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Release Date: October 25, 2015 Publisher: LB Gilbert Books Format: Kindle Pages: 362 pages Genre: Supernatural/ Fantasy Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: Invested with the powers of Mother Nature, four women have been charged with the almost impossible task of maintaining order in the supernatural world and—when the crimes are extreme—the human world as well. Diana, a fire Elemental, is almost burned out. Alone in the world (save for her Elemental sisters), she takes satisfaction in punishing those who’ve strayed so far into the black they’ve disrupted the balance. But her contentment is increasingly short-lived as she struggles with the limitations of her ability. An Elemental can track murderers to the ends of the earth, but not before it’s too late for their victims. So when a child from a previous case goes missing, Diana is determined to find her. The only problem is, she may have to take on an entire coven of vampires to do it. Review: This b...

Release Date: April 8, 2016 Publisher: Stafford House Books Format: Kindle ebook Pages: 60 pages Genre: Yoga, Exercise, Kids Buy:   Paperback Synopsis: This guidebook supports parents and teachers who wish to learn more about yoga for kids, including how to implement yoga into the daily lives of children. Readers will gain insight into what yoga is, how it can contribute to a child's active lifestyle and how to use yoga to alleviate many childhood challenges. This easy-to-use handbook offers basic guidelines for teaching yoga to kids and a sample children's yoga routine. The increased body awareness afforded by yoga helps kids make better choices for keeping themselves healthy, both physically and mentally Review: This book is a companion to  ABCs of Yoga for Kids , a picture book that uses the alphabet, rhyming and colorful illustrations to introduce children to yoga. This book has a few cute ideas for classes for kids relying heavily on the ABC's of y...

Release Dates: March 30, 2016 Publisher: Less Than Three Press Format: Kindle Genre: LGBT Romance Buy: e-book Synopsis: It's no secret that Riley used to practice dark magic, but he gave it up gladly when he fell in love with Landon. But Riley has spent the last year trying to shield Landon from just how dark his past really was, desperate to keep him safe and hold on to their fragile relationship. Then Dyami, Riley's old partner, returns to town and threatens to kill them both if Riley doesn't return to his old ways... Review: Riley and Landon practice magic, although Riley is always holding back hoping that Landon won't get tainted by the dark magic he used to practice. When Rileys old dark magic partner Dyami shows up in town things start get a little strange. This story felt very rushed.  I feel like the author could have expanded this and made it a longer more in depth story instead of a short speedy one.  I feel like with more character developm...

Release Date: June 11, 2015 Publisher: Black Rose Writing Format: Kindle Pages: 155 Genre: Fiction, War Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: Reem, a wife and mother of two, is caught in Iraq after the invasion of US Forces. What began as a future full of hope slowly begins to unravel before her eyes. As the original effort to remove a tyrannical dictator degrades into civil war, it engulfs everyone and everything around her. Everything she loves is slowly taken from her as she watches forces beyond her control destroy her family. Helpless, she clings to her prayer rug in an effort to find strength and peace. Review:  This is war.  Its not something that is watched on TV, its not something that should be taken lightly.  Its the slow destruction of a civilization, of families, of children.  This is a heartbreaking and honest look at what war does to a community, to a family, to a person.  Reem is a woman clinging to her faith to help ...

Release Date:  January 1, 2016 Publisher:  Saborn Press Format:  Kindle Pages: 160 pages Genre:  Romance Buy:   Kindle Synopsis:  Alexander Winslow dreads the midnight hour when darkness permeates his soul, spasms of pain slash his body and hours of torment begin. Afflicted by an ancient family curse, Alex endures a nightly transformation and is doomed to stalk the countryside, searching for prey. Seeking refuge from her greedy uncle who wants her killed, heiress Victoria Northcote escapes to Winslow Mansion, the home of an old family friend. However, the friend is dead and Alex, the new master, has his secret to guard and he doesn't welcome Vicki. When they are forced into a dangerous alliance, tempers flare and passions ignite. Review: At only a 160 pages this story felt a little rushed.  There was a lot more that the author could have done with this to help flesh out the characters. Alexander is tormented by his family curse. ...

Release Date: November 18, 2015 Publisher: Createspace Format: Paperback Pages: 122 pages Genre: Adoption Buy: Paperback   Synopsis:  Adoption is how you came to be a family- not a parenting style. Be the parent you are meant to be- the parent your child needs you to be, today. Adoptee, author, speaker, blogger and mommy, Madeleine Melcher is a breath of fresh air in a climate of negativity. Melcher’s piece, What an Adoptee Wants You to Know About Adoption, garnered over 87-thousand likes on The Huffington Post for just that reason. Melcher is honest and full of candor, regarding the realities of adoption and what that means to your parenting. You may be surprised at what you read! Her message has been described by parents who have adopted as, "life-giving"! Review:   Written as a series of letter to parents who have adopted Madeleine Melcher offers positive encouragement and advice.  There are several important take-aways I received from this book....

Release Date:   March 29, 2016 Publisher:   Random House Publishing Format:   ebook Genre:   Romance Buy:   Kindle   Synopsis: As the secret author of racy romances, Lady Esme Hawkins goes to great lengths to protect her family's honor. Which is why she carefully disguises herself before entering a notorious bordello to do research. But when Esme comes face-to-face with a brooding Highland bodyguard, she can't easily refuse a harmless kiss . . . a kiss that inflames desires ripped from the pages of her novels. Acting on them, however, would risk revealing Esme's identity—and the fact that she's engaged to another man. As a Highland Knight sworn to protect the crown, Camden McLeod never expected to follow his client into a bordello—nor could he anticipate meeting a bright, innocent lass with lush lips and eyes the color of the sea. Instantly, Cam knows he must possess her. But to do so, he'll need to give up his rakish ways, embrace his role as hei...

Release Date: January 14, 2016 Publisher: Publishers Lunch Buzz Books Genre: Fiction, Debut Fiction, & New Non-Fiction Synopsis:  Buzz Books  edition evokes all the excitement of Winter Institute with substantial pre-publication excerpts from 40 adult titles. Enjoy access to the newest voices the publishing industry is broadcasting for the upcoming season as you discover breakout books from established authors, sparkling debuts from soon-to-become literary stars, and fascinating memoirs and inspirational nonfiction. Familiar names include Louise Erdrich, Chris Cleave, Tracy Chevalier, Joe Hill, and Emma Straub, along with L.S. Hilton’s  Maestra , already stirring buzz from Hollywood to London and back again as one of the year’s big new thriller discoveries. Major debuts by Michener Center Fellow Flynn Berry, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Danny Johnson, Paul Krueger, Joe Okonkwo, Phaedra Patrick, and H.P. Wood are among our dozen new authors. Rounding out th...

Release Date: March 10, 2016 Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Format: Kindle Pages: 266 pages Genre: YA, Romance LGBT Buy:   Kindle Synopsis: After a year of partying, getting into fights, and finally crashing his father’s vintage Bonneville in a car chase, seventeen-year-old Benjamin has pushed his parents to their limit. It’s not like he can tell them why he’s so angry at life, or that he’ll do anything to distract himself from the lust he feels toward his best friend’s sexy cousin, Dino. He can’t even protest when he’s sent away from Miami to spend the summer working on his grandparents’ farm in the desolate fjords of Western Norway. The farm is isolated and old-fashioned, and so are Ben’s religious grandparents. It’s cold and wet, and Ben is miserable and restless. Relief comes in the form of Even, the eighteen-year-old blond Viking farmhand who offers Ben friendship and a new outlook on his situation. But Even is hiding issues of his own. Ben’s grandparents want him to...

Release Date: December 7, 2015 Publisher: Riptide Publishing Format: Kindle Pages: 258 pages Genre: LGBT / Erotica Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: A year ago, my best friend Hal died at the hands of an incompetent “dom.” So I started the Subs Club, a private blog where submissives can review doms and call out the douche bags. A perfect example of the kind of arrogant asshole I mean? The Disciplinarian. He has a pornstache. He loves meat, stoicism, America, and real discipline. And he thinks subs exist to serve him. But . . . not everything about him is awful. His Davy Crockett act just seems like a cover for his fear of intimacy, and part of me wants to show him it’s okay to get close to people. And, I mean, sue me, but I have fantasized about real discipline. Not role-play, but like, Dave, you’re gonna be thirty in four years and you still work in a mall; get your ass in gear or I’ll spank it. Not that I’d ever trust anyone with that kind of contro...

Release Date:  August 4, 2015 Publisher: Harper Audio Format: Audible Audio Length: 11 hours 1 minute Narrator: Andi Arndt, Ginny Auer Buy:     Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audible Synopsis: In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City's Lower East Side. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother, Sam, and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns 15, she runs away to Colorado, hoping to find the brother she lost, and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she's shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan's Old Hebrews Home, and her patient is none other than the elde...

Release Date: March 19, 2016 Publisher: Dundurn Format: ebook Pages: 320 pages Genre: Fiction Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  For Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past. At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison, sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at a residential school. It is 1968, and a harsh winter and harsher attitudes await Elinor, her daughter, and her granddaughter as they set out on an odyssey to right past wrongs, enduring a present that tests their spirit and chips away at their aboriginal heritage. Review: Beautifully written with vivid descriptions. Elinor and the Bison's descriptions and stories transport you to a different time and place. You can smell the ...

Release Date:   March 8, 2016 Publisher:   ACE Format:   ebook Pages:   352 pages Genre:   Fantasy Buy:   Kindle  |  Hardcover  | Audio (Audible) Synopsis:  Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae. Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched? Review:   Another excellent installment in the Mercy Thompson series. Mercy, Adam and the wolves find themselves claiming to be the protectors of the tri-cities which is their territory and the protector of what looks like a small boy b...

Release Date:  March 11, 2014 Publisher: ACE Format: Hardcover Pages: 304 Genre: Fantasy Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Hardcover  |  Audio (Audible) Synopsis:   An unexpected phone call heralds a new challenge for Mercy. Her mate Adam’s ex-wife is in trouble, on the run from a stalker. Adam isn’t the kind of man to turn away a person in need—and Mercy knows it. But with Christy holed up in Adam’s house, Mercy can’t shake the feeling that something about the situation isn’t right. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when she learns that Christy has the farthest thing from good intentions. She wants Adam back and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen, including turning Adam’s pack against Mercy. Mercy isn’t about to step down without a fight, but there’s a more dangerous threat circling. Christy’s stalker is more than a bad man—in fact, he may not be human at all. As the bodies start piling up, Mercy ...

Release Date:   June 2012 Publisher: Audible Studios Format: Audio book Length:   12 hours 38 minutes Narrator: Ray Porter Genre : Mystery/Thriller/ Sci Fi Buy:   Kindle  | Paperback  |  Audio (Audible) Synopsis:   Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela’s apartment. And Tim’s. And Veek’s. Because every room in this old Los Angeles brownstone has a mystery or two. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are b...