Quotable Authors: John Steinbeck

Quotable Authors: Kurt Vonnegut

Book Review: Parallel Visions by Cheryl Rainfield

Book Details:

File Size: 342 KB
Print Length: 146 Pages
Publisher: Rain and Sun Press
Publication Date: November 15, 2012
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

A new YA fantasy from award-winning author of SCARS and HUNTED Cheryl Rainfield.

Visions can kill you. Would you risk your life to save someone else’s?

Kate sees psychic visions of the future and the past—but only when she’s having an asthma attack. When she “sees” her sister being beaten, she needs more visions to try to save her, along with a suicidal classmate—but triggering her asthma could kill her. Parallel Visions is the story of one brave, caring girl whose unusual gifts put her own life in danger.

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Quotable Authors: Robert Frost

Book Review: The Chameleon by E.J. Silverman and G.R. Smith

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File Size: 320 KB
Print Length: 122 Pages
Publisher: Silversmith Book Club
Publication Date: September 10, 2012
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

Suppose the casual conversation you’re having with this stranger is actually a job interview; and suppose you’re unknowingly interviewing for a job to fly half-way round the world to stop a madman. Would you have what it takes to be a Random?

The Organization has done the research, but Cam has the final say on who will be his five Randoms. Billy is the honest simpleton; every job needs the new guy. Manford is the Navy vet; life always deals him bad cards. Sarah is more than just eye candy; her street smart survival skills could mean the survival of the team. The Professor’s job is easy; analyze the data and get inside a madman’s head. Tom is the unwitting inside man; he’s the eyes and ears of the team, as long as he stays alive.

But which one is the Chameleon?

They all have to learn fast and think quick, because their rewards in life—and their lives—depend on it.

Join the Randoms in this new action adventure that takes them from Nowhere, USA, to a small tropical island where they find ancient secrets, defiant locals, and rogue military officers. Sometimes, the adventure is in the journey and the destination.

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Book Review: The Pact by CN Bring

Book Details:

File Size: 509 KB
Print Length: 322 Pages
Publisher: Assent Publishing
Publication Date: April 25, 2013
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

Commander Celia Kelly is a perceptive Naval Intelligence Officer rebuilding her life after the tragic loss of her husband. Newly assigned a mission planning Intel for a SEAL Team…The suspicious suicide of a fellow Officer has Kelly questioning everything.

With the help of a one of a kind secretary, by the book assistant, and a Navy SEAL, Kelly discovers she’s been set up. Digging relentlessly, nothing is as it seems. Someone is after twenty million dollars that disappeared when Kelly’s husband went MIA and now that someone is after her!

With surprises at the turn of every page, the original characters and three dimensional plot lines keep the suspense going until the very end.

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Book Review: Rena’s Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen and Heather Dune Macadam

Book Details:

File Size: 1055 KB
Print Length: 288 Pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: January 30, 2011
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to fulfill the promise Rena made to her mother when the family was forced to split apart–a promise to take care of her sister.

One of the few Holocaust memoirs about the lives of women in the camps, Rena’s Promise is a compelling story of the fleeting human connections that fostered determination and made survival a possibility. From the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters, to the links between prisoners, and even prisoners and guards, Rena’s Promise reminds us of the humanity and hope that survives inordinate inhumanity.

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