by Rick Lenz

4.8 stars – 77 reviews

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Is sleeping with Marilyn Monroe worth getting murdered again?

When Jack Cade, a down-and-out aging Hollywood actor, is fired from a no-pay production of Hamlet, he has no inkling his next role will be opposite Marilyn Monroe – only forty years back in time, in the year 1956.

An award winning time-travel noir that slips between the shimmering worlds of modern and mid century Los Angeles show business.

After Jack’s wife leaves him, he receives an invitation from a mysterious woman to her old mansion deep in the San Fernando Valley. Jack steps through her door and into a world of beguiling physics, magic and travel in time. Through a dark whirlwind of events, he meets Marilyn, gets killed (more than once) and emerges with the alexandrite ring – a jewel that will change his luck and destiny.

How many lives will he have to blow before getting it right?

After NORTH OF HOLLYWOOD, Lenz’s award-winning memoir about show business and addiction, comes another enchanting novel written with a sure hand and a knowing eye. Kirkus Reviews called this genre-bender a “mesmerizing story.” In dead, The Alexandrite is a bold, kaleidoscopic novel that glimpses at Hollywood’s past and present through the lenses of time travel, hypnotism, gemology and Marilyn Monroe’s haunting blockbuster “Bus Stop”.

Winner of Grand Prize (Chanticleer Awards), and Best Books of the Year List Finalist (Kirkus Reviews), Book of the Year Finalist (Foreword Reviews), Reader Views Award in Fantasy – and more!

by Morgan Rice

3.8 stars – 128 reviews

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New York. 2120. America has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside looking for slaves, for fresh victims to bring back into the city for their favorite death sport: Arena One. The death stadium where opponents are made to fight to the death, in the most barbaric of ways. There is only one rule to the arena: no one survives. Ever. Deep in the wilderness, high up in the Catskill Mountains, 17 year old Brooke Moore manages to survive, hiding out with her younger sister, Bree. They are careful to avoid the gangs of slaverunners who patrol the countryside. But one day, Brooke is not as careful as she can be, and Bree is captured. The slaverunners take her away, heading to the city, and to what will be a certain death.

by Bernard Lee DeLeo

4.6 stars – 53 reviews

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Five high school seniors were going to the ‘haunted house’ when their car wouldn’t start. Mike Rawlins who is a sophomore and works at his dad’s auto shop stopped by and got the car going for them. They convince Mike to go with them to the haunted house and he does, but not before stopping and getting holy water at the church and buying salt. Mike had been there before, he knew to be prepared. Once in the house the girls are less than enthused. Talk about creepy. Mike makes a circle with the salt and holy water. The others think he’s really nuts. Jerry and Stan are excited and Mike? Well Mike’s been here before and he’s less than enthused. The guys then head for the cellar. The cellar that has a huge stinking sinkhole and a metal hatch. The guys try to pull the hatch up only to have it fly up on its own.

by Addison Moore

4.7 stars – 54 reviews

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Aspen… Carter is back in my life. Long ago, we flew so close to the sun we were scorched by the twisted labyrinth of our own making. And now, here he is again, front and center, as if nothing ever happened. I doubt Carter and I stand a chance. In fact, I believe we were doomed right from the start. Carter is driven to Aspen. Aspen is determined to stay away from Carter. When their hearts collide once again, their love burns brighter than A Thousand Starry Nights.

by Romi Brenner

5.0 stars – 3 reviews

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Dear Kale is your personal invitation into a world of the most intimate sentiments towards things like Tuesday, those gigantic grocery store carts with fire trucks on the end, close encounters with hungry goats and waking up early for nothing. Drawing inspiration from the small things in life, Romi Brenner presents a fresh little book packed with uproariously funny bits that are sometimes snarky, sometimes poignant and always thoughtfully crafted. Finally someone has taken a stand about wrinkles, Band Aids with unacceptable artwork and our collective obsession with stats. She’s on to you, kale, and it’s time you knew the truth…

by Jack Huber

5.0 stars – 4 reviews

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Intrigue meets piracy in this tropical tale of murder and international crisis. Pat Ruger is a retired detective who joins his ex-partner, Jimmy Stewart, and his wife on a cruise in the Caribbean. Once on board, a woman he met is murdered and Pat and his partner are asked to investigate. How will Pat and Jimmy survive Caribbean pirates and a naval standoff?