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  Slade - The Fine Line Between...

  Robb Grindstaff

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  An unlikely celebrity with a self-help book becomes a reluctant spiritual guru to the Hollywood elite, spawning a cult he wants nothing to do with.GOLD MEDAL: Reader Views: Reader's Choice Awards – 2023 - All Fiction (Chosen from 23 Category Winners)GOLD MEDAL: Feathered Quill Book Awards – 2023 – Adult FictionWINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2022 – Best Literary Fiction 
  A car crash thirty years earlier left Slade Bennington severely disabled but with a new outlook on life. His book about overcoming trauma becomes a bestseller and a box office hit movie. Slade strikes up an unusual friendship with Schuyler, the six-foot-tall teenage actress who portrays his sister in the movie. She encourages him to continue writing, and his pithy musings about life spur a nationwide following of devotees who study his books like Holy Scriptures. 
  Slade becomes a counselor to the celebrity in-crowd—the Shaman to the Stars. While thousands adore Slade, others call him a Svengali or Rasputin-like character who controls and manipulates his clients. 
  One disillusioned fan spends years plotting revenge. 
  EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS an offbeat literary/satire novel that unfolds in a series of interviews with the main character and those who know him best, plus snippets from Slade’s books and news reports. The unconventional structure, dark humor, and cast of quirky characters will appeal to readers of Chuck Palahniuk and John Irving. Brought to you by the author of such award-winning greats as Hannah’s Voice, Carry Me Away, and Turning Trixie.

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  My Life: The Sitcom - Second...

  Chadd Allan Wheat

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  Welcome to My Life: The Sitcom, featuring the panderings and ponderings of Yours Truly, Chadd Wheat. 
    
  Believe it or not, many of you have actually asked for this book. I don't know if you intend on using it for the bottom of the birdcage, evidence in impending legal actions, or simply as a guide to living frivolously. Whatever the case, I hope you enjoy it. 
    
  I started writing My Life: The Sitcom in 2002. Most of my articles, as published in The Lebanon Reporter and elsewhere, are my direct observations on the craziness that surrounds my life. Nearly all the events contained herein are actually true, with the names sometimes changed to protect the ignorant. 
    
  People often ask me where I get the inspiration to write my ludicrous columns. After rubbing my chin and looking sage, I usually say something like, "by consuming too much reality television, caffeine and other borderline hallucinogens. 
    
  Ha, ha! Just kidding, local law enforcement! As a matter of fact, I never watch reality television!

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  The Wrong Box

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd...

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  “The Wrong Box” is a wonderful, farcical black comedy co written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (Stevenson’s stepson) in 1889. 
  The story is built around that mainstay of many a farce, a family squabbling over money. In this case it is the proceeds of a Tontine, a once popular investment scheme. 
   A cast of colourful characters, worthy of Dickens, are thrown together, either in the pursuit of money, or in the disposal of a mysterious corpse which makes surprising and gruesome appearances throughout the story. 
  Head Stories Audio presents "The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Narrated by Simon Hester

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  The Reason You're Alive - A Novel

  Matthew Quick

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  The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war. 
  After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no one in his civilian life has ever heard—that of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline. David decides to return something precious he long ago stole from the man he now calls Clayton Fire Bear. It may be the only way to find closure in a world increasingly at odds with the one he served to protect. It may also help him to finally recover from his wife’s untimely demise. 
  As David confronts his past to salvage his present, a poignant portrait emerges: that of an opinionated and good-hearted American patriot fighting like hell to stay true to his red, white, and blue heart, even as the country he loves rapidly changes in ways he doesn’t always like or understand. Hanging in the balance are Granger’s distant art-dealing son, Hank; his adoring seven-year-old granddaughter, Ella; and his best friend, Sue, a Vietnamese American who respects David’s fearless sincerity. 
  Through the controversial, wrenching, and wildly honest David Granger, Matthew Quick offers a no-nonsense but ultimately hopeful view of America’s polarized psyche. By turns irascible and hilarious, insightful and inconvenient, David is a complex, wounded, honorable, and loving man. The Reason You’re Alive examines how the secrets and debts we carry from our past define us; it also challenges us to look beyond our own prejudices and search for the good in us all.

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  Patches Of Life

  Jim Lindsey

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  Through anecdotal humor, Jim Lindsey shares tales of growing up in the South; life in Hollywood as an actor, model, and advertising executive; falling in and out of love; raising children; and living in the turbulent times we face.In poems and jokes, quotes and stories, Jim paints a picture of a long life lived within the wide boundaries of love and loss, joy and sorrow. He shares his story so that listeners are taken back to a simpler era in our nation and given inspiration to return to those roots.

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  In Bloom

  C.J. Skuse

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  Sweetpea TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic! 
  She’s back and killing for two… 
  Rhiannon Lewis should be happy. 
  Her cheating fiancé is in jail – framed for the depraved killing spree she committed. Her ex-lover is chopped up and buried where no-one will find him. 
  But there’s one small problem. She’s pregnant. 
  And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue working her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside is trying to make her stop. 
  Now Rhiannon has to choose – motherhood or murder. 
  Readers are LOVING In Bloom: 
  ‘Alright, buckle up, folks, because this book is a rollercoaster of dark and twisted hilarity!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I would give 10 stars if I could!’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Outrageous, hilarious and smart’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  The best of crime fiction often involves killers, and Rhiannon is no exception. Her rural town becomes the backdrop for a series of murders, each more suspenseful and darkly humorous than the last. 
  For fans of L.M. Chilton (Don't Swipe Right), Sarah Bonner (How to Slay at Work), Asia Mackay (The Nursery), John Marrs (The Good Samaritan), and C. J. Tudor (A Sliver of Darkness).

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