Beyond the Eyes by Rebekkah Ford
“A thrilling, wholly satisfying first book to a new young adult series. It will keep you wanting more.” – Valentina Cano, Carabosse’s Library
“Beyond the Eyes is haunting yet passionate. This breakout novel is quick and hip, a saucy must-read.” – Charles Land, Judas Pistol
Paige knows evil exists in this world, but she never imagined it would want something from her.
After a ghostly voice whispers a haunting message to seventeen-year-old Paige Reed, Paige’s life takes a nightmarish turn. Unwilling to tell her friends about the supernatural occurrences happening in her life, Paige feels more alone than ever–until she meets Nathan Caswell.
Nathan is not only hot, but seems to peer into Paige’s soul, evoking a magnetic energy between them that cannot be denied. But he’s no ordinary guy. He tracks dark spirits, and becomes alarmed when they set their sights on Paige.
And then there are the two power-hungry dark spirits who believe Paige can find King Solomon’s magical ring for them, because when her father was alive, he was close to finding it. If Paige doesn’t comply with their demands, they’ll kill her.
Paige is forced to dig deep into her father’s past and unearths shocking secrets about him and his bloodline. With the past and present colliding, Paige is only sure about two things in her life: she needs to outwit the dark spirits to stay alive, and she’s completely and helplessly in love with Nathan.
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Tails of Sweetbrier by Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
Tails of Sweetbrier is an award-winning, inspiring, autobiography about a little girl who wants nothing more than to become a champion equestrian, in spite of her handicap. What happens when things don’t go well? What happens when she falls off her horse? Even if she prevails, Deanie will need exactly the right horse so they can become a winning team. This story will show that nothing is impossible if you persevere.
This book is available on Kindle: Amazon.com
The paperback version will be published soon.
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Gemini Rising Book I – Ethereal Fury by Jessica O’Gorek
Angry at the human race and its methodical destruction of her resources, Mother Earth recruits souls who have just left their bodies to serve Her, and turns them against humanity. Gemini, a clan of paranormal beings, picked from these possessed humans, emerges. A powerful, rising force proceeds to carry out Mother Nature’s plan to systematically destroy towns, cities, states… and eventually, the world. Amidst the chaos, a forbidden relationship between a human girl, Violette, and Onyx, a lead Gemini, begins. They will both find themselves in the middle of a revolutionary war that will either save, or destroy our world.
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Before Barack: They Said This Day Would Never Come by Sonia Grant
The United States has come a long way since the days when twelve of her former presidents owned slaves; eight of them while in office. The paradigm shifted irrevocably, however, when an African-American, Barack Hussein Obama, was elected the country’s 44th President.
With President Obama’s landmark second-term well underway, thoughts have turned to his legacy. Sonia Grant’s book is an unvarnished look at other black presidential candidates. Designed to advance the discourse beyond the hackneyed “first black president” and a sense of weariness expressed when Jesse Jackson opined that, “Some of the excitement has gone,” Before Barack presents the President’s achievement in a unique historical perspective.
But, she argues, more significant than the nuts-and-bolts of the individual campaigns of Blanche Kelso Bruce; George Edwin Taylor; James W. Ford; Charlotta Bass; Clennon W. King; Dick Gregory; Eldridge Cleaver; Angela Davis; Reverend Jesse Jackson; and Reverend Al Sharpton, outlined in her book, were the conditions which gave rise to their candidacies. Indeed, it was America’s unprecedented social upheaval – spanning Slavery, Reconstruction, domestic terrorism, race riots and Segregation – which paved the way for Obama’s ascendancy.
However, in terms of race, Grant contends that America still seemed conflicted. Despite hard-fought gains borne out in the Civil Rights Movement, for instance, centuries of systematic and deep-seated racism still haunted; and, on occasions, the nation was schismatic and betrayed signs of polarization.
Nonetheless, she observes that many optimistically hung on to the notion that the election of the country’s first black president was transformative; indeed, it was, but Grant suggests it also proved to be as revelatory as it was historic. To that extent, Before Barack is a lens through which the confluence of race, class, and [presidential] power is examined in the context of America’s eventful social and political history.
An accessible narrative, the book charts the trials and triumphs of the black presidential candidate: beginning speculatively in the nineteenth century; approached earnestly in the twentieth; but only destined to be realized – or not – in the twenty-first, with the election of Barack Obama.
Before Barack is available for $22.49 in paperback from Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/171tjEu; and $8.99 as an eBook from Amazon: http://amzn.to/11xYA3G
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info@sonia-grant.com / @SoniaSGrant / www.sonia-grant.com
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