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The Ride
Domenic Pugiliares
About the Book
Jake, Don and Shelly were inseparable friends. Jake and Don since preschool and Shelly from the moment she entered their lives as a sophomore in college. When Jake lost his dad unexpectedly all he had to remember him was his prized possession, a 1968 blue convertible Oldsmobile 442. That and a small inheritance burning a hole in Jake’s pocket. The three decided as a tribute to Jake’s dad that they would take a road trip from Southern California to Mexico. When the trio arrived at Hotel Lucinda after a long day of driving, events defied all logic and pushed the boundaries of their friendship. As is Pugliares’ trait from his previous novels Famiglia Fabrasia and Brothers Fabrasia there is an ending that no one sees coming!About the Author
“Domenic Pugliares is a serial entrepreneur. He built one of the largest commercial travel companies in the United States before selling it in the late 1990’s. He then went on a start, build, buy, and sell a number of companies while accumulating commercial investment real estate.
Currently, he is the owner of Dunegrass Country Club in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, where he is diligently working on his golf game, as well as his writing skills. -
Yesterday Revealed
The Florida Keys: Hubris of Pretension
Kerry Kwiecinski
About the Book
Yesterday Revealed the Florida Keys: Hubris of Pretension takes place amongst once described as the ‘Emerald Isles’ This novel weaves intrigue, suspense, history, and romance into a fast paced gem of a story. Conservation Officers Kip Greene and his live in girlfriend Suzy, as well as their close friend Teqe who studies Florida Keys antiquities, all become unwantedly embroiled in deaths to tourists, shady treasure hunters, wannabe drug dealers, a powerful Mexican drug cartel, local ‘dirty’ councilmen, and treasure from Spanish shipwrecks and an ex mob lawyer from New York City.
About the Author
This is Kerry’s first novel in what will become a trilogy of Yesterday Revealed novels. Kerry has a degree in Geology, Geography, and Math at Central Michigan University. He has been married at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Key West, as well as extensive kayaking and camping out in the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge (FKNWR).
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Little Green Monster
Sebastian
About the Book
Ed Martin, while visiting friends in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, is victim of a jealous prank, which lands him in a Mexican prison. His friend Emmet spends $15000 to get him out, and Ed takes a mission for a man he met in the prison to repay Emmet. The job takes him first to El Paso where the man providing him with protection is murdered. He receives a package there that must be delivered to someone in Houston, where he reconnects with his boy friend, John Winters, and continues the affair they began in Puerto Vallarta, In Houston they are being followed, and Ed decides he has something they want, but he doesn’t know what. While trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious activities Ed, John and their friend Cory almost get blown up. John is kidnapped, but soon freed with instructions from the kidnappers. Ed uncovers a treasonous conspiracy involving the use of drones. Seeking to prevent an attack on major cities in the U.S, he and John travel back to El Paso where they burn the headquarters of the plotters. Stamos/Morris, the leader of the gang and an ex-lover of John escapes and insinuates himself into the relationship of Ed and John in San Francisco, planning to kill Ed.. They wind up in Yosemite where the adventure reaches a stunning climax.
About the Author
“Sebastian had his fifteen minutes of fame in the early nineteen seventies when he programmed a midnight film series, The Nocturnal Dream Shows, at the Pagoda Palace Theater in North Beach, a district in San Francisco. From that series emerged the flamboyant and outrageous group of drag performers, The Cockettes, who were the rage of the city for several years. While promoting and managing The Cockettes he also promoted Sylvester, the blues and disco singing sensation, and introduced to West Coast audiences, Divine, the star of John Waters films and Baltimore fame. While working with the Cockettes Sebastian wrote, produced and directed the cult classic, Tricia’s Wedding, the Cockette’s satirical version of Patricia Nixon’s marriage to Ed Cox with an all-out, knockdown, dragged out LSD induced conclusion.
In the 1970s Sebastian continued making short films and working sporadiacally in theater. He was born and grew up in Houston, Texas but has lived in New York, San Francisco, Yelapa, Mexico and currently makes his home in Los Angeles. Little Green Monster is his second novel. His first, Nobody’s Bitch, was published in 2018. -
The Lonely Mermaid & Other Fish Stories
LaVerne Johnson Baptiste
About the Book
LEGEND has it that the more a fish story is repeated or told time and time again, the fish tend to get bigger, and bigger, and bigger. A small child might wonder why this happens. In time, the young reader will learn that the storyteller, after the first telling of his or her story, becomes amused with his/her storytelling skill, and that the imagination can begin to “run away or run wild” with more and more interesting but untrue details. So the fish grows in size as the story grows in details and length. So get ready for the biggest fish tales ever! Reading is a journey. The stories in this book, The Lonely Mermaid, are journeys into nature, into the innocence and curiosity of childhood, into the human condition, and into the human experience. No matter how big the fish or the tales get, just enjoy the wonderful journeys while reading the stories.
In the Land of Simple Living and simple pleasures, where the summers were hot and long and the winters were mild, where cotton was king and to own land was heavenly, where fish jumped high, and the living was made by farming the land; where days by the ponds, lakes, streams, and creeks were also a simple way to survive.”About the Author
LaVerne Johnson Baptiste was an educator for 35 years. Now retired from the educational field, she would like to think that she has certainly been a life-long instructor because she began tutoring her neighbors and other friends since she first “played school” with the kids in the Community.
After graduating from college in Texas, she lived briefly in Dallas. In a few months she found herself in sunny California where agriculture, technology, and Hollywood movies were the major money-producing industries.
After being a dilettante at a few other job choices, while still teaching school, she decided that she and the classroom were inseparable. So that is where she remained until she turned in her keys. At the same time, a passion for writing was steadily taking root, and she kept these stories and ideas in her mind and close to her heart.
She recently moved back to her native state of Texas where these stories are now coming to life in print. She has done some extensive world traveling with only two continents left to visit. With nothing but time on her hands, all day to do nothing, and seven-day weekends, she decided to test her skills at writing to pass the time.
She does volunteer work in the community and continues to counsel her former students who will have a lasting and life-long attachment to their “other mother,” godmother, and big sister. -
Beth’s Song
William Blake Gabriel
About the Book
On Destrire, a far-flung planet at the edge of the Humanity’s galactic empire, a sleepy little colony is slowly being forgotten by its imperial guardians. Life on the colony continues, as the human colonials and their new alien neighbors find ways to build a peaceful home for all. But trouble brews on the other side of the continent, thanks to a secret, centuries-old program to form a covert prison on Destrire. There, unknown by the colonists, the empire has an established a dumping ground for political prisoners. Stripped of the basic necessities, the prisoners have evolved into a barbaric frontier civilization, eager for ways to improve their quality of life—at any cost. And now that the prisoners know the location of the thriving colony, plans are made to make its resources their own. The prisoners begin a brutal series of raids on the colony, and life will never be the same. Caught in the conflict are one church-going human family and their alien friend. In a desperate attempt to reunite with her family, one woman must turn to her alien friend for support. Equally torn by the recent exposure to the horrors that humanity willingly unleashes upon its own, the aliens must now make a choice. Will this intergalactic culture clash strain existing relationships and loyalties to the breaking point? Will the brutality of the prisoners’ attacks finally crush the faith and culture of the sparsely populated colony? And in the end, can the family survive—even in victory?
About the Author
William Gabriel was born in Los Angeles, California in 1958. He first read Asimov’s Foundation trilogy when he was seventeen and started to search for methods of applying psychodynamic thought. At twenty seven he first started writing science fiction and reached the million word mark in 1998. At thirty one he tried out for and qualified as a Special Forces soldier in 1990 and spent the next decade serving on A-Teams and was a peacekeeper in Haiti in 1996. He went on to serve in B-Team and C-Team elements. He studied International Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2010 and moved back to California where he graduated from the University of California at Riverside on the Chancellor’s Honor List with a degree in Global Studies. After three decades of writing he published his first science fiction work in 2013. He now has three books in print: “Beth’s Song”, “Twenty First Century Crusader”, and “Women in Wars of the Future”.
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Women in Wars of the Future
William Gabriel
About the Book
Four centuries from now mankind will have expanded into the Solar System with the most adventurous and capable of society. Our world of twelve billion people will have their best and brightest reach for the planets. By this time nearly two million people will live and develop the colonies of outer space. An Earth bound power has built their first warship to ply the planets and establish hegemony where ever they travel. Earth bound politics rears its ugly head in interplanetary conflicts between this rising power and the more established national powers in space.
Into this maelstrom three heroines must face off against this new menace launched from Earth. The planetary system is self sufficient, yet very fragile when confronted by military might. As civilians caught in the crossfire of political infighting, they must use all their wits and abilities to survive the presence of that warship’s maiden voyage. These women prove their metal in the high stakes game of military confrontation and intrigue. Theirs is a world of mercantile uplift while they must now face the forceful onslaught of this new space power.
Most technologies portrayed within this work are already developed or on the drawing board and will be part of mankind’s future in space. Only a couple are not yet within our grasp, yet would be stepping stones to interstellar travel at faster than light. The three heroines each are well versed in survival in space and have carved out their own entrepreneurial niche to gain wealth and return to Earth with millions in today’s currency. The planets hold near infinite wealth to be exploited in the 25th century. This is the new world in which they live.About the Author
William Gabriel was born in Los Angeles, California in 1958. He first read Asimov’s Foundation trilogy when he was seventeen and started to search for methods of applying psychodynamic thought. At twenty seven he first started writing science fiction and reached the million word mark in 1998. At thirty one he tried out for and qualified as a Special Forces soldier in 1990 and spent the next decade serving on A-Teams and was a peacekeeper in Haiti in 1996. He went on to serve in B-Team and C-Team elements.
He studied International Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2010 and moved back to California where he graduated from the University of California at Riverside on the Chancellor’s Honor List with a degree in Global Studies. After three decades of writing he published his first science fiction work in 2013. He now has three books in print: “Beth’s Song”, “Twenty First Century Crusader”, and “Women in Wars of the Future”. -
Seize the Day with Yahweh
Jim Harvey
About the Book
Welcome to a daily experience that can transform your way of thinking about God, yourself, and your life! This devotional tour with Jim and Val Harvey visits all sixty-six books of the Bible, revealing the nature of God’s sacred, covenantal name (Yahweh/Yeshua) and showing you how to claim all the strength, guidance, wisdom, and power He supplies.
Each day’s selection in this year-round devotional introduces you to the Great I AM in a format that combines biblical text with commentary (Yahweh in the Word), personal application (Yahweh in Your Walk), and ideas for prayerful, worshipful expression (Yahweh in your Worship). These biblical truths will set you on a daily adventure of the highest calling, directing you to make the most of each day and its opportunities with Yahweh/Yeshua as your faithful Companion and unfailing Guide.About the Author
JIM HARVEY is a professor of biblical studies at Williamson College in Franklin, Tennessee, who holds degrees from Oklahoma University as well as Southwestern Baptist and Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminaries. He has served as the pastor of seven churches in four states and has conducted preaching missions in ten other nations. His wife, Val, was also educated at Oklahoma University and Southwestern Baptist Seminary. She has written curriculum for LifeWay Church Resources and led numerous conferences throughout the US and overseas. She has also been a featured columnist for Mature Living magazine. Dr. and Mrs. Harvey have written five other books in addition to many resource materials. They have been married for more than sixty years and have two children, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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AMARD: Reverse The Curse
Stephanie Lee-Mckenzie
About the Book
The Maxwells and Rogers are back again and it seems that the Drama never ends… Or can it… Will It… What will it take…? What will it give…? Can they come out of this? There is an end that starts at the beginning… Buckle up for another ride… in reverse.
About the Author
Stephanie Lee-McKenzie was born and raised in Chicago, IL, namely from the “Englewood” neighborhood. Stephanie has earned a Associates in Applied Science in Mental Health Addictions Studies from Kennedy King College in Chicago, IL. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and has completed her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health, both from Chicago State University. Stephanie is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and a National Board Certified Licensed Professional Counselor. Stephanie is married and a mother of one daughter, Destiny. Her motto is “Identity is the first step to Becoming”
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Grandma Hates Snakes
Kaitlyn Collins
About the Book
Children give us a look into a mystical and magical world. With dragons and fairies and magic. Enjoy a story as told by a young boy the day a snake found its way into Grandma’s house. The excitement of Grandma’s reaction to an uninvited snake in her house. This story is told as only a young boy could tell it.
Yes! Grandma really does hate snakes!About the Author
I was eldest girl in a family with seven younger siblings, a teacher, storyteller and Sunday School teacher; enjoyed the imagination of children.
Born in Iowa into a large family, there was always something going on.
At bed time, when all was quiet; little bodies would sneak in and snuggle close and I would hear “tell a story Sissie, Tell story!” I found that I love writing and storytelling. How do you describe, one bed and five little children asleep? -
Why Did They Have to Go?
I Really Want to Know!
Rhonda Clerkin
About the Book
Dealing with loss is very difficult, but can be especially hard on children. Adults want to be strong and reassuring, but don’t always have the answers or the right words to say. “Why Did They Have to Go? I Really Want to Know!” is designed to help children and adults channel their grief in an uplifting way. It will take you down a path of seizing moments, memories, and events. A path of peace and acceptance knowing your loved one will always be with you. You will think of them and smile.
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