I think baseball is okay and I am a San Francisco Giants fan, but the goodness of my day does not depend on whether or not they win a game. I cannot however say the same for a lot of my friends, so now that the Giants are going to the World Cup (Yes, I know it’s World Series, but I like to annoy my friends) it’s nice to know the mood will be good. Plus then I can annoy them without threat of bodily harm. Yup.. I am that person. WIN!!
Shelf Life:The Publicist – Book Two
Christina George
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Romance
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Publishing: An industry of out-of-control of egos, unrealistic expectations, and books with the shelf life of milk. This is Kate’s world, but for how long?
When one of Kate Mitchell’s star authors is carted away in handcuffs, she thinks it’s only the beginning of her troubles. As her world crumbles around her, Kate desperately looks for anyone to hold onto but finds that happy endings are truly works of fiction. When her career and love affair hit their expiration date, Kate sets off on a new adventure….
Starting over in California is easy, but Kate soon learns that leaving her old life behind isn’t. Nicholas Lavigne is eager to help her forget, but two things still own her heart, the dream of discovering the next great American novel, and MacDermott Ellis. As Kate tries to rebuild her life she finds a surprising gift that reboots her career in a new and unexpected direction. Suddenly her name becomes synonymous with one of the biggest bestsellers publishing has seen in ages and she’s welcomed back with open arms. At the height of her success the ghosts of her past come back to remind her of the world she’d been trying to forget and the man who never let go of her heart. Behind the book, there’s always more to the story.
Welcome to Publishing, the ego has landed.
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Sir Laurence Dies (The “Dies” Trilogy Book 1)
Christopher D. Abbott
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Sir Laurence was a decorated soldier in the Great War, and a hardnosed businessman. He was also a man of whom everyone was a little afraid.So when he boasted to Doctor Straay about his expert knowledge of crime fiction and requested that Straay spend a weekend at his country estate, the detective had reservations.
What began as an absorbing evening of drinks, conversation, and card games, soon turned into a horrific scene of murder. Fiction would soon give way to fact and in this game, the game of murder, Doctor Straay was the expert…
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Rangers and Pioneers of Texas
A.J. Sowell
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Genre: History
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Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures. From the intro:
“When the white settlers of Texas, composing Austin’s and De Witt’s colonies, first began to erect their cabin in this wild and beautiful country, all the Indian tribes were friendly. The Comanches were the most numerous numbering several thousand warriors. Hostilities commenced by thieving parties of Indians stealing horses from the whites; and, when caught by the exasperated settlers, were roughly handled: in fact, there was not much law in the country in those days regulating the punishment for such offenses, and the unfortunate red man caught under such circumstances was generally shot on the spot. White horse thieves were served the same way, or strung up to the limb of a tree.
The consequence of these severe measures was that all the tribes (then numbering twenty or more) sooner or later became hostile, with the exception, perhaps, of the Tankaways, who always lived on good terms with the whites, and were very useful in scouting and trailing hostile bands when they made incursions into the settlements, and some of them went with Taylor’s army to Mexico.From the time the Indians became hostile, almost up to the present time (1883), every settler who pitched his cabin in the West, from the coast to the Staked Plains, had to contend with hostile Indians, and if all the incidents were related, connected with these settlements, of Indian battles, adventures of the settlers, massacres, etc. which occurred while these settlements gradually extended out towards the Rio Grande (Big River), which was the boundary line between Texas and Mexico in the West, it would fill a volume ten times the size of the one I contemplate writing. My object is to give as many of such incidents as the size of this work will admit, and try to convey a correct idea of what the brave men and women of that period had to contend with in settling this fair land of Texas and paving the way for capital, railroads and more immigrants. Being myself raised in Texas, and spending some time on the frontier, I have, from time to time, collected such incidents as I thought worth relating and which would be interesting to the reading public, as Indian battles, massacres, and scalp dances are now a thing of the past in Texas.”
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Max and Menna
Shauna Kelley
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Genre: Coming of Age | Literary Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
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Mimicing the lyricism contemporary fiction readers have grown to love in the works of Alice Seabold and David Guterson, MAX AND MENNA is the story of two siblings surviving a deplorable home life in the South. Telling the story from each of their viewpoints, Max and Menna outline their reliance on each other and on Nick, their only friend, as they cope with growing up in poverty, living with an alcoholic mother, and having no indication of the other half of their parentage.
Life changes for Max and Menna when with the advent of Nick, a Native American, and the story continues to take place during their summer vacations progressively through high school. Max, quiet and introspective, struggles to understand how to be the only man in the house and protect a family that seems determined to destroy itself. Menna is quick-tempered and vivacious, and grows to love and view Nick as a method of coping with a childhood that requires her to be very adult.
Despite the strength of the bond the three of them share, however, the world around them seems determined to pull them apart. As the children of the town drunk, the younger siblings of the town slut, and the friends of an Indian from “over the fence,” Max and Menna fight not only to grow up, and get out, but to stay together, and stay safe.
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The Plaza
Guillermo Paxton
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Genre: Literary Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Based on true events, many investigated by the author personally, THE PLAZA was inspired by the murder of crime reporter Armando “El Choco” Rodriguez, of El Diario de Juarez.
Plaza. Spanish: in Mexican culture, a slang word describing the territory of a certain drug cartel.
“I’ve been a reporter for years, and a resident of Juarez, Mexico all of my life. I’ve never seen anything like it. No one thought the drug war would be like this…My town has become the battleground for drug cartels. Even the police are being killed on a daily basis. Bands of teenagers working as paid assassins & extortionists are hitting every business, no matter how small. Things I took for granted like going to a restaurant, getting a haircut, or even an evening at the movies with my family put all our lives in danger. Robberies and public executions have become common place. Now when I report only five homicides in twenty-four hours, it is considered a good day.” – Saul Saavedra, crime reporter for The Juarez Daily in THE PLAZA.
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