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Your Safe Retirement Roadmap: A powerful guide to planning and living a deeply-fulfilled and prosperous retirement

About Your Safe Retirement Roadmap: A powerful guide to planning and living a deeply-fulfilled and prosperous retirement

Today we are living longer and longer more than any generation before us, with that comes tremendous opportunities as well as staggering challenges. The opportunities are, that we can dream bigger dreams, spend more time with our loved ones, travel tp farther places, more than out parents and grand parents could have ever imagined. The challenge however, is How do we make sure our money lasts as long as we do!

This book will show you how to never ever run out of money in retirement, using my 4 Bucket system.
How to never ever lose money in the Stock Market again, while getting very good returns.
How to use a little know secret passed by congress back in 2010, which most advisors don’t know about, that provides for creative and tax efficient ways to pay for Long Term Care.
How to avoid the retirement Danger Zone, which is the 5 years before and the 5 years during retirement.

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The 7-Minute Shift by Michelle Sera

About The 7-Minute Shift by Michelle Sera

Get out of your own way, manifest your greatest self, and grow a massively successful business in as little as 7 minutes a day!

When starting or growing a business, it’s not uncommon to find yourself in the quicksand of fear, doubt, and worry. It’s this downward pull that can make you abandon your dream of a successful business meant to give you freedom, purpose, impact, and meaning.

I can tell you that it’s a well-traveled road and I might even be so bold as to say… a trap.

What if there was a way to move past the fear, doubt, and worry stealing your success and instead, manifest more of the results you’d like to see? (And it only takes 7 minutes.)

The 7-Minute Shift™ is my simple, yet highly effective tool for bypassing struggle and moving towards the business results you want to see with ease. It’s reliable, repeatable, and revolutionary!

I developed this after years of observing people trying to build a business (well over 900 of them), falling victim to their worst enemy – Self.

It’s quick, deceptively easy, and what you’ve been waiting for.

Inside The 7-Minute Shift, you’ll find:

-The Crazy, simple question that shows you what’s slowing down your success
-What really fuels your manifestations in your life and business
-ONE statement (in chapter 2) will be the most profound ah-ha moment you’ll ever have
-A self-image hack for quickly moving forward towards the freedom you want
-The vibration elevators hiding in plain sight (in your everyday life)
-The key to integration and manifesting momentum that literally hits ‘send’ on your biggest business dreams, desires, and goals.

A workbook format, so you have everything you need to start shifting right NOW(Full, 8.5 x 11 size plus lined pages)

With personal stories, inspiration, mantras, and exercises in every chapter, this quick read will help you shift your state of mind, what you’re currently manifesting in your business (and life), and your results. The 7-Minute Shift will quickly become your favorite success-accelerator go-to AND that personal, heart-felt gift you give all your entrepreneur friends.

This workbook is a great tool and can serve as your manifestation journal, happiness journal, and all around mindset workbook to help you grow a massively successful business in as little as 7 minutes a day.

Grab your copy for just .99 cents from November 15th to the 19th!

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Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to Success at Work and In Life: A step-by-step guide to developing self-awareness, improving your people skills, and creating happier relationships

About Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to Success at Work and In Life: A step-by-step guide to developing self-awareness, improving your people skills, and creating happier relationships

Develop Your Emotional Intelligence In Just 10 Minutes a Day With Tried & Tested Techniques

Emotional intelligence has exploded in popularity during the past few decades. The results of the many scientific research undertaken on the topic of emotional intelligence are staggering. Several studies have found that IQ only matters for about 20% of success in life. But EQ is entirely responsible for the remaining 80%.

Lacking Emotional Intelligence can negatively affect every area of life.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this ebook:

What is meant by “emotional intelligence,” and what are the advantages of being emotionally intelligent. (Including your work and personal life)
The proven strategy for improving your relationships (Including your professional and personal relationships)
Understand who you are deep inside.
Understand why and how your body reacts to your various emotional states.
The steps to take after realizing you’ve been triggered emotionally.
How to raise your EQ by accepting accountability and establishing limits.
Understand the role of emotions in business success and professional relationships.
Build self-awareness.
Learn the foundational principles that allow you to take charge of your emotions.
Understand how to manage anger issues.
Use emotional intelligence as a tool for conflict resolution.
Improve your social life.
Build trusting and long-term relationships.
Learn the five core components that make up an individual’s emotional quotient.
Your EQ can be easily damaged by negative emotions, but you will learn concrete techniques for dealing with them.
Master interpersonal relationships.
Control and Manage Stress

Additionally, you’ll get the following:

Proven tools and techniques to manage your emotions.
Assignments to help you discover yourself and your emotions.
1 Breathing exercise.
1 Grounding technique
Techniques to rewire your mind.
25 Stress reduction strategies and techniques

This book is your key to developing self-awareness, improving your people skills, and creating happier relationships.

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Grandfather Anonymous by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

About Grandfather Anonymous by Anthony W. Eichenlaub

Elderly, unarmed, and extremely dangerous.

Ajay Andersen was the best hacker the NSA had ever hired. He sank corporations, toppled governments, and broke cryptography. All of it. Retirement hasn’t slowed him down one bit, thank you very much.

His granddaughters are threatened, and he’s going to need to step it up a notch. Biotech corporations and criminal enterprises hold the keys to survival, but ubiquitous surveillance threatens to reveal Ajay’s every move. Ajay would do anything to protect his family, but the more he digs, the more he dredges up the shadows of his own dangerous past.

He only needs to know one thing:

What makes his granddaughters so darn dangerous?

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The Saffron Runners

About The Saffron Runners

Afghanistan, 1827. Suleiman Farkhari stands in the carnage of his village, devastated by brutal raids by the Persians. Along with a band of warrior brothers, he will make a fantastic journey from Hindu Kush to desert to the fabled city of Isfahan and back across the Border of Flags.

They seek retribution, and the ultimate prize: the horses. And there is only one Horse Master who can lead them.

A tale of daring, deception and unceasing action, The Saffron Runners will have your heart pounding as you urge the Heavenly Horses on, gallop with the Drinkers of the Wind, and thrill to hot-blooded chases spiced with mystery, romance and the lure of a destiny to be fulfilled.

Outstandingly well researched and brimming with historical detail, The Saffron Runners is a real page-turner.

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Orenda by Brenda Trim

Orenda by Brenda Trim

ORENDA #1 – CURSE OF IMMORTALITY

Althea and Maeve never asked for eternal life.
Born in the early sixteenth century, their survival depended on hiding their special abilities from the superstitious village people they lived among. Controlling the elements and healing animals would get a person executed for witchery.

As they grew older Maeve got tired of hiding and that’s when disaster followed. Soon the twin-sisters would come to wish that their abilities included going back in time to change tragic events.

In this New Adult Fantasy trilogy, Elin Peer and Pearl Beacon introduce you to an epic tale that spreads out over centuries. Get ready to fall in love with the lush and magical Orenda and to be intrigued by the secret world of people with magical powers which includes some very handsome and mysterious shape shifters. Expect a slow burn romance.

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Watching the Daisies – Life Lessons on the Importance of Slow

About Watching the Daisies – Life Lessons on the Importance of Slow

Watching the Daisies is a beautiful memoir penned by a passionate organic gardener, who transformed her life through mindfulness, self compassion and a positive attitude.

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So What Comes Next? by Michael A. Deffina


About Featured Book: So What Comes Next? by Michael A. Deffina

Find Comfort in the Future With This Guide That Will Guide You Through Difficult Life Decisions – The Perfect Workbook for Teenagers Unsure About Life After High School

You’re a teenager, and that means the future is wide open. You can be anything you want to be!

But how do you know which path to take?

Will you go to college?

Should you take a gap year?

What about your career?

How do you know you’re making the right decisions?

It’s normal to feel overwhelmed and frustrated when trying to figure out what you want to do with your life. You have so many options and it seems like everyone but you has it all figured out.

So What Comes Next? was written just for you!

It’s the perfect guide for any teen who wants to find their passion and make the most of their life. This workbook will help you determine which careers or occupations suit you best, and will make you happier than anything else.

This Book Provides the Reader:

– A personalized experience: Know that the answers that you’ll find in this guide are specially-tailored to work for YOU!
– A brighter future to look forward to: Say goodbye to uncertainty and anxiety about the future and feel excited about it instead!
– No missed opportunities!: Make the most out of your youth and make decisions that your future self will thank you for.
– And more!

With this guide, you can create a personal life plan that is tailored specifically for you – because you are unique! You’ll be able to pinpoint what is most important to you, and make the most of your time in high school and beyond.

Create the roadmap to a successful and fulfilling life.
This book includes the following bonus content: A Downloadable Life Planner Tool to build your Life Plan and update as your circumstances change and A Downloadable Financial Guide & Budget Planner to build your present and future budgets.

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

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When Love Sticks Around

About When Love Sticks Around

Hand-me-down pants that don’t quite fit, twilight bike rides down sleepy neighborhood streets, sweaty family camping trips, the things that almost break you, and the things you barely notice—it’s hard to see the shape of your life until you’re looking back on it.

In this collection of short essays, Danielle Dayney recounts her experiences as an awkward child in the piecemeal family that raised her. From her biological father’s absence to her mother’s battle with cancer to the birth of her daughter, Dayney’s stories venture beyond anecdote to nest safely among the tangled experiences that shape the people we become. With a keen eye for the pebbles of humor and glimmers of beauty along the rough roads of her life, Dayney has crafted a book that feels as familiar as a home-cooked meal and as exciting as the first night in a new city.

When Love Sticks Around is a memoir of love, loss, humor, identity, and above all, family—the one you’re born into and the one you gather along the way.

Those are the things worth sticking around for.

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The Prince is Missing!: A Kori Briggs Adventure

About The Prince is Missing!: A Kori Briggs Adventure

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SHE’S FUN. She’s smart. She’s gorgeous…

…Oh, and she’s a real badass when she needs to be. She’s Kori Briggs, super spy, and if you haven’t spent any time with her yet, what the heck are you waiting for?

In this fourth book of the popular A.P. Rawls series of Kori Briggs suspense spy thrillers, Kori has been tasked with the assignment of finding England’s missing Prince Grayson! All signs point to a kidnapping at the hands of an American ex-con, but Kori knows there’s much more to the story. Follow her and her trusty Russian sidekick Anya Kovalev as they scour the grand city of London for clues to the prince’s disappearance.

There is action, there is romance, there is adventure. And behind it all, there is the incomparable spirit of Kori Briggs!

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Murder in the Atchafalaya by Jim Riley

Murder in the Atchafalaya by Jim Riley

Author Riley does a first-rate job of steeping the reader in the milieu of South Louisiana and Cajun mores. From murders at mudbug fests to menacing mosquito swarms to monumentally malevolent snake pits, he puts the heat and humidity on every page. He’s also adept at weaving a spider-webbed plot that is both intricate and credible. There’s action, suspense, humor, and even a dash of romance in this gumbo of a novel.

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Training the Intern by Lillia Wett

About Training the Intern by Lillia Wett

After the company’s C.E.O. quits without telling his senior staff why Sheila has been dealing with more phone calls than she can handle. When she gets a young intern to help with organizing her office, Sheila can’t help having a little fun. She doesn’t expect Fynne to turn the tables on her when she needs to focus too.

*Contains graphic language and graphic depictions of sex. It also contains sexual situations with dubious consent. Adults only.

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Cold War Hot Lead

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San Francisco, 1947. The War is over. Sgt. Alexander Blade, former kiddie heartthrob of the silent screen, returns to San Francisco to start life anew as a private investigator.

He rents an office near Chinatown and tries to make sense of crazy, post-war San Francisco. He’s got a new client, a real oddball with a husband who’s gone missing. But when Blade’s former Hollywood cameraman turns up in his office as dead as fried oysters (with cash retainer in hand), Blade is drawn into a series of bizarre deaths of former silent film child actors. The cops call them accidental deaths, but Blade suspects murder. To find the serial killer behind the mystery, Blade must revisit a time when Hollywood knew him as Buster Blade, Wonder Boy of the Westerns.

While tracking down his client’s missing husband, Blade finds himself in the ruins of an abandoned movie studio, where he discovers, too late, that he’s been cast in one final scene that ends in murder.

Cold War, Hot Lead is the first Mace Palmer novel featuring Alexander “Buster” Blade, Frisco Detective. He is part of the pulp magazine, noir era of the 1940s, where modern sensibilities barely exist.

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The Mind Fuhrer

About The Mind Fuhrer

Free download from 11/16 through 11/18!

It’s Christmas in San Francisco, 1949. But private detective Alexander Blade is in no mood to celebrate. He’s on a skip trace job in the Tenderloin to help make ends meet. Fate steps in when his assistant, part time fan dancer Paloma Liu Tsong, accepts a new client while he’s away.

The client’s retainer seems too good to be true, until Paloma hears the terms. She must use an Ouija board to communicate with the client’s deceased boss, noted Berkeley sociologist Dr. Roswell Dvorak, PhD. to find his killer. The board sessions are off to a rocky start, downright dangerous, until Blade seeks help from a native shaman known as “the Chief,” to straighten things out.

Blade learns that Professor Dvorak was a member of a Marin County cult called Omenon, run by a former pulp fiction writer named Ananda Vedanta. Blade suspects the cult may have had something to do with Dvorak’s death.

Ananda Vedanta claims to get his information from a supernatural source and says he’s smarter than Einstein. He’s woven his cosmic revelations into a series of science fiction stories that eventually become the teachings of his cult.

But there’s more to Omenon than meets the eye. Within the cult’s inner circle, Nazi scientists are working on Project Mind Fuhrer, one of Hitler’s top secret weapons programs.

What began as a dalliance over an Ouija board turns into a plot to take over the entire planet. Blade gets hemmed in by the Professor’s oversexed daughter, an eccentric native shaman, and a long-haired guru determined to rule the world.

This is the second installment in the Frisco Detective series featuring Alexander “Buster” Blade, former silent film child star turned private investigator. The first in the series is Cold War Hot Lead.

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Adaptogens – Herbs and Spices for Physical and Emotional Balance

About Adaptogens – Herbs and Spices for Physical and Emotional Balance

Look, Feel, and Be Your Best With These Adaptogen Herbs That Will Change Your Life! – Finally Find Emotional and Physical Balance and Become Your Happiest Self
Adaptogens are a special category of herbs and spices that help your body adapt to emotional and physical stressors. This can mean improved energy levels, better sleep, reduced anxiety, and they taste great too!

However, it can be tough to figure out how to use adaptogens in your life, especially if you’re new to them.

There are so many different herbs and spices in this category, and it can be overwhelming trying to figure out which ones are right for you.

This book is here to help!

You don’t have to be feeling down or out of balance to enjoy the benefits of adaptogens.

In fact, they make an amazing addition to any diet — whether you’re looking for more energy, better digestion, or just want to feel your best.

We provide an easy-to-use guidebook that includes over 70 recipes for using adaptogens in your everyday life.

Discover:

How to maximize the plants’ effects: Help these plants help you by implementing these simple yoga, meditation, and breathwork tips that’ll have you feeling better than ever.
The Top 11 adaptogen herbs to consume: Uncover insane health benefits from these herbs that taste amazing as well. Here, you’ll only get the best of the best.
Recipes for any time of day: Seamlessly add these herbs into your diet with these breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes that anyone will love!
And more!
Bring some balance into your life with our adaptogenic recipes. With over 70 recipes that use adaptogenic herbs and spices in simple, delicious ways — from breakfast to dessert, there’s something for everyone!

This book will be available for free on Amazon on 17th November, but is also in Kindle Select.

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Cruising from Boston to Montreal by Sunny Lockwood

About Cruising from Boston to Montreal by Sunny Lockwood

This travel memoir celebrates a rousing game at Fenway Park, explores beautiful Acadia National Park, visits Halifax’s Immigration Museum, reveals Alexander Graham Bell’s role in Canadian flight, discovers the center of Ursuline history and worship in Quebec City, and much more.

Midwest Book Review says, “The first-person descriptions read with the drama of fiction and the excitement of journal writing….”

Veteran travelers Al and Sunny Lockwood share their adventures and misadventures on this scintillating cruise of exploration. Join them for an unforgettable journey through part of the largest country in the Western Hemisphere.

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Bad Boy Bachelor Thanksgiving

About Bad Boy Bachelor Thanksgiving

There’s only one thing I want spread out on my Thanksgiving table this year, and it’s not a turkey. It’s my new hire.
My assistants keep quitting, and apparently I’m the problem. Surely not.
I just haven’t found the right one. Until her.
And of all places to find her—a pumpkin farm.
There’s no way she’s cut out to work in my world, but I find myself offering her the job anyway.
Maybe it’s because she’s desperate to save her family farm.
No, it’s because I want her in my bed.
Mixing business and pleasure is a terrible idea, but this woman seems to be worth my downfall.
She’s ballsy, beautiful, and gets sh*t done.
Unfortunately for me, she’s also great at resisting what I know we both want.
It’s all business with her until I can’t think straight.
There’s only one thing on my mind, and it isn’t the holidays.
This woman is putting the bad in my big bad Thanksgiving Day parade.
She just doesn’t know how good it’s about to get.

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Before She Was Mine

About Before She Was Mine

Summer was mine once.

Leaving her behind to go to war was unforgivable. I survived… barely. Though my body is broken. I never expected to see her at the veteran’s support office.

There are a million reasons I don’t deserve her. Worse than she can imagine. My love is dangerous.

And my secrets are deadly.

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Barren Waters

About Barren Waters

The oceans are empty, marine life is extinct, and civilization has collapsed. In a post-apocalyptic world, Jeremy Colt must save his daughter’s life. With only their bikes and the packs on their backs, they must reach San Diego before her medicine runs out. The clock is ticking. Can they get there fast enough? And if they do, will it even save her?

WINNER! Hollywood Book Festival, Best Science Fiction Novel, 2017
WINNER! Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) – Silver Medal National Winner, Best Science Fiction Novel of 2017
WINNER! NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards) – Silver Medal Finalist, Best Science Fiction Novel, 2017
WINNER! San Francisco Green Book Festival, Best Science Fiction Novel, 2017

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Critter Countdown By Deborah Cooley Segal

About Critter Countdown By Deborah Cooley Segal

Children love animals! Take your budding zoologist on a mathematical adventure through the zoo as you explore the colorful pages of Critter Countdown together. Watch their eyes light up as they count the adorable animals and search for the elusive, hidden numbers. Written by a retired elementary school teacher, Critter Countdown is packed with opportunities for your little ones to learn numbers and develop language in an interactive and engaging way. The beautiful illustrations, simple rhyming text, and fun search-and-find game will have your children begging to read it again and again! Critter Countdown is sure to become the new family favorite!

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