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First Chapter: Awaken To Tarot by Karen La Puma

By Karen La Puma   Title: AWAKEN TO TAROT: BE YOUR OWN GUIDE WITH ASTROLOGY, NUMBERS AND THE TREE OF LIFE Author: Karen La Puma Publisher: Soul Source Publishing Pages: 420 (includes pictures) Genre: Nonfiction/Spiritual/Self-Help/Kabbalah/Astrology/Tarot BOOK BLURB: The Tarot is a visual system that reveals both our True Nature and our obstacles. Introducing a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, Kabbalah, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to: Find ways to reflect your inner guidance. Explore the magical journey of evolution Blend Astrology, Numerology, and the Tree of Life with the Tarot Discover the power and implications of the symbols of
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First Chapter: I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories by Ross Dreiblatt

By Ross Dreiblatt Title: I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Author: Ross Dreiblatt Publisher: Stone Tiger Books Pages: 391 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire BOOK BLURB: I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions. “I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder. The second story, “Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself,” considers the possibility that Keith Richards (along with, for good measure, Dolly Parton) is, indeed, a vampire. Nobel-Prize laureate Bob
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  • January 6, 2022
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First Chapter: The Witch of Rathborne Castle by Virginia Barlow

By Virginia Barlow Title: THE WITCH OF RATHBORNE CASTLE Author: Virginia Barlow Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 330 Genre: Paranormal Romance BOOK BLURB: Lady Jane Lenwood is abandoned and alone in an empty castle in the middle of a dark twisted forest. The locals call her a witch because she has the “sight.” When a wounded stranger is found within the gates, she is warned he carries secrets and their lives will be intertwined. Lady Jane walks with a limp following a riding accident the night her mother left her. And had given up on having a normal life. She blames her misfortune on the current Duke of Rathborne.
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  • January 3, 2022
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First Chapter: Through Dangerous Doors by Robert Charles Lee

THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS By Robert Charles Lee Title: THROUGH DANGEROUS DOORS Author: Robert Charles Lee Publisher: Wido / E.L. Marker Pages: 212 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: In a life defined by risk, Robert Charles Lee experiences a poor and free-ranging childhood in the racist South of the 1960s. After his father dies, the family grows dysfunctional. As a result, teen-age Robert seeks sanity and solace by rock climbing solo and driving cars fast. He wins a scholarship and graduates from university, but still seeks to escape the South. Moving to Alaska and the Western US, Robert works in a series of dangerous and brutal jobs. He meets and marries Linda,
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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE WILLING By Lindsay Lees

THE WILLING By Lindsay Lees Title: THE WILLING Author: Lindsay Lees Publisher: Indpendent Pages: 299 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: In less than a year, fifteen-year-old Gypsy Capone will be considered a woman in Ovoidia, a “utopian” city-state where every woman can be approached for immediate sex by any man, where curving architecture adds weird whimsy, sporks are the only cutlery, and true intimacy between the genders is a sign of suspect subversion. After all, if a woman just plays along, she’ll also do her job and have children, with the reward of a fine home in the “Communities,” where she and the other “Mamas” live together in harmony with everything
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  • August 18, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: WORDS KILL by David Myles Robinson

WORDS KILL By David Myles Robinson BOOK BLURB: Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, “Someone should kill that motherfucker.” As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time’s radical violence into the
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  • August 4, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: SONS OF THE SPHINX By Cheryl Carpinello

SONS OF THE SPHINX By Cheryl Carpinello BOOK BLURB: A grandmother’s gift usually bring happiness. Rosa’s gift: a very different story. Hearing the dead alienated her from classmates. Not good for a 15-year-old. Many times very insistent, the dead cared little for her surroundings. They even bothered her in class. Dates? Forget that. Then one day, he shows up in her room. An old dead guy. A really old famous dead guy. In living human form! Thrilling story of battling good and evil in an ancient world. CHAPTER ONE I don’t see dead people. I hear them. I talk to them. Boy, you should try that. Talk about people looking at
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📚First Chapter Reveal: TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS By Cheryl Carpinello

TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS By Cheryl Carpinello BOOK BLURB: From over 3000 years ago comes the voice of the Boy King. Scrolls found buried in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. Transcribed in an ancient hand. Record the words of King Tut for all to read. Tutankhamen answers all of the lingering questions, including the big one. Discover the real story behind this famous pharaoh. Transport yourself back to an Ancient Egypt filled with mystery, magic, and danger! CHAPTER ONE Dear _________,           Long ago the old texts of ancient Egypt alluded to a scroll in which King Tut spoke to the people from beyond the tomb. Many archeologists put this down
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  • July 3, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: BANDITS OF BASSWOOD By E.P. Bellows

BANDITS OF BASSWOOD: JOHN WILLIAM DRAKE PART 1 By E.P. Bellows BOOK BLURB: John William Drake was born an explorer; just like many, many Drakes before him. His adventure really began with the discovery of a book hidden in the ceiling, followed by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He lived every day in misery until his twelfth birthday. A new friend gave him an invitation he could not turn down… follow me and change your destiny. He never imagined being captured by bandits and taken to a ship riddled with river rats was part of his fate. Not just any bandits – the Bandits of Basswood; known to be
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  • July 3, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN By Kelly Lewis

TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN By Kelly Lewis BOOK BLURB: Who says you can’t? Tell Her She Can’t is the manifesto for every woman who has been told she isn’t strong enough, smart enough, or capable enough to excel-and the motivational anthem for those who have succeeded despite doubt. Entrepreneur Kelly Lewis shares the true stories of 35 inspirational women who overcame the naysayers to achieve “impossible” dreams. Tell Her She Can’t is packed with motivational stories of adventurers, changemakers, and prevailers who have taken on the world to become pioneers in their fields or challenged gender stereotypes to build million-dollar businesses. These inspiring women transformed adversity into
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📚First Chapter Reveal: MY FEATS IN THESE SHOES: A SOLELY ORIGINAL MEMOIR by Ronda Beaman

MY FEATS IN THESE SHOES: A SOLEY ORIGINAL MEMOIR By Ronda Beaman BOOK BLURB: If memoirs, done right, tap the right sort of personal journey to ignite fresh insight and inspiration into the human journey, then what better way to humorously and poignantly illuminate the sequential steps and stages of life than with shoes? “My Feats in These Shoes” is an exuberantly spunky woman’s spirited and irrepressible romp—slips, missteps, leaps, scuffs, and twirls—toward becoming something bigger, something better, something more. Far from serving up trauma porn (or emotional bunions), this memoir is an upbeat, humorous, affectionate and affecting coming of age memoir that ends each chapter with a ‘Put Yourself
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📚First Chapter Reveal: ASCENSION (THE DEMON HUNTERS SERIES BOOK ONE) by A.S. Fenichel

ASCENSION (THE DEMON HUNTERS BOOK ONE) By A.S. Fenichel BOOK BLURB: When demon hunters threaten London, even ladies must answer the call… Lord Gabriel Thurston returns home from war to find his fiancée much changed. She’s grown from a sweet girl into a mysterious woman who guards her dark secrets well. When he sees her sneaking away from a ball, he’s convinced it’s for a lover’s rendezvous. Following her to London’s slums, Gabriel watches in horror as his fiancée ruthlessly slays a man. Lady Belinda Clayton’s only concern was her dress for the next ball—until demons nearly killed her, and a group of Demon Hunters saved her life. Now, a
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📚First Chapter Reveal: SAFE HARBOUR By Mike Martin

Title: SAFE HARBOUR Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 264 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Sgt. Windflower is on a special assignment in St. John’s and adjusting to life in the big city. He is navigating traffic, a difficult boss at work and what seems like an epidemic of missing girls. He becomes more interested when he discovers that one of the girls is from Grand Bank. Then a girl approaches his RCMP van one night and he is pulled into the underlife of the capital city. But he still manages to enjoy all of the good things in life. His family, old and new friends, and
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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MASK by W.L. Brooks

Title: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MASK Author: W.L. Brooks Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 302 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Is Alexandra McKay the reason her sister Fletcher left town? Yes. Does that mean Alex wants to put her life on hold to bring the little beast back? No! But when she discovers her sister’s been abducted, Alex will do whatever it takes to rescue her. Giving up his PI gig was tough, but Jake Keller would rather do that any day than partner up with Alexandra McKay. Unfortunately, if he wants to find his friend Fletcher, he has to work with Her Royal Pain-in-the-Behind-ness. Hot or not,
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  • May 2, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: REFLECTIONS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE GLASS CEILING by Stephanie Battaglino

Title: REFLECTIONS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE GLASS CEILING: FINDING MY TRUE SELF IN CORPORATE AMERICA Author: Stephanie Battaglino Publisher: L’Oste Vineyard Press Pages: 286 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB For Stephanie Battaglino, her lifelong journey of self-discovery closely paralleled her daily grind of  trudging up the corporate ladder. Amidst the successes and failures of working as a male in the corporate world, Stephanie finally realized that the only path to career fulfillment was to embrace her true self once and for all. That it resulted in her becoming the first officer in the history of New York Life to come out on the job as transgender is not surprising. What was surprising
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📚First Chapter Reveal: MU: THE GRIMM CASES COLLECTION (PART ONE) by Lyla Owens

Title: MU: THE GRIMM CASES COLLECTION (PART ONE) Author: Lyla Oweds Publisher: Independent Pages: 667 Genre: Young Adult Paranormal BOOK BLURB: The things I see aren’t for the faint of heart. And I am no longer willing to ignore them. Not even when my family, and my best friend, tell me to keep quiet about what’s happening. They say people will think I’m crazy. Maybe I am. But the spirit haunting my professor’s house is definitely trying to tell me something, and I’m the only one who can see it. The one person who can help me is my best friend’s brother. But I don’t know if I can
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  • April 28, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: MEANINGFULL: 23 LIFE-CHANGING STORIES OF CONQUERING DIETING, WEIGHT & BODY IMAGE ISSUES by Alli Spotts-De Lazzer

Title: MEANINGFULL: 23 LIFE-CHANGING STORIES OF CONQUERING DIETING, WEIGHT, & BODY IMAGE ISSUES Author: Alli Spotts-De Lazzer Publisher: Unsolicited Press Pages: 282 Genre: Self-Help / Memoir BOOK BLURB: MEANINGFULL: 23 LIFE-CHANGING STORIES OF CONQUERING DIETING, WEIGHT, & BODY IMAGE ISSUES is a blend of motivational self-help, memoir, psychology, and health and wellness. Alli Spotts-De Lazzer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, an expert in eating and body image issues, and a woman on the other side of her own decades-long struggle with food and body. A $702 billion global diet/nutrition and weight loss industry shows that people worldwide are devoted to achieving maximum health and their desired bodies. Yet
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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE PILATE SCROLL by M.B. Lewis

Title: THE PILATE SCROLL Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: SATCOM Publishing Pages: 354 Genre: Christian Thriller BOOK BLURB: A quest to save the world . . . a secret that could change it. Forever. Kadie Jenkins is a survivor. Now part of an elite group of scholars and scientists, their mission is to stop an impending global terrorist threat. But when a colleague is murdered in Egypt, Kadie finds herself pitted against a foe more terrifying than the one they were trying to stop. Teaming up with a renegade pilot and her younger brother, they find themselves in a race against time, greed, and certain death. Can they uncover a
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  • April 23, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: HIS KILT DROPPED HERE By Kathleen Shaputis @nwauthor #Scottish #Romance

  Title: HIS KILT DROPPED HERE: A MAGICAL REALISM SCOTTISH ROMANCE Author: Kathleen Shaputis Publisher: Clutter Fairy Publishing Pages: 170 Genre: Magic Realism Scottish Romance BOOK BLURB: Rogue Bruce enjoys running a Scottish castle turned bed-and-breakfast with her Aunt Baillie from America. They specialize in hosting romantic Elizabethan-themed weddings, complete with resident ghost, Lord Kai. But love is something Rogue is not the least bit interested in. Content with her work, she requires no male accompaniment for happiness. A new delivery service brings Bruce MacKenzie, a Thor look-alike in plaid and denim, fetching more than the usual number of groceries from town, while Jonathan Olson, a snobbish, dark, Rhett
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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE FRAGILE ONES by Jennifer Chase

Title: THE FRAGILE ONES Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 300 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: “Please Mommy, can Tessa and I go play on the swing by the creek?” the little girl begs, pushing a blonde curl from her eyes. “We’ll stay together, and we promise to be safe.” Hours later, their mother waits anxiously for her darling girls to arrive home with a list of reasons why they are late. But the front door never opens… When the bodies of eleven and twelve-year-old sisters, Tessa and Megan, are found at the bottom of a ravine—dressed in matching pastel summer outfits, their small bodies broken from the fall—Detective
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First Chapter Reveal: Guinevere Trilogy by Cheryl Carpinello

Title: GUINEVERE TRILOGY Author: Cheryl Carpinello Publisher: Silver Quill Publishing Pages: 371 Genre: Middle Grade / Teen / Young YA BOOK BLURBS:   GUINEVERE: ON THE EVE OF LEGEND Princess Guinevere dreaded her upcoming thirteenth birthday. It signaled the beginning of her official role as the Lady of her father’s castle. No more adventures in the forest with Cedwyn. No more explorations outside the castle walls. No more excitement. No more danger. No more fun. Cedwyn—her companion for as long as she remembered—viewed her circumstances differently. A Medieval coming-of-age story relevant today. GUINEVERE: AT THE DAWN OF LEGEND Ancient Stones. Mystical Stones. Autumnal Equinox. Down upon a wide plain
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First Chapter: MAGNOLIA by James S. Kelly

Title: MAGNOLIA Author: James S. Kelly Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 432 Genre: Historical Fiction/Civil War Love Story BOOK BLURB: Two young men grow up in the south, become great friends and love the same woman. One moves north as the civil war nears and becomes Administrative Asst to Abraham Lincoln The one who remained in the south vacates his office of US Senator to become the south’s chief spy. Both men are pitted against each other during the war. As the war ends, they try to renew their friendship but will the presence of the one they both love be an impediment.   CHAPTER 1             The Bureau of
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  • October 3, 2017
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First Chapter: Stairway to Paradise: Growing Up Gershwin by Nadia Natali

Title: STAIRWAY TO PARADISE: GROWING UP GERSHWIN Author: Nadia Natali Publisher: RareBird Books Pages: 304 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Growing up as Frankie Gershwin’s daughter, the sister of George and Ira Gershwin, was quite a challenge. I didn’t have the perspective to realize that so much unhappiness in a family was out of the ordinary. But I knew something was off. My mother was often depressed and my father was tyrannical and scary, one never knew when he would blow up. I learned early on that I had to be the cheery one, the one to fix the problems. Both sides of my family were famous; the Gershwin side
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First Chapter: Monsterland by Michael Okon

Title: MONSTERLAND Author: Michael Okon Publisher: Wordfire Press Pages: 232 Genre: Monsters BOOK BLURB: Welcome to Monsterland—the scariest place on Earth. The last couple years of high school have not been fun for Wyatt Baldwin. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An on-going debate with his best friends Howard Drucker and Melvin over which monster is superior has gotten stale. He’d much rather spend his days with beautiful and popular Jade. However, she’s dating the brash high-school quarterback Nolan, and Wyatt thinks he doesn’t stand a chance. But everything changes when Wyatt and his friends are
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First Chapter: Fix Your Diet, Fix Your Diabetes by Tony Hampton MD

Title: FIX YOUR DIET FIX YOUR DIABETES Author: Tony Hampton, MD Publisher: Windy City Publishers Pages: 168 Genre: Self-Help BOOK BLURB: Want to fix your diabetes?  In this book, I share with my diabetic and borderline diabetic readers that they have the power to reverse or prevent diabetes simply by changing their diets.  It starts with how you think.  By removing old beliefs to new ones that better serve you, the path to recovery from diabetes can be that simple.  Once I provide the rationale for changing old beliefs to more productive ones, I then share with you ways to stay motivated as you journey to a new way
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First Chapter: San Francisco Nights by Greg Messel & Giveaway!

Title: SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 232 Genre: Mystery / Suspense The wife of a wealthy San Francisco shipping magnate leads a secret life but someone is threatening to expose her.  Private eye Sam Slater and his wife and partner, Amelia, meet a mysterious woman in a large red hat during a train trip. The woman approaches him pleading for help because she‘s receiving anonymous notes quoting Bible verses which are becoming more and more ominous with each passing day. Her secrets have been discovered but by whom? What really happens behind closed doors in Room 505 in a swanky downtown hotel? Sam is
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First Chapter: Summer on Earth by Peter Thompson

Title: SUMMER ON EARTH Author: Peter Thompson Publisher: Persnickety Press Pages: 293 Genre: Sci-fi / Middle Grade BOOK BLURB: The night that eleven-year-old Grady Johnson looked out his window and wished upon a shooting star, his life changed forever. Grady, his Ma, and younger sister Luanne are having a hard summer. Dad has died and the family isn’t the same. Though Ma is trying her best, Grady knows they don’t have enough money to get by. The shooting star he saw was a space craft plunging to Earth, and landing at the back of their farm. Extraterrestrial engineer Ralwil Turth has one goal, to fix his power drive and
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First Chapter: A Wanted Man by Robert Parker

Title: A WANTED MAN Author: Robert Parker Publisher: Endeavour Press Pages: 307 Genre: Crime Thriller It’s down to fathers and fatherhood. Ben Bracken, ex-soldier, has just got out of Strangeways. Not by the front door. With him, he has his ‘insurance policy’ – a bag of evidence that will guarantee his freedom, provided he can keep it safe – and he has money, carefully looked after by a friend, Jack Brooker. Rejected by the army, disowned by his father, and any hopes of parenthood long since shattered, Ben has no anchors in his life. No one to keep him steady. No one to stop his cause… The plan: to
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First Chapter: The Mentor by Lee Matthew Goldberg

Title: THE MENTOR Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press Pages: 336 Genre: Thriller / Suspense / Mystery Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He would love to read the opus his mentor has toiled over. Until the novel turns out to be
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  • July 3, 2017
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First Chapter Feature: Night in Jerusalem by Gaelle Lehrer Kennedy

Title: NIGHT IN JERUSALEM Author: Gaelle Lehrer Kennedy Publisher: PKZ Inc. Pages: 246 Genre: Historical Romance A bewitching love story that is also an extraordinary portrait of Jerusalem, its faith, spirituality, identity, and kaleidoscope of clashing beliefs, Night in Jerusalem is a novel of mystery, beauty, historical insight, and sexual passion. David Bennett is invited to Jerusalem in 1967 by his cousin who, to the alarm of his aristocratic British family, has embraced Judaism. He introduces David to his mentor, Reb Eli, a revered sage in the orthodox community. Despite his resistance to religious teaching, David becomes enthralled by the rabbi’s wisdom and compassionate presence. When David discloses a
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