About BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS by Lee Rozelle

A zany twist on the Southern Gothic, BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS is a wild and heartfelt tale of abduction and revenge, body shaming and media fame. Lee Rozelle’s debut novel is the story of overweight banker Jasmine and her kidnapper, the enigmatic reality TV mastermind Preston Price. Trapped inside an egg-shaped studio in the secluded backwoods, Jasmine is tortured with haute cuisine, brainwashed with self-help videos, and badgered with cardio exercise routines for her growing mass of livestream fans. Filled with flashbacks of adolescent nuttiness and ennui in the 1980’s, BALLAD OF JASMINE WILLS goes bizarro to explore links between reality TV and the real, intervention and exploitation.

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Lee Rozelle is the author of nonfiction books ZOMBIESCAPES & PHANTOM ZONES and ECOSUBLIME. He has recently published short stories in such places as SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY, HellBound Books’ ANTHOLOGY OF BIZARRO, and the SCARE YOU TO SLEEP podcast.

Hanging Softly in the Night: A Detective Nick Larson Novel by Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra

A QUESTIONABLE SUICIDE… A DETECTIVE’S SUSPICION… AND A DESPERATE HUNT FOR A SERIAL KILLER BEFORE MORE VICTIMS ARE FOUND.

New York Police Department’s Sixteenth Precinct in Manhattan is under siege by the flu, and Detective Nick Larson and his partner, Detective Victor Sacco, are up to their armpits with work overload. The captain’s cigar is seriously chewed, and everyone is working around the clock. To complicate matters, on a personal level, things aren’t going smoothly, either. Laura Howard, the woman Nick loves, is also having issues with a psycho twin sister who is doing everything to ruin Laura’s business and her life.
Then Nick’s captain assigns a new case, a suicide. From the moment Nick steps on scene, however, something doesn’t feel quite right, especially when, upon investigating the case further, the supposed suicide looks more and more like an actual homicide. Immediately, Nick’s instincts kick into gear, but rev into overdrive when similar, questionable suicides pop up around the area. And with the way things have been going lately, it would just be Nick’s luck to have a serial killer on the loose.
Set in New York City, Hanging Softly in the Night is a story of murder, mental illness, determination, perseverance, and, ultimately, justice.

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Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra is an award-winning author with a unique point of view: thrills and kills, with a twist. Her characters are placed in danger in ingenuous ways while, at the same time, her novels are set in locales across Europe and the United States, reflecting her international upbringing and extensive time as a Cuban exile and global traveler.
The author’s writing career began circa age thirteen with a very juvenile science fiction short story; but the writing bug hit, and she has been writing, in one capacity or another, ever since. She has worked as a professional dancer, singer, journalist, and literature teacher in both the university and middle school levels (and not necessarily in that order) and holds a Masters in English literature. All her novels have received different accolades, including gold, silver and bronze medals.
Ms. Alonso-Sierra loves to hear from readers. When not writing, she roams around to discover new places to set her novels.

Greed by C. M. Sutter

Washburn County Deputy Amber Monroe is following in the footsteps of her sister, Jade. She devours everything she can during her detective training in hopes of being promoted soon.
Living in small-town USA has its advantages, like a sense of security, and disadvantages, like being close to Milwaukee and its crime. Washburn County has become the dumping ground of murder victims, courtesy of its neighboring county to the south.
When two men are discovered on the outskirts of North Bend, each with a bullet to the head, Amber’s team, led by Lieutenant Jack Steele, hits the highway in search of a killer.
Assisted by the Milwaukee PD, they go deep into Brew City’s underbelly, which reveals far more than anyone ever expected. Crimes involving murder and counterfeiting keep the team running in every direction, but it’s Amber’s attraction to a new man in North Bend that puts her front and center on the killer’s short list.
She doesn’t get far before the entire case turns upside down.

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C. M. Sutter is a crime fiction author who resides in Tampa, Florida.
With more than thirty books published in the thriller and crime fiction genres, you’ll often find her with a laptop in hand and writing at every opportunity.
She is an art enthusiast and loves to create gourd birdhouses, pebble art, and handmade soaps. Gardening, bicycling, fishing, playing with her dog, and traveling the world are a few of her favorite pastimes.

About Food Trucks

Food Trucks – How to Get Your Business ‘Moving’ Forward is a book for those inspiring entrepreneurs looking at starting and running their own food truck business. This book will help you understand what the food truck industry is all about, including some of the basics relevant to running a successful food truck business.

This book will help you compile your business plan and highlight the importance of having a good and reasonable one-pager which becomes your action plan going forward. We will be looking at the ‘food’ that goes into your food truck, looking at elements you need to consider when planning your menus.

We also look into the ‘truck’ used in your food truck business, explicitly focusing on being presentable and practical. The best part of having a food truck business is moving to a new location when you are not succeeding, which is difficult for fixed business owners. When the going gets tough, the truck gets moving.

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About The Art of Mental Strength

Mental Toughness for the Resilience Needed to Maximize Your Full Potential!

A mentally strong person is someone who is said to effectively handle challenges, stressors, or pressures. The concept of mentаl strength hаs grown in populаrity over the lаst decаde аnd hаs broken out from its silo of sport psychology into other domаins. What makes a difference and elevates average individuals to exceptionalism and perfection is the focus, and the inner strength to keep going forward. All of these characteristics help and make people mentally strong individuals.

Do you feel like everyone but you is achieving success, that they just seem to have it all? Are you afraid of failure and being judged by others? Do you easily fly off the handle and say something you instantly regret? Do you feel drained when talking to certain people but just don’t what to do? Still unsure of why you need mental strength or how you can apply it to your life? This book is for you.

In The Art of Mental Strength you will learn how to:
regulate your emotions
stop feeling sorry for yourself
say no and stop being a people pleaser
remove bad habits from your life
identify and overcome barriers to mental strength
unleash your potential

With over 200 pages, this step-by-step practical guide includes everyday tools and techniques to improve your memory, gain emotional intelligence, reprogram your subconscious mind, and develop superior mental toughness.

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Author Bio:
David Smith is an author with a genuine passion for helping others achieve their wellness goals, whether its nutrition, fitness, spiritual progress, stress management, or personal development. He is a Healthy Lifestyles Coach who graduated with the highest honors. He enjoys humor, being practical, and thinking outside of the box. His books are full of rich and practical information aiming to enhance the lives of those who read them.

About The Death Mask Murders by Gabriel Farago

Seven brutal murders. A cursed Inca burial mask. A lost treasure. One deadly game.

Drawn into a web of hidden clues pointing to an ancient mystery, celebrated author Jack Rogan decides to investigate.
When convicted killer Maurice Landru reaches out from a Paris prison and asks for help to prove his innocence, Jack cannot resist. Joining forces with Francesca Bartolli, a glamorous criminal profiler, Mademoiselle Darrieux, an eccentric Paris socialite, and Claude Dupree, a retired French police officer, Jack enters a dangerous world of depraved cyber-gambling where the stakes are high, and the players will stop at nothing to satisfy their dark desires.

Following his ‘breadcrumbs of destiny’, Jack soon comes up against an evil genius who terminates his enemies without mercy and is prepared to risk all to win.

On a perilous journey littered with violence and death, Jack uncovers dark secrets of a murky past of ruthless conquistadors, bloodthirsty pirates and shipwrecked priests, all pointing to a fabulous Inca treasure, waiting to be discovered.

Can Jack expose the mastermind behind the horrific murders and retrieve the legendary burial mask before it falls into the wrong hands, or will the forces of darkness overwhelm him and destroy everything he believes in?

The Death Mask Murders is Book 7 in the Jack Rogan Mysteries Series for the thinking reader and culturally curious, and can also be enjoyed as a standalone novel.

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Gabriel Farago is the USA TODAY Bestselling and Multi-Award-Winning Australian Author of the Jack Rogan Mysteries Series for the thinking reader.

As a lawyer with a passion for history and archaeology, Gabriel had to wait for many years before being able to pursue another passion—writing—in earnest. However, his love of books and storytelling started long before that.

Born in Budapest, Gabriel grew up in post-War Europe, and after fleeing Hungary with his parents during the Revolution in 56, he went to school in Austria before arriving in Australia as a teenager. This allowed him to become multi-lingual and feel ‘at home’ in different countries and diverse cultures. Shaped by a long legal career and experiences spanning several decades and continents, his is a mature voice that speaks in many tongues.

Gabriel holds degrees in literature and law, speaks several languages and takes research and authenticity very seriously. Inquisitive by nature, he studied Egyptology and learned to read the hieroglyphs. He travels extensively and visits all of the locations mentioned in his books.

‘I try to weave fact and fiction into a seamless storyline,’ he explains. ‘By blurring the boundaries between the two, the reader is never quite sure where one ends, and the other begins. This is of course quite deliberate as it creates the illusion of authenticity and reality in a work that is pure fiction. A successful work of fiction is a balancing act: reality must rub shoulders with imagination in a way that is both entertaining and plausible.’

Gabriel lives in the Blue Mountains in Australia just outside Sydney, surrounded by a World Heritage National Park.

‘The beauty and solitude of this unique environment,’ he points out, ‘gives me inspiration and the energy to weave my thoughts and ideas into stories which, I sincerely hope, will in turn entertain and inspire my readers.’

About 30 Days with Joseph: Insights from Joseph’s Spiritual Journey for Yours (A Devotional) by Steve Wilmot

How did Joseph do it?
For 13 years the circumstances of his life went from bad to worse. Slave. Alleged rapist. Prison convict. He did nothing to deserve such rough treatment. Yet Joseph never whined or complained. He didn’t get angry or depressed. In fact, when he had the chance to take revenge, he chose mercy, grace, and generosity instead.
How did he do it?
You’ll find answers in 30 Days with Joseph, the second in an expanding series of devotionals written to examine how Bible characters navigated the challenges of their spiritual journey. Each day of the month, you’ll accompany Joseph and be inspired by a faith firmly rooted in the God who is in total control of everything, is always on time (though it doesn’t seem like it to us), and always keeps his word.
From Joseph’s story, you’ll learn how to overcome the challenges you encounter along the way… even when God doesn’t ride to your rescue right away.

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Steve Wilmot’s passion is to encourage and inspire Christians on their long and sometimes treacherous spiritual journey Home. Over the years, he learned valuable lessons from his own journey of faith and developed indispensable relationships that kept him from giving up when discouragement and lack of hope told him to. His purpose in life is to pay it forward whenever he can — first as a pastor for 40 years and now as a writer and mentor.
Steve married his college sweetheart, Becki, in 1974. She supported him — and many times served as his anchor and cheerleader — during their years leading churches from 1976 – 2016. They have four grown children and eight grandchildren. He retired from his bi-vocational jobs as a pastor and a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service. Along with devotionals, spiritual growth books, and novels, Steve writes a weekly column, “Pastor’s Ponderings,” for two local newspapers.
In his spare time, Steve enjoys engaging with his grandkids, reading, gardening, and landscaping around his house. He stays connected with his small group, the Band of Brothers, as they travel side-by-side toward Christlike character and Home. They’ve discovered the Christian life is not Jesus and me. It’s Jesus and we, and they are committed to encouragement, support, love, and unconditional acceptance of each other.
Steve also likes sharing his spiritual journey and teaching from God’s Word at churches and conferences.

About The Necroambulist

Disillusioned with life in the Big Apple, John takes up jogging to vent his frustrations. He finds Central Park to be a sanctuary of sorts. Its sprawling green commons are famed for recreation, and quite scenic too, a daily attraction for thousands of tourists. Though John likes the park for another reason: because at night after work, it’s completely empty.

Nightly jogs through the park are soon cherished routine, John’s therapeutic escape from the city and its residents. He’s not fazed by the darkness along its dimly lit footpaths, nor those desolate stretches into elm-shadowed woods. Any late hour works fine for him too, office grind be damned.

John should be more cautious. This is still the city, after all, a rotten Big Apple—writhing with worms. And he really should have noticed it on his way in: there’s something off about the park tonight.

But he’s popping in his earbuds. He’s pulling up a playlist.

Hope it’s a good one, John. You’ll be running for your life to it.

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Anna Darko is an author in the mystery, thriller, and horror genres. Her most recently published work is the horror short story ‘The Necroambulist’ released in October 2021.

About The Olmec Civilization: An Enthralling Overview of the History of the Olmecs, Starting from Agriculture in Mesoamerica to the Fall of La Venta by Enthralling History

Which came first – the Olmecs or the Mayan? The Olmecs or the Incans? Walk with us among Colossal Heads and some of the first pyramids in Mesoamerica – yes! Pyramids across the world from Giza and Egypt! Come join us on the journey to discover just where this amazing culture began and ended – and why we are still studying the Olmecs today.

Historians and scholars still battle over the origins of – and reasons for– some of Mesoamerica’s formative civilizations downturn. How could such unique, innovative, and thriving societies fall without certain evidence of the causes? And what might the Mayans or Incans have to do with the Olmecs’ rise and fall?

This book takes readers on a journey that few have taken, deep into archaeological sites, artifacts, and the many theories surrounding the Olmecs and their history, so shrouded in mystery. As you read, you’ll learn:
• Why their placement in Mesoamerica’s history is so important
• Why a rock overhang was so crucial to their survival
• How the Olmecs domesticated – – yes, corn!
• Why and how they moved from hunter-gatherer to farming
• The importance of a rock to their society (Well, not just any rock!)
• Adzes – What they were and how they helped trade
• Metallurgy – a new era, a new trade, a new path
• Who were the Cloud People, and where did they live?
• The many phases of Monte Alban
• How can old stone heads tell us anything?
• Origins – China, Africa – or Mormons?
• Let’s play ball – but why is that hoop so high?
• Jade, Mirrors, and Religion – how are these related?
• Why is a child/jaguar mix so important?

You’ll learn some fun facts – but will also be challenged with archaeologically-puzzling discoveries and learn about some fascinating finds. The “Forgotten Civilization” lays claim to some fantastic people who forged the way for modern-day Mexico to become the rich and historically diverse culture it is today!

If you want to dive into the many astonishing elements of this vast and controversial Mesoamerican civilization, get this book now!

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Enthralling History makes history interesting for everyone. Now you can enjoy history books that will mesmerize you.

About 6-Minute Core Strength: Simple Core Exercises to Improve Posture, Build Balance, and Relieve Back Pain

Having a strong core can improve posture, relieve aches and pains, prevent falls, and help you feel more capable and confident in your body. 6-Minute Core Strength takes you step-by-step through the simple science of building core strength quickly, safely, and effectively, with little or no equipment.

In this guide, you will learn:

The muscles that make up your core and why they require a different training approach than traditional strength training.

The importance of “core awareness” and “core bracing” during core exercises and most everyday movements, with simple steps to mastering both.

Over 25 of the most effective exercises you can do at home using little or no equipment, including variations to match any fitness level.

Workouts to address specific goals, such as improving posture, building better balance, relieving pain, and more.

6-Minute Core Strength is packed with more than 90 illustrations and 60 videos to help you reach your health and fitness goals. No matter your age, weight, or fitness level, this guide will empower you to move, feel, and live better than you ever have before!

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Dr. Jonathan Su is a physical therapist and fitness expert whose mission is to make fitness accessible for everyone, no matter their age, weight, or fitness level.

Dr. Su is co-author of the clinical textbook Netter’s Orthopaedic Clinical Examination and author of the bestseller Six-Minute Fitness at 60+. He is also host of the Get-Fit Guy podcast.

As a former U.S. Army officer, Captain Su was responsible for injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance optimization for over 4,500 active-duty soldiers in the field. This experience helped him develop expertise in tactical fitness and rapid rehabilitation using little to no equipment.

Realizing that fitness is as much a mental game as it is physical, Dr. Su completed a master’s degree in counseling psychology to help his clients overcome mental obstacles that stood in the way of achieving their potential.

Dr. Su also holds credentials as an IAYT yoga therapist and incorporates mindfulness with movement for optimizing health, wellness, and performance.

When not busy working with clients, writing books, or producing content, you can find him seeking out new hole-in-the-wall restaurants and spending quality time outdoors with his family.

About The Trouble with Belonging by Magdalena Stanhoff

When those two kids first met, they transformed each other’s lives. Now they’ll have to find out if the bond between them can survive a catastrophe…and growing up.

New city, again. New language, new school, new people. Another place where he doesn’t belong. Chen Kehuan is a boy adrift: he has no mother, no friends, and no true homeland, and he doesn’t care much for anyone. Until one day that carefree street child appears on his path and turns his life upside down.
Little Niki roams around the city, making things out of nothing and talking to strangers on a whim. She’s stayed out of harm’s way so far, but how long will the good luck hold? And then that older boy who doesn’t even speak her language enters her life and takes it upon himself to completely remake it.
Only, sometimes the best intentions can lead to a disaster. What will Kehuan do when Niki’s world is suddenly torn apart and she disappears without a trace?

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Magdalena Stanhoff writes contemporary novels exploring romantic love, friendship, and family bonds, while also dealing with the matters of personal values, identity, and sense of belonging in nowadays world. She initiated and led several long-term international projects promoting multicultural awareness and worked with children, teens, and adults from many different countries. She loves traveling and is vividly interested in how diverse cultures coexist, mix, and clash, and how it influences people’s lives.

About The Power of Marrsing: Tapping into Our Individual Consciousness

Relationships are all about communicating and connecting, but are we willing to share our true, authentic selves with our partner? What holds us back and how can we effectively communicate our emotions to each other throughout a lifetime? Angella Watkis Francis offers an inspiring path to deeper, committed relationships in The Power of Marrsing. Marrsing, a term coined by Francis, is the concept that a deep understanding of ourselves and our relationship patterns can transform the way we live, love, and share with our partners.

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Angella Watkis-Francis is on a new journey as a creator, author, and entrepreneur. She is sharing her personal transformation experience to inspire others to embark on their individual introspective journey to transform their relationships. She is impacting the world with her innovative thinking and entrepreneurial tenacity. She has successfully created the Marrsing lifestyle concept and brand by infusing her education from her Master of Communications and her Executive MBA degrees, along with her quest for knowledge, understanding of our life experiences, and spiritual enlightenment.

Her professional career spans both the private and public government sector. As a leader, she credits her inspiration to Lyssons All-Age school, Morant Bay High, BayPath University, and UConn Business School educational journeys as catalysts in her gift as a leader and a pioneer. She seeks to “create a path, so she can leave a trail for others to follow.”

She hopes to inspire others to lead their lives with gratitude and positivity. She encourages all to practice ‘DIG’(ing) for answers, and to celebrate their value, because there is greatness within us and we are all worth it!