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Featured Post: Western Apprehension by Michael Toledano

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“About Western Apprehension:

Decision time is fast approaching. Marshal Ben Corrigan is nearing retirement
from a long, rewarding career as a roving law officer in the Northeast New
Mexico territory circa 1886. Moving into the unknown and uncertain realm of
retirement has little appeal to him. His romantic interest, widow Rachel
Langford, wants him to turn in his badge and settle down with her. However,
even though he finds it tempting, he still has misgivings which are not all
related to leaving his life-fulfilling profession.

Compounding his uncertainty is his own survival. A routine assignment to
transport a man who murdered a deputy sheriff in the town of Iron Horse
Junction to the territorial capital of Santa Fe goes awry. The struggles
he endures during this incident will finally cause him to make his
fateful decision, Whatever he chooses – everything hangs on his ability to
survive his present ordeal.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michael Toledano

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Featured Post: The Virgin Whore by Meg Buchanan

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“About The Virgin Whore:

An unforgettable love story between two people thrown together by circumstances and treachery.

New Zealand, 1892. At thirty-seven, Courtney Samuels has his life organized just the way he wants it. His mother cooks for him, and keeps his house in order, he has friends for companionship and a mistress who meets all his other needs. Besides his best friend is married to the only woman he’s ever loved.

Then a friend of his invites him to the club to talk business and Sophie, the girl waiting at their table intrigues him. She only looks seventeen or eighteen and is beautiful, refined, nervous and a totally inept waitress. When she slops the soup on the tablecloth, he puts his hand over hers to stop the nervous dabbing at the mess and she reacts to being touched like she’s been burned.

He’s mystified, why would she react like that to being touched, especially as she’s working in a club that is primarily a brothel? He decides it’s none of his business.

As he’s leaving the premises, he sees another young girl about the same age as Sophie forced into a room and the door locked. She looks terrified, but once again he decides to walk away.

The next morning, his sister Alice arrives back from church and as he talks to her, he’s reminded of Sophie and how much Alice is like her. He can’t see Alice working at the club. She teases him and is full of plans. She’s a follower of Mrs Shepherd and is deeply involved in the fight for women’s suffrage.

He goes back to the club and Sophie asks him to help her escape. She tells him her story, and he decides he can’t ignore what is happening any longer and promises to get her away.

Targeted Age Group: adults
Written by: Meg Buchanan

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Featured Post: Where do you go to by Jean Cerfontaine

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“About Where do you go to:

When the young Marie-Claire wakes up in Rome, she has no idea who she is or how she got there.

Her tale of adversity starts in the biting cold, her past unknown and her future uncertain. Our heroine gets adopted from the Marcigliana orphanage by a French diplomat, initiating a journey of self-discovery across post-World War II Europe.

In Athens, she discovers a talent for ballet, which gets elevated to greater heights when the family moves to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Marie-Claire blooms into a social butterfly, joining the high society in Paris and mingling in social circles with the famous singers, writers, and artists who inhabit the City of Light in the early 1960s.

Her marvelous travels across Europe include adventurous summer vacations in the French Riviera, weekends at the family country estate in Chantilly and winters in snowy St Moritz.

Interspersed with the coming of age tale of her young life, is her attendance of an embassy party in Paris as a young woman in 1965. Now a student at the Sorbonne, Marie-Claire meets up with figures from her past in the Soviet embassy and faces a painful reminder of an event which forever changed her life in Moscow.

The epic account of Marie-Claire’s life is an enthralling literary adaptation of Peter Sarstedt’s famous song, celebrating 50 years since he won the 1969 Ivor Novello award for “Where do you go to (my lovely)?” The mystery of her origins is finally uncovered, revealing the tragic time prior to that cold night in Rome, bringing an unexpected end to her persistent nightmares and morning tears.

Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Jean Cerfontaine
Illustrated by: Jean Cerfontaine

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Featured Post: Where do you go to by Jean Cerfontaine

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“About Where do you go to:

When the young Marie-Claire wakes up in Rome, she has no idea who she is or how she got there.

Her tale of adversity starts in the biting cold, her past unknown and her future uncertain. Our heroine gets adopted from the Marcigliana orphanage by a French diplomat, initiating a journey of self-discovery across post-World War II Europe.

In Athens, she discovers a talent for ballet, which gets elevated to greater heights when the family moves to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Marie-Claire blooms into a social butterfly, joining the high society in Paris and mingling in social circles with the famous singers, writers, and artists who inhabit the City of Light in the early 1960s.

Her marvelous travels across Europe include adventurous summer vacations in the French Riviera, weekends at the family country estate in Chantilly and winters in snowy St Moritz.

Interspersed with the coming of age tale of her young life, is her attendance of an embassy party in Paris as a young woman in 1965. Now a student at the Sorbonne, Marie-Claire meets up with figures from her past in the Soviet embassy and faces a painful reminder of an event which forever changed her life in Moscow.

The epic account of Marie-Claire’s life is an enthralling literary adaptation of Peter Sarstedt’s famous song, celebrating 50 years since he won the 1969 Ivor Novello award for “Where do you go to (my lovely)?” The mystery of her origins is finally uncovered, revealing the tragic time prior to that cold night in Rome, bringing an unexpected end to her persistent nightmares and morning tears.

Targeted Age Group: 18+
Written by: Jean Cerfontaine
Illustrated by: Jean Cerfontaine

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Pulling God’s Teeth by Anthony Delstretto

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“About Pulling God’s Teeth:

In 1882, twenty-four-year-old Carlo Como goes out fishing one dawn on the wide river near his northern Italian village of Castrubello. The Pirino has provided a living for the Como family for generations, but this morning Carlo hauls in a very different catch: three large white rocks known as “God’s Teeth.” The valuable stones, coveted by local ceramic-makers, will allow him to marry his love, Tonia Vacci, a worker in the town’s dismal silk mill.
But the fisherman’s good fortune is resented by estate manager Baldassare Gaetano, greedy both for Tonia and the profit from the stones. Carlo’s discovery unleashes a chain of love and jealousy, courage and betrayal, despair and perseverance that will define the Como and Vacci families during the tumultuous decades to come.

Tonia’s brother, Ettore, is determined to advance through life on his own merits and bids farewell to Castrubello. With a hot-headed partner, he forms a construction company and heads south to carve The King’s Road through the mountains of Campania. Ettore soon finds himself fighting an impossible deadline and a band of cut-throat brigands led by the murderous Corsicano, determined to halt the unwanted intruder so brazenly threatening his mountain lair.

PULLING GOD’S TEETH is the first volume of “The Last Italian, A Saga in Three Parts”, a gripping epic that begins in 1882 Italy and spans more than sixty years of social and political tumult. Three generations of characters, bound by blood and shared histories, face rapacious landowners, deadly epidemics, unforgiving warfare, dangerous emigration, and Fascist brutality during the turbulent era of the Kingdom of Italy. As the series’ protagonists struggle to balance ambition, love, and loyalty against the harsh demands of survival, inscrutable Fate forever stands ready to randomly intervene.

Targeted Age Group: 18+
Written by: Anthony Delstretto

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Summary & Analysis of The Only Plane in the Sky by SNAP Summaries

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“About Summary & Analysis of The Only Plane in the Sky:

Garrett M. Graff has taken his cues from the witness statements that form the bones and marrow of the story, skillfully threading together the drama and pain in the words of those left behind. It’s a historical masterpiece that preserves the essence of American resilience, through the shock and heartbreak thrust upon the nation on September 11, 2001.

Targeted Age Group: ALL
Written by: SNAP Summaries

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Compromise With Sin by Leanna Englert

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“About Compromise With Sin:

She stops at nothing to maintain a veneer of Victorian respectability. But the consequences of infidelity prove far worse than mere exposure.

After straying into the arms of Doc Foster and becoming pregnant, small-town civic leader Louise Morrissey faces ruin if anyone─especially her husband─finds out.

When infection steals the eyesight of her newborn baby, Louise knows it is punishment for her sin. What she doesn’t know is that the web of deceit she weaves to safeguard her marriage and reputation will eventually ensnare her husband and daughter with tragic consequences.

Guilt-ridden and seeking redemption, Louise risks revelation of her secrets as she joins Helen Keller, who dares to “speak the unspeakable,” in a grassroots movement to end the blinding scourge known as “babies’ sore eyes.”

In a confessional moment, Louise signs in Helen’s hand: “When you wrote ‘they enslave their children’s children who make compromise with sin,’ you were writing about me.”

A fictional version of real events, the story pits Louise, Helen, and others against society’s taboos as they champion what would become one of the greatest public health triumphs of the 20th century.

And the story is one of romantic love at its most complicated, tragic, and poignant.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Leanna Englert

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Featured Post: No Person Above the Law: Historical Italian Fiction Based on the Life of Judge John J. Sirica by Cythina Cooper

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“About No Person Above the Law: Historical Italian Fiction Based on the Life of Judge John J. Sirica:

s the chief judge of the federal court in Washington D.C. in 1972, John J. Sirica took on the trial of burglars arrested while planting electronic bugs in the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex. Who had sent them? The defendants weren’t saying and President Nixon disavowed any knowledge of the conspirators.

Sirica came to the law as the son of an Italian immigrant who lived a hardscrabble life. From these roots, he fought as a boxer while simultaneously going to law school. Practicing law in D.C., he defended criminals and prosecuted them, too. As a judge, he earned the nickname “Maximum John” for the maximum sentences he was apt to deliver.

No Person Above the Law describes how Sirica was determined to see the truth come out during the Watergate scandal, even going toe-to-toe with the White House to order the release of secret tapes. Named Time Man of the Year, Judge Sirica held high the central promise of the U.S. Constitution: no person is above the law.

Targeted Age Group: 40-65
Written by: Cythina Cooper

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Featured Post: Where do you go to by Jean Cerfontaine

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“About Where do you go to:

When the young Marie-Claire wakes up in Rome, she has no idea who she is or how she got there.

Her tale of adversity starts in the biting cold, her past unknown and her future uncertain. Our heroine gets adopted from the Marcigliana orphanage by a French diplomat, initiating a journey of self-discovery across post-World War II Europe.

In Athens, she discovers a talent for ballet, which gets elevated to greater heights when the family moves to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Marie-Claire blooms into a social butterfly, joining the high society in Paris and mingling in social circles with the famous singers, writers, and artists who inhabit the City of Light in the early 1960s.

Her marvelous travels across Europe include adventurous summer vacations in the French Riviera, weekends at the family country estate in Chantilly and winters in snowy St Moritz.

Interspersed with the coming of age tale of her young life, is her attendance of an embassy party in Paris as a young woman in 1965. Now a student at the Sorbonne, Marie-Claire meets up with figures from her past in the Soviet embassy and faces a painful reminder of an event which forever changed her life in Moscow.

The epic account of Marie-Claire’s life is an enthralling literary adaptation of Peter Sarstedt’s famous song, celebrating 50 years since he won the 1969 Ivor Novello award for “Where do you go to (my lovely)?” The mystery of her origins is finally uncovered, revealing the tragic time prior to that cold night in Rome, bringing an unexpected end to her persistent nightmares and morning tears.

Targeted Age Group: 18+
Written by: Jean Cerfontaine

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Featured Post: A Girl Like You by Michelle Cox

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“About A Girl Like You:

Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings. Henrietta is eventually persuaded to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall—and just when she’s beginning to enjoy herself, the floor matron turns up dead.

When aloof Inspector Clive Howard appears on the scene, Henrietta agrees to go undercover for him—and is plunged into Chicago’s grittier underworld. Meanwhile, she’s still busy playing mother hen to her younger siblings, as well as to pesky neighborhood boy Stanley, who believes himself in love with her and keeps popping up in the most unlikely places, determined to keep Henrietta safe—even from the Inspector, if need be. Despite his efforts, however, and his penchant for messing up the Inspector’s investigation, the lovely Henrietta and the impenetrable Inspector find themselves drawn to each other in most unsuitable ways.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michelle Cox

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Featured Post: The Munich Girl by Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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“About The Munich Girl:

The past may not be done with us. Fifty years after the end of World War II, Anna is plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante — and Hitler’s lover — and finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” – Philadelphia Inquirer.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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Summary & Analysis of Killing the SS by ZIP Reads

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“About Summary & Analysis of Killing the SS:

In their seventh installment of the bestselling “Killing” series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard weave a riveting narrative about the decades-long hunt for Nazi war criminals in hiding since the end of the World War II.

Targeted Age Group: ALL
Written by: ZIP Reads

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Featured Post: Ancient Ways: The Roots of Religion by Diane Olsen

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About Ancient Ways: The Roots of Religion:

“An insightful and well-considered concept – the idea of a connective thread of monotheistic faith throughout the history of mankind is most compelling!” Editorial: -Historian Gretchen Ames

“In order to enjoy this book, you may have to suspend current beliefs, since some of the concepts may seem quite foreign at first. What if monotheism always existed, and revelations were given to all human forms. There are hints to that effect!”

Too often we tweak religion to reflect our personal thoughts rather than dealing directly with the Word of God. Monotheism, today is represented by at least nine living faiths yet praying to God alone is not enough for many. Instead we pray to Prophets, angels, saints, ancestors, deities, even the universe.

This creates a chain of “Paths” and “Ways” which become stained, over time, by human desires for control and material benefits. And as darkness and materialism overtake one Faith, another is born, through the intervention of the Holy Spirit, which is clothed in a different form, with a new name, and very familiar teachings.

Like the Tree of Life, monotheism can be visualized as a chain linking prehistory and history, entwined with human additions, wisps, and twists that produce an undulating, ultimate Yin and Yang. This constant interaction of complementary, as well as conflicting, forces and energies, exhibits both organic unity and dynamism even war. Those who suspect there is a unified core of basic beliefs should enjoy Ancient Ways. Hopefully you will find precious gems to take with you.

Targeted Age Group: 12 and up

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