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About The Magic of Me: A Kid’s Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness by Becky Cummings

Preparing kids for the real world is a BIG job! Answers aren’t always taught in the classroom, and kids don’t want to listen to their parents!

The struggle with stress is REAL; bullies, school, how to make (and keep!) friends. The pressure from society is HUGE; junk food, body image and video games.

Luckily, The Magic of Me is here to help teach life’s most important lessons. Kids can create their own health and happiness!

We are all born with magic inside us!

The Magic of Me encourages kids to love themselves, love others, and be the change they wish to see in the world.

Written especially for ages 8 and up, this book is an inspirational guide to make dreams a reality.

Readers will learn how giving and gratitude create abundance, how Earth is like a giant classroom, how they are unconditionally loved and supported, and how to use food, water, sunlight, nature, and forgiveness as medicine.

Packed with relatable analogies, entertaining graphics, and engaging journal pages, The Magic of Me is the perfect gift to give to the children you love.

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Becky Cummings is an author, holistic teacher and mom of three. She loves kids and speaking her truth. Becky is blessed to combine these passions by writing children’s books that spread messages of love, hope, faith, health, and happiness. When she isn’t writing you might find her salsa dancing, eating a veggie burrito at her favorite Mexican joint, or traveling to new places! Becky wants to connect with you so be sure to visit her on Facebook fb.me/authorbcummings, or Instagram and visit her website, www.authorbcummings.com

About Wishing for a star by Ana Balen

It’s supposed to go like this. Boy meets girl, they fall madly in love with each other, battle some shit in their way, and after conquering the challenge, they ride off to their happily ever after.
But, not one fairytale, or love story tells you that after that ride, life happens. We had our story, and we were supposed to live happily in our bubble forever. After one check-up, our bubble burst and reality started to invade. And now, facing the unsure road of IVF treatment, we have to be stronger than ever. Once again, we must go into battle for our happily ever after. Taking that first step was easy. Staying on this road is harder than we thought.
And now, with unexpected obstacles in the way, it’s not a question of if the IVF will succeed. It’s will we be strong enough to stay together and reach for the stars?

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Ana Balen was born in Zagreb, Croatia, where she still lives with her husband, their son (read boss!) and the son’s pet rabbit named Shhh! (or some other gibberish that’s the favorite of their son for the day.)
She spends her days driving her husband up the wall (when he can’t get her ass up from the bed in the mornings), reading and daydreaming, or following orders from a two-year old. In the hectic life she leads (and loves every second of it), she never thought about writing. But, then one day a name popped in her head, then, the snippets of things, and she sat down and started typing. Next thing, she wrote a book. And now, she’s trying to write another one

About Kate & Ruby

Kate’s retirement plans are put on hold when her old nemesis, Ruby, reappears and both their lives are turned upside down. Two stubborn, independent women discover that the lines between love and hate, and between past and future, are muddled and transitory.

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Emily Kaufman was the girl growing up in Manhattan in the fifties and sixties. In the sixties and seventies, I attended Clark University and lived in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Seattle doing the hippie/peace/love/protest thing.

In the eighties and nineties, Emily Saur lived in Northampton, MA and Davis, CA and was the more conventional wife, mother of two, and elementary school teacher.

In 2006, I retired from teaching and became Emily Gallo when I married David, a professor of economics, and moved to Chico, CA. I started writing screenplays and television and moved into novels. David, Gracie (our Schillerhound), Savali (our cat) and I now divide our time between two and a half acres of gardens, orchards in Chico and a 750 square foot condo on the beach in Carpinteria, CA.

About Divorce Made Me Fabulous: Your Guide To Healing When He’s Already Moved On

This book has actionable information on how to heal from a divorce after your husband/Ex partner has moved on.
If there is one thing separation has taught me, it’s that the pain is as real and hiding from it or pushing it aside does not make it less real.
Even though you signed the divorce paper, knowing that he has moved on so shortly after leaves you questioning, whether because you are still pained and are yet to come to terms or there is something wrong with you. In this state of mind, you are likely to make some rash decisions that lead to costly mistakes that will undoubtedly come back to haunt you in the future.
In this guide, I will share with you some of the post-divorce mistakes I committed after hearing that my ex had moved on and was now dating someone new. My intention for sharing these mistakes, let’s call them dos and don’ts, is to help you grow out of the sting, pain, and hurt of knowing that your ex-husband, someone with whom you were planning a future, has replaced you in a flash. If you can follow this guide, you will see fabulous results that you will be happy with!

Heres what you’re going to learn inside…

What to do and not do when your ex-husband moves on fast
How to improve and work on yourself
How to handle your emotions properly and in so doing, avoid becoming bitter at your ex for replacing you so fast
And A Lot More

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Michelle Morrison is a A lifelong resident of Toronto, Canada. Michelle Morrison is also an experienced communication consultant, speaker and author of her first book ”Divorce Made Me Fabulous: Your Guide To Healing When He’s Already Moved On”.

Michelle successfully developed true healing steps over time after hearing the news that her ex husband of 7 -years had moved on to another woman shortly after separating. In the process of her healing, dealing with her ego and experiencing the results of the Do’s and Don’t actions she speaks about in her book. She made it a priority to take note of all that she experienced to later write as a guidance book to prevent the unnecessary pain that could inevitably happen to someone else going through the same thing. Michelle followed her own step bi step guide to heal after her divorce and has now become her best fabulous self while helping others to heal and be the best that they can be too!

About River of Bones

When seventeen-year-old Dharma Moore moves to Bayou country so her scam artist mother can work as a Paranormal Investigator, she discovers that more than ghosts haunt the abandoned plantation they now call home. Centuries ago, a voodoo curse was placed on the swamp waters surrounding the old plantation by a murdered slave. This terrible curse ensnares Dharma with its deadly effects. To save herself, she must face the terror of the haunted waters, find the dead woman’s skull, and convince the slave’s soul to release her from its torments. When Dharma discovers an ancient secret that links her to the property-a secret kept from her by her own family-she realizes that the curse is more personal to her than she ever imagined. To survive, Dharma must accept the help of the locals, and put her trust in the handsome gardener, Wolf Bodine-who is the only one crazy enough to come near the plantation. With his help, Dharma must learn to embrace the truth and accept that magic is not only real… but that it can be very, very deadly!

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Angela J. Townsend is a filmmaker and a traditionally published, award-winning author of gothic horror. Angela is a proud member of the Author’s Guild in NYC. Angela is represented by the former Vice President of Paramount Pictures, M. Kenneth Suddleson. She has a motion picture, the Forlorned based on one of her books and many others coming soon.

In 2018 Angela won a notable trademark lawsuit over her book title, The Forlorned. The person who sued Angela is a convicted child sex offender who had filed dozens of malicious and frivolous lawsuits against other innocent parties. The case ended up in the US Supreme Court, and winning freed Angela from years of harassment from what the press is calling “Trademark Trolls.”

Angela wants you to know: If you or someone you love is being stalked, sued and or harassed, please get professional help. Stalking can be deadly–often victims feel alone. Angela recently formed Authors Unite Against Bullies. She hopes to help others who are being bullied and victims of frivolous lawsuits. To read more about her inspiring story of courage and hope, please visit her website at https://angelatownsendbooks.com

About The Suffering

Twenty-year-old Billy Johnson is afflicted by the hollowness.
All reason is lost when it has him in its grip, pushing him towards acts of unspeakable cruelty. When a hiking accident leaves him injured on an isolated mountain, facing imminent death, Billy looks for meaning in his tragic life. The hollowness, a malevolent force that consumes him, is responsible for the loss of everything good in his life: a relationship with his father, his beloved younger brother Henry, and the first woman to love him, Lisa. At the peak of despair, on the cusp of death, he encounters a strange old man, who is eerily familiar.
Is this Billy’s last chance to redeem his troubled life and rid himself of the hollowness?

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Author Bio:
Dan Mayer lives in Delhi, Ontario, Canada. He likes to talk, write and talk about his writing. He is an outdoors-man, who fishes, hunts, travels, scuba dives, and rides a motorcycle. He has four grown children, two beagles and a fox-red lab. Working as a millwright funds his many adventures, that fuel his imagination.

About Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona by Al & Sunny Lockwood

In this feel-good travel memoir two veteran travelers explore the wonders of grand European cities discovering colorful characters, amazing architecture, fascinating art, and mouthwatering cuisine.

Join Al and Sunny Lockwood as they ride the choppy green waters of Venice’s Grand Canal. Stroll with them through romantic Florence letting its Renaissance art refresh your heart.

In Rome, visit St. Mark’s Basilica, glittering with gold and candlelight. And the Sistine Chapel, still vibrant with Michelangelo’s unique paintings. In the
Colosseum imagine gladiators battling to the death-roar of the crowd.

Enter the most visited monument in Spain: Barcelona’s jaw-dropping Sagrada Familia and feel your soul expand in its stark and startling beauty.

Roam shaded side streets filled with unusual shops and sweet-smelling bakeries.
Ramble across magical bridges and through hidden squares.

Relish evening meals that last until the stars come out.

Let gelato set your taste buds dancing while accordion music starts your toes a tapping.

Come along with these two spirited explorers as they make surprising discoveries in both famous and little-known neighborhoods, and share their delight in seeing the world anew.

Buy Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona today and embark on a breathtaking adventure for the young at heart.

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Al and Sunny Lockwood met after he’d retired from engineering and she’d retired from daily newspaper reporting. They spent much of their time exploring California, Al with his camera and Sunny with her notebook and pen. But a serious car wreck changed their lives.

In 2012, while they waited at a red light, a driver paying more attention to her phone than her driving, slammed into them at 60 miles per hour. The collision totaled both cars and filled the Lockwood’s summer with doctor appointments, pharmacy visits, and endless wrangling with insurance companies.

The wreck also woke them up to the reality that life is fragile and there’s no guarantee you’ll have it for long. “We decided to stop putting off our travel dreams for some day in the future,” Sunny says. “We’ve made ‘someday’ today.”

Their first dream cruise was through the Panama Canal. They loved the trip so much, they wrote a book about it: Cruising Panama’s Canal, savoring 5,000 nautical miles and 500,000 decadent calories.

The book was a finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards.

Then Al and Sunny visited Amsterdam and cruised the Mediterranean, stopping at Venice, Athens, Istanbul, and various Greek islands.

Their travel memoir Cruising the Mediterranean won Best Non-Fiction Book from the 2016 Seven Sisters Book Awards, and also won the Gold medal in the 2016 Wishing Shelf Awards (Adult Non-Fiction Books category). It was a finalist (Nonfiction Narrative category) in the 2017 Best Book Awards.

“We write to encourage people to make their travel dreams come true,” Sunny says. “We want our readers to know that travel enhances health and enriches life. So step out of your everyday routine for a week or two and take a chance on adventure and fun.”

About KIFARU

Tessa Scott thinks taking her children to Squaw Valley for a skiing trip will be a great way to relax. The vacation turns out to be more of an adventure than she plans when a mysterious sedan follows her onto a snow-packed highway. She stops at a convenience store with the children and convinces a man to help her get away, only to discover the stranger is a bigger threat.

When his newest agent, Tessa Scott, disappears under his watchful eyes, Captain Hunter races to save her from a dangerous man. When the stranger convinces her to help save an African nation from a brutal dictator, Hunter can’t prevent her from taking matters into her own hands. He needs to find her before falling victim to more deceit and the nasty business of conflict diamonds. An avalanche complicates the rescue until an enemy intervenes to save them both from certain death.

Never in his wildest dreams did Tessa’s husband, Robert Scott, think he’d be the target of an FBI investigation in a money laundering scheme. Kidnapped by men promising bodily harm, he lands in a secret location where escape appears impossible. Interrogated and drugged, he’s dumped in a parking garage. In the days that follow, he continues to look over his shoulder in fear of more trouble or the chance his wife will find out about the dead woman in his hotel room.

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Besides having taught college geography, Tierney is a former Solar System Ambassador for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Exploring the Okavango Delta in Botswana and walking the Great Wall of China influenced the fiction she creates. Living among the Cherokee in her youth forced Tierney to see life differently as did raising a family in a mining/logging community in California and Missouri. “Life is an adventure! Embrace it,” is her motto. You can find her on Facebook as Tierney James.

About White Men Can Pump by I.M. Young

Cliff, a distinguished gentleman is set up on a blind date with a beautiful woman who turns out to be the ideal perfect match. Denise, yearning for love goes on the date and gets more than she thought was possible. Erotic, sensuous, adult short story of an interracial blind date that leads new discoveries and happiness. Forget whatever you think it is. Life is too short. Let go and enjoy.

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I.M. Young enjoyed writing ever since she was little. She’s passionate about her work and loves creating stories that people find enjoyable.

About Teach Like a Ninja

“Can I go to the bathroom?” Oh, the infamous and dreaded phrase that stumps many a teacher. There we are. So excited that someone has decided to bless the lesson with their sage wisdom or intelligent question. And then they crush us with the six words all teachers dread.

There’s no denying it. Teaching is hard. Everything about the field really. From the low pay to the overbearing administrators to the student who has already fully given up on himself. We’re out there terrified and alone, trying to figure out how to make the world a better place one class at a time. Our degrees aren’t making things easier. Nor are the “mentors” the schools are supplying for us. And we’re forced to decide: Do I really want this… or should I just go ahead and become a lawyer like my mom wants anyway?

Join me on a journey of how I learned through experience (and copious amounts of trial and error) skills and methods that truly worked in the classroom. Learn how to deal with unnecessary student interruptions, how to plan for substitutes, how to instantly win over student parents, and so much more. Bask in my ten years of glorious experience in the classroom. Learn how to Teach Like a Ninja.

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David Andrew Jaffe is the author of two eBooks, a proud father of four, and an all around great guy.

About Shattered love, book one of the Forever us series

Bria du Mont and Damien du Sky have been in love for as long as they can remember. Neighbors and best friends since childhood, they planned to be together forever.

That is until Damien seeks to propose to Bria on her eighteenth birthday and finds her in bed with another man.

Bria has no memory of how she ended up in that situation, but Damien still leaves her. Traumatized by his departure, she develops broken heart syndrome and becomes emotionally numb in her search for closure.

Meanwhile, Damien drowns his pain in alcohol before becoming a ruthless CEO and a playboy who refuses to let himself love again.

Prisoners of their past, Bria and Damien prove incapable of staying away from each other. They dig deeper into the fateful night which tore them apart and uncover secrets which will threaten all they know and challenge the meaning and strength of true love.

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Nivia Borell is a contemporary romance author, a voracious reader, nature lover, stargazer, and day dreamer. She spends her nights deciding between getting up to write, and staying in bed and forgetting the assault of her characters on her sleep (the battle is never ending). She has a weakness for tormented characters, second chances, and happy endings.

While writing is her biggest passion, her husband, family, and books are her greatest loves.

For updates, news, and releases be sure to visit Nivia’s official website at http://www.niviaborell.com.

She loves hearing and connecting with her readers.

About Wait For Me

The hardest job is waiting.

Master Sergeant Jeff “Mackey” MacNamara has been waiting for THE ONE for years. First it wasn’t too safe to find a partner and now his schedule is a nightmare with training soldiers and deployments.

Scott Ash has found where he always was meant to be after a brief bout of idealistic do-gooder after college. He loves his job as a child care director, if he could just find someone to love — perfect might cover it.

A chance meeting when Scott is doing a favor for a friend starts them on a journey that could take them to forever, it’s just a matter of waiting.

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Kris Jacen grew up just north of Boston, Massachusetts, met her soldier in high school but didn’t marry him until almost ten years later. She moved around with him and their daughters (born in two different states thanks to the Army) for the first 19 years of their marriage (they celebrated their silver anniversary in 2018) before settling in western New York.

She has been the Editor in Chief and Formatting Director for ManLoveRomance Press and its imprints since January of 2008 and has never looked back. Working with the amazing authors at MLR has allowed her to both hone her editorial skills and indulge her inner fangirl. She also acts as editor, mentor and sounding-board for newcomers which lets her “pay-it-forward” and help authors realize their dreams.
You can find out more about Kris on her website www.krisjacen.com.

About For a Hundred Centuries, from her Sacred Seat the Cat Watched and Beheld the Pharaohs Raise the Greatest Civilization of History, by M.G. Hawking

New Release, free on Amazon 1/28 – 1/30/19: Explore history’s most magnificent civilization and its profound mystical knowledge. For centuries, devoted scholars have endeavored to penetrate the mysteries of Ancient Egypt, the stone-age culture that abruptly rose to create the greatest civilization of known history.
Champollion, founder of Egyptology, was the first of a thousand such men, living simply in the heat and dust, trying to read for us the riddle of the achievements of a mysterious civilization, to snatch from the secretive soil the science and technology, the art and literature, the history and wisdom of Ancient Egypt. By its side Sumeria’s culture was but a crude beginning; not even the culture of Greece or Rome would surpass it, far less our own.
How did a small community just emerging from a Neolithic stage suddenly generate the most majestic and enduring civilization of the ages? The ascension of Ancient Egypt to a previously unknown zenith of culture lasting thousands of years demonstrated advancements that have long eluded explanation. The civilization of Ancient Egypt formed the background and source of the modern world. We shall be surprised to learn how much of our indispensable inventions, our economic and political organization, our science and literature, our philosophy and our art, goes back to the dawn of civilization in Egypt.
From Ancient Egypt came the technology of architecture, agriculture, metallurgy, and engineering; the invention of glass and linen, of paper and ink, of the calendar and the clock, of geometry and the alphabet; the excellence and sublimity of sculpture and the arts, refinement of dress and ornament, of furniture and dwellings, of society and life; the remarkable development of orderly and peaceful government, of education; the advancement of writing and literature, of science and medicine; the first clear formulation known to us of individual and public conscience, the first cry for social justice, the first widespread monogamy, the first monotheism; all elevated to a degree of superiority and power that has seldom, if ever, been equaled since.
The voluminous lore of ancient Egyptian tradition relates that in the antediluvian time of zp tpj (generally transcribed as Zep Tepi), the “first occasion” or “first time,” mysterious, highly enlightened “gods” appeared in Egypt, bearing previously unknown technology and knowledge. The texts inscribed on the walls of the Temple of Edfu in Upper Egypt contain explicit descriptions of the time of Zep Tepi and the coming of the “bringers of knowledge,” recounting their arrival in a “cosmic egg” radiating colored light, bearing the “gods” who brought the gift of civilization to Egypt, the primary of which was Ptah, whose rule, the texts tell us, began circa 18,000 BC.
Plato (c. 428-348 BC) writes that Egyptian priests kept records of their history going back over 19,000 years: “Egypt has recorded and kept eternally the wisdom of the ancient ages, all coming from time immemorial when gods governed the earth in the dawn of civilization.” Herodotus tells us that when Hecataeus of Miletus (550-476 BC) boasted to the Egyptian priests that he could trace his ancestry through fifteen centuries, they quietly showed him, in a hidden sanctuary deep under the sands, the statutes of 345 high priests, each the son of the preceding, making 345 generations since their “gods” had appeared in the Nile valley and marking a timeline extending back some 190 centuries. Who were these mysterious gods? Why did they come, and from where?
An unprecedented account, this book reveals knowledge long concealed in myth, legend, and secrecy. New Release, Kindle eBook page count 318 (estimated, actual page count varies with the reading device). A Kindle Unlimited Book. For more information, please see the ‘Look Inside’ feature on the book’s Amazon page. Thank you.

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M.G. Hawking is an avid traveler, adventurer, and writer. Devoted to exploring remote areas of the globe to discover regions unknown to the Western world, always in search of extraordinary people and experiences, he has found many, especially in the Great Range of the Himalayas, the setting for most of his books. His focus is documenting profound wisdom traditions and revealing the knowledge and power they convey. Hawking is the author of the book series, ‘In The Valley of Supreme Masters,’ along with its associated companion volumes. When not traveling, he spends his time working on projects related to presenting books of an esoteric and metaphysical nature with his wonderful team in Northern California. Heather Cantrell, M.Litt., contributor and editor for Wisdom Masters Press, is an experienced world traveler. Having been born in Nepal to British parents who were teachers in various parts of Asia, she has extensive experience in the Himalayas. Heather is a devoted adventurer, trekker, equestrian and animal lover. Amber Chellings, M.Phil., contributor and researcher for Wisdom Masters Press, is an avid photographer, outdoor enthusiast, and ardent equestrian.

About Love in the North by Bobbie Sue Ellison

Love in the North is about a young white man from the deep south who is sent north for a temporary work assignment and a young black woman from the north. There they meet and soon fall in love. Their plan to spend their lives together requires gaining acceptance from the both sets of parents each with much different values and beliefs.
This is the heart wrenching story of how the two lovers meet those and other challenges in their quest to find happiness together.

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Hi! After many years being a wife and a mother (and now a grandmother) I’ve begun to write again. I did some writing while in college and have written several short stories none of which ever got published. I’ve always loved romance stories so I’ll write in that genre and see where it takes me. I hope that you enjoy my stories.