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The Seventh Chakra

It's a story of Jackie a young Coast Guard woman who is kidnapped off the streets of NYC by a group of street preachers telling people the new messiah is coming and he will be black.

John a salesman from Florida arrives in NYC to pedal software. He is a 29 year old virgin, neither, straight or gay, but then he meets Morgan an airline stewardess who becomes one of the keys that start to open the energy within the body of John.

[Vom Autor gelöscht am 30.03.2012 19:43:22 GMT+02:00]

Plateau RebelsFlyover country. That's where Eva, a college-drop out from Germany, has ended up. Under the endless blue skies of Idaho, she discovers the world of bareback horseriding and Indian reservations. Making new friends was never easier. One day, after watching an old spaghetti western full of stereotypes, Eva and her Native American friends decide to make a "leather and feather" movie together. Determined to correct every mistake John Wayne ever made, they set off on a guerilla film making adventure.

There is no room for errors - the whole reservation is watching...

Modern American love story Lawman by Virginia Llorca ASINB005KN6S4E
A racy, dialogue driven, fast-paced story.

I would be so happy to have a sale from your country.

FBI profiler Maggie Weston has a reputation for identifying the most gruesome of killers. But her reputation is put on the line when US Marshal Brandon Worth walks into her office with news the one case that haunted her the most, John Michael Burrows, has escaped federal custody. Brandon needs her help; she understands how Burrows thinks and the best tracker on the east coast isn't about to pass up her expertise. Maggie and Brandon have to work together to catch a serial murderer and the closer they get to Burrows, the more their hearts become involved. While insecurities and bitterness threaten a budding relationship between Maggie and Brandon, an elusive killer terrorizes a small Virginia county with a game he plans on winning.
An interracial Christian romance.

Virginia Justice Book One: Serial Games

The Surreal Killer, the third Roger Bowman-Suzanne Foster South American mystery novel in the series, is now available as a Kindle E-Book from Amazon DE.
A serial killer is leaving a trail of dead women across Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. The gruesome corpses all seem to have died in exactly the same macabre way. There may be a link to a small group of scientists who meet annually in different locations in the region. Roger Bowman and Suzanne Foster are asked by the local police to attend this year’s meeting of the group in Lima, Peru to try to find out who was present at the previous meetings when the murders occurred. And the reader is off on a fast paced pursuit of the killer through Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Picchu in Peru and Chile’s Atacama Desert. This is a true whodunit mystery novel set in an unusual and exotic locale.

The Brubury Tales is a modern version of The Canterbury Tales in Los Angeles just after the '92 riots -- 65,000 words written entirely in rhyming verse.

Made Amazon's bestselling poetry books in The UK #81 and Italy #40 (for books in English). Nr. 31 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Lyrik > Epische Dichtung

The Brubury Tales [by Frank Mundo] is a landmark book, in what is going to be -- and already is -- an exceptional, distinguished literary career. --Carolyn See of The Washington Post

Mundo's skill is astounding and has a natural cadence. These stories are intriguing and compellingly human, and soon enough the reading becomes listening. --Sacramento Book Review

With inspiration from many literary classics and plenty of original spin, The Brubury Tales is a fine collection and not one to be missed. --Midwest Book Review

The Brubury Tales is a brilliant blend of writing, combining the style of Chaucer while putting a new slant on the short stories of the classical writers. --Reader Views

A unique and powerful new book,The Brubury Tales draws upon Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and classic stories by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Dickens, to name a few. Frank Mundo takes risks with his writing, which is sensitive, thoughtful, and gritty. --Laura Frazin Steele, LA Books Examiner

Winner of a Poet Laureate Award Nomination from UCLA and CAL
Reader Views 2011 Reviewers Choice Award for Poetry Book of the Year
2011 Bookhitch Award for the Most Innovative Book of Poetry

Guten Morgan!

Soeben als eBook erschienen:

Nur Samstag Nacht (Eine Kurzgeschichte)

1978 - Eine Gruppe von Teenagern aus den USA besucht Deutschland und alles verläuft nach Plan; bis zu jenem Samstagabend, als ihnen ihre Lehrerin Frau Heller gestattet, ohne Anstandsdame auszugehen.

I'm a U.S. based author with several books on Kindle. So far, the only ones in German are the short story above and a young adult thriller:
Die Lilienvilla

This year, two more of my novels will be translated and I'm eager to see how that works out. I really need to brush up on my German. I took it in high school but unfortunately, I've forgotten so much of it.

My books in English:

A Scattered Life / Easily Amused

For teenagers:

Favorite / Life On Hold

For kids:

Secrets of the Magic Ring / Celia and the Fairies

Danke!

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Thanks all, hope you enjoyed THE SEVENTH CHAKRA. I appreciate your support. Here's a new one that is way out there. Enjoy.

Catch a Succubus

J.R. BOWLES

Daniel has just turned seventeen but he still hasn't hit puberty. He is only five feet tall, no body hair and pudgy. He and his buddy, Jimmy, have one last game on the Ouija Board before he moves away to an odd country house owned by a new stepfather.

Daniel's mother Kelli, has married Duncan Osborne , a high school football coach who has taken an interest in his overly indulged new stepson.

Daniel despises his new "xxxx-for-brains" stepfather, mentally accusing him of abuse.

One night Daniel awakens to someone in his room and is propelled into a fast pace sexual paranormal escapade, accelerating him into puberty.

His friend Jimmy comes to spend a few days with him and they soon get caught up in the most confusing adventure either one of them could have imagined.

This is a story about a man. A man who felt he had developed a potentially life-threatening sickness, only to be told youre fine. This is a story about this mans struggle to deal with and overcome this all-too-common medical drama.

So, sit back, relax. Gather your family round. Call up your pets. Invite your family physician to sit next to you as you journey into Poked and Prodded.

General Surgeons Warning- Reading the following story may cause one or more of the following symptoms:

*Uncontrollable laughter
*Sudden sadness
*Loss of appetite
*Gain of appetite
*Pessimism
*Optimism
*Increased Heart Rate
*Decreased Tension
*Goosebumps
*Flatulence
*Vivid Dreams
*Sleep Paralysis
*Excessive Sweating

Poked and Prodded- Two Autobiographical Medical Journeys

[Vom Autor gelöscht am 09.05.2012 16:04:55 GMT+02:00]

I'm Cliff Ball, and I have five novels and two short stories available on Amazon.

Times of Trouble: an End Times novel Kindle & paperback
Thirty years in the future, the U.S. government has turned into a tyranny as the EPA and TSA grow with ever more power.

Brian, the main character, tells his story from first person point of view. His work with the FBI involves mostly cyber terrorism and actual cases of potential real world terrorism. Eventually, his wife gives birth to their third child, who has Down's Syndrome, which does not please the U.S. Health Administration because there are rules and regulations set-up in cases like these to prevent "genetic freaks" as they like to call them, from sucking up a lot of Health Admin money. Because the Atwoods are born again Christians, they never considered aborting the baby, so now the Health people have to take him away to deal with the problem later.

Meanwhile, the Secret Service decides to recruit Brian to be the personal agent of the President of the United States, David Collins, due to his great work involving a case that dealt with terrorism that would've involved Offutt Air Force Base. Brian's faith is tested every day as he deals with a man who has no morals from what Brian can see, and is tested even more when his wife finds out that she's dying from a fast growing form of breast cancer. Trouble in the rest of the world occurs as Iran attempts to nuke Israel, which fails spectacularly, so Israel takes care of the problem. This brings condemnation from everyone, including the U.S., which takes the side of Iran.

When the re-election of Collins doesn't turn out the way he wanted it, he and his people declare the election nullified because of supposed "irregularities" with the ballots. Collins claims that the new President-elect may take the seat sometime in the middle of next year, if everything looks to be sorted out. Collins purges his staff of what he considers unloyal people, including Brian. At the same time, he loses his wife, but regains the son he thought he had lost.

Brian moves back to his family home in Nebraska, where we follow what happens as the country slowly falls apart. Events play out as Brian and his family sees the End Times approach.

The Usurper: (conservative political intrigue)
Gary Jackson hates the U.S. and does whatever it takes to bring it down from within.

New Frontier (Speculative fiction, alt history)
What-if Reagan became President in 1976? Find out in this novel.

Don't Mess With Earth
Some humans leave Earth when a massive flood threatens the planet. Eventually they return to manipulate human history. An alien species follows them, and experiments on the humans. Eventually, the humans of Earth discover this, and President Truman sets the planet on a path that will forever change history.

Out of Time: A time travel novella
A scientist figures out that time is fluid; past, present, and future all exist at the same time. His task is to find out if time can be changed. Features a chapter about the Titanic where the time travelers interfere in the maiden voyage.

Dust Storm: a short western story
In this western short story, 15 years after the Civil War, Matt comes through Tucson, where he stops at the local Cafe, meets a woman he instantly falls in love with, only for her father to order him to leave town. He doesn't, the daughter ends up kidnapped by Bandidos, and Matt and the father have to lay aside their differences to rescue the daughter. Can they? Find out what happens.

Voyager and the Aliens science fiction short story
In this short story, aliens come across television broadcasts from an unknown planet to them. Then, they come across a probe from same planet that tells them everything they need to know about this planet and its people. They decide to visit the planet, but when they arrive, not everything is as it seems.

Passamezzo - This big turbulent violent drama spanning 3 generations is the story of Frank Falcone, Don of the 'Ndrangheta, the most powerful crime family in the world. Frank's rise to power puts him on a path of bloody gang warfare and murderous revenge between the Sicilian Mafia and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.
Moving to North America from Italy in 1910, The Falcone family makes a start on a new life in Toronto's immigrant ghetto. Respected patriarch Vincenzo is soon destroyed by establishment bigotry leaving his young son Frank responsible for the family's survival.
Frank's ruthless drive to build his vast and powerful crime family sets in motion forces and events that spread across the US and Canada, culminating in a final bloody showdown of crossed allegiances and avenged honor.

The Recruiter - Ex-assassin discovers that his employer has betrayed him.

#6 in UK Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Political

The Author is Dead

After the death of her father and his partner, Sam Marlow inherits the detective agency along with their male secretary Kelly.

Her first case alone was brought to her, by dignitaries from the British Embassy involving a renowned author who maybe the missing heir to the Duke of Faulkner.

She accepted the case even though it just didn't feel right from the very beginning. Sam, Kelly and Detective John Chambers are drawn into the unseen side of Washington, D.C..

Finding out exactly who this author is thrusts them into espionage and the CIA. Can a female investigator triumph over the international spies and those chasing them?

A Short Story based on the poem - Unspoken Love During the Vietnam War

FREE MAY 2, 3,
Short story in English

This is the story you ask for and hopefully I provided.

In 1975, I wrote a poem and posted it recently on Amazon. It had a great response but mostly from people that said they wished it were a story, that poetry sucks.

Well, for me the poetry is where the emotion was but to attempt to please, I have "tried" to write it into a story. The issue is will it maintain the emotion needed to understand the incident that happened.

Now the poem was hidden away for 37 years.

At that time there were no avenues for anything that referred to same sex love. It was written as a catharsis for an English class but was rejected by the professor.

This is the story based on the original poem of disaster on a Navy ship, and the display of spiritual love of one man for another.

It is being told by myself. It is what I saw.

FREE! FREE! FREE!
In celebration of my birthday, I am making my new thriller The Scorpion free on Kindle for two days - May 8 and 9. It is Book 2 in the Daily Express Chronicles series. My gift to new readers.

If you haven't yet read the first one, DEADLINE, it is reduced in price for the two days of the free promotion. While both books can be read as standalones, they are best read in sequence.

Now get both books at a great price for two days only - May 8 and 9. Any reviews will be most appreciated.

James

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The Assassin's Wife
#7 in UK Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Political
Wife of assassin becomes target.

The Golden Catch
#85 in UK Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Men's Adventure
Hit men are hired to claim treasure found on ex-assassin's island.

"... the assassin with a conscience and a heart."

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Meet an array of characters that will keep the pages turning in Outcome, a Novel: There's more than a hurricane coming ...:
A police officer riddled with guilt.
A diabolical surgeon with a pristine bedside manner. How would his patients know anyway?
A hurricane-battered dog whose plight is as heart wrenching as the organ donor and recipient's.
A masked O.R. physician who's really responsible for the organ recipient's life.
A feisty female pilot handling trouble in her cockpit.
Two college students who find love from their sorrowful circumstances.
And many more.....
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Operation Neurosurgeon: You never know ... who's in the OR: ~ 74,000 word novel which received a perfect 5 STARS for characters from Red Adept Reviews and was the Indie Book of the Day on June 26th.

Who says a rising neurosurgeon can't fall from his pinnacle? From the skullduggery taking place in the Tennessee woods to the silent tension in the OR, Doctor Danny Tilson's life takes an abrupt turn after performing surgery alongside a scrub nurse with aqua eyes and a velvet voice.

Can Danny's situation get any worse after the alluring lady disappears, he inherits her roguish retriever, and his Albert Einstein historical book turns up missing? A pack of Tennessee attorneys pursue Danny while he develops a scheme with his paramedic best friend to payback the mysterious woman who left in a hurry!
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Gary, the Four-Eyed Fairy and Other Stories= EUR 0,89

5 stars: An exciting series of short stories which reads like a novel

This is ostensibly a series of short stories, but because of the common theme and character of the narrator J.T. Glass, it feels much more like a novel. The reader is led through a series of situations J.T. finds himself in --- sometimes from childhood, sometimes adolescence, and sometimes adulthood --- and sees those situations through J.T.'s eyes. Those eyes are ironic, intelligent, and full of humor about things that would otherwise be impossible to cope with.

Reading this book is something of an emotional adventure. The situations are so shocking, and so varied, that there's never a point at which you can guess what's coming next. But the heart of the book --- the tone which is maintained throughout --- is kind enough that the ride can be endured, and is worth going on.

Oh, and most importantly. This book is written with an artist's eye (a fact which is hinted at in the very first story). Phrases are used symmetrically, popping up meaning one thing at one moment, and something much richer at another. The language, the pacing, and the mood are all established carefully.

If you ignore the attention poured into it, the end result is a book which reads smoothly and easily. If you care to, though, it's also a book worth studying.

What happens if an American tourist gets involved in a coup d'état in Northern Europe?

Queen of Estonia (Expats)

You don't usually meet interesting people at an airport. And even if you do, they're unlikely to invite you to join them in first class. But that's what happens to Claire, the country girl from Idaho. Her new friend from the airport even asks her to come see him in his native Estonia, a small European country that Claire has never heard of. Together with her witty grandfather, she gets to spend an unforgettable holiday far away from home. Too bad the Estonian military decides to overthrow the government...

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Here’s the Midwest Book Review’s review on the recently published fourth book in the Chester the Chesapeake children’s book series: Chester the Chesapeake Book Four: My Brother Buck These children's books are also readable by and rewarding to adults and are a bargain price!

"Chester the Chesapeake Book Four: My Brother Buck continues this excellent picturebook series from the point of view of Chester, a devoted therapy dog and family pet. In My Brother Buck, a kindly neighbor calls Chester’s owner about a friendly and rambunctious dog. When no one answers the lost dog advertisements, Chester has a new brother named Buck – a big, friendly, fifty-pound dog in need of a little training!

Told from Chester’s perspective and illustrated with captivating, full color photography of Chester, Buck, their canine sibling Putt-Putt and their feline sibling Kittie, My Brother Buck is a most enjoyable read-aloud story especially for young animal lovers.

Also highly recommended are the previous books in the series, “Chester the Chesapeake (Book One), “Chester the Chesapeake: Summertime (Book Two),” and “Chester the Chesapeake: Wintertime (Book Three).”
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Chester the Chesapeake Book One
Chester the Chesapeake Book Two: Summertime
Chester the Chesapeake Book Three: Wintertime
Chester the Chesapeake Book Four: My Brother Buck
The Chester the Chesapeake Trilogy (The Chester the Chesapeake Series)