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Maria Magliani, a forty-something single mom, finds fate to be unfair and unkind. Since her husband Michael died -- purportedly by his own hand -- she and son, Chip must fend for themselves, relying on acquired skills and experiences from a parochial Irish-Italian background. She and her cousin, Rocco, a Des Moines detective, partner to investigate a string of drug-related sexual assaults with altar boys. The drama elevates and tempers sizzle as the...
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Ordinary Heroes recreates the sights, sounds and textures of a world gone by a world of freedom, innocence and mystery where boys leave home at 6:00 in the morning and return home for dinner a world of sleep outs and midnight escapades. 14 year old Randy’s life begins as a near-death experience. But cerebral palsy aside by 1959, he loves Sandra Dee, Sandy Koufax, the Dodgers, Wolfman Jack and a girl named Daisy Clover in that order. Things begin...
3) Spare Parts
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In Spare Parts, Claudia Martin, an avionics engineer at Duffet Commercial Airplane Co. (DCAC), finds a serious software anomaly which could threaten the integrity of the Flight Management Computer system -- and that could bring down a jet. Her boss, an ex-lover, chooses to overlook her warning in order to meet the accelerated airplane development schedule. But Claudia's own values will not allow her to agree to let it go. Claudia finds her professional...
4) June Gloom
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Millie ODonnell slowly jogs uphill until she reaches her favorite rock, where each day she stops to rest. Then, in the solitude of the early morning, the waves crashing on the shore below, she lets her cherished memories of her young husband heal her broken heart. Suddenly, she notices a pile of trash. An old blanket blonde hair spilling from one end. As June gloom shrouds the small college town on the central coast of California, two more bodies...
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As America moves ever closer to joining the World War, which is already raging in Europe and the Far East, President Franklin D. Roosevelt on occasion turns to his old friend, Vincent Astor, who happens to be the richest man in the country to carry out espionage missions. Astor has hired Charles Worthington, a recent Harvard Law graduate as his personal assistant, and it is to Charles that many of the espionage tasks fall. The initially reluctant...
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This is a Dual Novel: Dead Ringer 3 is a continuation of Dead Ringer 2 but with some new characters added. They are actively engaged in the War Against Drugs in Central America. One of the "new hires" is under Witness Protection and decides that Central America would be a better place to hide than where she has been for the last year in the States. She is teamed with a young man from California who was wounded in Iraq and put "out to pasture." They...
7) Homegrown
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Johnny Marzo, a former Special Forces Captain in Afghanistan and Iraq is retired from the military and is now working for the FBI, fighting what the Department of Homeland Security once called Americas most serious domestic threat. Living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with his journalist wife Carrie and their young daughter Gracie, Marzo works out of the Philadelphia office of the FBI with lifetime friend and brilliant millionaire, Brian Brain Kelly....
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Deeply discouraged as an only child with dysfunctional parents, especially of his disillusionment of motherhood, Jerry Dunn carries emotional baggage with him as he later joins the Marines. Though he distinguishes himself in battle he is only further disillusioned by the typical self seeking actions of his superiors. His already damaged psyche takes a further hit after his discharge. He joins the Memphis Police Force where he again rises quickly in...
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Anna Fisher lives in the exciting City of Atlanta, Georgia, where darkness not only brings out those who prey on others but the young, fearless, adventurous residents and visitors from all walks of society who party all night. Annas life exists in a very small section of the city where she works and lives. Her dreams are haunted by the man who fathered her child. A few afternoons a week, she sits alone on a bench in the park and allows herself to...
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David B. Green insists he is not the flesh and blood equivalent of his creation Oscar Phelps, the shadowy international killer at the centre of the author's Reality-based thrillers; 32-Red, Berlin by Christmas, The Enigmatic Mr Phelps & Brethren of Acadia. I am not so sure... -Northern Times, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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We've all had nightmares. But what if you started to believe your scary dreams were somehow related to a series of grisly murders? Ethnobotanist Gareth McKenna faces just such a dilemma. In Of Blood and Blackwater, he struggles to piece together nightmares he can't quite remember. Dreams that leave him thinking of the years he spent living with an indigenous Amazon tribe. When a curare-laced dart recovered at one of the crime scenes matches the analytical...
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Atlantic City has many nicknames: The worlds Playground, the newest one is Do/AC. Some people refer to it as Sin City of the East. Private detective Maxwell Diamond isnt sure he even has a case when he is asked to look into a car crash that the police ruled a accident. But every time he comes up with a possible suspect they end up dead. Max is sure he has a case when somebody tries to kill him. The investigation leads Max to Philadelphia and Las Vegas,...
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May all beings enjoy 'The Enlightenment.'
The Enlightenment and Captain James Cook, The Lono-Cook-Kirk-Regenesis, is a thoroughly informative and a deeply personal read.
It is a fictionalized biography that takes place during Britain's 'Age of Enlightenment and Discovery ‘and itis highly 'truth based, ‘integrating the ‘first written and compiled' Polynesian facts and mythology that includes the diaries and actual journals of the many men on...
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Spiritual Incitement is a psychological thriller with an intense focus on the unstable emotional state of a young gentleman named Romeo, who used to be very healthy and brave, before strange things started happening to him. A couple of professionals, a Psychologist and an Intelligence Officer, by the will of fate or the solitary decision of their Boss, got involved in the complex investigation of the bizarre incidents while trying to help Romeo, the...
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A young woman is murdered after a night out with friends. When another woman is killed, Detective Chief Inspector MacLanahan realizes that a serial killer is on the loose in Peartree. MacLanahan and Detective Sergeant Nicholson decide to use a decoy to catch the killer before the body count rises.
16) Devil's Cove
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The body of a Choctaw Indian woman is discovered in a drought-stricken lake in the Texas Hill Country. Insurance investigator Adam Gold journeys to Austin, where he is drawn into the dark world of a dangerous religious cult led by a cold-blooded killer who plans to steal one of the world's most valuable manuscripts in order to finance his ministry. A deadly game of cat and mouse will ensue culminating in a startling climax at the West Texas compound...
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Karl Beck is a former KGB officer who defected to America at the end of the Cold War and was resettled with his new name as a Slavic Literature professor at Indiana University. Beck is sixty, but tall, athletic and a charming man of the world. He is falling in love with Cathleen; an attractive woman half his age of the History department, whose mother and grandfather had been part of the underground IRA of Northern Ireland. He eventually reveals his...
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It began for Ariel and Barry Engel on a bright, sunny summer day in May. Leaving out for an extended journey from their now empty home in Houston, Texas, they take with them their hopes to save a struggling marriage, as well as an obsession to search out and find their identities in this world and what their future holds. They have no idea that another search is simultaneously taking place, a search that will become relentless in its quest to obliterate...
19) Too Young to Die
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In April of 2003, the residents of Spring Valley, Nebraska were stunned and shocked when a young student from their local high school, reported as missing, was found brutally raped and murdered. Shortly after the residents, of the tight knit community, had come together to mourn the loss of the beautiful child, they were hit with more shocking and devastating news! Two more students, reported as missing, were also found brutally raped and murdered....
20) False Flag
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Ben Ingram, a CIA officer on R&R leave in Paris, who joined the CIA out of pure patriotism at about the start of the Cold War, is now beginning to think of his painting hobby as a career, but so far is too loyal to his cause to switch. He falls hopelessly in love with an American newspaper reporter named Marian Crowley who, unfortunately for Ben, happens to distrust the CIA and even blames the whole Cold War on her own country attitudes Ben cannot...
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