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1. Master Your Self-Defeating Emotions
   

   Roger K. Allen, Ph.D., is a highly respected expert and innovator of personal and organizational development services and products. As founder of the Human Development Institute, Roger has delivered hundreds of workshops and seminars on topics of personal growth which have been acclaimed as among the most powerful learning experiences available anywhere. Since 2000, Roger has certified over 700 consultants and coaches around the country to utilize his personal and organizational development products.

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2. 21 Power Habits for a Winning Life
   

   Krystal Kuehn, MA, LPC, LLP, NCC is a psychotherapist, best-selling author, teacher, musician and songwriter. Krystal specializes in helping people live their best life now, reach their full potential, overcome barriers, heal from their past, & develop a happiness lifestyle. Krystal is the co-founder of New Day Counseling in Michigan. Her web sites include: Christian-Kindle-Books.com, BeHappy4Life.com, NewDayCounseling.org, NewSongProductions.com, Baby-Poems.com as well as Facebook.com/WordsOfInspiration, and Be Your Best blog.

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3. Willpower: The Owner’s Manual – 12 Tools for Doing the Right Thing
   

   Frank Martela, PhD, is currently a visiting scholar in the Human Motivation Research Group at the University of Rochester, NY. His research concentrates on the ultimate factors of human motivation. Frank has wide experience in lecturing about motivation and willpower for both academic and general audiences. He has gained personal experience with willpower while participating in four different Worldloppet cross-country skiing marathons in Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Switzerland. Most recently, utilizing the tools he learned while writing this book, he ran his first marathon in Mad Marathon, Vermont, in one of the more challenging US marathon courses with over 850 feet of vertical between the lowest and highest points of the course.

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4. Firefall
   

   J. H. Bográn, born and raised in Honduras, is the son of a journalist. He ironically prefers to write fiction rather than fact. José’s genre of choice is thrillers, but he likes to throw in a twist of romance into the mix. His works include novels and short stories in both English and Spanish. He’s a member of the Short Fiction Writers Guild and the International Thriller Writers where he also serves as the Thriller Roundtable Coordinator and contributor editor their official e-zine The Big Thrill.

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5. Spooks (The Phoenix Saga, Pt 1) by Paul Howard
   

   I am an author, screenwriter and film maker, my screen credits include the cult classic "Night Terror" (1990) and the soon to be released "Hunt For the Desert Apeman" in collaboration with M.L. Behrman. I published my first novel: "The Galley"(2012) and its' short story extract: "The Unthinkable (The Great Fire of Rome)"(2012). My newest books are "Timelines: The Beethoven Incident"(2013) and the first installment of "The Palindrome Chronicles": the short story "We Were Here!(2013)" In October my newest book, "Spooks" was published. After spending my early years in the Midwest, I migrated to Southern California where I received most of my education. There is an old saying: "You can take the boy out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy." I think that's true in my case. Although I've lived in L.A. most of my life, the simple ways of Southern Illinois are still close to my heart. I love the opportunities to get away to the quiet of the deserts and countryside. It helps me to think. My joys in life are playing the guitar and spending time with my grandchildren, (as well as writing!). As or m style of writing, what can I say. Once, in my college days, a literary mentor of mine commented that he was "Shocked and appalled by the naked austerity of your prose. Don't ever change it!" I followed his advice. My books are compact in verse, but not in content.

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6. The Price by Mark Holborn
   

   Mark Douglas Holborn was born in the small village of Lambeth, just outside London Ontario. Lambeth the typical town where everyone knew their neighbors, no one locked their doors, and parents never knew where their kids were except at feeding times. In between playing either hockey or baseball he acquired a vast collection of comic books to help feed an overactive imagination. With the help of his grandmother his passion for reading evolved to books of both fantasy and history. Visiting family in England and Scotland seeing the castles, weapons, armor and the battlefields fueled that imagination deeper. After watching Star Wars for the hundredth time he wrote his first novel in three days, the inability to sleep and the constant clicking of the typewriter greatly annoyed the rest of the family. After graduating High School and the local college he got married, and enjoyed a career in the Financial Industry. Fathering two amazing kids, he still found a little time to keep writing, working on different novels at the same time. Now being a single parent, one child done university the other almost done he has been able to devote more time into finishing and re-writing previous books.

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7. Love & the Goddess
   

   Living in Ireland, Mary Elizabeth Coen is a former teacher and lifestyle journalist. Mary Elizabeth developed a passion for writing, mythology, philosophy and the study of ancient spiritual traditions. As an avid researcher, she travelled to Mayan sites in Mexico, visited a famous healer’s ashram in Brazil and undertook a shamanic journey through Peru. Mary E. runs a website called Goddess MECA where she shares her love of books, cookery, nutrition, fashion and mythology. The url is www.goddessmeca.com

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8. Secession: The Revolt of Mill Valley by Ray Bourhis
   

   Ray Bourhis is uniquely qualified as a political pundit and proponent for change against corporate and political corruption. A lawyer and consumer advocate practicing out of San Francisco, California, Bourhis has been at the forefront of the battle against excessive power and greed for over three decades. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s prestigious Boalt Hall, he specializes in policyholder representation in cases involving the wrongful denial of long-term disability insurance claims. Ray credits an attempt by Elmhurst, Queens gang members to throw him, at the age of twelve, into a blazing bonfire, with helping him develop the survival skills needed to take on insurance companies and other entrenched bullies. In addition to Revolt, Bourhis is the author of Insult to Injury, which has been optioned as a feature film, and his upcoming non-fiction work titled, This Ain’t Harvard. He lives in Ross and Montecito, California.

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9. Norse Jewel by Gina Conkle
   

   Gina’s a lover of history, books and romance, which makes the perfect recipe for historical romance writer. Her passion for castles and old places (the older and moldier the better!) means interesting family vacations. Good thing her husband and two sons share similar passions, except for romance…that’s where she gets the eye roll. When not visiting fascinating places, she can be found in southern California delving into the latest adventures of organic gardening and serving as chief taxi driver.

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10. A Chain of Flames
    

    Tony describes himself as a 'refugee' from the city of Flint, Michigan. In the 1970's, his hometown was considered to be the Mecca of America's blue collar workforce. All of that changed in the latter part of that decade when the automobile industry began laying off workers by the Tens of Thousands. An American way of life was changed forever and Tony was there to witness it firsthand. In the 1980's, as a young man, Tony found himself in Oklahoma City, where he held the dubious honor of being the 'highest earning bartender' in 3 states. So his employers would tolerate his propensity for witnessing to customers, co-workers and on one occasion, a professed Satan worshiper, from across the bar. Tony would tell these people he would encounter about how 'Jesus could change their lives,' and many listened. For this, however, he was denied membership at a local church. The reason? He 'fraternized with sinners.' In the mid 1990′s, Tony was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There he broke traditional 'fry-bread' with a very old Native American couple in their modest pueblo home on the reservation. They talked about religions, about 'hospitality,' and about the priceless thousand year old clay pots that lined on their mantle. In the 2000's Tony was living in Indianapolis, Indiana. He and wife Karen went there knowing that they had no jobs lined up, no house to live in, and no family or friends there to help them. They were about $40,000.00 in debt and they had two small kids in tow... but they also believed that God had sent them. Within less than four years, God not only allowed them to get completely out of debt and buy a house of their own, but they bought several - some for rental properties, and some to fix-up and resell. In both 'paying it back' while 'paying it forward,' Tony continued in his witnessing efforts, speaking to tenants and to those whom he would help to purchase their very own first homes. In the 2010's Tony and Karen moved to NW Arkansas where they currently live and where they continue to seek God's guidance every day. Tony Cleaver's debut novel, A Chain Of Flames, is a story about how different people - some on the front of society and some on the fringe - are able to find their way to God . . . or how God leads them, despite their disasters, their difficulties or their levels of malcontent. In creating uniquely rich characters, with intricately interwoven story lines, Tony draws from the extraordinary events of his own personal experiences.

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