Happy 2021
We made it through the year from Hell. We are now in 2021. Still, we must be prudent about social interactions. Time for us to keep reading. So, here are four books to delight you.
Also a link to my debut novel...and look at those reviews! I'm gobsmacked!!!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0848T...
Born in the purple. Born with enemies. Poised to join the order of her beloved Abbess, timid Princess Agata longs to hide from her father's court of corruption, power and politics to live a peaceful life in the convent. These dreams are shattered when warriors of the Marauder people attack after decades of absence. Agata escapes sword and fire and flees into the wilderness with a concubine's son and a half-wild black hound. Marauders spread across Iberia searching for the missing princess and the female survivors look to a reluctant Agata to lead them. With the enemy cutting a swathe of terror across the kingdom, time is running out. She must choose to overcome her fears and fight for her country, and the motley assortment of women who follow her, or join the convent while the country burns. As winter snows approach, Agata believes her struggle for survival depends on finding food, shelter and escaping the Marauder warlord, General Kazan, but a powerful traitor may be her final undoing. Agata, Princess of Iberia is a fast paced, young adult adventure with swords, armour and battles. Those who enjoy believable characters in a medieval setting that includes both the palaces of nobility and wild, rugged mountains will love this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Sewing-Dangero...
History, Mystery, Action, and Romance All Rolled Into One CollectionWinner of READERS’ FAVORITE Gold Medal, these eleven short stories range from drug traffickers using hand-woven wallets, to a U.S. slave sewing freedom codes into her quilts. From a cruise ship murder mystery with a quilt instructor and a NYPD police detective, to a couple hiding Christian passports into a comforter in Nazi Germany. From an old Salem Witchcraft wedding quilt curse to a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. From a 1980's Romeo and Juliet romance between a Wall Street financial 'star' and an eclectic fiber artist, to a Haight-Ashbury love affair between a professor and a macramé artist gone horribly wrong…just to name a few.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/151194...
A TRUE AMERICAN FAMILY SAGA: Can we learn from our ancestors? Do our relatives’ behaviors help shape our own? In "Unexpected Gifts" that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, heading for addictions and forever choosing the wrong man. Searching for answers, she begins to read her family’s diaries and journals from America’s past: the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and Timothy Leary era; Tupperware parties, McCarthyism, and Black Power; the Great Depression, dance marathons, and Eleanor Roosevelt; the immigrant experience and the Suffragists. Back and forth the book journeys, linking yesteryear with modern life until finally, by understanding her ancestors' hardships and faults, she gains enough clarity to make some right choices.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/164298...
BOOK ONE OF THE TAMMY MELLOWS SERIES She wanted the American dream... ...but got a nightmare. How will she survive and protect her child? Tammy's had a plan. Move to the U.S. and follow the white picket fence dreams she'd always had. Steven seemed nice, but there were clues she'd missed. He became abusive. After she had the baby, it got worse. Steven was addicted to heroin. Thrown into a life of drugs and violence, Tammy lived in fear of what Steven might be capable of and struggled alone to provide for her young son. She longed for any sign of hope. Then he hit her. Could she escape? Who would be there for her?
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-But-...
Caroline Giammanco
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gritty, Real, and Important
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2020
It takes a special person to walk in another person’s shoes; to fully experience the world as another would see it. It takes a special writer to help the reader do the same in a way as skillfully as Ben Rose accomplishes in his debut novel, Everybody But Us. Rose brings these characters to life, and they are beautiful, flawed, and complicated—just the way characters should be. The story is told through the eyes of a bisexual teenage girl with an authenticity that is striking. There is nothing pandering or politically correct about it. He simply tells a powerful story about a group of street-savvy kids trying to rise above broken backgrounds. He creates empathy and grace, and I now feel like I know these people. This is today’s version of The Outsiders.
Daniel Pinkwater
5.0 out of 5 stars
This Author is a Fine Stylist
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
Mr. Rose writes good jazz, clear and clean, on the beat, he hits the notes with attack and precision. This is what reading for pleasure is all about.
Also a link to my debut novel...and look at those reviews! I'm gobsmacked!!!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0848T...
Born in the purple. Born with enemies. Poised to join the order of her beloved Abbess, timid Princess Agata longs to hide from her father's court of corruption, power and politics to live a peaceful life in the convent. These dreams are shattered when warriors of the Marauder people attack after decades of absence. Agata escapes sword and fire and flees into the wilderness with a concubine's son and a half-wild black hound. Marauders spread across Iberia searching for the missing princess and the female survivors look to a reluctant Agata to lead them. With the enemy cutting a swathe of terror across the kingdom, time is running out. She must choose to overcome her fears and fight for her country, and the motley assortment of women who follow her, or join the convent while the country burns. As winter snows approach, Agata believes her struggle for survival depends on finding food, shelter and escaping the Marauder warlord, General Kazan, but a powerful traitor may be her final undoing. Agata, Princess of Iberia is a fast paced, young adult adventure with swords, armour and battles. Those who enjoy believable characters in a medieval setting that includes both the palaces of nobility and wild, rugged mountains will love this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Sewing-Dangero...
History, Mystery, Action, and Romance All Rolled Into One CollectionWinner of READERS’ FAVORITE Gold Medal, these eleven short stories range from drug traffickers using hand-woven wallets, to a U.S. slave sewing freedom codes into her quilts. From a cruise ship murder mystery with a quilt instructor and a NYPD police detective, to a couple hiding Christian passports into a comforter in Nazi Germany. From an old Salem Witchcraft wedding quilt curse to a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. From a 1980's Romeo and Juliet romance between a Wall Street financial 'star' and an eclectic fiber artist, to a Haight-Ashbury love affair between a professor and a macramé artist gone horribly wrong…just to name a few.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/151194...
A TRUE AMERICAN FAMILY SAGA: Can we learn from our ancestors? Do our relatives’ behaviors help shape our own? In "Unexpected Gifts" that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, heading for addictions and forever choosing the wrong man. Searching for answers, she begins to read her family’s diaries and journals from America’s past: the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and Timothy Leary era; Tupperware parties, McCarthyism, and Black Power; the Great Depression, dance marathons, and Eleanor Roosevelt; the immigrant experience and the Suffragists. Back and forth the book journeys, linking yesteryear with modern life until finally, by understanding her ancestors' hardships and faults, she gains enough clarity to make some right choices.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/164298...
BOOK ONE OF THE TAMMY MELLOWS SERIES She wanted the American dream... ...but got a nightmare. How will she survive and protect her child? Tammy's had a plan. Move to the U.S. and follow the white picket fence dreams she'd always had. Steven seemed nice, but there were clues she'd missed. He became abusive. After she had the baby, it got worse. Steven was addicted to heroin. Thrown into a life of drugs and violence, Tammy lived in fear of what Steven might be capable of and struggled alone to provide for her young son. She longed for any sign of hope. Then he hit her. Could she escape? Who would be there for her?
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-But-...
Caroline Giammanco
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gritty, Real, and Important
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2020
It takes a special person to walk in another person’s shoes; to fully experience the world as another would see it. It takes a special writer to help the reader do the same in a way as skillfully as Ben Rose accomplishes in his debut novel, Everybody But Us. Rose brings these characters to life, and they are beautiful, flawed, and complicated—just the way characters should be. The story is told through the eyes of a bisexual teenage girl with an authenticity that is striking. There is nothing pandering or politically correct about it. He simply tells a powerful story about a group of street-savvy kids trying to rise above broken backgrounds. He creates empathy and grace, and I now feel like I know these people. This is today’s version of The Outsiders.
Daniel Pinkwater
5.0 out of 5 stars
This Author is a Fine Stylist
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
Mr. Rose writes good jazz, clear and clean, on the beat, he hits the notes with attack and precision. This is what reading for pleasure is all about.
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