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Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Imagine missing school or work every month because you lacked proper menstrual supplies. How many days per year would you lose in education and wages simply because you got your period? What if no one ever taught you about menstruation, or worse-if menstrual taboos and myths made you feel ashamed of your body?

In the year 2166, a post-Second Civil War America is finally back on its feet. Among the countless personal and cultural casualties of the war, the sport of baseball has been dead for over a hundred years. 12-year-old Joe Scott lives in the northern Illinois city of McHenry and goes exploring in the woods one day in a no man's land that a hundred years earlier was the site of the bloodiest battle of the war. While there, he discovers a relic from the distant past, from before the war. It sparks a search for its meaning. Little does he know that the wheels of Providence have been unwittingly set in motion, leading to a stunning discovery in Dyersville, Iowa. This second discovery has a direct connection with the relic found in McHenry. As events unfold, Joe finds himself at the center of the rediscovery of a sport long lost and forgotten by the ravages of time and war. With no living person having any first-hand knowledge of the game, can he figure out the pieces of the puzzle to resurrect the game of baseball? Will his friends take to the game? What will the adults think?

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A disgraced professor, a disenchanted psychologist, and a deceitful patient are about to learn more than they expected about each other and themselves. Will their relationships survive their secrets? Will they?

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores. Tired of focusing on the stressful hustle and bustle of December? These delightful stories brim with Christmas nostalgia and heartwarming moments.

Are you hoping to rediscover the magic of the winter holidays? Looking for traditional inspiration for your upcoming Xmas parties? Ever wondered what’s behind the twelve days of gift-giving? The daughter of a real cowboy, award-winning author Larada Horner-Miller grew up in a small rural community in southeastern Colorado. Now she’s using her seventy years of festive experiences to share the true meaning of the season and how to rejoice in its miracles.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. SAY MY NAME is a true-crime story about a crime that never happened.

On the heels of a divorce, a midlist mystery writer returns to his hometown in Central CT and is dragged back into a decades-old, unsolved case involving former missing classmates to expose the horrific secrets of a quaint, idyllic New England town.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Sheriff Jax Turner is learning to live again. Holding tight to the hope of reconciling with his FBI agent ex-wife, the wary man is determined to keep his focus on his coastal Oregon community. And after a concerned brother requests a welfare check, Jax is troubled to find the absent surf shop owner’s tracks lead to a pool of blood.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Joseph Rockey Jr is a serial business creator, founder, and international best selling author. He has created a number of successful entities from scratch that have lived well beyond a decade long, which is an incredibly rare feat in any industry, let alone in the world of real estate, which he began.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Embark on a gripping journey through the extraordinary life of Aramis Jordan in Searching for my PB and J Sandwich: My American Dream. This memoir unveils a childhood marked by an alcoholic mother's abandonment and a teenager's relentless pursuit of escape from poverty and abuse. Amidst the darkness, a glimmer of hope emerges—the author's guiding angels, who appear when all seems lost.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Stout had everything he could want: parents, a good home, and a safe life. Then one day everything changed. The armies of an evil wizard named Calculo destroyed Stout’s home and killed his parents. Stout joins the forgotten order of the Knights of Light, and trains to take on the quest of destroying Calculo.
During his quest he encounters many dangers: goblins, ogres, and even grafted men. Calculo’s transhumanist surgeries produce ever more diabolical chimeras, that Stout finds he must fight to complete the quest. But more ominous, and the true power behind Calculo, are the Dark Eternals creatures who can take the form of man or dragon.
The ultimate struggle between darkness and light is about to reach its climax, and Stout is in the middle of it all. What can one young man do in the face of such evil?

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill's past comes back to haunt him when he's at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents' home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick's violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE—and she doesn't trust that he'll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Did you know in 2022, at the top of the country’s biggest public businesses, there was only 15 percent female representation? UNLIMITED is a leadership book written for the underrepresented: women, immigrants, and people of color who want to become corporate leaders by an underrepresented who made it to the C-suite. The book’s foundation is that though the system exists if we unlimit ourselves and find the right mentors and sponsors, we will succeed in a workplace not designed for us. This book includes stories and insights from many underrepresented people who climbed up the corporate ladder, and this book shares their journeys and advice and how they became unlimited.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Terry Tucker believes everyone is born to lead an uncommon and extraordinary life and that has nothing to do with where you work, how much money you make, or where you live. We are not all born with the same gifts and talents but we all have the ability to become the best person we are capable of becoming. But how do you achieve this remarkable life in an age where everyone seems to just get by?

Available on Amazon on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Are you journeying through grief, wondering what lies ahead? Are you searching for answers on how to navigate your grief and attain happiness once again?

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Moments In Time is all about music. This book will put a smile on your
face as the author, Tom Locke, takes you back in time to the music of the
50s, 60s, and 70s with entertaining, informative stories about known
and forgotten artists and songs. To top it off, Tom has made this book
interactive by creating access to the songs featured in each of these
stories. One click and you’ll be listening, singing, and dancing.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Genuflecting Before the Pork-Barrel Demagogues’ picks up where ‘Salt In the Milk – Ten Years in Istanbul’ left off, with the aristocratic, redoubtable Anthony H. Wolfstadt deported to the south of England from Turkey, after outstaying his welcome by over a decade. Leaving his disreutable, ex-colonial ways behind him, Wolfstadt attempts to clear his head through writing, and readjust to a culture he was never really a part of in the first place. Where he has a political hangover from the

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. At the dawn of the 20th century, Beardstown, Illinois, is a city of contradiction. A town of river rats, gamblers, and rail-yard workers, it’s also filled with the accoutrements and refinements that accompany wealth . . . whatever its provenance. In Beardstown, the God-fearing don’t just live side-by-side with the sinners—they often are the sinners.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores. The Fall of Faith” is a gritty domestic thriller about lust, love and the consequences of doing whatever it takes to survive.

How far would you go to be part of something bigger than yourself?

That’s the question Jimmy grapples with when his truck breaks down in Eden, an isolated little town in Missouri. As he interacts with the colorful and crazy townsfolk, he soon finds himself falling in love with a local woman while danger closes in on him from every angle.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, and Regulation explores theory and practice in this dynamic subject, which fuses environmental law and civil rights enforcement. From early concerns over toxic waste in minority communities, environmental justice expanded to consider the range of environmental threats facing poor, immigrant, and indigenous communities; women, children, and seniors; and other vulnerable

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide . Since her twin sister Sylvie's disappearance seven years ago, single mother Mabel Reynolds has turned grief into action and become a strong voice for victims of violence and abuse.

When new revelations shed light on what may have happened not only to Sylvie, but dozens of other women, Mabel's hope for answers is reignited. But the new oh-so-charming DA overseeing the investigation seems more interested in a quick rather than an accurate resolution.

With little faith in the system, Mabel isn’t about to stay quiet, not when she’s finally close to the truth. She’s willing to go up against anyone—even a smug, irritating, attractive DA to get the answers she and other families deserve.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. This may well be the most important picture book you will ever share with your children.
We all want to keep our children safe, secure, confident and happy.
With its delightful pictures and child-friendly rhyming text, Let's Stay Safe helps us give our children essential life lessons in safe and unsafe behavior.

Available on Amazon worldwide. We live in a complicated world. Everything—education, career, relationships, health, and well-being—is rapidly increasing in complexity. Governments and academia have failed to provide safety or stability. Are such things as faith and perseverance still relevant? Where do we go from here?

In System vs. Creator, Meverly Adjhei Benjamin invites you to join her as she explores post-modern society and our place in it.

Benjamin examines our obsession with fame, fortune, and celebrity. In an engaging conversational style, she questions what place established institutions hold in the twenty-first century and explores how we find the inspiration to make the most of our talents. Though focused on the here and now, System vs. Creator invites you to look toward a future in which every member of society has a chance to develop their talents and fulfill their dreams.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. In twentieth-century England, many working-class people were victims of values and circumstances not of their own making. They were people to whom things were done to, not for. Billy and Tommy Jones and their mother, Mary, were such people. The boys were born out of wedlock at a time when such a thing was regarded as a disgrace -the sins of the father being visited on the sons. Neither boy knows they have a brother – it is to be a dark family secret between the Catholic church and Mary, the boy’s mother.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Gary Hill has been publishing Music Street Journal (musicstreetjournal.com) since 1998. Since 2018 Hill has published MSJ simultaneously on-line and in book form. He also published all the archives in book form. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers." In August of 2006 his first book The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft was published. Since then several other books (The Concert Photography of Gary Hill, the original edition of Strange Realities: Collected Short Stories and More by Gary Hill Expanded and Revised Edition, Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters from Musicians to Music and The Suite Music World of Gary Hill and a series of three books The Dark Starr Files) have been released. Wizard Song, his first book length science-fiction piece was released on March 31st, 2020. Hill has also written for cable television (Cops 2.0 on G4), All Music Guide, Demand Media Studios and more. He launched Tale of Wonder and Dread Publishing to release science fiction and horror books in 2018,

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. One snowy night in 1998, Brooke Mulcahy's car slides off the road in rural Vermont. Her car is discovered. She is not. Twenty-one years later, Robert Kirby, Brooke's stepbrother, is paid a visit from a young woman (Lily), claiming to be Brooke's daughter. Since a tumultuous upbringing, Robert, formerly known as "Bobby," has enjoyed considerable success. Now an esteemed professor at a private Upstate New York university, Robert has just received a significant NEH grant. After Lily's visit, Robert's life is upended.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Mark enjoyed his carefree bachelor’s life in Los Angeles. He had no steady girlfriend, no children, few responsibilities outside of work. But that all changed when “The Call” came. Genevieve, his eighty-nine-year-old mother, was on her deathbed. He rushed back to New Jersey to be by her side. Hours became days, days became weeks, then she woke up. So, he moved back into his childhood home and took over her care. His first task was to remove all hazards, which included the current caregivers.

Available on Amazon worldwide. A story of adoption, search, discovery, and reunion set against a backdrop of the glamorous ice skating spectaculars of the 1940s, The Gift Best Given: A Memoir recounts the author’s search, as he approached his 70th birthday, for the identity of the woman who had placed him for adoption a the time of his birth and the many surprising discoveries he made.

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"With no steps skipped, Joshua's book unveils a blueprint for leveraging the visibility you've already earned and transforming it into a thriving, monetized venture. Whether you're an aspiring author, an entrepreneur seeking to establish yourself as an authority figure in your niche, or a creative professional looking to maximize your talents, So Good They Call You a Fake offers invaluable insights and practical strategies that are bound to elevate your success."

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide. Nourish the Soul is the raw and candid memoir of a Harvard grad who became an observant Jew - and learned how to overcome food addictions joyfully. This groundbreaking book contains excerpts from actual diary entries and letters saved through the years. Welcome to a transformative experience that nourishes each soul who reads it.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Nameless Lake is about the unspoken pressures of gender and desire, told through the shifting dynamics of a lifelong friendship. Emma and Madryn grow up with dreams of escaping their seaside hometown, sustained by an obsession with photography and secret acts of vandalism. But adulthood brings its own limitations, and Emma yearns for connection beyond the constraints of her family. Drawn deeper into Madryn’s private life, Emma feels new possibilities awakening within herself, but when Madryn faces a backlash from her controlling partner, Emma must finally break out of her role as passive observer.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. The Powered protected us, inspired us, showed us new possibilities for humanity. But when the great names walked away, when the capes and boots and chest-blazoned symbols vanished, all they left behind was a single child to take up their burden.

His nightmares named him Advent 9, the flying, bullet-dodging, impossibly strong remnant of an era almost forgotten. With no memory of where he came from or why he is the only superhero left, his life is the world’s greatest mystery.

Available on Amazon worldwide. Blurring the lines between cultural theory, music criticism, literature and surrealism, Anthony H. Wolfstadt and his faithful companion Turgut Reis struggle to adjust to life on the English south coast after being deported from Istanbul in the mid Noughties for visa issues. Through their trials and tribulations, they finally opened a music and arts venue - The Octopus (colloquially also known as ‘The Starfish’ and ‘The Seafish’) - in the conservative, traditional coastal backwater of Brougham, Sussex. ‘Swimming Uphil

Available on Amazon worldwide. 2085 The world recovers from War. A squeal of tires chases Dr. Dieter Karnak, as he creates artificial life under his corporate partner’s begrudging nose. Dr. Robert Dunlevy doesn’t buy into such spiritual nonsense. He builds god damned machines, the way their Conglom overlords want.
2155 AD-001 swims to the shore of Vancouver Island. Lieutenant Max Allard is tasked to drag AD-001 back, before the Mater Machine claims 'it' for her own.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. Every time Jenna Kravitz sees her sex on a stick ex-husband, she still craves him like he's a hotdog with all the fillings. They were soulmates, meant to grow old together…before his freight train wreck dropped her off at despair station. As if that weren't enough, she's tasked with finding her employer's hacker, which might be the colleague whipping up her innermost fantasies.

Available on Amazon worldwide. Talia, now Queen of the Fairy Realm, is off on a quest to find her kidnapped daughter. In her absence, her paternal uncle's wife, Titania, serves as Regent and leader of a scattered force of loyal Fairies, defending the Exile Queen's mountain against attacks from the False Sisters (Talia's maternal aunts), whose bloody coup triggered the Fairy civil war.

Thrown into much more prominent roles as defenders of the mountain, Min and Elanor (formerly Talia's most loyal Ladies), must fight not only enemies from without and within the mountain, but also their own past traumas and insecurities as well.

2:47 AM ... the red digital numbers light up my eyes.
Where am I?
I breathe in total panic. I am gulping for air. I can’t seem to get any air at all. It feels like I'm going to die...

2:47 AM - The Journey Home to My Heart is an autobiography describing a deep inner transformational journey from pain and utter despair, to enlightenment. A new Life guided by the Heart.

From a very vulnerable space Ullis Karlsson invites the reader to share her remarkable journey. An 11-year long transformation, from being suicidal to becoming a spiritual teacher and sharing her message on a global arena.

Available on Amazon worldwide. Bean Soup’ is the prose, verse, thoughts and chronicled observations of a hyper-absurd age, capturing the psychogeographical space between the end of the author’s musical output as a solo artist, continuing steerage of the Seraglio Point cultural organisation, and the steadily burgeoning ‘Stammering and Creativity’ tour. Semi-autographical in terms of photography and nuance, Bean Soup leads on from 2016’s ‘Swimming Uphill: Absurd Theories’ and illustrated modern longform poem ‘The Cougar and The Silver Fox’, into the increasingly troubled waters of the here and now. ‘There’s Fake News, there’s Identity Politics and then there’s Bean Soup. Cultural observations for the Vaguely Concerned

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide. The magic of the perpetual condition is not the animal in us, but our compulsion to be like God. It is creation. Not animalism. Every kiss has the possibility of creating a galaxy, a universe, a life. It is this act of creation which we are compelled to call blessed." Act IV: Chaos Machines

Usurper Kings is an inspection of the feminine through time. Sapha Burnell's large scale poetic debut on the surface, is a poetry collection in five Acts. However, without each poem's strength and individual beauty at that exact placement, the entire structure would fold in on itself. Move a piece, and the laws governing the works are turned on their heads. Without each work proclaiming its necessity, obstinate in its existence, Usurper Kings would serve no purpose, and become a litany of words rather than a treatise on cosmology and feminism throughout time and beyond our scope.

Available on Amazon worldwide. Three decades after returning home from the adventure that made him famous, the legendary dwarf treasure hunter O’balin Undur has gone missing. Many have presumed O’balin to be dead, including his old friend Bindle, the aged and worn mayor of Mountainside Village. After receiving an urgent letter addressed specifically to him, Bindle sneaks out of town to visit the home of an old friend; There he is greeted by a surprising guest who claims to have seen O’balin alive, searching for a mysterious stone called the Summoner’s Gem. Middle-aged and tired, but still craving adventure, Bindle leaves behind his home and family and embarks on a quest to find his long-lost friend. Along the way Bindle forms lasting friendships, travels to new and strange places, and finds himself face to face with a wizard in an encounter that will forever change his life. Experience adventure, suspense, and even laughs in the epic follow-up to J. Edwards Holt’s “Little Men, Big Treasures”