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1. You Can Win In Life: The Ability To Win Comes From Within

   About You Can Win In Life: The Ability To Win Comes From Within:

   Infused with personal life experiences, failures, and successes, You Can Win in Life is a book that illustrates the power of change and reinforces that “never quit, don’t give up” attitude. It is a book written to encourage others to realize there is hope even when it seems to be the end of the road. It will be a launching pad for many to change their direction in life and to move up to higher levels of personal fulfillment. The author tells a story in a way to encourage readers to see that if he can do it anyone can. This book is for anyone interested in breaking the chains of inaction and getting out of life’s rut. It is both instructional and inspiring. “Success is not a matter of what you have acquired, but the adversities you’ve gone through without giving up.”About the Author C. Ray is a successful businessman and inspirational speaker who transformed his life by embracing the ideal that life is 5 percent of what happens to you and 95 percent of how you handle it. Born in Dallas, Texas, C. Ray is the fifth of five children. He now resides in DeSoto, Texas, a suburb in Dallas. He is currently in his thirty-sixth year of marriage to his high school sweetheart, Peggy Calhoun, and they have five adult children. His own transformation motivated him to share his message of self-empowerment with others. He is a major proponent of helping people realize they can control their life’s destiny, which ultimately inspired him to write this book.

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   Husband, Best Selling Author, and Motivational Speaker

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2. PERHAPS ANOTHER TIME

   About PERHAPS ANOTHER TIME:

   1878. Life for textile worker Amanda Levesque is harsh and demoralizing — until she meets and finds herself beguiled by the curious charm of Jesse Randall. Jesse, a stressed-out 21st-century workaholic, has traveled back in time through an intriguing 4-dimensional mural and decides to settle down in Amanda’s quiet corner of eternity and be happy for a change.

   But when Amanda must travel with Jesse to the present for a life-saving vaccine, she discovers a world of excitement and opportunity she has no intention of giving up … until a crazed opportunist wants in on their time-travel action and kidnaps Amanda, the fabric of time is torn — and this may cost her oldest and dearest friend his life. Now comes the true test of Amanda’s newfound mettle.

   “Is it presumed that I should wear … garments of this nature?”

   – Amanda, eyeing a circa-2013 woman wearing short-shorts and a tank top.

   “Fifty miles an hour! I daresay, this is so cool!”

   – Amanda, behind the wheel for the first time after overpowering her captor and fleeing in his Cadillac in a race against time to save her friend from the gallows.

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   Author Bio:
   Maggie Maloney is a hard-working romance author living and loving life in Providence, RI as well as her tiny seaside summer cottage on Rhode Island’s gorgeous Narragansett Bay. Besides being an author, she is an accomplished jazz guitarist and will often unwind after a day at the computer with her husband (“My own personal Prince Charming”), her Maltese (“My four-legged Prince Charming”), her battle-worn Gibson guitar, and an hour of blues licks. “My Pace or Yours” is her second romance novel. Her first, “Perhaps Another Time,” is also available at Amazon and was recently turned into a screenplay in Maggie’s hopes of one day hitting the big screen.

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3. Goodbye Junie Moon by June Collins

   About Goodbye Junie Moon:

   An Australian girl from a middle class background aspires to nothing other than to marry and have children. Alas, her plans go astray. She marries a sheep farmer at eighteen and soon becomes pregnant. Over the next three years she bears three children but all die. Lonely on the isolated farm and depressed, she runs away.

   She starts her new life as a ballroom dancing instructor but soon becomes a Jazz dancer in night-clubs. Eventually she receives contracts to dance in all the major cities of Asia. When the Vietnam war starts she travels there to entertain the troops. At first it is all adventure and adrenalin flow but as she later said, ” she stayed too long at the war.” During her three and a half years in Vietnam she became a booking agent for Philippine rock bands.

   The laughter stopped as she saw more and more maimed and dead young GI’s. Compounding her pain were the crooked army sergeants who took over the American NCO and EM clubs. They demanded kickbacks from everyone who did business with them. The contrast between them and the young fighting men sickened her. Unable to remain quiet any longer, she reported them to the CID ( military police investigators). Expecting them to be relieved and court martialed – she was shocked when instead, they continued happily on, getting rich. She was even more shocked after discovering that a price was now on her head and Tan Son Nhut, the only airport out, was being watched. This could have had a disastrous ending but fate stepped in.

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   June Collins made world headlines when she testified before a U.S, Senate Committee about corruption in the Army NCO and EM clubs. As a result of her testimony heads rolled, including that of a major ( 2 star) general.

   She collaborated on a fictionalized version of those events with Robin Moore ( author, the French Connection and The Green Beret) when they wrote The Khaki Mafia.

   During her time in Asia she had been appalled by the number of orphans she had seen on the streets and she determined to take one or two of them. After many obstacles and further adventures, she ends up with six children from four countries.

   The children are now grown and she has time to write. Goodbye Junie Moon is a true story as is the sequel, Junie Moon Rising.

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4. Becoming Magic: A Course in Manifesting an Exceptional Life

   About Becoming Magic: A Course in Manifesting an Exceptional Life:

   Becoming Magic is book one of a complete course in becoming creator of your own exceptional life. In this book, I outline the exact steps which enabled me to move my own life from one of poverty and drudgery, to one of previously unimaginable wealth, purpose and joy.

   ‘But Magic? I do hope you are joking!’

   That’s what I would have said, five or ten years ago. I once despised all things ‘New-Age’, all these spiritual types and their airy-fairy views, their bad science and their irrational beliefs.

   I read all the greats, Wallace Wattles, Anthony Robbins, Rhonda Byrne, Napoleon Hill, Esther Hicks and Wayne Dyer. But no matter how closely I followed their instructions, I couldn’t make it work.

   It was only when I recognised, accepted and finally embraced that what I was doing was actually some kind of Magic that suddenly things began to fall into place. Once I realised that the power came from within me, it was as if the light had suddenly been switched on.

   If you’re jaded by the whole New Age Law of Attraction idea, have become bored by its failure to deliver… this book is for you. It is my intention to lead you by the hand through a marvellous journey of wonder and adventure.

   Part one of this course, Becoming Magic, lays the groundwork for becoming a magical person, while part two, Doing Magic, offers concrete techniques and instructions for bringing wonderful things into your life. The plan is to build your knowledge slowly, gradually, building on what has gone before, moving on to more complex techniques only once the basics are mastered.

   So many people fail with Magic and the Law of Attraction because they rush headlong into using techniques, trying to create enormous manifestations, making very simple but crucial mistakes. When they are disappointed, they imagine they have been duped. The sceptics are right. This is all a load of scammy nonsense. And they give up, declaring that it just doesn’t work.

   I am telling you that it does work. Andyou can make it work. And this book will show you how.

   My intention is that this book will allow you to become a true creator of your own life, reawakening and rekindling your belief and interest in The Law of Attraction, Reality Creation, Cosmic Ordering or whatever you wish to call it.

   I prefer simply to call it Magic.

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   Author Bio:
   Genny Davis is a writer and a devotee of the New Thought movement. Despite writing about such esoteric subjects such as’magic’, she is a surprisingly normal and down-to-earth kind of gal. In her spare time, Genny likes to sing, dance, stroke cats and drink gin and tonic.

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5. A Date with Fate by Tracy Ellen

   

   About A Date with Fate by Tracy Ellen

   Offering Free eBook through June 01, 2014!

   A Date with Fate, Volume I in The Adventures of Anabel Axelrod series!

   Hold on to your seat! This is not your traditional romance wrapped up in a nice box and tied with a HEA pretty bow! A Date with Fate is the roller coaster ride of a debut novel by Tracy Ellen, and the first volume in The Adventures of Anabel Axelrod ongoing series.

   Welcome to the life of bookstore owner Anabel Axelrod. She’s smart, sassy, and sexy. Luke Drake is new in town. He’s bad, built, and brainy. Eyes clash, sparks fly, and worlds collide when these two meet. Falling in love is the very last thing Anabel wants, but that’s not her only worry! Experience action, sex, wit, romance, mystery, mayhem, friends, family, flashbacks, fantasies, much laughter, and an “OMG!” cliffhanger–all in one wild weekend!

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6. I Bring the Fire Part I: Wolves (A Loki Story)

   About I Bring the Fire Part I: Wolves (A Loki Story):

   In the middle of America, on Route 44, Amy Lewis has a plan — to get to her grandma’s house in time for dinner. She’s being pursued by a very bad wolf.

   Galaxies away Loki is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover, and with no idea what he’s done wrong — this time anyway. But he does know Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something he’s forgotten…

   In this tale that is equal parts “Another Fine Myth,” “American Gods,” and “Once Upon a Time,” a very nice midwestern girl and a jaded, still very mischievous Loki must join forces to outwit gods, elves, magic sniffing cats, and nosy neighbors. If Loki can remember exactly what he’s forgotten and Amy can convince him not to be too distracted by Earthly gadgets, her boobs, or three day benders, they just might pull it off…

   This first installment of “I Bring the Fire” is for anyone who suspects chaos and mischief makers might have their own redeeming qualities, and anyone who just wants a good fantasy romp through modern Earth, ancient Asgard, and beyond!

   THE I BRING THE FIRE SERIES:

   I Bring the Fire: Part I Wolves

   Monsters: I Bring the Fire Part II

   Chaos: I Bring the Fire Part III

   In the Balance: An I Bring the Fire Novella

   Fates: I Bring the Fire Part IV

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   Author Bio:
   C. Gockel got her start writing fanfiction, and she is not ashamed! Much. She received emails, messages and reviews from her fans telling her she should ‘do this professionally’. She didn’t; because she is a coward and life as a digital designer, copywriter and coder is more dependable. But in the end, her husband’s nagging wore her down: “You could be the next ’50 Shades of Gray’ and I could retire!” Unfortunately, the author isn’t much for writing smut. She is sad about this; she’d love for her husband to be able to retire and just work for her so she could nag him.

   At the moment, Ms. Gockel is working on the next installment of “I Bring the Fire”.

   Ms. Gockel loves to hear from readers. She can be reached by email at: cgockel.publishing@gmail.com

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7. Sign Changes

   About Sign Changes:

   Sign Changes is a novel about ideas and the ways they have changed us. It is about the way you came to understand the very words you are reading now. About the origins of symbol use. Kpol and his tribe struggle to survive an ice age 100,000 years ago and adapt to new ways. In 16th century England, a young boy leaves the countryside to learn to read and print books. In the near-present computer age, a man and woman prepare for the bombs they fear will fall. And in the distant future, a new form of life comes into existence. What connects them all?

   Sign Journeys, the sequel, is out now!

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   Bart Hopkins Jr. is an ex-surfer, mountain hiker and occasional rock climber, chess enthusiast, motorcyclist, and student of language and mind and brain topics. He is the proud father of two grown children, Krystal and Bart, and lives with his wife Kat in Texas.

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8. Catch Me If You Dare.

   About Catch Me If You Dare.:

   Jake Mathews is a U.S. Marshal with a special skill, he is considered to be the best man hunter the service has.
   Max Baxter, an infamous serial killer, has escaped from federal prison and wants to challenge Jake’s skills. With help from his brother, Frank, Max has kidnapped three girls from local malls around the Midwest. They are the bait to lure Marshal Mathews to a remote Island in Lake superior. Max has given Marshal Mathews forty eight hours to hunt and kill him or the girls will die a gruesome death. Jake and the kidnapped girls each find a strength they never knew they had as they struggle against the demented mind of Max. They find the most unlikely ally in their struggle to survive. If you like James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben and Barry Eisler you will love this book.

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   As a child, growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I always knew that I wanted to be a cop from a very young age. While in college, majoring in Political Science and Law Enforcement, I was asked if I wanted to take the test to be a Deputy U.S. Marshal. (Most of us hired had never heard of the Marshal’s, except on television’s Gun Smoke. A common joke at the academy was, ‘I didn’t know how to spell it, now I is one.’ It’s funny because most of us spelled Marshal, as Marshall, until hired. And yes, the grammatical error is on purpose) I was hired, to be a Deputy U.S. Marshal, in June of 1984 and was posted to my home town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (extremely unusual and rare. A deputy had just been fired days before I was to be hired). During my 27 years I have hauled hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners to penal institutions. I have seized everything from race horse to million dollar farms and jets. I have protected Judges at every level, including Supreme Court Justices. I have protect some of the most famous and notorious witnesses in the U.S., all without incident. And, finally, have arrested hundreds of fugitives over the course of my career. The idea for the main character came to me one day as I was walking into the local county jail to pick a prisoner up. The name, Jake Mathews, popped into my head and stayed there for twenty years, until I finally wrote it down on paper, and created this Novel. I’ve had a blast with this first novel and hope to write many more in this series. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

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9. A Provencal Mystery

   About A Provencal Mystery:

   Why did a nun in a seventeenth-century convent flagellate herself until her blood spattered the wall? Why did nuns save a child doomed to death in the Holocaust and who wanted her killed? Who wants a lost head-shaped reliquary that holds something other than a head? And are answers to these questions the key to a terrible modern-day death in a quiet archive?

   When American historian Pandora (Dory) Ryan finds a very rare, uncataloged seventeenth century nun’s diary inside a record book at the provincial archives in Avignon, she is thrilled. This is historian’s treasure. But she doesn’t know yet that it will send her on a search that brings about changes in how she feels about her profession, the irrational, and love with a sexy Frenchman. And it will take her from the archive on a dangerous adventure into the countryside of Provence, which, beautiful as it is, has a long and bloody history.

   The archive’s dramatis personae: the grumpy archivist, with his paper-clip chains; the gofer, who smokes Gauloises and gets away with far too much; a nun with a sense of humor who harangues high school kids about sex; the nun’s glamorous sidekick; a famous American historian, whose requests for documents are inexplicably denied; the eminent professor, destined to fall in love; his nervous graduate student. And that sexy Frenchman, who isn’t who he says he is.

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   Ann Elwood lives in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, with six cats, a desert tortoise, seven box turtles, and a German shepherd, Louis. She grew up in Saddle River, New Jersey. After college, she taught elementary school for a few miserable years, then moved to the Philadelphia area and landed a job as a typist-clerk at the Philadelpha Bulletin. When her boss discovered she had difficulty typing up circulation figures with twelve carbons, she was fired and found another job writing copy for a paternalistic insurance company that offered a low salary and delicious free lunch. One of the typesetters had the magical ability to square up a stack of paper into a perfect cube. Eventually she moved to a studio apartment on Irving Place in New York City, and, after a few months of writing copy for a textbook company, went on to freelance as a writer of anything anyone would pay her for. In 1967, she moved to Los Angeles, where she was advertising manager for a publishing company. Then the West Coast was a mecca for writers and adventurers. Within a couple of years, she visited a Malibu beach house, fell in love (long-distance) with Bob Dylan, met Thomas Pynchon (he wouldn’t remember it), and saw Hair. In 1972, she returned to freelancing. The following year she moved to Cardiff. She wrote articles for Irving Wallace and his son, David Wallichinsky, (People’s Almanac and Book of Lists), and did other wonderful things she won’t mention here. With Carol Orsag Madigan, she wrote several non-fiction books. A desire to delve more deeply into ideas finally drove her to graduate school in 1981. Her dissertation focused on an order of 17th and 18th century French nuns so she had to spend a happy year in France doing research. While not in the archives, she drank local wine with fellow historians and traveled the country with her dog, Puppy, who had far less trouble than she did communicating with the French. Now, she teaches history part-time at California State University, San Marcos, spends time with Louis and the other animals, and writes the books she has always wanted to write but never had the time for.

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