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An Animal Life: The Beginning

An Animal Life: The Beginning
Title: An Animal Life: The Beginning
ASIN: B00AJ46X6W
Published: November 6, 2012
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Author's Twitter: @HowardKrum
A nirreverent, romantic comedy with an animal medical mystery set in veterinary school. The best TV analogue for the tone and story is a cross between “M*A*S*H” and “ER.”    Millions dream of veterinary school, few make it in. The chosen discover an irreverent, romantically- charged, academic gauntlet that brings out the best and worst that humans can be. An Animal Life: The Beginning was inspired by the real-life adventures of four veterinary school classmates. This first book in the series opens as Dr. Violet Marie Green (a beautiful zoo vet extraordinaire) is darting a giraffe from the open cockpit of a helicopter. As the first veterinarian at the world’s largest zoo, Violet should be ecstatic but her self-medicated gastric ulcer warns that all is not right in The Peaceable Kingdom. Almost immediately a mysterious and invariably fatal neurological disease emerges. Horses, zebra, flamingoes, crows and even people are dropping dead all around the zoo. With her goofy-sweet and brilliant friend, Stan the Path Man, she and her vet students solve the case and reveal that the bully of a lead animal keeper (with obvious designs to bed Violet) has been in cahoots with a sport-hunting ranch in Texas (you won’t believe what he did…).

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The Widow’s To Do List

The Widow's To Do List
Title: The Widow's To Do List
ASIN: B00D2XYFQ2
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Published: December 28, 2013
Two years after her beloved husband's death, Sally Lightfoot, 50, is ready to age gracefully. With added chocolate. Her friend's advice to get out of the house and lose her 'wididity', her born-again virginity, before it's too late is firmly dismissed. Nobody can replace Dom. And why would she want all the dating fuss, bother and trauma that her daughter Ami is going through? With added flabby bits? But Sally hadn't reckoned on meeting Loro, a Leonard Cohen busker who sings Suzanne to the tourists on the Greek island of Hydra. Realising that if she wants something she has to go for it, Sally finally plucks up the courage to leave her lonely comfort zone to face the possibility of humiliation and rejection square on. She sets herself up for a fall. Will he? Or won't he?

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Can’t Live Without

Can't Live Without
Title: Can't Live Without
ASIN: B0083SJB4M
Categories: ,
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Published: May 15, 2012
How does it feel to lose everything you own? Single-mum Stella is proud of the home she’s created for herself and her teenage daughter. But when she wakes one morning to find her kitchen on fire, Stella knows her life will never be the same again ... With a boss she’s half in love with, a daughter about to go seriously off the rails, a spendaholic mother, and a house to rebuild, Stella’s problems are only just beginning. Can Stella put her life – and her home – back together again? And will she ever realise just what it is she really can’t live without?

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Lifting the Lid

Lifting the Lid
Title: Lifting the Lid
ASIN: B00E9BMAOU
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Published: December 12, 2013
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Author's Twitter: @RobJohnson999
When Trevor Hawkins hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police and MI5. Then there’s private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully throttle him for turning a well paid, piece-of-cake job into a total nightmare. Or could she? With more twists and turns than an Escher-designed bobsleigh run, Lifting the Lid is a comic thriller about how a single, split-second decision can change someone’s life forever.

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Finding Home

Finding Home
Title: Finding Home
ASIN: B00D7WKQRA
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Published: December 28, 2013
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Twenty-four year old Phoebe Hawley is on a quest to find her family a home. On the road with two siblings, twelve year-old Maydean and five year-old Willie-Boy, Phoebe is out of money, out of gas and out of patience. Now the only things she owns in abundance are Hawley backbone and Hawley pride—neither of which she can trade for food or gas. A collision with Gage Morgan puts Phoebe's mission in even worse jeopardy—until Phoebe discovers Gage Morgan owns the perfect place for the Hawley clan. But! The man has a bruised ego, an iron fist on his heart and is the unlikeliest man in the universe to offer a helping hand. Phoebe wields all of the pride, backbone and country smarts she owns to worm her way into his heart. Nothing works. With time running against her family, she plies one last inducement—her scarce feminine wiles. And those are not a sure thing.

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The Slipkin Papers

The Slipkin Papers
Title: The Slipkin Papers
ASIN: B00BEYEFAW
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Published: December 22, 2013
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Have you ever wondered what lies behind the one-way mirror of reality? Eric Slipkin doesn’t until the day he rolls his little white Citroen on a high and lonely moorland road in Northern England. Then he finds out quite a lot about the far side of reality that surprises him, delights him and terrifies him – occasionally all at the same time. He learns quite a lot about Queen Victoria, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Laurel & Hardy and many others that he had never suspected. He also discovers that the real world in which we all live is not as ordinary and humdrum as we may believe. The Slipkin Papers tells a highly original and entertaining story that spans space, time and what lies beyond. Travel with Eric Slipkin on his journey of a lifetime and it may change the way you look at your own version of reality too.

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Few Are Chosen

Few Are Chosen
Title: Few Are Chosen
ASIN: B004ASOS6A
Published: October 29, 2010
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Author's Twitter: @MTMcGuireAuthor
Charming outlaw with own transport and limited social skills seeks lucrative, employment at minimal risk.  When you're running from a murderous government and work for an equally murderous gangster, accidentally torching his apartment is a bad move.  The Pan of Hamgee just wants a quiet life but destiny has other plans.   The Pan of Hamgee isn’t paranoid. There must be some people in K’Barth who aren’t out to get him. Unfortunately, right now, he’s not sure where they are. His family are dead, and his existence is treason. To survive he does the only thing he can – getaway driving. As if being on the run isn’t bad enough, he finds a magic thimble and decides to keep it. This can only mean trouble and sure enough, it does. By doing so, he unwittingly sets himself on a collision course with Lord Vernon, K’Barth’s despot ruler. Unwillingly, The Pan is forced to make choices and stand up for his beliefs. It’s a challenge, since previously he had no beliefs he was aware of. But faced with a stark moral dilemma, he realises his new found integrity might even stick… if he can stop running.

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Lydia Bennet’s Blog: the real story of Pride and Prejudice:

Lydia Bennet’s Blog: the real story of Pride and Prejudice:
Title: Lydia Bennet’s Blog: the real story of Pride and Prejudice:
ASIN: B007BEGCMS
Categories: , ,
Published: February 19, 2012
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Author's Twitter: @ValerieLaws
Jane Austen’s Lydia Bennet is a modern teen in Regency times. She’s funny, shameless, fashion and boy mad and determined to get money and her man. Find out what really happened in Pride and Prejudice…

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The Sparrow Conundrum

The Sparrow Conundrum
Title: The Sparrow Conundrum
ASIN: B008X8W3AQ
Categories: ,
Published: August 12, 2012
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Author's Twitter: @carver22
An ex girl-friend, an exploding garden, two wrestlers, multiple homicides, a sociopathic cop, and fragments of a postman. All waiting for Chris Machin – codename Sparrow. Satirical absurdity at its funniest. Chris Machin may think he’s just a teacher, but the bottom feeders in Aberdeen squabbling over North Sea oil and gas contracts prefer to use his code-name – Sparrow. When his garden explodes he takes flight, unleashing various forms of Scottish mayhem.  More complications are added by his ex girlfriend and a sociopathic policeman whose hobbies are violence, making arrests and, best of all, combining the two. Several murders later, two wrestlers, a road trip to Inverness, a fishing trawler, a Russian factory ship, and some fragments of a postman complete the enigma of… The Sparrow Conundrum. Winner of the Readers’ Choice Award for Humor and Satire at Big Al’s Books and Pals 2012. Also winner of the Humor category in the 2011 Forward National Literature Awards. “… an over the top, thoroughly hilarious send-up, brilliantly realised and tremendously enjoyable. I laughed constantly, was horrified, was admiring and totally entertained all at once. It reminded me, in the best possible way, of the work of Tom Sharpe … writing that will have you spluttering on trains as you try not to laugh out loud”. Catherine Czerkawska, author of The Curiosity Cabinet, The Physic Garden and many others.

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