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Release Date: June 20, 2016 Publisher: SAGE press Format: Paperback Pages: 256 pages Genre: Fiction Buy: Paperback | Kindle Synopsis:  Seventy-four year old Al Pregurson had a great career as a newspaper journalist and a forty-eight-year love affair with his wife. Now that he is retired and his wife dead, where does he fit in with a fast-paced, ageist society? Al's optimism and self-confidence had always been his strengths, but what lies ahead on his quest to find his place in the world will shake him to his core and challenge the self-image he always believed was indestructible. What unforeseen events could make such a man question his worth and decimate his self-esteem so deeply as to make him feel irrelevant? Review:  This book is a great reminder that we are all getting older and that just because we are older doesn't mean we are irrelevant.  With a tender yet direct tone Geffen shares with us the scary side of aging. How the elderly are ofte...

Release Date: March 22, 2016 Publisher: Ecco Format: Paperback Pages: 368 pages Genre: Fiction Buy: Paperback | Kindle |  Synopsis:  Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems....

Release Date: July 20, 2016 Publisher: Createspace Format: Paperback Pages: 250 Pages Genre: Fiction Buy: Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Saraya Matthews knows that at thirty two years old, life should look better than this. With no spark and no passion, she decides enough is enough. She is going to find her purpose and stop wasting her life away. Little does she know, her purpose will come in the form of an orphaned baby boy whose mother has been gruesomely murdered on the streets of London. Saraya finds herself in a battle between what's legal and what's morally right. The authorities expect her to hand him over, but baby Flynn needs her. Saraya is surprised to discover that once she lets herself love him, she can't turn back. Flung full force into the unexpected position of mother and protector, she realises she will do whatever it takes to keep her baby safe in her arms. But will she succeed? A tale of unconventional adoption and the immeasurable strength of ...

Release Date: September 13, 2016 Publisher: Wide Awake Books Format: Kindle Pages: 324 pages Genre: Mystery/Thriller Buy: Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis:  Jake Boxer, investigative journalist and host of the conspiratorial news show  Bullseye , is in serious trouble. Not only is his soundman murdered by Russian intelligence agents while reporting on a secretive New World Order, but his network cancels his show, leaving Jake humiliated and spiraling into a deep dark depression. Years later, a condemned murderer, who claims he was abandoned by the CIA, and who starred in an early episode of  Bullseye , is finally executed for killing two supposed Soviet spies back in the 1970’s. Jake Boxer, still trying to piece his life back together, is on his honeymoon in a posh ski resort in the Alaskan mountains when he gets word of the inmate’s execution . . . and the old killer’s final words: “The good spy dies twice.” Those five words, seemingly meant for Jake, draw th...

Release Date: July 12, 2016 Publisher: Minotaur Books Format: Kindle Pages: 320 pages Genre: Mystery - Amish Buy: Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis:  Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. Kate's long time love interest, State Agent John Tomasetti, is dead set against her taking on such an unorthodox assignment, knowing she'll have limited communication - and even less in the way of backup. But Kate can't turn her back, especially when the rumor mill boils with disturbing accounts of children in danger. She travels to New York where she's briefed and assumes her new identity as a lone widow seek...

Release Date: May 1, 2013 Publisher:  Aurea Blue Press Format: Kindle Pages: 433 pages Genre: Mystery/Thriller, Fantasy Buy: Paperback | Kindle   Synopsis: Sometimes saving the person you love can cost you everything.  There is one person that ties Oliver Richter to this world: his wife Kai. For Kai, Oliver is the keeper of her secrets. When her telepathy spirals out of control and inundates her mind with the thoughts and emotions of everyone within a half-mile radius, the life they built together in Manhattan is threatened. To save her, Oliver brings her to the hometown he abandoned--Butternut, Wisconsin--where the secrets of his past remain buried. But the past has a way of refusing to stay dead. Can Kai save Oliver before his secrets claim their future? Review: After reading this book I can honestly say that having telepathy would be the worst super power in the world.  Knowing everyone's thoughts, would be torturous.  How Kai thought sh...

Release Date: August 9, 2015 Publisher: Createspace Format: Kindle Pages: 322 pages Genre: Fantasy/Suspense Buy: Kindle | Paperback   Synopsis: In this world, nothing is certain except death and sarcasm! Serena Sykes was still trying to figure out her place in the world when she discovered the existence of magic. Now armed with limited magical powers, she'll have to stop her newly discovered family from destroying the world. With only 48 hours before they fill the world with monsters, Serena will have to rely on a vampire who is as much friend as foe, while trusting in the wisdom of her dementia-ridden grandmother. No one said saving the world would be easy! Review: Serena doesn't know she is a witch until her 21st birthday when she discovers her powers, then she discovers she has a twin sister, a niece and a psychotic mother who gave her away because she was annoying.  Raised by her grandmother Serena can't even ask why she was never told about ...