A Christmas Showcase of Indie Books
White Jade by Alex Lukeman
Alex Lukeman is a former Marine and professional musician. He likes riding old, fast motorcycles, sipping Barbados rum, and playing guitar, usually not at the same time. He writes Action/Adventure Thrillers featuring the PROJECT, a covert Presidential intelligence unit. Alex lives in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. You can contact him through his website at
WHITE JADE spins a web of deceit and murder across the globe, against the backdrop of a deadly international power game.
Former Recon Marine Nick Carter is a man with a dark history of emotional and physical scars. He works for the PROJECT, a covert counter-terrorism unit reporting to the President. Selena Connor is a beautiful, strong and skilled linguist. When her wealthy uncle is murdered by someone looking for an ancient book about the elixir of immortality, she’s thrown into Nick’s dangerous world.
Nick is assigned to protect Selena and help her recover the missing text. It’s the beginning of a life and death adventure reaching from San Francisco to Beijing, from Washington to the hidden chambers of Tibet. Someone is determined to take over China and attack America–and Nick and Selena are right in the line of fire.
International intrigue, terrorist acts and the threat of nuclear war form the core of this fast-paced thriller, the first volume in a series featuring Nick, Selena and the PROJECT.
Buy White Jade now at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007FIR01M/?tag=funboo04-21 or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FIR01M/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
The Death of Carthage by Robin E. Levin
The author was born in Baltimore MD in 1949. She and her family moved to California in 1957. Her father was a chemical engineer and her mother was a technical editor. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1971 with an A.B. degree in anthropology and zoology, and completed training as a medical technologist in 1974. She is divorced with one adult daughter. She recently retired and spends much of her time reading and writing. She has had a strong interest in ancient history from childhood and her historical fiction works specialize in ancient Greece and Rome. Her website is http://thedeathofcarthage.com
The Death of Carthage is an historical fiction novel of the Second and Third Punic wars, fought between Rome and Carthage during the third and second centuries B.C. The events are narrated by four fictional characters, Lucius, a Roman cavalryman, his cousin Enneus, a cavalryman take prisoner at the battle of Trasimene and sold into slavery in Greece, Enneus’s son, Hector, AKA Ectorius, who becomes a translator for the Roman army, and Gillimas, a survivor of the destruction of Carthage. The fictional characters interact with real historical personages such as Scipio Africanus, Fabius Maximus, Cato the elder, Aemilius Paullus and his son, Scipio Aemilianus, and the historian Polybius. The book spans about seventy years, from the invasion of Italy by Hannibal in 218 B.C. to the destruction of Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 B.C. A review by Russell Roberts in The U.S. Review of Books states: “Superbly researched and deftly written, The Death of Carthage is a treat not just for the history lover, but for anyone who enjoys a terrific book.”
Buy The Death of Carthage now at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006WQFLPU/?tag=funboo04-21 or
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Poems of Living, Loving and Lore by J C Edwards
J C Edwards (Julie Catherine) is a writer from British Columbia, Canada. Her poems have been published in various anthologies throughout North America, and her debut poetry book, Poems of Living, Loving & Lore, was released in August
2012 under J C Edwards. She is a member of the Society of Classical Poets, Affiliate member of the Association of Independent Authors, participates regularly in online open mic poetry readings and writes the monthly Poetry Corner in AWESOME! Online Magazine, featuring poets from around the world. Julie Catherine is currently working on her first YA novel set in Georgian Bay, Ontario.
This book is a journey through the seasons of life. Living explores the simple beauty of nature, a child’s rapturous delight in rain showers and the beginning of summer; the tragic plight of the homeless, forgotten souls, and our struggles to overcome obstacles and finally have the courage to stand in our own personal power. Loving guides us through deep wells of emotion; the seductive lure of deception, heart-breaking moments of love lost, and glorious heights of passion in love that transcends all. The collection’s finale, Lore, delights the senses in poetic tales of fantasy, myths, legends and fairies. Classical and traditional writing forms impart a haunting, melodic quality that affirms the depth of feelings reflected in the words, engaging us intimately in the sheer beauty of poetry.
Buy Poems of Living, Loving and Lore at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008VQ1PPO/?tag=funboo04-21 or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008VQ1PPO/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
E-learning 101: It’s Not As Tough As It Looks by Dr Liz Hardy
Dr Liz Hardy is an e-learning specialist who’s helped around 3,000 online learners, from beginners to graduates.
Liz knows that online learning looks pretty tough – especially when you’re just getting started. But she believes a few simple strategies can make all the difference to your learning experience.
Liz shares her passion for learning by offering practical e-learning answers in her book “E-learning 101″ and on her website, ElearningTrainer.com
E-learning 101 is a short, upbeat e-book that presents simple strategies for new adult online learners. It makes e-learning fun instead of terrifying – with the help of lots of pictures of friendly dogs.
Buy E-learning 101 at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008E0P1NO/?tag=funboo04-21
or http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008E0P1NO/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
Sharper Security: A Sovereign Security Company Novel by Thomas Sewell
Thomas Sewell grew up in southern California. He plays, coaches and referees soccer. When he was 13 years old, he graduated from high school and started taking computer electronics courses in college. He was already 6 ft. tall, so no one seemed to notice he was a little young. He had to bum rides to school because he was too young for a driver’s license.
Along the way, he’s founded a private security company, an Internet Service Provider and a K-8 Charter School. He’s served as the National Secretary and been a multi-state founder for the Republican Liberty Caucus. He’s read over ten thousand books. He currently resides south of Phoenix, Arizona, just past the Reservation. Look for the place with the autocab wreckage.
In a near future alternate history, America has split. Sovereign security companies compete in the booming Arizona Zone.
Evie retired as an anti-terrorist detective sergeant and emigrated to escape from Britain. Who is hunting her for revenge?
Evie hires Sam Harper, from Sharper Security, to protect her. Who is her mysterious attacker, plotting from a distance?
How will Sam defeat the soldiers, intrigue and legal maneuvers of his competitors to capture Evie’s nemesis and deliver justice for what really happened in Paris 18 years ago? Answers involving forgiveness and redemption are revealed during a week of mystery, intrigue, technology, heroes, villains, action and adventure in the Sonoran desert.
Oh, and humor. The book definitely has humor. Also some interesting characters. I especially like…. well, just go read the book.
The book has elements of action, adventure, mystery and suspense in the tradition of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, and Louis L’Amour. It’s set a couple of decades into the near-future with a liberty view of society based on individual choice and free market economics, taken to enough of an extreme to make you consider what’s really possible.
Buy Sharper Security at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A9CI3GM/?tag=funboo04-21 or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A9CI3GM/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
Silk Legacy by Richard Brawer
Always an avid reader, Richard began writing mystery, suspense and historical fiction novels in 1994. When not writing, he spends his time sailing and growing roses. He has two married daughters and lives in New Jersey with his wife. Silk Legacy is the result of Richard’s researching his youth in Paterson, NJ, the silk city, and his years of experience in the textile industry.
In early twentieth century Paterson, New Jersey, dashing twenty-nine year old Abraham Bressler charms naïve nineteen year old Sarah Singer into marriage by making her believe he feels the same way she does about the new calling of a modern woman. He then turns around and gives her little more respect than he would a servant, demanding she stay home to care for “his” house and “his” children.
Feeling betrayed Sarah defies him and joins women’s groups, actively participating in rallies for woman suffrage, child welfare and reproductive freedom. For a while she succeeds in treading delicately between the demands of her husband and her desire to be an independent woman. Her balancing act falters when a strike shuts down Paterson’s 300 silk mills. With many friends working in the mills, Sarah is forced to choose sides in the battle between her Capitalist husband and his Socialist brother, a union leader who happens to be her best friend’s husband.
Jealousy, infidelity, arrogance, greed—the characters’ titanic struggles will catapult you into the heights of their euphoria and the depths of their despair. Who will triumph and who will be humbled is not certain until the last page
Readers have said: “His characters are magnificent” “A deft story teller with a knack for plot twists.” “The Bressler family was made up of flesh-and-blood characters. They laughed, loved, argued, fought, and had adulterous affairs.” “Dialogues are realistic and serve to emphasize the enormity of the conflict and the high stakes involved.”
Buy Silk Legacy at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003BVJFJW/?tag=funboo04-21 or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003BVJFJW/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
Guises of Desire by Hilda Reilly
Vienna 1880. A wealthy young Jewish woman, Bertha Pappenheim, falls ill, manifesting a series of bizarre symptoms. 
Diagnosis hysteria.
Her doctor, Josef Breuer, treats her with hypnosis and a new form of therapy called the ‘talking cure’.
Some of her symptoms abate. At the same time the treatment arouses in Bertha a turmoil of primal emotions which spiral out of control and ultimately lead to the breakdown of her relationship with her doctor.
A vividly imagined account of the case of Bertha Pappenheim – the ‘Anna O’ whose treatment formed the basis of Freudian psychoanalysis – Guises of Desire presents the story of a young woman’s struggle to survive a repressive upbringing, neurological disorders, drug addiction and a pathological attachment to the doctor who misdiagnosed her.
Buy Guises of Desire at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A6T0CN0/?tag=funboo04-21 or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A6T0CN0/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
The Man Who Never Was by Olga Nunez Miret
Olga Núñez Miret is from Barcelona but has lived in the UK for over 20 years.
She is a doctor and her day job is as a Forensic Psychiatrist (not exactly like the profilers in the movies, or anything to do with CSI either). Olga has loved reading and writing since she was a child. She has written a variety of things over the years: short stories (some now disappeared), novels, novellas and plays, in English, Spanish and Catalan.
Her main love is fiction; she has written in a variety of genres (crime, family saga, para-normal, science-fiction…) and she is currently working on a series for young adults.
The first of her books to be published as an e-book was ‘The Man Who Wasn’t There’ also available in Spanish version: ‘El hombre que nunca existió’.
The protagonist, Jesús, is ugly. Extraordinarily ugly. He is so ugly that his friends and relatives are convinced that behind that ugliness there must be something else. A malefic power or possibly a momentous fate. The truth is that fairly special things happen wherever Jesús is. His biological father is a mystery. He only manages to discover that he seems to have fathered quite a few other extremely ugly boys like him during his career. His sister (half-sister) is a child-prodigy who excels at everything she does (writing, career in foreign relations, acting…), his mother becomes the president of the country, his own bank is successful, his best-friend Vero is a computer tycoon, his brother-in-law also makes it in politics…But for all the success and money around him he still feels unsettled. He tries sports, banking, cinema but nothing provides the answers he wants. Who was his father? This is a family saga where everything goes: from politics to retirement homes, from sport to cinema, from adultery to incest but nothing is taken too seriously.
Buy The Man Who Never Was at http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009TWRT22/?tag=funboo04-21 or
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009TWRT22/?tag=wwwtheindietr-20
Well, I hope you enjoyed this stunning Christmas Showcase. The next Showcase, to be published in the new year, features work by Christoph Fischer, Starr Gardiner Reina, Michayla Roth, Steven D Malone and Harold Kasselman.
In the meanwhile, I wish you all a merry Christmas and prosperous New Year.
Charlie Bray
