Newsletter for October 2024

Featured Books

Tommy Rocket and the Goober Patrol by Thomas Kuhn

When Nate Turner, a more or less average, well-intentioned 10-year-old, receives via robot-helicopter an encoded invitation from the secluded, anti-social, and enigmatic child prodigy, Tommy Rocket, promising free Doritos, Twinkies, and adventure, he simply can’t resist. Tommy’s gift for making gadgets and robots further fascinates Nate, most especially Tommy’s Goober Patrol, a small group of robots possessing the Prometheus Chip, the sentience-granting and epoch-marking invention of Tommy’s father.

 

Nonetheless, whether helping Tommy hunt down a supposed rogue robot, instigating a war between the bully gangs, or spying on the community with Tommy’s network of robot-cams, Nate begins to have regrets in ever joining Tommy in his mischievous games and intrigues.

 

However, when the two young spies and hunters find themselves becoming the espied and hunted, by someone or something capable of murder, something the boys do not understand, they cease their games and squabbling to unravel the secret of their mysterious and sinister stalker. Who—or even what—is he, and why is he so interested in Tommy’s father and his fabulous Prometheus Chip? Is it for mere industrial espionage or something much darker? Together, the boys must use their individual strengths, along with the help of Tommy’s marvelous robots, to solve the mystery of their unknown and murderous antagonist, a mystery whose outcome holds the key to the continued survival of the human race itself.

 

On the Run is the story of an innocent farmer and his family caught in the middle of political and civil unrest and separated during the Troubles, the brutal conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the British government. Each separated family member has a different, riveting story, revealed powerfully in their separate struggles to unite and return to a peaceful country life in their village.

 

Terence Conolly, the husband, is jailed in Maze Prison’s H- Block as a terrorist. After months of beatings and torture, he joins the hunger strikers, but he abandons the strike to join the famous H-Block prison break.

 

Bridget, Terence’s wife, sends her teenage son to New York City to stay with her sister and brother-in-law to protect him from IRA men trying to recruit him. After a period of depression and despair, she joins a radical Women’s Movement Against the H-Block Abuses, only to be threatened by Loyalist paramilitary.

 

Tim, the son, is beaten and bullied in his new school, but he finds refuge and confidence as an elite runner, especially with the support of his coach and an unusual girlfriend.

 

Terence, Bridget, and Tim struggle in their separate ways to conquer their doubts and fears. The crucible of pain eventually gives them each the courage to confront their enemies and chart their way back to one another.

 

The novel’s ending, set during a national track championship, features a series of shocking events that resolve the separate plot lines.

 

Someone is on a shooting spree in the quiet, little town of Split Tree, Arkansas, and it falls upon police chief Big Ray Elmore to find the killer before he can strike again. Only too late does Elmore discover that the real target just might be himself.

Set in the rural south of 1964, The Evil to Come is the fourth installment in the Big Ray Elmore series.

 

Book Giveaways for October

Win a copy of The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins.  All you have to do is click on the book cover below.  It will take you to the main page.   Look for the giveaway on the left.  Follow the instructions listed.

Win a copy of Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell.   All you have to do is click on the book cover below.  It will take you to the main page.  Look for the giveaway on the right.  Follow the instructions listed.

Book Giveaway Winners for September

 

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