Featured Books
 Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation. |
 Knoll by Stephen Hillard "Their list keeps getting shorter. Pray you aren’t on it.". A young protégé of Edward Snowden flees the NSA after she learns that her project (KNOLL) is designed to detect and destroy any person with new facts about the conspiracy to assassinate JFK. |
 The Trial of Prisoner 043: A Novel by Terry Jastrow On a glorious autumn morning in St. Andrews, Scotland, former US president George W. Bush approached the first tee of the world-famous Old Course to play a round of golf he would not finish. Unceremoniously abducted off the course by a team of paramilitary commandos, he was transported to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to stand trial for war crimes in connection with the Iraq War. |
 Becoming Starlight by Sharon Prentice The Shared Death Experience (SDE). Most people know of or know someone who has experienced a Near Death Experience (NDE), but very few have heard of the SDE. The SDE is similar to the NDE except that it occurs not to the person who is dying, but to their loved one who is physically well. That person could be sitting right next to their loved one, or sitting across the room, or even across the globe unaware of the impending death of someone they love. |
Featured Experts
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Ben Feder is first and foremost a family man, devoted to his wife and children. He’s also a world traveler and C-suite business leader. Currently Ben is President, International Partnerships (North America) at Tencent, the Chinese technology giant (dominating China’s ISP market, owner of WeChat, and rival of Alibaba). Formerly, he was CEO of Take Two Interactive, the publisher of the smash video game hit, Grand Theft Auto. An elite Ivy League education prepared him for the rarefied air of corporate finance and management. But, his success in business came at the cost of his personal and family life. That led to a reassessment of priorities resulting in taking a sabbatical year in Bali with the whole family. More>> |
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Debra Finerman is an American writer who lives part-time in Paris. She is the author of three novels. YOU LUCKY DOG her latest book, is a humorous novel for dog lovers and human lovers. SHADOW WAR, her second book, is a WWII novel inspired by plaques seen on walls throughout Paris dedicated to the brave Resistance Fighters who died on the spot, shot by Nazi patrols. During research for this book, she traveled to the Imperial War Museum, London and Resistance Museums in France. She met former members of Resistance groups. Espionage is familiar to her as her uncle was a CIA agent. Her first novel MADEMOISELLE VICTORINE, published by Random House Three Rivers Press, has been translated into six languages worldwide. Debra is a former journalist for Capital Style, The Hollywood Reporter monthly magazine, Beverly Hills Today and Beverly Hills Magazine. Her articles about France are published in the online magazine, myfrenchlife.orgTM. A graduate of UCLA, she earned her academic degree in Art History and Connoisseurship at Christie's, New York. More>> |