Didn’t Expect You by Claudia Burgoa
Didn’t Expect You is a Billionaire Romance of unexpected surprises, exciting encounters, and flirty love. Single Mom-to-Be meets Playboy.
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From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley
About Featured Book: From the Moon I Watched Her by Emily English Medley
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Named by BuzzFeed as one of Winter 2021’s Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books and Top 10 New Books To Add To Your Reading List!
It’s hot, Texas, and the year 1977. Jimmy Carter is in office.
The Walters are a good, churchgoing family who stand for holiness, purity, grace, and Christian love. Except when they don’t.
Family patriarch and fanatic preacher, Victor Black, knows many things for sure, including the fact that abortion is murder and should be punishable by death—a position he defends live in a televised debate. Black’s youngest granddaughter, Stephanie Walters, sits in the front row wearing her frilly Sunday dress, listening carefully to every word.
But it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear in the Walters upstanding family façade. Stephanie’s mother, Lily, begins telling unsettling stories about having a baby who died, and her story keeps changing. It’s clear Lily has a secret—one that righteous Victor Black would kill her for if he knew. This family secret burns more than the lies . . .
From the Moon I Watched Her is a coming-of-age tale about the skeletons that lurk under church pews and the little girl who goes looking for and finds them. Amid the dark and quirky terrain of camp revivals, burning crosses, and public shunnings, one child from the Southern Churches of Christ cries out.
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Welcome to the Campfire
About Welcome to the Campfire
A campfire connects – the shared warmth blossoms into an unspoken relationship between the people around. There manifests a sense of belonging that we often long for.
Welcome to the campfire invites readers to gather around the campfire.
How often do we disregard little inspirations around us? How often do we ignore numerous, fleeting interactions we have with the world around us every day? These are the things common to us all – the things that we all share, yet often overlook. Stemming from such ordinary, everyday observations, poems on the themes of nature, music, nostalgia, love, and internal conflicts in Welcome to the campfire call upon the reader to delve into a tranquil contemplation about little inspirations that we all share, just like the campfire’s warmth. This collection of poetry takes the reader through the night in comforting warmth of the campfire, rejoicing raptures of yore, half extinguished intimacies and unremembered pleasures.
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You’ll be Murdered by a Drug Cartel (and other lies they told me): How I became a digital nomad at 53 and lived to tell about it. And how you can do it too. By Sherry Arkfeld
About You’ll be Murdered by a Drug Cartel (and other lies they told me): How I became a digital nomad at 53 and lived to tell about it. And how you can do it too. By Sherry Arkfeld
Stop working at your soul-sucking job. You don’t need it.
Stop working solely for the health insurance. There are other options.
Stop waiting for “someday” to travel. You can travel full-time now.
Stop hating your life. You can change it.
Why aren’t you living your best life? Learn how to live your dream of traveling full-time from someone who has done it. Sherry ditched the nine-to-five lifestyle at the age of 53. She sold everything she owned. She’s now a digital nomad, traveling the world, going where she wants, when she wants, and how she wants.
She’s living her life. Now. While she still can.
You can do it too. This book tells you exactly how.
You’ll get specific details on how to get a remote job. Want to start your own online business like Sherry did? There’s a chapter outlining the exact steps to take. (It’s not that hard either.)
This book tells you:
How to get a remote job
How to get affordable health insurance
How to figure out where to go and what to do when you get there
Which banks are best for digital nomads
What to pack
How to travel full-time with your dog
It’s all here and more. Plus you’ll receive a customizable downloadable list with every single thing you need to do to prepare for your digital nomad life.
This book is the blueprint for your new life. You just need to take the first step and before you know it you’ll be living the dream too.
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ADHD and Emotional Intelligence: Positive Parenting Techniques to Use When Raising an Explosive Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
About ADHD and Emotional Intelligence: Positive Parenting Techniques to Use When Raising an Explosive Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Discover the top tricks, hacks, and proven methods
used by individuals with ADHD (as well as parents and families), and watch your child
flourish.
You’re about to unlock the secrets to make their life – and yours – so much easier.
In this practical and easy-to-follow book , you will discover:
Proven ADHD life hacks that you can start using with your child today – so you can create a sense of peace for the whole family
The full range of ADHD behaviors you might see, what to look out for, and how to avoid getting sucked into ADHD stereotypes and cliches
The secret to NOT taking it personally when your kid acts up
Why getting an early diagnosis is one of the best things you can do for your child
Everything you need to know about getting a diagnosis
The real difference between ‘naughty’ and ADHD
What it feels like to have ADHD – get to know them from the inside so you can truly understand and help them
Clear insights into what is and is not possible for someone with ADHD
Key lifestyle changes that will help support better brain health and an improved mood
The lowdown on the neuroscience and brain basics of ADHD – understand why their behavior is not intentional, manipulative, or personal
What to do with all that anger – and how to teach them to channel it constructively
The reason some kids have ADHD and others don’t – Plus:
How some issues like trauma can mimic ADHD and create similar symptoms
How to help your child regulate and manage their emotions (do this, and they may even achieve a state better than most other kids!)
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DEVIANT IDENTITIES
About DEVIANT IDENTITIES
“Stephanie Courtland is deeply troubled: she suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, which makes it impossible for her to understand the wrongfulness of the murderous acts committed by her alters.
Beth, on the surface, appears calm, reasonable, and wanting to be in control. Stephanie’s psychologist. Dr. James Galloway is suspicious of this alters behavior because of Beth’s constant internal dialogue with Tiffany – the dominant personality. Tiffany thrives on adrenaline and violent aggression – the only things that genuinely engage her
Dr. Galloway’s end goal will attempt to integrate her alters so that Stephanie’s ego identity is less fractured and more cohesive.”
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#FitToBeWilliamson by Tiffany Williamson
About Featured Book: #FitToBeWilliamson by Tiffany Williamson
#FitToBeWilliamson is about a woman who buys a Fitbit so she could be around to take care of her daughter who was recovering from being in a coma for 3 months. Little did Tiffany know the Fitbit was not just going to help her lose weight, but this Fitbit was a part of a grand design to help Tiffany break generational curses. Her journey goes from saying goodbye to her 13yr old daughter to removing her mother from her life to marrying the man who was able to see pass the pain and build her up to be a woman of God.
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WHY ARE THERE MONKEYS? (and other questions for God)
About WHY ARE THERE MONKEYS? (and other questions for God)
As a Los Angeles & San Francisco Radio Personality, I interviewed more celebrities than I can count, but the most amazing interview I EVER conducted occurred after I died and suddenly found myself interviewing God! (and I was given UNDENIABLE PROOF that IT REALLY HAPPENED!) If you think A CONVERSATION WITH GOD could not possibly be FUNNY, you’re in for a BIG surprise!
The US REVIEW OF BOOKS calls it: “Profound…Hysterically Witty…Not to be missed!” and Ben Fong-Torres, former Editor of ROLLING STONE Magazine said: “By God, Brooke Jones is a Hell of a writer!”
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The Spiritual Misadventures of Dave the Rave
About The Spiritual Misadventures of Dave the Rave
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Dave has partied too hard. He’s taken too many drugs and tried to end his life. Like all good children he heads back to the family home to reconsider his future.
He replaces ecstasy with cheap lager and ponders on his next high. An old hippy friend of his sends him a book on enlightenment and at last he has another fix to keep him focussed.
Dave dives into the world of alternative therapies and retreats hoping to escape his past and his habits but all he meets is the past. Holotropic breathwork, Reiki Masters, silent walks through the Sahara Desert, all are tried in an attempt to attain enlightenment, but Dave has to resolve his past issues with his father and his addictions.
Does Dave find contentment on the spiritual path? Can he let go of his struggles and embrace the future?
This book is a light-hearted romp that uncovers the darker aspects of Dave’s life while traversing the spiritual path. Part comedy. Part tragedy.
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Warriors and Monks: Pons, Abbot of Cluny
About Warriors and Monks: Pons, Abbot of Cluny
Pons, born to a noble family in the south of France in 1075, is given to the Saint Pons Monastery at the age of four by his father. His parents never visit him, and this embitters his feeling towards his family. As a Benedictine monk he thrives in the monastery as a devotee of the Order’s rules, working, praying, and studying.
Reaching adulthood, he falls in love with Primavera, a woman in the nearby village, but the Church’s renewed enforcement of celibacy endangers their relationship.
He excels in his role managing the library and supervising the scribes at the monastery and is promoted to the largest Benedictine abbey at Cluny, France. He must travel across France to reach his new role. It is a lawless time when people of the land are threatened with violence as they cultivate their fields or journey on pilgrimage. Traveling monks are compelled to become warriors, defending themselves with farm tools and walking staves.
Within several years, Pons is elected by the monks as Abbot of Cluny Monastery. As soon as he assumes the abbacy, he discovers the financial problems at Cluny and must travel to Spain to convince the king, their greatest benefactor, to resume their donations to the monastery. On his journey, he must fight brigands and thieves as well as cope with the intimate advances from the queen.
The local nobles are jealous of his power and spread lies about him to the Pope. Pons is leader of Cluny Abbey, which has over a thousand satellite monasteries with 10,000 monks. Thus, Pons rivals the Pope’s religious power and influence, and he frequently is in conflict with the Pope’s religious directives.
During these challenges, he must continue the construction of the new church at Cluny, planned to be the largest Christian church in Europe.
After repeated conflict with the Pope, he makes a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and joins the crusade to save Jerusalem. On the Venetian ship to the Holy Land, he meets an Irish monk, and they join a troop of Polish knights. When they reach the Levante, Pons must fight alongside Christian knights and soldiers and experiences firsthand the violence of the crusades.
His religious views have soured by what he saw in the Holy Land, and he returns to Europe. Pons visits his mother in France before returning to Cluny. Life changing surprises await him there.
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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.
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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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