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Liquid Death : Mitzi C
Liquid Death
HER BLOOD COULD SAVE THE WORLD… OR DESTROY HUMANITY.
KANDI is a 19-year-old girl who harbors extreme social anxiety as a result of past torture and certain uncanny abilities. The last place she wants to be is anywhere near people.
JUAN is an 18-year-old boy born to an underage, single mother. His dreams of a brighter future were crushed when he was arrested for killing his father.
Cleverly orchestrated circumstances drive Kandi and Juan to meet and form a peculiar bond that may end up saving the galaxy. But first they must overcome their own trauma in order to destroy a government-funded organization set to unleash a devastating contagion upon humanity… one which could only be cured by Kandi’s blood.
In Liquid Death, Kandi must conquer her fears and defeat her only friend and worst enemy: her father. Meanwhile, Juan must do all he can to save the girl… if only to learn the truth about himself.
** this is a sci-fi/fantasy novel suitable for mature young adults, 14+ **
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Everything Is Always Perfect : Ivan Paganacci
Everything Is Always Perfect
A banal man finds himself on an astonishing journey, much to his annoyance; a lonely man starts a unique dating service in his quest to find a perfect wife; a college girl learns that her roommate isn’t what she seems; an annual meeting of the global elite gets a surprise, deadly guest; a first-grader needs to use the bathroom but the teacher won’t let him; and a man discovers that leaving reality for something potentially much more interesting is as simple as walking through a door… with one important catch.
These and other stories in Everything Is Always Perfect deliver savage humor in their investigation of assumed truths and imagined possibilities.
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Acne : Aarti Patel
Put acne in your rearview mirror, once and for all.
For those of us who have struggled with chronic acne, we know that these irritating bumps don’t just mess with our skin and appearance. They also curse at us every day, affecting our confidence and self-image. When you look in the mirror, you may hear the words acne uses: It throws out insults and belittling messages, and it tells us not to bother trying to make our skin better. It says just give up. At the same time, acne also demands that we drop everything we’re doing and give it constant attention. This four-letter word is a bully, not just a diagnosis and physical skin condition the way we’re taught to think by mainstream medicine and the skincare industry. To truly defeat acne once and for all, both the mind and body have to get involved.
We need a better approach to treating acne than simply face washes, creams, supplements, pharmaceuticals, and dietary changes. These methods don’t address the bullying tactics acne uses to try and control our lives, so they don’t tend to be long-term solutions. Acne often just bulldozes over these efforts, costing us the money and time we spend on trying to fix our skin, and leaving us frustrated.
Well, now there’s a way to talk and fight back. You don’t have to sit there silently while acne tries to take away what’s yours, including your skin and your life. You can start recognizing the false messages that this four-letter word is sending you and separate your identity from them, reclaiming your skin in the process. You can stand up for yourself in the face of acne and refuse to revolve your life around it. Acne: Just Another Four-Letter Word shows you how to do just that.
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Prayer is Good : Brette Petway
Prayer is Good: A Path from Grief to Peace
Prayer is Good: A Path from Grief to Peace is ideal for someone who is dealing with emotional pain and offers positive coping techniques. Brette Petway, prayer positive activist and artist, opens up about her own story of grief and loss and invites you into the world of “healing art.” Brette shares interactive ways to pray and experience your personal conversation with God creatively through art and intentional journaling. Feel the healing miracle of prayer and nurture your beautiful self through your senses. Take a prayerful journey with your head, heart, and hands and overcome emotional pain in a positive and healthy way.
If you or someone you know is experiencing negative emotions resulting from divorce, depression, pet loss, job loss, death of a loved one or a stressful family life, then, Brette Petway’s, Prayer is Good, A Path from Grief to Peace, is an excellent resource. Her new book contains inspirational words, a scripture from the Bible, blank pages for journaling, and creatively designed featured words such as Peace, Thankful, Comfort and many others that can be colored. Truly, this is an interactive book that can be used for prayer, sharing your thoughts with God, and used as a workbook to deal with troubling times.
What makes Prayer is Good, A Path from Grief to Peace inspirational?
• Interactive product – you can write, color, draw, and journal in the book.
• Promotes prayer positivity, gratitude and daily devotionals.
• Helps relieve the pain and anguish from loss, grief, stress and/ or depression in a positive and healthy way.
• The book can be used to share with family or friends who want to pray together or color inspirational words together.
• The thoughtfully designed blank coloring cards are on thick stock that can be removed or framed.
• The book contains ideas for bringing peace and comfort to your home by decorating a table space with flowers, a calming stone, candles, an inspirational card and/ or scripture.
Nurture yourself through your senses and feel empowered as you disconnect from the digital world with Prayer is Good, A Path from Grief to Peace. Feed your spirit with prayerful pauses, gratitude, “Altar-ations” that will stimulate your senses with through collaging, painting and journaling to unravel whatever is tugging at your heart. Calm your mind and soothe your soul as you take control of your well-being, and move down a path toward comfort and peace.
2018 SILVER MEDAL WINNER – LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS
“…4 out of 4 stars” — Online Book Club
“…Speaks directly to the heart and soul of the reader.” — Midwest Reviews
“Delightful, Healing and Inspiring” — Dr Mary Oz
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The Illusion of Competence : Mark Branson
The Illusion of Competence: An Innovative Leader’s Guide to Innovative Leadership
Prior to an important store visit, the store is cleaned top to bottom, all administrative paperwork is processed, associates are coached on executing customer service standards. There is one little problem. The entire exercise is an illusion. You know it, your boss knows it. Everyone knows it, but fail to put on the charade and there will be hell to pay, but what if I told you, the same forces at work during your store visit carry over to every aspect of your leadership interactions. Your boss, peers, associates, and corporate are subject to the same forces at work during your store visit, every day. It’s not really an illusion. It’s The Illusion of Competence. An Innovative Leader’s Guide to Innovative Leadership.
The truth is irrelevant. Perception is the truth. If your boss thinks you are doing a good job, you are doing a good job. Conversely, if your boss thinks poorly of your performance, your hard work and dedication are for naught. Since perception is reality, why not craft your boss’s perception to your advantage.
The Illusion of Competence is the most advanced “perception” leadership concept ever created. Not only does The Illusion craft the perception of hard work and dedication, it also spurs innovation and improves overall sales and increases profits. The best part of The Illusion is leaders truly become competent when executing The Illusion.
The Illusion of Competence uses emotional intelligence to secure desired results, but not in a typical way. Instead of trying to improve a leader’s emotional intelligence, The Illusion takes advantage of the existing emotional intelligence of the leader’s bosses and associates to secure desired results. Humans are very predictable, and The Illusion maximizes this predictability.
The Illusion of Competence contains three sub-theories to help craft The Illusion. “Micro-Efficiency” eliminates inefficiency hiding in plain sight at every corporation, in order to create more time to focus on customer service and employee coaching and development. Micro-Efficiency ties certain kinds of inefficiency to The Second Law of Thermodynamics in a way never before seen. The Creation of Micro-Efficiency Theory speaks to The Illusion of Competence’s innovative nature.
“Food Poisoning Theory” is The Illusion of Competence’s second sub-theory. Food Poisoning Theory is a customer service model predicated on the idea that customers are only as loyal as their last transaction. Every time an employee says no, fails to deliver on a promise, or quotes policy, the company runs the risk of giving customers food poisoning. Read your company’s online customer reviews and food poisoning will be identified far and wide. Every employee, from top to bottom, has the responsibility to avoid giving customers food poisoning.
The third sub-theory is called “The Theory of Deep Understanding”. The Theory of Deep Understanding explains why top executives are disconnected from mid-level leaders and front-line associates. Once understood, corporate executives not only close the “understanding” gap with lower level leaders, they can identify and embrace innovations from all areas of operations.
The Illusion of Competence is based on 30 years of leadership experience with some of the most respected names in their retail fields, and the completion of MBA and Master of Science in Leadership degrees in 2016. In fact, advanced degrees were sought primarily to add validation of The Illusion of Competence. Two advanced degrees only reinforced the need to craft The Illusion of Competence.
I did not create The Illusion of Competence. I discovered The Illusion of Competence, and now, you can too.
Mark Robert Branson
MBA, MSL
Invisible Leash : M . H . B .
Invisible Leash
My name is Sage Cross.
A rich blonde to outsiders. With a 4.0 GPA.
Not that it matters. For all that my father thinks of me, I might as well tattoo the words trophy wife on my forehead.
I have a plan, though. It involves using his own weapon against him. By that I mean Lincoln Black, an attorney running for senator of New York. It sends the perfect message: my middle finger with a smile.
Power. Destiny. In a men’s world…
It takes sacrifice. It equals to a campaign with zero scandals. But with dark secrets buried ten feet under, it might be too much to hope for.
I’m ready to focus on my career. To pull on the power suit with my Louboutins. Until a storm comes whirling in, tempting me to risk fate a little. His name is Jacob Storm, a beautiful, self-made millionaire who doesn’t play by the rules of monogamy.
He wants me. I want him.
But at what cost?
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Deadly Sai : J&L Brown
Deadly Sai
Born the only child to a Black military father and Japanese mother, Kamari finds herself alone after losing them in a mudslide caused by a typhoon in Takayama, Japan.
Refusing to live in a home for teenage orphans, she ends up on the street, hanging with the wrong crowd, stealing, getting into fights but she soon learns what her father taught her is not enough. She is mentored by a local Dojo owner who recently lost his daughter to illness, teaching her several types of martial arts and weaponry, with the sai being her favorite.
She relocates to the States where she becomes a killer for hire. She kills without leaving any trace of her misdeeds but soon gains the interest of a cop who specializes in weird deaths. She is always three steps ahead, but when they cross paths, will he do his job?
Detoured Destiny : Jessica Davenport
Detoured Destiny: One Woman’s Road to Recovery
This book is about how and why I had a stroke at 19 and how it changed and benefited my life.
Imagine driving to your friend’s house, along the same route you take every day. Suddenly you come across a roadblock with a Detour sign. You can give up and go back or turn right and find another way. The first option is easier, but I still chose the second. That roadblock was my stroke from a combination of birth control, smoking, a clotting disorder, and a hole in my heart at 19.
No matter how long it takes, I am determined to find another way to a meaningful, fulfilling life. This is the story of that journey, along with the physical challenges, heartaches, and doubts I weathered and the triumphs I worked hard to achieve. It is also a cautionary tale.
I am committed to helping other women learn the dangers of birth control, so they may avoid the perfect storm that turned my world upside down and nearly ended my life.
A Journey Through My Eyes : Leasha A. Small
A Journey Through My Eyes: The Hopeless Romantic Edition
Leasha A. Small aka MsDiva416’s debut novel, A Journey Through My Eyes: The Hopeless Romantic Edition is a novel that explores the good bad and the ugly.
It embodies love and relationships, with free thoughts, quotes, letters, short tales, poetic, motivational and inspirational pieces that tell the tales of real-life situations through her eyes. These pieces come from things She has gone through, witnessed or heard about.
This is a book for the hopeless romantic, broken-hearted, and the ones open to trying this thing we call love again. MsDiva416 gets real and raw leaving you with something you can relate to.
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Everything Fails : T Van Santana
Everything Fails: A Science Fictional Memoir
Life moves fast in the Thirty-Second Century. Attention is the only currency; memory, a luxury most cannot afford.
When an aging anonymous secretist turns author and writes a controversial memoir, they incur the enmity of their former employer, the dread Ministry of Secrets, a shadowy cult that’s become a social institution and cornerstone of Thirty-Second society. The Ministry dispatches its agents, the so-called Brims & Trenches, psychopathic frenemies and past allies of the writer, to capture and recondition them for service.
Aided by their best friend, Horace, and former lover, Cobie, the narrator must flee or face the fallout of a past brought to life again on the mean streets of the 32C, alleyways filled with knife fights, mind-bending hallucinations, and inveigled plots. Also lurking is Dwizaal, an ill-doing consciousness of no certain origin, borne by life on the Jungle Planet, intent upon wrecking the narrator’s life right as they start a family in a world where everything fails in each rising moment.