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Escape [A Wyoming Historical Novel]
by Jean Henry Mead
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Escape, a Wyoming historical novel, closely follows actual events of the late 1890s when a four-state governor's pact wages war against outlaws. Members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch kidnap a young woman disguised as a 12-year old boy and take her to the infamous Hole in the Wall hideout in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. There, she manages to hide her gender while listening to the outlaws plan the ill-fated Bell Fourche Bank robbery. Tom "Peep" O'Day, a bungling, alcoholic horsethief is the newes... more info>>
Words: 88521 - Reading Time: 252-354 min.
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The Magic & the Mundane: A Guide to the Writer's Journey
by P. June Diehl
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Tap into your own creative process and unique voice! Learn how to combine the magical art of writing with the mundane daily work of learning the craft. Journey with Esumera, muse extraordinaire, and her feline companion, Mystique, as they inspire you to explore the magic of writing and elevate the mundane. Internalize what you learn from examples and writing exercises to inspire and motivate your creativity. Included as a bonus is a Writer's Book of Days, which includes over 350 unique and inspi... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 57377 - Reading Time: 163-229 min.
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Them's Fightin' Words!: A Writer's Guide to Writing Fight Scenes
by Teel James Glenn
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Join stuntman and author Teel James Glenn as he takes you on a literary journey through the process of creating believable and dramatically valid action scenes in every kind of fiction He takes the mystery out of writing action, but not the excitement! From Fantasy swordfights to martial arts knockabouts, he not only explains literary violence, he also explores techniques that allow you to create them yourself. (Published: 2007)
Words: 53982 - Reading Time: 154-215 min.
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A Faerie Ring
by Michael Honeth
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Plunge into a breathless adventure riddled with medieval lays and puzzles, but beware, once lured into the faerie ring you might never escape. This tale, a romantic fantasy, awakens the ancient and eternal conflict between faeries, trolls, and humans. Elantra is born in the caul, a gift that connects her to the magical faerie realm. She must discover who she really is before chaos tears her family and loved ones apart. William is a changeling who desires nothing more than acceptance among the tr... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 79777 - Reading Time: 227-319 min.
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Gold: A Tale of the California Gold Rush
by Steve Bartholomew
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The year is 1850. Rumors of gold in California turn out to be true. In fact, there's more gold than anyone imagined. Thousands of people board ships or travel cross-country by wagon train, leaving their homes behind to head for the mines. In New York City, young Marcus Gale, out-of-work bookkeeper, would like to join them, if only to escape from his gambling debts. Too bad he doesn't have money for a ticket--or a square meal, or a bed indoors. He jumps at the chance for a berth as stoker on a si... more info>> EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 66744 - Reading Time: 190-266 min.
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Pumping Your Muse
by Donna Sundblad
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Drive your imagination through a series of world-building drills with Pumping Your Muse. Each chapter extracts elements from the real world and uses them to construct a believable fictional realm while giving birth to naturally emerging characters. This innovative process takes fresh scenes, turns them upside down and propels fresh ideas into new un-chartered territories where thought processes depart from the path of the obvious. Following the examples in this book, writer's newly conceived sce... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 58880 - Reading Time: 168-235 min.
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A Lesser Form of Patriotism
by G.G Stokes, Jr
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It is said that during the American Revolution, more Americans served in the British forces than in the Continental Army of the United States. This is their story. In this frontier war, there is no Valley Forge, no Saratoga, no Yorktown. It evolves into a struggle that pits brother against brother, and neighbor against neighbor. The heroes and heroines are simple people who believed in their cause as fervently as did those Americans who fought to free themselves from English rule. A Lesser Form ... more info>>
Words: 121576 - Reading Time: 347-486 min.
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A Village Shattered [A Logan and Cafferty Mystery]
by Jean Henry Mead
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The Valley Retirement Village is the scene of a serial killer's revenge. Who is killing Sew and So Club members alphabetically, and why? When the newly-elected sheriff botches the investigation, Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty, widows living in the village, decide to solve the murders themselves. Dana, a mystery novel buff, and Sarah, a private investigator's widow, soon make a sobering discovery: they are also on the killer's list. Dana's beautiful daughter Kerrie, a news correspondent, arrives, ... more info>>
Words: 60669 - Reading Time: 173-242 min.
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Benning's War [A Novel of the American Revolution]
by Jeffrey M. Keenan
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Isaac Benning sees action in the disaster at of The Waxhaws. Horrified at the outcome of that battle, Isaac goes home. Enlistment over, he feels he can no longer face the horrors of war. But the War won't let him remain at home. Indian incursions into White areas, and a call to arms from the Virginia Militia, lead him to rethink his feelings. In his heart he knows he must 'do his duty' and return. Along the way he will befriend a small band of Indians, hunt raiders near his home, lead men into b... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 91454 - Reading Time: 261-365 min.
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Long Way Down
by Paul Carr
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Candi Moran is drop-dead beautiful, but she's also in trouble. Vince La Salle, a Miami loan shark, wants her dead because she knows too much about his secret in the Caribbean. Candi is shot by one of La Salle's men and turns to Sam Mackenzie for help. Sam, who is good with a gun, takes on the job, but he soon learns that Candi left out some dangerous details as he unravels La Salle's sordid past. La Salle is involved in a high-stakes project in the Caribbean, but where he's getting his money fro... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 79960 - Reading Time: 228-319 min.
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Needle
by L. L. Whitaker
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Officers Ryan Matson and Sandy Rie meet on the Alpha Queen 9, furthermost outpost of the Alliance fleet. Sandy and Ryan establish a personal and professional relationship, which eventually develops into a first-class team flying updated Needle 2's. The Kritsch, a race of sentient insects ('bugs'), are inimical to all other sentient life and hinder the Alliance's advance up the arm of the galaxy. Each mission Ryan and Sandy fly brings them closer to that last, fatal mistake that could be the end ... more info>> (Published: 2006) EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 92531 - Reading Time: 264-370 min.
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Nola and the Goblin Mountain
by A. J. Dryna
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Nola Goddard learns that her parents fled from a magical world to protect their unborn child. Now at age twelve, she inadvertently reveals their location to the dark wizard, Grimald, who kidnaps her parents. Determined to rescue them, Nola finds her way to the magic world where she meets her sixteen-year-old elf cousin, Ryan. When Grimald starts taking over the country, the cousins escape and battle their way across the new and frightening land. Along the way, they fight creatures who are determ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 90645 - Reading Time: 258-362 min.
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Sister Warrior [World of Altiva Series Book 4]
by Teel James Glenn
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Welcome to the sensual, savage and fantastic world of Altiva. It is a world of crystal-smiths and warp wizards, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat where Ku'zn, blue furred warrior woman of the Z'n, gained her freedom from slavery. Now she begins a journey to free her brother, who along with her had been sold into contract bondage to save her tribe. She visits the strange, plague-wracked city of Orania only to encounter bigotry and deception in her search for him. It is a quest that... more info>>
Words: 57569 - Reading Time: 164-230 min.
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Talon of the Raptor Clan
by Clem Daems, Jeanne Tomlin
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The Talons of the Raptor Clan are trained mercenaries prized by rulers, nobles, and the wealthy as elite guards, soldiers and bodyguards. Each Talon is what he is because he has survived the five Ordeals and ten years of training. Alisha, a new Talon to the Raptor Clan, is unique. She survived the five Ordeals, is one of only three to graduate of the hundreds who applied, and one of only five woman Talons accepted in twenty years. Frail when she came to the Aerie, she could not have competed aga... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 77038 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
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The Daemonhold Curse [World of Altiva Series Book 3]
by Teel James Glenn
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Erique Shoutte, warrior priest of the Kova, five years earlier failed to save Lady Caution Daemon from a horrible death. Now her younger sister, Fidelity, has come to him for protection from the same sinister threat. This ancient curse warns that each female of the line will die, drained of blood, before the morning of her twenty-first birthday. No Daemon female has survived in three hundred years. Now, the cycle has begun again with the deaths of three that always precede the murder of a Daemon... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 47995 - Reading Time: 137-191 min.
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The Lucifer Syndrome
by David Conway
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A madman known as the Samaritan embarks on a homicidal crusade, unleashing a reign of terror that exposes a decadent underworld of vice and depravity lurking beneath the surface of metropolitan London. Investigating the crimes with the help of Dr. Cassandra Stark, a brilliant and enigmatic psychiatrist, Inspector James Verlaine uncovers a labyrinthine network steeped in perversion and political corruption?and a sinister conspiracy dedicated to an extreme totalitarian agenda. Drawing closer to th... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Absent the Soul
by B J Bourg
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Between the covers of this collection of short mysteries, you'll find both, the living and the dead, who are Absent the Soul. You'll see the murder victims after the souls have been wrenched from their bodies. You'll step into the lives of the realistic detectives and everyday citizens who are tasked with bringing the killers to justice. You'll grow to love these characters and root for them as they sift through lies, suspects, and clues in their quest for the truth. Finally, you'll meet the kil... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Beyond the Fifth Gate
by Donna Sundblad
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Elita awakens from a nightmare in which she struggles as a 12-year-old against an insectoid race that carries her into captivity. Now twelve years later, her reality is one of forced labor. She lives in a hive complex where humans are forbidden to speak, write, or read. The promise of freedom swells when the prophetic conjunction of five planets marks the long-awaited Kamali's Cycle. But first, as the Chosen, she must travel through five mystical gates during the planets' conjunction and return ... more info>>
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Cadaver
by John P. Matsis
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A shortage of cadavers, necessary for medical school anatomy classes, creates a global market for bodies of the unfortunate dead. With no regulations to govern their acquisition and transport, the scene is ripe for disaster. The Miranda, an ocean-faring vessel, makes regular eight-week voyages. Traveling to the Far East, it loads up with electronics and heavy equipment, sweeps south into the Indian Ocean through the Straights of Sumatra, and then on to East Africa, where the vessel takes on seve... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Death at Dragonthroat [World of Altiva Series Book 1]
by Teel James Glenn
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The strangest day in T.K. Mitchell's life began with the former marine on the run for his life in North Dakota and ended with him on the run for his life from an entire empire on the strange world of Altiva. Would the Evil emperor who thought T.K. was after his job get to kill him? The Nightmare from his mysterious past do him in? Or the strange Shadowbeast that seemed unstoppable and had an insatiable appetite for blood? Then again, would T.K. give into the seductive clutches of the six foot ei... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 54558 - Reading Time: 155-218 min.
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Diary of Murder
by Jean Henry Mead
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Georgi's husband says she took her own life but her sister Dana knows better. With the help of her friend Sarah, a private investigator's widow, Dana sets out to learn what really happened. But she first has to stop Georgi's cremation, scheduled for the following morning. Georgi's brother-in-law is the sheriff, his cousin the coroner, so help has to be found outside the closely knit Wyoming community. She and Sarah soon learn their own lives are in danger as more bodies are discovered (Published: 2009)
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Dunbar's Station
by L. L. Whitaker
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Observe any modern high school at class break, and you'll see lots of kids moving down the halls in a more or less orderly fashion. Some are hiding the desperate secret of abuse. Suppose in that milling throng, we focus on three girls who happen to ride the same school bus. Because all of them live in their own private hell, each recognizes the signs of abuse in the others. Wary, they form a pact--not quite a friendship--and escape to another town where they are thrown into the uncertain, brutal... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Eagle of the Kingdom [New Kingdom Series]
by Joanne Hall
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Escaping the dangerous schemes and plotting of the Telesian court, Lydia travels to the Endless Mountains, realm of the Northern Ghosts. United with these unexpected and unpredictable allies, she prepares once more for war. Aided by her loyal companions, she readies an army to take back Hierath Castle, longing to avenge her massacred kinfolk, and be reunited with her stolen son Rhodri. But the strength of the Old Ones is failing. She can no longer rely on their support. Will she find the courage... more info>> EPPIE Award Finalist
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Hierath [New Kingdom Series]
by Joanne Hall
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In this dramatic fantasy of love and betrayal, a fragile alliance has been formed between the New Kingdom and Telesia, and they have agreed in principle to set aside their centuries-old quarrel over land and culture. The deal has been forged by the efforts of Alex, the peace-loving newcomer to the throne. But things change when Alex falls in love with Lydia, a fisher's daughter from the east, to the displeasure of both his family and his friends. His aunt has already arranged for the alliance wi... more info>> (Published: 2005) EPPIE Award Finalist
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In Exile [New Kingdom Series]
by Joanne Hall
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Alone and in hiding, the young widowed Queen takes on a new identity as she grieves the death of her husband and the loss of her newborn son, abandoned to the care of strangers for his own protection. Hatred for the man who ripped away all she held dear tempers her grief and haunts her nightmares as she relives his brutality, his betrayal. The support of her cousin and a new love do little to ease the pain of her emotional scars, until a face from the past finds her in Cape Carey with a revelati... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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