by Mark A. Hewitt

4.6 stars – 24 reviews

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Approved by the CIA Publication Review Board.

“An explosive assassination thriller that is timely, believable and hugely entertaining. A must-read.” –Best Thrillers

Law enforcement agencies have chosen to ignore rather than investigate dozens of political figures and defectors who have died under mysterious circumstances. When a Democratic National Committee staff member is murdered before the presidential election, Washington, D.C. police is also uninterested in investigating the crime.

The President is well behind in the polls. Some powerful people want assurances that the President will never take the oath of office if he unexpectedly wins.

On Election Day, the Central Intelligence Agency Director uncovers treachery at the highest levels of his organization. A rogue group of senior intelligence officers may have exposed themselves for who they really are before disappearing with a secret experimental weapon. Mounting evidence suggests the President may be in peril but the Secret Service isn’t interested in conspiracy theories or implausible weapons with impossible capabilities.

Will CIA pilot Duncan Hunter save the President from a group of assassins?

by Issy Ashbullby, Michael Ashby

4.2 stars – 3 reviews

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A funny children’s Christmas tale. Due to Earth’s melting ice caps, Santa & his helpers have moved to Planet Christmas. However, on Christmas eve Santa is nowhere to be found. In desperation, Jingle the head elf flies back to Earth on his Christmas cracker rocket to bring Issy to Planet Christmas to lead the desperate search for Santa. Together with her stowaway friends (Mr. Hog, Turtle, Speedy & Bally) & brothers they race against time and the custard river to find Santa. Will they save Christmas for millions of children?

by S M Mala

3.2 stars – 6 reviews

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‘I met him when I was twenty-three and spent fifteen years with him. How would I know he would be such an ungrateful, deceitful bastard?’

The sharp summary of Mabel Day’s current love and life situation.

A divorcee left to bring up two teenage daughters while her husband finds happiness elsewhere.

She can’t stand her job because she doesn’t like the people who work at the advertising agency, even though she owns part of it.

Her mother and brother are partners, so Mabel is constantly told off for her behaviour towards the team, and their concerns regarding her bad attitude and alcohol consumption.

The woman knows she’s not being nice but is hurting badly.

A broken heart has left her in tatters.

Is being forced to be a guinea pig for a new online dating company the agency want to win the account for the way forward? Could she meet Mr Right, or Mr Anyone, come to think of it?

Creative Director, Alex, thinks she would make the ideal candidate as she is a challenge, and very needy, on many levels.

But what and who does Mabel really want?

A story about unreliable men, stolen sperm, and oranges.

by Vera Nazarian

4.5 stars – 2,084 reviews

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The Atlantis Grail has been optioned for development as a feature film series and/or TV series.

You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.

The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.

But there’s a catch.

They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.

Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.

Because there’s a loophole.

If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted… Such as curing your mother’s cancer.

There is only one problem.

Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she’s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she’s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.

This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she’s been crushing on, and who doesn’t seem to know she exists.

Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.

by Michael Welch

4.5 stars – 90 reviews

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Next Christmas in Girouette is the first in a series of novels set in a ghost town on the eastern porch of the Montana Rocky Mountains. This book will appeal to people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a classic, heart-warming literary adventure at Christmastime.

Next Christmas in Girouette is the story of a brother and sister—Autry and Oxana Quinn—who find themselves stranded in a Girouette, a virtual ghost town, from Thanksgiving through Christmas when their father is taken seriously ill. Their grandfather, a Marine Captain long retired, plus an eccentric old café proprietress, a Blackfeet Indian horse trader who once served as the town’s mayor, a couple who published the local newspaper and an ancient deaf-mute trapper are the only remaining inhabitants of Girouette. These self-styled, “diehards” all seem to have one thing in common. Thanks to a mysterious event 60 years earlier, they still believe in Santa Claus.

Girouette features something for everyone: carefree cowboys who race their horses over snow covered country road, a team of wolves trained to pull a dogsled, a stroll that nearly turns tragic on a buffalo jump, a serialized newspaper story titled “The Adventures of Rocky Mountain Santa,” a desperate attempt to escape from an abandoned copper mine, a night-time journey through the mountains on a frozen river and the miracle that delivers wayfaring strangers to Girouette during a storm on Christmas Eve.

The book revels in the solitary beauty of winter in Big Sky Country, the enduring wisdom of the elderly citizens of Girouette, the excitement of frontier history coming to life, the inspiration of a family healing itself and the magic of an old-fashioned western Christmas. Read Next Christmas in Girouette with your family this year, and you’ll want to revisit it for years to come at holiday time.

by Thomas Donahue, Karen Donahue

4.3 stars – 375 reviews

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SILENCED A Ryan—Hunter Mystery Thriller

She was digging into a past that was best left buried.
A trained killer is stalking those with the secret and those trying to uncover it. Early morning along the water’s edge he strikes like a jungle cat from the shadows. The dead woman is silenced. But is she?
The investigation, already fraught with twists and turns, is thrown into chaos when her hidden life with the CIA is discovered. Criminology Professor Marin Ryan and John Hunter follow a loose thread that breaks the case wide open only to find that now they know too much.

John and Marin are reunited after seven years when they dock their boats alongside each other. Their mutual love of the sea nudges them into rekindled love. To make it more interesting, the Blue Water Marina proves to be a haven for wonderfully weird types; a lovable movie star with his old fishing boat that reminds him of his humbler beginnings; a young surgeon with a secret of his own; and let’s not forget Bailey, the beagle