A chance to translate inscriptions near Pompeii is a dream for classics prof Winnie Price, except the dig is for a cheesy TV show. The host is more sensationalist than scientist, Winnie’s boss horns his way in on the project, and her cocky teaching assistant keeps flirting with her—and getting harder to resist.
The other issue is that on her last trip to Italy, her father died there. A spiritual cynic since losing him, she resists reading into the goddess symbols that keep popping up in her life. What concerns her more are a looter’s hole at the dig site and an unexplained collapse in the ruins. Then it turns out the referral letter that got her the gig was forged, and the prime suspect is her—or her assistant.
Add to the mix a reenactment of pagan rites spiced up with a psychoactive homebrew, and Winnie has more to interpret than Latin.
Available on Nook for $3.99. Trade paperback not yet on BN as I post this, but should be soon. Please see my blog for more info and sample chapters: http://www.jenmalin.com/fivedaydig
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Jen
A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO AMERICA'S WEIGHT PROBLEM
Published: Feb. 05, 2011
Category:Non-fiction » Health and Well Being » Dieting
Words: 44342 (approximate)
Language: English
Also available in Print Edition
Ebook Short Description
New & natural way to weight loss. Not another diet and vigorous exercise or some nutrient, vitamin, hormone, and drug that I am promoting. With child obesity at national emergency levels (that has involved first lady Michelle now); it is time to treat those fat, unhealthy, undisciplined, drug infested bodies with a technique that works. This book is here to help you with that. Good Luck!
Where the Dead Fear to Tread by M.R. Gott
A police officer and a serial killer search separately for a missing child while running a malevolent labyrinth populated by creatures they never knew existed.
Former prosecutor William Chandler, disgusted with his past inaction, spills the blood of those who victimize children to correct the ills he sees in the world. A self-admitted serial killer and uncomfortable with his actions, Chandler attends the funerals of those whose lives he has taken in an effort to retain a true understanding of the nature of violence.
The carnage left in his wake is investigated by Detective Kate Broadband, who becomes progressively more comfortable with the corpses left by Chandler. Envying the power she sees in him, she pursues Chandler as each search for Maria Verde, a missing eight-year-old girl.
As Chandler and Broadband draw closer to discovering what happened to Maria they are forced to confront The Devourer, an unnatural being trafficking in stolen children.
Where the Dead Fear to Tread is a tale of hard-boiled macabre, bridging numerous genres to reveal a story of horror, crime and revenge.
About Author M.R. Gott:
M.R. Gott is the author of Where the Dead fear to Tread and the forthcoming sequel Where the Damned Fear Redemption. You can visit M.R. at his website Cutis Anserina at http://wherethedeadfeartotread.blogspot.com. M.R. lives contentedly in central New Hampshire with his wife, and their two cats and dog. Aside from writing, M.R. enjoys dark coffee, dark beer, red wine, and fading light.
Barnes & Noble: Bestseller Books in Afghanistan War, 2001: Desperate Lands
Desperate Lands by Regulo Zapata Jr.
DESPERATE LANDS is the unprecedented story of U.S. Army Special Forces Soldiers and the missions they have carried out while fighting the war on terror in Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan.
The book is unique and timely, in that it tells the compelling story of our nation's struggle and of its soldiers fighting a new and different war never fought before-a Global War on Terror.
The true story comes at a time when our nation has divided feelings and opinions about the war-a division that exists among both government leaders and the American people.
These pages offer a different perspective-that of the lower enlisted soldiers-reflecting their personal experience in combat zones in Africa and Afghanistan as they witness and experience the fog of war.
The author-Special Forces Master Sergeant Regulo Zapata, Jr.- shares his extraordinary journey through ancient and desperate lands at the front lines of this on going war.
Here are true stories-of sacrifice, bravery, excitement, horror, anger, tedium, fear, camaraderie, and more - a firsthand look behind the headlines at the reality of the exceptional and difficult challenges U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers face as they defend America against the terrorist threat.
About This Author:
Former U.S.Army, Green Beret & Combat Veteran Regulo Zapata is the Bestsellers author of Desperate Lands: The War on Terror Through The Eyes of a Specal Forces Soldier!
Master Sergeant Regulo Zapata Jr, U.S.Army (Retired) joined the Special Forces in 1974. Since then he has participated in numerous operations in several countries. Master Sergeant Regulo Zapata was a Green Beret, Special Forces Operations Sergeant with twenty-eight years of service with the US Army.
Sergeant Zapata served as an enlisted soldier in the United States Army Special Operations Forces with the 2nd Battalion, 75th Rangers Airborne, 5th Special Forces Group, and 19th Special Forces Group while on active duty.
He graduated from the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center School, Army Special Forces Operations and Intelligence Course, United States Army Ranger School and many other (Secret) Special Forces Courses available to a Green Beret, Army Special Forces enlisted soldier.
Regulo enjoys reading other books on non-fiction or fiction, thrillers, action, adventure, horror, suspense, crime, drama, etc...If you know of a good book to read and share...please tell me! So I can read & add to my Shelfari-Shelf on my DesperateLands.Blog-page!
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A TREASURE OF GREAT SPIRITUAL STORIES
Published: Feb. 08, 2011
Category:Non-Fiction » Self-Improvement » Religion and Self-improvement
Words: 50029 (approximate)
Language:English
Also Available in Print Edition
Short Description
This collection of spiritual stories and precepts supplement and buttress our moral sense, which is conscience or the spark within that tells us to do good. Learning spirituality is not simply philosophy and drama. It teaches us everyday behavior, whether controlling our tempers or appetites, or just watch TV. We learn spirituality the same way we learn math or play baseball -- through practice.
Published: Feb. 07, 2011
Category: Non-Fiction » Inspiration » General self-help
Words: 44493 (approximate)
Language: English
Now available in Printed Edition
Ebook Short Description
The views on soul and reincarnation vary from no such thing as a ‘soul’ to only humans possess a soul, to both humans and animals possess a soul, and that soul likewise dies when the physical body dies or that soul is immortal and never dies. All religions believe in the existence of SOUL in human body, but they differ in what happens after death. This manuscript searches for the truth.
Shot to Death by Stephen D. Rogers
Like a 31-bullet magazine, Shot to Death delivers a major dose of murder and mayhem. The work of short story author Stephen D. Rogers has graced over two hundred publications. Here, collected for the first time, are 31 of his stories of murder and mayhem, strewn across the back alleys and back yards of New England. Let this veteran writer lead you through the darkness to show you where the bodies are buried. You might just make it back alive.
About Author Stephen D. Rogers:
Stephen D. Rogers is a multi-published writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Over seven hundred of his stories and poems have been selected to appear in more than two hundred publications, earning among other honors two “Best of Soft SF” winners, a Derringer (and six additional nominations), two “Notable Online Stories” from storySouth’s Million Writers Award, honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, mention in The Best American Mystery Stories, and numerous Readers’s Choice awards.
Checkout Time by Lee Hammerschmidt
Jasper, a semi-retired senior citizen, is the night-shift desk clerk at a sleazy “no-tell” hotel. In debt to local mobster Nick Picante due to his gambling problem, Jasper is forced to participate in one last job with Picante’s enforcer, Trask, in order to wipe the slate clean.
A work of short crime from our Fingerprints line.
About Author Lee Hammerschmidt:
Lee Hammerschmidt is a Graphic Designer/Writer/Songwriter/Troubadour who lives on the fringe of Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in Gumshoe Review, 10Flash, Page Forty-Seven, Short-Story.me, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, several Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, and more.
Checkout Time by Lee Hammerschmidt
Jasper, a semi-retired senior citizen, is the night-shift desk clerk at a sleazy “no-tell” hotel. In debt to local mobster Nick Picante due to his gambling problem, Jasper is forced to participate in one last job with Picante’s enforcer, Trask, in order to wipe the slate clean.
A work of short crime from our Fingerprints line.
About Author Lee Hammerschmidt:
Lee Hammerschmidt is a Graphic Designer/Writer/Songwriter/Troubadour who lives on the fringe of Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in Gumshoe Review, 10Flash, Page Forty-Seven, Short-Story.me, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, several Chicken Soup for the Soul titles, and more.
