Thank you for opening the latest issue of New Releases from the Writers & Publishers Network. This issue contains eight books in various genres for your review consideration.
The books represent offerings from small publishers and indie authors. You can request a print or ebook for review by clicking on the link under each book.
This newsletter is published quarterly and we hope you find a book or books you want to review.
Kathleen Kaiser
President,
Writers & Publishers Network (W&PN)
W&PN is a nonprofit literary organization with members throughout North American and five other countries. Learn more about the group at WritersAndPublishersNetwork.com.
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New fiction to be released this summer
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Walking with the Dead
Author: Charles Domokos
Black Rose Writing Publisher
Release date June 18, 2020
398 Pages
ISBN#: 978-1-68433-505-3 – trade paperback
Will be available as ebook in July
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Charlie Tobias, a Los Angeles probate attorney’s whose clients are turning up dead, still pursues artistic dreams as a part-time L.A. opera chorus singer. Charlie’s previous estate administrator, dapper developer David Alex, lost his life close to home.
Charlie’s current, zealous estate administrator, beautiful Angel Sedona, fights for her daughter, Gabriella’s future. Charlie battles for Angel to make things right in the world of major law firms’ deadly hold over L.A. probate court justice – and to survive.
Learn more at charlesdomokosauthor.com
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Tokyo Traffic
Michael Pronko
Raked Gravel Press
To be released June 20, 2020
294 Pages
ISBN#: 978-1-942410-19-5 - trade paperback
ISBN#: 978-1-942410-21-8 - ebook
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Sukanya, a young Thai girl, escapes into Tokyo from human traffickers who will do anything to recover the computer she took. With help from Chiho, a Japanese girl living in a net café, she tries to get free from her pursuers and her past. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu tracks the killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts and deserted docks, straight into the underbelly of the global economy and the highest reaches of the power elite.
Learn more about the author at: MichaelPronko.com
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Carlos Crosses the Line: Immigration, Temptation and Betrayal in the Sixties
Author Edward Webster
Casa de los Sueños Publications
To be released August 2020
297 Pages
ISBN#: 978-0-9970320-1-7 – hardcover
ISBN#: 978-0-9970320-2-4 – trade paperback
ISBN#: 978-0-9970320-3-1 – ebook
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Carlos Montoya crossed one line by forsaking his culture’s unquestioning faith and leapt past another, as he entered California illegally during the free-love, irreligious 1960s. There, three women tempted him to abandon more limits.
That summer of 1968, he fled California, falsely accused, beaten, and terrified.
Twenty-six years later, in Michoacán Mexico, the beautiful Lilia Gomez challenges him to recall those days, question his old transgressions, and face a major crime that haunts his past.
Learn more at: EdWebster.com
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Twisted Cross: Adventure to the New World
Author: Anita Perez Ferguson
Release date June 15, 2020
260 Pages
ISBN#: 978-0-9673300-0-6 –trade paperback
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Twisted Cross, a historic adventure-themed story, is book one in the Mission Bells trilogy for YA readers. It follows the life of Salvador Tenorio (age 14) and his compadres. The book addresses Latino culture and the colonial development of the California coast.
Salvador and his friend Blas are dragooned from an 18th century prison in Cadiz, Spain (1795). They are sent to colonial Mexico and later forced to participate in the Junipero Serra expedition to establish the missions of California. Salvador tangles with padres and pirates on his journey to discover the New World -- and himself.
Learn more at AuthorAnitaPerezFerguson
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The Cage...a human trafficking thriller
Author Marion Scherer
Released November 2019
338 Pages
ISBN#: 978-1-7333735-0-0 trade paperback
ISBN# 978-1-7333735-1-7 ebook
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Two Friends
One Terrible Night.
A Lifetime of Pain
When fifteen-year-old Suzanne is kidnapped from a small Northern California town and thrown into the terrifying world of human trafficking, her high school friend Sandy and fired policeman Sgt. Dormer search for her. In the dark underworld of Los Angeles gangs and prostitution, they find Suzanne and launch a plan to rescue her…only to discover she doesn’t want to leave.
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The Missing Driscoll
Author Judith Fabris
A Vegas Publisher
325 Pages
Released March 2020
ISBN#: 978-0996843768 – trade paperback
ISBN#: B085PQR4Y2 - ebooks
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A priceless Maud Driscoll painting, en route to an exhibition at the prestigious Jeu de Paume in Paris, is replaced by a forgery. Once discovered, a global pursuit to recover the stolen artwork becomes a deadly obsession.
Learn more at: vegaspublishers.com
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The Opium Lord's Daughter
(Now available in trade paperback)
By Robert Wang
295 pages
ISBN#: 978-0-578-52618-8 (Hardcover)
ISBN#: 978-0-578-50292-2 (Paperback)
ISBN#: 978-0-578-50291-5 (ebook)
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WINNER - INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD 2020 for Multicultural Fiction
FINALIST - BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS
FINALIST - SPR BOOK AWARDS
FINALIST - READERS CHOICE AWARDS
A must read for fans of Shogun, Downton Abbey, Outlander and other sweeping tales rooted in history!
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Fighting Chance
Author Alicia Doyle
Release date February 2020
209 Page
ISBN#: 978-1-7345085-1-2 - hardcover
ISBN#: 978-1-7345085-2-9 – trade paperback
ISBN#: 978-1-7345085-0-5 - ebook
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Alicia Doyle is an award-winning journalist who discovered boxing at age 28 when she went on assignment at a boxing gym for at-risk youth. For two years, she simultaneously worked as a reporter while competing as a boxer, making her one of only a few hundred women in America who infiltrated this male-dominated sport.
Alicia won two Golden Gloves Championship titles, and her pro debut was named The California Female Fight of the Year. Fighting Chance offers an inside look at what's considered the toughest sport known to man, from a woman boxer’s point of view— Fighting Chance.
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The Art of Symeon Shimin
Tonia Shimin
Mercury Press International
Released November 2019
156 Pages
ISBN#: 9 780999 034224 Hardcover
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“The Art of Symeon Shimin” presents a striking view of the fine art of this expressive Russian born Jewish artist. Including an autobiography, essays and over 70 plates, the book holds the first complete collection of Shimin’s work. An award-winning illustrator of more than 50 children’s books, Shimin, 1902-1984, painted the original poster for “Gone With the Wind” and was acclaimed for his masterpiece for the Department of Justice Building, "Contemporary Justice and the Child."
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