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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Fifth Batch of Tuesday's Free Books 11-27-2012

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Out of the Shadow by J.S. Winn



Rating: 4.3Stars with XX votes

Category: GENRES

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Editorial Reviews:

Any reader interested in compelling mysteries will find OUT OF THE SHADOW a powerful read, telling of one Becca Rosen, who survives a rape and just wants to move on with life. The only trouble is: she's being stalked by a psychopath who has a different agenda for her, and the police are convinced she's faking the rape to get away with her husband's murder.

Desperate, Becca hires a psychotherapist to help her handle the flashbacks and nightmares that are plaguing her - only to find that hypnotherapy is peeling back some dangerous layers of memory even as three men, new in her life, may not be as they seem.

First- and third-person perspectives alternate in a series of twists and turns that offer a stunning conclusion to a story replete with intrigue and deceptions.

Like the layers of an onion, OUT OF THE SHADOW peels away personalities, motivations, underlying motives, and dark, long-hidden secrets that immerse a circle of people in a web of dangerous associations.

The conclusion is riveting, unexpected, and as satisfying as the rising psychological suspense which begins from the first page and ends with a bang. D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review

Fear is an insidious emotion; it causes us not only to distrust those around us, but also to distrust ourselves. Can we believe the assurances of others that we are safe? How far do we trust our memories when others insist that we’re wrong?

In the opening chapter of Out of the Shadow, Becca Rosen is raped in her bedroom, and her husband is murdered and left to die in their living room. The police can’t find any proof of a break-in, so she becomes the lead suspect for the murder. Becca believes that she’s got a stalker who did it, but she can’t prove it, and each time she tells the police about her convictions, the evidence doesn’t hold up.

Becca decides to seek professional help from Dr. Sarah Abrams, a therapist who specializes in Repressed Memory Syndrome. Yet Dr. Abrams, too, is grappling with love, betrayal, and the possibility of a new relationship on the horizon.

Out of the Shadow is a story within a story…within another story. That level of complexity can be a mess in the hands of an unskilled writer, but author J. S. Winn’s novel is so exquisitely dovetailed that the pieces unfold cleanly and clearly. Winn writes from her own experience as a therapist, and it shows in her deep awareness of Becca’s inner world and her skillful exploration of family and romantic relationships. She’s equally adept at creating the heart-stopping moments that a great crime mystery requires. Topping it off is the Philadelphia setting, which the author has filled with well-known landmarks and film-noir-esque side streets, which will be interesting for any reader but especially for a lover of Philadelphia (as I am).

This is such a terrific page-turner that I lost sleep on the three nights that it took for me to complete it. Since the book is multiple stories in one, there are also several layers of red herrings, but that just hooked me all the more. By the time I was two-thirds of the way through, I couldn’t stand it any longer; I cheated and checked out the ending—and I was blown away.

I hope J. S.Winn writes her second novel very, very soon. Next time, I’ll try hard not to start with the last chapter. Debra Sponable, Nights and Weekends
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11/27/2012 10:41:01 Out of the Shadow J. S. Winn B008PYM59C Contemporary, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller " Out of the Shadow tells the story of two women drawn together in the present to uncover a crime from the past.

Having survived a rape and her husband's murder, all Becca Rosen wants to do is move on with her life, but how can she when she's being stalked by a psychopath with an attitude---and an agenda. The police are no help because they're convinced, with her history of mental illness, Becca has faked the rape to get away with her husband's murder. On top of that, Becca has begun to have flashbacks and nightmares of childhood abuse, possibly at the hands of the rapist. Not knowing where to turn, and feeling like she might go crazy again, Becca hires a psychologist, Dr. Sarah Abrams, to help her unearth who's behind the crimes of the past … and the present.

Three men come into Becca's life around the same time. While each of these men has his charms, Becca can't be certain whether any one of them is the real killer. Or could it be someone else? Together Becca and Sarah start on a course of hypnotherapy to discover the abuser's identity. Will their work reveal the real killer before it's too late, or will Becca fall prey to this demented criminal?
" Major Brawling PG-13 12/25/2012 12/27/2012 J. S. Winn jamaxwin@yahoo.com Sex Implied Allowed on TV Swearing None

101 Best Kindle Fire Apps by Jack Meyers

Rating: 3.6 Stars with 48 votes

Category: Non-fiction

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When I first got my Kindle Fire, I didn't know which apps were the best, and the top 100 list seemed to be filled with apps that recently had promotions.

I realized that these were not necessarily the best apps, so I combed through the Apps for Android store and found only the best Kindle Fire apps in 14 different categories!

This is NOT just a listing of the top 100 apps! In fact...

The Kindle Fire Apps featured in this book will: Help to boost your productivity, Allow you to stay connected with others, Bring out your creative and artistic side, Assist you in finding food and booking vacations, Keep you on track with your health and fitness, Allow you to enjoy a variety of music and video, Even help to keep your kids having (if you are brave enough to let them use your Kindle Fire), Plus, the book highlights some of the hottest Kindle Fire games!



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Life In The Gumball Machine by Maureen Bartone

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 11 votes

Category: Children's, Fantasy, Humor

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How can anyone get sucked up and into a gumball machine? Impossible? Not if you find a magic gumball machine! Life in the Gumball Machine is a chapter book for new readers (ages 7-12). It’s a story of great fun and adventure when three friends, Daisy, Patrick, and Michael, find an abandoned gumball machine – a big one, almost as tall as they are - hidden in an old shed. After simply touching it, they magically shrink in size, and a strong force of freezing wind sucks them up the swirling tunnel and into the gumball machine. They land in a world with purple grass, a pink sky, and gumball trees. The latch is locked, and there is no escape! When they start searching for another way out, they encounter a variety of gumball people, each one a different color from the next. Their new gumball friends take the children on the adventure of a lifetime – including a slide that takes them down Pudding Hill!

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10 Things To Do Today To Fix Your Marriage - 10 Simple Steps To Put The Joy And Intimacy Back In Your Marriage by Grace Stevens

Rating: 4.9 Stars with 7 votes

Category: Non-fiction

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Are you struggling in your marriage and unsure about how to get back the connection and passion that you once shared? Are you saddened that your marriage is on one hand filled with frustrations and resentments and yet on the other hand withering away from neglect? Do you love your spouse, but worry that you are no longer “in love” with them, or worse, worry that they are no longer “in love” with you?

It turns out that the old adage is correct, there really are no prizes for being unhappily married. But how do you get back to that place of a rewarding, passionate, connection filled marriage when your hectic daily lives involve so many other pressing responsibilities and demands on your physical and emotional energy?

In this straightforward guide, Grace Stevens lays out 10 simple steps that you can immediately implement to change the “tone” of your marriage. None of the steps require much time, any money or even the active participation of your spouse. This book is especially geared towards people who want their marriage to be better, but are overwhelmed with where to start. Following these simple strategies, you can reconnect with your spouse using proven, healthy relationship habits and realize immediate improvement in your marriage.

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Tuesday Free Books 11-27-2012

Are you ready to win $50.00? Enter the November contest!

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Vampire Descent (King's Blood #4) by P.J. Day



Rating: 5.0 Stars with 6 votes

Category: Paranormal, Adventure

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Betrayed, Jack finds himself a prisoner of psychopathic corporate scientists who want to find out what makes him tick. They will stop at nothing to violate his very flesh in order to gain the secrets of his biology, as well as his corporate knowledge of a drug that could change medical history.

Separated from his girlfriend, Holly, and his best friend, Ted, the only ones who can save Jack from a terrible fate are an offbeat group of Chinese vampires with a rich culture and history. Thrust into their unfamiliar culture and running from exploitative humans, Jack walks a fine line between his assimilation and loyalty to his human friends and his acceptance and growing knowledge of who he is, what he is, and his growing role in the future of his entire vampire species.

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The Power of Happiness: A Comprehensive Guide to Daily Joy and Well-Being by Timothy McKinney



Rating: 4.6 Stars with 12 votes

Category: Non Fiction

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In his new book, The Power of Happiness, Timothy McKinney shows readers how to be happy from the inside out. Happiness is about more than just a positive attitude or a good mood. Happiness comes from a deep sense of well-being that allows a person to be happy regardless of external circumstances. The Power of Happiness gives deep insights into what happiness is and how to reduce worry, stress, and frustration. By learning how to have different responses and reactions to the situations faced every day, readers are able to be happier with the life they have now!

By the end of this book, readers will have discovered:

• What happiness really is
• How you can know if you’re happy (hint: it’s not a feeling)
• What the benefits are to being happy
• What the individual differences of happiness are
• What foods you should eat to be happier
• Whether or not money can make you happy (the answer might surprise you)
• Ten myths about happiness
• How to develop your OWN happiness

After exploring what happiness is, McKinney goes on to discuss how to overcome unhappiness. Readers with a negative attitude will learn what to do to turn their thoughts around. The last part of the book contains ten “hows” of happiness—ten keys to creating a happier life. Readers who want to learn how to be happy no matter what circumstances they face are sure to love The Power of Happiness.

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Becoming Elizabeth Darcy by Mary Lydon Simonsen



Rating: 4.3 Stars with 18 votes

Category: Historical

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In 2011, American Elizabeth Hannigan, suffering from the flu, falls into a coma and wakes up in the bed and body of Elizabeth Bennet Darcy. Beth soon realizes that the only way back to her life in the 21st Century is through the Master of Pemberley, Jane Austen's Fitzwilliam Darcy. But first she must uncover the dark secret that brought her to Pemberley in 1826 in the first place.

Becoming Elizabeth Darcy is a story of love, loyalty, and loss, where a modern woman is called upon to resolve the problems of Jane Austen's most beloved couple.

If you are a fan of Lost in Austen, you will enjoy the time-travel novel, Becoming Elizabeth Darcy.

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God Has Better Things to do Than My Laundry (and Other Observations by an Overly Dramatic Mom) by Heather Nestleroad



Rating: 4.9 Stars with 23 votes

Category:  Humor, Non Fiction, Religious

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If you've ever tackled a mound of laundry taller than you, made reservations instead of dinner, turned to prayer to deal with your teenage daughters, and accidentally wet yourself laughing at your best friend, then you'll like God Has Better Things to do Than My Laundry (and Other Observations by an Overly Dramatic Mom). Heather Nestleroad gathers all of her blog posts from the last few years into a comprehensive book that can be enjoyed by parents, chocolate lovers, and coffee drinkers of all types. Read about how Heather learned to like (and order) coffee, explores her questions about the purpose of our lives, bares her neurotic confessions, and details conversations you'll swear you just had with someone in your family.

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Fifth Batch of Monday Free Books 11-25-2012

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The Wheel of Justice (a short story) by Stephen Livingston

Rating: 3.6 Stars with 14 votes

Category:  Action and Adventure, Contemporary, Horror, Humor, Literary, Science Fiction 

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Hilariously funny dark humor and biting satire combine in this short story set on an American TV game-show of the near future.

Cover Art by Dyfed Thomas.

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Lichgates: Book One of the Grimoire Trilogy (a young adult paranormal fantasy series) by S.M. Boyce

Rating: 4.6 Stars with 59 votes

Category: Fantasy, Young Adult

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The Grimoire turns its own pages and can answer any question asked of it, and Kara Magari is its next target. 

Kara has no idea what she's getting herself into when she stumbles across the old book while hiking a hidden trail. Once she opens it, she's thrown into Ourea: a beautiful world full of terrifying things that want the Grimoire's secrets. Everyone in this new world is trying to find her, and most want to control the new-found power the book bestows upon her. Even if Kara does escape, Ourea will only drag her back.

Braeden Drakonin grew up in Ourea, and all he’s ever known of life is lying. The Grimoire is his one chance at redemption, and it lands in his lap when Kara Magari comes into his life. He has one question to ask the book—one question that can fix everything in his broken world—and he’s not letting Kara out of his sight until he gets an answer.

There’s no going back now.
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Books in the Grimoire Trilogy:

Lichgates (#1)
Treason (#2)
Heritage (#3)


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Enter Sandman (The Wall) by Michael Edward

Rating: 3.7 Stars with 13 votes

Category:  Horror, Thriller

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 Every town has their history, their legends.

For Eric and his friends it is no different. Bored one cold winter night and without much thought, they decide to fill their time by going to 'the wall' and testing the town legend.

The legend of the Sandman:

Sign your name on the wall and the Sandman will come for you. You will have three choices: Sacrifice yourself...sacrifice a loved one...or he will take both.


Enter Sandman is a short story that is part One in a series titled The Wall.

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BESET: A Desperate Search for Happiness in Times of Crisis by Lee Bullen

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 8 votes

Category:  Non Fiction

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After a turbulent life-altering period, Lee Bullen embarks on a personal journey to find a semblance of happiness and rediscover a love for life, but finds his every goal hampered by the brutal effects of the Great Recession.

Besieged with universal wallops and cosmic coshes, Lee tries to come to terms with his autistic son’s worsening condition while finding himself knee-deep in divorce, unemployment and financial disaster.

He’s a man in personal crisis, struggling on an island in economic crisis, during the Global Financial Crisis – not an enviable position! However, despite the multitude of omnipotent foes, he discovers that he himself may in fact be his own worst enemy...

‘BESET’ – A humorous, touching and bittersweet account of one man and his state of mind during the early 2010’s.

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Fourth Batch of Monday's Free Books 11-25-2012

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Strategic Planning for Self by Robyn Collins

Rating: 4.3 Stars with 3 votes

Category: Non Fiction

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Have you ever woken up and thought, “I don’t want to go to work today”, “I hate what I do”, and “I’ve got to get out of here!” This happened to me. I enjoy my work but one day I woke up and realized there were many things I wanted to do and time was running out. I realized it was time to pursue my passion. Strategic Planning for Self describes how you can find your passion and begin the steps towards doing what you really want to do for the rest of your life.

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Billy CoatButton and the Wheel of Destiny (The Sock Gnome Chronicles) by Michael Ploof

Rating: NN Stars with 0 votes

Category: Action and Adventure, Children's, Fantasy, Humor, Mystery

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Have you ever wondered what happens to that one missing sock of a pair? If you have ever been folding laundry and come up with lone socks, then you may have Sock Gnomes living in your home. Billy Coatbutton is one such Gnome. 
It is the day of Billy’s first test of mastery, a test to see if he will become a treasure hunter like his father. Billy has studied, practiced and prepared for this day for years. Like all Gnomes that have come of age, Billy will soon spin the Wheel of Destiny and discover which item it is that he must find to become a treasure hunter within Sockefeller castle.
Along the way he meets an old recluse Sock Gnome named Helix BonsaiTree, who has more than a little to say about the practices of the greedy Sockefellers, and helps Billy to chose the right path.
During his dangerous quest Billy must overcome a vicious rat, a hungry cat, and many other obstacles, all without the help or protection of Gnomeland Sockurity. He is determined to pass his test of mastery on the first try, a feat accomplished by only one other Sock Gnome, his father. 
Billy will face many decisions, the greatest of all will leave the
life of a human child hanging in the balance.


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Fire (The Book of Fire Trilogy) by David L Dawson

Rating: NN Stars with 0 votes

Category:  Children's, Fantasy 

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A planet populated by enchanters.
A magical book.
A cabal of shadow beings.
An assassin that turns people to stone.

Welcome to the magical world of Cressida Widdershins...

"Fire" is the first in "The Book of Fire Trilogy", a series of fantasy adventure novels aimed at children aged ten and above, but like Harry Potter can be enjoyed by adults too.

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Claus: Legend of the Fat Man by Tony Bertauski

Rating: 4.5 Stars with 58 votes

Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

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The Christmas story you never heard. 

Santa is not just about the presents. See something deeper in this mythological figure. A story that’s meaningful. Find a cast of gritty, compassionate and courageous characters that make the journey to mythological fame despite their shortcomings and frailties. Pull away the veil of magic, reveal the difficulties of love and loss and struggle with life.

Because Santa Claus is much more than presents.

In the early 1800s, Nicholas, Jessica and Jon Santa attempt the first human trek to the North Pole and stumble upon an ancient race of people left over from the Ice Age. They are short, fat and hairy. They slide across the ice on scaly soles and carve their homes in the ice that floats on the Arctic Ocean. The elven are adapted to life in the extreme cold. They are as wise as they are ancient.

Their scientific advancements have yielded great inventions -- time-stopping devices and gravitational spheres that build living snowmen and genetically-modified reindeer that leap great distances. They’ve even unlocked the secrets to aging. For 40,000 years, they have lived in peace.

Until now.

An elven known as The Cold One has divided his people. He’s tired of their seclusion and wants to conquer the world. Only one elven stands between The Cold
One and total chaos. He’s white-bearded and red-coated. The Santa family will help him stop The Cold One. They will come to the aid of a legendary elven
known as… Claus.

Other books by Tony Bertauski (Bertauski.com)
The Annihilation of Foreverland (Thriller/Sci-fi)
The Socket Greeny Saga (YA/Sci-fi)


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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Second Batch of Sunday Free Books 11-25-2012

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Little Deadly Things by Harry Steinman



Rating: 4.5 Stars with 32 votes

Category: Science Fiction, Thriller

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What happens when abusive parents raise brilliant children? You might get a saint. You might get a killer. Or you might get one of each.
Young Eva Rozen witnessed her sister's brutal murder, and barely escaped with her life. Eva survived by finding refuge from madness in the orderly world of science. Twenty-five years later, this master of nanotechnology is on her way to becoming the world's richest woman... and the most dangerous.

Marta Cruz also endured a troubled childhood. The early death of her mother and her father's incarceration left her an orphan, and a crippling disease left her in pain. Marta's refuge? A tropical rainforest where she discovers plants with miraculous healing properties.

The two girls meet in high school and form an uneasy friendship that lasts through college. Eva wants power, profit - and Marta's husband. She offers to fund Marta's public health dreams in exchange for the ailing physician's knowledge of plant-based medicines. Together, they build NMech, which becomes the world's largest nanotech manufacturer.

When the unstable Eva has a psychotic break, and attacks the people who rely on NMech for survival, only Marta can stand between Eva and the death of millions. But Marta is a healer, not a fighter, and must rely on her husband and teenaged son, a boy who faces a life-or-death challenge well beyond his years.

Little Deadly Things is the place where science meets the psyche, where the world's fate rests in the hands of a madwoman and in the lives of the family that must stop her.

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The Office Idiot Reviews (A laugh out loud comedy book) by Pete Sortwell



Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 vote

Category: Humor

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There are all sorts of idiots we have to work with every day. Every office has them. Fortunately for most of us idiots in the work place are few and far between. However, Hogsbottom Plugs, the home of bath plugs has a higher concentrate than most work places, from the MD down to the cleaner, they’re all pretty much Idiots.
Read the trails and tribulations of this idiotic workforce as they explain their recent life events through reviews of things they’ve brought.

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Daisy Cooper and the Sisters of the Black Night (Daisy Cooper: International Schoolgirl) by Robert Dee



Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes

Category:  Action and Adventure, Children's, Young Adult

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When you're twelve years old and want to travel the world as a reporter for International Schoolgirl magazine you'd better be able to prove you can find a good story at home first.

Budding reporter Daisy Cooper finds the perfect school when she wins a place at the brilliant but eccentric Darlington School for Girls. With maths classes that involve poker games, science lectures where pupils fire rockets and biology lessons that take place in a real zoo it is everything she could have wished for.

The school is also home to International Schoolgirl, a magazine that sends specially chosen pupils - International Schoolgirls - on adventures across the globe in search of groundbreaking stories. To travel the world as a reporter is something Daisy has always wanted and she dreams of being chosen.

Daisy begins an adventure closer to home, however, when she gets lost in the school maze one evening and stumbles across the mysterious Sisters of the Black Night - a hooded secret society that meets under the cover of darkness. Convinced The Sisters are up to no good Daisy enlists the help of her dorm mates - the 88ers - to get to the bottom of the mystery. It's an adventure that takes her through ancient pirate diaries, shark infested tunnels, perilous sword fights and on motorcycle chases through the stormy English countryside. When Daisy finally discovers The Sisters' dark secret she has to make the most difficult choice of her life: having the job she always dreamed of, or doing what's right.

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Health Reform and Obamacare (Beyond the Buzzword) by Kaushal Das



Rating: 4.1 Stars with 8 votes

Category: Non Fiction

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About "Health Reform and Obamacare" book.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), is commonly called Obamacare. This is a United States Federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

The law is massive and spans more than 2000 pages of obscure and legal language, not counting many other supporting documents. The law is not yet fully detailed out and many provisions are still ambiguous. Only a handful of provisions have been implemented and few are being implemented as of this writing.

This book will provide just enough information for you to understand how this plan is going to affect you, your family, your community and ultimately your country. Why not more detailed information about each and every clause, each and every provisions? Simply because they are not known neither the impact they will cause.

This is an issue where fact really doesn't seem to matter. This is something which affects each and every one of us. The issue is really not how much it is going to cost; the issue is also not whether our Health Care will be relatively better or worse; the issue is also not whether right now is the right time to implement this. This is an ideological issue, this is a political issue, and this is an issue where it seems no one can compromise. This is an issue which needs some difficult negotiation and difficult decision making. This is an issue which can kill a politician's career; this is an issue which can have a more profound impact than the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. This is an issue which forces us to consider the most difficult question: "How much is a human life worth?" or "How much is a few months of human life worth?"

The book "Health Reform and Obamacare" is not a book about the text in the law and speculations about their meaning. This book is about how it is impacting each of our life and how it is perceived by the general public, doctors and health care professional and health care industry


About "Beyond the Buzzword" Series"
"Beyond the Buzzword" series of books are short books which will provide enough information for you to familiarize with a concept or a technology.

The purpose of books in this series is to provide information in very simple manner which can be understood by anyone interested without much previous background about the subject. 

These are not expert level books and will not get into very complex and specialized discussions. It will try to provide link to resources for more detailed and specialized study wherever appropriate.

If you are unfamiliar with a concept or technology or barely read about it in newspaper or internet then this book will be a good resource for you. These books will also help if you are trying to acquire a new skill and or understanding a new concept.

On the other hand, if you already have good background in the subject area, have experience in the related area or have already spent enough time on your own doing research in the area, these books may not meet your expectation.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Fifth Batch of Saturday Free Books 11-24-2012

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Fiona Thorn and the Carapacem Spell by Jen Barton



Rating: 4.6 Stars with 11 votes

Category: Action and Adventure, Children's, Fantasy

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When Fiona Thorn, an ornery orphan with an expertise in explosives, sets out to rescue her imprisoned friend, Jaydin Rowan, she wants nothing more than a few sleeping guards and a satchel full of Blast. What she gets is a run-in with three bickering princesses that puts all four girls on the wrong side of a locked dungeon door.

Now, accidentally involved in a plot to assassinate the King and accused of kidnapping the princesses, Fiona must find a way to free them all, save the King, and rescue Jaydin, all while struggling to pay the magical debt that’s slowly killing her. Unless, of course, the princesses’ annoying sibling rivalry kills her first.

Packed with powerful magic, fun-loving fairies and a vicious ogre turned pet, Fiona Thorn and the Carapacem Spell is a fantasy kids’ book sure to become a favorite in middle grade fiction.

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The Rescue Team by Billi Tiner



Rating: 4.8 Stars with 5 votes

Category: Children's

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Ellie is shocked and confused when her owners leave her at the animal shelter. Feeling abandoned and unloved, Ellie spends her days staring vacantly through the gate of her pen. Ellie’s life changes when she is finally adopted by a compassionate woman named Anne. Ellie and Anne form an unbreakable bond of love and friendship. A thunderstorm drives Toby, a young frightened kitten, to Anne’s porch. Anne and Ellie immediately welcome him into their family. One night, they hear an emergency broadcast announcement that a little girl is missing in the woods near their home. Anne, Ellie, and Toby join in the search to find her, and an incredible rescue team is formed. The team will be called upon again when a tornado tears through their town. Will they find any survivors?

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REACHING FOR THE GODS by Laith Doory



Rating: 4.5 Stars with 6 votes

Category: Historical, Humor

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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 very 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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Lost in the Woods: A Bible Camp Mystery (Bible Camp Mysteries) by Cheryl Rogers



Rating: 4.0 Stars with 1 vote

Category: Children's, Mystery, Religious, Young Adult, Christian

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Thirteen-year-old Zack mysteriously disappears in the middle of the night from a Bible Camp in the Florida backwoods. Several campers awaken ill. It’s a comedy of errors when a group of preteens and young teens travel to the Central Florida woods for their first-ever nature-styled retreat. But they learn to work together and rely on God as they face unforeseen challenges in this novelette for preteens and teens.

Writen by New Christian Books Online Magazine Publisher Cheryl Rogers, Lost in the Woods is the first in a new series of Bible Camp Mysteries featuring a former gang leader, Chet Harrigan, who now leads a church group of 10-16 year olds.

Its lovable cast of characters includes the overly adventurous Zack, the reluctant chef Bill, the tough and cocky Steve, the innocent Sammy, and the video-loving yet accommodating Chang.

Readers learn the importance of prayer and submitting themselves to God, plus the importance of staying with a pack.

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Joe Costa's Lonely Hearts: The Talent House Murders by Henry Simpson



Rating: 4.5 Stars with 11 votes

Category: Mystery

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Arrested at the murder scene of his mother’s caretaker, William Talent hires Joe Costa to defend him against a murder charge. Prosecutors posit a revenge motive because the mother died of neglect. Costa and police detective Lena Haynes find evidence linking the murder to Lloyd Love, a paroled convict involved in a lonely hearts scam. Love is arrested and Talent released. Months later, Love’s public defender asks Costa to reexamine the case. He questions Love and concludes that four women remain in danger from a serial killer. Legal authorities refuse to act. Costa pursues the killer alone on a dangerous chase that leads him to the Mexican border.

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Triangle: False Mirror by D. G. Speirs



Rating: 4.3 Stars with 3 votes

Category: Action and Adventure, Thriller

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"It was a gift neither ever wanted, yet it might just be what will save all of us."

Imagine if Clive Cussler and Spider Robinson sat down for a cup of coffee and decided to write an adventure thriller together, featuring an unlikely pair of heroes thrown in among stone-cold killers, a shadowy organization whose true motives are unclear and a device that could literally start Doomsday.

That’s TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR, the brilliant debut novel from D. G. Speirs.

Steve Tate and Amy Rogers are Talents – people cursed with an extra ability gifted to them through tragedy – for Amy, the death of her adoptive parents in a car crash that she alone survived; for Steve, the brutal murder of his sister and mother. Each thinks they are alone and unique, until the day their paths cross in the Bahamas – when Steve discovers the woman who murders Amy’s boyfriend in front of them is the same one from his past.

Chasing this killer plunges Steve and Amy headlong into a much larger conflict – a fight led by TRIANGLE, an organization that works in the shadows to keep humanity safe from all types of chaos. Triangle wants this woman as badly as Steve and Amy do, but for an even more urgent reason - she’s after the False Mirror, one of Triangle’s most dangerous projects, a device that in the wrong hands is capable of destroying the world as we know it.

Now Steve and Amy must quickly learn to work together as they pursue their quarry across the globe, from the deserts of New Mexico to San Francisco Bay and beyond. But even as they draw closer to her, they discover clues that she may hold the key to an even greater mystery...

Who they really are.

TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR is a fun, high-speed thriller that jumps straight out of today’s headlines, races around the globe at a breakneck pace, yet also questions how much we take for granted about the way things work, and how vulnerable that makes us all.

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What I've Learned So Far... Part I: Bikes, Docks & Slush Nuggets by Mike Ball



Rating: 4.9 Stars with 14 votes

Category: Humor

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For years the essays of award-winning humorist Mike Ball, published under the title "What I've Learned So Far..." have evoked laughter and tears in readers all over the world. Mike's sharp wit, blended with his gentle homespun style, has been compared to Mark Twain, Erma Bombeck, Dave Barry and even Ernie Pyle.

Bikes, Docks and Slush Nuggets is the first compilation of Mike's work in book form, covering topics ranging from Bambi Burgers to Stupid Winter Hats. Loren Estleman, author of nearly 70 novels, including the 22 books in the Amos Walker series, says, "Mike Ball's columns are sly, subversive stuff."

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Eden at the Edge of Midnight by John Kerry



Rating: 5.0 Stars with 2 votes

Category: Action and Adventure, Contemporary, Fantasy, Young Adult

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The Vara of Yima, the original Garden of Eden, sealed from the rest of the world and populated with the fittest of men and women. A secret paradise that 150 years ago became ravaged by smog that choked out the skies.

Now the Vara exists in a permanent state of darkness and its people need a champion, a chosen one to save them from the smog that threatens to fill the realm and poison its inhabitants.

That’s what they needed. They got Sammy Ellis instead. She isn’t important enough for her dad to stick around for, never mind saving a realm or junk like that. Her only responsibility was to help the chosen one open the gateway into the Vara, but not only has she entered the realm in their place, she’s also locked them out in the process.

Stuck in a twilight land of giant mushrooms, pursued by dark forces and still in her pyjamas, being unimportant back in the real world is starting to seem way more attractive.

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Jim Fosse's Expense Claim by John Dolan



Rating: 4.5 Stars with 2 votes

Category: Humor

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Once you've met Jim Fosse you'll never feel quite the same about opening your e-mails ...

A darkly humorous short story of obsession from John Dolan, author of 'Everyone Burns'.

WARNING: Contains sexual references and some really terrible grammar.

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The Whispering: The Riley Family Mystery (The Blood of the Earth) by Jonathan Kittrell



Rating: 5.0 Stars with 1 votes

Category: Horror

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The Riley family moves into their new house when things start to get strange. Their eldest son, Thomas Riley, finds a journal in their backyard. The journal details the disappearances of a Jacob Riley and his family in 1900. Thomas soon discovers that the people living in the house disappear every 10 years, and the current year is 2000.

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The Wizard of Time (Book 1) by G.L. Breedon



Rating: 4.4 Stars with 47 votes

Category:  Fantasy, Young Adult

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Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Salvador has dreams about the future and his dreams always come true. When he dreams one night that he will drown, he knows upon waking it is only a matter of time before his dream becomes reality.

Plucked from the timeline of history at the moment of his death, Gabriel becomes an apprentice time mage and part of an elite team of wizards who travel throughout history to fight the War of Time and Magic.

Victorian London, the Aztec temples of 1487, the Greek island of Samos in 320 BCE, Scotland in the Middle Ages, and the battle fields of Alexander the Great are only some of the adventures in time that await Gabriel as he learns to become a time mage and joins the battle to protect the timeline of history in THE WIZARD OF TIME.

THE WIZARD OF TIME is approximately 101,000 words long.

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The Dark Shadow of Spring (The Young Sorcerers Guild - Book 1) by G.L. Breedon



Rating: 4.5 Stars with 8 votes

Category: Fantasy, Young Adult

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A dragon that foretells destinies, streets suddenly cluttered with thousands of dead birds, a plague of malevolent insects, ghosts arising in the town cemetery, demons haunting the woods of the White Forest — these are only some of the dangers that thirteen-year-old Alex Ravenstar and his friends in The Young Sorcerers Guild must overcome in order save the secluded magical town of Runewood from an ancient, soul-enslaving evil in THE DARK SHADOW OF SPRING.

After a nearly-disastrous adventure to wake the local dragon from its hibernation in hopes that it will tell them their destinies, Alex and his friends accidentally encounter the dark force that was responsible for burning the magic out of the world beyond the Rune Valley thousands of years ago. Known as the Shadow Wraith, the evil force was cast from this world and imprisoned in another realm at the end of the war fought to stop it. Once again, the Shadow Wraith is trying to escape its prison to enslave the world, and Alex and the Young Sorcerers Guild are the only ones who can defeat it.

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Elijah's Conquest (Book One) by June Spears



Rating: 3.0 Stars with 1 vote

Category: Fantasy, Romance

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He met his fate at the young age of only seventeen. Elijah Fitzgerald, sets out to find the one person who changed his life.

He finds his conquest fueled by the lust and hunger of his innermost desires, far beyond his wildest dreams.Will he ever find "The One" who will tame his ways forever?

A story filled with love, lust, betrayal and deceit.

(warning) Contains some sex scenes, but are not overly explicit.

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Dark Passage by Griffin Hayes



Rating: 4.5 Stars with 28 votes

Category: Horror, Thriller

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Tyson Barrett used to be happy. Used to have a family, a son, a thriving business. Now he has nothing but long sleepless nights broken only by nightmares so terrifying they threaten his sanity. So when he is asked to join an underground drug trial that will “cure” him, he agrees.
But this cure comes with a terrible price. One that will force him to confront a dark past he thought he left buried up at Sunnybrook Asylum. One that will put his soul at risk, and will threaten everything he ever loved.

The mind is full of halls. And some of the darkest passages lead to rooms better left closed.

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Journey to Terreldor: A Tale of Growth and Adventure (Adventures of Terreldor) by Chris M. Hibbard



Rating: 4.8 Stars with 6 votes

Category: Action and Adventure, Fantasy

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Join Mark and his brother as they find themselves in a strange world filled with impossibility and adventure. Faced with tragedy and trial, Mark is forced to draw upon strengths and develop skills he never expected himself capable of. The brothers are taken in by mentors who claim to hold the secrets of true wisdom and maturity. In their endeavors, they learn the most difficult lessons in life are often found on the path home.

Begin the adventure in Journey to Terreldor, then follow these brothers as they are cast into peril in Terreldor at War. Discover the culmination of their odyssey in The Long Path Home.

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Remember This by Shae Buggs



Rating: 4.0 Stars with 1 vote

Category: Contemporary, Humor

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Lucy, a hard working shenanigan queen, finds evidence that her husband, Mason, cheated on her. In a heated moment, she throws a wine bottle at his head leaving him unable to remember anything from his past. Since she is responsible for her husband's amnesia, it is her responsibility to get his memory back. Motivated by revenge, Lucy plans a way to get Mason back to normal while having a little fun in the process. This story unveils her comical attempts to sabotage him and how he tries to win her back.

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