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Secrets of the Winter Killer
by Moniqua Sexton
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

Jason and Nadia just got married and are going on their honeymoon to a secluded cottage, miles away from civilization. They are enjoying each other until they learn that this town has some dark, deadly secrets. As they try to uncover them, it costs them the lives of those closest to them. Deceit and betrayal makes what they're about to find out even more terrifying than what they thought they already knew.
The Sorrow's Garden
by Anthony Carinhas
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

Successful and well-known as an architect and writer in 1938 Leipzig, Germany, the talented and skilled Radulf is repulsed by the chaotic nature of other people's selfish living. Ironically, he is tormented by a dark secret lurking deep within the shadows of his own psyche: the fact that his own character is completely devoid of principles and morals. Radulf is driven to hone other skills in an extremely sinister craft-a pastime that both amuses and consumes him-in spite of the destruction it may cause. Antagonized by a hidden world haunted by disturbing nightmares, he is compelled to lure carefully-selected individuals into his tailor-made illusions where he wins their trust and preys with lust upon their innocence and trusting nature.
Flirting with fate
by Preeti Singh
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

‘FLIRTING WITH FATE’ is the first novel by Mrs. Preeti Singh, and finally, I have got an opportunity to read something different from usual college love stories. Set in 1980s, during the time of Contessa cars and Doordarshan, it is the story of Anand, who was abandoned by his parents and left at an orphanage – Palash, when he was just a baby. As he slowly grew into a beautiful boy, the lack of love and respect from the society developed negativity within him, which resulted in anger and a yearning for love, and which ultimately resulted into crimes. What started from small and subtle crimes, like stealing, quickly turned into bigger ones like rape and well planned murders. The hunger for love, respect, status and power made him disrespectful, and deadly dangerous. But is money and status everything? Can you escape your wrong doings? Do you pay for your bad Karma? The answers to all these questions are answered in this book, and you better read it to find those answers.
The Silent Soldiers  (The Silent Soldiers #1)
by Travis Stinnett
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.71

Luke is an ordinary young boy, or so he thinks, living with his uncle and cousin after the death of his parents shortly after his birth. Little does Luke know, he is about to embark on a life changing journey to his grandfathers’ house for the summer.Upon his arrival at his grandfathers’ estate he learns the world he lives in and what he is, is not what it appears to be. Luke finds himself fighting for his life with a team of supernatural kids his age against a powerful dark wizard and all his minions.Filled with demons, faeries, vampires, werewolves and more, this novel will put Luke through a gauntlet of trouble and turmoil, leading up to a final climatic battle. Come join the fun with this exciting new young adult supernatural adventure series!!
Home To Oblivion
by Roger Whittlesey
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.62

HOME TO OBLIVION is a story about friendship and survival, a supernatural adventure filled with mystery and suspense, and a tale of a boy who is forced to forge his way to a new reality under the most unreal circumstances.The story leads the reader from a pivotal Revolutionary War sea battle to a mysterious island where time seems irrelevant. Narrator Prescott Fielding, a 12-year-old boy from the 18th century, is washed ashore onto a volcanic island, where he befriends Caleb Thompson, a seventeen-year-old Vietnam War era U. S. Marine. How can two people born 200 years apart exist together at one time? Are they living in a time warp? Outside of time? Or is it the afterlife?Just as they work through their differences in perspectives, and as their friendship begins to flourish, a young World War I British Army code-breaker suddenly appears and upsets the balance.A series of events--both natural and unnatural--convince the characters to travel inland to seek answers about the mysteries of the island. Prescott soon discovers the function of the island is far more dangerous than he ever could have imagined, and standing between him and his dream to go home is a powerful and evil force.
You Knew Me When
by Emily Liebert
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Drama
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.71

Best friends forever… until life got in the way. Katherine Hill left her small New England hometown in pursuit of a dream. Now, twelve years later, she’s a high-powered cosmetics executive in Manhattan and a much glossier version of her former self, unrecognizable to her family and old friends. Not that she would know—she hasn’t been home in over a decade. Laney Marten always swore she’d never get "stuck” in Manchester, Vermont. No, she was destined to live out her glamorous big-city dreams. Instead, she wound up a young wife and mother. That was when her best friend ran out. When Katherine receives word of an inheritance from former neighbor Luella Hancock, she reluctantly returns home to the people and places she left behind. Hoping for a second chance, she’s met by an unforgiving Laney, her former best friend. And there’s someone else who’s moved on without her—someone she once loved. Tethered to their shared inheritance of Luella’s sprawling Victorian mansion, Katherine and Laney are forced to address their long-standing grudges. Through this, they come to understand that while life has taken them in different directions, ultimately the bonds of friendship and sisterhood still bind them together. But are some wounds too old and deep to mend?
By Love Reclaimed Jean Harlow Returns to Clear Her Husband's Name
by Adrian Finkelstein
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.75

In July 1932, MGM producer and notorious nice guy Paul Bern marries the love of his life, screen icon Jean Harlow. Two months later, he is found shot to death in their Benedict Canyon home, the victim of a Hollywood cover-up that eventually portrays him in the media as a sick, impotent wife-beater. Modern day intuitive Valerie Franich and renowned psychiatrist Adrian Finkelstein partner together in order to dispel Hollywood lore and share the true story of Harlow and Bern. Through the use of hypnotic regressions and extensive research, Franich and Finkelstein offer a glimpse into the life of the young ingénue as she makes her way in Hollywood, falls in love with the older Bern, and becomes the innocent prey of MGM boss Louis Mayer who fixes the evidence to make her beloved husband’s death look like a suicide. As Harlow returns to reclaim her husband’s good name and stellar reputation, she reminds everyone that love is indeed eternal. By Love Reclaimed shares an enlightening and heartwarming look at reincarnation and the Hollywood scene during the 1930s while shedding a new light on an old mystery. Winner of The Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Fall 2012
Wake the Wicked
by Christian Baloga
Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Banned Books, Bizarro Fiction, Anthologies
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.44

In this explosive debut collection of thirteen twisted tales, we meet an alcoholic who’s obsessed with a tattoo of his dead daughter (“Digging Deep”); split Siamese twins with a sinister connection (“Poison Ivy”); two morbid magicians determined to make their final trick unforgettable (“Dusk to Dust”); an army of vengeful wasps who stop at nothing to rebuild a nest (“Unraveling the Nest”); and many more.
The Fallout From Finding Emily (Kelsey O'Brien, #1)
by Ryleigh Berkenpas
Genres: Young Adult, Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.65

The moment a teenage boy mistakes her for another girl, Arlene knows. She knows this could be her one and only chance. She knows that finding - and knowing - her kidnapped twin is within the realm of possibility. And that possibility, no matter how much she denies she wants it, is something she can’t pass up.For over 13 years Arlene Kelsey O’Brien thought she was okay with not knowing her identical twin. After surviving countless false ‘finding Emily’ alarms, she thinks she believes her kidnapped sister is better left unfound. She doesn’t want to know Emily, who ruined her childhood by getting kidnapped, and she doesn’t want to find her either - or so she thinks until she comes face to face with Laura Jacobsen. Shaken and confused, 15 year old Arlene tries to deny the reality before her but finds that she can’t - and when she finally faces the truth, is forced to make an impossible decision. Will finding Emily be worth the possible destruction of her family?**This 90,000-word novel is intended for Young Adults or the young at heart. It is currently available for purchase in e-book format on Kobobooks.com or Amazon.com**
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Book Club
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.79

Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift family whose dramatic lives are shaped by violence, love, and an indelible connection to the land.You belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, a solitary orchardist named Talmadge carefully tends the grove of fruit trees he has cultivated for nearly half a century. A gentle, solitary man, he finds solace and purpose in the sweetness of the apples, apricots, and plums he grows, and in the quiet, beating heart of the land--the valley of yellow grass bordering a deep canyon that has been his home since he was nine years old. Everything he is and has known is tied to this patch of earth. It is where his widowed mother is buried, taken by illness when he was just thirteen, and where his only companion, his beloved teenaged sister Elsbeth, mysteriously disappeared. It is where the horse wranglers--native men, mostly Nez Perce--pass through each spring with their wild herds, setting up camp in the flowering meadows between the trees.One day, while in town to sell his fruit at the market, two girls, barefoot and dirty, steal some apples. Later, they appear on his homestead, cautious yet curious about the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, Jane and her sister Della take up on Talmadage's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Yet just as the girls begin to trust him, brutal men with guns arrive in the orchard, and the shattering tragedy that follows sets Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect them, putting himself between the girls and the world, but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.Writing with breathtaking precision and empathy, Amanda Coplin has crafted an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in. Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners, she weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune, bound by their search to discover the place they belong. At once intimate and epic, evocative and atmospheric, filled with haunting characters both vivid and true to life, and told in a distinctive narrative voice, The Orchardist marks the beginning of a stellar literary career.The National Book Foundation selected Amanda Coplin as one of the authors being honored as "5 Under 35" in 2013.
Twisted Love: The Mayan Legend Returns
by Fernando Lachica
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

A virgin....A stranger...The werewolves....their love and union triggered the unending war buried beneath the face of mankind. The secret of the family started to evolved when Mary, the virgin, wanted to discover her true self. When the stranger visited their place, she fell in love with him for the first time. She secretly met the stranger and gave her soul to him that triggered the ancient war between the Azzo and the Azzwang clans. Both wanted to live in the world of mankind peacefully but conflicts killed them all.Twisted Love is a story behind the Filipino beliefs about supernatural beings that loomed within the hearts of mankind; starting from the Mayan civilization up to the discovery of the Philippines where the concept of the story was built.
Annabran Documents, The Holy Book of Pantheism
by Barbara
Genres: Religion
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.33

Have you been looking for a new religion to take you into the space age? Are you tired of the debate between religion and science turning into the two camps of the superstitious versus a cold and disinterested universe?The answer to your dilemmas is here in Annabran Documents, The Holy Book of Pantheism. As the foundation scripture of the Annabran Religion, this book will lead you into the new world of a scientifically congruent and spiritually empowering Cosmic religion with inspired pantheistic tenets.Learn that divinity is in the here and now. Enter into partnership with the loving and intelligent Cosmic totality that Annabrans know as Annabra/Kyrod.The Annabran Documents is the book you have always wanted to own, offering a complete space age approach to your spiritual needs and enabling each individual to live in ongoing Cosmic relationship and flourishing. The Annabran Documents help you connect intimately with the knowing and loving Annabra that supports your life and projects in every way.
The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree (The Outlaw King, #1)
by S.A. Hunt
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Westerns, Horror, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.64

Ross Brigham comes home from Afghanistan to discover his father Ed, a notable fantasy author, has died. When Ross begins to investigate his father's death after the nearly 200-attendee funeral, he and two loyal fans discover a key that leads them to the parallel world in his father's gunslinger novels -- and a secret war that's been raging since the beginning of time. Rebelling against the pact they made with the gods for immortality, the muses have turned from inspiring art to inspiring atrocities -- and it's up to Ross, Sawyer, and Noreen to put a stop to it before every dimension goes up in flames.Inspired by the wainscot and portal classics he grew up with, S. A. Hunt's The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree is the visionary beginning of a series that will dive into the metaphysical center of what it means to create...and what it means to destroy. Join our protagonists as they go from modern-day Earth to the sands of an exotic parallel world, where a climactic battle will take place on the shores of consciousness...and challenge the rules of the written word itself.
Crystal Promise (The Shattered Crystal, #1)
by James Funfer
Genres: Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.44

The country of Novem is in a dire state of affairs. Still recovering from a great war in which they were the aggressor, an economic depression has swept the continent and leaves Novem in the throes of poverty. The republic struggles to hold back a revolution, but strong socialist sentiments threaten Novem's stability, and many seek to return Novem to its former glory as a powerful totalitarian empire.Novem runs on crystals mined from the ground, but many consider them to be more than just a power source. The Church of Novem worships a `Great Crystal', which is thought to be a liaison between the gods and humanity. Those who can alter crystals at will, known as crystal-speakers, are an important part of that link between the earth and the divine.For finishing school students Jacoby, Timori, Racquela and Crystara, concerns about revolutions and the church are overshadowed by school, dances, sports and summer vacations. But when the Great Crystal selects its arranged marriages that year, a chain of events is set into motion that threatens to upset the entire nation. Betrothal promises are made with rings of crystal, but if they shatter, hearts are not the only things that will break...
Chaos Panzer
by Justin Villanueva
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Barely getting home from work? Tired of your annoying boss and over-competitive colleagues? Frustrated with your tax deductions? All of the above? Then read on! Join our unlikely hero, Ayel, as he makes his way through overpriced cab fares, paranormal bloggers, beggars with babies, camwhores, flying cars and giant robots.In 1986, an alien spaceship crashed on the Spratly Islands containing unlimited energy source and a vast supply of advanced technology. Fast forward to 2016 and China owns the islands now. With a behemoth Chinese company controlling the country’s economy, Ayel tries to survive his daily life as a simple corporate employee. His life turns upside down when a ghost from his past returns to haunt him. With strange twists and conspiracies, Ayel may just find his boring life to be a little more interesting."Angsty, nostalgic, and deeply semi-autobiographical, Chaos Panzer is the definite read for the striving Filipino in any IT career--tired of his work, furious of his rulers, resentful of his nation."
Jared's Island
by John R. Thayer
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.78

Jared is an amazing 11 year old boy who falls between the cracks of the foster care program. He quickly finds himself all alone in the world and decides he can no longer depend on strangers in government agencies who say they are acting in his best interest. He heads out on his own, sets sail in a small boat and soon finds himself on an island with a man who has a dark past and many secrets. The island is also not what it seems.
Sean Yeager: Hunters Hunted (Sean Yeager Adventures, #2)
by D.M. Jarrett
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.07

An action, adventure, quest story; with spies, aliens, robots, commandos and some comedy.The second exciting episode in the Sean Yeager Adventures series. An action, mystery, adventure with science fiction and comedy set in a near real world. Sean Yeager is moved to a secure mansion surrounded by forest for his own protection. He soon becomes bored and plots ways of meeting his friends and keeping himself amused. He meets Emily, who is also living at the safe house, and hears of a legendary treasure. Without realising the approaching danger they decide to search for the treasure, which is calling to Sean in his dreams. During his stay he meets a collection of new characters and bio-robots, but who can he trust? And will Sean and Emily succeed in finding the mysterious treasure before they themselves are captured?For more information see the website at http://seanyeager.com Hunters Hunted will also be published in print via all major online shops.SYA is a family friendly saga that is age appropriate from 7 to 70. This book is written for intermediate readers (middle grade) and upwards (young adult to adult). Younger readers (7 to 8) may not understand all the nuances, but will be able to enjoy the story. Older readers (10+) will understand the sub-plots and nuances better. (similar genre works: Star Wars, James Bond, Artemis Fowl, Hitchhikers Guide)
Survival of the Fittest and How the Lost Boy Survived It All
by Mator Adol Mawien
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

Since 1983, Sudan has been the epicenter of a horrific conflict. Battles between northern Sudan's government forces and the southern Sudanese People's Liberation Army have left scars and ethnic divisions too numerous for world media to cover. Each day, thousands of refugees escape to neighboring regions. Mass killings, torture, and rape are common practice within and around the borders. Survival of the Fittest is not only the story of Mator Adol-Mawien's survival but his relentless drive to find freedom from his captors and justice for his people.Malek Tor, a wise man known for his predictions in my Dinka village, predicted my birth. He said my parents' fourth born would be a boy, and they were to name him Mator. It means dust storm, wind storm, and tornado in the Dinka language. It would not be long before he was proven correct.I was the throne-holder for my family, a future king, and I was treated very well. All who entered my kingdom knew that I had a big heart and followed in my father's greatness. But when the northern army entered my village with the intent to kill and destroy, escaping Sudan became the only option for my survival.I was only nine years old when SPLA soldiers rescued me from my village, telling me that they wanted to make sure my village was safe before they would reunite me with my family. Thousands of miles later, I realized they lied. The civil war killed many in my village, including my father and other family members. Many of my friends either died or found themselves torn from their families, as I had been.
Rising of a Dead Moon
by Paul Haston
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, India, Africa, War
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.02

An Indian girl is forced into an arranged marriage then widowed. She escapes a widow's burning and flees to Africa to find the father who has abandoned her. A story of hope and tragic drama, Paul Haston's critically acclaimed novel is set against a backdrop of 19th century Indian Indenture: the shipment of Indians to work on the white-owned sugar plantations in Natal.
What Do You Do With a Chocolate Jesus?: An Irreverent History of Christianity
by Thomas     Quinn
Genres: Religion, Nonfiction, History, Comedy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

"What Do You Do with a Chocolate Jesus?" is a funny, skeptical, but authentic exploration of the Christian history they don’t teach in Sunday school. It finds humor, irony, and occasional insight amid the inconsistencies, absurdities, hypocrisies, and flat out weirdness that too often passes for eternal truth. Think of it as a history of religion as done by The Daily Show. Pitting actual Scripture against pious propaganda, Thomas Quinn treks through chapter and verse of the New Testament, explores the sordid saga of medieval beliefs (including End-of-the-World panics and fights about what kind of stuff Jesus was made of), and reveals some of the shocking attitudes of America’s founders toward religion. It isn’t always pretty, but it’s usually good for a laugh. If war is too important to leave to the generals, religion is too important to leave to the preachers. Skeptics need evangelists, too.
An Instant In The Wind
by André Brink
Genres: Africa, Fiction, South Africa, Historical Fiction, African Literature, Literary Fiction, Love
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.07

The year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas' final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master's vineyard in order to attend her own beloved mother's funeral. When he refuses to do so, and his Baas smashes his face with a piece of wood, Adam turns on him, and beats him almost to death. Then he flees to South Africa's veld. There he comes to the rescue of Elizabeth, a white woman, and the only person to survive her husband's expedition in the vast South African interior. Alone and terrified, she pleads with the runaway slave to bring her back to the Cape and her home. Adam agrees because he believes that by rescuing Elizabeth, he will be awarded his own freedom.This, then is the stunning story of their trek together, how they find in each other their mutual need and humanity and finally how their days together turn into an unforgettable, tender love story.