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We’re coming to you with several very special announcements because today marks the launch of three brand new books from BookGo authors!
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Come Up Big: My Journey Through Vietnam, Harvard, the White House, the Department of State, and as CEO in Corporate America by Charles W. B. Wardell
The Glamour of Evil: A Maddie Lynch Mystery by Michael McKinley and Nancy Merritt Bell
Redeemed: A Journey from Darkness to Light by Alain Orozco and Bianella Orozco-DeLaHoz
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Plus: $100 each for three runners up!
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Our winner and three runners up will receive a free development session with BookGo’s team of writers and editors, and their work published next year.
Deadline: 15 December 2025
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Come Up Big
My Journey Through Vietnam, Harvard, the White House, the Department of State, and as CEO in Corporate America
By Charles W. B. Wardell
Charles “Chuck” Wardell III has lived an interesting life in extraordinary times – in fact he wasn’t supposed to live at all, but he did...
He was regularly counted out. Even at the hospital where he was born prematurely, the doctor didn’t think he would make it. But Chuck counted himself in and did more than survive. He rose to the top, through Vietnam, Harvard, the White House, the State Department and beyond. He went on to work at the highest levels of many international companies and he retired as the CEO of a major executive search firm. But “retire” is the wrong word, for Chuck is not stopping anytime soon.
This life story, intersecting with major events in American history over the past 80 years, is told with raw honesty and self-effacing humor. Is an inspiration to all who have been counted out. Over and over, Chuck was cut out, flunked out, and simply underestimated. In his early years, he struggled even to finish his homework on account of his dyslexia. But with grit, determination, creativity and a tireless sense of humor, Chuck worked his way through it all, and as he says, he come up big.
This book is for anyone who has ever been counted out: read it to find out how to Come Up Big.
The Glamour of Evil
A Maddie Lynch Mystery
By Michael McKinley & Nancy Merritt Bell
For more than 500 years, the best intelligence service in the world has been run from a palace in Vatican City, home of the Pope. To the world, the Vatican spy service doesn’t officially exist. But it does to
Maddie Lynch, as the Vatican spies need her help…
Magdalena “Maddie” Lynch, 29, never set out to be the Vatican’s Jane Bond. Yet the very real evil of the world confronts her so harshly that she can’t say no to the Vatican spymaster, especially if fighting evil will help her solve the mystery of how her father died in a war in Lebanon. But first she has to deal with:
A murdered priest. Who stole more than 250 million Euros from the Vatican.
A rogue Catholic group that wants to start a new Crusade.
A US presidential candidate who wants total war in the Middle East.
And the Pope coming to America…
Maddie’s life as a spy begins when the Vatican needs a secular, smart outsider to pursue their investigation of the murdered priest and the missing money. Maddie is their woman. And so the Vatican spymaster sends Maddie on a quest that takes her around the world, to New York, to Dublin, to Jerusalem, and ever closer to the stunning assassin who killed the priest, while keeping a few steps ahead of the smart, sexy Israeli agent who just might want to help Maddie--or want her dead. When Maddie discovers that the murdered priest and the stolen money and the murder of her father are all lining up, the killers come after her.
If Maddie wants to keep fighting evil, now she has to save herself...
Redeemed
A Journey from Darkness to Light
By Alain Orozco and Bianella Orozco-DeLaHoz
On the morning of June 9, 1982, in a bright and beautiful upscale Miami neighborhood, Alain and Nella’s lives change forever when their mother waves the 11-year-old twins goodbye for school…
Shortly after seeing her children off, she is murdered in their family home, along with Kiko, her brother, and the twins’ beloved uncle. How did this happen? What would happen next? How will Alain and Nella survive?
REDEEMED tells the extraordinary story of the journey that Alain and Nella make as they navigate the world without their beloved mother. They live in a world of danger, as their father is a drug dealer, involved with other Colombian dealers. Money, millions of dollars, come and go. Violence is everywhere, and the world of crime provides a powerful lure for Alain, who winds up selling drugs with his father.
Nella and Alain lose almost everyone and everything. And then Nella loses her beloved brother for ten years while he is in prison for drug dealing. But in prison, Alain uncovers his family’s deepest, darkest secrets, including the murder of their mother. Alain and his sister Nella might never recover from the truth. But with faith, hard work, the love of their families, and the love of God, they are REDEEMED.
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