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'Sister Charlie died the week I turned seven. Hate killed her, or so I’d heard. Whether it was hers or my own, I wasn’t quite sure.
For three days the nuns herded us into the Chapel to visit her body. And for two hours on each of those days, I knelt before dead Sister Charlie and worried about Hell. Hers and mine.'
Unbreakable Child Blog Unbreakable Child website
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Beth Revis: “Across the Universe” Three book deal Release date - Spring 2011
'A reluctant teenage girl and her pioneer parents are cryogenically frozen for a 300-year trip to a new planet; she awakens 50 years early on a vast spaceship with a murderer on board.'
Author website
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'Ollie can’t be bothered to care about anything but food, girls, and games until he gets his Deathday Letter and learns he’s going to die in twenty-four hours. Bummer.
Ollie does what he does best: nothing. Then his best friend convinces him to live a little, and go after Ronnie, the girl who recently trampled his about-to-expire heart. Ollie turns to carloads of pudding and over-the-top declarations, but even playing the death card doesn’t work. All he wants is to set things right with the girl of his dreams. It’s now or never….'
Author website Deathday website
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Cole Gibsen: “Katana” Two-book deal
'When the captain of the pom squad learns she is a reincarnated samurai, meets a boy claiming to be her soul mate from another life, and must chose between continuing as the girl she's always been and embracing the warrior inside her.'
Author website
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'The death of her troubled mother and memories of her abused grandmother lure a young woman back to the Appalachian hollow where she was born. Virginia Kate, the daughter of a beautiful mountain wild-child and a slick, Shakespeare-quoting salesman, relives her turbulent childhood and the pain of her mother’s betrayals. Haunted by ghosts and buried family secrets, Virginia struggles to reconcile three generations of her family’s lost innocence.'
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'In this second book about the journey of a woman dealing with the ghosts of a dysfunctional family, Virginia Kate Carey seeks the loving commitment that eluded her in Tender Graces.
"Vee" is idealistic and naive despite the witness she has served to the fractured heritage of her parents' and grandmother's dreams. Vee continues her journey toward wisdom, building small bridges over the chasms of hurt and longing. The inspiration of hope lingers in her. Tender Graces, and now, Secret Graces, explores three women's lives: Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and passes through the fulcrum of Virginia Kate's emerging life as a lover and mother and storyteller, chronicling the heart ache and hope of her family and herself.'
Author website
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Bethany Pinnell: "The Hunted" Release date: 2011
'A seventeen-year-old shapeshifter is being hunted by supernatural creatures, and her only hope for survival is found in Navajo legend.'
Author website
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'When the well-preserved body of 17th century mapmaker Johannes Cellarius floats to the surface of a bog in northern Germany, and a 57 carat ruby rolls out of his fist, treasure hunters from around the globe race to find the Lost Tavernier Stones of popular European folklore.
According to legend, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier was robbed of a priceless hoard while returning from his final voyage to the Orient in 1689. The hoard reputedly includes some of the world's most notorious missing jewels. Among them the 280 carat Great Mogul Diamond and the 242 carat Great Table Diamond, the largest diamonds ever unearthed whose whereabouts are unknown.
John Graf is an Amish-born cartographer who has never ventured out of Pennsylvania, let alone embarked on an international treasure hunt. David Freeman is a gemologist who has done his share of prospecting, but little of it within the boundaries of the law. Between them they have all the expertise necessary to solve the mystery. They also have enough differences to derail even the best of partnerships. And ahead are more obstacles: fortune seekers equally qualified and every bit as determined.
The race spans two continents. The finish line is in Idar-Oberstein, the gemstone capital of Germany. There, in chambers beneath an old church, where unspeakable events took place in centuries past, winners and losers alike find answers to age-old questions about the Lost Tavernier Stones.'
Author website Stones website *He's holding an "armchair treasure hunt" where if a person solves the puzzles, they can win an actual diamond - visit the book website for complete details*
THank you, Michelle - Smiling! and I was so surprised to see I was still No 1 on Kindle Literary best sellers! I thought I'd slipped down! I'm so excited and happy :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post Michelle. Some of these I knew about, but now I have more to look out for. Thanks for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteAwwwww! Michelle :) Thank you :) I'm all smiles today!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, guys and gals. Oops! Sorry Shaun. I meant to put the one link as "Author website" instead of "Personal Blog." Will fix that.
ReplyDeleteJust found your blogs. Awesome! Thanks for sharing these books and the author's websites. These look like really interesting stories.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I never used to support new authors, but now most of my new books are from those individuals. Maybe it's because I'm hoping someone will do the same for me if I'm ever published. Maybe it's because their books really do look cool. Or maybe it's because the library doesn't have them yet, and I'm impatient to read them. ;)
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