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Lights on the Sea
by Miquel Reina
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Adventure, Contemporary, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.97

"Miquel Reina's Lights on the Sea is an absolutely lovely, beautiful novel with a dreamy, fable-like quality. Fans of Life of Pi will love this novel." – Kristin Hannah, NYT bestseller author of "The Nightingale"In this riveting debut, prize-winning artist and filmmaker Miquel Reina maps out ambitious and fantastical new territory in a novel about a couple holding on for dear life as their world takes an extraordinary fall…On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief and memories, the Grapeses have never moved past the tragedy. Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they’re uprooted by a violent storm. The disbelieving Grapeses and their home take a free-fall slide into the whitecapped sea and float away.As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, Mary Rose and Harold are delivered from decades of sorrow by the ebb and flow of the waves. Ahead of them, a light shimmers on the horizon, guiding them toward a revelatory and cathartic new engagement with life, and all its wonder.Wildly imaginative, deeply poignant, and entirely unexpected, Lights on the Sea sweeps readers away on a journey of fate, acceptance, redemption, and survival against the most rewarding of odds."Miquel Reina's Lights on the Sea is an absolutely lovely, beautiful novel with a dreamy, fable-like quality that will appeal to readers. Fans of Life of Pi will love this novel."  – Kristin Hannah, NYT bestseller author of "The Nightingale""An enjoyable, finely written fantasy tale."   – Kirkus Reviews“This beautiful, unusual tale explores the healing power of love and the magic that exists in our everyday lives, even when we don’t know how to find it.”   – Jill Santopolo, NYT bestseller author of "The Light We Lost"
Di undici foglie
by Dino Olivieri
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

Di Undici Foglie è la prima “ekpyrotic novel” scritta, illustrata e impaginata da Dino Olivieri.Questo romanzo non convenzionale racconta una storia che ripropone in chiave moderna archetipi immortali, illustrata con imago serigrafici, rigorosamente in bianco e nero, ispirati ai maestri illustratori vissuti a cavallo tra la metà dell’800 e i primi anni del 900.Luce e Siri, un giovane uomo e una giovane donna, si incontrano in un universo morente. Le loro vite si scontrano intrecciandosi, come in Natura le materie affini si attraggono unendosi. Miti e leggende si destano da un lungo torpore. Canti dimenticati riportano alle memorie segrete profezie. Audaci potenze cosmiche risorgono e combattono. Due visioni della vita e della morte duellano all’ultimo sangue per compiere i loro supremi epiloghi avversi. Tre Giorni. Tre Lai. Versi ed echi di poemi perduti. Canti in lingue di incerta memoria. Trentatré serigrafie misteriose, storie nella storia, mappe cifrate di mondi ed anfratti oscuri. Imago accompagnati da trentatré Arcani, parti di un Oracolo Occulto, primo Arcrypticon dell’Autore, ultima sfida al Lettore più capace e curioso. Dino Olivieri narra e illustra un universo in uno scrigno, una storia d’amore eterno, una nuova leggenda senza tempo, una visione, un sogno ricevuto all'ombra di un albero eccelso ornato di fronde “Di Undici Foglie”.Dino Olivieri nasce a Torino nel 1969. Informatico, grafico, musicista e scrittore, esordisce nel 2015 pubblicando il romanzo “Di Undici Foglie”. Seguendo le orme dei Maestri Preraffaelliti, stampa in proprio una pregiata ed esclusiva Edizione Zero qui rielaborata in Prima Edizione per il grande pubblico.
Spintecătorul Sorții (Cartea Oamenilor, #1)
by Miruna Drăghici
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.33

Zămislit în foc, născut din lacrimi, sânge, dragoste și jertfă, SPINTECĂTORUL SORȚII se ridică deasupra lumii, deasupra morții și a destinului; dar ce se află dincolo de lume, dincolo de moarte și de ursită? Din negura unui trecut tainic, năzuind către viitorul încă neplăsmuit, se ivește figura lui Mugen, cel numit de oameni Maitreya, ultimul mare Învățător al omenirii; să-l însoțim în cea mai însemnată dintre aventuri, în călătoria către ,,pragul cel de pe urmă”!Roman fantasy, ficțiune mistică, ,,Spintecătorul Sorții – Cartea Oamenilor”, depășește granițele unui anumit gen, adunând, sub „ambalajul” de suprafață al fantasticului, filoane mitologice și ezoterice precum probele inițiatice, alchimia, magia, șamanismul. Zei și făpturi fabuloase, tărâmuri ascunse, probe inițiatice, magie, încleștări sângeroase se-ntrețes în urzeala lumii din Yamatai; răzbunarea, trădarea și ambiția se războiesc cu lumina cunoașterii și forța dragostei, urletul celor morți se revarsă peste lumea celor vii, pe calea cea spinoasă către adevărul sinelui și-al sorții.Prima parte a trilogiei SPINTECĂTORUL SORȚII – Cartea Oamenilor, oferă cititorului misterul unui trecut în care supranaturalul și magia domneau peste lume, întâlnirea cu ființe fantastice, fiorul aventurilor ce poartă personajele mult dincolo de propriile limite, dincolo de limitele gândirii convenționale.
Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)
by Terry Pratchett
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Witches, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.It's Midsummer Night.No time for dreaming...With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
The Sapphire Eruption (The Sword's Choice, #1)
by I.M. Redwright
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

Once a year, the skies burn red. Upon this day, the Fire Kingdom’s priests perform their ritual: each newborn’s palm is lacerated, opened with a sacred sword, for Firia’s next ruler will be seen to shed no blood. Alas, this can prove a perilous process. When young Nokhail demonstrates his destiny, a wicked imposter attempts to slay the boy. Soldier Lumio intervenes, escaping with defenseless Noakhail—set for distant Aquadom to hide . . . and gather strength.Seventeen years later, Lumio illuminates Noakhail’s true identity, presenting Distra, his rightful sword. Training side by side, the pair devise a plan to reclaim the throne . . . but this will mean ousting a crooked king, whose warriors are everywhere. Should Noakhail hope to triumph, he’ll be forced to look inside himself and tame explosive power on the expedition homeward bound. His path will cut through all four kingdoms—each replete with danger but, in turn, a chance to grow.Meanwhile, in Aquadom’s royal palace, the water sword has chosen its heir, but envy stands to jeopardize an age of fragile peace. Indeed, a war awaits...
Christ Recrucified
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Genres: Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, Greece, Religion, Philosophy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.32

The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and suddenly the drama of the Passion becomes reality.
Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love
by Kenneth J. Martz
Genres: Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Personal Development, Emotion, Business
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.08

•Are you frustrated by emotions that are limiting you from being successful? •Are you looking for a deeper understanding of how emotions shape our lives?•Are your emotions getting in the way of your success at work or relationships?•Do you want to learn the tools for change?If so, this is the book for you. It examines a range of emotions, like fear, anger, joy, compassion, grief and love. It considers how these motivate us, how they sabotage us, and offers us a wide range of strategies to address them. With an emphasis on emotional management, the goal is finding a balance across a range of emotions. In it, you will find clear, simple examples to help demonstrate common concerns and solutions in a range of areas, including communication, relationships, employment, substance use, and culture. Some things should be taught in school, but since they aren’t, they are here. If you don’t want to make changes for the better, this book is not for you. But if you are ready for something more, read on....
If Shadows Could Tell: an Aurora Steller mystery novel
by Granthana Sinha
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Crime
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

***A highly complex and multi-layered psychological thriller | Fascinating twists and turns | Unexpected and shocking twist ending***When Janet Clay's body is found in a local gym pool, every authority dismisses it as just another case of drug-overdose. Ridden by the guilt of not being able to save the young journalist while she still had a chance ― Aurora Steller visits the memorial service ― only to end up suspecting that things aren't as simple as they appear. Her determination to find out the truth, only draws her further into an intricate web of greed and deceit ― where some will stop at nothing to protect their well-crafted masks. With several events unfolding around her, it becomes terrifyingly clear that more lives might have been lost already. Suddenly, her beautiful, sleepy little town seems to be harvesting some sinister secrets; every fact seems tainted with lies; everyone she loves is in mortal danger.With no evidence, no witness and very few allies, Aurora must risk everything, including her own life, to uncover the truth and bring justice to the numerous shattered lives, before it's too late...-----------------------------***From the author of several brilliant psychological thrillers like 'The Unrelated Murders', 'Where Did He Go?', 'Addressed To Her' and more...comes this fascinating, intriguing and suspenseful mystery novel that will keep you hooked until the very end!***
First Light (Globiuz #1)
by R.L.  Douglas
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.83

Binglow is a young pig-troll (Paglot) of the Torry Mountains, who decides to follow the advice of the Black Dwarfs to join the resistance against the cannibal swine-dogs – Opules. Of course, it wasn't for free, the Black Dwarfs were mining gold in the Torry catacombs. Such tempting offer lured Binglow and his pig-troll friends to prepare for an ambush, but there was one little problem.While scouting over Norwin, he finds more friends from Amber Heights, Kazool and other nooks of the fantasy terrain, to form the alliance. Alas, revealing awkwardness and inability in expelling the stronger enemy. A brutal force was not the point of Norwin, the land that lied in prosperous glens of an upcoming disintegration. The magic was all forgotten, or hidden in the hands of those, who had barely preserved it.The team of the young rebels, at last, had started noticing, that many problems of their lands weren't coming just from the evil intruders of Shakalot, but from something else....
Fateful Destiny: An Epic Struggle to Change the Course of American History
by Marshall Anders
Genres: Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

Axel Berg had a lucrative career in investment management and an enviable life in Los Angeles. His success and good fortune at such a young age was a remarkable accomplishment for someone from a small Central California farm town. Everything was coming together for Axel until a devastating tragedy beset his hometown. Axel’s perfect life was thrown into turmoil, exposing the moral compromises that he had made to achieve success. In his struggle to put the pieces of his life back together, he discovered his true purpose. From the depths of tragedy, Axel embarked on a quest to revitalize his people and restore the American Nation.
Mirage
by Nilakshi Garg
Genres: Romance, Love, Romantic, Erotica, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, Suspense
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.50

“It was never meant to be just a love story. Beacause destiny had other plans for both of them.”Bethany CarlsonI was working, breathing, and living my life as it is.Where did you come from? And why?Do you even know how you shattered my so called Mirage?Because left in bits and pieces, I was a forgotten cry.Then,You demanded the truth. But... I was a complete lie.gerald fletcher I wish I knew all the answers to the where, when, and how.How will I ever explain the pull I had when I first saw you wishing someone to whisk you away?From the Lies, Crowd, Pretense.Beacause I knew you were the trouble I was going to invite in my life.So, I couldn’t stop myself from barging into yours.The only thing is, you are stuck behind the walls.You don’t want to be solved and saved.And I can’t let you walk alone.Not now.Not ever...so screw me."
Making Faces
by Amy Harmon
Genres: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, Military Fiction, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have . . . until he wasn't beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.
Carbon Under Pressure
by Meg  Heart
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.52

A mother wakes to a nightmare and is thrust into a race to save three lives.~Rose thought she had it all, then she discovered her husband’s hidden life. The revelation crushed Rose, and the breakup shattered her family. Battling through heartbreak and betrayal, she thought the worst was behind her, but nothing could prepare Rose for what came next.~In this raw and confronting story, we follow three years in Rose’s life. With a rare honesty, she reveals the painful emotions of a mother watching helplessly as her daughter battles a tormenting secret. It will push her to the edge, but just as the nightmare promises to end, Rose’s family is haunted by a new and more ominous threat. Will the intense pressure tear her apart, or can she find the strength to face her demons and save the ones she loves?Carbon Under Pressure is based on real events. Rose’s story is shocking, riveting and unforgettable, and what happened to her could happen to anyone.
Refined
by Tracie Breaux
Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography, Biography Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.33

Tracie was fifteen when she ran away from an abusive father. At the end of her first day of freedom, she was running from two men with a rope. Blazing through the forest, she felt the papers in her shoes she had spent years scribbling her hopes and dreams on. Since the age of eight, she had written down her dreams, trusting the words would rewrite her future. Every day after school she sprinted-shoes full of hope-to the local oil refinery, gawking through fence fabric at the flickering lights, as though they were beacons of promise. Her father was distrustful of other men, so public life was limited for Tracie. The windows inside the home were tacked with trash bags to block out any view of her mother. Violence permeated inside the home. Accusations were made daily. When Tracie was old enough, she grabbed a bag and left. That night two men watched her make camp in a forest and tried to capture her, but she escaped. The two men chasing her frightened her so much, she scrambled into a school the next morning for help. Tracie was placed in foster care with a loving family. The words in her shoes were coming to life. As an adult, she questioned her father's violent nature, so she sent off a tube of bubbling saliva to a DNA test site, hoping for answers. She was connected to dozens of relatives she never knew existed, grilling them for answers. She ended up going down a hole as deep and winding as a rabbit's warren. She discovered many twists, including the murder of her great-grandfather. Violence was handed down to each generation of males like an Olympic torch. Refined is a testament to the strength of young women, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising twist of DNA patterns handed down systematically from generation to generation. With words that are rich with life, Breaux has crafted a story that reminds us that we are forever shaped by our ancestors, and each of us has the power to refine our future into something beautiful.
My Dirty California
by Jason Mosberg
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.91

In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer—aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy pasts.When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he’s happily welcomed by his father and older brother, Jody. The joyful reunion is short-lived. Two days later, Jody enters the house to find his father and Marty shot dead as their masked killer flees out the back door. Without any answers from the local police, Jody heads to Los Angeles looking for who murdered his family and why. Soon, he finds a trove of strange videos recorded by his brother that leads him into the city’s most dangerous corners, where he comes up against drug dealers, crooked cops, surf gangs, and black-market profiteers. As his investigation expands, it also intersects with Pen, a documentary filmmaker who suspects humanity is living in a simulation and that her missing father found a portal to escape; Renata, an undocumented immigrant who might have evidence to support Pen’s theory; and Tiph, a young mother whose desperate efforts to support her only child via a stolen art stash could prove the key to answering all these mysteries. My Dirty California is a cinematic, suspenseful, intricately plotted thriller that explores the darker side of the glamorous Golden State.
Leota's Garden
by Francine Rivers
Genres: Christian Fiction, Fiction, Christian, Contemporary, Inspirational, Adult, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.11

Once Leota’s garden was a place of beauty—where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn’t understand her silent sacrifices.At eighty-four, Leota is alone, her beloved garden in ruins. All her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless. She voices her despair to a loving Father, her only friend.And God brings a wind of change through unlikely means: one, a college student who thinks he has all the answers; the other, the granddaughter Leota never hoped to know. But can the devastation wrought by keeping painful family secrets be repaired before she runs out of time?
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
Genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Romance, Spanish Literature, Latin American
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller—available for the first time in ebook.Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation—the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated—in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.
Inside Out
by Strider Marcus Jones
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

Read 15/72 poems and reviews from INSIDE OUT free on wattpad http://www.wattpad.com/story/30815-15...In these poems about love, life and human conflict, the world is seen from the Inside Out. We are mortal beads, acting on the strings of time. In moments of epiphany, all becomes transparent. Dublin's likeable whores, swap wisdom's with old philosophers, while poems about the Cold War, Gaza, CND and life question our spirituality with whispers from Shamen and the Sacred Feminine. Heroes, like JFK, Martin Luther King, Lenin and Che, meet death too soon and find their truths have been betrayed by a society which is now too compounded and complex, but they left us seeds of hope to use, if we don't destroy their infant shoots. The Love poems here, are always romantic and real and sometimes erotic and mystical.They hold everything together with their gentle glueing of emotions. Each thought becomes a grain of sand, that joins its brothers and sisters on the beach, so the whole, makes us what we are, while the tides of time, take us where we are going..Strider.http://www.lulu.com/shop/strider-marc...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Out-St...
Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
by Scott Westerfeld
Genres: Steampunk, Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.91

Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.