The Real Way to Achieve Your Bookish New Year's Resolution
A new year means the chance for a new you! The best New Year's resolution is one you'll enjoy doing. This year, set a reading goal to achieve - here's how to succeed!
The Truth About TBR Lists
Have you started your TBR (to be read) list for 2020? It's not an easy task so let us help break it down and give you a few book suggestions to add to your list.
Epub Zone - 9 Books That Prove Monsters Are The Best Villains.
A build-up of anticipation and cliff hangers drive every story. But all stories need antagonists, and everyone knows that the best villains are monsters. They create a thrill, a suspense of mystery and horror as we await and learn what they are capable of. In this list, we explore the variety in monsters; the bad, the cool and even the framed.

Books That Make You: Help Older Adults Navigate Life's Challenges with Guest Toni Patillo
As we get older, making decisions can become more and more difficult. You may have parents, grandparents, older relatives or even older friends who need help navigating the various challenges that come up as we age.  

How can you help them when they need you the most? 

Decisions about our homes, things like reverse mortgages, health care and assisted living options are some of the topics we can help our older adult family and friends navigate.
The Billions at Play and Blowout Giveaway!

The Billions at Play and Blowout Giveaway!

Enter now to win these two best-selling books. If you’re a political junkie, have concerns about our global future, the environment, energy, or want to learn more about oil, gas, and energy, then this book giveaway is for you. Win these timely books on oil and energy to be informed on the issues shaping our tomorrow. Enter below to win both books in hard cover, worth over $40!

1st Place
A copy of Blowout by Rachel Maddow 
 
2nd and 3rd Place
A copy of Billions at Play: The Future of African Energy and Doing Deals by NJ Ayuk
 


Last Chance to Enter the Mystery Lovers Giveaway!
Enter now before the giveaway is over! Win DVD's of The Wolf Man, The Goonies, and copies of The Lost Treasure and Monster on the Moors by JM Kelly.
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Double Blind

A young boy disappears in the chill of North Iceland. Twenty years later, a mysterious poem lands on the desk of his twin sister Brynja a forensic geneticist, who rekindles her hopes that her brother might be alive. As Brynja unravels the clues, more poems arrive, each bearing dire consequences for those who receive them: the guard of the medieval manuscript of Icelandic sagas that possibly has the answer to her burning question, the prime minister’s secretary, and the local pastor.

Is the poet out to stop Brynja from finding her brother and shut down her access to the DNA database? Or is the verse maker simply a psychopath-copycat killer?

Fighting the visual auras that have plagued her since childhood and now threaten everything she holds dear, Brynja must summon the strength to navigate the twisted labyrinth of the poet’s mind and confront the dark secret buried in her family’s past.

DOUBLE BLIND is a wild ride through the cultural landscape of Iceland, from rural farmsteads to icy fjords, to the high-tech world of DNA forensics. This crime thriller, packed with twists and turns will keep you at the edge of your seat and surprise you with a ending you won't see coming.
This Ain't My Life

A compelling story of Bilal's journey to finding his destiny. Growing up Muslim, Bilal experiences many trials throughout his youth with his father leading him down an arduous path. As he fights and claws his way out of every obstacle, he relies on his faith to pull him through. Bilal shows his willingness to never give up on finding his true purpose. As he goes through failed marriages, criminal proceedings, the shelter system, and lost jobs; Bilal refuses to believe that this is the life he was meant to live. He challenges his reality and what he believes by stating, “This Ain't My Life.”
The Legacy Series: Book One

Brandyn (Brandy) Harris, a lonely, abused, and terminally ill twelve-year old boy builds his private virtual world outside the knowledge of his strict and abusive parents. Denied the ability to interact with other kids in his everyday life, Brandy finds refuge within the confines of the internet in his early stages, where it appealed primarily to the outcasts, and a close group of virtual teen friends.

The Legacy offers a unique, unparalleled glimpse into the mind of abused children, while this abuse is taking place amid the hysteria surrounding the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the early 1990s. It is an outstanding page-turner, it gives you an unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience, through first-hand, day-to-day accounts as they occur, a real-world of childhood desperation and painful secrets, a world known by millions of children, but never openly shared with adults.

You'll feel Brandy's feelings, cry his tears and laugh with him on the good days as you'll journey through the candid and honest secrets of an abusive childhood, as Brandy's correspondences are written by kids, for kids. Thus, you'll learn the truths kids only tell their friends, outside the inherent inhibitions derived from adult interference.

This book is the first volume in an epic book series based on real events and the writings and correspondences of a terminally ill young boy who is also enduring a life of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. 
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