Good morning everyone. Enjoy your summer Sunday morning with these great reads.
Nine-Tenths
By: Meira Pentermann
(40 Reviews)
Genre: Genre Fiction | Science Fiction
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Leonard Tramer and his family live in Colorado, trapped behind the walls of a totalitarian state. Dedicated to one another and determined to find the free world, they plan an escape which defies the odds and deceives their tyrannical government.
Emerging at a time when personal liberties and Internet privacy are slowly eroding, NINE-TENTHS offers a window into a dysfunctional society, while celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit and the natural urge to resist oppression.
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Hunger (Dark Stories, Volume 3)
By: Ken Brosky
(29 Reviews)
Genre: Horror | Science Fiction
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The third and final installment in Ken Brosky’s series of horror and science-fiction short stories, this collection includes tales previously published in Via Galactica, The Harrow and other magazines.
“And Then They Came for Us” An alien race called the Aerochai are decimating earth. A handful of survivors have fled the destruction and ended up at Auschwitz, a museum preserving the memory of a dark chapter in humanity’s past. As they grapple with the ghosts of tragedy, the Aerochai creep closer.
“Mr. Peoples” Billy loves his invisible friend. His invisible friend loves Billy. He would even kill for Billy …
“X” An author suffering from writer’s block finds the perfect prescription: sex. But as his story unfolds on the page, he finds that he must go to greater and greater lengths in order to feed his muse. Where will it end?
“Vultures” A bankrupt gambler has one last plan to win back everything he’s lost. It’s going to take a little magic, a little luck, and a few dead vultures.
“Some Like it Cold” When their van breaks down in a mysterious town suffocated by a strange, cold mist, three snowboarders must escape a terrifying fate and a terrifying creature that wants to feed on their body heat.
“Reckoning” A coda to the first story in the collection. A video diary of a solitary scientist details the history and motivations of the Aerochai, who are on the verge of destroying earth. But when a strange emergency broadcast reveals their weakness, the scientist realizes there’s still hope. And there will be a reckoning.
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Glimmers
By: Barbara Brooke
(22 Reviews)
Genre: Romance
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A simple touch, and suddenly Paige is in the past, living someone else’s life, seeing the world through her eyes, and feeling her deepest emotions.
Paige used to think memories only existed in the mind. But now, she knows better. She can’t explain how or why, but she experiences “glimmers,” special moments that have remained behind, clinging to a letter, a ring, even a worn-out pair of boots.
When Paige returns from each glimmer, a small part of her has changed. Who is this gourmet cook, fashion designer, feisty lover? And how is she supposed to explain this to her family without them thinking she has completely lost her mind?
Paige thinks her new talent is a gift until . . . she is suddenly transported into her sister’s memory and catches a glimmer of her sister’s secret life.
Take this humorous and romantic journey, as Paige learns about true love through the lives of three extraordinary women.
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The Last Year In the Life of Marilyn Monroe, A Hidden History (The Last Year In the Life of Marilyn Monroe, The Hidden History, Volume 1)
By: Don O’Melveny
(24 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
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“The Last Year in the Life of Marilyn Monroe, A Hidden History” is the imagined details of the last days of the American icon, Marilyn Monroe. Historically researched and vetted by author, Don O’Melveny, this is the first in a three volume series that spans the shattering era that began in Los Angeles in 1961 and ended in Dallas in 1963. O’Melveny threads sensational history, biography and mystery together, answering the questions Marilyn’s fans have asked for decades.
The death of Marilyn Monroe has never ceased to haunt the American psyche. The last year of her whirlwind life she was deeply enmeshed in the lives of some of the world’s most powerful men. Her own narrative became tangled in her paramours ambition, greed, betrayal, espionage and all-consuming drive for political-power. Read this intimate account of “The Naked Sessions” with George Cukor, stand trembling beside her backstage before she sings, “Happy Birthday Mr. President”, learn what she was thinking after her daily sessions with Dr. Ralph Greesnon, and linger with her poolside at Frank Sinatra’s house in Palm Springs. Volume One is just the beginning.
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The Last Year in the Life of Marilyn Monroe, A Hidden History, Volume 2
By: Don O’Melveny
(24 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
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“The Last Year in the Life of Marilyn Monroe, A Hidden History” is the fictionalized details of the last days of the American icon, Marilyn Monroe. Volume Two takes readers up to the last fateful weekend before her death.
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An Explosive Time (The Celtic Cousins’ Adventures)
By: Julia Hughes
(9 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Mystery & Thrillers
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Over forty, and over weight, still driving the Passat, a salvage scheme reject, Detective Crombie’s juggling with a set of new in-laws (courtesy of his eldest daughter) steering his favorite daughter away from hedonistic Welsh teenagers, trying to patch up the love story of the century, mentoring naive young police women, tracking down disappearing elephants,
getting acquainted with alligators, and oh yeah, exposing a sinister relationship between Whitehall and the biggest villain in London. An
Explosive Time starts with a fatal explosion; the action comes thick and fast, and Crombie will need all his wits about him to prevent his world going supernova.
Contains adult humour and some strong language.
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Infatuation
By: E. Hughes
(9 Reviews)
Genre: Romance
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An American girl goes to Paris…
“Georgie, never one to shy away from danger, had always been intrigued by the dark side of life. A side, she’d only glimpsed through fractured memories she’d never fully been able to piece together. A side her parents had taken great care to protect her from. For better or worse, she was a prisoner of her own mind and had always fantasized that if she couldn’t find her way back to the past, the past would eventually find her. ”
After Georgie is cast in a French stage play she heads to Paris but soon learns her shady agent has set her up as a burlesque dancer. She stays, hoping to earn enough money for a return ticket home but instead becomes the hottest show at the Pink Poodle, the underground cafe where she works and unintentionally earns the love of two suitors in sensitive French actor Renard and rich playboy Jake.
Her decision is agonizing but she makes a choice. Spurning the love of one for the other, Georgie is seduced on a romantic trip across Europe where she becomes overwhelmed with doubts about her new amour… a stranger from the past threatens to unearth a painful secret.
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Love Company: L Company, 399th Infantry Regiment, of the 100th Infantry Division during World War II and Beyond
By: John Khoury
(8 Reviews)
Genre: History
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A dogface’s view of World War II. John M. Khoury was a 19-year-old college sophomore when he was called to active duty in the U.S. Army. He served as a rifleman in L Company, 399th Infantry Regiment. From 1 November 1944 until 8 May 1945 he served in combat with his unit except for about seven weeks spent in an army hospital for trench foot. He was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster for valor, the Presidential Distinguished Unit Badge, Good Conduct Medal, European Theater Medal with three Battle Stars, American Theater Medal, Army of Occupation Medal-Germany, and Victory Medal. His view of war comes from the subterranean level of a foxhole where all human senses are on full alert but the mind has atrophied. Technicalities and strategies of warfare are left to others while he has concentrated on the lives of the “infants” of the infantry.
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Ukishima
By: Nigel Sellars
(7 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy
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In the waning days of World War II, dying Japanese fight pilot Minamoto Ichiro joins a kamikaze flight with plans to die honorably by sinking an American warship. At the last moment, however, Ichiro is plucked from his plane by Hachiman, the Japanese god of war. It seems Hachiman needs Ichiro to save the universe.
Ichiro, now a samurai, finds himself in a parallel Japan, Nihon, where magic is real and Europeans have not yet arrived. He soon learns of Lord Taira, a warlord in league with dark forces. Taira has already stolen two of Nihon’s sacred icons, the sacred jewel and sacred mirror The warlord now only needs the sacred sword, the legendary Kusinagi, the Grass-Mower, in order to control the universe. But sword is in Ichiro’s hands, as only a member of the powerful Minamoto clan can wield the sword safely.
With the aid of a female ninja named Shizuka and Yukio, a naïve young Buddhist monk, Ichiro must battle a series of evil forces, including dragons, undead warriors, river demons, a giant spider and a Dutch vampire sea captain in order to rescue the imprisoned young emperor.
But rescuing the emperor is not enough. Ichiro soon realizes the only way to save the universe is to reach the Bridge of Heaven, located on the island of Hokkaido, the home of the barbarian Ainu. Only then can he hope to bring the sacred sword, the sacred mirror, and the sacred jewel together to restore the Emperor’s power and divine status. Assuming, of course, that he can defeat Taira’s naval forces and somehow close the demonic gateway through which the forces of chaos might escape to overwhelm everything. That, however, will require Ichiro to enter Yomi, the very domain of Death itself…
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Where the Deer Dwell
By: Dorothy Gravelle
(6 Reviews)
Genre: Romance | Science Fiction
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The best heroes are sometimes the most reluctant ones.
In modern day San Francisco, Olivia Keller uses her obsession with prehistoric fiction novels to disconnect from a modern world that doesn’t quite feel right in her bones. At the same time, she is also pursued by a persistent stalker who has just gotten too close for comfort.
The stalker is caught, providing only a false sense of security from a far greater threat, as Olivia is kidnapped and held in the basement of her beloved sanctuary, the Academy of Arts and Sciences Museum at Golden Gate Park. There she becomes the next unsuspecting recruit in a series of time travel experiments masterminded by Dr. Charles Edwin.
The experiment is a success and Olivia finds herself struck with the irony of the old wisdom, “be careful what you wish for,” as she is thrust into a world she could not have understood if she’d read a thousand books. Alone in a deadly rugged environment in an ancient time, she struggles to keep herself alive until the transporter is reactivated and she can return home.
Fleeing a hulking bear that seems to sense her alien nature, she plummets to the base of the sacred Red Rock Mountains. There she is discovered by a band of hunters from the Deer Clan. Dumfounded, they stumble upon the unconscious woman surrounded by droves of the brown spotted deer, which have long since vacated Deer Lands. Against the wishes of the majority, it is only with the insistence of the accomplished hunter, Jalen that Olivia is brought back to their camp.
Seen by most through suspicious eyes tainted by the influence of the sardonic clansman, Trabor, only a few accept her. Among those that offer friendship, Jalen and the spiritually wise Yani are certain Olivia is the legendary caller of the deer, returned home as prophesied for generations. It is only with her assistance that they may restore their extraordinary relationship with their majestic brothers, the deer. Olivia can neither confirm nor deny her own identity, as her brutal fall has left her without memories of her past.
The revelation of Olivia’s identity is revealed to her in a mystical forest glade, where entities from an energy realm reveal to her that she alone possesses the power to set in motion a chain of events which will save the planet from its ultimate demise. The eventual destruction of the planet can be prevented only if she is able to defeat Trabor’s plans for war.
Her personality now forever mingled with the ancient one who once called the deer, she acknowledges with regret that she still does not fit in, even in the place of her dreams. In the end she makes a choice that will change history, but does she do it for the sake of the future or just her own heart?
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The Ultimate Meatloaf Cookbook: 121 Recipes From Comfort Food Favorites to International Cuisine
By: John Chatham
(13 Reviews)
Genre: Cooking, Food & Wine
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A COOKBOOK ABOUT MEATLOAF?
Sure, the days of red and white checkered curtains and matching aprons are somewhat passé. Meanwhile, some things remain timeless, like health, comfort food cravings and the shortage of hours in the day. And as for meatloaf, well, as The Ultimate Meatloaf Cookbook demonstrates, it just gets better with time.
Best selling cookbook author John Chatham pays homage to the traditional, timesaving recipe, ketchup, onions, oatmeal and all, while giving modern takes to the old–fashioned favorite. Featuring 121 delicious recipes this book opens an entire culinary world beyond the common loaf and its brother the leftover sandwich.
The Ultimate Meatloaf offers recipes from around the globe, from the beloved All-American Meatloaf to Hawaiian Style to the more exotic Greek, Mexican, Indian and Asian twists.
While traditional recipes suit the ever-popular protein diet, this cookbook provides vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, low-salt, and low–carb alternatives. Easy step–by–step recipes stay true to meatloaf’s greatest selling point — it provides a delicious hearty meal in no time at all.
• Bestselling cookbook author John Chatham provides the authoritative guide on the All–American favorite
• Features 121 meatloaf recipes from a breakfast Meatloaf Benedict to Crock Pot Meatloaf
• Offers hearty, healthy meals for every appetite and diet plan
• Simple, no hassle recipes just the way meatloaf was intended
The Ultimate Meatloaf Recipes and Cookbook is the modern day answer to an old-fashioned tradition, because some things never go out of style.
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