Access to Power

Political Thrillers & Suspense
Author: Robert Ellis
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Access to Power

Three weeks before a crucial senatorial election, a man is gunned down execution-style in a D.C. office. Police are quick to call it a case of robbery gone bad, but Frank Miles suspects something far more sinister behind the murder of his business partner.

Washington’s most feared image maker, Frank’s ruthless media manipulation has earned him countless admirers…and just as many enemies. Now, for the first time in his life, Frank’s met his match in a shadowy schemer as clever as himself–but far more lethal.

As the body count rises, Frank becomes the U.S. Attorney’s chief suspect–and a cunning killer’s next target.

A Million Miles From Home

Contemporary American Fiction
Author: Mike Dellosso
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A Million Miles From Home

Ben and Annie Flurry have the perfect family, until an accident takes Annie’s life and leaves their daughter severely injured. Now Ben struggles to come to terms with his own grief and guilt.

As the past he tried to leave behind threatens all he holds dear, Ben makes the difficult decision to move back to his childhood home to seek the help of his mother — and the father he remembers as abusive and an alcoholic. His mother claims his father is a changed man, but Ben isn’t so sure. Can he find the strength to be the dad and man his father never was? Or will the wounds of the past ruin Ben’s chance to love again?

A MURDER ON WALL STREET (Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mystery Book 1)

Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Author: Owen Parr
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A MURDER ON WALL STREET (Joey Mancuso, Father O'Brian Crime Mystery Book 1)

Lucky for readers, that’s a great opportunity for the kind of rare mystery series with something for everyone—a tough guy, three awesome women, and a classic Golden Age gentleman-detective clergyman. The twist? The cop and the cleric are half-brothers who operate a PI firm out of their bar.

Owen Parr pulls off a crowd-pleasing coup in the first entry in his Joey Mancuso/Father Dominic O’Brian series—a perfect blending of the hard-boiled and intellectual schools of detecting. Joey, who got kicked out of the police department by means of a small frame, is the ex-cop. The women are a fiery FBI agent, (Joey’s elusive Cuban girl friend), a glamorous “researcher”, and perhaps most memorable of all, Joey’s mentor and ex-partner, Lucifer–officially Lucy, but the nickname says it all.

Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 1 – 3

Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Author: BJ Bourg
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Clint Wolf Boxed Set: Books 1 - 3

Embattled former detective Clint Wolf is the newly appointed police chief for Mechant Loup, a small swampy town in southeast Louisiana. Usually a quiet town, the tranquility of the place is shattered when a human arm is found in the jowls of an alligator. Once it’s determined the arm belongs to a reputable business owner, the race is on to find the man and figure out what happened to him. Little does Clint know that solving the case could unearth a plot so evil it would go down as the worst event in Louisiana history . . . and he might not live to see it.

Remember, Remember: a Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Anna Elliott, Charles Veley
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Remember, Remember: a Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James Mystery

On a cold morning in 1897 . . .
a lovely American actress awakens in London  – lying face down on the concrete pavement outside the British Museum. She has no memories. She does not even know who she is, although she has a vague recollection of the name Sherlock Holmes. What she believes is that she has may have just killed someone, and that someone is definitely trying to kill her.
As she searches for clues to her true identity, she will learn that she is not the only target. Unless she can defeat her evil adversaries, the people most dear to her will die.If you love a strong heroine and a classic Holmes, with a touch of romance, you’re going to love this fast-paced mystery.

Immaculate Deception (Nosy Vicar Mysteries Book 1)

Cozy Animal Mystery > Christian
Author: Hannah Weston Price
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Immaculate Deception (Nosy Vicar Mysteries Book 1)

Meet Reverend Regina Watson. A lady Vicar, struggling with her faith but fiercely protective of her parish! Reverend Reggie hopes that a small village parish will offer the fresh start she needs. But a murder was not part of the plan!

Almost immediately, she manages to get on the wrong side of the parish chairwoman and the handsome Detective Harry Thornton. But it’s when the beloved Sunday School teacher, Elsa Murphy, is found dead, that the Devil’s Food cakes really hit the fan!

All the evidence points to suicide, but the plucky Vicar simply will not accept that a sweet and pious woman like Elsa would take her own life. And Reggie will prove it herself if she must.

On the surface, Patchwork Hill appears to be a picturesque English village, but underneath scandalous secrets and festering grudges have set down roots and grow like poisonous weeds.

January First: A Child’s Descent into Madness and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her

Special Needs Parenting > Schizophrenia
Author: Michael Schofield
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January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

Michael Schofield’s daughter January is at the mercy of her imaginary friends, except they aren’t the imaginary friends that most young children have; they are hallucinations. And January is caught in the conflict between our world and their world, a place she calls Calalini.  Some of these hallucinations, like “24 Hours,” are friendly and some, like “400 the Cat” and “Wednesday the Rat,” bite and scratch her until she does what they want.  They often tell her to scream at strangers, jump out of buildings, and attack her baby brother.

At six years old, January Schofield, “Janni,” to her family, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, one of the worst mental illnesses known to man.  What’s more, schizophrenia is 20 to 30 times more severe in children than in adults and in January’s case, doctors say, she is hallucinating 95 percent of the time that she is awake. Potent psychiatric drugs that would level most adults barely faze her.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels (Global Classics)

Classic Literature & Fiction
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels (Global Classics)

Housed in one superb volume,’The Complete Sherlock Holmes’ includes every Sherlock Holmes tale penned by the great Arthur Conan Doyle. With a linked table of contents, you can click on each and every chapter, making for easy navigation through this mammoth omnibus.

Sherlock Holmes, the greatest fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre.

Guilt: An Alex Delaware Novel

Thrillers
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
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Guilt: An Alex Delaware Novel

In an upscale L.A. neighborhood, a backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried sixty years ago. Soon thereafter, in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor’s vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation—all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity. But the specter of fame rears its head when the case unexpectedly twists in the direction of the highest echelons of celebrity privilege.

The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Biographies of US Presidents
Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain’s?

In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books–and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend. Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralized—as the Founding Fathers intended—to a highly centralized, activist state.

The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

Marketing for Small Businesses
Author: Daymond John, Daniel Paisner
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The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

Daymond John has been practicing the power of broke ever since he started selling his home-sewn t-shirts on the streets of Queens. With a $40 budget, Daymond had to strategize out-of-the-box ways to promote his products. Luckily, desperation breeds innovation, and so he hatched an idea for a creative campaign that eventually launched the FUBU brand into a $6 billion dollar global phenomenon.  But it might not have happened if he hadn’t started out broke – with nothing but hope and a ferocious drive to succeed by any means possible.

Here, the FUBU founder and star of ABC’s Shark Tank shows that, far from being a liability, broke can actually be your greatest competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. Why?  Because starting a business from broke forces you to think more creatively.  It forces you to use your resources more efficiently. It forces you to connect with your customers more authentically, and market your ideas more imaginatively.

Silver Sparrow

African American Literature
Author: Tayari Jones
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Silver Sparrow

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.

Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon’s two families—the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode. This is the third stunning novel from an author deemed “one of the most important writers of her generation” (the Atlanta Journal Constitution).

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