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Our Fearful Roots by Carmilla Voiez and Faith Marlow

About Our Fearful Roots by Carmilla Voiez and Faith Marlow

Dark memories are carried on the scent of roses.

Mary wants a better life for her family and hopes the house she inherited from her aunt in Alabama will be a sanctuary for them all, but Mary and the house share a terrible secret.
Roots run deep in the south, but secrets run even deeper.
Join the Anderson family in a tale of Southern Gothic Horror in four voices.

Our Fearful Roots

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Crossing the Color Line: Stanley Ketchel’s Challenge for Jack Johnson’s Heavyweight Crown by Vernon Gravely

About Crossing the Color Line: Stanley Ketchel’s Challenge for Jack Johnson’s Heavyweight Crown by Vernon Gravely

On November 26, 1908, Stanley Ketchel made pugilistic history when he stopped Billy Papke to become the first two-time middleweight champion. Exactly one month later, Jack Johnson also made history when he beat Tommy Burns to become the first black man to wear the heavyweight crown. Immediately following Johnson’s victory, the sporting world began clamoring for someone to win the title back for the white race. Most people turned to Jim Jeffries, the former champion who had retired undefeated in 1905. However, Willis Britt, who had guided his younger brother Jimmy to two lightweight title shots and took Battling Nelson to the top of the lightweight ladder, had another idea: What if the world’s first two-time middleweight champ fought the world’s first black heavyweight champ? All Britt had to do was steal Ketchel away from his manager, line up a series of fights that would have the sporting public take him seriously as a heavyweight contender, then chase Johnson until he agreed to a fight. Impossible? Most sports aficionados thought so. After all, no ordinary manager would be able to pull off such a feat. But, Willis Britt was not an ordinary manager.

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Embargo by Michael Tavis

About Embargo by Michael Tavis

Five thousand years ago, Quake$, the captain of a leased trader, and its other five crew members discovered Earth. Through a fortunate accident, one of its crew members, Pataxis (a Gingco), found the precursor to a comfortable and long-lasting mattress that became the most valuable commodity found in the last million years. The Beltron Cooperative, the owner of the trade ship, and the Local trade group embargoed Earth illegally to prevent other races from discovering it and the expensive commodity. With the aid of the Gingcos, they placed battle stations in the solar system Kuiper Belt to prevent other races from entering Earth’s solar system and prevent humans from leaving or emitting electromagnetic radiation that would reach other races.
Beltron forced Pataxis to become the sole galactic trade commissioner collecting that valuable commodity and preparing it for shipment every 100 years. The threat of mind wipe and living out his life on a prison planet convinced him to take that position. Gingcos are very long-lived with a life span greater than 30000 years; thus, his internment of 5000 years was a small but significant fraction of his life. He was very bored until he met John Sum Lang.
John Sum Lang was young, 13 going on 14, and very smart with an IQ of 193. He was working on his third Ph.D. (Chemistry) at Caltech. His other two were in Biophysics and Physics. Like many young men of his age, he had difficulty concentrating on his studies because of a sex-induced attention deficit. Today he had tried meditation to allow concentration on his thesis. Arriving in the Santa Monica Mountains, the antics of a pigeon distracted him. He saw the pigeon captured, and his curiosity piqued, damaged a bird capture device placed there by Pataxis. Eventually, he captured Pataxis, got use of his interplanetary vehicle, and discovered an ancient interstellar vehicle.
Using that vehicle he changed everything

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PULSE by Judy G. Walters

About PULSE by Judy G. Walters

Dive into Pulse, the first book of the Vital Signs Series, a gripping account of the ambiguous moral dilemmas in medicine— encompassing a unique yet riveting comparison between life and chess.

St. Mary’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas has some of the best healthcare professionals in the world, but that success has come with a price. Each book within the series gives the reader a behind-the-scenes look at emergency medicine, with interesting cases and great insight into what makes the doctors and nurses tick.

The reader is injected right into the action, and faced with the moral dilemmas that healthcare professionals face every day.

Each book in the Vital Signs Series takes an intricate story and wraps it neatly around a game of chess. Even if you’ve never played chess before, this unique approach will be entertaining nonetheless! If you are a player, you’ll detect how the moves and strategies of the game can often mimic life.

The message of PULSE is about staying true to oneself in the face of moral dilemmas and about looking beyond the masks people wear to discover what lies underneath. It is a tribute to the health care workers on the front lines in the COVID battle who must make their way through difficult moral dilemmas they are faced with on a daily basis, while making critical decisions that can result in life or death for patients.

Visit 64 Squares Publishing Company’s website to download a free chapter.

Copyright 2021 by 64 Squares Publishing Company
ISBN 978-1-7363342-0-1

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The Righter

About The Righter

Ex-military, multi-millionaire James Maypother lives a contented life, running a booming business and enjoying a large inheritance. To avenge the death of his younger brother, he will have to risk these privileges and perhaps his life.

Simon Maypother was murdered in an unprovoked road rage incident in London. The killer was put in a secret program and shipped to a new destination for second chance at life. James is aghast with the sentence. In masks, he goes on a kidnapping spree of the civil servants to squeeze out from them information about the killer’s destination — but no joy.

James eventually gets a break by blackmailing a Member of Parliament for information. The intelligence services are trailing him. In New York, the stage is set for a showdown. The New York Police Department and British intelligence must prevent the masked James from taking the life of the killer, but he will not stop until he exacts full vengeance.

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Ayrwynn the Apprentice

About Ayrwynn the Apprentice

A fun coming-of-age story set in a small kingdom in the Middle Ages, Ayrwynn the Apprentice is the tale of a tenacious girl who wants with all her heart to be a scribe. Her loving father gets her the perfect apprenticeship with Master Scribe Nicholas, a scribe who’s clients include the Royal Family. It’s an amazing opportunity and there’s only one thing that might keep Ayrwynn from fulfilling her dream….her knack for getting herself in trouble. When her first assignment for the Queen ends with a disaster that nearly destroys the castle’s market day, her apprenticeship and the dream she’s worked so hard for could be taken from her. Will it be the end of Ayrwynn’s dream? Get your copy of Ayrwynn the Apprentice and find out!

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101 Things Every Man Should Know: To Experience a Life of Victory & Impact

About 101 Things Every Man Should Know: To Experience a Life of Victory & Impact

★★★Are you determined to never settle for a life of mediocrity, of being average, letting life slip by and never truly reaching your full potential? Are you constantly seeking ways to better yourself and know that you must bring your “A-game” because people depend on you? Do you just want to make positive lifestyle changes and become more focused?★★★

You know that unless you take care of your health, make the right choices with your money, build deep relationships with those around you, and keep your mind sharp, you won’t truly enjoy the type of life you desire.

Dak wrote this book with the following people in mind:
✓ Young men who want to build the type of life they can be proud of
✓ Husbands & dads with families who depend on them and look to them for leadership
✓ Men who are tired of being successful in their careers, yet unfulfilled in their personal lives
✓ Men who want to enjoy a deeper, more satisfying marriage and learn how to better love their wives and steer clear of the pitfalls that so often divide people
✓ Men who have been knocked down by life who are on a mission to make a comeback
✓ Not just men, but the women who love them and need to understand life from a man’s perspective and learn how to better support and encourage them
✓ Men who are constantly seeking ways to grow and want to become more intentional about reaching their goals

Young Men Seeking Guidance & Direction
Young men face challenges as they work toward building a life of their own, and often face tough decisions that come along with that responsibility. If you have a son or grandson you care about who’s in this stage of life, you can help him gain a clearer sense of direction and purpose by encouraging him to read this book.

For Heroes Who Serve
Many of the men we call heroes rightfully receive recognition and awards for their willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of others, while at the same time feel like they’re losing in their personal lives. Having a successful career is one thing; being fulfilled and satisfied in your personal life is another.

Through his personal story, Dak will inspire you to look beyond your past failures and realize that no matter what stage you’re at in life, God can turn things around and do the unimaginable.

This book has a faith aspect to it that will cause you to think deeply about the direction of your life and help you clarify your priorities. Many of the chapters include reflection questions and exercises so you can immediately start applying what you read to your life.

What Makes this book enjoyable:
✓ Short & concise chapters packed with a lot of value, which makes it easy to quickly squeeze in a chapter or two
✓ Down-to-earth, straightforward language that’s easy to understand
✓ Author is transparent about his own challenges and struggles, which help you connect with him on a more personal level
✓ Interesting stories that not only make you laugh, but also provoke deep thought and motivate you to take action
✓ Wide range of topics covered: health, finances, spirituality and faith, mindset, dealing with stress, relationships, starting a business, etc.
✓ Not just surface level: this book goes deep and will challenge you to be a better man

◆This book is all about elevating your mindset, building the right types of habits, and learning how to better relate to those around you. Dak wrote this book because he genuinely wants to help you, and can almost promise that you’ll experience growth in many areas of your life as a result of reading this book◆

★★★Purchase this book for you or someone you care about and want to help★★★

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Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris by Vernon Gravely

About Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris by Vernon Gravely

A HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY REVEALED AFTER 60 YEARS!!!

Robert Morris should have been a star. He was producer Bert Leonard’s original choice to ride alongside George Maharis in Route 66; however, as the concept for the series evolved, Morris was out and Martin Milner was in. As Maharis and Milner prepared to drive into the annals of television history, Robert Morris relocated from New York to California to boost his career. What initially appeared to be a good move ended in tragedy. Less than a year after moving out west, Robert Morris died under peculiar circumstances at a “health ranch” in southern California at the age of 25.

Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris is the portrait of a young man who put his best foot forward to attain the American Dream — only to have tragedy intervene. Read the story as told by those who knew him best — his friends, family and colleagues, including George Maharis (Route 66), Tony Franke (The Blob), Barbara Lord Warburton, Pamela Saunders (Happy Birthday, Wanda June), Susan Quick, Harvey Grossman, Robert Heide and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Beatles’ Let It Be), who also provided the Foreword.

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The Proposition

About The Proposition

Retribution (verb): inflict hurt on someone for an injury or wrong

Vengeance. It runs through Mason Hill’s veins. Except the person who walks through his office door isn’t his enemy. It’s the man’s daughter.

He forms a new plan for revenge…He’ll take out every past hurt and dark memory on her sweet body. And to save her family, she’ll let him.

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Saving Face by Frank Morin


About Featured Book: Saving Face by Frank Morin

AVAILABLE FOR FREE THIS WEEK ONLY (15th – 19th)

Rent a new body . . .

Sounds perfect. Unless your body is the one getting rented.

Sarah is a top model, making tons of money to let other people live in her skin. But she feels like she’s losing her identity. Time to get out.

Her employer decides to sell her body instead.

Sarah plunges into a terrifying race to escape with body and soul intact. Failure means becoming the ultimate orphan. As she scrambles for any possible salvation, she finds an unexpected ally who is definitely not who he pretends to be.

Neither is the entire body renting program. Sarah stumbles upon dark truths and glimpses the terrifying world of the Facetakers. Unknown to the world, shadowy forces, fueled by arcane powers, have battled for dominance. That fight is about to explode across the globe, with repercussions back into history.

Sarah had always thought nothing could be worse than dying.

She was wrong.

If you love exciting sci-fi/fantasy thrillers from authors like John Grisham, Jim Butcher, David Baldacci, and Dean Koonz, you’ll love Saving Face and the Facetakers.

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This Fantasy book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

Heirs of the Ancients: Book Two of the Three Worlds Chronicles

About Heirs of the Ancients: Book Two of the Three Worlds Chronicles

The ancients waited and watched as the ages unfolded before them. They laid their trap in a desolate corner of the galaxy, waiting patiently like a spider, while countless stars, planets, and civilizations were born, thrived, and died out. In the fullness of time, a desperate race of beings, fleeing from their home, was ensnared in their cosmic web, setting into motion a thousand-year struggle for survival, revenge, and dominance.

Without imagining the peril that lay before them, they forged ahead. Their motives and plans blurred the reality of their growing and swiftly approaching doom. Imprisoned by their own greed, the D’lai unwittingly fed the starving ancients, who grew in power and strength, until the day would finally arrive when their dark, consuming plan could be fulfilled.

Haunted by their lust for power, and consumed by their passion for revenge, the D’lai swept into space and were utterly destroyed by their own arrogance. Despite their failure, an ember still smoldered, and finally, emboldened and possessed by the rage and malice of the ancients, they struck once more.

The ancient game, played out over billions of years, would once more consume the galaxy, and this time, should they succeed, no being alive or dead would remain untouched. The final plan was in place, and the D’lai, the heirs of the ancients, were on the move.

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The Siege of Vicksburg: A Captivating Guide to the Final Battle of Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War by Captivating History

About The Siege of Vicksburg: A Captivating Guide to the Final Battle of Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War by Captivating History

Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign was the most outlandish maneuver of the American Civil War and included the largest amphibious military approach until the advent of the Second World War. Grant is widely heralded as the first amongst the leaders of modern warfare, and along with a good set of commanders and the considerable Army of the Tennessee, he used his charge on Vicksburg to dominate the Western Theater of the war during the summer of 1863.
The Union held the Confederate troops, which were under the leadership of the tactically inferior General John Pemberton, inside the ramparts of Vicksburg for a punishing six weeks. The town, perched on the high natural bluffs of the eastern Mississippi River, had been fortified to the extent that it was impenetrable, even by the Yankees who outnumbered their foes by four to one upon the Rebels’ surrender on July 4th.
The Northerners essentially dug in, starved out, and bombarded the Southerners for the most coveted prize of the Mississippi River—the strategic node of Vicksburg. Once the Bluecoats were victorious and the Stars and Stripes flew above the town, it was not long before the Union controlled the entire waterway, which was the lifeblood of the Confederacy, as they used it to move soldiers, food, and supplies across their territories. When the federal government gained Vicksburg, they split the Confederacy in two, breaking its backbone between the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters.
The Siege of Vicksburg, which happened in tandem with the Battle of Gettysburg that concluded the day before on July 3rd, 1863, is considered the most pivotal moment in the Civil War, as it was the turning point from which the South could never recover.
If you want to learn more about the Siege of Vicksburg, get this book now!

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The Vicar Man

About The Vicar Man

Dora is a barmaid.
Usually her life is fairly simple: she gets up, cleans the inn, feeds the chickens, argues with the increasingly obstreperous cockerel, listens to the woes of her fellow barmaid, avoids doing the laundry, and serves drinks to the motley crew of islanders who lurk about the taproom every night.
The same old routine, day in, day out.

Tonight, though, is different.

Tonight, just one week before the vernal equinox, after a catastrophically bad harvest the year before, a stranger has walked into the bar…

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Ghost Stories

About Ghost Stories

Truth is stranger than fiction – and these stories would tell you why

In Ghost Stories, you’ll unearth a goldmine of haunting stories that will leave goosebumps from head to toe. Inside, you’ll discover:

● 20 bone-chilling ghost stories that will challenge your sanity and force you to question reality
● The story of the ghost who testified to a murder mystery
● The ghastly story of Taunton State Hospital – and what it’s infamous for
● What’s really hiding in the veins of the famous Roosevelt Hotel
● The frightening secret hiding in an innocent-looking doll
● The mystery behind the never-ending construction of the Winchester Mystery House
● The silent empire that exists beneath the streets of the ‘City of Love’
● The dark chapter in the history of Cannock Chase
● Does science approve of paranormal activities – and does it matter?

And so much more!

There are powers in the cosmos that can’t be explained, but it doesn’t change the fact that there’s always an explanation – it depends on how willing you are to explore things further…

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Murder in the Atchafalaya by Jim Riley

Murder in the Atchafalaya by Jim Riley

book review by Joe Kilgore

“Trixie’s unblinking gaze fixed onto whatever follows death as her last breath left her body.”

A lot of things can kill you in the Louisiana swamps, not the least of which are water moccasins, alligators, and maybe even something unworldly called a Rougarou. But as the body count rises in this jambalaya mystery, it becomes apparent that the increasing death toll is mostly due to some very bad villains and some very tough law enforcers.

Kristi is a young college graduate from West Texas recently hired and trained by the Treasury Department. While on the hunt for two of her colleagues, she manages to get herself assaulted and lost in the Atchafalaya Basin. Hawk is an ex-military combat vet now working for the United States Ranger Services. He’s asked by his old friend, the Parish Sheriff, to try to find Kristi. What he finds is not only the woman he’s looking for but also a hell of a lot of trouble. Together, Hawk and Kristi wind up in the middle of ruffians, counterfeiters, financial scalawags, and murderers. As they try to figure out what’s happening and why, while continually staying one step ahead of assassins, they begin to form a bond of respect, friendship, and perhaps even more.

Author Riley does a first-rate job of steeping the reader in the milieu of South Louisiana and Cajun mores. From murders at mudbug fests to menacing mosquito swarms to monumentally malevolent snake pits, he puts the heat and humidly on every page. He’s also adept at weaving a spider-webbed plot that is both intricate and credible. There’s action, suspense, humor, and even a dash of romance in this gumbo of a novel that promises to start a series of adventures for Kristi and Hawk.

RECOMMENDED by the US Review

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Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers

About Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers

Katarina wanted to leave the Land of the Mennonites and become a missionary school teacher. But the Great war was on and travel wasn’t permitted. Then an accident with a horse wakens her to sinister elements in Ukraine. The Russian Revolution is beginning to burn. Katarina must choose. Does she accept the warning signs and flee with the others to an unknown destiny or take her chances with the familiar? There’s a bigger problem here. Mennonites don’t do war and her faith is getting in the way.

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Being Authentic: A Memoir by Morhaf Al Achkar

Being Authentic: A Memoir by Morhaf Al Achkar

Desire to find your Authentic Voice? Learn the process to participate more authentically in the project we call humanity•••

★ By engaging with the author’s story in Being Authentic™, you will:

+ Garner the bravery to look at your own and be more authentic
+ Strive to connect with the poet, artist, writer, dancer, and actor in You
+ Learn how to heal, forgive, and let go of resentment to live a more positive life
+ Develop better-coping skills and become more resilient in the face of pandemic-like events
+ And much, much more!

✓Get your Kindle copy to find your Authentic Voice Today!

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Net Worth by Amelia Wilde

Net Worth by Amelia Wilde

Mason Hill wants one thing: revenge. When Charlotte Van Kempt walks into his office, all innocence and desperation, he knows the perfect way to get it.

He makes a dark bargain. She’ll give him her body to save her family.

Little does she know he plans to ruin both.

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Memory Road Trip

About Memory Road Trip

MEMORY ROAD TRIP is a compendium of travel stories ranging from the sublime to the surreal as told by a money-strapped traveler who gallivanted around the globe on a proverbial shoestring. The journey down memory road is a heartfelt excursion into the past that takes armchair explorers on an odyssey of life, love, and loneliness. The circuitous path is full of philosophical nooks and crannies, and many stories get told from the bottom of a psychological well. Readers will join this intrepid Gen X-er as she gets herself locked inside a cathedral, lost in the desert, and held up at machete point by Zapatista rebels. Her passion for nature, art, history, and architecture gush across the page, along with her contagious curiosity in life and her pragmatic acceptance of death. Many of her stories speak to the angst that simmers inside all of us as we confront the many absurdities that exist in this world. People have always told this adventurer that she needed to write her travel stories down. She always thought that she’d have forever to write them, but now she knows that forever is not as long as she thought it was.

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