Daily Archives: March 16, 2020

Targeted (An Isaac Jones Thriller)by Ryan Pacheco

Amazon Review, “Classic CIA plot with great characters. Fast paced! Wonderful story! Falls in line with the likes of Vince Flynn. Superb!”
Amazon Review, “The Isaac Jones series just keep getting better and better. This novel is full of intense moments that keep you turning each page while you are working to figure out what the next move will be.”

A CIA Black Site, Russians, North Koreans, A Secret Society. Isaac Jones is a CIA Black asset who’s been involved in operations around the globe, secretly keeping America safe, and making enemies. Who’s targeting him and how did they find out who he was and where to find him? Did he leave too much information behind or did someone from inside the United States Government betray him? Will he survive or is this the end for Isaac Jones?

A CIA Black Site, Russians, North Koreans, A Secret Society. Targeted- An Isaac Jones Thriller is the second book in the Isaac Jones series.

Beautiful Bodies by Kimberly Rae Miller

From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.

Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn’t stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some more. She’s been at it since she was four years old, when Sesame Street inspired her to go on her first diet. Postcollege, after a brief stint as a diet-pill model, she became a health-and-fitness writer and editor working on celebrities’ bestselling bios–sugarcoating the trials and tribulations celebs endure to stay thin. Needless to say, Kim has spent her life in pursuit of the ideal body.

But what is the ideal body? Knowing she’s far from alone in this struggle, Kim sets out to find the objective definition of this seemingly unattainable level of perfection. While on a fascinating and hilarious journey through time that takes her from obese Paleolithic cavewomen, to the bland menus that Drs. Graham and Kellogg prescribed to promote good morals in addition to good health, to the binge-drinking-prone regimen that caused William the Conqueror’s body to explode at his own funeral, Kim ends up discovering a lot about her relationship with her own body.

Warm, funny, and brutally honest, Beautiful Bodies is a blend of memoir and social history that will speak to anyone who’s ever been caught in a power struggle with his or her own body…in other words, just about everyone.

The Music of Mars by George G. Moore

**2018 The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist

After a disagreement with her project leader, Gretchen Blake finds herself blackballed from the archaeology field. Around the same time, her husband declines to renew their marriage contract.

Alone, with money a growing concern, she accepts a job from MarsVantage to decipher odd symbols in a remote Martian cave. If she can correctly interpret them, MarsVantage will gain access to a cavern filled with an energy source that could dramatically improve their circumstances while Gretchen could reclaim her position on Earth.

Interplanetary, MarsVantage’s Earth-based rival, will stop at nothing–industrial espionage, bribery, theft, and even murder–to keep Gretchen and MarsVantage from succeeding.

Before ever stepping on to the Martian plain, Gretchen finds herself caught in the middle, wanting only to finish the job and return to Earth. As time goes on, she discovers something more valuable than energy–she finds intriguing alien information that could forever alter her future as well as MarsVantage’s and quite possibly humanity’s.

Can Gretchen secure the alien technology? Will she stay on Mars, a place she finally feels like she belongs, and pursue a budding relationship with her MarsVantage project leader, Frank?