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Moving Back To Normal
by Sara Webb Quest (S.W. Quest)
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.33

When Reno's parents announce the family will be camping on an island, she realizes their drug-dependent/ drinking / hyperactive / disabled eccentricities are normal compared to this new plan. As it would turn out, the island is not the tropical type, but the sort in the middle of a busy traffic rotary.  Her parents pack a tent, some blankets and a Porta-Potty to camp in the center of the busiest rotary on Cape Cod. So Reno quickly comes up with a survival plan which includes avoiding any and all street lunatics (besides family). Once they arrive, she is at least grateful their camp is hidden amongst tall trees. But events take a peculiar and disturbing turn, first when Reno sees her new neighbor, a bum residing on a nearby bench, and then when young sister Wiley pays the price for their mother's drinking binge in a bloody trauma to the head. Not only must Reno face her own responsibility in the accident, but little Wiley's life hangs by a thread as she withers away -- daily -- in a coma.  Reno is desperate to help her sister fight for her life. But how?
Cypress Hill
by MacKenzie Knight
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

A twist of fate. Eternal evil. A woman caught between life, heaven, and hell. A love that breaks the boundaries beyond the veil. By all medical standards, Mary Reilly is dead. Lifeless, her body lies on a cold steel gurney in the mortuary. Her ‘inner eyes’ open, discovering her body. Immobile, Mary needs answers and help. Who will believe? With less than 24 hours before oblivion she embarks on a desperate fight for her life – and Jack Traynor must learn more than the ropes at Olympus Lawn Cemetery: He must master the art of survival in confronting an unstoppable terror obsessed with Mary. His destiny is to save Mary from a fate waiting for her in a plot on Cypress Hill. Or is it?
Life Is a Pack of 52 Cards: Daily Diaries to Help You Play and Win the Best Games of Your Life!
by Sumeet Jain
Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Short Stories
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.76

The author pledges to donate ALL the proceedings from the sale of this book to The Being Human Foundation (http: //www.beinghumanonline.com), dedicated to education and healthcare of the under-privileged kids. He firmly believes that while our earnings show how we make a living, our contributions to the society show how we make a life. A little about what this book is all about - For me, life had always been a game of choices. It is a game of perceptions that we draw everyday within our minds and their associated outlook. To some, life has always been "half-full" while to others; it has been "half-empty." Through this book, I can guarantee that one can easily solder wire the brain to look only for the "half-full" side that our life has to offer. It is not a book of DOs and DONTs, neither it is some kind of a rulebook nor does it unveil the secret recipe of "that" magic potion we had been searching for years. The book, in reality, is a beautiful compilation of my personal and professional experiences and describes the various teachings that Life offered to me during all these years. I was always taught that to become wise, you have to make decisions in the form of choices. If your choice is good, it will help you climb a step ahead on the life ladder. But if it backfires, then a unique opportunity is offered to un-learn and re-learn it in such a manner that makes you successful on its next application. Life is not only stranger than we can imagine, it is more mysterious; one which is like a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Life is also the single-most complex phenomenon to understand after the human brain. Each of us has a unique life to live and each one of us deal with it even more uniquely making it almost impossible to have one size that fits all. However, the book would surely help us create a framework which can help all of us lead and live our life better, happily and blissfully.
White Lilies in Autumn
by Dustin W. Bradshaw
Genres: Autobiography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.46

As young newlyweds, Dustin and Hiva have a baby die unexpectedly. The event unleashes a torrent of painful challenges that crash relentlessly into their lives, one wave after another. Looking into his past for the capacity to cope, Dustin sees how life's journey has taught him many important lessons with the same theme--never lose hope! Some may attribute such happenings to 'bad luck', while others may blame 'bad choices'; as Dustin discovers, however, facing pain, shock, and death is just life. The serenity of his simple country life is shattered at age ten, following an accident that threatens the use of a limb--and that was only the beginning. With tender honesty, WHITE LILIES IN AUTUMN, follows Dustin through life as he grapples with trials that threaten his ideals and expectations of life. He and his family are forced to confront thorny issues--such as death, depression, infertility, abuse, and suicide--that "good religious people" usually keep hidden from society. All of these experiences prepare Dustin because, unknown to him, at some point in his future, he will have to choose when another beloved family member will die. More than ever, he needs strength to overcome.
The Deeper Wound
by Deepak Chopra
Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality, Health, Religion, Psychology
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.73

The author of How to Know God provides help for healing deep trauma—whenever it arises—so we may find peace in ourselves and in our world.Terror came from the sky, and afterward the world would never be the same. September, 11, 2001, defined tragedy for a generation. On that day Deepak Chopra found himself driving from city to city, meeting thousands of people who begged for meaning and solace in the face of suffering. In response he has written The Deeper Wound, offering a way of healing as a memorial to the thousands of victims who perished.The opening section, “In the Face of Tragedy,” defines suffering as the pain that threatens to make life meaningless. When our deepest needs go unfulfilled, suffering begins. We begin to heal when we go beyond personal anger and fear to a realization of our true self, the self that was never afraid and can never be wounded.The true self contains the light that no darkness can attack. Having described a path of awareness and compassion that leads to the light, the second half of The Deeper Wound takes us there through “A Hundred Days of Healing,” daily affirmations, exercises, insights, lessons, and questions—each a step out of pain toward a higher reality. “We can become living memorials to tragedy by restoring the power of life,” writes Deepak Chopra. “You are that life, you are that power. Let us see if we can find the spark that will make the spiritual flame spring up.”Healing yourself comes in two stages—first releasing the energy of suffering, then replacing it with the soul’s energy. It is a gentle and fragile path, very much like holding on to a thread as it leads you from step to step.If you take the time to listen to the voice of silence, you will be astonished at the power you have at your command, however long that power has been overlooked.A portion of the proceeds earned by the author and publisher from the sale of this book will be donated to the Red Cross to aid in humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
The United States of Air
by J.M. Porup
Genres: Humor, Fiction, Politics
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.26

The National Sewer Agency is spying on people's toilets, looking for food terrorists...Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America. He believes in eating air. He struggles to get the food monkey off his back. As part of the Global War on Fat, his job is to put food terrorists in Fat Camp.When a pizza dealer gets whacked in the park across the street from the Thin House, the Prophet Jones himself asks Frolick to investigate. For the first time ever, Frolick solves a murder—but what he finds out shakes his faith.Will he ever be able to eat air again?
Of Mind Or Matter
by Sreejit Poole
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Overcome by the weight of his own failure to live up to the world's standard of success, to the point where he no longer cares about his own life, Ballard Davies decides that there is only one solution. He gets in his car and drives. He drives away from everything and everyone that he knows, in an effort to just start over. He doesn't care where he's headed; he just wants another chance to get it right. What he finds is beyond his imagination, as he befriends an exciting and eccentric cast of characters. From the divinely inspired to the rationalistic blowhards, everything is suddenly new for him. But there is one problem. He still cannot escape himself. What will it take for Ballard to overcome his own self-imposed limitations and live the adventure he feels he deserves? This is the journey he now travels, down a path where truth, love, desperation, honor, the forgiving and the righteous, the mystics and the scientists all battle for the chance to be given the foremost spot in the realm of his mind. Will the pain of loneliness and separation prevail, or will Ballard find something to live for. Of Mind or Matter can be purchased here: http://www.amazon.com/Of-Mind-Matter-...
An Unproductive Woman
by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Genres: Fiction, Africa, Islam
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

An Unproductive Woman tells the story of family, faith, marriage, and above all else, hope.Adam is desperate for a son, but after ten years of marriage he and his wife Asabe remain childless. Despite the obvious heartbreak this causes Asabe, Adam marries a second wife, the very young and beautiful Fatima. Double tragedy prevents the realization of Adam's hope and Asabe stands firm with her husband to gather the broken pieces of their life. But, Adam isn't prepared to count his loses. He compounds their difficulties by marrying the cunning and deceptive divorcee, Sauda. This choice yields anguish and confusion, and Adam loses more than hope, but a piece of his spirit.Neglected and living in the shadow of Adam's desires, Asabe yet again proves her worth as the true bedrock in his life. Asabe becomes the catalyst that brings Adam's life full circle.Read An Unproductive Woman to learn what secrets Adam has withheld that would explain his unreasonable longing and pursuit of a son at all costs.
The Year of Pleasures
by Elizabeth Berg
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Womens Fiction, Death, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.71

In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal.Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simple daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love.Elizabeth Berg's The Year of Pleasuresis about acknowledging the solace found in ordinary things: a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music, friends, and art. "Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems," said Andre Dubus about Durable Goods. And the same could be said about The Year of Pleasures.
Long Summer Day (Horseman Riding By Trilogy #1)
by R.F. Delderfield
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Classics, British Literature, 20th Century, Edwardian
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.21

Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
Dress Code (The Fashion Diaries, #1)
by Libby Andrew
Genres: Young Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.57

The Fashion Diaries, Dress Code is the first in a series of five novels which explore the world of fashion. The fictional series are based on my experiences working at Vogue in New York City.Can any thirteen-year-old start a Fashion Magazine?Best friends, Patterson, Ashlynn, Clara, Tinsley, and Benoit, decide to try. They have waited years to be on top of social stratosphere, as eighth graders. When their Middle School is joined by the “inferior” Grayson public, Patterson Henley’s satellite status is threatened by a popular newbie; Alyson Doyle. Alyson Doyle radiates all things green and steals the affection of Brit, Patterson’s summer crush. Patterson and her friends decide they can insert their influence, the way they always have: through fashion.Prompted by her mentor Helene, a famous fashion blogger; Patterson decides to turn the girls' secret Fashion Diary into Dress Code: a fashion magazine that can make or break the reputations of the students at Wallace & Grayson Public School. With Patterson’s new roll comes a burst of power and burden of responsibility. One moment she and her friends are scrubbing the bathroom floor in the high school for a photo shoot and the next, attending the elite pre-fall fashion show for Oscar de la Renta.
Unintended Lies
by Linda Kendall McLendon
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.55

This fascinating debut novel is the twisted tale of betrayal, conflict between two friends, unexpected schemes, and lies of deceit and omission. McLendon wastes little time grabbing readers with engaging characters and clever twists that make it virtually impossible to put the book down and will keep you guessing until the very last page. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Catherine DeLong makes a life-changing decision that throws her headlong into Buck Mathews and Zane Wheeler's path. They all have their share of secrets. Dangerous, twisted, enduring and endearing, this passionate tale will draw you wholly into its world.
Six When He Came to Us: A Memoir of International Adoption
by Ellie Porte Parker
Genres: Adoption
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.07

Shelf Unbound Notable book - memoir categoryIndie Reader Recommended Memoir of adoption from Russia in 1993. Story is told with humor and compassion, combined with a look at the underlying complex issues involved in international adoption.ExcerptIt didn't take long to realize that parenthood was not going to be anything like what I'd imagined. I knew it on that very first day when my newly adopted son stretched out his fingers in front of him, in the cold Moscow air, to show me that he had no gloves on his hands and I realized I had left his brand new gloves on the plane. We watched together as the plane taxied down the runway, leaving with his new gloves still aboard. He looked at me with disappointment, reached for the packet of adoption papers that I carried under my arm and wordlessly took it from me. He didn't know exactly what it was, but he knew it was important and that, clearly, I was too careless to be trusted with it. From then on, he insisted on carrying the packet himself. The tone of our relationship was set.Ellie Porte Parker is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive/ educational psychology. She writes accessible, often humorous, material and is a contributor to the Chicken Soup books.Note: book is now available as ebook as well as hardcopy on B&N and Amazon
The Cross in the Closet
by Timothy Kurek
Genres: Nonfiction, Religion, Memoir, LGBT, Christian, Gay, Biography
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.95

Timothy Kurek, raised within the confines of a strict, conservative Christian denomination in the Bible Belt, Nashville, Tennessee, was taught the gospel of separation from a young age. But it wasn’t long before Timothy’s path and the outside world converged when a friend came out as a lesbian, and revealed she had been excommunicated by her family.Distraught and overcome with questions and doubts about his religious upbringing, Timothy decided the only way to empathize and understand her pain was to walk in the shoes of very people he had been taught to shun. He decided to come out as a gay man to everyone in his life, and to see for himself how the label of gay would impact his life.In the tradition of Black Like Me, The Cross in the Closet is a story about people, a story about faith, and about one man’s “abominable” quest to find Jesus in the margins.
What's Sebastian Up to Now?
by Leah Huntsman
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.67

Juvenile Fiction / Animals / DogsTime to meet Sebastian, the most velvety, lovable, troublesome Cocker Spaniel in town, he is sure to win your heart and keep you interested with every new situation that comes around.Visit Sebastian at:http://www.amazon.com/author/leahhunt...http://whatssebastianuptonow.blogspot...https://www.createspace.com/3678392
A Fan's Notes (A Fan's Notes, #1)
by Frederick Exley
Genres: Fiction, Sports, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, American, Football
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.06

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.
Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Canada, Literary Fiction, Classics, Novels, Feminism
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.94

Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, and artist, and woman—but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knots of her life.
Banished
by Billie Sue Mosiman
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Angels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.64

When the Queen of the Fallen Angels came to earth again she took the dead body of a ten-year-old native girl on an island. It was the 1200s and life was primitive, but Angelique managed to rule the people for two hundred years, on what would become Haiti, until Columbus arrived. Escaping her island home for Spain, the little angel with her malevolent intent, wandered through the world using humans to do her biding as her parents and guardians for the next two hundred years. Then in England in the 1800s, she brought down Nisroc, an angel she trusted to be her partner and helpmate. She was weary of depending on humans, always having to control them and train them and trust they would do as they were told. Her old friend, Nisroc, however, was the solution to all her problems. Yet there was a problem once she brought him to earth. Nisroc wasn't like Angelique. Nisroc fell in love with a frail human being--something that was unthinkable to Angelique. Use them, abuse them, even kill them, but never would she love them.And, in the end, her companion from the Fallen had to flee for his life before the terrible child managed to take what soul he had left. She had been betrayed. She must make him pay...
The Lure of the Moon (The Scripter Trilogy, #1)
by Melinda Clark
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.65

After uncovering and writing in a three-thousand-year-old book, eighteen-year-old Ava Baker escapes through a portal that she believes is nothing more than a vivid dream. Her urge to write isn’t solely based on her journey, but also by an alluring man named, Collin, whom she meets between the pages. Their mutual unabiding affection has them bound to each other in ways much deeper than either one can explain. When Collin divulges secrets to Ava, and reveals that the book is being hunted by rival secret societies, it sends their relationship and Ava’s life into a tailspin. The very thing that brought them together is also what threatens to tear them apart. Are Collin and the revelations only figments of her imagination? Or, is it all, a reality and her divine destiny?
The Remaining Difficulty
by Cesar Nascimento
Genres: Poetry, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

The poems in this book deal with some of the everlasting questions that we all have to face, and they may seem bleak and gloomy to some readers. What are we doing here? What purpose can we find for our lives? Is there any higher meaning that we can understand or is it just the here and now? Don't expect answers. It is a poetry book filled with skepticism, humor, and hope. Read it thinking about Baudelaire, and forget about Mary Oliver.
The Good Dream
by Donna VanLiere
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Southern, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Mystery
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.08

In this full-length novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series Donna VanLiere has written a beautifully rendered and poignant story about one woman's unlikely path to motherhood and the healing power of love.Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid; a label she takes with good humor and a grain of salt. But when her mother dies, leaving her to live alone in the house she grew up in, to work the farm she was raised to take care of, she finds herself lost in a kind of loneliness she hadn't expected. After years of rebuffing the advances of imperfect, yet eligible bachelors from her small town, Ivorie is without companionship with more love in her heart and time on her hands than she knows what to do with. But her life soon changes when a feral, dirty-faced boy who has been sneaking onto her land to steal from her garden comes into her life. Even though he runs back into the hills as quickly as he arrives, she's determined to find out who he is because something about the young boy haunts her. What would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden? But what she can't imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in the filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town-a community that would rather let secrets stay that way.This pitch perfect story of redemption and the true meaning of familial love is Donna VanLiere at her very best.
Doll Eyes
by Eline Santos
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.27

In this story, Eline Santos gives a different take on the usual suspense stories for kids. Manang Bolabola has magic that creeps into one’s skin and deceives children with beautiful eyes. While walking through Manang Bolabola’s doll shop, a young girl named Ella fell for the elder’s trap. When Ella was gone, her friend Tin decided to look for her. Santos writes a story about black magic and friendship. After all, friends look after one another just as how siblings would do.Recommended for ages 8-18