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1. What Tomorrow Brings by Cyndi Raye - Cyndi Ray is from the romantic Pocono Mountains but she loves to write about the land of paradise in the Florida Keys. When ever she is there, she comes up with new characters and stories that she can't wait to write about. Cyndi loves to ride motorcycle, take long walks on moonlit nights and keep romance a big part of her life no matter how complicated or busy it gets. She believes in taking the time to tell your loved one how much they mean.
   
2. Magic Tricks - Hello Guys!! My name is Shubham Agrawal. I am also known as Akshat Agrawal. My interest in magic began when I was 13 years old. I was watching a show called Criss Angel- Mindfreak. It changed my outlook on magic. I then went on to learn street magic. I have learnt all sorts of various shuffles, sleights, cuts etc. I explored the net so much that now I am able to make my own tricks and gimmicks which give enigmatic effects.
   
3. Death and Rising Are Through Human Flesh - Walt March was born on March 30, 1962. From 1985 till 2013, he published 5 books. The poem describes him as a personality: In the world of strange relationships, In reality of problems and distress, Suddenly a genius appears, Dreaming of the global happiness. He's deprived of grievance and ambush, Doesn't care about power and control, One says he's a gentleman too much, Nobody protects him after all. Blown-off by cold and freezing winds, Being talked about here and there, More than once he can behold betrayal, Being left by friends in his despair. But against all odds, in spite of pain, There's nothing left for him to prove, Being hero never was his plan, Moving on, he still believes in good.
   
4. ROCKIN IN THE DESERT by BOB MORRITT - Bob Morritt is author of "Rockin' in America"," History of Recorded Sound","Recorded History of the Blues" and other books devoted to modern music.In his youth was involved in promoting American music to Britain and Europe.
   
5. The Troll Trap - Rosen was born in Cornwall. She studied psychology at Oxford before moving back to the West Country. She now lives on the south coast of Devon with two imaginary cats, fantasising about getting a real one. Readers have downloaded over 200,000 copies of Rosen's books. Several titles have broken into the Amazon charts, including a number 1 humorous fiction bestseller.
   
6. The Baby Sleep Training Solution - Margaret Rousseau is mother to two wonderful children a boy and a girl and is a wife to a loving husband. She has much of the past ten years working with parents of babies and young children studying and researching the various different parenting techniques, methods and approaches and her books are the culmination of this work.
   
7. SABER Ladder - Music was always my thing from the time I was a kid (still is too), performing, writing and recording. I might have concentrated on writing more from an early age except that one of my fiction writings was severely criticized by an English teacher in high school as being plagiarized from a television program--but it wasn’t. It was actually my creation and I was proud of it. That discouraged any further writing for years. Then I re-discovered my love of writing, especially creative writing, in college. I almost changed my major from engineering, but didn’t. For many years, all I did was technical writing, which I enjoyed a lot. A few years ago I started blogging just for the fun of it—all kinds of subjects. It renewed my interest in creative writing. So I decided to write a book or two—science fiction of all things! Science fiction was never high on my list of things to read, so I was amazed at how much I got into writing both SABER Ladder and Silicon Facades. It was a ball developing the characters and stories. I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t a blast. The idea for a key element, the “4M” machines, in both books came about from lying on my bed with a headache one night, feeling the pulse of blood rushing and pounding through my eyes and realizing that if I relaxed muscles around my eyes, the pulsing would increase and relieve the intensity of the headache. “What if there was a machine that did this?” I thought. Now there is, and it does more than just relieve headaches! --Cory Richardson, Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A.
   
8. Money Prick – the harsh truth your friends don’t have the balls or brains to tell you - Taylor Young is a musician, engineer, blogger, book author and family man. “I love writing, whether it be song lyrics, technical papers, ranting in a blog, or more thought out topics worthy of a book. It is remarkable that writers today have a voice through easy online publishing. So much more time is freed up for letting the creative juices flow, which instead used to be spent pursuing and persuading publishers. The world benefits from this new freedom. I’m glad to be a part of it.”
   
9. Curves on Curves - Skylar bumps into an unexpected beauty in the elevator and can't get her thoughts off of her. Can she overcome her shyness to make a move With the potential for a lesbian threesome on the horizon Skylar does not want to let this chance slip.
   
10. Cool Boss: Master 11 Qualities of Today’s Greatest Leaders - Can Akdeniz is an author, lecturer, and business advisor. He is the owner of cbebusiness.com, a website committed to improving the performance of professionals and organizations by gathering and sharing exceptional knowledge and ideas. Can's ultimate goal is to inspire others to innovate and improve their businesses to best fit in with the times as they continue to change. He approaches business as a complete entity, so his advice applies to a wide array of relevant topics, including business evolution, leadership theory, employee satisfaction, infrastructure, technological applications in business, and corporate function.
    
11. Marque and Reprisal by Martin Roy Hill - Martin Roy Hill is the author of the military mystery thriller, "The Killing Depths," and the award-winning short story collection, "DUTY: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond." Martin spent more than 20 years as a staff reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines, before becoming a military analyst specializing in battlefield medical operations for the Navy. His freelance credits include Reader's Digest, LIFE, Newsweek, Omni, American History, Coast Guard Magazine, Retired Officer Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion Section, and many more. Much of Martin's freelance work involves historical topics, especially military history. He was a lead contributor to the 1995 WWII anthology, "From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki: America at War," published by the Retired Officer Association (now called the Military Officer Association. Martin's short stories have appeared in such publications as Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Plan B Mystery Anthology, San Diego Magazine, and San Diego Writer's Monthly. His first book, "DUTY," was named the Best Short Story Anthology/Collection during the 2013 San Diego Book Awards (SDBA). "The Killing Depths" was also named a finalist for the SDBA Sisters In Crime Mystery Award.
    
12. Precise - Rebecca Berto writes stories about love and relationships. She gets a thrill when her readers are emotional reading her books, and gets even more of a kick when they tell her so. She's strangely imaginative, spends too much time on her computer, and is certifiably crazy when she works on her fiction. Rebecca Berto lives in Melbourne, Australia with her boyfriend and their doggy.
    
13. KYLIE’S CONCERT Goal Setting and Sharing by Patty Sheehan - ABOUT THE AUTHOR As a psychotherapist, speaker, writer, and trainer, Patty Sheehan helps adults and children along the path to personal growth and self-discovery. Sheehan, who has a master’s degree in education, is the author of two earlier books for children, Kylie’s Song and Gwendolyn’s Gifts. In Kylie’s Concert, Sheehan develops one of the central themes of her work – the importance of nurturing one’s individual gifts. Sheehan lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, near the Sandia Mountains, where she enjoys many outdoor activities and the beauty of the changing seasons. Her concern for our forests and for all of nature is reflected in Kylie’s Concert. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR Itoko Maeno is the illustrator of many children’s books, including best-selling Minou, Clarissa, Papa Piccolo, and My Way Sally, recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Children’s Picture Book of 1989. She first collaborated with Patty Sheehan with the creastion of Kylie’s Song, selected for the Coors Foundation’s “Literacy…Pass It On” campaign. Born in Tokyo, Japan, she received a BA in graphic design from Tama Art University. Since her arrival in the United States in 1982, Maeno has focused on watercolor illustration, including the Joan’s eBooks LLC titles: AMAZING MALLIKA BASTET CLARISSA GUMBO GOES DOWNTOWN HANA’S YEAR KYLIE’S CONCERT MOLLY’S MAGIC PAPA PICCOLO PEQUENA THE BURRO PLATO’S JOURNEY THANK YOU, MEILING TOAD IN TOWN
    
14. See Jack Die - My name is Nicholas Black. I'm a former member of the US NAVY, and the French Foreign Legion. I have fought professionally in the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) and have won two world titles in the process. I've done stunts with Chuck Norris (Walker: Texas Ranger), defused explosives, hit targets at +1,000 meters, made America's Most Wanted list, worked with "Freeway" Ricky Ross, co-written with Jimmy DaSaint, and met the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
    
15. Paper Phoenix - I grew up on the Gulf Coast, in the Panhandle area of Northwest Florida. A land of salt marshes, pine forests, barrier islands, and moss-hung oaks, the Panhandle is nothing like the tropical image most people have of Florida. I used this backdrop, and the era of the 1950's, as the setting for Hurricane Season. In time I moved on to other locales, and used them as settings for other mysteries: The San Francisco Bay Area (Paper Phoenix), France (Magic Mirror, A Temporary Ghost), Venice (Venetian Mask), and India (The Fault Tree). I have written seven mysteries.
    
16. Dana of the Whispering Wood - Lesley Speller has been a writer since before she could hold a pencil. Even that first story, which since she couldn't write she recorded on her handy Fisher Price cassette recorder, delved into the paranormal with a good witch on a mission that has long been forgotten. Since then she's added dragon shape shifters, fairies, dark magicians, and vampires to her mix of favorite subjects. She lives in Northwest Arkansas with her darling husband and the three cutest kids you'll ever meet. They keep her running around night and day and that's not even to mention her day job where she's an IT Girl. Somehow she finds time to squeeze writing in to her busy schedule. Usually that means sacrificing sleep. So if you ever meet her, pretend that you don't notice those dark circles under her eyes.
    
17. The Vampire Bracelet - Sheri Whitefeather is a national bestselling author. Her writing career began in 1999. Prior to that, she worked as a make-up artist and leather artisan. One of her first professional make-up jobs was at the Playboy Mansion for a photo shoot that featured Hugh Hefner. As a leather artisan, she painted jackets and guitar straps for a host of musicians, including legendary bad boys, Motley Crue, and country legend, Waylon Jennings. She lives in Southern California and enjoys ethnic dining, shopping in vintage stores, and visiting art galleries and museums.
    
18. Chasing the Dragon - Colin Falconer is an internationally bestselling author of historical fiction, historical period fiction and historical romantic suspense. Colin currently resides in Spain.
    
19. MOONEY: The Life of the World’s Master Carver - I always wanted to be a writer, but in my sophomore year of high school in northeastern Ohio I didn't think it would be possible. Sister Mary Donald, my English teacher, encouraged me to write an essay for bonus points (which I needed) and so I wrote The Art of Sitting on a Cold Toilet Seat. Several nights later my mother came home from the PTA meeting and shook me out of bed. "What did you write? Sister said it was trash!" Uh oh. . . . I stopped writing, but only for a while. Right out of high school I got a job with a local newspaper and while studying journalism at Kent State University my articles appeared in newspapers and magazines. Eventually I decided to also write books -- so far 18 of them, including James A. Michener: A Biography, which served as my doctoral dissertation at Temple University; Start Small, Finish Big with the co-founder of Subway restaurants; You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar, with David Sandler; Network Marketing for Dummies with Zig Ziglar; MOONEY: The Life of the World's Master Carver; Lonely Fighter, One Man's Battle with the IRS . . . After I wrote Franchising: The Inside Story, I developed a franchise marketing agency that kept me busy for about 30 years. Michener once told me that a great life would consist of teaching at a university and writing a best seller every three years. So far I've managed to consistently lead one-half of a great life -- I love teaching at Gulf University for Science & Technology in Kuwait. I'm working on the other half of Michener's formula, and thinking that maybe I'll resurrect that cold toilet seat story. It's okay. Sister's been dead for years.
    
20. Soup Diet Cookbook: 35 Delicious Soups And Smoothies to Help You Lose Weight Naturally Without Hunger - Helen Page is a San Francisco Bay Area resident, writer and food lover. I have been cooking, teaching, writing about and eating great food for decades. She’s written two heart-healthy cookbooks with a Stanford University cardiologist. Her work has appeared in Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Self and Men's Fitness, among other publications. She’s written many articles and online columns and have made numerous TV and radio appearances. She’s given cooking demonstrations and classes in the Bay Area and on the east coast. For many years she ran her own cooking school and catering business and did restaurant menu consulting.
    
21. TESSA ON HER OWN Homeless,Moving,Self Esteem by Alyssa Chase - ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alyssa Chase was born in Louisiana and grew up in Kansas. She holds a degree in English from the University of Kansas and a degree in studio art from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, she is a magazine editor in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, Robert Rebein, and their children. She was inspired to write Tessa on Her Own after she saw a wild fox in Ojai, California. Chase is the author of Stanley’s “This Is the Life!” and Jomo and Mata also published as ebooks by Joan’s eBooks LLC. ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR Itoko Maeno is the illustrator of more than two dozen children’s books, including Papa Piccolo, Amazing Mallika, Molly’s Magic, Plato’s Journey, and Thank You, Meiling. Born in Tokyo, Japan, she received a BA in graphic design from Tama Art University. Since her arrival in the United States in 1982, Maeno has focused on watercolor illustration. This award-winning illustrator is the subject of Meet the Artist: Itoko Maeno, a film produced by Marsh Film Enterprises, Inc.
    
22. The Good Eggs - S. Ciara Mitaro holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Detroit Mercy and currently teaches morality, ethics and social justice courses at a private high school in Michigan. In addition to her teaching career, she has taught, developed, and implemented programs and curricula that focused on teaching children the importance of value-driven lives centered on love and the importance of living an altruistic life. In addition to the thousands of children she has guided and mentored through her teaching and service over the past 16 years, she has also raised three children of her own, who have all turned out to be very Good Eggs!
    
23. Susie And The Missing Children - Susan Valentine has always enjoyed writing books for kids and young adults and over the years she has written many articles to different magazines. She is a very talented author and it is not long ago since she published “Susie’s Adventures to the Magic Island” and now she has just published her second book in the Susie series, “Susie And The Missing Children.”
    
24. Get Into Gold: How To Invest In Gold Profitably While Avoiding The Traps By Azizi Ali - Azizi Ali is the #1 authority on money matters in Malaysia. He has written over 30 books, spoken to over 200,000 participants and appeared in the media on a regular basis – all on the subject of money and wealth creation. Leaders, CEOs, business owners, celebrities, authors, trainers, speakers, coaches and executives come to him for guidance on money.
    
25. Wanted - A native of New Jersey and lifelong nerd, Amanda Lance recently completed her Master in Liberal Arts at Thomas Edison State College after her BA in English Literature and AFA in creative writing. She currently resides in Easton Pennsylvania with her boyfriend and their spoiled hound dog. She is a cliché booknerd who is terrible at math, clinically obsessive, and prone to addictive behavior. She may or may not be a recluse.
    
26. Bedoggled - Tracy Heath is a country humorist writer, having grown up in the Eastern Oregon desert among dogs, cows, and tumbleweeds. She has now published the first two books of her Country Misadventures series and is known for her comical tales of country incidents and family mishaps. Tracy currently resides in the medium-sized city of Kennewick, Washington, with her husband. Living with them are their rambunctious son and scruffy hunting dog.
    
27. Summer Cookbook 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.
    
28. The Third Day - Mark Graham is the Edgar award-winning author of The Black Maria. His other books include The Killing Breed and The Resurrectionist, also nominated for an Edgar. He lives with his family in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
    
29. Eternity Base - Bob Mayer is a West Point Graduate, former Green Beret and NY Times Bestselling author of Factual Fiction. Titles include his bestselling Area 51 Series, Nightstalkers Series, Atlantis Series and the Green Beret Series. Bob is also the CEO of Cool Gus Publishing.
    
30. Learn About Elk_Roland Cheek - Before and during the early stages of my writing career I was a guide and outfitter for more than two decades in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. In fifty years roaming the most lonesome country in all the West I received in my mind an equivalency degree from God's own Academy of Farthest Places and Wildest Things. For the last forty years my avocations have been my occupations. And, my greatest fortune has been the perfect soul-mate for that perfect life of love and adventure. Credits: * Syndicated newspaper column - 20 + years * Outdoors radio show - 70 stations from coast to coast * Hundreds of articles for America's top outdoors magazines * Published 12 books focused on the creatures and features found in Montana and the West