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Showcase 34: Five Indie Books to Savour

Here are five eBooks for your kindle, reviewed for your pleasure by the authors. Five top fiction books, all self published, vie for your attention, hopefully all on the way to becoming best selling books.

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THE TANGRAM ZOO AND WORD PUZZLES TOO! by Bette Stevens

The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too! is a resource for multi-cultural and interdisciplinary studies in the classroom or at home. Integrates Math (measurement and geometry) and Language Arts (research and writing) for elementary and middle school students, while presenting a few historical facts about tangrams. Tangrams and word puzzles (rhyming riddles/poetry) encourage students to have fun while they’re learning, and then to demonstrate what they’ve learned. Includes ideas for home/school projects. Tangram outlines, with rhyming riddles as clues, are even labeled for coloring for preschoolers. Hands-on fun for the whole classroom/family!

Bette’s love of children, of literature and of learning inspired her to write ‘The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too!’ She has used this book as a teaching/learning resource in the classroom with students of all ages. Stevens’s second children’s picture book, ‘Amazing Matilda: A Monarch’s Tale’ was released in July 2012 on Amazon.com. This creative tale of a Monarch butterfly and her meadowland friends was written to inspire readers and listeners alike, not only to follow their own dreams, but to encourage others to do the same.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

 

THE STORY OF SASSY SWEETWATER by Jane Cook

After thirteen years on the run Violet McLaughlin returns to Carter’s Crossing, South Carolina, in 1962, with her young daughter, Sassy. The Crossing is right outside of Beaufort and the turmoil of the Civil Rights movement will forever leave its scars on the young and impressionable girl. As Sassy stands before the imposing white farmhouse for the first time, with no knowledge of her history but that the McLaughlin’s are her kin, Sassy begins a journey that will tear her apart before it heals her. Growing up among secrets that will forever damage her relationship with her mother, she attempts to make sense of her past. But will her passion for art and her love for Thomas Tierney be enough to sustain her future? Will the puzzles she must solve to discover who she is be worth the journey?

The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was Vera Jane’s second southern fiction novel and received a five star ForeWord Clarion review last year and was a finalist for their book of the year awards. The book also won the Eric Hoffer Honerable Mention for fiction, 2012.

The author lives in New York City.

If you would like to communicate with Vera Jane Cook please visit her

website: http://www.verajanecook.com

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

 

BY HOOK OR BY BOOK by D.R.Meredith

Planning to write a paper for Smithsonian Magazine on the cultural significance of string figures, such as Cat’s Cradle, librarian and unemployed paleopathologist Dr. Megan Clark has a wonderful idea that will help her with her research. She will organize a convention and invite all the members of the International String Figure Association to attend. She invites the Murder by the Yard Reading Circle to forgo discussing mysteries and help her with her convention. The membership, eccentrics all, and recently introduced to making string figures themselves by Megan, enthusiastically agree, even Ryan Stevens, history professor and Megan’s best friend. Ryan mainly agrees because he sees no way that Megan can get into trouble at a string figure convention. What’s the worse that can happen? She gets tangled up in her own string? When a long-lost manuscript about string figure art is offered for silent auction by a greedy and very unpleasant conventioneer, Ryan discovers that Megan Clark can attract murder like a magnet attracts metal files, and that certain string figures can be lethal.

A fan of mysteries since a childhood obsession with Agatha Christie and Rex Stout, D. R. Meredith has written three mystery series set in the Texas Panhandle, a little-known area of the state even to other Texans. Two titles, MURDER BY IMPULSE and MURDER BY DECEPTION, in the John Lloyd Branson series were finalists for the Anthony Award. An equal obsession with the American West inspired her to create two historical sagas, A TIME TOO LATE and THE RECKONING, which she describes as “two hanky books for readers who want their hearts tugged while satisfying their curiosity about the Old West.” The book review editor for ROUNDUP MAGAZINE for more than twenty years, Meredith owns a private library of more than 5,000 books on the American West.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

I AM NUCHU by Brenda Stanley

Suspenseful and richly layered, I Am Nuchu is a coming-of-age story about a teen wrestling with his identity as he finds himself caught between two drastically different worlds.

Brenda Stanley is a former television news anchor and investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Eastern Idaho. She has been recognized for her writing by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the Hearst Journalism Awards, The Idaho Press Club and the Society for Professional Journalists. She is a graduate of Dixie College in St. George, Utah and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is the mother of 5 children, including two sets of twins. Brenda and her husband Dave, a veterinarian, live on a small ranch near the Snake River with their horses and dogs.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH by Brian Grant

The covert Nazi Prime Minister of the United Kingdom attempts to sell to the Russians a British supersonic fighter plane in return for political and financial backing to turn Great Britain into a Fascist nation.

The assassination of the deputy Prime Minister while trying to complete the deal reveals this clandestine plot.

Only MI6 secret agent Garth Pilgrim, an Englishman who is half American stands alone against this powerful evil emergence of totalitarian power.

With the assistance of secret loyal assassins and hand picked colleagues, Pilgrim takes this ruthless confrontation to the edge of anarchy. A story of duplicity and bravery.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

So that’s it for this Showcase. I really hope you enjoyed it and show your support for great Indie Books by buying a couple of these wonderful stories. Showcase 35 will be with you in a couple of weeks.

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Bridge Ices Before Road by Sienna Rose – A Great Book Reviewed

 

The book opens with Frances Orillio, like most children of her age, learning her way. But unlike most children she is not developing in the midst of a caring, loving family whose very existence revolves around its offspring. She is trying to plot a course through a plethora of secrets and lies, unaware of where she comes from and with little idea where she is headed. She is, nevertheless, brought up to observe certain values and standards, and to know her place within society. She knows that, whilst by no means affluent, she is certainly not at the bottom of the pile. She is taught that Negro children, for instance, play in their park and white children play in their park. When she challenges this she is treated to a back-hander from her dad for being ignorant. She is told to avoid certain dodgy alleyways around her neighbourhood, which are apparently infested by equally dodgy individuals.

So when she inadvertently finds herself in one, and is confronted by Mad-Dog Malone and her brother Tommy, her minder, in a dark alley, she is treated to a crash course in life at the bottom of the pile. It is during this encounter that the incredible skill of the author, Sienna Rose shines through for the first time. Almost paralysed with fear, Frances flays around for common ground in the hope that the similarly aged tomboy, Mad-Dog will refrain from attacking her. The superb dialogue that ensues throughout this scene, and the undoubted bond that rapidly develops between the two,  is actually the catalyst of the whole story. We are privileged to follow the girls into early adulthood and to witness how burning issues of the time – homophobia, women’s rights, racism, abuse and hypocracy are dealt with so clumsily that, in hindsight, the reader’s toes curl with shame and embarrassment.

Another area in which the author excels is the one of setting. She paints a breathtakingly accurate mental image of the period, and is very adept at depicting every detail of deprived locations. The reader is actually in there amongst the characters. What a way to enjoy a book!

And quite apart from dialogue and setting, the main characters themselves are given so much depth that they will never be strangers to the reader, who will always care deeply what happens to them.

Two action scenes portray how adept this wordsmith is at that particular category. In one horrifying scene, Mad-Dog’s drunken father is violently assaulting his children, who try hard to protect each other. He is interrupted by an unexpected visit from the local priest, who decides discretion is the better part of valour and creeps sheepishly away. I was that absorbed and emotionally charged by the skilful writing of this scene that I dearly wanted to dive down into my kindle and sort Mad Tommy out myself. I know, they’ll be coming to take me away anytime now.

The other scene is a raging inferno, so intense in description that the reader does well to avoid being burned.

So, in conclusion this book excels in all areas. Relationships are tenderly explored, social issues are dealt with in keeping with the era that the book is set within, dialogue continually moves the plot forward, the setting is created with such clarity that the reader seems to be part of it all and the action scenes are quite breath-taking and often harrowing.

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough and urge you to read it.

It is available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

The audio version of this book is due for release later this month and the narrator, Jeanne Whitehouse, suits it perfectly. She is a top producer for Audio Creation Exchange, and those who happen to enjoy audio books can be assured of a high quality professional product.

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NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Top Indie Books All In One Place

Welcome to the November  issue of our Monthly Spotlight

To browse or buy a book, click on its front cover to view it on Amazon.com or its title to view it on Amazon.co.uk.

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SO HERE WE GO WITH THIS MONTH’S SPOTLIGHT:

ACTION

Honorable Assassin: Book 1 of the MacMaster Chronicles by Jason Lord Case 

‘Honorable Assassin is a high-speed adventure thrusting the reader into the explosive world of smuggling, sex, drugs and perversion in the Sydney Underworld’

 

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

TRUE CRIME

Eyes of a Pedophile by Betty Kuffel

‘Peer inside the mind of a violent child molester and learn how to protect your children’

 

GAY and LESBIAN

As Luck Would Have It by Mark A Goldstein

Clifford Andrews has all the luck in the world; or does he?

The Clouds Still Hang by Patrick C Notchtree

‘This trilogy is based on his own life telling a story of a gay man’s life of denial, to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood that almost destroyed him to emerge at last true to himself.’

GENERAL FICTION

Chasing Heart by Mark Lingane

‘An absolute page-turner that hooks you in from the beginning. Once you pick it up, you will not put it down’

Desert Heart by Mark Lingane

‘Heat. Politics. Romance. Sand. War. Bad Coffee. It can only mean one thing. Ellen Martin is off to the Middle East.’

HISTORICAL FANTASY

A Whisper From Eden by Phoenix

‘Find out who taught the Mandan Indians in North Dakota’

HISTORICAL FICTION

Resistance by Gerald Brennan

‘A World War II novel for everyone who prefers The Brothers Karamazov to The Sisters Kardishian’

A Time Too Late by D.R. Meredith

‘Determined to build a ranching empire on the the desolate plains, Mattie Jo Hunter went her own way and asked no quarter from nature or man–including her weakling husband’

 

Jazz Baby by Beem Weeks

‘Taken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, “Baby” Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that makes church ladies cry and angels take notice’

L’Immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen by T.R. Heinan 

‘NOLA’s most haunting legend comes to life’

One Chance for Glory by Edward T and Robert L Heikell

‘Edward T. Heikell and Robert L. Heikell mix history with some fiction to create a well-rounded view of lesser known pilot Clyde Pangborn’

HOLIDAY TALE

The Dream Catcher by Julia Rose Grey

‘A holiday tale of whimsey as Rupert Rumple discovers the importance of dreams’

HORROR

The Dark Horde by Brewin

‘The return of an ancient evil that is neither stoppable nor comprehensible…’

HUMOUR

 The Village Idiots Ebay Club by Charlie Bray

‘Quirky people buy quirky things – and Ebay is full of quirky things. DANGER ALERT! What if they can’t stop bidding? What if their lives become quirkier and quirkier as a result? TIME TO JOIN THE EBAY CLUB!’ 

Open House by Charlie Bray

‘Aristocrats, Ghosts and Squatters Share a Castle’

LITERARY FICTION

Bridge Ices Before Road by Sienna Rose

‘Family secrets and lies are like the invisible black ice on a bridge: if you don’t watch out for the signs, it can be deadly’

MIDDLE GRADE FICTION

Seafoam Wavefollower and the Mysterious Ghost by Doc Briley

‘SEAFOAM is an exciting, fast-paced adventure filled with thrills, chills, mysticism and friendship’

MYSTERY

Swamp Secrets by Theresa Jenner Garrido

‘Does an  alligator-infested swamp hold the key to a sinister family secret?

Dear Crossing by Marjorie Swift Doering

‘A grisly murder leads Ray Schiller on a case with a rising body count and the potential to derail his personal and professional life’

Shadow Tag by Marjorie Swift Doering

‘Detective Ray Schiller is out to finish what he started, unless it finishes him first’

 

 

NON-FICTION

Justice in America: How it Works, How it Fails by Russell F. Moran

‘In this frank and compelling book, attorney and journalist Russell Moran leads the reader on an exciting tour of the system that delivers our rights, and he doesn’t pull any punches’

Your Heart: Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease in Women, Men and Children by Betty Kuffel, M.D.

‘Reduce your risk for the leading cause of death in women and men with information in this guide to heart health for all ages’

PARANORMAL DETECTIVE

Maggie Rising by Susan Aylworth

‘Claim your power even when only the dead believe’

 

ROMANCE

A Customary Obsession by Jane Creelman Graiko

‘To the casual observer, Laura and Steve have it all: To those who know them well, though, Laura and Steve seem to be missing something significant’

 

ROMANCE/ DRAMA

Finding Mother by Anne Allen

‘Prepare to be swept away by a heart-warming tale of family relationships and love’

ROMANCE / MYSTERY

Dangerous Waters by Anne Allen

‘Tragedy seems to follows Jeanne Le Page around . . . Can she really go through it again and survive?’

 

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

Leon’s Lair by Phoenix

‘What would you do if your vacation cruise ship was attacked and you were certain to be killed?’

Wyoming Escape by Kate Wyland

‘One dead body is frightening enough, but a second one, plus a dirty cop,

sends chef Mikela Richards fleeing for her life’

SCI-FI

I Love Lucid by Mark Lingane

‘A story for the dubstep generation. Part one of a five part story told in weekly instalments.’

Beyond Belief by Mark Lingane

‘Joshua Richards has a problem. His clients are dying. What’s even more worrying is that they appear to be planning to kill him first’

Home by Richard Sutton

‘Forty-two teachers, scientists, engineers and their children, have just completed a twelve year deep-space journey to escape the war and drought ravaged Earth’

God Bless the Dead by Evan Geller

‘The truth will not set you free.  The truth will get you killed’

The Gray Ship by Russell F Moran

‘While steaming toward Charleston, South Carolina in April 2013, a ship encounters a time warp or wormhole. Suddenly, Captain Patterson and her 930 crewmembers find themselves in the year 1861′

 

SELF-HELP

Fifty, Female & Fabulous by Barbara Villemez

‘One doesn’t have to be at a mature age to benefit from the concepts that enhance and empower the Divine Feminine in all women’

THRILLER

The Chinese Spymaster by Hock Tjoa

‘Chinese Intelligence uncovers a North Korean trying to sell a nuclear device.’

Haunted by Maria Savva

‘Nigel Price has MURDER on his mind’

Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster

‘Blending complex psychological character portraits with spot-on courtroom drama, Forster’s riveting legal thriller keeps the plot twists coming until the last, satisfying page’

 

  White Jade by Alex Lukeman

WHITE JADE spins a web of deceit and murder across the globe, against the backdrop of a deadly international power game.

Still Waters by Sara Warner

‘GRAND PRIZE WINNER FOR FICTION and a FINALIST in SUSPENSE/THRILLER in the 2013 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS’

TRAVEL ESSAY

Solitary Desire by Kim Defforge

‘The author takes us along on her journey as she narrates the life events that weave an emotional tapestry, from adolescent imagination to adult life situations’

YOUNG ADULT

Am I Okay, God – Devotionals from the Seventh Dimension by Lorilyn Roberts

‘The 27 devotionals deal with issues of self-worth, family, goals, bullying, dating, salvation, values, heaven, hell, and the end times. Ages twelve and up.’

The Wolves of Lambs Bane by Chris Parker

‘In the tiny Welsh village of Lambs Bane, is it really the wolves Hazel needs to be afraid of?’


Shadow Embraced by Cheree Smith



‘Scar thinks the creature that terrorises her while asleep isn’t real, but when she’s abducted and taken to a reform school meant to contain creatures too dangerous to function in society, she starts to wonder whether she isn’t some monster’


 


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NEWS FLASH: 5 Days to our November Spotlight. MAKE SURE YOUR BOOKS ARE IN IT

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NEWSFLASH: Two Brand New Books For You

I LOVE LUCID by Mark Lingane

A story for the dubstep generation. Part one of a five part story told in weekly instalments.

“dark, intense, funny, gritty, stupid and profound.”

Content Warning: contains sex, violence, drug use, strong language, adult themes and philosophy.

Two men on opposing sides of the law seeking redemption. A woman who loves them both but can save only one. Ten days of drama. Ten days that changed the world.

Evan Waugh is not the best of cops and is on his last chance before being shown the door. Seth Pascal-the creator of Lucid, a cutting edge immersive video game-is a man bent on revenge on his former employer, Atari, who has stolen his creation. The two are brought together by a hospitalised girl, Ellen Heart.

Lucid, is where they all meet in a cocktail of drugs, sex, violence, and greed. There are no more good guys. And, possibly, nothing is real.

So what is it all about, really?

- It’s about redemption.

- It’s about the nature of reality and memory.

- It’s a love story.

- It’s about sex, drugs, parties and violence.

- It’s about dreams.

- It’s about right and wrong, and good and bad.

- And betrayal.

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

 

THE BLACK EAGLE INN (The Three Nations Trilogy) by Christoph Fischer

The Black Eagle Inn is an old established restaurant and part of a family farm business in the sleepy Bavarian countryside outside of Heimkirchen. Childless Anna Stockmann has fought hard to make it her own and keep it running through WWII. The family is divided by rivalry between family members since her own youth but at the heart of this story one of Anna’s nephews, Markus, owns her heart and another nephew, Lukas, owns her ear, while her husband Herbert is still missing-in-action.

The Black Eagle Inn is an old established restaurant and part of a family farm business in the sleepy Bavarian countryside outside of Heimkirchen. Childless Anna Stockmann has fought hard to make it her own and keep it running through WWII. The family is divided by rivalry between family members since her own youth but at the heart of this story one of Anna’s nephews, Markus, owns her heart and another nephew, Lukas, owns her ear, while her husband Herbert is still missing-in-action.

Religion dictates life in Heimkirchen’s enclosed Catholic community that was almost unaffected by the fighting in the war. Anna’s brother Hans-Ulrich is involved in the church as well as in post war party politics. He finds that the new generation, his own off spring, are not functioning as well as the older one would like. Bitter conflicts arise in the new forming Germany and the family members all need to decide how to respond to the challenges ahead.

This is war fiction without immediate war, it is literary history about Germany after the Nazi rule with gay, racial, religious and feminist themes, describing the way one family experiences the forward move of a shamed Nation.

Fischer tells a great family saga with war in the far background and weaves the political and religious into the personal with belated or indirect impact of war on people.

*****

“An epic masterpiece, Back Eagle Inn, by the very talented Christoph Fischer, has concluded his brilliant trilogy with this, his best yet.

From the gripping first traumatic pages through to the surprising end this read does not disappoint.

The characters are compelling and we can’t help falling in love with …the family, flawed and imperfect as they all are.

They are who we are, who we love, who we struggle with in our daily lives, who support us and help us have a sense of worth, they are the best and worst of the human condition expressed through gripping dialogues and historical scenes. Black Eagle Inn burns its image into the heart and mind of readers and lingers on for days after the last page is closed.”

- Paulette Mahurin, author of The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap –

*****

Thoughts by the author on the book:

Why I wrote THE BLACK EAGLE INN

I was born 25 years after the end of the war. Our history lessons at school ended with the year 1945. One of the most urgent and important questions remained unanswered for me: How did a country with so much shame and horror in its past recover and move forward? How could it? I don’t think anything can ever make up for what has happened and nobody can forgive or atone for the collective guilt. But can the new generation ever deservedly rid itself of the stigma the previous generation has brought to the country?

Only ten years after the end of the war a wave of Italian and Turkish Immigrants filled the hole in the German employment market, ten years after that a new right wing party formed in Germany.

The Sixties brought the Bader Meinhoff Complex, student revolts and family conflicts. Many of the young adults were disillusioned with politics and turned violent. It took a new generation of politicians to instigate a modernisation of German society.

We know about the Nuremberg Trials but what does the little man do with his broken country?

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

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Showcase 33: Eight Indie Books For You to Check Out

Here are eight eBooks for your kindle, reviewed for your pleasure by the authors. Eight top fiction books, all self published, vie for your attention, hopefully all on the way to becoming best selling books.

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So here we go with our 33rd Showcase:

MURDER IN VOLUME by D.R.Meredith

The most dangerous happenings at the mystery discussion group, held at Time and Again Bookstore every Tuesday night, are the arguments between the members about the finer points of the mystery genre. History professor Ryan Stevens dozes happily during the loud disagreements. Being a closet reader of Westerns with no knowledge of mysteries beyond Poe and Sherlock Holmes, Ryan is only a member of the group because he is the bosom companion and very best friend of Megan Clark, board certified forensic anthropologist with a specialty in paleopathology. In other words, Megan autopsies mummies and examines human remains and other archaeological artifacts. Or rather, she would if she could find a job. There being very limited job opportunities in her field, Megan works at the Amarillo Public Library, and pursues various hobbies and sports to alleviate boredom. When Megan and Ryan stumble over the body of Lisa Heredia, spiteful and unpopular member of the discussion group, propped against the side of the bookstore with her throat slit, boredom is the least of Megan’s worries. She finds herself a person of interest in Lisa’s murder. Circumstances conspire to tighten the metaphorical knot around Megan’s neck, until she enlists the discussion group in a risky plan to catch a killer.

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AMAZING MATILDA by Bette Stevens

AMAZING MATILDA becomes discouraged when she is unable to fly during the early stages of her metamorphosis.But, this amazing Monarch never gives up on her dream.

Encouraged by her meadowland friends, MATILDA learns that if she tries long enough and hard enough, she can do anything that she really wants to do.

 AMAZING MATILDA will inspire readers and listeners alike, not only to follow their own dreams, but to encourage others to do the same!

Bette A. Stevens is the author of two children’s books: A children’s activity book, The Tangram Zoo and Word Puzzles Too! and the award-winning picture book, AMAZING MATILDA: A Monarch’s Tale. PURE TRASH, The Story is her first book for the Middle-grade/YA/Adult audience.

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LIKE RAVENS IN WINTER by Brenda Stanley

When aggressive television network news producer, Elle McCord is assigned to Iraq at the beginning of the Gulf War, she feels her career is beginning to take off. But when her mother informs her that her elderly and ill aunt is about to give away the family farm, Elle takes a detour to try and stop the man who is at the heart of it all. On the rural Pennsylvania farm, Elle’s horrific childhood memories surface and what she learns about the mysterious stranger who is swindling her aunt is nothing like what she expected. Elle finally leaves for Iraq, but when she arrives, she meets Faiza, an Iraqi translator who teaches her about the sacrifices of family and love and what home really means

Brenda Stanley is a former television news anchor and investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Eastern Idaho. She has been recognized for her writing by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the Hearst Journalism Awards, The Idaho Press Club and the Society for Professional Journalists. She is a graduate of Dixie College in St. George, Utah and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She is the mother of 5 children, including two sets of twins. Brenda and her husband Dave, a veterinarian, live on a small ranch near the Snake River with their horses and dogs.

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FIND THE HOLY GRAIL by Brian Grant

It seems to Garth Pilgrim, that his life has reached its end when his wife dies of cancer… her relatives blamed him for her death because of the pressures he threw upon her. He endures stress relating to his imprisonment for the killing of his colleague while investigating corrupt politicians.

Then a letter arrives from his good friend Chip, asking Pilgrim to attend a meeting with a wheel-chair bound cripple called Tobias Levy. At this meeting, the promised financial rewards offered are staggering; it is impossible to know this man is a Devil worshipping fanatic seeking the Holy Grail. The two friends are drawn along a trail where they are faced with situations beyond their wildest nightmares. Inadvertently they manage to find their true paths in life, through the arcane radiance of THE HOLY GRAIL, which carries them through this heart-stopping odyssey.

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LEON’S LAIR by Phoenix

The adventure starts with The Jakarta, an elegant cruise ship sailing the exotic seas in Indonesia with a passenger list of ninety, unsuspecting people. Jane and her best friend, Remy, are just getting know the rest of the small group of young twenty-somethings when the ship is attacked by pirates. However, Leon and his band are not your usual pirates – they want something else.

Jane and two male companions escape the horror, fleeing in a lifeboat. In their flight to escape Leon and his men, they become lost at sea for weeks, are out of water, and have nearly lost hope of ever finding rescue when they finally catch sight of land, a dangerous rain-forested island that seems deserted. However, their fight for survival has only just begun.

We are Lee and Gary Jordan and we are THE PHOENIX, a multi-genre author team. Because we are passionate readers of many genres, we don’t intend stick with one as writers. We have several novels in the works.

We enjoy getting to know readers and other authors via the Internet, love movies, and sitting outside to soak up the Southern California sun. We live in Hollywood with our crabby tomcat, Snickers. Check out another book from us below.

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A WHISPER FROM EDEN BY Phoenix

In 1827, a young writer went in search of the strange Mandan tribe in North Dakota that Louis and Clark found in their journey.

The young man finds their villages perched high upon lofty cliffs overlooking the turbulent waters of the Missouri River, like walled fortresses and ruling kings from medieval times.

He is stunned to find that the rich and powerful Mandan could wield magic, magic taught to them by one of The People from Above.

This is a unique take on real events, with magic, the supernatural, and . . . the promised return of the great god Lone Man.

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FLASHBACK by Kevin Mark Smith

He’s on the verge of making his dreams come true… Then a dream, a dead client, and a mysterious stranger shatter his world…

Kenneth Cartwright, Attorney at Law, is a success by all the world’s standards. He’s even landed the client that will earn him the law partnership he desperately craves. Yet, a simpler, happier life haunts his dreams, making him regret his life choices. Just as he begins to see hope of that life becoming reality, those connected to his wealthy client begin dying. Can Kenneth solve the murders before success destroys everyone he loves?

Kenneth’s nightly flashbacks are to a simpler life, one not nearly as successful as the one he’s living. Why does he wish the dreams were reality? More important, why do the dreams feel more real than reality itself? Will the trappings of success destroy him and everyone he loves before he discovers the truth behind his dreams?

Stacy stumbles across a sad yet successful lawyer in a coffee shop. How can someone who looks so successful be so empty? As their friendship grows they discover there’s more to life than just success, and that the love of money truly is the root of all evil. Will they survive the evil closing in? Will Ken finally discover the joy he’s been missing in his life?

Kevin Mark Smith is an evangelical criminal defense and family law attorney in Wichita, Kansas. He graduated cum laude from Regent University School of Law in 1999 where he served as Issue Planning Editor for the Regent Law Review and clerked with the American Center for Law and Justice. Kevin is a former Assistant District Attorney for Sedgwick County, Kansas, and an Allied attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. He serves on the Kansas Board of Indigent Defense Services. You can read his writings on the Constitution and home school education in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, http://thehomeschoolmagazine.com.

Also available from Amazon.co.uk

THE CHINESE SPYMASTER by Hock  Tjoa

Chinese Intelligence uncovers a North Korean trying to sell a nuclear device. Then they find five other dealers trying to do the same. The buyer is the same in every case–the Pashtuns.

Is this a “Pashtun Spring”? A realignment of geopolitical power in Central Asia? A resurgence of Islamist terrorism?

In order to anticipate and confront these threats, Spymaster Wang must negotiate through bureaucratic rivalries, as well as personal ambitions, at home and abroad. He reaches for ancient insight into strategies and unorthodox alliances. But the struggle he must undertake cannot cease, and the outcome always remains in doubt.

The Spymaster must also confront a vendetta within the Party as well as the determination of his Old Friends and their wives to make him a “match.”

COMMENTS FROM EARLY READERS:

“… the rare feat of a convincing description of hand to hand combat together with a very skillful development of plot and background.” A. G. Chaudri.

“This is fascinating, a true Smiley for current times and troubles, with the added, exotic allure to Western readers of the mystique that is China. It has all the hallmarks of a literary thriller.” Kay Christine Fenton.

“A complex story … so vivid, lifelike and realistic.” Charles Knightley, Author.

Hock G. Tjoa was born in Singapore to Chinese parents. He studied history at Brandeis and Harvard and taught European history and Asian political thought at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He has published George Henry Lewes, a Victorian Mind, “The social and political ideas of Tan Cheng Lock” (in Melaka: The Transformation of a Malay Capital) and various articles in the Newsletter of the China History Forum. He is married and lives with his family in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. In 2010, he published The Battle of Chibi, selections translated from “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” (one of four traditional Chinese classics). In 2011, he adapted Lao She’s “Tea House,” Mandarin original dated 1953, publishing it as Heaven is High and the Emperor Far Away, a Play. Both are part of his goal to contribute to a wider and greater understanding of China and Asia. The Ingenious Judge Dee, A Play is forthcoming; it is a dramatization of The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, by Robert van Gulik. Two sequels to The Chinese Spymaster are in the planning stage.

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So that’s it for this Showcase. I really hope you enjoyed it and show your support for great Indie Books by buying a couple of these wonderful stories. Showcase 34 will be with you in a couple of weeks.

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HUMOUR

CHARLIE BRAY

Charlie Bray is a retired English teacher, with a love of fiction in general and humour in particular.

He has had features and articles published in regional and national magazines and a short story in a children’s annual.

Open House was his first novel and inspiration was drawn from the late P.G.Wodehouse. The story is Charlie’s humble attempt to ensure that the spirit of Blandings Castle continues on into the twenty first century.

He has recently published a second book, The Village Idiots Ebay Club, a laugh out loud comedy novella, and is busily writing two sequels to this.

CHARLIE’S BOOKS

Open House – Aristocrats, Ghosts and Squatters Share a castle

The Village Idiots EBAY CLUB

CHARLIE’S WEBSITE:    www.theindietribe.com

CHARLIE’S EMAIL:  c_bray1@sky.com

CHARLIE’S BASE:  United Kingdom

 

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