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1. Verbal Communication Skills For The Entrepreneurs by Kimberly Mathews - Kimberly Mathews - Loves people, books, laughing and food, but not necessarily in that order. With the advent of the World Wide Web, the opportunities for ordinary folk to express and share their creative talents, is limitless. Books are not just a resource for information, but a pot of inspirational life changing gold nuggets. Favorite quote - "Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching". - Randall G Leighton.
   
2. Tuition Assistance (Get Sneaky) - Jonathan Kamp is a professional freelance writer, and former soldier. He was continuously employed by the US Army for 34 years, serving in a variety of military and civilian positions [e.g., military correspondent - four first place journalism awards]. He has an MBA in E-Business and Technology, and a BS in Communication Studies - and has written for up to two dollars a word. When he is not writing, he is traveling.
   
3. 17 Raw Vegetable Juice Diet – How to Lose Weight for a Slim and Sexy New You - Hello and welcome to “How to Lose Weight for a Slim and Sexy New You - 17 Raw Vegetable Juice Diet ”. My name is Jenny Jacobs and I’ve been an inveterate raw juicer for over 30 years. My real introduction to raw juicing was many years ago when travelling in Brazil with my husband. We had travelled across the width of South America from Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and finally finishing our trip in Brazil. We’d been backpacking and enjoying the culture, people and scenery but, at the time, we found that the food choices were extremely limited before we arrived in Brazil. I’m lucky enough to be married with two grown up children and I’m so grateful that we’ve all been blessed with relatively good health all our lives. I don’t take this for granted and am very grateful to my parents and my husband’s parents for imbuing us both with a high priority for healthy, natural, nutritious food. Good health is one of my highest priorities as I am aware, on a daily basis, of challenges people have with their health and that it’s important to be ever vigilant. My great passions are reading, skiing and photography and I’m committed to on-going education and implementing new and helpful strategies which may come to light.
   
4. Lightning-fast Spanish for Kids and Families: Learn Spanish, Speak Spanish, Teach Kids Spanish- Quick as a Flash, Even if You Don’t Speak a Word Now! - I'm a work-from-home, homeschooling, single mom of 4, and I'm always trying to find more efficient ways of doing things so I have time for the fun stuff! I have read that children who are multi-lingual have an edge in life, and since I wanted the best for my crew I decided to teach them a second language. We tried many different systems, but never made much progress. I found the biggest obstacle to teaching my children a foreign language was time. I don't speak the language, so in order to teach I would have to first research and memorize. Somehow that just never happened. I remember saying to my kids, "If we can just get to the point where we can speak to each other in another language, I think it will all start to come together for us! We can practice around the house, and then get comfortable enough to try it with outsiders". And then, the light bulb finally came on. Instead of waiting for us to gain the ability to talk to each other, perhaps I could pay attention to the things we talk about and have them professionally translated into another language - and we could start talking to each other in another language right away! This book is the result of that idea. I wrote down conversations from our daily activities, and then had them translated. We were able to use the new language immediately - and without setting aside any time from our busy schedule; we just incorporate them into our regular routine. We have had a lot of fun putting these together and using them, and have actually learned some Spanish along the way!
   
5. Victim Zero - Joshua Guess lives in central Kentucky with his wife, dogs, cats, and ferrets, where he enjoys pecking away at his keyboard and grumbling.
   
6. Dead Peasants: A Zoo Crew Novel - Dustin Stevens is the author of ten novels, including Just a Game, 21 Hours, and the Zoo Crew Series. His short stories have also been published in anthologies ranging all genres.
   
7. The Ultimate First Date Guide For Men – How To Stay Out Of The Friend Zone - Billy Martin is a best seller author that writes about relationships and dating life.
   
8. Bosley’s First Words - Tim Johnson is an author in a variety of fields, most notably dual-language children's fiction and martial arts non-fiction. Tim discovered the power of bilingual books while visiting Japan as a teenager. In 2007 He founded the Language Bear bilingual bookstore and is committed to educating children in foreign languages as a tool for increasing cultural awareness and gaining new perspectives. A product design engineer by trade, Tim's quest for knowledge and understanding is a daily pursuit. He continues to broaden the horizons of children as a martial arts instructor, always encouraging young students to become more aware of the enormous world around them.
   
9. More Village Idiot Reviews - Pete is 32 and lives with his wife, Lucie, and their pet sofa, Jeff. He's been writing for just under three years and they've been pretty eventful; well, more eventful than he thought sitting on Jeff, typing, would be, anyway. Author of comedy e-books 'The Village Idiot Reviews', 'The Office Idiot Reviews' and 'The Idiot Government Reviews', 'More Village idiot Reviews.' These books sell more than he ever thought they would, and he's hooked. 'Dating in the Dark' is Pete's first self-published novel. His traditionally published novel, 'So Low, So High', was published by Caffeine Nights in June 2013.
   
10. Rapture’s Rain - Chris Pennington is a marketing and Internet entrepreneur by day and a closet creative in the evenings. He graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina with a degree in Graphic Design and Journalism. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City where he began his career at Omni Magazine. Chris conceived and is a founding partner in the website, CodeOfKindness.com, which is based on helping better the world by promoting random acts of kindness. Feel free to contact Chris at chris@codeofkindness.com.
    
11. Your Kiss Is Like the Sweetest Fire by Robert Trainor - Over the past seven years (since I retired at the age of 60), I've written five novels, all of which you can find in the Kindle Store. What I am attempting to do in my books, besides writing entertaining and original plots, is to present themes and dilemmas that are thought provoking and don't have any easy, simplistic answers. I do my very best to fairly present both sides of an issue--such as having a negative character express my own personal views, while a more positive character will express intelligent opposition to those views. All of this occurs, of course, in relation to the plots that are contained in the books, which are intended to mirror or illustrate the underlying philosophy. For instance, in The Road Map to the Universe, the protagonist feels that because the universe is so enormous, our lives here on earth are meaningless and that we all suffer from taking ourselves far too seriously. Do humans really have any significance, or is that just a self-serving illusion of the ego? And then, when the plot is resolved, one realizes that many of the incidents that occurred during the book were essentially mirages created by ego-driven motivations. There! I've just given you an important clue to solving the murder mystery that is at the center of this book. I spend a great deal of time revising my novels. After finishing the first draft, I go through the book about ten times--first page to last page. Each journey through the book is slow and painstaking--no more than ten or fifteen pages a day. Sometimes, one or two pages will take a whole day. From my experience, the kind of errors that pop up on some of the later readings can be rather surprising, if not downright alarming! I particularly look for inaccurate punctuation, repetitive sentence structure, and inaccurate or repetitive vocabulary; however, you will not need a dictionary to read my books. I also do not permit unclear sentences to stand--I can't imagine that any reader will want to read a sentence twice because I couldn't find a way to explain myself. I also spent numerous hours formatting these novels so that they would convert to Kindle. As you probably all know, it isn't just a matter of hitting the upload button, and all I can say is that these books (after doing this, that, and the other thing) looked great on the Kindle Previewer, so I'm hopeful that they converted properly. My thanks to Charles Spender and his $0.99 book, Formatting of Kindle Books, which was quite helpful.
    
12. Let Us Be! A Mining Saga: Is the Gold Worth the Water? by Chris F. Fotheringham - Chris F. Fotheringham is an independent journalist who has reported and edited for newspapers in Missouri, California, Idaho and Nevada. A 1976 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism, the former high school English teacher lives in Mesquite, Nevada, where he established a manuscript editing Web site, www.chrysolinnpress.com, and wrote the mystery, Murder by Modem. His novel, Let Us Be! A mining Saga: Is the Gold Worth the Water? was published in 2013. When he's not writing or editing, he'll likely be playing Scrabble on the computer, so you are welcome to break into his game at cfnewswire@aol.com.
    
13. Everville: The First Pillar - Roy Huff is the author of Amazon's #1 international bestselling epic fantasy novel, Everville: The First Pillar. This is the first installment in the remarkable Everville series which combines elements of epic fantasy and young adult fiction in a form that nearly anyone will enjoy reading, young or old. He is a man of many interests including but not limited to science, traveling, movies, the outdoors, and of course writing teen and young adult fantasy fiction. He holds five degrees in four separate disciplines including liberal arts, history, secondary science education, and geoscience. Roy Huff's background includes work in art, history, education, business, real-estate, economics, geoscience, and satellite meteorology. He was born on the East Coast but has spent more than half his life in Hawaii, where he currently resides and writes his epic fantasy sagas.