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Friday, February 1, 2019

Painting With Words by Dr. Ian Prattis


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Poetry
Painting With Words: Poetry for a New Era
Publisher: Manor House Publishing
Published: November 2018

This collection of poems features six thematically distinct parts, displaying a full spectrum of human emotions, capturing the shared aspects of our experience. Each poem reflects how deeply the author has traveled into his personal experience to process its meaning. His poetry is incisive and devoid of redundant imagery that might obscure the truth, both the poetic and human one.

"With the multi-layered quality of the poems, Prattis takes the reader through the immensities of joy and pain, through the infinite and the mysterious. He dissects the dissonance of the modern world with the scalpel of his poetic musings, and describes the interflow between the human soul and the spirit of earth, paving his quest for spiritual evolution and higher meaning. Prattis’ poetry is a poetic narrative of our basest attributes as a species, our greed, and propensity toward savage violence, as well as our ability to love beyond the telling power of words. His verses awaken the sense of the infinite within us surging our hearts with the power of their message. They restore the possibility of the ancient dialogue between humans and nature, and most of all they restore a sense of optimism." Jana Begovic - Foreword


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About the Author

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A Poet, Global Traveler, Founder of Friends for Peace, Guru in India, Zen teacher and Spiritual Warrior for planetary care, peace and social justice. Ian presently lives in Ottawa, Canada and encourages people to find their true nature, so that humanity and the planet may be renewed. He mostly stays local to help turn the tide in his home city so that good things begin to happen spontaneously.  He is an award winning author of seventeen books. His novel – Redemption – is being made into a movie. His poetry, memoirs, fiction, articles, blogs, and podcasts appear in a wide range of venues. Beneath the polished urban facade remains a part of human nature that few acknowledge because it is easier to deny the basic instincts that have kept us alive on unforgiving earth. Prattis bravely goes there in his outstanding literary work. A stone tossed into the waters of life.


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Fluffy by Julia Kent


Fluffy
Julia Kent
Publication date: April 30th 2019
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Romance

An all-new STANDALONE from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent

It all started with the wrong Help Wanted ad. Of course it did.

I’m a professional fluffer. It’s NOT what you think. I stage homes for a living. Real estate agents love me, and my work stands on its own merits.

Sigh. Get your mind out of the gutter. Go ahead. Laugh. I’ll wait.

See? That’s the problem. My career has used the term “fluffer” for decades. I didn’t even know there was a more… lascivious definition of the term.

Until it was too late.

The ad for a “professional fluffer” on Craigslist seemed like divine intervention. My last unemployment check was in the bank. I was desperate. Rent was due. The ad said cash paid at the end of the day.

The perfect job!

Staging homes means showing your best angle. The same principle applies in making a certain kind of movie. Turns out a “fluffer” doesn’t arrange decorative pillows on a couch.

They arrange other soft, round-ish objects.

The job isn’t hard. Er, I mean, it is — it’s about being hard. Or, well… helping other people to be hard.

Oh, man…

And that’s the other problem. A man. No, not one of the stars on the movie set. Will Lotham – my high school crush. The owner of the house where we’re filming. Illegally. In a vacation rental.

By the time the cops show up, what I thought was just a great house staging gig turned into a nightmare involving pictures of me with an undressed naked star, Will rescuing me from an arrest, and a humiliating lesson in my own naivete.

My job turned out to be so much harder than I expected. But you know what’s easier than I ever imagined?

Having all my dreams come true.

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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire). She lives in New England with her husband and three sons in a household where the toilet seat is never, ever, down.

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Her Double Mountain Outlaws by Madison Faye



Title: Her Double Mountain Outlaws
Series: Blackthorn Mountain Men #8
Author: Madison Faye
Genre: Standalone MFM Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 28, 2019





Blurb

Hard, inked, completely untamed.
The two newest alphas on the mountain
have their eyes on one lucky lady.
But double the outlaw means double the trouble,
And she’s about to find herself caught between a rock and
very hard place…

Our demons almost
destroyed us once. Chased by our sins, our past, and the mob, Blackthorn
Mountain was a clean start. A place we could start over, open our tattoo shop,
and ignore the rest of the world.

It’s a great plan,
except for one little detail: we never expected to find her up
on the mountain.

Gorgeous, sassy,
innocent, and tempting in that way where she doesn’t even know it. We know two
outlaws like us should stay away from Kennedy McKinnon. We know those sweet
curves and soft, pouty lips are off limits. But when one night of mayhem brings
us crashing into her, there’s not a power on earth that could keep us from her
and from claiming what’s ours.

The ghosts of our
past aren’t through with us though. There’s a sociopath of a mob prick looking to
take us down and hurt everything we love.

But that is not going
to happen. Because what’s our is ours. Ours to protect, ours
to share. And we’ll fight like hell to keep her safe.

Kennedy’s worried
about coming between us. She has no idea that’s our goal. She’s worried about
having to choose one of us.

…She’s not going to
have to.


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the Blackthorn Mountain Men books can be read in any order.

Hold on tight!
Double the outlaw seems to have turned into double the book length for this
one! Get ready for the longest Blackthorn book yet - stuffed, packed, and
filled to the brim with more growly alpha outlaw than you ever saw coming ;).

This mfm romance
is ALL about her – no m/m. As with all my books, this standalone is safe, with
no cheating, and a HEA guaranteed.









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USA Today and #1 bestselling contemporary romance author
Madison Faye is the dirty alter ego of the very wholesome, very normal suburban
housewife behind the stories. While she might be a wife, mom, and PTA organizer
on the outside, there's nothing but hot, steamy, and raunchy fantasies brewing
right beneath the surface!



Tired of keeping them hidden inside or only having them come out in the
bedroom, they're all here in the form of some wickedly hot stories.
Single-minded alpha hero, sinfully taboo relationships, and wildly over-the-top
scenarios. If you love it extra dirty, extra hot, and extra naughty, this is
the place for you! (Just don't tell the other PTA members you saw her here...)



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Beasts & Bourbon by Alta Hensley




Title: Beasts & Bourbon

Series: Top Shelf #5
Author: Alta Hensley
Genre: Dark Romance Standalone
Release Date: February 1, 2019




Blurb


My royal blood
flows black with twisted secrets.
I am a beast who wears a crown.
Heir to a kingdom cloaked in corruption and depravities.

The time has come to claim my princess.
An innocent hidden away from my dark world. 
Till now.

Her initiation will require sacrifice and submission. 
There is no escaping the chains which bind her to me. 
Surrendering to my torment, as well as my protection, is her only path
to survival. 

In the end…
She will be forever mine. 











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USA TODAY Bestselling Author of Hot, Dark and Dirty Romance.


She is also an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author. Being a multi-published author in the romance genre, Alta is known for her dark, gritty alpha heroes, sometimes sweet love stories, hot eroticism, and engaging tales of the constant struggle between dominance and submission.




Wrecking Crew Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery By: John Ferak



This book is a seriously in depth account of the Steven Avery murder case. On Halloween day 2005 Teresa Holbock was murdered and the local Police department has pinned it in Steven Avery. A man who had a 36 million dollar case against the same police department for another wrongful incarceration case where he spent most of his adult life in prison for a crime he did not commit. There are several books and even a Netflix series called Making a Muderer on this case. I am not sure what exactly has drawn me to this case that I follow it closely . Maybe this poor man has spent over 35 years in prison for things he did not do or the fact that I was raised in a small town in Georgia that also had a corrupt Police Department and I saw many people take the fall for things they had no hand in. I also love true crime. 

If you have heard of this case and even if you have not thus book is well worth the time to read or in case listen to this book. The book takes you through the evidence. It gives you reasons why it is believed this us a very corrupt case and also why Steven Avery is not guilty. It also points fingers at people who done the corruption, reasons why they may have done it, and even some people who should of been the true suspects. 

I personally cannot wait to see this case played out the rest of the way. I honestly do not know if Steven is guilty or not but it jest seems like he is a scapegoat in a crooked town. 

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Dying to Get Married The Courtship and Murder of Julie Miller Bulloch By: Ellen Harris


This book takes you through the whole case from the lives of Julie Miller and Dennis Bullock from childhood until that awful day Dennis took the life of Julie. Even though he was not charged with murder. Julie just wanted what most of us want love and family while Dennis just wanted money.

 Ellen Harris digs deep into all the facts of this case and when you get to the end it makes you wonder how this man got away with the awful way he murdered his wife. The woman he was supposed to have loved.  Julie's death was nothing short from one of the most horrific ways of death I can imagine. 
Lee Ann Howlett Does a really great job of narrating this book. 

 I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Stranded on Vail Mountain By: Desiree L. Scott


When Joan decides to take her husband Micheal in a vacation to try and save her marriage, Things go anything but right. Her best friend shows up at the resort, then Joan catchers her husband and friend together in a compromising position. Broken hearted she ends up lost on Vail Mountain in a blizzard.

Scott is a Mountain Ranger wants nothing more then to climb in bed and sleep until the blizzard passes when he gets the call of a woman lost on the mountain. When he finds and rescues Joan from her present predicament, he must save them both from the blizzard.

Neither are looking for love but sometimes your heart makes the decision for you.

Desiree L. Scott does a great job with this short book.  It is a clean romance, no steamy sex, with just some language, but not a whole lot.

The book is only 2 hours 20 minutes long, but is jam packed and fast paced. Charley Fae does an amazing job with the narration, each character has a clear voice, and the narration parts are filled with emotion.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.