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Among The Branded

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Among The Branded
Title: Among The Branded
ASIN: B06XSYWYL2
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Published: May 2, 2017
Short link: http://j.mp/AwesIndBK303
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Author's Twitter: @lindasmolkin
What if a 70-year-old letter from World War II changed the course of your life? While attending Valor of the ’40s, art director Stephanie Britain stumbles upon a flea market selling letters from the war. She buys a handful, hoping they’ll inspire the redesign for a client’s website at her branding and design firm. At first, she’s drawn by the lost art of penmanship, but soon discovers a hidden treasure nestled inside declarations of love from homesick soldiers. Stephanie enlists a coworker to translate one and realizes it’s not a love letter after all. When a shocking discovery about a client causes Stephanie to question her principles and dedication to her firm’s business, she’s forced to make a difficult decision—one that could give her peace of mind, yet ruin her career in the process. Contemporary fiction with a historical touch, AMONG THE BRANDED explores family life, an unexpected friendship, and moral conflicts that make us wonder what’s more important: our livelihood or our beliefs.      

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A Vampire’s Tale: The Sea of Time

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A Vampire’s Tale: The Sea of Time
Title: A Vampire’s Tale: The Sea of Time
ASIN: B01MU1YF19
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Published: December 17, 2016
Short link: http://j.mp/AwesIndBK301
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Author's Twitter: @EdGiambalvo
DON’T READ THIS BOOK! If you’re looking for the typical vampire fare, where creatures of the night are larger than life and sexually irresistible, you’ve come to the wrong place. But if you’re intrigued by the idea that life immortal is not all it’s cracked up to be, and that perhaps at their core, vampires remain delicate and mortal, you may find this unusual love story to your liking.

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Never Summer

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Never Summer
Title: Never Summer
ASIN: B06Y55H3RD
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Published: May 18, 2017
Short link: http://j.mp/AwesIndBK299
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A nineteenth-century drifter returns from Japan to learn that his tuberculosis has left him “weeks, months, but not years.” He embarks on a philosophical inquiry of death as he journeys on the historic overland route from New York to the Rocky Mountains. A devilish samurai mask, a cursed revolver, and his ‘romantic disease’ propel him on a Herculean adventure into the Wild West, where he hopes to subdue his fate. But the lessons he learns turn his struggles inside out when he realizes a life without end would become as desolate as a place with no summer.

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Waterwight

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Waterwight
Title: Waterwight
ASIN: B01CCKA87U
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Published: February 29, 2016
Short link: http://j.mp/AwesIndBK296
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Author's Twitter: @LeadvilleLaurel
In a post-cataclysmic world threatened by stinking ooze, a brave girl searches for her missing parents with the help of talking animals and evolving powers. When a mountain spirit challenges her to save the planet, she and a flying frog must overcome a magical, malicious castle of sand and a shapeshifter who wants her dead.

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A Dog’s View of Love, Life, and Death

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A Dog’s View of Love, Life, and Death
Title: A Dog’s View of Love, Life, and Death
ASIN: B06XGKSBM4
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Published: June 5, 2017
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In A Dog's View of Love, Life, and Death, human beings, content they know the answers to life’s big questions, continue making the same mistakes time and time again. Dogs, being their closest non-human companions, and knowing a little more than humans think they know, assist them discreetly with their evolution of consciousness. After spending twelve years paralyzed from the neck down, Seamus McGarry can’t quite believe he’s communicating telepathically with a dog named Rosie. Millionaire Will Roper is living the life and feeling in control of his destiny. But his anger issues are landing him in hot water. If that isn’t enough, Saddam Hussein, his dead mother’s dog, and a man living in a doorway have all crossed his path. Things will never be the same again. Old-timer Lennon, a Harlequin Great Dane, New York, born and bred, feels life is passing him by. That is, until a dog shows up at the shelter and helps him understand his existence here isn’t quite what it seems. Dolores Fanon, a recovering addict, has been clean and relatively serene for 3 years. However, life’s just dealt her a low blow. She’s struggling to cope, and when a psychic working for the N.Y.P.D. appears in her life, secrets from the past come flooding into the present.

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The Light Of Reason

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The Light Of Reason
Title: The Light Of Reason
ASIN: B01N3RHV1P
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Published: November 26, 2016
Short link: http://j.mp/AwesIndBK295
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Author's Twitter: @davidlitwack
A new grand vicar, known as the usurper, has taken over the keep and is using its knowledge to reinforce his hold on power. Despite their good intentions, the seekers find themselves leading an army, and for the first time in a millennium, their world experiences the horror of war. But the keepmasters’ science is no match for the dreamers, leaving Orah and Nathaniel their cruelest choice—face bloody defeat and the death of their enlightenment, or use the genius of the dreamers to tread the slippery slope back to the darkness.

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Class Of ’59

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Class Of ’59
Title: Class Of ’59
ASIN: B01LFS490W
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Published: April 10, 2017
Short link: http://j.mp/AwesIndBK294
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Author's Twitter: @johnheldt
When Mary Beth McIntire settles into a vacation house on June 2, 2017, she anticipates a quiet morning with coffee. Then she hears a noise, peers out a window, and spots a man in 1950s attire standing in the backyard. She panics when the trespasser sees her and enters the house though a door to the basement. She questions her sanity when she cannot find him. In the same house on March 21, 1959, Mark Ryan finds a letter. Written by the mansion’s original owner in 1900, the letter describes a basement chamber, mysterious crystals, and a formula for time travel. Driven by curiosity, Mark tests the formula twice. On his second trip to 2017, he encounters a beautiful stranger. He meets the woman in the window. Within hours, Mary Beth and Mark share their secret with her sister and his brother and begin a journey that takes them from the present day to the age of sock hops, drive-ins, and jukeboxes. In CLASS OF ’59, the fourth book in the American Journey series, four young adults find love, danger, and adventure as they navigate the corridors of time and experience Southern California in its storied prime.

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The Curiosity Cabinet

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The Curiosity Cabinet
Title: The Curiosity Cabinet
ASIN: B01N23HTHU
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Published: February 6, 2017
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A novel sure to appeal to fans of Outlander. When Alys revisits the beautiful Scottish island of Garve after an absence of 25 years, she is captivated by the embroidered casket on display in her hotel. She discovers that it belongs to Donal, her childhood playmate, and soon they resume their old friendship.   Interwoven with the story of their growing love is the darker 18th-century tale of Henrietta Dalrymple, kidnapped by the formidable Manus McNeill and held on Garve against her will. Despite the 300 years separating them, the women are strongly connected: their parallel lives are linked by the cabinet and its contents, by the tug of motherhood and by the magic of the Hebridean island itself.   But Garve has its secrets, past and present. Donal must learn to trust Alys enough to confide in her and, like Henrietta before her, Alys must earn the right to belong.

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Jack Of Souls

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Jack Of Souls
Title: Jack Of Souls
ASIN: B00QI98ZZ4
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Published: December 20, 2014
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Author's Twitter: @stephenmerlino
In the tradition of the Shannara Chronicles and the Witcher series: A Rogue & Knight Adventure   Harric, an outcast rogue, must break a curse on his fate or die by his nineteenth birthday. As the day approaches, nightmares from the spirit world stalk him and tear at his sanity. To survive, he’ll need more than his usual tricks. He’ll need help—and a lot of it—but on the kingdom’s lawless frontier, his only allies are other outcasts.   One of these is Caris, a mysterious, horse-whispering runaway, intent upon becoming one of the Queen’s first female knights. The other is Sir Willard—ex-immortal, ex-champion, now addicted to pain-killing herbs and banished from the court.   With their help, Harric might keep his curse at bay. But for how long?   And both companions bring perils and secrets of their own: Caris bears the scars of a troubled past; Willard is at war with the Old Ones, an order of insane immortal knights who once enslaved the kingdom. The Old Ones have returned to murder Willard and seize the throne from his queen. Willard is on the run and on one final, desperate quest for his queen.   Together, Harric and his companions must overcome fanatical armies, murderous sorcerers, and powerful supernatural foes.   Alone, Harric must face the temptation of a forbidden magic that could break his curse, but cost him the only woman he’s ever loved.

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