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1. Micco, Anguta’s Reign by Dormaine G

   About Micco, Anguta’s Reign by Dormaine G:

   Micco, a captivating Native American man with a desirable physique and statuesque features, radiates a mysterious allure. Living on the reservation with his unapproachable father, he doesn’t believe in the old ways and works as a cop in the local town. The only reason he lives on the land is Nara, his childhood friend and the love of his life, who is married to a cruel reservation man.

   Waking up in the heart of a murderous scene, he flees for his life, unfamiliar with his surroundings or how he arrived there. To his horror, he’s assigned to the case. As he works with the local detective, more murders transpire with unusual, terrifying sightings of wolves.

   His behavior starts to drastically change, forcing others to take notice. Although trying to avoid the inevitable, Micco is forced to accept the undesirable truth, unable to fight what has been awakened, and all that he has forgotten is finally revealed.

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   Author Bio:
   I may be a nurse by profession but an author by heart. I have been writing stories for many years, both in my head and on paper because I’ve always had a love for books ever since spending Saturdays at the library as a young child. Within a book, the mind can travel to worlds of the imagination and the beyond.

   I finally took the plunge and published my first novel last year, a young adult urban fantasy titled Connor and two adult horror short stories tit led Madame Lilly, Voodoo Priestess and Madame Lilly, Voodoo Priestess: Soulless . Micco, Anguta’s Reign, a psychological thriller, was released November 3rd 2014. They are just the beginning of many more books to come as I stay locked up in my office in Colorado spinning more tales

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2. The Man Who Loved Too Much – Book 1: Archipelago

   About The Man Who Loved Too Much – Book 1: Archipelago:

   This is the first of a trilogy, both whimsical without being frivolous and severe without being melodramatic. Mostly, it’s good fun! Poor Billy Green! When he was just turning four, his father tried to throw him in the trash. He was a smart kid but that just seemed to create enemies. His mom did everything to protect him. But this was Detroit, armpit of the wasteland! Catholic school didn’t help much, except the time he got his first kiss from an atheist nun. Home life was dismal. Was his father capable of anything but drinking beer and farting? And what was with that neighbor who made puppets and tried to molest Billy? Golly! Detroit was sucking the life out of him. At such a young age! Then adolescence swirled around him. Like water in a toilet bowl. High school was a B movie. Only without a plot. So finally he did something about it. Billy ran away … to college. Cornell University. That was a good move for sure! He studied hard, lost his virginity, met the love of his life. Things were definitely looking up! What could possibly go wrong? Isn’t that what we always ask?

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   Author Bio:
   John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter and music producer, and a bipolar humanist. He has spent his life trying to resolve the intrinsic clash between the metaphysical purity of Buddhism and the overwhelming appeal of narcissism. Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend college, the development his social skills and world view was arrested at age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.

   He is author of eight novels, four of which are coming out in 2014 and 2015. He has also had over 30 short stories, 7 poems, and numerous political articles published in both print and online magazines. Currently in development is a new novel set in Japan, another in Africa, and a creative non-fiction work, allegedly an account of his extensive travels, but more likely the product of the voices in his head which have plagued him since puberty.

   Author Rachel has been traveling through and living in over twenty-six countries since leaving America August of 2006. He is now somewhat rooted in a small traditional farming village in Japan near Osaka, where he proudly tends his small but promising vegetable garden.

   You can follow his adventures and developing world view at: http://jdrachel.com.

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3. The Merchant of Death: A Mayan Mystery by Cécile Chabot

   About The Merchant of Death: A Mayan Mystery by Cécile Chabot:

   A corpse. A wrongly accused hunter. A crippled painter with an unquenchable thirst for justice.

   In the year 679 AD, Xhól – a painter, a sculptor… and a cripple – discovers the remains of a wealthy merchant just returned from a trade expedition to the North. Quickly, Xhól and Thirteen Jaguar, the shrewd high priest, discover that poison has been used.

   Unwittingly Xhól directs suspicion on an innocent man, One Hunter. Caught in the intrigues plaguing the royal court and sneered at because of his limp, Xhól begins a dangerous quest for truth that will push his limits and test his resolve.

   When the news come that mighty Tikal is launching an attack on Dos Pilas, the warriors ready themselves for combat. The lord of Dos Pilas wants to close the case of the murdered merchant. He decides that One Hunter will be executed on the morning the army leaves for war.

   …Unless Xhól can discover the real killer in time.

   Fans of Ellis Peters will delight in following the adventures of Xhól, as unlikely an investigator as Brother Cadfael, in the first instalment of this sixteen-book series, the Cycle of Xhól.

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   Author Bio:
   Cécile Chabot was born in Liège, Belgium in 1969 and attended the Lycée Léonie de Waha, a girls-only (at that time) school founded in the 19th century to prepare girls for university. There, she received a solid grounding in the sciences and modern languages.

   Afterwards, she graduated from the University of Liège with a Masters degree in Law and another degree in European Law. Whenever she could, she chose courses that satiated her hunger for history (Medieval history, History of Islam, among others) and was most fascinated by those courses on the curriculum that dealt with the origins of law and institutions (Roman law, History of Natural Law, Philosophy of Law). At university, she began spelunking (caving) on a regular basis. Cécile has had a long career in banking & finance and is an expert in banking law, intellectual property, and contract negotiation.

   Over the years, she has wandered from Mexico to Colombia, where she landed by boat in Cartagena de Indias via the San Blas islands. Along the way, she visited all of Central America. Head to http://www.cecilechabot.com for an account of how it all started―with a spelunking expedition in Guatemala… and the discovery of a cave.

   The Cycle of Xhól is her most ambitious writing project so far. This 16-book series of historical mysteries is set in Dos Pilas, a Mayan city located in what is today the northern part of Guatemala. The cycle starts in 679 A.D. with book 1, The Merchant of Death, and will end one century later with book 16. Before committing to paper the first line of The Merchant of Death, Cécile already knew that the full story would take sixteen books to complete, why it would be so, and, more importantly, how it would all end. Be warned, she stubbornly refuses to reveal that conclusion before book 16 hits the shelves. She delights in locating her mysteries in a painstakingly reconstructed universe.

   She is also the author of Nouvelles d’Amérique Centrale, a collection of short stories based on her travels where she shares the deep impressions the continent left on her soul (to be published in English in 2015 under the title Nueva Jerusalem and Other Short Stories from Central America).

   She speaks five languages with various degrees of fluency, lives in Brussels, and will bore you to death at social events when she gets started on her pet subject (the difficulty of mastering the declination of hard and soft vowel-ending adjectives in Czech). She has no cat because languages are enough. She is deadly afraid that some day an archaeologist might read her books and write to her to point out what she got wrong.

   Cécile publishes a not-so weekly newsletter in which she hops from her explorations of the Mayan jungles to her ventures in the publishing world. Sign up at http://www.cecilechabot.com/newsletter, and she’ll send you a copy of her Diary of a Spelunking Expedition in Guatemala as a token of her appreciation.

   She is quite active on Twitter (@CecileChabot) and tweets in French, English and Spanish about literature, the Mayans, Central America, her favourite reads, what delights and amuses her―and the enchanting beauty of words.

   Five Facts You Didn’t Know About Me (Yet):

   1. I sleep with books, often.

   2. I hate it when a huge, fat, hairy spider tries to crawl into the collar of my overalls when I’m myself crawling into a narrow Guatemalan cave. Now that I think about it, I hate crawling into narrow caves, too!―And I don’t hate spiders when they, wisely, crawl elsewhere.

   3. Dark, smooth, velvety chocolate is my sweetest sin (hey, I’m Belgian!).

   4. I once slept 2,100 feet underground (and no, it was not comfortable).

   5. I learned to program a long time ago, in the 80s. ‘Computing’ at that time meant laboriously entering BASIC commands on the keyboard of a Sinclair ZX-81; yes, that was a computer…  sort of.

   The Merchant of Death: A Mayan Mystery by Cécile Chabot is a post from Awesome Gang

4. Where the Flowers are Purple: How Aiden Found the Secret to Positive Thinking

   About Where the Flowers are Purple: How Aiden Found the Secret to Positive Thinking:

   ‘Where the Flowers are Purple’ is a captivating story of a butterfly’s journey into finding the importance of Positive Thinking.

   POOR LITTLE AIDEN couldn’t fly, or at least that’s what the other butterflies told him. While they were all hatching out of their cocoons they noticed Aiden had the most peculiar, tiny wings.

   When the day came for the possibility of a new friend and a new adventure, Aiden the butterfly decided that it was now essential for him to fly.

   Through the obstacles Aiden faces, he soon came to understand that by shifting his thoughts and beliefs along with using a little imagination, anything is possible.

   Check out the reviews…

   “This feel-good story is not just for children, with the beautiful illustrations and a profound message about self love and positive thinking; it will have many people of all ages reading this book over and over again.” – Debbie L

   “I been looking for a book to share with my grandchildren about The Law of Attraction for a while now and this was just what I wanted. It teaches about affirmations and visualization but not in a ‘preachy’ way.” – Millie Foster

   Make sure to double click on Aiden the butterfly as you go through the book to discover discover what he is thinking.

   Download now and be transported to where the flowers are purple, the grass is pure green, and the tree’s golden leaves sing to the sun!

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   Author Bio:
   Sarah Lawrence has been an avid children’s story teller for over 20 years. She now writes inspirational picture books which motive and inspire children to make all their dreams come true.

   Watch this space, more stories to come.

   She was born and raised in England and now happily resides in Mammoth Lakes, California with her son, Aiden and dog, Reef.

   www.ReachForThePossibilities.com

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5. A Game of Greed and Deception

   About A Game of Greed and Deception:

   She is young and beautiful, and recently married to a very wealthy middle-aged man who considers her to be the ultimate woman for him and holds her out as a model for his beloved 10-year-old daughter. They travel to a mountain hideaway to celebrate their first year together as a family when things begin to unravel. Her husband goes missing after a treacherous car accident, and the wife and daughter seem trapped and isolated, and stalked from both inside and outside the cabin. What ensues is the story of a woman driven by her soulless greed and self entitlement, and a man who is wronged and apparently out to get revenge. This deadly game of cat and mouse will keep you on the edge of your seat. The macabre scenes include deadly traps and medieval torture devices, hidden doors, secret rooms, and an underground labyrinth of torture chambers. Add in the legend of a hoard of pure gold bars, and it becomes clear that someone has a much bigger plan in mind and will let nothing get in their way. But who? This is the story of a plot so devious that it is set up to fool the State police investigation. But can it fool you? Keep guessing until the final scene as to what is really going on and let your intuition guide you.

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   Author Bio:
   I’m a tenured University Professor living in Rome, Italy. As I move toward retirement after a long and somewhat stressful career, I feel the desire to break out of the mold and delve into fiction which focuses on the dark side of human nature, both that which is unfeeling and indifferent to the fate of others and that which derives pleasure and a feeling of power from pain inflicted on them. Why do people read thriller stories and horror stories? Maybe because these stories allow them to entertain the unimaginable in a realm where there are no holds barred and no room for remorse.

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6. 30 Days – Change your habits, Change your life

   About 30 Days – Change your habits, Change your life:

   Have you ever asked yourself why some people seem to get everything easily and others don’t? Do you feel like a victim of your circumstances? Are you tired of waiting for your life to change?

   Find out how to take control and full responsibility of your life, and how a couple of small steps every day can change everything. In this simple, fast-paced eBook you will be learning what it takes to create the life you want. It’s based on science, neuroscience, positive psychology and real-life examples and contains the best exercises to quickly create momentum towards a happier, healthier and wealthier life. Thirty days can really make a difference if you do things consistently and develop new habits!

   30 Days is not just a book that you read. To make it work YOU have to work and do the exercises it proposes.

   Discover your enormous potential and…

   • Stop being a victim of the circumstances and start creating your circumstances

   • Stop waiting for the miracle to happen and become one

   • Stop suffering and start creating the life you want

   • Improve your self-confidence

   • Improve your relationships with your spouse, your colleagues, your boss!

   How much longer will you wait for your circumstances to change magically?

   How much longer will you ignore your power and your true potential?

   You can really make your dreams come true – but you have to stop talking and start acting.

   Your time is NOW!

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   Author Bio:
   Marc Reklau (Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, 1973) is a Coach and personal development expert. His current home is the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain.

   Marc’s mission is to empower people to create the life they want and to give them the resources and tools to make it happen. He spent thousands of hours researching, studying and applying the principles and secrets of success and happiness.

   His message is simple:

   Many people want to change things in their lives, but few are willing to do a simple set of exercises constantly over a period of time. You can plan and create success and happiness in your life by installing habits that support you on the way to your goal

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