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The Greatest Gift

About The Greatest Gift

Thirty-something Kallie Molloy enjoys a nice life in sunny San Diego, California, but when her world begins to unravel quickly and very unexpectedly, she’s left flailing. Out of the blue, an old contact reaches out with an unlikely job offer from a professional soccer club in Minnesota. It stirs up some old emotions, and moving halfway across country wasn’t her ideal plan, but she has few options. Will a leap of faith provide the fresh start she needs?

Several years earlier, one tragic night sent Chris Bedford’s life into a tailspin. Overwhelmed by the constant, plaguing reminders of that life, he quietly skips town in the middle of the night with his young daughter, trading small town charm for the anonymity of big city life in Chicago. As Chris struggles with parenting his now teenage daughter, he contemplates moving closer to the only other family she has, nearer to her roots. Will a return to the same place that still haunts him…save him?

Retired attorney and unassuming widower, Stanley Beckham, occupies his days operating The Study, a bookstore-coffee shop inspired by his late wife. He’s managed to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere, and serving an eclectic mix of customers has kept his mind sharp, but some late night soul-searching has recently brought more questions than answers. Is Stanley honoring his lost love or is he just marking time?

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Split City: A Jesus Spares Mystery

About Split City: A Jesus Spares Mystery

MEET BILLY GILLS, AN AMATEUR SLEUTH FOR THE AGES…OR AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT 300 PAGES.

Murder sees double in the Catskills when former pro bowler Billy Gills finds himself summoned to the Partridgeberry County morgue to identify the body of his identical twin brother Bo. Billy is the proprietor of Split City Lanes, a classic hometown bowling alley, located in the charmingly rundown, lakeside town of Twin Strikes. Partridgeberry and Twin Strikes are peopled by a hearty band of upstaters and oddball characters—an unlikely setting for murder. But Bo is the founder of TreadBo, a successful specialty bowling shoe manufacturer; he is famous for his quirky sense of fashion, fitness fanaticism, and unusual hobbies, which may have gotten him into trouble. Not to mention, Billy has some demons of his own to slay. Fortunately, Split City Lanes is also home to “Jesus Spares”, a church service, bowling, and social gathering where almost anything can happen. Billy may need every ounce of faith he has to discover the truth about himself and his eccentric twin brother.

–For fans of Julia Spencer-Fleming, Dave Barry, Donna Andrews, Brad Parks, and Spencer Quinn.

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Hostage to Freedom: The Search for the Siren

About Hostage to Freedom: The Search for the Siren

The Fletchers are an English family living in expatriate comfort in Singapore in 2002 when a recession threatens their lifestyle. Geophysicist Michael and his son, Alex, are drawn into a marine survey to locate the Siren, an East Indiaman, sunk in a tempest in the Sulu Sea in 1764. Onboard, a rich cargo of 250,000 cases of Ming Dynasty porcelain lies buried on the seabed. A single plate recovered by a diver sets in motion the frantic search by Michael’s company, PanAsia Services, in a race against a rival team led by Tong, a ruthless Clan leader and collector of antique porcelain. Michael’s wife, Julie is worried as the Sulu Sea is the hunting ground of local pirate gangs and the brutal Abu Sayyaf terrorist group led by Khadaffy Janjalani. The remote area where the shipwreck lies buried is close to terrorist jungle camps on Basilan Island.
Can Michael’s team locate the precious cargo before they are attacked? Can we be sure Julie wants her husband back if he is held hostage?
This fast-paced novel is located in many colourful locations in SE Asia including Singapore, Zamboanga and Tawi-Tawi Island. The struggle for an independent Muslim Mindanao by Abu Sayyaf is one of continuing conflict.

A well researched novel based on the Author’s intimate knowledge of the region. The novel is currently free from Kindle Unlimited until November 2021. Not in KU? No problem, snap up the free promotion days from 19 October to 20 October 2021.

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Pendulum of a Mother’s Love by Takia Chase-Smith


About Featured Book: Pendulum of a Mother’s Love by Takia Chase-Smith

Testimonies of Mother-Daughter relationships that through trials have become better. These women share with you how their Mother-Daughter relationships have grown and made them into better, positive Women today. This book is looking to resolve a relationship or even maintain one with your Mother/Daughter. This book provides advice and different situations that you are able to relate to. This is a great read.

This Non-Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

Bad Dream by Giana Darling

Bad Dream by Giana Darling

Bianca is trying to survive in the small Texas town. Everything changes when Tiernan shows up at her mother’s door in a suit and tattoos.

His dark world is all-consuming, but she doesn’t want his money. Or his secrets.

Until her mother dies.

Then she has no choice but to turn to the only person who can help.

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Magnesium Vitamins For Women – Magnesium Factor Book: Discover All You Really Need To Know! by Jefferey Smith

Magnesium Vitamins For Women – Magnesium Factor Book: Discover All You Really Need To Know! by Jefferey Smith

Our bodies are made up of a wide range of minerals, chemical elements, and enzymes, but few of them are as important as magnesium. Ranked 4th most common among those minerals that make up the building blocks of the human body, magnesium is involved in hundreds of processes. It’s found in every cell of our body and its presence keeps us alive. Without it, we would not be able to live.
Magnesium is a commonly occurring mineral that is found naturally in a variety of plants and animals. Because it is essential to the proper functioning of our bodies, we need to ensure that we are getting an adequate amount of magnesium in our daily food intake. In today’s modern diet though, many of us fall short of getting the levels of magnesium we need. We fill ourselves with all manner of processed foods, most of which contain little or no magnesium at all. Even many of our so-called healthy snacks fail to provide what we need.
But the concern is not simply that we lack a desired level of magnesium; not having enough of this very important mineral can cause a wide range of serious, life-threatening health problems. Many of the ailments we hear of each day—diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, Crohn’s, and many more—are directly tied to our bodies lacking in magnesium. What’s important is that many of these problems can be prevented or even reversed by having a diet filled with magnesium and other essential minerals and vitamins.
The good news is that health professionals have recognized we lack adequate levels of magnesium, so they have designed a wide range of magnesium supplements that we can take in addition to what we get in our meals each day. Let’s take a look at some of those supplements and see why they play such an important role in maintaining a healthy body.

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Text in Show by Whitney Dineen & Melanie Summers

Text in Show by Whitney Dineen & Melanie Summers

My name is Autumn Jones, and I just completed my master’s degree in Sociology—or as my mom calls it, ‘people watching.’ My dream is to go to Columbia to get my PhD. The only problem is that I’m totally broke, and New York City is bonkers expensive.

That’s why it’s a godsend when my older sister, Helen, offers to let me stay in her massive brownstone in Manhattan. Of course, the offer doesn’t come without strings. I have to help her coordinate the world’s most bizarre dog show. Seriously, it’s nuts.

I quickly find myself thrown into the crazy world of totally bored, highly-competitive rich women who will do anything to win the coveted title of Best in Show for their pampered pooches.

The only bright spot might be working with Jack Campbell (seriously, he has to be America’s hottest veterinarian). He would totally be my dream man if it weren’t for one annoying thing: it not long before he treats me like gum he scraped off his shoe.

With my haughty sister breathing down my neck, and a high-strung poodle (Celine Dion, if you can believe it) following me everywhere I go, I don’t have time to worry about what bug crawled up Jack’s butt.

Except, let’s be honest, I am worrying because every time we’re together, I’m drawn to him like a tick to a dog’s hindleg. Just as the show is kicking off, I find out Jack’s secret and realize there’s been a horrible mix-up.

Could Jack and I have a future after all, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

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Death From Desire – Crime Thrillers by Mark R Beckner

Death From Desire – Crime Thrillers by Mark R Beckner

This book is former Police Chief Mark Beckner’s second release of a series of crime thrillers. In this book, two crime mystery/thrillers take the reader on a journey of mystery, drama, suspense, and action.

The first story follows Miami detectives Rick Baez and Leah Mitchell as they try to unravel the mysterious deaths of two wealthy married men. The first death appears to be a suicide, while the second initially appears to be a health issue. However, there are some unanswered questions, and they discover a shocking revelation that ties the two deaths together and leads them to believe something sinister is at work. How are the cases linked? Did the husbands commit suicide, or was it homicide? What secrets are the wives hiding? Follow the detectives as they try to solve the puzzle.

In the second story, officers and detectives of the Amarillo Police Department hunt a man who is wreaking havoc on the city. Burglaries, sex assaults, and murder. Who is this madman, and where did he come from? The police only know this mysterious person as Billy. What is motivating him to create fear and danger in the community? Why is the federal government interested in finding him and being so secretive? They have to know more than they are sharing with local police. Veteran Detective Jack Webster and his new junior partner, Alec Velez, are determined to find out. Discover the dramatic truth about the person known as Amarillo Billy.

Ebook is discounted to .99 starting on October 16th for a limited time.

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201 Python Programming Exercises Volume 2 by Edcorner Learning

201 Python Programming Exercises Volume 2 by Edcorner Learning

#1 Best Seller – Limited Time Offer $0.99 will expire on 30th Oct

Want to Practise more and more python programming exercises & concepts then you are at the right place.

This Book consist of 12 modules to practice different Python exercises on different topics.
In each exercise we have given the exercise coding statement you need to complete and verify your answers. We also attached our own input output screen of each exercise and their solutions.
Learners can use their own python compiler in their system or can use any online compilers available.
We have covered all level of exercises in this book to give all the learners a good and efficient Learning method to do hands on python different scenarios.

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A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Douglas R. Brown

A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Douglas R. Brown

Life doesn’t always end at death.

Supernatural suspense combines with psychological terror in this collection of six creepy tales exploring humanity’s darkest impulses.
A burned-out firefighter with PTSD receives a succession of ghostly visitors trying to help him face his demons before it’s too late in a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens’s famous A Christmas Carol. A solitary night janitor battles a sinister man in black. A firefighter fails to heed an otherworldly warning. A happily married man spirals into obsession over a comment by an internet troll. A man runs for his life down a dark country lane pursued by a stranger with murder in mind. A paramedic’s haunting secret threatens to destroy her life.
Written from the soul of a firefighter/paramedic who has seen his own struggles, A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories is an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end.

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Invisible Wounds: Help, Hope, and Healing for Women in Abusive Relationships, or Recovery

About Invisible Wounds: Help, Hope, and Healing for Women in Abusive Relationships, or Recovery

“Kay Douglas’s book is the most supportive, realistic, and practical guide for abused women that I have encountered. A woman with this book in her hands is on the path to a new life. The author really ‘gets it’ about what it takes to deal with a destructive partner and takes the reader step-by-step from the beginnings of grasping what is happening to her all the way to healing once the relationship has ended. Outstanding!”
– Lundy Bancroft, author of Why Does He Do That?

Does your partner put you down, control what you do, or have distressing angry outbursts? Do you find yourself walking on eggshells and trying to keep the peace? Are you sometimes afraid of what he will do?

Invisible Wounds is a compassionate and compelling guide that offers the clarity, information, and support that is needed. Containing the moving, inspiring stories of 50 women who have experienced an abusive relationship, Invisible Wounds will help you to rebuild your strength, increase your personal power, and recover from the hurts that have been done

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Darkwells Academy. The curse begins by Terina Adams

Darkwells Academy. The curse begins by Terina Adams

Hot guys. Dangerous magic. Dark secrets. What more could a girl want?

Two things I know for sure:
Being single sucks.
The zombie who tried to kill me was real.
This is coming from a girl who doesn’t believe in ghosts.
I shouldn’t forget the psycho who chained me to the public bathroom taps using only his mind.
I can no longer deny the supernatural isn’t real. Especially when I’m hijacked by a crazy bus driver and taken back to school. But no ordinary school.
Shut behind the protective walls of Darkwells Academy, I’ve got to find my ability and learn to use it quick, as I appear to be on every rogue supernatural’s radar. I was never good at school. But the food here is good, some of the students are better than good, and Draak house really know how to party.
Enter Emrol, resident sex god and powerful fae who won’t leave me alone, even when he acts like he hates me. The feeling’s mutual, but it’s hard to keep away from him when he keeps using his magic to ensnare me.
Then there’s Luca, hanging in the shadows and watching my every move. Creepy weird if he wasn’t so panty smolderingly hot. Stay the hell away, I’ve been instructed by my new best friend. Not easily done when the guy emanates a dark danger I can’t resist.
It doesn’t take me long to realize there are more things going on in this academy than teaching students how to use their abilities. Not to mention the dark danger building outside the safety of the academy walls that I seem to be apart of.
If I can find my ability fast enough, master it quicker, I may just survive…
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Perfectly Played by Holly Kerr

Perfectly Played by Holly Kerr

Flora’s a runaway bride. Dean’s a jilted groom. Will a simple mistake keep them from finding love again?

“This story is an amazing amalgamation of “what happens in Vegas…”, enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, and love-at-first-sight…a little bit of sports romance and has a small-town feel.”

Flower shop owner Flora waited years to get married but when it came down to the moment of reckoning, it all felt wrong. No flowers, no patient groom… no perfect love story waiting for her. And so she pulled up her wedding dress and ran out of the chapel—straight into the sweetest, saddest, tallest guy she’d ever seen.

Ex-ball player Dean thought a wedding was expected until an icy cold text to his best man let him know it wasn’t going to happen. Ever. Now there’s nothing to do but spend a few hours commiserating with the cute bride who ran out of her own wedding.

It is Las Vegas, after all.

One perfect night later, with strippers and syrup and drag queens, Flora and Dean go home alone, forgetting about last names and usernames and even old-school addresses. Maybe they can find love again, but not if they can’t find each other.

But love plays its own game, and the best happily ever afters always have a bit of serendipity involved. Will Flora and Dean’s love story be perfectly played?

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Train of Thoughts by Veronica Thornton

Train of Thoughts by Veronica Thornton

In Train of Thoughts, Vee finds a sensible yet simple way to use poetry, essays, and short stories to help her readers to look at the world through lenses different than their own. Starting conversations that lead us all to think empathetically and challenge our understanding of society, the book helps readers approach the complexities of modern less selfishly from a new perspective. On each page, Vee taps into her misfortunes and traumas to assist others in their emotional healing process. Vee’s first-hand understanding of hurtful words, societal pressures, and domestic violence help her connect with each reader and demonstrate the value of finding a way to move forward.

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My Fake Love Affair

About My Fake Love Affair

She needed a fake fiancé to shut up her ex-alphahole rockstar boyfriend.
I’m the guy she chose to point to as the new man.
Unfortunately, her lie caused a major media scandal.
Lucky for me, this woman is everything I’ve ever wanted in my life.
Smart. Beautiful. Funny.
And she’s got hustle like I’ve never seen.
This should work out perfectly for both of us.
I need a fake date to my brother’s wedding, and I’m doing her a favor, so quid pro quo.
When things start to fall apart, I have my gyms to turn back to.
I’ve spent my life in my absent father’s shadow, but I didn’t waste the time.
I built an empire, focused on helping women achieve their health.
As easy as it would be to stay focused on my own little world, meeting her opened up something inside of me.
We might start out as a fake love affair, but I want more.
I want everything she’s got to give.

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Ancient Egypt for Kids: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra by Captivating History

About Ancient Egypt for Kids: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra by Captivating History

In this book, you will travel back to Ancient Egypt, when kings were considered gods, pharaohs built towering pyramids, great battles were fought, and the world as we know it today was formed. Exciting images and maps help you to imagine yourself there and become an expert in no time! Journey through time and make history come alive with fun, interesting, and up-to-date facts on all the major events during one of the most fascinating periods of time!
You’ve probably heard a lot of the names, right? Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, and the Nile River . . . but do you know the secrets and amazing facts about them? You will; in this book, you’ll learn about:
• The longest river in the world – and it runs backward!
• Kings or Pharaohs – which came first?
• Menes and the Narmer Palette – what’s the big deal?
• Gods and Kings – or both?
• Sunsets, underworlds, and tombs
• The first pyramid ever built in Ancient Egypt
• Sneferu’s mistake
• The Great Pyramid of Giza – the tallest structure on earth until . . .
• Pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom
• King Senusret III – The “Warrior King”
• Amenemhat’s labyrinth – with over 3,000 rooms!
• The Hyksos – a painting ends a theory
• Ramesses II – Why so popular?
• Here come the Assyrians and Persians – uh oh…
• Alexander the Great
• Cleopatra – why she married her 12-year-old brother
• And so much more!
Dive into this rich and amazing culture as we explore exactly why we owe so much to it – why there was never a dull moment in its history.
If you want to learn more about Ancient Egypt, get this book now!

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The Last Sacrifice by V.T. Bonds

The Last Sacrifice by V.T. Bonds

In a nightmare I can’t escape, I find true evil exists.
They have no mercy.
Can I survive their wicked savagery?

*This Dark Omegaverse Romance is not for the faint of heart. If explicit scenes, violence, and D/s themes offend you, please abstain. Proceed with caution.*

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The Fifth by Mario Kiefer

The Fifth by Mario Kiefer

This is not a new tale.
Everyone knows the story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.  First told by John of Patmos in the Book of Revelation, it has been told and retold a thousand times by a thousand people in a thousand different ways. What makes this story different?
Perhaps it is that the story is told from the viewpoint of the Horsemen themselves. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death: what do they think of their role in the End of Days? Does it really matter? Or maybe, it is that John of Patmos left out a part of the original story — the part about the Fifth Horseman; the one that nobody knows about.
To bring about The End of Days, The Fifth must come into being.  Each Horseman has his or her part to play subject to the constraints they are given and the whims of their own personality. While traversing time and space, each does so.  Pestilence spreads not just a virus to infect the body but a far more sinister one that infects the spirit, while War beats the drums that will bring the tribes of man to each other’s throats. Famine delivers scarcity from abundance, and Death, well, Death does what he has always done – he ferries the souls to their determined destination.
All of this is done to give birth to The Fifth.
But who is The Fifth?

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A Love Attempt: Your Practical Guide to Love by Morhaf Al Achkar

A Love Attempt: Your Practical Guide to Love by Morhaf Al Achkar

Developing your emotional intelligence? Learn simple and practical techniques to cultivate your love competence…

◆ Everyone wants love. We’re so desperate for it that we are frequently willing to take any deformed shape of it. But what if we can bring in the idea in a developed and genuine form to make it available to every person?

Morhaf Al Achkar obtained his Ph.D in education and is currently a practicing family physician at the University of Washington. He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Since then, his research has focused on the experience of patients living with cancers. His first book is based on interviews he did with 39 patients who live, like him, with advanced illness. He explored how these patients find meaning, cope, and build resilience. Using his deep understanding of philosophical concepts, Morhaf shares his understanding of love from the perspective of someone aware of his finitude.

◆ By following his easy-to-apply practical exercises, Morhaf invites you on a journey of dialogue and reflection to improve your Empathic Abilities.

Inside A Love Attempt, you’ll learn:

+ The Pragmatics of Love
+ How to Love by recognizing and capturing the opportunity.
+ How to reconstruct what is being and learn about context and biography to communicate with love
+ How to become oriented to understanding and agreement to act communicatively with Love
+ How to develop a strategy to reinforce and abstract some learning about yourself to Become Authentic with Love
+ And much, much more!

◆ A Love Attempt™ is the third book in Dr. Alachkar’s self-help series. The first was on Resilience and Meaning. The second, his memoir, was released only six months before the first draft of this project. In Being Authentic, he wrote ideas about love but did not develop them sufficiently. So he is completing that project here◆

◆ Dr. Alachkar’s elegant but transparent manuscript is packed with thought-provoking insights and concrete action steps to make salient our native competency for loving so we can then orient our next actions toward embracing love. If you want to learn the conceptualization of love and say “My next act is A Love Attempt!” then you can’t afford to miss Morhaf’s essential guide.

✓ Unlock your true love potential with this easy-to-follow guide Today! ♥

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