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July 21, 2018
The System (The Bubo Series Book 1)
2045. The world was overpopulated. When the black death happened. Millions died. This time it’s mutated and come back worse. The system seeks to save humanity. They pick the brightest minds to work in medical and science to help research a cure or vaccination.
Daniel wants to contribute to society and help save humanity. To do so, he must pass the system. A series of tough gruelling tests to give those who are seventeen a work quadrant.
Medical and science is where you want to be. To research and create a cure. Rations and living conditions are better there. Getting there is another matter. On his quest in helping humanity’s survival, will he discover that all is not as it seems.
The system seeks to save. Is this the truth or are they hiding something and do they really want to save humanity.
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Song for a Lost Kingdom, Book one
It would take two women separated by time to complete music with the power to change history. But will it be enough to save the man they care about most?
Adeena Stuart and Katharine Carnegie were born nearly three centuries apart. Yet their music and an ancient cello connect them to each other and to a man doomed by the Battle of Culloden.
In Book I of the Song for A Lost Kingdom series, Adeena receives an untitled musical score from her dying grandmother in Scotland. The music was hidden away for over two hundred and seventy years, as part of a violent family battle between siblings on different sides of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
When the score is played on the oldest surviving cello ever made in the UK, the music connects Adeena directly to the past as Katharine, struggling to find words to complete her symphonic tour-de-force in the midst of 18th Century political rebellion that is threatening to tear apart Scotland and England.
But Adeena is not a scientist or historian. What she wants more than anything is to compose music and to join the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Just as she is about to realize her wish, she’s lifted away, out of her control, and immersed in her ancient family history. As she is buffeted back and forth between the worlds, she grows to want more of the past, even though the promise of her most yearned-for musician dreams is coming true.
Not even her passionate boyfriend can keep her rooted in the present, especially when another man from the past falls for her and her music. Although unsure whether her time travel is a hallucination, she’s willing to steal a five million dollar cello to get back to the 1700’s.
With a clear voice that sets us in modern day Ottawa and old world Scotland, Song for a Lost Kingdom, Book I, begins a journey of discovery between two women who share the same musical soul and love for the same doomed man.
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July 18, 2018
Between Two Streams
Separated by a vast ocean, a rift of pain and distrust flows between two different cultures sharing the same bloodline. A misleading haunted past and an unclear future keep the two standing at distant shores. While disengagement develops in the crossfire, a romance flourishes between two opposing sides. A blue-collar African American man by the name of Tase Gilham, in his early thirties who still lives with his domineering mother, has to walk a tight rope to be pleasing to her and to retain the affections of his new love…a young African woman, Nife(Nee-feh), who is studying medicine in America. There is also a question of him being accepted by her father and family while still maintaining their cultural heritage back home in the Motherland. A battle of thoughts and differing outlooks emerge with both groups of people and within the lives of each individual member.
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A Perfect Patricide: Part I
A fast-paced, yet complex, political drama with elements of historical fiction. The novel deals with a veteran United States Senator from Alabama running for President in the 1988 election. The scion of a historically powerful Southern political dynasty, Jefferson Dent, renounced Jim Crow early on and participated in the civil rights movement. Elected in an upset to the Senate in 1968 he graudally rose from his status as a loose cannon, thought by his peers as a one-term wonder, into a political powerhouse.
Despite his position, Dent is being increasingly plagued by his complicated and frequently tragic past, including childhood experiences, when the only close person to him was his illegitimate half-Black sister, military service as a Navy SEAL during the 60s, disjointed personal life and the fact he feels a constant need to prove to everybody he’s not his ancestors. His closest campaign staff is being drawn into this conflict, with all involved finding it increasingly difficult to balance the professional with the personal.
The subplots deals with the Senator’s family background, growing up in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era, his earlier political career as well as his clandestine military service in a fictional small European country named Mihraba.
Is it possible to reconcile with the past?
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July 16, 2018
What A World We Live In
Being not quite the 1% but even we have our trials and tribulations you know! It is not easy for those born into where they are.
It can be jolly difficult in this world of equality… It seems education is to blame… as much as the demise of the Top Hat…
What a world we live in.
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Ghetto Tales Of Anguish
Dewain Perkins always thought about living a better life, aside from the underworld. But secrets, greed and jealousy crept into his life and caused betrayal and death.
He is devastated and becomes delusional, he has no idea who to trust. Dewain cannot rest until he discovers who is behind the fatalities of those close to him and once he finds out who it is, he begins to rally up a few troops to get his revenge.
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Crafting Wings
Murphy’s first collection of poetry is fresh, moving and contemporary. He creates a distinct and detailed personal world that leads the reader into a quiet, but luminous reality. Eschewing the flamboyant for the precise, Murphy pares each diverse subject down to its essence, creating a calm, atmospheric and approachable poetry.
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Strange Diary Days: All That Can Be Imagined
This first chapbook by new author Blake Edwards illustrates a rare talent for contemporary word-craft. He transports the reader through portals revealed in sun rays, hollow trees and daydreams and into a mythical landscape where legends toil in their fields, old ruins reminisce with their ghosts, and fairies peek out from under the shadows of flower petals. Contemporary, elegant, and above all, beautiful to the last word, with tributes to the author’s main influences, Keats, Poe and Frost. Rediscover the classic power of poetry through “Strange Diary Days: All That Can Be Imagined”.
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Walker, or What Happened to the Tail of an American Indian in Tucson
Kenista Noah-Walker is a displaced First Nations story-teller and spoken word artist lost in the vortex that was the Tucson of yesteryear and contemplating what direction to take for the turn of the milennium. She has attracted the interest of a slam poet producer but he wants more from her than her funny, light-hearted stories if he’s going to feature her on his new program. Nista has decided she needs to choose a new direction, but her Lakota cousin Albie keeps showing up, bringing joy and mass destruction equally to all whose paths he crosses. Together with the poets, performers, and scenesters of Tucson’s 20th century underground scene centered on the legendary Goth Club Asylum, Albie zig-zags his way across Nista’s indecision. The poets are out to sabotage an upstart event coordinator, some shady things are going down at the club next door, illusions are crumbling like stucco downtown, friends and lovers are being lost and found, and Nista’s people have a Columbus Day rally to organize, one with a dangerous unannounced guest. The times are about to change for downtown Tucson, forever. Nista knows that the funny thing about life is, no one ever gets out alive. Based on true events and real-life personas, living and dead, that once haunted the downtown strip on Congress Street, where John Dillinger was finally apprehended, ‘Walker” stretches a web that runs from timeless introspection through spoken word performance and story all the way to hyperbole and back again. This is a glimpse at a world that has vanished into the mists of local legend and the people who lived there on their last karmic walk-about at the cusp of the 21st century in America’s Sonoran Desert.
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If Tomorrow Comes: Genesis Vol 2
I always took tomorrow for granted. I never thought my last twenty-four hours on the earth could come at the stroke of midnight, or when the cock crowed at dawn. Hey, I love life as much as the next person and when I thought I had everything just right, the end of my life came without warning. At least, it’s what I thought. Until an angel saved me. Not a real one but pretty darn close. My knight in shining armor came and rescued me from deaths door.
My second chance came with a price though. One I was happy to give everything I had for; love. I fell head over keister, so deeply that I didn’t see that coming either. No one ever said loving someone ever came without its own set of problems. Love is supposed to be stronger than any obstacle set in its path, right? But is it enough to keep two people together when the odds are stacked against them? Good and bad coexisting together is simply impossible. Or if it is possible, how do you work out the differences? Even if a powerful and undeniable bond exist between two people, sometimes it still makes you question, is it enough?
Trials come to make you stronger; at least that’s what they say. My life is the testament for trials and tribulation. I face what others would define as, insurmountable odds. Good always trumps evil, though, right? Well, sometimes evil can give you a good run for your money.
Falling in love made me forget about all the serious stuff that can happen and think of new beginnings. Genesis, like the first book of the Bible. I think about the future a lot these days. With a little more than luck I’ll make it through each obstacle and take on the challenges of life, family, and foes meeting them all head-on, every step of the way.
If tomorrow comes, I plan to live it to the fullest.
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