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1. The Big Book of Juice Fast, Cleanse and Detox Recipes - Ravi started his career as a health professional, successfully written many books which are related to healthy diet, exercise and home care taking. His ultimate goal to help people to lose weight and get healthy without starving themselves and doing excessive exercise and painful chore. When he is free- He may be in the kitchen with his mother and sister and cooking some healthy recipes for weight loss or may be in the gym and trying some best equipment for light exercises.
   
2. Ninja Nan Strikes Again - I was born in Hampshire in 1980. When I was little my family moved to Essex to be closer to her maternal grandparent's. This is where I spent my childhood and college years. I never really knew that I was going to be a writer. Some writers do; they just know from early on that writing is the only thing for them. I thought I was going to be a million other things: an actress, ice-skater, archaeologist, astrophysicist, theatre director to name but a few. It wasn't until I finished my English degree that I realised I was meant to be a writer, and even then it was a gradual process. It kind of crept up on me and consumed me until all I could think of, everyday, was writing. I now lives in rural Suffolk with my partner Jason, who is a photographer, and our three home-educated children. I get to spend my time doing what I love, writing. I would actually say that I am in-love with writing, which sounds funny but it's all I want to do. Also, through my writing, I get to be all the things I wanted to be growing up and so much more. I can be a Ninja, or a deep sea diver, or a mad scientist or a vampire. I don't have to settle for one I can do it all and what's more I get to share it with my readers. My first book, Ninja Nan and Sidekick Grandad, made it to the finals of The People's Book Prize last year!
   
3. By Unknown Means - Doug Giacobbe is a retired law enforcement officer with 24 years of experience on the mean streets of South Florida. Giacobbe retired in 2001 at the rank of Major, and Commander of the Criminal Investigations Unit of the Miramar Police Department. He has worked in almost every capacity as a police officer, including undercover narcotics investigation and internal affairs investigation. He is currently an Associate Professor of History at Daytona State College. Giacobbe is a member of Mystery Writers of America.
   
4. The Mushroom Farm: and Other Reflections from a Spiritual Journey - The Reverend John Richard Dolan was born in Oxford, England, and was raised close to the ancient Cathedral in Llandaff, Wales. John has lived and worked in the United States for 40 years. John is a British Chartered Accountant (CPA) and is an ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church USA. This unlikely combination and his having lived in two very distinct cultures has given John the opportunity to discern his spiritual journey from differing perspectives. "The Mushroom Farm" is John’s first book.
   
5. In Two Weeks - Jen Talty co-created Cool Gus Publishing with NY Times Best-Selling Author Bob Mayer, and runs the technical side of the company. She is a published romance author, and teaches Creative Writing at various writing conferences across the country.
   
6. Huntress - Queen of biker fiction. Karina Kantas writes novels, short stories and sometimes poetry. And when her imagination is working over time, she writes thought provoking/dark flash fiction. Karina writes in the genres of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and thrillers, just to name a few. With an international fan base, she's only too happy to chat to her fans on Face-book and Twitter. Her inspirations are the author S.E.Hinton and the rock band Iron Maiden. Titles by Karina Kantas In Times of Violence YA urban thriller Heads and Tales collection of flash and short fiction Lawless Justice urban thriller Huntress urban thriller Stone Cold YA supernatural thriller Road Rage urban thriller UNDRESSED Collection of short fiction, poetry and prose.
   
7. The Living And The Dead - Todd Travis's interests include conspiracy theories, the poetry of Michael O'Donoghue and movies of the 80s. He is single and moves around a whole lot. His current whereabouts are at this time unknown. He doesn't like cable news, views cellphones with suspicion and don't even get him started on email. He also believes poker is not a sport and therefore should never be allowed on ESPN. He wrote the thriller CREATURES OF APPETITE and the horror collection THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. You can contact him via a Facebook fan page that a friend set up for him.
   
8. Nicky Two Fists - Jodi Ceraldi wrote Nicky Two Fists
   
9. The Merman and The Moon Forgotten (Nikolas and Company: Episode 1) - Kevin McGill is the author of the Nikolas & Company series where the Moon is much more than we think, mermen walk on automaton legs, and a 14-year-old boy talks to a city in his head. When not spinning Lunar yarns, Kevin hosts a weekly books podcast Guys Can Read along with his college buddy and co-host, Luke Navarro. Find Kevin’s blog overthewoodfence.wordpress.com and Twitter @kevinonpaper
   
10. Organic Gardening’s Black Gold Composting: The ultimate gardener’s guide to composting by Michael O’Halloron - Organic Gardening has followed the full circle of old knowledge, to outdated practices, to new found and updated technology. An example of this is the development of the Bokashi technique from a Korean method practiced for hundreds of years. Mike grew up on a small farm in Iowa and acquired the art of organic gardening as practiced by his father. When large-scale chemical fertilizer farming became vogue, his father refused to use them. His reasoning: "They smell like oil and oil isn't good to eat". With his knowledge grounded in experience, he continuously researches and experiments to learn new workable and practical techniques. Mike loves to say that an advantage of "Farm Life" was being able to raid the huge family garden for snacks freshly plucked from the rich soil all summer long. This love of garden snacking has followed him all of his life and he feels that everyone should be able to do it. It doesn't matter if you have a large garden, patio garden or containers. Now that he is retired, he enjoys writing books with his step-by-step methods to help others enjoy a happy and healthy organic lifestyle. "Garden Snacking" aside, Mike has a zest for life that includes sailing, motorcycles, sports car racing and just plain inventing personally useful things.
    
11. Talented by Sophie Davis - Sophie Davis, author of the bestselling Talented Saga, is constantly playing out current and future stories in her head. Two years ago, she finally put pen to paper and wrote Talented, her debut novel and the first in the four-book Talented Saga. The follow-ups, Caged and Hunted, have since been released, as well as a novella, Captivated. Sophie is currently hard at work on the final book in the Talented Saga (out Summer 2013). Her other works include The Nightmares Trilogy: Pawn (available now), Sacrifice (Winter 2013), Checkmate (2014), and The Blind Barriers Serials: Blind Barriers (available now), Courting Chaos (July 2013), Fragile Façade (August 2013) and several more coming Fall and Winter 2013. Sophie currently resides in Washington, D.C., where she works in the sciences, learning about the newest inventions before they hit the market. She holds degrees from Appalachian State University, George Washington University, and Penn State (though she’s a Buckeye fan at heart!). A coffee addict and compulsive list-maker, Sophie spends the majority of her office supply budget on K-cups for her Keurig and post-it notes. Sophie’s poodle and Benji-look-alike mutt are her faithful companions as she navigates the world of Indie Publishing. When she isn't hunched over her computer, Sophie can be found shopping in Georgetown, running in Rock Creek Park, or at the local dive bars in her Columbia Heights Neighborhood. For more information about Sophie and her books check out her website, www.SophieDavisBooks.com.
    
12. Mediterranean Cuisine: 120 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Happy Family Meals (European Cookbook Series) by Vesela Tabakova - Vesela Tabakova lives in a green heaven with her family of five, a crazy Jack Russell Terrier, some other dogs and all the birds in the world. Her passion is reading, cooking and preparing homemade beauty products for family and friends willing to experiment
    
13. Christmas In Cowchip - Norman E. Morrison (1955- ) is a born writer. Real writers are born to it, not made, you see. He has lived the life of a writer, amassing a great deal of experiences through his various jobs. He has worked as a warehouseman unloading boxcars, he is a failed insurance salesman, a journeyman electrician, worked in television for a decade and a half, was a reluctant telephone operator, and an early Internet marketing entrepreneur. At one time he was a man of two continents, when he developed and sold Brazil travel packages with his start-up company. Always a man to study, log, and catalog the human species, Morrison has a great many stories to tell, often in a fantastical, humorous, satirical manner that puts his stranger than life characters in even stranger situations. For much of his early reading career Morrison preferred science fiction, but branched out to other genres in later life. It is a fact that readers often enjoy off the wall characters and situations. Witness rave phenomena like The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, The Munsters. The list goes on. However, before many of these strange and wonderful ideas bloomed, there was the kernel of the world of Cowchip/AL and the sinister, powerful, and mysterious RYO Corporation germinating in the fertile mind of Morrison. Said one reviewer: The best way that I can describe his writing is that for me, it conjures up associations with O. Henry, Twain and Burgess, all the while packing its own very unique contemporary Southern punch. Morrison's easy use of language, his sense of irony, his fascinating yet simple characterizations of the people who drive his stories, in concert with the perfect RHYTHM in which the dialog and narrative move forward left me feeling breathless, for the first time in a long time, when reading a work of fiction. I don't know about you but based on my experience as a reader, writing like that is in short supply. But it's not just an occasional riveting passage that populates this book. From start to finish, through each of the six stories, everything sparkles. It's really quite remarkable.
    
14. Riding for Revenge - 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.
    
15. Sesla…The Enchanted Planet - J.A. Ireland is a Seslean and a Miflixx-Coterie. He lives at 741 VoxCoygt Drive in beautiful downtown Kinkorx with his family. His ziq com address is *jai*741*I*. He is a writer on the enchanted planet called Sesla. He has a degree in journalism from The University of Kinkorx. He writes a news and sports column that is printed daily in The Kinkorx Desert News, The Bedsult Daily News, and The Wyluxx City Times. He writes science articles for The Visqaser Report, “Who is Sesla, and Who are her coteries?” He is also a novelist. He is part of the The Plaxqon Society: the exclusive and prestigious organization of esteemed professionals in the desert territories.
    
16. The Survivalist’s Daughter by Hazel Hart - Hazel Hart, a member of Kansas Writers Association and Kansas Authors Club, has won awards for her short fiction, including "Amanda Marie," published in Kansas Voices, and "Confessions," published in Words out of the Flatlands. She has three published suspense novels, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, FAMILY HISTORY, and POSSESSING SARA, and one young adult novel, THE SURVIVALIST'S DAUGHTER. She has co-authored two books of short stories, DARK SIDE OF THE RAINBOW and EDGE OF NOWEHRE, with Bonnie Eaton aka B.J. Myrick.
    
17. On the Back of the Beast by S F Chapman - A lifelong Northern Californian, S F Chapman traded his construction job for the more docile profession of novelist in 2008 when the US economy faltered. The tireless author has since written eight books. His first, “I'm here to help” (published by Striped Cat Press in July of 2012), is a literary fiction novella about a teenage daughter looking for answers to some troubling inconsistencies in her birth certificate. “The Ripple in Space-Time” (published by Striped Cat Press in February of 2013) is Chapman's second book. It is an exciting science fiction detective adventure set in a moldering and corrupt future controlled by greedy warlords. The author’s third novel “On the Back of the Beast” is an action-packed Contemporary Fiction tale about a massive earthquake that destroys the San Francisco Bay Area. It will be published by Striped Cat Press in the summer of 2013. Other completed works awaiting publication are the post-apocalyptic soft science fiction MAC Series consisting of “Floyd 5.136,” “Xea in the Library” and “Beyond the Habitable Limit;” and a recently completed sequel to “The Ripple in Space-Time” entitled “Torn From On High.” Chapman is currently writing a rough-and-tumble literary fiction novel about homelessness called “The Missive In The Margins.”
    
18. How to Learn Higher Paying Skills - Steve Churchill is a learning strategist and instructional designer who's successfully created training programs for thousands of employees in large retail corporations, the telecommunications industry, and for a well-known organizational consulting firm. He's launched his own instructional media company, Didactable, LLC. He's committed to helping people get better work and income through learning higher paying skills. He earned Master's and Bachelor's degrees, but his career and business depend primarily on self-taught skills.
    
19. Up with Lo by Roman Dee Hellwigi - After spending ten years in an undiagnosed coma, I have awakened to a brave new world with the help of Dunkin' Doughnuts coffee and Johnny Walker Black (reasonably priced at Costco during the holiday season; although the sheer volume of amber colored liquid in thick glass containment can be visibly shocking amongst a large bag of broccoli florets and a ten pound cheesecake). I cook real food, which I plan to trademark as food-food, pet strange dogs, find chimney smoke erotic, cuss more than your average person to compensate for my over the top obsession with good manners and social etiquette, and recycle my underwear for use as dust rags. When I'm not saving my corner of the box from evil doers, I can be found talking fat shit and sharing an appetizer of fried chicken fingers with those same evil doers. I find social media to be the downfall of full frontal idle chit chat: a dying artform that when done correctly is scientifically proven to promote brief moments of sexual tension and/or total confusion that stimulates brain cells. I'm single handedly trying my best to keep it alive and well, and have much faith that it will rise again and continue to produce fun filled tingles in the lower regions. For the most part, I get off hard on the process of writing and believe internal censorship perpetuates taboos- none of which are ever provocative. As long as I keep waking up and things keeps getting funnier, I'll stick with it.
    
20. Death on a Dig - I've been writing all my life, first in journalism and then in corporate communications. Death on a Dig is my first mystery and I've just made available a free short story called Murder in the Clubhouse, featuring young girl ballplayers of the 1940s as amateur sleuths. Girls of Summer: In Their Own League, my only published non-fiction book, grew out of my work as a television researcher. I've travelled in the UK, continental Europe, India, Mexico and Central America. Before apartheid was defeated in South Africa, I spent five years in Mozambique as an international volunteer, and I recently volunteered again for six months to work with a small social agency in northern India. I live in Toronto, Canada and am focusing now on writing and epublishing mystery fiction.