Thursday, October 4, 2012

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Review - Submerged

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Review - Submerged
Submerged
By Dani Pettrey
Publisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 978-0764209826
Pub. Date: May 1, 2012
Pages: 320

Review:

In this debut novel by Dani Pettrey, Bailey Craig finds herself returning to her hometown of Yancey, Alaska to attend her aunt's funeral, who died in a plane crash. Coming back home is not easy thing to do as she had a bad reputation of being "easy" when she left. She turned her life around after leaving Yancey and now is a devoted Christian, but forgetting her past mistakes is a difficult thing to do.

While she is grieving for her sudden loss, she runs into an old flame, Cole McKenna. She broke the guy's heart years ago. Cole is now a devoted Christian himself, but he can't come to forgive Bailey for the way she treated him. He owns a successful business with his siblings and he also helps out with the local Search & Rescue crew as a diver.

Two more bizarre deaths occur and Cole suspects that the deaths are related to her aunt's murder. The police then determined that her aunt's plane was tampered with. Bailey and Cole work together to unravel the mystery that is behind the murders, but in order to this they must resolve their feelings for each other.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Read full post: Guest Post with author Alyssa Rose Ivy

Guest Post with author Alyssa Rose Ivy

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Guest Post with author Alyssa Rose Ivy


The Crescent Chronicles is a college age paranormal romance series. Flight takes place the summer before Allie starts her Freshman year, and Focus picks up with her first semester. I love writing about college age characters and I also love to watch movies and TV shows about them.

Here are a few of my favorites.

1) Felicity- I absolutely loved this show when I was in high school. I was so excited about college, and it just hit the spot.

2) Greek- I was out of college already when this one came on, but it was a guilty pleasure. I especially loved the brother-sister dynamic.

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Read full post: Green Training: Making Life Easier

Green Training: Making Life Easier

Green Training: Making Life Easier

Becoming more environmental friendly is becoming more popular and can save people money in the long run. Green Training USA offers business owners and individuals certified training courses so you can be up-to-date on how to become green friendly.

The Green Training USA team is committed to provide you with the best quality training that are easy to understand by anyone. To get you started on the right path, they offer a complimentary career adviser. There is no reason to look anywhere else because with this company you'll get all the green training that you'll every need, saving you time and money. In one training package, you'll receive study guides, practice tests and exam fees. There will be no hidden fees or any other surprises.

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Read full post: Review - Life with Lily

Review - Life with Lily

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Review - Life with Lily
The Adventures of Lily Lapp: Book One - Life with Lily
By Mary Ann Kinsinger and Suzanne Woods Fisher
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 978-0800721329
Pub. Date: October 1, 2012
Pages: 288
Review: 

 Set in New York on a small Amish Farm, six-year-old Lily Lapp and her younger brother, Joseph, eagerly welcomes their new baby brother, Dannie, into their lives, even though she actually wanted a baby sister.

While her father is busy building up the farm and her mother is busy with her brothers, young Lily is starting school at a one-room schoolhouse, where she meets new friends like the ornery Misty Mast, who is nothing but trouble for Lily.

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Read full post: Review - You Don't Know Me

Review - You Don't Know Me

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Review - You Don't Know Me
You Don't Know Me
By Susan May Warren
Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
ISBN: 978-1414334844
Pub. Date: September 21, 2012
Pages: 384
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Buy Link: http://ow.ly/e6zml

Review:

Annalise Decker has a perfect life in a perfect little town called Deep Haven. She is a great mother and she is wonderful wife to her husband, Nathan Decker, a local real estate agent who is running for mayor.

The truth is that everyone is not perfect as we may seem to be because everyone has secrets. Annalise has one of the darkest secrets. Her real name is actually Deidre O'Reilly. Twenty years ago, she got into some trouble and became a witness to a crime. The Witness Security Program helped fake her death, relocated her to Deep Haven, and gave her a new name and a new life.

Shockingly, she learns that the criminal she helped put behind bars and is going to be paroled. Agent Frank Harrison has arrived to protect from the vengeful criminal.
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Read full post: Fast Forward Academy

Fast Forward Academy

Fast Forward Academy
With the loss of jobs on the rise every week and a continuing worldwide economy on the downfall, it’s become harder and harder for anyone to find a decent job. Colleges keep skyrocketing their tuition, making it difficult to further your education for a brighter future. Because of this, online education is become more and more popular, especially with older adults.

Fast Forward Academy is offers enrolled agent continuing education, which the most innovative CPE program out there. The company's system is easy to use with free content, free PDFs when you buy any online course, you can track the status of your CPE requirements at anytime, view your test results and reports, save and return to course at another time and resume exactly where you left off. All of the courses have been written and reviewed by EAs, CPAs, MBAs, and professional editors, giving you the most credible continuing education. All certificates of completion are printable and are verified with the IRS!

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Read full post: Character Interview with Jon Tanner

Character Interview with Jon Tanner

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Character Interview with Jon Tanner


I’ve Been Deader Book One 
By Adam Sifre 
Genre: Horror/romance 
Publisher: Taylor Street Publishing 
Date of Publication: July 2, 2012 
ISBN: 13: 978-1478180784 ASIN: B008H04Z0G 
Number of pages:306 
Word Count: 90,000 
Cover Artist:Tim Hewtson 

Book Description: Being a zombie is no picnic and it's one hell of a handicap in the romance department when you fall in love with a 'breather': Aleta is a breather with short blonde hair and brown eyes - two of them! - and the whitest smile Fred has ever seen. Every day at a certain time she sits at her window, and every day he stands in the rubble across the street among a crowd of zombies waiting to break through the fence and eat her. 'You are beautiful, like an angel', he thinks, but all he can moan is, “Braaaiiinss." Still, as zombies go, Fred's quite a catch. Underneath all the gangrene and rot, Fred is different. This girl will probably turn out to be yet another dead end, an infatuation, someone whose image he cannot get out of his mind and whose taste he cannot get out of his mouth, but the heart wants what the heart wants. For breathers, it is always only a matter of time, however beautiful they are and whatever the government is assuring people. Which makes Fred sad because he has a beautiful 11 year old son called Timmy, and Timmy may still be alive.

Character Interview with Jon Tanner

Hiya!

My name is Jon Tanner, and I am what passes for the hero in “I’ve Been Deader.” I mean, it’s between me and a middle aged zombie so I guess you could say the fix was in. I’m in my late thirties, classically handsome and, according to some (may the rest in peace), a psychopath. 

Yes, I’ve had my share of bad relationships with the dear departed. I may have abandoned the odd child or two to their certain demise. But when it comes to killing zombies, I’m the cat’s meow, baby. 

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Read full post: Review - Escaping the Cauldron

Review - Escaping the Cauldron

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Review - Escaping the Cauldron
Escaping the Cauldron
By Kristine McGuire
Publisher: Charisma House
ISBN: 978-1616386979
Pub. Date: September 4, 2012
Pages: 240
Buy Links: Amazon.com

Review:

In this memoir, author Kristine McGuire tells her story about her fall from Christ, her dabble into the occult, and her new found freedom. The interest in the occult first occurred when she was a kid. She would play fortune-teller with her friends by reading each others' palms. She would drag out a clear plastic baby toy and use it as a crystal ball.

After attending a Christian college, marring a Christian man, and becoming a mother, she still had an interest in the occult even though she was still a follower of God. Kristine started reading books on witchcraft and the occult. For eight years she devoured her life into the occult, until she suddenly realized that it wasn't the life for her and she made her way back to being a Christian.

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Read full post: John Carpenter's Halloween (Blu-ray) Giveaway

John Carpenter's Halloween (Blu-ray) Giveaway

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John Carpenter's Halloween (Blu-ray) Giveaway

The 13 Days of Halloween event (which will feature book reviews, movie reviews, guest posts, and a few giveaways) is only a few weeks away and to celebrate I'm having a giveaway to lead up to the event. My original idea was to give away a horror Blu-ray during the event, but I wanted to make sure the winner receives the movie before Halloween.

And the Blu-ray I'm giving away is.....

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Read full post: Review: Troll Hunters by Michael Dahl

Review: Troll Hunters by Michael Dahl

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Review: Troll Hunters by Michael Dahl


Set in the outskirts of a small community, a group of teens, Pablo, Zak, Thora, and Bryce, head out to the quarry to watch the Draconid meteor shower, but something strange occurs as if something came out from the depths of the quarry's water. Giant troll creatures are unleashed.

The kids take refuge at Dr. Hoo's mansion that was hidden in the woods. He is one of the few people that have known that the trolls, whom are afraid of light, were going to take over the world. The bad trolls call themselves the Gathool, whereas the good trolls go by the name Drakhool.
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Read full post: Review: The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan

Review: The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan

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Review: The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan
The Twisted Window is written by the teen thriller-master, Lois Duncan. The book was original published back in 1987, but has been released onto Kindle with a few minor changes, the mention of cell phones, DVDs, etc. I've been a Lois Duncan fan every since I read I Know What You Did Last Summer (the book, not the movie) when I was a teenager, so when I saw this book up on Netgalley, I had to review it.

Tracy Lloyd had recently lost her mother, her father practically abandoned her, and she now resides in a small town with her aunt and uncle. The plot begins with a strange boy named Brad started staring at her during lunch hour at school. Brad is from Albuquerque, but he doesn't exactly go to her school. He follows her around and eventually asks her out. She thinks it is a date, but it isn't what he had in mine.

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Read full post: Review - Echo and the Bat Pack: Treasure in the Graveyard

Review - Echo and the Bat Pack: Treasure in the Graveyard

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Review - Echo and the Bat Pack: Treasure in the Graveyard
Echo and the Bat Pack: Treasure in the Graveyard
By Roberto Pavanello
Translated by Marco Zeni
Illustrated by Blasco Pisapia and Pamela Brugher
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
ISBN: 978-1434242488
Pub. Date: August 1, 2012
Pages: 128
Buy Links: Amazon.com 

Review: 

Set in the small town of Fogyville, a bat named Echo is a novelist living in a crypt at an abandoned cemetery with a little bit of writer's block. Late one night, Echo hears the cemetery gate opening. He investigates and catches a skull face man wearing a black cloak digging up a grave. Before he could say anything, a raven begins chasing him.

In a panic, Echo flees the cemetery into the open window of the Silver kids on 13 Friday Street, who closes the shutters before the raven can get in. The siblings are: Michael, age 12, aka - a book worm, Becca, age 11, aka - loves animals, and Tyler age 10, aka - computer nerd. The kids are shocked to find the talking bat, which was raised in a library. One of Echo's wings was injured when he landed in the room, so they kids let him stay in the house until he is healed.
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Read full post: Review - Weirder Than Marshmallows

Review - Weirder Than Marshmallows

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Review - Weirder Than Marshmallows
Weirder Than Marshmallows
By Dan Fogg
Compiled and Edited by Deborah Carney
Publisher: NightFire Publications
ASIN: B005FMC7YU
Pub. Date: August 1. 2011
Pages: 89 
Buy Link: Amazon.com

I couldn't sleep last night, so I grabbed my kindle and began reading Weirder Than Marshmallows which contains a series of essays and rants by the Dan Fogg, who sadly passed away over ten years ago.

The writings are based on the author's observation of the stupidity of humanity. In the preface, Dan talks about the ingredients of marshmallows and wonders why there is blue food coloring in it. After reading the ingredients, I'm never eating a marshmallow again.

Normally I don't read essay books, but I really enjoyed reading Weirder Than Marshmallows as the author used common sense that seems to be lacking in our culture today. I've never noticed the "Not Stop on Tracks" sign at railroad tracks before, but I'll look for them the next time I cross one.

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