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The Dragon Orb (The Alaris Chronicles Book 1) by Mike Shelton

The Dragon Orb (The Alaris Chronicles Book 1) by Mike SheltonThe kingdom of Alaris has enjoyed a relative calm for years, in no small part due to its magical prowess. But when the magical barrier that protects the land is broken, three of its brilliant wizards are thrust into an unexpected war for supremacy. It’s more than simply invasion that threatens the kingdom, but the dark secrets rising from within. Will Bakari, Alli, and Roland find themselves on the right side of history? Will they fight together, or against one another?

The Dragon Orb is the first book of the Alaris Chronicles series by Mike Shelton, and brings a refreshing […]

2017-03-30T08:09:18+02:00March 30th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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Searching for Gatsby: A Ronnie Lake Murder Mystery by Niki Danforth

Searching for Gatsby: A Ronnie Lake Murder MysteryRonnie Lake is a fifty-something divorcee, starting out as a private investigator. When she’s invited to her wealthy friends’ party, a thief is murdered. The mystery then begins: not only who killed him, but what he was trying to steal. This leads Ronnie deep into the world of antique book collecting, where there’s a lot of money involved, and a lot of potential suspects, in this fun cozy mystery.

The mystery of Searching for Gatsby is two-fold: of course there’s a murder to solve, but also Ronnie Lake has to uncover the business of rare book collecting, with fascinating detail […]

2017-03-23T09:58:09+02:00March 23rd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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Scorched Earth (New York in Love Book 1) by Sophia D’Angelo

Scorched Earth by Sophia D'AngeloWhen fate brings two wayward souls together in the New York City, they may overcome their very worst to bring out the best in each other…

Not long ago, Alex Chrisman and his brother were left without parents, forcing Alex to take custody of his brother while struggling to meet the demands of his daily life. A chance encounter brings Danielle Sterling into his life – a young woman new to the city, looking for a fresh start away from an abusive mother. When dark first impressions give way to a bright side, romance begins to blossom, just in time […]

2017-03-23T08:38:37+02:00March 23rd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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Alexandria (The Sword of Agrippa Book 2) by Gregory Ness

Alexandria by Greg NessRoy and Renee are on the run. Two scientists whose revolutionary research threatened to change science forever became too much for the financial oligarchy of the United States. Continuing their work with sleep-viewing and dark energy research, the two attempt to piece together a puzzle they are woefully under-equipped to understand. Then an unexpected piece of a larger picture is found in the mind of a certain subject that will take the scientists to a whole new view of reality.

Alexandria, the second book of The Sword of Agrippa series by Gregory Ness, is a near-future sci-fi novella centered […]

2017-03-23T10:11:20+02:00March 22nd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |
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Doppelgänger: The Legend Of Lee Harvey Oswald by George Schwimmer PhD

Doppelgänger: The Legend Of Lee Harvey Oswald by George Schwimmer PhDDoppelgänger: The Legend Of Lee Harvey Oswald by George Schwimmer PhD makes the startling claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was actually two people: Lee Harvey Oswald, who did the shooting, and Harvey Oswald, who took the blame. As the cover suggests, they’re similar-looking people – and they had similar lives as well. Both were agents of the CIA, and both were embroiled in a conspiracy to assassinate the president, thereby negating the “lone nut” theory.

Told compellingly in the first person from Harvey Oswald’s point of view, the book doesn’t merely rely on photographic evidence, which can be somewhat dubious, […]

2017-03-21T12:27:00+02:00March 21st, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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Sometimes Fatal Events Have Occurred by John L. Sheppard

Sometimes Fatal Events Have Occurred by John L. SheppardSometimes Fatal Events Have Occurred by John L. Sheppard is an inventive literary science fiction novel – a prequel to his also-inventive Explosive Decompression. This novel takes place centuries earlier, and even earlier than the present – the 90s. Buzz, an artist, is dying from brain cancer, and he’s visited by a woman from the future who says she can cure his cancer; she doesn’t want him to die because she loves his art. She has the ability to project her mind into the past, and soon Buzz needs to time travel himself in order to save the art […]

2017-03-20T08:57:35+02:00March 20th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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I’ll Be Looking at the Moon by Lucia Barrett

I'll Be Looking at the Moon by Lucia BarrettI’ll Be Looking at the Moon: A novel about finding Home by Lucia Barrett is a delicately poignant novel about finding yourself, and love, even if it takes decades to achieve.

Escaping her destructive family to Europe, Elizabeth Parker Morgan has a passionate romance with an Italian man who has a troubled life of his own. Their relationship is shattered and Elizabeth is forced to move back to the States, and finds out that she is pregnant. The reason for the separation from her true love has always remained a mystery, and she’s never lost her deep connection to him, […]

2017-03-14T09:22:26+02:00March 14th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |
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Success Through PICKSS by Muthuswamy N

Success through PICKSS by Muthuswamy NPICKSS is a system developed by Muthuswamy N, the founder of Quest Systems, a business consulting firm. His acronym stands for Prevention of Ineffectiveness through Concentration in Key Specifics Strategy. In Success Through PICKSS, Muthuswamy lists many reasons people often give for not being able to do their work, then shows how they can be productive by resetting attitudes and utilizing both sides of the brain—left (logic) and right (creativity).

Muthuswamy’s manual lists several different steps businesses can take, no matter the budget. For example, one must identify a “Super System,” or “Receiver”: to whom is your product targeted? […]

2017-03-14T09:54:17+02:00March 14th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |
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