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Goodbye, Orchid by Carol Van Den Hende feature is here. Can love blossom after life changes in an instant? One of the most anticipated 2020 fall reads: Buzzfeed l Parade l Travel+Leisure. Winner: 2020 American Fiction Award l Pinnacle Achievement Award. “Page-turner” “Breath of awe” “Tugs on your soul” What happens when an entrepreneur suffers an accident that changes him forever and he has to decide: to love his woman, will he need to leave her? One July morning in Manhattan, kind-hearted Phoenix Walker accompanies half-Asian beauty Orchid Paige to the airport. Neither believes today is goodbye. But soon after…

The Midwife Murders by James Patterson is here. It is also co-written by Richard DiLallo. This a psychological thriller that you will not be able to put down. It centers around Lucy Ryuan. She is a midwife who works at Gramatan University Hospital, and being a midwife is her life. She has a son, Willie, but she struggles to make enough time for him, leaving him in the care of her neighbor. While at work, on Lucy’s watch, an infant gets abducted. The hospital wants to keep it under wraps, but when a pregnant woman gets found in brutal condition…

Dad Tired by Lee Stevens is here. Being a Dad is hard, not hard like it is for a Mum, having to squeeze the little darlings out in the first place, but it has its own problems. These issues are magnified when it’s the school summer break, and you’re a “work from home” Dad, then there is no escape from the constant squabbling. After his two teenage daughters attempt to maim each other over a missing hairbrush, Sam Bertram decides he needs to take urgent action. Already suffering from severe sleep deprivation and an alarming dependency of coffee, his solution…

THE LAST AGENT by Robert Dugoni is out now. An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestselling series! “In bestseller Dugoni’s fast and furious sequel to 2019’s The Eighth Sister…Dugoni writes with suchimmediacy that readers will feel as if they’re standing alongside Jenkins as he contemplates his next deathdefying move. Fans of espionage fiction are in for a high-octane thrill ride.” —Publishers Weekly Robert Dugoni’s international spy thriller, The Eighth Sister, has been an instant critical andcommercial hit, garnering rave reviews from well-regarded crime writers and top reviewers anddominating Amazon Charts, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestseller…

THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN PLACIDVILLE! It is 1962. Kathy Anderson, a serious actress who took her training at the Actors Studio in New York, is stuck playing Vivacia, the Vampire Woman on Vivacia’s House of Horrors for a local Chicago TV station. Finally fed up showing old monster movies to creature feature fans, she quits and heads to New York and the fame and footlights of Broadway. She stops off to visit her parents and old friends in Placidville, the all-American, middle-class, blissfully normal Midwest small town she grew up in. But she finds things are strange in…

Dreaming Sophia by Melissa Muldoon is out now. Dreaming Sophia is the winner of the Reader Views 2017 Best Book Award. Reader Views writes: “Author Melissa Muldoon presents spellbinding artistic expression in her delightful story, Dreaming Sophia. Not your typical Italian romantic adventure, a remarkable multifaceted story pushes through several genres. The development of her characters is flawless, effortless ability to draw readers into her world.” Melissa is an author, artist, and Italian language blogger — who fell in love with Italy while studying painting and art history in Florence when she was a student. Melissa writes: I would never…

Sisters of the Undertow by Johnnie Bernhard is available on Amazon. Sisters of the Undertow explores the complexities of sibling rivalry and fate when two sisters, born sixteen months apart, one an Olympian idea of perfection, and the other, a preemie with cognitive and physical disabilities, chose different paths in life. They discover luck is not a matter of fate but choices made. Physically and mentally gifted, Kim is a member of an elite scholastic group, The Blue Birds. This sets a benchmark for her, as she judges herself and others by “blue-bird” characteristics. She becomes self-absorbed and escapes through…

The Flying Cutterbucks (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2020) a 2021 Pulpwood Queens Book Club selection—A serving of “Fried Green Tomatoes” set against the backdrop of presidential elections. Decades ago, Trudy, Georgia, and Aunt Star formed a code of silence to protect each other from an abusive man who terrorized their family. One act of solidarity long ago lives with them still. With the election of a president who brags about groping women without their consent, old wounds and deep secrets come alive again, forcing hard truths to be told and even harder truths to be left to the dead. On the outskirts of…

Lord Despair by Sydney Jane Baily is available on Amazon. From the lush English countryside to the glittering society of Victorian London, Lord Despair thought he’d left the worst behind him in the Burmese jungle. He was wrong! How can a man embrace his birthright when he cannot leave his bedroom? Lord Simon Devere returns from the Burmese War, haunted by vivid memories and powerless to know reality from dreams. He sits in the dark, incapable of believing he is truly home — and safe — in England. How can a clever young lady support her family after her father…

A Million Little Lies by Bette Lee Crosby is out now on Amazon. Is there anyone who has never told a little white lie? If so, it is certainly not Suzanna Duff, the charming protagonist in Bette Lee Crosby’s novel, A Million Little Lies. When Suzanna Duff was ten years old, she lost her mama, and that’s when the lies started. They began as harmless little fibs, a way to hide her unbearable loneliness and the truth about a daddy who came home rip-roaring drunk every night. But in time, the lies grew bigger, and now that she is a…

The Last Savior by Jalleh Doty and Pari Adli is out now. Everyone has ideas. Some ideas come and go. Some stay consistent. Some people just want questions answered for the issues that they are puzzled by and desire answers. So let me ask you, the reader, this? What would happen If Jesus Christ came back to the modern world? Forget the figure that was chronicled in the bible, but embark on a journey of who Jesus the human being, activist, philanthropist and who discovered how to fully go beyond the boundaries of the mind as he ‘did’ cultivate miracles. So…

Fast Girls by Elise Hooper Review is here. This novel is a historical fiction novel centering around three young women who turn into Olympians. It is based on actual events and takes us into what those women had to overcome during pre-war America. Betty Robinson is the first character we meet. She is headed to her first Olympics in Amsterdam, where she unexpectedly takes home a gold medal. Betty soon becomes the young woman other runners strive to be and a celebrity among young women wanting to enter the Olympics. However, an unexpected accident derails Betty’s chance of going to…