Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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The Grand Librarian: The Future Wizards by Dee Rose
After the events of the Hangman Returns, Alexander and Emma Merryweather have returned home to Chicago in hopes of living a normal life and raising their twin babies, Octavia and Octus. But the wizard Merlin arrives in Alexander’s dream and informs him of a threat to his twins in the future. The powerful wizard group,…
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Gone by A.C. Efverman
Three teenage boys disappear from an exclusive suburb in Sydney. Kidnappers contact the boys’ families – but before any ransom sums have been paid, two of the boys’ bodies are found floating in the harbor. DS Morgan Callaghan has taken time off work for personal reasons, but now he’s called in to lead the kidnapping…
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The Erris Starship by Denis McClean
Erris has defied Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way for far longer than people have been in Ireland or even in Europe for that matter. This remote and timeless landscape exudes a bittersweet melancholy for things tragically lost and now largely forgotten. The result is that each breath of its salty humid air is anathema to visions…
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The Ghosts of Kings by Amy Flint
There’s never a dull moment for paranormal investigator Porter Biggleswade. Newlyweds Bernard and Jill don’t think wedded life is so blissful after their honeymoon. Two weeks in Egypt, and now Bernard is being haunted. The case takes Porter to the Valley of the Kings, where the past catches up with her. But can she really…
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Passage to Portrainia by Wesley Butler
The world of Portrainia is like a fairy tale where things you never thought imaginable exist – a common ground for lucid dreamers. It is seen through an unconscious body, mind and soul, where three young teens discover their dreaming lives are just as real as their waking lives. About the Author: Residing in…
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Sightseeing by Michael Onofrey
Sightseeing is a tale of lust and art set in Paris, France. Intrigue haunts the prose where hilarity and evil arise in a twist of collaboration. Minus any personal background, a woman and a man explore one another while regarding masterpieces of fine art and the historic sites of Paris. Sightseeing, stealthily and meticulously explores…
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NaNoWriMo Writing Prompts!
We are two days into National Novel Writing Month! If you’re feeling a bit of writer’s block but desperate to produce something for #NaNoWriMo, try one of these writing prompts. I stared at the tiny diamond ring. “I know it’s a kooky idea, but I’ve read of other people who’ve done it. So why not…
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The Captain & the Queen by Phillip Vega
Award-winning author, Phillip Vega is back with his highly anticipated second novel, The Captain & the Queen. When the “Thunderbolt” of love really happens and there is no denying its heat, its intensity. When life events threaten to pull loved ones apart. When the world is a smaller place than you imagine. When true love…
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Between the Sea and Stars by Chantal Gadoury
A Legend, A Magical Shell A Girl Who Dreamed Of Something More… Lena, a Merrow girl, lives in the Skagerrak sea with her father, Carrick and her brother, Javelin who tells her of the legend of the Merrow Queen murdered by her human lover when greed takes over. But what’s worth spilling the queen’s blood?…
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Plea for Justice, by Liz Lazarus
Plea for Justice is a psychological, legal thriller by Liz Lazarus, told in alternating viewpoints by “Jackie,” an overweight paralegal in pursuit of justice, and “Me,” a terrifying killer with treacherous cyber skills. Lazarus has once again produced a page-turner, full of drama and suspense—and more than one unexpected twist. Set in Atlanta, GA, main…
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