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Featured Sci-fi : The Gallant (Star Legend Book 3) by J.J. Green

June 3, 2021 by Carolynn

The Gallant (Star Legend Book 3) Kindle Edition
by J.J. Green

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A gallant war. A deadly fate.

The Britannic Alliance is clawing its way back from annihilation with the help of King Arthur, revived from a three-thousand-year sleep, and former Royal Marine, Taylan Ellis.

Newly discharged, all Taylan wants to do is find her children and keep them safe.

If only life were that simple.

The Alliance is a long way from recouping its lost territories, and deranged cult leader, Dwyr Kala Orr, continues to prey upon Earth’s inhabitants.

Orr has discovered Taylan is a threat to her existence, and she’s after her blood. To lay low and avoid detection, Taylan joins the Britannic Isles’ Resistance, but she soon finds herself roped into the Arthur saga again.

Her fate and that of the Britannic Alliance are irretrievably entwined. The BA need her help to defeat Dwyr Orr. If she fails, she may never see her children again.

The Gallant is book three in the epic space fantasy adventure, Star Legend.

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Book Review: The Greatest Beer Run Ever

June 2, 2021 by Carolynn

Book Review: The Greatest Beer Run Ever

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This is my current “listening,” and it is awesome. I’m just going to share the blurb, and say, yes, it is all that it is cracked up to be. Love the working class author’s point of view.

“Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story.” (Malachy McCourt)

Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book – a wildly entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish American New Yorker and former US marine who embarked on a courageous, harebrained scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late 1960s.

One night in 1967, 26-year-old John Donohue – known as Chick – was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired – some would call it insane – idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest Beer Run Ever. But who’d be crazy enough to do it? One man was up for the challenge – a US Marine Corps veteran turned merchant mariner who wasn’t about to desert his buddies on the front lines when they needed him. Chick volunteered. A day later, he was on a cargo ship headed to Vietnam, armed with Irish luck and a backpack full of alcohol. 

Landing in Qui Nho’n, Chick set off on an adventure that would change his life forever – an odyssey that took him through a series of hilarious escapades and harrowing close calls, including the Tet Offensive. But none of that mattered if he could bring some cheer to his pals and show them how much the folks back home appreciated them.This is the story of that epic beer run, told in Chick’s own words and those of the men he visited in Vietnam.

This book is as great as it sounds. Highly recommended.

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Featured Fantasy : The Magic of Unkindness: The Books of Conjury, Volume One by Kevan Dale

June 1, 2021 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy : The Magic of Unkindness: The Books of Conjury, Volume One by Kevan Dale

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Everyone she knows is dead. If she can’t master her powers, she’ll be next.

Boston, Eighteenth Century. Kate Finch is desperate for a fresh start. Recently arrived from London after a harrowing year of every person she loved dying at the hands of demons, her new beginning starts badly when thugs attempt to murder her. And after they deliver her to Salem in a cart full of corpses, the terrified sixteen-year-old refuses to believe her rescuer declaring she’s a witch.

Uncertain when the older man claims he can help her, Kate reluctantly accepts his offer to become his apprentice. But when her mentor vanishes into a sinister parallel realm, the strong young woman vows to use her growing witchcraft to retrieve the strange magician she’s come to respect.

Will her bold entry into an unknown world of darkness take her last breath?

The Magic of Unkindness is the gripping first volume in The Books of Conjury historical fantasy series. If you like determined heroines, daring sorcerers, and intriguing magical worlds, then you’ll love Kevan Dale’s high-stakes tale.

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Featured Sci-fi : Jury Duty (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

June 1, 2021 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi : Jury Duty (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore the concept of humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life.

The United Nations is thrown into chaos when an alien spacecraft is discovered buried beneath the ice in Antarctica. With no one nation able to lay claim to the craft, a multinational effort is undertaken to salvage the vessel, which is estimated to have crashed several hundred thousand years ago. Rather than leaving key decisions to hostile governments or their armies, a jury is established to represent the average global citizen, being selected from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Their job is to review findings and guide the process of discovery.

The FIRST CONTACT series is like BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that it is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows the series to be read in any order. Technically, they’re all first as they all deal with how we might respond to contact with an alien intelligence. This series explores the social, political, religious and scientific aspects of First Contact.

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Featured Fantasy : Semester Aboard (More than Magic Book 1) by Elizabeth Kirke

May 29, 2021 by Carolynn

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Sun, sand, and… stakes?

From USA Today Best-Selling author, Elizabeth Kirke, comes a tale of magic on the open sea!

Jen Maddox knew a summer study abroad, with a cruise ship as her campus, would expand her horizons. But she could never have fathomed how life altering the sea would be.

With seagulls cawing overhead and whitecaps crashing against the hull, Jen catches a glimpse of something not humanly possible. She would have believed it to be a dream, had certain enigmatic passengers not gone out of their way to cover it up.

Determined to discover the truth, Jen finds herself face-to-face with a nightmarish creature prowling the ship on the hunt for its next victim. Can she learn to tap into the newfound energy swirling around her in time to save all those aboard? Or will the vessel sink under a tidal wave of looming darkness?

Semester Aboard is the award-winning first book in the Urban Fantasy series, More than Magic, featuring witches, vampires, werewolves, and a host of other paranormal creatures. If you like your magic mixed with a little mystery and sweet romance, you’ll want to sail away with this one today.

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Featured Sci-fi : Blue Sun Armada: A Military Scifi Epic by Scott Moon

May 29, 2021 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi : Blue Sun Armada: A Military Scifi Epic by Scott Moon

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War is coming.

Duke Uron Marlboro led his mighty house to victory in the Zezner war. The last thing he expected was for his allies to turn on him.

With a new civil war brewing, the Duke and his family have one option to survive the king’s wrath—

They must flee.
Will they survive the political games of their past? Can they escape their doomed planet and find a new place to thrive before their once great house is destroyed… forever.

Blue Sun Armada is the first in a new epic space opera set in the far-flung future. Legendary mech battles, intense fleet engagements, and deadly politics all make Blue Sun Armada a magnificent read. Pick your side and buy now to start the fight for survival!

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