Friday, August 31, 2012
The Glass Braid, a tale of the supernatural - 0.00
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This supernatural short story is a tale of ruthlessness, retribution, and ultimately compassion.
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If Lovin' You is Wrong - 0.00
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When a girl gets dumped, it’s okay to have a compensatory one-night-stand—isn’t it? That’s exactly what Ireland Corbin thinks. And after that, she vows to clean up her image. She’s ready to attract a man who’s marriage material. To accomplish that, she plans to go through a complete image overhaul and get her GED.
At the library, she meets Billy, a college student, who offers to tutor her free of charge. With his nerdy style and constant allergies, Billy is unintimidating to say the least, so Ireland takes him up on it. Delighted by the offer, Ireland goes back to her books with a newfound enthusiasm when guess who shows up?—Phil, her one night stand.
Ireland hadn’t counted on seeing him again, and Phil is not the type of guy she had in mind for marriage. A womanizing, commitment-phobic narcissist can’t change overnight. Can he?
Phil hasn’t been able to stop thinking about Ireland since that night. He’s even lost interest in his neighbor who is constantly throwing herself at him. But he always said he would never commit to one woman. Will Phil transform into the marrying type or resume his Casanova ways?
Either way, Ireland’s new friend, Billy, who she endearingly refers to as her little brother, will be there offering his shoulder to lean on. And she just might need it.
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At the library, she meets Billy, a college student, who offers to tutor her free of charge. With his nerdy style and constant allergies, Billy is unintimidating to say the least, so Ireland takes him up on it. Delighted by the offer, Ireland goes back to her books with a newfound enthusiasm when guess who shows up?—Phil, her one night stand.
Ireland hadn’t counted on seeing him again, and Phil is not the type of guy she had in mind for marriage. A womanizing, commitment-phobic narcissist can’t change overnight. Can he?
Phil hasn’t been able to stop thinking about Ireland since that night. He’s even lost interest in his neighbor who is constantly throwing herself at him. But he always said he would never commit to one woman. Will Phil transform into the marrying type or resume his Casanova ways?
Either way, Ireland’s new friend, Billy, who she endearingly refers to as her little brother, will be there offering his shoulder to lean on. And she just might need it.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Poem of the Day - 8/30
Everyone is on the lookout for minor devastations
in themselves and in others. And throughout the world.
And it's nobody's fault. Angelic gehennas,
genes, as in genesis. Lawsonia and henna.
A voice bristles in the throat. Essentially the dark sky
and neon threads of mycelium in the enchanting forest,
as if that voice were always before you, twisted
the caps off mushrooms like light bulbs, and wiped out the lamps,
installing unadulterated darkness all around, shady flickers,
a faint undergrowth, a discreet swirling under one's feet
like the ground's very own diplomatic excuse,
a whisper, a wink of sand in the eye of a well.
When the forest set slides beneath the stage
and a new audience quakes with laughter
like the sky in a drizzle of falling stars,
there will be a change of scene in my vision,
it's warm, hot, boiling, scorching, scalding, and it's
here. Someone's stuck his hand in. It ate it up.
Then he ran as if burned and kept trying
to tear the air, for in the end it all
slipped out from under him,
drawn away on a short chord,
taken down.
The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum - 0.00
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From the Publisher:In this first novelette of the series The Magnetron Chronicles, we are introduced to Phineas J. Magnetron, an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor blessed with a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. As a former soldier and current member of the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, Phineas is no stranger to peril and derring-do. But when the Society founder dies, Phineas embarks on a daring and improbable caper to bring the good doctor's greatest dream to fruition posthumously. In the process, he not only horrifies his Society brothers, but unearths a haunting and compelling mystery.
Review by Kira Lerner, Author and Editor-in-Chief of Epiguide.com:
The Magnetron Chronicles relates the apocryphal tales of The Hogalum Society, a Victorian era club of "great men and great deeds" (of which Phineas Magnetron himself is a member, naturally). Think of a group comprised of Harry Houdini, Thomas Edison, Sherlock Holmes, Nikola Tesla, and other such fictional and real-life Steam Age luminaries with unconventional talents and ideas—all of whom were looked upon as a bit batty—and you'll have a good idea of the Hogalum Society.
Anyway, the conceit of the series is that we are reading Magnetron's journals, and in The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum we thereby learn of the strange events that occur when Phineas takes it upon himself to resurrect the spirit of Dr. Hogalum (the author tells me it's pronounced "HO-ga-lum"), the Society's beloved founder and mentor who has recently died. Phineas' plan (think: zombies) isn't warmly received by his compatriots in the group, who worry that he's lost his marbles. The fact that he tries to perform the necessary tasks himself is admirable but his plans go awry, and after digging up Hogalum's body, he retrieves only the head, which he intends to reanimate with voodoo. Slight problem, because (as his Haitian friend Petión observes) zombies are mindless bodies, and how useful is a mindless head?
As you can probably tell, the series is heavily inspired by the works of H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and—to a lesser extent—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And hey, let's throw in Mark Twain as well, because—despite the fact that the journals are written with utter sincerity and seriousness, this is definitely (and intentionally) funny satire. For example, here's one of Dr. Hogalum's first comments upon his revival:
"I do not wish to appear ungrateful after having been raised from the dead," he said in a beleaguered tone, "but I must ask why you did not see fit to include my body in this enterprise!"
Indeed. D. L. Mackenzie's well-written Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum harks back to the earliest days of the science fiction serial, and does a great job evoking the style of those genteel but breathless tales of remarkable discoveries, bizarre inventions and dangerous (mis)adventures.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Poem of the Day - 8/29
No matter how slowly you read the life
it speeds past. His parents wed. Soon he's born.
Then school, and Oxford, a taste for porn.
Then jobs, the many women (but no wife)
and the little songs, formal, bright and brief
but briskly playing notes of rue and scorn,
and only those, until each tune sounds worn,
the man too, instrument of ceaseless grief.
Still, when he's buried, you come, another ghost,
among his friends and family, the known,
the unacknowledged, wearing your own gown
of tears, your empty voice raised with the rest.
So much lament, for see what he has sown
that only now you gather what you've lost.
Quote of the Day - 8/29
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.
- Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
- Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame
The Mill - 0.00
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Anna Count and her husband, Lenny, were once owners of a popular New Age bookstore and Art School in Las Vegas, Nevada . Now in the fall of 2009 as real estate sales plummet and the unemployment rates rise, Lenny is struck down and killed by a heart attack.Anna’s grief and a strong desire to find Lenny in the land of the dead carries her across the abyss that separates ordinary consciousness from non-ordinary awareness into a world that parallels our own, but has different rules of logic. It is a landscape glimpsed by Mystics, a very real state of being and one that has been knocking at the boundaries of our rational world since time began. Anna discovers portals to other worlds through dreams and alien communication through the unconscious mind.
She taps into the Collective Unconscious and experiences how we are all connected to each other at an unconscious level. She learns how a person’s evolution affects everyone else and undergoes a transformation from the World of Ego to the World of the Soul. As she progresses into the Dark Night of the Soul and faces the Seven Deadly Sins she begins to gain an acceptance and understanding of death.
The Mill is an examination of age old beliefs, the ways in which beings from other dimensions contact us, the ability of the human psyche to evolve to higher realms and the power of a love that can survive separation and even death.
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The Consultant - 0.00
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Book 2 of the VIGILANTE Series"Chris Barry is back and better than ever." - Jessica Subject, Mark of the Stars
The friendly takeover of CSS Inc. leaves computer executive Chris Barry unemployed, very wealthy and pleased with the situation.
But the hiatus is short-lived...
As a result of his involvement in the recent Vigilante investigation, Barry is approached by Jonathan Addley and invited to join Discreet Activities, a government agency of the clandestine variety,
Accepting, he promptly takes on his first assignment under the guise of an IT consultant, to investigate possible links between a local import business and the murder of its MIS director.
As he discovers the firm is being used to import narcotics, his cover is blown and things get personal, spurring him to show that murderers, drug lords, biker gangs and kidnappers are no match for...
...The Consultant
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Monday, August 27, 2012
The Hunter Inside - 0.00
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The Hunter Inside is the debut novel of author David McGowan.You can lock your windows and your doors, but you cannot lock your mind from The Hunter Inside.
Paul Wayans and Bill Arnold have something in common. They are being stalked by a vicious killer.
Sandy Myers, rushing from home with her 7 year-old twins in tow, grabs a letter from the mailbox. It is addressed to Sandy Carson. Her maiden name. Contained within the plain manila envelope is a photograph. A photograph of a corpse.
The past has caught up with them, and now their lives are in jeopardy. A monster more fearsome than any the world has ever seen is hunting them, bringing with it echoes from the past and threatening the future of civilisation.
Should they run, or should they stand and fight?
FBI Special Agent Sam O’Neill will fight desperately to solve a case that he could not solve ten years before. Then, he had no clues as to the identity of the vicious killer. This time, it’s different.
But can he find them before it’s too late? And if he does not, will ANYONE survive?
The Hunter Inside is a psychological thriller with a twist. It is a page-turning roller-coaster of a novel that you won’t be able to put down until all of its secrets, twists and turns have been revealed. Packed full of gruesome murders, fear and suspense, it harbors a monster so fearsome it will give you nightmares.
Shimasou is here – and no-one is safe.
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MALAIKA - 0.00
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A middle-aged man with the crushing weight of his American past seeks peace and a simpler life in rural Kenya. Armed with only his smokes and coffee he discovers a friendship with the most unlikely of friends--a lioness he rightfully names Malaika ("Angel" in Swahili). But she is no ordinary lioness nor is he an ordinary man. Between them they share a gift. But not all embrace their bond and some seek to sever it. Discover this new world rich in human truth and sensibility.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Poem of the Day - 8/24
I like the dead who never leave, the ones
still in the room—like Uncle Phil,
who's bound to smack the back of my head again
once we're alone, his response to my pierced ear
thirty years ago. Maybe he was drunk,
or his own dead mom was in the room
smacking him in the head. Smack!
~
Once when my son was young
I drove off without him,
leaving the big boy who had gone to pee.
Nine blocks away, I found myself
talking to an empty car seat.
I was dead, of shame.
It was what death will be,
where no one will see me
u-turning always, across three lanes of traffic.
Cupid's Pursuit - 0.00
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Matthew Malarkey is a man on a mission. To find a soul mate. His first problem is where to start looking.
He has tried pubs and bars, all without success, just a sore head and an empty wallet to show for it. Now it’s the turn of technology.
The internet. Cyberspace could be the way to that meaningful relationship that Matthew is seeking.
He signs up on line in the pursuit of love and embarks on a series of dating escapades, with a variety of ladies, only to find that Cupid does not make the quest for love easy.
As Matthew searches for that elusive spark, he finds himself becoming involved in a succession of entanglements, culminating in a date he doesn’t want – with the law.
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He has tried pubs and bars, all without success, just a sore head and an empty wallet to show for it. Now it’s the turn of technology.
The internet. Cyberspace could be the way to that meaningful relationship that Matthew is seeking.
He signs up on line in the pursuit of love and embarks on a series of dating escapades, with a variety of ladies, only to find that Cupid does not make the quest for love easy.
As Matthew searches for that elusive spark, he finds himself becoming involved in a succession of entanglements, culminating in a date he doesn’t want – with the law.
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Plague - 0.00
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THE DEADLIEST DISEASE IN HISTORY . . .A lethal pathogen appears on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Dr. Samantha Bower of the Centers for Disease Control is handed the case and assigned to investigate its containment and origins.
A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE WHO ISN'T WHAT HE APPEARS TO BE . . .
Dr. Bower finds a microorganism unlike any she has run across in her lifetime. The symptomology points her to the most destructive disease in human history. One man has offered her help. A man with insight into the disease who reveals nothing about himself or his past.
THE WORLD ON THE EDGE OF A CLIFF . . .
Dr. Bower discovers that there are forces at work she can't understand. All applying pressure to use the chaos of an epidemic to their advantage. But there is one thing she is certain of: humanity may soon be an endangered species . . .
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
One by One - 0.00
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For Peter, the end of civilization begins quietly with the disappearance of his mother. At the police station he learns that thousands of others have gone mysteriously missing overnight, and that tens of millions more are vanishing daily across the globe. Without explanation humanity finds itself facing its final year on the planet, and it is only then that Peter falls in love.Her name is Sophia, and though both are haunted by loss they find in each other a passion that is as real as it is worth fighting for. As the government buckles and then collapses, as the darkest registers of human nature are sounded and a brutal demagogue rises to lead a reign of terror, they strive to find meaning and purpose in a world that is bereft of all certainties but one: that they too are fated to disappear.
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Thorn - 0.00
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Princess Alyrra’s strength lies in silence. Scorned by her family, she avoids the court, spending her time with servants. When her marriage is unexpectedly arranged with the prince of a powerful neighboring kingdom, Alyrra feels trapped. As the court celebrates her match, dark rumors spread about the unexplained deaths of the women of her new family. Alyrra begins her journey with mounting trepidation. Betrayed while traveling, she seizes an opportunity to start a life away from court.
Walking away from a prince whom she doesn’t know should have been easy. But from the moment she sets eyes on him, Alyrra realizes that her freedom could cost him his life. Without any magical defense of her own, she is plunged into a lethal game of sorcery and deceit. Now Alyrra must decide whom she can trust and what she’s willing to fight for—before her silence proves fatal.
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Walking away from a prince whom she doesn’t know should have been easy. But from the moment she sets eyes on him, Alyrra realizes that her freedom could cost him his life. Without any magical defense of her own, she is plunged into a lethal game of sorcery and deceit. Now Alyrra must decide whom she can trust and what she’s willing to fight for—before her silence proves fatal.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The Time Series - 0.00
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Three Short Stories & A Preview to a ground-breaking Novel. All that could be said, will be, all that you need to know is inside, all you need to do is Read.Book Link
The Murder on Pleasant Avenue - 0.00
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When a New York City newspaper reporter is killed by a hit-and-run driver, Christian Bekker suspects the death was no accident. Under further investigation, Bekker’s suspicions are confirmed. But the answers don’t come easy in this twisted tale of intrigue.
As Bekker ties together loose ends that seem to connect the murder to the death of his former partner, the worlds of journalism, politics and organized crime collide to challenge Bekker’s investigative savvy, personal life and daily sanity.
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As Bekker ties together loose ends that seem to connect the murder to the death of his former partner, the worlds of journalism, politics and organized crime collide to challenge Bekker’s investigative savvy, personal life and daily sanity.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Holiday - 0.00
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Maui art gallery owner Leilani Wakida wants one thing: a holiday fling.
Since her fiancé Aaron died over a year ago in a surfing accident, Leilani's been playing the role everyone expects of her: widow of the beloved island son. No one's willing to tarnish Aaron's memory by even looking at his woman, much less touching her.
But enough is enough. When Leilani's offered the opportunity to travel to London to help coordinate an art show at a prestigious gallery, she jumps at the chance to kill two birds with one stone: visit the best art city in the world and have a casual affair. The last thing she wants is to be tied to another man.
When Leilani meets dashing British banker Coin Melbourne, she knows he's the perfect man for a holiday romp. Any doubts are banished by their first smoldering kiss. Unfortunately, he didn't get the memo. While Leilani just wants to play, Colin's playing for keeps.
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Since her fiancé Aaron died over a year ago in a surfing accident, Leilani's been playing the role everyone expects of her: widow of the beloved island son. No one's willing to tarnish Aaron's memory by even looking at his woman, much less touching her.
But enough is enough. When Leilani's offered the opportunity to travel to London to help coordinate an art show at a prestigious gallery, she jumps at the chance to kill two birds with one stone: visit the best art city in the world and have a casual affair. The last thing she wants is to be tied to another man.
When Leilani meets dashing British banker Coin Melbourne, she knows he's the perfect man for a holiday romp. Any doubts are banished by their first smoldering kiss. Unfortunately, he didn't get the memo. While Leilani just wants to play, Colin's playing for keeps.
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Shut Up and Kiss Me - 0.00
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"Quirky, Touching and Fun!" -- New York Times Bestselling Author Susan AndersenWelcome to Precious, Texas, where fistfights serve as dinner theater and fire ants rain from the sky. The locals are very friendly, if a bit eccentric. No pictures please, or you may find yourself a guest of the county morgue.
Photojournalist Shala Winters already had her hands full bringing tourism to this backward, podunk town, but her job just got tougher. Pictures can say a thousand words, and one of Shala's is screaming bloody murder. Now she has to entrust a macho, infuriating lawman with her life -- but she'll never trust him with her heart.
Trusted or not, Sky Gomez isn't about to let a killer get his hands on Shala's Nikon -- or any of her more comely assets, for that matter. Her mouth might move faster than a Piney Woods roadrunner, but all he can think about is how good it must taste...and how she'll never escape true love.
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A Cutthroat Business - 0.00
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Everyone has warned new-minted realtor Savannah Martin that real estate is a cutthroat business. But Savannah doesn’t think she’s supposed to take the warning literally ... until an early morning phone call sends her to an empty house on the ‘bad’ side of town, where she finds herself standing over the butchered body of a competitor, face to face with the boy her mother always warned her about.Rafe Collier is six feet three inches of testosterone and trouble; tall, dark, and dangerous, with a murky past and no future—not the kind of guy a perfect Southern Belle should want to tangle with. In any way. But wherever Savannah turns, there he is, and making no bones about what he wants from her.
Now Savannah must figure out who killed real estate queen Brenda Puckett, make a success of her new career, and avoid getting killed—or kissed—by Rafe, all before the money in her savings account runs out and she has to go back to selling make-up at the mall.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
A Little Bit of Deja Vu - 0.00
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Winner of the Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® Award
and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association® Zola Award
Sometimes destiny has the last word (and laugh)
Fate thrust them together
Blackmail and deception tore them apart
Nineteen years later, their children's love reunites them
Now, only truth and forgiveness can make them a family
Margie Bradford is picking up the pieces of her shattered life following her husband's death. When her cousin encourages her to make a fresh start with her teenage daughter, unsuspecting Margie takes a reading specialist job in the small town of Redemption, PA. The last person she expects to encounter is Rocket Manion, the ex-NFL quarterback and Dr. Phil wannabe who broke her heart nineteen years ago. Strangling her meddling cousin is now at the top of Margie's to-do list.
Divorced teacher and head football coach Jake Manion experiences an eerie sense of déjà vu when his son announces he's gotten his girlfriend pregnant. The feeling simply grows stronger when Jake learns the girl's mother is Maggie, the same woman on whom he's wasted nearly two decades of bitterness.
While planning their kids' wedding and helping them grow up too soon, Jake attempts to pick up right where he left off--in Margie's bed. But no matter how irresistible his kisses are, she isn't stupid enough to let him hurt her again. Or is she?
Approximately 96,000 words
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and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association® Zola Award
Sometimes destiny has the last word (and laugh)
Fate thrust them together
Blackmail and deception tore them apart
Nineteen years later, their children's love reunites them
Now, only truth and forgiveness can make them a family
Margie Bradford is picking up the pieces of her shattered life following her husband's death. When her cousin encourages her to make a fresh start with her teenage daughter, unsuspecting Margie takes a reading specialist job in the small town of Redemption, PA. The last person she expects to encounter is Rocket Manion, the ex-NFL quarterback and Dr. Phil wannabe who broke her heart nineteen years ago. Strangling her meddling cousin is now at the top of Margie's to-do list.
Divorced teacher and head football coach Jake Manion experiences an eerie sense of déjà vu when his son announces he's gotten his girlfriend pregnant. The feeling simply grows stronger when Jake learns the girl's mother is Maggie, the same woman on whom he's wasted nearly two decades of bitterness.
While planning their kids' wedding and helping them grow up too soon, Jake attempts to pick up right where he left off--in Margie's bed. But no matter how irresistible his kisses are, she isn't stupid enough to let him hurt her again. Or is she?
Approximately 96,000 words
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Ratcatcher - 0.00
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When spies go rogue, they need to be stopped. That's where John Purkiss - the Ratcatcher - comes in.
Purkiss's job is straightforward. Track down members of the intelligence services who are taking kickbacks, engaging in criminal activity, or otherwise abusing their positions, and bring them to justice.
Straightforward doesn't mean easy...
After a renegade British former intelligence agent, Fallon, is sighted in the Baltic city of Tallinn on the eve of a historic summit meeting between the Russian and Estonian presidents, Purkiss is despatched to investigate, and uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to tear Europe, and the world, apart.
But Purkiss has personal reasons for going after Fallon. Four years ago, Fallon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Purkiss's fiancée, a murder Purkiss himself witnessed.
Now, in an atmosphere of treachery and sudden violence, as the countdown begins to a potentially catastrophic conflict between Russia and the West, Purkiss must keep his desire for revenge under control for the sake of the world's - and his own - survival.
Described in Amazon reviews as a "cracker of a spy thriller" with "superbly choreographed action scenes" that "leave you feeling almost dizzy", RATCATCHER is both an adrenaline-fuelled action adventure novel and a hardboiled mystery story which exposes the world of the spy, in which few motives and actions are purely black or white.
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Purkiss's job is straightforward. Track down members of the intelligence services who are taking kickbacks, engaging in criminal activity, or otherwise abusing their positions, and bring them to justice.
Straightforward doesn't mean easy...
After a renegade British former intelligence agent, Fallon, is sighted in the Baltic city of Tallinn on the eve of a historic summit meeting between the Russian and Estonian presidents, Purkiss is despatched to investigate, and uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to tear Europe, and the world, apart.
But Purkiss has personal reasons for going after Fallon. Four years ago, Fallon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Purkiss's fiancée, a murder Purkiss himself witnessed.
Now, in an atmosphere of treachery and sudden violence, as the countdown begins to a potentially catastrophic conflict between Russia and the West, Purkiss must keep his desire for revenge under control for the sake of the world's - and his own - survival.
Described in Amazon reviews as a "cracker of a spy thriller" with "superbly choreographed action scenes" that "leave you feeling almost dizzy", RATCATCHER is both an adrenaline-fuelled action adventure novel and a hardboiled mystery story which exposes the world of the spy, in which few motives and actions are purely black or white.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
To Protect & Serve - 0.00
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To Protect & Serve
The Courage Series, Book 1
To save others' lives, they will risk their own...
Houston firefighter, Jeff Taylor is a fireman's fireman. He's not afraid of anything, and no situation is too dangerous to keep him on the sideline if lives are at stake.
Lisa Matheson runs a semi-successful ad agency that's on the brink of falling apart. Her employees are incompetent and her schedule has become exhausting. When she takes on a client with a brilliant idea for a big conference, she thinks that maybe, finally this is her lucky break. However, the fire station wasn't what she had in mind for finding conference speakers. When she falls for a handsome but shy firefighter, it's possible that life might just be going her way for a change. The only problem is she can't control Jeff and the death wish he seems to have...
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The Courage Series, Book 1
To save others' lives, they will risk their own...
Houston firefighter, Jeff Taylor is a fireman's fireman. He's not afraid of anything, and no situation is too dangerous to keep him on the sideline if lives are at stake.
Lisa Matheson runs a semi-successful ad agency that's on the brink of falling apart. Her employees are incompetent and her schedule has become exhausting. When she takes on a client with a brilliant idea for a big conference, she thinks that maybe, finally this is her lucky break. However, the fire station wasn't what she had in mind for finding conference speakers. When she falls for a handsome but shy firefighter, it's possible that life might just be going her way for a change. The only problem is she can't control Jeff and the death wish he seems to have...
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PLUMMET - 0.00
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Working in a big law firm is murder.
Want to find out for yourself?
Then take the plunge...
Micah Grayson is an eager rookie fresh out of law school. Raphael Bianco is a degenerate senior associate who's never met a temptation he could resist. Gabe Weiss is a millionaire senior partner who has a dream life. All three are litigators at Sullivan & Adler, the most powerful law firm in Manhattan. Two of them share a lover. One of them will kill in cold blood. But who is his victim? A dark why-dun-it set in the backstabbing conference rooms of corporate law.
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Want to find out for yourself?
Then take the plunge...
Micah Grayson is an eager rookie fresh out of law school. Raphael Bianco is a degenerate senior associate who's never met a temptation he could resist. Gabe Weiss is a millionaire senior partner who has a dream life. All three are litigators at Sullivan & Adler, the most powerful law firm in Manhattan. Two of them share a lover. One of them will kill in cold blood. But who is his victim? A dark why-dun-it set in the backstabbing conference rooms of corporate law.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Out of Time - 0.00
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*** For a limited time - Get the entire Out of Time Series for under $5 (regularly $11.97)! ***Out of Time: A Time Travel Mystery (Book #1) - Free - regularly $3.99
When the Walls Fell (Book #2) - $.99 - regularly $3.99
NEW! Fragments (Book #3) $3.99
Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.
Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. When the local kingpin with a dark secret sets his sights on Elizabeth, day to day struggles become a fight for their very lives.
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Symphony of Blood - 0.00
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Hank Mondale, a rough-around-the-edges P.I. with a small drinking problem and a large gambling problem, needs a break. With his landlord threatening eviction and his bookie threatening worse, things look bleak. Until real estate mogul Thomas Blake calls with an incredible story: a monster is trying to kill his daughter. Hank figures she's probably some whacked-out spoiled brat, but desperate, Hank takes the case to track down the supposed monster. It seems that people around Mackenzie Blake are disappearing. It's obviously no coincidence. Was Hank hired to unwittingly aid a wealthy murderess? Or is there really someone...or some thing, trying to kill Mackenzie Blake?Book Link
The Zen Man - 0.00
Just as washed-up criminal defense attorney, life-long Deadhead (nickname “The Zen Man”), and current PI Rick Levine decides to get relicensed as a lawyer, he’s charged with killing one and ends up in the slammer with a half-mil bail.
Released on bond, Rick and his girlfriend Laura have 30 days to find the real killer. In the course of their investigations, they dig for dirt among Denver’s shady legal backrooms to its tony corporate centers. Dodging bullets, a kidnapping, trumped-up charges and the FBI's unwanted intervention, Rick and Laura continue tracking key suspects who have motive...eventually learning that true redemption begins at home.
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Corked - 0.00
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When Ollie's face appears on Rose's computer screen, she thinks it's time for her to take a break. After all, the security tape she is reviewing is a week old, and Ollie died five years earlier, on the same night he broke up with her. A tragic accident took his life, and Rose has spent years putting hers back together. She has a new boyfriend, a new job, and a new place to live. A good night's sleep and a cup of coffee later, Ollie's face is still there, and Rose can't help but try to track him down.
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Midnight Murders - 0.00
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Second book in the Detective Trevor Joseph series.
Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Its warrens of rooms and acres of grounds, originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, now provide the ideal stalking ground for a serial killer.
Physically and mentally battered after his last case (Without Trace), Sergeant Trevor Joseph is a temporary inmate – but the hospital loses all therapeutic benefit when a corpse is dug out of a flowerbed. Then more bodies are found; young, female and both linked to the hospital. Everyone within the mouldering walls is in danger while a highly unpredictable malevolence remains at large. And, as patients and staff are interrogated by the police, the apparently motiveless killer watches and waits for the opportunity to strike again . . .
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Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Its warrens of rooms and acres of grounds, originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, now provide the ideal stalking ground for a serial killer.
Physically and mentally battered after his last case (Without Trace), Sergeant Trevor Joseph is a temporary inmate – but the hospital loses all therapeutic benefit when a corpse is dug out of a flowerbed. Then more bodies are found; young, female and both linked to the hospital. Everyone within the mouldering walls is in danger while a highly unpredictable malevolence remains at large. And, as patients and staff are interrogated by the police, the apparently motiveless killer watches and waits for the opportunity to strike again . . .
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Repo Chick Blues - 0.00
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Reformed car thief Leah Ryan is trouble. But she is keeping her head down when her Jeep is repossessed. Unfortunately, most of her money is going toward past due attorney fees for her younger brother Jesse; a mischievous hacker serving his last few weeks in prison. Without a way to get to her construction job, she is fired. Leah needs a job fast. She’s a natural at stealing cars, and decides to ask Callahan Parker, the man who repossessed her Jeep, to hire her. This decision marks the beginning of a nightmare for Leah Ryan.During her first night of work, Leah makes an enemy of a twisted drug lord, Brent Woodard, who targets her for revenge. Things go from bad to worse when Leah discovers that Woodard is smuggling Asian women into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. She is determined to stop him, by any means necessary. But Woodard has friends. Among these is a crooked, sadistic cop who makes her plan more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Soon it’s not only her life at stake, but that of her brother Jesse, who disappears within a day of his release from prison. Leah enlists the help of Callahan and a few friends from her shady past; a past she promised herself she’d never return to, to enter into a dark underworld of sex, drugs and death.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
REDEMPTION - 0.00
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Frank Mallory (one "L" like the English author of chivalric romances) has become an anachronism. A top detective in post-war San Francisco, the mid-eighties finds him fallen on hard times. Depressed over the re-election of Reagan and the growing number of homeless outside his Market Street office window, he's wondering if life has passed him by. "Like the single apple that wouldn't fall from the tree, I hang rotting in winter," he tells himself.
But maybe the world needs an old-fashioned guy like him and just doesn't know it. "There's no more damsels and no more knights," she told him. "Except for you. I guess you must have been asleep when they announced the game of romance was over."
When a mousy-looking woman in a frumpy dress came tapping at the pebbled glass of his office door, Frank thought it would be a simple and quick case that would keep him fortified with cheap rye on his spiral of self-destruction. He couldn't have been more wrong on all accounts. But then how was he to know she was the devil incarnate and had come to bring him his REDEMPTION?
If you like Chandler, black and white movies with Bogart, and even The Rockford Files on TV, you'll love this series.
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But maybe the world needs an old-fashioned guy like him and just doesn't know it. "There's no more damsels and no more knights," she told him. "Except for you. I guess you must have been asleep when they announced the game of romance was over."
When a mousy-looking woman in a frumpy dress came tapping at the pebbled glass of his office door, Frank thought it would be a simple and quick case that would keep him fortified with cheap rye on his spiral of self-destruction. He couldn't have been more wrong on all accounts. But then how was he to know she was the devil incarnate and had come to bring him his REDEMPTION?
If you like Chandler, black and white movies with Bogart, and even The Rockford Files on TV, you'll love this series.
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The Misfortune Teller: Three Stories of Crime - 0.00
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Three short stories of crime and suspense.
In THE ROOM, an incapacitated student gets more than he bargained for when curiosity leads him to join an online self help community. At first the members of The Room welcome him with open arms, but things take a turn for the deadly when one of them confesses to a murder...
In IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU, an encounter with a mysterious stranger in an all-night cafe changes a young woman's life forever.
And in THE MISFORTUNE TELLER, Miller is a private detective with an unusual talent. One that just might help him crack his latest case...
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Three stories of mystery and suspense in one great package. This trio of dark thrillers draws on influences as diverse as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock.
This collection also includes an exclusive free sample of HALFWAY TO HELL - Gavin Bell's full-length thriller novel.
Book Length: 8,500 words (plus exclusive sample of Halfway to Hell); includes active table of contents for easy navigation between stories.
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In THE ROOM, an incapacitated student gets more than he bargained for when curiosity leads him to join an online self help community. At first the members of The Room welcome him with open arms, but things take a turn for the deadly when one of them confesses to a murder...
In IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU, an encounter with a mysterious stranger in an all-night cafe changes a young woman's life forever.
And in THE MISFORTUNE TELLER, Miller is a private detective with an unusual talent. One that just might help him crack his latest case...
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Three stories of mystery and suspense in one great package. This trio of dark thrillers draws on influences as diverse as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock.
This collection also includes an exclusive free sample of HALFWAY TO HELL - Gavin Bell's full-length thriller novel.
Book Length: 8,500 words (plus exclusive sample of Halfway to Hell); includes active table of contents for easy navigation between stories.
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Against All Odds - 0.00
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An unknown fighter is given the opportunity of a lifetime when he’s offered a chance to fight the number 1 ranked cruiserweight in the world, who just so happens to be one of the most ferocious fighters of all-time.
Unlike his best friend, who’s a fast-rising fighter in the boxing world, former amateur prospect Jordan Thomas believes he’s found his true calling in drug dealing. But a traumatic experience compels Jordan to find another way to provide for his family. Knowing only one other way to make ends meet, Jordan decides to return to the ring.
Accruing a perfect record locally, Jordan draws the attention of Rex Jackson, a successful fighter, whose claim to fame comes from devastating knockout power and unadulterated aggression, destroying all of his opponents before the fourth round.
With the largest payday he’s ever been offered on the line, Jordan takes the fight. And even though he never gave himself the slightest chance to win, Jordan becomes motivated by all the naysayers and professional analysts who said he wouldn’t stand a chance against Jackson. Jordan is determined to beat the odds and do what everyone else said was impossible…Beat Rex “The Wrecking Machine” Jackson.
Unlike his best friend, who’s a fast-rising fighter in the boxing world, former amateur prospect Jordan Thomas believes he’s found his true calling in drug dealing. But a traumatic experience compels Jordan to find another way to provide for his family. Knowing only one other way to make ends meet, Jordan decides to return to the ring.
Accruing a perfect record locally, Jordan draws the attention of Rex Jackson, a successful fighter, whose claim to fame comes from devastating knockout power and unadulterated aggression, destroying all of his opponents before the fourth round.
With the largest payday he’s ever been offered on the line, Jordan takes the fight. And even though he never gave himself the slightest chance to win, Jordan becomes motivated by all the naysayers and professional analysts who said he wouldn’t stand a chance against Jackson. Jordan is determined to beat the odds and do what everyone else said was impossible…Beat Rex “The Wrecking Machine” Jackson.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Game Changer - 0.00
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When a suicide bomber blows herself up in Washington, President Roswell Clayton Pierce realises that nothing will ever be the same again. It is a Game Changer.When Matt Richards sees bodies strewn across the US capital, he realises that there are some professions from which a man can never quit. It is a Game Changer.
And so begins a deadly game of cat and mouse against the most ruthless terrorists in the world. One man's reputation will be decided, and a Presidency will be put to the test as the world stands on the brink of global chaos.
Because when the Game changes, you either change with it...or you die.
From the terror camps of Beirut and the Lebanon, to the politics of the Middle East and Washington, Game Changer is a brilliant action thriller, combining the meticulous research of Frederick Forsyth, the military and intelligence know-how of Tom Clancy, the global reach of Robert Ludlum and the pulsating story-telling of Lee Child.
“This will grip you from the first page, and won't let go until the last” - Matt Lynn, author of the best-selling Death Force thrillers.
“The best thriller of the year.” - Tom Kasey, author of the best-selling Trade-Off.
John R. Childress is a leading business consultant, who was educated at Harvard University and the American University of Beirut. His fiction is based on an intimate first-hand knowledge of big business, government and global politics.
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The River - 0.00
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STEM CELL RESEARCH, CLONING, AND WORLD DOMINATION--WITH A TWIST...The South Nahanni River area of Canada's Northwest Territories has a history of mysterious deaths, disappearances and headless corpses, but it may also hold the key to humanity’s survival―or its destruction.
Del thought her father was long dead. But someone from her past says otherwise. Now she and a group of near strangers embark on a perilous mission...
Seven years ago, Del Hawthorne’s father and three of his friends disappeared near the Nahanni River and were presumed dead. When one of the missing men stumbles onto the University grounds, alive but barely recognizable and aging before her eyes, Del is shocked. Especially when the man tells her something inconceivable. Her father is still alive!
Gathering a group of volunteers, Del travels to the Nahanni River to rescue her father. There, she finds a secret river that plunges her into a technologically advanced world of nanobots and painful serums. Del uncovers a conspiracy of unimaginable horror, a plot that threatens to destroy us all. Will humanity be sacrificed for the taste of eternal life?
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The Final Hour - 0.00
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Ex Special Forces Mitch Dyer is no stranger to violence and hot women. Wherever he goes there is danger, killing and attractive chicks. You can see him in ‘THE FINAL HOUR’ which is a rollercoaster of thrills, tension and suspense. He is joined by a beautiful, kick–ass teenager Kiara Stark, who doesn’t take any prisoners. She is tough, no-nonsense and speaks her mind. Kiara can hold her own in a fight, doesn’t suffer fools gladly and is not a person you want mad at you. The dialogue is snappy and the danger intense. The Final Hour sees Mitch Dyer and Kiara Stark fighting an Iranian terrorist group led by the charismatic Jahan, who wants to make the US and Israel pay big time. The only thing stopping him is the relentless determination of Dyer and the intelligence and guile of the sassy, sexy Kiara. The Final Hour is fast paced, with unexpected twists and an explosive plotline that will keep you entertained page after blistering page.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
One Sunday Morning - 0.00
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One Sunday Morning dives into the tragedy of a man losing his wife. Trying to run from his emotions, he ends up leaving his children to find his peace of mind. This poetic short story grapples with the undeniable truths of our primitive character and how one person’s story does not have to determine the ending for those closest to them.
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MURDER BEHIND THE MOON - 0.00
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A balmy night in July 1969.
There's a spaceship.
A bloody knife.
And a boy lying dead in the grass.
This is all inextricably linked in my memory.
But let's start at the beginning...
A thrilling short Story by Alfred Bekker
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There's a spaceship.
A bloody knife.
And a boy lying dead in the grass.
This is all inextricably linked in my memory.
But let's start at the beginning...
A thrilling short Story by Alfred Bekker
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
All My Tomorrows - 0.00
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"Fun, Witty, and Yummy!"
"A Summer Must-Read - This book made me laugh and made me cry! Colette Saucier brought the characters to life so successfully, there was a point in time that I had to stop myself from asking, 'Is All My Tomorrows a real daytime soap?'"
All My Tomorrows is losing the ratings war.
Headwriter Alice McGillicutty would do anything to save the long-running soap opera from cancellation, even reading the old absurdist melodrama The Edge of Darkness for inspiration.
When scandal rips Hollywood bad boy Peter Walsingham off the tabloids and into her studio, Alice doubts the small screen is big enough for his ego - or his entourage. In their battle of pride and prejudice, will Peter's vanity and arrogance compel Alice to write him out of her script?
Or can she find a role for him in All My Tomorrows?
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"A Summer Must-Read - This book made me laugh and made me cry! Colette Saucier brought the characters to life so successfully, there was a point in time that I had to stop myself from asking, 'Is All My Tomorrows a real daytime soap?'"
All My Tomorrows is losing the ratings war.
Headwriter Alice McGillicutty would do anything to save the long-running soap opera from cancellation, even reading the old absurdist melodrama The Edge of Darkness for inspiration.
When scandal rips Hollywood bad boy Peter Walsingham off the tabloids and into her studio, Alice doubts the small screen is big enough for his ego - or his entourage. In their battle of pride and prejudice, will Peter's vanity and arrogance compel Alice to write him out of her script?
Or can she find a role for him in All My Tomorrows?
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Quick History Story - 8/3
Aug 3, 1975:
Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain near Agadir, Morocco
On this day in 1975, a chartered Boeing 707 jetliner crashes in the Atlas Mountains near Agadir, a coastal city in southern Morocco. All 188 people aboard the plane were killed, in the fourth worst air disaster to that date.
Owned by the Jordanian airline Alia and chartered to Royal Air Maroc, the 707 left LeBourget Airport in Paris at 2:20 a.m. on the morning of August 3, 1975. Apart from four Europeans, all of the passengers on board were Moroccan citizens who worked in France and were traveling home for their summer holidays. The flight disappeared from Agadir airport-control radar at 4:28 a.m.; an airport official had spoken via radio with the pilot moments earlier, with no hint of trouble. The plane was scheduled to land in Agadir just two minutes later, at 4:30 a.m., and was descending for approach in heavy fog when the right wing tip and one of the engines struck a peak at an altitude of 2,400 feet. The pilot lost control of the plane, which crashed into a ravine, exploded and burned near the small, remote village of Imzizen. All 181 passengers were killed, along with seven crewmembers.
The incident outside Agadir marked the fourth worst air disaster in history, after a Turkish DC10 that crashed March 3, 1974 north of Paris, killing all 345 passengers and crew; a U.S. military plane that went down outside Saigon on April 4, 1974, killing more than 200; and a chartered Dutch DC8 jetliner that crashed in Sri Lanka on December 4, 1971, killing 191.
The Boeing 707 first went into service in 1958, having been developed to meet the need of airlines (particularly Pan-American) for a trans-Atlantic jetliner with a large seating capacity. With its four engines, the 707 was capable of traveling some 6,000 miles (enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean) nonstop, and boasted a seating capacity of up to 190 people. Thanks to the popularity of the 707 among international airlines, Boeing became world's biggest aircraft manufacturer, pushing aside rival Douglas Aircraft Company (later the McDonnell Douglas Corporation).
The Morocco crash of August 1975 was the second crash of a Boeing 707 to occur over the course of the 1970s; a Jordanian 707 had crashed at Nigeria's Kano Airport in January 1973, killing 176 people. After the introduction of its larger, quieter and more fuel-efficient 747 jumbo jet in January 1978, Boeing ended production of the 707. U.S. airlines sold most of their remaining 707s to Third World carriers, some of them priced as low as $1 million.
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Quotes of the Day - 8/3
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
- Celia Green
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
- William Shakespeare
- Father Larry Lorenzoni
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
- Celia Green
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
- William Shakespeare
I'm Still Standing - 0.00
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“I’m Still Standing” is a collection that relates to my true life experiences over the past year. This collection consists of poetry focused on love, sexuality, sensuality, and spirituality. This work is from the heart, very raw and very real. This book reads sort of like a “poetic diary” and to best understand the process of change and how it works, each poem should first be read in the order presented. You will see my poetry doesn't fit a certain form or structure. That's because my life didn't fit a form or structure. This book reflects my life at that time. It still flows well and is easy to read I made sure of that. It doesn't follow rules. At the time neither did I. But I became stronger. My hope is that through my words you too can become stronger as you partake in this journey with me. It promises to be an exciting journey with up’s and down’s, and twists and turns. There are some bright moments and some very dark moments as well. It is my hope that many people will be able to relate. Yes, you can Still Stand without standing still! Life is a magnificent ride so buckle your seat belt and ride with me.
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Sleeping In The Middle - 0.00
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When your life plan falls apart, you turn to plan B; but if you don’t have a plan B, then you turn to the Comfort Club. Four women. Four stories.
Zoe Robinson—a control freak mother of four—has been celibate for the past two years after her husband decided he didn’t want to be married anymore. She’s come to like sleeping in the middle and has no intention of shopping her granny panties and ultra-support bra around anytime soon. Her focus remains on taking her party planning business to the next level, despite her ruthless competition. Zoe is determined to succeed without the help of her persistent mother, her meddling comfort club sisters, or the charming doctor—Chaz Anderson—who’s more than willing to help with an offer she’s finding hard to refuse. As if that isn’t enough, a phone sex bandit is circulating 1-900-DO-ME-NOW flyers and Zoe’s rebellious daughter is the main suspect. Zoe must decide whether to stay in control and in the middle, or choose a side and let someone in.
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Zoe Robinson—a control freak mother of four—has been celibate for the past two years after her husband decided he didn’t want to be married anymore. She’s come to like sleeping in the middle and has no intention of shopping her granny panties and ultra-support bra around anytime soon. Her focus remains on taking her party planning business to the next level, despite her ruthless competition. Zoe is determined to succeed without the help of her persistent mother, her meddling comfort club sisters, or the charming doctor—Chaz Anderson—who’s more than willing to help with an offer she’s finding hard to refuse. As if that isn’t enough, a phone sex bandit is circulating 1-900-DO-ME-NOW flyers and Zoe’s rebellious daughter is the main suspect. Zoe must decide whether to stay in control and in the middle, or choose a side and let someone in.
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Dead Men Are Easy To Love - 0.00
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Question: What do Clark Gable, Ernest Hemingway, and Vincent Van Gogh all have in common, besides being famous and dead?
Answer: They all loved Ariel Richards, a modern day time-traveling woman who visited with each of them in the past, and inspired some of the greatest works of their times.
For Ariel Richards, is there any future in the past?
One thing is for certain: She thinks dead men are much easier to love than living ones!
Ariel has bad luck with love. But her present dating woes are only the beginning. Soon she finds herself making mysterious visits to the past, brushing shoulders--and much more--with some of the most famous men, and bad boys, from history . . . Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, Beethoven, Dracula, Van Gogh, Butch Cassidy, and others. Will she find lasting romance with any one of them, or will it die before she can find hope for her future?
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Answer: They all loved Ariel Richards, a modern day time-traveling woman who visited with each of them in the past, and inspired some of the greatest works of their times.
For Ariel Richards, is there any future in the past?
One thing is for certain: She thinks dead men are much easier to love than living ones!
Ariel has bad luck with love. But her present dating woes are only the beginning. Soon she finds herself making mysterious visits to the past, brushing shoulders--and much more--with some of the most famous men, and bad boys, from history . . . Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, Beethoven, Dracula, Van Gogh, Butch Cassidy, and others. Will she find lasting romance with any one of them, or will it die before she can find hope for her future?
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Grave Danger - 0.00
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The annual Thriller anthology of short fiction, now in its third year, brings together the most exciting mystery and suspense writers. This year's collection, Love Is Murder, is edited by Sandra Brown. Among the featured authors is New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, whose original short story “Grave Danger” is now available as a free ebook.
For special-effects artist Ali MacGregor, it can be hard to tell fantasy from reality. Especially when her coworker Victor leaves her alone in the studio one night, surrounded by scary creations—zombies, werewolves and mangled corpses. And then she hears footsteps.... Footsteps that shouldn't be there.
Nearby, Ali's ex, cop Greg Austin, is called to the graveyard set of a horror movie after a real corpse appears. But the dead man isn't who his ID says he is. And Victor isn't who he seems to be, either. Greg quickly realizes that Ali, the woman he's never stopped loving, is in grave danger....
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