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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2013.
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"Will have readers bouncing on the edge of their comfortable chairs."
-Night Owl Reviews
What would you do if you found out your husband had been unfaithful?
Divorce him? Take him back?
Kill him?
Mark Monroe becomes the victim of option "C" after his wife, Kelly, discovers evidence of an illicit affair and stabs him to death. In a panic, she flees, deciding she will turn herself in the next day.
But before she
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Publisher
Woolton Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Michelle Cox writes flawed, fascinating women with understanding, compassion, and grace—I rooted for them with every turn of the page!"— Kate Quinn, New York Times best-selling author "An addictive read!"—Kirkus Reviews ". . . An emotional tale that grabs you by the throat and carries you through to the exhilarating end." James Conroyd Martin, author of The Poland Trilogyand Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora When eight-year-old...
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[s.n.]
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Ama is a 17-year-old high school senior on the edge of adulthood. Maybe a little too mature for her age, knowing more about the darkness that stirs within her than most, Ama is determined to cross the bridge of her last year in high school and into the uncertain terrain of adulthood. All of that changes the day she realizes something is very off about a mark that appears on her face. Strange things begin to happen, and although Ama resists any possibility...
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Publisher
New Degree Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Emma Bishop is your typical 14-year-old girl. She's got besties, a major crush, zits (don't use the P-word), an annoying younger sister, an embarrassing mom, and no boobs. Luckily, her best friends Ruby and Cher are there to pull off fun sleepovers, try new makeup trends, deal with bullies, and survive embarrassing interactions with cute boys. Things change for Emma when Connor finally notices her and wants to be her partner for a science project....
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Aspidistra Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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In Nell Lillington's small Midwestern town of the 1870s, marriage is the obvious fate of a young woman of some social standing. Yet Nell is determined to elude the duties and restrictions of matrimony. So when she finds herself pregnant at the age of 17, she refuses to divulge the name of the father and even her childhood friend Martin is kept in the dark. Nell's stepfather Hiram sends Nell to live at the Poor Farm of which he is a governor, to await...
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Publisher
Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ernst Kohl has spent nearly half his life in prison after being convicted of murder as a young man. Upon his release, with nowhere else to go, Kohl returns to his old family home on the outskirts of a small Michigan town, hoping for redemption, or at least understanding.
He finds a dog, a girlfriend, and a job in quick succession, and it seems as if he might finally be able to leave the past behind and make a quiet life for himself. But some of the...
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Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After all the times my mom told me to save for a rainy day…Who would've thought the rainy day would come in the form of a dead guy named Donnie?"Roxy Horne is a process server-not that tracking down people and giving them paperwork is her life dream-but it feeds her cake obsession. Oh, and it pays the bills. Her dream of being a Private Investigator is far out of reach. But never once, even when serving to a slime ball who wouldn't pay child support,...
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Publisher
735 Emerald Press LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
WHAT'S ONE ITSY, BITSY, LITTLE LIE?
Cassian Anders will be the youngest governor in Illinois history... If he wins.
That's all everyone seems to talk about these days. Jolie Coldwell isn't one of them. As a journalist, her priorities comprise digging up dirt on crooked politicians and local cover-ups. When her latest exposé on a congressman lands her in hot water, her days are
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SELECTED POEMS 2004-2007 is a collection of unique poems written after the publication of Sturner's first book, KAIROS (2004). Themes include love, loss, nature, and more. In addition to being gathered in book form, many of these poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and other periodicals. Cover art by Linus Gog.
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Tulabella Ruby Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When the one person standing between you and true love is the wife you never knew you had...
When Aisha travels to Las Vegas with her fiancée Kris, all she wants is to get married. The venue is booked. The music has been chosen. The flowers are perfect. The guests are arriving.
On the casino floor Aisha runs into a long lost college friend. They'd gotten fake "married" many years before as part of a protest for
...11) A Bitter Veil
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Allium Press of Chicago
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Anna & Nouri fall in love, move to Tehran, and marry. Four months later, the shah is deposed.Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian business executive. Anna, whose parents are divorced and remote, eagerly moves to Tehran where she marries and is embraced by Nouri's family. A few months later, however, in February 1978, the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran is...
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Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Don’t like poetry? Don’t read poetry? You are invited to consider a more pleasurable way of revisiting the genre you may have enjoyed in the past. Poems for Those Averse to Poetry delivers accessible and enjoyable poetry celebrating such topics as love (obligatory in all poetry books—no?), dating, death, parenting, children, school, humor, frogs and dogs. This irreverent, playful, and inventive collection delivers poems that are not only painless—but...
13) Kairos
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Publisher
Adams Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
First full-length book of poetry by author Jason Sturner (Jay Sturner). Themes include love, loss, nature, and more. In addition to being gathered in book form, many of these poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, and other periodicals.
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Quill Pen Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The journey through the analytical world of literary criticism continues with this, the third installment in the progressive Reviews by Cat Ellington book series. Following in the footsteps of its one of a kind predecessors, Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1 and Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 2, Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 3 marks the beginning of Cat Ellington’s foray into...
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Publisher
Quill Pen Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Quill Pen Ink Publishing presents The Five-Star Review: A Collection of Cat Ellington’s Top-Rated Book Reviews from 1981-2021. Spanning 40 years of Cat Ellington’s work as a critic of literature, the reference features an alphabetized list highlighting all of her five-star reviews composed throughout that time. Part of the Cat Ellington Literary Collection, this stand-alone selection is an excellent read for both reviewers and book lovers alike....
16) The Wasp Queen
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Publisher
Little Fox Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In an age when the old sorceries have mostly died out, a single unexpected burst of magic upends the lives of three households. Selfish heiress Vespasia Marchand berates an ill woman in the street, a woman who was once a renowned spell-caster. Her granddaughter Melu has inherited her gift, though it has not been nurtured. In a fit of anger, the girl impulsively transforms Vespasia into a wasp, doomed to live out an ordinary wasp's life unless she...
17) Deadly Justice
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Publisher
createspace
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When he entered the bathroom, she smiled. The Expression on his face made her smile falter. He came at her, grasping her by the shoulders. He pushed her down, holding her struggling body under. Her eyes wide with terror, she tried to plead with her murderer, to ask her husband"Why?" He sank her body in the Potomac, the first victim of the D.C. Killer. Eighteen women are dead their bodies found floatingin the Potomac. The case grows cold now it...
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Publisher
Chiara Talluto
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Don't turn back. Begin anew."
Thirty-six-year-old Amanda Reynolds has it all. She has a loving, successful husband, two beautiful daughters and a perfect, manicured home in a quaint suburb of Chicago.
But demons hide where no one looks and Amanda's past is full of them—she's addicted to alcohol. The reasons for her addiction have been buried for years.
One horrifying day, suppressed memories resurface and Amanda
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Jolie Gentil cozy mystery volume 1
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Can a real estate appraiser in a New Jersey beach town get in this much trouble? Jolie Gentil finds out that her soon-to-be-ex-husband raided their assets and embezzeled from his bank. She moves to Aunt Madge's bed and breakfast, taking her cat Jazz and joining Madge's pair of prune-eating dogs. Soon, Jolie is rekindling friendships, dodging a low-level wise guy, and (oops!) finding a dead body. Can she prove a friend's innocence in time, or will...
20) Havana Lost
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The Red Herrings Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the U.S., resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back...
