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    John MoranoETWG Book Cover Award [2nd Place, Literary Fiction, Web]

    "Morano does something few writers do. He provides us with a unique perspective - that of the exploited animal. In doing so, he demonstrates just how profound and pervasive humans' effect on the ocean is." Roger Rufe, President of The Ocean Conservancy

    Lupé might be the very last Guadalupe petrel alive, and he knows the best way to save his flock is to find the Islands of Life and a mate. The problem is the well-meaning man-flock that's decided to keep him safe... in a cage. But Lupé has hatched an escape plan all his own! Told in a 'Disneyesque' style, A Wing and a Prayer will have you smiling and laughing as you're introduced to wonderful characters but also important themes, especially the environment. Don't miss more adventures in Makoona (#2), Out There, Somewhere?(#3), and Flocks of One (#4)! Often compared to works such as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Watership Down, and The Jungle Books, this 25th Anniversary Edition also features an introduction by Mark Tercek, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.
      • First in a four-part series
      • Environmental/conservationist themes with an uplifting, hopeful message
      • Winner of the East Texas Writer's Guild Second Place Book Cover Award
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      John MoranoETWG Book Cover Award [Finalist, Literary Fiction, Web]

      "Sometimes it takes a book like Makoona to remind us just what amazing sights are lurking beneath the surface... It brings the ocean and its life to us... reminding us of its value and what needs to be done." ?Kathryn Fuller, President of World Wildlife Fund

      Welcome to the inspiring story of Binti, a female octopus who lives in the Makoona coral reef, and Kemar, a Cambodian boy who fishes the reef. As a mollusk without a shell, Binti believes she's missing something... but the reef is a dangerous place to search for anything, let alone the shell that will make her complete and let her communicate with the spirit-fish. But helped by her friends and a psychedelic octopus who speaks in Grateful Dead lyrics, the search is on. Fifteen-year-old Kemar, a boatperson fleeing the Khmer Rouge, fishes the waters around Makoona where he crosses the path of a strange octopus and befriends both a Vietnam vet and an old American mechanic who claims she was once a world-famous aviatrix. Makoona?will make you laugh out loud as it transports you into the world of the coral reef and takes you on an island adventure that never loses sight of environmental concerns, personal fulfillment, friendship, self-awareness, and the tenets of eco-literature that Morano created in his unforgettable first novel,?A Wing and a Prayer. Don't miss more adventures in Out There, Somewhere (#3) and Flocks of One (#4)!
          • Features a special introduction by Kathryn Fuller, President of World Wildlife Fund.
          • Environmental/conservationist themes with an uplifting, hopeful message
          • Finalist in for the East Texas Writer's Guild Literary Fiction Book Cover Award
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          John Morano

          "Morano does something few writers do. He provides us with a unique perspective - that of the exploited animal. In doing so, he demonstrates just how profound and pervasive humans' effect on the ocean is." Roger Rufe, President of The Ocean Conservancy

          For nearly one hundred million years, the coelacanths have lived in the ocean depths. They are living fossils, humble and powerful. They have hunted, borne young, and prayed to the spirit-fish. But for the canth called Maputa, all that is about to change. SeaTopia is an aquarium run by the man-tide. The Director, Dave, is an empathetic man who tries to help both humans?ocean whiz-kid, Kemar, and neglected teen, Samantha?and fish, but no measure of kindness can turn a prison into the sea. Out There, Somewhere?continues the outstanding focus on environmental concerns, personal fulfillment, friendship, self-awareness, and the tenets of eco-literature that Morano created in his unforgettable first two novels,?A Wing and a Prayer and?Makoona. Like those,?Out There, Somewhere is a children's book for adults and a young adult novel with universal themes, a story that you can enjoy by yourself or share with the entire family. Don't miss more adventures in Flocks of One (#4)!
              • Features a special introduction by Roger T. Rufe, Jr., President of the Ocean Conservancy
              • Environmental/conservationist themes with an uplifting, hopeful message
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              Drift Pattern

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              George Wright Padgett

              The future isn't what it used to be... In the Year 2191, something or someone is destroying the time corridor pathways into the past. If kidnapped present-day mathematician Luci Gaudiano can’t solve the mystery before they disappear, millions in the future will perish.
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              Wayne BastaCONTEST-BADGE-SEMI-FINALIST

              Firefly with aliens, Star Wars without the force . . . and a dash of the American Revolution. A former naval starfighter pilot, Maarkean Ocaitchi once fought to protect the Alliance and its principles of freedom and democracy, but his sister's rebellious past forced them both into a life of smuggling. He nevertheless refuses to believe her assertions that the whole system is corrupt... until she is arrested and condemned to death as a traitor. Now, Maarkean must decide where his loyalty lies, and will either spark a rebellion or help crush the spirit of democracy once and for all. The experience will challenge everything he thinks he knows about resistance, loyalty, and friendship.
              • 2012 Semi-Finalist in the Kindle Book Review's "Best Indie Books" contest
              • 90% 4- and 5-star reviews on Amazon.com
              • Audiobook available on Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon.com
              • Get the rest of the series: pick up A Little Rebellion (#1) and Tree of Liberty (#3) today!
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              Wayne Basta

              Firefly with aliens, Star Wars without the force . . . and a dash of the American Revolution. ?The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.? — Thomas Jefferson Zeric Dustlighter has been a soldier his entire adult life. Give him a gun and tell him who to shoot, and he'll get the job done. He always knew he was never cut out to be in command. But now, cut off and trapped behind enemy lines, Zeric faces his worst nightmare: the fate of thousands of lives?and possibly the entire Union?is in his hands.
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              The Year of the Hydra

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              William Broughton Burt

              A richly told, diagnosably insane, meandering yet captivating journey through everything good and bad about sex, drugs, and China ? plus a wildly improbable tale about saving the world. In short, not to be missed.

              ? H.C.H. Ritz, author of?Absence of Mind?&?The Lightbringers

              Could a dark agenda be woven into the architecture of China?s most sacred ancient temple? An agenda that only Julian Mancer is seeing? Or is Julian off his meds again? If the structure were in fact a doomsday device awaiting an astronomical tripwire?could Julian stop it? Julian is determined to discover the answer, as soon as he concludes a far more pressing matter involving a sixteen-year-old girl with a?most?intriguing mutation.
              • Author lived in China during SARS epidemic, now makes his home in Mexico
              • Intended for an adult audience, contains mature themes
              • Don't miss William's non-fiction health & fitness book,?Tai Chi: Moving at the Speed of Truth
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              Invasion at Miratev (The Omega Chronicles #1)

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              Brian Nicholson

              If humanity is to survive, the alien T'Kharr must be stopped... even if it means sacrificing tens of thousands.

              Grand Commander Brandon North and his fleet must liberate a research facility taken by mankind's most ruthless and deadly enemy, the T'Kharr. The new technology developed there cannot be allowed to swing the decades-long war in the enemy's favor, even if it means sacrificing tens of thousands of lives... including his own. Reminiscent of David Weber's Honor Harrington, John Scalzi's Old Man's War, and John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata, this thrilling debut novel will appeal to all fans of military space sci-fi, intrigue, and bloodthirsty aliens bent on humanity's subjugation or destruction?whichever comes first.
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            • End (The Dying of the Light #1)

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              Jason KristopherEND Finalist Badge

              The zombie apocalypse isn't coming, it's already here. "I didn't see Rebecca die the second time." Bookseller David Blake narrowly escaped the zombie outbreak in his small town. Conscripted by a super-secret, century-old, zombie-killing Special Forces unit, he races to stop the end of the world. But flesh-eating monsters aren't the only enemies, and the darkness in humanity itself may be its downfall. Heart-pumping action and complex characters will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. If you enjoyed The Walking Dead or World War Z, you'll love this book.
              • Called "The best zombie book since World War Z!"
              • 350+ reviews on Amazon.com, 4.3-star rating
              • Story continues in Interval (#2), Beginning (#3), and The Walker Chronicles (short story collection)
              • Over 75,000 copies sold
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            • Spindown

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              TBR Pile - 5 star awardGeorge Wright Padgett

              For over a hundred and fifty years, the rarest and most valuable substance in the solar system has been mined from the only location where it exists in significant quantity: Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. For all of this time, the remote mining outpost has been serviced by clone slaves who are drugged into mindlessness, and all of it has been monitored, controlled, and administered by the artificial intelligence known as Prinox. But what happens when a failed rescue mission causes a small band of escaped clones to begin questioning their lives, their society, and their very existence? Hunted by deadly killing machines, confused and scared, these renegade slaves are about to find out–for better or worse–just what it means to be human.
              • Inspired by such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lord of the Flies, THX-1138, Brave New World, Logan's Run, and The Black Hole, Spindown will appeal to all fans of "hard sci-fi" writers such as Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, Gibson, and Heinlein
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              • 85% 4- and 5-star reviews on Amazon.com
              • Audiobook available on Audible, Apple Books, and Amazon.com
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            • Addleton Heights

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              George Wright Padgett

              Addleton Heights is a steampunk novel for everyone (even those who don't know what steampunk is!). It's witty, fun, exciting and inventive, and is packed with characters you really care about. George Wright Padgett hits all the right notes!

              Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author of Ghostwalkers and Patient Zero

              New Year's Eve 1901: Six hundred feet above the Atlantic Ocean, the platform city of Addleton Heights balances on massive, soot-covered metal stilts. A grisly double murder interrupts the party in the floating mansion of the city's most powerful man, and for reasons unknown, he coerces detective-for-hire T.H. Kipsey into taking the enigmatic case. George Wright Padgett weaves a cat-and-mouse mystery through a steampunk, alternate-American history that will thrill readers of Cherie Priest's Boneshaker and Christopher Beats's steam-noir Magnocracy series. Join Kip as he races against time to unravel the clues that will thrust him across the city, up to the clouds, and into the depths beneath Addleton Heights.
              • Great for even new readers to the steampunk genre
              • Some adult themes
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            • John Morano

              "...that?s why John Morano?s books are important. He puts us in the minds of some lesser-known, perhaps unloved creatures. The octopus we all know, of course, but how many of us spare daily thoughts for a coelacanth or a petrel?" ? Andrew Sharpless, President of Oceana

              Glyde, Gonzo, and Azul have one thing in common: they?re all flying as flocks of one. Other than his father, Lup?, Glyde has never seen a pure Guadalupe petrel, so when he hears of a similar petrel in danger, he implores his father to join him in a daring rescue attempt. Along the way, Glyde is joined by Gonzo, an endangered ivory-billed woodpecker, Zomis, the last remaining passenger pigeon, and a barred owl who speaks only in Shakespearean English. Meanwhile, after losing his mate and being smuggled out of the shrinking Caatinga, Azul finds himself in the care of a celebrated conservationist. However, not everything is as it seems, and the Spix?s macaw must fight to return to the place he knows best. But with a disappearing habitat and without a mate, can his journey lead him home? The John Morano?Eco-Adventure Series?is back with a fourth installment that asks the question: What does it mean to be home in a changing world? As the climate warms and habitats are lost, will the man-flock help the birds before it's too late, or will these?flocks of one become flocks of none?
                • Features a special introduction by Andrew Sharpless, President of Oceana
                • First Eco-Adventure available in hardcover!
                • Continues series started in A Wing and a Prayer,?Makoona, and?Out There, Somewhere
                • Environmental/conservationist themes with an uplifting, hopeful message
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