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| Book Discovery - newly-published and overlooked books! |
 | Endpoint, by Rejean Giguere | In 1989 a KGB interrogator thought he discovered a message imbedded in a victim’s migraine headache. In 2012 Alexi Tambov is snatching people off the streets of New York City, still trying to extract answers that will lead him to the message. When Gary and Chantal are mugged coming out of a support group meeting, they brush it off as “life in the city”. When a second mugging turns into a full-fledged kidnapping they are dragged into Alexi’s web. Help arrives unexpec... |
 | As Far as Blood Goes, by Rochelle Hollander Schwab | Michael’s white master is also his father, but his master “don’t care nothin’ 'bout that,” Michael knows, making up his mind to run up North. Reaching a free state at last, he achieves the near impossible – becoming a physician. But the Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law brings slave-catchers hunting him down. Can he escape slavery a second time – this time with his white half-brother’s help? The riveting prequel to A Different Sin.... |
 | Cliff Diver (An Emilia Cruz Novel), by Carmen Amato | When Emilia Cruz, Acapulco's first and only female police detective, dives into the investigation of a dirty cop's death, she might just hit the rocks instead of the water. With hot nights on the beach and suspense straight out of the headlines, CLIFF DIVER and the Emilia Cruz mystery series go inside Mexico's drug war with a fearless style and a woman who'll be hard to forget. THE DEATH OF A DIRTY COP Forced to lead the murder investigation into the death of ... |
 | After The Fires Went Out: Coyote (Book One of the Post-Apocalyptic Series), by Regan Wolfrom | First came the comet. Then came the fires. Now we fight to save what's left. Baptiste, stranded 500 miles from his wife and daughter, at the northern edge of civilization, has made a vow to protect a teenage girl from the chaos that surrounds them. But as food and fuel runs out, and even friends prove they can't be trusted, Baptiste realizes that this promise won't be easy to keep.... |
 | Fontaine and the Dreamtellers, by Hudson Owen | An adventurer arrives on Conus as a prisoner, to toil in the pit, rows and rows of keyworkers with potty seats and gerbil tubes. Their job is to convert the dreams of the Wicks, an ancient race of dreamtellers, into code for brain patches. The computerized Topsiders, who forced the Wicks to live underground, have lost the capacity to dream and rely on the patches to function. The head of the corporation that runs Conus vows to eliminate the Wicks and rely on computer-manufactured dr... |
 | March Madness (Twelve Months of Romance - March), by Margaret Lake | March Madness - a novelette It’s St. Patrick’s Day, the one day of the year when everyone wants to be Irish. Even Angie Sorelli. But what Angie really wants is to meet her new neighbor, red-haired Irishman Brian O’Malley. Too bad Brian’s best friend, darkly handsome Tommy Roventi, sees Angie first.... |
 | Freedom Road, by T.M. Souders | **FINALIST, USA Book Awards, Young Adult Fiction, 2012** A father’s selfish demands, broken booze bottles, and falling-down mothers are everyday fixtures in eighteen-year-old Samantha Becker’s life. Armed with her guitar and music to keep her comfort in a volatile world, Sam’s one dream to study classical guitar at Juilliard may very well be her salvation. But when her father’s careless actions lead to an “accident,” Sam’s ability to play the guitar dies along with her d... |
 | A Monster's Game, by Maud Muller | Crime reporter Alamanda Tyler is in Detroit to write human-interest story about a six year old girl killed in a drive by shooting. When a wealthy white woman is beaten to death on a suburban street, Tyler's boss orders her to "drop the piece on the black kid" to cover the story. A few days later, the body of a Boston financier is discovered in Detroit's Greektown district. Identical MO's and the absence of evidence linking the victims fuel speculation that a serial killer is o... |
 | Heavy Mental: A Clancy Parker Mystery, by P.J. Morse | A musician’s gotta eat, which is why rock guitarist Clancy Parker takes on side gigs as a private eye. When she gets a new case involving a stolen necklace, Clancy's thrilled at the prospect of easy money. The job turns out to be anything but. Soon enough, Clancy must dodge threats from disgruntled secretaries, unhinged society matrons and rampaging ice cream trucks. The only person who can provide answers about the necklace is her client’s sexy psychiatrist, but Clancy’s buddin... |
 | Top 10 Email Scams (Internet Scams Revealed), by Kathleen McMahon | Online fraud and email scams are on the rise - arm yourself with knowledge *before* you become the next scam victim. TOP 10 EMAIL SCAMS, Volume 1 in the Internet Scams Revealed series, is a practical easily understood guide for how to recognize and avoid the most popular Internet email scams. Written with the non-technical person in mind, this book will explain how scams work, red flag clues for recognizing a scam before you become a victim, and actual real-world email examples of the... |
 | Connections (Jack Contino Crime Stories), by Steven P. Marini | Some people seek out connections. Jack Contino does it for a living. A cop knows how to link people and events. Maria Falcone connects people and places: the city of Boston, a rural New Hampshire college town, a Boston hit man, a college professor . . . Jack Contino is a veteran cop with the Metropolitan District Commission Police Department. He often works with the FBI; a gangland massacre puts him in pursuit of a killer, but the trail takes an unexpected turn. Maria conne... |
 | A Pledge of Silence, by Flora J. Solomon | In January of 1941, Margie Bauer is called to active duty in the Army Nurse Corps of the United States Army Reserves, and her mother sadly laments, “You’re a capable girl, but the world’s a dangerous place.” Despite her mother’s concerns, Margie is delighted when she learns her assignment is to Sternberg Hospital in Manila, Philippines—the Pearl of the Orient. She falls in love with the beauty of the island, and the carefree lifestyle of bridge games, tennis dates, pool parties, and ... |
 | Elusive (On The Run), by Sara Rosett | If you enjoy Elizabeth Peter’s Vicky Bliss series or Romancing the Stone, Elusive has the same mix of mystery, international travel, and light romance. Zoe Hunter loves living on the edge. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she’s built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black. But when her ex, Jack, goes missing along with several million dollars from his business and the FBI zeros in on her as a person of interest, Zo... |
 | Possessing the Grimstone, by John Grover | A mage finds his magic, a leader finds her strength, a hero finds his courage. A storm is coming. The sky darkens. Wind howls. Thunder rocks the land. The world of Athora is in grave danger. An unknown enemy rises in the uncharted lands of the east, emerging from the mists of the Fifling sea. Armed with a powerful magical artifact thought lost over a thousand years ago, they’re destroying everything in their path. Yet hope remains, for this unstoppable evil only posses... |
 | One Husband Too Many, by Jacqueline Diamond | Magic sends her back through time…to the wrong man. On the verge of a divorce, Jana Edwards wishes she could go back six years, before she met the rogue she impulsively married, and respond to the online profile of a farmer who sounded like an ideal husband and father. To her astonishment, her heirloom pendant grants her wish...but the "perfect" man turns out to be the same rogue, using another name and involved in a shady project. Jana knows Drake Edwards—intimately... |
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