About Dark by Kat Kinney

Hayden Crowe fronts an all-girls band down in Austin, Texas. Between tending bar so her sister can stay in school and dealing with the fallout after their addict father skipped town, she hasn’t exactly had time to join the social media freak out over the recent outing of vampires and werewolves.

Her world comes crashing down the night she’s attacked in an alley after a gig and bitten by a feral werewolf. Unable to return home for fear of hurting her sister, and with a message scrawled across her arm warning HOSPITALS NOT SAFE, Hayden is left with just one option…

Him.

Ethan Caldwell doesn’t do relationships. Adopted son of the pack Alpha, he lives a solitary life as a barista and artist. Things three years ago with Hayden Crowe… went too far. By pack law, she couldn’t be told what he was. Ending it was for her own protection.

But when Hayden shows up on his doorstep, newly changed and in danger, Ethan defies his father’s orders to stay away. Someone in the paranormal community is hunting her, and hell if he’s going to fail her again.

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Author Kat Kinney lives with her family and an extremely pampered guinea pig who does not like werewolves, or falcons. When she isn’t writing about things that bite and howl, she can be found knitting crazy socks and plotting out future books.

About Dare To Play (Dare Nation Book 3) by Carly Phillips

He’s the bad boy of baseball who’s about to lose everything.
She needs a husband to get custody of her teenage sister.
Suddenly a marriage of convenience doesn’t look so bad.
Pitcher, Jaxon Prescott has a lot on his plate. Major League Baseball. Reputation as a player. And now? He’s on the verge of losing it all. He didn’t mean to sleep with his general manager’s daughter or get into a brawl that was captured on camera. But his notoriety is a problem and everything he’s worked for is at risk.
What’s a bad boy to do? Marry his sister’s best friend to save his career, even if it’s the opposite of everything he wants and believes in.
Macy Walker is the sole guardian of her half-sister until the girl’s mother returns and wants her daughter back. In order to win custody, Macy needs to provide stability and marrying someone would do the trick. Luckily for her, her best friend’s brother needs a wife.
They’re this close to getting exactly what they want – as long as they don’t fall in love.

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After a successful fifteen-year career with various New York publishing houses, and over 40 sexy contemporary romance novels published, N.Y. Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Carly Phillips is now an Indie author who writes to her own expectations and that of her readers. She continues the tradition of hot men and strong women and plans to publish many more sizzling stories. Carly lives in Purchase, NY with her family, two nearly adult daughters and two crazy dogs who star on her Facebook Fan Page and website. She’s a writer, a knitter of sorts, a wife, and a mom. In addition, she’s a Twitter and Internet junkie and is always around to interact with her readers

About The Viking Time Traveler by Susan Bohnet

A Viking on a quest…
Leif the Viking is having a terrible day. He’s been robbed, his brother is kidnapped, and to top it off he suspects he’s dying. Before he dies, he has to rescue his brother and get his property back.

The property? Leif always thought it was a family good luck charm. Wrong. The wooden beam is a magical setstokker with more power than he ever imagined.

A woman running from bad news…
Becca has received a terminal cancer diagnosis and has decided to make the best of it. She’s enjoying her bucket list. First item – travel to Scotland from her home in the States and go to a Viking festival.

There, she meets the magnetic and possibly mentally unstable Leif. It seems unbelievable that he’s from the past. Except…there are so many things backing up his story, including some very Viking-looking enemies.

Should she believe Leif? Her time is running out, so what does she have to lose?

In this sweet time travel adventure series, forces from their separate times threaten to tear Leif and Becca apart.

This is the first book in a four-book series. Snap it up at the special pre-order price of 2.99 until Nov 11, 2020.

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I have always loved education and could have been a perpetual student. But, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Instead, I have an associates degree in arts and letters with a major in psychology from Ricks College, and a bachelor of science in human resource development from Brigham Young University. I also took a novel writing course from the University of Alberta.

For twenty years, I have been lucky enough to write a newspaper column called Family Frenzi. Though people often ask how I can possibly think of something new to write about every week (which is the kiss of death, btw, and makes me invariably struggle for a topic for the next month) I love it. I have had two short stories published, three novels for teens, two novels for adults and two books of family humor.

I live in Alberta, Canada, with my husband, five children, and a cute (but rather naughty) Yorkshire terrier.

About Shadows and Bonds: Connection

This never should have happened.

This never has happened before.

Yet here they are, connected under the most unusual and baffling circumstances, with only brands on their ring fingers and the shadow-memory of a man in their subconscious to prove it’s real.

As if the feeling like their organs are being strung from their bodies, their ribs and spines threatening to snap if they dare step too far apart aren’t indicators enough…

They’re really Bonded.

And whatever happens next is going to suck.

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A-Shay Walker grew up in small town Utah, where daydreaming and drama club made her teenage years tolerable. She loves stories as much as she loves writing them and celebrates books with fervor. She is an adamant believer that there is more truth in fiction than most people realize.

She’s a mother to a former micro-preemie, a wife, and a Christian. When she’s not writing or mentally plotting, she can be found exercising or singing, (never both at the same time), spending time with her family and otherwise falling down internet research rabbit holes.

About Pandemia as a Revision: All you Need to Know About Symbiotic Cooperation of Microbes and a Human

Are struggling to understand the influence of microbes on humans? With the Coronavirus pandemic, this is a developing topic of interest. In an attempt to get the right vaccination for the disease, we need to have a clear understanding of the symbiotic relationship between microbes and humans. Free from 10/14/20 to 10/15/20

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In this comprehensive and absorbing book, project management consultant, Bolat Abilov, offers well-researched and organized pointers on the symbiotic cooperation of microbes and humans. He has over 9 years’ experience in biology investigations. His fulfillment in Oil and Gas turnkey projects totals to an increasing amount of over $5 Billion.
He uses his extensive knowledge to compile an informative book that will change how we view vaccines.

About The Color of Your Voice

Loving is hard when you’re about to die.

What happens when a call girl and a death row prisoner fall in love?

Violet Pham can see sounds. The brown chirps of the sparrows dance with the colors of their feathers. The green blobs from her mother weave into her squeaky berates.

She believes she was born to become a painter but after being labeled as a burden by everyone around her, she questions that belief. The colors around the sounds become a curse rather than a gift. With her future unsettled and her family mired in debt, there is only one solution: run away from everything.

That’s when she meets Turner Nguyen. He’s everything she wishes she could be—an iron will and a flint heart. There’s only one thing wrong with him. He’s at the center of gang wars, uses his fists to collect debts, and makes his money off the addiction of others.

Soon, the sound of his words paints Violet’s world with the ugly shade of disaster. Where will they go from here?

‘The Color of Your Voice’ is a tragic, depressing love story that speaks to the lows of human experience. It deals with themes of self-esteem, desperation, and salvation. If this is your cup of tea, then this book is for you.

Disclaimer: ‘The Color of Your Voice’ is a novella set in Vietnam, dealing with heavy themes such as prostitution, drug trafficking, and depression. The author in no way encourages or glorifies prostitution and drug trafficking.

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Daniel Newwyn is an aspiring writer, a professional eSports gamer, and a translator. His works in Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller, and Humour have won a number of online awards, and are listed among the promising Undiscovered Writers of Wattpad. As of current, he is the chief content producer of insightful eSport contents such as Hearthstone Rankstar Wild Report. Daniel earned his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Sydney, and is on his way to complete his PhD in Psychology.

About Latch Key Kids By John L. Sheppard

Latch Key Kids, the long-awaited follow-up to Small Town Punk, chronicles the enduring impact one life can have on another.

Resilience and the power of sibling friendship combine into a surprising, ingeniously layered comic novel about a boy inventing himself.

In Latch Key Kids, Sheppard strips the flesh from the bone. He makes you laugh by combining searing wit with keen social observation.

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John L Sheppard wrote Small Town Punk. He lives in Illinois.

Kneel Or Die by Michael Anderle

The future just went upside down, when a nascent AI is added against Bethany Anne’s wishes.

Then, there is David and his issues to take care of, permanently.

Bethany Anne has had it with Terrorists.

Not encumbered with law, she seeks only justice for those who were killed in France.

New members are added to the team as they continue their efforts to reach for the stars.

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Read the series one Amazon Reviewer says: “I have absolutely DEVOURED this series in a period of 36 hrs, and am considering knocking on the authors door to ask him to hurry up with the rest of the series.”

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Michael Anderle, (1967 – ??) was born in Houston, Tx. A very curious child, he got into trouble – a lot. What to do with an inquisitive mind when he was grounded? Read! In the first 20 years, Michael mostly read Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the last 10 years he has enjoyed Urban Fantasy and Military Fiction. With this background, he’s been created The Kurtherian Gambit series, a well-selling, and fan loved, collection of stories, and many other series.

The fans have propelled these stories beyond my wildest imagination and they should get all of the credit for sharing with friends, family and occasionally the random person on the street. They are fantastic!

Love’s Garden by Nandini Bhattacharya

Love’s Garden
An epic family saga of war, love, friendship, and sacrifice in twentieth-century India during its fight against British rule
It is 1898. India is ruled by the British, and India’s women are ruled by British masters as well as Indian men. A desperate young widow makes a tragic sacrifice to save herself from ultimate dishonor. She marries a stranger for security and shelter, but her damaged second family pays dearly for this Faustian bargain. Then, an extraordinary atonement and strange liaisons in politics and love — spanning the two world wars and the Indian independence movement — help her descendants heal from this traumatic private history. Love’s Garden demonstrates the strength, resilience, and unbreakable spirit of mothers and daughters navigating layers of oppression, all while the sun is not-so-peacefully setting on British India.
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Nandini Bhattacharya was born and raised in India and has called the United States her second continent for the last thirty years. Wherever she has lived, she has generally turned to books for answers to life’s big and small questions. Her short stories have been published in Meat for Tea: the Valley Review, Storyscape Journal, Raising Mothers, The Bacon Review, The Bangalore Review, OyeDrum, and Ozone Park Journal. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop and held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, VONA, and Craigardan Writers Residency (forthcoming). She was first runner-up for the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction contest (2017-2018), a finalist for the Fourth River Folio Contest for Prose Prize (2018), long-listed for the Disquiet International Literary Prize (2019 and 2020), and a finalist for the Reynolds-Price International Women’s Literary Award (2019). Love’s Garden is her first novel. She is currently working on a second novel about love, racism, xenophobia and other mysteries, titled Homeland Blues. She lives outside Houston with her family and two marmalade cats.

You can read more about her work and interests on her website https://www.nandinibhattacharyawrites.com

Her reading from Love’s Garden on the Great Indoors Reading Series, NYC on Juneteenth 2020 (at exactly 44:44 minutes in!)

And her blog
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Last Girls Alive by Jennifer Chase

Half-buried in the muddy earth and surrounded by puddles of water lies the naked body of a beautiful young girl. Her pale skin looks like porcelain in the early morning light. Her fragile arms bent and crooked like a broken doll.

When Detective Katie Scott is called to the discovery of a young girl buried on the grounds of a former children’s home in Pine Valley, California, she’s hopeful it’s the end to a devastating cold case she’s been working on. No one has seen Candace Harlan since she ran away from Elm Hill Manor five years ago. Her death will be a tragedy, but it will also bring peace to those who miss her most. But the girl in the ground is not Candace.

The victim is almost identical to Candace in every way, but fear grips Katie as she takes in the black ink that decorates the girl’s back—a terrifying message tattooed on her skin after she drew her last breath.

Forcing down traumatic memories of losing her own parents, Katie is certain someone mistook this poor soul for Candace, and that this crumbling home for lost girls is at the heart of this terrible crime. She sets to work digging into the tragic history of the owners who lost so many children of their own and tracking down the last six residents and the staff who cared for them—but no one wants to talk, let alone remember.

The next day, a second girl’s body is found down by the creek at high water, the same words etched into her skin. Katie’s worst fear is confirmed: someone is picking off the last of the Elm Hill girls one by one. But what does the tattoo mean? And what monster would target these innocent girls who have already been through so much?

Katie must dig deep to confront her own fears and protect the vulnerable—but as the body count rises further, will there be anyone left to save?

An absolutely gripping, dark, and totally unputdownable serial killer thriller that will keep you racing through the pages all night long. Fans of Lisa Regan, Rachel Caine and Melinda Leigh will read in one sitting!

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Jennifer Chase is a multi award-winning and USA Today BestSelling crime fiction author, as well as a consulting criminologist. Jennifer holds a bachelor degree in police forensics and a master’s degree in criminology & criminal justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent psychopath, providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. In addition, she holds certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling. She is an affiliate member of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists, and member of the International Thriller Writers.

About Waite on the Ripper

Evil has invaded my city!

I’m Harmon Waite, a Texas-born private investigator. When Jenny Summers is murdered, her wealthy father demands I find her killer. Then hunter becomes hunted and my world descends into a living nightmare. I can’t stop or the blood of The Ripper’s next victim will be on my hands!

Fortunately, fate brings me together with two extraordinary warriors. Smoke is a mountain of a man, part Cherokee, part healer. Eirian is an incomparable swordmaster. With them by my side, I might even stand a chance against The Ripper.

Of course, that’s when the fallen angel shows up.

“Waite on the Ripper” is an intense roller-coaster-ride of a story!
This is the first in a series of escalating adventures that lead Harmon Waite inevitably into The Celestial Wars…The soul-blessed worlds will never be the same.

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I love good stories. A book a day was my youthful standard. I can still remember exactly where I was when I read classics like Lord of the Rings, Stranger in a Strange Land, and the Foundation trilogy.

In the 80s, I lived as a writer in South Austin, performing the poems at Chicago House off 6th Street that eventually became A Week of Years. Then, my son came along, and I got caught up in the tech industry. During two decades at Dell, I gathered a pocketful of good stories, and Riding on the Coattails of Genius was born out of those.

Today, I’m back to writing for a living and couldn’t be happier. My new series, The Celestial Wars, is set right here in Austin. I was going for a Harry Dresden vibe and an Indiana Jones nonstop action feel, so my favorite feedback is from the critic who summed up my first book, Waite on the Ripper, with one word…“Intense!”

Most enjoyable part of the marketing process?

Listening to my stories come alive through Dan Johnson’s thoroughly mesmerizing narration. I searched hundreds of voices and the moment I heard his, I knew he was the one.

About Hack

His job was to write the news.
Tricky, when you are the news
Meet Llew Sabler, a local newspaper reporter unlike any other.

First he almost kills the work experience girl when a spoof story goes awry.

Then when his editor tasks him with being a department store Santa, Llew’s grotto horror show sparks pubic outrage.

And his troubles have barely begun …

Llew is secretly besotted with close friend and fellow journalist, the bewitchingly violent Thirza Kirkby, but she spurns him for his oldest pal – boffin and hopeless virgin, Emdel Black.

Heartbroken, Llew does what anyone would: he defecates on an altar, and fabricates a red-hot exclusive that gets him noticed by the country’s top tabloid paper.

But when police charge him with the altar crime, Llew is vilified by the very paper he was set to join. He’s suspended from work, and is left facing an almost certain jail term.

Perpetually drunk, he falls in with charismatic wheelchair-using crook, Rollo Baer, and through him makes an awful and perilous discovery.
He knows it’s the story of a lifetime.
He knows it could save his career.
He also knows it might get him killed.
Set in 90s England, Hack is a fast paced first person black comedy, bristling with memorable male and female characters, and crackling with dark British wit.

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SGM Ashcroft was born in High Wycombe in 1963. A journalist since 1987, he worked on local and national UK newspapers, before spending 18 months on the China Daily in Beijing, from 1992-93. After a spell on technology magazines and with the BBC, he turned freelance in 2005. Hack is his debut novel. He lives in West London.

About Trained by the Warrior

“He saved me from a despot. Now I’m his to claim.”
Rinae lives to support her mother and sister, but everything changes the night of her eighteenth birthday. A ruthless tyrant attempts to steal her innocence, only to be thwarted by Sir Cadyn, a warrior mage bent on revenge.
Fleeing the aftermath, their only option is to hide. With his mission failed, Cadyn turns to protecting the beautiful, young Rinae. His dominance tests her will. Her defiance tests his patience. At first they only share a cause, but the call to fight back sparks their passion. Rinae can’t resist his enticing power and firm discipline, while her need to be trained awakens Cadyn’s hunger for more than justice.
Discovering a strength she never knew she possessed, Rinae will sacrifice everything to save her family and free her people. However, Cadyn’s commitment to Rinae overwhelms his thirst for vengeance. Forced to decide between happiness and victory, their love could save an entire world – or doom it.

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Writing has been Stella Rising’s lifelong dream job. After working for nearly a decade as a professional editor in upstate New York, Stella discovered the world of indie publishing and hasn’t looked back. For fun, Stella enjoys movies, televsion and too many podcasts; eating out at favorite restaurants, particularly pizza and barbecue; and enjoying the winter weather. Stella also loves visiting New York City to see friends, go to shows and shop at The Strand!

About The Chartreuse Garden: The Horrific Murders of Innocents that Compelled Me to Fight Social Injustice and Hate, by Jack Castiglione

Real people, struggling against insurmountable forces of injustice. Shocking murders. Extreme child abuse. Brutal assaults against gay men and lesbians. Police inaction. Jack Castiglione faces these challenges head on in a decisive way.

In his memoir, the author must choose between his comfortable but secret gay life and coming out publicly as a gay man in order to fight the brutality of hatred directed toward the most vulnerable in our society.

Barack Obama in a letter to Jack Castiglione, “Jack … Our journey as a nation depends, as it always has, on the persistent efforts of people like you – compassionate, caring, and open-minded – who stand up in defense of the notion that love is love and that all of us, no matter who we are or who we love, are worthy of equal dignity, equal respect, and equal protection under the law. … That is the vision for America that Michelle and I share. And I want you to know we will continue standing alongside you.”
The Chartreuse Garden tells of Castiglione’s growing up under the rules of his dominating and suppressive mother. During his young adulthood, he tried to sort out his sexuality, desiring to be straight. Then, an appalling, life-changing event. Roy, an impoverished little boy, begged Castiglione to protect him against those who bullied and beat him. “I will always be there for you, Roy,” Castiglione promised his adoring, innocent buddy. He never believed Roy was in actual danger, nor anticipated the shocking events that followed.
Castiglione pledged to never again ignore a call for help. As he began to participate in the gay lifestyle, he became painfully aware of the beatings and murders of gay men in his community of Long Beach, CA, often perpetrated with impunity. He surrendered the security of his closet and publicly vowed to stop violent assaults against LGBTQ people. He had a surprising secret weapon, the chief of police.

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During the short term of President Kennedy, Jack Castiglione became fascinated by the civil rights movement, especially concerning the plight of Blacks in America. A second social justice issue in the 1960s was the mistreatment of California farmworkers. Here he joined in supporting the work of Caesar Chavez in protecting and organizing California farmworkers.

What first caught Castiglione’s attention on gay discrimination issues was a series of gay-bashing events including murders of gay people in Long Beach, California in the mid-1970s. These murders were part of a much larger, national issue. The national LGBTQ rights movement began in New York City, in 1969, when a group of patrons at The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, suddenly confronted the police who had been continually harassing them. After the Stonewall riots, LGBTQ groups all around the country began to fight back and demand their equal rights.

In 1977 he attended a public meeting at MCC (the Metropolitan Community Church) which hosted a meeting between the gay community and the Long Beach Police Department to discuss an ongoing investigation of — yet another — murder of a gay man who was ambushed on the streets of Long Beach. In this latest case, the police department had not caught the predator that would come across as a friendly gay person in gay bars. The predator would present himself as one who was interested in sexual relations with selected bar patrons. If he were invited to a would-be victim’s home, the homeowner was stabbed to death.

In another case, involving a different attacker, a former roommate of Castiglione’s picked up a presumably pleasant man at a gay bar in Long Beach because he expressed a mutual interest in sex. He brought the “pleasant man” to his apartment. The victim was tied to a chair and set on fire. He did not survive.

In 1981, Castiglione joined Dignity (a national gay Catholic organization) and soon served on the board of directors in various positions over the years, including president of the Long Beach Chapter, which was one of the largest chapters in the nation. In 1984, the Dignity Help Line was established in his home, and he answered it for the next six years. Most callers wanted to know if they could be gay and Catholic. Castiglione always told the callers, yes, and told them why. Castiglione worked with the bishops of the Los Angeles Catholic Diocese, including correspondence with the then Archbishop, Roger Mahony.

Although Castiglione continued some interest in the Church for many years, he struggled with the Church’s “ancient-thinking.” His conflict was not only concerning the anti-gay positions of the Church but also other important social issues in which the Church refused to be reasonable. These issues included the use of contraception (even in spite of the AIDS crisis), not allowing women to be priests, and the refusal to accept the modern principles of psychology as essential for good mental health. He ultimately became a proud atheist.

Castiglione joined the Lambda Democratic Club in Long Beach and served as the chairman of the Police Relations Committee from about 1985 to 1993. He was appointed to the Long Beach Police chief’s advisory committee representing the gay community and served as chairman, serving three police chiefs’ from 1987 to 1992. He helped create sting operations with LBPD to intervene in anti-gay violence. He was the subject of a documentary to showcase various efforts to combat anti-gay violence in Long Beach in 1992.

Jack Castiglione wrote op-ed pieces in the Long Beach Press-Telegram to bring anti-gay violence to the attention of the general public. He wrote numerous articles in the gay press to inform the gay community of the importance of filing crime reports when they were the victims of hate crimes.

In 1986, a gay man was stabbed to death in front of the popular, LGBT-frequented, Birds of Paradise Cafe. The community was again in outrage and demanded action from the Long Beach Police Department. This event was the impetus that caused Castiglione to start the anti-gay violence hotline to report and document acts of violence against the LGBTQ community. The idea was that since LBPD had a poor reputation in respecting members of the LGBT community and rendering service, victims had the alternative of this hotline to report those crimes. Castiglione monitored that hotline in his home from 1990 to 1996.

Castiglione was allowed to give regular training sessions on LGBTQ sensitivity to each Long Beach Police Academy class from 1986 to 1993. These training sessions were to inform new police officers of the shameful treatment the LGBTQ community was receiving from the general population, as well as to expose incidents of police misconduct toward gay people. At one time, Long Beach Police Department was so bad that a new police chief, Lawrence Binkley, was brought on in 1987 to “clean up the department.” Within a short time, that new chief fired 83 police officers for improper behavior, not only against the LGBT community but for dereliction of duty in all police matters throughout the city.

In 1986, Castiglione became a member of the newly formed Hospital Visitation Team.” This program trained men and women as professional PWA (Persons with AIDs) visitors at the various local hospitals who cared for AIDS patients. The gay center sponsored a 6-week training class to teach volunteers methods of “active listening” and other important aspects of death and dying, these team members were “visiting friends.” He worked at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Long Beach to visit any PWAs who wanted to talk to someone. He completed his training in 1986 and visited PWAs, once a week, for six years.

In 1991, Castiglione was appointed by the Long Beach City Council to serve as a Human Rights Commissioner, which he worked on for four years.

On January 20, 1992, Jack Castiglione met his husband, Douglas H. Cleaver – they have been happily married ever since. They moved to Long Beach California and live in a high-rise condo overlooking the beach and the Queen Mary ship.

Beginning in early 2016, Castiglione campaigned for Hillary Clinton and became the first Never-Trumper. After that most unfortunate election, he worked tirelessly in every way possible to get the most corrupt president out of office.

In 2020, Castiglione authored the book, “The Chartreuse Garden: The Horrific Murders of Innocents that
Compelled Me to Fight Social Injustice and Hate.” In this true story, we follow his journey from his childhood days where he was subjected to much beatings and abuse, to his 20s, where he became a fierce defender of LGBTQ equality and accomplished surprising results in stopping the violence against his community.

About Moth Busters

The weirdness of The X-Files collides with the unwashed insanity of Florida itself in this best-selling, laugh-out-loud comic mystery series readers are calling:

“Hilarious, weird, and entertaining!” ★★★★★

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A lover of laughter and aficionado of the absurd, author Margaret Lashley brings her unique, sideways look at the world to the page in her hilarious, best-selling Val Fremden Mystery Series and Freaky Florida Mystery Adventures. She also tackles the dark side of life with thrilling, page-turning tales of psychological suspense in Mind’s Eye Investigators.

More on Freaky Florida Mystery Adventures: As a native of the Sunshine State, Margaret was weened on weird! She brings her extensive background in the redneck subculture to bear in this sidesplitting “Florida Man versus The X-Files” series!

More on the Val Fremden Series: Each book in this absurdist humor mystery series is jam-packed with plot twists and laughs you’ll never see coming. But what really sets the Val Fremden series apart are the quirky, flawed characters you’ll no doubt recognize as someone you know.

More on Mind’s Eye Investigators: The first book in the series, What She Forgot, tackles arachnophobia and mommy issues of the psychotic kind. It also introduces Deanna Young, a New York psychologist, and her unlikely new companions, two Florida investigators named Blatch and Smalls. You’ll never think of spiders in the same way again! While it’s peppered with sharp humor, make no mistake. Mind’s Eye Investigators will have you on the edge of your seat.

About The One Invisible Code

Inside the book you will learn:

1) Orbit Of Mastery Vs Orbit Of Mediocrity
2) The 4 Types Of Mindsets
3) The GAPP Framework
and a lot more.,

Let this book guide you to unleash your greatness! Grab a copy today!

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Sharat Sharma is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, high impact professional speaker, and a performance coach. In the last decade, Sharat has trained and coached at over 100 organizations including several fortune 500 companies. His purpose is to inspire every individual he meets to achieve mastery by Magnifying Their Performance & Multiplying Their Profits.

Sharat excels in offering simplified solutions to complex problems. This makes him the “go-to coach” of several businesses and individuals.

Sharat was awarded as “Young Entrepreneur For Business Excellence” and he frequently writes on leading global platforms including entrepreneurs.com, peoplematters.com, etc.

About Southern Joy

Robin Young has worked for one of the largest audit and assurance firms’ in Ohio for thirty years. Her career has left little time for relationships. After receiving an urgent call from her sister’s neighbor, she hurries to the small southern town of Fairhope, Alabama.

The ambiance of Alabama has Robin contemplating life and meeting Tucker Ray, the quintessential “good ole boy” of the south, adds to the charm.

Her stay in Fairhope uncovers a secret, and a chance for love, but the Buckeye state is where she belongs.
Can Robin accept change and unravel matters of the heart?

‘Southern Joy,’ book1 of Autumn Years. This series celebrates characters in their later years and love in small southern towns.

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Mary L. Ball is a multi-published Christian author. She resides in North Carolina and enjoys fishing, reading, and ministering in song with her husband. Her books are about small-town romance, suspense, and mystery, influenced by the grace of Jesus Christ.

About Timeless: Tomorrow is Yesterday

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On the eve on his court martial for dereliction of duty, seasoned space veteran Captain Thomas Jackson wakes up in France, year: 1348. He lands in the middle of the Black Death pandemic, but runs into someone he knows! They agree to help him return home, for a price. Little does the captain, know, however, that he’s stepped in the river of time, and nothing is ever the same again.

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H. S. Rivney has been writing for more than 40 years. Diverted to non-fiction technical and training publications, she's returned to her love of fiction, specifically, science fiction. She has a love of all things science, and a fondness for animals and space exploration. Her novels focus on science, from DNA to germ theory, thorium energy reactors, even exo-biology. She lives on an acre in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her husband of 22 years and their 19-year-old son. She shares her acre with a horse, geese, chickens, quail, parrots, dogs, cats, fish, and a pigeon that won't fly away.

About Summary & Analysis of The Good Fight

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In The Good Fight, Jana Kramer and Michael Caussin explain how couples can fight in a way that brings them closer and strengthens their relationship.

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Any relationship is going to have its fair share of fights. But these fights don’t have to be emotionally distressing. They can develop and end in a way that makes both parties feel safe, heard, and loved. When couples know why they fight, how to fight, and what to fight for, they can have healthy conflict—the kind of conflict that is the doorway to deep levels of connection and intimacy. They can move their relationship in the direction they want it to go. Drawing from their marriage struggles and the lessons they learned in couples’ therapy, Kramer and Caussin explain how couples can communicate expectations, set boundaries, own faults, and do a host of other things that make conflict resolution a smoother, less painful, and relationship-expanding process.

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About Be Mindful With Me by Lisa Brookes

Fun and simple tools to help you and your little ones navigate a stressful world.
For parents of children aged 1-7.
Free on Kindle Unlimited.

Radically transform your household in a couple of weeks with this holistic toolset of mindfulness practices. Designed to help you understand the mechanics behind the exercises as well as overcome your struggles with developing new habits, this short book will be the best gift you can give yourself and your child. Designed by a mom for moms who are frazzled, overworked and stressed and who need to instill a sense of peace, calm and contentment in their homes.

A mom’s job is not to protect your child from the world, as much as we would love to, but rather to equip them with the skills they need to navigate it. We don’t know what they are going to face in any given day, but if we can give them tools that equip them to help their BIG emotions feel less overwhelming, their fears surmountable and change manageable, we have given them a gift that will build the foundation for a joyful, successful and full life. We don’t want our kids just to get through unscathed, we want them to thrive!

Mindfulness activities have been scientifically proven to help children regulate emotions, manage stressful situations, increase focus, and promote calm. Those are the kids that can build friendships, focus on a task, build a skill, listen to an instruction, and find peace and calm amidst chaos. Now who wouldn’t sign up for a kid like that?
That’s why I put together this pack-it-all-in, just-give-me-the-essentials booklet that will not only help you understand the benefits of mindfulness but how you can make it a fun, everyday practice in your life without overwhelming your already full and frantic day. This is a book for busy moms, who want their time with their kids to count. Any mom can do it, trust me; if I can, you can! I am no supermom. Just one who wants to equip my kids with tools that they can pull out when I’m not there to help and one who wants to have the bandwidth required to parent with love and care.

This book is full of 34 fun, simple, yet effective practices that you can use to improve your resilience to stress and sense of wellbeing, to parent more effectively and to teach your children so that you build a harmonious home. And trust me, calmer, happier kids who can stop and smell the roses, make calm and happy moms! Take this journey with me, see delightful changes in weeks and reap the rewards for years to come.

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Parenting is one of the most rewarding jobs in the world, but also one of the most difficult. After realizing that day drinking didn't seem to help me navigate this new world of tantrums, illogical reasoning and the excessive energy that was required to keep the little suckers alive, I resorted to mindfulness. I had used mindfulness and meditation to help me navigate a ten year battle with chronic fatigue syndrome and decided to implement those tools with my unruly pair. It was tiring at first, and I often wanted to throw in the towel, but the results were house-transforming. Calmer, more focused and happier children emerged from my new, super mom-mothering skills. I mean, they could have put me on a show!

I love to write and am always sharing parenting tips with other frazzled moms, so decided to pen those gems and share what I had learnt. This stuff was too good to hold onto. I dove into tons of research on the topic, which helped me to understand the science behind this magically little tool, and formulated a number of simple and easy ways to implement mindfulness in a home. I would love you to read my book, come on! You know you want to!
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About Pinky Doodle Big

Join Pinky and her friends on a fun adventure! Pinky loves drawing doodles! With the help of her friends, her drawings come to life. By working together, they make something magical! This book encourages children to be creative and follow their dreams. It teaches you that your friends will always be there for you to help with all your adventures. Just remember that anything is possible if you just believe.

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Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino helps people of all ages by encouraging them to “Let Your Dreams Fly!” Wanting to inspire children, she created Pinky Doodle to show how following your heart, collaborating with friends, and believing in yourself matters.

She is the author of five books, including PERCOLATE: Let Your Best Self Filter Through and two children’s books in collaboration with Sally Huss: A Lesson for Every Child: Learning About Food Allergies and Self-Confident Sandy. Her next book in the series of Pinky Doodle Bug is Pinky Doodle Dance, co-written with Kris Fuller.

As the CEO and founder of The Best Ever You Network, Elizabeth is a recognized leader in personal development and leadership, inspiring everyone to be their best. Elizabeth graduated with honors in 1991 from St. Ambrose University with a degree in Journalism. She attends Harvard Business School for Leadership.

When Elizabeth isn’t writing, she loves photography, baking cookies and spending time with her husband, Peter, and their four sons and three cats in Maine.

About My Beloved Enemy

Emory found his mate, something every young wolf looks forward to. The only problem is that his promised beloved is the daughter of a hunter. She fears him and wants nothing to do with him, and he can’t help but wonder if his wolf isn’t right. She may just be too much trouble to be worth the chase.

Trying to stay one step ahead of the hunters, his only thought is to get back to his pack while keeping his mate safe, secretly hoping she will fall in love with him, but fearing that they are a lost cause.

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I am a avid reader and as such, the desire to write quickly engulfed me.

Although writing as a venture is emotionally and creatively satisfying, it unfortunately is not as financially satisfying.

My novels are erotic and sensual, and as such would be frowned upon with my day job employers, thus the pen name.

I will give you a sneak peak of who I am. I was married, divorced him but found my soul mate.

I am a mother of two and grandmother of one, but still under fifty, for now.

I love nature, animals and books.

I hope you will enjoy my words as they come straight from my imagination, my romantic nature and the closet dominatrix that I am.

About Shadows of Atlantis: Awakening By Mara Powers

The legacy of the legend. Atlantis as you’ve never seen it before.

Brigitte is an emissary of nature chosen to renew the treaty between Atlantis and the ancient bloodline of Lemuria. Her sacred betrothal would renew the function of the Crystal Grid that powers the ten kingdoms of Atlantis. But her people are attacked by a storm of shadows, and now she is running for her life.

Upon her arrival in the ruling city, she meets D’Vinid, a dejected musician who lives the quintessential Atlantean lifestyle of revelry, escapism and apathy. Under the eclipse of a holy festival marking the union of Atlantis’s mystical technology with nature, they are swept into an attraction they cannot resist. They become the embodiment of two gods whose union is meant to protect humanity from a deadly enemy – the Shadows of Atlantis. But this man is not her betrothed.

Brigitte discovers the Grid is corrupted by psychic parasites that feed off human suffering, a sweeping epidemic called “The Madness.” The rituals required to charge the Grid with psychic emanations have been poorly attended, and this has caused the Grid to malfunction. But as nature always strives toward balance, the crystals have activated a genetic upgrade, and the youth have begun to express supernatural powers. Could it be that Brigitte and D’Vinid are meant to be leaders among the awakened? And if so, why does it seem impossible for them to be together?

A mysterious tale of romance, seduction and betrayal that reaches just enough into the modern mind to ask – will we learn the lessons of Atlantis?

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Mara Powers is a modern Renaissance woman, scholar, traveler, musician, producer and philosopher, all of which feed her writing. She has been researching the mysteries of lost civilizations since she was a teenager, a quest that has become a personal hero’s journey. She hails from the mountains of Colorado and the west side of Los Angeles where she spends her days wandering the shores of the ocean, dreaming up Atlantis.

About Coronavirus Lifesaving Tips: Little-known Actions You Can Take Today, Before Covid-19 Strikes

There Are Actions You Can Take Now to Help Yourself Fight-off Covid-19.

Are you scared to die? Me too. That’s why I put this book together.

This book is a compilation of research from published scientific journals about actions you can take now that might help ameliorate coronavirus symptoms when you get it. It isn’t a magic bullet, but it is something practical that you can discuss with your doctor now.

˃˃˃ Why take a chance on your own life when there are scientific advances out there available to you? In fact, chances are you have already taken the advice in this book. Unfortunately the protection your body has already built up disappeared after a number of years. That’s why you need to know what actions you can take to take to build up specific immune responses in your body.

˃˃˃ This book isn’t about homeopathy. It’s about common medical procedures that may help against Covid-19. This book also contains a list of more common, non-medical actions you can take. I just want to make sure you know some of the common best practices out there.

˃˃˃ Understand the Nature of the COVID-19 Virus
The spread of Coronavirus or COVID-19 proves to be a menace that has brought many nations to their knees. However, all countries are doing their best to flatten the curve. The virus spread statistics are dire, and there is a need for a Call To Action. It might be the task of the world scientists to find a cure and vaccination against it, but it is down to all of us to ensure that we do not promote the spread of the virus further. From a social perspective, understanding the nature of the virus will help tame it’s spread. It will help individuals understand the spread patterns and how best to avoid contact with them.

From a medical perspective, understanding the virus first entails grouping it under a disease category. This disease category will help assess the strength of the COVID-19 virus compared to other viruses in this category. The next step will be to look at the treatments and vaccines that worked on similar viruses and how they could impact the COVID-19 virus.

This five-chapter book will provide you with an understanding of the nature of the COVID-19 virus and also expose the medical and social pathways towards containing its spread and finally putting the issue to rest.

Remember, you aren’t completely helpless against Covid-19.

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Lisa Reinke is a jack-of-all-trades. Every day is a victory because every day she takes a shower. She is constantly winning because she only plays against toddlers. She has the most wonderful daughter on earth because nothing has been set on fire yet. Her eyeliner never runs because she gave up on wearing it. She used to teach college for 13 years before taking a break.