The Great Succession Crisis
10 best books like The Great Succession Crisis (Laurel A. Rockefeller): Resolve, The Golden Sword, The Reader of Acheron, When We Wuz Famous, Becoming Bobby, Max Xylander and the Island of Zumuruud, Pale Horses, Vale of Stars, The Seven Victories of the Divine Child: Claiming Your Divine Inheritance, A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
| Author | J.J. Hensley |
| ISBN | 1579623131 |
In the Pittsburgh Marathon, 18,000 people from all over the world will participate. Over 9,500 will run the half marathon, 4,000 will run brief stretches as part of a relay. 4,500 people will attempt to cover the full 26.2 miles. Over 200 of the participants will quit, realizing it just wasn't their day....
The Golden Sword
Let me start by saying this is the SECOND book in the SIlistra Quartet – and it helps to have read the earlier book, although I think you could get by without it.
The action starts immediately, and thus some prior knowledge of the world and the main character is useful. That said...
| Author | Walter Rhein |
| ISBN | 0991057341 |
Book One of the Slaves of Erafor series: Reading is forbidden, and the penalty for non-compliance is a life of slavery enabled by the forcible administration of a mind rotting drug. Yet, there are those possessed of the will to seek illumination. Kikkan, a former slave on the run, and Quillion, a mercenary...
| Author | Greg Takoudes |
| ISBN | 0805094520 |
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...
| Author | Michael Konik |
| ISBN | 1935396617 |
I have read all of Michael Konik's books which were all non-fiction. I was eager to read his first novel which unsurprisingly upon reading the synopsis involves Las Vegas and casinos. I find "Becoming Bobby" a triumph for Mr. Konik as a novelist! He wrote a unique story with an unexpected ending and a strong,...
| Author | Jon Thomason |
| ISBN | 1480082589 |
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...
| Author | Jassy Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 1616952210 |
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...
| Author | Sean O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1936564613 |
Jene Halfner awaits the end of a hundred-year-long, deep-space colonization journey begun by her ancestors generations before. She has spent her life preparing for planetfall on Epsilon Eridani III, taking care of the growing number of victims of interstellar radiation aboard Ship.
What...
The Seven Victories of the Divine Child: Claiming Your Divine Inheritance
| Author | Michael Jones |
| ISBN | 0983778019 |
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...
A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
| Author | Jonathan Schuppe |
| ISBN | 0805092870 |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, revealing the complex realities of life in one of America’s most dangerous cities
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark’s rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed...
| Author | David Wesley Williams |
| ISBN | 0895875934 |
“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
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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...
| Author | Stella Atrium |
| ISBN | 1462070442 |
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,...
| Author | Victor Robert Lee |
| ISBN | 1938409221 |
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...
The Indie Collaboration Presents A thrilling anthology of short stories by some of the rising stars in independent publishing. In this collection we bring you a ship’s locker full of great Science Fiction and Fantasy. There are tales about beautiful princesses and cunning thieves, intergalactic...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0671656147 |
Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. She is the author of more than forty novels. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball,...
| Author | Carrie Gerlach Cecil |
| ISBN | 1451664761 |
In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a beleaguered young woman must shed her career, identity, and power persona to learn how to love and forgive herself, others, and God.At age thirty-seven, Alice Ferguson has everything an ambitious, intellectual, self-made woman could want. She has captured...
The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself
For fifteen years, Earth has had a scientific station on an exoplanet orbiting Gliese 876. It is humanity’s only presence outside the Solar System. But a new and powerful telescope at L5 can detect no evidence of Phaeton Base, even though it should be able to. So the US has sent Brigadier Colonel Bradley...
The Art of Looking Into the Future: The Five Principles of Technological Evolution
| Author | R.S. Amblee |
| ISBN | 0983157405 |
Reviews:
"Consumerism will impel us toward a marvelous machine-made world, according to this ambitious treatise on economics and technological change. Amblee, a software engineer, spotlights a handful of simple economic principles that he feels will mold the shape of things to come....
There Is No Mrs. Gezunterman
| Author | Kevin Mednick |
| ISBN | 9781939113 |
A manifesto for the ninety-nine percent, There Is No Mrs. Gezunterman is a rollicking, David v Goliath consumer-rights comedy, the second book by the author of An Almost Life (Permanent Press 2007).
When an exasperated customer is arrested for fighting back against yet another inane corporate...
When the Devil Doesn't Show
| Author | Christine Barber |
| ISBN | 1250004721 |
An intriguing contemporary mystery that exposes the dark side of life in historic Santa Fe by Hillerman Prize-winner Christine Barber.
Christine Barber's acclaimed mysteries explore not just the folklore, Indian heritage, and colonial history that draws people to Santa Fe each...
| Author | Holly McCaghren |
| ISBN | 1475083920 |
What would you do to possess unlimited knowledge and power?
Nineteen year-old Alice McArthur never had a choice. A shy girl from a small town, Alice has gained a reputation for her near-genius programming abilities, even getting the attention of EngineerCorp, a rising electronics empire....
The world is coming to an end, and "Crazy Kerrigan" has a front-row seat.
Centuries ago, scrolls calling forth the four horsemen of the apocalypse were discovered, sealed until their rightful heirs were born. Now, those scrolls are being opened.
When her small town crumbles during...
| Author | William Manchee |
| ISBN | 1929976984 |
In UNCONSCIONABLE, lawyer Rich Coleman has two sons -- Ryan, who just graduated from law school and Matt, a former lawyer who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud. Matt's conviction was overturned and he is now on a mission to get his law license back. Rich hopes Matt will join his crusade against predatory...
