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Featured Book: A Nose for Trouble: Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers, and My Life of Redefining Adversity by Michael Ainslie
About Featured Book: A Nose for Trouble: Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers, and My Life of Redefining Adversity by Michael Ainslie
For a limited time, purchase the ebook of A Nose for Trouble: Sotheby’s, Lehman Brothers, and My Life of Redefining Adversity for $.99!
The ebook is on sale from June 1 to July 1, 2020.
A Nose for Trouble is about accepting a challenge, redefining misfortune, and rising above. This is a memoir about a man who embraces adventure and misadventure, who often finds himself in unique business and life situations, and who always uses risks and challenges to make things better.
It’s the life story of Michael Ainslie, innovator, problem solver, business leader, philanthropist. He shares about his early beginnings; his career as president, CEO, and distinguished board member across a number of companies and institutions; and his work to transform what’s around him to give the world something of meaning and value.
This Memoir book is available in these Formats: eBook, print, and audiobook
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Imagine you are 18 and fall in love with a handsome, wealthy young man. Your romantic dreams have come true – except his family hates you!
Montreal, 1951. Rebecca Wiseman, 18, a bright college student, lives with her working-class parents. At a local dance, she meets a handsome young man but has little hope of seeing him again. When Sol Gottesman asks her on a date, her joy mingles with disbelief when she learns he is the son of a wealthy businessman.
Sol takes her in his family’s chauffeured Rolls-Royce to the most expensive restaurant in the city, introducing Rebecca to a world of upper-class wealth and privilege. Rebecca is head over heels in love and believes her life is perfect.
But despite Sol’s outward charm, he lacks self-confidence and trust. He reveals the simmering conflicts in his family and his fears that his brother will drive him out of the family business. Rebecca, headstrong but naïve; wants to protect Sol and help him to stand up to the pressure from his family. Their engagement fulfills her romantic dreams, but his family ‘s resistance and the revelation of a shocking sexual secret threaten to tear them apart. Rebecca tries to convince Sol that her love and support is all he needs. A late-night telephone call threatens to change her life forever.
An absorbing romantic book spiced with family secrets and shocking revelations. Online Book Club.org
Vivid descriptions, crisp dialogue and a headstrong female protagonist. Contemporary-Books.com
Winner in the General Fiction/Novel category 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award
The Modest Proposal Institute by Paul James
The Modest Proposal Institute by Paul James
The Modest Proposal Institute’s Founders are looking for a return to mankind’s past inventiveness, which they see being lost. Their belief is justified when their teenage pupils become men who use their programming skills to amass fortunes before heading out into space and down to the ocean floor. Books 1 – 3 are now 99 cents. Book 4 debuts June 4, 2020.
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Alpha Tales 2044 by Wesley Britton
Alpha Tales 2044 by Wesley Britton
Alpha Tales 2044 is a collection of short stories set in a future after climate change and weaponized plagues have devastated much of our planet. It continues the adventures of characters from three earths now bound together in flight from a humanity fearful of what these other-world humans might spread among us, especially the religious beliefs of Beta and Serapin earths. The band escapes into a secret city in British Columbia and then the Canadian wilderness. These are stories of mystery, murder, espionage, harsh survival in a winter wilderness, not to mention adventures with a Sasquatch.
Behind the scenes, U.S. President-For-Life John Gardner has his own plans for capturing the aliens, especially the ones with mutant abilities. It’s a batch of stories full of the unexpected, surprises, and thrills.
Mark of the Medallion by Mike Shelton
Mark of the Medallion by Mike Shelton
He lost his family…
…He’s got voices in his head.
And he’s more powerful than they ever imagined.
Fifteen-year-old apprentice Kyril is sick of being bullied. And after a tragic fire leaves him orphaned with out-of-control thoughts and powers, he can’t wait to escape constant taunting at the wizard academy. So when a dicey faction entices him with companionship, he ignores the grim warning signs.
Even as Kyril’s power grows within the group, he’s left out of the crew’s dangerous plans to derail the authorities. And when being accepted comes at the expense of making questionable choices, he fears his newfound friendships aren’t worth the deadly price.
Can Kyril master his new magic before his shady companions send him to his doom?
Mark of the Medallion is the spellbinding first novel in The Wizard Academies YA fantasy series. If you like sword and sorcery, enchanted adventures, and suspenseful coming-of-age stories, then you’ll love Mike Shelton’s action-packed tale.
Featured Book: Top Man: The Epic Wager by Andrew Marc Rowe
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Gudleik, son of the Skati of the Bear Clan of Freyr’s Land in Midgard, dreams of becoming a skald. From a powerful family and surrounded by success, he should have it all – instead he is shunned for being Loki-cursed and knows his doom is coming. Still he plucks his lyre…
On the other side of the known world, Rosmerta, daughter of Keandre, bloodsworn druid of the horned god Cernunnos of the Blessed Isles, is expected to follow in her father’s footsteps. But her own dream of following the bardic path seems just as out of reach as Gudleik’s. Her lute lies dusty in her cottage…
Cue the music: things go bonkers when the gods get revved up and start wreaking havoc throughout the Celtic and Norse countryside, calling our heroes to adventure. A weary Merlyn of Camelot sits in the middle of it all, forced into the mix by fate (and a rather inconvenient curse).
A real divine mess, the whole of creation gone sideways. A new beginning or the end of days? The souls of our heroes are on the line – it’s time to place your bets!
And get your free copy of the prequel to Andrew Marc Rowe’s epic and outrageous bawdy tale, The Druid Trilogy… that, as well.
This Fantasy book is available in these Formats: eBook
Featured Book: The Modest Proposal Institute by Paul James
About Featured Book: The Modest Proposal Institute by Paul James
The Modest Proposal Institute's Founders are looking for a return to mankind's past inventiveness, which they see being lost. Their belief is justified when the teenage pupils of the Institute become men who go on to use their programming skills to amass fortunes before heading out into space and down to the ocean floor. Modest Proposal Institute Books 1 – 3 are 99 cents from June 1 – 30. Book 4, the final volume, is published June 4.
This SciFi book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print
Decoding Dylan by Jim Curtis
Decoding Dylan by Jim Curtis
In Decoding Dylan, Jim Curtis takes readers behind Dylan‘s image as the quintessential rebel of the 1960s to reveal a new Dylan—Dylan the careful craftsman, a student of the art of songwriting. Curtis is the first Dylan scholar to draw on the revelations in his memoir Chronicles as well as a variety of sources about New York culture in the 1960s. He uses this material to arrive at a radically new interpretation of Dylan’s amazing songs, which revolutionized American music and which won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Curtis shows that these songs are actually collages in which he ingeniously combined themes and images from American popular culture with themes and images from European high culture.
Readers of Decoding Dylan will come away with a new understanding, not just of Dylan, but also of his place in the history of American popular culture as a whole. .
Can’t Stop The Funk by H. Max Hiller
Can’t Stop The Funk by H. Max Hiller
Detective Cadillac Holland is the cop you call when the case that needs solved might not even be crime. It’s an election year and the local king of gentrification and out of town condominium developers threaten to bring disaster capitalism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The ideas the Ninth Ward’s newest builders have about the future of the city’s most troubled neighborhood could once again displace the city’s poorest citizens, many of whom are still grappling with the storm’s economic aftermath. Detective Holland is asked to find the motive behind the offer to buy the homes being built by the Make It Right Foundation, and what he finds stirs the city’s treacherous political waters in ways nobody ever imagined possible.
MenoSaurus: Tyrannosaur Droid Boy by S J House
MenoSaurus: Tyrannosaur Droid Boy by S J House
Book One: Tyrannosaur Droid Boy
The year is 3017. The powerful, shape-shifting Menosuars are watching Earth from their home planet, Prehistoria. Finally, after eons, their plan to take control of Earth and its scarce reserves of Grandidierite is almost complete.
Surviving a near-fatal plane crash, Rex has been rebuilt and wired like a computer. As he recuperates at home, a blazing, fiery rock crashes across the roof of Rex’s house and explodes in the nearby forest. Suddenly, Rex and his best buddy, the furry, yeti-droid Rion, find themselves caught up in the adventure of a lifetime. Can they survive with only Rex’s wits and technology to help them against the deadly alien invaders and trigger-happy, nuke-blasting marines?
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