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Title: Kate's Pride |
| Author: Renee Russell | |
| Genre: Southern Historical Fiction | |
| ISBN: 978-1-59705-918-8 | |
"Home is where they have to take you in...but sometimes it doesn't happen
that way."
Kate Randsome discovers this after the scoundrel who swears his undying love deserts her after finding out she's carrying his child.
In the post Civil War South, things are already tough all over, but they just got tougher for Kate. Abandoned by her family, taken in by a black family as a charity case, used as a courtesan by a many who threatens her life, Kate still manages to make a life for herself and her two children that will touch your heart.
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Title: Not Like You |
| Author: Deborah Davis | |
| Genre: Teen Literature | |
| ISBN: 9780618720934 | |
Starting a new chapter is how Kayla's mother, Marilyn, has always referred to their abrupt moves--five in the past two years. But what Kayla hates even more than moving is Marilyn's drinking. It once landed Kayla in foster care, so she'll do whatever it takes to keep her mother from falling apart again. Just until she turns eighteen, less than three years away.
Now Marilyn has moved them to New Mexico, and promised, yet again, to quit booze for good. Kayla knows better than to believe her, but something about this move does feel different. Kayla is putting down roots, earning money as a dog walker, and spending time with Remy, a twenty-four-year-old musician. He's her refuge from Marilyn's daily struggle to stay sober. And after years of taking care of her mother, Kayla is starting to think of herself and who she wants to be. She knows for sure who she doesn't want to be. But is she willing to do whatever it takes to create her own life even if it means leaving her mother behind?
Sharply honest and beautifully written, Deborah Davis's powerful novel is about loving someone else enough to stay with her through anything and loving yourself enough to let her go.
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Title: Metadata Murders |
| Author: William Fietzer | |
| Genre: Mystery/Thriller | |
| ISBN: 0595368220 | |
Minneapolis electronics security expert, Benjamin Hackwell, receives e-mail
from his teenage daughter, Caitline, that directs him to a Web site where she
stars in her own snuff flick. Determined to learn if what he has seen is real,
Ben discovers that all of her bank accounts are closed, her phone is disconnected,
and her whereabouts unknown.
Further investigation plunges Ben into the online underworld of identity theft, virtual prostitution, and murder by remote control. As Ben digs deeper into Caitline's affairs, the more he understands her anger and resentment. When his search becomes deadly, Ben must confront his greatest fear: Is Caitline responsible? And is he responsible for her actions? More than his programming skills or his knowledge of electronic metadata, Ben's quest will test the strength of his love for Caitline in order to save her.
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Title: All the Numbers |
| Author: Judy Merrill Larsen | |
| Genre: Fiction | |
| ISBN: 034548536x | |
"How much do you love me?" Daniel asked his mother. "I love
you all the numbers."
What begins as a sunny August afternoon on a bucolic lake turns into a tragedy when a Jet Ski swerves fatally close to shore. It's a day Ellen Banks could never have prepared for, a day no mother should ever have to live through.
The moment her son James is killed, Ellen must face the unimaginable while trying to remain strong for her older son, Daniel, who witnessed the fateful accident and blames himself. Ellen's shock and grief soon give way to defiance as lawyers and policemen who once vowed to support Ellen's desire for justice succumb to political pressure and back away. Still, Ellen is determined to see the reckless young man pay for his crime and to heal her family's deep wounds. But first she must heal herself.
An unforgettable journey of power and emotion, All the Numbers poignantly depicts a woman's reckoning with her own vulnerability and finding in the wisdom of motherhood the redemptive grace to begin again.
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Title: Broken Vows |
| Author: Naiomi Pitre | |
| Genre: Urban Romance | |
| ISBN: 978-1-4116-8233-7 | |
Broken Vows is a genuine story about a couple who could be your next door neighbors.
They have been highly involved in their church, but have been backsliding for
the last few months. Perhaps this letting down of their spiritual defenses
is what allows the spirit of jealousy to seep into their marriage and take
over. Dominic Long silently resents the fact that his wife is the primary bread-winner
in their household while he struggles to get his own business off the ground.
This self-loathing creates an atmosphere of distrust and jealousy that results
in a physical confrontation, which drives Yvonne out of their home. Turning
to the person she trusts the most, Julie, her secretary, Yvonne enters into
a world that she only fantasized about in the past. She explores her sexual
desires with this redheaded siren, unknowingly giving her husband time to fight
his own infidelity demons as well.
"All writers put a part of themselves into their characters. Yvonne and
I share similar characteristics, more than I care to admit sometimes. I believe
that my debut novel will spark conversation amongst readers about subjects
that we all find to be taboo. Is it true that every woman wonders about having
a sexual tryst with a person who is as soft as she? Can a strong marriage endure
extramarital dalliances? Broken Vows will answer these questions and challenge
readers to be more open minded about their views on relationships and sexual
urges."
- Naiomi Pitre
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Title: In The Panty Drawer - Journey Into The Mind of a Sexual Woman |
| Author: Naiomi Pitre | |
| Genre: Erotica | |
| ISBN: 978-1-4303-0670-2 | |
From the author who brought you last year's smash hit novel, Broken
Vows, comes
a sizzling new collection of steamy erotica stories. With a uniquely dark perspective
on human sensuality, Pitre expertly weaves impressive character-driven adventures.
Receive an all-access pass into an exclusive swingers club. Be the fly on the
wall in the mansion of the beautiful and abused trophy wife. Find out what
happens to a sex-starved housewife when she is caught being naughty on a lonely
Louisiana interstate.
Naiomi Pitre possesses a startling ability to draw you into her characters' lives and not let you go until you've turned the very last page, hungry for more. Readers will not be disappointed in this latest release from the woman who has hit the literary world like a lightning bolt. Order your copy of In The Panty Drawer now!
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Title: Things In Ditches |
| Author: Jimmy Olsen | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0878391584 | |
Things In Ditches is the story of Dutch Cleland, an unlikely murderer
who risks everything to run from his guilt, while local police and two revenge
killers pursue him into a howling blizzard. His former mistress is left dead
and naked in a ditch and his understanding wife has problems of her own when
he leaves her alone to face the mess he's made of their lives.
The story is a chase through rough country and peopled with quirky characters, told in a manner reminiscent of Fargo.
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Title: Pearls Before Swine |
| Author: Jo A Hiestand | |
| Genre: English Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59133-178-1 | |
Tolling church bells are as much an aspect of rural England as are grazing
sheep, thatched-roof cottages and verdant-hedged lanes. But someone in this
sleepy village evidently takes exception to one slice of Merrie Olde England,
for Roger, Lord Swinbrook is found on Valentine's Day in the bell tower of
his estate--frightfully dead and terribly unromantic.
As picturesque as the village appears, DS Brenna Taylor and her colleagues from the Derbyshire Constabulary discover all is not picture-perfect in the lives of the residents. There is the feud between Roger and a retired couple who hate his bell ringing; a neighbor who despises Roger's wealth and rank; the younger brother who yearns to inherit the title and estate. And what about Roger's former business partner? He was once married to Roger's wife--could he want the inconveniently-married Roger out of the way so he can remarry her, now that she's come up in the world? Or is it someone in her family who wants some of the estate and money to filter their way?
When a second murder occurs in the same place and under similar circumstances as the first, Brenna finds her own emotions threatening to erupt: there are her conflicting feelings toward her associate DS Mark Salt, her obsession to discover the identity of the woman her boss, DCI Geoffrey Graham, is dating, and her own mounting fear that Graham considers her merely a co-worker. It takes the chilling close to the case, when Brenna's life is in jeopardy, for Graham to reveal his private sentiments about her.
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Title: The Accidental Sleuth |
| Author: Helen Macie Osterman | |
| Genre: Cozy Mystery | |
| ISBN: 978-1-59414-581-0 | |
Sixty-something Emma Winberry seems to attract trouble wherever she goes, despite
reliance on her sixth sense, and the guidance of her Guardian Angel.
When Emma leaves her old house in a Chicago suburb and moves into a posh condo on Chicago's lakefront with Nate, her significant other, she finds herself mixed up with an anorexic teenage neighbor and her abusive uncle, a couple of hoodlums who mistake her for someone else, and a cadre of homeless people.
Emma senses the problems are all tied to a report of a murdered inventor found in a downtown alley.
Can Emma's celestial guardian keep her out of harm's way as she begins to solve the complex puzzle that unravels to an exciting climax of treachery, deceit, and murder?
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Title: Bound for Eternity |
| Author: Sarah Wisseman | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 0-595-35088-7 | |
Disappearing artifacts, jealous colleagues, and dead bodies---who says a museum
curator's job is easy?
After transporting a newly acquired Egyptian mummy to a local clinic for an X-ray, curator Lisa Donahue safely returns the ancient relic to the Boston University Museum of Archaeology and History. Upon returning to the museum after hours, the widowed young mother is shocked to discover the bloodied body of a colleague in the mummy's vacated case. The two-thousand-year-old mummy contains an enigmatic clue that will help Lisa solve the murder and keep her job. But she must move fast before someone turns her into a permanent exhibit.
"Highly authentic, written by an archaeologist, Bound
for Eternity is
a great read. The museum setting was both eerie and fascinating. I hope to
see Lisa Donahue in many books to come."
-- Barbara D Amato
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Title: The Dead Sea Codex |
| Author: Sarah Wisseman | |
| Genre: Suspense | |
| ISBN: 0-7599-3678-1 | |
While visiting Israel, archaeologist and museum curator Lisa Donahue finds an
ancient papyrus, part of a lost first century AD codex on the teachings of
Jesus' female disciples. Lisa teams up with her ex-boyfriend Gregory Manzur,
racing to find the rest of the codex ahead of Christian fanatics who will kill
to prevent the codex's publication.
Told from multiple points of view, this mystery/suspense story is set in Israel in 1997, prior to the recent Palestinian uprisings. The characters, two American archaeologists, a Jordanian epigrapher, a Lebanese museum curator, an Arab-Israeli registrar, and an American conservator, reflect the diverse population and religious beliefs of modern Israel. Since the provenance of the papyri turns out to be a cave located smack on the Jordanian-Israeli border, an international committee is convened to determine the ultimate fate of the Dead Sea Codex.
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Title: Self Storage |
| Author: Gayle Brandeis | |
| Genre: Fiction | |
| ISBN: 0345492609 | |
"The Book of Dead Birds (2003), Brandeis' debut, won Barbara Kingsolver's
Bellwether Prize. In her second brisk, covertly trenchant novel, Brandeis manages
to weave Walt Whitman, 9/11, and secondhand goods into a provocative story
about the nature of one's self and the intrinsically human need to find meaning
in life. Flannery cherishes an old edition of Leaves of
Grass, her only bequest
from her long-deceased mother. With Whitman as her spiritual guide, she lives
hand-to-mouth with her soap-opera-addicted graduate-student husband, high-strung
young son, and escape-artist toddler daughter in a Riverside, California, enclave
for international scholars. To make ends meet, Flan buys and resells the auctioned-off,
memory-laden contents of abandoned self-storage units. As though life isn't
precarious enough, Flan is drawn into a high-stakes drama involving her burka-wearing
Afghan neighbor, the target of prejudice and hate crimes. Executing a marvelous
narrative sleight of hand, Brandeis uses slyly insouciant humor and irresistible
characters to delve into the true significance of neighborliness, advocate
for doing the right thing, and celebrate a Whitmanesque embrace of life."
--Booklist
"A novel of passion and consequence, identity and accountability. I love
the narrator, her children, her wild ride, and this truly American story of
getting mad and getting wise."
--Barbara Kingsolver
"Deftly plotted and engagingly told, Gayle Brandeis's new novel is a
suspenseful, thought-provoking, and inspiring exploration of what it means
to be a sensitive and thoughtful human being living in George W. Bush's America."
Adam Langer, author of Crossing California
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Title: Devil Talk: Stories |
| Author: Daniel A. Olivas | |
| Genre: Literary Fiction | |
| ISBN: 978-1931010276 | |
In these short stories, men and women confront evil in all its forms, drama,
and even humor against a backdrop of Chicano and Mexican culture. Situations
range from the bizarre to the very real. In "Sight," a young man
is allowed to see exactly what his girlfriend is doing when she leaves their
home. A botched robbery in "Jorge, Get the Gun" leads to murder
the same day JFK is buried. In the end, Devil Talk shocks, amuses, and tantalizes
as it explores human passions and the corruption we valiantly attempt to
avoid as we wander through life. These twenty-six stories bring us to a place
once inhabited by Rod Serling . . . only the accents have changed. This is
Latino fiction at its edgy, fantastical best.
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Title: Edges, O Israel, O Palestine |
| Author: Leora Skolkin-Smith | |
| Genre: Literary Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1930180144 | |
"Edges is an elegantly written, quite moving novel that has a lot to say
about love, identity, history and the meaning of nationality. The book is worth
reading alone for its superb language, but it is gripping and unforgettable
as well in its story telling and evocation of place and emotions. It is a wonderful
novel by an author with a quite accomplished voice and style, one well deserving
a wide and receptive audience."
--Oscar Hijuelos, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, The Mambo King
Sings Songs of Love
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Edges was nominated for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award and The PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award by Grace Paley.
Awarded a Stipend from the Pen/Faulkner Foundation
A National Women Studies Association Conference Selection
Bloomsbury Review Pick, 2006: Favorite Books of the Last 25 Years
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Title: The Fish Catcher |
| Author: David Carter | |
| Genre: Murder/Mystery | |
| ISBN: 978 - 1847539304 | |
When World War II broke out in 1939 my mother was evacuated from the Liverpool
suburbs to remote and rural North Wales. She was just 14. Later as children,
she often told us of her ordeal as an evacuee, being taken from home alone
and dumped on strangers she had never seen before.
In the event she was well cared for. Not all the evacuees were so lucky. I guess somewhere in there was the germ for my novel, The Fish Catcher. I set it in England's Westcountry for I know it better, and brought the children from London, but many of the original stories she told us found their place in my book.
In a recent review Allbooks Review said: "It is truly a powerful story" and "A well-written mystery with a fascinating touch of historical fact. A novel suitable for both older children and adults, which I would Highly Recommend to both generations."
The Fish Catcher can be ordered at all good bookstores, both in your high
street, and online.
I hope you take a look, but most of all, I hope you like it.
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Title: Cell Out |
| Author: C.J. Cannino | |
| Genre: Fiction | |
| ISBN: 0-595-33311-7 | |
A nine-year old boy grows up haunted by the roaming hands of a trusted priest.
A spoiled housewife turns to a monster home and ghosts in her cell phone when
her husband turns to men. How these characters come together in America's money-soaked
suburbs forms the basis of Cell Out, C.J. Cannino's observant and witty tale
of life in the 21st century.
"Bravo! A compelling combination of comedy and tragedy," said Dr. Elizabeth Thompson, former psychologist at Atascadero State Hospital.
We first meet the protagonist Peter Golozzi in suburban San Francisco where
he serves as an altar boy at the local Catholic Church. The child's blood runs
cold every time he faces his perpetrator, Father Patrick Martin. The character-driven
story unfolds from there, when the child grows up to be a sexually violent
predator himself. Golozzi is institutionalized for his sexually deviant behavior.
He learns control and compassion through intense psychotherapy and a secret
love affair with a staff member at a California state forensic hospital.
Once rehabilitated, Golozzi makes a fresh start in Shady Pines, Washington
where he finds true love with Marylynn Diego. Like many upscale suburban housewives,
Mrs. Diego appears to have it all: a perfect family, lots of money and beauty
to top it off. Yet she is tormented by strange voices she hears in her cell
phone and a husband who likes to wear her sexy lingerie. Unknowingly, Diego
becomes a pawn in a corporate scandal while she struggles to make a choice
between her family and a lover with a criminal past.
Available from: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and all major book retailers.
About the Author:
C.J. Cannino worked for television, radio and newspapers as a writer, anchor
and reporter in newsrooms throughout California. Truth is stranger than fiction.
I always had a knack for remembering the really weird news stories and then
one day I decided to put them all together in a novel. Cannino lives on the
central California Coast with her husband, two children and two Labrador
Retrievers. Cannino's next book is a teen novel that's loosely based on the
story of Elian Gonzales, watch for it!
ISBN: 0-595-33311-7 * 6 x 9 * Trade Paper * Pub Date: June 2005* 16.95 US
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Title: Rattled |
| Author: Debra Galant | |
| Genre: General Fiction | |
| ISBN: 0312366582 | |
A housewife who's tone deaf to local mom politics, a developer who's both a
finagler and a philanderer, a chicken farmer who's the last remaining relic
of the New Jersey countryside and a hapless group of animal rights activists.
Rattled is a comedy about the Darwinian struggle for ascendance in the new New Jersey exurbs, where pine trees make way for McMansions. And it all starts when God's least-beloved creature, a rattlesnake, makes its appearance in a suburban backyard.
A BookSense pick in February 2006. A New York Times editor's choice in March 2006. OUT IN PAPERBACK APRIL 3 WITH A GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE FOR BOOK GROUPS.
"Galant skewers everything that's awful about exurbia." -- The Washington Post
"Galant's modern-day fable is equal parts object lesson and comedy of manners. Each page is injected with just the right cocktail of venom and humor. You want to hate these people, but you can't. You don't want to care what happens to them, but you do." -- Newark Star Ledger
"Many have made suburban New Jersey the butt of jokes, but few have done so with insight to equal Galant's." -- People Magazine
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Title: The Mercy of Thin Air |
| Author: Ronlyn Domingue | |
| Genre: Fiction | |
| ISBN: 978-0-7432-7882-9 | |
New Orleans, 1920s. Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair
when she dies in a tragic accident. In an instant, she leaves behind her one
true love and her dream of becoming a doctor--but somehow, she still remains.
Immediately after her death, Razi chooses to stay between--a realm that exists
after life and before whatever lies beyond it.
Seventy-five years later, in this ghost-like state, Razi takes residence with a troubled couple whose history mirrors her own. Her intervention in their lives forces her to face the truth of what happened to her beloved Andrew and the nature of her very existence.
Part love story, part ghost story, The Mercy of Thin Air is an exploration of our fragile human lives and memories.
The Mercy of Thin Air was a finalist for the 2005 Borders Original Voices award, was a Book Sense Pick twice, and has been acquired in 11 other countries.
Born and raised in Louisiana, Ronlyn Domingue lives there still and is at work on her second novel.
Her favorite reader e-mail for The Mercy of Thin Air: "I am 200lb tattooed ex-biker turned bookstore manager that has no spiritual beliefs other than I believe in love. Your book made me cry so, it passed my test."
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Title: The Ribbon Murders |
| Author: Sharon Ervin | |
| Genre: Romantic Suspense | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-436-2 | |
News reporter Jancy Dewhurst vexes Agent Jim Wills with her meddling, particularly
when she points out details he's missed.
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Title: Embraced by the Shadows |
| Author: Mayra Calvani | |
| Genre: Paranormal/Dark Fantasy | |
| ISBN: 1-933353-89-9 | |
Against the exotic backdrop of Istanbul and San Juan, Alana is a young woman
torn between a vampire she cannot resist, and a life she cannot understand.
Endowed with her new preternatural powers, she sets out to reveal the identity
of her mother's killer. But is she ready to discover the truth?
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Title: The Body in the Bag |
| Author: Joanne Ashley | |
| Genre: Crime Fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-4241-0770-9 | |
Tim and Leigh are scam artists who come up with a life insurance fraud. Now
all they need is a victim, a corrupt doctor, some false evidence and luck.
Jack, a total stranger, becomes that victim. After brutally murdering Jack
and disposing of the body, Tim disappears, leaving Leigh to close the deal.
Now it's a race against time and a suspicious detective.
This mixture of sex, crime, greed and the possibility of a perfect murder will keep you guessing to the last page.
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