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The Ghost Ship
by Gerrie Ferris Finger
Genres: Paranormal, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Historical, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.51

What if you could go back to 1921 and climb aboard a great five-masted schooner on her maiden voyage?You’d be a witness to history; you’d be on her decks when her keel smashed into an Outer Banks shoal. You’d get to know the villains who caused the tragedy. Was it pirates, Russians, rumrunners? Or something else?Would you dare?Ann Gavrion did and her life was never the same.The history:One cold, foggy morning in January, 1921, a five-masted schooner in full sail plowed into Diamond Shoal in the infamous Graveyard of the Atlantic. Known to history as The Ghost Ship, her officers and crew were not on board and their bodies never washed ashore. The only living thing on board was a six-toed cat. Also, her anchors and lifeboats were missing. Six agencies investigated the mystery, but it was never solved.The novel:Ninety years later, Ann Gavrion travels to Cape Hatteras to get over the loss of her fiancé in an airplane crash. She meets the enigmatic, yet charming, Lawrence Curator on the beach.Behind her she hears the cries of villagers. “Shipwreck!”A surfman runs up and shouts that the missing schooner, her sails set, is aground on the shoal. Ann recognizes the enormous ship from a photograph she’d seen the night before.So begins her journey back to 1921 with the man the Navy sent to investigate the grounding of the great ship.When Lawrence and Ann solve the mystery, Ann must return to her world. On the very beach where she’d begun her voyage with Lawrence, she meets his great-grandson, Rod. Exhausted, wet, she spills an account of her fabulous sea adventure. He calls her a charlatan and accuses her of using his famous ancestor to write a first person account of the tragedy for her magazine. How many times, how many ways, must she prove that her voyage was real to Rod and the unbelievers of the world?
The Hallelujah Life
by Richard D. Propes
Genres: Nonfiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.79

Since 1989, nationally recognized activist and child advocate Richard Propes has traveled over 6,000 miles by wheelchair on a one-man mission he calls The Tenderness Tour. In 1989, Propes started The Tenderness Tour with $20 in his pocket, a backpack on his wheelchair, and an uncertain mission to travel for 41 days and over 1,000 miles along the roads of Indiana. A paraplegic and double amputee born with spina bifida, Propes had already far outlived expectations, though he'd experienced more than his share of tragedy along the way including experiencing childhood sexual abuse and the suicide of his wife and death of his newborn daughter. What started out as desperation turned into a life mission offering hope and healing to adults and children alike. Propes returned home from that first Tenderness Tour and set out to change his life and change the world. 30 years later, he's still traveling the roads at 2-3 miles per hour with at least one Tenderness Tour event every year, over 6,000 miles covered, and nearly one million dollars raised for organizations worldwide. Named as one of the 25 Best Wellness Books by Best Ever You, "The Hallelujah Life" is both a brutally honest story and a relentlessly inspiring journey of one man's search for tenderness and lifelong devotion to giving it to everyone he meets.
Tears for the Mountain
by Chris Rakunas
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.67

On Tuesday, January 12th 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the island nation of Haiti. The United States Agency for International Development estimated the death toll to be somewhere between 46,000 and 85,000 people, with 220,000 injured and over 1.5 million homeless. Many organizations, both from the U.S. and abroad, responded to the appeal for humanitarian aid. Dr. Stephen Schroering and Chris Rakunas went to Haiti to deliver over 21,000 pounds of medical and surgical supplies to the New Life Children's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and several other hospitals. In Tears for the Mountain, Chris recounts his mission to deliver these supplies to the earthquake-ravaged island nation. Chris discusses both the triumphs and heartbreaks of the trip, the problems with distributing aid in a nation lacking the most basic infrastructure, and his unexpected encounter with a notorious Haitian warlord. A portion of the proceeds for this book will be donated to the New LifeChildren's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The Pirate Heir
by Reilly Woodhouse
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.77

From romance to swordfights to weathering the stormy sea, step into the fantastic imagination of this 14 year-old author, Reilly Woodhouse.Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at 11 years old, this young teenager has shocked the world with her adventurous and brave story. Not only does this book take you on an extraordinary journey of a young woman in search of her identity; but it is packed with action, adventure and heart-stopping suspense.From the first few pages of this book you will open the door to Reilly’s imagination: one filled with witty, graceful pirates, rainy graveyards, and mysterious stowaways…
The Lutheran Study Bible: English Standard Version
by Anonymous
Genres: Religion, Theology, Christian, Reference, Christianity, Faith, Nonfiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.81

Engage in devotional, Christ-centered Bible reading and study with the distinctive, comprehensive notes and practical application of The Lutheran Study Bible. This new Bible is the first in English to be developed from the ground-up with notes that are distinctively Lutheran, prepared by Lutheran theologians and pastors from over twenty Lutheran church bodies. Current Lutheran scholarship, insights from the Church Fathers, and rich devotional commentary provides meaningful perspective for both young and mature Christians.
The Time Workshops
by Abrielle Jones
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.29

An Introductory Guide to Modern Wizardry, Using Time as an Energy and Self Development Tool. Become a master of Time rather than its servant.Recent breakthroughs concerning time are changing our understanding. Or are they? What does this new knowledge mean to most of us in our everyday lives, how can we use it?Here is a unique book that presents the concepts of time in a way that can be used to change our lives. It is easy to understand and gives practical applications and examples from real life situations.
Indigo's Fall
by Karen Marie Hart
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.75

"Hart's novella, which includes charming illustrations on each page, delivers an engaging exploration of grace, written with a light capable hand." — Kirkus Reviews
12 Precious Anecdotes from Life
by Payal Roy
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.42

This book is a unique collection of 12 short stories that are of the contemporary fiction genre written in a first person narrative identifying one lead character in each storyline.These short stories gently address the readers about the following valuable themes -1. Some adventure, precious moments of tender love, care and togetherness that is more valuable than all the materialism in the world.2. Living a blessed life filled with positive thoughts, compassion and insights.3. Uplifting, thought provoking and unique lessons from life.4. Serving as inspiration, rejuvenating family life.5. Highlighting the values and virtues of being true to oneself, honesty and sincerity in discovering and following one's true goals and ideals.
The Day It Rained Forever
by Ray Bradbury
Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time. In a ghost town hotel in a burning desert three old men await the January rains – and are visited by a strange musician.
Babushka Baba Yaga
by Patricia Polacco
Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fantasy, Folklore, Fiction, Russia, Fairy Tales
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.25

From the beloved  New York Times  bestselling author-illustrator of Thank You, Mr. Falker  and Pink and Say .Baba Yaga is a witch famous throughout Russia for eating children, but this Babushka Baba Yaga is a lonely old woman who just wants a grandchild--to love."Kids will respond to the joyful story of the outsider who gets to join in, and Polacco's richly patterned paintings of Russian peasant life on the edge of the woods are full of light and color." -- Booklist"A warm, lively tale, neatly mixing new and old and illustrated with Polacco's usual energetic action, bright folk patterns, and affectionate characterizations." -- Kirkus Reviews
Death Unseen
by Tia Dani
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

Navajo Tribal Policeman Lance Logan discovers his cousin's body brutally mauled and senses there's more to the death than it appears. His intuition leads him from Four Corners, New Mexico, to Phoenix, Arizona, where he finds himself embroiled in another murder case. Carly Carlton could be considered an ordinary woman except for two traits she tries to keep hidden-clairvoyant powers and the ability to experience death in dreams. Her talent to see beyond the veil of reality, as she and Lance try to find a killer, helps to soothe his embittered heart and softens his revenge. Unbeknownst to either, Lance carries the DNA key coveted by a maniac intent on creating a human with animalistic killing tendencies. But the madman's plan doesn't include Carly's expanding talents or her unconditional love for Lance. She will do anything to save him...even if it means sacrificing her own life.
Aishiteruze Baby, Volume 1
by Yōko Maki
Genres: Manga, Romance, Shojo, Graphic Novels, Comics, Young Adult, Humor
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

Aishiteruze Baby is a shojo series that revolves around the life of Kippei Katakura, a popular high-school playboy who suddenly finds himself the surrogate parent of his 5-year-old cousin, Yuzuyu Sakashita, when her mother disappears.Kippei has a lot to figure out, like what to make for Yuzuyu's lunch and how to drop her off at kindergarten while still getting to high school on time. Kippei is enjoying his time with Yuzuyu, but not everyone is happy about it. The girls at school miss their quality time with Kippei, and one decides to play dirty to get him back.
The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
by Roger Thurow
Genres: Nonfiction, Africa, International Development, Food, Economics, Kenya, Social Justice
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.08

At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, “from misery to Canaan,” the land of milk and honey.Africa’s smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities, wretched roads, and no capital or credit, they harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. The romantic ideal of African farmers––rural villagers in touch with nature, tending bucolic fields––is in reality a horror scene of malnourished children, backbreaking manual work, and profound hopelessness. Growing food is their driving preoccupation, and still they don’t have enough to feed their families throughout the year. The wanjala––the annual hunger season that can stretch from one month to as many as eight or nine––abides.But in January 2011, Leonida and her neighbors came together and took the enormous risk of trying to change their lives. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with four of them––Leonida Wanyama, Rasoa Wasike, Francis Mamati, and Zipporah Biketi––to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger.The daily dramas of the farmers’ lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.
Health and Safety
by Nick   James
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

In this wacky dystopian future, Les is just an ordinary guy, plagued by anxiety issues. Each day there seems to be one more rule to abide by and he is sent clamoring for some sort of anxiety relief - usually found in medication. But how much medication is too much? Doctors treat his anxiety with more medications, which uncover strangely hidden mental disorders and lead to side effects which wreak havoc on his life. This is the story of one unlucky man's fight to rid himself of the stigma of having a mental illness and battle his anxiety and all the problems it brings into his simple life.~12,500 words.
Tangent
by Mike Pomery
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.69

Alan Febras has just discarded immortality itself. In an era of stifling Utopia, Alan is given the opportunity to go back into his own past and thwart the mandatory continuation of his dreary life. In an uncharacteristic show of decisiveness, Alan chooses to forsake the prospect of eternal life and escape into the hedonism of his past. The beauty of our present day blooms under Alan's renewed observance, yet not everything is as it appears to be. Strange dreams plague him, and the new path he has chosen is fraught with danger and uncertainty. If he is not careful, Alan's newfound flippancy may bring his second shot at life to a rather abrupt end ... And from the back of his mind comes the question: Was it worth it? Mike Pomery lives near Australia's famous wine region, the Barrossa Valley, with his fiancee and his two daughters. Whilst working as a commission artist and graphic designer, he used his spare time writing what has become Tangent, a book about the complexities of free choice and the deception that stems from it. www.mikepomery.com"
CAPTIVE
by Timothy Allen Smith
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.83

From the award winning playwright comes the intelligent, fast-paced thriller that started it all!What begins as a normal day for Mark O'Connor and Lisa Woodward ends with the unthinkable.Their loved ones brutally murdered, the two survivors are left desperately searching for answers while locked in a life or death struggle of their own.Based on the award winning stage play, 
'CAPTIVE'
 brilliantly intersects the lives of nine strangers, each going through their normal daily routine until a single, transformational event alters the course of their lives forever...
Il Mondo: One Man's World
by Tony Bond
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

Amid a childhood steeped in tragedy, murder, and abuse clouded by the family’s alcoholism and inner demons, one boy, crowned with an innate gift imposed on him by the miracle of human creation, at the age of fourteen, separates himself from the family ignominies and to stave off poverty. He is determined to override and erase the memory of his abusers and his grandfather’s debacle and the tragedy that resulted from it--his self-confidence prevails. The combination of foreboding and bliss convey a diverse story: from a group of religious people who sexually abused him, to the center of the glamorous celebrity world, to Mother Nature that, in a spectacular display, demonstrated his future, and how he comes to meet the President of America, Pope John XXIII, the King of Thailand, and numerous Hollywood luminaries.
Cracks in the Pavement
by Martin  Hopkins
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.14

Jekyll & Hyde for the 21st Century. Watch out! The psychopathic Professor H is coming...Daniel Walker is an enigmatic young man in his mid-twenties, living and working in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is handsome, intelligent, sleep deprived and often hungover. He works in a corporate office, hates his job and his moronic boss. The majority of his time is spent in various pubs throughout the capital, discussing the world with his friends and where it all went wrong.On his reluctant walks to work, Dan notices there are an abundance of people sleeping rough on the streets, begging for money. He feels empathy for those less fortunate and tries to help them when he can. Realisation quickly dawns on him that not everyone claiming to be homeless is genuine - often it is merely a scam; free money to spend on drugs, alcohol and other addictions.When his love interest, Emily, is attacked by a 'Dark Stranger', Dan must infiltrate an underground street community, to catch the elusive attacker. He gets caught in a deadly game of survival as he hunts for the attacker and is hunted himself. The closer he gets to finding his man, the closer he comes to living the life he was pretending to have. Dan soon discovers the old abandoned house in the woods, a hideaway for drug addicts, prostitution, illicit teenage pornography and shelter from the streets. It is not long before the police get involved. Dan must negotiate his freedom with the tenacious Detective Inspector Morrison, who wants nothing more than to interrogate his prime suspect...'Cracks in the Pavement' is a darkly funny, sexually graphic Dickensian look at the dizzying heights and gritty depths of a fractured modern society.All the while, a real life monster lurks in the shadows, waiting for his chance...to strike!
Tell a Thousand Lies
by Rasana Atreya
Genres: Fiction, India, Young Adult, Indian Literature, Asia, Cultural, Literary Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.71

In a land where skin colour can determine one's destiny, fraternal twins PULLAMMA and LATA are about to embark on a journey that will tear their lives apart. Dark skinned Pullamma dreams of being a wife. With three girls in her family, the sixteen year old is aware there isn't enough dowry to secure suitable husbands for them all. But a girl can hope. She's well versed in cooking, pickle making, cow washing -- you name it. She's also obliged her old-fashioned grandmother by not doing well in school. Fair skinned and pretty, her twin sister Lata would rather study medicine than get married. Unable to grasp the depth of Lata's desire, the twins' Grandmother formalizes a wedding alliance for the girl. Distraught, Lata rebels, with devastating consequences. As Pullamma helps ready the house for her older sister Malli's bride viewing, she prays for a positive outcome to the event. What happens next is so inconceivable that it will shape Pullamma's future in ways she couldn't have foreseen. TELL A THOUSAND LIES is a sometimes wry, sometimes sad, but ultimately realistic look at how superstition and the colour of a girl's skin rules India's hinterlands.
Magic in the Backyard
by Kellie Elmore
Genres: Poetry
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

Growing up in a small town, Kellie Elmore learned of love and loss within her humble "backyard" surroundings. Weaving stories inspired by these emotions and the vast nature of the East Tennessee foothills has become her passion. You will feel the enchantment at the center of this collection of prose and poetry as you are completely taken in by the allure of Magic in the Backyard.
Whatever Sticks Most
by Darren Hogarth
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.86

Nothing heals the body and soul like moving with the rhythm of life. Years of drive and dedication have helped Myles become a partner in an engineering firm and buy pretty much anything he wants. But it has come at a painful price. It’s clear to all who know Myles that there’s one thing he’s missing, and it is that one thing that can help ease his pain in every facet of his life: balance. To help him find it, his friend Roy convinces him to visit Jamaica and use his home there for a hiatus from his life in Canada. Suddenly immersed in the vibe and rhythm of the island nation where “No problem” should be the national phrase, the cares, worries, and pains of Myles’ life in Toronto slowly but surely melt away. Surrounded by the unshakeable kindness and generosity of Miss Pearl and the soulful Rastafarian Moses, Myles experiences a shift in focus, when his hiatus for healing becomes so much more.Whatever Sticks Most takes you on a journey that will challenge how you look at work, life, and love.
The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree, #1)
by Bryce Courtenay
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Audiobook, Romance, Historical, Australia, Asia
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

The Persimmon Tree is unashamedly a love story. I've always wanted to write one but until now have been afraid to do so. The reason is simple enough: most men in my experience have very little idea of what really goes on in a woman's heart or head. Now, at the age of 74, I just might know enough and have sufficient courage to write on the subject - the way of a man with a woman, of a woman with a man.My story is set in the Pacific, although not in the paradise we've always been led to believe exists there. It is 1942 in Java and the Japanese are invading the islands like a swarm of locusts.I have tried to capture the essence of love - how in a world gone mad with malice and hate, it has the ability to forgive and to heal. As it is in this story, love is always hard earned but, in the end, a most wonderful and necessary emotion. Without love, life for most of us would lack true meaning.Sincerely,Bryce Courtenay
Roses of Winter
by Murdo Morrison
Genres: Historical Fiction, Scotland, World War II
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.97

The Burns and McIntyre families had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Roses of Winter recreates the experience of living through the world's greatest conflict as the characters seek to survive and imagine a future. Follow the lives of the women as they strive to keep their families together while their men sail into hazardous scenes of action. Share with them the conflicting moods and emotions brought by living with constant danger. Discover along with them that even in the winter of wartime flowers may yet bloom.
From Guam to Crown City Coronado (Thanks to Hermann, Missouri):  A Journey in Poesy
by Mariecor Ruediger
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.20

Written by a military veteran's wife, this book of poetry chronicles the author's journey from the island of Guam, to undergraduate years in Spokane WA, and then onto her quest for love, until at last she gets married to a Missouri cowboy in the US Navy, and thus begins life as a military spouse and homemaker on Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado CA. The book reads like a biography but is creatively set in poetry format.Reviews on the book's back cover include:“…Many familiar locations where I have been and experienced, I enjoyed the reminiscing…”- B. Angus MacDonald, Captain, USN (Ret.)“…Heart-felt and revealing…” - Joyce Churchill, Retired Missouri Educator (Gasconade County)“…A substantial piece of work…” - Brian F. McCabe, Outreach Editor, FOOTHILL: A JOURNAL OF POETRY
A Calendar Too Crowded
by Sagarika Chakraborty
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.13

A Calendar Too Crowded is a collection of poignant stories and poems woven around the theme of womanhood. What makes this work of fiction different from other books that highlight the plight of women is its unique approach. There are quite a few days in the calendar that are devoted to women. The aim of remembering and commemorating such days is simple enough: they serve the purpose of spreading awareness thereby attempting to protect the rights of women.