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An Exaltation of Larks by Suanne Laqueur

About An Exaltation of Larks by Suanne Laqueur

New release: from the award-winning author of "The Fish Tales" comes a novel about emotional coups, second chances and the price of love. "An Exaltation of Larks" follows the crossing paths of Alex, a Chilean refugee who feels unworthy of survival; Val, his fiercely loyal wife, who has protected him since she was twelve; and Javier, a shrewd male escort who has no need of love and is loyal only to himself.

September 11, 1973: Eleven-year-old Alejandro Penda watches from his apartment window as Santiago, Chile falls to a military coup, destroying his family and his childhood. Arriving alone in America, he’s taken in by the Larks: a prominent family in the town of Guelisten. Though burdened by unresolved grief for his disappeared parents, he becomes fiercely loyal to the Larks, eventually marrying one of their daughters, Valerie.

September 11, 2001: Javier Landes watches from his apartment window as New York City falls to terrorism. As one of Manhattan’s top-paid male escorts, this professional lover has never lacked for company and is loyal only to himself. But in the wake of 9/11, Jav is named guardian for an orphaned nephew in Guelisten and must open his carefully-guarded heart to pain he's long suppressed.

Alex, Valerie and Jav meet first in their twenties, with a sudden attraction each finds strange and compelling. When they meet again in their forties, they discover not only is their bond still strong, but their life experiences are strangely similar. All have been shaped by separate 9/11's, and their unfinished business from the past will change everything they know about love, loyalty and friendship.

"Life has rules. You cannot come in the middle of the night and take what we agreed isn't yours."

Across three decades and two continents, Suanne Laqueur's fifth novel explores the unpredictability of sexual attraction, how family ties are forged, torn and mended, and how love's downfall can turn to exaltation.

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The Toucan Trilogy (Three dystopian novels: Night of the Purple Moon, Colony East, and Generation M) by Scott Cramer

About The Toucan Trilogy (Three dystopian novels: Night of the Purple Moon, Colony East, and Generation M) by Scott Cramer

After a pathogen from a passing comet kills most of the world’s adults, a group of kids on an island off Maine learn to look after themselves — then they start to die. 800+ 5-star reviews for the 3 books in the trilogy.

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Family Secrets and Lies by Annette Evans

About Family Secrets and Lies by Annette Evans

Heidi Wagner is only thirteen years old when she discovers the secrets and lies that have plagued her family for three generations. She learns about her father’s biological mother and aunt — the Bauer sisters who are forced to grow up fast when their mother dies in childbirth and their father abandons them to their strict Grandfather and timid Grandmother. Looking for greener pastures, the sisters learn just how harsh life can be for women in the 1920’s.
Older sister Gladys learns how to survive and take charge until she makes a choice that will bring her to her knees. Younger sister Martha just wants to be loved and she will look for love anywhere and everywhere regardless of who gets hurt along the way.
Will Gladys and Martha find what they are looking for as they navigate through life in the next five decades and make choices that set them on a course that will shatter the family for generations to come? Who will have to pay for them keeping the family secrets and lies?

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THE COMING WOMAN by Karen J Hicks

About THE COMING WOMAN by Karen J Hicks

On April 2, 1870, readers of the New York Herald open their newspapers to an astonishing headline: “The Coming Woman, Victoria C. Woodhull, to race for the White House!” And so begins the story of power, politics, promiscuity, and persecution surrounding one of the most fascinating and controversial women in American history.

Reactions to Victoria’s announcement are mostly amused. After all, women can’t even vote! But she and her sister already mix it up with the men on Wall Street, running the first woman-owned and run brokerage firm, and now she launches the first successful mainstream newspaper to be run by a woman. When she becomes the first woman to enter the bastion of male dominance, the House Judiciary Committee, her argument that the 14th and 15th Amendments already give women the vote stuns the men and electrifies the women!

As her power and influence grow, the male-dominated media attacks. Victoria counters the assaults by becoming bolder, urging women to revolt—even to secede—if they are not recognized as citizens. Such radical views, combined with her political ambitions, stir up controversy, but she will not be deterred.

On May 10, 1872, the Equal Rights Party officially nominates her as its Presidential candidate, with former-slave-turned-statesman Frederick Douglass as her V.P. If she thought she was persecuted before, it is nothing compared to what follows. Refusing to give up, she fights back the only way she knows how, landing herself in jail on election day and provoking the longest, most sensational civil trial in U.S. history.

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Faithful Traitor by Samantha Wilcoxson

About Faithful Traitor by Samantha Wilcoxson

Margaret Pole is no stranger to fortune’s wheel. From her childhood as firstborn of the heir apparent of England, she was brought low as the daughter of a traitor. After years of turmoil as the Tudor dynasty made its roots, Margaret finds favor with her cousin, King Henry VIII.

Will the remnant of the York dynasty thrive under this tempestuous king or will Margaret discover that there is a price to pay for having an excess of royal blood?

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Murphy’s Luck by Benjamin Laskin

About Murphy’s Luck by Benjamin Laskin

Sometimes rotten luck is better than no luck at all.

Jinxed from birth with astonishing bad luck, Murphy Drummer hasn’t ventured beyond his backyard since he was a little boy. To remedy his loneliness he immersed himself in the mastering of hundreds of hobbies, and in the process developed some amazing abilities.

Now grown up, Murphy must seek a new sanctuary where the world might be safe from his mystifying jinx. Trailing both miracles and mayhem wherever he goes, Murphy stumbles into Joy Daley, a happy-go-lucky optimist who never forgot to thank her lucky stars. The comical, topsy-turvy effects from the collision of Lady Luck and Murphy’s Jinx whimsically upends the lives of everyone in their paths.

At first, Murphy’s victims question who he is; at last, they’ll be questioning who they aren’t. An inspiring and magical romantic comedy of wood-tapping proportions.

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Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson

About Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson

What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?
Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.
And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father, Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all.
He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become.
Are voters really ready for the whole truth?
Are you?
Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises.

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Chasing Dreams and Flies; A Tragicomedy of Life in France by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

About Chasing Dreams and Flies; A Tragicomedy of Life in France by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

In the early 2000s Sophie and John Williams, like many of their British compatriots, decide to follow their dream and go to France in order to find a house for their impending retirement. After several disappointments, their French estate agent, Jean-Christophe, eventually shows them a converted barn that seems to meet all their requirements. When they move in they are surprised to find that the manager of the orphanage lodged in the adjacent house appears to resent their presence.

At about the same time Julie Smithers, a single woman in her thirties, leaves her routine job and a troubled romance in London and moves into a renovated house in a nearby village. She has resolved to write a book and is settling down to her new way of life when a faulty faucet brings her into contact with a handyman named Steve, another British expat.

Sophie and John try to get used to their new way of life in the beautiful French countryside, but are hampered by their ignorance of the French language and culture, resulting in misunderstandings with local workers as well as mishaps in restaurants and elsewhere. Some of the unfortunate incidents are amusing while others are downright annoying. Julie and Steve embark on a passionate romance, but that, too, is not without its ups and downs.

Matters become increasingly ominous for Sophie and John, as their neighbor appears to be perpetrating a series of increasingly hostile acts. Eventually, after attempting to resolve the conflict by peaceful means as well as by increasing the height of their garden wall, John and Sophie decide to complain to the local police. The situation takes an ominous turn when their neighbor enters their house with murderous intent.

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Dancing with Rachel by Ken Montrose

About Dancing with Rachel by Ken Montrose

Sometimes even the voices the voices are hungover…
David an ex-football player just trying to make a life for himself copes with addiction and auditory hallucinations he calls “The Chorus.” Taylor, David’s therapist, struggles to stay sober and fight off depression while his wife lies in a coma. He bounces between his job at a psychiatric hospital, and the ECU of an adjoining hospital. When chaos breaks out on the psych unit, both must find the strength to overcome their demons.

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They Call Me Crazy by Kelly Stone Gamble

About They Call Me Crazy by Kelly Stone Gamble

Cass Adams is crazy, and everyone in Deacon, Kansas, knows it. But when her good-for-nothing husband, Roland, goes missing, no one suspects that Cass buried him in their unfinished koi pond. Too bad he doesn’t stay there for long. Cass gets arrested on the banks of the Spring River for dumping his corpse after heavy rain partially unearths it. The police chief wants a quick verdict—he’s running for sheriff and has no time for crazy talk. But like Roland’s corpse, secrets start to surface, and they bring more to light than anybody expected. Everyone in Cass’s life thinks they know her—her psychic grandmother, her promiscuous ex-best friend, her worm-farming brother-in-law, and maybe even her local ghost. But after years of separate silences, no one knows the whole truth. Except Roland. And he’s not talking.

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