Shelf Unbound October/November 2013 October 2013 | Page 44

BOOK Backseat by Tom Wascoe I n 1969 failure from college or dropping out meant the draft and possibly Vietnam. Michael’s freshman year has not gone well. He believes that pledging a fraternity will put him on the right path. To get in he must hitchhike 1,500 miles in one weekend. The rides he gets, the people he meets change his life. www.TomWascoe.com Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBookstore. Operation Doublepayback by Jack Freeman A fast-paced thriller set in 1961. An ex-CIA officer turned London-based beat generation bookseller, blackmailed into infiltrating a revolutionary terror group (RPI), is quickly involved in an attack on the U.S. London Embassy, assassination in Amsterdam, bombs in Berlin, fire fights in Venice and L.A., affair in Miami, torture in Mayfair, and a conspiracy to provoke all-out nuclear war in N.Y.C. [email protected] Available at Amazon. The Beautiful American by Marilyn Holdsworth My Prison Without Bars by Taylor Evan Fulks E 2013 IRDA & READERS FAVORITE AWARD WINNER lizabeth Monroe, James Monroe’s wife, and Jasmine, a young slave girl, develop an extraordinary relationship as they are united by pivotal historic events and personal tragedies. From a bucolic Virginia plantation to the bloodied streets of post-revolutionary Paris, this powerful tale follows the lives of two courageous women from the past as they inspire a woman of today’s world. www.marilynholdsworthauthor.com Available at Amazon and BarnesandNoble. A courageous, harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. This novel is less memoir and more psychological thriller, chronicling one woman’s attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse. *Dark and Graphic Content. www.taylorfulks.com Available at Amazon and BarnesandNoble.