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Published: Thu, 11/14/13

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  1. Everville: The City of Worms

    CityOfWorms_EbookAbout Everville: The City of Worms:

    College freshman Owen Sage has just started to understand the darkness trying to overtake Everville and the earthly realm. With the help of The Keeper and the Fron army, Owen has managed to buy some time, but new problems have already emerged, new secrets need to be revealed, and the race against time to stop Them from conquering both dimensions has only just begun. The Keeper, Owen Sage, and his friends at Easton Falls University must now battle threats from within. To do it, they must reunite with familiar creatures and join forces with new ones as they navigate their journey to the truth that awaits them in Everville.

    Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
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    Author Bio:
    Roy Huff is the author of Amazon’s #1 international bestselling epic fantasy novel, Everville: The First Pillar as well as the newly released Everville: The City of Worms. These are the first installments in the remarkable Everville series which combines elements of epic fantasy and young adult fiction in a form that nearly anyone will enjoy reading, young or old. He is a man of many interests including but not limited to science, traveling, movies, the outdoors, and of course writing teen and young adult fantasy fiction. He holds five degrees in four separate disciplines including liberal arts, history, secondary science education, and geoscience. Roy Huff’s background includes work in art, history, education, business, real-estate, economics, geoscience, and satellite meteorology. He was born on the East Coast but has spent more than half his life in Hawaii, where he currently resides and writes his epic fantasy sagas.

    Everville: The City of Worms is a post from Awesome Gang

  2. The Riddle of Prague by Laura DeBruce

    Riddle-of-Prague-Front-CoverAbout The Riddle of Prague by Laura DeBruce :

    “An exciting thriller with supernatural elements and a brave, enterprising heroine.” Kirkus Review

    When 18-year-old Hana Silna travels to Prague to reclaim her family’s ancestral home, she finds herself on an unexpected adventure in a city brimming with ancient secrets. She discovers a riddle by the infamous alchemist Edward Kelley that claims to lead to a long-last flask. The contents of that flask could change the fate of the world.

    When a ruthless enemy kidnaps her family, Hana has to find the flask to rescue them. On her quest she meets a mysterious man with a penchant for poetry, a Gypsy girl with a haunting past, and Alex, the motorcycle-riding son of a U.S. diplomat. Alex — who’s trying to save his sister from a crippling disease — joins Hana on her race across Bohemia to find the hidden flask. It’s hard to trust anyone when the stakes are this high — especially when surrounded by experts at deception.

    There’s only one flask and Hana desperately needs to find it.

    The Riddle of Prague is the first of the Quicksilver Legacy Trilogy.

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    Author Bio:
    Laura DeBruce is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She moved to Prague in the early 1990s — shortly after the “Iron Curtain” fell — and joined thousands of young Americans looking for work and adventure in what was then still Czechoslovakia. She worked in television in Prague for many years and fell in love with the city and its legends. The Riddle of Prague is her first novel.

    The Riddle of Prague by Laura DeBruce is a post from Awesome Gang

  3. The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas

    TheBusinessIdeaFactoryCoverAbout The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas:

    The Business Idea Factory is an effective and easy-to-use system for creating successful business ideas. It is based on 10 years of research into idea-generation techniques used by the world’s best scientists, artists, CEOs, entrepreneurs and innovators. The book is entertaining to read, has plenty of stories and offers bits of wisdom necessary to increase the quantity and quality of ideas that you create multiple times. Once you begin applying strategies described in this book, you will create successful business ideas regularly and make your life more adventurous. You will realize that there are few things that can bring as much joy and success in business as the moment when an excellent idea comes to your head.

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    Author Bio:
    At the age of 19, Andrii obtained his CCIE (Certified Cisco Internetwork Expert) certification, the most respected certification in the IT world, and became the youngest person in Europe to hold it.
    At the age of 23, he joined an MBA program at one of the top 10 MBA schools in the USA. Being the youngest student on the program and at the age of 25 he joined Cisco Systems’ Head Office as a Product Manager responsible for managing a router which brought in $1 billion dollars in revenue every year.
    These experiences have taught Andrii that success in any endeavor doesn’t as much depend on the amount of experience you have but rather on the processes that you are using. Having dedicated over 10 years to researching and practicing a variety of different techniques, Andrii has created the Business Idea Factory system. This system will help you to unleash your potential in creating successful business ideas in a very short period of time.

    The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas is a post from Awesome Gang

  4. Kick Your Fat in the Nuts

    Kick-FatAbout Kick Your Fat in the Nuts:

    Not only will Tony have you laughing out loud while he reveals the secrets behind weight loss and how the human body functions, you will also learn how to look at your own body chemistry to understand the underlying cause of YOUR weight issues. Since the reasons for weight gain vary from person to person, once you understand what is going on with your chemistry, this book will help you understand what foods, supplements, or lifestyle changes could eliminate your need to continue buying bigger pants.

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    Author Bio:
    Like most natural health experts, T.C. Hale (aka Tony Hale) began his career in stand-up comedy. Touring professionally as a comic for nearly a decade, he never envisioned that he would one day teach the world how to sleep, poop, and even lose weight. On Valentine’s Day, 2004, Tony lost his voice and it never came back. After twenty-three doctors couldn’t figure out the problem, Tony decided it was time to dig for his own answers. Eight years later, not only did Tony figure out his own issues, he also happened upon hidden information about how to improve countless other health problems. Though Tony likes to boast about the fact that he holds no legitimate credentials (nor does he believe that we need any more “experts” from the same pool of knowledge already failing so many with health issues), he is greatly respected by his peers in the natural health industry. The biggest manufacturers in the health, fitness and organic products industries send Tony their products every year in hopes of winning one of his GearAwards. Beyond working with many celebrity clients, Tony is on the executive board of The Coalition For Health Education, a nonprofit association that helps professionals and their clients learn about health through nutrition. Additionally, Tony teaches monthly webinars about nutrition to doctors, nutritionists and other health care professionals from more than thirty-five countries. You can also find Tony producing documentaries like, WHY AM I SO FAT? A film that teaches the truth about weight loss while showcasing Tony’s client, Gabe Evans, who lost 200 pounds in 9 ½ months by treating Tony’s word as gospel.

    Kick Your Fat in the Nuts is a post from Awesome Gang

  5. Down The Tubes by Kate Rigby

    tubesAbout Down The Tubes by Kate Rigby:

    A hard-hitting novel based on years of working in the field of addictions.

    It’s the late 1980s and mother of four, Cheryl West, lands herself a job at a drugs project in London. But memories of her old life are never far away, especially when her surly daughter, Elaine, makes her unwelcome visits.

    Meanwhile, Cheryl’s estranged son, Michael – aka Dodo – is ironically having his life destroyed by drug addiction in his attempt to avoid painful memories of abuse. He goes from one chaotic situation to another, ending up on the streets and reaching rock bottom, until he is referred to a drug rehabilitation centre in rural Hampshire.

    The lives of mother and son nearly coincide, as Cheryl uncovers some dark family secrets. They’re each on a journey, but can there be reconciliation as well as rehabilitation?

    Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
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    Author Bio:
    I’ve been been writing for over thirty years. My punk novel, Fall Of The Flamingo Circus was published by Allison & Busby (1990) and by Villard (American hardback 1990). Skrev Press published my novels Seaview Terrace (2003) Sucka! (2004) and Break Point (2006) and other shorter work has appeared in Skrev’s avant garde magazine Texts’ Bones including a version of my satirical novella Lost The Plot.

    Thalidomide Kid was published by Bewrite Books (2007).

    Little Guide to Unhip was published by Night Publishing (2010).

    I’ve had other short stories published and shortlisted including Hard Workers and Headboards, first published in The Diva Book of Short Stories and also as part of the Dancing In The Dark erotic anthology, Pfoxmoor Publishing (2011)

    I also received a Southern Arts bursary for my novel Where A Shadow Played (now renamed ‘Did You Whisper Back?).

    I’m gradually in the process of getting my books (previously published and unpublished work into digital format) as well as back into paperback.

    My novels tend to be character-driven and a bit quirky or gritty – whether contemporary or retro – and deal with issues of today: for example, drugs abuse, homelessness, mental health or popular culture and a common theme is about the experience of being an outsider in society.

    Down The Tubes by Kate Rigby is a post from Awesome Gang

  6. Eternally Yours by Gina Ardito

    Eternally-Yours-new-coverArEAbout Eternally Yours by Gina Ardito:

    After one too many disappointments, Jodie Devlin took her own life. Too bad her suicide is only the beginning of her troubles. Until a new future can be created for her, Jodie will serve as one of Death’s bounty hunters, retrieving souls who haunt Earth. She’ll need smarts, charm, and trickery to convince these specters to give up the ghost and move on. Of course, these same skills will come in handy for verbally sparring with her bull-headed, know-it-all trainer.

    It’s no wonder Luc Asante is so bitter toward women. His former wife ordered him taken off life support, condemning him to employment in the Afterlife. Now he has a trainee—a female trainee who’s as soft-hearted as he is hard, as impulsive as he is methodical. In a place where perfection is the norm, she flaunts her flaws just to drive him nuts.

    If they weren’t already dead, working together would probably kill them.

    Traveling between the dead and the living, bringing peace to lost souls, Jodie and Luc will be forced to come to terms with their differences and their pasts, to discover a love that might bind them for eternity.

    Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
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    Author Bio:
    I kill houseplants. There. Now you know one of my greatest shames. I’m not boasting. I just figure that if you’re reading this, you’re looking for more than how wonderful life is as a writer. So here are a few more of my flaws:

    I sing all the time. I sing in the car. In the shower. While I’m grocery shopping. And I headbop while I sing. When I’m not singing, I talk to myself. Just ignore me and move on. You get used to it after a while.

    I don’t eat my vegetables. Seriously. I’d rather have a cookie.

    I’m extremely fair-skinned and could burn under a 60-watt light bulb.

    I can’t sleep without background noise. If it’s too dark and too quiet, all I have are my thoughts. And even *I* don’t want to be alone with my thoughts.

    Don’t ask me to Zumba, line dance, or march in the parade. I have absolutely no rhythm.

    Regrets. I have more than a few.

    My favorite activity is sleep. I don’t clock a lot of hours, but I powernap like a Persian cat and rejuvenate within ten minutes.

    I consider shopping and dining out excellent therapy for anything wrong in my life.

    My feet are always cold. Always. My husband claims it’s because I’m an alien sent to Earth to destroy him. (He might be right about that.)

    Coming to my house for a visit? Unless you’ve given me plenty of advance notice, be prepared. My floor will not be vacuumed, there will be dishes in my sink, and I only make my bed when I change the sheets once a week (I’m climbing back into it ASAP. Why make it?) Housecleaning is not high on my priority list. Okay, to be totally honest, it’s not on the list at all.

    I can resist anything…except open adoration. In 2012, I was named an Outstanding Woman of Leadership by the International Women’s Leadership Association and in 2013, my book, Eternally Yours, was a FINALIST for Best Indie Book of the Year in the Kindle Book Review Awards.

    Since this is our first date, I figure I’ve revealed enough secrets for now. But if you’ve read this bio and think I might be the author for you, pick up one of my books or stalk my website: www.ginaardito.com and my personal blog: http://ginaardito.blogspot.com.

    Eternally Yours by Gina Ardito is a post from Awesome Gang

  7. My Last Christmas Wish

    cover03_C1About My Last Christmas Wish:

    In Depression Era New York, the week before Christmas, 12 year-old Mark Morrison wants to ask Santa for just one more wish before he turns 13 and must “grow up”. His growing affection for an upper class girl and his growing distance from his struggling father challenge Mark’s belief in faith, hope and love. Mark finds he must choose between childish beliefs and grown-up reality if he is to help the ones he loves. “My Last Christmas Wish” is a heartwarming coming-of-age tale with just the right mix of romance, drama and Christmas whimsy.

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    Author Bio:
    I am a fist time book author. I have written five screen plays, but none produced. My day job is a human resources professional for a major aerospace manufacturing company, but my passion is creative writing. If I am successful with this book I will write more – there are so many stories to tell.

    My Last Christmas Wish is a post from Awesome Gang

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