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Novels
Book reviews of novels with artistic merit and fictional content focusing on literary appeal.
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
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
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
Rachel and Aleks, by Sylvia Smoller, is a sweeping, well-researched and historically-accurate novel that tells the story of a couple caught in the momentous upheavals of World War II, their destinies driven by the force of their characters and the courage of a Japanese diplomat.......
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.......
Author
Ernest Dempsey (Ed.)
Publisher
Loving Healing Press
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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
Her story begins with this confession: His death was my secret wish. But had I known the answer to my prayers loomed so far away, I would have begged God for Birdie's murder the first day I met him.
When Virginia Mae Mercy secretly wishes for her husband, Birdie's death, she never thought of herself as an accomplice.......
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.
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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.
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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
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
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)
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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
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.......
