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DISHONORED
by J.R. Reardon
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

In treachery, there is no honor... Federal District Court Judge Rebecca Tameron seemed to have it all-a loving family, a prestigious career and the respect of her community that is, until her world falls apart. Implicated in the disappearance of a Supreme Court Justice, and the shooting of a Federal agent, Tameron scrambles to uncover the truth. The problem is, each investigative leads she pursues only results in more questions, and every investigative avenue she takes leads back to her. How can she clear her name?While exploring the reaches, limits and dangers of our increasingly security-conscious and interconnected world, DISHONORED questions the faith we place in both strangers and friends and reminds us how perilous our techno-savvy life can be.
Beautiful
by Kiexiza Rodriquez
Genres: Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Tierra Rodriquez is torn between her past she running from and the life she pretends she really doesn't want.When her best friend re enters her life in the midst of the loss of a love one, things begin to go a bit crazy all at once.Her secrets are revealed, her mom shows up on her doorstep, she finally gives love a try and fails, her best friend is critically hit by a car and in the midst of it all, she keeps seeing this familiar woman who seems to have the answers she needs. If she'd only stay around long enough for Tierra to have a real conversation with her.Will Tierra ever be able to figure out her problems and see the messages right before her face, or will her hurt keep her blind to all she really wants and deserves?
Love You More Than You Know: Mothers' Stories About Sending Their Sons and Daughters to War
by Janie Reinart
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.40

In these stories, 45 mothers of U.S. service men and women open their hearts and share what it feels like when your son or daughter leaves home to fight a war. They discovered the strange mix of pride and fear. The anxiety of not knowing exactly where your son is in the world, whether your daughter is facing fire or heat and boredom. Elation at the arrival of the briefest message. The daily dread, when returning home, of seeing a government car in the driveway . . . Any parent who reads these stories will feel their power--and will gain a greater understanding of the sacrifice made by parents as well as their children in our military.Here are pictures of 11 of the 45 troops and their moms from our book, Love You More Than You Know, in an Animoto video. May God bless our troops and bring them safely home.http://animoto.com/play/vCDPid1b1Qo8e...http://www.loveyoumorethanyouknow.com
Left in His Closet
by Mary Krome
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.09

She doesn't know if he knew who he was when they got married. All she knows is the truth lies somewhere in his coming out, a process she is ill-equipped to understand, much less explain. Soledad runs away, inventing a new past each time a man learns of her fourteen-year marriage to Bob. Carlos and Ana ignore their daughter's needs after Nita accidentally overhears Jim talking to his lover. Judy struggles with the reaction of her children when they discover their family's twenty-year secret Left in His Closet. These three courageous women are friends, mothers, sisters, children, and the ex-wives of the men they loved; men who didn't leave them for another woman, but rather, a man. Because of circumstances they cannot control, each woman clarifies that which she has yet to make peace with herself her own identity. By trying to fit the illogical into a logical framework and drawing conclusions with limited information, each woman finds herself trapped in a moral and political debate where black and white no longer exists. Swallowed up by shades of gray, they move on. Some slowly, picking up a shattered image of a happy marriage; others quickly, looking for the first man that will make them feel like a woman again; and others methodically, immersing themselves in helping others through similar experiences so they can make sense of their lives. Left in His Closet opens the doors of understanding to the lesser defined experience the straight spouse of gay mate.
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier
Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Philosophy, Science, Cultural, Internet, Sociology
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.56

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse.The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web’s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one’s presence anonymous) that have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences. What’s more, these designs quickly became “locked in,” a permanent part of the web’s very structure. Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. Lanier also shows:How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourseHow file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologistsWhy a new humanistic technology is necessary.

Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.
Love Always, Hobby and Jessie
by Sara Robinson
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.31

Even the most difficult of marriages can survive a lifetime through commitment, acceptance, and work. In Love Always, Hobby and Jessie, the improbable bond that was the marriage of Hobby and Jessie Robinson showcases one example of a rocky marriage that eventually finds its footing. Defined by their heritage and their experiences, Hobby and Jessie met, merged,-and split many times as they unknowingly defined their unique relationship. The conditions implemented to keep peace forged an eventual lifelong truce and acceptance. Those outside of their marriage would have been puzzled the solutions that Hobby and Jessie found. As unconventional as they were to each other, their attempts at brokering their special treaties mirrored their individual styles. Couples who settle on the edges of their relationship often find themselves at the very center of it. Sara Robinson grew up in Elkton, VA and currently resides in Charlottesville, VA.
The Wave of the Future
by Duane De Mello
Genres: Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

Thirty-seven-year-old Mitch Vasari is a deep cover ops officer in the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, dedicated to his role in America’s war on terror. And he certainly has his work cut out for him: a group of Islamic terrorists is intent on waging their war of jihad against two targets of significance—a nuclear waste processing facility in northwestern England and Washington, DC’s Dulles International Airport. The mastermind of the plots is radical Islamic fundamentalist Dr. Abdul-Karim bin Ahmad, a Pakistani physician working at a hospital in Scotland. Caught in the middle is Patrick Cahill, an Irish national and Dr. bin Ahmad’s accomplice...who also happens to be deep undercover for Mitch and the Agency. The men circle in a deadly dance of violence and deception, as the clock ticks steadily toward a cataclysmic devastation. The Wave of the Future is a provocative thriller, offering a rare insider’s glimpse into how the CIA manages their operations and engages terrorist targets.
The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science, Self Help, Personal Development, Sociology
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.06

The author of the bestselling Flow (more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future.In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the negative. A University of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we must free our minds of cultural illusions such as ethnocentric superiority or identification with one's possessions. He urges readers to find ways to reduce the oppression, exploitation and inequality that are woven into the fabric of society. Further, he wants us to control the direction of human evolution by pursuing challenging activities that lead to greater complexity while opposting chaos and conformity. Each chapter concludes with self-help questions and mental exercises designed to help readers apply the insights of this literate manifesto to their daily lives.
Behold the Dawn
by K.M. Weiland
Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Christian, Christian Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.08

Marcus Annan, a tourneyer famed for his prowess on the battlefield, thought he could keep the secrets of his past buried forever. But when a mysterious crippled monk demands Annan help him find justice for the transgressions of sixteen years ago, Annan is forced to leave the tourneys and join the Third Crusade.Wounded in battle and hunted by enemies on every side, he rescues an English noblewoman from an infidel prison camp and flees to Constantinople. But, try as he might, he cannot elude the past. Amidst the pain and grief of a war he doesn’t even believe in, he is forced at last to face long-hidden secrets and sins and to bare his soul to the mercy of a God he thought he had abandoned years ago.
Yesterday and Today
by William Cheek
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.88

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Donnie Brasco
by Joseph D. Pistone
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime, Crime, Biography, History, Memoir, Autobiography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, "connected guys," captains, and godfathers. Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings.With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.
Music Box Danseur
by Marlene K. Slade
Genres: M M Romance, Contemporary, LGBT, Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.48

Music Box Danseur is a dramatic story about an unmatched professional and private partnership between two male British Ballet dancers. Their success and failures are profiled on and off the stage. Spanning nearly a decade their respective roles in life confront tremendous family pressures, the pitfalls of fame, and the pivotal importance of friendships lost and those found. The dancers odd and daringly different pairing begins in the early eighties. Their relationship is initially formed through a mutual understanding of emotional loneliness and disparity. The core of their fragile bond is tested over time within a fleet of personal challenges set on dividing the pair. As the unwanted son of a fleeing father and a resentful mother of a stolen career in dance, eighteen-year old Hart Nader has left his foolish past of sleeping about with strangers behind him. His young years as a dancer in training have enrolled him in one of the finest dance schools in London where he seeks to become the success his mother once dreamed of becoming. During his dance studies he is met with a company of jealous rivals eager to destroy his dreams. His classmates animosity is second in nature to a dynasty of dysfunctional aristocrats that seek to ruin his chance for true love with one of their own. Twenty-eight year old Sebastian Seymour is Europe’s leading prince of ballet. Heir to one of the richest and most powerful families in England, Sebastian dances with demons unseen by the people that most admire his artistic talent. His flawless footwork and phenomenal stage presence made him a global star. His well-guarded private life conceals secrets brutally tormenting and sinisterly scarring. All of which threaten to end his dancing days at the height of his brilliant career. The two dancers struggle to make a life together. They defy family members; dismiss friends while dancing hand and hand through a deeply affecting and frightfully destructive intimate partnership. A relationship so immensely flawed that neither of the two may survive it. This story is about a remarkable companionship that is as powerfully profound as it is tragic.
Illusion
by Edmond Cheng
Genres: Mystery, Christian, Crime, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.50

One day, Thomas meets his old friend's mother, Wai Ha, who asks Thomas to warn her son, Jonathan, about her daughter-in-law, Helen. She's cheating on him. Thomas then discovers Wai Ha has already died so it is absurd for him to have met her in his office!A haunting, a vision, a nasty headache, and a murder—what's next?
The Chocolate Run
by Dorothy Koomson
Genres: Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.85

Amber Salpone thinks in chocolate - talk to her for three minutes and she'll tell you what kind of chocolate you'd be. In fact, most days, if she was asked to choose between chocolate and relationships, there'd be no contest. At least chocolate has never let her down. Unlike her family. Growing up in the Salpone household has taught Amber to avoid conflict and love at all costs.So, when she does the unthinkable and has a one-night stand with womaniser Greg Walterson, her uncomplicated, chocolate-flavoured life goes into meltdown. Especially when Greg announces she's the love of his life - and Amber finds it hard enough to commit to plain or Fruit & Nut. . .Meanwhile, her best friend, Jen, seems to be launching a bid to become Bitch Of The Year and Amber's family are making unreasonable demands. Amber has two choices: deal with her past and the people around her, or go on a chocolate run and keep running. . .A scrumptiously funny and moving tale of love, lust and confectionary.
The Chronicles of the Virago--The Novus:  Book I
by Michael Bialys
Genres: Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Makenna Grace Gold is just your average 12-year-old girl. That is, until she is told that she must protect her newborn brother and sister to safeguard the future of the world. Armed with a mysterious weapon, three Fairy mentors, and a wisecracking earthworm named Fluffy, Makenna must battle the forces of evil and became a defender for hope. Can Makenna truly be ‘The Virago’?
Everyman His Own Gravity
by Andrew Weaver
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Winner of the 2010 International Book Awards Prize for Short Story Fiction.
Exit Wound (Nick Stone, #12)
by Andy McNab
Genres: Thriller, Fiction, Action, Military Fiction, Adventure, Espionage, Mystery
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.02

Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime.But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down...As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy, to which he and the beautiful Russian investigative journalist with whom he has become ensnared unwittingly hold the key.Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.
Spectre Nightmares and Visitations
by Pamela K. Kinney
Genres: Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Fantasy, Supernatural, Ghosts
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

Many things scare us. But the most fearful things are those that infect our nightmares and visitations. Monsters from the closet or from another planet. Ghosts that haunt more than houses. Werewolves are not the only shapeshifters to beware of. Children can be taken from more than the human kind of monsters. Even normal things can be the start of a heart-pounding terror. Prepare to step beyond the pages into Spectre Nightmares and Visitations.Just tell yourself that they're only stories.If want the eBook version find it at http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/...
Keluarga Gerilya: Kisah Keluarga Manusia dalam Tiga Hari-Tiga Malam
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Genres: Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Asia, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

Wahab dihukum mati Belanda, tanpa membocorkan rahasia kawannya. Novel ini penuh imajinasi, meskipun beberapa bagian merupakan fakta nyata, terutama pengalaman revolusi pengarangnya yang dijadikan acuan pokok untuk memberikan makna kepada gejala zamannya. Novel ini dapat memberi makna tentang semangat cinta tanah air dan bangsa melebihi cintanya kepada keluarga dan diri sendiri. Novel ini berisi kisah yang berlangsung tiga hari tiga malam di Jakarta pada zaman revolusi sekitar tahun 1947. Banyak pendapat yang menyatakan bahwa novel ini berkata jujur tentang keadaan revolusi, tanpa melebihlebihkan atau menyembunyikan.
Gatekeepers - The Quest for Clues to an Age-Old Riddle
by Kobina Amissah-Fynn
Genres: Fiction, Ghana
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.24

Set Set in a small coastal village in Ghana, “Gatekeepers” explores the coming of the World-Saviour of the end times from the perspective of six World Religions; demonstrates the essential oneness of the Religions; and makes a case for unity amongst the followers of these Religions in the search for this divine world Figure. The story unfolds with the arrival, from the US, of Kojo Apiata and his American wife, at his ancestral home of Bibiriba, on the shores of Ghana, for what was intended to be a short visit. Little did he imagine then, that he would be entrusted with the affairs of this remote community as the village Chief, and that those affairs would draw him slowly but inexorably into the vortex of a search for the Promised Redeemer of the end times, a search that was soon to widen to assume global dimensions...
Something A'Kin to Haiku
by Alice Batchelor Hambright
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.75

Something A'Kin to Haiku: One hundred little poems to season your days.
Below Sunlight
by Ryan Adam Smith
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

For twenty-three years Sam has lived an ordinary life in Seattle with his mother, sister, and friends. But after a romance with his girlfriend ends in tragedy, Sam escapes to New Mexico in hopes of finding adventure and leaving his past, family, and friends a distant memory. In Albuquerque, a place filled with sun and blue skies and where he is a stranger, Sam meets Lola, an angel-obsessed woman with secrets of her own, who invites him to be a part of her close-knit circle. Below Sunlight is a gripping, and sometimes funny, story of addiction, lust, sorrow, and the burden dark secrets carry.
Tramps 47: From Prison to Parkbench to Pulpit
by Lynette Sloane
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

This, the biography of Pastor Les Deane begins with the overview of his 1950s childhood in rural Lancashire. Les' parents were poor but his father was a hard worker and provided well for the 11 children, who had to sleep 4 to 5 in a bed. It tells of a family bound together with love until one day they are split apart due to the continual struggle by their father to stay in gainful employment. These early years deeply contrast the next twenty or so years of his life. He becomes a member of one of the most ruthless gangs of 1960's London, and as a consequence, of his dealings he spends time in various prisons and remand centres where he receives vicious beatings from numerous prison officers. Soon after his release from Norwich Prison, whilst totally disillusioned by all he has experienced, he drops out of society to become a tramp. The next five years are spent living on the streets, each day a struggle to survive. At times, he trudges the streets, having not eaten for a week, existing in the soaking wet and biting cold. He becomes an alcoholic-this is the only way to block out the cold on the long winter nights. This part of the story shows the dignity and humanity of street-people, who were once someone's baby, warm and loved. Now they are homeless, treated with contempt and even rejected by parts of the Church. After five years on the streets, his health failing, he's finally taken in by a family whose love and care help him become a reformed character, eventually finding his faith in God and becoming a Church Minister. Today, he is Pastor and Manager of Freshfields Christian Music Ministries, a music group which ministers at various Churches throughout the country.
If Truth Were to Be Told
by Saket Suryesh
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.33

The book is a compilation of essays, analyzing the individual, his ecosystem and how he does and should interact with it, to be able to live a happy and fulfilling life.
The Justice Game
by Geoffrey Robertson
Genres: Law, Nonfiction, Biography, Politics, History, School
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92

As a young Australian barrister, Robertson found himself involved in the Oz trial; a frothingly moralistic judge went to some lengths to jail three editors of an underground magazine, and was duly humiliated on appeal. Success leads to opportunity; Robertson has found himself at the heart of a sequence of crucial freedom of expression trials--the Gay News blasphemy trial, the attempt to bust the National theatre over a play in which male rape took place, the arrest of a painter whose chosen subject was bank notes. His account of his career concentrates on these, and on his own entire brilliance in them; he is not a modest man, nor is there any particular reason why he should be, especially given how sharp and witty his accounts are. Robertson has also been involved in other causes cèlebres--he knows all about the Michael X case, and a variety of other capital cases in the Caribbean, and is fascinating on the Matrix Churchill case and the various libel actions around the "cash for questions" sleaze row. Anyone interested in the issues is going to find this a useful book--but the average intelligent reader is going to find the account of courtroom battles a guilty pleasure in itself. --Roz Kaveney
Night Train: A Novel
by Donald O'Donovan
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.90

Fast, furious, unforgettable and set against the backdrop of a crumbling civilization, NIGHT TRAIN follows arch-outsider Jerzy Mulvaney in an audacious account of what it means to be homeless on the streets of Los Angeles.