A loving couple raise their multi-racial, young daughter with the best of manners and breeding in suburban Los, Angeles, California. Yamaria’s parents shelter her from the realities of this world. She befriends a small bird which she claims ‘talks’ to her and only her. Thereafter, she is mysteriously orphaned while still at an important young stage in her life. Her nearby American aunt adopts her and though Yamaria attempts to adjust to her new circumstances, she turns to her studies as an escape from her feelings of confusion and longing to know her place in the world. Her American aunt continues her sister and brother-in-law’s method of raising Yamaria and is unfamiliar with their secret. As Yamaria delves further into her studies at university; she unwittingly follows a predestined path that could change the world forever. The protagonist leaves America for Italy and stays with her traditional Italian aunt and uncle to further her post-graduate research. Although her hardworking Italian uncle is oblivious as to what Yamaria searches for, her aunt possesses crucial information that will guide Yamaria to a pivotal event that challenges the limits of what she believes she is capable of. During this journey, she is reunited with an Italian, suave university classmate that takes a sudden interest in her. She is skeptical as Salvatore could have any woman that he wanted. She is an odd beauty with an awkwardness that he finds utterly attractive and refreshing. He convinces her of his intentions and they begin a romance that would be the envy of any townsperson. Salvatore, with all of his wealth and luxurious excursions he provides Yamaria, hopes that he can also be her protector. Yamaria is reacquainted with a being who has watched over her since she was a child, waiting for that inner part of her to reawaken so that it may be guided. However, paranormal circumstances forces Yamaria to stand on her own, using her wit, strength and fortitude to solve a puzzle involving a sacred tree in Italy and a keepsake that her father gifted her as a child. She discovers others who exist in different realms whom her parents were aware of. Yamaria quickly bonds with her newfound acquaintances as they realized that each of them must use their abnormal gifts to defeat a common enemy. One of the gifted possesses a special book that she holds onto dearly. Yamaria, with their vital assistance, successfully saves the Earth in her time hoping to not disturb other planes of existence. Yet this accomplishment is marred with the betrayal of one of her sisters. Yamaria and the others now must battle an enemy that follows them back to earth. Out of guilt for causing one of the gifted’s death (Livianna), Basilia appears to have sacrificed herself at an attempt for redemption. Salvatore supports his beloved Yamaria throughout the paranormal happenings. Despite the oddities that accompany her, he still asks for her hand in marriage. As she prepares for her nuptials, Yamaria’s grandparents withheld their knowledge that her American aunt and uncle died in a tragic car accident in America before the wedding. Yamaria and Salvatore welcomes a surprise guest at their wedding reception. She sees this person return in her true form. Gidadina places her beloved book in the care of the unaware Yamaria, slipping it in her bridal satchel. Salvatore and Yamaria have now affirmed their destiny. The worst is over until…
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English [Abridged, with Introduction] by John Myers O’Hara
About The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English [Abridged, with Introduction] by John Myers O’Hara:
Are you looking for love poems? Is so, you will really enjoy The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English.
Sappho is among only a handful of female poets from antiquity, and her work is undoubtedly among the best lyric poetry ever written. Her poems are written as words spoken from one person to another and speak about the joys and difficulties of romantic love.
Very little remains of her poems, but existing fragments suggest that she had a romantic interest in those of her own sex.
A distinction was not made in ancient Greece between homosexual and heterosexual relationships. Nevertheless, the terms “sapphic” and “lesbian,” both of which refer to same-sex female attraction, were inspired by her life and work.
Sappho has had an enduring reputation as a poet across the centuries. In modern times, she has come to be known as a great gay poet, and her work is enjoyed by many both in and outside of the LGBTQ community.
The publication has been abridged and contains a historical introduction, written by the editor.
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Reprisal (Redemption Song Book 1) by Tanya Anne Crosby
About Reprisal (Redemption Song Book 1) by Tanya Anne Crosby:
In this short prequel to Tanya Anne Crosby’s REDEMPTION SONG, Caia Paine contemplates her future as she travels to the airport on her way to a fateful trip to Spain. When a complication threatens all of Caia’s plans, her resolve and her sense of purpose are called into question.
An intense glimpse into the life of a woman at a crossroads, ”Reprisal” is a brief, powerful character study.
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The Things We Leave Behind (The Girl Who Stayed Book 1) by Tanya Anne Crosby
About The Things We Leave Behind (The Girl Who Stayed Book 1) by Tanya Anne Crosby:
Zoe Rutherford has come to the end of her rope. Her relationship with Chris has reached the breaking point and it is time to leave. But can she leave? And if she does, what is she willing to leave behind?
This stunning short story, the prequel to Tanya Anne Crosby’s remarkable new novel, THE GIRL WHO STAYED, is tense, poignant, and deeply satisfying – exactly what readers have come to expect from this New York Times bestselling author.
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Behavioral Astrology: How to Interpret Your Relationships ,Soul, and Self Through the Zodiac Signs by Charlie Emerson
About Behavioral Astrology: How to Interpret Your Relationships ,Soul, and Self Through the Zodiac Signs by Charlie Emerson:
Why do I feel anxious all the time?
When will I find ‘the one’?
What is my purpose in this life?
We’re all on a never-ending quest for guidance, answers, and solutions.
You may spend hours completing personality tests, reading self-help books, or visiting a tarot reader who will give you a glimpse of your fate.
It’s only natural that you want to know yourself better, make sense of the world around you, and seek out tools to help you overcome challenges.
That’s the main reason why behavioral astrology exists — to answer questions about you.
Astrology is often thought of as a form of entertainment.
In fact, many people never go beyond reading their daily horoscopes and obsessively checking compatibility with their crush.
This surface knowledge doesn’t begin to cover the astrological wisdom of the stars shared across lifetimes of study and practice.
When you take the time to go deeper into your natal chart, you will start to uncover:
The planetary influence in your life
The karmic past you didn’t know you had
And how celestial bodies can impact your patterns of behavior
With this renewed self-awareness, you can begin to truly understand what you need for a life of love, success, and prosperity.
In Behavioral Astrology, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:
A cosmic blueprint to uncover your full potential, tap into a world of possibilities, and know exactly what your soul needs from this lifetime
The foundations of astrological science explained — go deeper into zodiac signs, birth charts, and compatibility
Step-by-step instructions for creating, reading, and interpreting your birth chart (symbols and glyphs glossary included)
How to live your life with exceptional purpose — understand the subconscious impact of planets, aspects, and asteroids on your behavior
Mindfulness tools to shine a light on the deep inner workings of your heart, psyche, and soul
A glimpse into your past and a map into a bright future with the help of south and north nodes
The practical steps rooted in astrology to unblock your path to growth, evolution, and healthy relationships
And much more.
Whether you’re just astro-curious or you’re a seasoned astrology enthusiast, this handbook is a must-have!
The concepts of sun, moon, and rising signs you think you understand… are unpacked in greater depth than ever.
Know how to be the best possible version of yourself, cultivate only the right kind of relationships, and understand the core reasons you are here on this earth.
You no longer have to drift through life blind to your experiences.
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The Engagement Party: A hilarious family satire by R J Gould
About The Engagement Party: A hilarious family satire by R J Gould:
Things go from bad to worse during the week leading up to the engagement party when Wayne and Clarissa’s parents are about to meet for the first time. This laugh-out-loud dive into family life will help the reader appreciate that however bad things are in their own family, it could be a lot worse!
“A brilliant and original plot idea. It’s creative, fresh and oh-so-exciting.” Becca’s Books
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Utopia Café
“READERS WILL FIND THEMSELVES COMPLETELY IMMERSED…” Readers’ Favorite – Five Stars
Izzy, an attractive college senior, belongs to an underground freedom movement organizing against a repressive, yet poorly run, Marxist regime. She is challenged by the idea of recruiting Tom, an unlikely choice as a rising young star in the Party. But Izzy heard Tom may have hidden depths and could get inside information as an underground mole. He’s also nice looking.
Will their amusing and cautious interactions and gradual revelations develop into a deeper relationship of shared beliefs? Will increasing friction between the two marginally competent Party leaders finally provide an opportunity for the underground to take action? Will Tom be reunited with his capitalist parents whom he denounced as a child?
Appealing characters and background events develop with engaging and humorous dialogues and narratives, cultural and political satire, and serious commentary. Then events unfold with surprising twists and thriller scenes.
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28 Grams by Daniel Glennon
About 28 Grams by Daniel Glennon:
28 Grams is a gritty tale of murder, drugs, money, family, heartbreak and love. All ending with the ultimate story of betrayal.
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After witnessing the harrowing murder of his Dad, Jack vows to make something of his life and not follow the same violent path as his late Father. He tries, but soon realises that the apple does not fall far from the tree.
Jack starts to turn things around and focus on his dream of becoming a professional football player, only to fall victim to a horrific attack that leaves him fighting for his life and unable to play football ever again.
Fuelled by anger, he decides to leave his hometown and everyone that he loves, in the pursuit of money and power. His life is finally back on track, until he bumps into someone from his past, and learns the shocking truth about the people that attacked him.
Realising that his family could be in danger, he rushes to warn them. Will he get to them in time, or is it already too late?
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Beyond the Song by Carol Selick
About Featured Book: Beyond the Song by Carol Selick
Beyond the Song is an autobiographical novel based on the author’s coming of age in the ‘sixties and early ‘seventies. A singer-songwriter like her alter-ego Carol Marks, Carol Selick begins each chapter with lyrics she wrote and still performs today. Taken together, the songs introduce the themes of her story and trace the development of her character as she rebels against her strict suburban upbringing to join the counter-culture in hopes of fulfilling her dream of making it in the music business.
The narrator relates her tale in a warm, vulnerable, and irrepressibly zany voice as Carol goes to school in Washington DC, drops out to take a pilgrimage to Berkeley, and eventually winds up living in New York in pursuit of making it in the music business. Torn between romance and career, she continually wavers.
Her quest for freedom lands her in a series of dangerous situations and narrow escapes: she hitchhikes in California at the time of the Manson murders, attends anti-war demonstrations that turn violent, and is nearly arrested when her boyfriend is nabbed in a drug raid.
Along the way, the narrator also meets two important guides who help her sort her priorities, take herself seriously, and develop her considerable talents: Rose, a pioneering black woman songwriter based on hall-of-famer Rose Marie McCoy, Carol’s real-life mentor; and Bruce Pasternak, a fictionalized psychoanalyst who helps her establish the self-assurance to stand on her own two feet at a time when female singer-songwriters had few role models. All inform the heroine’s lyrics and narrative voice as she gradually learns to believe in herself, discipline her talent, and turn her heartbreak into song.
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Joan Put on a Happy Face by Carol M Mottershead
About Joan Put on a Happy Face by Carol M Mottershead:
A children’s favourite seaside puppet show is basis for this new novel by Carol M Mottershead
JOAN – Put on a Happy Face is a gripping read and a fascinating mix of history and fiction. Recently rated #1 BEST SELLER in Historical Biographical Fiction JOAN is a real page turner!
So what’s the story about?
A family, journey across time, spanning more than four centuries. Travelling from their beloved Italian homeland, around and across Europe, eventually ending their journey in England.
Their new lives turned upside down by an unexpected turn of fate after a potion – given by a family friend, changes their lives, their futures, their very existence – forever! They are abominations in the eyes of their God.
Love, joy, jealousy, murder and mystery. A family torn apart by circumstances. Will they ever find peace?
The mystery unfolds in this historical biographical fiction about Joan and her family written from the imaginings of author Carol M Mottershead.
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From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley
About Featured Book: From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley
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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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Sounding The Alarm: Divine revelations by Victor Lahens
About Sounding The Alarm: Divine revelations by Victor Lahens:
What if I told you, that “one dream, and its interpretation can determine the fate of a nation.” would you believe???
Our Country is in grave danger! There are enemies that hide in the shadows and also in the plain of sight, but God! Has given us Divine insight by the means of Dreams and Visions. This ancient art of communication is one way God speaks to mankind. This book is a collection of revelations God gave me concerning America & is also my shofar to the nation. Therefore i am sounding the alarm! To awaken the spirit of America and the Faith of the people. That they may know & believe that God sees all the secret things of man & delivers all those who believe in him. Check out this book. God have something to tell you.
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Seeking Angels by G J Griffiths
About Seeking Angels by G J Griffiths:
When Detective Inspector Walter Button, of the 19th century Manchester police force, is ordered to take charge of the investigations into the massive spread of crime in Angel Meadow he has little idea of the size and spread of the task ahead of him. A simple burglary at a church where two teenaged boys are the suspects will lead Button into a world of gangland murders and political rebellion. The dedicated and practical detective also finds an even bigger challenge ahead when his rare romantic side begins to surface, confronting and confounding his professional aims and objectives
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A Better Heart by Chuck Augello
A Better Heart by Chuck Augello
For aspiring indie filmmaker Kevin Stacey, it’s another day on the set of his first film, but when his estranged father, a failed Hollywood actor, arrives unexpectedly with a bundle of cash, a gun, and a stolen capuchin monkey, he’s propelled toward the journey that will change his life.
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No Matter the Cost by Daniel Pare
No Matter the Cost by Daniel Pare
The Turners have been rocked by their oldest child’s spiraling depression and self-destructive behavior. When the psychiatrists have exhausted all treatment options, they recommend an in-patient facility the Turners cannot afford.
How far will a parent go to save a child? At what cost? How do you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved?
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Last Chance California
Are We All Doomed to Become Our Parents?
Terrified he’s becoming just like his father, Wyatt Lewis, a disillusioned millennial, breaks up with his fiancée to chase his childhood dream – a fresh start in Southern California.
Once in San Diego, Wyatt reunites with an old friend, Summer Harrison, while falling hard for the elusive and free-spirited, Leah Murphy. Summer and Leah show Wyatt a dazzling world littered with lavish speakeasies, egregious drug use, and overpriced cocktails. Surrounded by fake glamor and stuck in a terrible corporate job, Wyatt’s escape turns into his worst nightmare.
Overworked, alone, and filled with regret, the aspiring writer spirals down a self-destructive path that forces him to confront the violent past he ran away to California to forget.
In his raw, hilarious, and dark debut novel, Brian Price showcases our world, on the verge of the COVID-19 pandemic, through the eyes of a sarcastic and stubborn narrator as he attempts to drown his family’s demons.
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Kiwi To My Heart by Lori R. Taylor
About Featured Book: Kiwi To My Heart by Lori R. Taylor
(This book will be free from 12/24/2021 through 1/14/2022)
It’s easier to be brave with a good dog by your side.
Leslie Durant, owner of Pretty Paws, doesn’t care that she’s always giving all of her time and attention to others: it’s worth the joy of helping abandoned animals find loving forever homes. But if she can’t find a way to bring more money into the struggling shelter, the sacrifices she’s made will all be for nothing.
Then her brother leaves her with an inheritance, with two stipulations: she must work with her estranged mother to host a successful charity event and find a loving home for Peter’s dog, Kiwi.
But Leslie’s not sure she can forgive the woman who cowered in a corner while Leslie’s father hit her.
Kiwi was severely abused before Peter adopted her. No matter where Leslie places Kiwi, the nervous cockapoo keeps showing up on her doorstep. She seems determined to stay with Leslie, no matter what.
Even though Kiwi is terrified of everything, the sweet little dog makes Leslie feel braver. With Kiwi by her side, can Leslie save the shelter, face down the demons of her past, and take the risk of forgiving the mother who let her down when Leslie needed her most?
The Kiwi To My Heart is the sixth and final book in the Soul Mutts series, heartwarming stories of lost dogs finding new homes with the humans they were born to heal.
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Rustlers in the Sage: A Western Novella by Donald L. Robertson
About Rustlers in the Sage: A Western Novella by Donald L. Robertson:
Holt Kincannon has nothing left but his horse, his guns, and his pride. His years as a Texas rancher and lawman are behind him. His wife and son rest on a lonely hill overlooking the Llano River.
Now, he rides through the rugged mountains and sagebrush covered valleys of Northern New Mexico, searching. He’s hoping for a new life, but will settle for a hot meal.
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Make Me Exist by Brittany Ziegler
About Featured Book: Make Me Exist by Brittany Ziegler
Valerie isn’t who she thinks she is. She isn’t even human. Hunted by an alien race, can she discover the truth before it’s too late?
Valerie’s daughter Charlotte is celebrating her sixth birthday and she’s loving it. Presents, games, and cake! For Valerie, it’s not that simple. Being with her ex-husband and his new wife is always a strain, but not as hard as finding out that you’re not who you think you are.
When a group of mysterious men unexpectedly show up at the party, suddenly Valerie’s whole life feels like a lie. Why do they look so familiar? Why do they act like they know her? Stranger yet, why do they have the same startling green eyes as Charlotte?
Catapulted into a world she doesn’t remember, Valerie needs to trust these strangers to help save her daughter and herself from a terrible fate. She and Charlotte are pure-bloods, the only chance for an alien race on the brink of extinction.
On the run and hunted, her enemies will not rest until they have them in their clutches. But as her memories return, can Valerie tap into the powers she didn’t even know she possessed and save their lives?
Make Me Exist is a heart-pounding sci-fi adventure, with just the right amount of romance, that will keep you riveted to your seat in a journey of mind twisting awakenings.
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Kin Strife by Abby Brown
About Kin Strife by Abby Brown:
Terra is always outside, looking in. No true connection to anyone, anywhere, except for one city friend.
She expects the village life stories from the elders to be simple and routine. Never has she been expected to participate in the village life. Sure. She’s rocked a baby, cooked a meal, shared memories. No more, until now.
This village of people lost between cultures is different. Their fragmented stream of life sweeps her off her feet, and threatens all she knows of her own past, and future.
Some villagers wish the whole village to flounder on the border of the only homeland they know. She must tame the stream back into its banks, and strengthen it for the future.
Terra risks her past, future, and one friendship in the world, to try to rescue this village. And the children she has begun to call her own.
33 Chapters
43,060 words
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