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Sixteen-year-old Eve Donahue’s lonely existence changes in an instant when visions of a mysterious stranger haunt her. Thousands of miles away, Nick Hammond has been dealing with his own unusual experience. When these teens meet, their belief that God has called them to work together sets them on a journey. As they follow century-old clues, they realize God can call us all in big and small ways.
Falling in love was not on her to-do list.
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Left in debt after the tragic death of her husband, Tricia Adams struggled to keep a roof over her family’s heads. When Eric Elliott, agreed to help renovate the guest house, mysterious things began to happen. The dashing and handsome man held a bowl full of secrets, and she was going to get to the bottom of it. What could possibly go wrong? eBook Price $2.99 Available on Kindle Unlimited
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Inca, the Siberian Kitty, and her furry family are off to South Korea with their human Mom. Mom created a new cheese and was invited by a prestigious French cookery school to present her new cheese and judge a cookery competition between South and North Korean chefs. The cats befriend a Korean dog and his master pining for his long-lost sister living in the North. What dangers await the group of animal detectives as they cross over from South to North Korea.
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Kate, born with the ability to read human hearts, coupled with keen intuition, struggles to understand her premonitions. With startling twists, the story brims with inspiration and daring while exploring intuition, the supernatural, angels, the afterlife, and issues relevant too many of today’s societal woes. A compelling tale filled with subtle wisdom, the book is both tantalizing and powerful. A compelling tale filled with subtle wisdom, the book is both tantalizing and powerful.
If you never read one of Willow Rose’s 80 books, this is an excellent place to start! Get this new mystery from multi-millioncopy bestselling author Willow Rose today! Four rich teenagers are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a dumpster, all from the same high school in Miami. Soon, Detective Harry Hunter will risk everything while racing to stop a serial killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.
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Marc Rainer is my pen name; my real name is Charles ("Chuck") Ambrose, Jr. I am a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. I am a former Air Force JAG Circuit Prosecutor and former federal prosecutor (Assistant United States Attorney) in Washington, D.C., and in Kansas City, MO. In more than thirty years of experience, I have tried hundreds of both military and federal (civilian) major cases, including prosecutions of homicide cases, federal conspiracy trials, and mafia and other organized crime prosecutions. My experience allows me to weave scenes from my investigative and trial experiences into the plot lines of my novels. I have also co-authored a manual on how to try murder cases, which was published by the American Bar Association's Criminal Law Section. I live in a suburb of a major northwestern city with my wife, a retired Special Agent of the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), and our rescue mutts.
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For the aspiring authors reading this who have dreams of making writing their career, how long did it take you before you started earning enough money from writing to pay your bills? As an indie author, I never got an advance check. I took the plunge into self-publishing after being signed by an agent, who did nothing during her contract except keep me out of print for a year through her inactivity. After plunking down some real money to get my first novel off the ground, the first few weeks after publication were anything but encouraging. The first month, I sold about twenty-five books. Friends and family. The second month, about fifty; the third, about a hundred. Then, word of mouth started kicking in (the best advertising you can have), and by month number six my book was selling 1,000 copies per month. It kept that average going until Amazon decided to open their other revenue stream with the Kindle Unlimited program. That hurt sales, but opened some other, slightly-less-profitable, doors for me. It’s still a revenue stream for writers that a self-published author can’t ignore. The books have never paid all my bills, but they’ve provided enough extra money after that promising start to help, and I’ve been encouraged enough to keep writing. Read our full interview with Marc Rainer here! www.WeeklyTopShelf.com
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Harold Goldfarb is a sixty-year-old retiring actor who's looking for peace and contentment in his advancing years. One night, he is visited by a strange otherworldly being. His whole world gets turned upside down. He is tasked with an outrageous assignment, the fate of humanity depends on what he does next. A Sci-Fi fantasy romp with heart and humor, God and aliens, bird-monsters, and all kinds of peculiar twists that lead to the most unexpected places.
"The Jungle Book meets Kill Bill... with dragons!" Born of humans but raised by beasts who despise the legacy of man, Keelin is the only one who can redeem, or destroy, the future of both races. eBook Price $3.99
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It's the 1940s. WW II. Home Front chronicles a farm family and how their lives were irrevocably changed by the war and by"progress" in the post war period.
A young priestess named Eliles stands in the heart of this conspiracy, on her shoulders rest decisions which could prevent a holy war or demonic genocide. Through lies, manipulation, and murder, everyone is on a seventeen day march to fulfill or defy prophecy; the world will end or begin anew, come the Eve of Snows.
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Are you looking for a way to deal with a setback? Do you feel left out or alone? God understands how you feel. During our most challenging times and circumstances, God wants us to turn to Him for comfort, deliverance, and guidance. In Time to Refresh: A 21-Day Devotional to Renew Your Mind After Being Laid Off, Fired, or Sidelined Karen Brown Tyson draws on her own experience to help us: learn how to rest; pray through the tough times; prepare for the future; and gain confidence during uncertain times.
The turn-of-the-century world of New York City ragtime is the backdrop for a story about the price of freedom, the longing for immortality, and the human need to find forgiveness. A failed concert pianist achieves fame as Ragtime King of the World, only to discover he is haunted by the life and the woman he left behind. From vaudeville's most celebrated stars to the geniuses of early African American musical theater, an unforgettable cast of real-life characters populate this richly fictionalized historical saga.
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A MASTERFULLY WRITTEN TIME TRAVEL ROMANCE!
A PROVOCATIVE TALE YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WANT TO MISS!
When the ultimate Beatles fan, Marnie, is told that the Fab Four are scheduled to perform and that her best friend has tickets for her birthday, she is over the moon! Until a disastrous quote by John Lennon, on Christianity's declining popularity, is released in a popular teen publication, which ignites a firestorm in already racially charged atmosphere. Forbidden from going to the concert, Marnie is paralyzed with fear when she discovers that the KKK is planning to make this Beatles concert their last. With the show just days away, Marnie and Myles must prevent this tragedy from occurring. 30 Minutes in Memphis is an absolute thrill ride from start to finish.
While her boyfriend Forrest searches for a job, quick-witted Annet works at the Keizer Manor, where the oils from 19th-century master painter Alexander Keizer are exhibited. After a fight, a very pregnant Annet and Forrest figure they'll take a stroll through the ocean dunes, but they become separated when dark clouds roll in, bringing with them a violent thunderstorm. Regaining consciousness in a monastery, Forrest nowhere to be found, Annet is convinced the nuns are playing a prank. The 1800's. Impossible! She must find her way home. But how will she ever get back to her own time? A masterfully written time travel romance. The story rules the day here, and it is wonderfully imagined and crafted in a tremendously satisfying novel.
A terrifying, edge of your seat, a heartpalpitating tale about what happens when a flu pandemic invades the United States through the food supply delivering an incurable disease of madness and death. People are dying. Order turns to chaos when sixty-four people, not infected, enter the silo, which is time-locked not to open for six months. Their only hope is that by the time they emerge from their underground safe house, the world’s scientists will have a vaccine. But the time-lock opens six days early. With the clock racing and danger lurking at every turn, the survival of the fittest is the game. The future may not exist beyond six days. A provocative tale you are NOT going to want to miss!
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Starting from that pivotal moment, blending historical fact with audacious creativity, the author of the award-winning I, Claudia propels us back through the life of the man who would become St. Paul. Her vividly imagined, well-founded tale of loss, transformation, and divine intervention will captivate believers and non-believers alike who yearn for the human truth and drama behind the scriptures.
Following their abduction from Earth, Laura Sinclair, and son, Jason, lead a group of desperate humans in a bid to forge their own future and that of their home planet. To succeed, they must solve the puzzle of extraterrestrial races in the throes of a perplexing and historic conflict. But they are in a strange new universe.. Who can they trust as they struggle to understand the challenging and hostile environment that holds them in a grip of iron? And what do the aliens really plan for them and their hybrid children?
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If James Patterson and Janet Evanovich had a love child... Meet Jessica James! Donors to the new world class Chicago museum of Russian art are dropping like flies, and Jessica is at the center of the carnage. Can she track down the killer before she falls into his trap?
When Jake Hollywood finds an envelope, he feels it is drawing him towards it. He discovers a newspaper inside the envelope: TITANIC SINKS FOUR HOURS AFTER HITTING ICEBERG....Moments later, he finds himself in the bowels of the ill-fated liner. Knowing what will happen if he does nothing—and a mysterious key he finds in the maze of corridors—Jake tries to save the ship and himself. If he does, will Jake manage to return to the present?
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Luke St. Clair, Earl of Mayfield, has tired of his empty, carefree life and seeks to find a spouse he can love and cherish, much as his brother and sister have done. Ridding himself of his mistress and lover, he commits to entering the upcoming Season with an open mind. Before the Season can even begin, though, Luke meets an independent beauty who does more than interest him…
Fifteen-year-old Matt Mitchell was having the worst summer imaginable. His misery started when his mother died in a senseless car accident. Matt’s grieving father, unable to remain in the family’s seaside cottage, moved Matt and his twin sister as far as possible from the ocean they loved… The Secrets of Hawthorne House is the story of an unlikely friendship, the clash of two radically different cultures, hidden magic, and a search for the lost Hawthorne treasure.
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