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The Outlier Approach : Kevin Hong
The Outlier Approach: How to Triumph in your Career as a Nonconformist
Too many books discuss the same people, same companies, and same concepts, resulting in cliché advice.
One of the main reasons behind this phenomenon is due to the fact that so many books on business and professional development are written by authors with limited professional experience or are written by authors who share similar backgrounds.
Ultimately, if you are not interested in walking a straight line or following text book directions to succeed in your career, this book is for you. This book is for the oddballs, misfits, outliers, rebels, and nonconformists in all of us.
If you have no fancy pedigree, massive funding for your company, and weak professional contacts, this book can help you take your career to the next level. Although written for the nonconformists, many of the methodologies can be applied for anyone.
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Kindling Flames: Gathering Tinder : Julie Wetzel
Kindling Flames: Gathering Tinder
After landing a job as assistant to a handsome CEO, Victoria Westernly feels like her life is finally on the right track. But when she discovers her new boss is the city’s most powerful vampire, she’ll have to decide whether her attraction to him is worth the risk…
The Kindling Flames Series is a paranormal romance saga with over 2,300 five-star reviews on Goodreads. Dive into a series filled with sexy vampires, werewolves, shifters, Fae folk, and more.
Science fiction and urban fantasy romance lovers unite because this series has seven exciting books that readers have compared to other popular vampire romance novels such as: A Shade of Vampire Series by Bella Forest, the Immortals After Dark Series by Kresley Cole, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels (True Blood) by Charlaine Harris, The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, and The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by J.R. Ward.
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Amie African Adventure : Lucinda E Clarke
Amie African Adventure
Amie had planned an ordinary everyday sort of life but fate had other ideas.
She reluctantly accompanies her husband whose company sends him to live in Africa and initially life is good for the couple, but he has a secret his wife would never have imagined in her wildest dreams.
Things begin to go wrong when Amie comes to the attention of a Colonel in the government and is coerced into working for him.
Then civil war breaks out and she finds herself on the wrong side. As the last plane evacuating the other expatriates takes off, Amie is left behind and now she is alone with no one to help her.
Captured by the rebels she must use all her wits to survive. They believe she knows the secret her husband has not shared with her.
From the initial scene-setting, this book is a fast-paced, page-turning, modern adventure thriller based on many of the author’s experiences living in Africa.
Amie has won several international awards and hit the #1 in its genre on both sides of the Atlantic. It is the first in a 4 book series.
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The Dead Wake Anthology : Ellie Douglas
The Dead Wake Anthology
Ten utterly gruesome tales, that will disable you.
You won’t know what hit you.
You will from this day forward sleep with one eye open.
Insist that all the lights stay on…always.
You will begin a ritual; checking under your bed, inside the closet and double checking your windows.
Throw into this the sick and twisted and the utterly crazy humor and your stomach will explode.
With some erotica, you’ll be hot and sweaty and won’t know which way to run…and you’ll be scared for life.
In the best possible way.
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The Timekeeper’s Daughter : C.J.M. Naylor
The Timekeeper’s Daughter
On her eighteenth birthday, Abigail Jordan foresees the death of a woman, and then it comes true.
From there she goes on an incredible journey of self-discovery in which she uncovers the secrets of her past and her heritage as a timekeeper—people chosen to record and measure time, but not change it.
But timekeeping isn’t the important aspect for Abigail; for her, it’s finding out what happened to her biological mother, Elisabeth. Her mother’s death was deemed a suicide, but Abigail knows that this isn’t true.
In the midst of an ongoing war, Abigail must battle both literal war in the world as well as battle the ongoing war within herself. Her biological father, Mathias, wants her to learn about his world while other mysterious figures want her dead. She has to decide who to trust in order to determine where she belongs.
Set in 1940s era London, The Timekeeper’s Daughter follows Abigail as she goes on a journey of self-discovery all while battling issues dealing with love, family, tragedy, and trust.
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The Mouse Trap Caper : Gaby Pratt
The Mouse Trap Caper
Nicknamed “Mouse”, Kerri Hill, Christian School teacher, moonlights as a barrel racer, resides in lower, slower Delaware.
After a rodeo accident takes the life of her friend, Kenny Prescott, she goes on a mission to console his brother, Mark. Kenny would’ve wanted her to. For cues she leans heavily on the ways the chaplain at the hospital had comforted her after her mother’s passing. Little did she know Banner, her horse, would be the catalyst keeping Mark close by, and, from time to time, she had to remind herself consoling is not the same as falling in love.
Mark, Kenny’s brother, is an orthopedic surgeon at Jersey General. Kenny’s last conversation with Mark was something about a mouse. A mouse? Preoccupied as usual he can’t remember. Harboring a guilty conscience, he goes to the Delaware rodeo and offers his services at the first aide station. Kenny had always said they needed help, but he had been too busy. There he rescues Kerri Hill, the “Mouse”, from an uncalled for injury. He figures she must have been Kenny’s significant other and vows to protect her from the brewing danger on the circuit. Kenny would’ve wanted him to.
Meanwhile his conscience takes flight. Not only does he glory in telling the Almighty exactly how he felt about His cutting down Kenny in his youth, but he has to watch his growing attraction to “Mouse”. When the threats to both Kerri and Banner take an ugly turn, traps are set, but is it Mark’s heart that gets caught?
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Salvageable : Jean Baxter
Salvageable
The trouble with trust is once it’s broken, it changes who you are and who you will become—forever.
Michael Jarrid’s eighteenth birthday is the worst ever. His ex-girlfriend announces she’s pregnant and accuses him of being the father—but he isn’t. He’s pretty sure he’s never had sex. His parents believe her version of the night in question. Mike feels betrayed by the people he most trusted. The future so neatly planned out for him is no longer rosy or even certain.
A mishap on his motorcycle introduces Mike to a neighbor who comes to his rescue. Lacey is going through a divorce, has a young son, and offers a nonjudgemental listening ear. It feels like he’s known her for a million years. One thing leads to another. Neither of them mean for it to happen, it just does.
His parents are beside themselves. One girl is threatening legal action over her unborn child and he’s head over heels in love with another, older woman. They issue an ultimatum. His decision fractures the family, also ending his college plans. Shortly after, Lacey dumps him. On his own, heart broken, and miserable, Mike has to decide–is anything about his life salvageable?
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Dreams of Otherworld : Lacy Sheridan
Dreams of Otherworld: Book 1 of the Otherworld Trilogy
When they awake in a ghost town with no memories of their pasts, Fox, Lightning, Griffin, Rowan, and Blue have no choice but to do what it takes to survive. Surrounded by a forest full of dangers and the chill of winter setting in, that seems like a difficult enough task at first.
But then they meet SAM.
SAM is an enigma to them, a shadowy being who speaks in cryptic clues and veiled warnings. And their presence seems to make everything spiral out of control.
As nightmares seep into reality and dreams seem to guide them to an impossible place, the five must race to answer the questions of who they are and why they’ve been brought here before their time runs out.
The Otherworld is waiting, and its master is growing impatient.
The Sun Road : Afiena Kamminga
The Sun Road
In tenth century Iceland a young woman, Thora Thorvinnsdottir, is orphaned at age fifteen, out of a home and close to destitute.
Goaded by her misfortune, Thora strives to fill in the gaps between the warp threads of her life’s weaving pattern – which the Norns, maidens of fate, set up for each mortal as they see fit – with weft threads of her own choosing.
She sails west to the new frontier of Greenland hoping to acquire a new farm of her own.
In Greenland she agrees to a marriage ill-conceived to begin with, and ill-fated in the end. Thora joins her husband’s timber-seeking expedition across the Western sea to an unexplored land rumoured to be the source of driftwood littering Greenland beaches.
In Westland they encounter novel forms of life – plants, animals and people unknown to even the most traveled Norseman among them, and Thora is given a chance to achieve a major goal she set for herself, in a way she never imagined.
More than a Hutch : Kim Montgomery
More than a Hutch
More than a hutch is the autobiography of a pet rabbit.
Robbie Bobtail is destined for a life of solitude, restriction, and extreme boredom, relieved only by the antics of the two young brothers who own him.
Then, a wild rabbit unexpectedly appears in the garden. Sunshine is a female rabbit, one of a select few who are allowed to leave the warren once a year. She is strictly forbidden to associate with pet rabbits, but cannot resist when she overhears the brothers talking about Robbie. So intrigued is she by this strange rabbit, who is like no other rabbit she has met, she allows herself to be captured by the brothers.
Starting with the rabbit language, which pet rabbits have long since forgotten how to speak, Sunshine teaches Robbie all about the true way of rabbit life. Inspired by everything he learns from Sunshine, Robbie is desperate to experience warren life for himself. But first they have to find a way to escape.
Tragic circumstances force the brothers to release Sunshine, leaving Robbie alone again, wondering if he’ll ever have the opportunity to rejoin her.
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