The Bookshelf Podcast

The Bookshelf Podcast

The Bookshelf is the perfect place for everyone from bookworms to book dragons to gather for introductions to new indie authors and books through excerpts, readings and reviews. Intro Music: Eye of Oblivion by Ask Again From the Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 4.0

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September 13, 2018 89 mins
Never Letting Go (Secrets and Lies book 1) by Roxy Love

~Lisa~
My life was turned upside down the day I left my husband. My real name is Isabella, but now I am known as Lisa. I ran away, changed my looks and my identity. That bastard is finally in jail and will never hurt me again. I am living my new dream life in an amazing house on the beach. My new quirky elderly neighbor Mary is a riot. I even have an awesome dog now. What I wasn...
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Never Letting Go (Secrets and Lies book 1) by Roxy Love

~Lisa~
My life was turned upside down the day I left my husband. My real name is Isabella, but now I am known as Lisa. I ran away, changed my looks and my identity. That bastard is finally in jail and will never hurt me again. I am living my new dream life in an amazing house on the beach. My new quirky elderly neighbor Mary is a riot. I even have an awesome dog now. What I wasn...
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August 28, 2018 44 mins
Many things drive the worlds of Creation, the physical laws, faith, and science, but there is more. Emotions, magic, the very creation itself. And what's a Loom got to do with it? Han and Laeljah must discover what they are capable of in preventing dark evil from overcoming goodness, and understanding a coming ascendancy. Then we have the Thonsman, who Oruaural has asked to archive, and describe their tale. But what ARE they ch...
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The Triplet's Curse - Destiny's Story:

Pre-Order/Release Event 08/21 - 08/22
https://www.facebook.com/events/1758045847626294/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DP3S8G4/
https://www.books2read.com/u/bxZ8Mq


Book Description:

When the moon is full
High above the Earth
Three daughters shall be born
On their 16th birthday, their destiny will begin
One daughter born to endure pain and heartache before being reborn

Destiny awakens in the Hospit...
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This episode of The Bookshelf I review two books I listened to while I was trapped in the cubicle rat maze I call work. I really enjoyed them and they were a nice change of pace from romances and murder mysteries. Here's a bit about them and how to find them.

Super SF Double Feature: Lost Horizons Travel Agency and Suckers by Kevin Candela

Description:
From Kevin Candela's sf/fantasy/horror collection A Year in the Borderlands...
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In this episode I review Wild Man's Curse by Susannah Sandlin

Description:
The bones said death was comin’, and the bones never lied.

While on an early morning patrol in the swamps of Whiskey Bayou, Louisiana wildlife agent Gentry Broussard spots a man leaving the home of elderly Eva Savoie—a man who bears a startling resemblance to his brother, whom Gentry thought he had killed during a drug raid three years earlier. Shaken, the ...
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The Haunting of Ashburn House is the topic of today's review. See what I think of this gist story by Darcy Coates.

Buy the book here:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Ashburn-House-Darcy-Coates-ebook/dp/B01H0LB2HG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1532475004&sr=8-4&keywords=darcy+coates
Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/The-Haunting-of-Ashburn-House-Audiobook/B06X9PRJTW?qid=1532476016...
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Love was never supposed to be part of the end game.



Fallon’s life has been a road paved in misery and loneliness,

then one day she’s propositioned with a way to change it all.

From that day forward, she planned on never looking back.

That is, until, she met her target, the man who could destroy everything.

Fallon’s a survivor, but can she survive him?

Gabriel is independent and brutal.

He learned early on about his mother’s games.

For yea...
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Love was never supposed to be part of the end game.



Fallon’s life has been a road paved in misery and loneliness,

then one day she’s propositioned with a way to change it all.

From that day forward, she planned on never looking back.

That is, until, she met her target, the man who could destroy everything.

Fallon’s a survivor, but can she survive him?



Gabriel is independent and brutal.

He learned early on about his mother’s games.

For ye...
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In this episode we are reading an excerpt from The Triplets Curse - Hope's Story by Marsha Black.

"When the moon is full High above the Earth
Three daughters shall be born
On their 16th birthday, their destiny will begin
One daughter, born with the knowledge of the future, yet blind of those closest to her

Hope, your normal teenage girl, other than being one out of a set of triplets’, dreams about the day she turns 16 and ca...
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In this introductory episode we share an excerpt from book one of the Choices trilogy by author Sheila Bliss, Choices:

"One choice can change the world...well, mine at least.
I didn't know I needed him.
I didn't know I wanted him.
I was safe in the choices I already made.
Loving him is effortless and reckless.
But the choices he forces me to make traps me in a web of lies, betrayal, abd...
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