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Tales of Darkness Drive by Molly Garcia

About Tales of Darkness Drive by Molly Garcia

Eleven Dark, Twisted and Haunting Tales
These are stories of justice, comeuppance, revenge and love beyond death.

What happens when you kidnap the wrong man, what is the fog that rolls into a small coastal village and do you care who else gets hurt when you look for justice? Some people love so much that it surpasses even death, others seek revenge or justice and some are bad eggs who deserve their comeuppance.

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Cat Killed A Rat

About Cat Killed A Rat

Nothing bad ever happens in Ponderosa Pines

That’s what anonymous gossip columnist Chloe LaRue and her best friend, town matriarch EV Torrence thought. But then, Luther Plunkett, a handyman with aspirations, raises a stink over building regulations, and promptly turns up dead.

Small-town mysteries have a way of snowballing out of control for someone who has been seen arguing with the now-deceased at a public function.

Before the body gets cold, EV becomes suspect #1 in the murder, and not even Chloe can stop the rumor mill from churning. Not since the founders argued over naming it Ponderosa Valley after a ranch on an old TV show, or Whispering Pines for the trees surrounding it have the residents of Ponderosa Pines been so divided.

Against Detective Nate Harper and Deputy Dalton Burnsoll’s orders, Chloe and EV mount their own investigation—but what they uncover might just rock the community to its very core. Could one of their own beloved citizens really be a killer?

If you like humorous cozy mysteries set in Maine, best friends solving mysteries, and quirky characters, Ponderosa Pines is the place for you!

Books in this series:
1.Cat Killed A Rat
2.Crafting Disorder
3.Caught in the Frame
4.Bait and Snitch

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Wrestle with Destiny: #8 sparks on Attitude, Health & Spirituality, Wealth creation, Balance and many more

About Wrestle with Destiny: #8 sparks on Attitude, Health & Spirituality, Wealth creation, Balance and many more

“Guess what! Asking for help is a Privilege; Privilege for the one being asked to help as this shows the amount of TRUST the other person have in YOU !!”

We all need help from time to time in our pursuit of SUCCESS, JOY and ENLIGHTENMENT.

This book is a little bit of my own contribution to inspire and spur you on your journey.

This book is a short read, divided into 8 chapters which are basically 8 practical concepts, values or skills to inspire and guide you on your quest for success. Like….

ATTITUDE: If you have consciously decided on your ATTITUDE of life and act accordingly, you will never regret the decisions you make.

SUPERPOWER: This is your own chip, something which no one can take from you and this is in fact the actual value you bring to anything we venture in.

ADAPTABILITY: You need to be around people or situations which you are uncomfortable with, because in there, you get to know what restrictions or boundaries you have put around yourself unconsciously and then you can work towards eliminating those.

And many more such small nuggets of wisdom and practices…

This book is arranged in the format of concept description/importance, personal stories/examples of the same and finally an ‘Action Plan’ if you are interested in cultivating the concept further.

“PRACTICE is always the basis of achieving or succeeding in anything. You can have numerous fantastic theoretical ideas and knowledge, but if you don’t practice the same daily, it will only stay as an Idea”

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The Breakup Plan by Author Vaughn

About The Breakup Plan by Author Vaughn

Elliot Faulkner has just made the list of America’s hottest bachelors. A successful business mogul who has made a name for himself in Silicon Valley, Elliot’s life is just about perfect—that is, until an incriminating photo appears in a tabloid magazine. If anyone discovers who the other person in the photo is, his career will be ruined.
Penny’s life has been anything but charmed. Struggling to make ends meet, she’s determined to make a better life for herself. Desperate to rescue her little brother from the same troubled life she grew up in, Penny will do whatever it takes to make sure he’s safe. Now that she’s starting an internship at a large corporation, she can only hope this is the start of something better.
And that’s when an asshole named Elliot Faulkner makes her an offer she can’t refuse.

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Cold Consequences: A Detective Sasha Frank Mystery by David Rohlfing


About Featured Book: Cold Consequences: A Detective Sasha Frank Mystery by David Rohlfing

Deadly Dealings in Bloomington, Illinois

Ashley Cummins, the granddaughter of a powerful judge, is unexpectedly shot while buying drugs from her dealer late one night on a city street. As detective Sasha Frank investigates her murder, all of his possible suspects start showing up dead or missing. Who is behind the killings? As pressure builds on Sasha to solve the case, he uncovers new information that begins to unravel a complicated web of evidence. Will Sasha be able to prove who the killer is and take down the person responsible for the murders?

Cold Consequences is the exciting second book in David Rohlfing’s Detective Sasha Frank Mystery Series, serving as a prequel to Deliberate Duplicity. In this gripping new tale, full of exciting twists and turns, Sasha pursues every lead to find the killer. You won’t be able to put it down until the final thread is unraveled.

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

WORKING WRITER SECRETS by Dan Ramsey

About WORKING WRITER SECRETS by Dan Ramsey

If you enjoy writing but don’t have a clue of how to turn it into a profitable career, this book is written especially for you. Prolific author Dan Ramsey shares more than one hundred practical tips on the craft and business of writing earned over a five-decade career as a real-world Working Writer.

How much do writers make? What writing skills are most important? What well-paying jobs are available for writers? How can you build a writing career from wherever you are to where you want to be? How can you write a book? Are there many writing jobs working from home? Where can you get ideas? How can you get a book contract? How can you write a successful book proposal? Do you need an agent? How can you efficiently research and outline your writing project? How can you easily set up your fiction or non-fiction writing business in just a few steps? How should you build your writing “platform” for a long career? How do pro writers overcome writers block? Should you consider a staff writing job or be a freelance writer? Is there good money in becoming a ghostwriter? What do you need to know about copyright laws? How can you develop a process that makes writing easier? What are the best ways of managing your time for profit? What development tools do professional writers use for more efficiency? How do professional writers legally reduce their income tax obligations? How can you manage your business’ biggest challenge: cash flow? How should you price your work? What are the secrets to making a good living and a meaningful life as a professional writer? These are just a few of the dozens of critical questions that Dan answers with clear examples that you can apply to your own career as a Working Writer.

Working Writer Secrets clearly explains how you can expand your writing skills with proven tips that will serve you well no matter what you write. You’ll see how to build a lucrative career writing about topics that you enjoy. You’ll discover the single element that all good writing has in common. You’ll learn how professional writers successfully tackle new writing assignments. Dan also shows you how to build a great author website, choose the best literary agent, win over writers’ block, and have fun as a pro writer. Clearly and concisely, Dan shares 50 years of writing wisdom earned in a variety of fields. The world needs more Working Writers. You can be one of them!

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Birds, who are they? A first look


About Birds, who are they? A first look

Are birds like humans? What are they really like and where did they come from? Are we really so different, or, as parallel species, can both birds and humans join equally in the care of our beautiful world? A preview and reflection on the latest findings about what birds – and we – ultimately are. Prepare to be surprised, illuminated, and delighted.

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Holmes’s Complete Guide To Stop Drinking Alcohol; The Easy, Mindful and Pain-free Way

About Holmes’s Complete Guide To Stop Drinking Alcohol; The Easy, Mindful and Pain-free Way

A self-help guide advocates overcoming alcohol addiction through mindfulness, inspired by cognitive behavioral therapy.

In this robust manual, Holmes, an online counselor and founder of the Addiction Help Agency, offers an easy and painless way to quit drinking alcohol permanently. The core of this process is a style of cognitive behavioral therapy with a focus on the incremental reduction of drinking and an increase in mindfulness—through meditation, self-assessment, and self-monitoring—to identify harmful patterns. To aid in this, the book provides numerous tools, from graphs and tables for recording habits to diagnostic tests like the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test, the DSM-5, and others. The guide also discusses self-report surveys like the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale and the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale. Alongside readers in this undertaking is Moz, a high-functioning drinker and a stand-in for the author, who struggled with alcohol. Moz presents examples of the book’s process and how it succeeded for Holmes. Moz’s experiences also act as a gateway to the deeper research the manual supplies on subjects like the role alcohol plays in popular culture, its chemical composition, and its effects on sex and oft-encountered challenges like loneliness and midlife crises. The book promises “a radical alternative to the public perception…of drinking” as well as “a revolution in alcohol awareness.” In the latter case especially, the guide succeeds. The number of resources and the extensive, well-cited research may feel overwhelming, but the author’s presentation and simple breakdowns will answer most of the questions that patient readers have. The work’s use of Sherlock Holmes quotes throughout that treat alcohol addiction as a kind of mystery to be solved is clever, and the technique never distracts or overstays its welcome. The book is primarily a self-help resource, so those without at least some awareness of their problem or possible difficulty are likely not its audience. The text’s enthusiasm for its own methods can feel like a sales pitch at times but is nonetheless encouraging and infectious.

A comprehensive, passionate, and helpful resource for those looking for an alternative to alcohol.

[N.B. This synopsis is word-for-word an independent review from Kirkus Reviews]

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MAKIN’ IT HOME: 10 Rules to Help You Make It Home Safely from a Police Encounter by A. L. Jaxan

About MAKIN’ IT HOME: 10 Rules to Help You Make It Home Safely from a Police Encounter by A. L. Jaxan

Parents, we all know that when police fulfill their duty to serve and protect our communities, they serve a necessary and beneficial purpose. Much of the time, they do. When they fail to honor their duty, we—Black, Hispanic, indigenous, and brown people, those struggling with mental illness, and poor people of all backgrounds—are disproportionately the targets of police misconduct.

I have identified ten behaviors that will greatly reduce police aggression during a routine encounter. These behaviors are the basis for ten easy-to-remember rules designed to facilitate conversations with your children, whatever their age. By following the rules covered in this book, we can help bring bad policing to light. When citizens handle police encounters correctly, there can be no acceptable or legally defensible reason for police to use excessive or deadly force.

No one deserves to die simply for disobeying routine police commands. Too often, though, minor breaches of conduct during police encounters—even those stemming from justified nervousness or fear—give bad cops a reason to step tragically out of line. This photo/picture book for families seeks to do away with such flimsy justifications, once and for all.

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Dig Into Small Space Gardening for Beginners by Morgan Becker

About Dig Into Small Space Gardening for Beginners by Morgan Becker

Small space gardening is a constant exercise in creative design. Finding ways to fill in bare spots both inside and outside our homes with growth and color. But selecting various plants that we can enjoy is easy. Getting them to a point where they will flourish year after year… that’s hard. Many times over people will buy a beautiful plant at the local nursery only to see it wilt away as they attempt to care for it. Not for any lack of interest or effort, but simply because they took a wrong step.

Even if you can only spare 30 minutes a week, I know anyone can start a small, successful growing space. No design is too small to enjoy. Start with a couple of pots or a wide planter on your windowsill. Become comfortable with the basics. After that, I’d be willing to bet you’ll be thinking about your whole backyard for next season. Everyone is capable of becoming a successful home gardener.

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3 Word ABCs; Amusing Animal Antics

About 3 Word ABCs; Amusing Animal Antics

A kid’s alphabet book. Your imagination is the only limit to learning the alphabet with these animal antics. The letters are creatively matched with colorful eye catching illustrations of animals in the midst of shenanigans. Layers of learning: focus on letters, then words and silly concepts create fun. In last pages use the compilation scene to find and identify all 26 animals.

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Immortal Blood: Book 1 of The Immortal Descendants

About Immortal Blood: Book 1 of The Immortal Descendants

A true-blood heir of an otherwise extinct fae bloodline, a thousand-year-old magic spell, and a lycan attack—now my eyes are wide open to a world full of monsters.

I have an innate fear of fangs, so when I learn that the super-hot guy that saved me is a vampire hybrid, I’m just as scared as I was when my life was hanging in the balance. But it’s not just him that makes me hot under the collar as I find out what I missed over the centuries.

Turns out, it’s not just lycans who want to take a bite out of me. As every monster takes an interest in me, I soon learn my blood is a curse. And as I learn about my history, it’s not only myself I need to worry about… The truth of what I am places my friends and family in danger, too.

But it’s the vampire royals, with their ridiculous demands, that leave me in the most perilous situation of all. If I pay their price, I turn traitor to my nation. But fighting back means I may have to sacrifice the two things that matter more to me than life itself.

If you like Jennifer L. Armentrout and Bella Forrest, you’ll want to dive right into this new paranormal series.

So scroll up and one-click Immortal Blood now.

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Fiona & Hyperion: Gods of Blood & Lust 1 by C.T. Andrews

About Fiona & Hyperion: Gods of Blood & Lust 1 by C.T. Andrews

THEIR LOVE WAS FORBIDDEN. NOW THEY MUST FIGHT FOR EACH OTHER.

Hyperion ~ “I am gladiator! Distraction in the arena will spell my certain death. But then there was Fiona. Now I’m torn between my duty… and my desire, for her touch has become the very reason I fight.”

Fiona ~ “I am the Rose of Venus. The gladiator games hold no sway for me. And then there was Hyperion. I must be with him. But I belong to a Roman senator who has cold hands and an even colder heart. How am I to live under one’s thumb while yearning for the other’s arms?”

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Muck World

About Muck World

A global superstorm called the Ever Rain has destroyed human civilization, forcing survivors to flee to higher ground. But it isn’t just the elements that threaten their existence.

A new menace has risen from the wreckage: The Citadel. Made up of the rich and powerful, they have many resources, including an army who track down survivors to use for slave labor.

Sixteen-year-old Jessie’s parents are among those taken and she wants nothing more than to find them and destroy the evil Citadel. She ventures to a city on a lake with a militia that might be big enough to stop the enemy forces.

Even if she survives the arduous journey through storm-torn lands, how will she convince the town to help their cause? It isn’t easy to battle against the powerful Citadel Forces and win.
But there are other secrets lurking beneath the surface of Jessie’s world. Buried secrets about her family that will change her life forever and the lives of those she loves most.

Discover the secrets that throw Jessie’s world upside down and read Muck World for an epic adventure of a lifetime.

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Orthodox Theology and Technology: A Profoundly Gifted Autobiography

About Orthodox Theology and Technology: A Profoundly Gifted Autobiography

The book, like most of my books, is in fact a collection of originally independent works drawn in to a single center of gravity. In this case it includes the following works:

“About the Author:” my website’s author biography. Some people have found it significant that I claim not some uniqueness, but the glory and shame of being a human being.

“An Author’s Musing Memoirs About His Work: Retrospective Reflections, Retracings, and Retractions,” a set of musing memoirs at midlife.

“Character Sheet.” I am intentionally no longer a gamer, but a character sheet with a bit of fantasy is something that some reader will instantly connect with.

“An Interview with the Author by… the Author Himself!” It might be read with the “Cosmic Patriot” work of “Why I’m Glad I’m Living Now, at This Place, at This Time, in This World”

“Orthodox Theology and Technology: A Profoundly Gifted Autobiography” offers a single autobiography in a more conventional sense.

“Appendix A: Recommended Works” is intended to give the reader a head start in navigating my voluminous output. It covers which works to read first.

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Bell Hammers

About Bell Hammers

“Remmy’s life of constant schemes and pranks and a lifelong feud with classmate Jim Johnstone and the local oil drilling company proves consequential. This is a hoot.”
– Publisher’s Weekly

🏆 Finalist for Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open.

PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS.

AND ONE HILARIOUS SIEGE OF A MAJOR CORPORATION.

Remmy grows up with Beth in Bellhammer, Illinois as oil and coal companies rob the land of everything that made it paradise. Under his Grandad, he learns how to properly prank his neighbors, friends, and foes. Beth tries to fix Remmy by taking him to church. Under his Daddy, Remmy starts the Bell Hammer Construction Company, which depends on contracts from Texarco Oil. And Beth argues with him about how to build a better business. Together, Remmy and Beth start to build a great neighborhood of “merry men” carpenters: a paradise of s’mores, porch furniture, newborn babies, and summer trips to Branson where their boys pop the tops off of the neighborhood’s two hundred soda bottles. Their witty banter builds a kind of castle among a growing nostalgia.

Then one of Jim Johnstone’s faulty Texarco oil derricks falls down on their house and poisons their neighborhood’s well.

Poisoned wells escalate to torched dog houses. Torched dog houses escalate to stolen carpentry tools and cancelled contracts. Cancelled contracts escalate to eminent domain. Sick of the attacks from Texaco Oil on his neighborhood, Remmy assembles his merry men:

“We need the world’s greatest prank. One grand glorious jest that’ll bloody the nose of that tyrant. Besides, pranks and jokes don’t got no consequences, right?”

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Professional Student

About Professional Student

When Elena Brooks finds her dream job as a Professional Student shortly after graduating from her Masters program, she believes her future is set. However, the Department of Learning has some secrets of its own. After discovering that there is more to the program than taking advanced classes, Elena has to decide if she’s going to continue to live in denial or confront her past. She has to put her safety on the line and risk everything she knows to work on an undercover project that is tied to the Professional Student program, for the chance to make a difference in the world. With the help of her new friend, Elena understands what it takes to become a true leader, while learning to listen to her heart.

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Match Me Up

About Match Me Up

The hottest nerd I know just became my roommate.
But it’s a no-go on the down low, seeing as he’s my best friend’s brother.
The best part is that he’s a hunk and a half, but oh so smart.
How can one guy have all the good stuff? And now he’s in my face all the time.
I just needed a place to stay while I’m in grad school.
And it’s entertaining watching this sexy IT genius create a new dating app.
Not so fun being his guinea pig until something crazy happens…
He turns out to be my perfect match on the app.
We’re too good as friends to mess this up, plus my BFF is less than thrilled about all of it.
No matter how much I want this guy, he’s gonna have to match me up with someone else.
As if.

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