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The Sound and the Echoes

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The Sound and the Echoes is a high-concept, fantasy adventure for middle grade and young adult readers, with 27 magical illustrations.

Imagine that everyone around you has a mirror image living somewhere else. Your world is like a sound, which produced that other world of echoes. And in this land men are governed by a terrible law—no Echo is allowed to live after his Sound dies.

One Sound especially must die. The Prince’s Sound. The Fate Sealers and Fortune Tellers will make sure of that! Because after this Sound dies, the Echo Prince will have to die too.

Now, twelve-year-old Will Cleary is about to discover that he is the Sound the Echoes are hunting. And so begins his perilous adventure into a see-through, sparkling world, filled with spying crystal balls, an eerie fortress of castaway children, a hunt for clues in an ancient book of riddles, and a last-chance escape through a frozen gem-studded lake into a secret land that holds the key to placing the Prince on the throne and returning freedom to the Echoes.

From the reviewers:

“The story shares a number of similarities with the Harry Potter series… but the unique, complex Echo world is enough to set this story apart… A fantasy novel that readers hungry for magic and adventure will gladly devour.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“The Sound and the Echoes is an extraordinary tale that will be loved by many children, teachers, and their parents alike… It is a must in any school or home library.”
-Author Anna del C. Dye.

“Friendship, loyalty and strength of character shine very brightly in this book.”
-Stephanie D. for Readers Favorite.

“Dew Pellucid offers a reader much, awakening an indefinable, irreverent child-like depiction of an imaginative, strange, beautiful world.”
-Sean Randall, Goodreads Librarian.

“I believe my twelve year old self would have loved this book.”
-Lace and Lavender Hints Book Blog.

“If adventure is what you crave, The Sound and the Echoes delivers.”
-Anastacia Hawkins for Readers Favorite.

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Kindle Daily Deal: Wonder Boys

A successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and years later he still hasn’t grown up despite his professorship, estranged wife, and pregnant girlfriend. This satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class is mordant, humane, and features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction.

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Crooked Man (Tubby Dubonnet #1) (Tubby Dubonnet Mystery) (The Tubby Dubonnet Series)

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The FIRST offbeat mystery in the TUBBY DUBONNET series, by ANTHONY- AND EDGAR-NOMINATED AUTHOR Tony Dunbar.

“a lighthearted, fast-moving, comic mystery … In this well-written, entertaining first novel, Tubby’s luncheon menus are as engaging as the plot.” -Library Journal

HARD-BOILED AND HILARIOUS AT THE SAME TIME, THIS IS THE BOOK THAT ASKS THE QUESTION: IF A GYM BAG OF CASH FELL INTO YOUR HANDS, WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO KEEP IT?

And it has another great quality: The food’s as much fun as the tightly-coiled plot.

A simple man with a refined palate, maverick New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet has a penchant for fishing, Old Fashioneds, off-track betting, and fighting evil while passing a good time.

His clients are all renegades from the asylum (aka Orleans Parish), including a transvestite entertainer, a buxom deadbeat blonde, a doctor who refers his own patients to a malpractice lawyer, and a Mardi Gras reveler who drives a float shaped like a giant crawfish pot. He also has his hands full with an ex-wife and three teenage daughters, who are experts in the art of wrapping Tubby around their little fingers. And somehow, between work and family, Tubby finds time to sample the highs and lows of idiosyncratic Crescent City cuisine, from trout meuniere amandine and French roast coffee with chicory to shrimp po-boys and homemade pecan pralines.

Tubby’s new client is Darryl Alvarez, the manager of a local nightclub who’s been caught unloading marijuana from a shrimp boat. At their first meeting, Darryl entrusts Tubby with an ordinary-looking blue gym bag. But after Darryl’s unfortunate demise, Tubby realizes he must tighten his grasp on the gym bag — and its million-dollar contents.

TUBBY JUST CAN’T GIVE UP THE CASH. BUT IF HE GETS CAUGHT, HE’LL BE IN JAIL. AND IF THE WRONG PEOPLE CATCH HIM, HE’LL WISH HE WAS.

“Tubby grapples with the temptation of riches and the threats of claimants, and, as he sorts out the rogues among the buttoned-downs, he dispatches the villain and finds a home for the cash in a conclusion that’s as cleverly convoluted and amusing as the rest of this tale, the first in a…series.” -Publishers Weekly

New Orleans-based attorney and writer Tony Dunbar is the Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author of books about Mississippi, Appalachia, migrant workers, and the Southern labor movement as well as the acclaimed Tubby Dubonnet mystery series.

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REACHING FOR THE GODS

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An offbeat, behind the scenes account of a Hollywood soap opera set in 1984 with a cast of characters including a dominatrix to the stars, a transgender hooker and an ageing actress with a dark past.

It is the year of the Los Angeles Olympics, and Merle LaBrune plans to remain young for however long it takes for her to ascend a pantheon of Hollywood idols and be worshipped as a latter-day Aphrodite, goddess of love. However, she has the unerring feeling she is about to be dropped from the long running soap in which she stars.

Her life is further complicated by her live-in lover’s decision to bring his daughter, Heidi, to come live with them. Heidi does her utmost to make Merle’s life a living hell.

In spite of so many cards stacked against her, Merle almost pulls it off in her ambition for godhood, banged up in jail as she atones for the sins of mankind, but her delusions are finally shattered when she is finally confronted with her true identity.

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Kindle Daily Deal: On Thin Ice After rebels kidnapped Elizabeth Pennington from a South American mission, she meets fellow captive Finn MacGowan at the rebel’s camp. MacGowan, a soldier, flees the fortress with Elizabeth and a teenage boy in tow. The trio’s harrowing escape spans the globe and ignites a flame for Elizabeth in Finn’s heart. Today’s Price: $1.99 (72% off)