Author: Brian Burt

Title: Aquarius Rising

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Synopsis: On an Earth ravaged by climate change, and a disastrous attempt to reverse it, human-dolphin hybrids called Aquarians have built thriving reef colonies among the drowned cities of the coast. Now their world is under siege from an enemy above the waves whose invisible weapon leaves no survivors.

Brian Burt works as an information security engineer in West Michigan, where some of his most bizarre and twisted imaginings wind up in threat assessments. His wife and three boys tolerate his strange imagination and constantly inspire new flights of fancy, whether they mean to or not.

Author: Celia Micklefield

Title: Patterns of our Lives

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Synopsis: Patterns of Our Lives is a saga set in the north and east of England from 1935 to 2010. Heart-warming, heartbreaking, the book shows how family secrets can be passed from one generation to the next with devastating effect.

Since retiring from teaching Celia devotes her time to her writing. Her short stories regularly feature in UK women's magazines and she has a collection of darkly humorous short stories available at Amazon. Currently working on part one of a trilogy set in France where she lives, Celia also plans another volume of short stories.

Author: D.A MacQuinn

Title: Polite Conversations about the Weather

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Synopsis: Told through the eyes of eclectic characters intersecting over time between rural Illinois and New York City, D.A. MacQuin’s stories explore disillusionment in the pursuit of greatness, profound loneliness, and darkness driven by outsider status.

In the title story, Matthew Gold is a Jewish-American man on death row who laments his life decisions in the final hours before his execution. Years later the lingering effects of his crime and imprisonment are analyzed by his daughter, Leah, as she models in Manhattan and records her glamorous lifestyle in a journal.

Author: Dr Niama L.J. Williams

Title: The Journey

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Synopsis: Dr. Niama L. J. Williams believes that dreams deserve to be lived, and thus has committed herself and her company to liberating those who dream of a different life each day but cannot seem to actively step into that life.

Of her purpose for writing Dr. Williams says: "I frequently do not err on the side of caution in my writing, but I believe in the purpose of it: to speak to the things others do not want to speak of, with the hopes of reaching that one woman, or her lover, or her friend, who refuses to deal with her pain, who hides from it, who doesn't think she'll survive it. That's the audience I hope to reach."

Author: Harry Margulies

Title: The Weight of the Moon

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Synopsis: A pretentious, self-important couple is about to face the darkest day of their lives, courtesy of a flamboyant, well-upholstered opera luminary.

When their best friends’ clandestine adult-film star daughter schemes to come to their rescue, a bizarre, enlightening, and humorous journey unfolds.

Author: Ian Mackenzie

Title: Clouds in the Wind

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Synopsis: Ian Mackenzie was born in 1949 in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He was educated at Queen's College in Queenstown and Parktown Boys High in Johannesburg.

He Served with the Rhodesian military during the bush war from 1976 to 1980, where he met his wife Rosemarie Kennedy. He has two sons in their 30s and currently lives with his wife in Johannesburg. This is his first novel

Author: Joseph Lewis

Title: Taking Lives

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Synopsis: Joseph Lewis is a high school principal by day and an author of thriller fiction by night and by passion. He has a background in psychology and counseling, and has been in education for 38 years as a teacher, coach, counselor and administrator.

Taking Lives is the prequel requested by True Visions Publications to introduce the Lewis to readers, and readers to his trilogy.

Author: Joseph Macolino

Title: The Birth of Death

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Synopsis: In the tradition of JRR Tolkien and GRR Martin, Joseph Macolino is a builder of worlds. While other works may be derivative of their worlds few can create at the level of these revered masters.

Following the path of his mentors, Macolino constructs epic high fantasy tales of extreme depth and extraordinary richness. As a famous hobbit once said, "If you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

Author: Sheila Deeth

Title: Divide by Zero

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Synopsis: Sheila Deeth is an English American, Catholic Protestant, mathematician writer, author of the Five Minute Bible Story Series from Cape Arago Press, Tails of Mystery coming soon from Linkville Press, several spiritual speculative enovellas from Gypsy Shadow Publishing, and the contemporary novel Divide by Zero,soon to be reissued by Second Wind Publishing..

Sheila is a prolific reader and her book reviews are published on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, Goodreads, Shelfari, and Librarything, as well as on her blog at sheiladeeth.blogspot.com