I Dare You to Love

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PARA//EL LIVES

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The story, which begins in an assisted-living facility in New Hampshire, leads to 18th century Boston and London, where there may be unfinished business that residents, through mirror selves, must take care of. As Abe, Mercy, and their friends come under the influence of forces they don't understand, they adopt antique attire, get drunk on two-hundred-year-old wine, and become experts in the lives of their other selves. In their alter egos, Mercy is Mercy Otis Warren, playwright and historian from Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution; and Abe is Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, the general who at Saratoga lost the battle that led to England losing the war and who then became one of the most popular playwrights on the London stage.After dreams of what their other selves did and could have done, Mercy and Abe discover a tunnel in the basement that leads to other places and other times, where they could accidentally or deliberately change the course of history.
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SUNDOGS AND SINNERS

SUNDOGS AND SINNERS

 

 Sundogs and Sinners is a tale of love and hate, nurture and neglect, traditions and taboos that shines cold light upon the dangers of chasing what cannot be caught.Jasmine is the daughter of opposite worlds: Angela, her mother, the white privileged debutant from the upper echelons of Fargo’s wealthiest and politically empowered and Jasmine’s biological father, Dave, the eighth of nine children of a Minneapolis single Ojibwe mother. Driven by the death of her elder teenage brother and her resentment at having always resided in his shadow, Angela looks for her missing emotional pieces in Dave’s “otherness” which results in a torrid, tumultuous, but temporary, bond and the unplanned birth of their child. A decade later, Jasmine lives in the affluent Fargo fold of Angela’s and Angela’s husband, Lars’ socially prominent families. Though Jasmine seems to have everything, she now is the one in search of missing pieces. Angela never speaks of Dave; Dave hasn’t had contact with their daughter since she was two-years old, and Jasmine wants to know why. The larger looming question is what, if any, part does Dave being Ojibwe play in Jasmine’s identity.When Rosella, an Ojibwe girl adopted at infancy by non-Native parents, moves to town, she and Jasmine become fast middle school friends. Together, they face off with mean girls armed with racial slurs, confront the complexity of first crushes, and, inevitably, explore Jasmine’s ever-growing need to know the truth about her mother, her legally adoptive father, and, most of all, Dave.As Jasmine pushes the search forward, Angela pulls back from her daughter and husband as the trauma and twisted urges of her youth re-awaken, and Angela pursues the elusive missing pieces she has yet to find. As mother and daughter unwittingly move closer to the same destination, secrets, lies, and raw realities threaten to destroy everyone involved. While some pieces are discovered, others will be lost forever, and Jasmine will be left to build who she truly is out of the ones that remain.

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The Scientific Sleuths: ATHEROSCLEROSIS ATTACK:

Traffic Jam in Your Arteries

 

 Twelve-year-old Victor Valens and his eleven-year-old cousin Sal Sultus live on opposite sides of the country, until Sal and her mother move next door to the Valenses. Victor is a tech-savvy know-it-all. Sal, a science geniusin her own right, is dealing with the death of her father while adjusting to a new home. Victordoesn’t make the move any easier for Sal. In fact, their relationship is tumultuous to say the least. When their grandpa gets sick, their world is shaken. They try to understand the disease that has struck him and determine that theunderlying cause is a deadly disease with a big word, atherosclerosis.“Atherosclerosis Attack by Dr. Cate Moriasi and Dr. Kathleen Coughlan is a fun, light-heartedread on a very serious and important topic. The story is well laid out, with a fun, futuristictechnological twist. The authors do a great job taking a complex subject with detailed medicalcomponents, and frame it in an understandable and relatable way."~Caitlin, Community Outreach Director

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WE ARE GOD

 

 BY

JORDAN MUND

 The Old Man, as he’s now known, was born during a time when Mortals and Immortals coexisted. He knew many of them, but that was 400 years ago. Before the revolution. Before they were all exterminated. Since then he’s been living day to day, trying to maintain the memories he has of them. His world, in what has been dubbed the Eternal Era, is one that never changes. No one dies, but no one is born, either. A world frozen in banality. Eventually, the Old Man takes matters into his own hands after discovering a way to reverse his immortality. Now nearing the end of his life, he sits down to write his memoir, to tell about all those friends he loved so dearly, to explain why he did what he did and what it means for humanity’s future.

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THE BETTER ANGELS

 

BY

BETTE BONO

 Aggie May, newly and unhappily retired from teaching, fears dementia when she begins to see visions from the past, like a 1950s-era Super Constellation at JFK airport and World War II soldiers at Grand Central Terminal. Then she gets a recruitment visit from Abe Irving of the American Association of Remarkable Persons (“the other AARP”) who explains she has developed the ability to travel through time. Soon Aggie joins other “Remarkables” on a mission to nineteenth-century New York City in an effort to locate a missing photographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln created by the Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. While learning the rules and limits of time travel, Aggie faces the possibility that she may have both extraordinary power and extraordinary vulnerability. Aggie and Abe, two stubborn and independent people, must struggle to come to an understanding over how and when to take risks, including emotional risks.

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AMERICAN QUEEN

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This book delineates the true story of an American girl, Ora Ray Baker, who fell in love with an Indian mystic by the name of Hazrat Inayat Khan. They were married in London and settled in Paris. Their firstborn daughter Noor-un-Nissa, during WWII became a British spy in Paris. She was captured by Gestapo and later killed in Concentration Camp in Germany. Their eldest son Vilayat Khan served in Royal British Navy, docked on the beaches of Normandy to deliver men, weapons and equipment to allied forces. He survived WWII and now his son Pir Zia carries the Sufi legacy of his grandparents Ora Ray Baker and Hazrat Inayat Khan in Richmond Virginia, USA. Ora Ray Baker’s memories are still alive in Fazal Manzil in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris where she lived and died, her home, now a Sufi retreat. It also hosts memories of her husband and their children, especially of Noor-un-Nissa who was posthumously awarded highest medals, French Croix de Guerre presented by General Charles de Gaulle and British George Cross by King of England George V1. She is also enshrined in a movie, Spy Princess.

Red & White

The Operator

INTRODUCING

THE OPERATOR

BY HOWARD GERSHKOWITZ

While on vacation in historic Prescott, Arizona, Harold and Laura try to jump-start their marriage. Instead, he finds himself swept through a squirmhole to 1929, and into the arms of the beautiful Talia Sanders. Together, they scheme to prevent the Great Depression but, before he can put their plan to the test, he re-emerges in the present.

He discovers nothing changed, except for the billion-dollar fortune Talia left him with instructions to derail an imminent, nation-wide, financial collapse. He’s attacked by Talia’s son, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the money. Meanwhile, he must navigate the murky backwaters of Washington, DC, guided by a power broker with his own traitorous agenda. Caught in a web of greed and deceit, Harold is forced to find his way back in time to enlist Talia’s assistance. When their combined attempts backfire, his world teeters on the edge of disaster.

With his life on the line, he must rely on the one he loves to save him...

Phoenix temperatures are on the rise; 100-degree days are on the horizon. Beat the heat!

Visit Talia and The Operator as they travel around the state to make new friends;

May 4, 2019 at Bright Side Bookshop 18 N San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ   (928) 440-5041

Book signing by the author from 5-7pm

May 11, 2019 at Peregrine Book Company 219 N Cortez St, Prescott, AZ   (928) 445-9000

Presentation and Book Signing by the author from 2-4pm

June 1, 2019 KJZZ Arizona Storyfest & Authors Showcase, Mesa Convention Center, Building C

201 N. Center St., Mesa, AZ   10am-5pm

July 20, 2019 at Payson Book Festival Mazatzal Hotel & Casino Highway 87, Payson, AZ  10am to 5pm

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Publisher: All Things That Matter Press October 2018