New Books

Feeling Normal Again

About Feeling Normal Again

New Book “Feeling Normal Again” Prepares us for a Post-Pandemic World.
People everywhere are struggling to feel normal after nearly two-years of pandemic life. Stephen Kristof’s new book is an extremely timely solution that is a prescription for the times.
Kristof’s book does an exceptional job of explaining specifically why we feel the way we do and identifies many of the top impacts, such as anxiety, malaise, depression, social isolation, grief, sleep disorders, fatigue, broken relationships and loss of hope. Feeling Normal Again keeps its promise, providing over 50 easy-to-use strategies and tools to help the reader start healing, living life more fully and returning to normality. Covid-19 has stolen a lot from us. Feeling Normal Again is a meaningful and easy-to-read response.

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The Treasure of Hampton Beach By Jed Power

About The Treasure of Hampton Beach By Jed Power

A mad cap treasure hunt is on. But will whoever finds the fortune live to enjoy it?

There’s a sickness raging through Hampton Beach, an epidemic more contagious and deadly than any pandemic virus.

Gold fever.

And Dan Marlowe—along with his friends—has been bitten by the bug.

Joining the hunt for treasure are a half mad ex-Prohibition agent, an infamous Irish Boston gang leader, and other assorted thugs. Of course, the always bumbling small-time hustlers—Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller—have to get in on the action…

Along with anyone within driving distance who can beg, borrow, or steal a shovel or metal detector.

When a treasure hunter is found beaten to death, Dan has to—once again—prove his innocence while battling his own dark demons.

Only this time the demons might win.

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God Is Love

About God Is Love

God Is Love is a Daily Bible Reading Study by Deborah H. Bateman. It contains 19 daily devotionals on Scriptures about love from the Bible: including God’s love for us, the love relationship between a husband and wife, love and honoring our parents, and much more.

In God Is Love, Deborah strives to show you not only what love is, but that love comes from God, as well as the love of God surpasses all imagination. Her goal for you as you read this book is that you would realize how much God loves you.

This devotional is great for either personal daily devotions or group Bible studies, including small groups, and Sunday school classes. Each devotional contains a brief commentary by the author, the Daily Bible Reading Scripture, a prayer of the day, and several questions for personal reflection or group discussion.

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Pacific Northwest Edible Plant Foraging

About Pacific Northwest Edible Plant Foraging

Discover 37 species of edible wild plants as you identify, forage, and preserve nature’s nutritious bounty.
Are you tired of paying rising grocery prices for food that always looks and feels processed?

Are you looking for an alternative yet natural way to source food?

Then it’s time to look towards nature!

That’s right. Open the door to your backyard, and take a good hard look. Take a walk in the forest. Explore the fields.

Nature is exploding all around you.

And something special lurks within this verdant paradise — tasty edibles just waiting to be foraged.

Experts estimate that there are more than 20,000 species of edible plants in the world… yet 90% of our food comes from only 20 of them.

There are thousands of edible plants out in the wild which are both delicious and nutritious… So why aren’t we eating them?

The Pacific Northwest, with its lush forests and rich habitats, provides the perfect backdrop for numerous species of edible wild plants.

Accessing all this wealth simply requires you to forage.

You must be wondering:

How do I forage for edible plants — and where exactly do I look?
How do I know which part of a plant is edible?
What if I encounter poisonous plants?
The solution to all your questions can be found here.

In Pacific Northwest Edible Plant Foraging, you will discover:

37 edible plant profiles of the Pacific Northwest — identify, harvest, preserve, and consume nature’s finest offerings
A beginner-friendly guide to all things foraging, including all the benefits (hint: it will help you slash your grocery bills!)
A complete plant identification guide — discover the essential parts of a plant and how you can identify them
The universal edibility test — an 8-step process for finding out whether a plant is consumable or not
Ethical and responsible foraging guidelines — safety considerations, urban foraging, and nature conservation
Exactly how to forage for edible plants — a look at locations, tools, harvesting techniques, and more
Seasonal information on edible species… so that you can plan ahead (plus: a handy year-round foraging chart)
How to identify poisonous plants — and how to treat the symptoms associated with them (for ultimate peace of mind when you’re foraging)
A companion mini-guide filled with colored images of plants – scan the QR code at the back of your paperback to get premium access!
And much more.

Foraging is a great way to connect with nature in a responsible way: by becoming a part of the ecosystem.

It makes you aware of the nurturing quality of nature, and how you can preserve it for every living being.

Plus, you get nutritious and delicious rewards too – included in this guide are 10 creative but simple recipes for the whole family!

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Lena’s Secret War: A Spy Thriller

About Lena’s Secret War: A Spy Thriller

It is 1971 and espionage is in the air in Soviet Russia.

Lena Kristoff is a researcher working on the highest priority project of the time, a secret computer model of the entire Soviet economic system. She is recruited by the CIA and falls in love with an American agency courier named Eric Larson.

Seizing an opportunity to copy the model files, she gives them to Larson to transport out of the country. Larson’s cover is suddenly blown and he must flee Russia. Confronted by border guards, both he and Lena are shot and presumed dead.

Or so it seems.

Lena escapes. But can she elude the powerful GRU and the dreaded KGB? She must risk everything to save her family. Her secret war against her government seems doomed to failure.

A magnificent story of love, loss, and courage, Lena’s Secret War illustrates how one brave individual can profoundly alter the trajectory of her gray, spirit-crushing world. It is a work of suspense and compassion reminiscent of Red Sparrow and The Russia House.

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Silent Grief: To New Beginnings by Deborah Adele

About Silent Grief: To New Beginnings by Deborah Adele

Silent Grief—To New Beginnings: The books main character, Arya Alexander loses her brother, father, and husband in a car accident. As Arya moves through life building her career as an interior designer, she lives with grief in the silence of her home. Her life takes a turn when she bumps into a stranger Jacob Ryan. Arya’s sexual desires for him grow stronger with each dream.
But with the memories of her late husband still filling her mind, can she get over the loses to open her heart again.
Jacob Ryan grew up with nothing, but with hard work and dedication, he became a mega real estate agent. Bellemere’s wealthiest and most eligible bachelor. He was once married to a woman who only wanted his money, making it hard to let someone in again. However, after bumping into Arya, he needed to find her. A woman with a scent so tantalizing, a body so mesmerizing that he could not stop thinking about her.
As Jacob and Arya’s paths keep crossing, will they meet? Will it be a happy ever after?
Read it to feel it!

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Desert Son

About Desert Son

Carter Spence is a 26 year-old accountant out of Boston who has an out-of-body experience following a car accident that kills his parents. He views the chaos from above the scene of the accident, then passes through the tunnel and reunites with relatives who have long been dead. A woman he does not recognize approaches him and says, “Welcome, son.” Her message to him is that he needs to be aware of his true identity and should follow signs that will lead him there. She mentions mountains, but Carter is jolted back into his physical body before she can finish. After burying his parents, Carter heads west and meets a free-spirit named Brenda, whom he is drawn to on many levels. She becomes his travelling companion and leads him to Boulder, Colorado, and to an old white house of an old man named Martin. Diaries, hypnosis, and past-life regression reveal a bizarre connection between these three. Carter discovers that the truth to his identity can only be found by pursuing the answer to whether he is the reincarnation of his biological father in what is shaping up to be a love affair rekindled beyond the grave.

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Natalie’s Nighthawk

About Natalie’s Nighthawk

Her first kiss. Her first love. Her first heartbreak.

Graham was all those things.

Now, twelve years later, Natalie has to face old wounds when she is forced to ask Graham for help finding her missing students.

Graham has never forgotten Natalie, or their first kiss. The sketch in his office―the one she drew of a Nighthawk, the one he named his business after―reminds him daily of the woman that got away. The life he could have had.

Natalie will need to decide is she’s willing to risk her heart again, but only if she can convince him heroes can have relationships and still save lives.

When Natalie goes missing, he discovers his inner demons are not alone in conniving to destroy their budding relationship. Graham will call on every skill he’s ever learned to save her. Will he find his heart’s guiding star in time? Or will they both be trapped in the darkness forever?

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Run Cassie Run

About Run Cassie Run

No one plans the day they die
But I did every day
I knew every day could be my last
Each hit
Each punch
Could end it all
But somehow
I keep surviving Peter’s abuse
I can’t take it
I want it to be over
So today is my last day
This is it
This is the day I die…

-Cassie Walker

Cassie Walker at the age of 16 was captured and forced into sex trafficking for eight years by the man she thought loved her. Peter Doyle a Wolf in sheep’s clothing appeared to be her knight in shining armor but he deceived her making her fall in love with him then he imprisoned her into his sex trafficking business.

In the grueling eight years of her life stolen from her Cassie can’t handle the abuse, rape and drugs they forced her to take any longer. All she wants to do is end her life, it’s the only answer, the only solution…

But when the opportunity presents itself will she be able to escape Peter Doyle? Will she be able to have a normal life? Even have a chance at love? True love?

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The Lockhart Women

About The Lockhart Women

“The Lockhart Women” is a mother/daughter/sister story set in Huntington Beach, California in the 1990’s. It’s about a divorce and bad decisions with the O.J. Simpson trial as background noise. Susan Straight, author of “In the Country of Women,” described “The Lockhart Women” as “deeply and thoroughly Southern Californian.” Kirkus Reviews said, “A emotional portrait of three women dealing with unexpected change.” “The Lockhart Women” ebook will be available for a discounted price of $.99 on February 1, 2022.

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Living Hell: Eva Jacobs

About Living Hell: Eva Jacobs

It’s a mean world. And it’s only getting meaner.

Humans and Supernaturals live side-by-side, sharing power in a tenuous truce. Eva Jacobs is a ward of the state of Wisconsin. For a seventeen-year-old vampire, her life is ordinary. She stays out of trouble, goes to school every night, and hangs out with her best friend, Danny. But looks deceive, and Eva has an incredible secret. One big enough to change her entire life and dangerous enough to upend the balance between vampires and humans forever.

To some, Eva’s a weapon. To others, their annihilation. To the vampire hunter charged to find her, she’s his salvation.

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The Butcherbird Tree

About The Butcherbird Tree

Simon Webb reveals his darkest thoughts and experiences with self-harm to his psychologist, Frank Newman, during their emotional and disturbing sessions together. His descriptions of the brutal nightmares he suffers soon turn out to be more than just terrible dreams and hide a greater power than either of them could ever imagine.

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Cognitive Biases In A Nutshell: How To Spot And Stop The Hiccups In Our Thinking Process

About Cognitive Biases In A Nutshell: How To Spot And Stop The Hiccups In Our Thinking Process

Do you have a problem that you can’t see your way around, no matter how hard you try? You may be looking for the answer outside when the obstacles lie within.

We’re all biased.

You may have read the above and already your mind is raising its defenses. No … not me. I haven’t got a biased bone in my body.

The fact is: you do. So does everyone around you.

Several scientific studies, in fact, suggest that certain forms of bias may be hardwired into the human psyche.

Professor Stephen Neuberg, head of Arizona State University’s Department of Psychology published research in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2005 showing that, as a species, we evolved to quickly assess dangers posed by those outside our group to enhance our chances of survival.

Nobel prize winner, Daniel Kahneman, has addressed this phenomenon in numerous articles and in his widely reviewed book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”.

The ability to process information rapidly was a life-or-death evolutionary advantage to our human ancestors in the hostile and unforgiving environment they inhabited.

As our environmental landscape changed, we still needed to process information with appropriate speed, but the decisions became increasingly complex and nuanced.

The swift system that evolved to identify and mitigate threats in hunter-gatherer societies became faulty, resulting in several cognitive biases that everyone harbors.

A cognitive bias is an error in thinking and judgment that happens when we selectively or improperly intake information.

Your cognitive biases can be sneaky, making you think you’re more open to the ideas, experiences, and contributions of others than you actually are.

Consequently, you may be tempted to rely more on your own knowledge and judgment, sometimes with disastrous results.

You may also spend hours after a decision, agonizing, particularly those that needed to be made in a short space of time.

Cognitive Biases In A Nutshell will help you to identify and correct the cognitive biases you fall prey to in your everyday life.

Identifying and correcting your biases is just one way you gain from reading Cognitive Biases In A Nutshell. The book will also show you:

– The 5 ways your ego tricks you into thinking you know more than you do – Pg. 76

– 4 mental shortcuts we take that lead to bias and poor decision making, and the best ways to identify them – Pg. 20

– How bias exists along a scale and where yours fall on it – Pg. 14

– Why being more knowledgeable is a “curse” that may make you more prone to these 3 types of bias – Pg. 65

– The art of blending intuitive and logical thinking – Pg. 22

– Why you misremember facts, even though you’re “sure” about the details – Pg. 55

– What are the Halo and the Horn effects and how you can reduce their impact on your decisions – Pg. 121

– How wanting something to be true influences you to “find” evidence that it is and how to avoid this – Pg. 94

…. and much, much more.

Recognizing your tendencies toward certain cognitive biases makes you a better contributor to society. For example, you are less quick to judge or take things personally once you realize that everyone exhibits cognitive biases.

Cognitive Biases In A Nutshell will set you apart because you will know what they are and how to steer clear of the traps they set for your reasoning.

If you want to level up your ability to spot cognitive bias, then click “Add To Cart” now!

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Fear Knocked at the Door by Stephen B. Charles

About Fear Knocked at the Door by Stephen B. Charles

Steve Sparrowhawk, a bored IT contractor, meets a beautiful young businesswoman called Fanny, in a Halifax hotel over breakfast. She’s in town to secure the signature of an elusive Banking CEO, on a highly lucrative and life-changing £50 million contract.

Inevitably, when there’s so much money at stake, dark forces appear from out of the shadows and Fanny’s contract and her life come under immediate threat.

Steve agrees to help her get the contract signed and to protect her life, when he realises that the threat is coming from none other than his old school nemesis, Professor Percy Peregrine-Falcon.

Follow Steve and Fanny’s hilarious rollercoaster adventures, firstly in the UK, then whilst staying at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Sarasota, Florida, and finally on a two-week Caribbean cruise.

Why is breakfast in bed so dangerous, who has a budgie smuggling wardrobe malfunction at the Beach Club, who comes out on top when the beautiful soprano Anastasia is set upon by Marilyn, the tattooed dinner lady, at her lunchtime concert in the ship’s ballroom and who is a sweaty fat pin-head?

How do Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and The Invisible Man come to Fanny’s aid at the swingers party?

Who’d have thought that peanut brittle could be so versatile and interesting?

Is Steve in love with Fanny, Susan or Anastasia?

Does the contract get signed?

Has the fear gone for good?

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Pattern Black by Sean Platt

About Featured Book: Pattern Black by Sean Platt

(Pattern Black will be free from 1/28/2021 through 12/15/2022)

A city-sized prison with little oversight and a snitch economy is the worst place for an ex-cop. Especially one who is losing his mind.

Once a respected police officer, Mason Shaw’s father threw away his career by going rogue and landing himself in Revival’s privately-run prison, HRO22.

Now Mason is following in his father’s footsteps — he’s an inmate with no hope of parole and only two ways out: Chamber Therapy or a body bag.

Chamber Therapy promises the miracle of criminal rehabilitation, curing prisoners of their criminal tendencies. But the flip-side of Chamber Therapy’s success is its ultimate failure: Pattern Black — the total disintegration of identity that drives the prisoner insane.

Worse, Revival seems to be hiding what happens to the prisoners once they go Pattern Black.

As Mason makes his way through his new reality, a mysterious Preacher seems to haunt his every move. His only hope is Immunity, a rebel group led by a hacker named Calliope, who’s trying to fight the system from inside.

Can Mason find the truth — and expose the dark secret behind Chamber Therapy — before Revival finds a way to shut him up forever?

It’s Escape from New York meets The Matrix in this fast-paced, heart-pounding SciFi thriller by best-selling authors Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt.

Johnny B. Truant is also the author of Fat Vampire, a new television series coming to the SyFy channel in 2022.

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

Rescued by the Interstellar Agent

About Rescued by the Interstellar Agent

What’s a 31st century girl to do when faced with a gorgeous Roman plucked out of ancient history? She’s definitely not supposed to sleep with him…

Minerva Harris is an interstellar intelligence agent with a foul mouth and no work life balance. She is definitely not looking for a relationship. When her boss sends her to planet Ardun following an anonymous tip about abducted humans forced to participate in the local gladiator games, she uncovers a time travel mystery and a sexy Roman who won’t take no for an answer. If only there weren’t so many reasons why they can’t be together. And isn’t it her job to find a way to send him back home?
When Marcus Aquilius Felix wakes up to find himself a captive of the Ardun, a race of human-cat hybrids, he thinks at first he’s been taken by the gods. He certainly can’t believe his luck when he finds his own flesh and blood goddess. If only he could convince her that he’s worth believing in.
Rescued by the Interstellar Agent contains a steamy romance and explicit content. Warning: contains mentions of slavery and sexual scenes with dubious consent.

Only 99c for a limited time from Jan 28!

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Never Enough: Nothing breaks like a heart

About Never Enough: Nothing breaks like a heart

The introverted Lucy Whitebridge speaks loudly about her unwillingness to marry, so it is no wonder that she was not interested in meeting her older sister’s fiancé Henry.
Everything changes on her sister Lauren’s wedding day when she meets Henry.
Despite their wedding, Henry and Lucy’s feelings grow stronger, and they have a lot of trouble faking their indifference.
Lucy wants to stay faithful to her sister at all costs, but affection for Henry prevents her from behaving normally.
Never Enough is a story about nineteenth-century love that never had a right to happen. This is a story of true love at the wrong time that leaves nothing but pain behind.
Will Lucy agree to an engagement to Mr. Miron, whom she has never seen before but his status will allow her to live a comfortable life?
Will Henry stay true to Lauren?
Will they both stay heartbroken or will they break the hearts of others?

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Moonhold

About Moonhold

This collection of poetry is a lyrical, mystical and visceral exploration of love and vision. Describing emotional landscapes with empathy and precision, the story explores the complexity of human connection, intimacy and separation. A timeless meditation on love as it transcends physical touch into spiritual oneness, and on the strength and fragility of the human spirit as it builds new life from decay.

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The King in Yellow

About The King in Yellow

“I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear forever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

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A Reign of Thunder (Second Edition)

About A Reign of Thunder (Second Edition)

Cooper “Coup” Black–yes, yes, just like the font–has a couple problems. Well, who doesn’t? For one, his book deal has fallen through, leading him to do something, well, unfortunate. To his publisher. Two, he’s picked up a hitchhiker–a hot, young (too young; as in half his age) available hitchhiker, whom he doesn’t really know what to do with. And three, he’s in the wrong place at the wrong time–as in a truck-stop on the Mexican border … surrounded by shadowy predators. More, it soon becomes evident that something is at work to reverse time itself; something which makes people vanish–seemingly at random–and ancient trees to appear out of nowhere. Something against which Coup, Tess, an unravelling President of the United States, and others, will make their final stand.

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