Megan's Way
Melissa Foster
Outskirts Press
July 2009

Secrets - people keep them for all sorts of justified reasons. Sometimes to spare another, and sometimes to spare themselves. Megan's Way is a novel full of secrets.

When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist living on Cape Cod, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she's faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. Her love for her daughter, Olivia, and her closest friends pulls her in one direction, and her deepest secrets, in anotherFourteen-year-old Olivia's world is falling apart right before her eyes, and there's nothing she can do about it. She knows her mother is lying to her, she has no idea who her father is, and she feels like her life is spiraling out of control. She finds herself acting in ways she cannot even begin to understand. When her internal struggles turn to dangerous behavior, even the paranormal connection she shares with her mother might not be enough to save her - her life will hang in the balance.

Megan’s illness reawakens the torment of her best friend, Holly Townsend, whose long-held secrets and years of betrayal come back to haunt her. How does one choose between a daughter and a life-long best friend? Can the secret she has been keeping be revealed after years of lying without destroying everyone in its wake?

Megan’s Way is a journey of self discovery and heartfelt emotions, exploring the depth of the mother-daughter bond, and the intricacies of friendship. Megan's Way begs the question: What would you give up for the people you love?

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IVD
Greg Przywara
Eloquent Books
Hardback 978-0-7432-9-499-7
Aug. 2008

Trapped in a loveless marriage and a dead-end job clerking at a Madison,WI supermarket, Mark Crizlanek is convinced his life can't get any worse. One night during a raging blizzard, he runs into an old high school buddy Trevor Gates, who brags about his new job with the online movie rental service Reel Speedy, which is really a front for a terrorist operation run by the most ruthless mob family in the Midwest, the Cappellas who eliminate their foes with IVD's (Incendiary Video Discs). Two hours later, Mark's secret soul mate Crystal Logan turns up murdered and he finds himself implicated in her death. In order to locate her killer, he is forced to become a Cappella hit man and team up with escaped school shooter Erik Stockton in an assassination plot against Jared Mendota, Mark's former employer and proud owner of the Midwest's largest collection of Chicago sports memorabilia. With breathless pacing and heart-pounding action, Greg Przywara's IVD has twists and turns that bring this bada-bing, exciting novel to an explosive and dramatic ending.

My Brother, My Keeper
Phil Cooke
CEI Publishing
978-0-6152-3221-8
December 2008

This is a Horatio Alger story about a person who started with very little, and, ultimately, became an inspirational figure to many. After losing his father at age twelve to a massive heart attack, Blase, the oldest of five siblings, was forced to grow up fast. He took on responsibilities at an early age and continued to give generously for the rest of his life. His first job was a laborer for a construction company. Through hard work and a positive attitude, he eventually became the owner of that company, one of the largest privately held construction firms in the country. Blase was an amazing person who affected people in a very special way. He had an amazingly strong, positive attitude and outlook on life. His refusal to think negatively is what made him so special. Blase's story is meant to motivate others to reach their dreams through hard work, determination, faith, and a positive attitude. Blase died at the age of sixty after a courageous six-plus year battle with cancer. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was how he utilized these characteristics to fight cancer, his most difficult battle. Although the disease eventually took his life, it never defeated his spirit.

Where Death Delights
Bernard Knight
Published by Severn House Ltd, UK
ISBN 978 0 7278 6874 9

The first in a new series from the author of the Crowner John When in 1955, forensic pathologist Richard Pryor uses his 'golden handshake' from Singapore to set up in private practice with former Home Office scientist Angela Bray, a friendly coroner gives their risky venture a start when two women both claim that discovered human remains are their relatives. Written by a forensic pathologist with over forty years' experience, the book carried the stamp of authenticity, as well as faithfully capturing the atmosphere of the 'fifties.

BERNARD KNIGHT

Author of the CROWNER JOHN series of historical mystery novels

'Crowner John is a national treasure!............. Birmingham Post

'Detection and suspense are combined with historical authenticity'...........Daily Mail

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Crowner Royal
A Crowner John Mystery
Bernard Knight
Simon Schuster
ISBN 184737297X
April 2009
Paperback to follow in August

London, 1196. At the command of Richard the Lionheart, Sir John de Wolfe has left his beloved West Country for the Palace of Westminster, where he has been appointed Coroner of the Verge. But with the king overseas, embroiled in a costly war against King Philip of France, Sir John is dismayed to discover that the English court is a hotbed of greed, corruption and petty in-fighting. The murder of one of the palace clerks, stabbed in broad daylight and thrown into the River Thames, leads John to suspect that there's a conspiracy underway to overthrow King Richard. And with the visit of the dowager Queen Eleanor fast approaching, the new Coroner must risk his life to prove his suspicions are right, root out the traitors within and prevent a national catastrophe.

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Crowner John Series
The Sanctuary Seeker
The Poisoned Chalice
Crowner's Quest
The Awful Secret
The Tinner's Corpse
The Grim Reaper
Fear in the Forest
The Witch Hunter
Figure of Hate
The Elixier of Death
The Noble Outlaw
The Manor of Death
Crowner Royal
'A Plague of Heretics' (April 2010)

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Downsized To Death
Patricia Gulley
eWings Press, Inc
April 2010

Branch manager of a national travel company, Prudence Peters' demotion is not the only bad news that begins a week from hell. Offices will close, more work for the remaining agents, lay-offs and no more raises. But one of Pru's agents is fired and by week's end the agent has disappeared. Pru arrives at her office the following Monday to find a detective waiting for her. Not only is the fired agent still missing, but the supervisor who fired her has been murdered. Fearing the missing agent will be blamed for the murder, Pru sets out to find her, but everything she discovers laps over into the murder case. Head office in Atlanta claims they authorized no firings and fears for their reputation puts all the offices in Oregon in jeopardy. Suddenly, Pru must find a killer to save her life, her office and her job.

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Checkered Fences
Alma Hudson
Eloquent Books / Strategic Book Publishing
11/1/08 in Paperback
1/5/10 in E-Book and Kindle

This story of interracial love during turbulent 70’s deftly explores the ugly racism that propelled our nation’s conscious to change toward a more diversified culture. Change is in the air and Diane Jones, an African-American 18-year old honors student, will come face to face with those changes. Written with sophisticated realism, Hudson’s novel stand out as a literary piece of significance during our present-day political climate.

Short Circus
Stephen V. Masse
Good Harbor Press
March 15, 2010

Twelve-year-old Jem Lockwood has been fatherless for four years and finally gets a Big Brother, but just as the best summer of his life is about to begin, he discovers that Jesse Standish's rented house is about to be sold. Jem does all in his daring imagination to make Jesse's house unmarketable, and the neighborhood unfit for prospective buyers. This three-ring circus romps with Jem's boyhood friends and older brother Chris, all recognizable kids who share in the rough-and-tumble delight of living in a northern Massachusetts city whose newspaper is delivered by kids on bikes, where kids play in the streets, and the local convenience store is owned by the family of Jesse's girlfriend, Andrea. Sadly the local swimming pond has been sabotaged, and the city has to close it to all recreation after two boys are injured. Jem is sure he knows who did it, and helps carry out a plan to punish the evildoer, learning about the consequences of jumping into action without sufficient knowledge or understanding.

". . . meaningful, lighthearted, and endearing for both adults and children alike. It's offbeat and wonderfully campy, and it will stay with you long after the circus has rolled up its tents and left the grounds."   -Eric Jones for reviewthebook.com [Full Review]

The Doom Guardian
Chronicles of Cambrea
Julie Ann Dawson
Bards and Sages

Cursed in life.
Damned in death.
The only person capable of stopping a terrible prophecy is the one born to fulfill it.

For centuries, The Spirit Wall has protected the world of Cambrea from the otherworldly forces that seek to destroy it. But now the Spirit Wall begins to crumble. The forces of the undead god Vagruth move to reclaim his throne. Meanwhile, the demonic Felsworn seek to take advantage of the chaos and enact their own plans. In a world fractured by politics, greed, and apathy, fate will unite three unlikely heroes to save the Spirit Wall from destruction.

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The Golden Path
Brian Pettera
Bards and Sages

"Tell your Padishah that the stars fortell that this deed you do will be returned one hundred fold. That the Eye of Kali will be your reward. It will be waiting for you in Kabool."

Thus Arash, leader of the bloodthirsty Sayeh, began his journey along the Golden Path to fulfill his destiny and obtain the legendary sword known as the Eye of Kali. And surely what would get in the way of a powerful vampire as he seeks to uphold the words of prophesy? Plenty, it would seem. Particularly when the Golden Path runs straight through the dark lair of the mighty dragon Fucanglong.

Fabulous Voyage across the Ocean Sea
Jay Prasad
Wings Press
June 2010

A sixteenth century saga of three generations of a Jewish family who sail with Columbus to escape the Inquisition.

Paul Henry - judo expert, Yankee fan, and college dropout - is a Catholic fundraiser who accidentally discovers a manuscript in Barcelona while taking some of his clients on a tour of the Iberian Peninsula, on the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s Voyage of Discovery. Paul’s wife Lucia, a historian, tells her colleagues about the manuscript, with frightening consequences: Paul’s life is threatened, and his wife is kidnapped and tortured by unknown assailants. Paul finally locates Lucia’s whereabouts and finds out that the man behind this evil action is his employer Denis Donahue, one of the richest and most ambitious men in the country, but a fanatical Catholic who has set up college towns in several states to promulgate the Catholic way of life and is actively engaged in a struggle to restore Catholic orthodoxy, which, he thinks, has been destroyed after the Vatican Reforms introduced in the sixties. Donahue wants Columbus and Isabella – both of whom he regards as perfect Catholics – to be raised to sainthood by the Vatican, and, thinking that the publication of the manuscript would work against his plan, he gives orders to have it seized and destroyed.
The novel reproduces, in its entirety, the discovered manuscript.