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Oscar Octopus and Scuba Stu by Karen R Lacy

About Oscar Octopus and Scuba Stu by Karen R Lacy

While Oscar the octopus enjoyed swimming along in the ocean one day, he witnessed a scuba diver heading for trouble. What would Oscar do? Perhaps he rescued Scuba Stu in a way that only an Octopus can do. They soon became best friends. You’re invited to join them in their exciting adventures, including a treasure hunt!

This reading experience will be unforgettable! Oscar Octopus and Scuba Stu is part of the Karen R Lacy Children’s Book series. Your Amazon review is welcome!

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100 Uplifting and Funny Short Stories for Seniors: Large Print, Easy-to-Read Tales That Bring Laughter, Memories, and Mental Stimulation by Michael Smith

About 100 Uplifting and Funny Short Stories for Seniors: Large Print, Easy-to-Read Tales That Bring Laughter, Memories, and Mental Stimulation by Michael Smith

100 Uplifting and Funny Short Stories for Seniors offers a delightful collection of heartwarming tales designed to bring joy and laughter to seniors. Each story features relatable characters and situations that evoke fond memories, making it the perfect companion for cozy evenings or sharing with loved ones. The large print and easy-to-read format ensure a comfortable reading experience, even for those with visual impairments. From nostalgic moments to light-hearted adventures, this book offers a quick mental escape, a boost of positivity, and a reminder of life’s beauty. Available for just $0.99 for a limited time, it’s the ideal way to brighten a senior’s day!

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OUT OF THE SUN: BOOK ONE: THE SPIRIT GUILD SERIES by Janeen O’Kerry

About OUT OF THE SUN: BOOK ONE: THE SPIRIT GUILD SERIES by Janeen O’Kerry

The Complete Four-Volume Series Is Now Available!

This short story is Book One of Four in the first-contact science fiction series THE SPIRIT GUILD.

As an unknown spaceship approaches Earth from the far side of the sun, aliens hiding on Earth stage a terrifying attack on a U.S. Army detachment. All reports of the attack are immediately silenced.

The only survivors are Rik and Vik, who are determined to stop the creatures even if that means losing their military careers. All they can do now is to follow faint clues to an ancient, mysterious group who might – or might not – be able to help them.

No part of this work was created using artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind.

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Uncle Henry’s Hacienda

About Uncle Henry’s Hacienda

Throughout his life, Henry Anderson, born in 1891, had one dream: to own a cattle ranch in Mexico with a beautiful hacienda. Initially, he faced obstacles, but he fought furiously to win a speed typing competition in record time. With perseverance and a cool head, Henry used his prize money to invest in the oil business.
From a small farm in rural South Texas to a dusty border town in Arizona, Henry then moved to California, his finances affluent. He experienced the glitz and glamour of Hollywood in the 1920s; however, high life soon came crashing down. No wife, no child, no money and no status. Everything was gone! His only option was the uncertain life of a prospector in the mountains of Northern Mexico.
Henry’s story includes periods of great success and abject failure as he continued to follow his dream, from mining gold, getting caught up in a Marxist revolt and suffering torture by the Mexican Federales, to rekindling his past in South Texas, where the most unexpected revelation occurred. No matter the financial or psychological torment, even in his old age, he never faltered in his search for that elusive hacienda.

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Little Bat’s First Halloween By Mara Mae

About Little Bat’s First Halloween By Mara Mae

Join Little Bat on his very first Halloween night, full of magic, fun, and friendly creatures! As Little Bat soars into the starry sky, he meets a kind witch, a giggling ghost, and a silly dancing skeleton. Along the way, he encounters a playful black cat, a singing werewolf, and even a mischievous vampire! With each new friend, Little Bat learns that Halloween is full of laughter and excitement, not fear.

From glowing jack-o’-lanterns to a joyful Halloween party under the full moon, Little Bat’s First Halloween is an enchanting adventure that will leave little readers eager to join the fun—and ready to dream of next Halloween!

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Hidden In A Hawaiian Sunset: Book One: The Broken Woman Cycle

About Hidden In A Hawaiian Sunset: Book One: The Broken Woman Cycle

Malia Kenway was born with the world at her feet. Raised on an island called Moku Nani, she lacked companionship until she met Nathan Arthur Scott. They grew up together in the beauty of Hawaii but were separated when he left for a university in London. When he returns eight years later, he is a completely different person. As if on cue, Malia’s parents are in a horrific car accident. Then the family lawyer tries to blackmail her in a scheme to steal her father’s wealth. A man called Mr. M orchestrates this chaos from the shadows and Malia comes to suspect that Nathan is more involved than she would ever want to believe.

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The Hills of Tuscany: Book Two: The Broken Woman Cycle

About The Hills of Tuscany: Book Two: The Broken Woman Cycle

Abigail Simon was not good with men. In fact, she was totally hopeless around them. So she never imagined she would be seeing Dante Antoine again, the most intimidating and glorious male she had ever laid eyes upon. Sure, they’d had a connection when he saved her life in Hawaii. But if someone told her she would be showing up on his doorstep over a year later, she would have called them insane. Of course, this was before she finds herself stranded in Italy and on the verge of losing everything she still cares about. It seems like she has no other choice but to barge into his villa and ask for a favor.

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Horror Geek Vampire Slayers by Lee Cushing

About Horror Geek Vampire Slayers by Lee Cushing

Kevin Sanger is a dedicated horror movie fan who discovers that monsters and demons are real. Attending an horror convention, he soon discovers that a celebrity guest who plays a vampire slayer on a television show is not just pretending to hunt down demons for the viewing public and find himself having to face his friends who have been corrupted.

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Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes That Bind Us

About Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes That Bind Us

What Boxes Define You?

“I thought I’d figured out boxes early in life. From the anticipation of the puppet leaping out of my wind-up jack in the box to constructing castles from oversized cardboard containers, I thought I understood their boundaries. Yet, as life unfolded, I realized boxes aren’t always square, and some are cleverly designed to keep us confined.”

Boxes are a part of our lives, following us wherever we venture, whether we acknowledge them or not. They provide structure, safety, and security and often help identify similarities between us. We live in boxes (houses), receive boxed gifts, and pack our belongings into boxes to move into a new “box.” We use boxes to express things: “Think outside the box,” “She’s boxed into a corner,” or “Be sure to check all the boxes.” Some people base their identity on the box they put themselves in.

Boxes can also be scary. By nature, they divide and separate. Unseen, metaphorical boxes of expectations of our families, religions, communities, employers, and others can evoke intense emotions and trap us.

Serial real estate entrepreneur Betsy Pepine has lived in her share of boxes. From growing up with the expectation of becoming a doctor through creating a successful real estate business—one of Inc.’s 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the USA multiple times—her compelling stories shared in Breaking Boxes will help you:

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Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes That Bind Us

About Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes That Bind Us

What Boxes Define You?

“I thought I’d figured out boxes early in life. From the anticipation of the puppet leaping out of my wind-up jack in the box to constructing castles from oversized cardboard containers, I thought I understood their boundaries. Yet, as life unfolded, I realized boxes aren’t always square, and some are cleverly designed to keep us confined.”

Boxes are a part of our lives, following us wherever we venture, whether we acknowledge them or not. They provide structure, safety, and security and often help identify similarities between us. We live in boxes (houses), receive boxed gifts, and pack our belongings into boxes to move into a new “box.” We use boxes to express things: “Think outside the box,” “She’s boxed into a corner,” or “Be sure to check all the boxes.” Some people base their identity on the box they put themselves in.

Boxes can also be scary. By nature, they divide and separate. Unseen, metaphorical boxes of expectations of our families, religions, communities, employers, and others can evoke intense emotions and trap us.

Serial real estate entrepreneur Betsy Pepine has lived in her share of boxes. From growing up with the expectation of becoming a doctor through creating a successful real estate business—one of Inc.’s 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the USA multiple times—her compelling stories shared in Breaking Boxes will help you

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Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes That Bind Us

About Breaking Boxes: Dismantling the Metaphorical Boxes That Bind Us

What Boxes Define You?

“I thought I’d figured out boxes early in life. From the anticipation of the puppet leaping out of my wind-up jack in the box to constructing castles from oversized cardboard containers, I thought I understood their boundaries. Yet, as life unfolded, I realized boxes aren’t always square, and some are cleverly designed to keep us confined.”

Boxes are a part of our lives, following us wherever we venture, whether we acknowledge them or not. They provide structure, safety, and security and often help identify similarities between us. We live in boxes (houses), receive boxed gifts, and pack our belongings into boxes to move into a new “box.” We use boxes to express things: “Think outside the box,” “She’s boxed into a corner,” or “Be sure to check all the boxes.” Some people base their identity on the box they put themselves in.

Boxes can also be scary. By nature, they divide and separate. Unseen, metaphorical boxes of expectations of our families, religions, communities, employers, and others can evoke intense emotions and trap us.

Serial real estate entrepreneur Betsy Pepine has lived in her share of boxes. From growing up with the expectation of becoming a doctor through creating a successful real estate business—one of Inc.’s 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the USA multiple times—her compelling stories shared in Breaking Boxes will help you

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Pure and Stained Roses

About Pure and Stained Roses

Rose, Kate, and Annabel have been best friends since college. They were faced with making the right or wrong choice for a life partner.
Kate had an unhappy childhood experience due to a lack of fatherly love. Her father divorced her mother and disappeared with another woman, leaving her mother heartbroken. To prevent this from happening to her, she decided to do what she called ‘a one-year pre-marriage thing’ with her fiancé before marriage. This is a way she can be sure she is marrying the right man, and it is also a way to prevent ever getting a divorce.
Kate’s son, named Charles, and Rose’s daughter, named Isabella, became childhood best friends and went to the same high school. They behave like lovers but aren’t dating. This friendship has broken many of their dates. Their parents and close friends decided to do anything possible that would make them lovers.
Charles and Isabella registered for a one-week free Hawaii vacation in a way they didn’t exactly plan. The vacation is strictly for lovers, and it has romantic rules that will spice up relationships. After they were luckily shortlisted, they traveled to Hawaii and were faced with challenging situations in which what they had done in the past caught up with them.
In Charles and Isabella’s high school, there were three friends named Jane, Linda, and Susan. Something very strange happened between them, which broke their friendship. However, they later encountered a serious issue that, if they don’t get back together and work quickly to find a solution, could endanger their lives.

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Colors in Circles – A Playful Exploration for Little Minds by Lil Rustle

About Colors in Circles – A Playful Exploration for Little Minds by Lil Rustle

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Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your toddlers and preschoolers about colors and shapes through colourful illustrations and rhyme?

Beyond simply introducing concepts,”Colors in Circles” delights and encourages children to explore, ask questions, and foster a love of learning through engagement and curiosity.

Follow our endearing protagonist as he curiously asks, ‘What is (color) and round?’ From the bright yellow sun to the irresistible pink lollipop, each page unveils vibrant colors found in everyday objects, nurturing early learning and language development.

Lil Rustle’s approach goes beyond introducing colors and shapes by crafting a joyful reading experience. With rhythmic rhymes and repetition, the book aids in language development, while the lively illustrations make learning a visual delight.

Key Features:

Playful Exploration: Join our charming protagonist in discovering new colors and shapes, igniting curiosity and sparking creativity.

Vibrant Illustrations: Captivate young minds and make learning visually stimulating with these lively illustrations, which bring the colors and round shapes to life.

Discover 10 Colors: Explore 10 lively colors within round forms, encouraging exploration and fostering a love of learning.

Everyday Object Connection: Connects learning to familiar objects with relatable content, making the educational experience relevant, engaging, and applicable to everyday life.

Rhythmic Rhyme and Repetitive Phrases: Encourage language development through rhythmic rhymes and repetition, enhancing comprehension and retention in a fun and engaging manner.

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Sorcerers of Tibet, The Mystery & Magic by M.G. Hawking

About Sorcerers of Tibet, The Mystery & Magic by M.G. Hawking

Discover the Profound Secrets of the Ancient Zhang Zhung Art of True Magic. Transcribed directly from the field notes and journals of explorer M.G. Hawking’s sixty-two months in remote Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, this book contains detailed narratives of Hawking’s experiences and conversations with a powerful practitioner of the ancient Zhang Zhung art of magic. These narratives provide unprecedented first-hand accounts of her demonstrations of psychokinetic abilities and in-depth descriptions of the apprenticeship and the knowledge that allows the acquisition of such extraordinary abilities, the ‘Four Portals.’
A group of highly esoteric teachings setting forth the true nature of physical reality and techniques of powerful elemental magic, the ‘Four Portals’ and are of extreme antiquity. The first extant traces of the teachings appear as part of the lore of the ancient Zhang Zhung culture, but they are believed to have originated far earlier. Being an exceedingly restricted body of knowledge, said to convey enormous powers, the teachings disappear from the historical record for some 2600 years, not to reemerge until the 7th century AD in the arcane scriptures of the pre-Buddhist B’on religion in Nepal.
The rare esoteric teachings of the ‘Four Portals’ contain enormous amounts of elemental magic, in keeping with their view of the cosmos as a psycho-physical unity, able to be manipulated in heightened states of awareness through clandestine techniques and practices. These teachings are founded on a profound premise: “The Universe is but a mirage which exists in the mind, springs from it, is controlled by it, and sinks into it.”
To understand this premise in a contemporary context, we may consider the following: “As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of the existence of consciousness. The mind is the matrix of all matter.”—Max Planck, originator of Quantum Mechanics, Nobel Laureate. “Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms, for consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. Quantum physics reveals a basic oneness of the universe. Multiplicity is only apparent; in truth, there is only one mind.”—Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Laureate. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”—Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate.
An incomparable book for anyone seeking enlarged knowledge and personal power. 2020 Edition, e-reader page count 374 (estimated, count varies with reading device used). A Kindle Unlimited Book. For more information, please see the description and ‘Read sample’ feature on the book’s Amazon page. Thank you.

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The Secrets of Mystic Springs (Mystic Springs Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series)

About The Secrets of Mystic Springs (Mystic Springs Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series)

Welcome to Mystic Springs… where things definitely go bump in the night.
Connie Winters imagines that allowing all of the residents of Mystic Springs to see the spirits who live amongst them will let her live a quiet life.
She couldn’t be more wrong.
When a gypsy woman discovers a historic journal, the woman will pay the ultimate price for her treasure.
Everyone knows that Mystic Springs was discovered, and founded, by a group of women. Or, at least, that’s what they’ve been told. This journal tells another story. A story that nobody wants to believe.
But who would want the journal badly enough to kill for it?
With the town’s new Sheriff distracted from the case, it falls to Connie and her dead sister to work alongside the dead former Sheriff to solve the case and discover the truth about Mystic Springs.
This is a full-length paranormal cozy mystery. Spooky not scary. Lighthearted and fun.
Second in series by Mona Marple, author of the Waterfell Tweed cozy mystery series.

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Ex by Alicia Thompson

About Ex by Alicia Thompson

In 2011, Toby Soames dies from a freak accident on Hampstead Heath; Charlie Falk simply disappears. Two years later, Australian Adele Soames returns to London to be nearer her son and the places he loved. She is joined in her pilgrimages to the heath by Charlie. Charlie tells her things; unnerving things about his last day alive.

Enter DS Xandra Bentley, a member of Adele’s grief support group at St Bart’s. Xandra has worked on a number of cold cases of missing boys in the area and Adele’s information reignites her interest. As new evidence comes to light, Adele has the creeping dread that she is bringing danger closer to home.

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113 Steps into Albert Einstein’s Mind: A Journey Through his Quotes by Michael J. Bowes

About 113 Steps into Albert Einstein’s Mind: A Journey Through his Quotes by Michael J. Bowes

“113 Steps into Albert Einstein’s Mind” invites readers on a fascinating exploration of Einstein’s thoughts. Known for his groundbreaking scientific contributions, Einstein also offered profound insights into curiosity, imagination, and the human condition. This book presents a curated collection of his quotes, each accompanied by context and commentary, revealing the depth of his wisdom. Available for free on KDP Select starting tomorrow.

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Velvet Love by Lee Cushing

About Velvet Love by Lee Cushing

It is the 1930’s and Gracie Powell was a married movie star who was living a lie, her marriage to Alfred Powell was a sham, set up to hide her attraction to other women.

Virginia Parsons was a respected school teacher, beloved by her students, lying to her colleagues about her sexuality.

When Gracie picked up Virginia at a bar frequented b women who enjoyed the company and love of other women, their friendship rapidly turned to romance and then love as the two women grew closer ina world where such feelings were taboo.

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Above Dark Waters

About Above Dark Waters

Artificial therapy so great, you’ll never log off! (And won’t notice the ads).

A near-future sci-fi about brain privacy in the age of unfettered surveillance capitalism. What will companies do when they can read your actual mind? How far will they go to get your click? How much engagement? This is how cyberpunk starts.

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