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My Name is Nelson: Pretty Much the Best Novel Ever by Dylan Fairchild

March 10, 2018 by donsloan

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It's Christmas day in dusty, barren Raindale, New Mexico, and exotic dancer Tiffany Golden hears a local news report that changes her life forever. A mysterious, blinding bolt of light has leapt from the heavens to incinerate a feed shed belonging to one Herbert Hickelcropper, a local llama farmer. And…

Permeable Divide by Ellen Rachlin

March 5, 2018March 5, 2018 by donsloan

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https://youtu.be/LMarqrgNScE Amazon Link "In her splendid fourth collection, poet Ellen Rachlin explores what she calls the "Permeable Divide"--the breach between the living and a loved one lost to death, the gap between confidence and hesitation, the gulf between banking and art, and perhaps most devastatingly, the chasm between freedom and…

The Great American Cat Novel by dhtreichler &‎ PhantomCat

February 20, 2018 by donsloan

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When Bengal Charlie, the Secretary General of the United Cat Nations, disappears under the most mysterious of circumstances, the suspects start quick-stepping into focus faster than -- well, a cat on a hot tin roof. In this ambitious paen to George Orwell's classic allegorical tale Animal Farm, author dhtreichler weaves…

Onions by Cy Young

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018 by donsloan

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Amazon Link Charles Wesley Onions is cruising through life as only a twelve-year-old can: aimlessly consuming all the comic books he can afford, and dodging an endless stream of school bullies. Then, he meets octogenarian Sandrine Galano Fuller and his hapless young life changes forever. In this captivating offbeat…

The Long Body That Connects Us All by Rich Marcello

February 11, 2018 by donsloan

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Fathers and sons have always shared a powerful and sometimes difficult bond. When to speak, when to hold still, when to love, when to let go. Rich Marcello, In a marvelous new collection of extraordinary verse, drinks deeply from this well as he channels the thoughts and feelings of every…

Atlantis: Aftermath by Lee R. Kerr

February 9, 2018 by donsloan

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What really happened to the fabled island of Atlantis? Debate on its storied fate has spanned the centuries from the misty time before Plato to the present day. And now Texas attorney and archaeology buff Lee R. Kerr embarks on a fascinating quest of his own to trace, once and…

Encounter With ISIS (John Mordred Book 3) by J. J. Ward

December 29, 2017 by donsloan

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In one of the most entertaining books we've seen this year, a Brit MI7 Intelligence Officer takes on the challenge of forestalling a fourteen-year-old girl's terroristic ideals, solving the kidnapping of a government official's son, and unraveling the mystery behind a corporate cyberattack. And somewhere along the line, a love story…

The Secret Book of Harmony by Anna Iourenkova

December 29, 2017 by donsloan

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Many an esoteric piece of literature has been written over the eons, trying to shed light on the nature of man. And, even as far back as Adam and Eve, relationships -- both discordant and harmonious -- have figured into this discussion. Into the debate now comes an ambitious treatise by…

Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child by S. Craig Zahler

December 15, 2017 by donsloan

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A newly arrived baby with a feral scream becomes the most abhorred -- and the most unique -- resident in a small orphanage with the very word “unwanted” in its title. And thus does tiny, misshapen Hug Chickenpenny begin his stay at the Johnstone’s Home for the Unwanted. In this wonderfully macabre story…

Our Precious Bond by Marlene F Cheng

November 1, 2017November 1, 2017 by donsloan

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Geneva hadn't planned on falling in love that night. But when the big, handsome, professional hockey player known only as "Y" arrives in her Vancouver Emergency Room with a leg injury, Geneva -- the ER physician on duty -- feels a strange vibration circling the space, "as if a wind…

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