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Book Excerpt: The Pub Across the Pond by Mary Carter

THE PUB ACROSS THE POND, by Mary Carter, Kensington, 336 pp., $10.95.
“Sometimes leaving home is the only way to find where you belong….”
Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At thirty, she’s living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The [...]

Book Excerpt: The Edge of Grace by Christa Allan

THE EDGE OF GRACE, by Christa Allan, Abingdon Press, 336 pp., $9.97.
When Caryn Becker answers the telephone on most Saturday morning, it’s generally not a prelude to disaster. Except this time, her brother David’s call shifts her universe. Her emotional reserves are already depleted being a single parent to six-year-old Ben after [...]

Book Excerpt: Once We Were Kings by Ian Alexander

ONCE WE WERE KINGS, by Ian Alexander, Dawn Treader Press, Kindle $3.99.
Two kingdoms, five centuries, one destiny.
In a world where the Sojourners, a nearly extinct race with preternatural abilities struggle to preserve their faith and heritage, destiny thrusts two youths from opposing nations into the heart of a centuries-old conflict.
Render, an orphan [...]

Book Excerpt: The Human Spirit by Carole Eglash-Kosoff

THE HUMAN SPIRIT, by Carole Eglash-Kosoff, Author House, 240 pp., $14.95.
Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than fifteen years but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a Black majority-run democracy are still being revealed.  Some individuals toiled publicly, but most worked tirelessly in the shadows to [...]

Book Excerpt: Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! by Tamara Elizabeth

FABULOUSLY FIFTY AND REFLECTING IT!, by Tamara Elizabeth, Trail Blazing Press, 124 pp.
This is my story, a story of a woman who has discovered how through my reflections, the truly fabulously lovable me; the authentic me that I was born to be. I have moxie like the trail blazing women of [...]

Book Excerpt: The Illusion of Certainty by Greg Messel

THE ILLUSION OF CERTAINTY, by Greg Messel, Yorkshire Publishing, 452 pp.
The Illusion of Certainty follows two parallel storylines. Marc is a successful businessman who seems to have everything—a great job, a beautiful wife, a house in an upscale neighborhood of Portland, Oregon and two great kids who are preparing for college. But [...]

Book Excerpt: Glorify Each Day by John Banks

GLORIFY EACH DAY, by John Banks, 819 Publishing, 286 pp, $12.64 (Kindle $9.99)
Glorify Each Day is a darkly comical novel depicting the consequences of violence in modern American life.  It tells many stories.  Tommy “Teach” Morrison, the novel’s main character, tells the story of his relationship with his childhood friend Charles – [...]

Book Excerpt: The Manicurist by Phyllis Schieber

THE MANICURIST, by Phyllis Scheiber, Bell Bridge Books, 258 pp, $12.64 (Kindle $9.99)
The Manicurist is the story of Tessa Emanuel, a young woman who is engulfed by vivid images of the past.  When Tessa is a child, both parents allegedly die in a car accident.  However, the body [...]

Book Excerpt: Shame the Devil

SHAME THE DEVIL, by Debra Brenegan, SUNY PRESS, 353 pp, $18.21 (Kindle $9.99)
In an excerpt of Shame the Devil by women’s fiction author Debra Brenegan, we get a glimpse into the life and works of nineteenth-century American novelist, journalist and feminist, Fanny Fern, whose life the book is based on. The book covers Fanny [...]

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