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Actual Magic: How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind by Stephen Hawley Martin
About Actual Magic: How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind by Stephen Hawley Martin
Actual Magic is real magic, not the illusionary “magic” of stage magicians or the fantasy magic of Harry Potter. Actual Magic refers to events that take place due to the mind power of one or more individuals. The author explains that Actual Magic is happening around us all the time and those who work it do so unconsciously more often than not. You may in fact be working Actual Magic to your benefit, or just as likely to your detriment, and not know it. Read this book and find out. In it, the author explains how Actual Magic works, why it works, and a seven-step process to make it work for you to create a fulfilling life of purpose and plenty.
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Stephen Hawley Martin is the author of two best-sellers, “Life After Death, Powerful Evidence You Will Never Die,” and “Actual Magic: How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind.” He is a former principal of the ad agency that created the GEICO Gecko and the only three-time winner of the Writer’s Digest Book Award, having won first prize twice for fiction and once for nonfiction. He also has won a first prize for visionary fiction from Independent Publisher and a first prize for nonfiction from USA Book News.
Joseph Bridgeman and the Silver Hunter
About Joseph Bridgeman and the Silver Hunter
Joseph Bridgeman is back and dreaming of a quiet life. All he wants is to re-kindle his relationship with Alexia Finch, get to know his estranged family and catch up on the last twenty years.
Sounds simple enough.
But when a mysterious time-traveller arrives in his shop, Joe learns his first trip was only the beginning, and this time the stabilisers are coming off.
Flung back to London in the swinging sixties, Joe must save an innocent woman and her son from the clutches of a ruthless gangster. But how will he succeed when the rules of time travel have changed, his present is a confusing mess and the past is a world without internet, decent coffee or sat-nav?
Time doesn’t heal, after all.
It just adds salt.
Joseph Bridgeman and the Silver Hunter is Book 2 in The Downstream Diaries; an emotionally intelligent time travel series featuring action, mystery, thrills, sadness, comedy and mind-bending twists.
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“I started reading it last night and have just finished. I need more of Joseph Bridgman. I love these books!”
“Done! Goodness… That was difficult to put down. A real page-turner, absolutely brilliant”
“I enjoyed this one more than the first one (and that’s saying something).”
“This is the best Time Travel book I’ve ever read. In fact, this has got to rank up there in my top ten and, that includes books by Steven King, Tom Clancy, and Dean Koontz.”
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Nick Jones was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire in 1972. These days he can usually be found in his garden studio, working on mind-bending time travel ideas, surrounded by notes and scribbling on a large white board.
Darkness Begins
If the power grid fails, how far will you go to survive? With a sudden blackout stretching across the country, one ordinary family is put to the ultimate test. It’s survival of the fittest in the apocalypse. The EMP is only the beginning.
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When the world as we know it falls apart, how far will you go to survive?
Harley Tate writes edge-of-your-seat post-apocalyptic fiction exploring what happens when ordinary people are faced with impossible choices.
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The end of life as we know it brings out the best and worst in all of us. The apocalypse is only the beginning.
Three Bloody Pieces
Queen, beggar… cat? Caitlyn is all three.
Lured from her homeland by black magic and dark enchantment, Caitlyn falls into the clutches of a powerful sorceress, a witch who changes her life forever.
Only death can free her. The question is, whose?
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Elizabeth Davies is a paranormal author, whose books have a romantic flavour with more than a hint of suspense. She loves history and the supernatural and often combines the two in her writing. She particularly loves vampires, witches and ghosts.
The Complete Soul Guardians Collection: Books 1-8
About The Complete Soul Guardians Collection: Books 1-8
Kara didn’t believe in angels and demons. But when she died, everything changed…
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Kim Richardson is the award-winning author of the bestselling SOUL GUARDIANS series. She lives in the eastern part of Canada with her husband, two dogs and a very old cat. She is the author of the SOUL GUARDIANS series, the MYSTICS series, and the DIVIDED REALMS series. Kim’s books are available in print editions, and translations are available in over 7 languages.
First Full Moon
More secrets. More lies. I’m going to die.
She wanted a car for her sixteenth birthday, not magical powers…
Candy McGregor is a teenager living in Sequim Falls, a small East Coast town, where the McGregors own just about everything. While her grandmother grooms her to run the family business—a pharmaceutical empire—Candy dreams of a life where she’s known as more than just a last name. When the monthly family dinner turns into a horror show, Candy discovers the McGregors aren’t so much blessed as they are cursed.
At midnight on her sixteenth birthday, Candy inherits both the ability to do magic and the destiny to become a wolf on the next full moon. There is hope of a life that doesn’t require being chained up once a month. If Candy can undo the original spell that created the curse, she can rid the world of werewolves and remain a witch. But there’s one really big problem. Not everyone hates being a wolf.
With the next full moon looming, Candy must take on forces that will do anything to stop her. Will she break the curse or surrender to life as a monster?
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Michelle Alstead is the author of eight published novels. She’s also an entrepreneur, business owner, instructional designer, and a single mother of a child with Autism. Michelle has a passion for storytelling and looks forward to publishing the rest of the Full Moon Series in 2019.
The Displaced: Fall of a Fortress
About The Displaced: Fall of a Fortress
Stranded in a besieged fortress, can a strong refugee woman survive and fight for her true love? Canadian Author Frieda Watt transports us into the barbaric world of 18th century colonial America where treachory, murder, and rival armies fight violent turf wars in Volume One of her epic new series, The Displaced: Fall of a Fortress.
In 1744, the mortar in the walls of Louisbourg fortress is still wet as Britain advances to conquer this new French city, its citizens both protected and imprisoned by its massive stone ramparts.
Torn between clashing empires and contentious families, Marie Lévesque fights to find a place in the unforgiving frontier of Canada. As a young woman, her life is just beginning. Her friendship with Pierre promises of something more. But their lives and the doomed fortress of Louisbourg are caught in the cross-hairs of the British navy, who promise to annihilate not only them but also their very way of life.
As empires collide, Marie and Pierre are catapulted into a world they do not understand—a world of spies, treason, and revenge. They must fight not only to survive the war, but also to stay together despite the forces that threaten to tear them apart forever.
This beautifully written, epic work of historical literary fiction, with the same feel as Outlander, is a must-read for any lover of historical fiction. The Displaced: Fall of a Fortress tells the story of ordinary people as they try to survive as French rule crumbles in Canada.
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Frieda Watt loves history. She is one of those people who spends most of her weekends dragging her kids to the museums and National Historic Sites of Canada. She also writes books. Actually, The Displaced is her first book but she has been writing since before she could spell.
In another life, she studied Fashion Arts at Seneca College, which has nothing to do with the books or subjects she writes about.
When not writing or digging through history, Frieda divides her time between her husband, three daughters, two fish, one cat, and triathlons.
In January of 1945, the Halifax Bomber that Tom Daniel was flying in was shot down over West Germany. It was the group’s fourth bombing mission over Europe. Tom was one of the four airmen to survive, although Tom fractured his neck from whiplash as he jumped out of the plane.
Tom endured four months in a German POW camp before being liberated and returning to civilian life. He frequently shared “the story” in an effort to help others understand the true cost of their freedom.
Tom’s son Doug became an avid history buff. He spent his summers with wife and his three kids packed up in the family station wagon, travelling around Canada. It became the family joke that whenever Doug passed a historic plaque, he had to stop to read it. With the invention of digital cameras, those stops became shorter.
My Grandpa Tom’s story and my Dad’s love of history inspired me to dive deep into history. In school and documentaries, we are shown the “big picture”, what the cost of events are to countries and the world as a whole.
The individual stories of the thousands of people who made up these big events are what fascinate me. While the world is shaped and history is made, ordinary people are trying to live their lives. They do not know or care what impact the events they live through will have on the world. They are living, falling in love, dying, and trying to make their time on this earth matter.
Birdbrain
Comedic-drama eco-fiction set in the 1970’s, early ’80’s, at the dawn of America’s environmental consciousness, pretty Ellowyn Kelsey is a redneck girl living the pretty redneck life in rural Michigan. This includes waiting for her roofer husband to come around…Her self-imposed lobotomy ends when she shows up at the wrong time for a church picnic, meeting a bunch of birders instead. Watching a mating pair of bluebirds lovingly tending to one another causes something in her to break.
Everyone recognizes what she’s going through except her–until the depth of her pain and emotion holds her captive. How can she be the last to know? She is indignant, hurt, has no idea how to process the emotional sideswipe. Her pain is expressed through the crazy narcissistic melodrama of youth, her reluctant unabashed accomplice is her best friend, Patty.
Part II finds her experiencing yet another major loss. She finds refuge in nature making true her mother’s prediction–a chasm may form between her new and old life, between she and Patty. The narcissism of her youth wears off and she starts to care about something bigger than herself (God forbid!)–her own planet. The “rednecks and assorted white trash” of her town waste no time labeling her as their own “token environmental wacko”.
A new guy shows up, his heart in one hand, binoculars in the other…
She meets Kate, one of the first female biologists to be hired by the Michigan Fish and Game Department. A trailblazer in a male-dominated profession, Kate has spent her life fighting to “protect the environment”. It hasn’t worked out and Kate’s very angry. Who wants to end up like her?
Accompanied by her faithful mutt, Ellie leaves Michigan to travel “out west” where her sister lives, resulting in some unexpected experiences: spirits in the desert, an accidental crusade against a development in San Diego, geographically diverse sexual encounters with a cowboy and a “real Indian” who hails from Mono Lake. Those amazing sandhill cranes (and who is this guy in my tent?).
Transformed, yet maligned, by her growing appreciation and awareness of our miraculous planet, her grief, her explorations, literally and spiritually, this is a story you will never forget that may even motivate you to dig out those binoculars and pay attention to what is happening with your local parks, something that would make the author take flight.
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Virginia Arthur was born wild. She took to exploring the wilds of her new Ohio suburban jungle by the time she was ten, launching great birding expeditions in between backhoes and bulldozers. Her bird list grew shorter in direct correlation with the number of homes growing larger such that by the time she was 12, she was a raging environmentalist, before the word even existed. This delighted her parents to no end.
She continued on this profoundly pointless and frustrating path by earning a B.S. in Field Biology and a M.S. in Botany (Ecology) only to continue the exploring, observing of a country at war with its natural self. She weaves these experiences into her novels. She has published two: her first one, Birdbrain, an eco-fiction novel based on some of her real life experiences, was published in 2014. She published her second one, comedic-drama literary fiction, September 2015: Phat(‘s) Chance for Buddha in Houston. (Or How I Spent My Summer Vacation). Her newest eco-fiction novel, Treed, is due out September 2018.
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Tears ofEndurance
A SECRET CAN TEAR YOU APART OR BIND YOU FOREVER…
For Arianna Ferria, a satisfying and challenging life as an art gallery owner takes an unexpected turn into burning romance when she falls for the handsome and successful Ben Fielding. Soon, their relationship blossoms into more than she could ever imagine. However, when a black secret comes crashing down around them, their love faces the ultimate test of endurance while they come to grips with a tragic fate that changes the course of their lives forever … Tears of Endurance.
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D.G. Torrens is a UK & USA bestselling Author/Poet. D.G. has written and published 16 books over the last 8 years and is currently penning book 17, FINDING YOU, due for release September 2018. She is represented in the USA by Hershman Rights Management (HRM Literary Agents) A prolific writer with a deep passion for the written word. Her first book, Amelia’s Story, has inspired people the world over and has been downloaded over 400k times worldwide. Amelia’s Story is the author’s true-life story. It was never intended for publication. Originally, D.G wrote it for her daughter.
D.G. then went on to write military romance, romantic suspense, romantic drama, contemporary romance novels and poetry books, which have all been received well. The success of Amelia’s Story led the author to the BBC RADIO WM 95.6 FM, in 2014/15 on the Adrian Goldberg breakfast show, where she lent her time as a weekly Headline Reviewer for 12 months. A quote from the author, “It can be quite daunting discussing the day’s headlines knowing thousands of people are tuning in… You never know when you are going to mess up! Thankfully, with lady luck on my side, I managed to wing it… ”
Following on from the BBC Radio, D.G has since been interviewed by, Award-Winning Radio DJ, Graham Torrington on the late night show at BBC Radio WM and David Driver Author & DJ at Drystone Radio FM. Most recently, D.G was fortunate to be interviewed By American Radio Host/author/actor, Cyrus Webb at CoversationsLive.com Radio for Mississippi.
When The Ground Shakes
Preparing children for an unpredictable event, such as an earthquake, is one of the best ways to reduce trauma and maintain children’s mental and emotional well-beings. We recommend reading and practicing the skills introduced in this book on a regular basis. When children know what to do, they are less likely to be scarred by the traumatic event.
This adorable picture book can also be used post-earthquake to help kids cope with their emotions and help them make sense of what has happened.
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Irit Almog, MA, LMFT is a Psychotherapist, Certified Disaster Mental Health Response Specialist, trainer, author, educator and a mother, providing high quality care to children and the adults in their life. After witnessing the traumatic effects that disasters can have on a child’s emotional wellness, she made it her life mission to empower parents and educators with the tools to support themselves and the children’s in their lives. Irit wrote the book “When the Ground Shakes” and self-help crisis coping kits that guide children through stressful life changing events. Irit travels the world, training and teaching teachers and adults how to provide support to themselves and to children in the wake of unpredictable disasters such as earthquakes. Irit’s “When the Ground Shakes” book and workbooks are highly recommended and certain to be an enduringly popular and kid-friendly, addition to any family, preschool, elementary school and community libraries. The book entertains children while it shows them how to understand and master their feelings in an unpredictable event such as an earthquake.
Letter from a Rake
Millie Ashton thinks London society is full of empty headed, arrogant fools, but when she meets Alex Radley she falls desperately in love with him.
Fearing humiliation and rejection, she decides the only sensible thing to do is take her pride and go home to India. Men like Alex do not fall for girls like her, whereas every girl loses her heart to Alexander the Great.
Alex Radley, Marquess of Brooke rules the ton like a god, but even gods are known to fall for mere mortals. With his wealth and title, wooing Millie should be an easy task. But when his passionate love letter to her goes astray, Alex’s life becomes more than a little complicated.
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Born in England, but raised in Australia, Sasha has a love for both countries. Having her heart in two places has created a love for travel, which at last count was to over 55 countries. A travel guide is always on her pile of new books to read.
Before accidently enrolling in a course for romance writers a number of years ago, she had always had a love of history.
Her first published novel, Letter from a Rake was a finalist for the 2014 Romantic Book of the Year. Sasha lives with her husband, daughter and a cat who demands a starring role in the next book. She is always seeking new hiding spots for her secret chocolate stash.
Sasha’s novels are set around the Regency period in England, Scotland and France. Her books are centered on the themes of love, honour and family.
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The Duke of Strathmore
London Lords
B.O.U.N.D.
This book is a non-fiction, insider’s look at BDSM. I wrote it to dispel the myth from the fact. There are quirky anecdotes, a few jokes, a ton of fact, and my personal favorite; it is written in a diary format. I did not want another dry and boring BDSM book on the market. I did not want another fiction novel about BDSM that continues to harm our community.
I wanted to bring all the elements, good and bad, into the light. It is important to know what you are getting into before diving in. Would you jump headfirst into murky water not knowing the depth or if there was a rock on the river floor? No, so why do that with BDSM! This is first-hand knowledge, written by an author that has been a part of this lifestyle, realistically all my life and practically for the last 14 years.
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Who am I? I always hate writing these things. I never really know what to say. So I will say this: Writing has always been a passion of mine. I am a single parent of a grown young man. I have a 40 hr a week job that I love. I have the sweetest rescue puppy in the world. I am multifaceted. I am a huge nerd and gamer.
I code my own websites. I publish my own books. I grew up in Tampa, Fl and as such have always felt the call of the sea. I am making plans to move back to the coast but not Florida. I am currently working on getting my legal name changed. I am truly following my dreams. This is not something many people take the time to do and I am doing it intentionally.
I have a few really fantastic people in my life that encourage and support me in all my endeavors. Other than that, I am just like all of you. I go to work, pay my bills, walk my dog, and put my pants on one leg at a time. I have always enjoyed that saying, although, this is the first time I’ve been able to use it. I am highly sarcastic and love to have fun.
Niagara & The Mosquitoes Adventures
About Niagara & The Mosquitoes Adventures
Product Description: When the whole universe gets fog to kill breeding of Mosquitoes, and fishes are placed in all of the rivers and lakes where mosquitoes lay. Niagara and the other mosquitoes who survive have to come up with a plan to stop the wicked humans from trying to kill them all, but when the scientists experiments turn into a disaster, a whole new breed of mosquitoes are born and the scientists have to find a way to destroy the new breed of mosquitoes before the humans become extinct.
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Cindy Samantha Christmas (born 27 February 1985) is a Barbadian Author, Illustrator & Poet. Cindy is mostly known for her poetry. Born Saint Michael, Barbados. Cindy was raised by her Dominican grandmother MariAnne Christmas, but around January 1998, Cindy moved to the United States with her mother, who lived in Maryland. Cindy began to write at age thirteen as a way of expressing her feelings, because she was very shy.
Cindy’s last name Christmas was originated from Dominica. At eighteen years old, Cindy decided to write a poem as a joke and send it to an online company, but to her surprise the company liked her poem and wanted her permission to publish her poem into their book.
Cindy has written over 16 books, 4 children’s books, 3 novels, and 9 poetry books.
The Risk
I’ve lost my goddamn mind.
I slept with my best friend’s brother.
This has to stop. Now. Except I’m hooked.
I wanted a fresh start for college. New town, new people. Right?
My new best friend made me part of her family.
I’ve never felt so welcome.
Then I met Logan. Her brother.
Playboy reputation. Star player. Gorgeous everything.
His sky blue eyes locked on mine and shot a love-struck bullet right into me.
I was so totally screwed.
If my best friend finds out, I’ll be on her naughty list for good.
So she can’t find out.
Except now I’m pregnant.
Time to run.
I never thought I’d see Logan again,
But there he is on the city street.
I know I should tell him the truth, but I just can’t.
It’s too late for us. We missed our chance.
Do we really deserve a second one?
The Risk is 2 Story Compilation comprising of
Part 1: A Best Friend’s Brother Romance and
Part 2: A Brother’s Best Friend Romance
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I am a contemporary romance writer who loves strong, gorgeous, Greek God-like alpha men who love protecting their sassy and sexy women.
I am very honored to have many of my books hitting the TOP 100 on Amazon’s paid store!!!
Blaize and the Maven
The first in a captivating new series of romance and magic, family and loyalty, love and power.
Blaize is a powerful but inexperienced energetic. Having only just passed her first Chakra Trial, Manipura, fire, she’s sent to Canada to an expert Maven to be trained in her second energy; Ajna, or the mind.
Her Maven is the mysterious and reluctant Cuinn, who has problems of his own – disturbing dreams that appear to show him as the only thing standing against the destruction of the energetics race. When he realises that Blaize is also in the prophecy, he realises her training needs accelerating – but he’s not prepared for the heat she brings to his normally calm and ordered world.
But both Cuinn and Blaize have secrets of their own, secrets that could destroy their partnership before it’s begun – a partnership that has a far greater importance than they realise.
Will they learn to trust each other before it’s too late?
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British born psychologist, management consultant and digital nomad Ellen Bard has traveled extensively, studied yoga and Krav Maga (though she still considers herself a beginner in both), is obsessed with productivity and personal growth, and reads voraciously. She currently lives in a tiny house in Thailand where the main feature is a hammock.
Love Under Fire
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Twenty-one Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other bestselling authors bring you a heart-pounding collection of 21 BRAND NEW, NEVER-BEFORE PUBLISHED stories all in one amazing romantic suspense limited time boxed set.
From around the edges of everyday existence lurks mystery, betrayal, greed, and death.
With every turn of the page, feel the heat of adrenaline as fear lights up the night. Fight alongside the tenacious heroes and heroines as they battle for survival. They’ll put everything on the line to thwart the evil coming after them.
They want to trust in the power of love. But is it enough?
Love Under Fire has already ranked as a #1 Amazon Bestseller in multiple categories and a #1 Hot New Romance Anthology.
PLUS, every sale benefits PetsForVets.com.
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The Love Under Fire box set authors have a multitude of awards including the Silver Falchion Award, USA Best Book Award, EPPIE Award, Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal, Indie Reader Discovery Award, the Pacific Northwest Literary Contest Award, and The Romance Reviews Reader’s Choice Award.
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