About Beacon – Part I

(Parts I and II are both FREE right now!) At the end of time, a miraculous discovery threatens a vast refugee fleet, and a young family will be hurled into a deadly mission alongside dangerous aliens.

They call it the Shroud, and Beacon is the only star that survived its wrath. At this endpoint of existence, humanity lingers on alongside every living species. Vast layers of orbiting ships can provide you everything–except children. So when Mally and Tersias conceive, they are instant celebrities, lavished with accolades and gifts. But their act will carry a high cost, starting with the return of mankind’s most dreaded enemy. And the end will become the beginning, in this sweeping tale of discovery, of intrigue, of war, of love against all odds, in which the only thing more dangerous than the dead of space are a few terrible secrets.

Beacon – Part I is the first serial installment of the Beacon Saga Serial, and is six thousand words. Continue the Saga in Beacon – Part II (also free).

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Jonathan C. Gillespie has been writing genre fiction for over a decade. His stories have been published in a variety of outlets on three continents, including “The Drabblecast”, “Spinetingler Magazine”, and “Murky Depths”, and have been nominated for a number of awards.

He particularly enjoys spending time with his wife and daughters, and lives with them in Atlanta, GA.

About European Identity: The Newly Born European Demos?

The book examines identity and its nature through analyzing different theories which help to define in which theories European identity can be ascribed to. The chapter also offers scholars’ reflection over European identity and makes a definition of European identity. In the second chapter, it explains the role of European identity on the constitutional ratification (2004) as well as demonstrates the contribution of the Constitutional Treaty (2004) on the consolidation of European identity. The relationship between the Constitution, representing a higher stage of EU integration, and European identity is mutual. They both affect the further evolution of each other. The chapter also draws conclusions over the European constitution and its future. The third chapter confronts European identity with national identities of the EU’s member states and draws conclusions about whether European identity will supersede national identities of Europe, as well as demonstrates the erosion of national identities in Europe; conclusions are supported by statistical data published in several Eurobarometers. The data published in the form of a table in this chapter trace the consolidation degree of European identity from 1992 to 2008 and confront it with national identities of the EU’s member states. The last chapter argues about the existence of a European civic demos (similar to that of the USA) expressed in the form of European Identity. The book sheds light on the evolution and the role of European identity.

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Endri Shqerra completed his graduate studies at the University of New York Tirana. His writing career started just there when his diss. got a distinguishing mark and was subsequently published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing. Here is worth making a note for his supervisor, Prof. Kostantinos Giakoumis, whose commitment and hard work with his diss. deserve to remind him as the co-author in his first book; even though his name does not appear in the book cover. Later, the publisher (LAMBERT Academic Publishing) asked him a book related to the topic of an essay he had published. It was at that time when the work with the second book began. Since then his devotion has been writing and he is proud of following the path of his father and other relatives who were writers, an inheritance which intensifies his commitment to writing. At the moment he is writing a new book titled “Religious Harmony”, which, hopefully, will be more interesting than his first two books.

About Graduated: A funny short story

“…dark humor that graces an even darker tale. Most highly recommended.” -Readers’ Favorite (5/5 STAR REVIEW)

In this satirical tour-de-farce, Audrey Riddlerfinch finds out how hard and lonely it is to be the only girl in a man’s world at the Dictator’s College. Not failing music, literature 1, or PT is challenging enough. What is worse; her fellow students, the principal, and the school administration won’t stop at anything to break her spirits and force her out.

But Audrey is determined to graduate, at any cost!

THE MEANTIME STORIES is a funny short read series that draws inspiration from Terry Pratchett, Monty Python, and Douglas Adams, drenched in Nordic Noir (human folly, plentiful abrupt deaths, snappy dialogue, quirky deep thoughts, and absurd outcomes). It’s glittering darkness, and clouded light.

Each story is a stand-alone, ready to be enjoyed when you yearn for 30 minutes of wacky, brainy, and laugh-out-loud entertainment. Longing for surprises, unexpected twists, and silliness with an edge? Look no further, because in the Meantime, anything can happen!

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Svingen & Pedersen is a Norwegian comedy duo, writing stories for a funnier world. According to readers (and themselves) their style of humor is “absurd, abrupt, dark, comically barbaric, and outrageously laugh-out-loud silly”.

Whether captivating audiences with their live performances or starring in and directing their own TV-show on national television, their trademark wit and zany take on reality have kicked people in the teeth. Now they have poured all their creative forces into The Meantime Stories, a humorous short read series embraced by both critics and readers.

About Welcome to the Apocalypse – Pandora

An original take on the post-apocalyptic genre, mixing elements of sci-fi, horror, and action into an entertaining thriller. Over 100 players enter a virtual world to play a game – survive 24 hours of their chosen apocalypse. Instead of game over at the end, they’re plunged straight into another game, and then another. Everyone dreams of escaping reality but this game has far greater risks than they could have imagined.

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D L Richardson writes sci-fi and supernatural. She is the author of the “Welcome to the Apocalypse” trilogy, the “Shivers” series, and 3 young adult paranormal books. She is currently writing a new sci-fi series “Earth Quarantined” – an alien occupation dystopian series.

She has conducted writing workshops, appeared on panels at writing festivals, and regularly attends the comic book conventions in her state. When she’s not writing, she can be found in the yard, on the couch, in the music room or outside walking the dog.

About Sinful by Katherine Hawthorne

Xander was a dream that would never be.

One catastrophic night left me orphaned at the age of seventeen. Hunted by a murderer, Xander saved me from the pits of hell, braving a fire that would have ended my life. Hiding me from a killer, he became my protector, my best friend, but never anything more.

Sin was a nightmare waiting to happen.

Six years later, a friend is murdered at the hottest nightclub in Manhattan, again thrusting me into a killer’s crosshairs. Now a detective with the NYPD, I refuse to hide, unyielding in my pursuit of justice, which has eluded me for so long. Determined to keep me safe, Sin forces me from the case. Defying him at every turn, our contentious relationship finally explodes in the most scandalous way conceivable, leaving me devastated.

I wanted them both.

Xander, sophisticated and elegant. My hero, the man who owns my heart. Sin, dominating alpha-male. My lieutenant, forbidden in so many ways. One dangerous kiss changes everything, catapulting me into a war between the two, neither of them willing to let me go. I become a pawn in their game until they join forces in a way I never saw coming. But lies and deception threaten to destroy us, leading to a betrayal that cuts so deep, I wonder if I’ll ever survive.

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Katherine Hawthorne is the sexier, erotic side of a bestselling romantic mystery author. She loves sexy alpha males and books that come with warnings. By far, her greatest guilty pleasure is ménage romance, which is exactly what she writes. Shucking off the last vestiges of her oh so proper Ivy League education, she traded tedious academic writing, combined her favorite genres, and found her greatest joy in writing suspenseful erotic romance.

When Katherine isn’t writing, you can find her racing down the ski slopes in the winter and relaxing on the beach in the summer, most likely lost in a book. Married with four children, three of which still live at home, life is a never-ending crazy thrill ride, one she quite happily embraces.

About Acquisition of Word Formation Devices in First & Second Languages

Early school-age English children acquire over 3000 words a year. The main factors which account for such rapid vocabulary growth are context and word-formation knowledge.
Such vocabulary growth is also of great interest in the L2 acquisition. Using empirical tests, the book puts side by side L1 and L2 acquisition of word-formation devices. The first chapter explores the early acquisition of word-formation devices by English children and presents the principles through which cross-linguistic influence diverts L2 learners from the natural way of acquiring word-formation devices of their target language. It also presents the ‘Dual Semantic Transparency’ Hypothesis in the L2 acquisition. The second and third chapters utilize empirical evidence in examining the advanced acquisition of word-formation devices by both native speakers and L2 learners, as well as highlight the points in which morphological cross-linguistic transfer is more evident to L2 learners. The fourth chapter offers suggestions over the way L2 learners’ knowledge of word-formation devices of their target language can be improved. The book is targeted to anyone interested in language acquisition.

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Endri Shqerra completed his graduate studies at the University of New York Tirana. His writing career started just there when his diss. got a distinguishing mark and was subsequently published by LAMBERT Academic Publishing. Here is worth making a note for his supervisor, Prof. Kostantinos Giakoumis, whose commitment and hard work with his diss. deserve to remind him as the co-author in his first book; even though his name does not appear in the book cover. Later, the publisher (LAMBERT Academic Publishing) asked him a book related to the topic of an essay he had published. It was at that time when the work with the second book began. Since then his devotion has been writing and he is proud of following the path of his father and other relatives who were writers, an inheritance which intensifies his commitment to writing. At the moment he is writing a new book titled “Religious Harmony”, which, hopefully, will be more interesting than his first two books.

About Timeless

When Jenny suddenly wakes to find herself being kissed by a strange—but very handsome—prince, she knows that her boring life of folding laundry could be gone forever. Stuck in a medieval land of castles and royalty, Jenny learns that she is being forced to marry the prince, and she is definitely okay with that. She escapes to find out how to return home while trying to keep from falling love with either of the boys vying for her attention.

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Jaclyn is an Idaho farm girl who grew up loving to read. She developed a love for writing at a young age and published her first book in 2013. She met her husband, Steve, at BYU, and they have six happy, crazy children who encourage her to keep writing. After owning a bookstore and running away to have adventures in Australia, they settled back down in their home in Utah. Jaclyn now spends her days herding her kids to various activities and trying to remember what she was supposed to do next. Her books include; Endless; Timeless; Fearless; Magicians of the Deep; Leana; Keela; and the Luck series, which helped feed her obsession with all things Irish.

About My Groans Pour Out Like Water

Within the backdrop of the American South, Bloom’s debut book of poetry deals with the first six months of the loss of her spouse. Bloom writes about grief, love, depression, mania, and making sense of the ills of all this living.

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At the age of 25, Frances Bloom came home to find her spouse, childhood sweetheart, best friend, and the love of her life, dead in their shared home. Shortly after, she was diagnosed with both post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar 1 disorder.

About The Law of Moses

Samuel Cardiff had a plan. He had recently graduated from the Teachers College and now he was returning home. The first goal completed, his next step was to find a position and then he could get married.

Samuel was a quiet man, some would say a pacifist. He believed in God, family and education. He was not concerned with the happenings outside his home town.

Outside events, however, were about to drag him from his beloved Elmira. It was the spring of 1861 and Confederate forces had recently attacked Fort Sumter. Against every moral belief, he enlisted in the Union Army and with his first step toward the south, he changed his life forever.

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Winner of Readers’ Favorite Silver Award for Historical Fiction/Western, Kwen knew he wanted to be a writer when he was fourteen years old. He felt the urge when he finished Earnest Hemingway’s masterpiece For Whom The Bell Tolls. The story touched him in a way no other book ever had. It transported a kid born and raised on a farm and ranch in Idaho to the mountains of Spain. It took him back in time forty years to witness the Spanish Civil War. Kwen knew he wanted to share that wonder with other people.

About Chaos at Crescent City Medical Center

It’s Mardi Gras season in post-Katrina New Orleans. Thousands of tourists have flocked to the city, paralyzed traffic and jammed the French Quarter with drunken crowds and garbage. City officials expect record crowds and the biggest boost to the Crescent City economy since the big storm. Alexandra Lee Destephano, legal counsel for Crescent City Medical Center, is anticipating her third Mardi Gras season and her date with dashing art historian Mitch Landry to the biggest Mardi Gras Ball in New Orleans. Things change. Alex is stat-paged to the hospital and learns the wife of the Governor of Louisiana has been found unconscious and covered in blood in her hospital room. By the end of the day, the Ball is the last thing on Alex’s mind.

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Judith Lucci is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon Best Selling author who writes what she knows…. Hospitals, Medicine, Crime and Art. She adds suspense along with well-constructed plots, vivid descriptions and memorable characters. Very few readers can put down her medical and crime thriller novels once they start reading them.

About Limitless

Hattie loves nothing more than getting away from palace life and spending time with her best friend in the village. The simple life with Cedric is much more exciting than being a princess with the weight of the kingdom on her shoulders. When her parents announce that it’s time to find a suitor, Hattie knows there is one boy who has already stolen her heart.

Living on the streets after his father is banished for using magic, Cedric has learned to fend for himself. Working for the man who took him in keeps him from starving, but he wants to make something of himself. Otherwise, he has no hope of winning Princess Hattie’s heart.

When a mage curses Hattie’s family on her sixteenth birthday, she and Cedric must flee the kingdom to keep her safe. Now Cedric’s absent father may be the hero they need to help defeat the mage—if they can find him. Will Hattie and Cedric manage to find their happily ever after, or will they be destined to live apart forever?

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Jaclyn is an Idaho farm girl who grew up loving to read. She developed a love for writing at a young age and published her first book in 2013. She met her husband, Steve, at BYU, and they have six happy, crazy children who encourage her to keep writing. After owning a bookstore and running away to have adventures in Australia, they settled back down in their home in Utah. Jaclyn now spends her days herding her kids to various activities and trying to remember what she was supposed to do next.

About The Wayfaring Diaries

“To Sophie, wherever you go, you’re never far from me.”

This is the dedication that opens The Wayfaring Diaries. A series of diaries that tells not only the story of one man, Leo Flores, but also his lifelong infatuation with his childhood fancy, Sophie.

Leo Flores is a nomad. When life begins to settle down he begins to look for reasons to be unhappy. And when he starts to believe his self-made unhappiness he does the one thing he truly enjoys: he runs away.

Wherever he travels, be it to the bullrings of Spain or the football stadiums of England, he chases the shadow of the only constant in his life: Sophie. And when one day, at a casino in Monte Carlo, the two of them meet again after 20 years, they start a relationship that will last two lifetimes.

The two of them become travel buddies – huckleberry friends, as they call each other – and together they visit the carpeted streets of Iran and the haunting Mexican nights of the dead. Now, whenever Leo needs to run away, he runs to Sophie. But the two of them know nothing of each other’s lives back home. All they know is the road. And Sophie is harbouring a secret which will challenge not only their relationship but the entire meaning of their lives.

The Wayfaring Diaries is a travel novel that traces the lives of two people; a biography told in travel.

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I am an author from the Mediterranean Island of Malta who writes novels and short stories. I have had short stories published in several reviews such as Across the Margin, Cecile’s Writers, Eastlit, the Gambler and others. In 2010 I was also a finalist in the IEMed Sea of Words competition. I work as a teacher in Malta and also run writing workshops for children and teenagers. My fiction deals with characters seeking meaning in life as well as travel and childhood.

About Parable of the Cake by Maria Bowie

Enjoy a modern-day parable that will uplift you, challenge and inspire you to seek God’s truth through His Word. You will laugh, cry, pray, and praise God along with G-Mama and the Solomon family.

The family matriarch, G-Mama, loves God and her family. She has dedicated her life to serving God and teaching her family about the truth of God’s Word. As she pours her heart out for the Lord and into her family, she serves a cake that she never changes because the cake is a reminder that she must remain faithful to God’s Word just as she remains faithful to the cake recipe.

G-Mama has a very special bond with her oldest grandchild, Lauren. From the moment that Lauren entered the world, grandmother and granddaughter formed a bond that transcended blood kinship. But although G-Mama and Lauren have a deep connection, G-Mama loves the members of her family equally. She teaches them all the same lessons about God and about their family legacy as keepers of a special cake recipe.

When tragedy strikes, G-Mama, Lauren, and their family must rally together to endure the devastating grief that threatens to consume them. But rather than being swallowed in the depths of sorrow, G-Mama’s faith in God results in an outpouring of the Holy Spirit so powerful that lives are transformed and souls are saved.

As G-Mama leads her family to know and trust God and remain faithful to His Word, she teaches them the truth about the cake recipe. Some of the family members grasp the truth that she teaches; others rebel. But she tells them that the cake recipe must remain unchanged and that God will designate a family member as the Chosen One who will continue the legacy of never changing the cake recipe.

Who will stay true to the original cake recipe? Who will change the cake because they like the taste of their own cake better? And who will be the Chosen One commissioned to make the cake in faithfulness to the original recipe?

Find out the answers to these questions as you read this beautiful story that is filled with the love of God and His Son and the work of God’s Holy Spirit.

And while you are reading, consider the following questions: Is it possible to remain faithful to God’s Word just as it is written? If we are fed the same spiritual food by the Son of God through the Holy Spirit, then why are there divisions in the Christian family? Is eating the spiritual food of God’s Word enough to teach, strengthen and save people who rely on God the Father and His Son Messiah Yeshua to deliver truth and salvation by the Holy Spirit? Questions such as these are considered throughout this book. Perhaps you will form new questions that will stimulate you to think about your faith in God and in His Word in a deeper and more personal way.

Celebrate life and love with the Solomon family and their friends, old and new. Your heart will fill to overflowing with joy as you witness their support and encouragement for each other. You will experience God’s abundant grace and mercy. And when G-Mama prays, your heart will ignite in faith and with a desire to know God just like she does.

Take delight in every morsel of Parable of the Cake. It’s sure to satisfy your soul with food that is inspired by the Word of God.

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Maria Bowie lives near Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and a sweet, neurotic poodle. She is a mother to two wonderful adult children. As an author, blogger, artist, and craftsperson, she uses her creative gifts to honor God and bring glory to His Name. Parable of the Cake is her debut novel. To God be the glory. In the Name of Messiah Yeshua! Amen!