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Broken to Perfection

3.8 stars on 31 reviews

Romance

Talia and Max’s marriage is a picture of domestic bliss. They have a beautiful home, two wonderful children, promising careers. So why can’t she shake the relentless feeling that something is missing?

On a whim, Talia takes off for Paris, leaving Max behind. She hopes to clear her head and find some clarity, is perhaps even tempted to test the boundaries of her marriage. Paris promises adventure, excitement, a long-overdue break from her stifling routine.

But the cobbled streets and quaint cafés of the most romantic city in the world only add to her confusion. Whirlwind affairs and a shocking rendezvous with a lover from the past leave Talia wondering – what does she really want out of life? Can she reconcile with her husband and go back to how things used to be?

Does she even want to?

Dafna Cohen’s debut novel is unafraid to show its heroes and readers that life – love – is most beautiful when broken.

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Wood, Luck & Survival

4.3 stars on 72 reviews

Biography

How could Max and his father possibly have survived the Holocaust when so many did not?!

This story is the journey of the author and his brother to discover the story of their father, Max Gutkin, and his family during the Holocaust. When the German army invaded Riga, Latvian Jewry numbered about 95,000, of which only about 1,000 survived the war. The story of how Wood and luck somehow enabled Max and his father to survive the Holocaust, unlike so many, is riveting. The family business was engaged with forestry and wood, so Max, his older brother, and their father were forced to work in wood for the Nazis, while his mother and little brother were murdered.

A harrowing journey replete with painful memories…

The book traces their harrowing journey from work camp to work camp, a terrible choice that the father is forced to make, the aftermath of the war in Europe, and finally arrival in Israel. For 65 years Max silently bore the burden of these memories until the author led him on a path of discovery through his painful personal history.

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When the Water Rises

4.6 stars on 70 reviews

Romance

She wants for nothing, but she dreams of freedom.

Maya has everything a modern woman ought to aspire for – caring partner, successful career, and a beautiful home. Her life is perfectly on track. So when a vivid dream leaves her with a mixed feeling of liberation and confusion, Maya struggles to figure out its meaning.

In her dream, she’s stranded on the roof of a house, surrounded by an unending horizon of water rising all around her.

In her dream, she’s finally free.

Maya’s journey will introduce her to the world-wise and motherly Hannah. Her all-knowing smile and insightful words help clarify Maya’s dream, but it won’t be until she leaves home and travels to the Indian retreats that its true meaning will begin to unfurl.

Maya’s experiences, the strangers she encounters, the men she involves herself with, all form the connection between the Maya living on the roof, and the Maya on the ground. From spiritual India to the white Australian beaches, Maya’s personal and outer conflicts are paralleled in the beautiful, wild, enthralling places she travels. When the Water Rises sets the tone on how courage and honesty in the face of uncertainty can bring with it true friendships, unbounded freedom, and honest, authentic release.

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Klareana: The Human Child

3.7 stars on 28 reviews

SciFi, Fantasy, Animals

It begins with an insight into human intelligence
When a small group of scientists isolate the neurology underpinning human intelligence, they attempt to procure funding in the hopes of introducing a bit of this cognitive power into the animal kingdom.

They get the funding, and their plans become an order of magnitude more successful than anything they could ever have hoped for.

A century later, humanity no longer has sole dominion over this earth
After the human powers of intelligence spread throughout the animal kingdom, the world became fractionated, with each enhanced species claiming their own territory.

Humanity now lives in human-only compounds called Megastructures, and though each community is isolated from every other, there is an anthropocentric code that allows humanity to keep a foothold in the world.

When a distant Megastructure falls without any apparent reason, Jona Shaw is sent with a team to investigate.

A small girl in a dangerous world
The outside world is unfathomably dangerous, and surprisingly―Jona is assigned the care of a small girl named Klareana on the mission.

He is told that Klareana is a prodigy when it comes to surviving in this new world, and he soon finds that this young girl is far more than that.

And together, they explore the mystery of the empty Megastructure, a mystery that reveals itself to be bigger than anything they could have possibly imagined.

For fans of genres: Animal intelligence, animal communication, neuroscience, languages, symbolism, biology, genetic engineering, SciFi, Science Fiction, Fantasy, EOTW, EOTWAWKI, End of the World, End of the World as we know it, environmental fiction, climate change, hopeful fiction, forest fiction, forest science

For fans of authors: Yuval Noah Harari, Michael Crichton, Hugh Howey, Carl Jung, Blake Crouch, Daniel Quinn, Dan Brown, Franklin Foer, Peter

Click here to see all available books by Jonathan Maas on Amazon.

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