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10 best books like Becoming Bobby (Michael Konik): Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love, When We Wuz Famous, The Great Succession Crisis, Max Xylander and the Island of Zumuruud, A Soul's Calling, Garden Princess, Pale Horses, Driver's Education, Terovolas, The Seven Victories of the Divine Child: Claiming Your Divine Inheritance

Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
AuthorJonathan Anthony Burkett
ISBN0985297077
This book is surprising, dramatic, unbelievable, heartbreaking expressions said and done. One young man going through trials and tribulations, feeling unloved, unwanted, never needed, and unexpected, from a lady that he had finally understood was his true mother. The one he was told loved him the...
When We Wuz Famous
AuthorGreg Takoudes
ISBN0805094520
Francisco Ortiz, a handsome straight-A student and gifted basketball player from the barrio, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. His future seems promising. But soon after Francisco moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst of him: they pepper him with questions...
The Great Succession Crisis
AuthorLaurel A. Rockefeller
At first, I wasn't sure what to think of this book. I had so many emotions through it that I finally decided that I loved it. I feel like Princess Anlei (the main character of the book) could have been stronger in a sense that the world is on her shoulders. I loved the fact that she (the author) had made up her...
Max Xylander and the Island of Zumuruud
AuthorJon Thomason
ISBN1480082589
Max has anger management issues. And she has a dangerous secret. She can make things happen. Like magic. She almost killed a kid at school and nearly used it on her stuck up older sister. The question is, can she do anything other than blow things up? Can she learn to control it? And is it really possible that...
A Soul's Calling
AuthorScott Bishop
ISBN0615695358
A Soul’s Calling is a memoir about a man who listened to his heart instead of reason.

Scott, a forty-something attorney, is average in every way except one. He has a connection to the Other Side. He speaks to Spirit and Spirit speaks to him. He sees, hears, and interacts with an invisible realm...
Garden Princess
AuthorKristin Kladstrup
ISBN0763656852
Dig in to this middle-grade fantasy featuring a horticulturally minded princess, a beautiful but evil witch, and a magpie with a shameful secret.

Princess Adela is not a typical princess. She’s neither particularly beautiful nor particularly graceful, and she’d rather spend her days...
Pale Horses
AuthorJassy Mackenzie
ISBN1616952210
Book 4 in the PI Jade de Jong thriller series set in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet Meintjies, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story skyscraper. But Sonet’s...
Driver's Education
AuthorGrant Ginder
ISBN1439187355
He’s a big man, my granddad, not necessarilyin size or proportion, but in other ways, like the manner in which he lives. The trouble in which he finds himself. The magic that heconjures and the spectacular things he believes. When he was a younger man, Alistair McPhee was fond of escaping in his...
Terovolas
AuthorEdward M. Erdelac
ISBN1936564548
The personal papers of the enigmatic Professor Abraham Van Helsing are collected and presented for the first time by his longtime colleague and defender, Dr. John Seward.

Texas, 1891 Following the defeat of Count Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing – suffering from violent recurring fantasies...
The Seven Victories of the Divine Child: Claiming Your Divine Inheritance
AuthorMichael Jones
ISBN0983778019
The Seven Victories of the Divine Child – A Practical Guide to Eliminate Fear, Anxiety and Worry, while Gaining a Sense of Lasting Inner Peace.


Are you ready to take meaningful significant steps on your path of spiritual growth and discovery? If so, be ready to be inspired and motivated...

The...
Risk of Ruin
AuthorArnold Snyder
ISBN1935396609
The first work of fiction to be released by well-known gambling expert and author Arnold Snyder, Risk of Ruin is about a biker/professional blackjack player who becomes obsessed with a stripper who believes she's God.

Risk of Ruin is a provocative story of crime, passion, rebellion, and possible...
Long Gone Daddies
AuthorDavid Wesley Williams
ISBN0895875934
“A book full of wild music and generous imagining. Read it slowly. You’ll love it.”
—Richard Bausch, author of Something Is Out There and winner of the PEN/Malamud AwardAll his life, Luther Gaunt has heard songs in his head—songs of sweet evil and blue ruckus, odes to ghosts, drinking...
An Abduction Revelation: The Comeback Kid Returns
AuthorThomas L. Hay
Alternate cover edition for 1452559570

A story that explores a compelling blend between unknown entities and some seemingly true events.
Who are the abductors? Where do they come from? Where are they hiding? Do they even exist? Reality or imagination gone wild?

After writing...
HeartStone
AuthorStella Atrium
ISBN1462070442
The second installment of Atrium's Dolvia Saga is a character-driven sci-fi tale that explores profound-and timely-themes of sexual oppression, environmentalism and cultural intolerance.

Atrium's intricate novel ranges widely in theme-gender, politics, existential philosophy,...
Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles
AuthorFabio Bartolomei
ISBN1609450833
Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother...
Performance Anomalies
AuthorVictor Robert Lee
ISBN1938409221
Victor Robert Lee’s provocative debut spy thriller PERFORMANCE ANOMALIES introduces a protagonist to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono is a startling young man of mixed and haunting heritage who has been gifted – or cursed – with an accelerated nervous system. An orphan from...
Nothing Down
AuthorMike Reuther
ISBN1466430818
Homer Newbody bursts upon the Major League Baseball scene by throwing no-hitters in his first two starts. But living his lifelong dream soon has its drawbacks when he announces to the world he would be happy to play for nothing. Soon, teammates, opponents, the media, the cynics turn on him. Is Homer for...
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France
AuthorJohn Baxter
ISBN0062088068
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel)

John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely.

Some of...
The Liberator
AuthorWilliam Manchee
ISBN1929976631
I can’t believe I read more than a dozen pages. I knew by then I wasn’t going to like this book. Why didn’t I cut my losses?

The premise and set up seem plausible. The Goodreads.com description is accurate. The surprise is that the author has written dozens of books. The execution is deficient....
The Dyno-Mite Dog Show
AuthorLouise Bonnett-Rampersaud
ISBN0761462139
One of the many joys of reading Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud's books is the humorous innocence of her characters. What I find most endearing is her ability to convey the sweetness of the childhood experience. The Dyno-Mite Dog Show is a story surrounding our main character, Agnes, and her friends, The...
Tournament of Chance: Dragon Rebel
AuthorS.G. Rogers
2014 EPIC eBook Fantasy Finalist!

Marked for death by a despotic monarch, Heather joins with a group of revolutionaries known as the Dragon Rebels. Amongst them are a trio of shape-shifting wizards, former rulers who claim to be from the past. She travels to the savage island of Boravagg, seeking...
Kingdom Come: A North Country Mystery
AuthorJohn H. Vibber
See how romance grows as a mystery deepens. It's 1997 and the end of the world is approaching once again. When a scheme to make a fortune from the millennium is compromised, Nicole Rivard drowns while fishing a remote New Hampshire pond. Was this an accident or murder to protect a secret?

The police...
Dominique Ick Lessont: Spirits and Legends
AuthorEric Tripp
In this second book of the Dominique Ick Lessont series the fate of Lecieldo hangs in the balance, resting on the decisions and actions of the Dragon Knight.
After learning about this land called Lecieldo's past, about the Spirits that protect the land, and about the Dragon Knights that came before...
Wait Until Dark
AuthorM.L. Buchman
Name: Big John Wallace
Rank: Staff Sergeant, Chief Mechanic and Gunner
Mission: To serve and protect his crew and country.

Name: Connie Davis
Rank: Sergeant, Flight Engineer, Mechanical Wizard
Mission: To be the best...and survive.

Two Crack Mechanics, One...
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