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Novels
by Linda Sands
Publishing Date: August 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452480909
Price: $4.99
When two legal interns uncover the case of a drug dealer wrongly convicted of murder, their simple intent is to free an innocent man and bring the guilty to justice, however their effort is complicated by a crooked cop, a mobster, his ambitious attorney and a secret alliance.
Novellas and Short Story Collections
Publishing Date: August 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452482422
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The Sugarhouse recalls a simpler time in America when friendships were unqualified, peccadilloes were overlooked, and tradition defined the cornerstone of society. In this charming novella author Donald O'Donovan unveils a world of homespun characters, fertile fishing ponds and innocent love, and at the center of it all is the town's well loved house of ill repute; the Sugarhouse.
Publishing Date: January 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452472515
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Fast, furious, unforgettable and set against the backdrop of a crumbling civilization, Night Train follows arch-outsider Jerzy Mulvaney in an audacious account of what it means to be homeless on the streets of Los Angeles.
Publishing Date: May 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452475844
Price: $4.99
An animated, hilarious account of an English boy's quest to experience Lady Liberty's novelty and promise. If you think you have read every conceivable take on the great American experience, American Blow Job offers a new and unique take on the befuddled and often disenchanted immigrant. And best of all, you just might laugh yourself right off your chair!
Publishing Date: May 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452404653
Price: $4.99
With a cast of eccentrics that rivals “The Royal Tenenbaums”, Alone in the Company of Others is about people and their treasured possessions—a running tape recorder, a collection of diplomas, an attic full of disfigured mannequins, or shelves and shelves of books in an all but abandoned public library—and the distinctive role that each of us plays as part of a group dynamic.
Publishing Date: July 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452437453
Price: $4.99
Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to leave behind everything you've ever known... and become a stranger.
Abandoning a life filled with loss of family, love, and personal integrity, Doran Seeger is on his way to a political awakening in Amsterdam, an unexpected affair in the Swiss Alps, an encounter on a train platform and the discovery of a wadded up handbill leading him to a land where people still embraces real civility: Greece.
Publishing Date: July 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452403915
Price: $4.99
The sequel to Xenos, A Winter Garden follows Doran Seeger's continuing journey from designing weapons guidance systems for the Department of Defense to growing and maintaining a winter garden on a Greek Island.
Publishing Date: May 2009
ISBN-13: 9781452450827
Price: $4.99
In this award-winning novel, a weekend sailor shipwrecked in the South Seas eventually discovers the island's only other human inhabitant—a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to 1930s lost flying ace Amelia Earhart.
Publishing Date: June 2009
ISBN-13: 9781452452661
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Set in Paris and in the Provencal village of Seillans in the South of France, Stones follows bohemian sculptor Cornelius Valentine as he attempts to create his masterwork, but trouble awaits the young artist in Provence when a delusional artisan in the village mistakes him for her former lover, famous Dada artist Max Ernst, and undertakes to slowly poison him for revenge. The novel is about art, love, intrigue and magic, and what happens when one fails in both art and love.
Publishing Date: July 2008
ISBN-13: 9781452445045
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Caught spray-painting graffiti on the wall of a house in Green Meadows, a neighboring and only slightly more affluent subdivision, Hermes Hawthorne is diagnosed with ADHD. This does not console Frank Brickman, the angry homeowner whose house Hermes has defaced. Frank conspires to build a wall to separate the two subdivisions, but how high must a wall rise to ensure the separation of barely distinguishable classes in a modern-day American suburb?
Publishing Date: February 2009
ISBN-13: 9781452417554
Price: $2.99
"They had never felt the fall, never sensed their descent. They heard only a deafening rumble, and then there was darkness—only darkness and crushing weight…”
So begins a profound and disturbing collection of eight short stories, four poems and one vignette by award-winning author David A. Ross.
Publishing Date: October 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452481999
Price: $4.99
Stalking academia, re-ordering double prints
and rewriting the autobiography of Buster Keaton, Clinton's hapless and sophomoric intellectual narrator offers his poignant and funny insights on modern-day culture in a series of slapstick misadventures.
Publishing Date: April 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452433806
Price: $2.99
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The Loyal Opposition by environmental attorney Keith Ainsworth focuses our attention on the day's most critical environmental issues, addressing them in contemporary verse as well as poignant prose.
Publishing Date: April 2010
ISBN-13: 9781452458106
Price: $2.99
The first collection of poetry from Teri Louise Kelly showcases the methodology of an author whose life has been lived both within, and beyond, the borders of the binary system.
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Poetry
Publishing Date: January 2008
ISBN-13: 9781452414270
Price: $2.99
Life, death and the relationships we forge between: The Courage of Intimacy is a collection of modern poetry exploring the fundamental human need to connect with others.
Memoir
Publishing Date: September 2011
ISBN-13: 9781452414003
Price: $4.99
The written accounts of the life of a ‘smart and sassy small town girl’ are as urbane as those of any city dweller. From ’50s and ’60s nostalgia to modern-day values, and from the drama and insight of America’s great books and motion pictures to politics, religion and animal rights, Susie Duncan Sexton’s ‘secrets’ always hit the mark with unexpected candor and a unique perspective.
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Publishing Date: January 2011
ISBN-13: 9781452430904
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Meet Fizzy Oceans—archivist, researcher, environmentalist and adventurer. On her travels she witnesses The Exodus, the Battle of Gettysburg and Hurricane Katrina, and meets notable individuals including Gandhi, Mark Twain, Jacques Cousteau and The Dalai Lama. The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans imagines the bridging of two worlds—the literal and the metaphorical—and questions what it is we have created, what has been lost, and what might be possible for us as individuals and for the Human Race.
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Published June 29, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781452444987
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Shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize, Necropsy in E Minor is the tale of a young college professor who sits down to write his “memoir”. In reality, it records the past six months of his life as he drives around the rim of Florida, adopts a cat named Sanity, becomes an amateur ornithologist, develops a theory of “instantaneous architecture,” endures a shamanic experience, and eggs himself on with the hope that, no matter what happens, his “memoir” might one day be found by archaeologists and thereby provide a key to human life at the close of the twentieth century.
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"The book is well written and tackles some thought-provoking topics such as conservation and global warming... This one is definitely worth a read. Who knows, we may all have a Fizzy Oceans in our future."—Gale Stanley, author of multiple books
"What Ross has done in this book is give us the opportunity through Fizzy Oceans to travel throughout life and get to know the world we live in throughout its different evolutions and in the process better appreciate the impact we are able to have in the here and now. ."—C.A. Webb, Conversations Book Club
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"Overall, Simple Intent compares to John Grisham's early hit The Pelican Brief, and with its mix of city hall corruption, law office intrigue, grit in the hood, and with Philly substituted for Baltimore, would also stack up with a good season of "The Wire". In other words, there's a lot to like here, so if you want a well-written genre novel to ease you through a long flight and possible airport delays, read this one."—Bill Pieper, author of What You Wish For
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"...Kelly’s take on the ‘great American experience’ is worth investigating."—Star Online
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"Night Train shows us the absurdity of the fact that in the city of Los Angeles alone three quarters of a million people are homeless." —Kelly Huddleston, author of Alone in the Company of Others
Night Train is featured on Hear my Story, a web site devoted to stories, poems and artwork about the homeless.
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"The scenes are very authentic in their emotions and reactions. I loved some of the lines in the book... The entire last around-the-world trip Amelia makes is stunningly researched, authentic and gripping... The island scenes between the survivors are completely plausible, and the unveiling of the island's strangeness is a lot of fun to read."—Deepali Pratap, e-Volving Books
"...this is some of the best 'in the moment' writing I've read in a very long time."—Candy Beauchamp, Candy's Raves (and Rants)
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"This is both original and accomplished. Kelly Huddleston is such a good writer that she makes the complexities of this novel seem effortless and natural... This is very good as well as ambitious by any standards."—Deborah Lawrenson, author of Songs of Blue and Gold
"Massively amazing... This is a must read, it’s a book that has everything, it’s deep, witty, thought provoking and works on so many levels. Wonderful."—Best of Kindle Books
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#25 Top Rated in Greek Travel on Amazon.com based on customer reviews.
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"A wonderful story of small town life and an age of innocence with a nod & wink to the Sugarhouse,a hub of entertainment in varying degrees. Having grown up in a small, rural, New England town, I immediately connected with the lives of the characters. Definetly an entertaining read."
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The poem "An Old Chevrolet" from the collection was re-published in November 2010 in print in "Caduceus 8" by the physicians at Yale as part of a collection of poems regarding medicine, sickness and health.
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"The poems are vivid and awaken the senses with intense imagery and seductive scenes which are often shockingly sexual. But, it is hard to take offense to any of these poems because you know what is written is the truth, described from a unique perspective... Teri’s poems are intense, distinct, and memorable."—Kimberlie Wiese, M/C Reviews
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"I noticed that there was a section in this book called the Autobiography of Buster Keaton by Alan Clinton. Being a practical man, I don't claim to know a lot about memoirs or metaphors, but I am pretty sure I'd already written my autobiography. But having read this one, which kept folding out and out like a newspaper which always becomes a tent, now I'm not so sure."—Buster Keaton, review from Smashwords
Publishing Date: February 2011
ISBN-13: 9781452468587
Price: $4.99
Across the U.S.-Mexican border in Ciudad Juarez, Mariscal Street (the Boulevard of Broken Dreams) harbors O’Donovan’s quintessential character, Jerzy Mulvaney, as he unsuccessfully courts the Tarantula Woman—a prostitute named Ysela with a tattoo of a tarantula on her left shoulder blade, who is just one of many women in one man’s unapologetic and aimless existence in Mexico. Tarantula Woman is a refreshingly honest novel that subtly addresses such essential subjects as life, love, death and the challenge of simply being.
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"Raw and graphic... a quick read, characters emotional and real..."—LibraryThing Early Reviewer
"...a dark biographical tale told from the perspective of a jack of all trades and a master of none.
A drifter's tale of love and loss, desire and pain."—LibraryThing Early Reviewer
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Publishing Date: March 2011
Suggested Retail Price: $9.95
Novelist and voice actor Donald O'Donovan retells and narrates for modern listeners 21 classic fairy tales from many lands including such familiar favorites as Rumpelstiltskin, The Gingerbread Boy, Little Red Riding Hood, Chicken Little, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Thumbelina, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs and Rapunzel.
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Publishing Date: January 2009
ISBN-13: 9781452450322
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Good Morning Corfu: Living Abroad Against All Odds chronicles the experiences and observations of an American expatriate living on this Mediterranean outpost of dizzying extremes. Even more than a journal of events and experiences, the essays consider many of life's more profound issues and concerns with insight, optimism and humor.
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"A perfect read for the armchair traveler or occasional 'I want to live in a foreign land' dreamer. Curl up with it on a long winter's day, dream away, then get back to reality."
—Kelly Huddleston, author of Alone in the Company of Others
#17 Top Rated in Greek Travel on Amazon.com based on customer reviews.
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"Writing a review on Necropsy is certainly a challenge. I want to say this is a brilliant piece of work, very well thought out and written but I also want to say I found it hard to read, confusing, too clever for it's own good and, oh, where was I? But then I come across sentences such as "The floor of the hospital felt like sand underneath a foot of water" and stop and think and be back to 'isn't it a great piece of work?' and then I ramble and stumble and wonder if I am asleep or awake. Oops there I go..now where was I?"—LibraryThing Early Reviewer
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"It was an enjoyable read! Something to curl up on the front porch and enjoy a crisp fall morning with. Not overly complicated, but engrossing enough to keep me captivated page after page. Would recommend to friends!"—Melissa McIntyre, librarian at New Mexico State University at Alamogordo
"I was reminded of Vonnegut...at times poignant, scathing, & compassionate. It is worth a second read." —Martin L. Davis II, amazon.com
