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The bird that saved the fish by Harry Teasdale

The bird that saved the fish by Harry Teasdale

This is a story of a family of seagulls who are struggling a fishy war against the fishermen at sea. in the end

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Elise Unleashed

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As book two of a three-part series, Elise Unleashed follows the life of Elise Adair, a woman in her forties, as she navigates life after her divorce. Elise soon discovers her desires have taken a dark turn as her relationship with a voyeuristic neighbor continues to intensify. Her insatiable thirst for sex after leaving a sexless marriage must be quenched, and there is no shortage of willing men who are ready to satisfy her needs. Elise struggles to come to terms with her desires as she is pursued by Wyatt Smith, a gorgeous carpenter who has fallen hard for her. Should she embrace Wyatt or allow herself to cross over to the dark side? Sex and exploration of fetishes abound as she traverses her new way of life in search of happiness and sexual fulfillment.

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The Auction by Elci North

The Auction by Elci North

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In a society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push up the birth rate are enacted that strip women of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose who to marry, and the right to raise her biological child.
Logical computer programmer Jane overindulges at a graduation party, winds up pregnant, and is forced to marry a near-stranger. Drama queen Angelica bets a gay guy in a bar that he couldn’t “do it with a woman.” Pregnant Angelica loses her job and the love of her life. And after 13 years of trying, Millie finally conceives, but sitting vigil at her severely injured husband’s bedside takes priority. Fifteen-year-old Wendy loves school and art, but an ex-convict breaks the glass from her window and rapes her.
Their paths cross when they are sentenced to the same pregnancy prison. But as lawmakers know, putting women together can lead to ideas. Ideas that could end the baby auction and bring down the government.

“Four women use their skills, along with the help of sympathetic men, to hatch a plan to set things right. Readers will toggle between rage and hope as they immerse themselves in North’s meticulous worldbuilding that exposes the hypocrisy and illogic of brutal government policies, stifling bureaucracy, and government censorship. North crafts a memorable and emotional thrill ride through an unnerving society with intelligent and inspirational characters who strive to create their own destiny.” Booklife Review

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The Color of Pain by E.G. Rose

About Featured Book: The Color of Pain by E.G. Rose

In The Color of Pain, author E.G. Rose delivers a haunting horror novel that explores the dark side of human nature.

Raymond is an orphan with a talent for art who suffers from chronic stomach pain. He has been ruthlessly bullied about his strangeness and “special” abilities that sometimes frighten the other children at The Haven for Little Wanderers Orphanage.

When his new case worker, Ada, shows him affection and helps explain how he can see through people’s emotions and secrets, Raymond is thrilled. However, as he delves deeper into his strange abilities, he discovers the horrifying truth about himself – he must feed on the pain of others to survive.

Ada becomes increasingly controlling and possessive, pushing Raymond to feed off his only friend, leading him down a dark path that culminates in a tragic ending.

With chilling prose and a gripping storyline, The Color of Pain is a must-read for horror fans who crave stories that delve deep into the human psyche.

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The Munich Girl

About The Munich Girl

The past may not be done with us. Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong shattered. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer

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Autism of the Future

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In a future where life isn’t safe for those on the autism spectrum. In the future, mildly autistic people have unnatural abilities called “Obsessions.” These abilities range from A class to D class, A being the most dangerous, and D meaning that the ability is likely harmless. And because of these abilities, human trafficking is at an all time high. Traffickers seek to kidnap autistic people and sell them on the black market. So special facilities are created, In particular the Ron Thompson Center, in these facilities, people on the spectrum are comfortably housed behind walls. Mainly, these are children whose parents have admitted them in for safety and education; but there are adult versions of these places—that many autistic kids don’t go to after graduation. One day in the Ron Thompson Center, a film crew shoots a documentary, but they are killed moments after leaving, and thugs for a criminal organization called “The Blue Sellers,” retrieve the footage for the identities of the autistic kids with “Obsessions.” Only eight particular kids, some of them non-students—over eighteen, are now the targets of The Blue Sellers. Another side effect on the spectrum — is Spectrum Oxytocin. When an autistic person is kissed by someone they find attractive, it activates a certain Oxytocin in their brain — chemicals that cause illness and can even cause death. And the only way to temporarily stop it, is by the same person satisfying the Oxytocin, or another which the individual has feelings for can also put this illness at ease.
Spectrum Oxytocin is often how criminals like the Blue Sellers, control autistic people that they hope to sell. Being eight characters caught on this footage, eight adventures are told. But the main story is the story of Dustin Miles, a boy who graduates and leaves the Ron Thompson Center; to carelessly explore only to get captured. He is then treated like cargo and sold off to a beautiful woman in Russia, a woman who is unnaturally strong and has a mother bear-like nature, Sasha Antonov. But Dustin finds love and romance in his captivity.

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So Gently Goes the Hummingbird by D. Davidson – R. Marcano

So Gently Goes the Hummingbird by D. Davidson – R. Marcano

This powerful narrative depicts the challenges and difficulties teenagers faced in 1950s America. It was not all rock n roll, drag racing, record hops, and puppy love. There were the terrors of bullying, antisemitism, racism, incest, and violence some teens faced every day.

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One Night With Finnbar by Leo D’Lance

One Night With Finnbar by Leo D'Lance

One Night With Finnbar by Leo D’Lance is the story of two men; Martin Atwater and Finnbar, a bondservant.
This tale of revenge, blackmail, betrayal, and murder is set in the Georgian era of 1767, in London, England where the infraction of any of the over 160 laws in the Bloody Code could see a man hanged.
It begins when Martin visits his uncle’s country estate where he discovers a strikingly handsome stable boy; a bondservant called Finnbar. Martin’s uncle has secured a commission for him in the Royal Fusiliers, and he convinces his uncle to allow him to take Finnbar along to be trained as his orderly.
Back in London, waiting for the commencement of his enlistment, Martin grows bored and restless. He quickly falls back into his old routine of drinking, gambling, and a barely closeted homosexual lifestyle. It’s only a matter of time before it all catches up with him.
Finnbar is forced to live by his own resources when he is turned away from the posh gentlemen’s club where Martin is staying. But London is unforgiving for an innocent country boy, and Finnbar must quickly learn how to navigate this dangerously unfamiliar world.
Just as Martin’s plans for escaping his ill-spent past seem to be coming together, Edmond Mattox, a sinister figure from his boarding school days, appears on the scene to exact revenge and settle an old score.
To satisfy his blackmailer’s demands, Martin sacrifices Finnbar. But Martin has a score of his own to settle, and in a fit of rage, he murders Mattox.
But who will pay the price?
Written for an adult readership.

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At Rope’s End by June Summers

About At Rope’s End by June Summers

Sonny Dankovic loves his job as a superintendent of an apartment building. He likes the tenants, and they trust him to be there for them—no matter what. Then why does he want to commit suicide? Sonny has this secret which leads him to believe he’d be better off dead. So he makes detailed plans on how to accomplish his objective. But just as soon as he starts his latest attempt, one of the tenants has an emergency, and Sonny comes to their rescue. In the nick of time, the trigger isn’t pulled; his wrists aren’t slashed; or he doesn’t drown himself. He is at his rope’s end. What is keeping him alive? Divine intervention? Fate? Karma? Or something else?

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Defective by Susan Sofayov

Defective by Susan Sofayov

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Her mood swings drove away her would-be husband. Can she slow life down before she’s left behind?

Maggie Hovis battles herself daily. Scrambling to pick up the pieces after something possesses her to pelt a shoe at her fiancé, the law student quickly takes up the suggestion to see a therapist. But she’s crushed when she receives a stigmatizing Bipolar II diagnosis and fears her shot at normal just died.

Now saddled with a label and terrified she’ll end up like her institutionalized great aunt, Maggie delves into her family’s storied history of mental illness. And with tensions at a breaking point and her emotions on a hair trigger, she worries what others say is true: she’s permanently broken.

Can she learn to fully accept herself and decide her own future?

Defective is a beautifully empathic women’s fiction novel. If you like journeys of self-discovery, hard subjects thoughtfully handled, and blossoming passions, then you’ll love Susan Sofayov’s touching story.

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Atlanta Fish Fry by Anthony “AJ” Joiner

About Featured Book: Atlanta Fish Fry by Anthony “AJ” Joiner

Atlanta Fish Fry will be free from 4/25/2023 through 5/16/2023.

Life’s a Fish and then you Fry

Growing up as a kid in Louisiana, AJ Joiner’s all-time favorite thing was his grandmoh’s Fish Fry. Now that he’s all grown up in Atlanta, GA, AJ is working a job he doesn’t like and living in a neighborhood he doesn’t love – at first.

But when gentrification threatens to strip the community of its authentic charm, AJ hosts a Fish Fry to get to know his neighbors, and he begins to fall in love with each one, despite their eccentricities.

But this tight-knit community doesn’t have the money to fend off rich developers and determined city planners, helped by one of their own: Eddison Fisher.

So AJ decides to throw a second Fish Fry to raise some cash. Despite increasingly-serious issues with his health and his marriage, the event is a huge success.

But it’s still not enough.

Can AJ and his new friends throw a Fish Fry big enough to save their neighborhood?

Or will Eddison and his outsider allies destroy everything they love about their home?

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The Regrettable Decision

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At the altar, Zarayah can’t help but wonder if she’s making a terrible mistake…

Keeping her husband-to-be’s secrets from her family wasn’t the first gut-wrenching decision she had to make. Choosing to go through with the wedding after learning what Zaire has done leaves Zarayah with a bad taste in her mouth. But surely it’s too late to call things off when they’re standing at the altar together… right?

Backing out would embarrass her family—and herself.

So she goes through with the marriage and things go from bad to worse. Their honeymoon cruise is a disaster and her anything-but-loving husband leaves her wondering if her family was right—maybe he’s not good enough for her. Still, she tries to make the best of things, until she learns he’s keeping more secrets from her. Can she break free of him and live life on her own terms? Or will he keep her under his thumb forever?

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This book contains scenes of physical, mental, and emotional domestic violence; and explores the theme of mental illness.

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One Soul’s Journey: Second Collection of Short Stories (Book 2 of The Soul Series) by Barbara Daniels Dena

About One Soul’s Journey: Second Collection of Short Stories (Book 2 of The Soul Series) by Barbara Daniels Dena

One Soul’s Journey is an eclectic and extraordinary collection of short stories. The ingredients: imagination, a dash of real life, inspiration, and lots of love. If you’ve read and loved her first collection, “For the Soul,” this book will delight you. Filled with funny short stories about the unexpected life can bring like a temp agency hiring a Con, what really goes on in the backroom of a flower shop, and much more!

( Ebook on new release sale for $1.99 now on Kindle Through April 30th, 2023 )

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Short Stories to Enjoy with Wine (Vol. 1)

About Short Stories to Enjoy with Wine (Vol. 1)

Wine lovers and fiction readers rejoice! This is the ultimate collection of fictional short stories, written especially for readers who are into wine!

Short Stories to Enjoy with Wine, Vol. 1, is the first in a new series of anthologies by Stephen Kristof. It’s perfect for busy readers who like the idea of relaxing with a glass or two of wine and finishing a complete story at one sitting before reading the next one at a different time.

The book engages with captivating scenarios, memorable characters and fascinating plots. While all of the stories and novelettes are different from one another, they are woven together with a common thread of wine. The book’s diverse offerings span tales of romance, adventure, paranormal intrigue, time travel, crime, lifestyles of the ultra-rich, contemporary challenges, crime and more.

Some stories will make you wonder, “What if that’s actually possible?” Others will leave you uplifted, hopeful and encouraged. Expect some to be deeply emotional, arousing, personally gratifying and nostalgically comforting.

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The Melancholy Strumpet Master by Zeb Beck

About Featured Book: The Melancholy Strumpet Master by Zeb Beck

Gilmore Crowell’s anthropological study of Tijuana sex workers had his dissertation advisor cheering him on. But that was years ago, before his best sources in the streetwalker community up and vanished. Now he’s living in a downtown Los Angeles boarding house for seniors and listlessly trying to jumpstart his research anew. The faculty elders have grown impatient, he’s too broke to pay his parking tickets, and his girlfriend recently dumped him. To stay afloat, Gil takes a job teaching in a juvenile detention center, using his salary to pay the sex workers to speak with him. In a madcap act of self-sabotage, he begins sleeping with them, as well.

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Abundantly Clear: Secrets And Lies Disguised As A Perfect Couple (Midlife Secrets Series stand-alone reads)

About Abundantly Clear: Secrets And Lies Disguised As A Perfect Couple (Midlife Secrets Series stand-alone reads)

On the surface, Beatrice has it all…

Three angelic children, her ideal job, the house of her dreams and an even dreamier husband. But when her boss insists her teaching skills are falling short of student expectations, Beatrice discovers her issues with communication extend to her personal life too.

With that, she embarks on a journey of self-improvement, which has near catastrophic effects on her marriage. Hoping a change of scenery will be the cure for her troubles, she takes her work from the capital city of Dublin to the windy west coast of Ireland. Unfortunately, the Atlantic sea air seems to play tricks with her mind, as does a local fisherman who delights in charming her.

And the more time she spends with him, the more her academic career and once-solid marriage begin to feel like a hazy memory. Can Beatrice re-establish her successful professional life and reconnect with her husband before her midlife crisis gets the best of her? And when tragedy strikes, can she hold it together and make her true feelings abundantly clear?

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The Flowers of Evil – Les Fleurs du Mal : (Bilingual Edition – French and English)

About The Flowers of Evil – Les Fleurs du Mal : (Bilingual Edition – French and English)

“In this atrocious book, I put all my heart” – BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867)

Atrocious ? Indeed, you will discover all the perversion that lurks in “Les Fleurs du mal”, including in the 6 poems condemned and censored by the courts for offending public morality.

“Both deeply disturbing and deeply moving, a book that explores the dark side of human nature with brutal honesty.” – SYLVIA PLATH, poet and novelist.

This bilingual version has been carefully crafted to give you the most complete reading experience possible.
The 1861 edition has been chosen as the definitive edition.
Unlike the 1857 and 1868 editions (Baudelaire having died in 1867).

386 footnotes have also been added to explain you the context and meaning of the references used by Baudelaire.

“This is a book that should be read over and over again. It is a book that will always reveal new things to the reader, a book that will always surprise and delight.” – JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, philosopher, playwright and novelist

You will discover Baudelaire’s poetry in a new light.

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Sexual Awakening

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Teenager Cassandra Economos loves five things: Her awesome friends. Her big fat, dysfunctional, Greek family. Rock music. Her plan to move to Chicago. And Kurt Cobain. Soon, she’ll gain another love. Sex. Stifled by her family’s rules, how will Cassie explore her sexuality?

Everything I know about sex I learned from health class diagrams and from reading erotica books I secretly borrowed.

Boys never paid attention to me in middle school. Then it happens. Keith Cook starts a conversation with me. We play Seven Minutes In Heaven, and somehow he’s my boyfriend. My sister tells me he isn’t a great one because he never calls, and he keeps pressuring me do things I’m not ready to do. After Kurt dies, I realize life is short and nothing’s stopping me from having sex with Keith. Except for one thing – he betrays my trust.

That same week, Todd Miller comforts me when I ditch class to mourn Kurt. Todd’s definitely an upgrade from Keith. He listens and can hold an intelligent conversation. He cares about my opinion. And he has a body all the girls drool over.

Our first kiss is mutual. The first time he touches me is mutual. When he pops my cherry, that’s mutual, too, even if I am jail bait. We said we’d wait until I turn 17, but we just couldn’t. We want to be together so badly it hurts. I never feel pressured with Todd. That’s how it’s supposed to be, isn’t it, when a guy cares about you?

Book one in The Rock Star’s Wife series, a series about sex, family, and rock & roll. It contains coarse language, sexual situations and adult themes, and is intended for mature audiences.

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How We Healed: a novel

About How We Healed: a novel

BEST BOOK AWARD FINALIST for American Book Fest

“An often vivid family saga, centered on a satisfyingly complex matriarch.” – Kirkus Reviews

“This book did an excellent job of teaching essential life lessons.” – OnlineBookClub.org Review

There is nothing ordinary about the journey we take in life, or the people in it. A tale of starting over and an unforgettable odyssey of healing.

How We Healed follows Drunetta Brown, an oppressed black housewife desperate to escape her drunkard husband and small-town southern life. After fleeing with her youngest children to New York City in 1957, she finds unlikely friendship with Sister Rose, a church secretary, and Miss “Raycie” Rayceen, a boisterous bar singer. These women prove to be the right friends at the right time as they help Drunetta navigate her journey of self-discovery. With a determination uncharacteristic of her time, Drunetta ultimately learns what’s worth sacrificing—and, more importantly, what isn’t—to secure her place in a changing world.

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