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Advantage Disadvantage by Yale R. Jaffe A neighborhood bookie peddles athletes to college coaches and develops a sport betting operation centered on high school games. He recruits an accomplice to execute his last bet, one that could set them up financially for life but is fraught with danger. The Chicago Police investigate the greedy gamblers who might try to manipulate a high school basketball playoff game. A chance meeting between the father of a mediocre student-athlete and the bookie puts in motion a sequence of events transforming the player into a Division 1 prospect using unorthodox basketball training methods. Corrupt adults, who selfishly engage in risky and exploitive behaviors, surround the athlete: gangland profiteers, win-at-all-cost coaches, greedy street agents, shoe company representatives, college recruiters, disloyal lovers, and others. Advantage Disadvantage examines the motivations that drive the surrounding adults to corruption, betrayal, and greed.
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Confidential Communications by J.R. Reardon - Official website Rebecca Lawson, a young general-practice attorney in Vermont, expected to expand her practice when she was hired by Allan Richards to investigate a suspicious employee. Instead, she finds herself amidst national and international conspiracies, manipulations, and murder. With the help of an old colleague, Joshua Tameron, she learns that the financial security and innocent citizens of the United States are in imminent danger, and it is up to them to expose the truth. Confidential Communications is a legal thriller that takes the reader on a ride and evaluates the vulnerability of us all while witnessing the downfall of greed. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Harbinger of Doom by Glenn G. Thater In Harbinger of Doom, Glenn G. Thater transports you to a time of legendary heroes, armored knights, spectacular duels, courtly intrigue, otherworldly evils, and ancient forbidden magics. When mad sorcerers open a gateway to the very pits of hell, releasing outre demons of darkest nightmare upon the world, only the intrepid knights of House Eotrus stand in their way. Claradon Eotrus takes up the mantle of his noble house to avenge his father and hold back the tide of chaos that threatens to engulf the world and destroy mankind. Claradon recruits Angle Theta and Gabriel Garn, mysterious knights of mystical power to stand with him. Theta and Garn take up their swords one last time against the coming darkness - a darkness from which only one will emerge. But Claradon has bought far more than he's bargained for, when his comrade Ob discovers the terrifying secret of Angle Theta. A secret so horrifying as to shatter a man's mind and call into question the very nature of good and evil.
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Jobless Recovery by L.C. Evans Jobless Recovery is a humorous, yet gripping satirical account of the desperation of people betrayed by their own country.
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Kept by Zoe Winters Greta is a werecat whose tribe plans to sacrifice her during the next full moon. Her only hope for survival is Dayne, a sorcerer who once massacred most of the tribe. What’s that thing they say about the enemy of your enemy?
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Min's Monster by Lila, L. Pinord Young Min passes up a chance for a pre-Thanksgiving trip to the city with her parents, never suspecting that this decision will place her in a life-or-death situation. Due to the ferocious snowstorm that catches everyone by surprise, her parents are stranded out on an impassible highway, but it provides the cover Bruno Hessle, a maniacal serial killer, needs to walk away from a minimum security prison near the Quinnu village. He holes up in the warm kitchen where Min sleeps up in the attic to keep warm; forcing her to use everything she has been taught to escape the clutches of this madman. Will she be able to outwit him before her parents arrive and he kills them as they walk through the door?
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Relocating Mia by Rebecca LerwillMia Trentino is the top relocating specialist at Worldmove, Inc., and her latest assignment is sending her to Siberia, Russia. But the new job comes with a new partner--a handsome threat to her career named Douglas Farland. After a rocky start, the job is going well, and things begin to heat up between Mia and Douglas. Then, lies and secrets begin to surface that make Mia suspect her new partner might have a different agenda. What seemed like a simple relocation erupts into a cat-and-mouse game of intrigue full of drug smuggling, secret agents, and the Red Mafiya. Suddenly Mia's in a fight for her life, and she may have to trust the one person who seems the most to blame.
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Sudden Death by Michael Balkind Reid Clark is a pro golfer at the top of the leader board during the PGA tour; he s also a hothead with a reputation for trouble. Reid receives a death threat right before teeing off on the final day of the Master's Tournament, and hires a P.I. to track down the perpetrator. Suspense builds throughout as Reid tries to compete in one of golf s most prestigious contests...and woo the woman he loves...while dodging death at every turn. For golfers, and mystery lovers in general, Sudden Death will score big.
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Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder You can't take it with you... but what if you could? Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling. Scott Waverly isn't like most people. He spends his days finding and fixing computer security holes. And Scott is skeptical of his new client's claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years. Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job? Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people's lives.
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Talented Horsewoman by L. C. Evans Leigh McRae leads a quiet life in a small Florida town, surrounded by horse farms and alligators. For the sake of her daughter, she has traded her own happiness for job security and a truce with her ex-husband Kenneth, a poster boy for control freaks. But her peaceful existence is shattered when she discovers the body of her friend and fellow horsewoman, Rita Cameron. The police conclude Rita died in an accidental fall from a hayloft. Leigh is sure the death was a murder and she sets out to convince the police to investigate so her friend can rest in peace. Meanwhile she has to deal with escalating demands from Kenneth, demands that may cost her her horses as well as her home. And on top of everything else, she has to help her cousin Sammi, who's dating a burglar. But Leigh doesn't let personal problems stop her from sleuthing, even though she admits she is not the world's greatest detective. While digging for evidence, she discovers a secret in Rita's past. Now Leigh and her daughter are in danger, and only Leigh's desperate actions can save them.
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The Ezekiel Code by Gary Val Tenuta Zeke
Banyon is a handsome Catholic seminary dropout who now runs a homeless
shelter in Seattle's old waterfront district and Angela Ann Martin is an
attractive young widow who just wants a simple part-time job at the
shelter. But a single twist of fate turns their simple lives upside down
when together they stumble onto a mysterious code and a rumor about a lost
scroll penned by the prophet, Ezekiel, thousands of years ago. They soon
find themselves thrust deep into a world of secret societies, metaphysics,
mystery and murder as they jet across continents in a race to understand
the code that will lead them to an ancient artifact of profound
importance. Dodging rogue Jesuit priests at every turn, they soon discover
it's not just their own lives that are in danger but also the lives of
everyone on the planet.
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Secret of the Sands by Rai ArenFor 12,000 years a dark
and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In
present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as
archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth... |
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The Feathery by Bill Flynn The Feathery plot centers around a unique type of golf ball used during a record match at St. Andrews, Scotland in 1849. The story is set in San Diego, London and New York, as well as in ancient and modern Scotland. The game of golf blends with mystery and suspense surrounding an obsession so strong by some to own this valuable antique feathery golf ball that they'll commit murder to satisfy it. A sub-plot involves an attempt by a gambling interest to fix the British Open when the leading player's caddie is abducted to force his withdrawal.
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The Jade Owl by Edward C. Patterson In China they whisper about the Jade Owl and its awful power. This ancient stone, commissioned by the Empress Wu and crafted by a mineral charmer, long haunted the folk of the Middle Kingdom until it vanished into an enigma of legend and lore. Now the Jade Owl is found. It wakes to steal the day from day. Its power to enchant and distort rises again. Its horror is revealed to a band of five, who must return it to the Valley of the Dead before the laws of ch'i are set aside in favor of destruction's dance. Five China Hands, each drawn through time's thin fabric by the bird, discover enchantment on the secret garland. Five China Hands, and one holds the key to the world's fate. Five China Hands. Only one Jade Owl - but it's awake and in China, they whisper again. BOOK I of THE JADE OWL LEGACY SERIES - and NOW available - BOOK 2 of The Jade Owl Legacy Series - THE THIRD PEREGRINATION go to: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1441456724
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The Release by Robert A. Meacham The Release is a gripping story about a young man’s struggle to survive the memories of a childhood horror. Unloved by a substance-addicted mother, and beaten daily by an alcoholic father, John Michaels finds himself reenacting the violence that demonized him as a child. His suppression of feelings cannot extinguish the nightmares that live on in his mind. The battle for normality is his story.
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The Time Cavern by Todd Fonseca When ten-year-old Aaron moved from the big city to the middle of Amish country, he felt transported to a different and simpler time and place. But after finding a faded and long forgotten diary page of a boy gone missing over one hundred years earlier, Aaron began an adventure more wondrous and exciting than he could have ever imagined. Befriended by a local farm girl named Jake, together they search for answers to this century long mystery and uncover the secrets of an astounding cavern that will take them to the edge of time itself.
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Vision - Evan's Book by Dan Fitzpatrick In 1944, a top secret organization called the SKP, began a project. The project was to make M. Sebastian Siman a preventer of extreme violence by using death as justice. ...the project went wrong. Instead of becoming a hero, Siman became a brilliant, powerful, unstoppable maniac who brutally murdered over 300 people during a 10 year killing spree. As a result of the failed experiment, he encountered a side-effect; the ability to teleport a replica of himself to wherever he wanted to go, called visions. It was in these mysterious visions that he brutalized his victims until his sudden disappearance in 1967. In 2007, a librarian named Jade Walker witnessed a brutal rape and murder in an old abandoned house in Ariana, Ohio. After a brief physical encounter with the murderer, he finds himself on the side of the road, in New Hampshire. He believed the experience was only a nightmare, until he meets the mysterious Agent Fitz, the new SKP leader. Jade soon learns that not only was his experience real, he was witnessing Siman's return, in a vision of his own. So now with help from Agent Fitz and a mysterious book which holds all the secrets of the vision, Jade must learn to embrace the power he shares with Siman, since he is the only one that could possibly stop him. Follow Jade's haunting adventure in this bone chilling, plot twisting, page turning, action-packed thriller. Vision: Evan's Book will keep you guessing all the way until the mind blowing end! Will Jade be just another victim in Siman's new wrath, or has the world's deadliest serial killer finally met his match?
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