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Monday, April 30, 2012

The Seven Daughters -
A Children's Myth About Rainbows
by debut 12 year author Jessica Joyce

We are pleased to announce the debut Children's story by 12 year old author, Jessica Joyce.

In this adorable children's myth, we embark on a story of love, family and nature...told in a mythological style. Also, embedded within this beautiful children's tale is a mini Japanese language lesson. In this tale, readers (and young listeners) depart on an adventure with "The Seven Daughters" and inadvertently discover a mythological explanation for the creation of rainbows. But more importantly, young readers learn that when siblings care for each other and work together.....beautiful things happen.

Available on Amazon Kindle

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Betrayed by Wodke Hawkinson

Author's website:
http://findagoodbooktoread.com/books-by-wodke-hawkinson.php

Brook, a Denver socialite, seems to have a good life until she becomes the victim of a botched carjacking. In a matter of minutes, her life is forever altered. She is abducted, transported, and held for days by three brutal men in a remote mountain location. She escapes only to end up barefoot, nearly naked, and hopelessly lost in the Colorado wilderness at the beginning of a harsh winter.

Lance, a man who has shunned society, lives like a recluse in a rustic cabin far removed from the modern world. He likes his solitary life. But his world is about to be turned upside down.

Advisory: Contains sexual violence and harsh language.

This book also has a companion publication that offers a different conclusion to the story. See "Betrayed - Alternate Ending" by Wodke Hawkinson.

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The Amazing Adventures of a Nobody
by Leon Logothetis

Author's website:
http://leonlogothetis.com/

Tired of his disconnected life and uninspiring job, Leon Logothetis leaves it all behind-job, money, home even his cell phone-and hits the road with nothing but the clothes on his back and five dollars in his pocket, relying on the kindness of strangers and the serendipity of the open road for his daily keep. Along the way, Leon offers up the intriguing and charming tales gathered along his one-of-a-kind journey: riding in trains, buses, big rigs and classic cars; sleeping on streets and couches and firehouses; meeting pimps and preachers, astronauts and single moms, celebrities and homeless families, veterans and communists. Each day of his journey, we catch sight of the invisible spiritual underpinning of society in these stories of companionship-and sheer adventure-that prove that the kind, good soul of mankind has not been lost.

Romance Author Profile: Mary Campisi

Author Website and Book Collection:

http://www.marycampisi.com/

A woman once told me my stories will pull you apart and put you back together but never in quite the same way. I should have known I’d become a writer when at age thirteen I began changing the ending to all the books I read. It took several years and a number of jobs, including registered nurse, (very short lived), receptionist in a swanky hair salon, (great cuts, no money), accounts payable clerk, (ugh- not for a right brainer!), and practice manager in an OB/GYN office, (good job, great boss), for me to rediscover writing. It all began at the hands of a 286 computer, a failing marriage, and three daughters under the age of five........

My Name Was Jiack by John W Townsend

Authors web address :
http://www.papabears-publishing.com

A science fiction book with a romance.
Jack Thatcher was the commander of The Aaltar Mars space station, at least until it was torn apart in an accident. Now he grapples with life, doing no deal with dying as he attempts to land a torn 'tin can' on the Martian surface. Then a voice instructs him, a female voice, who is she, and who is Jiack.

"Skivvy Girl: The Love of a Post WWII Japanese Pleasure Girl" by Earnest Mercer

Author's website:
http://www.earnestmercerbooks.com

This novel tells with seamless authenticity and brutal realism the life of Japan's young post war prostitutes, known as "skivvy girls" in military parlance, and is depicted by the composite protagonist, Matsuyama Yoshiko. Her story begins in a tiny farming community in 1945, when as a seventeen-year-old girl she is stunned by the harsh reality that the death of her father on Iwo Jima has left her and her mother destitute and on the verge of starvation. Yoshiko, a sexually inexperienced virgin, turns to prostitution in the iniquitous naval port city of Yokosuka for survival. She arrives penniless, alone, and with no concept of the callous world of prostitution in which she is about to enter. Taken in by a skivvy house madam, she endures exhaustive training on how to accommodate her clients. When she completes training, she takes her place among the other skivvy house girls. From the
beginning, she suffers brutal treatment from pitiless, often drunken, seamen hungering for sex after long periods at sea. After enduring the demanding life of a prostitute for several months, she is visited by a shy young American sailor who treats her with kindness and respect. They form a bond that eventually morphs into love. Yoshiko leaves the skivvy house to live with her American lover. Together they endure language differences, cultural challenges, and the harshness of the post-war environment, but find solace in their affection for one another. But what does fate hold for these star-crossed lovers?

PRYING EYES by DEBBY CONRAD

Author's website:
http://www.debbyconrad.com/

Joe Flynn is just like any other twelve-year-old his age, except for one thing. Joe has witnessed a murder. The only thing is, no one believes him. Not his mother, and certainly not the detective assigned to the “alleged” case. At least not until dead bodies start popping up.

After thirteen years, Detective Roman MacKenzie has had enough of big city crime in New York and craves the crime-free existence of the small town where he was born. But no sooner than Roman returns to Salmon Lake, PA, he not only finds himself in the middle of a serial murder investigation, but he’s drawn to the woman he left behind all those years ago--Angela Flynn.

Angela’s son is the only witness they have, and it’s Roman’s job to protect him from the killer. Only the detective has no idea that the boy he’s risking his life to save is also his son. Nor does he realize that, looming in the shadows, is the killer and he’s bent on making Angela his next victim.

Princess Lydia and the Fire Breathing Dragon
by Denise Byers; Illustrated by Danielle Gray

Author's website:
http://www.facebook.com/dandeelionpublishing

Princess Lydia cannot see when she doesn’t wear her glasses so she wears them every day. Because it’s still hard for her to see everything, some people think that she can’t do things that others can do, but she never lets that stop her from doing the things she wants to do, like riding her horse, Diva, all over the Kingdom!

Princess Lydia is known as one of the bravest Princesses in all the land!

The Princess’s friend, Prince William, has been captured by the Kingdom’s Fire Breathing Dragon and Princess Lydia is determined to rescue him! She and her trusty knights go to where the dragon is holding the Prince captive and when they get there they are shocked by what they find!!
Join Princess Lydia on her adventure and find out what she learns as she bravely tries to rescue her friend from a very scary dragon!

The Stocking by Cynthianna

Author's website:
http://www.devinedestinies.com/the-stocking/

By A Thread by Marty Beaudet

Author's website:
http://fauxmeme.wordpress.com

"The time will come when the Constitution and the Government will hang by a thread and will be ready to fall...but this people, the Latter-Day Saints, will step forth and save it." Thus prophesied the founding prophet of the Mormon Church. Is this prophecy on the verge of being fulfilled? Some adherents to the faith within the U.S. government think so. But what role will 21-year-old missionary Kevin "Red" Davis play when the CIA approaches him? What choices will he make when his faith, his patriotism, and his personal integrity come into conflict? Unfolding on the streets of Vienna, Munich, and Washington, D.C.; and in the confines of a prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, By A Thread is a tale of truth, trust, and betrayal.