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About The Bilingual Side Hustle
If you’re bilingual and looking for extra income, use these simple steps to monetize your language skills by doing written translation. Learn why written translation can be more profitable than interpreting, and which language to translate into. Discover three translation quality secrets that will keep your clients happy and naturally result in referrals.
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About The Green Velvet Chair: Heartfelt Stories
When we become acutely aware of the surroundings of our life, we discover that art is not only found in museums, but it also appears in food, music, nature, and so much more. Beyond what the eye can see, The Green Velvet Chair: Heartfelt Stories of Art and Design in Everyday Life, is a collection of stories told from the viewpoint of a seasoned designer, depicting how art and design flood our everyday lives through music, food, nature, and so much more.
Laura Ballerini, a designer who started much of her creative journey at a big city newspaper and now owns her own digital design boutique, seamlessly weaves together an unlikely array of stories about her inspiring mother, museum visits, online shopping, designing in the dirt, and many other adventures (including a visit to Graceland). Some of these essays are funny, some poignant–all are memorable snippets of universal experiences meant to spark our awareness and awaken us to the rich fields of design all around us.
While this is Ballerini’s personal journey spanning over forty years of working in the design industry, those of us who are willing to be awakened will realize that art and design are the glue that holds all of life together.
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About Not to Spoil the Ending… but everything is going to be ok” by Naomi Brickel
This inspirational non-fiction narrative details the harrowing tragedy experienced in the sudden loss of the author’s 15-year-old son, her anguish, and the subsequent uplifting reflection that uncovers simple yet profound insights about peace and joy. Beginning with her own foundation, built on the wisdom and writings of Brene Brown, Eckhart Tolle, and Richard Rohr, Naomi goes on to present Adam’s unique, playful, and poignant framework for happiness – one so uncomplicated it could only have come from a boy – developed through the recollections of kids who knew him and their recorded messages in a funeral visitation book. “Not to Spoil the Ending… but everything is going to be ok” is a powerful tribute to kindness, exhibited through stories of a boy’s life and incidents in the aftermath, and a testimony to redemption (in a cameo with former NFL superstar, Ray Rice). “This work is a “must-read for anyone who has loved and lost, or who may need beacons of ‘lights’ in these seemingly dark times.” An antidote for today’s anxiety, it is filled with comforting insights about making our world more happy, hopeful and heavenly.
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About The Butcher’s Bride by Alice T. Boone
𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒆
It wasn’t a lie.
Your father’s debt had nothing to do with me, but when Malachi demanded blood, I couldn’t let you be slaughtered. You need to believe that claiming you was the only way I could save you. These beasts will never have their fill, and the only thing that could keep you safe was the name I built.
Montreal will know you as the Butcher’s Bride. Your father’s debt will be erased, your family will be safe, and eventually, you’ll realize that I did what I had to.
You have to, Gwen
Because I can’t spend a life without you.
𝑮𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒏
How could you do this to me?
After everything I told you, after everything I shared, how could you still lie to me? You made me believe you were different. You gave me the hope of a new life, and then you stole it all away.
My father had no right to trade me away, but I expected it from him. To know you were so willing to buy me, so willing to trade me, so willing to treat me like I was nothing? How was I supposed to expect that, Leslie?
I left this life behind two years ago, and not even the Butcher will drag me back.
♥ ♥ The Butcher’s Bride is a stand-alone Irish mafia romance novel and is not for the faint of heart. If you’re looking for some violence and steamy themes, though, dive right in! Happily ever afters, no cheating, and plenty of brooding bad boys guaranteed. ♥ ♥
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Shopify Made Easy [2022] – Build Your E-commerce Empire by Veronica Jeans
The Ultimate Shopify Startup Guide for beginners to experts through a step-by-step process from A to Z. BOOK 1.
Are you looking for a simple way to make your own online store?
Running a successful Etsy store, Amazon business, or looking to build your own Shopify website?
This authoritative guide is packed with over 1000s of illustrations and links to other helpful internet tools and apps so you can build your own e-commerce business.
It’s a comprehensive blueprint that will teach you the fundamentals of e-commerce and how to create your own online business using Shopify, the top ecommerce platform.
Shopify Made Easy: Book 1 – Build Your E-commerce Empire is the first installment in a groundbreaking series created by Amazon.com Bestselling author, Veronica Jeans, to take you by the hand and walk you into the world of e-commerce.
This step-by-step instruction gives E-commerce entrepreneurs the knowledge and confidence to use the Shopify shopping platform as an effective business tool.
In the Shopify Made Easy series you will be guided by how to build your online storefront from the ground up, set up your social media accounts to help grow awareness for your brand, and finally, learn how to promote your product on Amazon which is the world’s largest marketplace!
From the Author: I created this book because I want everyone to succeed and not just a select few. Anyone can do it and I aim to pass my knowledge and experience onto people that may not be able to afford an expensive agency or experts that cost a lot of money.
This step-by-step guide is straight from your Shopify expert who has worked within the e-commerce industry for over 20 years. No technical jargon or mumbo jumbo, just simple text steps anyone can follow easily!
In Shopify Made Easy, you’ll find:
– Up-to-date tuition for the 2022 version of Shopify to take advantage of the latest upgrades
– Pro tips for marketing to the right consumers, so sales will skyrocket
– Optimization guide for selling more products faster
– Helpful advice for understanding finances, so you can stride forth with confidence
– Access to thirty how-to videos to prevent headaches and jumpstart your e-shop, and much, much more!
Shopify Made Easy is an indispensable tool for expanding your professional horizons. If you like easy-to-follow examples, actionable instruction, and digestible information, then you’ll love Veronica Jeans’s invaluable resource.
Buy Shopify Made Easy to break digital ground today!
Here is what is in the book – Ecommerce Empire Book – Book 1
– Create your Shopify Store
– Shopify, Domains & Emails
– Create Your Shopify Business
– Set Up Your Financials
– Checkout
– Shipping Basics & Locations
– Automated Email Notifications
– All The Legal Stuff
And so much more…
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About Cowboy Reckoning
Intent on proving her brother was murdered a decade ago, Ensley Cartier returns to the one place she vowed to never set foot in again. With the whole town against her, she finds an ally in Levi McGannon. He loves the land and the ranching way of life, but they quickly discover Cattle Cove isn’t the innocent town he once believed and somebody wants Ensley buried along with their secrets.
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Just for Kicks by Tracy Solheim
The Proposal meets Outlander in this fun, flirty romantic comedy. A Scottish place-kicker facing deportation agrees to a fake marriage with a woman who’s facing a mountain of debt her deadbeat boyfriend amassed in her name. A grumpy cat, nosy teammates, and a sizzling sexual attraction make their marriage of convenience anything but convenient.
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About Born Rich, Learn Poor: Love Attracts, Fear Repels
“I’m the boss of everything!” roars Polisco, the father polar bear.
“According to our masters…” barks BarKockalotte, the pet dog.
“Bark off, Uggo! I don’t care!” yowls Purrplexy, the pet cat.
“Indeed inappropriate!” growls PanRoo, the mother panda kangaroo.
“In…a… poop…it!”coos the cub, imitating his mom.
“What’s essential is not debatable; what’s debatable is not essential,” chants the magic tortoise to the family.
A deadly epizootic of a social virus is rampant on Planet F, an economic superpower in the universe. One morning, an animal family saved a severely wounded tortoise in their backyard. Mystical, allegorical, humorous and inspiring stories in this book narrate how the magic tortoise helps the infected animals return to the Essence of life on their journey of self-discovery.
“An unconventional marriage of Eastern mysticism and modern physics gives birth to this philosophy of life. It’s my calling to share it with all artistic souls trapped by intelligent minds,” says the author, Dr. Ming Way.
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Innocence Taken by Victoria M. Patton
Two dead girls, another one missing, and a secret that will rip a tight-knit community apart…
When a missing teen’s body shows up dismembered on the side of the road, Lt. Damien Kaine must crush her parent’s hopes of her safe return. The parents are pushing for details and answers. Two things he can’t give. The abduction of a second girl brings only one clue. The girls look alike.
As Damien searches for a sadistic killer, a disturbing pattern emerges. The more he digs into the community’s history, the more missing girls he finds.
With the lack of evidence or movement forward on the case, a quirky FBI profiler is pulled in to assist with the investigation. Damien wrestles with disdain for the agent and an equally strong sexual attraction to her, as he deals with mounting frustrations.
Tensions rise with the abduction of another girl. Damien and his team are in a race against time to save her. But the case is about to take a frightful turn. What they uncover will not only rock them to their core, it will haunt them forever.
Innocence Taken is the first crime fiction novel in the Damien Kaine Thriller series.
If you are a fan of CSI or Criminal Minds, believable characters, and sarcastic humor, then this book and series is for you.
Buy Innocence Taken – Book 1 and get sucked into Damien Kaine’s world.
All books in this series:
Innocence Taken – Book 1
Confession of Sin – Book 2
Fatal Dominion – Book 3
Web of Malice – Book 4
Blind Vengeance – Book 5
About The Shape of Darkness (Heavy Lies the Crown)
For ten years, Nefari Ashcroft, princess of the Shadow Kingdom, has hidden. For ten years, she’s endured the memory of everyone she’s lost. Half the shadow people are dead, the other half are enslaved, and her once prosperous kingdom is nothing but an elaborate mass grave.
Now, dark magic has allowed the Queen of Salix to wreak havoc on the realm; wraiths hunt from the sky, the harvestmen march across the land, and the bone criers pick apart the flesh of the corpses left behind.
Nefari was prophesied to rise and be the sword of the realm. With her bright starlight magic, she was born to conquer the darkness. And for ten years, she’s trained to do just that. . .
It should be easy to step into the position her mother let for her, since everyone thought she died the day her kingdom was destroyed. But staying hidden – remaining ‘nobody’ – is simpler than accepting her dark past, enduring her harrowing fate, and claiming her broken crown.
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About Wrath Child
The Smith has returned, leaving a new trail of gruesome murders across Manhattan–all beaten to death with a blacksmith’s hammer. Agent Gavin Gregory considers himself a rational man, but The Smith’s return makes him question everything he thought possible. The killer eluded him in the past, but this time the stakes are personal. Can Gavin track down the brutal psychopath in time to save his wife?
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Mirror Mirror A Collection of Memoirs and Stories by Stephanie Hart
A Collection of Memoirs and Stories, Stephanie Hart’s third book, is composed of a series of fast-paced vignettes that explore her childhood, youth, family, and ancestral background through a mix of real and imagined memories and events. She recounts and interprets the unique details of her own life,
bringing to life the personalities and experiences of various relatives and friends in an intimate, heartbreaking, and often humorous manner.
Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold
What Doug finds in the secret compartment of his new red Corvette will forever change both his and Catherine’s life. Doug and Catherine come from two different worlds. Catherine’s world is one of privilege and wealth. Doug grew up dirt poor and full of envy of others who had the things that he wanted but could not have. His goal was to one day have all the things he coveted. Their worlds collide when Catherine, VP of a large New York City marketing firm, hires Doug. As soon as Doug learns of Catherine’s wealth, he sees Catherine as his ticket to all the things he covets. After a whirlwind courtship, they are married.
Poor boy meets rich girl should have resulted in happily ever after — not exactly. Doug quickly learns he also covets independence. Events begin to unfold in each of their lives. For Doug, it is his mysterious discovery in the secret compartment of the Corvette. For Catherine, it is a business meeting with Alex Droxell at the Osprey Cove Lodge. When Catherine enters the beautiful and serene lodge, it’s as though she is entering another place and time. The lodge is an escape from the nightmare she is living back home.
Authors Note: The Osprey Cove Lodge series is uniquely written, spanning seven geographic locations from the scenic Canadian region of the Rideau lakes to the beautiful shores of the Caribbean. An interesting web of mystery develops as the characters’ lives intertwine. The Osprey Cove Lodge series setting was born from my love of the beauty of this region in Canada. The description of the lodge is so beautiful and inviting that you will want to pack your bags and head there. The series is written in a continuing fashion; please be sure to read the books in the order written.
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Dragons of Introvertia by James and Bit Barringer
Introvertia is – get ready for this – a kingdom full of introverts. People there enjoy reading, spending time at home or with one or two friends, and eating good food; you know how it goes. Small talk is explicitly banned in the constitution and no one will mind if you spend the entire day in the Reading Square with a good book. I bet you’d love it there.
Fifteen-year-old Eza Skywing is training to join the Rangers, the kingdom’s legendary protectors – the ones who can talk to dragons! He’s just finished his Year of Silence, the final step before getting a dragon of his very own, only to be devastated when he learns that hundreds of dragons have gone missing and there are none for his class at the Dragon Academy! What could possibly have happened?
Fifty miles away, on the far side of the Very Large Forest, the brilliant Cammie Ravenwood has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday. She loves living in Exclaimovia, with all its loud parties and chaotic streets and constant interruptions – although she hates the way people look at her sideways when she wants some time alone, in silence. That stings, but what could she do…flee to Introvertia?
Everything changes for Cammie when she learns a horrible secret: her people have stolen Introvertia’s dragons and are planning to start a war. Her father, a famous general, will be thrown into danger again. There’s no way Cammie will let that happen, so she does the unthinkable. She sets off for Introvertia, desperate to find someone who will help her.
In the Very Large Forest she meets Eza, and the two of them immediately discover why their kingdoms have been bitter enemies for thousands of years. It’s up to them to find the stolen dragons and stop the war…if they don’t annoy each other to death in the process! Yet they find that there are forces behind the scenes more sinister than anything they ever suspected – and that both Exclaimovia and Introvertia may merely be pawns in an even bigger scheme…
Dragons of Introvertia is a young adult series like no other. It’s optimistic in tone, a deliberate push-back against all the bleak, dismal, and dystopian young-adult fantasy that seems to be everywhere these days. It also highlights the introvert experience, letting introverts of all ages know that they’re awesome because of who they are. (Our ideal reader is a teenage introvert who flips the pages and exclaims, “Wow! There’s a word for people like me!”) It also hits on big issues, like mental illness, losing a parent, war and its effects on normal people, and staying positive when everything looks impossible. There’s humor, adventure, magic, and dragons…what more could you want?
Nightlight: Soul Calling, Body Listening, Heart Speaking by Cara Barker
In this, my third book, all I can share is those experiences of struggle I’ve had, in four domains. The conflicts have centered around: (1) Loss and Trauma; (2) challenges to find the best Direction, that ‘now, what’ dilemma ; (3) battles to find and empower inner and outer Voice; and (4) conflicts arising from Love, or the appearance of its absence. You will find the four are not distinct entities, but are interwoven with one another. This is so for clients, over the last 50 years, as well. Think of these categories as bumper cars, where when one car hits an obstacle, it sets off a chain reaction. While struggles to survive each experience is painful, it has proven true that the toughest conflicts have been the most prolific seedbed for growth. The urge to grow is embedded in all creation. Blocked growth thwarts development.
Blaze In, Blaze Out by Joseph Lewis
Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O’Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O’Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict.
The two detectives thought it was over, but it was only the beginning.
Eiselmann planned for a quiet weekend with his family at home. O’Connor planned on attending a high school soccer game and then head to Northern Wisconsin for a fishing trip with another cop, Detective Jamie Graff and four teenage, adopted brothers: George Tokay, Brian Evans, Brett McGovern, and Michael Two Feathers.
But Andruko is ruthless and vindictive. From his prison cell, he hires two contract killers to kill both O’Connor and Eiselmann and anyone else in the way. The killers can be anyone. The killers could be anywhere, and the killers could strike at any time.
The quiet weekend and the short vacation turn into a deadly nightmare as O’Connor’s and Eiselmann’s lives and the lives of the four boys are in peril.
Building in Bronze: Creating the Future through Healing the Past by Cayla Pothan
Building in Bronze is an inspirational manifesto written by a woman who has never stopped dreaming and working to create space in the world where she could live her most authentic life. Cayla Pothan created just such a space, and in the process, discovered how to share her insights with other people who long to live with joy and purpose. After a difficult journey from a childhood of feeling trapped in a victim mindset, she emerged into a life filled with creativity and growth, eventually founding the Tootsie Gallery. Tootsie is a symbol of the dreams and creativity in the life of the child. As an artist, mentor, coach, gallery owner, and community builder, she reaches out to help others find purpose by getting in touch with the child within. Readers who may have lost sight of their own dreams, lacking purpose or creative outlets, will find inspiration to re-engage with their creative energies and the courage to chase those lovely dreams.
About The Family Flywheel
Why do some families have success for generations, while others fail?
3 elements: Strategy, Structure, and Culture.
Using proven business principles, The Family Flywheel creates a holistic family model which will change the way you invest your time and money. This book will teach you to quickly identify small things to change on a day-to-day basis to improve your finances, relationships, health, and happiness. The Family Flywheel outlines how successful individuals like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Lebron James, and Ben Carson were the result of successful families investing in their children.
Learn to build your own family flywheel and gain momentum with good investments.
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About Skincare for Relaxation
Do you need to relax? Would you like to find ways to make your self-care time more beneficial?
Learn ways to use essential oils and skincare to enhance your self-care routine. And if you don’t have one, this book can help you create one that is relaxing and suited to your skincare needs. Discover how to use essential oils, and what carrier oils and other ingredients you can combine them with to create helpful skincare products for your skin type. Carrie Scharf has a skincare business and loves to find ways to use natural ingredients to solve skincare issues. Included are recipes for face, hair, bath, and over 200 essential oil aromatherapy blends for issues like stress and anxiety, skin types, muscle pain and PMS.
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About Zero Waste Hero: Going Plastic Free and Tips to Live a Waste Free Life by Athena Black
Do you feel guilty every time you throw something away? If you’re tired of feeling like a garbage-generating machine, this ebook is for you.
We’ll take you by the hand (figuratively, of course, unless you’re into that sort of thing) and guide you through every room and area of your home and life.
And don’t worry, we won’t judge you for that embarrassing amount of plastic in your pantry.
But seriously, we’ll show you how to eliminate plastic, toxins, and wasteful habits from your life, one checklist for success at a time.
From your kitchen to your bathroom, your wardrobe to your cleaning supplies, we’ll help you transform your life into a sustainable paradise (and have a few laughs while we’re at it).
And speaking of checklists, we’ve got a bunch of them! Each section of the book includes its own handy-dandy checklist, so you can track your progress and feel accomplished every step of the way. Who knew saving the planet could be so satisfying?
In this ebook, you’ll:
① Discover plastic-free alternatives, and tips to make less garbage and reduce your waste—So you can have more money to spend on the things that really matter (like chocolate).
② Find out how to live a green life without sacrificing your comfort or style, and enjoy the benefits of a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle—So you can finally feel calm and organized in your home (and stop tripping over all the junk).
③ Develop a checklist for success with practical steps and actions to make your home a zero waste haven—So you can feel good about doing your part for the environment (and impress your eco-conscious friends).
④ Gain courage and confidence to be a minimal mom or dad, raising your children in an eco-conscious and sustainable way–So that you can feel good about doing your part for the planet, and inspire others to follow in your footsteps (all while creating a better future for your children and generations to come).
So if you’re ready to become the eco-warrior you were always meant to be, grab a copy today and let’s get started!
With staggering amounts of waste produced every day, it’s time to vanquish the trash and conquer a green lifestyle together.
You don’t have to be a superhero to save the planet, just a Zero Waste Hero.
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