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1. HANA’S YEAR Peer Pressure by Carol Talley - ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carol Talley lives in Hermann, Missouri, where she works as a writer and editor from the vantage point of her porch overlooking the Missouri River. A former teacher of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Talley has been writing educational materials since 1989. Gumbo Goes Downtown is her fourth children's eBook. She is the author of eBooks Clarissa, Papa Piccolo, and Hana’s Year also published 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, Thank You, Meiling and Plato’s Journey. Born in Tokyo, Japan, she received a B.A. 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, produced by Marsh Film Enterprises, Inc.
   
2. The Cure To Loneliness- The Complete Guide on How Not to feel Alone, Lonely or Loneliness Even When You Are by Yourself - Ruby Rose- this is my First book EVER! I sure do hope you like it; I am hoping you will give it a try! It is Free 09/25/2013-09/27/2013 So what do you have to lose? This is just a short eBook 22 pages. I reside North of Philadelphia, PA with my loving husband for about six years now, lovely weather here and beautiful environment. Cheers 
   
3. Dusty the Cat Burglar - Christina Tran is a lifelong animal lover and cat owner. Growing up in Kansas, her family even had dogs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, and goats. When Christina first moved to Chicago and had no pets of her own, she adopted professional pet care as a second career. She thoroughly enjoys the ongoing contact with meeting wonderful animals and other like-minded animal people! Christina worked for several years as an editor and designer at a children's publishing company. She enjoys writing and sharing her love of animals in the form of poetry and storytelling with others. Working at a Chicago area nonprofit helping people who are blind or visually impaired, and being visually impaired herself, Christina's writings also focus on issues of importance such as diversity, empowerment, and self-esteem. Cat Cabby and Dusty the Cat Burglar are Christina's first two published children's books, fulfilling one of her many goals.
   
4. Home Health Care Guide – Everything That Smart People Need To Know About Home Health Caring - Jeff Carter is an entrepreneur and writer who sees a bright future. But his positive outlook and cheery smile came only after learning a few hard lessons early in life as a young man he struggled with numerous problems. In his early 20s he changed his life around. He became obsessed with the self-help industry and consumed as much information as he could find from motivational experts like Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy and many more. He went on to earn an NLP Masters Certificate. After trying many different things, Jeff Carter found his passion for helping others and threw himself into his new career as a writer. Now he writes short but effective problem solving eBooks for people facing various challenges in their lives. He says that he'll never stop learning from the greats, and that he's determined to help others improve their lives as much as possible with what he's learned so far. "I want to be the best person I can possibly be in every aspect of my life" Jeff goes on to explain that his wish is to help as many people as he can who want to accomplish their goals and overcome their problems. Strong, determined, and blessed with a healthy zest for life, Jeff Carter is ready for the future. He was tested by adversity as a young man and came out a winner. Now he wants to make you a winner too.
   
5. Creatus - Though all of Carmen's stories have a common thread--romance, mystery, and suspense--not all of her novels are supernatural. Her first five books, the Southern Suspense Series, are romantic-suspense whodunits. They are all stand-alone novels; however, she does link each of her stories with a little surprise. She Belongs to Me Split Decisions Land of the Noonday Sun Entangled Dreams When Noonday Ends
   
6. Exit Unicorns - The two great passions of my life are writing and Irish history, in writing Exit Unicorns I have, I hope, fused these two elements together. Much of the fiction I read today has left me feeling that, while the writing was technically good, there wasn’t enough story to sink my teeth into. I believe myself to be a storyteller before all else. Thousands of years ago I’d have sat by the tribal fire and woven tales for my shaggy-haired listeners. Very simply, it’s what I was meant to do.
   
7. The Disappeared (Short Story) - Irving Belateche is an author, screenwriter, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. He's written screenplays for Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros., and other studios. His first novel, "Under An Orange Sun, Some Days Are Blue," based on his journey as a Hollywood screenwriter after the loss of his daughter, is a bestseller in Visionary Fiction on Amazon. With his novel "H2O" and his short story, "The Disappeared," Belateche returns to the genres for which he's best known, science fiction and supernatural thrillers. Belateche lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
   
8. The Devil’s Tattoo - Nicole R. Taylor is a paranormal, Urban Fantasy and Contemporary Romance author from country Victoria, Australia. Previously, she has written for various small street press music and entertainment publications as a gig and album reviewer before publishing her first Urban Fantasy novel in early 2013. When she isn't writing, Nicole likes to spend time curled up with a good book and her 3 year old rescue cat, Burger. She gets itchy feet more often than not and has lived in three countries and travelled to three times as many. Learn more about her writing at: www.nicolertaylorwrites.com She may be contacted by email at: nicole.this.is@gmail.com
   
9. The Devils Backbone - James Babb lives in Arkansas with his wonderful wife and two kids. He's an avid outdoorsman and cancer survivor. Loves dogs and cats...pretty much anything fuzzy.
   
10. Manifestation Made Easy: Create the Life of Your Dreams Using The Power of Conscious Intention and Deliberate Creation - Lori Spagna radically transformed her life after a series of near death experiences while living in Maui. Lori is the author of the upcoming book 2 Years in Maui and was featured in the soon to be released movie, Animals in the Afterlife. She has over 20 years of experience serving humans and animals around the world and is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and author who provides seminars and workshops about how we can improve our lives by learning from animals. As a Visionary, Lightworker, Intuitive, Animal Communicator and Healer, Lori also leads powerful manifestation and healing circles where she assists people and their pets tap into their true power via The Universal Source which connects us all.
    
11. Too Hot to Hold - When most girls her age were dreaming of becoming prima ballerinas, Linda had dreams of becoming the next Erma Bombeck, never mind the fact she was a ten-year-old Puerto Rican girl without a long-suffering husband or problems with her plumbing. But fate, (and her mother) had other plans. Instead, Linda became a teenage beauty queen and had minor success as an L.A. model. Forty years later and now more tarnished than her old tiaras, Linda is a writer who lives in Orange County, CA with her husband and a dog named Dude.
    
12. Surface Children – A Book of Short Stories - Dean Blake grew up in Brisbane, Australia. His latest book of short stories, Surface Children, is said to contain Dean Blake’s most powerful stories to date. He enjoys boxing, reading, drinking, and writing some great entertainment for his readers. He also has a number of free fiction stories, love stories, and semi-autobiographical stories on his controversial blog, Generation End.
    
13. Enoch’s Device - Joseph Finley is a writer of historical fantasy fiction. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, daughter, and two rescue dogs. He also posts regularly at Fresh-scraped Vellum (fresh-scrapedvellum.blogspot.com), a blog devoted to historical and fantasy fiction. God saw fit to make him Irish, at least in part, so he comes honestly by his fondness for the Irish and their medieval monks. Enoch’s Device is his debut novel.
    
14. Leon’s Lair by The Phoenix - We are Lee and Gary Jordan and we are THE PHOENIX, a multi-genre author team. Because we are passionate readers of many genres, we don't intend stick with one as writers. We have several novels in the works. We enjoy getting to know readers and other authors via the Internet, love movies, and sitting outside to soak up the Southern California sun. We live in Hollywood with our crabby tomcat, Snickers. Lee wrote A Whisper from Eden, A Historical Fantasy. She loves research, but is not always content with the way things are explained. She likes to turn it all inside out and wonder what if? Gary is a third generation Californian, born and raised in Anaheim. He has always had an insatiable curiosity about everything. As a writing team, they wrote Leon's Lair, an International Thriller/Contemporary Paranormal Fantasy. See the amazing trailer on our Amazon Author Page.
    
15. Stern Desire – Love Redeemed by Leah Shay - Leah Shay grew up on a small beautiful carefree island in the Caribbean. With the warm blue Caribbean Sea as her backyard she loved to walk the white sandy beach and got loss in the stories unfolding in her head. She had always been an avid reader and spent all her free time nose-deep in a book, or telling stories to enthused listeners. She loves reading, dancing, traveling, and music. As a child she would read anything she could get her hands on. Her local library was her favorite place, and looked forward to every weekend her mom would take her there. Her dream was to become a teacher, but fate led her down another fulfilling career path. She is currently a part-time registered nurse with a whole lot of stories to tell. To relieve her cluttered mind of the many stories floating around in her head she finally decided to put them down on paper, hence the trilogy Stern Desire was born. Currently she lives in Miami, Florida with her husband and two children. She just can’t be away from year round summer and beautiful beaches. Email: leahshaybooks@aol.com
    
16. Homemade Beauty Treatments and Skin Care Recipes (All Natural Cosmetics) 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.
    
17. Beyond the Colorful Coat: Living Out Your God-given Dreams - Lydia was strictly raised Amish, language barriers, sickness and dyslexia caused her to struggled through eight grade. Her restless soul sought for answers at a very young age. God visited her through dreams during her adolescent years. At the age of fifteen she joined a more liberal branch of Amish and was excommunicated three years later because of her pursuit of a closer walk with God. Six years later she met Russell, a non-Amish farmer in Iowa. The first year, just weeks before their first daughter arrived, the house on their farm burned down. This started their quest for their place in life. After several moves to different states, and after Russell completed his studies in San Antonio, TX the family, with three young girls moved to the Philippines as missionaries. They trained ministers, built a church and Mrs. Chorpening conducted a Christian School for missionary children. After eight years as missionaries marriage problems brought them back to San Antonio for a few years before they moved to Wisconsin where they worked with developmentally disabled adults. Russell developed Parkinson's Disease as a progression of lymes. It was at this point that God led Mrs. Chorpening to write her first book, which though it is out of print has been translated into Spanish and Hindi. Presently Mrs. Chorpening is caring for her husband, being a long distant grandmother to 11 grandchildren, working on art and writing projects, as well as snitching moments to work their Reliv business. God gives Lydia special opportunities to pray with folks, have friends and stranger into her home for meals, and prepare and conduct Bible studies for their small group. She uses friendship evangelism to reach out to her immediate community with the hope and wholeness she has found in Jesus Christ!