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Book Buzz: Authors Gregg Olsen, Bernadette Pajer, and Kathleen O'Brien, dazzle with electric mysteries, paranormal young adult, and a journey through loss into love.
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Best-selling Gregg Olsen kicks off his eerily paranormal young adult Empty Coffin series with Envy, a hard-hitting look at cyber-bullying. Bernadette Pajer takes us back to the early days of electricity with another electrifying whodunit featuring savvy professor Bradshaw, as Fatal Induction follows A Spark of Death. Kathleen M. O'Brien debuts A Light in the Heart, an inspirational story of a shattered woman rebuilding her life, struggling through pain and loss to find purpose and love. And Billy Mays shares the true story of his decades in the eastern European underworld in a sometimes irreverent and shocking look into the dark and dangerous Soviet Bloc before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in On the Job Training: Berlin to Vladivostok.
 Envy: Book One of the Empty Coffin series by Gregg Olsen - $9.95
In Port Gamble (aka "Empty Coffin"), Washington, truth is about as hard to come by as a sunny day. One minute Katelyn is a depressed teen with a loser life. The next, she's lying on a stainless steel slab, eyes glassy, skin frosted over, and very, very dead. New York Times bestselling Gregg Olsen's YA debut Envy exposes cyber-bullying in this ripped-from-the-headlines story...with a paranormal touch.
 "Gregg Olsen's Envy is a riveting page-turner that I could not put down...Envy explores a serious topic—cyberbullying—in a fantastic, well-crafted story. Can't wait for the next Empty Coffin novel!" — Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked series
Gregg Olsen is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author whose books have sold over one million copies. Olsen's books have been translated into multiple languages, and he has been interviewed on various TV programs. For more information visit greggolsen.com or Gregg's ABFAS page.
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 Fatal Induction by Bernadette Pajer - $14.95
Professor Bradshaw fans delight: the professor is back in an electric new mystery. Pajer's fast-paced whodunit series once more bring the Seattle Police—and murder—to Bradshaw's doorstep during the social and scientific turmoil of the early twentieth century.
In book one, A Spark of Death, set in 1901 Seattle, a puzzling electrocution points to murder. Electrical Engineering professor Benjamin Bradshaw is the chief suspect. To protect himself and his son, Bradshaw hunts for the true killer. Death lurks everywhere—disguised as accidents. Before it's too late, will Bradshaw discover the circuit path that led to a spark of death?
 In book two, Fatal Induction, the race to win an electrical competition incites Professor Bradshaw's obsession for invention. But before he can enter the contest, Bradshaw discovers an abandoned gypsy wagon behind his house. What happened to the father and child who lived in this cart? Following the trail, Bradshaw plunges into a seedy underworld. Frustrated by the police department's apathy and caught between power struggles, he doesn't know whom to trust. Each step of his investigation entangles him deeper in crime and corruption until he realizes that to save the child, he must transform his contest entry into a trap to catch a killer.
"crackles with mystery, romance, and expert, evocative explanation of electricity at the dawn of the 20th Century in vibrant frontier Seattle. Bernadette Pajer's splendid debut promises dogged Professor Benjamin Bradshaw will be solving crimes in many books to come." — William Dietrich, New York Times Bestselling Author
"a well-crafted historical mystery novel, posing and answering intriguing questions ... at a time when technology was propelling America into the future." — David Marshall, Thinking About Books Blog (read the entire review here.) Thinking About Books
"shines brightly, bringing a real sense of scientific inquiry and wonder to the turn-of-the-20th-century historical. [Pajer's] ability to weave together technology and emotion ... makes for an engaging series." — Library Journal
Learn more at http://bernadettepajer.com/
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 A Light in the Heart, by Kathleen O'Brien - $15.00
For model, Christine McMurray, her beauty is her livelihood...until an auto accident shatters her life in an irreversible way. Grateful to be alive but struggling with emotional and physical scars, Christine heads for Montana.
A Light in the Heart is a complex and beautifully rendered novel of loss, betrayal, and ultimate rebirth. Still struggling to come to terms with the new face in the mirror, Christine must also confront the controlling father who pushed her into beauty pageants in early childhood, her soon-to-be former fiancé, and her own reluctance to believe anyone could still find her attractive, Stripped of so many things she can no longer take for granted, Christine ultimately embraces the opportunity to be discover her inward beauty. A Light in the Heart is an inspirational story of living through pain and loss to find purpose and love.
 "A Light in the Heart bursts with humanity, exploring the pitfalls of the pursuit of personal perfection, while reminding every reader that a rich life comprises luck, both kinds. Perhaps most poignantly, it is a story that reminds us that the places of our human lives are not scenery and that the uphill roads lead home." — Jacquelyn Mitchard, best-selling author of The Deep End of the Ocean
"Kathleen O'Brien's debut novel is stunning... The story shows the strength of women, the unexpected nature of life and the central need we all have for acceptance and love. Light in the Heart is a novel full of well-developed characters, charming settings and positive messages. I recommend it to those looking for an uplifting and wonderful story. Highly recommended." — A Cozy Reader's Corner Reviews Read the full review here: http://www.acozyreaderscorner.com/2012/02/light-in-heart.html
A Light in the Heart is the debut novel of columnist, freelancer and short story author Kathleen M. O'Brien. O'Brien, founder of the Peninsula Writers' Association, former director of the Gig Harbor Writers' Conference, and member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, lives with her husband in Gig Harbor, Washington. For more information visit http://www.kathleenmobrien.com/.
Buy a SIGNED copy of A Light in the Heart - $15.00
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