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Since it’s that season, we are changing up our usual format here and will be featuring as many Christmas related titles as we can. And we can feature quite a few, crossing genres and many authors so let’s get to some Yule-Tide fun! First, though, what’s new?
NEW PREORDER
Every Breath I Take – John Rosenman – Sequel to the Sci-Fi Thriller A Breath of Fresh Air.
When the Government holds Michael Windsor’s son Andy prisoner to study his special powers, Michael tries to free him. His attempt fails and Michael escapes, beginning a frantic flight. It takes him and Mac, a sentient machine across the country, involving them in a gang shooting, a presidential assassination, and two domineering female pirates.
His son Andy also escapes and, disguised as a girl, sets out on a journey to find his father. When Laura, the woman Michael loves, is also targeted by the Government, she too escapes and flees to find Michael. Ultimately, all three head toward St. Louis where a showdown with the Government looms. Can they win freedom and live normal lives, or will they be crushed by tyranny?
JUST RELEASED
Destroying Angels David Hambling
Book 5 of the Harry Stubbs adventures:
London, 1928: To the outside world, the Norwood Widows Society is a benevolent self-help group giving aid to the needy. Its secrecy and whispers of occult leanings hint at something darker. Harry Stubbs, heavyweight boxer turned paranormal investigator, is on the case.
There is an unexplained death to examine, a German doctor carrying out very unorthodox procedures, mysterious radio messages, and a puzzling story left by a sixteenth-century alchemist. The members of the Society’s Committee hold the answers, if Harry can get them to talk—but can he unravel their secrets before powerful forces now stirring tear the world apart?
After the Burn Ronald Kelly
It was a picture-perfect Fourth of July; one that heralded both celebration and pride for millions. Folks enjoyed parades and cook-outs, the playful laughter of children, and a velvet sky alive with fireworks. Afterward, they went to sleep, happy and contented, without a care in the world. Then at midnight, the sun came up, brighter than a billion sparklers and hotter than Hell unleashed.
They called it The Burn. The senseless detonation of nuclear devices across the face of the earth; randomly scattered, without rhyme or reason. Civilization as we knew it was consumed in fire that day and, from the ashes, rose a horrifying phoenix of boundless evil and depravity. Those who had once clung to the shadows, because of law and moral restraint, now stepped boldly forward to stake their unholy claim...
This collection of two novellas and six short stories follows the exploits of a handful of survivors in a nuclear-devastated world ruled by the dregs of the Earth: serial killers, child molesters, rapists, and cannibals, as well as radiation-evolved mutants. This is surely Ronald Kelly's most extreme work to date. Now open the cover and prepare for The Burn!
SPOTLIGHT ON CHRISTMAS!
Not going to be able to put all of the descriptions here, too many and no one will read them, but the covers and titles are linked to universal book links, and those that have audio have samples.
The Long Silent Night - Shane Berryhill – AUDIO SAMPLE
Season's Creepings - Ronald Kelly – AUDIO SAMPLE
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder - Cassie O'Malley Mysteries Book 2 – AUDIO SAMPLE
The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays - Sylvia Shults
Christmas Trees and Monkeys - G. Daniel Gunn
You'd Better Watch Out - Tom Piccirilli – AUDIO SAMPLE
Al Sarrantonio's Book of Holidays Al Sarrantonio
Unshelled: A Tale of the Nutcracker - M. J. Neary
The Last Christmas - A Repair Man Jack Novel - F. Paul Wilson – AUDIO SAMPLE
Twelfth Krampus Night AND The Dark Servant - Matt Manochio
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Breathe- A Master Diver’s Survival Tales – Rick Bettua & Rob MacGregorI – AUDIO SAMPLE
Rick Bettua should be dead. Many times over. The retired US Navy master diver suffered a devastating attack by a 12-foot bull shark that shredded his thigh from his knee to his hip. By the time he reached the shore 90 minutes later, he’d bled out, he had no pulse, and wasn’t breathing. Yet, emergency medical workers didn’t give up. His miraculous recovery in late 2020 was just the most recent of his numerous underwater life-and-death experiences.
Breathe is Rick Bettua’s survival/adventure story. It’s also a story about perseverance against great odds, and his impressive skills to solve problems—and even save lives—under extreme conditions. It begins and ends with the shark attack and his recovery that defied the odds.
In between are 15 other stories in which Bettua narrowly escaped death during his remarkable 32-year Navy career. In one instance, in a search for a lost piece of a ship’s propeller, he was buried alive 70 feet below the surface and under 20 feet of mud when a tunnel collapsed. When he finally worked his way free after two hours, he then completed the task, so no other divers would be endangered.
The first-person narration takes the listener through Rick Bettua’s evolution as a diver from a kid spear-fishing to one of the elite Navy master divers. He never wasted time to achieve a goal. He started spearfishing when he was just 10 years old, then entered the Navy when he was 17.
Because he loved diving and it was also his hobby, he moved ahead rapidly in his career. He became a master diver only one year after becoming a chief petty officer. He achieved the highest rank possible for an enlisted sailor, master chief, at age 33, one of the youngest ever to attain that rank.
But Bettua’s promotions never kept him out of the water—or out of perilous circumstances. His skills, his fearlessness, and his perseverance helped him survive time and time again throughout his career and beyond it.
FREE AUDIOBOOK DOWNLOAD CODES FOR AUDIBLE
Here is our new list of books we are offering free download codes for. We are trying to build reviews, and while we don’t require a review for a free download, even just a rating on Audible or Amazon can make a huge difference in visibility. Beneath the new books are those from last week, because all still have some codes available for US and UK listeners. We will offer them to the first five who request them, and only one title per requester. To request a code send a note to [email protected]
THIS WEEK’S TITLES:
A Kiss of Thorns – Tim Waggoner – Produced by Gary Noon – AUDIO SAMPLE
Bram Stoker Award nominee
Lonny lost his beloved sister Delia 30 years ago. Since then, he's sacrificed many lives in order to return her to the world of the living, but without success.
His next target is Julia, a young women with a unfulfilled marriage and a passion for '80s horror films. She will soon discover that not only is real life more complicated than the movies, it's far more terrifying
Ghosts of Old Europe (The Hans Holzer Paranormal Series Book 6) – Hans Holzedr – Performed by Beth Stewart – AUDIO SAMPLE
Ghosts of Old Europe offers a very different kind of tour to the armchair traveler. Wander through the haunted castles and cottages of Europe with Hans Holzer, the world’s most famous psychic investigator, and explore a full range of psychic phenomena from the spirits of the British Isles to the haunts of Imperial Vienna.
In England, Anne Boleyn's legendary ghost walks headless within the Tower of London; a procession of transparent monks appears in the Cathedral at Winchester, where no monks have trod since the 16th century; and Bloody Queen Mary still visits the four-poster bed where she slept in the dark days of 1553.
At Kilkea Castle in Kildare, it is said that the Wizard Earl and his companions ride at night and will return someday from the beyond to “put things right in Ireland”. Room number two in the Hotel de l’Europe in Avignon holds a shocking surprise for the unwary guest; and in Paris, No. 3 avenue Montaigne offers a special concert of ghostly piano music from a spectral grand.
Ghosts occur wherever a great tragedy has left an unfortunate person stranded between the next world and this one, someone who has not yet been freed from their own emotional turmoil. The true accounts presented in this book are based on Dr. Holzer's personal investigations.
Should you have occasion to visit some of these special sites yourself—if you are psychically gifted (and nearly everyone is to a varying degree)—chances are you may also have a true experience, ranging from a psychic “impression” of past events to an apparition, or perhaps you will hear an unworldly sound. Meanwhile, with this volume in hand, you can hear of the long-dead Black Knight of Pflindsberg galloping wildly up the mountain—from the comfort of your own home.
The Dying – Leslie Alan Horvitz – Performed by Jack De Golia – AUDIO SAMPLE
After lying dormant for decades, a deadly virus is unleashed, threatening millions of lives and uncovering a shocking conspiracy.
Danger lies frozen in the Alaskan wilderness, unnoticed by mankind, waiting to be released. A man’s corpse holds the remnants of a ferociously infectious disease that ravaged the globe at the end of World War I. Once the virus is set free again, a gruesome death awaits millions of unlucky victims. Everyone on Earth is at risk - or so it seems. The followers of a mysterious religion possess an uncanny immunity to the illness, and a sinister intrigue unravels.
But before long, the insidious virus begins to mutate, daring the unwavering Dr. Lightman to keep up with it. Desperate to find a cure, he discovers that in order to stop the spread of the pandemic, it will be necessary to discover the human forces responsible."
LAST WEEK REVIEW COPIES -Codes still available
Fog Heart by Thomas Tessier Performed by – Chet Williamson – AUDIO SAMPLE
Star Quest: All That Remains – by Patricia Lee Macomber – Performed by Talmadge Ragan – AUIDIO SAMPLE
The Great Chicago Fire – A Love story – by Elizabeth Massie, performed by - Natalya Shulikov – AUDIO SAMPLE
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