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ODD BODIES: 15 SCREWBALL SHORT STORIESby Suad Campbell

What have breasts got to do with justice? Or chins with personalities? Or legs with pent up rage? What has hair got to do with travel? “ODD BODIES: 15 SCREWBALL SHORT STORIES” answers these questions and raises more. Meet quirky, slightly off-beat characters and follow their efforts to cope with their body part “issues.”

Red Mountain: A Novelby Boo Walker

“Best book I’ve read in over 50 years… since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” – LibraMystic

*A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection and Amazon Charts Bestseller

How well do we really know each other?

Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics.

Otis Till, the area’s visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon–fully nude.

Single mother Margot Pierce moved across the country to build an inn, but so far all she does is binge on gelato, the Hallmark Channel, and fantasies of murdering her ex.

High school senior Emilia Forester is the daughter of celebrity parents struggling to build her own life outside of their shadow.

And Brooks Baker is a man haunted by his past spent living on the streets as an orphan. Somehow, everyone lives together harmoniously, their lives intertwined like the vines in Red Mountain’s beautiful and renowned vineyards.

But in a place where everyone knows each other, secrets are like poison…and right now Otis, Margot, Emilia, and Brooks all have something to hide. When their secrets come to light and dysfunction ignites, will their small mountain be stronger for it–or will lives be torn apart?

Heartfelt, briskly paced, and wonderfully descriptive, Red Mountain is the story of four complicated people living in a beautiful landscape unlike anywhere else. Told from multiple perspectives and rich with vivid descriptions of wine life, this novel will transport you from the first page to the last.

The Man With Two Names: A Novel of Ancient Rome (The Sertorius Scrolls Series Book 1)by Vincent B. Davis II

“Gripping and Graphic… Davis’s narrative strengths lie in portraying the horrifying realities of war and in vivifying the ancient setting…” –(Publishers Weekly)

“Is it better to be a bad man and accomplish great things, or be a great man and accomplish nothing?”

Quintus Sertorius has spent the first 20 years of his life training horses on his family farm, but this must end when his father dies and his village’s political connections to Rome are severed. For the sake of his family, Quintus must leave his village for the Eternal City.
If he succeeds, his people will be fed. If he fails, his people will starve.
He begins his political career under the most influential men in Rome, but soon discovers that those in the Senate are less inclined to help him than he had hoped. His journey takes him from the corrupt and treacherous Forum to the deadly forests of Gaul, making powerful friends and enemies along the way.
But it will take more than allies to succeed. He will have to decide what compromises he is willing to make, and what risks he is willing to take, if he is to secure a future for himself and his people.

The Ones They Left Behindby Antonio Elmaleh

The Ones They Left Behind is a sweeping, riveting, historically accurate account of post-Civil War America told through the journey of Harriman Hickenlooper, a Union veteran who sets off on a one-man peace march to heal the wounds of a bitter and divided country by retracing his steps on Sherman s March to the Sea. This time, instead of carrying a gun, he will carry a flag. Instead of marching for war, he will march for peace and find a reason to live and love again.

Advance Reviews:

“A moving story of a Union Civil War veteran who makes an apparently quixotic journey through Georgia in 1867 reprising his march with Sherman’s army, this time in a quest for peace and reconciliation to knit a divided North and South into one nation again. It is a page-turner that keeps the reader on the edge of his seat until the final pages reveal the outcome. –James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Battle Cry of Freedom and Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander-in-Chief

It takes a unique courage to go to war since the odds of survival do not hail out to the brave. It takes a great deal more to make the journey home again. Antonio Elmaleh’s insight and empathy concerning just such a saga are wonderfully invoked and marvelously illustrated in this volume, The Ones They Left Behind. I for one am still on that journey and can attest to its authenticity of emotion. –Thomas Steinbeck, Author, Silver Lotus

The Ones They Left Behind is a riveting and compelling read about a former Union soldier, Harriman Hickenlooper, who sets out on a personal odyssey to save his farm and heal the great wounds of the Civil War. Along the way, each person he encounters in this hostile environment reveals something of the bad and the good angels of our nature and forces Harriman to confront prejudice, fear, danger and violence. In his first novel, Antonio Elmaleh lifts our spirits as basic human decency prevails and a good man finds redemption and love. –Frank DeLuca, Senior Vice President, The Civil War Trust Washington, D.C.

Army of the Dogby JJ Johnson

A mostly irreverent, sometimes vulgar, but deadly serious story of pranking philosophers and their canine companions. Based on the rarely told documented true stories of the characters depicted in Raphael’s 1511 painting The School of Athens, re-live a semester in the lives of the mischief-makers and the artist. Set in the modern context of the University of Colorado (CU) in the Republic of Boulder, student Will Fiedler falls in with Houndman (Antisthenes) and Dowg (Diogenes) who recruit him and his classmates Ben Blair and Aldo Pierce into the secret society the Army of the Dog.
But first they must pass initiations that test their nerves and manliness. Their call to action is against the reign of the 30 Tyrant Corporations, and their targets include big banks, big gas and oil, and big media. With help from Dowg and Halsey (Alcibiades), the ragtag band of students exact their pranks on the three Tyrant Corporations that have wronged their families. With insights from Samuel (Socrates) and CU Professor Broad (Plato) arguing with Colorado State University professor Dr. Spencer (Aristotle) the students take a wild ride in philosophy put to the test. But do they go too far in their pranks?
Just as Rick Riordan inspired in young adults a renewed interest in Greek Mythology in his Percy Jackson series, the Army of the Dog inspires in adults young and old an interest in the early Greek thinkers that shaped Western Society. This uniquely unhinged little primer is, like the male philosophers were, in-your-face thought-provoking and controversial. Excellent for readers that enjoyed Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang and Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World.

Capture Meby Anna Zaires

He’s my enemy… and my assignment.

One night–that’s all it should be. One night of raw, primal passion.

When his plane goes down, it should be the end. Instead, it’s just the beginning.

I betrayed Lucas Kent, and now he’ll make me pay.

Innocence Taken – Pray He Kills You Quicklyby Victoria M. Patton

INNOCENCE TAKEN – Pray He Kills You Quickly – is a police procedure – detective – crime thriller full of disturbing twists.

A gripping forensics-based crime thriller with a disturbing ending.

Lt. Damien Kaine holds his shiny new Lieutenant’s shield. It burns his fingertips as if it knows he is undeserving of its power–or the new position that comes with it. He questions if he is the right man to lead the Vicious Crimes Unit when his judgment failed him so severely. His actions from six months ago, remind him how close he came to committing his own vicious crime when he held his fiancé and her lover at gunpoint in a hotel room.

His own big Italian family questions why he remains at his job with Division Central. Damien knows it’s his commitment to his partner and the dead, that keep him here. However, that may not be enough anymore.

Before he can decide on his future, Damien is sent to investigate a series of brutal murders. When his team realizes one of their own is being stalked by the sadistic killer, a quirky FBI Agent is pulled in to assist with the case. Damien wrestles with his disdain for the agent and his equally strong sexual attraction to her as he deals with his mounting frustrations.

As the bodies begin to stack up, the abduction of another girl puts the team in a race against time to save her. But with the lack of any forensic evidence, Damien might as well be chasing a ghost.

If you are a fan of CSI, CRIMINAL MINDS, and MOTIVE, then this new crime fiction series is for you.

The Peacetaker Series – Boxsetby Edita A. Petrick

From the US shores to London, France and Spain, death stalks Stella and Carter as they follow the Peacetaker’s bloody trail….

Ribbons of Death (Book 1)

Three months after surviving a deadly riot in Cairo, Timothy Carter is compelled to track down Stella Hunter, a disgraced academic whose book could be the key to deciphering whether the legend of the Peacetaker is more than a dusty myth. She might be a recluse, and people think she’s crazy, but she’s his only hope to find answers to questions he’s been asking himself since receiving the scars that now mar his face.

The Harmony Scroll (Book 2)

Almost a year to date from the time Carter braved a horrible blizzard just to be able to knock on Stella Hunter’s door, the two are following a trail again—this time searching for a mysterious scroll that a few unreliable historians documented in the course of time.

The Byzantine Connection (Book 3)

Stella Hunter is an obsessive reader of all myths and legends. She and her long-time boyfriend, Carter, go to visit their old friend and priest at his church. There the journey begins when Carter sees an old Oriental couple pray, then leave the worship decades younger than when they walked in minutes before. Their story surrounds a bizarre and poorly chiseled granite statue delivered to the church. But is it just an ugly statue?