Category: Book Brief

Book Brief: Pibbin the Small

Pibbin the Small
by Gloria Repp
Genre: children/fiction/frogs & toads
Word count: 9,500 words

Pibbin is desperate to get help for his injured friend, a turtle. He worries because it’s a long journey to the doctor’s house and the other frogs tell him he’s too small to go. “You’ll run into snakes and that giant bullfrog,” they say. “Black Snapping Crabs might eat you.”

He can’t help wondering: is he too small to be brave?

But his friend’s leg is still bleeding! Pibbin finds a pal, and they hurry off on the dangerous trip, hoping to return before she gets worse. No one knew to warn them about a crazy toad-driver, or stolen leaves, or a terrible, misted swamp. . . The two pals end up in more trouble than anyone ever expected.

Easy-to-read illustrated chapter book for ages 6 and up.

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Book Brief: The Girl From Long Guyland

The Girl From Long Guyland
by Lara Reznik
Genre: Suspense/Contemporary Fiction
Word count: 84,000

A timeless story of lust and youth, duplicity and deception.

Laila Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can’t quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.

When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate’s suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.

Suddenly for Laila, it’s 1969 again. She’s only seventeen, and she’s left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she’s tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.

Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.

She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

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Book Brief: Transition Man

The Griffin Chronicles: Transition Man
 by Jon Pew
Genre: Fantasy/ Urban Fantasy
Word count:106,000+

The fabled war in heaven has finally come to an end! Seven powerful angels of God and their armies have won the fight and cast the devil and his minions to earth. The struggle for the souls of men intensifies to epic proportions with Transition Men at the heart of the battle.

The most powerful Transition Man ever to exist is Wesley Griffin. Welsey is the king pin of the Las Vegas underworld. When a deal goes bad for one of his girls and begs for his help, he refuses. To avenge his betrayal, she kills him. After his death, he finds darkness at the end of the tunnel and is sent back to earth by an evil power. Upon his return to life, he comes face to face with who he has been, and the slumbering hero inside him awakens. Wesley tries to use his new power to dominate all life no matter the cost. The noble Griffin fights to redeem Wesley’s evil and change his colors. Who will win the internal struggle? Find out in the action-packed story of the Transition Man

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Book Brief: Wings to Redemption

Wings to Redemption
Paul H. Landes
Romantic Suspense
105,048 Words

Alex Boudreau has been trained to win…at any cost. Lured by a sacred trust back into a life of stealth and undercover thievery, Alex confronts a tormented past laced with guilt, self-proclaimed failure and deception. Faced with gripping, split-second decisions that would forever shape the future, Alex plunges, once again, into the world of corporate intrigue, greed and deceit. After stealing a top-secret genetically engineered drug, Alex discovers the stolen information contains the specs to create a viral weapon – a weapon designed to threaten the world. Now the target of cold, calculating men with unlimited resources, nerves and wits are the only weapons available to unearth the identity of these men who are determined to kill not only Alex, but millions of others.

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