I finally feel like a normal person again. The painful muscles, bruises, and cuts from Tough Mudder are finally dulled, and whatever cold I caught on the mountain seems to be leaving. The kids are back in school, and my fat little kitty is screaming at me. Back to normal. Summer vacation seems like it went by in a blink. If I don’t hold on real tight I just might fall off this planet.
The Forever Gate – Part One
Isaac Hooke
Genre: Science Fiction | Short Stories
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3740 A.D. The ice age has immobilized the world. Colossal walls seal off the cities from the uninhabitable Outside. Humanlike entities called “gols” run society, and force the humans to wear collars that block the innate powers mankind has evolved.
One man rises up…
THE FOREVER GATE combines elements of science fiction & fantasy to create a dystopian world entirely unlike anything you’ve seen before.
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Forever Ours (Shattered Hearts Book 1)
Cassia Leo
Genre: Coming of Age | Romance | Teen & Young Adult
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Forever Ours is the first book in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shattered Hearts Series.
Sometimes, it takes more than love to mend a shattered heart.
After eight years of being tossed from one foster home to another, Claire’s caseworker gives her an ultimatum: Behave or your next home will be a halfway house.
When Claire arrives at the home of Jackie Knight and meets Jackie’s son, tattooed guitarist Chris Knight, she fears she’ll be seeing the inside of that halfway house soon. But Chris soon gains her trust through his music and unwavering patience.
Claire has finally found her forever home. And Chris and Claire soon find themselves falling in love.
But Chris’s dreams of musical stardom and Claire’s need for a stable home soon put their love in jeopardy. Chris struggles deeply with his plans for the future, entirely reluctant to leave Claire behind; until Claire does something that may break their love — and the only home she’s comes to know — forever.
Due to strong language and mild sexual content, this book is not recommended for readers under the age of eighteen.
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Chasing Hope
Kathryn Cushman
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Religion & Spirituality
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A Personal Drama of Shattered Dreams and Second Chances
A talented runner fully committed to Olympic dreams, Sabrina Rice’s future was shattered by a devastating diagnosis. One forfeited scholarship and several years later, she has new goals and dreams that have nothing to do with running–something that’s become far too painful to think on.
Until the day she sees Brandy Philip running across the community college campus, easily outpacing security. Sabrina immediately recognizes world-class speed, and it’s all the more painful that it belongs to a teenage graffiti artist. When a chance encounter brings the two young women together, Sabrina becomes Brandy’s best hope for staying out of juvenile hall. Soon, Sabrina begins to feel an uncomfortable nudge that her new life is just about to be toppled…that God may be calling her to minister to this talented but troubled girl.
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The Long Escape
Jeff Noonan
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | History
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This is a true story; a story of survival. It tells of how a boy and his family lived a life of hellish abuse, fought back, and learned to live with the memories.It is also an adventure tale, following the boy through the military buildup to the Viet Nam War, Pacific Island love affairs, and his personal battles in the Montana mountains.
As a boy, Jeff was raised in the mountains of Montana where he idolized his father, a former professional boxer.But in the early 1950s, his idol became an alcoholic and an abuser, repeatedly beating Jeff, his mother, and his younger siblings. In desperation, Jeff resorted to digging hidden bunkers where the family could hide when they were attacked.Life became a daily struggle, both physically and financially.
He left school and worked wherever he could find a job, using the money to help feed his family.He labored in lumber mills, railroads, and ranches until he joined the military at age seventeen.
This story follows the boy from the hell of his childhood through Pacific Island love affairs, killer typhoons, and Hong Kong bar battles as he fights his way to acceptance in the rough and tumble world of a destroyer sailor. In his first Navy assignment, he finds that his poor education has resulted in a job he despises; working as a permanent head cleaner on an old destroyer.But through perseverance, hard work, and an iron will, he becomes a leader, supervising teams working on experimental shipboard missile guidance systems.
But you can’t run from yourself.Jeff’s family problems haunt him, frequently bringing him back to Montana; to increasingly violent confrontations with his father.Tensions build until the inevitable happens and Jeff is drawn into a final, epic, battle with the abuser.
A sobering, visceral, and shockingly real portrait of domestic violence, the boy’s relentless drive for survival is nothing short of extraordinary. An uplifting journey to redemption and self-acceptance, The Long Escape sends an unforgettable message to the abused that there really can be hope and love in their future.It also brilliantly captures the sometimes hollow feeling of victory and the scars of abuse that are carried for a lifetime.
This is a true story.Some names have been changed to accommodate participants, but the story is absolutely true.The author sincerely hopes that, by publishing this memoir, he can provide a bit of a roadmap for others struggling to escape a life of abuse.
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The Monsterjunkies An American family Odyssey: “Being a normal Familyis a State ofMind” (Book One 1)
Erik Daniel Shein
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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Another unusual creature has been delivered to the vast estate at 1313 Road to Nowhere in Foggy Point, Maine to add to the collection of odd, rare, or thought to be extinct species. This is a place where the magical is real and the bizarre is normal. Welcome to the Monsterjunkie Manor.
Ah, but all is not well in the quirky, gothic Monsterjunkie world. Outside forces are scheming to rid them from the area while the teens and their friends cope with harassment for being different. Of course, the name itself brings suspicion and rumors about what goes on at this mysterious residence. Will their private world be exposed? And how will Crow Monsterjunkie come to grips with his name, his family legacy, and the masks that people wear to hide their true selves?
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