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Invisible Wounds: Help, Hope, and Healing for Women in Abusive Relationships, or Recovery

About Invisible Wounds: Help, Hope, and Healing for Women in Abusive Relationships, or Recovery

“Kay Douglas’s book is the most supportive, realistic, and practical guide for abused women that I have encountered. A woman with this book in her hands is on the path to a new life. The author really ‘gets it’ about what it takes to deal with a destructive partner and takes the reader step-by-step from the beginnings of grasping what is happening to her all the way to healing once the relationship has ended. Outstanding!”
– Lundy Bancroft, author of Why Does He Do That?

Does your partner put you down, control what you do, or have distressing angry outbursts? Do you find yourself walking on eggshells and trying to keep the peace? Are you sometimes afraid of what he will do?

Invisible Wounds is a compassionate and compelling guide that offers the clarity, information, and support that is needed. Containing the moving, inspiring stories of 50 women who have experienced an abusive relationship, Invisible Wounds will help you to rebuild your strength, increase your personal power, and recover from the hurts that have been done

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A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Douglas R. Brown

A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories by Douglas R. Brown

Life doesn’t always end at death.

Supernatural suspense combines with psychological terror in this collection of six creepy tales exploring humanity’s darkest impulses.
A burned-out firefighter with PTSD receives a succession of ghostly visitors trying to help him face his demons before it’s too late in a modern reimagining of Charles Dickens’s famous A Christmas Carol. A solitary night janitor battles a sinister man in black. A firefighter fails to heed an otherworldly warning. A happily married man spirals into obsession over a comment by an internet troll. A man runs for his life down a dark country lane pursued by a stranger with murder in mind. A paramedic’s haunting secret threatens to destroy her life.
Written from the soul of a firefighter/paramedic who has seen his own struggles, A Firefighter Christmas Carol and Other Stories is an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end.

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Darkwells Academy. The curse begins by Terina Adams

Darkwells Academy. The curse begins by Terina Adams

Hot guys. Dangerous magic. Dark secrets. What more could a girl want?

Two things I know for sure:
Being single sucks.
The zombie who tried to kill me was real.
This is coming from a girl who doesn’t believe in ghosts.
I shouldn’t forget the psycho who chained me to the public bathroom taps using only his mind.
I can no longer deny the supernatural isn’t real. Especially when I’m hijacked by a crazy bus driver and taken back to school. But no ordinary school.
Shut behind the protective walls of Darkwells Academy, I’ve got to find my ability and learn to use it quick, as I appear to be on every rogue supernatural’s radar. I was never good at school. But the food here is good, some of the students are better than good, and Draak house really know how to party.
Enter Emrol, resident sex god and powerful fae who won’t leave me alone, even when he acts like he hates me. The feeling’s mutual, but it’s hard to keep away from him when he keeps using his magic to ensnare me.
Then there’s Luca, hanging in the shadows and watching my every move. Creepy weird if he wasn’t so panty smolderingly hot. Stay the hell away, I’ve been instructed by my new best friend. Not easily done when the guy emanates a dark danger I can’t resist.
It doesn’t take me long to realize there are more things going on in this academy than teaching students how to use their abilities. Not to mention the dark danger building outside the safety of the academy walls that I seem to be apart of.
If I can find my ability fast enough, master it quicker, I may just survive…
Special launch price of .99c between 18th Oct and 22rd October

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Perfectly Played by Holly Kerr

Perfectly Played by Holly Kerr

Flora’s a runaway bride. Dean’s a jilted groom. Will a simple mistake keep them from finding love again?

“This story is an amazing amalgamation of “what happens in Vegas…”, enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, and love-at-first-sight…a little bit of sports romance and has a small-town feel.”

Flower shop owner Flora waited years to get married but when it came down to the moment of reckoning, it all felt wrong. No flowers, no patient groom… no perfect love story waiting for her. And so she pulled up her wedding dress and ran out of the chapel—straight into the sweetest, saddest, tallest guy she’d ever seen.

Ex-ball player Dean thought a wedding was expected until an icy cold text to his best man let him know it wasn’t going to happen. Ever. Now there’s nothing to do but spend a few hours commiserating with the cute bride who ran out of her own wedding.

It is Las Vegas, after all.

One perfect night later, with strippers and syrup and drag queens, Flora and Dean go home alone, forgetting about last names and usernames and even old-school addresses. Maybe they can find love again, but not if they can’t find each other.

But love plays its own game, and the best happily ever afters always have a bit of serendipity involved. Will Flora and Dean’s love story be perfectly played?

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Train of Thoughts by Veronica Thornton

Train of Thoughts by Veronica Thornton

In Train of Thoughts, Vee finds a sensible yet simple way to use poetry, essays, and short stories to help her readers to look at the world through lenses different than their own. Starting conversations that lead us all to think empathetically and challenge our understanding of society, the book helps readers approach the complexities of modern less selfishly from a new perspective. On each page, Vee taps into her misfortunes and traumas to assist others in their emotional healing process. Vee’s first-hand understanding of hurtful words, societal pressures, and domestic violence help her connect with each reader and demonstrate the value of finding a way to move forward.

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My Fake Love Affair

About My Fake Love Affair

She needed a fake fiancé to shut up her ex-alphahole rockstar boyfriend.
I’m the guy she chose to point to as the new man.
Unfortunately, her lie caused a major media scandal.
Lucky for me, this woman is everything I’ve ever wanted in my life.
Smart. Beautiful. Funny.
And she’s got hustle like I’ve never seen.
This should work out perfectly for both of us.
I need a fake date to my brother’s wedding, and I’m doing her a favor, so quid pro quo.
When things start to fall apart, I have my gyms to turn back to.
I’ve spent my life in my absent father’s shadow, but I didn’t waste the time.
I built an empire, focused on helping women achieve their health.
As easy as it would be to stay focused on my own little world, meeting her opened up something inside of me.
We might start out as a fake love affair, but I want more.
I want everything she’s got to give.

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Ancient Egypt for Kids: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra by Captivating History

About Ancient Egypt for Kids: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra by Captivating History

In this book, you will travel back to Ancient Egypt, when kings were considered gods, pharaohs built towering pyramids, great battles were fought, and the world as we know it today was formed. Exciting images and maps help you to imagine yourself there and become an expert in no time! Journey through time and make history come alive with fun, interesting, and up-to-date facts on all the major events during one of the most fascinating periods of time!
You’ve probably heard a lot of the names, right? Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, and the Nile River . . . but do you know the secrets and amazing facts about them? You will; in this book, you’ll learn about:
• The longest river in the world – and it runs backward!
• Kings or Pharaohs – which came first?
• Menes and the Narmer Palette – what’s the big deal?
• Gods and Kings – or both?
• Sunsets, underworlds, and tombs
• The first pyramid ever built in Ancient Egypt
• Sneferu’s mistake
• The Great Pyramid of Giza – the tallest structure on earth until . . .
• Pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom
• King Senusret III – The “Warrior King”
• Amenemhat’s labyrinth – with over 3,000 rooms!
• The Hyksos – a painting ends a theory
• Ramesses II – Why so popular?
• Here come the Assyrians and Persians – uh oh…
• Alexander the Great
• Cleopatra – why she married her 12-year-old brother
• And so much more!
Dive into this rich and amazing culture as we explore exactly why we owe so much to it – why there was never a dull moment in its history.
If you want to learn more about Ancient Egypt, get this book now!

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The Last Sacrifice by V.T. Bonds

The Last Sacrifice by V.T. Bonds

In a nightmare I can’t escape, I find true evil exists.
They have no mercy.
Can I survive their wicked savagery?

*This Dark Omegaverse Romance is not for the faint of heart. If explicit scenes, violence, and D/s themes offend you, please abstain. Proceed with caution.*

FREE on all retailers!

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The Fifth by Mario Kiefer

The Fifth by Mario Kiefer

This is not a new tale.
Everyone knows the story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.  First told by John of Patmos in the Book of Revelation, it has been told and retold a thousand times by a thousand people in a thousand different ways. What makes this story different?
Perhaps it is that the story is told from the viewpoint of the Horsemen themselves. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death: what do they think of their role in the End of Days? Does it really matter? Or maybe, it is that John of Patmos left out a part of the original story — the part about the Fifth Horseman; the one that nobody knows about.
To bring about The End of Days, The Fifth must come into being.  Each Horseman has his or her part to play subject to the constraints they are given and the whims of their own personality. While traversing time and space, each does so.  Pestilence spreads not just a virus to infect the body but a far more sinister one that infects the spirit, while War beats the drums that will bring the tribes of man to each other’s throats. Famine delivers scarcity from abundance, and Death, well, Death does what he has always done – he ferries the souls to their determined destination.
All of this is done to give birth to The Fifth.
But who is The Fifth?

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A Love Attempt: Your Practical Guide to Love by Morhaf Al Achkar

A Love Attempt: Your Practical Guide to Love by Morhaf Al Achkar

Developing your emotional intelligence? Learn simple and practical techniques to cultivate your love competence…

◆ Everyone wants love. We’re so desperate for it that we are frequently willing to take any deformed shape of it. But what if we can bring in the idea in a developed and genuine form to make it available to every person?

Morhaf Al Achkar obtained his Ph.D in education and is currently a practicing family physician at the University of Washington. He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Since then, his research has focused on the experience of patients living with cancers. His first book is based on interviews he did with 39 patients who live, like him, with advanced illness. He explored how these patients find meaning, cope, and build resilience. Using his deep understanding of philosophical concepts, Morhaf shares his understanding of love from the perspective of someone aware of his finitude.

◆ By following his easy-to-apply practical exercises, Morhaf invites you on a journey of dialogue and reflection to improve your Empathic Abilities.

Inside A Love Attempt, you’ll learn:

+ The Pragmatics of Love
+ How to Love by recognizing and capturing the opportunity.
+ How to reconstruct what is being and learn about context and biography to communicate with love
+ How to become oriented to understanding and agreement to act communicatively with Love
+ How to develop a strategy to reinforce and abstract some learning about yourself to Become Authentic with Love
+ And much, much more!

◆ A Love Attempt™ is the third book in Dr. Alachkar’s self-help series. The first was on Resilience and Meaning. The second, his memoir, was released only six months before the first draft of this project. In Being Authentic, he wrote ideas about love but did not develop them sufficiently. So he is completing that project here◆

◆ Dr. Alachkar’s elegant but transparent manuscript is packed with thought-provoking insights and concrete action steps to make salient our native competency for loving so we can then orient our next actions toward embracing love. If you want to learn the conceptualization of love and say “My next act is A Love Attempt!” then you can’t afford to miss Morhaf’s essential guide.

✓ Unlock your true love potential with this easy-to-follow guide Today! ♥

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The Complete Psychedelic Microdosing Bible: A Trend That Stretches From The Silicon Valley To Wall Street! by Jake Stacks

The Complete Psychedelic Microdosing Bible: A Trend That Stretches From The Silicon Valley To Wall Street! by Jake Stacks

INTRODUCTION

The Complete Psychedelic Microdosing Bible is a masterpiece that explains everything you need to know about psychedelic microdosing, magic mushrooms, LSD, MDMA, DMT, psychedelic therapy, psychedelic drugs, and their effects. The book is written based on verified and confirmed information from researches, study surveys, and individual testimonies from people who have used these medical procedures and can testify to its effectiveness.

The contents of the book are arranged in an understandable way that can be used for different purposes like project writing, self-growth, knowledge acquisition, medical research, and much more.

The e-book is segmented into ten main chapters which are connected with many explanatory sub-headings for better understanding. This e-book contains the meaning, history, and usefulness of psychedelic therapy, the correlation between psychedelic therapy, magic mushrooms, LSD, DMT in relation to the great Silicon Valley and Wall Street. This information can be used in every area of our lives in attaining great height if not the highest level of spiritual awareness and consciousness.

This sounds interesting, right? This is the main reason why you need to get this ebook. It contains knowledge that liberates the body from pain and also helps in attaining a better version of one’s ability. Get this book and you will be surprised at how what is written in it will change your life for the best. You’re still on the path of self-discovery? Then this ebook is for you!

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Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer by Morhaf Al Achkar


About Featured Book: Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer by Morhaf Al Achkar

Pursuing a more Purposeful Life? Assimilate stories from 39 patients with incurable Lung Cancer as they share their experiences, hopes, and strengths to find meaning in your life.

Life is an unfinished project, and similarly, finding meaning is an uncompleted task. But how exactly do we find meaning? How do people find strength? The diagnosis of cancer or other terminal cases create significant adversity. So how do people develop resilience? How do they keep going? These questions had been tackled for centuries by philosophy and religion. So what is there to add?

While there is no such thing as a School of Life Professor, you now have a viable alternative. Morhaf Al Achkar obtained his Ph.D in education and is currently a practicing family physician at the University of Washington. He was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Since then, his research has focused on the experiences of patients living with cancer. This book is based on interviews he did with 39 patients who live, like him, with advanced illness. He explored how these patients find meaning, cope, and build resilience. Using his own experiences and deep knowledge of philosophical concepts, Morhaf shares his understanding of a meaningful life from the perspective of someone aware of his own finitude.

Inside Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer™, you will:

+ Confront questions about life, meaning, and your legacy before it is too late
+ Gain a new perspective on the meaning of living that transcends culture and social status
+ Learn countless coping strategies across various disciplines to build your individual Resilience
+ Acquire a positive and realistic perspective on your life that promotes hope and healing for your body, mind and spirit.
+ And much, much more!

This is a compelling book by an author who is wearing multiple hats — as a doctor, an academic, a lung cancer advocate, and ultimately, a patient himself. Dr. Alachkar’s knowledge-based, yet deeply personal and relateable book will give you a variety of viewpoints on questions like the meaning of life, finding hope in a terminal diagnosis, building resilience, finding or losing one’s faith in a higher power, and much more! From its heartfelt personal accounts of how these strong individuals cope with cancer, to the thought-provoking search for meaning that underlies it all, this book is sure to run you through your complete gamut of emotions. If you seek a greater capacity for empathy or find relief in shared experiences, acceptance of altering realities and changed identities, then you can’t afford to miss this book.

♥ This book is about the essence of the human experience at its limits. It is for Every Reader! ♥

✓Get your FREE Kindle Copy to Live a more Meaningful Life Today!

This Non-Fiction book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print, Audiobook

The Kat Drummond Collection Box-Set: Action Urban Fantasy Series (Books 1-4)

About The Kat Drummond Collection Box-Set: Action Urban Fantasy Series (Books 1-4)

If there’s one thing I hate more than anything, it’s the undead.

So, just my luck that I’ve got a ghost living rent-free inside my head…

When I was just a kid, my parents were sacrificed by a necromancer. I survived. Barely.

But, the ordeal left me hating two things – necromancers and the undead they bring into the world.

Fast forward years later and I’ve been possessed by a ghost! But, Treth of Concord isn’t just any ordinary ghost. He’s proud, chivalrous and a knight from another world.

Now, with his counsel and some cheap swords I bought on the internet, I hunt the undead of Hope City. For honour, for vengeance, and maybe just a hefty bounty.

My name is Kat Drummond, and I’m a Part-Time Monster Hunter.

The Kat Drummond Collection contains the first FOUR books in the epic urban fantasy action series starring Kat Drummond. Join the Crusaders of Hope City, who love the series for its lovable cast of complex characters and stellar world-building.

The box-set will be 99c for the whole of October, with sequels being discounted later in the month.

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Dirty Deeds by Armand Rosamilia

Dirty Deeds by Armand Rosamilia

I get paid to erase problems.

Did your extramarital affair produce an unwanted complication? Family problems? Just want to enjoy your midlife crisis by yourself?

That’s where I come in. For a fee I’ll take care of it. A big fee.

Only, I’m not going to do what you think. I’m not going to save you from them, I’m going to save them from you.

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Why Am I Blamed For The Horse On The Porch

About Why Am I Blamed For The Horse On The Porch

This is an adventure story of sixteen-year-old Angie James. She acquires a kennel full of dogs and then a little red horse named Cheyenne. He becomes an endless amount of mischief when he becomes friends with the dogs. Angie meets Donny, but embarrasses herself and becomes too shy to get to know him. Angie’s best friend Liz and the crazy horse, Cheyenne set out to remedy the situation. This is a joyful, fast moving story about kennel life, showing dogs, and all the crazy things that can happen with a menagerie of animals.

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Holiday Fake-out by Heather Graham & 21 more Authors


About Featured Book: Holiday Fake-out: 22 Fake Holiday Dates to Heat Up the Season by Heather Graham & 21 more Authors Graham

Need a date for the holidays? We’ve got you covered with 22 fake holidates to heat up your season!

Travel from small towns to cosmopolitan cities, snow covered mountains to gorgeous mansions. You’ll meet sexy billionaires, brainy tech gods, buff journalists, sinfully cocky athletes, and sizzling hot chefs. They’re naughty and nice (and everything in between) and they’re enough to fulfill any romantic fantasies.

These 22 swoon-worthy heroes are ready to be your *fake* plus-one at holiday events, from Christmas weddings to Chanukah and Kwanzaa celebrations. Each starts out as a charade, and though they might lie to family, friends, or co-workers, they won’t be able to fool themselves when a very real romance develops.

Escape into addictive tales of second chances, sweet new beginnings, secret crushes, friends to lovers, love triangles, and forbidden rendezvous. Throw in a mix of suspense, laughs, passion, and temptation, and your holidays are set.

Download HOLIDAY FAKEOUT now to get the season started. The tingles, butterflies, and swoons brought on by these sweet and scorching stories will have you wondering which book boyfriend you should bring home for the holidays.

This Romance book is available in these Formats: eBook

Before: Jared’s Story by Gina Detwiler


About Featured Book: Before: Jared’s Story by Gina Detwiler

PREQUEL TO THE FORLORN SERIES…
Before Jared met Grace, he had lived several lifetimes of heartbreak, struggle, loneliness, and sometimes joy. His father tried to kill him, and his family shunned him for an original sin he didn’t truly understand until he came face to face with true evil and discovered the demon within himself.

Born in the mid-nineteenth century to a family of itinerant circus performers, Jared didn’t understand why his body grew so slowly or why his parents were ashamed of him and tried to hide him from the world. Through the years he discovered more disturbing things about himself—his unusual strength, the way his body healed with remarkable speed, and the “shadow people” who whispered dark and terrible things in his ear. Only music seemed to subdue their wicked urgings, and the prayers of his mother, the one person in his life who had loved him.

He soon came to understand that he was a danger to the world, and it would be better if he left it alone. But the more he tried, the more he was drawn into a whirlwind of darkness and evil from which he couldn’t escape.

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

Bray (Lighthouse Security Investigations Book 10) by Maryann Jordan

About Bray (Lighthouse Security Investigations Book 10) by Maryann Jordan

His mission? A leisurely, first-class train ride through the Canadian Rockies escorting a doctor who was afraid of flying.

Easy. Relaxing. And if the doctor is a beautiful, funny, kind-hearted woman that makes him wish for a future he thought had been buried with his last Special Forces mission, what can go wrong?

Plenty.
Illegal weapons smuggler. Nefarious businessmen. An explosion that knocks the train off the tracks. An escape into the Canadian forest. And the doctor with a medical condition and not enough medication.

Bray will need to use all his skills and help from fellow Keepers to turn this mission gone wrong into a success… after all, both their lives, and their hearts depend on it.

Lighthouse Security Investigations
The security and investigation company is filled with handpicked men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and Air Force Special Ops. All trained in CIA Special Operations, the Keepers were the best of the best and ready to take on any mission.

Scenes and language similar to an R-rated movie. 18+ readers only.

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Astral Projection for Beginners: The Astral Travel Guide to an Intentional Out-of-Body Experience by Silvia Hill

About Astral Projection for Beginners: The Astral Travel Guide to an Intentional Out-of-Body Experience by Silvia Hill

Discover astral projection and change your life in the most remarkable way!
Do you ever wonder if there’s more to life than what you can see with your own eyes?
Have you heard of astral projection but assumed it was something only gurus and monks could do?
Are you desperate to find out if the astral plane is real?
Are you curious to learn more about “the other you”?
This book will open the door to the astral plane for you to finally discover its treasures.
• Discover the truth about how many bodies you have.
• Get acquainted with your multidimensional self.
• Learn the difference between fact and fiction regarding the astral plane.
• Discover over twenty-five of the most potent methods to help you get out of your physical body.
• Learn how to use the astral plane as the ultimate cheat code to level up your life.
• Become a master of your mind by working with the most potent mindfulness techniques.
• Experience high-definition visuals on each of your astral trips.
• Recall and download all your astral experiences like a pro.
• Revel in the experience of being in two places at the same time.
• Master teleportation, astral flight, and lots more.
• Say goodbye to pain as you unlock the healing power of the astral plane.
• Learn the proper exit and re-entry strategy so you can travel like a boss.
• Make every hour of your life count by mastering this skill.
With this book as your foundation, you can explore the astral world, peel back the veil shrouding alternate realms and states of consciousness, and discover the truth about your rich, multidimensional life.
If you want to unlock the door to a world of magic, wonder and quantum transformation, get this book now!

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