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1. How to Make Cold Espresso Drinks Like A Pro: A Beginner’s Guide to DIY Iced Lattes & Frappes by Bethany Dasko - 2013-06-05 16:15:41-04
   Bethany is a former barista from a popular espresso drive-through who now has a company selling coffee mugs & tumblers. Having seen firsthand how easy and simple delicious frozen drinks can be, she decided to put together a book for anyone interested in learning how to make them. She loves coffee and all things coffee-related, and her favorite type of frozen drink is an eggnog frappuccino.
   
2. The Witches of Dark Root - 2013-06-06 00:43:06-04
   April Aasheim has worked as a preschool teacher, a social worker, and as a very bad waitress. She was actually fired from four restaurants because of her inability to tolerate people jiggling empty ice cups at her as she walked by. She spent her childhood living in the Southwest, then later moved to California, Tennessee, and finally ended up in Oregon. She loved all of these places and someday hopes to spend some time on the East Coast of the United States. April's mother was a fortune teller, providing April with a foundation in magic during the years when most little girls were playing with dolls. Since then, April has spent her life researching the many types of magic, as well as world religions and philosophies. In April's spare time she enjoys reading, people watching, and watching movies. She maintains an active blog at http://aprilaasheim.blogspot.com
   
3. Hollywood Heartthrob - 2013-06-06 00:57:29-04
   I have been an avid reader and writer since my earliest school days. Reading was my first and earliest passions, often seeking the safe sanctuary of my room or the library to read everything I could. My favorite has been romance. I penned some romantic poetry in high school and was winning school awards for my short stories when I was just 16. In college I would hibernate in the library for days at a time, consuming every short story and novel I could find. My diploma says Bachelors in English Lit. which I'm very proud of. I probably drink too much coffee and eat too much junk food, but to compensate do like running when the weather is nice. I love shopping in the mall even if I never find what I'm looking for. I'm a hopeful romantic who prefers novels with a happy ending.
   
4. The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer - 2013-06-06 00:57:51-04
   Lisa Orchard grew up loving books. She was hooked on mysteries by the fifth grade and even wrote a few of her own. She knew she wanted to be a writer even then. “The Super Spies and the Pied Piper” is the second book in the “Super Spies” series. Her first book was published in March of 2012 and it has received rave reviews. After graduating from Central Michigan University with a Marketing Degree she spent many years in the insurance industry, pining to express her creative side. The decision to stay home with her children gave her the opportunity to follow her dream and become a writer. She currently resides in Rockford Michigan with her husband, Steve, and two wonderful boys. Currently, she’s working on a Coming of Age Young Adult Novel. When she’s not writing she enjoys spending time with her family, running, hiking, and reading.
   
5. Essential Oil Beauty Secrets - 2013-06-06 00:58:28-04
   Author is an engineer by profession, But due to his interest towards nature and natural products has written books on natural products.
   
6. The Prepper Checklist: A Step By Step Guide To Plan And Protect Your Family And Friends During Any Disaster - 2013-06-06 01:00:23-04
   BJ Knights wrote The Prepper Checklist: A Step By Step Guide To Plan And Protect Your Family And Friends During Any Disaster.
   
7. Starfire Angels by Melanie Nilles - 2013-06-06 01:00:44-04
   Melanie Nilles grew up on a western North Dakota cattle ranch and farm and graduated with a degree in business administration from NDSU. She currently resides in central North Dakota with her family, cats, and horse. Her published works include the Starfire Angels series. As M. A. Nilles, she publishes darker adult fiction, including the fantasy Tiger Born, the first of her Demon Age series. For updates, visit her website at www.melanienilles.com.
   
8. Eat Well And Lose Weight - 2013-06-06 01:01:04-04
   Veronica Lett, the Author of this eBook, is a grandmother with two children and three grandchildren, in her sixth decade plus of life, now retired for full time employment. As she is not the retiring type, she has started on a new course in her life. She lives with her two dogs and a garden that is too large to cope with. As weight control in later years is something we really have to be concerned with, we are living longer and need to maintain good health for ourselves and family.
   
9. The Robinsons’ Dark Matter - 2013-06-06 01:01:22-04
   A technology lover from a very young age, Michael Raymond's first computer was a VIC-20. All the way back in 1982 his father managed to learn the lesson that if a cool piece of tech was on sale, it was probably outdated. Within a couple of weeks the VIC-20 was exchanged for a Commodore 64 and it was on that machine that Michael fell in love with programming in BASIC, and eventually found himself coding in assembly. Years before that first (and second) computer, Michael had been introduced to the Berenstein Bears, the collective works of Richard Scarry, and many other fantastic children's books. He loved to discover interesting characters and see what adventures befell them. Most of all, he loved to learn about the wide world outside through the fictional lives of those characters on the page. Michael's worlds of technology and books came together for the first time when he discovered the game "Below the Root," which stems from the fantastic Green Sky Trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The game had deceiving emotional depth to its story and incredible, original gameplay considering the limitations of the Commodore 64 platform it was coded for. It planted a seed in his mind. He wanted to be able to give the experience he'd just had to others--to create characters and worlds that would make people laugh, and cry...and think.
   
10. Learning To Talk Bear, by Roland Cheek - 2013-06-06 01:25:46-04
    There are, I suppose, febrile savants who reject any notion that a person can acquire the writing art outside those hallowed halls of academia. Yet storytellers captured audiences for millenniums before Oxford or Harvard were more than forest enclaves where wild turnips sprout. There's dissent, of course, holding the cloistered academic life to be poor training grounds for the kinds of riveting stories audiences wish to hear or read. My particular PhD came from God's own university of wild places and wilder things. My Culture might best be described as the Campfire kind, backed up against the inky black of star-filled nights, regaling saucer-eyed guests with tales of wilderness adventure, while horses stomped at picket lines and coyotes howled at a rising moon. My doctoral thesis came during three decades of narratives about those wild places and wilder things; wonders saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt; crafted for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Sports Afield. My column was syndicated over two decades to 17 newspapers, and I hosted a coast-to-coast radio show with 210,000 listeners airing on 75 stations across America. Then I turned my attention to books: a baker's dozen novels and wildlife and adventure nonfiction titles, all self-published to great success, all flavored with real-life experiences. What's my point? That one can have adventure AND learn to write very well indeed (despite academic disdain for anyone outside their comfortable inner circle); well enough indeed to tell the conventional publishing world to go to hell--that I'll publish my own stuff. More successfully. And at greater profit!
    
11. Lodestone (Witch-Hunt) by Wendy Scott - 2013-06-06 01:32:38-04
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wendy Scott has a New Zealand Certificate in Science (Chemistry), which allows her to dabble with fuming potions and strange substances, satisfying her inner witch. Wendy writes fantasy, children’s and romance novels. One of the creeds she lives by is to always – Live a life less ordinary! Please visit www.wendyjscott.com to learn more, read Wendy’s blog or to leave her a message. She loves hearing from readers.
    
12. Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen - 2013-06-06 01:36:21-04
    Judith Newton is Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at U.C. Davis where she directed the Women and Gender Studies program for eight years and the Consortium for Women and Research for four. She is the author and co-editor of five works of nonfiction on nineteenth-century British women writers, feminist criticism, women’s history, and men’s movements. Four of these works were reprinted by Routledge and the University of Michigan Press in the fall of 2012. In 2011 and 2012 six chapters of her memoir won prizes in contests sponsored by womensmemoir.com. In 2013 Tasting Home won an IPPY (Independent Publishers Award). Her most current work has appeared in The Huffington Post (“A Valentine for my Gay Ex-Husband,” February 8, 2013 and “Reclaiming the Kitchen: Women’s History Month Meets the Food Justice Movement,” March 4, 2013) at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-newton/),The Redwood Coast Review (Winter 2012), poetalk (Summer, 2011), at http://tasting-home.com and at http://ipinionsyndicate.com/. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California where she tends her garden and cooks for family and friends.
    
13. Round Robin - 2013-06-06 01:37:31-04
    Joseph Flynn has been published both traditionally -- Signet Books, Bantam Books and Variance Publishing -- and through his own imprint, Stray Dog Press, Inc. Both major media reviews and reader reviews have praised his work. Booklist said, "Flynn is an excellent storyteller." The Chicago Tribune said, "Flynn [is] a master of high-octane plotting." The most repeated reader comment is: Write faster, we want more.
    
14. Tall, Dork and Handsome - 2013-06-06 01:41:05-04
    Remy Richard is an author of contemporary and paranormal romance novels. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Remy spends most of her free time writing in the French Quarter, eating beignets at Café Du Monde and trying to control herself around sexy Cajun men with great accents. Luckily, the last is a skill that she's having a hard time mastering. Remy has worked a major publishing company and written for many different outlets, both in fiction and non-fiction, under several names. She is very excited to be releasing novels with well-known digital publishers and independently.
    
15. Another Sunny Day - 2013-06-06 01:42:58-04
    "Kathy Clark has had 23 romance / women’s fiction novels published by several publishers, including Harlequin and Dell which have sold more than 3 million copies globally in at least 11 different languages. Her books have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today Best Seller lists and she has received numerous industry awards including Romantic Times Readers’ Choice Awards. In 2013 two of her books won first place in The Best Indie Books of the year for Young adult and suspense. After spending several years writing screenplays she has returned to writing novels and has branched out into suspense, mainstream and young adult genres. She has enjoyed co-writing these latest books with her husband Bob Wernly under the pen name of Bob Kat. Kathy’s latest and 24th book published was After Midnight, a suspense set in Denver and is the first of a trilogy called Denver After Dark. It has been well received and reviewers, across the board, have rated it 4 and 5 stars. The trailer for that book can be found from my website at www.nightwriter93.com or directly on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxSkqqaD-2Q Bob Kat became active in 2012 with two projects published. First was the mainstream novel, Life’s What Happens, a fictionalized treatment of the 1969 to early 1970 anti-war movement as it played out at Kent State University. Bob Wernly was there, and the characters and thoughtful telling of the story was a fascinating insight into the era. The reviews have been amazing. The direct link to the YouTube trailer can be found at the following http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBnqNNNHUE&feature=plcp But after several years of contemplating where to take their newly launched co-writing career, they concluded there was a mutual and burning passion to spend their time writing for young adults. The passion stems from the many real-life stories of teen suicide, bullying, runaways, abuse and drugs. Add to that, the caustic nature of the television and film content that most certainly weighs on this age group’s ability to maintain a positive healthy outlook as they mature into their twenties. The CUL8R time travel action adventure series was inaugurated in December, 2012. There are many unique features of this series, and the positive message it will send to its readers will be awesome! That’s right, awesome! Really. Actually, it will be epic! The series website is www.cuul8rseries.com Book #1, OMG was published in eBook and paperback in time for Christmas. And no zombies or vampires were killed in the making of the series! "
    
16. Enlightened Relationships: A Spiritual Guide to Love and Romance - 2013-06-06 01:44:26-04
    Edwin Harkness Spina is an award-winning author, speaker and mystic. His first book, Mystic Warrior, won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Visionary Fiction and a Nautilus Silver Book Award for Fiction/Visionary Fiction. (Deepak Chopra won the Nautilus Gold that year.) Ed is also the author of Mystic Secrets Revealed, The Future is Now, Escaping the Matrix, Enlightened Relationships, Travel to Enlightenment and a contributing author to the bestseller, 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life (along with Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, Joe Vitale, and others). He is also the developer of Energy Center Clearing and Total Love Immersion.
    
17. Sensation: A Superhero Novel - 2013-06-06 01:45:48-04
    This is the author's first book in the realm of sci-fi/fantasy, and he is presently hard at work on the sequel.
    
18. The Vultures - 2013-06-06 01:46:31-04
    Van Holt wrote his first western when he was in high school and sent it to a literary agent, who soon returned it, saying it was too long but he would try to sell it if Holt would cut out 16,000 words. Young Holt couldn't bear to cut out any of his perfect western, so he threw it away and started writing another one. A draft notice interrupted his plans to become the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. A tour of duty as an MP stationed in South Korea was pretty much the usual MP stuff except for the time he nabbed a North Korean spy and had to talk the dimwitted desk sergeant out of letting the guy go. A briefcase stuffed with drawings of U.S. aircraft and the like only caused the overstuffed lifer behind the counter to rub his fat face, blink his bewildered eyes, and start eating a big candy bar to console himself. Imagine Van Holt's surprise a few days later when he heard that same dumb sergeant telling a group of new admirers how he himself had caught the famous spy one day when he was on his way to the mess hall. Holt says there hasn't been too much excitement since he got out of the army, unless you count the time he was attacked by two mean young punks and shot one of them in the big toe. Holt believes what we need is punk control, not gun control. After traveling all over the West and Southwest in an aging Pontiac, Van Holt got tired of traveling the day he rolled into Tucson and he has been there ever since, still dreaming of becoming the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour when he grows up. Or maybe the next great mystery writer. He likes to write mysteries when he's not too busy writing westerns or trying to find out when they are going to start making Twinkies again.
    
19. Mason’s Daughter by Cynthia J Stone - 2013-06-06 01:55:18-04
    Cynthia Stone believes she and Sting were twins separated at birth, because they share the same birthday and original last name. Since she’s a native Austinite, some complications in proving their kinship are sure to arise. All of which provides creative fodder for the family sagas she loves to write. Cynthia wrote her first story at age five and has continued to indulge that Muse ever since. Her checkered career includes magazine publishing, copywriting, professional fundraising for the fine arts, antiques importing, and interior decorating. She still lives in Austin with her ever-patient husband, Gerald, a restaurateur. Connect with Cynthia online: www.CynthiaJStone.com
    
20. Spell On Me - 2013-06-06 04:56:02-04
    The author has made a successful career as a lawyer. However, over a period of time, he realized that this was not the only thing he could and wanted to do in life. After much soul-searching, he came to the conclusion that he needed a new mode of expression, one capable of adequately portraying his innermost thoughts, feelings and emotions, as well as his personal life experiences. Part of this search is reflected in his book. Spell on me is his first foray into the world of literary fiction. Like the character in the book, the author tries to be sincere and honest with the reader, but first of all with himself. Always, the overriding theme is a quest for what can be called the ultimate meaning or essence of life. In his late thirties, the author lives in northern Europe, is married, and is the father to a small son. He counts among his interests reading classical philosophy, attending Aikido classes, studying Xi Gong and playing the piano.
    
21. Escape From The Forbidden Planet - 2013-06-06 05:35:35-04
    Julie Anne Grasso is an Australian with a background in paediatric nursing. She spent many years literally wrapping children in cotton wool. Every day she witnessed great courage and resilience from the tiny people she cared for, which inspired her to write stories about a little girl elf just like them. Add in some very funky technology, her love of science fiction and desire to impart great values through her little girl elf named Caramel and there you have it, Escape From The Forbidden Planet was the result.
    
22. Cliff Diver: An Emilia Cruz Novel - 2013-06-06 07:35:42-04
    Carmen Amato was born in New York and educated there as well as Virginia and Paris, France. Her family tree includes a mayor, a Mensa genius, and the first homicide in the state of Connecticut with an automatic weapon. The perpetrator, her great-grandfather, eluded a state-wide manhunt after killing two people–one of whom was his wife–and was never brought to justice. She is the author of political thriller THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY and the Emilia Cruz mystery series set in Acapulco. Both draw on her experiences living in Mexico and Central America. Her blog series GIRL MEETS PARIS captured her adventures while a student in the City of Light. She currently divides her time between the United States and Central America.