Featured Books of the Week
September 2, 2017
When Daniel Masterson was four years old, he watched helplessly as his father was killed in a horrific car accident, which resulted in terrifying nightmares, vivid hallucinations, and a fear of anything related to horror. Years later, after a high school prank induces a frightening hallucination, Daniel decides that the only way he can get on with his life is to face his fears by going through the local scare attraction, called the Horror House, on his own. But the further he ventures into the house, the more real it becomes. Trapped within the walls of the Horror House and unable to discern if what is happening is real or not, Daniel must survive five hellish rooms, filled with unspeakable terrors, in order to make it out alive and discover the terrible secret hidden within.
Diego is a curious cat who loves to roam and travel. On the day his family moves to a new home, Diego cannot be found. Juan and Maria search everywhere for him without success. When Diego returns to his home later that day, the family is gone. What will Diego do? Can he find his family again? "Diego, One Lonesome Cat" is the story of Diego's journey to find his home and family.
Fleeing New York City and an abusive partner, would-be writer Marc Nugent finds work at HomePort, the Provincetown mansion of Lola Staunton, a fabulously wealthy recluse. Aided by an attractive-but-unattainable artist and an all-too-available cross-dresser, Marc investigates accusations of rape and murder that have estranged Lola from a childhood friend for more than sixty years. Past and present converge when a long-lost journal reveals tales of infidelity, adultery, and passion that mirror the life Marc has recently abandoned. When his ex-lover arrives in search of revenge, Marc must confront his past, his notions of family, and his capacity for love.
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Pat Ruger is a retired detective that leads a PI firm in Colorado. Pat thought he was done with the Children of Bartholomew, but the Children had other ideas. Will Pat, Jimmy and the crew be able to survive the Children's reprise?
Welcome To Parkview reads the rusted sign along the outskirts of town. The tarnishing letters seem inviting, yet foreboding and mysterious. Is passing through such a wise idea?
The final destination may be more dangerous than the trip itself—an unapologetic journey through a town that thrives on sex, violence, and the macabre. A place built on deceit and temptation. A spot forever cursed with soulless transients, unforgiving lovers, and merciless vampires who hide in the shadows beyond.
The facade is peeled back just enough for you to see past its surface. There’s but a glimpse of the darkness that put Parkview on the map. Then you realize that nothing here is a coincidence. In Parkview, it may be best to keep buried secrets quiet.
In Parkview, even truth can be a deception.
When Sabal's night of training a rookie Sandman goes terrible wrong, she is saved by a Boogeyman named Sam. He hides her away in the Realm of Nightmares to keep her safe, unknown as to what’s drawn him to save a Sandman in a world where they’re meant to be enemies.
Sam whole world changed in that moment he laid eyes upon Sabal. Her fiery red hair with streaks of gold and wild green eyes with markings of gold and black vines framing her angelic face, he’s struggles with feelings he doesn’t understand.
Torn by duty and love, will they fight for their forbidden love or will they succumb to the Romeo and Juliet tragedy that awaits them?
Yvonne's story follows a path from personal devastation to personal triumph through God's call to mission and serving others through ministry. Her fears, disappointments, and heartaches are all detailed in this adventure about how God's calling beckons her to continue on her mission no matter what troubles arise. Ultimately, God shows her how to turn her mountains into molehills.
A supernatural love triangle that tests the bounds of science, truth, and faith.
Regent Lela of Asiya is the most powerful person on her planet but she is powerless to save the life of her beloved soulmate—Zion Grace. For thirty years they lived as husband and wife, but Zion’s time is at an end. Lela must go on without him.
“There will never be anyone else for me.”
Despite having died, nothing can keep Zion from his soulmate. He’s back but not as the man he once was. Zion must help Lela move on with her life, lest he lose her forever. But how can Zion convince Lela to accept the love and affections of another man when he still wants her for himself?
“I love you, Lela. My heart is forever yours.”
Lela and Zion are bound souls, destined to live eternity together. For these lovers, death is not an end, but a fateful beginning.
First in the "Tension on a Pension" cozy mystery series.
Long in the Sleuth combines humor, romance and suspense with a unique angle--a quirky team of seniors trying to adjust to life in a retirement home, while people are dropping dead all around them.
Who killed Sam Levin with a poisoned knish? Could it be Ellie, who baked it? The yentas at the Menorah Retirement Home think that it just might be.
Ellie Shapiro is a reluctant resident of the Minnie and Isaac Memorial Menorah Retirement home. Then Sam, a popular fellow resident, drops dead after eating a knish that Ellie's baked. Other murders follow. With her fellow sleuths and Sam's hapless teen-age grandson Noah, plus a dog, Ellie sets out to find the killer.
But will the disapproval of Ellie's hunky crush, Hal, stop the motley detection team before the killer gets her?
Over the course of the book, Ellie gains confidence, a friend, a new career and maybe even the guy, as the action takes her from the Menorah kitchens to an out-of-control fight at a mahjong game and a revelatory visit to gambling casino, culminating in a confrontation with a crazed murderer.
Ellie's recipes included.
Literature, specifically poetry, is a bridge between what we know and the abstract side of our life. The original layer is the fiction mixed with what we know and what we could know. The abstract exists everywhere on the Earth and in the galaxy and the beyond. The abstract is my favorite sanctuary. The challenge is complicated and severe.
Sanctuary is the place where I find virgin ideas and thoughts wearing tens, sometimes hundreds of skins. I peel the skins to reach the pearl. Writing requires time to form, like diamond stones. Some prefer to pick row words and dye them.
In this little book, I decided to spice my poems. I placed myself at the beginning of the book and branched out characters, some I created; others inspired me and energized my creative ability.
The story and all it entails is simple. It tries to define love in an entirely different perspective on the understanding that prevails today. I needed a protagonist to fit the story; one of a story never been told; a guru in faith, religious philosopher and a rare poet. The age difference between him and a—girl―had to be coast to coast in time.
The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Orphaned as a child, Joanna has lived her entire life in the care of the New Terra Alliance. On the verge of turning eighteen, Joanna eagerly awaits her release into what remains of society.
It was a beautiful lie.
Joanna was never meant to leave. She is part of the August Harvest, slated to die before the month’s end. With a rogue soldier’s promise to find her a way out, Joanna dares to hope. But if the NTA finds out what she knows, it won’t only be her own life at stake, but the life of the handsome soldier who has vowed to set her free.
Fans of Divergent, The Darkest Minds, and The Handmaid’s Tale will love this dystopian story of twisted secrets, romance, and page-turning suspense.
This Body Won’t Break is Book One of The O-Negative Series and will be published in 3 Parts (each approx. 25k words in length). Parts will be published on the first Tuesday of every month.
Turning seven years old will give Rey something he's been waiting for all his life, to attend Fiesta in San Antonio like his big brother. When he gets there, he finds colorful food, music, and fun, until Antonio names himself King Antonio, the leader of the river parade, and calls his little brother, Rey Feo, or the ugly King of Fiesta. Their rivalry can only be squelched by the royal wave of Miss Antonio as she floats down the river. Which brother will be King Antonio, royal leader of the city? The story is written in both English and in Spanish.
Life wasn't so great when you didn't have much of a relationship with your parents or the ability to play street games while growing up in the fifties. You would rather be secluded in your lonely room, using your imagination to write stories and draw comic books than to be drowned in negativity by your mother or humiliated by your peers. All of this can change for Jimmy Yadenik when he meets Johnny, his soon to be mentor and member of the Vandals, a street gang, and he applies for membership. But the transition won't be easy.
