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You Set Your Own Limits by Paloma Baertschi-Herrera

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About The Book:

This book is the result of conversations that my rabbit Spot and I conducted.

Spot is a Philosopher.

He calls a huge knowledge his own and has, just like so many other animals, access to the great knowledge of life.

When I decided in 1998 to hear animals again (as a child everyone can do so), Spot told me that he is a Philosopher – but back then I would have never dreamed of all the things I could learn from him, let alone to write a book.

Author Bio:
As a child Paloma Baertschi-Herrera had a very special connection to animals. They used to do things for her that they did not even do for their owners. It was clear to her that she would work with animals when she became an adult. As she grew older, however, she lost part of that connection like most of us do and at that point she didn’t know how to get it back.

Her professional career took her into a completely different direction first and she ended up in the corporate world. She was plenty successful, but her heart was elsewhere.

In the summer of 1998, a crucial experience led her back to the animals and nature. After that experience, she started studying to become an animal communicator and did not stop there. She studied different ways of interacting with nature and learned from ancient wisdom how our ancestors were connected with animals, plants and all of creation. During the past 14 years she has talked to thousands of animals. They’ve helped her see the world through their eyes and helped to widen her horizon. One of the top priorities of the animals is the welfare of planet Earth, since they are consciously aware that the Earth is the living creature who keeps us all alive. They are aware that without the help of all living creatures on the planet, our life on Earth is going to deteriorate quickly. This is why the animals want human beings to join them in healing the Earth and at the same time heal ourselves. This is an education of remembering what we knew as children.

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Exploso, the Music of the Universe by Lolo Harrison

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About The Book:
Here are five reasons why we at Hepedee House think you will want to review Lolo Harrison’s trilogy,

“Exploso, the Music of the Universe”

1. Drew, the main character and driving force, is fun, energetic, entertaining, innovative. But when crossed? Scarily daring, goes where no girl has gone before.

2. There is suspense, action, twists and turns of the plot, and as Drew keeps learning, so do we, about the theater biz, music biz, fashion biz, movie biz, even the Nobel biz!

3. Young Adult books have become yesterday, and YA + sex = New Adult books (being bought by girls ages 15-30) are now today. And Exploso is among them.

4. “Your parents won’t love it, but your girlfriends will!” wrote one reviewer.

5. Because of Lolo Harrison’s literary gifts. Her descriptions of Drew’s inner thoughts add a few gems to the treasure of human stories. For girls of our western world in this early 21st century, so obsessed with the roles of our genders, Exploso is also a thought-provoker, maybe even a game-changer. (Simone de Beauvoir, whose book The Second Sex started “women’s lib” all over our world , would have loved it!)

Exploso, the music of the Universe, will be offered for free on

June 1 to 5, Saturday to Wednesday

Here follows the book description presented on amazon.com.

You really get your money’s worth in this

Exploso introductory offer:

Right now you get all three books for the price listed!

Exploso includes the whole trilogy:

Book I Life Happens to Drew

Book 2 Drew Happens to Life

Book 3 The Music of the Universe

That’s right. Just click Exploso into your cart, and all of Drew’s entire breathtaking adventures — all 421 pages! — are yours!

Description:

Not your average fifteen-year-old, Drew is an inventive, energetic, strong-willed only child, a key member of The Toves, her gang of friends at Punahou School in Honolulu. She’s “involved in so many activities it makes your head spin”, as her Mom put it. Trouble is, her mom, who runs the swankiest 5-star hotel on Waikiki Beach like a 4-star general, and her lovable Daddums, who rules its rooftop restaurant, Le Point de Vue, with ingenuity and aloha, work too hard. And never have time for much “family stuff”. Drew is lonely.

So one morning when she hears the host of MTV inviting “her” (and the rest of America’s youth) to come party with them in Florida at Thanksgiving, she vows that she and her best friend, Paulette, are going to accept the invitation!

Trying to stop her is like trying to stop a tidal wave.

Once in Fort Lauderdale, though, she and Paulette seem out of their depth — until suddenly Bobby Cool, editor of the magazine Out Rage Us, with orange cartwheel hair, turns up, and offers them a ride to Miami.

On the way, they hear for the first time the new Miami sound: Exploso music! They beg him to take them to a night club tonight where they can dance to it.

“You’re too young,” he says, but now takes them to a daytime party at South Beach, where they join the fun and, for the first time, do the kind of dancing they had only done in Paulette’s basement rec room: putting hula moves to house beats: where their hips “sway from side to side like a slow-breaking wave or smash and crash like a shore-break.”

The South Beach sophisticates are stunned! When he sees their reactions, Bobby then agrees to get the girls into a night club, if they let his friend ZouZou paint their faces so they look lots older, and dress like they’re 20.

When they appear at Endorphia, they’re seated on the VIP balcony and treated to champagne. And when they do their hula-house again, this crowd is also wowed. After the fourth glass of champagne Drew loses track… Wakes up in a bed… With a man…

We hope you’ll want to meet Drew in person, and not just keep hearing about her exploits from other people.

Lolo

(By the way, the first book takes place while Drew is a student at Punahou High in Honolulu. As one reader has noted, President Obama is also a Punahou alum, but he tells you nothing at all about the school in his own book, whereas Drew in Exploso tells you a lot.)

Exploso is also on sale in Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, Brazil, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria and Canada.

Would you like us at Hepedee House to ask amazon.com to send you an e-book for review ASAP?

Exploso will be offered for free for the following five days: June 1 to 5, (Saturday to Wednesday). Of course, we hope to have your review out before then, if possible. But it’s a long book, and we’ll appreciate your review whenever you have time to give Exploso your thoughtful consideration.

With appreciation for your work to encourage writers to keep on writing and readers to keep on reading, despite the increasing competition for our attention from other media and pastimes,

Ruthie Link

Director, Hepedee House

ruthiefiction@yahoo.com

Author Bio:
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Shanghai Love: a novel by Layne Wong

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About The Book:
Shanghai Love is a gripping novel about the unlikely love story that develops between a Chinese herbalist and a Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II.

Peilin is betrothed to Kwan Yao, the only son of a wealthy pearl farmer. However, months before their wedding, Yao is killed by the Japanese in the Nanjing Massacre. The Kwans insist on proceeding with the wedding and beautiful Peilin is married to a ghost husband. When an uncle passes away, Peilin is sent to Shanghai to manage the Kwan family herbal shop.

Meanwhile, in Berlin, Henri graduates from medical school just as Hitler rises to power and unleashes prejudice and violence against the Jewish population. He flees to Shanghai where he’s befriended by Ping, a young disfigured rickshaw driver. Ping introduces Henri to his sister Peilin. Through her kindness, Henri becomes fascinated with Chinese herbs as well as the exotic culture surrounding him.

Shanghai Love is a classic story of love’s triumph over adversity.

Author Bio:
Layne Wong is a novelist interested in writing through a cultural lens. She is third-generation Chinese-American; her husband is of Jewish heritage. Exploring this union in the context of history was the inspiration behind Shanghai Love.

Layne wrote for television and worked as a Development Associate (D-girl) for various TV and feature production companies. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), The Authors Guild, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), and Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC), the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE), and the David Henry Hwang writing workshops through the East-West Players Theater in Los Angeles.

She was selected for the prestigious AFI TV writer’s program. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature and lives in Southern California with her husband. She’s currently at work on her second novel.

Her interests include gardening, Chinese herbal medicine, and spending time with her nephews and nieces.

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Anastasia

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About The Book:
“ANASTASIA”, the first book of the Ringing Cedars Series, tells the story of entrepreneur Vladimir Megre’s trade trip to the Siberian taiga in 1995, where he witnessed incredible spiritual phenomena connected with sacred ‘ringing cedar’ trees. He spent three days with a woman named Anastasia who shared with him her unique outlook on subjects as diverse as gardening, child-rearing, healing, Nature, sexuality, religion and more. This wilderness experience transformed Vladimir so deeply that he abandoned his commercial plans and, penniless, went to Moscow to fulfill Anastasia’s request and write a book about the spiritual insights she so generously shared with him. True to her promise this life-changing book, once written, has become an international best-seller and has touched hearts of millions of people world-wide.

Author Bio:
One of the outstanding laureates of Gusi Peace Prize 2011 is a well-known Russian writer, the author of the world known novel and bestseller «Anastasia» and «The Ringing Cedars of Russia» series of books.

Vladimir Megre was born on the 23rd July, 1950 in Ukraine

The writer began to live independently early and separately from his parents at the age of 16. Since 1974 he lived and worked in Novosibirsk.

At the beginning of Perestroika in USSR Vladimir Megre was the president of Inter-regional Associations of entrepreneurs in Siberia.

In 1994–1995 he organized two large-scale trading expeditions around the river Ob by ships travelling through the route
Novosibirsk — Salekhard — Novosibirsk. There, in the Siberian taiga, he first met Anastasia who has changed his life. For a long time it was a mystery for the writer’s friends and relatives what made the entrepreneur with 10 year’s work experience in this field spend all his financial capital including the property sold for the organization of the expeditions that were not covering the expenses. This mystery is exposed in the books, the main character of which is Anastasia.

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A Vested Interest by John & Shelia Chgapman

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About The Book:
The Story of How Mankind Became Immortal

Book 1 in the A Vested Interest series is FREE in 2013 at Amazon, Smashwords, B&N (Nook), iTunes (iBook), Sony and Kobo. It and book 2 (Dark Secrets) have been completely revised this year.

It’s the story of a genetic scientist who hides from her former employer while she develops a cure for death. Based on current technology you’ll find some very real ‘Bondish’ gadgets, together with romance in this romantic suspense/technothriller.

A Vested Interest brings together corporate jealousy at the highest levels, greed, spite, vengeance, conspiracy, advanced technology, medicine, love and betrayal, and the very essence of life itself. As the story unwinds you’ll find more than one villain, a complex romance and a secret organisation intent on ruling the world for their own profit.

Of course there’s a lot more to a series of 9 books (more on the way) so check out Avestedinterest.info for more details.

Author Bio:
John and Shelia are a husband and wife team who started working on the series in 2007. John is from the UK and Shelia from the US. Deciding on which variant of English to use has always been a problem. In the end they settled on UK English except for documents written by an American so expect ‘colour’, ‘favourite’ and ‘metre’.

Together, John and Shelia have experience in science, computer and medical fields. Now, they live out in the country in beautiful Northumberland, England. In the past they’ve lived in Texas, London and even, for three years, as unofficial immigrants in Canada – the only place where they could stay together.

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The Kingdom Treasure

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About The Book:
Hank Evans has a story to tell. It’s been bangin’ on his insides trying to get out something fierce. It involves shipwrecks, airplanes, friendships, a cowgirl, and a bunch of faith. During dark winter nights when the cold air seeps through his windows and makes the fire jitter and pop, he reflects on past days, trying to make sense of it all. Hank’s gonna tell you his story of THE KINGDOM TREASURE. Will you believe?

In 1940, Hank is a hardworking young cowboy and novice pilot from Idaho. He quenches his wanderlust with a trip to Hawaii before settling down on his family’s ranch. At the urging of a friend he finds himself in Southeast Asia flying relief supplies from Burma to China. The Chinese are suffering under a Japanese occupation. World War II is imminent. A tangle with the Japanese Army, and the bravery of the peasant Chinese resistance, convince the lighthearted Hank to take a stand.

He travels to Malaysia with three friends: an American pilot, an enigmatic Tibetan, and a Filipino pearl diver. They race to find the lost wreck of the Portuguese ship Flor De La Mar before the Japanese Army’s inevitable arrival. The factual ship sank in the Strait of Malacca in 1511, carrying sixty tons of gold plundered from the Malaccan kingdom. In the right hands the treasure could do a lot of good. But a Japanese invasion is imminent. The Japanese military’s rapid advance is a constant challenge, inspiring ingenuity, faith, and sacrifice.

Nobody has ever claimed to have found the Flor De La Mar treasure. Don’t believe everything you haven’t heard!

In this novel, Hank tells his story of transformation from young Idaho cowboy to courageous humanitarian. It’s full of insight, humor, history, and fireworks. No boots required. 95,000 words.

Author Bio:
Greg Treseder writes contemporary fiction based upon historical fact. He loves a good adventure story, full of heroes, conflicts, sacrifice, and the sheer joy of being alive. He’s inspired every day by simple acts of kindness, and he believes they’re the stuff that binds the world.

Greg restores vintage guitars, snowboards, runs, bikes, writes, builds, and has a blackbelt in Kenpo Karate to keep him on his toes. He and his family live in Northern California, where they find plenty of opportunity for adventure. And joy.

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Jimmie Barnes by Barry Davis

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Jimmie Barnes is old and tired after 132 years of life. His life has spanned the rule of presidents from Lincoln to Reagan. Near death, his goal remains as it always has been: to regain the slave reparations hard won by his Pappy. This novel takes the reader into Jimmie’s past as he confronts the Klan, criminals and kings (of industry and politics) in order to get his reparations. In his present – late 1980′s America – Jimmie takes one last shot at achieving his goal before he dies. Will Jimmie gain his reparations? Read the very entertaining historical fiction novel Jimmie Barnes to find out.

Author Bio:
I love books – reading and writing them. As a child I used to hang out in the library near my west Philadelphia home. One of my brothers would have to stop around to remind me to come home and eat my dinner. My parents – Robert and Lena – loved to read so this affinity came naturally.

I confined my love of books to writing until I reached my late 30′s. Call it a mid-life crisis or what have you but I felt a void in my life. I felt that I had something to say but wasn’t saying it, lost in the day to day grind of earning enough dollars to pay my mortgage and put food on the table. I returned to my first love, words, and began to write.

I began by writing screenplays to enter an online contest held by the HBO reality show called Project Greenlight in the 2002 and 2003. Out of thousands of entries my screenplays finished in the top 100, which impressed me since I was a brand new writer. I then moved on to novels, stupidly believing that getting a novel published would be easy compared to getting a screenplay made into a movie. I can’t say how wrong that was. There’s nothing easy about it.

Eight years later I have completed my sixth novel – THE ZOMBIE WHO WOULD BE KING – adapted from one of my most popular Greenlight screenplays.

If you read my work, you will see that I love many types of books (I obey the axiom that you write what you read). I love historical fiction, crime, mystery, horror and science fiction. My TV is usually set to PBS or whatever baseball game that happens to be playing.

When not writing, working or hanging with my family, I love to ride my bike. There’s no better place to work a kink out in a book than on the back of good road bike.

The boring but vital stuff: I am a University of Pennsylvania graduate who currently lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two children. I have written screen plays, novels and short stories. I have had had several short stories published in webzines and print magazines.

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Crossword by Alan S. Bricklin

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About The Book:
An OSS agent, haunted by an atrocity he was forced to commit, accepts a final mission to recover material necessary for Hitler’s atomic bomb effort. Unknown to him, the operation was compromised from the very start. Allen Dulles, station chief for the OSS in Switzerland, begins an urgent search for the rogue operative within his organization. As the agent struggles behind enemy lines to fulfill his mission, he must enlist the aid of a beautiful German woman while he plays cat and mouse with a German SS General and enemies within the OSS itself.

The story plays out in Norway, the streets of South Philadelphia, Switzerland, England and southern Germany during the final fourteen months of the war.

The book will be available free on Amazon on May 24 and 25.

Author Bio:
Alan has practiced as a surgical Pathologist for many years, starting in Philadelphia and ending up in California. He began to write fiction a number of years ago, possibly challenged to do so by competition from his brothers, both of whom have written numerous books and articles in the fields of Psychology, Health, Humor and Fitness. Alan has written two screenplays, several short stories and is working on a second novel. He has always been interested in the history of World War II and the art and craft of espionage. Enjoying the great outdoors in California by hiking and off-roading has been a source of great pleasure and inner peace for him

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Unintended Consequences by Marti Green

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About The Book:
How much would a father sacrifice for his child?

Nineteen years ago, Indiana police found the body of a young girl, burned beyond recognition and buried in the woods. They arrested George Calhoun for murdering his daughter, and his wife testified against him at the trial. The jury convicted him. Now his appeals have been exhausted, and his execution is just a few weeks away.

George said he didn’t do it. That the body isn’t his little Angelina. But that’s all he’s ever said – no other defense, no other explanation.

Dani Trumball, an attorney for the Help Innocent Prisoners Project, wants to believe him. After all, there was no forensic evidence that the body in the woods was George’s daughter. But if the girl isn’t Angelina, then who is it? And what happened to the Calhouns’ missing daughter?

For nineteen years, George Calhoun has stayed silent. But that’s about to change, and the story he tells Dani—if it’s true—changes everything.

Author Bio:
After receiving her Master of Science degree and New York State Professional Certificate in school psychology, Marti Green realized her true passion was the law.

She went on to receive her law degree from Hofstra University and worked as in-house counsel for a major cable television operator for twenty-five years, specializing in contracts, intellectual property law, and regulatory issues.

A passionate traveler who has visited six continents, Marti Green now lives in central Florida with her husband, Lenny, and cat, Howie. She has two adult sons and four grandchildren. She enjoys golf, jogging and of course reading.

Unintended Consequences won first place, suspense category, in the Florida Writers Conference Royal Palm Writing Competition.

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Xoe by Sara C. Roethle

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About The Book:
Alexondra Meyers, known to her friends as Xoe, had a normal life. She liked her normal life, but there’s a new guy in the small town of Shelby, OR, and he is anything but normal. Before Xoe can say, “Werewolf,” her world is turned upside-down. Between a dark secret in Xoe’s past, a best friend who’s been scratched, and not to mention highschool, Xoe has a lot of thinking to do. She has to choose who she can trust, and fast . . . tomorrow’s the full moon.

Author Bio:
Sara was born and raised in Southern Arizona. She now lives in the middle of nowhere with her giant beasts (that some mistake for dogs), and a few unmentionable humans.

Sara grew up with an intense, somewhat scary love of reading. In an effort to supply teenagers with the escape that she had, she began writing young adult novels in 2009. She is now preparing to release her third book, and will continue to write until she either walks into the spirit world, or the full moon takes her.

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A Time to Love (A Mill Creek Crossing Romance)

May 24, 2013

Angelina Rose has wanted to write ever since she could hold a pencil. The first daughter of immigrant parents, Angelina had her head buried in books, lost in a world of heroes, heroines and exotic places.

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Angelina’s author career.

“I awoke in the ICU… I had been unconscious for several days,” Angelina says.

In 2010, Angelina had a long stint in hospital following her involvement in a motor vehicle accident: the longest time off work (as a Registered Nurse), she’d ever had in her life!

It was then she took up pen and paper and started to write again, just as she had done when she was a child. She wrote four short fiction stories for young adults, entered them in several competitions, and managed to win three first prizes!

After happily dipping her toes into writing those short fiction stories for young adults, Angelina has now authored four books in a new “Mill Creek Crossing Romance” series… contemporary romance intended for adults.

The “Starting Over Series” is another contemporary romance series she wrote about a subject she knows well… nurses and their love life. At a recent reunion of her graduating class, she could not help but notice how the same girls would group together and laugh, chat, and even shed some tears over their lives since graduating. Many of the girls had divorced… so Angelina thought “what if a group of the nurses came up with a plan to meet in two years and have a new love story to share?” Then the first story in the series was born.

There is always a story running around in her head. A man with thick dark hair, gray-blue eyes, with an engaging smile and a quick wit… or a girl crying over a broken relationship. She finds herself talking to these characters during her day: when she’s doing dishes, or bathing babies at the hospital. These characters crop up on days at the beach or on walks through the neighborhood. This is how the stories start to grow.

Angelina’s mother was an author, so Angelina grew up with a love of words and stories. If she wasn’t writing a short story about something that took her fancy, her head was buried in books… reading, reading, reading, as her brother constantly told her…

When she’s not spending time with her good looking man, or quality time with her laptop, she’s working at the hospital, hanging out with her family and friends, or walking her two dogs around the neighborhood. Angelina spends as much time as she can traveling, then coming home and including some of those adventures in her stories.

Angelina really loves to hear from her readers and she invites you to connect with her on Facebook as she interacts daily with her readers there!

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