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Book Review: Parallel Visions by Cheryl Rainfield

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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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May 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

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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April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Book Review: The Pact by CN Bring

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

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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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April 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Book Review: Falstaff’s Big Gamble by Hank Quense

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File Size: 375 KB
Print Length: 230 Pages
Publisher: Strange Worlds Publishing
Publication Date: August 10, 2012
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

This novel is Shakespeare’s Worst Nightmare.

It takes two of the Bard’s most famous characters, Hamlet and Othello, and recasts them in Gundarland. There, Hamlet becomes a dwarf and Othello a dark elf.

If that isn’t bad enough, these two tragedies are now comedies with Falstaff, Shakespeare’s most popular rogue, thrown in as a bonus.

Both Hamlet and Othello are plagued by the scheming Falstaff, who embezzles money from Othello. After Hamlet becomes king (with help from Falstaff) the rogue becomes the dark nemesis behind the throne.

Never read Shakespeare? Not a problem. No knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays is required to enjoy this romp through the Guandarlandian countryside.

Not familiar with Shakespeare? No problem. You’ll still enjoy this romp.

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April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Book Review: Escape From Ancient Egypt by AK Taylor

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File Size: 1447 KB
Print Length: 182 Pages
Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC
Publication Date: December 19, 2012
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

Seeking his revenge on Neiko for exposing him, Francesco banishes Neiko into ancient Egypt just like he did her friends eleven years ago. During her stay there, she unravels the mystery of what happened to her four friends. Now she’s faced with a bigger problem—how to get home. After a series of unfortunate events, Neiko is now entangled with Pharaoh Ramesses II. Francesco also comes to make sure their fates are sealed. Can Neiko and her friends beat impossible odds and return to Hawote and back to the present?

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April 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Book Review: My Father’s Daughter by Teresa Marotta

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File Size: 473 KB
Print Length: 200 Pages
Publisher: Crary Publications
Publication Date: February 4, 2011
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

Stalking and kidnapping in the 19th century!

After the death of her father in the spring of 1893 in South Carolina, Amelia Porter discovers her father’s old travel journals that tell of his marriage to a Cherokee maiden during one of his summer trading trips. Amelia further learns of the birth of a baby daughter. A sister she never knew existed.

Thwarted in her request to travel un-chaperoned with her father’s former young trapping companion, a strong-willed Amelia is determined to find and unite with her half-sister, in spite of the intimidating warnings from her stern godfather and her mother’s concern for her safety. With decisive single-mindedness she devises an intricate scheme to follow the roguish trapper to the Cherokee trading camp.

During the course of Amelia’s treacherous journey she is stalked by a renegade Indian named Mukipha who plots to kidnap her and take her for his wife or place her head on a pole in front of his abode if she refuses. He is obsessed with the anticipated magic that her long, curly red hair will bring him in order to vindicate him and restore his position within his tribe. The budding romance between Amelia and the trapper only makes Mukipha a more dangerous and angry predator while trying to capture his trophy.

My Father’s Daughter is a historical adventure filled with suspense, romance, laughter and tears, taking the reader on a journey through the backwoods and swamps of South Carolina into the Blue Ridge Mountains, as well as into the real world of the Cherokee long after the Trail Of Tears.

The current Medicine Woman and Keeper of the Flame for the Cherokee Nation was the resource for much of the authentic and historically accurate Cherokee customs of that era.

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March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Book Review: Deadly Plunge by Greg Messel

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File Size: 4321 KB
Print Length: 420 Pages
Publisher: Gregory W. Messel
Publication Date: October 1, 2012
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Book Summary:

Former baseball player and newly-minted private investigator, Sam Slater is hired to find out why a rich, politically-well connected San Francisco man, Arthur Bolender, suddenly ended his life by plunging off of the Golden Gate Bridge. All those who know Arthur say unequivocally that he did not commit suicide. However, Bolender’s body was found floating in San Francisco Bay and his car was abandoned in the traffic lane of the bridge. Meanwhile, Sam’s romance with glamorous TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan continues to blossom and deepen. She is now his secret fiancee. Amelia also eagerly helps Sam solve his cases when she’s in town. The key to unraveling the mystery seems to be a strange old Victorian-style house. Bolender’s widow, a rich, seductive socialite named Maggie Bolender, was not even aware that her husband owned the house. What is really going on behind the doors of the mysterious house? Finding the answers will plunge Sam and Amelia into a dangerous world of political intrigue in the exciting sequel to “Last of the Seals.”

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