FREE KINDLE BOOK PACK #2 – {12-01-2012}
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Don’t You Forget About Me
Suzanne Jenkins
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.8 – {10 Reviews}
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arning! This book contains themes of sexual abuse and infidelity.
When charming, seemingly devoted Jack Smith dies, his wife and his two girlfriends are astonished to learn that they were not the only love of his life, and that, in fact, Jack was a rogue who was carrying on secret existences with other women. Shattered by grief and stunned by Jack’s betrayals, these three women, Pam Smith, Marie Fabian, and Sandra Benson, find themselves suddenly thrown together. They could have despised one another, jealously guarding their private memories of their time with Jack and hating those they perceived to be their rivals, but instead, the women begin to realize there might be strength in numbers and in shared pain. Slowly, they begin to open their hearts to one another. They bind together to try to make sense of their lives and to try to heal the terrible shock.
But the more they learn about Jack and his nefarious past, the more they begin to question everything they thought they ever knew about him. Not only did Jack carelessly cheat on each of them, without thought to the harm he was causing, but the women are stunned to discover a secret of Jack that he never revealed.
As the women try to piece together the real life story of Jack, they begin to deal with their own lives differently, as well. They must deal with Jack’s heartbroken mother, who knew nothing about her son’s clandestine dealings in life. The tragedy also takes a toll on their working lives, and most of all it takes a toll on them, robbing them of sleep, hope, and even dreams. But with a sense of shared sisterhood, a little laughter, and a whole lot of determination, these brave women forge brave new lives that are full of promise.
The novel probes the difficulties in thinking that we can ever really know a person, even a loved one. All the women in Don’t You Forget About Me wonder if they had been really and truly loved by Jack, or if he had simply played them for fools. They question their own blindness to his faults and how they allowed themselves to believe that they might have had it all, when what they had was really more of a dream. The book investigates modern social problems with grace and warmth. Infidelity, it uncovers, can do more than break hearts. In showing some of the worst things that can happen in relationships,it also teases us to imagine the best, a world in which loyalty, devotion and fidelity are prized. As the characters grow and change, they have the possibility for those things.
Don’t You Forget About Me is a tale of love lost and then found again. A sequel to Pam of Babylon, Don’t You Forget About Me can also be read all on its own. You will not like this book if many characters and lot of twists and turns is not your cup of tea.
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Rock Killer
S. Evan Townsend
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 4.8 – {8 Reviews}
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pace Resources, Inc. (SRI) mines asteroids for the riches a populated Earth needs without degrading the planet. Yet there are those opposed to progress in whatever its form such as the Gaia Alliance, a front group for eco-terrorists. During a violent attack on the Moon, the terrorists steal an exploration ship, arm it, and rename it the Rock Killer. Charlene “Charlie” Jones of SRI security is trying to infiltrate the Gaia Alliance’s cabal to find evidence linking them to the murder of her fiancé. But a run-in with the law threatens to reveal her identity to the dangerous men of the Alliance. Simultaneously, SRI Director Alexander Chun is traveling to the asteroid belt to bring a kilometer-long nickel-iron rock back to Earth orbit to mine for its valuable metals. Following him and his multi-national team is the Rock Killer. Without armaments, millions of miles from help, Chun must stop those who threaten him and the lives of his crew.
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Public Information
Rolf Margenau
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, Coming of Age, Fiction
Rating: 4.8 – {6 Reviews}
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Twenty-year-old Wylie Cypher accidentally finds himself in the raging conflict of the Korean War in 1953. As he sits in a latrine considering his misfortune, a bomb explodes nearby. His only thought is, should he survive this moment, how will he make it through a sixteen-month tour of duty alive?
Fortunately, he manages to avoid immediate front line duty by joining the Public Information Office of an Army Infantry Division near the Demilitarized Zone as the “forgotten war” enters its last months. The author, himself an NCO in charge if an Infantry Public Information Office during the time of the story, blends fact and fiction in an engaging and exciting way.
Wylie comes of age under extreme circumstances. He experiences combat, deals with indelible characters, reports on actual events, falls in love and becomes a point of entry for the author’s take on “the Army way.” Scenes of combat based on actual events enhance the narrative. The treatment of POWs on both sides of the conflict is described. However, those grimmer moments are enlivened by creative incidents of military humor and outrageous behavior by all ranks. For example, Shit Dad Rowe bends every regulation to no serious consequence while a ranking officer rationalizes the propriety of sponsoring a very high-class whorehouse.
As might be imagined, irony is used to strong effect in outlining the interactions among service members and in relations with the “indigenous” population. Incidents occur in both Korea and Japan, where Wylie joins the staff of the Pacific Stars and Stripes.
Although this is a coming of age story with universal motifs, it resonates with veterans of the era. They praise it not only for its humor, but also for its accurate evocation of a special time and place. One reader said, if asked “What was it like in Korea around the time of the Armistice and soon afterwards?” I will quietly tell them, ‘Read Public Information.’ It’s all right there!”
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Wine in my Sippy Cup
Deborah Dove
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Humor, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Women, Single Women, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.9 – {7 Reviews}
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sophisticated, put together career woman prior to having kids, now Liz Cartwright is lucky to go to the bathroom by herself, much less get out of the house wearing matching shoes and a clean shirt. While she is preoccupied with the sometimes mind-numbing responsibilities of motherhood, her husband is becoming increasingly distant and preoccupied with work, giving Liz the distinct impression that she is losing her husband along with her sense of identity. Armed with a book on spicing up her sex life purchased at a sex toy party and the help of her three best girlfriends, Liz embarks on an all-out attempt to rejuvenate her marriage and find personal fulfillment.
However, things in Liz’s life have a tendency to fail with hilarious results, and her attempts to woo her husband are no exceptions. Despite numerous setbacks–a pantiless tennis court seduction gone awry, a stolen vibrator and an unfortunate incident involving a thong–Liz is determined to reclaim her romantic mojo, until a chance encounter with her first love and a hobby that inadvertently turns into a job opportunity make Liz reevaluate what love inside marriage means and the price she is willing to pay to reclaim her sense of self-worth.
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Charivari
Harry Posner
Genre(s): Health Fitness & Dieting, Death & Grief, Suicide, Literature & Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Psychology & Counseling
Rating: 4.7 – {3 Reviews}
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t’s the ‘Summer of Love’, 1967. LBJ’s America is fighting a losing war in Vietnam, there are race riots in the streets, hippies are thrusting flowers into gun barrels, and LSD has just been declared an illegal substance. Professor of Psychiatry, Thomas Quincy, disillusioned with his profession and his life, is at a crossroads. One of his patients has recently committed suicide, an echo twenty years later of his father’s death, a domineering father who chose his beloved circus over his family. When Thomas’ uncle gifts him with his father’s box of circus photographs, Thomas determines to track down members of the Quincy Circus troupe, gather their stories and through them come to terms with the man who was his father, and with his own deep woundedness. His journey across the body of America ultimately becomes a search for simple human truths and a meditation on the nature of identity, memory, and forgiveness.
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