About Last Chance California
A disillusioned millennial spirals down a self destructive path that forces him to confront the violent past he ran away to California to forget.
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About Last Chance California
A disillusioned millennial spirals down a self destructive path that forces him to confront the violent past he ran away to California to forget.
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We the Gamers by Dalton Lewis
Four guy friends fight mental illnesses that threaten to derail their lives and their friendships – and they deal with it by playing miniature wargames, board games, and role-playing games. Dalton hears voices – talks to them incessantly and suddenly wants to turn back and pay attention to the real world again. Finnegan struggles with ADHD – but is that what’s wrong? Terry sees threats everywhere and has to manage civilian life after twenty years in the military. Phillip’s OCD makes it difficult for him to make it as a filmmaker. Check out this fun, fast-paced look at today’s America by real-life schizophrenic Dalton Lewis.
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About Dead Letters
“If you want to find me, search within these pages.”
Bestselling author Richard Debden is missing. The only clue to his disappearance: a copy of his unpublished final novel delivered to his ex-girlfriend, Amy. When Richard’s closest reunite for his memorial, Amy enlists the support of Chris, his former best friend. Together, they wonder if he might still be alive and in need of their help.
Richard’s manuscript tells of two abandoned children in wartime Britain, instructed by a shadowy Postmaster to deliver letters to ghosts, releasing them from their torment. As Chris and Amy delve into the text, they recognise parallels between fiction and reality; clues to a trail that leads across the country and – dare they hope? – to Richard.
But they are not the only interested party. A mysterious society is following them, their motives unclear. Can Chris and Amy unlock the secrets of Dead Letters, or will more sinister forces get there first?
Dead Letters is the intriguing second novel by P.J. Murphy, author of Troubleshot.
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About Abroad: A Novel of Cross-Cultural Encounters by Greyson Bryan
An “supremely readable” cross-cultural jaunt, ABROAD chronicles the loves, losses and friendships of Skip, Maddie, and Rex as they travel through France, Asia and Mexico during the cultural upheaval and sexual revolution of the 1960s and 70s. “A rich… mosaic of lives and longings” says Booklife, ABROAD seeks to answer two questions: Can we ever truly understand someone from a different culture, and can we ever truly understand ourselves if we don’t try? Free promotion from 4/3-4/7.
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About Finding Viola: A Short Story by Bo Burnette
“I could hear the music again, and somehow it seemed louder than before.”
Every day, Miss Erikson hears mysterious music coming from behind a locked door at the Lang School of Fine Arts. When the strict Mrs. Borg demands she leave the door alone, Miss Erikson’s curiosity propels her to uncover the secrets of the ever-closed door. As she pursues the source of the inexplicable music, she must finally face the grief of the past she has long tried to ignore.
(A 3,000 word short story about mystery, grief, and the power of music from the author of Denver and the Doolittle Raid and The Fiery Arrow.)
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About The Other Shoes of Larry Martin: Book Two: On Becoming Laurie Roberts (Larry Martin Novel Series) by Pavane Ravel
Readers will highly enjoy Book Two of The Other Shoes of Larry Martin, a novel series with more political intrigue, family drama, and suspense. Another Best-Seller by Author Pavane Ravel!
Larry Martin, in his quiet, kind, and mystical way, continues his journey to a new life, a new vision, and a new understanding. Larry has become a rising star in the world of progressive journalism. While only a few short months after being homeless, jobless, and friendless, Larry has acquired a family and friends. He’s fallen in love with a brilliant and beautiful woman who loves him in return.
Even though Larry is now the most important journalist for a major liberal website in New York City, he has taken on a second full-time position at a prestigious architectural firm in Atlanta. Yet, in spite of all his good fortune, this kind, talented, and a generous young man is soon to face insidious lies, outrageous betrayal, and horrific danger, and that is only the tip of the dramatic iceberg!
Now Awarded A 5-Star Reader’s Favorite 2023 Editorial Book Review!
(Pre-Release E-book on Sale for $1.99 at Amazon now thru March 4th, 2023)
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About Irishtown by Douglas Mulkerns
From the scenic hills of Dalkey to the burned-out crumbling inner city streets of 90s Dublin, the story follows the paths of four people struggling with different stages of heroin addiction. Set against the backdrop of Ireland’s struggle to rise above poverty and dark nationalism, the futures of each character depend very much on where they came from. As addiction leads each further down the road to crime and prison, Bren and Peter born into hardship navigate the world of beatings and prison with ease, murder less so. For Kevin and Niamh, the same world becomes increasingly unfamiliar and terrifying. As vendetta beatings escalate, the four characters become locked in a downward spiral of violence. Following one murder too many Kevin realizes he has put himself in a position of no escape, unless by a miracle there are still some good people left in the world.
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About Para Enterrar Al Puerto (CUENTOS Y RELATOS DE ARNOLDO ROSAS) (Spanish Edition) by Arnoldo Rosas
La emoción de lo fantástico y lo cotidiano en un recorrido afectivo, temporal y físico por un pueblo aferrado al mar.
Los personajes de PARA ENTERRAR AL PUERTO viven el amor, la pasión, la traición. Luchan por sus sueños y anhelos. Toman en sus manos la justicia, la venganza. Se sobreponen a la tensión y el sufrimiento. Enfrentan el miedo. Conjuran a los fantasmas y a la muerte.
Cuentos narrados con pericia, con suspenso, con realismo, con humor. Donde no falta la sorpresa, la fantasía, la ensoñación.
Y el mar omnipresente.
PARA ENTERRAR AL PUERTO, editado originalmente por el PEN Club de Venezuela, es considerado uno de los libros más representativos de la narrativa venezolana de la década de los ochenta según el libro Nación y Literatura. (Caracas: Fundación Bigott, Equinoccio. 2006).
De él se ha dicho:
“… unas cuantas narraciones necesarias por lo demás “para enterrar al puerto”, objetivo que en mi modesto parecer se le ha invertido porque, al final del libro, el puerto, por el contrario, ha salido ganando” (Luis Barrera Linares)
“… se presenta atrapando los distintos cuadros imaginativos o reales que se captan en las distintas fases de un mundo que, como sabemos, no cesa de andar de aquí para allá, tanto en lo puro imaginativo como en lo real“ (Luis Beltrán Reyes)
“… con una gran dosis de humorismo subliminal y de surrealismo, se evade, riéndose con una gran seriedad; como burlándose de la pobre inspiración” (Efraín Subero)
“…diremos que hay prosa poética allí y poesía en prosa, y además narrativa… ¿Poesía? ¿Prosa? De ambas sustancias está nutrido este pequeño libro” (Pascual Venegas Filardo)
¿Qué espera?
Compre y lea ya PARA ENTERRAR AL PUERTO y recorra la costa, las calles, los bares y las casas de este pueblo marinero que se empeña en vivir.
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About The Butterfly: A Short Story of Life, Mystery, and the Impossibility of Endings, by M.G. Hawking
Free on Amazon January 23-25, always free on Kindle Unlimited. Discover an enchanting story that takes you on a journey into the wonder and mystery of life. An unforgettable tale that explores the enduring power of the light that animates us all, this narrative will resonate in your heart long after the last words have been read. 5-Star reviews: “A beautifully written book…” “Deeply touching and enlightening…” “A beautiful little story that is a gentle reminder of the truth.” “A great view of life.” A Kindle Unlimited Book, includes a Bonus Anthology Section. For more information, please see the description on the book’s Amazon page. Thank you, and enjoy!
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About Little Women (Annotated): The Original Edition with 200+ Illustrations, Biographical Introduction, and Interesting Historical Facts (A Classic Novel by Louisa May Alcott) by Louisa Alcott
Discover Louisa May Alcott’s original edition with more than 200 illustrations, an introduction to the author’s life and works, and riveting historical facts.
Originally published as two volumes in 1868 and 1869, Little Women follows the lives of the March sisters—Meg, the eldest; Jo, the tomboy, gentle Beth, and the adventurous Amy—four young women with unique personalities, hopes, and dreams, rarely featured in classic novels for young readers at the time. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women continues to resonate with readers as a timeless tale about the transition from childhood to womanhood. With its unique characters, heartwarming yet realistic style, and beautiful life lessons, the sweet story of the March sisters continues to inspire girls and women of all ages about true love, independence, feminine strength, and courage. Dive into the spirit and time of a different era with this coming-of-age novel, loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters.
This beautiful 150th Anniversary Edition includes:
– Both volumes of the original Little Women novel, including Good Wives, a sequel following the March girls and their friend Laurie into adulthood.
– 200+ original illustrations by the legendary artist Frank T. Merrill from the first illustrated edition.
– A detailed introduction of the author’s biography exploring the story’s connections to Alcott’s life.
– Historical context about women’s and girls’ lives, roles, and rights before the women’s suffrage movement.
– Interesting facts about life in 19th Century America.
– A beautifully designed cover.
– Easy-to-read format with calligraphic elements.
– Proofread and properly formatted text for the perfect reading experience.
Little Women, one of the best classic novels of all time, is the perfect gift for book lovers that will become an unmissable part of your collection!
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About Tango of Death. A True Story of Holocaust Survivors: Historical Book for Adults and Teens (Ww2. Jewish Holocaust Fiction) by Mikhail Baranovskiy
In the Janowska concentration camp, the Nazis conducted inhuman torture and brutal executions to music. To do so, they brought almost an entire symphony orchestra to the camp. During the Third Reich in World War 2, the Nazis massacred 200,000 ethnic minorities there, including 40 talented musicians.
Tango of Death is an incredibly powerful and haunting WW2 historical fiction novel that captures the horrors of Jewish persecution at the height of World War II. Written by acclaimed writer and playwright Mikhail Baranovskiy in the film-play format, the book is based on true events from the incredible life of Jewish violin virtuoso and musical genius Jacob Mund. who quickly ascended to conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, but was forced to leave for Poland when occupation by Nazi Germany led to the total ban of Jewish composers in Austria.
Misfortune abruptly caught up with Jacob and his pregnant wife and Mund’s happy days in Lwow came to an unfortunate end when the Germans conquered Poland. Jacob’s Jewish parents were robbed and shot on the streets and he was shipped off to the Janowska Nazi concentration camp along with his wife, young daughter and the other Lwow Orchestra musicians.
Tango of Death was written in accord with the true story of violin player Jacob Mund, his orchestra and thousands of other Jews who lived in Lwow, Poland during WWII. 60 documentary photo illustrations are included in this book to show the violent truth of the Jewish Holocaust.
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About A Pale Horse
A deadly virus. The remnants of humanity. The horrors that await them.
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About One: The Kiss / The Finger (The Collected Short Works of Brian Jackson Book 1) by Brian Jackson
My name is Steve Merriman and I’m eleven years old. I go to Darby Avenue Elementary School where I’m in the sixth grade. Today, March 11th, 1969, after school, I have to kiss a girl.
So begins the opening story in this short, two-part collection, “The Kiss”, which tells of Steve Merriman’s predicament that comes about due to a dodge ball accident in which he hits Maureen Keller in the face with a scorcher. To keep Maureen from “telling”, Steve agrees to kiss her behind the bungalows after school. “The Kiss” is a classic story of burgeoning young love set amid days gone by when everything seemed to be simpler and youth was awash in a sea of innocence.
“The Kiss” was previously published in the Columbia College Spring Review, and in the book “A Curious Affair”, published in mass market paperback by New York publisher Dorchester Press.
“The Kiss” is followed by the only other story in this collection, “The Finger”, in which the narrator of the story wakes to find a severed finger lying on the coffee table of a shared apartment. But that’s only the start of a really bad day in which chaos ensues.
These two stories were written soon after I retired, while attending a creative writing class at my junior college.
I hope that you enjoy reading these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them. Keep your eye out for other installments in The Collected Short Works of Brian Jackson.
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About Vague Pains by Zachary Lemon
On the outskirts of Detroit, Meadowview Hospital means different things different people: a place to work, a place to learn, and a place to fear. Follow their intersecting narratives as Tess, Henry, and Thomas, find themselves traversing each other’s dreams and struggles. Afterward, they will never be the same.
In his intriguing debut novel, Zachary Lemon masterfully crafts an introspective story which will lead you to question your own daily contradictions.
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About The Other Ones
The Other Ones—
You don’t want to become one.
Renowned physicist Damon Devereaux married a miscreant, and it nearly cost him his life.
High school student Lilianna Annesley struggles to survive an upbringing with reprobate parents.
While in the throes of battle with their mutual loved ones, the two meet and strike up an innocent friendship. But the darkness around them is not about to tolerate that.
Just when it seems that all hope is extinguished, one truth emerges from the embers:
Sometimes good things happen to people, and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it.
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About Good News for Dead People
The second civil war has come to America, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding.
Good News for Dead People is a short story collection about what happens in the time between twilight and pure darkness. Set in an alternate reality that is both far away and uncomfortably close, runaway climate change, war, and scarcity lurk around every corner while anarchy reigns supreme.
Follow a psychopath fresh out of prison, a thyroid patient searching for pills, and a Senator’s shroom-obsessed son, among others, as they navigate the dangers of a bizarre world that is hostile to life itself. See war and collapse from perspectives never explored, from genesis to the bitter end.
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About The Erotic Notebooks
Originally written as a form of amorous confession to a new lover, The Erotic Notebooks appears now in print as a collection of fifteen beautifully crafted stories recalling the erotic evolution of a young woman seeking to free herself from the restricted codes of behaviour imposed upon us by society, and to explore in real life all of those desires that had previously existed for her only in fantasy.
From Paris to Venice and the south of Spain, the narrator treats readers to a decadent recounting of experiments in exhibitionism, voyeurism, assignations with strangers, BDSM, and all manner of other ecstatic encounters with a wide variety of exotic men and women, and, through all, of sensuous, unbridled passions and pleasures.
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About From Whence The Rivers Run
Set on the Ruzizi River above Lake Tanganyika, Cicinski’s exquisitely crafted second novel is the story of an old Burundian fisherwoman who sets out to hunt and kill the legendarily large and vicious crocodile that killed her husband a year previously; and the story also of her granddaughter, Lenka, who follows her in the hopes of protecting her not only from the dangers she faces in her quest for vengeance, but from losing the last vestiges of the woman she once was.
Through the course of the hunt, Cicinski paints a vivid picture not only of a relationship between a young girl full of hope and optimism and dreams of the future, and an old woman who has been all but destroyed by grief and an all-consuming desire for revenge, but more broadly of the relationship between humanity and nature, the experience of grief and ageing, and the character of a strong woman who even in her darkest moments of despair refuses to be ruled by the expectations of her society.
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About Other Worlds Were Possible
Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the rest of their tribe. They formed a temporary city, feasted, held dances and played games.
They could have lived like this forever. But a strange and foreign people had ideas of their own…
Appearing out of nowhere, these aliens looked completely different. They smelled different. They even dressed differently. And they had the most peculiar habits.
These people did not live with the earth. They exploited the earth, imposing monocultures and intensive farming. They were not content with their lot. They were possessed by an insatiable desire to consume. And they had no sense of freedom. They were beholden to a never-ending list of outlandish concepts; things such as “Hierarchy”, “Patriarchy”, “Monarchy”, “Monogamy”, “God”, “Punishments”, “Ownership”, “Inequality”, “Money”, “Work” and “Tax”.
Sunny and his kinfolk faced the toughest decision in their history…
They could wage war on these imposters. But their enemies were strong. They had killed hundreds-of-thousands of indigenous people.
They could flee. But these imperialists would surely follow. They would push them into the sea, the mountains or the desert.
Their clan needed another solution. But what could it be? Could they negotiate with this violent foe? Could they form a pact? Could they create a kind of alliance?
Sunny had no idea. But he was compelled by a duty to find out. This was his time. And he was willing to risk his life, to save the people he loved…
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About Other Worlds Were Possible
Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the rest of their tribe. They formed a temporary city, feasted, held dances and played games.
They could have lived like this forever. But a strange and foreign people had ideas of their own…
Appearing out of nowhere, these aliens looked completely different. They smelled different. They even dressed differently. And they had the most peculiar habits.
These people did not live with the earth. They exploited the earth, imposing monocultures and intensive farming. They were not content with their lot. They were possessed by an insatiable desire to consume. And they had no sense of freedom. They were beholden to a never-ending list of outlandish concepts; things such as “Hierarchy”, “Patriarchy”, “Monarchy”, “Monogamy”, “God”, “Punishments”, “Ownership”, “Inequality”, “Money”, “Work” and “Tax”.
Sunny and his kinfolk faced the toughest decision in their history…
They could wage war on these imposters. But their enemies were strong. They had killed hundreds-of-thousands of indigenous people.
They could flee. But these imperialists would surely follow. They would push them into the sea, the mountains or the desert.
Their clan needed another solution. But what could it be? Could they negotiate with this violent foe? Could they form a pact? Could they create a kind of alliance?
Sunny had no idea. But he was compelled by a duty to find out. This was his time. And he was willing to risk his life, to save the people he loved…
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