Daily Archives: December 4, 2016

The Boomer Book of Christmas Memoriesby Vickey Kall

Baby Boomers, remember the holidays? Aluminum trees, “The Chipmunks Song,” TV specials with the Peanuts gang or the Grinch? Remember making Chex Mix and Green Bean Casseroles?The true and sometimes wacky stories behind the fads and holiday traditions of the Boomer Era are stuffed into this book. Who invented Bubble Lites? Did an Oregon DJ really get fired on the air for playing Elvis’ version of “White Christmas?” What were the secret histories of Barbie and Ken, Slinkys, Play-Doh, and games like Operation? The Boomer Book of Christmas Memories reveals all this and more! If you’re a Baby Boomer, or if you want to thrill someone born between 1946 and the 1960s, this book is certain raise a smile, a squeal, and maybe even a toast.

Retired Broke: How to Fix Your Retirementby Randy Kirk

“Retired Broke-How to Fix Your Retirement” will help you find ways to pay for your retirement when you have little or no money saved. Do you wish to know the secrets to experiencing a happy carefree retirement? Creative solutions help you overcome any obstacles on your path to a lively retirement.
This book will show you:
•How to use assets you may already have to generate much needed retirement income.
•Ways to take control of your healthcare costs being your own advocate using easy to follow tips.
•Several out-of-the-box ideas to accomplish the travel you desire.
•How to set goals for your retirement and make a plan to achieve them easily.
•Tips to save money on Insurance, entertainment, transportation, food, and much more.
Easy to read; it’s jammed packed with ideas to solve your underfunded retirement.
“Retired Broke-How to Fix Your Retirement” will reassure you that you can live your life without a million dollar nest egg or any nest egg for that matter.

The Woman on the Orient Expressby Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey.

Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate Katharine Keeling’s first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson–newly married but carrying another man’s child–is desperate to conceal the pregnancy and teeters on the brink of utter despair. Each woman hides her past from the others, ferociously guarding her secrets. But as the train bound for the Middle East speeds down the track, the parallel courses of their lives shift to intersect–with lasting repercussions.

Filled with evocative imagery, suspense, and emotional complexity, The Woman on the Orient Express explores the bonds of sisterhood forged by shared pain and the power of secrets.

Thief on the Cross: Templar Secrets in America by David S. Brody

Why would a collector of ancient American artifacts hand over his prized pieces to a historian and then shoot himself in the head? And why does an ancient Templar scroll in his possession refer to Jesus Christ as “The Thief on the Cross?”

The answer places historian Cameron Thorne at the dangerous intersection of secret American history and modern geopolitical intrigue. Following clues contained in ancient American artifacts and medieval European masterpieces, Cameron and his fiancée Amanda Spencer race to uncover the true secrets of early Christianity before a splinter group of Mormon zealots silences them forever.

Just as they did in Cabal of the Westford Knight, Cameron and Amanda (in this stand-alone novel in the “Templars in America” series) discover, examine and interpret ancient artifacts and legends scattered throughout North America that reveal a history of European exploration long before Columbus. But how do the Burrows Cave stone carvings, the Bat Creek Stone, the Prince Madoc legend, the Book of Mormon and the Mandan tribe of “White Indians” relate to the medieval Templars? Only when they learn about the head of Baphomet and examine Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Virgin on the Rocks do the pieces finally begin to fit together.

What they learn shocks them. And may get them killed.

WARNING: Not recommended for readers with strong Christian or other religious beliefs.

My Name Is Joeby Stefan Bourque

Everything about Joe is average. Middle-aged and single, Joe thinks little of his average life until a routine medical test returns a shocking diagnosis. When Joe’s doctor advises him to get his affairs in order, he faces two choices: leave this world full of regrets, or find redemption for a life unlived.

Struggling with guilt over his perceived wasted existence, Joe plans an extraordinary event that he believes will redeem him, after which he plans to end his life while he still has his dignity. The event goes according to plan until he meets Rebecca, a young, single mother struggling with guilt over the death of her own mother.

Their meeting sets them at odds with each other – Joe fights against forming new bonds with others as he faces his own mortality, while Rebecca remains frozen in the past, unable to share her feelings. Despite their misgivings, they come to realize that the other may hold the key to forgiveness and salvation — if they can find the courage to trust one another.

A profoundly moving novel about the power of human kindness and perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You, My Name is Joe deftly navigates the unspoken thoughts and fears that connect us all and defines what it means to be human.

Average Joeby R.D. Sherrill

Five average guys conspire to rob their hometown on Christmas Eve. Their crazy plan escalates from idle talk over Saturday night poker to a well-honed blueprint to riches beyond their wildest dreams. The only thing standing between the five and criminal immortality is an improbable hero whose only Christmas wish was a moonlight stroll with the apple of his eye. He finds himself not only saving the damsel in distress but also being the only thing standing between the amateur robbers and the crime of the century.

Birth of an Assassin, Books 1-3 (Birth of an Assassin Novels)by Rik Stone

Birth of an Assassin:
Set against the backdrop of Soviet, post-war Russia, Birth of an Assassin follows the transformation of Jez Kornfeld from wide-eyed recruit to avenging outlaw.

The Turkish Connection:
Mehmet battles for daily survival in the murky Istanbul of 1951 while being forced to learn the craft of theft and violence alongside the other street children.

The Man in the Blue Fez:
At a former death camp in the snowy Russian mountains of 1973, the sky fills with helicopter gunships and the flaming liquid of napalm bombs swallows up the entire complex.

Amongst My Enemiesby William F. Brown

Inside an old German U-Boat rusting on the bottom of the Baltic lie millions in gold bars, stolen art, and a secret that could tear NATO apart. In this WW II spy versus spy action adventure thriller, the only one who knows the truth is Mike Randall, a battle-scarred American aviator who survived the bitter winter of 1945 in the battered old port city of Konigsberg. After his B-17 crashed in East Prussia, rather than internment in a German POW camp or being executed as a spy, Randall and one crew mate find a worse fate, being thrown into in a Nazi forced labor battalion clearing rubble in the frozen hell of the north Baltic shore. Also trapped in Konigsberg is Kapitan Eric Bruckner and one of Germany’s last surviving U-Boats. Bruckner has been ordered east to meet with SS Major Heinz Kruger, Martin Bormann’s sinister hatchet man, for a top secret mission. When a British bomber sends the U-573 to the bottom of the Baltic, it carries a secret that only Mike Randall knows. Seven years later, in this cold war military political thriller, when he does speak up, Randall puts a target on his own forehead, one which the Russians, the West Germans, the U-boat’s former Nazi owners, the US government, and even the Israeli Mossad quickly take aim at. In this KGB CIA spy thriller, some want the gold, some want Randall dead, and some want proof that there is a high-ranking spy inside NATO itself. What Randall wants is much simpler in this historic military political thriller novel. Caught between the Kremlin, spies, killers, and a new, deadly, 4th Reich, he wants his revenge and to satisfy some old debts with a steel-jacketed bullet.

If you enjoy good action adventure thriller novels, put this new fast-moving, conspiracy mystery in your Cart. It is from the author of Burke’s Gamble, Burke’s War, The Undertaker, Winner Lose All, Thursday at Noon, and Aim True, My Brothers, with over 500 Kindle 5-Star Reviews. Enjoy!

Mistletoe Kisses & Christmas Wishesby Allyson R. Abbott & Tamara Ferguson

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Two Sweet Stories of Christmas Romance by #1 International Bestselling Authors, this set includes a romantic comedy with a familiar twist, as well as a brand new release from the Multi-Award Winning, #1 International Bestselling Two Hearts Wounded Warrior Romance Series.

A Prickly Christmas Kiss

When Emma Louis Fallon, aka Elf, is burned by her cheating boyfriend, she escapes from her well-meaning family, intending to steer clear of men. But when a handsome hunk named Rudi unexpectedly appears in her life like a gift for Christmas, will she be able to control the fire that he’s ignited in her?

Two Hearts’ Christmas Wish

Colonel Jason Matthews is a wounded warrior whose dreams have invaded by Kat Conlin, a girl he shared a kiss with years ago. When they meet again at Christmas, will their long ago wishes finally come true?

Bartholomew Roberts’ Faithby Jeremy McLean

“My favorite thing about Jeremy McLean’s writing is his ability to write such in depth characters.”

– Alycia Tillman

“… You have to get this book, no question about it!”

– Zachary

What makes a man a sinner?

What makes a man a saint?

Where does good stop and evil begin?

John Roberts considers himself a Christian, a religious man of God, but when his faith is shaken he begins to question the biblical rules he stood for his whole life.

Roberts’ life on a slave ship is filled with hard labour, low wages, and no chance for advancement. When Roberts becomes friends with a slave named Bartholomew, he couldn’t know it would start a chain of events leading him on his first sea adventure.

In an age of pirates who are slaves to no man, Roberts finds himself torn between a world of just and righteous men, and the evil sinners around every corner.

Will the religious Roberts become a sinner or stay a saint during his biblical test of faith? See where Roberts’ trials take him in his short stories full of action, adventure, pirates, and privateers set during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Cupid Painted Blindby Marcus Herzig

Few things are more exciting and, frankly, unnerving than your first day of high school. Except, maybe, coming out to your friends when they already kinda knew you were gay. Or finding out that the breathtakingly handsome guy you’ve just met is best buddies with your archnemesis who happens to be a homophobic bully. Or being teamed up for a school assignment with that decidedly unattractive, facially-deformed, freaky-looking weirdo who hasn’t got a friend in the world. Or all of the above.

Matthew Dunstan, closeted freshman, future bestselling author, and frequently blushing teenager is on a quest to find himself, find love, and live happily ever after. Sounds easy enough, right? But when the opportunities for failure are endless, it doesn’t take much to turn your life upside down. And that’s not exactly what you need when you try to catch someone’s eye without attracting everyone’s attention.

Cupid Painted Blind is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, and occasionally hilarious roller coaster ride through an awkward freshman’s first few weeks of high school that will appeal to readers of all ages who enjoy Young Adult LGBTQ fiction.

Takenby Laxmi Hariharan

From New York Times bestselling author Laxmi Hariharan, don't miss the scintillating Taken, Book 2 in the USA Today Bestselling Many Lives Series

ARIA
If I can get out of here alive, I'll never let myself fall victim to them again.

JAI
I am sworn to protect this city, but I'll do anything to save her.

When a promise to save the city means risking your heart…

Everything in solider-poet Jai Iyeroy's life has led up to his moment. Everyone is counting on him. And he plans to deliver. But when Aria West comes back into his life, he vows to protect her–even if it means breaking his vow to the city. Can Jai find a way to keep his promise while saving the only woman he's ever loved?

Psychomanteumby Laurel Veil

A psychomanteum is a mirrored room that is used to communicate with the dead…For months, Niki is tortured by a recurring nightmare about a demon-like creature and a guy she's never met. Niki's senior year goes from bad to worse when, after a terrible breakup and only a month left until her high school graduation, her aunt Claire kicks her out.With her inheritance, Niki purchases an old house that she feels drawn to. She stays in spite of paranormal activity, when she begins to get answers to the questions that have haunted her. Psychomanteum is a fun, fast read for teens!