Tangled Roots by Sue Guiney

Two voices interweave, an aging mother and her adult son, to carry us from Boston to London to Moscow and back again. Through physics, religion, travel and even baseball, they express the often unknown, yet undeniable, influences one life will have on another.

www.sueguineyblog.blogspot.com

9987 by Nik Jones

The shop is everything to him - always neat and tidy, safe and reliable, the rental DVDs carefully categorised, alphabetised and memorised. He thinks he knows his customers, until the bloodstains begin to appear - on grubby banknotes, on porn DVDs, and on the shop's fresh new carpet. Then the girl comes into his life, green eyes and fresh scarlet slashed beneath her thin cotton blouse. He wants to rescue and protect her. He wants to be with her. Forever. Murky and disturbing, "9987" is a jagged, tragic crime story set in a disturbing, uncaring world where only three things are constant: fantasy, loneliness and love.

http://www.watching9987.blogspot.com/

Being Normal by Stephen Shieber

"Being Normal" is an examination of loneliness, rejection and the idiosyncrasies of living in and against contemporary society. Stephen Shieber brings together the glory of everyday nothingness and elevates it to great drama; where loveless marriage, teen angst, childhood misadventure, lonely Christmases and family dysfunction are the norm. Each character in this stunning debut provides a very different slant on the notion of mundane - a book for anyone who has ever found themselves on the outside, dancing to the beat of their own drum.”

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From Zaftig to Aspie by DJ Kirkby

Growing up in Canada in the 1960’s, DJ Kirby experienced a life that many of us would have taken for granted. Living in and around Canada, Kirby lived with her hippie mother and followed her mother wherever her whims took her.

Living with hippies, Kirby was exposed to a world that was all around us but only few seemed able to see it. She lived with people who “recreated the rules”, who lived their own lives and shaped their own existence.

And what an existence it is.

From a young age, Kirby knew she was different. She had a different way of looking at the world that had nothing to do with her hippie lifestyle and upbringing. She knew inside of herself that she was different than everyone else around her.

But there were no words to describe her condition, no words to explain what she felt inside of her.

Those words, those powerful words that would put her entire life into perspective, would not come until she was forty years old when she was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome.

www.djkirkby.blogspot.com

Valentines Labyrinth by Jamieson Wolf

It is 270 A.D.Valentine, cleric and sorcerer, is on the run from Emperor Claudius and is in hiding. With his lover Asterius by his side, every day is magic.

But something is wrong. A dark force hunt them. Lady Magnolia is on the hunt for blood. Lady Magnolia has a plan. She will use, Anna, Valentine’s former Priestess, as bait in a trap.

Valentine will have to face his darkest hour yet if the people he loves are to live…

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motorbikes, ducks and crispy sweet apples by Christopher I. King

The book is absolutely amazing. Here’s a bit about the novel itself:

Jimmy was good at internet dating and he enjoyed it that is until he physically met the women. So he’d decided that he wasn’t going to meet up with anymore of his online ‘friends’ but now he’d broken his own rule!

He should have walked away when the alarm bells first sounded in his head. He had plenty of other opportunities to walk away since then, but he couldn’t or wouldn’t and he wasn’t sure why. He’d tried to convince himself it was because he was doing ‘the right thing’! Was that ‘the right thing’ for him or her? And had the need to do it stopped being the fulfillment of a promise and become an obsession?

Now it really didn’t matter anymore. He was well out of his comfort zone, on his own, thousands of miles from home and with blood on his hands!

http://www.christopheriking.synthasite.com/

What Choices We Made by Sandy Lender

Would the world of Onweald be the same if Enara had acted differently all those years ago? Join Chariss's early ancestor on the shores that become Arcana. Rescue a dragon and flee a screaming horde of edras demons. Step into a fantasy realm where romance and humor meet sword and sorcery—where choices of the past shape the world of a powerful heroine. Step into What Choices We Made

www.todaythedragonwins.blogspot.com