Cover Your Tracks by Daco S. Auffenorde

A snowstorm, a stopped train, an avalanche, and only two survivors.

How could a peaceful train ride turn into a nightmare?

It can when an avalanche threatens to knock the entire train off of the cliff and it does.

Margo, who was eight months pregnant and the only one who listened to one of the passengers and moved to the very last car on the train.  Moving saved them both from tumbling down the hillside when the avalanche struck, but they weren't safe inside the last car for too long either.

The avalanche even threatened the last train car. Margo and Nick left the car and trudged in the deep snow and ran toward a new avalanche so they were under the snow instead of pushed by it.

They were still not out of danger...they had no shelter, no food, and no water, but at least they were still alive.

We follow Nick and Margo as they make their way to finding shelter since a rescue team won't be able to find them or the train disaster in this storm.

Both Nick and Margo were interesting characters, and when we hear about their childhoods, they were not good ones. In addition, they both had secrets that affected them deeply.

COVER YOUR TRACKS has pull-you-in writing.

Ms. Auffenorde shared a lot of survival information that must have taken a lot of research.

Both Margo and Nick definitely needed survival techniques in the snowy, isolated, frigid environment they found themselves in.

COVER YOUR TRACKS became very intense as fear for both Nick and Margo increased. The fears I had for each character were for different reasons.

And.....just who was Nick?

Could this nightmare get even worse?

COVER YOUR TRACKS has a creative story line and will have you on edge from the minute they escape the avalanche's wrath until you turn the last page. 5/5

This book was given to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.

GIVEAWAY and SPOTLIGHT of Parabellum by Greg Hickey

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Greg Hickey is celebrating his book:

PARABELLUM

With an INTERNATIONAL E-book Giveaway!!

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Information in this post is courtesy of the author.

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PRAISE FOR PARABELLUM:

"We live in a time of nameless, faceless evil, and Greg Hickey's Parabellum takes us on a vivid, harrowing journey into the systems and societal circumstances that create it. But it's Hickey's eye for detail and finely honed prose that cast the real spell of this novel--convincing the reader that despite all the bleakness, the possibility of salvation is always nigh."
- Jenny Milchman, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Cover of Snow and The Second Mother

"Parabellum is taut, slow-burning crime fiction at its best. And it's a great deal more than that. Greg Hickey has crafted a masterfully paced character study within a genre, a study that takes a philosophical and revealing look at the roots of America's seemingly endless struggle with violence. The result is a smart, compelling, brilliantly structured tale that entertains as it challenges. You won't be able to put it down. You won't want to forget it."
- Paul Flower, author of The Great American Cheese War

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ABOUT PARABELLUM:

A mass shooting at a Chicago beach leaves several dead and dozens injured. In the year before the crime, four individuals emerge as possible suspects.

An apathetic computer programmer.
An ex-college athlete with a history of hits to the head.
An Army veteran turned Chicago cop.
A despondent high school student.

One of them is the shooter. Discover who and why.

If you like nuanced literary crime fiction that explores the depths of the human psyche, you’ll love Greg Hickey's compelling and unforgettable novel.

Buy Parabellum today and begin a story you won't be able to put down. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Greg Hickey is a former international professional baseball player and current forensic scientist, endurance athlete and author.

His previous works include the novels The Friar’s Lantern and Our Dried Voices, the latter of which was a finalist for Foreword Reviews' INDIES Science Fiction Book of the Year Award.

He lives in Chicago with his wife, Lindsay.

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GIVEAWAY: 

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE. 

I am partnering with the author for this giveaway - the author will be sending the book to the winner:

International 
E-BOOK 
November 4 - 11

Enter here

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Spotlight of Forget Russia by L. Bordetsky-Williams

                    

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FORGET RUSSIA

BY L. Bordetsky-Williams

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Information in this post is courtesy of the author, L. Bordetsky-Williams

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The novel concentrates, in particular, on the lives and struggles of Jewish women.

Pre-purchase HERE.

On Sale December 1, 2020

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ADVANCED PRAISE:

"One by one, Anna will lift the tops from the Russian dolls starting from the original tragedy-the murder of her great-grandmother Zlata during a pogrom-to shed light on the destiny of three generations of women . . . In this dazzling choral novel, woven together over almost eighty years, the great-granddaughter triumphs in the challenge to reunite her family forever, calming their hearts beyond the centuries." -Maia Brami, author of All Yours 

"Bordetsky-Williams has brought to life indelible histories, from the village of Gornostaypol in 1917 revolutionary Russia, to 1930s Leningrad, to Moscow in 1980." -Adrianne Kalfopoulou, author of A History of Too Much 

"Deep, moving and elegantly written, the book is a beautiful tribute to the interwovenness of human lives across time, space, generations. Lisa Bordetsky-Williams skillfully lifts the veil on life in the Soviet Union while remaining true to its secrets and mysteries. Its poetic prose and the delicate yet powerful storyline make it a page-turner that will, no doubt, leave no reader untouched." -Maarja Kadajane, co-founder of the Constructive Journalism Institute

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

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"Your problem is you have a Russian soul," Anna's mother tells her.

In 1980, Anna is a naive UConn senior studying abroad in Moscow at the height of the Cold War-and a second-generation Russian Jew raised on a calamitous family history of abandonment, Czarist-era pogroms, and Soviet-style terror.

As Anna dodges date rapists, KGB agents, and smooth-talking black marketeers while navigating an alien culture for the first time, she must come to terms with the aspects of the past that haunt her own life.

With its intricate insight into the everyday rhythms of an almost forgotten way of life in Brezhnev's Soviet Union, Forget Russia is a disquieting multi-generational epic about coming of age, forgotten history, and the loss of innocence in all of its forms.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

PHOTO CREDIT:

Samuel Jacovitz

L. BORDETSKY-WILLIAMS is also the author of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Greenwood Press, 2000); the memoir, Letters to Virginia Woolf (Hamilton Books, 2005); and three poetry chapbooks—The Eighth Phrase (Porkbelly Press 2014), Sky Studies (Finishing Line Press 2014), and In the Early Morning Calling (Finishing Line Press, 2018).

She is a Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey and lives in New York City.

Titles That Begin With W

They all were wonderful reads.

Have YOU read any?

 

Please share any titles you can think of.

 

Hello You by Sandra Magsamen

 

How adorable is this cover?

The inside is just as welcoming.

Friendly animals give advice on what you can do to feel comfortable in a new situation and to make others feel comfortable if others or your child are the new kid on the block or the new kid at school.

The animals suggest a handshake, a smile, a “hey there,” or just a wave to start.

Adorable illustrations help get the message across that a friendly greeting shows love and caring.

This Week At Silver's Reviews

Happy First Week of November!!

Hope to see you.

Begins With N

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Today’s Prompt:  STARTS WITH N

Three good reads.

Can you name some books that start with an N?