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Children of the Forgotten : Charles Franklin
Children of the Forgotten: Book One of The Anistemi
In a post-apocalyptic world, most people by age thirty have succumbed to the Sickness, a mysterious deadly illness. But the Sickness is not the only enemy for Collin Mann’s city. Hordes of deranged killers live in the hills around it. With few trained protectors, the future of the little city looks bleak.
Collin, fifteen years old, buries those the Sickness consumes. Slight and awkward, he shuns warrior training, avoiding the example of his big brother and guardian.
When killers attack at the watering hole, he’s called to step forward and defend. Instead, he freezes. He’s ashamed. His people need him to fight. But can he do it? Or would a clumsy person like himself make any difference in the battle for existence?
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Realms of Glory : Rudolph Lurz
Realms of Glory
There is life after death, but Heaven is no paradise.
Three teenagers from Pittsburgh die in a car wreck, and arrive in a tumultuous afterlife on the brink of revolution. As Devon, Madison, and Patrick explore the Realm, they discover a dangerous conspiracy.
Family secrets, if exposed, will threaten the security of the Kingdom. Can the teenagers stop the revolt before it’s too late? Or is war inevitable?
The teens are dead, but their coming of age stories are just beginning…
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The Ringmaster’s Tale : Helen Wallace-Iles
The Ringmaster’s Tale: Autism, Asperger’s, Anarchy!
One woman’s remarkable journey from desperation to hope, successfully parenting four children on the autism spectrum. Hilarious, poignant and full of brilliant advice, her voice will inspire you to enjoy your life, whether it’s touched by autism or not.
Helen Wallace-Iles has a wealth of experience in dealing with autism, both personally – as mother to four children on the spectrum – and professionally in her work as a successful hypnotherapist and psychotherapist. She is the CEO and founder of registered charity Autism All Stars Foundation UK and works tirelessly promoting autism awareness and acceptance. Helen spends her days turning chaos into calm at her home in Surrey, where she lives with her extraordinary family, whose motto is ‘We don’t do normal in this house’.
Whether you’re new to the world of autism or have years of experience under your belt, this book is a unique and fascinating read. It provides a detailed guide to what autism is, and more importantly what it isn’t, as well as offering unique self-help strategies and practical advice that can genuinely lead to a better quality of life for you and your family.
Told in an easy, informal style, the book includes many highly relatable anecdotes that will make you laugh, move you to tears, and most importantly give you a true insight into just how much can be achieved when you adopt a positive approach to living with this complex and intriguing condition.
A book you’ll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.
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Who Let Me Adult? : Dave Colley
Who Let Me Adult? – 20 Lessons I Wish I’d Learnt Before Entering the Working World
This is the ultimate guide book for those entering the working world. Who Let Me Adult? covers the topics that the education system didn’t teach you – such as the low-down on how to get the right job, how to make and grow your money, and how to find happiness.
Sections include:
•Finding a Sense of Purpose
•Accumulating Financial Wealth
•Targeting Career Success
Dave Colley, chartered accountant, lean change and transformation agent, entrepreneur, and life coach, has had a number of “Why didn’t they teach me that?” moments since leaving the education system and has since made it his mission to help young adults learn everything he wishes someone had told him when he was starting out in the career world. In this one concise book, Dave takes you step by step on how you can have it all.
Dave was highly successful in his career being in the top rankings year after year, yet after having worked in the corporate world for almost a decade, he still felt that he was drifting through life with a lack of purpose. Life was happening to him. Deciding to do something about it, he began a journey of exploring new concepts, seeking to discover real-world, practical ideas.
Dave continues to pursue personal growth and development. As he uncovers important concepts that alter his life, he makes a conscious decision to share what he has discovered with others – by encouraging those around him with his example and guidance and communicating with a worldwide audience through his blog, Reaching Aspiration. Instead of working for 50 years only to end up with a miserable retirement, Dave encourages you to take the time to become educated and informed in order to make better decisions now, to reduce the stress that often comes when dealing with topics you may be unsure or anxious about.
These ideas can be game changers to your life’s success and happiness, and by providing them to you, Dave offers you a challenge to share in his daily mantra:
Today, I choose happiness. To be alive is grand.
I am excited about everything, as it is all in my control.
What is not, is of no concern to me.
I have ten thousand lives to change.
I am focused and will succeed.
Life is short. Let’s do this.
When Your Child Is Gay : Wesley C. Davidson
When Your Child Is Gay: What You Need to Know
“An incredibly compelling and helpful read for parents—or anyone out there—who would like to learn more about the dual processes of raising a gay or lesbian child and growing up as gay or lesbian.” —Cason Crane, Founder of The Rainbow Summits Project and LogoTV’s Youth Trailblazer Honoree, 2013
Coming out can be fraught with difficulty for both parents and child—but Wesley C. Davidson, a popular blogger on gay rights issues, and Dr. Jonathan Tobkes, a New York City-based psychiatrist, provide a road map so families can better navigate this rocky emotional terrain. Emphasizing communication and unconditional love, Davidson and Tobkes help parents untangle their own feelings, identify and overcome barriers to acceptance, encourage strong self-esteem in their child, handle negative or hostile reactions to their child’s sexual identity, and more. Filled with case studies and interviews, along with useful action plans and conversation starters, this is a positive, progressive guide to raising healthy, well-adjusted adults.
Winner of the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs Award for best parenting book of 2017!
Irregular: Forty Miles From Hope : Eric Herbertson
Irregular: Forty Miles From Hope
The end has come. The yellow-eyed creatures shuffling across the countryside and filling the cities barely resemble the humans they once were. Transformed into predators whose only desire is to hunt those who have yet to succumb to the demonic plague.
In the middle of nowhere, isolated amid the overgrown fields of Kansas, is Hope, a sanctuary protected by reinforced fences. Walter, Hope’s leader, rescues an injured stranger, even though his outlook seems bleak. But his recovery is swift and soon, his only lasting wound is the loss of his memory.
Lilly, Walter’s young daughter, has also lost her memory of the days before the plague. The doctor hopes the two might help each other to recover. As the stranger becomes reacquainted with the world and its dangers, he discovers abilities unlike the others, yet his true nature eludes him. His memory remains fragmented, returning as disjointed images that produce more questions than answers.
When an outcast reappears to recruit new followers into his growing army, the stranger worries that Walter has boxed himself in. Hope’s residents want to feel safe and the stranger proves his worth by providing them with another option to being overrun.
When Lilly is taken from her home, the stranger, frustrated by Walter’s inaction, takes matters into his own hands. But actions have consequences and Hope must face its greatest challenge when the charismatic outcast returns.
Lilly has been keeping a secret that may be the catalyst for Walter, finally compelling him to do what he should have done long ago, an act that could end the conflict or start a war.
When the dust settles and his memory finally returns, the stranger is compelled toward a greater goal, but will he be able to fulfill his ultimate purpose before it’s too late?
Soulful Transitions : Lorena Muñoz
Soulful Transitions
Soulful Transitions is a collection of poems that chronicles one woman’s pilgrimage from pain to heartache to healing.
Each epxpressive poem offers a glimpse into a soul struggling with various life lessons, and each is dated to document the evolution of growth and recovery.
Full of faith and hope, Soulful Transitions offers reassurance that we, too, can survive the dark nights of our soul-and face the morning light stronger and wiser.
The Adventures of Ear-Z : Rashawn Eps
The Adventures of Ear-Z: The beginning
What started out as a normal day for Ear-Z and his friends turns into a day of unexpected adventure, confusion and chaos.
While hanging with his friends (new and old),family and intergalactic creatures at Green Pond, they get captured by humans.
Ear-Z wont stop until all his friends are safe from harm.
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To Cut a Short Story Short : Simon J. Wood
To Cut a Short Story Short: 111 Little Stories
A young magician in a pub opens his hands to release a cloud of tropical butterflies; a female bookseller is forced to attend a dance in drag to atone for a misdemeanor; a lonely man searches for a mysterious woman on a cruise; four school friends experience terror on a caravan holiday, and a macabre stranger wanders the streets at midnight, stealing dreams.
Ranging from just 100 up to 4000 words, these and 106 other memorable little stories are found in this eclectic and tantalizing collection by Simon J. Wood, an exciting new voice in the Flash Fiction genre.
To Cut a Short Story Short: 111 Little Stories is also available on Amazon as an eBook, and as an Audiobook, narrated by Angus Freathy.
The Edge of Nothing and Everything : John David Buchanan
Hang on for a wild ride. The Edge of Nothing and Everything – book two of the Jump Starting the Universe Series.
After witnessing an assassination, they scrambled into the Nomad and Jumped just in time to avoid a hit-man. Blackie hoped things would be more normal when they arrived on Gafcon-49. It wasn’t long before that hope was completely dismissed. After visiting the lake with Mark, Nita, Blackie, Joules and Amelia, Wayne drove his 1957 Nomad station wagon over a cliff and into the greenish tinted mixing zone. When it separated Amelia frantically pushed the red button on the front of the Jump Starter. A golden ring instantly formed near the front bumper of the Nomad and glided by with a whooshing sound. The cross over had deposited them on Volcanon. A gigantic volcano in the distance spewed poisonous gas and lava, and chunks of rock the size of large houses.
Wayne sat with his hands on the steering wheel and noticed the sides of the gorge were closing in quickly. Expecting to hit the bottom at any moment he closed his eyes as another ring whooshed by and the Nomad was bathed in a white haze punctuated by intermittent silver flashes. Someone nervously hummed a song as another ring flew though the haze just as the Nomad, along with Amelia, Mark, Blackie, Nita, Joules, and Wayne, and a large amount of band equipment vanished into thin air.
Amelia was still screaming when the Nomad dropped out of the jump onto a desert plain and plowed to a stop in the deep yellow sand. They were bewildered by what had just happened. Two large moons hovered near the horizon in front of them as the sun went down on the mountains behind. Mesmerized by the scene before them, they had no idea what to do, where they were, or how to get back to Gafcon-49.
Unknown to them, a centuries old dispute raged throughout this universe and before long they not only knew about it, they were smack dab in the middle of it. Every ounce of intelligence and luck would be needed if they were to survive. Wayne was sure something weird was about to happen – again – and it did. They would never have guessed they would soon have the most unlikely of traveling companions.