Sometimes I wonder if I blink too much.
The Silver Hook: A Story of Deception, Love, Greed and Violence Simmering in the Heart of the Deep South
J. A. Griffin
Genre: Action & Adventure | Literary Fiction
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“The Silver Hook” is about life in a small southern town in the early 1960s. This is the environment in which the author spent the early years of his life. The real personalities and events that surfaced under the façade of the pristine external setting of life in this environment provided the motivation for creating the novel. Characters depicting the attempts to relieve the boredom and imposed limitations of life in this environment are fictional. However, the descriptions of events experienced by individuals in “The Silver Hook” mirror reality in that citizens are “hooked” into the consequences of the breakdown in their own moral codes as well as those forced on them by their surroundings. The novel’s cover was chosen for the dual purposes of representing a realistic vision of the specific portion of the Deep South upon which the book was based as well as providing an image which draws readers into the book. “The Silver Hook” offers a vehicle which will carry you safely through the treacherous landscape of false turns taken by its characters in pursuing their hidden desires.
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Dynamite Fishermen
Preston Fleming
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Beirut, 1982. Conrad Prosser is a skilled Arabist, expert agent handler, prolific intelligence reporter, and a connoisseur of Beirut’s underground nightlife. But, as his two-year tour at the U.S. Embassy nears its end, Prosser’s intelligence career is in jeopardy because he has not recruited an agent while in Lebanon, a sine qua non requirement for promotion.
Surveying his many contacts, Prosser selects an attractive Lebanese doctoral student and her idealistic brother as candidates for development. At the same time, he holds clandestine meetings by day and night with his string of Lebanese and Palestinian agents, pressing them to discover who is behind the latest wave of car bombings that has terrorized Muslim West Beirut. But when one of his agents supplies information used to capture a Syrian-backed bombing team, Prosser sets off a cycle of retaliation that threatens more than his career and cherished way of life.
At first denying, then later concealing, apparent attempts on his life, Prosser sets out to save both his job and his skin, exploiting his agents, his best friend, a former lover, his new girlfriend and her enigmatic brother. In doing so, he puts their lives at risk and discovers too late the effect of his heedless actions.
DYNAMITE FISHERMEN offers complex characters, fast-paced action, a vivid portrayal of human intelligence operations and the pungent flavor of Beirut during its dark days of civil upheaval.
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Brightleaf
Raleigh Rand
Genre: Humor & Satire | Romance
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Meet the characters…Mary Beth Green, a semi-neurotic sexually-repressed do-gooder who owns a boarding house and operates an amateur group therapy; Doyle Stubb, a grocery-reading fortuneteller; a slimy hypnotist; the mysterious Jersey Guy; an uneducated mountain woman; a breakdancing computer dude…who carry on as usual until one of them suspiciously dies. The Rapturous Rest boarding house becomes the scene for figuring out whodunit…and then some.
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Baking With Swords: A Short Story Collection
Will Swardstrom
Genre: Anthologies & Literature Collections | Anthologies | Short Stories
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Three stories from two brothers and a sister: Will Swardstrom, Paul K. Swardstrom, and Betsy Baker. Each story with its own unique perspective and genre. The only thread connecting them being family ties between the three authors.
The Price of Greatness by Paul K. Swardstrom: What drives a man? Is it simply being a good person, being a family man, or that single dream of greatness that runs through us all? What if we could have the chance to go back? What is the price of greatness?
Flutter by Betsy Baker: Treasure these moments…children change so fast. What would one mother do when the changes her daughter is going through aren’t so…normal?
A Whimper by Will Swardstrom: At a certain point, human evolution and technology merge, but at what cost? How far will we go before the end is the inevitable conclusion?
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Return to Sandy Creek
Mollie Bickle Cardwell
Genre: Westerns | Historical Fiction
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Inspired by old stories and decaying, stone buildings that sit empty and forgotten, Return to Sandy Creek is the history of the people within those walls, who sometimes rose to extraordinary heights to overcome the hardships and adversity encountered in the settlement of this country. The rewarding study of family history and relocating to the area where Sandy Creek winds through the countryside, prompted the author to share the fictionalized stories of these tough and endearing characters and events.
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