FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #3 – {11-16-2012}
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Until the Robin Walks on Snow
Bernice L. Rocque
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Historical, Medical, Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating: 4.8 – {4 Reviews}
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t is 1922. An immigrant family and their devoted midwife struggle to save a tiny premature baby. Inspired by real events in Norwich, Connecticut, this historical fiction novella about determination, family, faith, and friendship includes a story chapter about the family’s Polish and Lithuanian Christmas Eve traditions. Appendices include a List of Sources Consulted and Author’s Notes about the facts, family history, and research behind the story.
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River Rising
Athol Dickson
Genre(s): Religion & Spirituality, Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Religious Fiction
Rating: 4.6 – {31 Reviews}
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A riveting mystery… Dickson deftly explores a variety of complex issues, such as racial equality and religious faith – all with a tasteful touch of magical realism. A vivid setting and well drawn characters coalesce in this subtle yet captivating mystery.” (Kirkus Discoveries)
In the swamp beyond the Tupelo and Cypress a lingering evil sleeps no longer. It will rain down on Piltoville; it will rise up like a River, and nothing but a miracle can stop this awful flood.
Pilotville, Louisiana, 1927, isolated on the Mississippi. Reverend Hale Poser, a stranger looking for his roots. Hannah Lamont, new baby to James and Rosa, a breech birth if not for the strangest touch upon her mother’s belly. She’s her parents sweet joy until, suddenly, she vanishes. Who but this stranger could have done this terrible thing? Who but this man of miracles could see that it’s undone?
Christy Award Winner for Suspense
Booklist: (Starred Review) “Dickson’s thriller is really an allegory but it’s a subtle allegory, with an easy mastery of Cajun ways and a nice gothic flair.”
Publishers Weekly: “Atmospheric, well-paced and powerfully imagined, this novel is reminiscent of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and deserves similar readership and respect.”
Bookwire: “River Rising is a richly imagined and at times lyrically written novel… Author Athol Dickson’s characters are artfully constructed and glow with life.”
Armchair Interviews: “This book is Louisiana’s To Kill A Mockingbird …
Midwest Book Review: “River Rising is a great atmospheric historical thriller that grips the audience …”
Library Review: “Powerful and suspenseful, this fiction thriller is an unexpected page-turner. The characters are well drawn. The setting is vibrant and vivid. The story is compelling and concise. Athol Dickson has created a timeless tale…
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Why Leadership Sucks: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
Miles Anthony Smith
Genre(s): Business & Investing, Management & Leadership, Leadership, Management
Rating: 4.8 – {6 Reviews}
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o you wish you were in leadership?
Or are you frustrated with being in leadership?
Why does leadership suck?
It sucks because real leadership is hard and requires selfless service. It sucks because the buck stops here, meaning it is ultimately the leader’s responsibility to deal with all of the crap. It requires less effort to “lead” in the harsh, dictatorial, selfish way that is so prevalent today instead of balancing our hard and soft nature. The alternative is servant leadership or Level 5 leadership. This kind of leadership is uncomfortable, humbling, self-denying, painful, and counter-intuitive; nonetheless, it is the only kind of leadership that brings lasting results, genuine happiness, and true self-fulfillment.
So, why should you read my book “Why Leadership Sucks”?
1. To help you understand why you are frustrated.
2. To challenge what you have learned about leadership.
3. To give you practical action steps to practice on your leadership journey.
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A Touch of Magic
M. Ruth Myers
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 4.7 – {9 Reviews}
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dazzling sleight-of-hand artist is recruited by the State Department to pit her skills – and wits – against a master terrorist. He’s about to receive a piece of stolen film used to make US passports, film that could open the door to terrorists around the world.
Although Channing Stuart is the fourth generation in a family of acclaimed magicians, she’s the first of them not to turn pro. Eye-to-eye with a killer, will she have the nerve and nimbleness to pull off a switch that finally proves her worthy of her bloodline?
Special agent Bill Ellery is irritated to find himself suddenly teamed with this amateur whose passion to succeed is as great as his own, and whose penchant for the unpredictable unsettles him as much as the woman herself.
In an upscale resort where every enticement hides a trap, they play cat and mouse with enemies known and unknown as a time bomb ticks. Hundreds of lives depend on the deftness of one woman’s fingers and … A TOUCH OF MAGIC.
First ebook edition of a thriller by an author known for strong women and swiftly-moving plots.
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This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store
A.K. Turner
Genre(s): Humor & Entertainment, Humor, Essays
Rating: 4.6 – {110 Reviews}
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Empty bladder before reading.” -Laurie Notaro, New York Times bestselling author of We Thought You Would Be Prettier.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “This sincere, laugh-out-loud confessional from Turner candidly reveals and revels in the flaws and dysfunctions of the author and her family. The “controlling, compulsively cleaning, wine guzzling” narrator with “neurotic tendencies” explains that anyone who enters a potentially lifelong romantic relationship has made a terrible mistake “akin to jumping onto subway tracks to retrieve a fallen pen.” That doesn’t apply to her, however, when she meets Mike and realizes that she had “gleefully jumped onto the subway tracks, because I wanted that pen.” The two agree to skip children, but eventually have two loving daughters who fill their lives with even more hilarious moments. From family problems, breastfeeding, her experiments with pot in Mexico, and lessons learned in Russia while “major[ing] in vodka,” Turner is not afraid to voice her private thoughts and never takes herself too seriously. She details her pregnancy and child-rearing techniques in a refreshingly honest way, claiming that she should have been awarded a medal for managing to be kind at any point during her pregnancy. The book is light-hearted and riddled with comedic episodes that young mothers in particular will relate to and enjoy. Although the narrative is occasionally scattered as it jumps between stories, it remains a quick and thoroughly entertaining read.”
This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store chronicles what happens when a little girl who scorns the idea of marriage and children (in favor of becoming a stiletto-wearing, attache-carrying Secret Agent), majors in Russian, minors in Vodka, and then one day finds herself with child… and in-laws.
“Reading This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store is like going to your neighbor’s house for a play date and discovering that she’s just as clueless and crazy as you are.” -Stacy Dymalski, Confessions of a Band Geek Mom
“A.K. Turner’s witty essays explore the raw realities of raising children so they won’t become serial killers, showing that it’s okay to put the little darlings to bed and then guzzle a bottle of hooch. This is the perfect cross between Nora Ephron, David Sedaris and Chelsea Handler.” -Elaine Ambrose, Menopause Sucks
From The Quivering Pen: This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store by A. K. Turner (Fever Streak Press): Did Erma Bombeck ever guzzle vodka? If she did, she might have come close to the ribald domestic humor in Turner’s “momoir” This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store. The subtitle of the book is “Unapologetic Admissions from a Non-Contender for Mother of the Year” and Turner pulls few punches in her self-deprecating descriptions of life as an “unexpected parent.” Scan the chapter titles and you’ll get an idea of what’s waiting for you inside: “Do as I Say, Not as I Do” and “I’m Not Having Twins, Bitch,” for example. Here are the Opening Lines:
The family portrait of my youth resembles The Brady Bunch mixed with suppressed anger and mental instability, topped off with a healthy dollop of alcoholism. It was the usual amount of familial dysfunction, the type that involves your parents divorcing at the same time that a couple down the street divorces. A swapping of spouses takes place, and then people get married again. I hate the word “swapping;” it makes the entire situation sound much more sordid than it probably was. Sordid or not, the end result left me with step-siblings twice over, as my mother married their father, which was a limited engagement, and my father married their mother, which continues to this day. It helps to have a flow chart to keep it all straight.
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