Brief Synopsis:
Memories are the ultimate contradiction. They can warm us on our coldest days – or they can freeze a loved one out of our lives forever. The McCarthy family has a trove of warm memories. Of innocent first kisses. Of sumptuous family meals. Of wondrous lessons learned at the foot of a rocking chair. But they also have had their share of icy ones. Of words that can never be unsaid. Of choices that can never be unmade. Of actions that can never be undone.

Following the death of his beloved wife, John McCarthy – Grandpa John – calls his family back home. It is time for them to face the memories they have made, both warm and cold. Only then can they move beyond them and into the future.

A rich portrait of a family at a crossroad, THE ROCKIN' CHAIR is Steven Manchester’s most heartfelt and emotionally engaging novel to date. If family matters to you, it is a story you must read.

Read an excerpt of THE ROCKIN' CHAIR.

Author Bio:
Steven Manchester is the published author of the #1 best seller, Twelve Months, as well as A Christmas Wish (the holiday prequel to Goodnight, Brian) andGoodnight, Brian. He is also the Pressed Pennies, The Unexpected Storm: The Gulf War Legacy and Jacob Evans, as well as several books under the pseudonym, Steven Herberts. His work has appeared on NBC's Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, CNN’s American Morning and BET’s Nightly News. Recently, three of his short stories were selected "101 Best" for Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

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John and Ruby are a couple deeply in love, with everything going for them. Ruby is following her dream career, John has a booming online business and they’re talking about kids. Seems nothing could shatter their bliss. Until news so devastating leaves them scrambling against a ticking time bomb.
When Ruby’s life hangs in the balance, John must make decisions he never thought he’d have to make. But how far will he go to save his soulmate? Will he lie? Will he cheat? Will he steal? Will he kill?

Stolen is very much the type of thriller that I love to read. There’s a real life, it could happen to you, element that pushes the reader forward, even though you are reading something that might shock and bewilder you. And yet, you continue turning pages…asking yourself, would I do that for the person I love the most? There was not one moment of boredom with this book. Palmer took a real life scenario that happens to millions of people everyday, and turned it into a fight between life and morals.

Palmer has yet to disappoint me.

"Robinson blends myth, science and terminal velocity action like no one else."
–Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Nocturnal

The high adventure of James Rollins meets the gripping suspense of Matthew Reilly in Jeremy Robinson's explosive new thriller

Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by thirty miles of refuse, the ship and its high tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm.

When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island...and no one knows how they got there. Even worse, the ship has been sabotaged, two crewman are dead and a third is missing. Hawkins spots signs of the missing man on shore and leads a small team to bring him back. But they quickly discover evidence of a brutal history left behind by the Island’s former occupants: Unit 731, Japan’s ruthless World War II human experimentation program. Mass graves and military fortifications dot the island, along with a decades old laboratory housing the remains of hideous experiments.

As crew members start to disappear, Hawkins realizes that they are not alone. In fact, they were brought to this strange and horrible island. The crew is taken one-by-one and while Hawkins fights to save his friends, he learns the horrible truth: Island 731 was never decommissioned and the person taking his crewmates may not be a person at all—not anymore.

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The Mongol Objective is the adrenaline pumping follow-up The Pharos Objective. This second book in the series takes place 10 years after Caleb conquers his adversaries, marries his “accomplice” and fathers a son named Alexander. But when tragedy strikes, on his quest to find the clues to the lost city of Atlantis and Alexander is kidnapped, Caleb (with the Morpheus Initiative team) must rush to stay one step ahead of the person he thought dead, Nina Osseni. All signs lead him to the burial site of Genghis Khan in Asia, where not only his nemesis would like to see him dead, but centuries of Khan protectors.

Beneath Asia’s surface they travel down into an underworld labyrinth filled with traps and hazards carefully devised to decapitate and obliterate. Only the team’s psychic sight can save them certain death. But will they see all they need to in time.

Sakmyster does a very nice job of avoiding the curse of “Book 2” with this well researched and smartly plotted storyline. It’s a high-octane race to the finish, with all characters pinned against each other and ancient relics coming to life in order to kill.
I’d like to say that there’s almost too much action and that I would have liked to have seen the story slow in certain places, in order for me to identify more with the characters. Perhaps have them in turn feeling a little more, instead of pushing so hard. But I can’t because I liked it too much.

A very fun read. Can’t wait for to sink my teeth into Book 3.

Professor David Ullman’s reputation as an expert on all things demonic precedes him. He soon finds this to be true when a beautiful waif-like woman shows up at his office and has an offer he simply can’t refuse. Go to Venice, Italy, all expenses paid and simply give an opinion on some strange phenomena that has taken hold. Even though he’s immersed himself and dedicated his entire career to understanding and the lecturing of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Ullman remains unconvinced that evil, or as some people call it, Satan, has a hold of the world and its people.

In the midst of a devastating separation from his wife, Ullman decides to take the strange woman up on her offer, and thinks it ideal to bring his twelve year old daughter Tess along for the weekend. Quickly, however, tragedy happens when Tess falls from the rooftop of their hotel right before his eyes, her death ruled a suicide by police. But after witnessing what looked like a satanic possession and strange creatures masked as other things, everything Ullman has believed to be true his entire life, begins to unravel. He’s soon negotiating with the other side, for his daughter’s release and perhaps even his own soul.

But can he convince evil to let go? Will it consume everything he’s ever loved? Or has he simply lost himself in the midst of his daughter’s death?

Having previously read Pyper’s, The Guardians and been completely blown away by it, I was excited to dig into The Demonologist. I have to say I was not disappointed. There was a deep knowledge of Milton’s Paradise Lost, that surface quickly, along with direct quotes from the epic poem that not only put story into perspective but also educated. I was very compelled to pick up Milton’s masterpiece after reading this thriller. (It’s now on my list of must-reads this year, surprised I haven’t picked it up before.)The way that Pyper sets up the storyline drew me in and kept my hook right up until the last page. Goosebumps and late night hours were a constant, as I could not put the book down...with the only downfall being, the creeps, keeping me awake. So if you like your sleep, read this during daylight hours.