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April 11, 2011
#thriller THE GOD PATENT, by Ransom Stephens
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#thriller THE GOD PATENT, by Ransom Stephens
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Sex, drugs, and quantum physics collide with artificial intelligence, faith and free will in this perspective-altering story.
The memo said they'd get bonuses for submitting patents, so why not? Money came easily during the dot-com boom. Concealed in engineering jargon, Ryan McNear submits a patent for the soul disguised as a software algorithm and his best friend Foster Reed rewrites Genesis and calls it a "power generator."
A few years later, amid the fallout of a ruptured technology bubble, his career ruined and family shredded, a desperate Ryan discovers that a company headed by his old friend Foster is developing his patent. What he thought was a joke is generating stacks of money amid claims that it will provide a source of limitless energy and prove the existence of God… more
#fantasy THE UNFINISHED SONG: INITIATE, by Tara Maya
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#fantasy THE UNFINISHED SONG: INITIATE, by Tara Maya
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A DETERMINED GIRL… Dindi can't do anything right, maybe because she spends more time dancing with pixies than doing her chores. Her clan hopes to marry her off and settle her down, but she dreams of becoming a Tavaedi, one of the powerful warrior-dancers whose secret magics are revealed only to those who pass a mysterious Test during the Initiation ceremony. The problem? No-one in Dindi's clan has ever passed the Test. Her grandmother died trying. But Dindi has a plan.
AN EXILED WARRIOR… Kavio is the most powerful warrior-dancer in Faearth, but when he is exiled from the tribehold for a crime he didn't commit, he decides to shed his old life. If roving cannibals and hexers don't kill him first, this is his chance to escape the shadow of his father's wars and his mother's curse… more
#superhero PLAYING FOR KEEPS, by Mur Lafferty
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#superhero PLAYING FOR KEEPS, by Mur Lafferty
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The shining metropolis of Seventh City is the birthplace of super powers. The First Wave heroes are jerks, but they have the best gifts: flight, super strength, telepathy, genius, fire. The Third Wavers are stuck with the leftovers: the ability to instantly make someone sober, the power to smell the past, the grace to carry a tray and never drop its contents, the power to produce high-powered excrement blasts, absolute control. over elevators. Bar owner Keepsie Branson is a Third Waver with a power that prevents anything in her possession from being stolen. Keepsie and her friends just aren't powerful enough to make a difference. at least that's what they've always been told. But when the villain Doodad slips Keepsie a mysterious metal sphere, the Third Wavers become caught in the middle of a battle between the egotistical heroes and the manipulative villains. As Seventh City begins to melt down, it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and even harder to tell who may become the true heroes.
April 10, 2011
Something a little different from me today.
April is Autism...
Something a little different from me today.
April is Autism Awareness month, and as the mama of a child with autism, it's an issue I tangle with every day. Autism is a complicated issue. Some people with autism learn to navigate or even thrive in a world where they think and process differently from others. Some make magnificent contributions to our world. Some struggle to cope with the noise and light and textures of everyday environments.
My favorite commentary on autism - "when you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism".
So what better way to understand a complicated issue than with a story? I'm participating in the Autism Awareness Giveaway Hop. You can win a copy of your choice of the following:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Speed of Dark
Marcelo in the Real World
House Rules: A Novel
To enter, visit Four Stars and Up's Facebook page and leave a comment on the giveaway thread. The winner will be picked Friday morning at 8am PT.
#romance KISMET'S KISS, by Cate Rowan
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#romance KISMET'S KISS, by Cate Rowan
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In the desert realm of Kad, a deadly epidemic strikes the palace of Sultan Kuramos. Only a magical healer from an enemy land has the skill to save his royal household, but Kuramos never imagined the healer would be a woman.
Healer Varene finds her own surprises in Kad. She expects the sultan's arrogance, but not his courage or his selfless care of the ill—or the possibility that the epidemic is the curse of a vengeful goddess.
Kuramos's culture condemns Varene's mystical talents. Her presence triggers an insurrection, yet as he and the healer toil for a cure, he loses his heart to her. She falls for him as well, but how can she relinquish her homeland and her principles—especially when he already has a harem and his family may be cursed?
#chicklit FOXY'S TALE (The Reluctant Vampire Series, Book...
#chicklit FOXY'S TALE (The Reluctant Vampire Series, Book 1), by Karen Cantwell & LB Gschwandtner
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Foxy Anders has a list of problems as long as a shopping spree receipt from Neiman Marcus. She's a retail spender with no money to spare and a former beauty queen with no man in her life. After a nightmare divorce she's left with one asset, a building off Washington, D.C.'s classy DuPont Circle. By turning the ground floor into an antique shop, Foxy figures she has an excuse to spend money … that she doesn't have.
Foxy also has a teenaged daughter, Amanda, who likes to blog secretly about her biggest problem – Foxy. At least, she thinks Foxy is her biggest problem. But that's all about to change when she hooks up with Nick, a cute guy at school who evidently has a gift for attracting older women. Amanda just doesn't know HOW much older they really are… more
#mystery NEARLY DEPARTED IN DEADWOOD (A Deadwood Mystery), by...
#mystery NEARLY DEPARTED IN DEADWOOD (A Deadwood Mystery), by Ann Charles
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Irony is having a big ol' fiesta and Violet Parker is the piñata. Little girls are vanishing from Deadwood, South Dakota, and Violet's daughter could be next. Short on time and long on worry, she's desperate to find the monster behind the abductions. But with her jerkoff co-worker trying to get her fired, a secret admirer sending creepy love poems, and a sexy-as-hell stranger hiding skeletons in his closet, Violet just might end up as one of Deadwood's dearly departed.
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"Nearly Departed in Deadwood is a delightful mix of on the edge suspense and laugh-out-loud humor. Ann Charles is a star in the making!" ~Gerri Russell, award-winning author of Seducing the Knight
April 9, 2011
#chicklit HER LATEST SUPPORTING ROLE, by Cynthia...
#chicklit HER LATEST SUPPORTING ROLE, by Cynthia Ashworth
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Jill Barber is a failed former actress and recent graduate of New York University's MFA program…or so she thinks. A botched final exam and a run-in with a lecherous lecturer conspire to land her in summer school, taking a class taught by hot young novelist Jonathan Wunder.
Jill's nights are spent working to finish her degree, her days at a large Madison Avenue ad agency trying desperately to hang on to its largest account. Tellco Toys' business is about to walk out the door, and Constable, the agency's mercurial President, is making everyone's life miserable: Jill's bosses, the Über-Producers Sandi and Nick; Petra and Robin (a hip and friendly creative team with a knack for giving Jill the wrong advice); and client service guy Graham, who has taken more than a professional interest in Jill… more
#thriller THE LOSING ROLE, by Steve Anderson
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#thriller THE LOSING ROLE, by Steve Anderson
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In the last winter of WWII a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join an absurdly desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he'll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he'd once abandoned.
The Losing Role is based on an actual false flag operation during 1944's Battle of the Bulge that's been made infamous in legend but in reality was a doomed farce. In all the tragic details and with some dark humor, this is the story of an aspiring talent who got in over his head and tried to break free.
