About The Sapphanese Guild by Lorcan Ryan

Born into the peasant class, teenaged Ryn never imagined she could escape the drudgery of life. But when she sees a slave in the town market, things get more interesting.
The enslaved woman is a Northerner from beyond the civilized lands. She’s strange, intense, fascinating—and property of the Sapphanese Guild.
The encounter refuses to leave Ryn’s mind. Seeking closure, she visits again and unwittingly enters a brutal world of intrigue: a world that threatens to destroy everything she holds dear.
With the stakes only continuing to rise, can Ryn and her two friends find what they need to stand against the Guild before it’s too late?

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Lorcan Ryan grew up on stories and started creating imaginary worlds with his family (especially his sister) almost as soon as he learned to talk. The Sapphanese Guild is Lorcan’s first novel, where he combines his passion for creative writing with a progressive outlook, particularly views on gender roles.

When he isn’t writing, Lorcan enjoys going for walks, learning new things through The Great Courses, and expanding his repertoire of vegan dishes.

Bondage Buddies by Golden Angel

It’s friends-with-benefits, but with rope…

When Master Mitch proposes becoming friends-with-benefits, Domi can’t find any downsides to such an arrangement. As a single mom with no time for a relationship, she’s content with leaving everything about her desires at the club. And despite his playboy reputation, Mitch is definitely the kind of capable Dom who can give her everything she needs. She’s sweet, she’s sassy, and she has an incredible ability to take everything he can give her. So why shouldn’t Master Mitch want Domi for his very own?

But with each scene, Mitch is surprised to find that he craves more than just Domi’s submission. Before long, it’s clear that the pair is tied up in something more binding than either anticipated. Can Mitch convince Domi that it’s safe to trust him outside of Stronghold and Marquis?

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Golden Angel is a USA Today best-selling author, Amazon Top 50 bestselling author, and self-described bibliophile with a “kinky” bent who loves to write stories for the characters in her head. If she didn’t get them out, she’s pretty sure she’d go just a little crazy.

She is happily married, old enough to know better but still too young to care, and a big fan of happily-ever-afters, strong heroes and heroines, and sizzling chemistry.

She believes the world is a better place when there’s a little magic in it.

With Bated Breath by Megyn Ward, Desirée Holt, Anne Rainey, Nicole Morgan and more…

We wait with bated breath until sunrise–when all the shadows burn away with morning’s light. Waiting for the next shoe to fall or a horrible situation to reveal itself.
We wait with bated breath for one more touch from our lovers–some of which are gone forever and some of whom we haven’t met, yet.
We wait with bated breath for another moment of beauty–even if it’s only fleeting.
Join us as we wait with bated breath.

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Brought to you by Romance Collections, five USA Today and International Bestsellers have banded together to bring you steamy romantic suspense that will take your breath away.

About UNMASKED: THE HONORABLE AND DISHONORABLE TRUTHS OF A PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL UMPIRE

FINALLY, A BOOK THAT UNMASKS THE “BLUE BROTHERHOOD”
Whenever somebody learns that Zach Rebackoff (The Flying Birdman) was a professional baseball umpire, their reaction is a bare-all-teeth smile and a most frequently asked double-barreled question: “Really? Did you ever throw anyone out?” Ha! Ask the players and managers? UNMASKED-The Honorable and Dishonorable Truths of a Professional Baseball Umpire will undoubtedly convey that they know he did!

Bronx-born into an emigre Russian Jewish family in April 1951, Zach would be first a baseball Maverick and then a Pirate. For example, there was the evening in the Dominican Republic when he called a forfeit against the home team, putting himself under the siege of 18,000 garbage-hurling fanáticos. Or the day in 1980 when future HOF’er Wade Boggs hung blame on him for losing the league batting title—by one percentage point.

UNMASKED, Rebackoff’s in-depth memoir, is for baseball enthusiasts and their insatiable desire to understand our national pastime’s enforcement squads; the highs, the lows, the trials and tribulations, politics, backstabbing, and most especially, what goes on inside those quirky minds behind the mask, in particular, Zach’s mask; the one he wore on the field, and the one he wore, and still wears, off the field. In Zach’s opinion, many baseball fans visualize what it’s like being a professional umpire, embedded in the game’s speed, living up to the challenge, in real-time, with all of its attendant notoriety and cheers. They suspect umpiring is challenging, but they don’t surely know.

In a myriad of voices, Zach captures baseball’s culture from, shall we dare say, a sagacious angle. Truly knowing umpires (those you know by name) is to know there are MLB umpires that have purposely unleashed indefensible acts of defamation, betrayal, and deceit—Zach’s memoir tells you the who, what, and where. Baseball umpires, by the way, are a trendy subject. With the implementation of instant replay and ultra-slow-mo, the TV’s cameras dissect each revolution of every pitch, and numerous blogs focus solely on umpires’ statistics, ejections, tendencies, quotes, habits—the public’s peeking into one of the most intricate jobs on the planet have never been greater!

Besides being a professional baseball umpire, Zach tripped, tap-danced, bull-rode, and sailed his way through a career that has encompassed published authorship (TOUGH CALLS C. Avon Books), TV talk show hosting, newspaper and magazine journalistic endeavors, and entrepreneurship. But, unfortunately, he never did love the “brotherhood.” Still, Zach eventually found himself surrounded by, and usually in an animated debate with baseball legends such as Don Mattingly, Cal Ripken, Wade Boggs, Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, Ron Darling, Felipe Alou, Tony Peña, Mookie Wilson… and so on. For those who accepted the Maverick, he offers praise. For those who attempted to sabotage his career, Zach’s words come down with the weight of a sledgehammer. What autobiography would be worth reading without thrashing those who deserve it?

Click “BUY NOW.” It’s your first call to a very rare take on one’s life in professional baseball.

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Zach Rebackoff, 70, toured the U.S. as a professional baseball umpire for eight years, from Single-A through Triple-A, including several seasons in the Dominican Republic’s Major Leagues. Zach, garnering the moniker, The Flying Birdman, owned and operated two professional umpire schools- one in New York City, the other in the DR. He is the author of TOUGH CALLS c AVON BOOKS, 1982 as well as his new novel, ONE THOUSAND MILES UNDER GUNPOINT c ASTERISK PUBLISHING, 2021.

Zach’s conversational writing style offers readers a personal touch, as if he’s talking to them personally. His candid and uninhibited revelations are truthful, declaring his willingness to undergo a polygraph upon request. The native New Yorker resides in Palm Beach, Florida.

About Featured Book: The Flat on the 7th Floor by E.L. Barry

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One path leads to happiness, the other to disaster! Which will she choose?

When Josie Jackson discovers her past is not all as it seems, her life is changed forever.
Being warned not to investigate photographs she was sent of her mother before Josie was born, Josie discovers more secrets in unexpected places.

At the same time Josie meets a handsome stranger who raises more questions than answers. How can she resist his charms when he is everything she has been looking for?

Josie’s colleague’s Kim and Gareth are caught in the danger. When they form a close bond, Josie is conflicted by her feelings. Will Josie discover the truth before anyone gets hurt?

Follow the twists and turns of life choices. family, work, money, relationships, and self-discovery in this Josie Jackson thriller, as she lives in The Flat on the 7th Floor.

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"It's never too late to give it a go." E.L.Barry

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About The Cellar Spider Who Went Outside

Jeremy, the cellar spider, lives with his mama in Millie’s cellar. The cellar is a rather boring place except for the cupboard that holds Millie’s home canned goods. The canning jars hold colorful, yummy looking contents, and Jeremy longs for a taste. He eventually sets off on an accidental adventure to discover where Millie’s home canned goods come from. His adventure leads him outside where he discovers the garden!

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Barbara J. Wulf reflects on growing up in a family where the garden was an important part of summer work. Planting, weeding, picking, and canning were family chores as they restocked shelves for the winter.

As a former teacher and career coach, Barbara enjoys keeping a small garden in Wisconsin for fun, spiders and all!

About They Will Be Coming for Us by Kim Catanzarite

A young woman’s greatest dreams and darkest nightmares are pivoted against each other in this sci-fi thriller.

Svetlana Peterman has met her soul mate in Andrew Jovian, a young astronomer who works for Starbright International, the aerospace company his wealthy parents own. Once married, they make a home in Kirksberg, Pennsylvania, a small town famous for a UFO sighting that occurred in the 1960s. Svetlana is, for once, truly happy, except that Andrew’s family is strange, and not in a normal-strange kind of way.

Preoccupied with only two things—the night sky and carrying on their family lineage—the Jovians lack social skills and often pry into Svetlana’s personal life. Her intimidating mother-in-law demands she get busy fulfilling her reproductive duty to the family, and Andrew’s eccentric uncle seems to be able to read her mind. Feeling bullied and wanting a career before motherhood, Svetlana takes precautions but ends up pregnant anyway.

But that’s the least of her worries when she discovers the Jovians have a monumental secret that will change her fate (and that of her child’s) forever—a secret so powerful, it could alter the course of mankind.

They Will Be Coming for Us is free to members of Kindle Unlimited, or $4.99 to purchase.

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I’ve been writing for most of my life but only recently took the leap into self-publishing, and I’m very glad I did. My first published novel, The Will Be Coming for Us, a science fiction thriller, has received positive reviews from Kirkus, BookLife, Foreword, and Prairies Book Review, and a starred review from BlueInk. It also garnered an Honorable Mention award from Readers Favorite, in the highly competitive psychological thriller category.

During the day I am both a developmental editor and a copyeditor whose past and current clients include Random House, Ten Speed Press, Better Homes and Gardens Books, and Writer’s Digest as well as many independent authors. I also teach three courses as an instructor for Writer’s Digest University. In addition, I blog and guest blog about self-publishing and writing craft on my website, www.authorkimcatanzarite.com, and others.

I enjoy reading, of course. I love many classics as well as modern books, both traditionally published and self-published. A few favorites that I read this year are Klara and the Sun, The Soul of a Woman, The Ghost of Gosswater, Brat: An 80s Story, and The Gentle Marketing Revolution.

In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, movies, cooking, talking to my cats, and spending time with my husband and daughter.

About A Call Girl With Her Clothes On by Cozette Zimmerman

What happens when a college student finds herself in need of some extra cash, and she only has time to work at night? Starting in 2019, author Cozette Zimmerman took a fairly generic part-time job working nights as a hospital phone operator while working full-time on her college degree. In that job, she soon discovered that sometimes, at three o’clock in the morning, people really just need a better adult to tell them what to do—and her role was to be that better adult. For the first eight months, the calls were fairly regular and routine—well, as routine as a medical emergency in the middle of the night can be. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and changed everything. A Call Girl with Her Clothes On shares hilarious true accounts of working with patients during medical emergencies before and in the midst of a global pandemic. These short stories recall conversations and events that have stayed with Zimmerman, leaving her to wonder about the fate of the world.

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Cozette Zimmerman has decided to pursue her longtime passion of being a writer while juggling a full-time job, earning a third college degree, and being a cat mom. She works hard following her many passions, including forensics, engineering, writing, crochet, and annoying her cats.

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First, thank you so much for being interested in my book and stopping by! I’ve always had a passion for writing, ever since I was young. I was fortunately, or unfortunately, put into a job where I used my creativity channels to cope with some of the strangest questions I have ever received. If you have ever worked in customer service, then you can probably relate!

About Get Up & Fight

“Rusty has that special quality that made you feel like you could fly…that you could do anything, because she was right there with you.” — Billie Jean King, Tennis Champion & Advocate

In 1959 Rusty’s well-earned first place medal was ripped away from her because she was a woman. She fought in a judo championship against a man and won, but when the judges discovered her gender, they stripped her of her title. Women were not allowed. From that point on, Rusty had a new goal: to ensure that no woman would ever suffer such an indignity ever again! This vow sparked a fifty-year career fighting for equality—a tireless battle she would take all the way to the Olympics.

In her uniquely raw, unfiltered, humorous voice, Rusty recounts the tales of her remarkable life and journey from the rough streets of Coney Island, Brooklyn, to the offices of the political, powerful and persuasive, where she established herself as a major force in the world of women’s rights and the sport of judo, securing women’s inclusion on the international stage. Rusty’s memoir is a love story filled with passion and righteousness—for her sport, her family, and her way of life as a judoka.

Often called a pioneer, Rusty was an unsung hero in the fight to give women voice and agency, in life and in sports. She did not see human limitations, only possibilities. The establishment told her “no,” but “no” was not a part of her vocabulary. Instead, Rusty fought like hell, and won. In her own words, Rusty decided to “be the hammer,” not the nail.

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Jean Kanokogi, Ph.D. is a Senior Special Agent for the U.S. Government with extensive experience in conducting criminal investigations. With a career spanning 23 years in law enforcement, Jean has been the lead investigator on several high-profile cases, including the attacks on 9/11 and many that focus on protecting public health. She is a subject matter expert in cognitive interviews, defensive tactics, firearms safety and engagement and defensive tactics.

Jean is a fifth degree black belt in judo and a highly respected sensei. She was on the U.S. national judo team, now known as USA Judo, and won several medals in international tournaments. Most notably, Jean was one of the original signers of the American Civil Liberty Union suit to fight for women’s rights in the sport of judo.

Rusty was a fighter—for women, judo, and equality. Her career in the sport spanned more than fifty years, as a competitor, pioneer, national and international coach and referee, advocate, commentator and promoter.

Early in her career, Rusty defied the rules of gender by competing with—and winning against—men. Too aggressive for the “women’s groups” at the Y, Rusty was considered an exception to the male-dominated judo community; her boisterous energy and passion were tolerated, until she began to win. When she was swiftly banned from the competition arena based solely on her gender, she vowed to do all she could to ensure this would never happen to a female competitor again.

In her quest for women’s inclusion in the sport, Rusty founded, organized and financed the first Women’s World Judo Championships, held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on November 29 and 30, 1980, putting women’s judo on the map and earning the United States the international women’s level competition status required to qualify for inclusion in the Olympic Games.

Rusty served as the USA Women’s Judo Coach from 1974 to 1996, bringing women’s judo to the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea for the very first time. Rusty, along with her husband, Ryohei Kanokogi, founded the Kyushu Judo Club in Brooklyn, New York, teaching students from all over the world, many of which went on to place in the Pan American Games, World Championships, British Open, Maccabiah Games, Pacific Rim Games and the Olympics.

Rusty served as the President of New York State Judo, from 1991 to 2009, was a member of the NY2012 Olympic Bid Committee, was a delegate to the International Olympic Committee meeting in Singapore, 2005, and served as Trustee and Vice President for twelve years with the Women’s Sports Foundation. She also served as a consultant with Tokai University, in Japan, the Japanese Association of Women’s Sports, and was the Vice President, Legal Lives, of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, and a judo commentator for NBC at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, and a media panelist for the International Judo Federation in Cairo, Egypt in 2005.

In her fifty-year career, Rusty taught at least 100,000 people at colleges including the Pratt Institute, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Brooklyn College, as well as countless elementary and high schools. All the while, Rusty continued to be an advocate for all athletes in judo and Title IX, the 1972 civil rights law for gender equality in education, campaigning and litigating for women’s judo inclusion in the Olympic Games and every level of competition. She has been recognized as “the mother of women’s judo” for her inarguable contribution to the sport.

In her life, Rusty rose to the rank of seventh–degree black belt—the first woman ever to do so. In 2008 she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette from the Emperor’s Order of Japan for her lifelong contribution to the promotion of judo. Her ashes are interred in the Kanokogi Samurai family grave site in Kumamoto, Japan, marked with the epitaph “American Samurai.”