About SWEET KAROLINE by Catherine Astolfo

The book opens with Anne Williams’ statement: “I met Ethan on the day that I killed Karoline.” But is she really a murderer? Or was her best friend’s death a tragic accident for which Anne blames herself?

This compelling central character embarks on a roller-coaster ride of self-exploration that causes the reader to breathlessly follow her. Throughout an emotional breakdown in the present, sprinkled with flashes of the past that brought her to this point, Anne questions her own decisions, her lifestyle, and those of the friend she thought she knew.

The gripping twists of Karoline’s duplicity are vicious and deplorable. Entangled in the arms of the homicide detective who helped rule the case a suicide, Anne learns about love and decides to trace her complicated past. The journey uncovers dark family secrets, an unusual history, and criminal treachery. Anne must answer the classic question, “Who am I?” amidst a backdrop of racial tension, lies and hidden chronicles. Eventually she has to confront a deadly threat before the entire story becomes clear. Can she survive this maelstrom of revelation and betrayal with her sanity intact?

“Sweet Karoline is a cleverly constructed psychological novel of perceptions, with a narration that brought to mind Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and a plot reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith.” The Crime Thriller Hound

“A deliciously vibrant portrait that realistically muddles good and evil.” KIRKUS Review

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Catherine Astolfo is an Arthur Ellis winning author of short stories, four novels in The Emily Taylor Mystery Series (The Bridgeman, Victim, Legacy and Seventh Fire), standalone Sweet Karoline, two novellas, Up Chit Creek and Operation Babylift, and four screenplays. Her novels have been optioned for film by Sisbro & Co. Inc. A Derrick Murdoch award winner, she is a Past President of Crime Writers of Canada, and a member of both Mesdames of Mayhem and Sisters in Crime. Catherine is also a motivational speaker, wife, mom, gramma, great-gramma (really? must’ve started when she was 12). www.catherineastolfo.com

About Tabernacle (Super Pulse 3) by Dave Conifer

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Book 3 of the Super Pulse Series.

Surviving an EMP when you’re not a Navy Seal or a prepper. Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

After several attacks on the unfinished settlement at Tabernacle, Nick Mercator argues that hunkering down is not the answer. There will never be enough ideas and skills inside the walls to remake their world. A chance encounter with a dying invader presents both a spiritual dilemma and an opportunity to act on his beliefs.

The subsequent recruiting mission to a beleaguered town goes badly when an army of marauders attacks its helpless citizens. Saving them will require the reluctant leaders at Tabernacle to send help. Even that won’t resolve Nick’s moral issue, however. He can find peace only by taking on an even more perilous task.

Sometimes, thinking outside the box is all about what we have inside…

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Dave Conifer is a fitness fanatic living in South Jersey with his wife and three kids. When he’s not coaching wrestling or soccer or working as a scout leader, Dave likes to read non-fiction history. He also blogs about the 48 solar panels on his roof and how they generate all the power needed by his family of five.

Last year he and his family opened a Polish Water Ice shop on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. If you’re there, stop on by.

About Creating a Season to Remember: The New Youth-Sports-Coaching Leadership Guide

Why do youth sports coaches continually throw away their chance to make a positive difference in their players’ lives? Creating a Season to Remember gives the well-intentioned but unprepared coaches the means not to do that. Through heartfelt personal stories and letters from concerned parents, and analysis of some of the coaching “Greats,” former Major Leaguer and longtime youth sports coach Jack Perconte gives people the opportunity to influence athletes and their parents’ lives in positive ways. This step-by-step coaching training gives the necessary methods to deal with every challenging player and situation that may occur in a coach’s season.

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Jack Perconte has dedicated his post-major league baseball career to helping youth and their parents through the complicated world of youth sports. Combining his playing, coaching and parenting experiences he continues to help create better sporting experiences for both athletes and their parents with his writings. He has dealt with coaches as a parent and parents as a coach while raising three kids and details much of these in his books. From his coaching experiences, he has found ways of influencing both kids, and their parents, in life changing ways.

About The Dragon’s Cave

A DRAGON’S TREASURE. A GREEDY KING.
ONLY ONE BOY CAN RESTORE BALANCE BEFORE THE MOUNTAIN IMPLODES.

Seamus’s day couldn’t get any worse. His best friend stops speaking to him, his cross-country coach benches him, and lightning strikes him down. When he wakes up, he finds himself trapped in the body of a squire in medieval Scotland.

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Rose-Marie Lyttle is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author under another pen name. As Rose-Marie, she writes middle grade and young adult fantasy novels. She is also a contemporary dance teacher, Feldenkrais Practitioner(R), energy worker and mom to two lights who shine up her world. She splits her time between Tucson, AZ and Taos, NM.

About False Signs

Retired Special Forces Sergeant John Taylor is hiding from the world. Still dealing with his captivity by terrorists and a near fatal collaboration with Federal law enforcement, Taylor has sworn off any future heroics. A call from a friend inside the FBI and the pleas of a desperate mother force Taylor to change his mind and end his self-imposed exile.

A National Guard armory has been destroyed in west Texas, and all eyes have turned to a possible terrorist attack by a missing corporal. The agents in charge of the investigation refuse to listen to claims of innocence by the soldier’s mother, forcing her to turn to Taylor and hope his first-hand experience with terrorists and past success with the Bureau can help clear her son’s name.

Granted access to the case but saddled with a beautiful yet stern Bureau baby-sitter, Taylor runs head first into the FBI’s refusal to look beyond their preferred theory of the crime. As he digs up clues of a frame-up and hints of a much more sinister motive behind the explosion, Taylor races to stop a dark conspiracy hiding in small-town America.

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Travis Starnes is a freelance writer living in Texas. He has a love for books of all types, but preferably sci-fi, mystery and the occasional history. His passion is creating worlds and characters that live and breathe, letting them loose, and seeing what happens.

About Darkness Rising by Brenden Christopher Gardner

The Great Fate churns once again.

A disgraced knight is tormented by endless nightmares. A young priestess sits the Crystal Throne of Mother God, lost in a murky mire. Smugglers and pirates reap and pillage every shore; the realm a battleground for their debauchery. A resentful and battled hardened imperator is tempted by a power he does not understand. All the while savants and seers are wracked by visions of a cold and desolate future.

The pieces are upon the board, and the immortals are moving the subservient to their will.

A recurrence has come again. The Time of Ascendance is at hand.

Yet, will it unfold as it has for centuries? Or, is there some sliver of hope to challenge what was ordained long ago? Whatever comes to pass, it is a time of change and upheaval, of secrets and trysts, of swords and fell sorcery.

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Brenden Christopher Gardner is an adult educator in the Greater Toronto Area. When he is not teaching, he immerses himself in fantasy stories and worlds. In November of 2016 he crafted his own fantasy world by publishing the first entry in the Ancient Vestiges series, Darkness Rising. He is working on the second book, Chains of Fate, for publication in Fall 2017.

About The Sword to Unite

It is an age of rebirth in the kingdoms of the north. Cedric, lord of Orford, a man plagued by dark dreams of omens, and the true heir of the long lost hero Adalgott, is thrown from his peaceful life and swept into a world of chaos. When a mysterious tome is stolen, Cedric sets out to avenge a fallen friend, and uncover the truth behind his visions. In the Kingdom of Lorine, Cedric learns of an ancient prophecy, and the return of Azrael, a wraith of corruption and decay. Cedric must find the blade, Geanlaecan, for only in its burning power can the dark tide of Azrael, the ancient enemy of man, be turned back. Cedric does not journey alone, lords, mercenaries, magi, and beasts of forests flock to the banner of the true king. In Midland, a kingdom to the north, Cedric meets with politicking lords, and the grizzled Vine King, ruler of Prav and master of Midland. Cedric must unite the squabbling lords of the north if there is to be any chance of survival.

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Peter Hopkins is from Saint Louis, Missouri. Peter Completed The Sword to Unite for his senior thesis, where he researched the classic legends of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic culture, including the mythos of King Arthur. Peter loves all things fantasy, especially anything resembling Tolkien’s work.

About Major O

She’s never had an orgasm and I’ve never failed a mission.
I spent 12 years going through hell as a major in the marines.
But hell itself wasn’t enough to make me forget Abby Greenwood.
I said I’d never set foot in this town again.
Yet here I am… and there she is…
With her perfect body and alluring eyes, begging me to take her.
I never got to taste her before I left.
But now I’ve got a second chance.
My new mission? Deliver her first “O”.
My weapon? Ten inches of all-American muscle.

I’m the only one who can give her what she needs,
even if it takes me all night.

Major O is a full-length standalone romance with steamy extras included! R.R. Banks loves happy ever afters and hates cliffhangers just as much as you do!

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As a man who is a hopeless romantic, your support is my inspiration. I’m excited to have you read my books so we can go on the hottest romance adventure together!

About Magical Love Messages Between Kindred Spirits

Love is the one thing so many of us desire to have in our lives, and yet, it is the one thing we so often fail to achieve. Sometimes we think we have to do or say something to earn someone’s love when what we fail to realize is that love, first and foremost, comes from God. Every kind of love we feel and share with others is a result of our spiritual connection to a power much greater and stronger than all of us.

When reflecting on the nature of this book, I wanted to share many poetic works I have drafted in the realm of love and friendship. I feel they are two sides of the same coin and the very things we need to sustain us and give us life. When it comes to matters of the heart, I have truly had some interesting experiences, so many of which I did not understand, yet the lessons I learned were profound.

The one thing I have learned is that love exists in many different ways and in many diverse forms in the areas of spiritual connections. Through the power of kindred spirits, I have come to feel the kind of love God wants each of us to enjoy and experience. I have heard that it is better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all, and through the content of this book, you will feel the great power of love in many unique ways.

If you feel a lack of love in your life or feel you have not experienced the power of spiritual love in its greatest form, I sincerely hope you will enjoy this book, Magical Love Messages Between Kindred Spirits, as each chapter contains a special message of love that will transform your life and your connections with those to whom you feel special ties.

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After writing my books, Spiritual Whispers to the Soul and Living and Learning from the Healing Waters of Courage, I decided that my current book, Magical Love Messages Between Kindred Spirits, would be my chance to share my heartfelt sentiments in the realm of love and friendship. As we all know, life is hard enough so I felt I would let the words of this book stir the heart strings of those needing to feel a deeper kind of love and friendship that is truly felt between kindred souls whether through family, friends, a romantic partner, a pet, or even an acquaintance destined to become closer. My goal is to continue to write more books under my publishing name, Colorful Spirit Publishing, in the hopes to keep encouraging the hearts and souls of many looking for some happiness in their lives.

For more information on where to find all my books, please visit my website or feel free to email me at hwright@colorfulspirit.com. I hope that the words I continue to write inspire you to know everything has a way of working out for the best as along as true love is in the mix.

About Success From Within

Are you making the most of your time each day? How are your habits stacking up? Are they creating the life you want? This short read is full of wisdom and tips on how to approach life with meaning, get around pressures of society, and define success for yourself. You are destined to win if you believe it within.

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Elijah Windsor is a freelance software developer and has been working remotely for the last ten years. His office is in his backpack so he can work from the neighborhood swimming pool or a bench in a local Starbucks. Elijah practices staying healthy and likes making healthy smoothies. When not writing code or writing books he enjoys spending time with his family, playing basketball, and taking trips to the beach.

About Connect with Your Teenager: A Guide to Everyday Parenting by Albert and Leonida Mrgole

Connect with your teenager is a book for all parents. It serves as a complete guide for long-term positive parenting of teenagers or even younger children. It is written for parents as users in everyday situations from the perspective of their teenagers’ needs. In the book, you will find very practical parenting tips for when you don’t know how to deal with teenagers, how to make kids listen, how to motivate teens, how to renew broken bonds etc.

You will learn about your part of responsibility in your relationship, and how to gain parental power. The second part guides you through typical everyday examples, and simple innovative parental tips on how to keep the connection with your teenager and create responses so that you can support the safe and healthy development of your child. It can serve as your personalized book with your own important notes.
Foreword was written by Dr. Sue Johnson and Dr. Leanne Campbell.

We wrote the book thinking about, and remembering, all the people we had met at our consultations, who had struggled with how to deal with problems with their teens.

The book is for every parent who, at a certain point in their life, felt like:
•they aren’t equipped with appropriate experience;
•they grew up in different times or cultural situations and aren’t sure how to adjust (most of us did);
•they stopped participating actively and thoughtfully in parenting, because they were excluded from, or encountered, disagreements in their partnership;
•giving up because of feeling powerless;
•they have no support from their partner;
•they don’t know what to do, because they had already used up all their ideas.

However, this book can also be useful for:
•single parents;
•teachers who haven’t necessarily had experience with their own teens;
•parents of younger children (who will soon enough become teens), helping prepare us in advance.

This book will give you the willpower and a reason to begin tackling your “problems,” as well as the power to be patient. Our teens are always smart. Don’t forget that, in this period, they are the only smart beings in the house—at least that’s what they think. They have answers to everything, and lots of words, power and energy. Parents usually fall silent, powerless, because we struggle to find the right words in the heat of the moment. This book is a genuine warehouse of pacifying “ammunition” in the form of words and ways how to use these words in a non-conflictive, but assertive, manner.

This book may be used in several ways. When writing, we were guided by the principle that parents should be able to use this book in practice. It provides you with two options of reading:

1. You can start at the beginning, and follow the step-by-step path to self growth.
2. The book is divided into sections, so you can easily find and resolve the problem at hand.

Our focus in the book is on the awareness of your role as parents. When thinking about changes, they should be oriented towards the notion of how we could change ourselves as parents, not how we stay the same and force our children to change.

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ea (51) and Albert (54) are an established and well-known psychotherapist team from Slovenia, Europe, who have been working together for more than 15 years.
They have been running workshops for parents and partners. Having to raise four children, they came up with methods significantly different from others as their perception of a home environment did not quite fit in with others. With the help from our background, we, as therapists, came up with solutions to complicated situations in a more elegant, simplified and effective manner. In the book, we gathered practical experiences as real-life case studies for parents, each case study illustrating one of the points from our workshops—practical information that is easy for anyone to relate to and apply at home.

Leonida is a trained reflex therapist, and learned about psychology and parenting techniques “in the field.” Albert, on the other hand, has a Ph.D. in sociology, and studied psychology, doing field work with marginal youth in a residential care institution. He developed a program for rescuing school dropouts, which received the European Innovation Award. He has been a practicing psychotherapist since 2003. Albert initially trained in the systemic family therapy, while he and Leonida continued their studies with imago clinical therapy techniques, and began working as co-therapists. Since 2013, they have been training in emotionally-focused therapy (Susan Johnson’s approach), and organizing training seminars and workshops for groups, as well as assisting individuals and families.