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<b>Super Bad by Kai Strand
</b>The world is in chaos. Violence and thievery reign. And with the supers still balanced, it’s only getting worse. Without good versus evil, the supers care less and less. In order to restore purpose, the world needs its super heroes and its super villains, but the one who balanced them in the first place is missing.
Sandra’s concern over finding her brother, Jeff, isn’t her only problem. Her pathetic excuse for super powers has left her needing a new ankle. And though she’s still very much committed to her boyfriend, Source, she’s growing unreasonably attracted to Set, the boy who double crossed Jeff by stealing his girlfriend.
When Sandra is taken and held as bait by some kids who want to unbalance the super world, it becomes the inciting event that changes things for supers everywhere and forces them to answer the question, “Hero or villain?”<br />
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<span lang="EN-AU">The classroom door opened and Sandra glanced toward it, along with the thirty other kids in the room. She snickered and raised her eyebrows at Lexa when a young man wearing a Hermes costume, complete with wings fluttering on his heels, floated in.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">“I’m not gonna lie,” Lexa leaned over to whisper. “I hope a draft lifts his skirt so we can see what’s underneath.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Sandra giggled. “My guess is bun huggers. Gold lame to match his shiny winged cap.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Lexa waggled her eyebrows. “Shiny gold buns. I like.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">The teacher frowned at the young man. “Can I help you?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">“I have a delivery for Sandra Tohler.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Sandra gulped. This couldn’t be anything besides embarrassing. A tidal wave of heads turned toward her causing her cheeks to flush with heat.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Seeing where everyone’s attention settled, the Hermes guy floated between the rows of desks and came to rest near hers. “Sandra Tohler?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Reluctantly, she nodded.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">He cleared his throat before delivering a soliloquy in a clear, resonating voice that Sandra was sure the students in classrooms across campus would hear.</span></div>
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“Sandra, oh Sandra, my lovely, stormy vixen, hear my humble plea. Your essence has absorbed into my every thought and now I wonder how I will sit for my exams. Will I answer essay questions by describing the intense sable color of your hair, or the enticing moss of your eyes that makes me imagine us lying in each others arms in a fairy forest?”</div>
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Sandra’s forehead hit her desk with a loud thunk, her voice a mumble against the surface. “Please stop. Go away.”</div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">But the Hermes guy continued in his orator’s voice. “I’ve relived our kiss uncountable times. Your lips were velvet soft, but demanding.”</span></div>
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A chorus of “Ooo,” erupted through the room.<br />
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<b>Praise for the Book</b>
I have enjoyed every minute I've spent with the characters of the Super Villain Academy world, but I have to say that this is my favorite book of the series. There's action, romance, and a show down I didn't see coming. –Mary Waibel, author
This is a great series and I am disappointed that it’s over. I will miss these characters. I may just have to reread the three books again! – Amazon customer
[Y]ou’re in for an exciting ride with Jeff and the other superheroes. Told from different point of view characters you get to see inside the heads of the major players. Sometimes that’s a bit scary. –Beverly McClure, author
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When her children were young and the electricity winked out, Kai Strand gathered her family around the fireplace and they told stories, one sentence at a time. Her boys were rather fond of the ending, “And then everybody died. The end.” Now an award winning children’s author, Kai crafts fiction for kids and teens to provide an escape hatch from their reality. With a selection of novels for young adult and middle grade readers and a short story blog, Lightning Quick Reads, Kai entertains children of all ages, and their adults.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So for fifteen minutes I prayed. I prayed to God or whoever runs the show, begging for the result to come back negative. Losing my driver’s licence would have a great impact on my job and my life. It wasn’t something I would look forward to trying to explain at all, but I knew I would be able to come up with something if I had to. I am a very good liar but I didn’t want to go through that. Every day, everything I did was a lie, and I was already telling too many. So I prayed, and promised on my soul’s very existence that if I got out of this, I would get in my car, drive home, and never do anything like this again. I would give up the trannies, the mistresses, the beautiful girls they call prostitutes; I’d give up the whole lot. The focus and intensity of my prayers was all-consuming. I felt it through every fibre of my being as I begged the heavens for just this one favour.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The officer returned from the other room and gave me the good news. The result had come back negative and I was free to go. The old cop on the front desk was surprised, but I could feel he was happy for me. We had got on well in our time-killing chat while I waited. They returned my car keys to me and I left. I walked back to my car, with relief flooding my body, and rang the tranny girl I had been on my way to see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">“Hi, it’s Josef,” I told her when she answered, “I had a bit of trouble. I’m running late but I’m still coming,” I blurted out. “I’m probably about twenty minutes away. Is it still okay to come and see you?” I asked anxiously. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">“Of course,” she replied, “That’s fine. I’ll see you when you get here.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a;">This all happened without a second thought about God, or the Divine, and without a moment of hesitation or remorse. Even before I got back to my car I had thrown my prayers into the gutter, and was ready to drive over to see her. When I got to her apartment I knocked and she let me in. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">“Hello,” she said, greeting me warmly as she stepped out from behind the door and closed it behind me. She was wearing a sexy top and knickers, which was standard fare.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</b>: The author is a man who has lived two lives; one ordinary and the other extraordinary. </span><span style="color: black;">It has not been fabricated, exaggerated, or embellished in any way. It’s the raw truth and he is not really sure why he wrote it, but his therapist thought it was a good idea. Writing down his life’s story might simply be a part of the healing process, so he can finally move on with his life and live it like a normal person. It has been written in a way that tries to depict how the author felt at the time and how he feels now, and he can only use words or terms that make that possible.</span></span><br />
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<span id="freeText1645442850528780541"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span>rom the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>It Happened One Wedding</em> comes a novel about a man and a woman whose summer is about to get very, very steamy…</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>D</b></span>ivorce
lawyer Victoria Slade has seen enough unhappy endings to swear off
marriage forever. That doesn't mean she's opposed to casual dating—just
not with her cocky new neighbor, who is as gorgeous and tempting as he
is off-limits. But once she agrees to take on his sister's case, she's
as determined to win as ever—even if that means teaming up with Ford…<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b></span>nvestigative
journalist Ford Dixon is bent on finding the man who got his sister
pregnant and left her high and dry. He's willing to partner with
Victoria, despite the fact that the beautiful brunette gets under his
skin like no other woman. He might not be looking to settle down, but
there's no denying the scorching attraction between them. Still, the
more time he spends with Victoria, the more he realizes that the one
woman as skeptical about love as he is might be the only woman he could
really fall for…</span></div>
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breath, the child beseeches Jane to find another girl, Mary, and to
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theGreatReadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514892546726773626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404562247286283039.post-717005696411902452015-07-06T10:45:00.000-07:002015-07-06T10:45:18.486-07:00The Einstein Prophecy by Robert Masello<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z7sppbsZL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Book Cover Image" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z7sppbsZL.jpg" /></a><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he Einstein Prophecy</i> by Robert Masello is an absorbing and entertaining
supernatural historical mystery thriller with elements of horror,
occult and a delightful dose of romance. Full of suspense, this is one
story that is designed to hook you from the first page as the
award-winning journalist-author has crafted an entertaining story that
is both chilling and thrilling.<br /><br />Set during the Second World War
in 1944, the story revolves around the discovery of a mysterious relic,
an ancient Egyptian ossuary, in Germany by American soldier Lt. Lucas
Athan. Thought to be stolen by Hitler, the relic containing unexplained
items and human skeletal remains was brought to Princeton, New Jersey,
where it was thoroughly studied. And there seems to be unexplained
deaths connected with the mysterious ossuary. Egyptian scholar Simone
Rashid, who along with her father first unearthed the relic, joined
Lucas in Princeton where Albert Einstein was also working in the same
campus on a secret project. And they must solve the mystery before it is
too late.<br /><br /><i>The Einstein Prophecy</i> by Robert Masello promises a lot
of excitement and thrill but as the story unfolds, some of the early
expectation gave way to a sense of predictability and though the story
moved along at a swift speed, there seems to be stunted progression in
how it moves forward, and at one point it seems to be breaking apart at
the seams. There are various threads in the story but all tied up in the
end. The romance between Lucas Athan and Simone Rashid added a
delightful flavour to the story. Like the unexplained mystery which
resulted in several deaths, <i>The Einstein Prophecy</i> ended up coming short
of expectation though it is still an enjoyable and engaging supernatural
thriller.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Einstein-Prophecy-Robert-Masello-ebook/dp/B00PM995TG/ref=cm_aya_orig_subj" target="_blank">Amazon Link</a> </div>
theGreatReadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514892546726773626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404562247286283039.post-8337182257060475142015-07-06T10:38:00.001-07:002015-07-06T10:38:19.679-07:00Finders Keepers by Stephen King<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span>fter last year’s absorbing thriller<i> Mr. Mercedes</i>, Stephen King returns
with its sequel as the unlikely team of ex-policeman Bill Hodges, Jerome
Robinson and Holly Gibney tried to make sense of the City Center
Massacre and also save the life of Pete Saubers from the clutches of a
near-deranged Morris Bellamy. While the main thread of the story
revolves around Pete and Bellamy, it also delves deep into the plot of
<i>Mr. Mercedes</i> and the massacre which took the lives of eight innocent
people, maimed three, seriously injured twelve and caused minor injuries
to seventeen others.<br /><br /><i>Finders Keepers</i> by Stephen King begins in
the year 1978 with the murder of a novelist at his New Hampshire cabin
by a die-hard admirer. The cloistered eighty-year-old novelist John
Rothstein found himself awake when the privacy of his cabin was invaded
by an obsessed fan Morris Bellamy and two accomplices. Not content with
the cash available, Bellamy wants to make sure if the rumored sell-out
of his favorite character Jimmy Gold in the next Rothstein novel is
true, and the ensuing melee proved disastrous.<br /><br />Bellamy’s plans
unraveled when he was arrested and sent to prison for thirty-five years
for another violent crime, but not before he stashed the loot away. A
high school student Pete Saubers, whose father Thomas Saubers was
seriously injured in <i>Mr. Mercedes</i>, and whose family is struggling to
make both ends meet, found the buried treasure and sent the money to his
parents concealing his real identity while keeping the drafts of
Rothstein’s novels. All hell broke loose when Bellamy is released on
parole in 2014 and discovered his treasures missing. It is up to King’s
likeable trio of Bill Hodges, Jerome Robinson and Holly Gibney to keep
Pete from harm’s way and protect his family.<br /><br /><i>Finders Keepers</i> by
Stephen King is an ambitious and well-crafted hard-boiled thriller which
can be read as a stand-alone though it is the middle book of a trilogy.
Its masterful pacing and riveting plotting makes it a heart thumping
read, intensely thrilling and absolutely gripping. Author Stephen King
as is his wont, delivers a novel that has stunned me by its shrewdness
and ability to sustain interest.<br />
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theGreatReadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514892546726773626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404562247286283039.post-88616654513420871802015-07-05T23:58:00.000-07:002015-07-05T23:58:12.272-07:00Crooked Little Lies by Barbara Taylor Sissel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ASCElqZ1L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Book Cover Image" border="0" height="400" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ASCElqZ1L.jpg" width="266" /></a><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>here are various approaches to a story. While the vast majority of the
books that we have in the market are geared towards the entertainment
and pleasure of its readers, there are some books which are designed to
engage the readers, stimulate one to action and evoke a sense of duty,
awareness and self-discovery as a result of its reading. And it is into
that latter category that <i>Crooked Little Lies</i> by Barbara Taylor Sissel
belongs.<br /><br />A suspenseful contemporary mystery thriller, Crooked
Little Lies follows the events surrounding the mysterious disappearance
of Bo Laughlin, a quirky character familiar to most residents of the
small Texas town of Hardys Walk. Bo is also the step-brother of Annie
Beauchamp, a young woman who works in the café in town, and they both
have lost their mothers. It is also the story of Lauren Wilder, an
old-fashioned suburban wife and mother of two adolescents - Drew, 14,
and Kenzie, 11 – and how her life unchangeably intertwined with Bo’s
disappearance.<br /><br /><i>Crooked Little Lies</i> by Barbara Taylor Sissel is an
absorbing and captivating story that is strung with elements of mystery
and suspense. What emphatically sets apart this particular story is how
the author sets the stage for the story to fold up and the underlying
refrain of how an incident can affect an individual, family or an entire
community. Author Barbara Taylor Sissel's eclectic cast of characters
in the form of Cooper Grant, Lauren’s her husband Jeff, Lauren’s sister
Tara and drug-addict boyfriend Greg, and other secondary players make it
a satisfying read. Though the ending did not come as a surprise, the
mastery with which it was build up makes for an exciting read.<br />
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