Category: Book Highlights and Prompts
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June the Prune and Lady Bird – Cancer Stinks! by Gracie Bradford
What goes through a person’s mind when isolated in a hospital room away from friends, relatives, and trustworthy pets? June is a 10-year-old feisty girl who goes through unusual life’s challenges in the midst of unimaginable encounters with adults and her imaginary friends Chemo, Rad, Ed, Captain Jeff and Doctor Treehouse. Her dog, Lady Bird,…
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Matters Of Convenience by Roy L. Pickering
Marshall yearns for Audrey but she sees a future with James. When her personal and professional plans veer off course, their relationships are shuffled. Can it work out with Marshall after he provides support at a critical juncture? Or is it doomed to fail when paths cross with James, secrets are revealed, and commitments are…
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Sleight by Tom Twitchel
Benjamin Brown, a seventeen-year-old, successfully escaped from a kidnapper using his supernatural gifts. His sometime girlfriend, Justine, wasn’t quite as lucky. When she shows up at his door, looking like death warmed over, Benjamin isn’t sure what to to do. Fearing that she is hiding something that threatens both of them, he searches for answers,…
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Life is But a Dream by Jennifer Provenza
Angela is a narcoleptic. Or at least, that’s what she tells people. The truth is . . . somewhat more complicated. Angela has two lives, existing in parallel universes. When she sleeps in one life, she is awake in her other life. In one reality she is single and successful in New York City. In…
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The Rising (Supernaturals Book 1) by Ryan Troske
Ethan is just an ordinary teenage boy—infatuated with sports music and, of course, girls. Or so he thinks. Heading home on a rainy night from an amateur guitar gig, he finds his life turned completely upside down—literally. His car spins and flips out of control after what he believes to be a small animal jumps…
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Writing Prompt Contest Winner: Maria L. Berg
Premise: A family moves into an old Victorian house in a sleepy town where everybody knows everybody. The house has been vacant for the last five years, and nobody knows why the previous family left so suddenly. Prompt: Write a 500-word story, but write it from the perspective of the house, not the family. She…
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Emojiville: Good vs Evil, by Alana Edmonds
In the town of Emojiville, four friends unite with their families to fight off evil. Buy your copy here! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alana Edmonds is an eight-year-old, first-time author from Dallas, Texas. She loves to read cool books and comics and write awesome stories. She’s also a dancer and cheerleader.
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Like A Box of Chocolates by Justin Bienvenue
A compilation of poems within several different genres, such as Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, Love, Crime, Action, and many more. The collection contains 40 poems both rhyming and prose and each delivering something different, special and unique. Buy your copy and follow the author, Justin Bienvenue, on Twitter and Facebook! Amazon Book Link | Twitter | Facebook ABOUT THE…
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Broken & Damaged Love by TL Clark
A CSA survivor battles her demons and discovers love on her path to recovery. Tina is a fictional character, but sadly her story is all too real for many out there. This book has been written to offer hope to survivors of child sex abuse, and to help inform the general public of the signs to…
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Abiku: A Battle Of Gods by Segolila Salami
She was called an Abiku, an evil spirit sent to this world to lure men to their doom. Dayo is a bi-racial twenty-something-year-old with a German mom and a Nigerian dad. She has a semi bougie lifestyle, always jetting across the pond between Africa and Europe. She starts dating her father’s driver in secret…
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