as he calls it) in 1861, Sam Watkins was one of only seven alive when General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman in North Carolina on April, 1865. Of the 1,200 men who fought in the First Tennessee, only 65 were left to be paroled on that day. “Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War” is heralded by many historians as one of the best war memoirs written by a common soldier of the field. Sam R. Watkin’s writing style in “Co Aytch” is quite engaging and skillfully captures the pride, misery, glory, and horror experienced by the common foot soldier.
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Sojourner
- Paperback: 242 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (September 12, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1448681251
- ISBN-13: 978-1448681259
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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Young adult, paranormal romance, urban fantasy
Description
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Moon has been dreaming of her murder her entire life, and in those dreams, a dark presence is there, watching. When she returns home to Hauser’s Landing, the very place her father disappeared, she comes in contact with a gorgeous boy named Lev Walker, and it’s not long before she’s falling in love. But there’s something wrong with Lev. When she realizes he’s the eerie watcher in her dreams, she’ll have to discover the truth. Is he a guardian angel or a sojourner, an angel of death who has come to collect her soul?
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http://www.mariarachelhooley.com
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Evil Moon
- Paperback: 588 pages
- Publisher: Harrison Ray (September 29, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 061532536X
- ISBN-13: 978-0615325361
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1.3 inches
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werewolf, horror, evil, full moon, lycanthropy, horror fiction, crime drama
Description
What if you were a Nebraska State Patrol officer trying to track down an elusive, killing, wild animal, only to learn it is a werewolf that has attacked and infected your daughter with it’s curse? Patrolman Davis Veoh will do whatever he must to save his daughter’s soul at all costs. Tracking down the murderous beast, his quest takes him to Manitou Springs, Colorado. Where he and others become embroiled in a climatic battle on the Mt. Manitou Incline cable cars, against a werewolf horde bent on the destruction of all humankind.
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No Child Left Behind
- Paperback: 218 pages
- Publisher: Hudson House Publishing (July 23, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587768798
- ISBN-13: 978-1587768798
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
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memoir, teachers, teaching
Description
Elizabeth Blake’s search for her life’s purpose takes her into the violent, emotional world of inner-city high schools as a science teacher. “No Child Left Behind? The true story of a teacher’s quest” explores her inspirational fight for students others have left behind.
Despite struggling with the stress of gangs, drugs, shootings and uncooperative administrators, the students capture her heart. While she searches for a way to reach them, they teach her to become a wiser, stronger person.
Her final quest turns to discovering God’s purpose for sending her on this difficult, and at times frightening, journey.
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He Says, She Says
- Format: Kindle Edition
- Publisher: Big Dave & Mona (October 16, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- ASIN: B002SW453Q
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Kindle, Kindle Blog, Sex Talk
Description
Join Big Dave and Mona as they discuss everything from Sex, Dating & Relationships all the way to Marriage!
Big Dave gives insight from a male perspective, while Mona contributes from a woman’s. Together they deliver humor, satire and even a few serious uppercuts while still remaining the best of friends.
How do they do it? Subscribe now to find out…
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From the Shadows
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 54 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Sacred Oaks Press; 2 edition (September 9, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002T460JA
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dark fantasy, dark poetry, paranormal romance
Description
From the Shadows by E.J. Stevens is a collection of haunting dark poetry. Stevens’ work rekindles the great lyrical storytelling style of Edgar Allen Poe with a dark imagination influenced by such masters as Neil Gaiman and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Deliberate Destiny A Roadmap To Happiness and Success
- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: AuthorHouse (August 26, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449021484
- ISBN-13: 978-1449021481
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.3 inches
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self-help, large print, heal, mind and body
Description
Are you sitting there saying, “I have read every self-help, get rich quick, and inspirational book ever made, and none of them work for me?” I have the answer you are searching for.
I too searched, and I found what I sought. Now I want to share those answers with you!
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2012 Seeking Closure
- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: WheelMan Press (April 28, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0982436106
- ISBN-13: 978-0982436103
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
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2012, post-apocalyptic, thriller
Description
It’s December 21, 2012. The President of the United States has just gone on the air to inform the world that in three hours time, the world will end, and there is nothing he can do about it. And then he and all the world leaders walk away and leave the people to fend for themselves. What would you do? Based on a story by Tom Townsend, and soon to become a motion picture from Inner Glow Pictures, 2012: Seeking Closure is the story of a world gone mad in a time of chaos, of disaster and destruction and people desperate to seek closure while the society goes mad.
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http://www.seekingclosurethemovie.com
http://www.wheelmanpress.com/Home/books/82-seeking
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My Ebay Secret
- Format: Kindle Edition
- Publisher: eBay Guru (October 18, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- ASIN: B002T9TU1A
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ebay, kindle blog, blog
Description
Yes, It’s Absolutely True. I Made Over $25,000 on eBay in 1 month !
I Made $25,072.24 on eBay in just 1 month! This is a true story and I am going to prove it to you. Don’t stop! Keep Reading! This is NOT a scam!
Just take 15 minutes of your time right now to read this Blog. Then if you are still interested, take a few more minutes to Watch the Video/Slideshows & Subscribe via Email, Atom or on your Amazon Kindle ! I guarantee you wont be sorry!
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Slaves to the Empowered: Volumes of Lageyan Lore
- Paperback: 302 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace (September 14, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449502172
- ISBN-13: 978-1449502171
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
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Fantasy, Magic, Fantasy Series
Description
Slaves to the Empowered introduces us to the world of Lageya, a world steeped in forbidden magick, warring cultures, and clashing politics. Most live by the sword in this world where the greatest kingdom, the Divine Yigan Confederacy, maintains dominance by crushing any nation that will not submit to them. The Gellic Nation has only survived because the Confederacy needs them. However, this tribal nation is very aware how easily their ally could destroy them. They also know the Confederacy’s need of them is waning. The Gels must obey when they are ordered into lands held by dark magick to eliminate a malevolent cult. In sinister lands, they find people practicing wicked and sexual activities, find sorcerers engaging in a dark ritual to infuse an army with infernal powers. But sometimes good and evil are not as they first seem, and sometimes when the light betrays you, a greater ally can be found in the dark. Some content unsuitable for children under 17.
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Fool’s Gold
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: eTreasures Publishing (March 4, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1607435721
- ISBN-13: 978-1607435723
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
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Fantasy, Humor, Rhinegold myth
Description
Aliens, ancient gods, humor, beautiful Valkyries, heros, conniving nobles, betrayal, greed, incest, a magical gold horde; this story has something for everyone.
Fafner, from the planet Zaftan 31B and the most notorious criminal in the universe, is stranded on Earth after civilization has been ravaged by disease, war and pollution. He decides to hone his felonious skills by stealing the powerful artifacts developed by another alien, Alberich. But Alberich is determined to regain the artifacts or at least make Fafner pay for stealing them.
Alberich’s devices, made for the magical Rhinegold, give the user vast powers. The Chip, allows the user to receive information instantaneously from anywhere in the universe. The second device, called the Helm is a beanie-like hat that allows the wearer to see the life lines of every creature in the vicinity.
Wotan, god of the Saxons and Vikings, has to recover the Rhinegold in order to prevent his aging. He recognizes the greatly enhanced power of the golden horde thanks to Alberich’s genius. He plans to make a big comeback and regain millions of worshippers. To take the devices away from Fafner, he needs a old-fashioned hero: one who is strong of arm and weak of brain.
While these conflicts rage on, Brunnhilde, an ex-Valkyrie, searches for the meaning of true love. Despite a few false starts and some problems such as the wrath of the god Wotan and mean-spirited men, Brunnhilde struggles to understand mortal love while she seeks a good man to try it out on.
If you like authors Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt or Chris Moore, you’ll love this story.
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Killerbyte
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 682 KB
- Publisher: Rebel e Publishers (April 10, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0024J09VA
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thriller, mystery and suspense, crime fiction
Description
With a new and exciting voice, Cat Connor introduces Ellie Conway, an FBI Agent who challenges the rules with her attitude, sense of the ridiculous and how she tackles a serial murderer with a difference: a murderer connected with Ellie’s internet poetry chat room.
With a litter of bodies ‘presented’ in unexpected places, Killerbyte is a provocatively bizarre and entertaining dance. Ellie, with the aid of Mac Connelly, must track down a seemingly motiveless and ghost-like murderer, who defies detection. After her own mother is dispatched by this slaughterer, Ellie fears for the lives of everyone close: her lover Mac, her father, her boss Special Agent Caine Grafton, and chat room colleagues. Reluctantly she begins to suspect her boss, colleagues and, her brother Aidan.
A chance remark provides a connection between past hurts and present pain.
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http://catconnor.wordpress.com/
http://catconnor.blogspot.com/
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Living the Dream
- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC (July 13, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1608440877
- ISBN-13: 978-1608440870
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1 inches
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Adventure, Crime, Humor
Description
Kurt’s life has been one dead end after another since he was convicted of attempted rape thirty years ago.
Inspired by a dream, he thinks he’s finally found the way to Easy St. and it starts with kidnapping Vicky, the woman who had him arrested all those years ago.
Surely Vicky’s husband, wealthy investment consultant Jimmy, would pay handsomely for the safe return of his wife.
But Kurt soon learns that even Easy Street has its share of pot holes.
After the road trip from Hell, Kurt arrives in Florida to learn that Jimmy is planning to leave Vicky and may not be interested in saving her. On top of that Jimmy’s mysterious mistress wants her own piece of the action.
To make matters worse, Kurt gets on the wrong side of a biker, a bookie and an ex-Navy SEAL who seem determined to make the rest of his life as painful as possible.
Meanwhile, Danny Putnam is enjoying life in Florida. He owns a successful dive shop and has a very comfortable lifestyle until he starts having bizarre dreams about his murdered wife and a beautiful woman he has never met. Suddenly his comfortable life becomes very complicated.
In the first novel by Tim Baker the lives of four people will meet at a crossroads where love, hate, betrayal and honesty converge for some very surprising results.
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Luggage by Kroger
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 471 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: iUniverse (November 24, 2008)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001TK3VH4
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true crime, mystery, thriller
Description
“A riveting true story that reads like a high-octane crime thriller.”
—Midwest Book Review
“A true crime memoir reminiscent of Basic Instinct.”
—Reader Views online
“Remember the movie Fatal Attraction? And the movie Basic Instinct? And the movie Play Misty For Me? Put all three in a blender, hit frappe and stand back. What comes out would be Gary Taylor’s new book—Luggage By Kroger.”
—Author Randall Radic
Reporter’s Award-Winning True Crime Memoir
Offers Inside View Of Notorious Texas Fatal Attraction Tale
Since its publication in December of 2008, Luggage By Kroger has established itself as one of 2009’s top true crime thrillers, winning awards in five national book contests and adding to the legend of a classic American murder mystery story that has been grabbing headlines since 1980 as the definitive real-life fatal attraction saga.
In Luggage By Kroger, former Houston Post reporter Gary Taylor recounts his intensely personal involvement in the trail of controversy that has followed Texas attorney Catherine Mehaffey Shelton for nearly three decades. It’s a trail littered with murder investigations and acts of violence that has warranted coverage by media outlets as diverse as People magazine, The Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Press, CBS-News 48 Hours and the A&E channel’s American Justice. It’s a trail that has placed Taylor in the public eye as a true-life fatal attraction interview subject on talk shows from Oprah Winfrey to Sally Jesse Raphael. It’s a story that has been twice-optioned for television docudramas and served as the lead segment on a prime-time TV special called Crimes of Passion.
But the intimate details of Taylor’s fatal attraction tale have remained under the radar until now. With his true crime memoir, Taylor invites the reader to grab a seat on the wild ride of an obsessive relationship, from its erotic beginning through the violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. Laying bitterness aside, he employs self-deprecating humor to share comical anecdotes and maintain a reporter’s detachment on what becomes a tale of self-discovery through a potentially deadly encounter that nearly cost him his life.
Luggage By Kroger defies all efforts to pigeonhole it into one specific genre. In the end, however, it emerges as an action-packed and suspenseful memoir of a personal odyssey that should tantalize a wide range of reading interests.
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http://home.comcast.net/~gtaylor713.
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A Tale of Two Guinea Pigs
- Reading level: Ages 9-12
- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC (April 2, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1598589601
- ISBN-13: 978-1598589603
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
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animal stories,guinea pigs, children’s fiction
Description
It is the worst of times. Teddy and Pip’s perfect lives have been turned upside down. Amelia has been gone for too many days, there are no postcards and Wally did not come. Mom Jane does it all wrong. She took away the TV remote, gave them tap water and called them monsters. Worst of all, she put them in a bucket. Help is needed. But how can they get it without revealing their big secret? You see, Teddy and Pip… can talk. Nine-year-old Molly Jane Fisher comes to the rescue. Not only does she love guinea pigs, she can keep a secret. She is also a detective and will not close the case until everything is sorted out. A Tale of Two Guinea Pigs is about love, loyalty, a puzzling mystery and smart detective work. Most of all, it is about two very special guinea pigs who will make you laugh and capture your heart. LISA MADDOCK lives in Shakopee, Minnesota with her husband Bill, daughter Allison and two pampered guinea pigs-Maggie and Peanut. (Teddy and Pip are not finished with her; they have more to say, so more stories are coming.)
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The Guys Who Spied for China
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Minstrel’s Alley (October 8, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0984105204
- ISBN-13: 978-0984105205
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
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espionage, spy, China
Description
“The Guys Who Spied for China is written by Gordon Basichis. The novel is a
roman a clef, based on the author’s very real experiences helping to uncover
American made Chinese Moles and their elaborate and most formidable
espionage network that began functioning just after the Korean War. We can
see from the recurring headlines that it still functions today.
The book chronicles an offbeat relationship between two disparate souls, the
author and a senior high level intelligence operative, who form a strange
union through fate and circumstance. It is quirky and often funny. It
is very different from typical spy novels. The author describes it as his
E-Ticket Ride into this shadow world of intrigue, danger and deception.
The story takes place largely in California, in the Santa Monica Mountain
Range, just above Beverly Hills. California has long been the happy
hunting ground for Chinese spies. It tells a tale that has yet to be told.
It does so with remarkable style and intimacy.
Gordon Basichis is the author of two previous books, the best selling
Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story. This book tells the tempestuous
affair between department store scion and Ronald Reagan Kitchen Cabinet
Member, Alfred Bloomingdale, and his mistress, Vicki Morgan. The Constant
Travellers is a New Age Fantasy about the West that never was. Basichis has
worked as a screenwriter and producer. He is Co-Founder of Corra Group,
specializing in background checks and corporate research. He has also been
a marketing executive and journalist. He currently lives in Southern
California.
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Alone in the Company of Others: A Novel
- Format: Kindle Edition
- File Size: 523 KB
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Open Books (January 25, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Language: English
- ASIN: B001WAKDJK
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fiction, romance, family
Description
Camille’s mother Connie collects people. After Connie’s brother Wilson has ‘the accident’ (a single shot to the abdomen; the blood in the snow beside the flagpole; the siren and the ambulance), they move into an abandoned ski resort in Colorado with Wilson’s widow Wanda, an agoraphobic veterinarian, and her two sons, Russell, who only wants to be normal, and Wilsie, who is anything but normal. Determined never to use his voice, Wilsie communicates on a blackboard and records other people’s conversations on a Fisher Price tape recorder.
Camille’s mother Connie makes sure there are many voices to record: Teresa, an ex opera singer; Helen, Stacey, and Winnie, three Certified Veterinary Technicians; Margie, a lonely, suicidal librarian; Finn Green, a PR man; and a group of disillusioned hitchhikers no one will pick up.
Wilsie records the progress of their lives, a world of sex, death, and white noise, but when Wilsie is finally forced to use his voice Camille is left with over four hundred cassette tapes documenting the rise and fall of a micro society with one unmistakable message: we are all alone, even in the company of others.
With a cast of eccentrics that rivals “The Royal Tenenbaums”, ALONE IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS is about people and their treasured possessions—a running tape recorder, a collection of diplomas, an attic full of disfigured mannequins, or shelves and shelves of books in an all but abandoned public library—and the distinctive role that each of us plays as part of a group dynamic. The book questions where each of us essentially exists—within the singular, the plural, or both.
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