A CLOSER LOOK AT APRIL’S
ACCUSATION
By Paul Batista
In this thought-provoking and fast-paced novel, a world-renowned and previously highly revered actor named Aaron Julian has a rude awakening at two in the morning. His agent then informs him that he has been accused of sexual harassment and young actresses will break the story on prime-time TV that very morning. Aaron is determined to deny charges.
Supported by his celebrity pop-singer wife, Veda, he hires the powerful defense lawyer Raquel Rematti. But when the plaintiffs’ lawyer is murdered in Central Park, the stakes are raised even higher. Revelations appear out of nowhere as Aaron continues to proclaim his innocence and, in his defense, Rematti goes all-out.
THE AUTHOR
Paul Batista, a USA Today bestselling author of legal thrillers, is also a criminal defense lawyer, a TV personality, and the author of the leading book on the federal racketeering statute. Accusation is the sixth of his legal thrillers. Batista lives in New York City, NY.
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TERMS OF SERVICE
By Craig Stanfill
Explore a thoroughly unique novel that’s not your typical sci-fi. Try blending Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and The Matrix; you’re getting warmer. A slow burn with an explosive finish, this is a book you won’t be able to put down.
Meet Kim, the reader’s tour guide through a world full of AI-controlled careers, meals and the latest social fashions, but also omnipresent surveillance ready to call out any individual who breaks the rules. It’s an oppressive society that rules not by democracy or the greater good, but by fear. Nothing is as it seems.
THE AUTHOR
Craig W. Stanfill obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983 and has spent his career doing groundbreaking research in AI and enterprise computing. He has written numerous scientific papers, co-founded a software company and been awarded more than 80 patents. He continues to work in technology as he turns his hand to writing speculative dystopian fiction.
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THE BURDEN OF INNOCENCE
By John Nardizzi
Welcome the return of PI Ray Infantino in a crime thriller steeped in American noir. Ray joins Tania Kong to solve the case of Sam Langford, who was framed for a murder committed by a notorious, extremely powerful crime boss. But as time passed and times changed, the landscape of the city has changed too; the old ethnic tribes have weakened and the tangled mess of the past is unraveling.
Can the hardworking team of private investigator protagonists crack this complicated case in time to save an innocent man? Gangsters, ghosts and social unrest haunt these Boston streets and threaten to thwart their attempts at justice.
THE AUTHOR
John Nardizzi is a writer and investigator. His crime novels have won praise for crackling dialogue and pithy observations of detective work. He speaks and writes about investigations in numerous settings, including World Association of Detectives, Lawyers Weekly, Pursuit Magazine and PI Magazine.
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THE TRIAL OF LOVE
By James B. Owen
This lighthearted satire places the Olympic gods in modern times, wondering how to stay relevant in current soicety. At their wits’ end, they decide to participate in a reality TV show: a televised “Trial of Love.” Zeus, Aphrodite and Mars serve as a trio of judges when a man comes with a claim for damages arising from his sudden abandonment by the woman he loves. Apollo, Hermes, Hera, Athena and Artemis all have roles to play in the case, too.
In typical media fashion, the trial becomes a theatrical drama. Along the way, the gods have to readjust their expectations and perceptions that have been honed through, literally, ages. This is an adult novel that freely reimagines the personalities of the classical tradition in modern terms and brings the Olympic immortals to life through the experience of contemporary love.
THE AUTHOR
James B. Owen has variously worked in a tomato cannery, taught computer programming, practiced as a financial professional, appeared in court as an expert witness, and accumulated a vast number of books that match the range of his admittedly dilettante interests. The Trial of Love is his first novel.
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DON’T LIE TO ME
By Willow Rose
This #1 Amazon bestseller has more than 5,000 five-star reviews across Goodreads and Amazon! Twelve-year-old Sophie Williams goes off to a Girl Scout summer camp, but she never comes back. It’s not until three months later that her body is found inside a sleeping bag in the most frequented area of Cocoa Beach. The community goes into an uproar, especially because Sophie was their surf darling.
Then another high-profile child is kidnapped. FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas devotes herself to her profession, maybe too much so. With an old flame in charge of local law enforcement and panicked loved ones of the children, this case is unsettling in more ways than one.
THE AUTHOR
Willow Rose is a multimillion-copy bestselling author and an Amazon all-star author of more than 80 novels. Several of her books have reached the top 10 of all books on Amazon in the US, UK, and Canada. She has sold more than six million books all over the world.
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COMFORT IN THE WINGS
By Jennifer Collins
The author gently tackles questions and issues at the heart of the human experience: loss and grieving, coping afterward, isolation, secrets, joy, possibilities and more. Its subtitle is “A Novel Inspired by Love That Will Not Die,” so be ready for inspirational materials.
Larissa Whitcomb has suffered traumatic losses and is reeling from the impact; she isolates herself in desperation. Then, an interesting opportunity coaxes her out of her misery. She has no idea she’s signing up for unexpected encounters and will be challenged by all sorts of new secrets, emotions and even joy. Can her battered heart open to new possibilities?
THE AUTHOR
ennifer Collins, PT, EdD, MPA, is a retired physical therapist and college professor whose career spanned more than forty years. She held many titles during those years, but Mom was the one that brought her the most joy and pride. Comfort in the Wings, her debut novel, emerged from the author’s own devastating experiences.
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MASTERS OF THE BROKEN WATCHES
By Razi Imam
With action like Indiana Jones, sci-fi adventure like Jurassic Park and humanity like Slumdog Millionaire, this is a special book. Sebastian Miles and his team of marine biologists are wonderstruck finding out that time outside their lab has jumped forward 22 hours thanks to a newly-discovered creature’s latent powers.
Powerful international governments grasp this news tight, and the biologists find that they’ve inadvertently pulled the trigger on a race to hunt, capture and control this creature. But a team of scientists known as the Paramarines will go to ends of the earth in order to protect the species from capture and exploitation.
THE AUTHOR
Razi Imam’s debut has won the 2021 IAN Book of the Year Award, 2021 Readers’ Favorite Bronze Medal Award, and the 2020 American Fiction Book Award. In addition, his book is also listed as a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Award. He is also the CEO of 113 Industries, an Artificial Intelligence company where his work in understanding human behavior inspires his stories. He is currently writing a sequel.
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