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1. Deadly Illusions by Chester D. Campbell

   About Deadly Illusions by Chester D. Campbell:

   Molly Saint hires new PI’s Greg and Jill McKenzie to check into her husband’s background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit. Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation stemming from the assassination of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel. The case resurrects old problems with a Murder Squad detective and his colleagues among Nashville’s finest. The deeper the McKenzies dig, the more deadly illusions they face. After threats, break-ins, and another murder, the charade ends in a shocking showdown.

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   Author Bio:
   Chester Campbell has been writing professionally since he started work as a newspaper reporter while a journalism student at the University of Tennessee. That was 66 years ago. Since then he’s worked as a freelance writer, a magazine editor, a political speechwriter, an advertising copywriter, a public relations writer and an association manager. He started writing novels after retirement. He is the author of five Greg McKenzie mysteries, two Sid Chance PI novels, and a trilogy of Post Cold War Political Thrillers. He served as an Air Force intelligence officer in the Korean War and retired from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. Two of Campbell’s mysteries have been award winners. A former Secretary of the Southeast Chapter, Mystery Writers of America, he served as the only male president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in Crime.

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2. A Vested Interest – Immortality Gene by John & Shelia Chapman

   About A Vested Interest – Immortality Gene by John & Shelia Chapman:

   Dr Donna Rigden is fed up with her job. When she loses the most important person in her life, she makes plans to start over. When this falls through, she resigns – big mistake. Donna is now on the hit list of one of the corporate US’s most powerful and ruthless men.

   Convinced to make a move, Donna refuses to leave the US without visiting her parents and grandparents graves. Ambushed at the cemetery, she’s shot and wakes up on her way to the UK. This was not what Donna had in mind.

   Richard Triplet rescues Donna, but wants more from her than she’s willing to give. Feeling trapped and desperate, she turns to a new friend for comfort.

   Sir Richard, Donna’s new employer showers her with luxury and makes her an offer she can’t refuse. Once she’s signed the contract, he asks her to use her medical expertise to commit murder. Donna’s world is turned upside down. Donna must make a life changing choice. Once made, there’s no going back. Was it the right choice?

   Death strikes! Sam, the infirmary’s doctor, is ordered to give his patient an untested drug. Sam knows the drug is either a cure or a curse, but goes against his patient’s wishes. Will he stand by his Hippocratic Oath or cave and follow Sir Richard’s orders?

   Immortality Gene?

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   What about Sir Richard? How does he fit into this equation? What’s his motivation? Sir Richard Triplet is a member of a secret society, who operates in the grey area on the edge of the law. This makes him a target for religious fanatics and conspiracy theorists, but Sir Richard knows a secret and has his own agenda. He knows, in the year 7141, the Earth will be destroyed by an apocalyptic collision with a rogue planetoid. This scale of cataclysm will destroy all life on earth – no room in the aftermath – even for a dystopian civilization. Should Sir Richard be concerned? It’s not his problem – right? He’ll be dead and gone by then. Maybe – maybe not.

   Sir Richard has a plan, already in action. One of the key elements in his plan is to manipulate the mechanisms of life and greatly extend the human lifespan. Does Sir Richard’s quest to live forever offer our happy ever after? Let’s re-evaluate this situation. If you were to become immortal would you feel more inclined to worry about an event taking place thousands of years into the future? I would be, but what about the ethical and social implications of immortality? What about overpopulation, living space and the diminishing food supply? What about the wars waged to control this miracle, and the all-important biblical phrase:

   Genesis 6:3: “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”

   ‘Immortality Gene’ is the first book in the ‘A Vested Interest’ series. It’s based on advanced technology, currently under development. ‘Immortality Gene’ covers the development of a genetically engineered virus. Along the way the series deals with corporate jealousy at its highest levels, greed, spite, vengeance, nanotechnology, medicine, murder, mystery, love and betrayal, and, of course, the very essence of life itself.

   The Series

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   This full length novel, book one sets the stage for a series involving:

   • romance

   • suspense

   • science fiction

   • mystery

   • action

   • comedy

   Paranormal wolves do play a part in the series but no vampires (yet). Oh – One other thing – this first e-book is long (880 pages) and usually free!

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   Author Bio:
   John and Shelia are a husband and wife team with medical and science backgrounds. Shelia is from the US – a ‘Southern Belle’. John is from the UK. They met through Internet in 1997 and married in Canada in 1999. Today they live in the country near the Roman Wall in England, just a mile or two from that tree Robin Hood Prince of Thieves rescued a small boy from. (Nowhere near Sherwood Forest!)

   The A Vested Interest series was started in 2007 and now has eight books with a spin-off series of three books – ‘Blood of the Rainbow’ by Shelia.

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3. Clarity: How to be Precise, Unambiguous, and Direct

   About Clarity: How to be Precise, Unambiguous, and Direct:

   Autif Kamal shows his audience how to communicate effectively. This book strives to show you how to convey exactly what you refer to and to remove any possibility that a person will be confused with what you say.

   To this aim, Autif provides you with over 300 exercises. Answers accompany all of those exercises and almost all of the exercises come with explanations to refine your understanding of the concepts he discusses for making your words clear. Further, for every set of exercises, he describes how you can create your own exercises. He enables you to practice beyond what you will read in this book.

   If you want to improve your ability to be understood or to seek clarity from others, check out this book on clarity.

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   Author Bio:
   Autif Kamal graduated from University of California, Berkeley in Fall of 2010. He acquired his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. David Hume, Aristotle, and Bertrand Russell have had a significant influence on his understanding of precision and ambiguity. Also, he paid graduate students to help him improve his writing while he was in his undergrad. His graduate student instructors also had a strong influence on his thinking.

   Autif Kamal’s ultimate goal i s to create an elementary school that offers classes in logic and reasoning for grades kindergarten through grade 5. Hence, he is currently a 4th grade teacher.

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4. Control Viewers! Make Your Color Photography “POP!” by Dan Eitreim

   About Control Viewers! Make Your Color Photography “POP!” by Dan Eitreim:

   Revised and expanded edition!

   We all want to include emotion in our photographs – it’s what separates the “snapshooter” from the artist!

   Color is one of – if not THE most important tool we can use to insert emotion. But few of us really know how. Once you’ve read through this lesson (it’s fast and easy) you will never think of color the same again!

   For example… we all know that red is a good accent to attract attention. It can also indicate heat, passion or even stop! But there is more, a lot more.

   Learn how Baboon Butts affect the way we look at the color red!

   Depending on the shade of red used it could elicit emotions like:

   Light red – represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love.

   Pink – signifies romance, love, and friendship. It denotes feminine qualities and passiveness.

   Dark red – is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.

   Reddish-brown is associated with harvest and fall.

   Here is a copy of the table of contents to show a little of what is covered in this “On target Photo Training” lesson volume…

   Introduction:

   Composition Review:

   Leading Lines

   Diagonal Lines

   The Rule Of Thirds

   Power Points

   Horizontal Power Lines

   Vertical Power Lines

   Controlling The Viewer With Color

   Using Color

   Color Is Additive

   How Film And Digital Sensors Work

   Controlling Emotion With Colors

   Changing The “Feel” Of A Photo With Color

   Cross Processing And Other Techniques For Edgier Color Effects

   The Meaning And Affects Of Various Colors

   Color Used To Harmonize

   Tying It All Together

   The Color Wheel

   Get Better Landscape Photography By Using Kodak Yellow!

   Focus On People – Not Clothing

   Hand Tinting

   How Baboon Butts And Red Dresses Affect Your Portrait Photography

   Shooting Color – Techniques

   How To Intensify The Colors In Your Portrait Photography!

   How To Get Stunning Colors In Your Sunset Photography!

   Adding Filters

   Here Is An Indispensable Filter For Great Landscape Photography!

   Photo Exercise

   Additional Photo Training
   In the section on Using Color – We discuss the concept of color management, how and why it works to elicit emotion in our viewers.

   The Color Wheel – The color wheel is a graphic representation that will make it easy to select what colors harmonize and which ones don’t. Sometimes you will want harmony, and other times you will want to jar your viewer. Now you will know what colors to use.

   And more…and more…and more…

   Color is a key element in photo composition but very few courses even mention it! Once you have Volume 10: Control Viewers! Make Your Color Photography “POP!” you will KNOW how the colors in your photos are affecting the viewer!

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   Author Bio:
   I’m Dan Eitreim and I worked as a professional photographer running my own photo studio for over 20 years. I’ve never apprenticed or worked for any other photographers. Because of this, I’ve had to learn and develop my photography skills on my own.

   My first attempts were dismal to say the least…so I studied, practiced and developed my photo skills and along the way I not only learned how to put the “wow” into my photos, but I’ve also learned how to teach others to do the same!

   To that end I’ve compiled a 23 volume series of photo training lessons that I’ve titled: “On Target Photo Training”.

   I enjoy creating e-books and expect to be developing more!

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