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In Venice, that beautiful old whore, everything is for sale except the doge's chef. When streetwise Luciano becomes the chef's apprentice, he discovers that powerful men are plotting to unearth an ancient book rumored to contain thorny heresies, love potions, alchemy, and even the secret of immortality. Everyone believes the elusive book holds the thing they want most.
Luciano wants only Francesca—lush as a plum but locked in a convent. His quest takes him from the life of a street thief in the Rialto to the opulence of the doge's palace, and eventually sends him fleeing for his life through the dark calli of renaissance Venice.
Intrigue escalates and schemes thicken like stew while the enigmatic chef uses metaphorical soufflés and mysterious sauces to guide Luciano through a dangerous but delicious maze. Luciano learns there are a few things worth dying for, and the chef knows what they are.
Luciano wants only Francesca—lush as a plum but locked in a convent. His quest takes him from the life of a street thief in the Rialto to the opulence of the doge's palace, and eventually sends him fleeing for his life through the dark calli of renaissance Venice.
Intrigue escalates and schemes thicken like stew while the enigmatic chef uses metaphorical soufflés and mysterious sauces to guide Luciano through a dangerous but delicious maze. Luciano learns there are a few things worth dying for, and the chef knows what they are.
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Sumptuous. A literary feast spiced with mystery, peppered with adventure and stirred with delicious creativity. Bones of the Dead is a tale to savor.
Sumptuous. A literary feast spiced with mystery, peppered with adventure and stirred with delicious creativity. Bones of the Dead is a tale to savor.
Bones of the Dead by Elle Newmark
Haunted by her involvement in her parents death at the age of ten, Cassandra has never been confident in the love that others felt for her—not her adoptive parents, her friends and certainly not the man she loved with all her heart. So, after giving herself to her high school sweetheart on prom night, she flees from the overpowering fears and all those who supported her.
And then after four years of sleeping with one strange man after another—whose names she couldn't remember or never knew—she decided enough was enough. It was time to return to face those she'd left behind, particularly Brenden Carter.
Brenden should hate Cass for running away from their love and with his daughter, but somehow even after years of telling himself he hated her--and doing a lot of womanizing himself--Cass' smile still managed to get next to him.
Will he be able to forgive her for leaving him when he needed her most?
And So It Goes a free story available at:
Jordana is a 30 year old single mother from St. Louis Missouri. Jordana started writing poetry when she was young and graduated to novels about a year and a half ago. Jordana has spent most of her life working with the mentally ill and dually diagnosed clients. Jordana considers herself a creative person and can often be found with a project by her side. Jordana loves to hear from her readers and can be reached at her website. http://jordanaryan.tripod.com and her email purplepixiedustgir@sbcglobal.net.
ISBN: 193299310X Star Publish
For only a few cents a day THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER assures your book the best possible start in life. It is full of nitty - gritty how -tos for getting nearly-free publicity. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, an instructor for UCLA’s Writers’ Program, shares her professional experience as well as practical tips gleaned from the successes of her own book campaigns. She tells authors how to do what their publishers can’t or won’t and why authors can often do their own promotion better than a PR professional.
A recommendation from BarnesandNobel.com: Feather Schwartz Foster, an author, September 9, 2004,
Packed With Wonderful Information! For anyone who has written a book of any kind - this is a must-have, and must-keep guide! Every chapter is filled with insights and how-tos and a whole bunch of where to finds!
ISBN: 1588513521 AmErica House
“When you live amidst beauty sometimes you don’t recognize discrimination and, if you do, you prefer not to acknowledge it.”
A young journalist realizes that because she is half Mormon and half Protestant she is not suitable material for love. She delves into her Mormon heritage and journals her way through prejudice into redemption. She learns to mend her own life when she finds she cannot mend her world. This novel, set in Salt Lake City in the 50s, reveals not only complexities of the heart but the secrets of what some consider a mysterious place and culture. "This Is the Place" has won eight awards including the Critics' Choice award.
ISBN: 1591295505 AmErica House
Harkening explores the little white lies and solemn truths that one charming, idiosyncratic family loves to repeat. Each story is stitched to the next to become a saga of their sojourn from Michigan through a vanishing railroad town in New Mexico, then into Utah and finally (and happily), to a place where individuality can thrive. "Harkening" has won three awards including Word Thunder's Excellence in Writing award.
ISBN: 1-59924-017-3 Finishing Line Press
Tracings touches chords—both major and minor—for readers interested in nostalgia, tolerance, culture and aging. The author traces her life's experiences and for her it feels like "a movie reel running backwards." "Tracings" was named to the Compulsive Readers' Ten Best Reads list and given Military Writers' Society of America's Award of Excellence.
ISBN: 978-0-9785158-7-4 Publisher: Red Engine Press
There are gremlins out there determined to keep your work from being published, your book from being promoted. They —resolved to embarrass you before the gatekeepers who can turn the key of success for you —lurk in your subconscious and the depths of your computer programs. Whether you are a new or experienced author, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success will help you present whistle-clean copy (whether it's a one-page cover letter or your entire manuscript) to those who have the power to say "Yea" or "Nay."
The Award-Winning Book Unscrambled Eggs!
ISBN: 1413781691 Publish America
Unscrambled Eggs personifies personal growth and spiritual inspiration. It is a self-reflection and journey to find one's purpose in life. According to the author's website, Unscrambled Eggs is a profound and riveting collection of poetry that enlightens; it is honest and thought-provoking book which speaks the way of life and the world. The poems in this book were written over a five year period and reflects the author's experiences, those close to her, and issues that she cares very passionately about.
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Author-Promotion.com is a resource directory for aspiring and established authors alike and also showcases literary works by best-selling and new authors wanting greater online book publicity. Authors are able to have their books featured monthly along with their book title, name, and direct link to their website or where their books can be purchased by readers.
Beautiful Moments of Joy and Peace is a book of Inspirational poetry including poems about seasons, nature and music, offering moments of beauty, joy and peace in all circumstances of life.
Martina Newberry’s most recent book, HUNGER, is daring, complex, and, at the same time, accessible. HUNGER speaks to us of personal and planetary appetites--how and if they are satisfied.
Through the oddest of circumstances, Dr. Roxane Brissett, encounters two women who become clients that drastically impact her life. Bernice McCall manages to flee to a shelter after barely escaping a near death experience at the hands of her abusive boyfriend. While Sharice Brown, a young wife whose husband has kidnapped their only child is attacked and beaten by him inside a courtroom. Her role as a psychotherapist is put to a test when Bernice is found dead inside her apartment with an unknown male lying across her slain body.
It would appear that the right motive has opened the wrong door and in some instances family can turn out to be your worst enemy. When your own father beats and rape you, who do you trust? Who would think that opening up a counseling service for battered and abused women would break loose so much turmoil in her life?
My site is devoted to the writer in all of us. It is a starting point, a place for new writers to hopefully find inspiration, helpful links and useful freebies such as writer's software, inspirational quotes from authors and more. Soon there will also be a newbie writers Q and A forum for those who sign on to our forum. It is also a place for readers to find free eBooks, poetry and short stories. I also have a blog based in the U.K. It is:
Port Beach is a backwater burg where the children's playground is a polluted bay and a garbage dump. Most ominous is the town's one source of jobs, the Perfume Factory, an industrial complex that "... spilled out the sickly sweet odors that made Port Beach smell like the bottom of an old woman's handbag," an irony not lost on 17-year-old Sam Nesbitt, who views the Perfume Factory as a mocking reminder of the town's unchanging ugliness, oppression and empty promises. As the summer of his 18th birthday unfolds, and Sam finalizes his plans to escape the town and his violent abusive father, he meets Julie, a pretty, vivacious young woman from the city, who takes an unexpected interest in him, heightened by the lies he tells about himself to cement that interest. Sam, who has survived by suppressing his feelings and emotions, "playing it cool," obsessively pursues her, setting aside his habitual caution, altering his escape plans, and experiencing his first romantic love and sexual experience, pain and joy in tow. The Perfume Factory has been lauded for its strong sense of place, stamp of authenticity and passionate portrayal of working-class American youth.
