I tell the family again and again to stop eating my decorations. Nag, nag, nag. Now I just ate half my chocolate decorations. I feel kinda bad. Not enough to stop me from eating the other half of the chocolate decorations, but bad still.
The Last Moderate Muslim
Sam Wazan
(68 Reviews)
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Religion & Spirituality
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The intimate and dramatic story of two brothers, contaminated by their upbringing and religious violence, The Last Moderate Muslim is an authentic rendition of the root causes of chronic conflict in the Middle East. It is about negotiating a complex sibling relationship—one a budding terrorist, the other a reluctant moderate—in the absence of paternal affection.
Surviving a massacre in Beirut, young Ziad becomes a radical in a civil war fueled by religion, politics, and rival military forces from across the Middle East. While his brother brutally murders Christians, Ziad falls in love with one. Now an outcast, he wages a private jihad for his own survival.
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The Handler
David Cady
(21 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure
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This story, which is set along the Tennessee River, reflects the eccentric problems of love, faith, and duty as experienced by a young mother trapped in a snake-handling cult, and the man, Matt Fagan, who is hired to find and rescue her from the clutches of a fanatical holy-man claiming to be a living god.In his effort to snatch the young mother, and her baby son from the cult and return them to the arms of a worried family, Matt, a wounded Viet Nam veteran uncovers a dark and frightening secret from his past.
Even though this story is fictional, it is based on actual events of spiritual cults that use brutality and sexual molestation in the name of God.This is not a story for the timid or fainthearted.
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Catch That Santa
Karen Docter
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Genre: Romance
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When widow, Sara Marks, hears her Grams has gone on the lam from Happy Acres Residence on Christmas Eve – on Santa’s arm, no less — she teams up with sexy stranger, Francisco de la Vega, to chase the couple down with one thing in mind.Keep her Grams from becoming Mrs. Claus. Of course, Francisco’s grandfather is not really Santa Claus, but Grams did run off to Vegas to marry him and she’s obviously not in her right mind.
Sara leaves her seven-month-old baby, Lanie, with a friend and she and Cisco head west in the worst snowstorm in decades, chasing his grandfather’s ’57 Ford Fairlane over the river and through the woods.
Will they catch Santa and his crazy Mrs. Claus before it’s too late? Or will love stop them in their tracks?
(Novelette, approximately 17,000 words/50 pages)
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Murder at the Leopard (The Vespers Trilogy)
Lucia Oliva Lampe
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Genre: History | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Murder and political intrigue are the key elements in this mystery novel set in exotic and politically tense 13th century Sicily. “Murder at the Leopard” uses a detailed knowledge of the period and locale with many of the characters taken straight out of the mosaic of original 13th and 14th century Sicilian contracts.
A glittering commercial prize in the wars and politics of the Mediterranean, Sicily has been variously ruled by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans and the Holy Roman Empire. Ironically, the island’s current peace and prosperity has come about only through the oppressive and exploitative 15-year rule of Charles of Anjou, brother to Louis IX, soon to be St. Louis, King of France. Despite the spiritual atmosphere of Holy Week festivities in 1281 Palermo, an angry tension simmering among the native populace rides uneasily just below the surface calm.
Still, most residents go about their daily lives as the political intrigue plays out in Naples, the site of Charles’ royal court. Charles’ justice system becomes reality, however, when a drunken wealthy merchant is murdered in Palermo’s streets after leaving The Leopard, a neighborhood tavern. The owner, Amodeus de Rogerio, takes the murder personally. Unfortunately, he’s also the prime suspect and is incarcerated within hours of the murder. His saucy wife, Ysabella, is left with their newly opened business, their 7 year old scamp of a son, and only a limited time to find the real culprit. With streets teeming with paupers and pilgrims, friars and farmers, aristocrats and almoners, all in town for the holidays, Ysabella finds many suspects, both strangers and friends.
A second murder soon follows, and the reputation of The Leopard is on the line. Regular customers are fearful of being the next victim, and the multitude of visitors in town for Holy Week don’t want to drink in a murderer’s den either. In her quest to restore The Leopard’s good name and save her husband, Ysabella and her family uncover illicit love affairs, long-kept secrets, and rebel spies.
But will she find the killer before the hangman’s noose finds her husband?
Murder at the Leopard is the first book of a trilogy of murder mysteries set in 13th century Sicily written by RM Vassari and Lucia Olivia Lampe. The “Vespers Series” is set between 1281 and 1283, a period of violence and tension that saw the overthrow of French Angevin rule by an island-wide uprising known now as the Sicilian Vespers.
The tales are richly woven using a detailed knowledge of the period and locale, with many of the characters taken from real life.
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100 Scrumptious Christmas Desserts (Scrumptious Cookies, Cupcakes, Pies and Brownies)
Sara Winlet
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Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love to bake and smell the wonderful aromas that fill my home. With this great combination cookbook you will find delicious pies, cupcakes, cookies and brownies along with my favorite icing recipes, plus a bonus savory pie section. Your family will love trying these wonderful recipes.
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