Recommended Books
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UNDER THE BUS
Homicide detectives, Donde Clark and Juanito Lewis moved to Hobbs Creek just days before banker, Richard Ghetti was gunned down in the front room of his Lake Powhattan, water front cabin.Barbershop talk had it that divine providence played some part in transferring the two NYC lawmen from the Big Apple to this backwater town in South Jersey. Hobbs Creek Police Chief, Alvin Phillips believed it was his lucky silver dollar. The Six-O-Clock news refused comment because the incident did not relate to the Corona virus.
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Faith & Funnies: Wit and Wisdom from the Porch Swing
Move over, Mark Twain! Make room, Oscar Wilde! Here comes a fresh set of unique witticisms and wisdom “ditties,” specially made to match the follies and messes of our modern age! In Faith & Funnies: Wit & Wisdom from the Porch Swing, author Robert D. Dean gifts readers with this charming collection of original quotations and inspirations, culled from over ten years of the author’s social media posts, dating back to 2011.
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Tones, Clones and Bones
While being on a rock and roll tour is intriguing, it is neither uncomplicated nor glamorous. An industry loaded with crooked people and con artists around every turn makes being on the road an arduous journey. Living on a tour bus for weeks to months at a time turns what appears extravagant into a moving prison that never escapes the obstacles of the tour.
Pulling it all together and driving a successful tour to its completion is an art form. Every day brings dilemmas from a magnitude of predicaments that require extraordinary solutions that must be implemented swiftly to keep the touring machine moving forward.
Touring partners Jeb and Neusy, have organized and executed a lifetime of successful tours. Their extensive knowledge and experience created the ideal touring partnership that can navigate the toughest of circumstances. Now the touring partners who escaped murders that plagued their last tour signed on for another tour with the world’s greatest guitarist, “the Doctor” Jurgen Weislangwolf.
The Doctor while being a brilliant guitarist brings added complications that an ordinary tour never experiences. Nothing about a rock and roll tour that features the Doctor is predictable, including his quest for spiritual enlightenment. While not wanting to ride that particular wave with the Doctor, Jeb and Neusy agreed to the production needed to complete the Doctor’s journey and the tour commences.
With a new friend that leads the way, Jeb and Neusy do what they do best, which is steer the Doctor’s one man solo tour in the right direction always moving forward. The Doctor’s never revealed personal agenda consistently challenges the two. They have come to ignore it, mocking the Doctor constantly while he sails down these passages. They have developed a partnership rarely seen in the business. Jeb and Neusy always find the solution to whatever ridiculous situation arises on the road at the same time being able to communicate across a room without spoken words.
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Jesus Was Gay
This is how Christians secretly view the Sodom and Gomorrah story. It’s as disgusting as it is funny.
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Aunt Margo
In the first part of this book, Margo plays the teacher to her lover, Student, and his fiance.
In the second part, Margo negotiates a promotion for her husband with his handsome boss by seducing him. then Ari, the boss negotiates a deal with Margo for more.
With her husband George away most of the year as a ship officer, Margo, a confirmed hypersexual, was left alone to fend for herself. With her understanding husband’s permission and encouragement, Margo had multiple lovers. Something Margo never ceased to be appreciative of, giving George the same option in their sexually open marriage. Margo was a woman ahead of her time and had a heart of gold. -
Bored to Death in the Baltics
Bored to Death in the Baltics is a comedy thriller, a sequel to A Very Important Teapot, set four months later. Saul Dawson and Lucy Smith, still working for a minor department of MI6, get caught up in the apparent assassination of a foreign scientist working on a top secret project. Meanwhile, a traitor is on the loose within the secret service.
It’s murder, mayhem and mirth. Full of twists, puns and action, it’s so brilliantly constructed that only the comedic genius of Steve Sheppard could have written it.
When a bomb explodes in front of Dawson on a sunny June morning, he is lucky to escape with his life, certainly luckier than the man he is following.
But finding himself a few hours later in the bilges of a ship heading for the eastern Baltic is less fortunate as that is not how he’d planned to spend his weekend.
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The Garden Gnome: Theory of Magic – Book 1
Our world is defined by science, but history tells us that the world was once a much more magical place. Every culture has tales of when the gods walked among us, when strange magical creatures dwelt in the dark, and when users of magic were respected and feared.
We tell ourselves that these stories are myth and superstition. But what if they aren’t?
What if magic were to return? And what does it have to do with a ten-year-old boy and his imaginary friend?
Daniel and Sophia Fitzroy are worried that their son Tony is being bullied in his new school and is struggling to cope.
Leo Schafer is reporting on a new and powerful particle accelerator experiment and the protestors who want it stopped.
FBI Special Agent Debra Kazdin is investigating the protests and trying to keep things from escalating.
Brian Cooke is being inducted into a secret society that knows the truth about magic and will stop at nothing to keep it from returning.
They will be drawn together in an extraordinary confrontation that will change the world forever.