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1. Handy Man (Calladine & Bayliss #1)

   About Handy Man (Calladine & Bayliss #1):

   Was it gang warfare – was it about drugs, or was someone new shaking a serious fist at the old guard? DI Tom Calladine didn’t think so. He trusted his instincts and they told him that this was something else entirely. This was murder; brutal, extreme, but it was the work of someone working on a quest of his own. This murderer had an inventive mind. He killed with skill then left bloody remnants of his victims strewn all over his patch. Finding the culprit would prove challenging and in the end give him the shock of his career so far.

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   Author Bio:
   I set my books in the area I both live and work in – so I know it well. This is an area that sits between two counties and between the city and the hills. So it offers a rich mix of the industrial and the countryside and all the character therein. I always planned to write crime novels – to create the characters in my books. The second in the series is already out and very soon there will be number 3 – so watch this space.

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2. How to Make Soap at Home

   About How to Make Soap at Home:

   Soap making is a talent that has been around for millennia but, in the modern world, we expect more from our soaps than the simple ability to clean. In this book, you will be introduced to one of the world’s best loved pastimes and discover all the basics of creating unique and beautiful soaps.

   Once you have learned how to gather your tools and ingredients, how to safely perform the chemical processes and how to incorporate a wide range of ingredients and decorations, you will be able to turn a standard bar of soap into a gorgeous and fragrant beauty product.

   Beginning with basic recipes, you will progress to using pre-made bases and homemade formulas to create personalized exfoliating bars, cleansing soaps and soothing scrubs.

   By the time you have tried the techniques and tips in this book, you will be able to create gifts for others, soaps for yourself and even items to sell. With the addition of your own imagination, you will be able to turn the methods and skills that you learn within this book from a hobby into a passion – and perhaps even into a career.

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   Author Bio:
   Monica L. Patton has been selling her crafts at shows and in stores for over two decades. An expert in adding a personal touch to her creations, her work is beloved across the surrounding counties in her home state. Married and a mother to two teenagers, she has turned what began as a hobby during the latter part of her teens into the career that has brought her both success and fulfillment.

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3. Becoming Lulu by Janet Wellington

   About Becoming Lulu by Janet Wellington:

   It’s funny how what you see in the mirror influences how you look at the world and your place in it. Especially when what you see is a curvy, struggling, lonely, almost-41-year-old woman. And that’s just how pretty, skin care salon owner Louise sees herself.

   But sometimes—when you least expect it—life presents a chance to create a new future, and to maybe even reinvent yourself. For Louise this happens when her best friend secretly enters a photograph of her in a contest at Glow, a local skin care company looking for models of all ages…and sizes.

   Can Louise take a new path—a path that might just lead into a new life—especially when it requires her to step right out of her comfort zone and into a bathing suit photo shoot? Heavens!

   Sure, she desperately needs the prize money to help keep her skin care salon from literally falling apart around her, but can she bare herself—and eventually her soul—to the cute photographer who keeps flirting with her?

   He couldn’t really be interested in her when he could pluck any normal-sized woman out of the Glow Girl contestant pool….could he? Nope, the handsome Glow marketing exec is a better, more suitable choice…or is he?

   What’s a girl to do…but lose “Louise” and become the happier, more exciting and desirable “Lulu”.

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   Author Bio:
   I feel like I have been a writer all my life–as cliché as that sounds, even to me!–from childhood essays that ended up in the Sunday School bulletin, to long-ago burned journals (I hate that I did that!), to love-sick poems written on napkins while having a glass or three of wine, to newsletters and articles and press releases written on-the-job, and finally to happily-ever-after romances and women’s fiction novels that I love love love writing!

   As an award-winning author of four print-published romance novels via traditional publishers, I have now happily embraced the ebook revolution and am delighted to be on the indie path. I’m tellin’ ya, the freedom is exhilarating!

   So, what makes me different than the skads of other romance and women’s fiction writers? I think my stories offer a little “something extra”–whether it’s really interesting secondary characters with their own arching subplots, unique and detailed settings, or research that translates into unexpected facts sprinkled in. Nothing makes me happier than to read a review from a reader who was surprised by how much the story touched him or her.

   And, please realize that your reviews on Amazon are GOLDEN to indie authors, so I always encourage readers to leave a sentence or two after you’ve read an ebook!

   My debut ebook, HOMECOMING-a Wisconsin Reunion Romance, now has over 200 5-star reviews, averaging 4.6 stars out of 5. It also was a 2013 Quarter-Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and garnered a very nice review from Publishers Weekly!).

   I love to hear from readers and hope you’ll visit my Facebook page: JanetWellingtonBooks where you can sign up for my newsletter, or via email at: mail@janetwellington.com

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4. Finding Happiness

   About Finding Happiness:

   You’re about to discover how to find happiness in a way that most people don’t think of. In this day and age everyone has something to complain about. We all have our problems and we all strive hard to earn money in hopes that we can find happiness from what it can buy us. As we worry about paying bills, living costs and food we forget what it is that can truly make us happy. Most people don’t even know what being happy means.

   The truth is if you want to find happiness then you’ve taken the first step already. Your desire to find it is what will ultimately lead to you getting it. If you dare to look beyond the “good enough life” of having an average job that brings in an average wage, that is the time your quest to discover the true happiness you already possess begins. This book will take you by the hand and help you to change your life forever.

   Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn…

   The first mistake everyone makes in finding happiness

   The way you can use that mistake to your advantage

   The science behind true happiness

   That you already possess happiness

   How you can choose to be happy

   The easy steps you can take to be happy

   Resources you can use to be happy

   The top method for attracting happiness into your life

   Much, much more!

   Download your copy today!

   Take action today to find the happiness you deserve and download this book for a limited time discount of only $0.99!

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   Author Bio:
   A J Rafferty has been writing since he can remember, in 2009 he was mugged in the streets and began to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. There began his quest to learn more about the world. He is constantly developing and has used his new found perspective to help several others, he always thrives to do the best for the world.

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5. The Drake Equation

   About The Drake Equation:

   She’s a Democrat, he’s a Republican. She spends her days fighting global warming at an environmental non-profit, he makes his living doing PR for Bell Motors and their fleet of SUVs. But as soon as they meet, Emily Crossley and Robert Drake realize they have encountered their intellectual match. You’re never challenged, he tells her. You’ve surrounded yourself in a cocoon of people who think exactly the same way you do. She hurls the same accusation back at him, and the fiery debates begin.

   Despite both of their attempts to derail it, there is no denying that they are falling in love. But their relationship is threatened by political differences, Robert’s excessive work hours, and Emily’s fear of losing her identity as she falls deeper in love.

   Can their love survive? The Drake Equation is a tale of modern love and all its complexities.

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   Author Bio:
   Heather Walsh grew up in North Haven, CT, fantastically close to Pepe’s pizza.

   She received a B.A. in English at Mary Washington College, which has been renamed to, drum roll please… the University of Mary Washington. This was after a failed attempt to name it Washington & Monroe University, because there aren’t enough schools honoring dead Virginian men already. Heather graduated Phi Betta Kappa and summa cum laude, which sounds kind of fancy but really means she took easy classes.

   She taught high school English in Brooklyn for one year, where she loved the students but not the system. She then joined corporate America and worked there for too many years as an IT trainer, project manager, business analyst, and SQL dabbler (select * from Drake_Equation).

   Her favorite writer is Alice Munro, her favorite movie is The Godfather Parts I & II (tied for first), and her favorite TV show is The Wire. She has lived in some pretty neat places, including Brooklyn (kind of before it was hipster-cool to do so), Manhattan, and San Francisco. The unfortunate result of living in these locations is that she has become an obnoxious foodie.

   She currently lives in Brookline, MA with her husband, Mike DeLucia, and her two children. Her two novels, Dented Cans and The Drake Equation, have sold over 7,500 copies.

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6. Over the Yahoola

   About Over the Yahoola:

   Lilly Corn can’t be fooled by that old penny-behind-your-ear trick. She’s been bamboozled by a man too many times. Voodoo, shaman tricks, and omens are make-believe as far as Lilly is concerned and the mention of folklore could strike a flame in her eyes. When sexy, sweet Hudson McGee shows up on Lilly’s doorstep looking for a place to camp for a few days, she’s not too pleased with the idea. She’s not about to let this year’s shyster fool her with his crazy schemes. What she doesn’t know is that Hudson has been infected with Dahlonegaitis or yellow blood caused by an incurable case of chronic gold fever. Nothing will daunt Hudson from his prospecting goals, not legend, nor mountain, or thieves, and especially not a woman! Will Hudson infect Lilly with gold fever or will she infect Hudson with her charms? Can Hudson sway Lilly into believing in things she can’t see or touch?

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   Author Bio:
   I live in Texas with an old dog and my imagination. I garden and pull a lot of weeds. For Sunday afternoon fun, I hand feed my pet tortoise, Little Miss Prissy, tomatoes on the front porch. I spend a lot of time traveling dirt roads, and not necessarily to fun places, since the closest grocery store is too hell and back. I never forget my ice chest when I leave home, and always come back with a full tank of gas and a loaf of bread. I write about the people in my head. My characters often travel with me, telling me stories, and I do find a new one or two on my adventures in the backwoods, when I can find a tree, here in Texas.

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