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Featured Post: Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb by Marc Sercomb

About Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb:

It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him.
“I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.”
Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he’s headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he’s a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he’s just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too.
Everybody’s trying to figure out what makes Calvin tick in this quirky, fast-paced metaphysical romp through the heart and soul of 1950’s America.

Targeted Age Group: adult, young adult
Written by: Marc Sercomb

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Featured Post: From The Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley

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About Featured Book: From The Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley

MAY 6, 2021 KINDLE DEAL OF THE DAY

Named by BuzzFeed as one of Winter 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books and Top 10 New Books To Add To Your Reading List!

It’s hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.

The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand for holiness, purity, grace, and Christian love. Except when they don't.

Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death—a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black’s youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits in the front row wearing her frilly Sunday dress, listening carefully to every word.

But it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the Walters upstanding family façade. Stephanie's mother, Lily, begins telling unsettling stories about having a baby who died, and her story keeps changing. It’s clear Lily has a secret—one that righteous Victor Black would kill her for if he knew. This family secret burns more than the lies . . .

From the Moon I Watched Her is a coming-of-age tale about the skeletons that lurk under church pews and the little girl who goes looking for and finds them. Amid the dark and quirky terrain of camp revivals, burning crosses, and public shunnings, one child from the Southern Churches of Christ cries out.

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Featured Post: Mick Murphy’s Law by Michael Haskins

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About Featured Book: Mick Murphy's Law by Michael Haskins

A pregnant woman friend of Mick Murphy's is beaten to death. As she lay dying Murphy promises to make the killer face justice. His pursuit takes him and his eclectic friends from Key West to the Ocala National Forrest looking for a meth lab run by outlaw bikers and the killer hiding there.
Their search leads them to the Tit-4-Tat strip club in Daytona Beach where they upset an FBI/DEA/ stakeout and investigation. Cooperation between Murphy and the Feds is short lived and the officials are not what they seem as Murphy and his friends head back to the forest and St. Johns River to get their killer.

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Featured Post: Loose Gravel by Ginny Fanthome

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About Loose Gravel:

Loose Gravel is the grimy road story of Spooge – a punk band who get to know each other way more than they want to, cooped up in a crap-beaten van on their first tour. It’s about four people in a relationship that resembles a one-night-stand; everybody’s in it for the fun, there’s an unspoken hope of it becoming something more, it’s usually bitterly disappointing, and no one knows each other’s last names.
This is a peculiar odyssey of archetypical music scene types, lies and discovery, a thieving runaway, a coming-out story, and flaming chest hair… all underscored by a bizarre curse.

Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Ginny Fanthome

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Featured Post: Songbird by Karen Heenan

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About Featured Book: Songbird by Karen Heenan

Bess has the voice of an angel, or so Henry VIII declares when he buys her from her father. As a member of the Music, the royal company of minstrels, Bess grows up within the decadent Tudor court, navigating the ever-changing tide of royals and courtiers. Friends come and go as cracked voices, politics, heartbreak, and death loom over even the lowliest of musicians. Tom, her first and dearest friend, is her only constant. But as Bess becomes too comfortable at court, she may find that constancy has its limits.
On sale for $2.99 (ebook only) from April 11-May 9

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Featured Post: The Tide Between Us by Olive Collins

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About Featured Book: The Tide Between Us by Olive Collins

1821: Among the thousands of Irish deportees to the Caribbean British Colonies is a 10 year old Irish boy, Art O’Neill. As an Indentured Servant on a sugar plantation in Jamaica, Art gradually acclimatizes to the exotic country and the unfamiliar customs of the African slaves.

When the new heirs to the plantation arrive from Ireland they resurrect the ghosts of brutal injustices against Art. He bides his time and hides his abhorrence from his new master by channeling his energy into his work. During those years he prospers, he acquires land, he sees his colored children freed after emancipation as he takes us on a multi-generational historical saga. Eventually Art is promised seven gold coins for seven decades of service. He doubts his master will part with the coins. The morning Art sets out to claim his gratuity, he ignores his sense of foreboding that he may not return home alive.

Ireland 1991: One hundred years later a skeleton is discovered beneath a fallen tree on the grounds of Lugdale Estate. By its side is a gold coin minted in 1870. Yseult, the owner of the estate, watches as events unfold, fearful of the long-buried truths that may emerge about her family’s past and its links to the slave trade. As the skeleton gives up its secrets, Yseult realizes she too can no longer hide.

Inspired by the real story of 2,000 Irish children deported to Jamaica and the statistics that 25% of Jamaican citizens claim Irish ancestry. The Tide Between Us is a powerful novel documenting true historical events and the resilience of the human spirit.

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Featured Post: Grayer than Grey — A love story. A guy, a girl and his demons by Bob Keaton

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About Grayer than Grey — A love story. A guy, a girl and his demons:

Haunted by his past and what he has to do to control the demons it causes, Scott never lets anyone get close. What if they found out about the fire and what his cousins did afterward? He’s never been in love. Never even spent the night with a girl after having sex.

Then he meets Abby, and it’s like she casts a spell over him. A spell he can’t break, and maybe doesn’t want to. To buy time to decide, he takes a job in another state as an entertainment writer for a newspaper.

Despite all the fun and excitement of the new job, which has him interviewing celebrities and jetting off to New York and Hollywood, he can’t stop thinking about Abby. They continue their long-distance affair while she is finishing grad school, and Scott weighs the options of how to handle the new feelings he’s experiencing.

Can he conquer his demons and have a successful relationship with Abby? Does he want to try? It won’t be easy. And will Abby wait for him while he tries?

Targeted Age Group: Adults and mature teens
Written by: Bob Keaton

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Featured Post: Quest for Safe Haven by Michael Toledano

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About Quest for Safe Haven:

The gripping sequel to Western Apprehension and book two of the Eastbound trilogy. The saga continues with the newly resolute Maggie Winkelman, the wife of the frontier town’s dissolute lawyer. She sets in motion unthinkable violence and terror as she travels across country seeking to free her family from the shackles of marital abuse and misery. What price will she ultimately have to pay on her quest for a Safe Haven?

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michael Toledano

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Featured Post: Our Last Shot — Family Business at Peckerwood by Bob Keaton

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About Our Last Shot — Family Business at Peckerwood:

Tommy is leaving the country, but he hasn’t told anyone why. That—and a lot more—gets revealed during the last barbecue at Peckerwood, his plantation south of Atlanta.

He bought the decaying Southern relic 10 years ago and put a lot of money into the restoration. Now he’s ready to show it off.

So, he invited the old college gang for the weekend, hoping to relive some memories and maybe even create a few new ones, as he sees his friends for the last time.

They do that, but a lot more happens, too. Old rivalries are reignited. Secrets get revealed. A young guy meets his birth mother for the first time and discovers who his dad is. Old love interests get rekindled. One member of the group reveals a sex change that nobody knew about.

Oh, and there’s a murder, who will it be? And who did it?

Although they were close in college, now that they’re scattered around the country many of them haven’t seen each other in more than 20 years. Here are some of the characters invited to the reunion: A TV soap opera star from Los Angeles with a colorful past love life; a prominent high tech attorney in Seattle still trying to overcome the damage done by one of the gang back in college; an evangelist from Charleston whose ministry is based on “getting high” on drugs instead of Jesus; a famous New York actress with a mysterious past, and a well-known model from the 70s who now has his own agency and also a lot of baggage.

Everybody’s favorite professor back in college, who was always there to listen to their problems and offer advice, shows up, but now he needs someone to listen to him and offer advice.

Not your typical weekend down on the old Georgia plantation.

Targeted Age Group: Mature teens and adults
Written by: Bob Keaton

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Featured Post: Picasso’s Motorcycle by Marc Sercomb

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About Picasso’s Motorcycle:

France, 1940.
An unexpected gift of an old motorcycle with a tragically romantic past hurls a young orphan into the thick of things as war breaks out and his life changes forever. Half-French/half-German Daniel must find a way to survive in a world that mercy seems to have abandoned. This book transports the reader to Nazi-occupied France, where Daniel unwittingly and unexpectedly finds himself working for the Resistance, and ultimately to the Russian Front in a twist of fate so startling that no one can see it coming. In turn quirky, heartwarming, beguiling and uncompromising, author Marc Sercomb weaves together many moods and colors to tell young Daniel’s story. Beyond engaging, Picasso’s Motorcycle has been hailed as a genuine “page-turner” by those who have so far encountered it.

If you like “The Book Thief” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” you’ll love this book!

Targeted Age Group: adult, young adult
Written by: Marc Sercomb

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Featured Post: The Dolphin Law; A Story of the Seas by Linda Collister

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About Featured Book: The Dolphin Law; A Story of the Seas by Linda Collister

On sale for $.99 for the month of March!

Relax into the beauty of human truth, reveling in love and our spiritual connection to all that is.
Do you ever sit there and wonder how we humans have become so disconnected from nature?

Ever question how it is that we seem to have lost our way with the natural flow of life?

The ups and downs and turmoil of our fast-paced world leave us without a solid grounding in the foundation of our spiritual truth — it often seems we humans have lost our way.

The dolphins see this, too. They know of our past and of how we have drifted into a cloud of confusion and disconnect.

Many of them had given up on our return to a resonance of peace with mother nature. The dolphin law even forbids any dolphin from ever trying to establish contact with us again.

But a mother’s love will always do what it must — especially when the life of her young one is on the line.

The heart of humanity, of course, will forever be there to support those in need.

A story of re-established trust and love shows us that the bond between land dweller and ocean goer is just as strong now as it had ever been before.

A rediscovering of human and animal cohabitation serves as a beautiful reminder that no matter how lost we may become as a human species, at the end of it we are all one in spirit.

Stepping into an underwater world of confusion, chaos, and pleas for help from anyone able will remind you of our connection to all living beings and help bring those questions of our disconnect to a standstill.

We are each only as far from nature as we choose to be, sometimes we just need a little healthy reminder of our truth.

In Dolphin Law, you’ll discover:

A beautiful tale of how man and dolphin have wired together to make the impossible become something real and alive
The beauty and complexity with which dolphins nurture their children just as a human mother would
How dolphins connect on seemingly telepathic wavelengths, and why this is so advantageous to their survival in the wild
Insight into the beauty of how a mother dolphin teaches her young to survive
A dolphin’s tale of human retreat into the unknowing wilderness of land and disconnect from the freedom of the vast ocean
How one woman established communication with a dolphin mother and helped save her young one’s life
… and much more!

Dive into an ocean of remembrance and the beautiful connection of two kindred spirits.

From the depths of the great big blue, all the way into the compassionate heart of one young woman, a story of love and unity will bring us all together as we fight for each of our survival — side by side and into the sunsets of eternity.

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Featured Post: The Bodies That Move by Bunye Ngene

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About Featured Book: The Bodies That Move by Bunye Ngene

The Bodies That Move tells the riveting story of a man who embarks on a perilous journey in search of greener pastures. His journey takes him through transit cities, safe houses and detention camps in Nigeria, Niger and war-torn Libya, and sees him cross the Sahara Desert.

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Featured Post: SEX is nothing more than a game of tennis by Bob Keaton

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About SEX is nothing more than a game of tennis:

SAN FRANCISCO emerged as an adult playground unlike any other place in the country during the 1970’s. As it did, thousands of adventurous and sexually liberated young people migrated there.

SEX is nothing more than a game of tennis is the story of three of them. Chris, Jon and Andy, pals from the conservative South, are among those who flock to the City by the Bay during this time, leaving everything behind to start a new life.

A host of colorful supporting characters, men and women, straight and gay, many of whom live in the same apartment building, round out the cast.

Their adventures—and misadventures—are packed with humor, but also poignancy, as the guys explore the city and themselves and their sexuality in their new, permissive environment.
Andy is gay and confident of his sexuality, but can he fit into the city’s more open and sometimes flamboyant gay scene? He’s a nester, searching for a life-long relationship, but is that even possible where a new sex encounter is available on almost every street corner? And with an estimated thousand new men arriving each week near the end of the decade, the supply of sex partners seems endless. Will the temptation be too great?

Jon is a latent hippie, but has he arrived too late after the Summer of Love to find his niche? Or, can he be happy growing a beard and long hair, staying stoned, and running around nude while living in a shanty at the beach? Maybe not, after his old girlfriend from back east shows up.

Chris is in search of his sexual identity and a sense of belonging. A shocking encounter with a colleague recently left him questioning who he is and what he wants out of life. In his search, he’ll initially explore all that the city and its hot singles spots and sex clubs have to offer. Afterward, at times, not even remembering what happened last night, such as when he wakes up in an apartment in Sausalito one morning with a strange woman who he can’t rally. Is she dead? What happened last night?

Curious to learn more about Chris, Andy and Jon?

Targeted Age Group: Mature teens and adults
Written by: Bob Keaton

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Featured Post: Deadly Keyholes by Julie Morton

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FREE MARCH 6-10! A cornered woman is a dangerous animal. Some in Julie Morton's latest novel, Deadly Keyholes, pay for that lesson with their lives. Miranda LaVelle is an unwanted, bastard child of the 1920s Jazz Age. Without help, Miranda faces sure death. But her great aunt, Genevieve Woods, is her somewhat sinful savior. If you appreciate strong, independent women who will do whatever is necessary to protect their families, come, share the journey of the fascinating characters that populate Deadly Keyholes. Let them remind you that all darkness passes and then comes the dawn.

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Featured Post: Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

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About Featured Book: Princess of Independence by Icarus Bobain

Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso is a forgotten figure of the Italian Revolution
Born into a family of nobility, Belgiojoso learned at a young age what
foreigners interested in ruling the Italian States could be like.
She spent the rest of her life dedicated to uniting her home country and ousting those foreigners
who only brought harm and discord to the country.
After a failed marriage to a prince and being banished to live in Paris,
Belgiojoso met many key players in the French Government, helping to further her cause.
Her social circles were ones that everyone desired to be part of.
When Belgiojoso becomes a mother, with no father to help her, she still works toward her goal of a unified country, raising her daughter to understand the importance of her heritage.

Will she have to choose between being a mother or being a patriot?

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