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PULSE by Judy G. Walters

About PULSE by Judy G. Walters

Dive into Pulse, the first book of the Vital Signs Series, a gripping account of the ambiguous moral dilemmas in medicine— encompassing a unique yet riveting comparison between life and chess.

St. Mary’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas has some of the best healthcare professionals in the world, but that success has come with a price. Each book within the series gives the reader a behind-the-scenes look at emergency medicine, with interesting cases and great insight into what makes the doctors and nurses tick.

The reader is injected right into the action, and faced with the moral dilemmas that healthcare professionals face every day.

Each book in the Vital Signs Series takes an intricate story and wraps it neatly around a game of chess. Even if you’ve never played chess before, this unique approach will be entertaining nonetheless! If you are a player, you’ll detect how the moves and strategies of the game can often mimic life.

The message of PULSE is about staying true to oneself in the face of moral dilemmas and about looking beyond the masks people wear to discover what lies underneath. It is a tribute to the health care workers on the front lines in the COVID battle who must make their way through difficult moral dilemmas they are faced with on a daily basis, while making critical decisions that can result in life or death for patients.

Visit 64 Squares Publishing Company’s website to download a free chapter.

Copyright 2021 by 64 Squares Publishing Company
ISBN 978-1-7363342-0-1

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The Righter

About The Righter

Ex-military, multi-millionaire James Maypother lives a contented life, running a booming business and enjoying a large inheritance. To avenge the death of his younger brother, he will have to risk these privileges and perhaps his life.

Simon Maypother was murdered in an unprovoked road rage incident in London. The killer was put in a secret program and shipped to a new destination for second chance at life. James is aghast with the sentence. In masks, he goes on a kidnapping spree of the civil servants to squeeze out from them information about the killer’s destination — but no joy.

James eventually gets a break by blackmailing a Member of Parliament for information. The intelligence services are trailing him. In New York, the stage is set for a showdown. The New York Police Department and British intelligence must prevent the masked James from taking the life of the killer, but he will not stop until he exacts full vengeance.

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Garrett’s Destiny (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) (Tactical Operations Series Book 1)by Anna Blakely

About Garrett’s Destiny (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) (Tactical Operations Series Book 1)by Anna Blakely

He wanted a break from the action. She wanted to prove she could be more. They found each other in paradise…but a killer followed them home.Former Army Ranger Garrett Morgan loves working for Tactical Operations. Using his special forces training to rescue innocent civilians is what he lives for. But lately, Garrett’s been feeling the strain of a life that’s all work and no play. So, when he’s offered the chance for a little rest and relaxation, he takes it. Not realizing the decision is one that will change his life forever.At twenty-eight, Avery Webb has a perfectly fine life. But she wants more than fine. She wants excitement. Adventure. And most of all…she never, ever wants to hear her sister call her boring and predictable again. So, when she’s dared to do something impulsive, Avery accepts the challenge by booking a week-long cruise…alone. Though she instantly regrets the decision, Avery is determined to follow through. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? After a chance meeting on the ship, the sparks between Garrett and Avery are instant and impossible to deny. What starts as a casual vacation romance soon turns into something more. The two embark on a journey of discovery and passion, but when a deadly situation makes Avery a killer’s target, Garrett and his team will stop at nothing to rescue the woman he loves and bring her home.

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Ayrwynn the Apprentice

About Ayrwynn the Apprentice

A fun coming-of-age story set in a small kingdom in the Middle Ages, Ayrwynn the Apprentice is the tale of a tenacious girl who wants with all her heart to be a scribe. Her loving father gets her the perfect apprenticeship with Master Scribe Nicholas, a scribe who’s clients include the Royal Family. It’s an amazing opportunity and there’s only one thing that might keep Ayrwynn from fulfilling her dream….her knack for getting herself in trouble. When her first assignment for the Queen ends with a disaster that nearly destroys the castle’s market day, her apprenticeship and the dream she’s worked so hard for could be taken from her. Will it be the end of Ayrwynn’s dream? Get your copy of Ayrwynn the Apprentice and find out!

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101 Things Every Man Should Know: To Experience a Life of Victory & Impact

About 101 Things Every Man Should Know: To Experience a Life of Victory & Impact

★★★Are you determined to never settle for a life of mediocrity, of being average, letting life slip by and never truly reaching your full potential? Are you constantly seeking ways to better yourself and know that you must bring your “A-game” because people depend on you? Do you just want to make positive lifestyle changes and become more focused?★★★

You know that unless you take care of your health, make the right choices with your money, build deep relationships with those around you, and keep your mind sharp, you won’t truly enjoy the type of life you desire.

Dak wrote this book with the following people in mind:
✓ Young men who want to build the type of life they can be proud of
✓ Husbands & dads with families who depend on them and look to them for leadership
✓ Men who are tired of being successful in their careers, yet unfulfilled in their personal lives
✓ Men who want to enjoy a deeper, more satisfying marriage and learn how to better love their wives and steer clear of the pitfalls that so often divide people
✓ Men who have been knocked down by life who are on a mission to make a comeback
✓ Not just men, but the women who love them and need to understand life from a man’s perspective and learn how to better support and encourage them
✓ Men who are constantly seeking ways to grow and want to become more intentional about reaching their goals

Young Men Seeking Guidance & Direction
Young men face challenges as they work toward building a life of their own, and often face tough decisions that come along with that responsibility. If you have a son or grandson you care about who’s in this stage of life, you can help him gain a clearer sense of direction and purpose by encouraging him to read this book.

For Heroes Who Serve
Many of the men we call heroes rightfully receive recognition and awards for their willingness to sacrifice for the benefit of others, while at the same time feel like they’re losing in their personal lives. Having a successful career is one thing; being fulfilled and satisfied in your personal life is another.

Through his personal story, Dak will inspire you to look beyond your past failures and realize that no matter what stage you’re at in life, God can turn things around and do the unimaginable.

This book has a faith aspect to it that will cause you to think deeply about the direction of your life and help you clarify your priorities. Many of the chapters include reflection questions and exercises so you can immediately start applying what you read to your life.

What Makes this book enjoyable:
✓ Short & concise chapters packed with a lot of value, which makes it easy to quickly squeeze in a chapter or two
✓ Down-to-earth, straightforward language that’s easy to understand
✓ Author is transparent about his own challenges and struggles, which help you connect with him on a more personal level
✓ Interesting stories that not only make you laugh, but also provoke deep thought and motivate you to take action
✓ Wide range of topics covered: health, finances, spirituality and faith, mindset, dealing with stress, relationships, starting a business, etc.
✓ Not just surface level: this book goes deep and will challenge you to be a better man

◆This book is all about elevating your mindset, building the right types of habits, and learning how to better relate to those around you. Dak wrote this book because he genuinely wants to help you, and can almost promise that you’ll experience growth in many areas of your life as a result of reading this book◆

★★★Purchase this book for you or someone you care about and want to help★★★

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Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris by Vernon Gravely

About Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris by Vernon Gravely

A HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY REVEALED AFTER 60 YEARS!!!

Robert Morris should have been a star. He was producer Bert Leonard’s original choice to ride alongside George Maharis in Route 66; however, as the concept for the series evolved, Morris was out and Martin Milner was in. As Maharis and Milner prepared to drive into the annals of television history, Robert Morris relocated from New York to California to boost his career. What initially appeared to be a good move ended in tragedy. Less than a year after moving out west, Robert Morris died under peculiar circumstances at a “health ranch” in southern California at the age of 25.

Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris is the portrait of a young man who put his best foot forward to attain the American Dream — only to have tragedy intervene. Read the story as told by those who knew him best — his friends, family and colleagues, including George Maharis (Route 66), Tony Franke (The Blob), Barbara Lord Warburton, Pamela Saunders (Happy Birthday, Wanda June), Susan Quick, Harvey Grossman, Robert Heide and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Beatles’ Let It Be), who also provided the Foreword.

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The Proposition

About The Proposition

Retribution (verb): inflict hurt on someone for an injury or wrong

Vengeance. It runs through Mason Hill’s veins. Except the person who walks through his office door isn’t his enemy. It’s the man’s daughter.

He forms a new plan for revenge…He’ll take out every past hurt and dark memory on her sweet body. And to save her family, she’ll let him.

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Saving Face by Frank Morin


About Featured Book: Saving Face by Frank Morin

AVAILABLE FOR FREE THIS WEEK ONLY (15th – 19th)

Rent a new body . . .

Sounds perfect. Unless your body is the one getting rented.

Sarah is a top model, making tons of money to let other people live in her skin. But she feels like she’s losing her identity. Time to get out.

Her employer decides to sell her body instead.

Sarah plunges into a terrifying race to escape with body and soul intact. Failure means becoming the ultimate orphan. As she scrambles for any possible salvation, she finds an unexpected ally who is definitely not who he pretends to be.

Neither is the entire body renting program. Sarah stumbles upon dark truths and glimpses the terrifying world of the Facetakers. Unknown to the world, shadowy forces, fueled by arcane powers, have battled for dominance. That fight is about to explode across the globe, with repercussions back into history.

Sarah had always thought nothing could be worse than dying.

She was wrong.

If you love exciting sci-fi/fantasy thrillers from authors like John Grisham, Jim Butcher, David Baldacci, and Dean Koonz, you’ll love Saving Face and the Facetakers.

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This Fantasy book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

Heirs of the Ancients: Book Two of the Three Worlds Chronicles

About Heirs of the Ancients: Book Two of the Three Worlds Chronicles

The ancients waited and watched as the ages unfolded before them. They laid their trap in a desolate corner of the galaxy, waiting patiently like a spider, while countless stars, planets, and civilizations were born, thrived, and died out. In the fullness of time, a desperate race of beings, fleeing from their home, was ensnared in their cosmic web, setting into motion a thousand-year struggle for survival, revenge, and dominance.

Without imagining the peril that lay before them, they forged ahead. Their motives and plans blurred the reality of their growing and swiftly approaching doom. Imprisoned by their own greed, the D’lai unwittingly fed the starving ancients, who grew in power and strength, until the day would finally arrive when their dark, consuming plan could be fulfilled.

Haunted by their lust for power, and consumed by their passion for revenge, the D’lai swept into space and were utterly destroyed by their own arrogance. Despite their failure, an ember still smoldered, and finally, emboldened and possessed by the rage and malice of the ancients, they struck once more.

The ancient game, played out over billions of years, would once more consume the galaxy, and this time, should they succeed, no being alive or dead would remain untouched. The final plan was in place, and the D’lai, the heirs of the ancients, were on the move.

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Thirty Minutes Under

About Thirty Minutes Under

One girl. One pool party. One mistake.

Lorienne Hall is a typical sixteen-year-old, with her only problem being how to get the boy she likes to finally see her. However, life as she knows it is changed forever when she goes underwater for thirty minutes. The strange thing is, after she wakes from her coma, she’s termed “The Miracle Girl”. But when she learns she must battle her enemy, Mackenzie Steelburg, in order to stay alive, she realizes that thirty minutes might’ve just changed her life forever.

But now she doesn’t know who to trust.

That’s where Dale comes in.

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Why Do You Cry, Sad Ghost? By Celia Jones

About Why Do You Cry, Sad Ghost? By Celia Jones

Release Day – September 15th!!

A Halloween picture book for art lovers. In clever rhyme, Sad Ghost visits the rooms of his home, always with a tear in his eye. Hauntingly drawn, Why Do You Cry, Sad Ghost? displays Celia Jones’ gift for whimsy and detail.

Inspired by the author-illustrator’s love for all things Halloween – and by a treasured family Halloween figurine – this artfully drawn picture book is full of details to delight children and the adults who read with them.

With a mouse hiding on every page and visual references to popular culture, these finely crafted images and poignant text deliver a Halloween treat to readers.

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Henry and the Gym Monster by Ben Lancour

About Henry and the Gym Monster by Ben Lancour

Henry LOVES P.E. class! In art, he draws about dancing. In music, he sings about soccer. But when it’s gym time, he has ONE BIG PROBLEM…Manny the monster!

He tricks Henry into doing the opposite of what his teacher asks him to do. Will the confused boy control his beastie buddy before growing to a size he cannot control?

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The Siege of Vicksburg: A Captivating Guide to the Final Battle of Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War by Captivating History

About The Siege of Vicksburg: A Captivating Guide to the Final Battle of Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War by Captivating History

Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign was the most outlandish maneuver of the American Civil War and included the largest amphibious military approach until the advent of the Second World War. Grant is widely heralded as the first amongst the leaders of modern warfare, and along with a good set of commanders and the considerable Army of the Tennessee, he used his charge on Vicksburg to dominate the Western Theater of the war during the summer of 1863.
The Union held the Confederate troops, which were under the leadership of the tactically inferior General John Pemberton, inside the ramparts of Vicksburg for a punishing six weeks. The town, perched on the high natural bluffs of the eastern Mississippi River, had been fortified to the extent that it was impenetrable, even by the Yankees who outnumbered their foes by four to one upon the Rebels’ surrender on July 4th.
The Northerners essentially dug in, starved out, and bombarded the Southerners for the most coveted prize of the Mississippi River—the strategic node of Vicksburg. Once the Bluecoats were victorious and the Stars and Stripes flew above the town, it was not long before the Union controlled the entire waterway, which was the lifeblood of the Confederacy, as they used it to move soldiers, food, and supplies across their territories. When the federal government gained Vicksburg, they split the Confederacy in two, breaking its backbone between the Trans-Mississippi and Western Theaters.
The Siege of Vicksburg, which happened in tandem with the Battle of Gettysburg that concluded the day before on July 3rd, 1863, is considered the most pivotal moment in the Civil War, as it was the turning point from which the South could never recover.
If you want to learn more about the Siege of Vicksburg, get this book now!

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The Vicar Man

About The Vicar Man

Dora is a barmaid.
Usually her life is fairly simple: she gets up, cleans the inn, feeds the chickens, argues with the increasingly obstreperous cockerel, listens to the woes of her fellow barmaid, avoids doing the laundry, and serves drinks to the motley crew of islanders who lurk about the taproom every night.
The same old routine, day in, day out.

Tonight, though, is different.

Tonight, just one week before the vernal equinox, after a catastrophically bad harvest the year before, a stranger has walked into the bar…

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Daughter of Magic by J.D. Ruffin

About Daughter of Magic by J.D. Ruffin

She’s been dead a thousand years. She’s angry. And now she wants her throne back.
Daughter of Magic is an action-packed adventure, the second book in The Kingdom War series. If you like fantasy, intrigue, and satirical humor, you’ll love this series.
Ancient, evil Queen Irina continues her plot to return to the living world — and to conquer it.
With her army on the border poised for invasion, Guardsman Keelan Rae and his team continue their desperate chase to save his beloved Healer. While his brother, Declan, travels to an ancient island seeking aid for their country’s sorely outnumbered military. When he meets the mysterious Keeper of Magic, he is forced to face his greatest fears.
Betrayed by her lover, Jess hurtles toward the same sacrificial fate as other kidnapped magicians. Her King-father rallies the nation to find her, but will it be enough?

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Ghost Stories

About Ghost Stories

Truth is stranger than fiction – and these stories would tell you why

In Ghost Stories, you’ll unearth a goldmine of haunting stories that will leave goosebumps from head to toe. Inside, you’ll discover:

● 20 bone-chilling ghost stories that will challenge your sanity and force you to question reality
● The story of the ghost who testified to a murder mystery
● The ghastly story of Taunton State Hospital – and what it’s infamous for
● What’s really hiding in the veins of the famous Roosevelt Hotel
● The frightening secret hiding in an innocent-looking doll
● The mystery behind the never-ending construction of the Winchester Mystery House
● The silent empire that exists beneath the streets of the ‘City of Love’
● The dark chapter in the history of Cannock Chase
● Does science approve of paranormal activities – and does it matter?

And so much more!

There are powers in the cosmos that can’t be explained, but it doesn’t change the fact that there’s always an explanation – it depends on how willing you are to explore things further…

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Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers

About Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers

Katarina wanted to leave the Land of the Mennonites and become a missionary school teacher. But the Great war was on and travel wasn’t permitted. Then an accident with a horse wakens her to sinister elements in Ukraine. The Russian Revolution is beginning to burn. Katarina must choose. Does she accept the warning signs and flee with the others to an unknown destiny or take her chances with the familiar? There’s a bigger problem here. Mennonites don’t do war and her faith is getting in the way.

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The Butcher’s Bride by Alice T. Boone

About The Butcher’s Bride by Alice T. Boone

𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒆
It wasn’t a lie.
Your father’s debt had nothing to do with me, but when Malachi demanded blood, I couldn’t let you be slaughtered. You need to believe that claiming you was the only way I could save you. These beasts will never have their fill, and the only thing that could keep you safe was the name I built.
Montreal will know you as the Butcher’s Bride. Your father’s debt will be erased, your family will be safe, and eventually, you’ll realize that I did what I had to.
You have to, Gwen
Because I can’t spend a life without you.

𝑮𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒏
How could you do this to me?
After everything I told you, after everything I shared, how could you still lie to me? You made me believe you were different. You gave me the hope of a new life, and then you stole it all away.
My father had no right to trade me away, but I expected it from him. To know you were so willing to buy me, so willing to trade me, so willing to treat me like I was nothing? How was I supposed to expect that, Leslie?
I left this life behind two years ago, and not even the Butcher will drag me back.

♥ ♥ The Butcher’s Bride is a stand-alone Irish mafia romance novel and is not for the faint of heart. If you’re looking for some violence and steamy themes, though, dive right in! Happily ever afters, no cheating, and plenty of brooding bad boys guaranteed. ♥ ♥

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When You Start Seeing It

About When You Start Seeing It

This book is an anthology of eight Thriller stories blended with Supernatural elements. Each story may have a different plot, different characters, different events, different places, etc., but every story tries to highlight the same point:
When a suspicious or unnatural event occurs, something which does not have a practical explanation, then there are two ways of looking at it. Either believe it to be something supernatural, or look at it as a figment of one’s imagination. An imagination conceived out of a scared mind.
Something that seems supernatural, may actually be something that has a practical explanation.
Something that seems normal, may actually be something that is supernatural, something which is way beyond our practical thinking.

NOTE – The book will be available for free from Sept 10th to Sept 12th. The eBook can be purchased and read free of cost.

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