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Novels

Book reviews of novels with artistic merit and  fictional content focusing on literary appeal.

Author
Steve O'Brien

Publisher
A & N Publishing

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Elijah's Coin: A Lesson for Life

Steve O'Brien has crafted a new work of fiction that successfully negotiates the tricky balance between entertainment and instruction. Overtly didactic in some ways, Elijah's Coin is also a highly suspenseful story that introduces us to characters we come to care about. The content is edifying and thought-provoking, but the story never becomes dry.......

Author
Stephen V. Masse

Publisher
Good Harbor Press

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A Jolly Good Fellow

Two weeks before Christmas, Duncan Wagner gets into his car for another attempt at kidnapping the son of his most despised enemy, State Representative Win Booker.
When he drives into the wealthy Boston suburb, he is surprised to find the boy hitchhiking.......

Author
Anya Achtenberg

Publisher
Modern History Press

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The Stories of Devil-Girl (Reflections of America Series)

Devil-Girl is a storyteller smaller than a stain and larger than life, a mythic figure roaming the globe. Born into Brooklyn housing projects and the nightmares of her immigrant family, she becomes a runaway in the human marketplace of the streets of New York.......

Author
Kathryn Maughan

Publisher
iUniverse, Inc.

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Did I Expect Angels?

Jennifer Huffaker knows that grief is normal, but she thought she’d get over it—that’s what people do. But it’s been eighteen months since her husband Jack died, and she still can’t focus on her young daughter Kaitlin, can’t accept support from her family, and can’t allow herself to live without the love of her life.......

Author
John Shors

Publisher
NAL Trade

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Dragon House (New American Library)

From John Shors, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Beside a Burning Sea and Beneath a Marble Sky, comes an unforgettable story of redemption… Set in modern-day Vietnam, Dragon House tells the tale of Iris and Noah—two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietname.......

Author
Sylvia Smoller

Publisher
iUniverse, Inc.

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Rachel and Aleks: A Historical Novel of Life, Love, and WWII

Author
Joyce Norman

Publisher
Chalet Publishers, LLC

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Coming Together

Coming Together is a love story. A story of foreign intrigue. A story of the coming together of cultures, of passion, and, most of all, of unbelievable hope in the face of staggering odds. This is also a story of choices, hard choices, where life and death are constant reminders of making the wrong decisions.......

Author
Ilyn Ross

Publisher
Booklocker.com, Inc.

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Reason Reigns

A novel of ideas with nonstop suspenseful action. Its theme is: "Heaven on Earth can be achieved when reason reigns." Young beau ideals shine as battles are joined between tyrants who crave to rule and thinkers who cannot be ruled......

Author
Patrick M. Garry

Publisher
Inkwater Press

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A Bridge Back

Eighteen years ago, on a stormy night, the worst tragedy to ever hit Mount Kelven occurred on a lift bridge over the Esarno River. Many said it was caused by two reckless young people on their way to a Justice of the Peace. For 18 years, Nate Morrissey has stayed away from his hometown of Mount Kelven.......

Author
Stuart Nachbar

Publisher
IUniverse

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Defending College Heights: A Novel

Defending College Heights is an investigation into the murder of a U.S. Army recruiter within a tumultuous and corrupt college community.

The body of U.S Army captain and recruiting commander Kevin Callahan is found in a guardhouse at Hudson Technical University, a small private engineering school located in College Heights.......

Author
John Allen Royce

Publisher
Micron Press

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Eclipsed by Shadow (The Legend of the Great Horse - Book I of III)

Eclipsed by Shadow takes readers on a startling journey through the ages when horses were everyday companions in work, war, sport and spectacle. The story is told through the eyes of a young woman, a horse-crazy teenager traveling through time with a knowledge of 21st Century horsemanship as her only defense......

Author
Sam Moffie

Publisher
Xlibris

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The Organ Grinder and the Monkey

Seymour Petrillo, Constance Powers and Irving Hanhart. Three protagonists' from vastly different backgrounds intimately share a very public secret. One therapist who impacts them all. From Steubenville, Ohio (Petrillo) to Boardman, Ohio (Powers), to Brookline, Massachusetts (Hanhart) - the three protagonist's imaginative and individual experiences are detailed.......

Author
Edward Hujsak

Publisher
Mina-Helwig Publishing Company

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A Pig in the Rumble Seat

A Pig in the Rumble Seat is a collection of short stories that includes memoirs and tales of the Great Depression era in New England, memoirs of the author's experiences developing the Atlas and Centaur ICMB's and space launch rockets in San Diego, a few science fiction and contemporary tales and several poems selected from the author's other works......

Author
J Douglas Bottorff

Publisher
Wheatmark

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The Whisper of Pialigos

Stuart Adams, a moderately successful novelist, wants to write the big book that will make him rich. A serendipitous encounter with aging eccentric Wes Barnes may provide a ticket to the wealth he seeks. Barnes has been on a decades-long search for an ancient scroll believed to contain knowledge that could have a profound impact on global consciousness.......

Author
Andrew O'Keeffe

Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group

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The Boss

Got a spirit-crushing boss? Well so does Lauren Johnson—five of them. 

Based on true stories of bosses' political maneuverings and workers under siege, The Boss tells Lauren's story—a talented but naive professional struggling under a self-serving, insensitive boss who undermines her at every turn.......

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol I, No. 1) Sept 2009

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. 1, No. 1) September 2009

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......

Author
Mara Feeney

Publisher
Gaby Press

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Rankin Inlet: A Novel

"This is a novel about culture shock, love, loss, identify, belonging, the Inuit people, and the birth of the Nunavut Territory in Arctic Canada.".....

Author
Gint Aras

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Finding the Moon in Sugar

Gint Aras writing is infused with a rare sensitivity for the thousands of seemingly trivial things that give meaning to life. He invites us to laugh at his hero, then sneaks him into our hearts. -Dan Vyleta, author of Pavel & I

In this tragicomedy, Gint Aras' hapless and marijuana-dazed narrator, Andrew Nowak, is seduced by a bombshell internet bride.......

Author
C.E. Edmonson

Publisher
Aventine Press

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Prodigal Of The Pecos

Clint Cooper returns home after many years to find the land of his birth embroiled in a bitter and deadly land war. An Eastern powerbroker, bent on fencing off the West Texas range for his own profit, hires gunslingers to bully the local ranchers and farmers into submission.......

Author
Deborah K. Martin

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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A Hot Dog Stand in the Himalayas

The enchanted world children live in often envisions life in terms of stories with insights and lessons that can be profound. Unfortunately, as we grow older many of us lose these insights. As everyday experiences disenchant the world, these stories were inspired by a loving grandchild who saw the world with such imagination and understanding that they deserved to be remem.......

Author
Laurel Dewey

Publisher
Story Plant

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Redemption

As Redemption opens, flawed but driven detective Jane Perry has resigned from the Denver Police Department and is trying to make a living as a private investigator. Kit Clark hires Jane to drive with her from Colorado to Northern California in search of a man who matches the description of the killer who murdered Kit’s granddaughter many years ago.......

Author
Alberto Rios Arias

Publisher
Freedom Rivers Books

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A Death For Beauty

A troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after a death-wish aimed at her abusive husband comes to pass.

When Virginia Mae Mercy secretly wishes for her husband's death, she never thought of herself as an accomplice. But when he is mysteriously murdered, she begins to question her involvement in the grisly crime.......

Author
Jonathan Slusher

Publisher
Cow Chip Press

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Water Landing

How many of us move through life on auto-pilot, our youthful dreams and ambitions somehow forgotten in the daily grind?

Lukas Kettle, approaching middle age in San Diego, is doing just that, and adding to his woes, he is headed back to his native New Jersey for his girlfriend Sara’s funeral.......

Author
Gregory Mose

Publisher
Gregory Mose

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Stunt Road

It seems too good to be true. When Pete McFadden invents his own system of fortune-telling, he doesn't really expect anyone to take it seriously. He can't imagine that it will become Hollywood's next spiritual fad. And he certainly never dreams that "Horokinetics" could make him famous. But it does.......

Author
Behcet Kaya

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Voice of Conscience

Voice of Conscience (published by AuthorHouse), the second edition of the well-received novel by Behcet Kaya, is a tightly-spun tale of redemption and human nature vividly depicted in the story of one man’s manic journey to fulfill his debt and reclaim his past at whatever cost.

Author
Luke Lively

Publisher
Beaufort Books

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A Questionable Life

"Beneath the compelling story is a treasure chest of wisdom"
Didiayer Snyder, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

 In A Questionable Life,novelist Luke Lively introduces protagonist Jack Oliver, a hard-charging, Philadelphia born-and-bred banking executive who finds his world in turmoil when his life-long goal slips from his grasp.......

Author
Anthony Pour

Publisher
Marlborough Publishing

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The Undercover Gentleman

Anthony Pour’s "The Undercover Gentleman" was probably born some point in between Ian Fleming’s Bond novels and W. Somerset Maugham’s tales from around the world—more precisely, a culmination of Fleming’s choice of subjects and Maugham’s writing style.......

Author
Stacy Cohen

Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press

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The Last Train from Paris

Set against the chilling backdrop of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, The Last Train from Paris tells the story of forbidden love between an artist turned French soldier and a Russian ballerina. While apprenticing for Henri Matisse, painting the scenery for a ballet at L'Academie Nationale de Musique--Theatre de l'Opera, Jean-Luc Beauchamp meets Natasha, who becomes his.......

Author
Charlotte Bronte and Wayne Josephson

Publisher
Readable Classics

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Jane Eyre (Readable Classics)

Readable Classics gently edits the great works of literature, retaining their essence and spirit, and making them more enjoyable and less frustrating to the modern reader.
 
Jane Eyre, a novel of stunning power, romance and suspense, was an instant bestseller in 1847.......

Author
Larry Ketchersid

Publisher
JoSara MeDia

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Software by the Kilo

Jason and Kenny needed investors for their startup company but when Italian drug smuggler Roberto Campioni makes them an offer they can't refuse, they get more help than they bargain for: the Feds and Interpol are watching, the smuggler's cartel created in violence during World War II is crumbling, and Roberto's henchmen, even with their love of Clint Eastwood movies, aren.......

Author
Maxine Thompson

Publisher
Urban Soul

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Hostage of Lies (Urban Soul Presents)

Hostage Of Lies

Nefertiti “Titi” Godbolt’s been a captive of her family’s secrets her whole life. Now, as she returns home after seven years, she’s ready to confront her family and finally get some answers.......

Author
Toni Teepell

Publisher
Ramsay Publishing

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A Truth Worth Tellin'

New author Toni Teepell’s debut, A Truth Worth Tellin’, is a story of unconditional love. It chronicles a family who triumphs in the midst of utter tragedy and a true friendship between two likeminded souls. At twelve-years-old Maggie Wall is on the brink of blooming when she learns how to swallow a spoonful of fate.......

Author
Cynthia Rogers Parks

Publisher
Leigh Walker Books

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Houses: a novel

Through the turbulent '60s, the psychedelic '70s, the materialist '80s, and the booms and busts of the end of the century, Lacey Winters will find herself house proud, house poor, even homeless, and she will learn a great deal about how our homes confer status, hide our secrets, even become our prisons. This is a story for anyone who has ever loved, or lost, a house......

Author
Veronica R. Tabares

Publisher
Sun Break Publishing

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Behold the Eye: Braumaru

Behold the Eye: Braumaru is the first book in the fantasy trilogy in which two distinct worlds become intertwined by dreams, shadows, ghosts, and magical gifts. As several different stories are weaved into one, diary entries from an ancient text allow the reader to discover how the past affects the present.......

Author
Veronica R. Tabares

Publisher
Sun Break Publishing

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Behold the Eye: Cerulea

The Behold the Eye trilogy continues with this second installment: Behold the Eye: Cerulea; bringing together the world of dreams and the allure of adventure into an imaginative journey of mystery and danger.......

Author
Veronica R. Tabares

Publisher
Sun Break Publishing

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Behold the Eye: Viridia

The absolutely perfect fantasy fiction for middle school and young adult readers, Behold the Eye: Viridia is a rare blend of humor, action, and heart. Third in a trilogy that illustrates how important the anchor of a safe home is to young minds, this novel finds heroine Vickie Sutton first in a coma and then missing.......

Author
D. E. Knobbe

Publisher
Emerald Book Company

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Runaway Storm

This first book in D. E. Knobbe's gripping Runaway series puts readers in the middle of a wilderness adventure that few could survive on their own.

Nate stole the kayak . . . sort of. His parents don't know where he is, and that's just fine with him. He's made it to the chain of sparsely populated islands off the coast of Vancouver, his kayaking dream come true.......

Author
Chris Katsaropoulos

Publisher
Luminis Books

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Fragile

Amelia Geist, Holly Schenck, and Tris Holloway are all broken--in one way or another.

In a lifelong act of penitence and defiance, Amelia Geist has remained a virgin and saved herself for Tris, her first love, who abandoned her more than fifty years ago.......

Author
Shaila Abdullah

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Saffron Dreams (Reflections of America)

Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...

You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.

From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faith recovered.......

Author
Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Publisher
Plume

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The Triumph of Deborah

The richly imagined tale of Deborah, the courageous Biblical warrior who saved her people from certain destruction

In ancient Israel, war is looming. Deborah, a highly respected leader, has coerced the warrior Barak into launching a strike against the neighboring Canaanites.......

Author
Linda Gould

Publisher
iUniverse

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Let's Play Ball

Miranda is a bright, attractive woman with an important government job, a nice home, and a prominent lawyer husband. Her fraternal twin sister, Jessica, is a sportswriter who has spent years sacrificing her social life and conventional career prospects to establish a magazine.......

Author
Michael R. Stevens

Publisher
Oceanview Publishing

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Fortuna

Longing for escape from his mundane existence as a Stanford computer science major, Jason Lind signs up to play Fortuna, an online role-playing game set in Renaissance Florence. From the first, fateful mouse click, Jason tumbles into the vibrant, lush, anonymous world of Fortuna.......

Author
Amber Carez

Publisher
Ishàny Press

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Pùqest Book 1: The Hunter

The new book, The Hunter by Amber Carez, seduces us into experiencing a story set on the planet Efírmà within an unparalleled universe whose science and culture we have not seen before.......

Attack in the Alleghenies

Attack in the Alleghenies gives chilling accounts of the mayhem spread by the Delaware warriors of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and of Colonel John Armstrongs 1756 raid to destroy this terrorist base......

Author
Holly Weiss

Publisher
Star Publish

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Crestmont

"A dream, after all, needn't be fueled by particulars, only by desire." So notes main character, Gracie Antes, in CRESTMONT, a historical fiction gem set in the 1920s. Determined to take control of her life, sheltered Gracie Antes leaves her unhappy home in 1925 to pursue her dream of a singing career.......

Author
Steven Donkin

Publisher
Aberdeen Bay

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Honest Faces

During the autumn of 2008, Frank Allerton, lifelong resident of the small eastern Ohio town of Vernen, is visited by a brother whom he has not seen or heard from in forty-seven years. This bittersweet reunion, however, has a pall cast over it: Frank can't help being reminded of the family tragedy that originally drove the brothers apart.......

Author
George Matthew Cole

Publisher
Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

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Colt O'Brien Sees the Light

Colt O'brien doesn't think that he has to prove anything. He is the most savvy computer technician at Highline High in Burien, Washington. When a PC needs fixing, Colt is called in to save the day. The short, energetic senior, with his bright, colorful attire and cocky attitude, knows that he is the best.......

Author
T. K. Varenko

Publisher
CreateSpace

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Ordeal

It is a verse-ornated story
About love, betrayal, wrath,
Royal vampires' bliss and glory
Bringing them straight to their death.

Luella, fierce, strong vampire,
Falls for a pretty human catch
Sent on her fiancé's desire
To celebrate they are engaged.......

Author
Walt Shiel

Publisher
Slipdown Mountain Publications LLC

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Once a Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat & Romance in World War I

World War I: Air combat is invented in the skies above the battlefield.

May 1917: America is gearing up to enter the brutal conflict, and the Sopwith Camel is entering combat service. Many individual Americans, however, have long since signed on to fight the war.......

Author
J.C. Burnham

Publisher
Xlibris Corporation

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THE FRUIT OF THE FALLEN

When an infant is thrust into the arms of Dr. Jonathan Keats by a dying nun, he finds
himself accused of murder. His search to identify the child carries him to Europe and
to a secret religious society who reveals a prophecy of unimaginable proportions.
Serenity D’Evele has always known she was different.......

Author
Nan Weizenbaum

Publisher
CreateSpace

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the moon, the snow

Rebelling against the expectations of her middle-class upbringing, Aurora has dropped out of pre-med at Princeton with the illusion that she is going to make a life with her boyfriend. Instead, when Joe leaves her to pursue his career, she ends up isolated in a remote, unforgiving part of the Pacific Northwest.......

Author
Mark Whiteway

Publisher
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing

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Lodestone Book One: The Sea of Storms

Ail-Kar, a white-hole portal from another universe, rains meteoroids onto the surface of the planet Kelanni. But the so-called "lodestones" behave according to different physical laws, transforming Kelanni's society. With the aid of the fearsome Keltar in their flying cloaks, the Kelanni are being put to forced labor to mine the lodestones.......

Author
S. Carol Crovo

Publisher
Tate Publishing

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More Than Good-bye

Jane Bell wakes up in an unfamiliar train station only to discover that she has died. But she is given the chance to live her life again, not to change the past, but to hold her family once more, to share her love with them. In S.......

Author
Krysia Jopek

Publisher
Aquila Polonica

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Maps and Shadows: A Novel

Maps and Shadows is a literary novel based on the author's family's experiences at the start of WWII in eastern Poland through the mid-1950s.

The story is told from the point of view of four characters: Henryk, the 12-year-old son (author's father); Helcia, his 15-year-old sister (author's aunt); Andrzej, the father (author's grandfather); and Zofia, the mother (.......

Author
Tonya Plank

Publisher
Dark Swan Press

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Swallow

WINNER OF GOLD MEDAL, 2010 Living Now Book Awards, Women's Fiction
WINNER OF GOLD MEDAL, 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Best Regional Fiction
FINALIST, 2010 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, General Fiction
FINALIST, 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards, Regional Fiction

Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer who hails from .......

Author
James Ross

Publisher
Nightengale Press

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Opur's Blade

After the first ball is struck on the driving range, the head pro, J Dub Schroeder, realizes that he has a child prodigy in his midst. Soon thereafter the pro shop regulars assign a nickname to the teenager.......

Author
Larry Seeley

Publisher
Eloquent Books

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Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

Jack Sloan played his cards right, took the money and ran. Only now it seems he may not have run far enough. Set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this riveting novel is a story of murder and revenge, with a cast of characters that drive the plot forward, until the climactic end.......

Author
T. William Phillips

Publisher
iUniverse

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Restless Heart

HIS RESTLESS HEART BEAT TO A RHYTHM OF ITS OWN- a rhythm that had once been so prevalent in the core of his soul, but had long been lost under the thick layers of routine, expectation, and responsibility created by a quiet, civilized life.......