A Sparkling Showcase of Indie Books
Welcome to our second showcase of Indie talent. More wonderful books for you to enjoy.
Live Your Life in a Crap Free Zone by Ethan Holmes
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Ethan Holmes is a rural Pennsylvania-bred author currently residing in Northern Arizona. Ethan realized in his mid-teens that people enjoyed his writing enough for him to see poetry and songs published. This graduated into short story writing, advertising production, article writing and later magazine features. Approximately ten years ago Ethan took on the challenge of his first novel, Earth’s Blood. Ethan Holmes has since written and published his second novel, titled The Keystone. It is a murder mystery centered in a dilapidated hotel in North Scranton, Pennsylvania; a place the late Harry Chapin once politely described as “that coal scarred city”. Ethan Holmes just released a new title, Live Your Life in a Crap Free Zone. It gives the reader a revealing and often humorous look at the relationships in our lives.
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When he is not writing Ethan pursues such varied interests as twelve string guitar, Civil War history, most sports, reading and fitness. Ethan Holmes also pursues his passion for Nature photography as well as organic baking and cooking.
More of Ethan Holmes, his interests, background and examples of his work may be found at his website: http://www.ethanholmes.com or at his podcast/blog site, http://podcast.ethanholmes.com
Life is full of choices which set us upon a certain path in every single category of our existence whether it is what we do for a living, what we own or want to own and who our friends and family are. Everything from media advertising to your upbringing as a child invites you to come over and sit in a warm tub of crap to help you make those choices. Want, need, should have and must have live right next door to inadequacy, perceptions of self-worth and what others think of you. What would your life be like if you started making different choices? What would happen if you stopped accepting invitations to sit in other people’s tubs of crap and stopped issuing them to others?
Read the well-received Live Your Life in a Crap Free Zone by Ethan Holmes to see if it’s time for you to make different choices and travel a different path.
Seeking Samiel by Catherine Jordan
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Catherine Jordan is a wife and mother of five children. Born in Indiana, she lived many years in the South, and was raised in Northeastern PA. As graduate of Penn State University with a BS in Finance and Statistics, she has been writing stories since she learned to hold a pencil. Catherine writes in different genres, and strives to write thought-provoking, consequential stories. She loves family, traveling, good food, great stories, and writing. She does what she loves.
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From the very beginning the format is quite interesting, taking us carefully step by step into the web of false luxury, the evil perception of comfort. Never talking of religion or Gods, Catherine Jordan gives a home to Satan in South Africa. We are abused lands, Africa and America, two continents away from the conception of demons, but suffering Satan’s effects. Eva recovers the concept of Reincarnation from Dionysius and Zoroaster, the elevation of Buddha. She takes the battle from London to South Africa. The anti-Christ moves away from the human horrors in Europe, because they will come to her. Satan is a good host, and Eva will reincarnate and never have old blood. She will always have a new incomer in need of pleasure and the weak facing temptations. Too much to see, too much to learn, and too much to laugh, reading Mrs. Jordan.
I can see the lady walking up and down wearing only one shoe; I understand the concern about the Ozone during the exorcism. I love green eyes, and I am weak and easily tempted.
The William S Club by Riley Banks
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With over fifteen years in journalism, Riley Banks knows how to tell a tale or two, and can hook an audience and keep them hooked to the very last word. Her sexy contemporary novels are similar in style and pace to Jackie Collins and Sidney Sheldon and are full of passion, scandals, drama, corruption, affairs, murders, glamor, suspense, raunchy sex, heartache, secrets, blackmail, exotic locations and occasionally, true love. Her characters are big, bold and so real, they will feel like they are there, in the room with you as you read her stories.
For more information on Riley and her books, go to http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B009BDA8IG
Or visit Riley’s website, http://www.rileybanks.net
The William S Club tells the story of Charlotte Burke, who changed her name and fled Australia, swearing never to return. Now in London, working as a journalist for The Daily Telegraph, Charlotte has put her old life behind her; a life scarred by memories of her mother’s suicide and her father’s criminal history. When the Harvey Corporation invites Charlotte to take part in an exclusive press trip, she has no idea her past is about to come crashing into her present.
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The William S Club, the shadowy power brokers at the helm of the Harvey Empire, will use Charlotte to draw out her father, who worked for Harvey Incorporated before being imprisoned. They will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, plunging Charlotte into a dangerous cat and mouse game played across three continents, leading Charlotte ever closer to Sydney and their ultimate showdown.
With a dangerous psychopath on the loose and the bodies piling up, Charlotte turns to Damon Harvey, hoping he is nothing like his dangerous relatives. Can she trust him or is he just another cog in The William S Club’s deadly game?
Headwind by Christopher Hudson
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I was born and raised in Michigan. I have been an “on-and-off denizen of cubeville, ” working for several major training and marketing firms, producing scores of industrial films and training programs. Mercifully released into the wild, I’ve devoted my time to creative writing, resulting in two novels, two feature screenplays, several short stories and video scripts.
To learn more about HEADWIND, and me, visit www.northerncrossonline.com
If you’re on vacation, fly coach. If you’re on business, fly first-class. If you’re on a mission, fly with Mickey.
Tony Boccaccio is after a bag of cash that he believes is his. Max Burke thinks otherwise and has hired two couriers to take the money to California.
Mickey Soto is a commercial pilot hauling freight and instructing students from a small, Florida airport. Tony hires Mickey and his airplane to go after the couriers. Mickey thought his days of flying illegal cargo were behind him, but the lure of easy money and his policy of ‘don’t ask/don’t tell’ cause him to add to his history of poor decisions.
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Tony’s cousin, Gina, jumps in to help, and the three of the end up in a desperate cross-crountry race that leads to a West Coast pier and a fateful decision by Tony that impacts their lives in ways that none of them could have foreseen.
Headwind is about crime and double-crosses and narrow escapes, but at it’s core it is about the choices that are made and relationships that form when people from vastly different backgrounds experience the stress of extraordinary experiences.”
Lessons: The Wisdom Within Each Moment by Teresa Sue McAdams
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Teresa Sue McAdams’ articles have appeared in various newsletters, publications and blogs. She teaches classes on meditation, spirituality and tai chi and has been an intuitive counselor for over thirty years. Teresa’s undergraduate work was in journalism and psychology and she earned a doctorate in 2006. She has sought answers all of her life and sometimes sees them in every ordinary moment. Teresa lives across the river from Louisville, Kentucky, USA with her husband, Ben and two cat friends, Thai and Lily.
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In this inspiring account life is seen as a series of serendipitous events that prove everything does happen for a reason. The Universe offers each of us unlimited opportunities to learn and grow. Unfortunately most of us are unable or unwilling to perceive this wealth of information available to us. In “Lessons, The Wisdom within Each Moment”, author Teresa Sue McAdams draws on her own experiences and illuminates how ordinary moments in everyday life can be extraordinary. Over one hundred stories about growing up, family, friends, and the wisdom of mischievous cats. These enlightening stories are tender and poignant yet laced with humorous wit that makes it impossible to choose a favorite. The truths they contain will stir within you your own memories and reveal the powerful, previously unnoticed lessons that those events have to teach you.
Colour of Lemon Surrender 1940 by Geoff Howe
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Some years ago, I was asked to write a series of newspaper articles about a former police officer from Wales who was a British spy during WW2. I had opened a Welsh Pandora’s Box, reading about the Druid, a German agent who was never caught. What other black secrets were to be uncovered in the Principality?
Knowing too many secrets is a dangerous game. One of my family, who served in army intelligence, died young.
Is this the last black secret of World War Two? A surrender treaty is on its way to London in 1940. Prime Minister Churchill hires an ex-Blackshirt and gangster to stop his wavering ministers from signing. Or is the treaty a feint to distract attention from a Nazi-inspired uprising in Wales?
Jimmy Sowerbutt has his hands full, running a lucrative black market operation in east London. Now the clock is ticking to get hold of the peace treaty and find the Welsh ringleaders as the Germans across the Channel stand ready to invade.
Tiny beads of blood stood out as milestones along the hair’s-breadth trail across the white throat as the ex-Blackshirt begins work with his trusty knife … read on.
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One reviewer said: “’Colour of Lemon smacks of the old spy novels of the Len Deighton and John le Carre era with a refreshing modern tone. A very dry, witty and intelligent must-read.”
The Lambsridge Wolves by Chrissie Parkes
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Chrissie Parkes writes real stories for young adults. Inspirations come from nature, families and, of course, wolves.
Even though you think you can spot them, wolves are masters of disguise. They use stealth and camouflage to pass undetected through our world. Although they choose to avoid humans at all costs, beware. Sometimes they take an interest in one or two special people.
But then again, as we’re all finding out, it’s not the wolves you need to be afraid of…
“The girl stares at the church door, unsure how she has ended up in this place. Above, the clear night sky is black as fear, while pale mist curls between the trees, low and sinister. It snakes around her ankles, as if to pull her back into the darkness from whichthey are coming.
Clouds gather overhead to hide the awful truth of what is to come. Turning slowly, the girl’s mind empties as she prepares for their arrival.”
Hazel’s family history is firmly rooted in the tiny, Welsh farming village of Lambsridge. She dreams of a life of excitement in the outside world, but when the old traditions begin to threaten the lives of her family, she can no longer deny the dark and menacing danger waiting for her in the woods at the top of the hill.
It’s called ‘The Reservation’ – a place where wolves roam wild behind a secure wire fence. Shunned by the town kids and bullied at school, Hazel desperately tries to uncover the secrets lurking within and save her family. But will she get to the truth before it destroys them all?
The Lambsridge Wolves chronicles the first dramatic episode in Hazel’s life, revealing the family heritage that will forever alter her future. Fans of suspense, mystery or paranormal stories will love this tale of secret traditions, loyalty and betrayal, all set against the realistic day-to-day backdrop of secondary school life.
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So that’s it for another week, folks. I hope you enjoyed reading about this current crop of Indie Books and decide to spend a couple of quid treating yourself. Next week look forward to more books, this time from Rosemary McKinley, Dee Doanes, CM Spencer, Ian J Miller, Gary Markwick, JC Edwards and Dr Liz Hardy
Happy reading, Charlie
