About AMAZING MATILDA by Bette A. Stevens

AMAZING MATILDA (Ages 4-11 + grownups love it too) Friendship, patience and persistence are among the lessons learned in this gem of a tale featuring an amazing monarch butterfly. This award-winning picture book adventure follows the monarch’s life cycle as Matilda embarks on a quest to make her dream of flying come true. Matilda emerges from her egg on a milkweed leaf, she stretches and yawns and wants to fly. Sparrow tells her to follow her dreams. Toad and Rabbit laugh at a creature without wings who wants to fly. You’ll be as amazed as Toad and Rabbit, as you follow Matilda from egg to imago. Science, art and wise lessons for children—all wrapped up in a tale the kids will want to read/hear again and again!

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Author Bio:
Inspired by nature and human nature, author Bette A. Stevens is a retired elementary and middle school teacher, a wife, mother of two and grandmother of five. Stevens lives in central Maine with her husband on their 37-acre farmstead where she enjoys reading, writing, gardening, walking and reveling in the beauty of nature. She advocates for children and families, for childhood literacy and for the conservation of monarch butterflies (milkweed is the only plant that monarch caterpillars will eat).
Stevens’s children’s book, THE TANGRAM ZOO and WORD PUZZLES TOO! was first published in 1997 by Windswept House Publishing, Mt. Desert, ME; a second edition was self-published by the author in 2012. AMAZING MATILDA , Stevens’s second children’s book, self-published in 2012 won a 2013 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (Honorable Mention for Excellence in Children’s Literature – Ages 6 and older category) and also placed #9 on The 2013 Gittle List for Self-published Children’s Picture Books. Stevens has written articles for ECHOES, The Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture based in Caribou, Maine. In 2013, the author published her first book for the YA/Adult audience: PURE TRASH, a short story of a boy growing up in rural New England in a family whose poverty and alcoholism mark him as a target for bullying by young and old alike. This short story is a prequel to Stevens’s début novel DOG BONE SOUP (KCT International Literary Award Top Finalist 2017). Stevens is currently working MY MAINE, Haiku through the Seasons—a poetry and photography collection to be released MAY 2019.

About ADVENTURES OF A MAD SCIENTIST by Mike Bloemer

Two young teens must help an eccentric mad scientist save the world from an army of evil robots. A thrilling read for kids featuring a diverse cast. Intended for ages 10 and up.

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Mike Bloemer is the author of several kid books, including THE SCHOOL BULLY IS MY BROTHER, RENEGADE, and THE ADVENTURES OF HAIRBALL AND ‘HOT FLASH’ GRANNY.

About Crushing on Kate by Theresa Paolo

It was love at first sight until he opened his mouth.

Born and raised in the small town of Red Maple Falls, it’s impossible for Kate Hayes to meet a guy she hasn’t known since first grade. When she is approached by a ridiculously attractive, unfamiliar face during one of her glass blowing demonstrations, she can’t help but get her hopes up. Until he opens his mouth.

Caleb James established his bike shop in the middle of nowhere to escape his past. When the owner of the adjoining business blocks his parking spots to put on her “arts and crafts hour” he has no choice but to shut her down. What he doesn’t expect is the fresh-faced beauty who refuses to accommodate his requests. Nor does he expect for the small town to be filled with big personalities who feel the need to force their way into his life, refusing to leave him alone.

While Caleb continues to fight Kate, and tries to keep his distance, holding on to a vow he made to himself to never trust again, she tears down every wall he’s ever built. Will the promise of a future with Kate be enough to break the promise of his past?

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Theresa Paolo lives on Long Island, NY with her fiancé and their fish. She is the author of NA and Adult contemporary romances. Her debut novel (NEVER) AGAIN, released in Fall 2013 with Berkley (Penguin) and the companion novel (ONCE) AGAIN released Summer 2014. Mad About Matt, the first book in her new Red Maple Falls series, released March 2017.

She loves to write heartfelt romances with a dash of fun and a side of spice. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, brewery hopping, daydreaming, wasting time on Pinterest, or can be found chatting away on Twitter and Facebook. She also writes YA romance under Tessa Marie.

About The Boss (Fire’s Edge #1)

Finn Conleth leads his team of enforcer dragon shifters with an iron fist and a cold heart. Every dragon seeks his destined mate, but the process to turn the woman he once thought was his killed her and devastated him. He will never risk his heart again. His team is his family now. When his body eventually gives out, he’ll leave, living his last days alone.

Delaney Hamilton moved across the country to escape the freak fires that plague her. But when another suspicious fire erupts and rapidly escalates around her, her hopes for a new life go up in smoke. She has no choice but to turn to the mysterious men who come to her aid.

Finn knows the fire is dragon-caused, which puts Delaney’s problems directly in his jurisdiction. No matter how her wounded grey eyes call to every part of him, he refuses to risk her life in the mating process.

Until another dragon threatens to claim Delaney for his own, and Finn has to sacrifice everything to keep her alive…

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Abigail grew up consuming books and exploring the world through her writing. She attempted to find a practical career related to her favorite pastime by earning a degree in English Rhetoric (Technical Writing). However, she swiftly discovered that writing without imagination is not nearly as fun as writing with it. No matter the genre, she loves to write feisty heroines, sexy heroes who deserve them, and a cast of lovable characters to surround them (and maybe get their own stories).

About Survivors of the Sun

Georgia was not a survivalist and she did not have a bug out plan. She was a happily married woman, at home with three children and their Boston Terriers. In an instant everything changed. The power went off, and no-one knew why. By nightfall, Nathan, her husband had still not returned. In time, the water stopped running. With only three days of food left in the house and dwindling water supplies, she has no choice but to flee Kansas City.
Their world changes dramatically, entering a post-apocalyptic age, with looting, rioting and violence becoming the norm. As they escape across country, Georgia has to overcome her fears and keep her loved ones safe. Together they face heart wrenching decisions as they encounter the inconceivable.
Their journey leads them through a harsh new reality. The struggles and hardships that they endure, threaten their very existence, testing their loyalty, fortitude and love for each other in ways they could never have imagined.

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Mia Kingslie has always been fascinated about the human response to apocalyptic scenarios and in her book, ‘Survivors of the Sun’, she explores the day to day responses of the ordinary person living in an ordinary urban setting. She writes the kind of books that she would like to read herself.

An avid world traveler, Mia uses her experiences of living and working in Europe, United States and the South Pacific region to build characters that lead you on exciting journeys and leave you wondering what will happen next.

Mia Kingslie is married and has two boisterous dogs, and an extremely bossy cat that just moved in one day. A goldsmith by day and a writer by night, Mia also enjoys renovating houses and establishing productive gardens for friends and neighbors to enjoy.

About The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

This book gives you the knowledge needed to understand what is happening in the AI world, what future jobs will look like, and what upcoming trends and products you can expect. Through this book, you will
•Learn the core technologies of AI today and the historical context behind them.
•Get a behind-the-curtain view of major AI products, including Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s AlphaGo.
•Understand where jobs will go and what new products can be created.
•Know what’s required to become a data scientist and how to hire one.

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Junling Hu is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. She has spent the past 20 years leading AI research, product development and public education.

Dr. Hu was chair of the AI Frontiers Conference, which brings together Industrial AI leaders to share the cutting-edge development in AI. She is the Co-founder and CEO of AIPro.io. Dr. Hu was the director of data mining at Samsung Electronics from 2013 to 2015, where she led a team to create intelligent AI products for large-scale recommender systems. Before Samsung, Dr. Hu led a data science team at PayPal, delivering AI solutions for marketing, sales, and customer support and operation improvement. Before joining PayPal, Dr. Hu led a data mining team at eBay, solving problems of large-scale structured and unstructured data. Before joining eBay, Dr. Hu managed a data mining group at Robert Bosch corporation, where she led the data mining effort on large-scale healthcare data and natural language systems.

Dr. Hu was an assistant professor of computer information systems at University of Rochester from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Hu received her PhD in AI from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

About Cancer? Depression? Loss? Sickness? On How Unethical Behavior Can Influence Your Health and Fate

The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that unethical behavior can have severe consequences for the health and fate of a person. People often do not see the connection between unethical behavior and negative and scary events that happen in their lives and in the lives of their close relatives later. Those scary events could be physical or mental sickness such as cancer or depression, lack of success in personal or professional life, health or behavioral problems of children, injuries and accidents, and more. Violations of ethics can trigger processes, consisting of warnings and events, intended to correct a person’s behavior, character, and outlook. This book describes various violations and their root causes, possible consequences of those violations, and the ways of improving the situation. Many examples are given. The book also discusses how religion could help you to overturn some negative processes in your life. It is important to have an open mind while reading this book.

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The author of the book holds an advanced degree in applied mathematics. After spending decades studying scientific research, the author came to realize that modern science with its extreme focus on materialism cannot truly explain the way the Universe works. More specifically, science is great at describing the mechanics of how processes occur at a physical level, but it does not explain why those processes happen in the first place. Moreover, certain scientific inventions can become destructive for humankind, if used unethically. These thoughts, combined with very negative personal experience with unethical behavior, prompted this book.

About Jesus is the Sun by Kerry Wells

I interacted with Jesus as the consciousness of the Sun. I wrote this book to share my interactions with Christ and God, and my experiences of heaven and hell.

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I am just an ordinary person who had some out of the ordinary experiences, and I wrote this book to share them with others.

About Driven

Who says you can’t find the love of your life while you’re getting your tire fixed?

Even IF your boss is actively trying to close her garage?

Driven is the oldest woman-owned garage in Oakland – and the pride of the lesbian community.

At least, it is until the uber-competitive former race car driver Mindy Rose shows up and opens her own garage, complete with chair massages and a sushi bar.

Mindy’s out to destroy Driven, a fact that galls her good-hearted, and very ethical Irish assistant Kate.

This is just reinforced when Kate has an emergency blow out, and is forced to go into Driven for a repair. Instantly, she finds herself drawn to the tall, tantalizing co-owner Lizzy.

That’s when things get … well … complicated. Especially because Kate is an undocumented worker who seriously needs her job.

Soon Kate finds herself hatching a secret scheme to save Driven, while falling hard for Lizzy. Yet, Lizzy has no idea she’s part of the Mindy’s nasty operation. Or even that Mindy is out to get her.

Can sweet Kate and passionate Lizzy finally find the love they’ve been looking for forever?

Or will Mindy find out and bring them and Driven down – and get Kate deported in the process?

And when is Kate going to tell Lizzy who she actually is?

Try out Driven the first book in the series for only 99 cents. It’s just the beginning of the wild ride that is the Oaktown Girls series.

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Suzanne Falter is an author, speaker, blogger and podcaster who has published both fiction and non-fiction, as well as essays. Her queer fiction titles include the funny romantic suspense series Transformed and her lesbian fiction series Oaktown Girls. She lives with her wife in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About The Bardess of Rhulon

For generations among the Dwarven folk of Rhulon, bards have always been male. Rose Greenleaf dreams of becoming a Bard. Her mother calls Rose as a hopeless spinster at seventeen. Dwarven maidens should be married by now! Desperate, Rose flees an arranged marriage for a new life among the tall folk in Tirangel. She scrapes a living in a tavern until Prince Culain Ironheart of Rhulon employs her as his Bardess. Rose’s fortune has sinister edges. A changeling spy shadows the court. Culain has a secret agenda. When Rose is attacked, the trauma unleashes a rare bard magic called the glam rhapsodé. This magic cursed many bards in legend. Tormented by ominous visions, Rose struggles to control her untrained powers. Can she save Culain from the changeling? Can she save herself before the glam rhapsodé curse consumes her?

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Verna McKinnon is a fantasy author of heroines. She is the author of the novels, The Bardess of Rhulon, Gate of Souls & Tree of Bones. Fantasy is her genre of choice, though she has some science fiction in the works. You can read her blog and updates, plus some of her previously published short stories at her website. Follow Verna on Twitter & Facebook for the latest on her writing life as a fantasy author.