About Cake Walk

Bryan, a Black, divorced father of two, had finally achieved the career success he had always dreamed of as the new vice president for a large multi-national energy company. Unfortunately, his teenage son, an aspiring drag queen, does not fit into his public persona. Neither does a secret relationship with his white transgender girlfriend, Nadia. Caught between his pride and PRIDE, Bryan must decide where his loyalties lie before his double life spirals and decides for him. If he isn’t willing to risk the perception of being different in a society that values conformity above all else, he will lose everything—most devastatingly, his son.

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Douglas Bell is a debut African American writer with a BS in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a MA in business from Texas A&M University at College Station. Bell currently works as an engineer and once made his living as a magician. The heart of being a magician is about using magic to tell a story.

Bell relies on the mission of his Jesuit education: Being A Man for Others as the foundation for his service on religious and charitable boards. Buddhist teachings and a small but strong core of straight, cisgender, transgender, gay, and lesbian friends have supported Bell’s desire to pursue another form of storytelling.

About A Lone Wolfe by J.C. Fields

Retired Marine sniper and ex-CIA agent Michael Wolfe is tired of the chaos created by greedy businessmen, clueless politicians, and religious zealots. When past adversaries conspire to assassinate him and his future wife, he fights back with the lone wolf skills he learned as a skilled sniper.

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J.C. Fields is a multi-award-winning and Amazon best-selling author. His Sean Kruger Series and The Michael Wolfe Saga have been awarded numerous gold and silver medals in the Reader’s Favorite International Book Awards contest. His book, A Lone Wolf became a #1 Best Selling Audiobook in March of 2020. The second book in the series, The Last Insurgent, gained Amazon’s #1 New Release status in January 2021.
He is a full member of The Missouri Writers’ Guild, serves on the board of Sleuth Ink Mystery Writers, and is active in numerous other writing groups.
As one of the featured authors on the highly successful YouTube podcast, Fear From the Heartland, hosted by Paul J. McSorley, he offers a variety of original short stories penned specifically for its listeners. One of his short stories was recently published in the anthology Stand Together. All royalties from this collection will be donated to a charity benefitting the children of Ukraine.

About 5 Step Blueprint To Success: How To Accelerate Your Career By Unlocking Your Potential by Jim Kelly

I’ve spent the last 15+ years observing some of the Fortune 200’s most respected CEOs and executive leaders, working alongside captivating future leaders and hundreds of hours training with leading institutions and organizations like P&G, Harvard, Stanford and Cornell. To help you reach that next level in your career, I’ve consolidated my learnings into a 5 step blueprint that will give you the tools necessary for success. I’ve taken the guess work out on why some people excel and others don’t. The high performer you aspire to be is around the corner. Those that reach the pinnacle of corporate leadership tend to have 5 things in common.

Leave a legacy: Start with the end in mind

Dedicate time to learning and development

Understand the power of simplicity

Become an excellent collaborator

Always be solution focused

There is a famous saying from George Bernard Shaw; Those that can, do, those that can’t, teach. I am a doer. This is not a book on theory this is a book on actions, leveraging the learnings from world class leaders on what makes a high performer. The reason I know these work is because I’ve actioned them in my own career becoming a VP of a fortune 200 company by the age of 36 and managing a multi-billion dollar business.

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I have over 15 years of experience working in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), launching new ventures, and working for the government. Most recently, I was a Vice President in the FMCG industry at a Fortune 200 company. I have encountered many different kinds of people throughout my professional life and I have seen the differences between those who make it and those who don’t. For more than a decade, I have been trained by some of the most elite institutions and have been mentored by some of the greatest minds in the industry. All the while, I was diligently observing and accumulating wisdom as I went—all with the purpose of serving the next generation of leaders.

My legacy is to inspire the next generation of leaders by sharing the lessons I’ve learned. I truly believe in this process because I’ve lived out every single word in my own career while helping mentor and develop future leaders. By using the blueprint outlined in the book, I blazed my own path. Now it’s your turn!

About Tuxedo Baby by Victoria Smith

Follow Tuxedo Baby in his quest for a family. Tuxedo Baby was lonely until his adoptive parents brought him home. Although he wishes he could fly like his new parents, he knows he can’t.
Soar with Tuxedo Baby in his attempts to fly, and the problems that follow. But just when things start to head for disaster, a surprise brings his family even closer.

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Victoria lives in Alameda, California. Victoria loved to play school when she was younger with her stuff animals and dolls. She always wanted to be a teacher. Victoria’s dream came true after raising three children. She became a teacher in 1989. Later, Victoria received a Masters in Reading at Boise State University in 1999.
Victoria has always loved animals. She surrounded her own family with dogs, cats, a bird, a turtle, a bearded dragon, red-bellied frogs, a rabbit, fish, and a guinea pig that squealed loudly with happiness. Many of these animals lived in her classroom to the student’s delight. Today, Victoria volunteers at the Alameda Cat and Rabbit shelter called FAAS. The cats, kittens, and rabbits are often scared but their transformation they make is wonderful because of the volunteers who handle them daily and get them adopted in their forever homes. Now, Victoria lives with one dog, one cat, and a turtle. She especially loves spending time with her adult children because Victoria believes family is everything.
Victoria retired in 2020, so she could spend time writing and being an author. Victoria’s ideas often come while she is walking the dog or observing others. Victoria has so many stories she can’t wait to publish them all.

About A Dangerous Love Affair by Colin Guest

John, a struggling writer, meets Sally Johnston, a famous best-selling author at a book launch in London. To his amazement, she invites him to join her for lunch. John is thrilled when before leaving, Sally gives him her phone number and says to call her.
After he does, the couple later meet and go for a walk in Hyde Park. While sitting in the café, John is overwhelmed when Sally offers to help him with his writing. On leaving the park, they then spend the rest of the day and evening together. When John asks when he could see her again, he is astonished when Sally invites him to spend the weekend with her at her home in Guildford. She also tells John that Sally is not her real name, but the one she uses for her writing. Her real name is Tara Tomlinson
While in Guildford, the couple starts a sizzling affair and soon falls in love. However, John has no idea that Antonio, Tara’s possessive ex-lover, is not about to let him steal his woman. He wants her back and will do whatever it takes to put an end to their budding romance.
While John and Tara are enjoying themselves, Antonio makes two deadly attempts to cause John serious harm. In the first, John is lucky to survive a hit and run with only a broken leg. When he tells Tara this, she rushes up to London to take care of him. The following day, while Tara is out to fetch John a newspaper, John slumped on the sofa hears the front door open. He thinks it’s Tara, but is shocked to find it’s Sue, his ex-girlfriend. John never knew that she still had his key. Sue sits next to him on the sofa and is kissing John on the cheek as Tara walks in. She is devastated on seeing this and goes crying into the bedroom.
Sue, had no idea John was in a new relationship, so tries to explain to Tara without success. Tara is so upset; that she packs her case and leaves. After John tells Sue to leave, he calls the Carlton hotel where he thinks Tara has gone.
Although she won’t talk to him, after John sends her flowers the next morning, Tara returns to John in the evening. They soon make things up and plan on a holiday in Thailand. However, Antonio has not finished with John, who is lucky to survive, a terrifying car crash.
After recovering from his injuries, John and Tara go to Thailand. While diving, although they have a fantastic experience, Tara suffers a painful injury. They watch a live sex show which results in the couple engaging in some new sexual experiences.
However, the highlight of their trip is when John proposes to Tara. She is delighted at John’s unexpected proposal. However, when Antonio discovers this, his anger knows no bounds. He later kidnaps Tara and takes her to his villa in Italy.
On not being able to locate Tara, John is frantic. He thinks Antonio has taken her, so informs Paul, his policeman friend. After the Italian police visit Antonio, despite him saying she is not there, John thinks she is. He travels to Italy and later using a hang-glider makes a failed attempt to land on Antonio’s villa roof. When Antonio tells her of this, Tara decides that to save John from Antonio’s wrath, she must escape. It leads to a thrilling and deadly climax high in the Alps, where Tara is lucky to survive.
Once the couple is back in England, during their engagement party, John gets some great news. An old publishing friend from Tara’s past is interested in the new book John is writing. On this happy note, the story ends.

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Colin Guest is an English author living in Istanbul, who until his retirement, worked in fourteen countries on high-class interior projects. Given this, he uses his knowledge of various places he visited in some of his books. Colin has published eleven books, including memoirs, thrillers and romance stories. He recently completed two unpublished romantic novels, An Unforgettable Cruise and, It Happened in Barcelona. Apart from his books, Colin has written film scripts based on two of his thrillers. He is now completing one based on his novel A Dangerous Love Affair.
Colin is passionate about wildlife and has adopted a tiger for the past twelve years.

About A Pilot’s Tale, Terror, Luck, Africa, and Angels

If you ever dreamed of being a pilot…maybe think again. Ever curious about what goes on in the cockpit or behind the scenes? This book will enlighten you.

Andy Walker piloted every type of plane from gliders to Boeing 747s in four decades. He scouted gas pipelines, flew devout followers to the Hajj in Mecca, and transported service members to and from both Gulf Wars. And one stormy day, he nearly crashed into the Gulf of Alaska with his parents on board. He brings to life all those emotional, sometimes frightening experiences and more.

Surviving forty-three years and twenty-five thousand hours aloft still surprises him. No Vegas gambler would have given him good odds. But in the end, a little prowess and a lotta luck gave him the edge. Herein lies the tale.

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If the word, “retired”, conveys an image of a sedate, relaxed life, Andy Walker doesn’t fit it. Well into the back side of his seventh decade, he still skis moguls wherever he finds them, and ice skates almost daily in pursuit of Olympic Gold, but only if they’ll form a category for those over 100 years old and he manages to live that long. Mountain biking still gives him an opportunity to lose weight, but it’s usually from leaving skin on the trail. Forty three years flying airplanes for a living, and growing up at his family’s ski lodge, 9,400 feet above sea level, combine to give him enough yarn to spin, well beyond his Olympic dreams of glory. He’s written for decades, just for the pure fun of it, but never published until “A Pilot’s Tale”. He bends, warps, and mauls words into sentences for six to eight hours, nearly every day, nestled in a mountain home east of Salt Lake City where he lives with his lovely wife, Marcia.

About America: Standing Strong

In his interview with Variety.com, award-winning documentarian, Ken Burns, spoke words that resonate today. “I’m very anxious. I want my country to survive. I want to look back on all of this and go, ‘Wow, that was tough, but we made it through’ – just the way my parents and my grandparents talked to me about the depression.”

“America: Standing Strong,” present the respected voices of investigative reporters, scholars, philosophers, scientists, medical professionals, and politicians across the political spectrum who provide truth and facts, not fiction, conspiracy theories, or misinformation. As the goes, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Life is short; we only die once but live every day, so stay curious.

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Robert J. Emery is the award-winning writer, producer & director of 8 motion pictures and over 140 hours of cable network documentaries. He is the author of fiction and non-fiction books and has been honored with 9 awards for his novels “Midnight Black” & “The Autopsy of Planet Earth.” “America: Standing Strong” is his 10th publication.

About Fight or Play Basketball: every shot counts by Mike Messier

High school senior Jack Scratch is the star player for the North Providence Cougars basketball team and is seemingly on the fast track to a scholarship from Providence College (PC), and perhaps a career in the NBA. Jack rides his bike every morning through the rough streets of North Providence, Rhode Island, USA until he reaches his destination- the PC outdoor basketball court. There he works tirelessly to perfect his already superb basketball skills. During one of those early mornings, Jack also attempts to romance Mindy Kim, a Women’s Volleyball player who advises Jack about campus life as a “scholarship victim.”

Jack’s journey takes a detour after his protective and strong single mother Janet Trap is saved from a mugger by two boxers; Karl “Sweet Sugar” Brown, a former heavyweight contender who now trains young fighters in his own gym, and Paveli “Punch” Pangora, a Slovenian slugger who has traveled many miles to be mentored by Sweet. After Janet befriends the two boxers, Jack decides to check out “Sweet’s Sweat Box Gym” himself.

Jack discovers that he has a natural ability for “the sweet science of boxing” and he finds the sport’s individual nature refreshing after years of carrying his basketball teammates. Jack endures a bit of hazing from the resident bully of the gym, “Bruiser” Bobby Studd, a silent but brutal kid about his age. Jack decides to enter a local boxing tournament to test his mettle. Things go sideways when an “old buck vs. young buck” rivalry between Sweet and Punch splits the gym, as both men envision themselves filling the role of trainer to Jack and, perhaps by association, as a romantic partner to Janet.

The bruised hands and sore wrists that come from sparring upset basketball Coach “Quick” Rick Steele and Jack’s teammates, especially after the Cougars are invited to participate in an annual Hall of Fame game that always attracts college scouts, and possibly job opportunities for Steele himself.

When the Cougars’ big game is scheduled to take place on the very same day as the finals of the local boxing tournament, Jack must make his choice: to Fight or Play Basketball.

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Mike Messier has won 49 awards in the entertainment industry.

As an Actor, Messier has shared scenes with Meryl Streep & Elisabeth Shue (in Hope Springs), Wesley Snipes, Cybill Shepherd & Mario Van Peebles (in Hard Luck), Richard Jenkins & Frances McDormand (in Olive Kitteridge), and Eric Roberts and Jason London (in Mr. Birthday).

Messier contributed as a screenwriter to the horror film The Manor (released by Lionsgate), co-starring in the same film as doomed hillbilly hunter Ole Bayton. Mike was also a script consultant on the boxing documentary Lennox Lewis – The Untold Story.

Ox Baker – One of the Boys, Disregard the Vampire – A Mike Messier Documentary, and The Impeccable are among the more popular videos on Subscribe to Mike Messier YouTube Channel (yes, that's the name of the channel). The channel also features Mike's Celebrity Interviews featuring Randy Couture, Jonathon Silverman, Maria Kanellis, and others. Messier Mantra is Mike's interview show with up-and-coming models, actors, filmmakers, holistic healers, and musicians.

Mike's passion for writing has led him to write stage plays, screenplays, poetry, and novels.
He is also the creator of the Avalonia Festival of Short Films etc and the Avalonia Photography Competition.

Mike was born in Virginia. He has lived in North Carolina, Rhode Island, Maine, and Florida at various times in his life.

About Tell Tail

There has always been something about Bay, a self-proclaimed flop whose only success, however serendipitously it came, was splashing out of depression.

When every living thing under the water is faced with endangerment, the very unlikely Bay faces her devout kingdom with an answer to their prayers: her secret and a deliverance. With this, tides changed for the mergirl. Forgotten was all that she lacked in the past: her failings, chronic self-doubt, and always being a far swim behind. To her delight, no longer was she discounted.

On the wave of her redemption, which leads to her being celebrated, she discovers something very telling. It hints that in Lucaya, a kingdom populated with pious mermans, she is swimming in waters polluted with a half-truth.

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The rich little poor girl caught the interest of a royal admirer, a priest, a mogul and a savant; and she refused them all. In classic fairytale fashion, she married an upstanding, handsome, clever and brave third son, and bore a son called Love Fair Blessed Famous Ruler. Overlooking the sparkling aquamarine Bahama sea, they are living amply ever after.

About The Dating Game

Work, work, work. That’s all Glaswegian recruitment consultant Gill does. Her friends fix her up with numerous blind dates, none suitable, until one day Gill decides enough is enough.
Seeing an ad on a bus billboard for Happy Ever After dating agency ‘for the busy professional’, on impulse she signs up. Soon she has problems juggling her social life as well as her work diary.
Before long she’s experiencing laughs, lust and … could it be love? But just when things are looking up for Gill, an unexpected reunion forces her to make an impossible choice.
Will she get her happy ever after, or is she destined to be married to her job forever?

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Susan Buchanan lives near Glasgow with her husband, two children and crazy golden Labrador. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, but she also enjoys going to the theatre, watching quiz shows and eating out, and has recently discovered a love of writing retreats.