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Lobbyist or Barber

If you are passionate about any cause you need this book.

Whether you are a teacher, a nurse, a doctor or a barber, building the right relationships is critical to success. 

Inspired by city council members, school administrators and mayors who came in for a haircut and passionate political debates in the barbershop where he worked, Bob Keaton has written a refreshing guide to principled lobbying. 

“Lobbyist or Barber” illustrates just how incredibly lucky Americans are to live in a country where we are free to jump in and become a part of the political process. 

Champion Your Career

Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work – A Synopsis

Anyone who has faced the challenge embarking on a new career knows how important is to have someone cheering you on and guiding you in developing effective strategies. In her new book Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work, Halimah Bellows, MA, MS, CCC, CPC draws on more than twenty years of experience as a career counselor/coach to bring readers the tools for championing their own careers. 

With empathy and enthusiasm, Bellows encourages readers to delve deeply and honestly into their experiences to determine an appropriate career path. 

Understanding your Child’s and Teen’s Behavior

As a licensed clinical psychologist and psychiatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Angie Rumaldo has helped adolescents make huge advancements in their lives. Now, she's here to shed new light on your own child's challenges and how to overcome them. 

Worried about your child's behavior and future? Discover how to decode their conduct to build a brighter tomorrow. 
Is your child struggling with schoolwork, friendships, or home life? Are you concerned about their ability to succeed? 

Through a series of action plans, Understanding Your Child's and Teen's Behavior helps kids correct common behavioral problems before they inflict lasting damage. 

Through My Eyes

The USA – the land of the future, the land of prosperity, success, glamor, and bling… But is it really (only) that?

Through this book and my eyes, you will come to feel the pulse of the “promised land”. This story is a mash up of my own awkward experiences on the other side of the great puddle, which I describe with a simple goal in mind: to dissolve the prejudices that we have about each other.

Just between us, I can assure you that you will laugh – and cry – your heart out while reading this tour de farce. They say that laughter is the best medicine, so you're actually holding a cure-all in your hands …

Release Your Obsession with Diet Chatter

Imagine what being at peace from inner negative diet chatter would be like.

Begin your journey to become free of all the heaviness and angst of life. Release self-doubt and turn on happy chatter and feel beautiful on the inside and on the outside. This book offers you a path to all of this, and the gift that all this would bring to your life and the lives of all those around you. 

Can you imagine what waking up day-after-day in a present state of mind feels like? What being fearless would be like? What having peace of mind, and living life without worry, filled with energy and mental sharpness would be like? 

Memoirs


 

Chickens Eat Pasta

Not just another romance, but a story of escapism, coincidences, friendship, luck and most of all… love.

Chickens Eat Pasta is the tale of how a young Englishwoman starts a new life after watching a video showing a chicken eating spaghetti in a mediaeval hill village in central Italy. 

“Here I was, 26 years old, alone and numb with boredom at the prospect of a future which until recently had seemed to be just what I wanted.”

Unlike some recent bestsellers, this is not simply an account of a foreigner’s move to Italy, but a love story written from the unusual perspective of both within and outside of the story. 

Sports


 

Empty Seats

They were all stars in their hometowns. Then they were drafted to play minor league ball, thinking it would be an easy ride to playing in the big time.

Little did they know that they'd be vying for a spot with every other talented kid who aspired to play professional baseball. Young, inexperienced, immature, and without the support of their families and friends, they're often faced with split-second decisions. Not always on the baseball diamond.

Romance


 

Love Song Standards Series Boxed Set

If you love Contemporary Romances with relatable, flawed characters who are sometimes wounded or broken and eventually find that kind of love we all dream of, you'll love this series titled after some of the greatest love songs of all times. 

Unchaine Melody ~ Pamela Landers had it all, a senior partnership with a top law firm, expensive car, and a luxurious condo. What she desired most was a loving husband, children and a life filled with precious memories that would comfort her through her golden years. Funny how fate has a way of steering you down that path where dreams really can come true. When Pamela encounters Gavin Templeton along her journey, she has some life-altering decisions to make that eventually lead her to happily ever after.

Year of the Slut

Six months after Dana’s first break-up she is single, heartbroken and horny in New York City. At 25 she is a virgin once removed and navigating the Manhattan dating world is daunting – finding a new boyfriend isn’t happening fast enough to satisfy her overwhelming sexual needs.

Having only been intimate with one man, Dana feels ashamed of her desires and keeps trying to squash them in order to be a ‘good girl’. With the help of Kelly, her unabashedly promiscuous roommate, Dana embarks on a wild adventure of sexual discovery and finds power and confidence while taking charge of her erotic exploration.

Growing up in Barbados

Growing Up In Barbados is set in the idyllic and beautiful island of Barbados, in the fifties, it tells of one woman's endearing story. Louise the main character was one of six siblings, each with a different father. Her childhood was plagued with poverty. She was often sad as she did not know her real father and hated men as a result.

She was very beautiful by Barbadian standard, as she was the product of a British man name Charles, and her African mother Naomi. During her early teen years and beyond, she was forced into an incestuous relationship by one of the many men who came in and out of her mother's life who paid her money for sex. Due to the fact that she never knew her father and then with this occurrence,

Historical Fiction


 

Absence of Light

It is the mid-1800s as Brandon Stewart, a handsome foreign correspondent for The Illustrated London News, prepares to leave England with his wife and young son for the rice plantations of the pre-Civil War South. But as they arrive to join his wife’s family at Crawford Hill in Georgetown District, South Carolina,

Brandon has no idea of what his future holds. Amid the swelling turbulence of the Deep South, Brandon and his family attempt to adjust to a new life where slaves share the same house, and the dark shadows of war loom in the near future. Assigned to report on the interrelationship of Southern politics, society, and the antislavery movement,

Reign of the Marionettes

Mass hysteria sweeps through the country with deadly consequences.

Beneath the wit and laughter of Charles II’s Restoration Court, political and religious tensions mount, and Countess Elizabeth Herbert tries to keep her family safe. 

When a minister begging on the streets, claims to have uncovered a plot to kill the King and replace him with his Catholic heir, no one is safe from accusation. When suspicion falls on her husband, Elizabeth’s life is thrown into turmoil.

As a tangled web of lies and deceit unfolds, Elizabeth realises her husband is a pawn in a much larger game. 

Catherine Kullmann’s regency novels are must-reads for lovers of resolute heroines, swoon-worthy heroes and a nice assortment of villains.

In The Murmur of Masks, Olivia struggles to survive and find love in an era of violence and uncertainty— takes us from Regency ballrooms to the battlefield of Waterloo.

In Perception & Illusion, a sparkling story of cross-purposes and misunderstandings, a former mistress, a rejected suitor, and the chattering peafowl of the ton conspire to threaten Lallie’s and Hugo’s new marriage. 

In A Suggestion of Scandal, governess Rosa Fancourt discovers two lovers in flagrante delicto and her life and future are suddenly at risk. In Sir Julian Loring she finds an unexpected champion but will he stand by her to the end? 

LGBT


 

You Can't Buy Love Like That

Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the '60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men. 

The watershed point in Carol's journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses. 

Wrongly Accused

When esteemed surgeon Dawn Fairchild is wrongly accused of vehicular manslaughter, her world is turned up side down. Sentenced to two years in a federal women's prison Dawn encounters a side of life she didn't know existed.

Caged with drug addicts, killers and rapist, she is surprised when her knight in shinning armor is a scrawny, scrappy redhead serving time for drug addiction and prostitution. A woman she couldn't bring herself to shake hands with for fear of touching her. 

You will laugh, cry and cheer for these two unlikely friends as they navigate the horrors of a prison run by a no-nonsense warden with her own plans for Dr. Dawn Fairchild.

Historical Romance


 

The Queen of Paradise Valley

Diana Rennie, daughter of a wealthy rancher, attempts to persuade mystery man Del Russell to leave his grievances behind and forgive her father for past mistakes. Her careful plan goes awry and results in a shotgun wedding and a prison sentence for Del.

Four years later, Del is back in her life with a vengeance—back for his rightful share of Diana's ranch, back to prove he isn't the criminal she thought he was, back to finish what the two of them started years ago in a passionate daze. And he isn’t going anywhere, no matter what beautiful, treacherous Diana does or says to try to get rid of him.

The Pirate's Temptation

Zac Blakeney has a dark past, with blood on his hands. He's a pirate captain willing to do anything for revenge, even board an English merchant ship to kidnap his enemy's daughter. 

Except Charlotte Huntington is not what she seems. Forbidden fruit becomes undeniably tempting. 

Charlotte has only ever known violence at the hands of men. Now, sold into marriage, she is on her way to India when her ship is stopped by pirates. The captain is as handsome as he is intimidating. Charlotte soon receives discipline under his firm hand. Yet, she soon realizes this man holds the key to her heart along with her freedom.

Adventure


 

The Island Dog Squad

In the depths of despair, she has no idea who, or where she is.

Dying of thirst with her ribcage almost poking through her skin, she can barely put one paw in front of the other when she’s rescued from the street.

When Sandy’s people parents take her to her beautiful new home on the island, she tries to focus on her future, and return the love and kindness showered upon her.

Then she meets Lola, Obie and Chip, and the traumatic flashbacks begin. 

As her past slowly unravels, and her memory returns, Sandy must make a choice that will determine her life and her future. 

Mystery


 

Last Seen

Psychologist and police consultant Dr. Pepper Hunt, struggling to deal with the murder of her husband, leaves the private practice they shared and relocates to Wyoming.

There, in the stark landscape of the high desert, there is nothing to remind her of everything she lost and left behind. Then her new patient, Kimi Benally, goes missing in a Wyoming blizzard after her last therapy session—making Pepper the last person to see her. She knows the secrets Kimi shared in therapy hold clues to her mysterious disappearance, and she joins forces with Detective Beau Antelope to try to discover what’s happened to her.

Crime Collection

FOR A LIMITED TIME…All three “Buck Taylor/Crime Series” novels available together in a box set with a bonus short story. A great gift for the lover of crime fiction. Follow Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Buck Taylor and his team as they investigate crime in the mountains of Colorado.

CRIME INTERRUPTED… When a cutthroat Mexican cartel establishes a narcotics operation in a small Colorado town, Agent Buck Taylor is assigned to take down the crooks in a dangerous, high-stakes showdown.

CRIME DELAYED… When a local wildlife ranger goes missing in the rugged mountains south of Aspen, Colorado the local sheriff launches a massive manhunt. 

Fantasy


 

Descent into Tartarus

The exciting next book in the Furies Saga

Megaera is pregnant and is imprisoned by Sorath. Dan must now go into the Underworld to rescue the mother of his unborn child.

“You have fathered a demi-god with Megaera. Only one who carries the blood of the gods can father a child with a goddess,” Gaia said.

“Some father I am, I let her get kidnapped,” Dan said.

“And you will follow in the footsteps of Herakles and go into the Underworld and return with Megaera,” Gaia pointed out.

Apollo's Raven

A Celtic warrior princess is torn between her forbidden love for the enemy and duty to her people.

AWARD-WINNING APOLLO’S RAVEN sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren’s former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him. The king’s daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf.

Horror


 

Violent Hearts

A dark ritual opens a portal into a realm of unimaginable horror…from an award-winning and #1 Amazon bestselling author…

 Years ago, in college, Owen, a man on the brink of suicide after losing his wife and baby daughter in a brutal drunk-driving accident, and Chloe, a dispassionate academic who believes in scientific research as a means to make the world a better place, took part in a ritualistic act in the woods. After, neither of them can remember exactly what happened that night, but darkness has since haunted them both.

Hounded

When Calloway Foster woke up that morning, he never expected it to be a deathblow to life on earth. 

Nothing can prepare him for one of the world’s most loved species to turn into the undead. Four-legged zombies now run rampant-hungry and intelligent, they are merciless to those still struggling to survive. 

Follow Cal on a turbulent journey filled with horrific loss, new love, and unbelievably terrifying events.

Will he find his twin brother in time? Can he keep his family safe?

Science Fiction


 

Phoenix Rising

Aidan a Murian prince awakens from a fiery crash in an unknown time. His people legends fading into the mist of time. Long forgotten. After an eon of hiding in the shadows sinister enemies from his past once more come forth spreading chaos as they pit empire against empire precipitating war and chaos across the galaxy. He discovers the oldest race in the galaxy betrayed by one they trusted.

Whispers of foul deeds and unspeakable acts proliferates as death spills across battlefield's. Rider merchants impressed to the gargantuan deepspace creatures called Solar Sailors carry news of the unrest to the Council of Nine and the High Temple as they travel the great energy currents delivering goods and news. 

Home World

Centuries of ruinous war have left Earth little more than a dusty by-world. Yet she is still Home World, the birthplace of all the various branches of humanity that inhabit the star-flung Commonwealth Earth founded. For centuries, that memory is all that has kept Earth alive.

Now, amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic Hawaii, the Heir to Earth's throne has found a way to restore Earth to her lost glory. Defying history, Jezekiah Van Buren has reached a treaty with the human polymorphs called Lupans, a treaty that will convert these ancient enemies to Earth's most powerful allies. The treaty will not only make Earth rich again, but it will enable Jezekiah to escape the Ring that marks him as Earth's next ruler. 

The Cost of Living

A life for a life. No one need die until someone new is born. Then you've no choice.

This novella will take the reader to a dystopian future of a world of adults where birthmothers are a privileged class and every child is a celebrity. Death has been conquered, but overcrowding has led to government enforced zero population growth. 

When Janice becomes pregnant without government authorization, she must find a life donor or forfeit her own. For every child born, someone must die. The math is simple, but the politics behind it are anything but. Janice soon finds herself diving into a deep conspiracy.

Thriller


 

The Nomad’s Premonition

Eric Martin is desperate to forget his past, one that almost cost him his future. 

Working in Paris as deputy head of a bank's internal security department, Eric notices a high-speed trader's uncanny ability to predict extremely profitable trades. Even though there's nothing illegal about the activity, he knows the trader's success is more than just luck. 

But, no one believes him. Armed only with a handful of data and a powerful instinct, Eric searches for the mysterious trader on his own. He suspects that a predictive algorithm has fallen into the wrong hands.

Nomad on the Run

Beneath the golden desert and azure seas of Morocco lurks a hidden world of greed, deceit and financial terrorism. But the players are not who you might think.

Lured away from his seemingly idyllic life as a managing director for a major international bank in Toronto, Eric Martin returns to his ancestral roots in Morocco. Tempted by a mysterious offer from a boutique financial firm, Eric soon discovers he has walked into the middle of a whirlwind where everyone has their own secret agenda, and he unwittingly has become the key to unlocking them all. From the broad avenues of Toronto to the mean streets of Casablanca, Eric rushes to discover the truth before time runs out.

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