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The Man Who Watched The World End

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The end of man was not signaled by marauding gangs or explosions, but with silence. People simply grew older knowing a younger generation would not be there to replace them. The final two residents in the neighborhood of Camelot, an old man and his invalid brother, are trapped in their house by forests full of cats and dogs battling with the bears and wolves to eat anything they can find. As the man struggles to survive, he recounts all the ways society changed as the human population continued to shrink. THE MAN WHO WATCHED THE WORLD END is the haunting account of a man who has witnessed the world fade away. It is also a story about the power of family.

Dating In The Dark: sometimes love just pretends to be blind (A Romantic Comedy)

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Jason isn’t a midget, he’s an inch and a half off. He’s too short for the police and too tall for the pantomime. He’s also single and has been for all of his 32 years. It’s depressing. But not as depressing as being told by his mother that he looks like Humpty Dumpty – after the accident. So with a face not even his own mother can love, it’s hardly surprising that he’ll try anything to get a woman to go out with him, even if it’s only for a single date.

With little interest in anything other than his quest for a woman and a nice bit of cod and chips, Jason needs to think outside the box if he’s going to find someone who’ll give him a chance.

Along with Barry — his best mate — Jason comes up with the only thing he thinks will work: dating a blind woman. However, to do that, he needs to pretend he’s blind himself, which is a lot harder than you might think … especially when guide dogs are so hard to come by.

Eventually Jason’s efforts pay off and he meets Emma, a pretty professional with a host of friends. When he takes her out, they instantly hit it off. But will Jason be able to fool both Emma and her best friend Jerry into thinking he’s blind?

With everything to play for, Jason faces the biggest challenge of his life, and nobody — especially not him — can see how it’ll all turn out.

 

Beauty Rising

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“My heart sank. I dumped my father’s ashes in the heart of communist Vietnam – over a thousand miles from the death of his comrades – over a thousand miles from the smile of that girl. How could I have been so stupid?”

Only the bumbling, overweight, thirtyish, stay-at-home Martin Kinney could have mistakenly flubbed his dying father’s request with such gusto. This thousand mile mistake awakens the ghosts of long-held family secrets and puts Martin on a fateful course with an unlikely romantic interest – a young, beautiful, yet troubled Vietnamese woman named My Phuong.

With its cross-cultural setting and unlikely romance, the 61,000 word novel Beauty Rising creates a powerful, unique voice in today’s literature. In a swift-moving, dialogue-driven prose which is funny, honest, tragic and unpredictable, Beauty Rising explores the depths of culture, family, and love as the Vietnam War, a generation removed, continues to hang on the periphery of society, cursing families and causing destruction.

 

Red Tape

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In this captivating tale of crime, government corruption and mystery, Municipal Clerk Chelsey Alton gets more than she bargained for when she encounters an irate resident and loose cannon, Robert Triggers. He has been harassing the employees in the small, Jersey shore town where she works and becomes the prime suspect when multiple attempts to sabotage the municipal building are made. Chelsey begins to piece it all together and finds herself framed for a crime she did not commit. She narrowly escapes several attempts at her demise, only to find herself in a much more precarious situation. Will she make it out alive or end up a tragic victim at the hands of a madman?

America’s Junior Miss

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Magic and myth, gods and heroes, are the substance of Georgette’s

practice in clinical psychology. When she can’t escape her cave of

depression following the suicide of a patient, who better to come to

the rescue than her teenage son? But how can he help his mother

without meddling in her business, invading her space, or getting his

head bit off? The high school junior has acquired a few superpowers of

his own from his exposure via Wolf-mom to Carl Jung and Joseph

Campbell’s world of dreams. Follow our young hero in this modern fairy

tale as he journeys through women’s athletics and pompom squad to the

land of the Young Miss pageant.

excerpt from America’s Junior Miss

An idea began to percolate in Emile’s subconscious. He was loath to

admit it, but the past few months had wreaked a special kind of havoc

on his psyche. There was a time when the young hero could do no wrong

as regards his mother.

The honest to gosh problem facing the lad these days was that, when he

wasn’t playing field hockey or volleyball or performing with the

pompom squad, he found himself inhabiting a warp in the universe where

time had slowed and his feet were covered in treacle. Where they used

to be a team together battling evil and injustice, the mother wolf and

her valiant warrior son now battled each other. In the contests of

late, in spite of his Super Grover cape and centurion helmet, Emile

could barely move without being accused by his mother of meddling.

But how could he live with himself, much less make a stab at bringing

his wolf-mother out of her cave, unless he interfered in a large way?

The boy felt himself slowly floating up to the ceiling of the

auditorium where he seemed to hover briefly. What caused the rift in

his mother’s universe? What had happened to shake everything up?

Clearly, Georgette, for some reason, had taken on a dark wolfness that

sought to annihilate everything in its path. But wasn’t she her

own person? … Wasn’t he? How could he assume responsibility for her

rescue if she didn’t want to be saved?

“There’s only one thing left to try,” Emile thought. Although he

didn’t know why or how it would work, he knew only that he had one

last shot at bringing his mother back from the underworld. And it

would involve an end run that could not possibly be given a red flag

for interference.

Once again in his seat, Emile peeked sideways. “If Matt has been

listening in on my thoughts, I’ll never hear the end of it.”

Matt turned abruptly and said, “Huh?”

“Gotta make a call,” Emile said. Then he bolted up the aisle and out

the auditorium door.

DEADENDERS: A HORROR THRILLER

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It starts with a dog. A dog in Richard’s story.

Then a dog-monster in his basement, ready to rip out his throat…

In this remarkable literary horror thriller by renowned writer Bruce Jones, four men, led by failed screenwriter Richard Denning, come together in middle age in their hometown of Topeka, Kansas, to face a childhood trauma that has haunted them since the day it happened forty years earlier.

Richard, Maze, Scroogie and Shivers, a gang of twelve year old best friends who called themselves “The Deadenders”, made a secret pact, a supernatural pact, a pact that would result in murder and one that would trigger a haunting by a monster so grotesque and unreal that the four of them find themselves locked in a web of betrayal and mistrust as each is forced to face the nightmare alone.

Richard is dying, his sex life with his beautiful wife is dying, and just as he discovers his first tender love has never forgotten him, an occult demon from the past rears up to terrorize all The Deadenders as one by one they remember The Truth—The Truth they have hidden away in the deepest, darkest recesses of their minds.

With the scope of Stephen King and the imagination of Dean Koontz, Bruce Jones enters a world where nothing is real and no one can be trusted, not even your best friend…

Disconnected

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Katherine (Katie) Calder is happy, or is she? Married to a patient, loving and handsome lawyer who has been her life for 6 years – Chris. He wants nothing more than a ‘normal’ happy family life -will being with Katie ever give him that?

Katie didn’t know how to love him or anyone but she knew she couldn’t be without him. She had detached from life, from love, from any true emotion yet Chris continued to love her unconditionally wishing for the day she would declare her love and even cry for the first time since he had known her.

Katie’s mother – Jill Williams was desperately trying to have a relationship with her daughter who had been missing from her life for six years for reasons she never understood. Bringing Gerry back into Katie’s life was not the answer. Gerry brought back the horror of her ‘missing years’ causing her distress, misery and even blackouts, but why, what had Gerry done?

What had happened in those two years when she had been missing that could cause this pain and anguish and if they found out would they feel the same about her? Katie didn’t think so, she had to protect them against the truth and she had to face her past – but at what cost?

Disconnected is an intense, emotional journey that will have you smiling one minute and then feeling hurt and pain the next. You want it to work out, you want the happy ending – but then life is never that straightforward, this book will leave you with a void, this book will leave you disconnected!

The Griffin Cryer

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Frankie Shaunessy’s friends are out of this world!

It’s an easy mistake to make – instead of whistling and calling for her dog, fifteen year old Frankie accidentally summons a griffin and his rider from another world. The Rider is tall, blond and extremely rude. On the other hand, Balkind is the sweetest, most lovable griffin Frankie’s ever met, and Frankie is determined to help the Rider and his griffin find a way back to their own world.

Dealing with parallel universes, disgruntled warriors, and hungry griffins is the easier part of Frankie’s life. At school, Frankie learns friends can become enemies, teachers aren’t always right, and the boy of your dreams can be all too human. Told in approximately 53,000 words, suitable for young adults, and all those who’ve ever dreamed of riding a griffin.

Come Eat at My Table

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Karin Miller has a need to feed everyone. One of

her twin daughters always teases her about it, while

the other daughter, Faith, realizes there’s more to it

than meets the eye. Faith’s suspicions are confirmed

when she is assigned a project in school that forces

Karin to talk about her past. Most people have

pleasant memories from childhood, but not Karin.

Instead, she has a lot of secrets that she has managed

to keep hidden for twenty years. These secrets have

contributed to her vulnerability and lack of self-esteem.

Her husband tries to convince her to talk their

girls about it and let it out. Would it be good for the

girls to learn more about their mom and why she is

the person she is? Until Karin faces her past she and

her family cannot face their future.

Everyone has things in their life that forms who

they are. It’s Karin’s past that has formed who she

is. This is a story about perseverance, love, and especially

forgiveness. We can all take the bad things

that happen in our lives and turn them around to

benefit those with whom we come in contact.

Those Necessary Thorns (Desiree Elizabeth Taylor)

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Desiree’ Elizabeth Taylor (Desi) is a sexy, smart, and no-nonsense kind of woman. Some would say she is wholesome — while others would gladly call her a bitch.

After years of living the life of the perfect, wife, friend and business savvy know-it-all, Desi had a secret that would destroy everything she’d worked so hard to achieve.

The cast of characters in her life are starting to unravel and Desi is losing control fast! Her marriage is on the rocks and her best friend is turning into a spiteful enemy.

What happens when Desiree decides its better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission?

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