About The 4 Facets of Grief: Heal Your Heart, Rebuild Your World, and Find New Pathways to Joy by Ruth E. Field, LCSW

Are you wondering how to go on after the death of someone you love?
Do you have mixed feelings about certain holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day?
Are you longing for healing, peace, and a new sense of order in your world?

This practical guide provides training in grief resilience, which is actually a skill set that can be learned, practiced, and incorporated into your life.
Written by a licensed clinical social worker who is also a bereaved mother, the book presents a unique system of coping with death that combines insights from both her professional background and personal experience. This approach builds grief resilience and transforms the reader from heartache to healing, wellness, and growth.
Losing someone you love can be a devastating experience. It is often excruciatingly painful and hard to wrap your mind around. Trying to take in the reality of death and then figuring out how to move forward can leave you overwhelmed, shattered, heartbroken, and frightened. And because it feels impossible to accept the unacceptable, we learn by osmosis to put misery on the back burner and pretend we’re mostly okay.
But we’re not okay; this is not business as usual. We’re left with that burning question:
“How do I go on?”
The 4 Facets of Grief is a fresh approach to navigating loss and death, incorporating the most current thinking on resilience and growth.
You will learn:
• Techniques for accepting the unacceptable
• Ways of rebuilding your world and reclaiming hope
• How to create meaning in difficult times
• Self-care routines to increase your energy, focus, and ability to relax
Each section includes descriptive stories that illustrate the concept and skill-building suggestions for the reader to practice.
By following the guidance in this book, you will:
• feel more resilient
• utilize better coping strategies
• create greater serenity than you ever thought possible
• notice improved relationships
• reintegrate peace and joy
• increase your self-confidence, realizing that you now have the tools to face adversity and create your own new reality

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Author Bio:
Ruth E. Field has always wanted to help people. Inspired by her well-respected and beloved physician father, she grew up valuing service to others.

Through the years Ruth experienced the untimely deaths of many close family members and dear friends. She accompanied them through illnesses that ravaged body and mind, and she shared the trauma of sudden devastating accidents. All the while she pondered why such painful loss seemed to swirl around her.

In 1999 Ruth joined with other parents to co-found the Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (now part of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance). It was the first internet-based not-for-profit organization, and reflected her passion to help families fight the stigma and isolation of mental health diagnoses. As the founding CABF board president, she spoke at area conferences and workshops on the family impact of early-onset mood disorders. One of her most memorable presentations was Witness to Grief: Experiencing Loss in Parenting Children and Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder.

Ruth’s calling to teach resilience crystallized after the accidental death of her young adult son. Having transformed her own sorrow into a personal mission to foster post traumatic growth, she is dedicated to helping others navigate all types of adversity. Honoring her son’s legacy of hope, she blends her personal and professional wisdom to guide others from heartbreak to healing.

Ruth holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago. She also is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois. At her private psychotherapy practice in Northfield, IL, she is honored to work with adolescents, adults, and families.

In addition to writing, Ruth enjoys nature hikes, movies, and laughing with her husband Alan. She also loves sharing meals with friends and family. Her greatest joy is spending time with her grandchildren and delighting in their growth.

For more information about Ruth E. Field, visit her website at www.GriefHelper.com

About Everything I Know I Learned From Baseball: 99 Life Lessons from the Ball Field

For many of us, baseball is a way of life. It can also help us live the life we strive for.

Everything I Know I Learned From Baseball is the first book ever to use the fundamentals of good baseball as building blocks for a life of happiness, fulfillment, and success.

Philip Theibert, motivational speaker and third-generation baseball coach, has crystallized a lifetime of baseball experience and love for the game into 99 essays in 9 areas of focus that will inspire you to be the best you can be. The pieces are supplemented by more than 40 quotes from well-known baseball personalities and others.

Great for both kids and adults to instill values and establish a positive and productive mindset. Let the keys to winning baseball help guide your pursuit of a winning life–personally and professionally, with your family, in relationships, and more. You may even learn a thing or two about baseball along the way.

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Philip Theibert has been around baseball his entire life, starting as a batboy for Chapman College. He was a catcher in college and has the crooked fingers to prove it. Philip also coached summer league baseball for years, making him a third-generation baseball coach.

Philip has an extensive writing background and views himself much like an utility infielder, with the ability to write at many positions. He has worked as a speechwriter, copywriter, reporter, editor, technical writer, and poet. Philip’s books include two collections of baseball poems: Collisions at Home and Bunts. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Writer’s Digest, Toast Masters, Vital Speeches, Manager’s Journal, and other publications. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Philip currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and spends summer evenings rooting for the Birmingham Barons. His daughter teaches in New Orleans, and his son has the misfortune of being a Twins fan.

About The Abyss of Lumberwitch

In Cutrupi’s gripping fantasy debut, Melody, an orphan girl affected by a speech disorder, suddenly acquires fluency by reading an ancient language found in the remote and mysterious town of Lumberwitch.

1904. The Klondike Gold Rush is yesterday’s news, but not for Jonathan Brick, a journalist for Seattle’s Daily News. Assigned to a month-long trip to cover the slowdown of gold mining in the Yukon, Jonathan brings along his adoptive sister, Melody. Since she showed up on his doorstep as a child, she’s been Jonathan’s constant companion and the closest thing he’s had to family for the past fifteen years. Even with no memory of her previous life and a severe speech disorder, Melody has been crucial to his work.
Pursuing a series of interviews throughout the Yukon, the pair ends up in the isolated town of Lumberwitch. With the exception of two dedicated dreamers, the town has given up on finding gold in its abandoned mine. But while investigating the mine, Jonathan and Melody find something more valuable than gold–an ancient code carved into the mine’s walls in an obscure language. Not only can Melody decipher the code, but she also knows the language instinctively, speaking it without the effects of her otherwise-crippling speech disorder.
Before they know it, Jonathan and Melody are caught in a dangerous struggle. A deadly cult has seized the reins in Lumberwitch, led by a woman with an unholy hunger. While at the bottom of the subterranean lake below the mine lies what could be the secret of a legendary civilization. Between the two, Jonathan hopes to find the key to unlock Melody’s enigmatic past and unravel the mysteries of Lumberwitch–but only if they survive.

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Dom Cutrupi loves to write novels in the first person and his personal bio in the third person. A writer by day, a video producer by night, he has been passionate about media and storytelling since he was young. He wrote his first screenplay at age twelve and published his first novel in Italian at twenty-two. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Film and Television Production, he began his career inside the Vatican TV Channel TV2000 as a stage manager. Trips to the poorest areas of Peru and Mozambique inspired several essays about traveling in the South of the world and a novel, North of Maputo, about the pursuit of happiness. In 2010 he moved to Vancouver to pursue a career as a video producer and director. Struggles with the English language and cultural differences sparked a story which became the novel, The Abyss of Lumberwitch, about a girl who speaks a broken English but can translate ancient codes. The first draft of the book is in Italian. As his knowledge of and love for English deepened over the years, Dom decided to embark on the five-year process of translating the novel into his second language. He then published two more novels in the series, directly in English, The Tombs of Shang’en Island and The Caves of Kendalini. Other projects include the writing and directing of Lithium Dreams, a cyberpunk movie about identity shot in virtual reality, the co-writing of the film First House on the Hill, and his blog on immigration, languages, and Italians.

About Hunter Book 1: Forged by Gabriel Michaelson

The Hunter Saga begins here! 100% off the first book for the 5th – 6th of May.

A quest for the world’s most dangerous secret, the Arche, leads Derek to the town of Pesque. He can’t do it alone and will need the help of Douglas West and a trio of bounty hunters with their own motives. But Douglas has his own ambitions, and his band of Marauders may prove to be more trouble than they’re worth.

They say you can’t go home again, but Derek’s bounty hunter ally Zeke wants to do just that. Before their quest for the most dangerous secret can begin, Derek and his team of four will journey to Karn County to heal wounds of the past, so they can move towards the future.

Zeke knows the truth about the massacre of a decade ago, what he doesn’t know is that it never stopped. As the clock ticks towards the next purge, a doomed child’s plea will pierce everyone’s hearts.

To fulfil a desire for redemption, to finish a grudge match started a decade ago, to regain the courage to act, Derek’s quintet will quickly learn Karn County has something for each of them, but only if they can all survive.

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Gabriel Michaelson is a writer who enjoys creating unique fictional fantasy worlds for himself and others to enjoy.

His debut novel, Hunter: Forged is the first of a planned book series, with updates to the lore time-tabled throughout the year.

When he’s not writing, Gabriel enjoys listening to music, exercising, and regaling unsuspecting people with funny anecdotes about his past.

About Love and Death at the Renaissance Fair

Love and Death at the Renaissance fair is set at a magical renaissance festival where things are not always as they seem. The main Character Sir William falls in love with the beautiful Genevieve. They only know each other for a day before he hears her dying screams right outside the tavern he is in. He spends every waking moment trying to bring her murderer to justice. He is joined by some friends he meets along the way including a dancing jouster and the best archer in the land. Together they endure grueling sword fights, crazy fairies, and all kinds of trouble before finding and defeating Genevieve’s murderer.

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Author Bio:
My name is Matthew Stocker and I live in Minnesota. I love it here, but the winters can be very long. This gives me plenty of time to write new books. When I was a kid I didn’t like reading. I just wanted to play outside all the time. One day, my dad bought me a star wars book. Since then I’ve loved reading. I love it so much that I opened a Bookstore. I have several new books coming out including Mystery novels, Sci-fi novels, and Educational novels.

About Ham

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Warning: there’s an overwhelming amount of people in this town who believe in the principle of vigilante justice, and today that principle is to be used against my favor. So I warn you dear reader, if you are a human being with a soul that longs for true justice, or a mind that believes in second chances. Please, look away. For you just might learn that this world was invented by monsters. Or maybe, you just might see a man who holds little innocence, get exactly what he deserves.

When Brick Wilder asked me what I’d do if I knew I only had twenty-four hours to live, I never expected the answer to be: apologize to consistently unstable people, get hunted down by actual mobs formed by my own idiot brother, repeatedly prove to myself that I am my own worst hazard, and escape literal swordsmen — and yet that’s exactly what happened. Don’t believe me? I swear I’m being honest — after all, by 6:30 p.m. today, I’m set to die for telling nothing short of the honest truth.

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Author Bio:
Arianna Jackson is the self-published author of Ham, who is currently working on publishing her first series. She is presently working towards an undergrad degree at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. When she isn’t waiting, she can be found drawing, painting,or dabbling in photography!

About Fake it Baby: A Best Friend’s Brother Romance

I’m back to adopt my sister’s sweet baby girl.
My sister’s best friend wants her too.
She hates me. Too bad she’s stuck with me.
Because a fake marriage is our only chance at a real family.

They say I’m a playboy. Having billions makes it easy.
I can get any woman I want, except the one who really matters.
Avery – my little sister’s best friend.
Years ago, she begged me to take her.
I gave it to her – hard – then left town.
Now I’m back and she’s having none of my sweet-talk.

My sister died and left behind her baby daughter.
Avery wants to fight me for her.
But she’s got no money. And I’ve got a bad reputation.
The only way to make this work is to get married.

We’ll say our fake vows.
Play happy-family.
Share the same bed like eager newly-weds.
I won’t take no for an answer.
Because this time, I’m not letting her go.

She has no idea. Even though this is all just pretend, our happily-ever-after will be very, very real.

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Hey Bad Girl!

I’m Tia Siren, Amazon best-selling author of sexy contemporary romance, best known for my Big Bad Series.

Other than my insatiable desire for chocolate, reading and writing steamy romances is my most guilty pleasure. I write about tough and sexy Bad Boys who, underneath that armor of muscles and tattoos (and sometimes suits), are more sensitive and wounded than they’d like to admit. I’m happily married to a really good guy, but, every now and again, I crave the forbidden excitement of falling for one of the bad boys in my stories. There really is a bad girl in me too!

About Roomies with Benefits: A Brother’s Best Friend Baby Romance

“She needed a fake fiancé. I needed a roommate.
But now I want more than benefits…
There’s nothing fake about my love.

I only wanted to help her. Abigail is my best friend’s little sister.
Hot, sassy, and down on her luck. So, I took her in.
Now I can’t stop thinking about her. Watching her. Wanting her.
Her sinful curves play with my mind.
But she’s off limits.
Her psycho ex is back, and he won’t take no for an answer.
She needs a fake fiancé to get rid of him,
But there’s nothing fake about my feelings.
Abigail’s more than just a roomie with benefits.
If her ex touches her, I’ll show him more than just the door.
I don’t need a weapon to maim, all I need is my fists.

Abigail thought it was all fake… it’s time to show just what’s real.”

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Amy writes hot, spicy romances that feature gorgeous alpha men who love to protect their women. Amy’s heroes are rough, hot, bad boys and billionaires who possess that soft heart a woman definitely yearns for.

About Succeed Like A Zebra

This is the ultimate student success guide for high school students. Zebras are unique. If you were to place a zebra in a herd of horses, it would stand out like a sore thumb. This book uses the zebra as a metaphor for uniqueness and potential. With over fifteen years as a youth advisor and youth motivational speaker, Nick speaks teens language and shares the stories from his life as a teen and the lives of the teens he has mentored over the years. Teens will learn the thirty proven strategies to standout success in school, college, and in the workplace. The principles in this book will have teens leading with greater confidence. Invest in yourself by purchasing this book today.

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Nick “The Zebra” Zizi is a husband, father of five little zebras, national student leadership speaker, and TEDx presenter. He has spoken at various student leadership conferences across the nation and has delivered student achievement and leadership programs to tens and thousands of students over the past fifteen years. He is also a radio personality of a weekly talk show focused on help parents and teens understand and help one another. His scholarship foundation has awarded over $10,000 in scholarships to deserving high school students.

Nick is on a mission to help you and the teen in your life succeed like a zebra. He is irrationally passionate about helping students lead and succeed on campus and in life.

About How To Be A Dad Without A Dad by Jose De La Roca

Jose had questions about raising his son, but without having a dad of his own, he had no point of reference or anyone to turn to. This is what inspired Jose to document his personal experiences, in order to help other fathers who have the same uncertainties.

The book includes Jose’s childhood experiences, his struggles with alcohol, and how he became the father he never had.

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Jose was born and raised in Guatemala. He has been a proud citizen of the United States of America since 2016. He didn’t have a dad growing up but had a great brother by his side. Jose has helped raise his nephews and niece and is a proud parent himself. Jose has been part of the Radio Broadcasting industry for 15 years. He has plenty of radio and broadcast experience and has been part of many popular radio shows.

His writing skills started in college where he wrote many student plays and was part of the theater department at Glendale Community College. The college produced some of his plays, and he was nominated to the KCACTF Region VIII festival in 2003 for his acting skills. When he became a father, he decided to achieve his dreams and started acting and writing again.

He had some questions on how to raise his own son and discovered that by not having a dad he didn’t have a point of reference to go by and decided to put his own personal experience to help other fathers with the same issues. At the moment Jose’s main focus is how to be a good role model for his son, nephews, and niece and how to provide a better future for his family.

About The Duke’s Library by Laura Cabrerizo

Miss Victoria Sutton is considered a failure after several seasons without a match. Blending into the background suits her well as long as she can read. A less than clandestine adventure into the Duke’s library creates a friendship she could never have imagined.

Andres, Duke of Northumberland, wasn’t expecting to find a stowaway in his library during the opening ball of the season but she intrigued him none the less. The more time he spends with her, the more he looks forward to seeing her. Perhaps it’s time to take a wife after all.

Does a wallflower with no means deserve a happily ever after?

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I’m a Software Engineer by day and aspiring writer by night.

Like all good decisions, the idea to start writing happened with friends and a box of wine. I told a friend about one of the many dreams I have and she told me to start writing that crap down… so I did…

She’s created a monster. I have no experience except for a love of reading but I continue to plug away!