Book Recommendations

Who Controls America by mark mullen

While Congress continues to argue over the Mueller Report and engage in partisan politics, a far more dangerous adversary goes unnoticed and unanswered as they surreptitiously whittle away middle-class liberties and freedoms. This opponent has been assaulting America relentlessly for over four decades. To make matters worse, the attackers are not terrorists; they are Americans. They work out of sight in secret rooms and hallowed halls. Their goal is the same as the Russians and Chinese: world dominance at the expense of the American middle-class.

Who Controls America? is very highly recommended for social issues, political, economic, and American history collections and classes alike. -Diane Donovan, MidwestBook Review. The reader will understand who truly holds power in American society and it isn’t the masses.- Romuald Dzemo

Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer by Morhaf Al Achkar, MD, Phd

The book tells the stories of 39 patients with incurable lung cancer. It aims to help patients, families, and healthcare providers understand the experience of living with cancer. It also invites reflections on the essential questions of meaning, resilience, and coping with adversity in life. The author is a family doctor, teacher, and researcher who is also a stage 4 lung cancer patient himself. He is patient #40. Patients with cancer often have an urgency to find meaning in life. They struggle with the illness, its emotional impact, and the consequences of treatments. However, with time, reflection, and support from others, they develop resilience.

This is an excellent book written by a physician who happened to be a patient with stage 4 lung cancer at a young age. As a physician, I can say it is an eye opening for me. It reflects the experience of forty individuals with lung cancer. The book is written in a very attractive, yet scientific style.

Wholly Aligned, Wholly Alive by Ciara Jean Roberts

The state of medicine today has its challenges. If you’re suffering from ill health, and you’re feeling lost and overwhelmed, there is a path for you to become wholly aligned if you’re willing to take responsibility for your healing. In this insightful book, nutritionist and yoga teacher Ciara Jean Roberts shows us the path to happiness and healing through her personal journey of dealing with a lifelong kidney condition charting from childhood to teenage dialysis to transplantation and beyond.

An honest and utterly compelling story of a woman’s experience navigating life long kidney disease and empowering herself towards health. Sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious, she shines a light on both the arrogance and humanity found within the medical world and the importance of trust in one’s own innate ability to heal. I found it a hugely enjoyable read.

Don’t Feel Stuck! by Jaclyn Johnston

Are You Tired of Feeling Stuck In Your Life? I will teach you how to manifest your success & happiness! This book is designed to help you: • Learn how to release your stubborn & limiting mental blocks that no longer serve you. • Develop your own newly empowering & positive belief system through soul-exploring mindset journaling. • Secure your empowering belief system into your soul’s core through the use of cognitive training exercises. • And learn how to take inspired, soul-based actions to SHOW the Universe what you truly desire in order to speed up your manifestation process!

This book is amazing. It makes you reach in and grab those deep feelings you may have been holding back. It uproots all negativity and reinsert in spirit with love and light. I love it and I love the process. - Rockie (reader, Amazon.com)

Jake’s America by Glen Daniels

This is the story of Jake, a disgruntled Vietnam vet who isn’t happy with the course the nation is taking, so he decides to give up his lavish lifestyle and escape to a simpler life. The question is, can he do it? Then, there is Lydia, a widowed mother of two who is running from a life of pain and remorse toward a life she doesn’t even know exists. The two collide in remote Montana. Differences aside, are they good for each other?

An excellent story, so appropriate for the times we live in. A storyline that grabs you from the first page to the last. Didn’t want it to end and can’t wait for a sequel.

Searching for Edgar’s Five Dancers by Efren O’brien

It’s Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1940’s - full of smuggled art from Europe, USSR spies, and FBI agents. In the midst of it all is Quinn Chase, a former police detective turned Private Investigator is trying to start a new career after being fired by the Albuquerque Police Department. Quinn seeks one painting that has been smuggled into Santa Fe above all others......”Five Dancing Women (ballerinas)” by nineteenth-century French Artist, Edgar Degas. At the same time, atomic secrets from Los Alamos are being smuggled by Nazi spies out of Santa Fe and back to Germany. An American mole is being paid by the Nazis and is coordinating the smuggled art entering and leaving Santa Fe for South America.

This well written, reads fast, and you can’t be sure of the outcome. It’s an exciting read. - Amazon review

ANGELS OF LIGHT: Beyond the Veil by Mark Vance

A cocky, wise-cracking, commercial airline pilot has a surreptitious, life-long relationship with the apparition of a dead relative, killed decades earlier in a military plane crash. When the apparition urges the pilot to solve the mystery of that crash, government censorship and stonewalling ensues, eventually surmounted by confidential information provided by entities disguised as the pilot’s dead relative and murdered comrades.

Angels of Light: Beyond the Veil is a beautifully riveting tale that follows a young boy’s dream of becoming a pilot as he matures into a grown man. Through his life-long love of planes and flying, the spirit of his dead uncle is his constant encouraging companion and guardian angel.

Sister Witch: The Life of Moll Dyer by David W. Thompson

The legend of Moll Dyer originated in earliest colonial Maryland. Despite 300 years of civilization, Moll’s name is still often heard there, especially around campfires late at night, or as a warning to misbehaving little people. Her spirit is often seen as a wisp of unnatural fog in the swampy woodlands near her homestead, with her half-wolf companion at her side. This is her story. Sister Witch is the 1st place winner of the Golden Quill Award for Fantasy and 1st place (Magical Realism) in the Ed/Pred reader’s poll. Official Selection of New Apple and Reader’s Favorite contests.

Meticulously researched & well-written. The voice of Moll Dyer- strong & prominent. The issues of rape, intolerance, & “witch hunts” - wonderfully incorporated into the narration- a highly riveting read, but an important one as well.

Stop That Wedding by Melissa Klein

When Diana’s mama comes home from an European vacation engaged to an English duke, she jumps into action to stop her erratic mother from making a huge mistake. Andrew, the duke’s nephew and heir, has similar ideas and leaves Monte Carlo’s gaming tables and heads to Mississippi. Andrew and Diana join forces to prove just how incompatible their parents are. However, along the way their an attraction sparks and Diana and Andrew fall in love. When an old family secret comes to light, Diana and Andrew must decide if their love is strong enough to withstand divided loyalties, crazy relatives, and unexpected truths.

Spirited humour! The corners of this reader’s lip rose up on numerous occasions at the dialogue, repartee and shenanigans that occur in this story. Absolutely marvelous characterizations from the main male and female characters, through to a whole assembly of supporting characters.

Inspector Kirby and Harold Longcoat: A Northumbrian Mystery by Ian Martyn

A pair of shoes at the side of the road, how weird can that be? Newcastle Detective Inspector Jonah Kirby, called ‘old school’ by his junior colleagues ends up with the cases other officers don’t like to handle, the weird ones. When a young girl is reported missing Kirby investigates. All he has to go on is the pair of shoes. It’s only been a few hours, but to Kirby it doesn’t feel right and in his experience things not feeling right often lead to things not being right.

I really enjoyed reading this book – Kirby’s thoughts and asides are often utterly hilarious because they are so realistic, both in content and in the way his mind wanders onto unconnected and irreverent topics without any permission! Mine does the same!

A wounded Army Ranger, his military K-9, a beautiful woman and her stalker each have their own reasons for staying at a remote Idaho hunting lodge. Rachel has a dangerous secret, but she’s learned how to survive the hard way, and she’s not about to accept help from an arrogant stranger who shows up unannounced looking for answers to an old mystery.

The Neighbour At Number 18 (Reloaded): Stand By Me by Hawa Louisa Crickmore

Maria’s scared emotions could not allow her to love any man. However she married a teacher who was devoted until the perfect couple were noticed by ‘The Neighbour at Number 18’. Packed with Romance, life changes events, long lost families, mental health and dementia and child grooming

The Long Road Home by J H Morgan

Emily Winter has spent more than half her life hiding from her past and the demons that still reside in it. She has tried to hide her pain with booze and mindless sex, never letting anyone close. When her social worker and the closest thing to a friend she’s ever had calls Emily for help, Emily knows she can’t say no. Paige’s daughter Casey had been kidnapped and held for days in a foreign land. Paige knows the only person who could understand what Casey is going through would be Emily.

This book was simply amazing. Actually amazing may not be strong enough of a word to describe the magnitude brilliance that demonstrates how impressive this read was. This story had any and everything that a thriller should contain within its pages. It intricately detailed the devastation that a sexual assault leaves upon its victims, even almost after 20 years has passed. - LeTresa Payne, Author

It Ain’t Over... (Cole & Srexx Book 1) by Robert M. Kerns

Buy a planet and disappear...That’s all Cole wanted. He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that. But life happens when you’re busy making plans. When Cole chooses to save an ejected castaway and stumbles into a crew of his own, he starts down a path that will force him to choose. Will Cole protect those who have become his people? Or will he slip away quietly in the night?

A great story about a well-developed and interesting character (group of characters), striking the right balance between enough detail to tell the story, while not getting bogged down in the weeds. And GREAT character interaction and humor. And unlike so many books lately, there were few distracting typos or word choice errors...in fact I do not recall a single one. --SrchNResQ, via Amazon.com

Love You Holy, Wild Child by Fran Steinberg

My name is Max or Kid Arrins, and I come from a smaller-than-a-hole-in-the-wall town in Texas called Dead End. People have been leaving there since the railroad moved its stop two towns away. Need a truck now to get your produce to the train station. It’s in South Texas, but on the wrong side of the tracks, if you know what I mean.I’ve lived in this courtroom five days a week, every month or so of my life since I was nine years old. You see, the Foster Care Powers Over Me figure I’m a disturbed orphan.

This book is unbelievable! Literally. It’s like the old Pecos Bill and Slue foot Sue stories or tall tales. The story gets so exciting at times. You know a lot of the happenings can’t be possible but you love reading them. Great book. I’ll want to read it again. Those are the only books that get a five star rating from me.

AN AMERICAN MOM: A Son’s Confession by C.L. Devine

New! Don’t miss this murderous true story as told by the child who saw it all happen, Kyler Denton. As the son of Penny Denton, he reveals the shocking true story of growing up with a serial killer mother in a life of drugs, money and murder!

Kylers story is a book you cannot stop reading. The story is incredible and keeps you wanting more. I couldn’t put it down, it is so well written. I am sooo looking forward to the next book!

Moon Over London (Werewolves and Gaslight Book 2) by Shawna Reppert

Werewolves are disappearing from the gaslit streets of London. Are they being murdered? Kidnapped? Few beyond the ’wolves’ own families notice, they’re missing, and fewer still care. With the aid of a clandestine toff werewolf and a lady alchemist with attitude, Inspector Royston Jones is determined to protect all those who dwell in his city. But his superiors are indifferent, the werewolf community suspicious, and he has too few leads and too many suspects—including his estranged uncle. Only one thing is certain—unless he can solve the mystery, more ’wolves will be taken every time the full moon rises.

“Imagine that Sherlock Holmes was stalking Jack the Ripper in a slightly steampunk version of Victorian London in which werewolves roamed. That might convey a bit of the flavor of this book. There is plenty of action to keep a reader wanting to turn the page and finding it hard to put down in favor of sleep. The author does an excellent job of conveying the bounds and rules of the different social classes. This is something woven through the book and central to the story. . . .” Amazon reader review of the 1st book in the series

Fairfield Corners from LA Remenicky!

Love stories with a TWIST of paranormal Each is a suspense filled standalone ebook, pb, AUDIO & FREE on KU!

From Book 1: Some secrets are too dangerous to keep.

After ten years in the big city, Cassie Holt is back in Fairfield Corners. She may look like the same girl who left home a decade before but she’s hiding a dark truth from everyone. When her life is threatened by the demons of her past, her best friend— who happens to be the local sheriff—offers his help.

Award winning THRILLERS from A. Nicky Hjort

Psychological & Medical fans don’t miss out Dark, horror & MA Reads – each a stand alone Ebook, PB & FREE on KU

From Book 1: Devyn Mitchell has a choice… listen to the voice of her unborn baby – or die- again.

After a near death experience, Doctor Devyn Mitchell finds herself not only mysteriously pregnant but able to communicate with her fetus.

She has two choices: give in to total madness or surrender to her new reality, which just may be the only way she and her family will survive the obsessions of the Homeless Hunter’s mind.

A true paranormal romantic thriller, A Sinister Bouquet: Awakening, the first of the Sinister Series, will take you right to the edge of what you know to be possible and then drop you in a place so dark, so terrifying, that the only passageway out is through the blinding light of awakening.

Wake up. Open your eyes. Finally. We’ve missed you so.

(MA18+ for graphic sexual and violent content)

Humans are blissfully ignorant of Terra’s past inhabitants But they want it back! Read in Order – Ebook, PB & FREE on KU

From Book 1: The Rosinanti Dragons are no more. Since their extinction nearly one thousand years ago these primal powerhouses have fallen into the obscurity of history’s forgotten lore. In that time, humans have come to dominate the world of Terra, peacefully ignorant to one horrifying truth: ancient evil stirs around them, waiting to reclaim its lost world.

The Wicked Awakened by Sam Jacobey . It’s a sexy witch hunt when Sarah and Blake take on his brother’s coven - they want to steal her body for a reincarnation!

Beyond Blue Eyes Series

From Sara J. Bernhardt Fleeing the French invasion of Geneva Switzerland in the 1700s, Adam Gold books passage to America with his family. On the ship, Adam’s daughter falls fatally ill. A mysterious man comes to Adam with a way to save his child by turning Adam into something darker than human.

By Danielle DeVor

An amazing vampire tale unlike any other – a legendary king murdered centuries ago is reincarnated into an ordinary street kid, but will he realize his place of power before Lilith can kill him… again?