Cypress Lake by Linda Wells

Cypress Lake by Linda WellsEnter for a chance to win one of 10 signed copies of CYPRESS LAKE: A Romance Thriller by Linda Wells.

Alexa Smith has left her small-town Florida roots behind for a glamorous life as a flight attendant. However, her upcoming high school reunion is dredging up more than a little heartache. Alexa’s one true love is still in Cypress Lake—with his wife and daughter

.As Alexa confronts her feelings for Rick Young, she finds herself tossed into a tangled web of mystery and murder that has its roots in decades-old resentments. Rick’s wife is dead, and any one of Alexa’s friends or family could be next.

Author Linda Wells is an expert writer of domestic thriller books. In this new addition to the pantheon of top romantic thrillers and sexy mystery books, Wells, one of the premier, homegrown Florida mystery authors, sprinkles a touch of sweetness and seduction into this churn of chaotic emotion.

This is one of those romantic murder mystery books you won't be able to put down!

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Categories: dark

Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson

Adorning the Dark by Andrew PetersonEnter for a chance to win one of two signed editions of "Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making" from Andrew Peterson. This book is designed to help anyone in their quest for creativity.

Andrew is the bestselling author of the YA/Middle-reader fiction series "The Wingfeather Saga" and an award-winning musician.

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Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone.

Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has performed thousands of concerts, published four novels, released ten albums, taught college and seminary classes on writing, founded a nonprofit ministry for Christians in the arts, and executive-produced a film—all in a belief that God calls us to proclaim the gospel and the coming kingdom using whatever gifts are at our disposal. He’s stumbled along the way, made mistake after mistake, and yet has continually encountered the grace of God through an encouraging family, a Christ-centered community of artists in the church, and the power of truth, beauty, and goodness in Scripture and the arts.

While there are many books about writing, none deal first-hand with the intersection of songwriting, storytelling, and vocation, along with nuts-and-bolts exploration of the great mystery of creativity. In Adorning the Dark, Andrew describes six principles for the writing life:

serving the work
serving the audience
selectivity
discernment
discipline
and community

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Categories: the-gambia

From Liberty to Magnolia by Janice S. Ellis

From Liberty to Magnolia by Janice S. EllisEnter for a chance to win one of 50 signed copies of the original edition of From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream. This powerful memoir has won several awards and honors. It has received great editorial reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Chanticleer Book Reviews, the Non Fiction Author Association and others. It continues to receive great reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.

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Categories: gothic-horror

The Second Womb by Anna-Karen Sorensen

The Second Womb by Anna-Karen Sorensen The Second Womb is a nest, the sacred place that we all must have to complete our becoming. Whether it is the warmth and safety required after the first birth, or it is the space needed for withdrawal and reimagining, the second womb is the needed surrogate-a compassionate experience that works outside of Time as it helps in healing.
This is a book of poetry that has seven chapters. They deal with the feminine, our sacred spaces, the isolation of thought, large and small truths, life and its rhythms, and many other ruminations.

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Categories: planetary-science

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

Follow Me to Ground by Sue RainsfordEnter for a chance to win this fascinating, frightening, and propulsive debut novel by a prizewinning author.

Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson.

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Categories: how-to

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier*ADVANCED GALLEY GIVEAWAY*

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.

Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (whom she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future.

Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled-covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.

Bold, tender, propulsive, and unexpected in countless ways, Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl is a moving and funny portrait of a flawed, unforgettable young woman as she tries to find her place in the world.

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Categories: italy

Anne Boleyn by Hayley Nolan

Anne Boleyn by Hayley NolanA bold new analysis of one of history’s most misrepresented women.

History has lied.

Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprecedented display of passion. Quite the tragic love story, right?

Wrong.

In this electrifying exposé, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn’s life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression of a powerful woman.

So leave all notions of outdated and romanticised folklore at the door and forget what you think you know about one of the Tudors’ most notorious queens. She may have been silenced for centuries, but this urgent book ensures Anne Boleyn’s voice is being heard now.

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