As a California girl all my life, and living about 30 minutes from the beach the entire time, my out of state friends have always thought it odd that I hated going to the beach. I hate the sand in everything, the wind drying you out like a raisin, and I hate the crowds. After our great trip to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk though I though maybe I should give the beach one more try and take the boys this weekend. Then I slipped on a little pile of sand in the garage and fell on my tushy. I HATE THE BEACH!!!
The Endorphin Conspiracy
Fredric Stern
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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In the late 1950’s, the CIA, at the height of communist paranoia, established PROJECT MK ULTRA to develop drugs that could be utilized to effectively brainwash foreign enemies.In 1963, the project came to an abrupt halt when several of the CIA’s own agents were unwittingly given high doses of LSD at a weekend retreat, and later suffered severe flashbacks, depression, and in one case, suicide as a result.
Thirty-five years have transpired since the fateful MK ULTRA project was shut down.A group of zealots, including several of the original participants, now in highly placed government and academic positions, has kept the program, known as the SIGMA PROJECT, alive.Shifting their focus to the development of highly potent synthetic endorphins and utilizing PET (positron emission tomography) scantechnology, they are on the threshold of a major breakthrough in the ability to understand and control the brain’s thought processes.And they will let no one get in their way.
Dr. Geoffrey Davis, a former medic in the Navy Seals, is the chief resident on the neurosurgery service at the New York Trauma Center.From his first day back on the job after spending a year in the PETronics Research Laboratory of Dr. Josef Balassi, strange events begin unfolding.A crazed janitor, a former head injury patient at the NYTC, explosives in hand, takes a little girl hostage at the Central Park Zoo.A respected Hasidic rabbi opens fire with a machine gun on a crowded subway train.Several of Geoff’s patients die under mysterious circumstances while on his neurosurgery service, and key aspects of their medical records, including their PET scans, vanish, leading Geoff inexorably toward the frightening conclusion that all of these events are in some way connected to activities at the NYTC’s PETronics Institute.
As the deadly conspiracy swirls around him, Geoff becomes increasingly isolated, on the run from the CIA, the police and his own medical staff.At stake is the ability to control the human brain, and Dr. Geoffrey Davis is the only one with the knowledge, courage, and ability to stop THE SIGMA PROJECT!
THE ENDORPHIN CONSPIRACYis a first rate medical thriller, a chilling story rooted in today’s medical technology.A breathless ride from start to finish, it’s a novel you won’t want put down until you turn the final page!
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Three Questions
Meagan Adele Lopez
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Coming of Age | Women’s Fiction
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Eight hours in Vegas. A promise to meet in Chicago. Four months apart while he traverses through the depths of Africa and she “aspires” through the haze of Hollywood.
Three questions each letter.
Their intense connection is clear, but fate is only as strong as timing allows it to be. She has a life-long passion that is finally turning into a career. He has landed enough British pounds to travel the world for the first time in his life.
Will their honest answers be enough to bring them back together?
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Forsaken (Daughters of the Sea Series)
Kristen Day
Genre: Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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Once you’ve been touched by darkness, it never leaves you…
Seventeen year old Hannah spent her childhood wading through countless foster families until finally being adopted by a wealthy family from Georgia. Unfortunately, Atlanta’s high society wasn’t quite ready for Hannah… or the strange events that plague her. After being sent to a boarding school off the coast of North Carolina for kids ‘like’ her, she finds that things are never what they seem.
Chilling visions of murder, unexplained hallucinations, and a dark, mysterious guy who haunts her nightmares all culminate to set in motion a journey of self-discovery that will challenge everything she’s ever believed; not to mention her sanity.
When the ghost from her dreams appears in the flesh; her nightmares become reality and her dark visions begin coming true. Inexplicably drawn to him, she can’t deny the dangerous hold he has on her heart. The deadly secrets he harbors will ultimately test her courage and push the boundaries of her love.
She must decide if she is ready to embrace the ancient legend she is prophesized to be a part of. The fate of all the daughters of the sea will forever depend upon it.
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If You Love Me, Come
Claudia Moss
Genre: African American | Contemporary Fiction | United States | Women’s Fiction
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Frenonia “Free” Roberts leads an idyllic life, if you ask her baby sister Rhonda, her best friend Sharmayne and others looking in on her glamorous, Buppie existence in Atlanta, where she high-steps it through her days as a young entrepreneur, the owner of TheWeAreFamily Bookstore and Coffeeshop.She is the apple of her mother’s eye, a heavy hitter for the city’s National Black Arts Festival, founder of the esteemed Daughters of Isis Book Club and the flame in J.T.’s heart.
Then one evening Free closes the bookstore and bows to the whim of a supernatural breeze guiding her Mercedes towards Techwood Homes, a throwaway neighborhood off her normal route back to the suburbs.She has no warning that a simple turn in the road will catapult her into a devastating, downward spiral to a place she’s never known….until now.
In turmoil, Free watches as worlds collide and hearts weep.Used to being the epitome of control, she learns to surrender to an unseen power moving for her good, even when she craves little more than an endless night.Meanwhile, the people closest to Free can’t stay her inevitable plunge; they’re too busy handling their own dilemmas: treading water, battling demons and stumbling through their own mazes.How is Free to know a stranger with the South in her mouth will be the saving grace she and the others (Rhonda, Sharmayne, Pinky, Pastoria and J.T.) will need to lead them back to love?
A novel about the healing power of love and redemption, about betrayal and longing, about family and its many forms, If You Love Me, Come resonates with lyrical language and reservoirs of emotion.Claudia Moss, a storyteller from a long line of Southern storytellers, plants her post in literature.
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In The Thieves’ Market
V. S. Cawthon
Genre: Literary Fiction
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V.S. Cawthon’s debut critically acclaimed novel, In The Thieves’ Market, is a brilliant literary narrative, focusing on the psychological and physical struggles for survival faced by two middle-aged brothers over the course of one scorching north Florida summer.
The brothers confront old demons and fresh challenges in approaching the next, and last phase of their lives together. The younger brother has been diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma, his alcoholic older sibling is struggling to survive financially while trying to maintain a near-bankrupt flea market sterling silver business.
An absolute must read for anyone interested in truly original prose style. V.S. Cawthon’s unique voice and literary vision commands attention.
All great literature is driven by conflict. This remarkable story has plenty of it — the younger brother’s battle with a nightmarish chemotherapy regimen, the older brother’s commercial struggle to the death with an unethical gypsy competitor/predator — and the culmination of the summer’s struggles, while bittersweet, lead to a cathartic understanding between the two formerly close siblings, and emphasize again the need, never ‘to go gently into that good night.’
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