Daily Archives: November 30, 2018

Claus (Legend of the Fat Man): A Science Fiction Holiday Adventureby Tony Bertauski

In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.

Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since the Ice Age but Nicholas is quickly swept into the colony’s first and only fracture. The elven known as the Cold One has divided his people. His name is Jack. And Jack’s tired of hiding. Why should they live in a shrinking ice cap when humans occupy the rest of the world?

It’s just not fair.

There’s no stopping Jack from world domination until Nicholas Santa, the only human to enter the elven colony, joins helium-bladder reindeer, artificially-intelligent snowmen, and a merry band of big-footed elven to bring peace back to the North Pole.

And becomes a legend.

The Nanny Songby Misty Mount

Mallory Riscoe is no stranger to dysfunction. Despite her tumultuous childhood, at age twenty-two, she has established herself as a fully functional, self-made woman. However, the safe, mundane life she’s created for herself is quickly turned upside down when she’s falsely accused of theft and promptly fired.

Meanwhile, a dismal pall hangs over the Colt residence. Since the death of his wife, Brendan Colt has struggled to care for his children, Kason and Meela. Each is lost in their own deep grief, but there is more to this family than meets the eye.

Two worlds collide when Mallory accepts the job as nanny to the Colt children. Mallory begins to feel a connection, a whisper of trust between them, that could mean there is still hope for everyone involved to heal. But when an unspeakable secret is uncovered, that bond–and possibly Mallory’s life itself–is now at risk.

Can Mallory unlock the mystery intertwined in this chaotic family or will all hope of closure be lost forever?

My Creative Billionaireby Ali Parker

From USA Today Best Selling author Ali Parker

Being rich means living up to the expectations of others… even when you don’t want to.

Matt’s always known what it was like to live on the high end of society, and where his brother and father love it… he hates it. A creative at heart, he’s forced into the world of Accounting to help stand beside the family name and build an empire from the ground up. His true passion is art, life and love.

Erica is the Chief Advertising Officer for Bryant Accounting Firm and has had her eye on the CEO’s son, Matthew for quite some time. He’s a bit docile in public, and often plays the fool, but something tells her that a very different man exists just beneath the surface. She’s willing to wager her career by taking Matt beneath her wing, and hopefully to her bed.

The Girl Who Sees (Sasha Urban Series Book 1)by Dima Zales

I’m an illusionist, not a psychic.

Going on TV is supposed to advance my career, but things go wrong.

Like vampires and zombies kind of wrong.

My name is Sasha Urban, and this is how I learned what I am.

The Thought Readersby Dima Zales

A new series about mind readers from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

Everyone thinks I’m a genius.

Everyone is wrong.

Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working.

It’s because I cheat.

You see, I have a unique ability. I can go outside time into my own personal version of reality–the place I call “the Quiet”–where I can explore my surroundings while the rest of the world stands still.

I thought I was the only one who could do this–until I met her.

My name is Darren, and this is how I became entangled with all the Russians and learned that I’m a Reader.

Steady As She Goesby John Molloy

This delightful book is a must for the avid reader. As his journey through youth begins, so does his understanding of the culture of his ship board life and the traits, good and bad of his companions. He brings an insight into the often mysterious habits of people in countries half a world away from his homeland in Ireland. Side by side with his skills as a seaman, he shows through his exciting writing that he has further skills which give this book an authority which will surely stand as a record of life at sea in a time of great change for seafarers, ashore and afloat.
Its light-hearted and humorous approach guarantees continuous enjoyment to the reader. It becomes a constant companion until the final page is read. Don’t miss it.
Capt. Douglas

Sign on for an unforgettable voyage round the oceans of the world; from the frozen Arctic to the tropical coast of Java. A true-life story of coming of age in the 1950s Irish merchant navy, with adventure, romance and heartbreak.

Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Ageby Mark Jarzombek

MIT professor, Mark Jarzombek, rethinks the increasingly tight but for most people invisible relationship between humans and algorithms. The modern person is increasingly determined by data exhaust—an invisible anthropocentric ether of ones and zeros that is a product of our digitally monitored age. The author argues that the world has become designed to fuse the algorithmic with the ontological into a new geo-political relationship. Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age looks at the history of this relationship, but also proposes a new theoretical understanding that helps explain the rise of paranoia as the new normal. Described as a “loose, funny, incisive, informative, post-historical manifesto,” the book sees data technology less a question about computers, than as a hallucinogenic regime that has trapped nation states and corporations – not to mention hackers of various sorts – into ever grander schemes of inter-dependency. As a result, the core philosophical question, ‘Who am I?’ has now to be addressed in ways that are fundamentally different from even a decade ago, especially since ‘the social’ today has become a vast laboratory where our data is processed and manufactured – and of course inevitably ‘lost’ or ‘stolen.’ As we play our part in these vast transgressive networks, what does it even mean then to be human? Though the issues are serious and pressing, the book is meant to be easily accessible to the general reader.

Epiphany – THE GOLDINGby Sonya Deanna Terry

Rosetta Melki, an idealist whose philanthropy dream has been all but crushed by her sole-parent struggles, is enchanted by Our True Ancient History. Lillibridge’s tale about a gold-obsessed empire (and the sprites they oppress: elfin clan dwellers whose currency of choice is kindness) has evoked a memory Rosetta cannot explain.

Rosetta’s website surrounding the reading group she’s begun with friends has inspired the emergence of other Lillibridge book clubs. Her own Sydney group meets fortnightly at a vintage bungalow, the rental home she secured to escape a gruesome intruder.

In a more affluent part of Sydney, finance executive Matthew Weissler (polished, successful, admired) has been questioning his slave-to-the-dollar existence and his marriage to a tantrum-throwing shopaholic. And now he’s questioning his sanity after finding he’s been followed by an elf.

But who is the creepy intruder? A prowler from the suburb Rosetta and her teenaged daughter fled…or a traveller from the past, determined to suppress an ancient memory that will change the world forever?