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Thursday, September 3, 2020

Eligible Receiver by S.R. Grey

Title: Eligible Receiver

Series: A Men of Fall Novel

Author: S.R. Grey

Genre: Sports Romance/Romantic Comedy

Release Date: September 1, 2020

“The Men Of Fall series is fantastic and Eligible Receiver makes it even better.” - Goodreads Review

“This was a great addition to the Men of Fall series and I really cannot wait for more.” - Goodreads Review

“Unique characters with fantastic interactions make this a terrific read. Loved it and look forward to more.” - Goodreads Review

Becca is a runner.

She ran from me the first day we met, and she still runs all the time—from us, from what we could be.

She tells me it’s because she doesn’t believe in love.

I tell her “Believe in me.” Because I, Lars Samuels, will rock her world and treat her like a queen.

She says, “Ha, I will never be caught.”

Good thing I’m really good at catching things. I should be. I’m the best wide receiver on the Columbus Comets football team.

I like winning. So I’m going to win her.

Once I catch her, of course.

S.R. Grey is a USA Today Bestselling Author of the popular Boys of Winter hockey books and Men of Fall football novels. Both series can be read in any order or as standalones. Other New Adult and Romantic Suspense works of hers include the Judge Me Not books, the Promises series, the Inevitability duology, A Harbour Falls Mystery trilogy, and the Laid Bare series of novellas.

When not writing Ms. Grey can be found reading, traveling, running, and cheering for her hometown sports teams. Sometimes all at the same time!

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Jax by MLJ Quigg

Jax

Knight Attack

Book One

MLJ Quigg

Genre: contemporary romance

Date of Publication: 2nd September 2020

Number of pages: 206

Word Count: 55668

Cover Artist: MLJ QUIGG

Book Description:

Rock royalty.

That’s what people call me.

But all it took was a single phone call to bring me to my knees.

Five years later, my life has changed irrevocably forever.

Though someone lurks in the shadows threatening to tear all that I love apart.

An obsession of the worst kind.

Can I keep the woman I love safe?

Or will everything burn to ash…

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Excerpt:

“For curiosity’s sake, how did you get my number?”

“I got your number by pushing random numbers on my cell, and it rang. Thanks for answering and being so good about it. A family meeting sounds like a good idea. What’s your name?”

“My name is Layla. What’s yours?”

“Jaxson, but everyone calls me Jax.”

God, that voice, it was like butter. So seductive and smooth. Deep and gravelly but had that sexy rasp to it that musicians usually have. I could imagine the man behind the voice, and that made me tingle between my legs. Fuck! I needed to get laid if his voice alone was turning me on.

“What do you do, Jax?”

“I’m in a band.”

Okay, that was cool.

I wondered what Jax did in the band. Did he play the guitar? Play the drums. Or was he a singer? With that voice, my guess? He was a singer. How famous was he? Who knew.

“That’s amazing, Jax. What’s the band’s name?”

“Knight Attack.”

Hooolllyyy. Shit.

No fucking way.

This had to be a joke.

Knight Attack was massive.

They were the biggest breakout band in Australia, and they had only recently gone worldwide with great success. I used to listen to them in Australia, well, I still listened to them. Everyone knew back home that I was a massive fan of the group. This had to be a practical joke. My guess? My brother was behind it. Bobby would do anything to get me back home.

“Fuck off! No way! You are not Jax from Knight Attack. Who is this, really? Did my brother put you up to this? I bet it was Bobby. Tell that meddling brother of mine I am not falling for it, and I’ll come home when I’m good and ready. Jax from Knight Attack? Ha-ha, really, I wasn’t born yesterday,” I ranted.

Yeah, I was on a roll. My mum and brother, Bobby, had been hounding me to stop sulking and come back home. Like I wanted to be in a small country town in the middle of Australia where everyone knew everyone and what you ate for breakfast, especially after what had happened to me. The biggest humiliation of my life so far. No, thanks.

Jax interrupted my internal dialogue as he said, “Okay, I’ll prove it. Tomorrow morning, we are on Good Morning America at ten. I’ll say your name and dedicate a song to you. If you’re watching and believe me, ring me back on the number you now have on your phone. I gotta go, though. We’re about to go on.” Then he hung up.

He. Hung. Up.

What the fuck just happened?

About the Author:

Australian author MLJ Quigg – lives in NSW, Australia, with her husband, three adult children, and six cats—yes, you heard that right, six.

Growing up in a huge family of eight kids was always noisy and didn’t give her enough alone time to unwind.

Books have always given her an outlet from the craziness that is her life. Nothing is better than curling up with a good story to take her mind off her surroundings.

As a new author, she hopes you enjoy her stories and helps you get out of your world and into hers for a few hours.

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The Secrets We Keep by Lisamarie Kade

Title: The Secrets We Keep

Author: Lisamarie Kade

Genre: New Adult Romance

Release Date: September 3, 2020

Cover Design: Amanda Walker PA and Design Services

In a blink of an eye life can change, altering the path one is on.

Now living in a new town with a new name, Evie quietly learns to adjust.

When she meets Landon, he captures her attention and makes her feel things she's never felt before.

But Evie has been dealt a hand she didn't ask for, one that consists of secrets she can't tell.

What will happen when those secrets come out of the darkness, revealing a truth she didn't want exposed?

Can Evie and Landon weather the storm together or will their secrets tear them apart?

"I absolutely loved the characters and the story. Romantic, suspenseful, fun, sexy, and sweet. A great read from an up-and-coming new author." Jennifer Goodreads reviewer.

"Oh Evie and Landon stole me from the start with this story. These characters were well written. The is a fab debut story from this author." - Reading with 2 Book Lovers

"A well deserved 4 stars for this author's debut novel, The Secrets We Keep. The start is fairly sinister and the reminder ran all the way through the story." - Sandra Loves Reading

Lisamarie Kade lives in the Sunshine State with her husband, loads of children, and 2 naked dogs.

Coffee and chocolate are her go to most days. She believes music is life.

When she isn't busy with her family she enjoys reading, writing, and going to concerts.

Lisamarie would love to hear from you. Please feel free to reach out and follow her on social media.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

The Ninth Passage by Dale O. Cloninger

Historical Fiction

Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing

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Alec Driver, a WWII veteran earns an advanced degree in music from a
prestigious university. At age thirty-seven with glowing recommendations in
hand, he secures the post of choir teacher at a small town high school on
Florida's west coast. Soon thereafter he falls in love with Tracy Ashbury a
bright, talented and attractive student in his choir. Community outrage
aroused by his courtship demands his dismissal prompting certain influential
citizens to affect Alec's rescue. National recognition for the choir's
unprecedented performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony vindicates Alec's
supporters or so it seems...

About the Author

Dale O. Cloninger is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of
Business at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. The Ninth Passage is a
fictional account of a series of actual events that transpired from
1953-1962 in his native Clearwater, Florida. The Ninth Passage is his third
book and second novel.

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COPY BOY by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Join Us For This Tour from August 24 to September 18, 2020

BOOK DETAILS:

Series Title: COPY BOY by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Category: Adult Fiction (18+)

Genre: Noir, Historical Mystery, Literary

Publisher: She Writes Press

Release dates: June 23, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13 + M. The book includes: the F-word 7 times, the word "g--dammit" 4 times, and one violent fight in the beginning.

Book Description:

Jane’s
a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She’ll become a remarkable
woman, an icon of her century, but that’s a long way off. Not my fault,
she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after
Daddy. She steals Momma’s Ford and escapes to Depression-era San
Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy.
Everything’s looking up. She’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning
validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her
day. But then Daddy reappears on the paper’s front page, his arm around
a girl who’s just been beaten into a coma one block from Jane’s
newspaper―hit in the head with a crowbar. Jane’s got to find Daddy
before he finds her, and before everyone else finds her out. She’s got
to protect her invented identity. This is what she thinks she wants.
It’s definitely what her dead brother wants.

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Meet the Author:

Shelley Blanton-Stroud grew up in California’s Central Valley, the daughter of
Dust Bowl immigrants who made good on their ambition to get out of the
field. She teaches college writing in Northern California and consults
with writers in the energy industry. She co-directs Stories on Stage
Sacramento, where actors perform the stories of established and emerging
authors, and serves on the advisory board of 916 Ink, an arts-based
creative writing nonprofit for children. She has also served on the
Writers’ Advisory Board for the Belize Writers’ Conference. Copy Boy is
her first novel, and she’s currently working on her second. She also
writes and publishes flash fiction and non-fiction, which you can find
at such journals as Brevity and Cleaver. She and her husband live in
Sacramento with an aging beagle and many photos of their out-of-state
sons.

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Guest Post by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Though I’ve always been a traditional reader—that’s my secret superpower—I only discovered audiobooks ten years ago, 2010, when I was asked to help put together a program of Audio Book Clubs in a Box for California libraries. It was an amazing project for which I listened to 32 audiobooks. It wound up hooking me on audio reading.

When I recently published my first novel, Copy Boy, it was important to me to find just the right narrator. In my experience, when I listen to an audiobook, the story seems to get even closer into my consciousness than when I’m eye-reading. The story, the characters, are with me when I’m not controlling them, entering my ear, my brain, as I drive or walk or garden. Somehow, this way of storytelling feels very intimate, a whisper in the ear. Just as the wrong narrator can ruin an audio experience, the right one can make it.

I wrote Copy Boy literally with an ear for what it should sound like, my main character’s dust bowl Okie accent, her attempt to hide it, her failure at that, the way it slips out under stress, anger, fear, happiness. The way it affects her interactions with sophisticated city people. The way it gives her vivid authority when she asserts herself over those same people.

I was thrilled to hear narrator April Doty’s audition. Her voice was perfectly accented, scratchy, cranky, quirky, just the way I wanted Jane to be. But it went beyond her voice. April is a perceptive, intelligent reader. We met over Zoom to talk about my book, and she asked questions that showed me she really got who Jane is, the troubles in her life and in her character, troubles that should be revealed in her voice.

I sing April’s praises wherever I have the chance. I think you’ll be hearing a lot from her.
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The Shale Controversy by Ian Dexter Palmer

The Shale Controversy

by Ian Dexter Palmer

Genre: Environmental Nonfiction

The Shale Controversy assesses the pros and cons of the shale revolution. Written for lay readers as well as experts, the book lists the personal benefits of cheap gas and oil as well as the trade balance achieved for the United States. On a global scale, cheap energy has lifted millions of people into the middle class.

But there are downsides of the revolution. One is the threat, present and future, of earthquakes in connection with drilling of shale wells. The biggest downside may be the threat of global warming –attributed to greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels, including shale-oil and shale-gas.

Australia is a poster-child for global warming and Dr Palmer in 2019 drove past kangaroos killed by a severe drought that turned into the worst wildfires in a century in late 2019. He also visited the corals being bleached by global warming in an otherwise pristine part of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns.

This leads Dr. Palmer’s thoughts to the immense challenges faced by oil and gas companies. Should they cut back on drilling and fracking, and by how much? Dr. Palmer rounds out the book with solutions to avoid potential disasters that that the experts insist are coming at us fast.

Praise for The Shale Controversy

“Despite having been in oil and gas for over ten years, I’ve always struggled with how to simplify the complexities of the industry. Dr. Palmer has done it in his book. It is thorough, fact rich, fair and easy to follow. If you want to explore the big questions, better understand the issues and decisions associated with powering our world, this book is a must read.”

-- Mark Madison, Managing member, Absolute Oil+Gas.

“Dr. Palmer presents a balanced, informed, and captivating overview of the shale oil and gas revolution in the 21st century. The reader is given a clear understanding of shale fracking and the impact on the environment, earthquakes, and global warming as well as the economic benefits.”

-- John Cameron, Well Completions Consultant.

“The author of this book will take you on a fascinating journey from the risks and benefits of fracking, to an examination of an undeniable threat and dilemma faced by mankind – all a part of the twenty first century shale gas and oil revolution. The book offers valuable ideas for solutions to the problems.”

-- Ion Ispas, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

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Ian Palmer has a Ph.D. in cosmic rays and spent thirty years as a petroleum engineer, consulting around the world. He gives entertaining talks on fracking, shale-gas, earthquakes, and global warming. He now lives and hikes in the Mountains of New Mexico.

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