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[UntreedReads]

About Vanitas:

When he arrived at the New England town of Vanitas, all that Caleb Rushton wanted was an escape from the life of a seaman. What he found there included murder, a ghost-like apparition, a multi-layered trail of deception, and a need for his carpentry skills to help in the building of a gigantic church organ powered by steam.

A great blend of steampunk and horror from our Orbits sci-fi/fantasy short story line.

About Author James S. Dorr:

James Dorr is a short story writer and poet working primarily in dark fantasy and horror with forays into mystery, science fiction, and various combinations thereof. He currently has two collections, Strange Mistresses: Tales of Wonder and Romance and Darker Loves: Tales of Mystery and Regret, from Dark Regions Press and a book of poetry, Vamps (A Retrospective), from Sam’s Dot Publications. Dorr also has three to four hundred individual appearances in magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, Britain, France, Australia, Holland (forthcoming), and Brazil ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine to The Yellow Bat Review. Dorr has worked as a technical writer and editor, associate editor on a city magazine, a full-time nonfiction freelancer, and a semi-professional Renaissance musician. He has a cat, Wednesday, who’s into mousing and playing with spiders. For more information see http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com .

How to Purchase Vanitas:

Vanitas is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats, including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Apple, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

[UntreedReads]

About Harrigan’s Price:

At the desperate onset of World War II in the South Pacific, an American fighter pilot makes a choice to mend his ways. Servicemen in trouble, a priest who is losing faith…can one man possibly change the outcome of people’s lives? Even from The Great Beyond?

A short work from our Spectres horror/supernatural line.

About Author Chris Bauer:

Chris Bauer started writing mid-life as an unemployed oil company executive. He has published more than two dozen stories. He is currently working on a novel when not disguising real life as short stories. Chris is a long-time member of Writers Under the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, where he lives in the shadows of Franz Kafka, Rod Serling, and the Gateway Arch. He spends winter in Bay City, California, and summer in Arkham, Massachusetts. Chris first appeared with Untreed Reads with his horror short A Killer of a Deal and followed it up with Special Charter.

How to Purchase Harrigan’s Price:

Harrigan’s Price is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats, including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. Through the month of October, all of Bauer’s works are only $0.99 in the Untreed Reads Store. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Apple, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

[joycedb]

Where Dreams are Born, an e-book or print book from a small publisher.

It was supposed to be a win-win situation—a safe environment in which to raise a son for single mom Vicky, housekeeping and childcare for widowed Jack. Neither one wants or expects anything more. Life, however, has more in store than either one imagines.

“Joyce DeBacco pens one of those tales that is warm and loving while still mixed with trials that will touch a reader's heart.” Dee Dailey of The Romance Studio

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Despite Our Shadows: Sexy noir mystery by Steven Lyle Jordan

Despite Our Shadows (originally titled Lambs Hide, Tigers Seek) is a sexy present-day noir mystery:

In 2007, heiress Ellen Levinson vanished from a downtown Washington hotel under mysterious circumstances. Four years later, a series of blackmail letters leads investigator Alain Guest to Nashville, in search of the missing heiress. But things go wrong quickly, getting Alain tangled up with a local Goth girl who forces him to deal with his own damaged past. As the investigation threatens to crumble, Alain's mental state just may go down with it...

For more information or to purchase, please visit my site.

[joycedb]

When time is short, why not read something short? Midnight and Holding, my new short story collection contains stories of interest for wives and mothers everywhere. Men will also relate to them even though there’s no blood, gore, or ghosts.

Sometimes we wish we could stop the clock and rewind time. Maybe to savor a happy moment, take back words spoken in haste, or fulfill an ambition. Other times we want to turn the clock ahead, hopeful of better times or fortunes. Midnight and Holding is a collection of stories reflecting those desires. Total words: approximately 12,000.

Rubies and Other Gems – A woman’s trip back in time puts her present problems in perspective. (This is the short that inspired my novel of the same name.)

The Shed – A newly erected garden shed is the catalyst that reconnects a driven executive with his neglected wife and children.

Harvey’s New Suit – A woman buys her husband his first new suit in years.

Rainbow Years – A carefree youth calls to mind a woman’s own dreams and desires.

Mad Dogs and Fishermen – A humorous account of an innocent suggestion taken to extreme.

Midnight and Holding – A parent’s rite of passage.

[UntreedReads]

About Where Billy Died:

When Jack, a Philadelphia bounty hunter, goes to Texas to bring back a young bail jumper named Billy, he has no idea he’s being trailed by the chief enforcer for a major mobster. Is it because Jack roughed up the mobster’s brother, or is it because of what Billy did before he skipped town? In trying to stay alive and do his job, Jack also has no idea he’ll get tangled up in a legend of the Old West that turns everything he knows on its ear.

About Author Earl Staggs:

Derringer Award winning author Earl Staggs has seen many of his short stories published in magazines and anthologies. He served as Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Magazine and as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society. His novel Memory of a Murder earned thirteen five star reviews online at Amazon and B&N. His column “Write Tight” appears in Apollo’s Lyre and he is a contributing member of Make Mine Mystery and Murderous Musings. He also hosts a workshop for the Muse Online Writers Conference and is a frequent speaker at conferences and writers groups. Staggs joined Untreed Reads in 2010 with his hilarious Thanksgiving mystery, The Thanksgiving Cookoff War.

How to Purchase Where Billy Died:

Where Billy Died is $1.99 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats, including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Apple, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

[joanhallhovey]

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BOOKS by JOAN HALL HOVEY

THE ABDUCTION OF MARY ROSE

A suspense novel interwoven with threads of romance and paranormal.

Imagine discovering everything you believe about yourself to be a lie. And that the truth could stir a killer from his lair.

Following the death of the woman she believed to be her mother, 28-year-old Naomi Waters learns from a malicious aunt that she is not only adopted, but the product of a brutal rape that left her birth mother, Mary Rose Francis, a teenager of Micmac ancestry, in a coma for 8 months.

Dealing with a sense of betrayal and loss, but with new purpose in her life, Naomi vows to track down Mary Rose's attackers and bring them to justice. She places her story in the local paper, asking for information from residents who might remember something of the case that has been cold for nearly three decades.

She is about to lose hope that her efforts will bear fruit, when she gets an anonymous phone call. Naomi has attracted the attention of one who remembers the case well.

But someone else has also read the article in the paper. The man whose DNA she carries.

And he has Naomi in his sights.

Review quotes
"…Ms. Hovey's talent in creating characters is so real, you feel their emotions and their fears. You want to yell at them to warn of the danger . . . and you do! Your shouts fall on deaf ears . . . and you cry! The best suspense writer I've ever read! Beth Anderson, Author of Raven Talks back
"...Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King come to mind, but JOAN HALL HOVEY is in a Class by herself!…"J.D. Michael Phelps, Author of My Fugitive, David Janssen
"…CANADIAN MISTRESS OF SUSPENSE…The author has a remarkable ability to turn up the heat on the suspense… great characterizations and dialogue…" James Anderson, author of Deadline "…Can compete with any mystery,suspense novel on the shelves..." Linda Hersey, Fredericton Gleaner, NB

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About Equilibrium:

Worn out at the end of an ordinary day, Emily stops at a roadside diner, where she meets Jim, a sensitive man who intuitively understands her. Can she move beyond the pain of her broken marriage and rediscover the simple pleasures in life over a bowl of soup?

A short story from our Candlelight romance line.

About Author Betsy Miller:

Betsy Miller writes short stories and nonfiction, and is working on her first novel. Her published short stories include Grandma’s House, and The Piñata Moon. Miller is the author of the nonfiction books The Parents’ Guide to Clubfoot and The Parents’ Guide to Hip Dysplasia. She lives in Cupertino, California, with her husband and their two daughters, where she writes for high-tech companies.

How to Purchase Equilibrium:

Equilibrium is $1.50 from The Untreed Reads Store in a variety of formats, including PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats. You’ll also find the titles at virtually every ebook retailer around the world including Amazon, B&N, Apple, WHSmith and Waterstone’s.

If the title hasn’t arrived at your favorite retailer, it soon will! It sometimes takes our retailers a few weeks to process new titles.

Untreed Reads ebook titles are also available for sale to public libraries through our distributor Overdrive. If you’d like to see our titles available for electronic checkout at your local library, please let them know.

[Stoneforger]

Five science fiction short stories await the reader in this small collection:

The Exchange - a strange gang of buyers prove to be much more than meets the eye

Raging Star - a genocidal killer is interrogated, revealing a hopeless fight for mankind's survival

Eden - the daily fight for survival in the first extrasolar human colony, Eden

The Suit - a ground-breaking experiment goes as planned, even though no-one knows what its real purpose was until the very end

Yar's Plume - a man uniquely gifted to communicate with an alien entity across vast distances in real-time, retells his personal tale

Available from Amazon and Smashwords.
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Fictio.../dp/B005Z2S11S
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/99107
Soon available from third-party retailers

[William D'Andrea]

A Mystery/Crime novel titled “A Gatored Community”, written as a collaboration between the writer Andalib Marx and myself William D’Andrea, has just been published, and is available at lulu.com

The story concerns global warming, which has raised the sea level 30 feet, and people live in floating communities that rise and fall with the tides.

In the floating community of Shellfish Shoals, a gang of thieves breaks into a local oyster farm, where cultured pearls are produced, and an alligator is used for security. The owner of the pearl farm is a committed Christian. He becomes involved with a woman who's a member of the gang. He eventually helps her find salvation, but not without great pain and suffering on both his and her part.

The plot also involves “Social Justice” advocates, who bring animal rights protesters to Shellfish Shoals. They regard the people of Shellfish Shoals as “Benighted rubes and yahoos.” They claim that Ted is “torturing” the oysters at his pearl farm, and are threatening to “collapse the facility.”

This is first of all an adventure story, addressed to the general reader, and not to a specifically Christian readership. The salvation of the woman pearl thief is just part of the story, but it is a significant part. The Lord is also present in the story, but not in any miraculous way. The natural order of things is not interupted in the course of the narrative.

As I said, this book is available for purchase and can be found by logging on to the following:

http://lulu.com/product/paperback/a-...unity/17813947

[GeoffC]

Howdy William; welcome to Mobileread .... ... ePub only ?

[old goat]

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More 4-Letter Word Puzzles, with 320 new words and phrases, is now available for $0.99 at Amazon here.

NOTE: Amazon is aware that my ebooks are not displaying a preview due to something wrong with their 10% limit. You can view samples of this puzzle ebook or any of my other ebooks here until Amazon fixes the issue.

I give you word or a phrase, CHEST (4 words), and you make as many 4-letter words as you can, then compare your solutions with mine.

Ebook includes a link to online dictionary onelook.

[Jack Forge]

This is the cover of my historical novel of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, one of my seven books, including two novels of youth and coming of age, a crime thriller, short stories, poetry, and humor available at Smashwords and Amazon. I'm completing a book of stage plays and plan books of novellas and essays. I much appreciate sampling my work.

[humphrey]

Hello!
We're offering 100 free eBooks - the first in a new travel series. Just go to our facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/facebookperspectives The first 100 friends will be invited to receive the free Book on their Kindle.

We're after feedback so that we can improve the rest of the series - so here's the series concept:

No matter where you travel, no matter where you find yourself - Perpectives Travel will find you the perfect short essay, letter, diary entry, film script, recipe or short story for you to read in Perfect Bitesize Chunks.

WHATEVER you're interested in ... from History, Art, Science, Sport and Philosophy to Ghost Stories, Mysteries and Legends...

.. And WHEVERER you are - Perspectives Travel Guides will be the perfect accompaniment to your travels.

In a cafe in Paris? Why not read a witty essay by Mark Twain on what he thinks of French women, or a letter from Gustave Eiffel describing his new idea for a tower... On a trip to Washington? why not hear from the man himself and have a peak into George Washington's diary - see what he sees as the future of the United States. Find yourself in Hollywood? Why not read the first film script - you'll be surprised how short it is - or how about some love letters from Howard Hughes to Katharine Hepburn?

If you're sitting in a garden in Florence you can read what Leonardo Da Vinci thought about the meaning of life - all in his own words! That's the beauty about this series - it doesn't tell you what to think about Da Vinci, it gives you his actual words - carefully selected to leave out the boring bits. So you can read direct from Da Vinci: How to Live Longer and How to Die Happy. He even tells you why the Sky is Blue and his prophecies for the future.

There's a whole series - so you can be just about anywhere in the world and there'll be some magical piece of writing that would be perfect to read while you sit back and sip your cappuccino. You're in park by the Champs Elysees in Paris? Why not read one of Napoleon's letters to Josephine, and see why he loved her above all the others.

You're in Berlin? How about reading one of Hitler's speeches - to understand just how he managed to beguile a nation and commit such horrors. At the Tower of London? How about a confession from Captain Blood, explaining exactly how he stole the Crown Jewels? Or read Churchill's description of the tower during the blitz.

At the Pyramids in Egypt? then what about reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead? or a letter from Napoleon describing what happened when he slept overnight in the Chamber of Khufu... On a visit to the Scottish Highlands? Why not read George Spicer's sighting of the Loch Ness Monster - and see if you can spot any flaws in his story. In nepal? why not read the diary of a yeti-hunter

You get the idea... I hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Please claim your free copy of the Florence & Tuscany Companion, and please give us some feedback and let us know what you think. In particular any suggestions of favourite authors and texts would be much appreciated!

Humph

[joycedb]

Rubies and Other Gems - the Novel, Women's fiction with a time-travel twist.

Seeking relief from her unhappy family life, a woman travels back in time only to discover she may have put her future happiness at risk.

Judith of The Book Binge says, "I would recommend this novel as one of those books that moves the reader through the days, months, and years of living, that open the reader's awareness to circumstances that, in this case, may be just a bit unique--how many of us get to be time travelers?...So be sure to read this novel--it will be well-worth your time. I know it held my interest from start to finish.”