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Internationally recognized communications specialist Steve Ahern can now add 'novelist' to his long list of accomplishments.

James Patterson's CROSS MY HEART topped the New York Times' fiction list for the week ending Dec.

Released in late 2012,'Civil War Comes Home,' is a work of narrated non-fiction describing the lives of people from various walks of life here on the Peninsula as war arrives, battles rage, and Williamsburg is occupied.

'Hold Back the Sun' relates the adventures and romances of two US Asiatic Fleet Lieutenants during the fall of the Philippines and Dutch East Indies early in the Pacific War.

Richard Seidman has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help him publish his book for 7 to 10 year-olds, 'World Cup Mouse.

Colin Wilson, an English writer who rose to fame in 1956 with his book THE OUTSIDER, died on December 5th in Cornwall, England, the cause of complications of pneumonia.

Brad Torgersen will see his next short story published in 'Analog' in the March 2014 issue.

Having solved the mystery of how a progressive slot-machine game was won at will, skirted several humiliating run-ins with her ex-ex-husband, and somehow survived a case of mistaken identity that landed her in the pokey, Davis Way is back.

Here at Storey, we stand by our mission to publish practical information that encourages personal independence in harmony with the environment.

HOUSTON, Dec.

In today's issue, we are celebrating the books we loved this year--the 30 Best Books of 2013.

The story of a half-African, half-Siberian child growing up in the fast-changing Moscow of the 1980s, The Underground has been called one of the 'ten best Russian novels of the 21st Century' (Continent Magazine).

New York, NY, December 13, 2013 -- Frank Watson draws thousands of followers with a 'deceptively simple magic…” His short form micropoetry on Twitter 'is like gold leaves floating in the wind.

Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Canongate has acquired The Book of Strange New Things, a new novel from Michel Faber.

Humanitas Media Publishing has just released the digital version of the first book by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, The Smallest of Entryways, exclusively for Kindle.

ATLANTA, Dec.

Free-ebooks.

In 'Reflections: A Book of Poems' (published by WestBow Press), poet Marilyn Struzik encourages readers to take a moment to reflect on what is meaningful in life through her inspiring new poetry collection.

New Book 'HEADSTRONG: Surviving A Traumatic Brain Injury Without Losing My Mind' (Brown Books Publishing Group) by Donna Valentino provides readers with valuable life-saving tips, hope, and resiliency.

'Christmas in Amityville,' a new story about the haunting, contains original, previously unpublished material.

The 2012 hurricane formally known as Hurricane Sandy is considered one of the most destructive hurricanes ever, and has devastated a multitude of people all over the world.

A young man lost his family during a raid by rustlers in the 1870's.

According to the United Nations Demographic Yearbook, the ten countries with the highest divorce rates are: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Cayman Islands, the United States, Bermuda, Cuba, Lithuania and the Czech Republic.