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About My Football ABC by Bobbie Anderson Jr
Introduce the love of football to your preschooler with this fun and exciting journey through the alphabets with a twist! Your young scholar will discover basic football terms while learning the alphabets.
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About Catholic Daughters of Catholic Mothers: A Memoir and Guided Journal
Follow along as Dr. Martha Lucas highlights a generation of Catholic daughters, as well as just daughters, of mothers devoted to their church. Whether or not you grew up in an atmosphere laced with cultural and religious traditions, this thought-provoking introspection will have you laughing and crying from start to finish.
Dr. Lucas candidly recounts memories of her Catholic daughter’s childhood: beginning with her parents choosing which saint to name her after and continuing through her Catholic grade school education, taught by nuns, the founders of America’s parochial schools. Experience the strict discipline and rules of a system where independent thinking was discouraged. Everything was forbidden, everyone was a sinner, and every action put students at risk for “going to hell.”
Girls formed lady-like identities regulated first by school uniforms, then by the cult of the Virgin Mary, and last by the ceremonies that parishioners were forced to endure over and over again. Parents and elders were to be obeyed and respected, their wishes anticipated, while children were expected to accept punishment out of the fear of God. Afterall, obedience was a gift from the Holy Spirit.
The journey continues into adulthood with Dr. Lucas’s willingness to question authority, grapple with her own identity, and slide into becoming what she lovingly calls an “ambiguous” Catholic. She offers a visceral account of Catholic guilt, desire, piety, anger, and the superstitions that shaped the Catholic upbringing. For some, this still permeates their lives as adults.
Who were Catholic Daughters? Why did these young women work so hard to fit into the Catholic mold, even to the extent of making up sins? And what kinds of sins did you make up when you were a kid just so you’d have something to say to the priest in the confessional booth? This provocative question at the end of the “Confession” chapter is just one that is at the core of Catholic Daughters of Catholic Mothers.
This book and its guided journal questions emerged from Dr. Lucas’s experiences and desire to help others discover their truth and speak it out loud. Buy this journal now and begin an exploration of yourself and your inner beliefs. You’ll reconstruct the traces of your Catholic mother-daughter nexus, remember your personal accomplishments, get a better
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About My Basketball ABC by Bobbie Anderson Jr
An exciting basketball themed journey through the alphabets for preschoolers. Young readers will enjoy learning the alphabets while discovering basic basketball terms.
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About Super Kena – A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids by Becky Cymbaluk
Fierceness comes in many forms, but Super Kena’s arrives in powerful determination. When kids at school make fun of her hearing aids, she gets a super idea. She will gather her differently-abled classmates to create a team of super heroes! There’s Amazing Anna, whose glasses give her perfection vision. An insulin pump helps Watchful Wendy fight her diabetes. Using his super wheelchair to zip around is Zippy Zach. Quiet Quinn battles his stutter with the help of his speech teacher. A food allergy is no match for Precise Priya, who always makes sure to be careful around peanuts. And Determined Danny can run as fast as the wind with the power of his asthma inhaler. Together, they use their super powers to make a difference in the world — by spreading understanding and acceptance . . . one classroom at a time.
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About When Angels Threaten by Pamela Turner
Victoria Gregory is barely making ends meet in a shady part of town. But the twenty-one-year-old thrift-store worker never expected to be attacked by a crazed angel wielding a fiery whip. And she certainly didn’t plan for her ancient silver coin to summon none other than Judas Iscariot to come to her defense.
After Judas tells Victoria her assailant is after the artifact to annihilate mankind, she’s certain the biblical villain must be deranged. But after demons attack and she takes control of Judas’s dragon, the wary young woman is plunged into a lethal race to save the world… or be sent to Hell.
Can Victoria throw her lot in with an unexpected ally and reverse the descent into darkness?
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About Stressie Tressie by T.M. Lemmons
A little girl always tries to make everything “just right,” and creates a lot of angst for herself in the process! A capybara comes along and helps her manage some big feelings.
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About Amazing Ants. A Kid’s Book of Cool Facts and Pictures of Ants
This book is only $0.99 until February 6, then the price will go back up to $2.99.
Amazing Ants is the perfect resource for young naturalists eager to learn about these amazing insects.
*Please note that this book is not for toddlers. It is better for children ages 8 and up.
This engaging and informative book introduces kids to the world of ants.
Amazing Ants is packed with cool facts, illustrations, and pictures of ants.
It’s great for inspiring kids to learn more about these amazing creatures. Whether it’s a science fair project, a report, or for pure enjoyment, this book is a great source of information for the ant enthusiast.
Kids discover all about queen ants, ant society, their colonies, their anatomy, how they use smells to communicate, and much more! We have also included a chapter with jobs for kids who really like bugs and might like to go into entomology as career.
Did you know that weaver ants hold their larvae in their jaws like a tube of glue to glue leaves together?
Or that army ants eat up to 100,000 insects and small animals every day they are on raids?
Or that fire ants make “ant rafts” to escape floods?
All that is in the book, plus a lot more!
Here’s a list of the species of ants featured in the book:
Acrobat
Argentine ants
Army ants
Fire ants
Ghost ants
Harvester ants
Hotrod ants
Leaf-cutter ants
Odorous ants
Pavement ants
Sugar ants
Thief ants
Trap-jaw ants
Weaver ants
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About Burning and Dodging
Tina Gabler, nearing 60, wants to pursue her own creative goals. She gets a job as Peter Bright’s research assistant, a former news anchor working on a book about staged photos in journalism. As she helps Peter track down a photo’s provenance and his estranged Cree daughter, Tina reflects on her own relationship with her father and the balance between personal and collective achievement. “Burning and Dodging” is a funny, thoughtful exploration of how we construct stories about ourselves and others.
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About The Rise of the Markless
In the Skarrian Empire, societal class is determined by one factor, a factor which no one, neither emperors nor servants, can control: the Marks on their skin.
Ayla Helero is a Markless orphan who refuses to accept her dismal fate of oppression and servitude. Voices whisper to her in the night, promising a chance at a better tomorrow, if only she would listen. Will she bow down and capitulate to the evil hands that bind her, or will she listen to the voices, risking everything for a chance to be free?
Ayla listens. She hears the voices. She whispers back.
The Markless will rise.
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About Featured Book: Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination by Peter J. Boni
How a journey of self-discovery unearthed the scandalous evolution of artificial insemination
By his forties, Peter J. Boni was an accomplished CEO, with a specialty in navigating high-tech companies out of hot water. Just before his fiftieth birthday, Peter’s seventy-five-year-old mother unveiled a bombshell: His deceased father was not his biological father. Peter was conceived in 1945 via an anonymous sperm donor. The emotional upheaval upon learning that he was “misattributed” rekindled traumas long past and fueled his relentless research to find his genealogy. Over two decades, he gained an encyclopedic knowledge of the scientific, legal, and sociological history of reproductive technology as well as its practices, advances, and consequences. Through twenty-first century DNA analysis, Peter finally quenched his thirst for his origin.
In Uprooted, Peter J. Boni intimately shares his personal odyssey and acquired expertise to spotlight the free market methods of gamete distribution that conceives dozens, sometimes hundreds, of unknowing half-siblings from a single donor. This thought-provoking book reveals the inner workings—and secrets—of the multibillion-dollar fertility industry, resulting in a richly detailed account of an ethical aspect of reproductive science that, until now, has not been so thoroughly explored.
This Non-Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print
About Fake it For Fame
I need a fake date to get the Hollywood media off my back.
I find her in the least expected place.
On my brother’s arm at a Valentine’s event.
Lucky for me, he’s willing to give her up.
His loss, my gain.
She’s thick and curvy in all the right places.
A perfect handful.
And pressing pause?
That’s not happening.
The Faux Agency was supposed to be a “no strings attached” deal.
But I want her more than I should.
And what does she want?
If only I knew.
My sexy temptress might have her eyes on another prize.
This charade may have started as a ruse, but now?
I’m playing for keeps.
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About Banking on Angels by Neal BakshiNeal Bakshi is a certified spiritual life coach, reiki energy healer, and angel channeler. He specializes in guiding highly driven, motivated, and aspirational next-gen leaders achieve inner peace, lasting success, and energetic balance through the power of spirituality. He is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker and left his vice president title to pursue his spiritual passions, including teaching meditation and breathwork. Neal grew up in a spiritual family, meditating since he was five years old. He embodied his spiritual practices to live a peaceful and balanced life in the finance world and now helps others in the corporate and entrepreneurial world to do the same.
How does a Goldman Sachs investment banker start communicating with angels?
Through my spiritual upbringing, nearly decade-long experience as a Wall Street investment banker, and the tragic death of my mom, I awakened to the deep spiritual truths underlying our material world.
Even as little as three years ago, I thought the concepts of manifestation and attraction were the biggest bag of bologna. But when I started to treat spirituality as a superpower, my perspective shifted. As a result, my personal and professional growth skyrocketed.
Everything is energy. The problem is, most people walk through life completely unaware that the pain they feel and struggles they experience are due to an energetic imbalance.
In Banking on Angels, you can expect to tap into . . .
1. Ways to identify energetic imbalance
2. The science and psychology behind energy and elevated vibrational states
3. Tangible actions and practices to achieve greater fulfillment in life
4. How to reduce stress and find inner peace through spiritual practices and reflective journaling techniques
With this knowledge, you can begin to live your life in alignment and flow to create your dream reality.
Banking on Angels will be free on Amazon Kindle from Monday, January 23 – Thursday, January 26, 2023.
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About Stolen Laughter
A romantic psychological thriller with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.
After Bryce Cameron’s wife Hannah disappears from a cruise ship and is presumed dead, he struggles to pick up the pieces of his life, but he never accepts that she is gone. Then, at his brother Quinn’s engagement dinner in an elegant restaurant, he hears Hannah’s distinctive laughter from across the room. Before he can speak to her, she steps into a limo and speeds away.
Bryce’s search to find her ignites a slow-burning fuse as he enlists his brother’s help, and their discovery of long-buried secrets about Hannah’s birth leads to a nail-biting conclusion,
“Mystery, danger, and intrigue pull you in and keep your interest from the beginning to the end.”
“Intertwined plots follow the brothers and the women they love.”
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About Maia and the Xifarian Conspiracy
What if everything you believe is a lie?
Maia has spent most of her life trying to run away from her past. When a chance encounter lands Maia in a dubious peace initiative, she has to walk down a road she had hoped never to tread. Little does she know that the real truth about her long-deceased mother is somewhere down this path.
But before she gets to that, Maia will discover true friendship, face an unimaginable evil, and fight her deepest fears to save the world she loves.
A planet on the brink of extinction. An enemy from the dark side of the universe. Only one girl and her secret stand between them.
Maia and the Xifarian Conspiracy is the first book of the Lightbound Saga, the MG/YA science fiction series that features non-stop action, unexpected plot twists, captivating characters, and a spunky heroine. If you like fast-paced adventure, thrilling new worlds, and epic storylines, then you’ll love this page-turning coming-of-age series from author S. G. Basu.
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About The Secrets We Keep
A completely gripping, twist-packed psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, K.L Slater, and Lisa Jewell.
“Beautifully written with themes of love, abuse, and betrayal, The Secrets We Keep is heart-wrenching, heroic, and unexpected” – Kristi Elizabeth, Manhattan Book Review
One woman who has lost everything – another with everything to lose. When a chilling discovery sets their lives on a collision course, will the secrets they keep save the ones they love – or destroy everything they care about?
SOPHIE
Sophie Miller had it all. A loving husband and adorable six-year-old son. They were a perfect family. Until a drunk driver lost control and James and Josh were killed on their way to a soccer game. Five years later, and a mother without a child, she remains a shadow of herself, barely leaving the house and relying on anti-anxiety pills just to get through the day. Working from home as a book editor is safe – or so she thinks, until a manuscript comes across her desk that threatens to turn her world upside down.
Because Sophie has a secret. A child that many years ago she helped to conceive.
The story triggers in her a sudden longing to know. Would the child share Josh’s chestnut hair? The same gold and brown flecks of his eyes. She wouldn’t interfere. She would watch from a distance. Just to know. Could she see the features of her little boy reflected one last time?
It wouldn’t hurt just to look. Would it?
MADELYN-MAY
Madelyn-May Marozzi has it all. To her Love, Mommy online community she is the perfect mother. She has a successful husband, perfect twins, and an idyllic life.
What they don’t know is that Madelyn-May is not who she says she is.
Certain everyone who knows the truth about her past is long gone, Madelyn-May’s world is turned upside down when an anonymous email drops into her inbox threatening to expose a horrific crime she committed as a teenager.
But should she take the threat seriously? Everyone involved is already dead. Aren’t they?
Nikki Lee Taylor crafts an intense, complex, and addictive novel with richly drawn and beautifully flawed characters in this powerful and sometimes heart-breaking book about family, motherhood, and the dark secrets we keep.
This is a great read for people who enjoyed Girl on the Train, Sharp Objects, and Gone Girl. If you like suspense and thrillers with flawed characters, intriguing female protagonists, and twists you will never see coming you will enjoy this book.
Find out why readers are calling The Secrets We Keep, an ‘intensive, addictive, jaw-dropping read to keep you on the edge of your seat’.
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About Displaced: Both Feet in the Game by JJ Carroll
“A mysterious device sends a boy and his friends on an incredible journey in this debut middle-grade novel… This entertaining time travel adventure should appeal to fans of video games and SF.” – Kirkus Reviews”
Back to the Future meets Trapped in a Video Game when 12-year-old Nikola is Displaced 100 years into the past and sets out on a 4,000 mile rescue mission from Chicago to Philadelphia to San Diego. He has no money and no means of transportation. But he does have his two friends, a backpack full of toys from his own time, and a sinister FBI agent hot on his heels.
Nikola can treat the whole thing like a virtual reality game! After all, he made it to the finals in the 2076 Viarbox tournament. He won at the Indianapolis Skyway. He jousted, wrestled a crocodile and saved the world from an alien invasion. He even brought down a full grown tyrannosaur. And it’s barely past lunch.
But this time, he can’t exit the game when he gets hungry or sleepy. This time if he doesn’t finish the mission before the clock runs down, he’ll be stuck in the past forever.
This time it isn’t virtual. It’s reality.
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About Accidental Baby for the Billionaire
He was supposed to break my bed, not my heart.
Mr. Hottie-with-a-Body ghosted me a year ago, and now he’s my new boss.
Still cocky.
Still hot AF.
Still thinks he can take whatever he wants.
And he wants me to be his fake wife.
He’ll get his promotion and I’ll get my debt erased.
At first, he drives me crazy pushing all my buttons.
But the way he stares at me gives me goosebumps,
And soon his rock-hard body is all that fills my thoughts.
Now, I love pretending to be husband and wife.
Except we pretend a little too perfectly,
Because I’m staring at a big, fat plus sign.
He’s promoted,
And I’m pregnant.
So who’s going to tell the playboy he’s a baby daddy?
Accidental Baby for the Billionaire will set your Kindle ablaze. You’ll love this book if you enjoy cocky billionaires playing house, falling hard, and proving themselves to the women they want. Full of forbidden moments and off-limits naughtiness that will warm you to your core. No cliffhangers and no cheating in this sizzling standalone!
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About Balance Exercises for Seniors: Prevent Falls, Improve Stability and Posture with Simple Home Workouts
If you’re ready to regain balance and to protect yourself (or your elderly loved ones) from fall-related injuries, then you need this book today!
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Money Changers and False Profits: A Suspense Thriller by Jane M. Bell
“Like the man seated across from him,
the one thing the detective hated more than anything else was a liar,
especially among his colleagues.
Yet, here he sat,
on the verge of telling the biggest lie he’d ever told in his life.
Lying to the D.A. was, in his mind, a horrible situation.
Dragging his supervisor into this deception was even worse…”
“Money Changers and False Profits” is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that takes you on a journey through the seedy underbelly of 1970s New York City. Follow the story of seasoned NYPD detective, Francis Clavering as he delves deeper into the world of organized crime, uncovering a shocking alliance between the Vatican Bank and the American and Italian Mafia. This historical novel is based on true events, and exposes the greed, corruption, and murder that lies at the heart of this unholy alliance.
As the Detective Clavering travels from New York to Germany, Italy, and beyond, he uncovers a web of lies, deceit, and deadly collusion that threatens to shake the foundations of the Catholic Church and the American government. This gripping story will keep you on the edge of your seat as you follow the detective’s desperate efforts to bring the criminals to justice.
With its richly drawn characters and expertly crafted plot, “Money Changers and False Profits” is a must-read for fans of true crime and suspense novels. Don’t miss out on this thrilling journey through the dark side of religion, power and greed. Order your paperback copy now, or add this new release from December 2022 to your Kindle Unlimited thrillers library list and experience the thrill of the chase!
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Before I Wake (Travels Across Time/Book One) by Mary Ellen Johnson
Historical novelist Magdalena Moore is haunted by the black-haired, black-eyed knight she first encountered during a past life regression. Across a lifetime, Magdalena searches for the truth about Ranulf Navarre and his wife, the meek, complaint Lady Jane.
At Tintagel Castle, Magdalena is miraculously transported to thirteenth-century England, where she is Lady Jane, and Lord Navarre is her husband. But Ranulf is not the man of her imagination.
Why is Ranulf so cold and Janey so erratic? What secrets are they hiding? When England plunges into civil war, Ranulf backs the wrong side. Knowing he is destined to die in battle, Magdalena tries desperately to cheat fate, save Ranulf, and finally find happiness. But when her secrets are laid bare—or more specifically Lady Jane’s secrets—Magdalena fears Ranulf can never forgive her. And if he cannot, will they be forced to replay their doomed love yet again?
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