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Romance at the Jameson House by Melissa Detto

About Romance at the Jameson House by Melissa Detto

Haunted by her shattered dreams and a longing for home, Ivy Williams returns to Savannah, where the ghostly charm of the Jameson house and a second chance with her ex-lover, Jeremy Cartwright, offer a glimmer of hope.

But as unexplained events escalate and her relationship with her boyfriend Nick crumbles, Ivy must choose between the bright lights of Broadway and the warmth of her hometown.

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Disposable: Unspoken Illusions

About Disposable: Unspoken Illusions

Set against the backdrop of Cape Cod’s shifting seasons, Disposable explores the delicate ties that hold families and friendships together—and the unspoken tensions that threaten to pull them apart. Pamela, a devoted wife and mother, finds her world shaped as much by fleeting summer romances and neighborhood gatherings as by the quiet cracks forming in her closest relationships. As her daughter Holly comes of age and childhood bonds begin to fray, Pamela must navigate the bittersweet blend of nostalgia, change, and the search for connection. With its vivid scenes of coastal summers, tender portraits of family life, and an undercurrent of secrets and shifting loyalties, this story invites readers to reflect on love, belonging, and the fragile nature of trust. A heartfelt and thought-provoking novel, it lingers long after the last page is turned.

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Just Ten Days

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After a plane crash, five girls are stranded on a deserted island.
The island has water. It has food.
There is everything they need to survive… except trust.
Sometimes, the monster isn’t in the jungle—it’s standing next to you.

Psychological survival thriller.

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Hollow Stone by N.B. Cross

About Hollow Stone by N.B. Cross

On the quiet shores of Lake Michigan sits Duswood, a small town with a long memory and an even longer silence.

When a local pizzeria becomes the site of a brutal, unexplainable attack, seventeen-year-old Vincent Granger and his friends uncover something ancient stirring beneath the cedar swamp. The adults call it hysteria. The sheriff calls it a bear. But the truth is older, heavier and waiting to be remembered.

As the town bends around denial, Vincent meets Mira Thorn, whose mother vanished under mysterious circumstances. Together they uncover a creature born from Duswood’s buried sorrow, bound to something far darker than anyone dares speak aloud.

Hollow Stone is a haunting blend of quiet horror and small-town mystery where silence is survival, and what’s forgotten never stays buried.

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Heather’s Treehouse

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A MACABRE THRILLER For Those Who Love POE, Clive BARKER, and The TWILIGHT ZONE.

Purisima Concepción Mission
Tejás 1716

“Despelleja los diablos rojos vivos!” cried Guarco.

More soldiers ran past the Spanish jailer as he cheered them on.

“Skin the red devils alive, I say! And may God ‘damn’ them to hell!”

Roaring with laughter, Guarco forced the jail door shut against the whiplash wind and secured it. With the intense heat of the day colliding with the cold of this evening tempest, hail and worse would soon follow. Pulling a torch from its hammered sconce, he made his way from the jail’s anteroom and down its unlit corridor to look in on his newest prisoner, Brezo. She did not lift her chin from her chest.

“Witch!” he growled. “You hurt my friend. You let him kiss and kiss and kiss, and you ate his tongue. You chewed out his eyes while he choked on his own blood. Y-you, you-ou–”

Brezo moved so quickly Guarco did not even see her head jerk or shudder, let alone rise, her upturned eyes so intense, the whites so bared, it looked as if two hard-boiled eggs had been set into her sockets. And, for the first time in his life, Guarco the jailer felt ‘he’ had become the prisoner.

So begins ‘Heather’s Treehouse’, a tale sprigging from the brutal black magic of Native American witchcraft, vengeance, and the savage, merciless end of things in the ‘Old World’, gone to seed in 1716 and burgeoning 272 years later in the far more modern world of 1988, Edgewood, Texas. On the outskirts of this sleepy little town, the purest form of evil has been nurtured by the blood and somatic fluids of centuries of slaughter and simmering hatred, gestating within a morbidly gnarled black oak named ‘Heather’s Treehouse’ by fifteen-year-old, aspiring author Matley Joe Roberts.

For Matley, Sheriff R. J. Whittaker, and the elderly Tawakoni Indian, Pappy Sobs, the horrific and grisly fight to save Edgewood is a fight not only to save their home and its unsuspecting populace, but also their own souls and the higher ideals of humanity. It is a reckoning that quickly escalates into the first battle in a timeless war of tribalism versus individualism, ensconced identity-fueled vengeance versus commonsense and reason, the inevitable result an epic total-war ruin that could threaten all of mankind if allowed to flourish and spread beyond the borders of Edgewood.

“And that,” says the ever-wise Pappy Sobs to young Matley, “is ‘why’ we fight. ‘Cause the very Devil himself might run this world, but he still doesn’t own it. Not as long as we never, ever, ever lie down.”

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The Mistress of Bannister by Stacy-Deanne

About The Mistress of Bannister by Stacy-Deanne

The wealthy and powerful Edward Bannister III becomes obsessed with Gini, a stunning maid from Nigeria who rescues him from drowning. Gini too becomes captivated by the intoxicating businessman and spends days and nights praying she’ll see him again. But Gini is under the control of Brenden Marx, a cruel industrialist who brought her to America as his mistress so there is no way she could be with another man.

Despite this, Edward and Gini embark on a secret affair, unable to resist their intense love for each other. But when Marx discovers their relationship, he declares war on them both, promising to do whatever he can to keep them apart.

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How To Stop Smoking And Vaping For Good: Your Step-By-Step Guide by Sue Freeman RN BA (Soc Sci)

About How To Stop Smoking And Vaping For Good: Your Step-By-Step Guide by Sue Freeman RN BA (Soc Sci)

How to Stop Smoking and Vaping For Good: Your Step-By-Step Guide” introduces The Smokefree System: Taking Back Control, a proven program that has helped people quit smoking and vaping for over 25 years. Now available online at quitstrong.org, this guide provides practical steps, expert insights, and holistic strategies to overcome nicotine addiction and embrace a healthier, smokefree life.

With Quit Coach Sue’s support, this book empowers you to break free from nicotine’s grip and build a vibrant, smokefree future. Whether you want to quit without gaining weight or support a loved one on their journey, this guide offers the tools for lasting success. Visit quitstrong.org for additional resources and coaching services to enhance your smokefree experience.

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Blood of the Damned

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‘Death is all around you. Everywhere you turn, everyone you touch, even for you—death!’
Book one of the brand-new, epic Blood of the Dragon series.
“Game of Thrones” meets “Dracula.”

An oath of vengeance.
A brotherhood sworn to ritual and blood.
A darkness older than empires — and it’s waiting to feed.

Bulgaria during the bloody Crusades. Darius, heir of a noble house, sees a creature of the night slaughter his mother. Vowing to destroy the vampire, he trains blade and mind for a war he may never survive — while protecting and caring for his frail sister under the rule of a cruel and heartless uncle.

To the south, Sir George, son of a murdered lord, joins Vlad Dracula’s shadowy Order of the Dragon. He seeks the truth behind his father’s death, and vengeance against the enemy that stole his bloodline. But he uncovers a secret war more ancient and terrifying than the Ottoman invasion. A hidden vampire society with age-old myths and laws, plots and prejudice and vicious predators.

When Darius and Sir George’s paths collide, they’re drawn into a hellish underworld of Gothic castles, sacred orders, and creatures who see humans as pawns — or prey. To face the coming night, each must choose: duty to family, loyalty to brotherhood, or survival in a war where immortals play for kingdoms, and their very souls are at stake.

‘The storm and the wolves and the Ottomans, all, were the very least of their concerns. Would never again be of the slightest consequence.’

Perfect for readers of Stephen King, Anne Rice, Christopher Buehlman’s “Between Two Fires”, or Jay Kristoff’s “Empire of the Vampire”. “Blood of the Damned” delivers a gritty and unique undead origins — where superstition meets cold steel, and vengeance is paid in blood.

A slow-burn, sprawling hero’s quest, this is part one of a two-part alternative history saga, with brooding knights and forbidden love, and a very brutal coming of age.

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The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Return to Southampton County by David J. Mason

About The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Return to Southampton County by David J. Mason

With a victorious end to the Civil War, Parson Sykes fulfilled the goal of self-liberation, but he grew frustrated with the Reconstruction programs. At the suspension of open hostility, he recognized the need for complete emancipation. Following the defeat of the Confederacy, he must advance civil and human rights to gain real freedom. As post-war planning emerged, new challenges arose. Parson grew frustrated with the connivance practices in racial superiority and inferiority that hindered everyday freedom.
Parson experienced the chaotic end of the Civil War while serving in the Union Army. Grappling with military-civil affairs duty, political uncertainty, and the unfulfilled promises of emancipation, Parson realized the Emancipation Proclamation did not go far enough. Following the defeat of the Confederacy, vicious racial violence characterized the resistance to integrating Black people.
Parson joyously learned that Federal government created the Freedmen’s Bureau to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom with humanitarian aid. Parson relentlessly advocated and pursued education, political participation, and full citizenship. With the creation of the Bureau, he felt less pressure.
Parson witnesses the final year of the Civil War and the chaotic dawn of Reconstruction, learning about the complex political fight for civil rights from mentors and personal observation. Parson’s insights taught him that in war, the victory is just the blossom, and nothing is more frustrating than a bloom that refuses to morph into some fruit.
Parson returns to Virginia, where he confronts the defeated confederates, including the rise of hate groups and violent insurgents. In Southampton County, the Bureau mediated sharecropping agreements between white landowners and Black families after the constitutional end of enslavement. Despite granting freedom, the federal government took little action to help Black families acquire the promised land.
Through his interactions with mentors, Parson becomes a fierce advocate for the human and civil rights of Black Americans, focusing on education, land ownership, and political participation. He navigated the legal and social struggles surrounding the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, revealing both the hope they inspired and the violent backlash they provoked.
With the passage of these amendments, they guaranteed equal rights for all citizens and prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on race or color. Simply put, Parson’s efforts to gain freedom, citizenship, and equality required long-term commitment, resilience, and perseverance.
Having secured his right to vote and purchase land, Parson married, started a family, and established himself as an independent community leader in Southampton County, achieving a hard-won personal liberation despite the systemic failures of the Reconstruction era.
As revealed by Parson’s genealogy, Reconstruction has ongoing effects, especially in the importance of addressing root causes and the need for ongoing human and civil rights enhancements. Racism is an inescapable reality in the American society. Still, the complexities of social problems, with their cultural subtleties and interconnectedness, demand a deeper understanding and more nuanced approaches than those used in managing a political solution.

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Blood of the Damned

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“I see death all around you. Everywhere you turn, everyone you touch, even for you—death!”
The brutal slaying of a mother by a dreaded vampire one bitter night during medieval Europe’s bloody Crusades sends a young Bulgarian nobleman on a deadly quest for revenge. The senseless torture of a lord by the fearsome Ottoman enemy encourages a Greek squire to join Vlad Dracula’s secretive and chivalric Order of the Dragon in search of answers.
And again, vengeance.
Their separate lives defending their countries against Ottoman invaders will be changed forever. But are they ready to sacrifice those they care about? To risk everything? With a trail of death getting closer and loved ones under threat, their searches lead them both down into the fire of the abyss. But survival is far from assured, and the price of retribution can sometimes be more than one is willing to pay. And when their paths collide, there’s sure to be bloodshed.

Or worse—damnation!

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Callasandra Fractured

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When sixteen-year-old Cassi Dyson witnesses her quantum physicist father’s kidnapping, she’s thrust into a world of secrets and danger. Before being taken, he shouts a cryptic message that sends Cassi, her twin sister Haley, and their mother fleeing their home. Cassi soon learns her father discovered a doorway to another dimension—and vanished trying to keep it out of the wrong hands.
Months later, Cassi awakens to find her family gone and her world transformed. She’s crossed into Cimerrion, a militarized dimension ruled by fear, where outsiders known as the Disunited are hunted. Captured by the ruthless Sergeant Leonard, Cassi hides her identity with help from Joren, a clever teen, and Marissa, a celebrated singer secretly leading a rebellion.
As Cassi becomes entangled in the resistance, she discovers her telepathic bond with Haley—still trapped in another dimension—may be the key to uniting fractured worlds and fulfilling an ancient prophecy.
Pursued across parallel realities, Cassi must risk everything to reunite her family and uncover the truth behind her father’s work—before the fate of both worlds collapses in her hands.

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ADAM: Her Deal Maker

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Thrill-seeker helicopter pilot Lacey Sanders lives for adventure and danger, while fellow pilot Adam “The Deal Maker” Swank is all about restraint. She is the boss’s daughter and strictly off-limits, and he has sworn off women who chase danger, which is okay, since she has a strict no-dating rule when it comes to her coworkers. When a business trip strands them on a private island, their long-simmering attraction erupts. But can Adam persuade Lacey to take a chance on an office romance? FREE from November 1st to November 5th 2025

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Unholy Monster War: Governess Chapters by Geoffrey C Porter

About Unholy Monster War: Governess Chapters by Geoffrey C Porter

I got the blood and the monsters and this books is make from leftover racecar parts. Fast enough. All my books are on sale for all hallows eve. This one is the one you need. Books have free samples, you might loathe everything about my craft.

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The Case of the Bakery Break-In

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Something sweet is missing in Oakwood… and it’s not just the doughnuts.

When trays of the town’s famous Founders’ Favorites doughnuts vanish from Sweetie’s Sweets bakery, four young detectives—Maya, Leo, Alice, and Sam—jump into action.

A trapdoor. Floury footprints. A secret baking club.
And one shy boy with a surprising doughnut delivery habit…

Can the kids crack the case before the recipes disappear for good?

A cozy, funny mystery for readers ages 8–12—served with sprinkles on top!

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Callasandra Fractured

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When sixteen-year-old Cassi Dyson witnesses her quantum physicist father’s kidnapping, she’s thrust into a world of secrets and danger. Before being taken, he shouts a cryptic message that sends Cassi, her twin sister Haley, and their mother fleeing their home. Cassi soon learns her father discovered a doorway to another dimension—and vanished trying to keep it out of the wrong hands.
Months later, Cassi awakens to find her family gone and her world transformed. She’s crossed into Cimerrion, a militarized dimension ruled by fear, where outsiders known as the Disunited are hunted. Captured by the ruthless Sergeant Leonard, Cassi hides her identity with help from Joren, a clever teen, and Marissa, a celebrated singer secretly leading a rebellion.
As Cassi becomes entangled in the resistance, she discovers her telepathic bond with Haley—still trapped in another dimension—may be the key to uniting fractured worlds and fulfilling an ancient prophecy.
Pursued across parallel realities, Cassi must risk everything to reunite her family and uncover the truth behind her father’s work—before the fate of both worlds collapses in her hands.

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Callasandra Fractured

About Callasandra Fractured

When sixteen-year-old Cassi Dyson witnesses her quantum physicist father’s kidnapping, she’s thrust into a world of secrets and danger. Before being taken, he shouts a cryptic message that sends Cassi, her twin sister Haley, and their mother fleeing their home. Cassi soon learns her father discovered a doorway to another dimension—and vanished trying to keep it out of the wrong hands.
Months later, Cassi awakens to find her family gone and her world transformed. She’s crossed into Cimerrion, a militarized dimension ruled by fear, where outsiders known as the Disunited are hunted. Captured by the ruthless Sergeant Leonard, Cassi hides her identity with help from Joren, a clever teen, and Marissa, a celebrated singer secretly leading a rebellion.
As Cassi becomes entangled in the resistance, she discovers her telepathic bond with Haley—still trapped in another dimension—may be the key to uniting fractured worlds and fulfilling an ancient prophecy.
Pursued across parallel realities, Cassi must risk everything to reunite her family and uncover the truth behind her father’s work—before the fate of both worlds collapses in her hands.

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My Way on the Camino Portuguese by John Seegers

About My Way on the Camino Portuguese by John Seegers

What happens when the road demands more than your body can give—but your spirit refuses to quit?

In My Way on the Camino Portuguese, John Seegers shares the honest, humorous, and deeply personal story of his pilgrimage from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela. Battling knee pain, fatigue, and self-doubt, Seegers doesn’t just walk the Camino—he wrestles with it, adapts to it, and ultimately finds meaning in its every challenge and detour.

Told with warmth and wisdom, this memoir captures the unique rhythm of walking alone while surrounded by strangers who briefly become companions, guides, and even angels. Along the way, Seegers reflects on aging, resilience, and the evolving meaning of pilgrimage in a modern world.

Whether you’re planning your own Camino, reflecting on past journeys, or simply drawn to stories of courage and transformation, My Way on the Camino Portuguese is a powerful reminder that the path we walk is as individual as the footsteps we leave behind.

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Ascendencia: Como Investigar la Historia de Tu Familia y Escalar Tu Arbol Genealogico by Dr. Trina Boice

About Ascendencia: Como Investigar la Historia de Tu Familia y Escalar Tu Arbol Genealogico by Dr. Trina Boice

Ascendencia: Cómo Investigar la Historia de Tu Familia y Escalar Tu Árbol Genealógico by Dr. Trina Boice is a practical and inspiring guide to discovering your family’s past and building a meaningful family tree. With easy-to-follow tips, research strategies, and useful resources, the book helps readers trace their ancestry, preserve stories, and strengthen connections with their heritage. Blending step-by-step instructions with motivational insights, it empowers both beginners and seasoned family historians to uncover their roots and pass on a lasting legacy.

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Witherpools: A Story Collection by Jason Durant

About Witherpools: A Story Collection by Jason Durant

We see a man who must face his day of reckoning (“Captive”); tourists who head into the wilderness looking for wild tigers (“Tiger Walk”); tiny children who select victims and then reveal their every nuance of thought, of behavior (“Human”); butchered beings who prey insidiously on humans (“Witherpools”); a psychologist and his disturbed patient who head into backcountry and are stalked by a grizzly bear (“Yellowstone”); a disturbed man who plans to gun down four people (“Johnny Apple”); three men who attempt to save an eight-year-old girl from alien invaders (“Green Smoke”); a man who discovers he is no longer earthly, no longer mortal (“Dark Running”); and many more tales of dark pleasures and strange enchantments.

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