BookTrib's Bites: Historical Fiction, Mindfulness, Mystery and Coming of Age

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"What Passes as Love"
by Trisha Thomas 

A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.

Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother. When Dahlia's father takes her to work in his plantation as a servant, she leaves behind her best friend, Bo, and lives in a world between black and white.

Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Timothy agrees to marry her. Dahlia soon finds herself held captive as the dutiful wife of a young man who has set his sights on a political future. But when Bo arrives in shackles, Dahlia decides to risk everything to save his life. Purchase at https://amzn.to/3i8tLNe.

"The Mindfullness Experience"
by Keith Fiveson 

Make your world a better place for yourself and others with eight key strategies designed to integrate mindfulness into your daily routine and help you develop your strength and power in the world.

"The Mindfulness Experience" outlines key strategies from yogi, counselor, and life coach Keith Fiveson to help you maintain health and wellness from the inside-out and the outside-in. Using this guidebook and reference tool, you can develop strength and power in your life -- and thus find balance in an unbalanced world.

"Fiveson's book offers an integrated approach that can help anyone on a journey of self-discovery," says, Allen Salkin, reporter, "New York Times," "Vanity Fair," and "Los Angeles Magazine." Purchase at https://amzn.to/3smvfbw.

"The World Played Chess"
by Robert Dugoni 

Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to "The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell."

In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime.

Now 40 years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summerr -- Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life -- dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one's own destiny. Purchase at https://amzn.to/2U4Lop7.

"Dark Intercept"
by Andrews and Wilson 

When dark forces rise, are faith and firepower enough? Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson receives a frantic call from his estranged childhood best friend David Yarnell, whose daughter has been kidnapped off the streets of Nashville. The only clue: the body of a dead priest at the scene.

Jed agrees to help. His presence immediately draws unwanted attention and triggers a mysterious attempt on his life. Then it starts to happen again -- the voices in his head, the nightmares, the visions.

To save the missing girl, Jed must take a leap of faith and embrace the gifts he's denied for all these years. And there is far more at stake: the world is not the place he thought it was. Purchase at https://bit.ly/2V0yN6y.

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