My first mistake last night was starting a really good book when I went to bed. I was completely exhausted from the day and went to bed at a perfectly reasonable time. Then I opened my Kindle up and there it was, Labor Day by Joyce Maynard. I was hooked from the first sentence. Now a am sitting here holding my coffee like it was liquid gold that is going to save me and carry me through the day. It’s not going to. Neither is the second cup, and yes I will most likely do it again tonight.
The Tube Riders (The Tube Riders Trilogy #1)
Chris Ward
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
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Beneath the dark streets of London they played a dangerous game with trains.Now it is their only chance for survival…
Britain in 2075 is a dangerous place.A man known only as the Governor rules the country with an iron hand, but within the towering perimeter walls of London Greater Urban Area anarchy spreads unchecked through the streets.
In the abandoned London Underground station of St. Cannerwells, a group of misfits calling themselves the Tube Riders seek to forget the chaos by playing a dangerous game with trains.Marta is their leader, a girl haunted by her brother’s disappearance.Of the others, Paul lives only to protect his little brother Owen, while Simon is trying to hold on to his relationship with Jess, daughter of a government official.Guarding them all is Switch, a man with a flickering eye and a faster knife, who cares only about preserving the legacy of the Tube Riders.Together, they are family.
Everything changes the day they are attacked by a rival gang.While escaping, theywitness an event that could bring war down on Mega Britain.Suddenly they are fleeing for their lives, pursued not only by their rivals, but by the brutal Department of Civil Affairs, government killing machines known as Huntsmen, and finally by the inhuman Governor himself.
Excerpt from The Tube Riders (Chapter One)
“As the others said their goodbyes and left, Marta stood for a moment, looking out across the park towards the huge elevated highway overpass that rose above the city to the south.Half finished, it arched up out of the terraces and housing blocks to the east, rising steadily to a height of five hundred feet.There, at the point where it should have begun its gradual decent to the west, it just ended, sawn off, amputated.
Years ago, she remembered her father standing here with her, telling her about the future.Things had been better then.She’d still been going to school, still believed the world was good, still had dreams about getting a good job like a lawyer or an architect and hadn’t started to do the deplorable things that made her wake up shivering, just to get food or the items she needed to survive.
He had taken her hand and given it a little squeeze.She still remembered the warmth of his skin, the strength and assurance in those fingers.With his other arm he had pointed up at the overpass, in those days busy with scaffolding, cranes and ant-like construction workers, and told her how one day they would take their car, and drive right up over it and out of the city.The government was going to open up London Greater Urban Area again, he said.Let the city people out, and the people from the Greater Forest Areas back in.The smoggy, grey skies of London GUA would clear, the sirens would stop wailing all night, and people would be able to take the chains and the deadlocks off their doors.She remembered how happy she’d felt with her father’s arms around her, holding her close, protecting her.
But something had happened.She didn’t know everything – no one did – but things had changed.The government hadn’t done any of those things.The construction stopped, the skies remained grey, and life got even worse.Riots waited around every street corner.People disappeared without warning amid tearful rumours that the Huntsmen were set to return.
Marta sighed, biting her lip.Her parents and her brother were gone.Marta was just twenty-one, but St. Cannerwells Park was the closest she would ever get to seeing the countryside, and the euphoria of tube riding was the closest she would ever get to happiness.
She gripped the fence with both hands and gritted her teeth, trying not to cry.She was tough.She had adjusted to Mega Britain’s harshness, was accustomed to looking after herself, but just sometimes, life became too much to bear.
As the rain began to get heavier, tears pressed from her eyes and rolled down her cheeks.”
The Tube Riders – a novel of 516
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Cold Fear
Rick Mofina
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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In the remote, rugged corner of Montana’s Glacier National Park known as the Devil’s Grasp, little Paige Baker of San Francisco disappears with her dog, Kobee, while on a camping trip with her family; or so her mother and father have told authorities.
A multi-agency task force launches a massive search as Paige fights to survive in the wilderness. Time hammers against her and soon the nation is gripped by the life-and-death drama.
Secretly, behind the scenes, the FBI grows suspicious of Paige’s parents. Their recent history and disturbing evidence links them to a horrible secret from the past.
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Out of The Box Awakening
Jennifer Theriot
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Sagas | Women’s Fiction
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Olivia is a good woman, a good mother, a good wife. She’s got it made. She doesn’t want anything to change.
Of course, it does…
Swept from her perfect paper-doll life in Houston, Olivia finds herself in Chicago, alone, betrayed, and far from home. Soon everything she thought she knew about herself and her life will be challenged. She has only courage, love, and her passion for music to carry her through the maelstrom–or draw her further in.
Ash is the man who has everything–everything except healing from the losses of a lifetime. His only peace lies in the sweet flow of music pouring from his guitar.
What happens when the married woman and the sexy handsome widower are thrown together by fate?
Out of the Box Awakening is a story about second chances, shared passion and shared joy. Jennifer Theriot has written a compelling book about what happens when two people find new life and new love for themselves and for those around them.
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The Moon Was My Witness: The Jewish Boy Who Sabotaged the S.S. Commander’s Motorcycle (Holocaust Memories)
Abraham Levy
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | History
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“Blood, fire and towers of smoke”
His expressive blue eyes full of warmth were the secret weapon of Abraham Levy and another secret he had kept in his heart for years.
In 1937 he immigrated to Palestine with part of his family and stayed there for a year and a half. As an eight year old child, he ran on the golden sands of Tel-Aviv and became an Israeli in whose blood, flowed the legend of the ancient hero Bar-Cochba.
The cruelty of destiny took him back to Europe right before the war against his will. All the rest of his family, who had tasted the taste of Paradise in Palestine, was murdered in the ghetto and Abraham went through the Inferno of 6 concentration camps at the age of 12: R.A.B. Lager, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, Dora, Nord-Hausen and Bergen-Belzen.
He received the power to overcome all tribulations from the sun, the sea breeze and the streets of Tel-Aviv, from his friends in ‘Tachkemoni School’ and the words he repeated to himself over and over again: ‘I am as brave as an Israeli soldier, I am a fighter and I will never surrender. I am like Bar-Kochvah, I look the lion in the eyes and defeat him. I am from Palestine and I am strong!’
From the moment when he was torn from his mother’s arms in the Zychlin Ghetto until he reached the coast of The Holy Land once more, he passed a journey full of obstacles but he founded a glorious family. ‘Only here everything belongs to us, the blue sea, the sky, the mountains, the oranges and the clean air. Here is the land where Elijah the Prophet went up to Heaven and Bar-Kochvah rode the lion.’
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The Chemotherapy Diet: 5 Steps to Staying Healthy During Cancer Treatment
Mike Herbert ND
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting | Professional & Technical
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During cancer treatment, it is vitally important to stay healthy. The best way of doing that is to work with the body’s own natural healing abilities. And that means, in the first place to eat right. The Chemotherapy Diet is a practical guide to feeling good during chemo… and beyond with 100 simple recipes, daily meal plans, shopping lists, and more, presented in a simple 5-step program:
Change your thinking and develop an attitude focused on healing. Detoxify with therapeutic baths to promote healing from the inside out. Eat the best foods to create a healing chemistry in your body. Supplement your diet to support the healing momentum. Exercise and rest to speed the healing process.
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