18 May
2013
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Free fiction Kindle books for 18 May 13

Mr. Porky’s Pledge

by Oliver Jackson

WARNING: This book contains material of an adult nature, which is just about guaranteed to offend somebody somewhere.
Mr. Porky’s Pledge is a darkly comic and at times heart-breaking story of **** (he is never named), a demented alcoholic writer living in NYC. His story is interwoven with chapters of a novel he is writing, which amounts to a stand-alone work. We follow **** as he seeks revenge on those he feels have wronged him (which is paralleled in the book within the book), and in the way he interprets the world with his spongy, alcohol-soaked brain.
**** becomes obsessed with the logo on a bag of pork snacks (and the company’s guarantee, which he misinterprets) and strikes up an email relationship with someone at the factory whom he presumes to be the cartoon pig from the bag. His misguided and comic endeavors see him fall through the ceiling of his friend’s office in a masturbating accident, make a softball from a cat’s head to terrorize a little girl, murder a swan and brawl with a Christian puppeteer in Central Park.
The novel **** is writing is an urban fantasy tale of 35 year old stock broker Mag, who is transported back in time to 1989 and into his 12 year old body. Whilst there he uncovers a budding young sociopath’s plot to impregnate a bully with a Down’s syndrome child. What would you do? Save the girl? Stop 9/11? Or just fill your own pockets?
All in, Mr. Porky’s Pledge is a shocking, funny and sad tale of circular revenge, but not in a little girl’s tea party underpantsy way like The Count of Monte Cristo. Here we see that a mixture of idiocy, spite and pettiness sometimes works just fine. Up to a point. Influences of William Kotzwinkle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Charles Bukowski can be seen. It’s sure to become a cult classic, as I’ve heard several people refer to the author as a cult.
Just listen to what these EXCITED readers have to say about Mr. Porky’s Pledge:
â??That’s disgusting. You should be locked up.’ -N. DuBow, Haverstraw NY
â??Uh. . . You’re not planning to show this to anyone, are you?’ -E. Rodgers, Wichita KS
And if that wasn’t enough, here’s what author STEPHEN KING had to say: â??This is a must read.’ Okay, so he didn’t say it about this book per se, but he might have if he’d read it. Or heard of it. Just buy it already.
Praise for the author:
â??*****’
â??Really loved this book. Never read this writer before but can’t wait to see what else he has to offer.’
â??This is a great thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page. [His] multifaceted novel is a wonderful debut with just the right kind of plot twists that keep you turning pages. Jackson is an author to watch, I look forward to his next offering.’
â??Excitingâ?¦ couldn’t put it down!’â??Amazon.com
â??*****’â??Barnes and Noble
â??*****’
â??This was a good read. Kept the suspense going all the way through the book. Very well writtenâ?¦ I will read other books by this author!’â??Goodreads.com

The Buggy List

by Courtney Rice Gager

Drew and Libby Sullivan have spent the past six years building the perfect life together. They have a beautiful home, flourishing careers, and they’re finally ready to take the plunge into parenthood. Well, almost. Despite the endless prodding from family, friends, and even strangers, there still seems to be something holding the couple back from starting a family. Perhaps that’s why they decide to take the advice of Libby’s older sister and make a list of everything they want to do before they have a baby. Making their baby bucket list, or as they call it, “The Buggy List”, buys them just a little more time to be Drew and Libby, who sleep in until noon on Saturdays and eat Chinese takeout for dinner on the couch. Besides, it gives Libby the opportunity to pull straight-laced Drew out of his comfort zone and do something fun for once; like go undercover as singles to a speed dating event with their friend, Tom; or finally take the honeymoon they never had. Drew and Libby each write down five items that they must complete before having a baby. But what starts out as a little harmless fun quickly becomes more than this couple bargained for. When secrets, little white lies, and competing desires threaten to pull them apart for good, Libby and Drew must rediscover why they fell in love in the first place.

Kush and Cologne

by Envy Seal

How far will a woman go for her man?
Lyric knows all too well the way love can damage a person. That is until she meets Kush, a high rolling drug dealer who treats her like a queen. Things take a turn when she makes a risky decision that could change their lives forever. Can they handle the consequences of life in the streets? Caught in this glamorous, yet vicious lifestyle, friendships are tested- and a story of loyalty, revenge, regret, and redemption unfolds.

Suburban Myth

by Deb Courtney

Short Story: A woman discovers she shares no common language with the ones who are closest to her, and that sometimes a single conversation can change everything.

Black Dragon, Black Cat

by Brian Edwards

When a baby girl is abandoned at the gate of a monastery in ancient China, the monks have no choice but to adopt her into their exclusively male society of world-renown masters of the art of kung fu. She is raised within the monastery with a small group of boys, watching the monks beautiful training exercises during the days and listening to recounts of glorious battles of great kung fu masters at nighttime. Her favorite stories are those of the grand tournament battles between the monastery grand master, Bai Chen, and the legendary Black Dragon, an unknown masked competitor with unequaled prowess in the art of kung fu.
Although the monks try to fulfill her physical and emotional needs, the girl becomes increasingly aware that she is treated differently than the male children, and develops a feeling of being unloved. She becomes increasingly isolated, and develops a deep yearning to become a great master of kung fu, dreaming of the day that she will be called to train in the art.
When the time comes for the children to begin their initiation into the art, the girl is crushed to learn that she will not be allowed to participate, and flees from the monastery without any thought as to the consequences. She wanders through the rugged countryside for days, tired and hungry, until she chances upon an old man on the bank of a green pond. The old man offers to take the girl into his home, promising to teach her the art of kung fu. Could this wrinkled old figure really teach her anything about kung fu? She doubts this to be true, but faced with another hungry evening, she readily accepts the invitation.
Thus begins the lifelong journey of Black Cat toward the only goal she can imagine: to compete in the Grand Tournament of ancient China and become a great master of the art of kung fu. She quickly discovers, however, that not only is her new master highly adept at the art of kung fu, but that her training is not as glorious as she had anticipated…

Black Dragon, Black Cat is an ambitious saga of devotion, betrayal, and redemption, instilled with the philosophical wisdom of the old master and breathless scenes of epic battles set in ancient China. It can be enjoyed by all readers who are seeking adventures in ancient civilizations and cultures, as well as poignant character portrayals of unique individuals. And of course, there is non-stop action…

Casanova Killer, An SSCD Crime Thriller

by Tallulah Grace

Catching the eye of a delusional serial killer known as the Casanova Killer signals the end for certain beautiful young women of San Francisco. True to his name, Casanova offers the women a taste of romance and unparalleled adoration before sending them to a bloody death.

The FBI Special Serial Crimes Division, SSCD, sets a trap for the killer with one of their own as bait. Agent Jerry Forbes pairs with Interpol’s Ethan Barnes to capture Casanova before another woman falls prey to his charms.

Jerry and Ethan soon discover that pretending to be lovers may be more dangerous than catching a killer. Follow their story from the moment they set up house to the abrupt end that Jerry does not see coming.

Is it love or certain death?

Rainbow in the Dark #1

by Comfort Love

Donna has always felt out-of-place, like there was something that was always just missing from her life. She never expected to find this missing piece in a group of lazer gun-toting bohemians followed by a hoard of monsters. As she gets caught up in a world of color she learns that maybe she was never supposed to “fit in” in the first place.

Los Angeles Angie (Surface Children)

by Dean Blake

Eighteen year old Angie is wealthy, careless and popular, especially with the boys. Enjoy a brief yet entertaining story about a young man’s failed attempt to woo her over as they spend an evening in a bar in the city.

Los Angeles Angie is just one story of a collection of others in Dean Blake’s much anticipated book, Surface Children.

About Surface Children:

Surface Children is expected to be Dean Blake’s finest work to date. From a humorous tale of a group of teenagers who crave nothing but perfection to a haunting account of a man who claims to eat people, be prepared to be drawn inside a world created like no other. Dean has once again demonstrated his mastery of the art of storytelling in this much anticipated collection of short stories.

Fans of Dean’s earlier work can also expect cameos from Eva and stories written from the point of view of Jude and Vail. Visit the Generation End website to find out more about Surface Children.

Wanted: Hexed or Alive (A Sexy Witches short)

by Charity Parkerson

It is said that the man who controls fate controls the world, but what of the person who controls the man? What is said of them? Rowena the Fate has a problem; a problem of the pirate variety. Following the advice of friends, she’ll seek out the wizard Randall Cruz for help.
As owner of an apothecary, Randall is used to unusual requests, so Rowena’s pirate removal spell doesn’t faze him, but what happens afterwards will leave him in a position he never dreamed possible.
“Wanted: Hexed or Alive” is a short “in between” story from Bestselling Author Charity Parkerson’s “Sexy Witches” series.

Escape

by Aaron Rhys Kern

A short story about two men, one in prison, and one free. Both men need each other for their own purposes, and discover who is really using whom.

The End of Athens

by Anthony Karakai

In the year 2091, humans have lost the ability to dream. After decades of financial and social depression, dreams and aspirations have become a recessive geneâ??an impossibility of the modern mind.

Greece is one of the worst social and economic disaster zones, and all hope of a better future has been lost. One young man, Nikos, discovers that he is not like everybody elseâ??there is something different about him.

Believing that he may be going crazy, he soon discovers that he is the only person in Greece who has inherited the ability to dream. Time is running out as the government continues its tirade of corruption and suppression against the people, and Nikos must find a way to teach others how to dream so that once more society can free itself from the shackles of mental slavery.

About the Author: Anthony Michael Karakai was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is a dual citizen of Hungary. Holding an International Business degree, he is also a qualified percussionist and music producer, having studied music extensively since the age of seven. Working in journalism, his work has been published in various magazines and websites. With an insatiable appetite for travel and an eagerness to explore off the beaten path, Karakai travels at every opportunity- his travels and ongoing commitment to exploring the world are what inspires him to write.

MORE SEX Womens Erotica Sex Anthology (Erotique Content)

by Leanore Elliott

Wicked Leanore writes hot sex with an emotional tie, so this is not your average trashy type, one-night-stand erotica, but it’s a body squirming, hot flash worthy anthology and definitely naughty enough. These sex stories are all filled with sexual intensity and some are light BDSM and not for the timid reader. All of them imbued with different appetites and preferences, but with one thing in commonâ??they will get you hot.
This is for those of us who just wantâ?¦MORE SEX
DEDICATED
Pearl was utterly helpless while her thighs opened wider and he sucked harder. “Please, oh!” she begged as he pulled in every drop she had, the drawing overwhelming as she shuddered violently in his grip. “Please, it’s too much, please?” she pleaded.
SATISFACTION GURANTEED
The feeling of his silky length sliding along her slick, wet, sensitized clit was so glorious, wicked and sinful, she shivered with an expectant delight.Claire wondered at just that second, if this was what a cock tease really was. â??Not the girl teasing the cock, but the cock actually teasing the girl!’
CONQUER ME
“But you will, my sexy slaveâ?¦you will,” Lena threatened with a wicked smile. “As a warrior, I’m sure you’ve tamed a wild horse or two.” She looked around the room and saw the horse tack on the far wall. “And seeing that you do ride horses, I knew the equipment had to be here somewhere.” Her eyes settled on a mean looking leather crop. She raised a brow at him. “I bet a strong, swaggering man like you has never been whipped with one of your own riding crops.”
THE HAT TRICK
“See? You’re comfortable with me,” he prompted. “You don’t pant like a bitch in heat when Iâ?¦”
Miranda bit at her lip. â??No, but it could happen in a millisecondâ?¦meâ??youâ??doggy style? And I would howl to the fucking moon!’ She took a deep breath. â??Steady, Fifi, steady.’
THE VIEW
Rich was stroking in accord to her strokes. He had no control over any of it. If she stopped before she got hot and came, he would go without release tonight. Her finger sped up as his thoughts cheered, Yes, baby, yes. She leaned her body back and licked her lips.He knew, because he had memorized every trait, every nuance and the binoculars swept higher to eventually see her tongue come out and swipe her lips.
MINE
Jewel thought she might die from an overpowering wave of bliss, agony and joy. His threat of allowing her to take him deep in her throat caused another wave of weak neediness to ripple through her. She was stunned with the realization that he knew how to discipline in such mind-blowing ways that she never dreamed of before.
60,000 words/200 pages From Wicked Muse Publishing

Artifice (Identity Quest)

by Stifyn Emrys

The year is 2058. Humanity is in a race against time to save itself from a climate crisis that has spun out of control, leaving millions dead from heat stroke and exposure. But Tim, a teenager growing up in Silicon Valley, has an advantage: his father heads the world’s largest corporation and has the power to keep him safe. Unfortunately, he’s not much of a father. In fact, he’s a self-absorbed workaholic who has no time – and no respect – for Tim.

At least Tim has his girlfriend, Annie, who grew up with him and helped him get through the worst that his father and the rest of the world threw at him. Now, however, they find their lives spiraling out of control in a whirlwind of corporate intrigue and cutthroat power plays that could cost both of them their lives and threaten humanity’s very existence.

What choice do you make when you run out of options? Whom do you trust in a game of deceit? Sometimes, it all comes down to a fight for survival. But the price for survival can be high. Would you trade your life for love? Your honor for hope?

If you wind up with a raw deal, a bluff can win the hand, but when the stakes are love and honor, you may be forced to choose between the truth â?¦ and ARTIFICE.

Artifice is a novella in the “Identity Quest” series.

Best Friends Bianca and Tido

by Carla Jessimy

Do you love reading books for children? There’s nothing quite like cuddling up with your little one and enjoying the coos and giggles as you read these kids books to them. The feeling of love is priceless, and is exactly what you will feel with Best Friends Bianca and Tido. The Bianca and Tido series are books for toddlers with a special moral or emotional lesson behind all.
Kiss your little one good night, and enjoy!

Out

by J.W. Kilhey

Joe Dawson is a driven young man, hard working, and eager to please his father. But Joe has a secret…perhaps he has a few. In small town like Holton, South Carolina, Joe is the biggest thing around: young, talented, destined for greatness. As the pressure builds from the outside, Joe feels close to snapping. He is not being honest with himself about who he is and what he wants. He must make a choice: be what everyone else wants him to be or strike out and be his own man.

Regency Masquerade

by Vera Loy

Old fashioned regency romance with a metro sexual twist – Frances comes to London to discover her identity and finds a Lord she could easily fall in love with – there’s only one problem, he thinks she ‘s a man. And her adventures are only just beginning.

A Graceful Death (Lowenna Series)

by Ann Summerville

Giovanna Matthews has an acceptable life in London with her own flat, a good job, and recent engagement to the son of a Scottish landowner. But not long after her engagement to Alan, news of Aunt Grace’s death hits Giovanna like a red double decker bus. Ignoring Alan’s pleas to stay, she bundles her dog and suitcase into a rusty Volkswagen and drives to Aunt Grace’s cottage on the Cornish coast where Giovanna had spent childhood summers with her cousin. Putting her aunt’s affairs in order is further complicated when Giovanna discovers the local constabulary has its own view on Aunt Grace’s demise – A view that Giovanna vows to challenge. Unless she can discover how her aunt died and find her missing cousin quickly, she stands to lose both her inheritance and Alan.

Like the old harbor wall, Giovanna’s feet sink into the sand and it becomes more difficult to leave a village where she is accepted as part of their “family.” There’s Mrs. Penrose with her flyaway gray hair and floral wardrobe; The sensible Mrs. Trewellyn who owns the grocery store; Holly, a long time friend and confidant; and Miss Brea who learned to drive in her retirement years. Self-centered, Alan threatens to break off their engagement if Giovanna doesn’t return to London. Should she stay and solve the mystery surrounding her aunt’s death or return to London and her fiancé?

The Medium (Emily Chambers Spirit Medium Trilogy #1)

by CJ Archer

Seventeen year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn’t a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there’s the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year after her father’s death (yes, a year) and without the pale skin of other respectable English ladies, Emily is as much a mystery as the dead boy assigned to her.

Jacob Beaufort’s spirit has been unable to crossover since his death. It might have something to do with the fact he was murdered. Or it might not. All he knows is, he has been assigned by the Otherworld’s administrators to a girl named Emily. A girl who can see and touch him. A girl who released a shape-shifting demon into the mortal realm. Together they must send the demon back before it wreaks havoc on London. It should be a simple assignment, but they soon learn there’s nothing simple when a live girl and a dead boy fall in love.

Sons of Thunder

by James Rollo

SONS OF THUNDER
Killing was nothing new for the Thunders’. They’d lived by the gun since the day they were old enough to pull the trigger…

A SIMPLER TIME WHEN FAMILY MEANT EVERYTHING
Pop Thunder had brought his boys up to know that nothing was free and that anything they wanted would have to be taken, one way or the other and consequences be damned. When that motto eventually gets Pop lynched for cattle rustling his boys’ destinies are sealed, their path of revenge chosen for them as they take justice into their own hands to even the score the only way they knew how.

WHEN BLOOD WAS THICKER THAN WATER
Of course, there’s always a price to be paid when vigilantes act above the law, and right or wrong, the Sons of Thunder will have to muster their diabolical wits to stay one step ahead of the law, and a trio of dangerous men determined to see them die.

Bonus Content: A preview of Rollo’s next novel, The Franciscan.

Damascus Road

by Charlie Cole

For James Marlowe, his entire life was lived in the fast lane. With a muscle car at his fingertips, and an estranged family, there’s nothing between Marlowe and what he wants, but miles of highway. When a catastrophic car accident takes the life of his best friend, Marlowe sets out to make things right with his father, presidential candidate Senator Ellis Marlowe-until an assassination attempt takes a deadly turn, sending James Marlowe after a murderous traitor who wants nothing more than to watch Marlowe suffer by killing those around him. Tearing across the highways of America, Marlowe goes on a manhunt for the one person who could take everything from him, and who knows his darkest secrets.
Buckle upâ?¦ Damascus Road

Spanish Needle

by Will Murray

When a pretty young girl is kidnapped by outlaws along the dangerous road from the Mojave to Kernville, two Civil War vets head out after her in a desperate race against time.

The Spelling Bee

by Michael Rock

Marty the Ant, and his sister, Millie the Ant, are in for a surprise when they take part in the school spelling bee. Marty has never done well in past spelling bees but studies hard this time; Millie, meanwhile, is the defending champ and doesn’t think she needs to study.

Asymmetric Angels

by Essa Alroc

Angelica Salvatori, AKA Sal, thought her problems were over. After marrying the man of her dreams and settling down, her delusions and violent tendencies seemed to be a thing of a past. Unfortunately, her past is just her problem. When one of her previous cons comes back to bite her, Sal hightails it out of town, leaving her husband to pick up the pieces.

Cole Warner is on a desperate hunt for his wife. With the help of Sal’s interfering uncles and born again brother, he’s in a race against time to get to his wife before her enemies do. Unfortunately for him, Sal has a lot of enemies.

A few hours away, at the hottest drag club in Key West, a mysterious woman holds the key to solving both their problems. Angel Sunshine, a woman with no past and a ridiculous name, wakes up screaming from dreams filled with blood and violence. As she tries to untangle the secrets of her past, she wakes up an enemy who may just cost her, Sal and Cole their lives.

Along Came A Gunfighter

by James Butler

It was 1862 and the Civil War was going on. Jesse Lee was seventeen and felt that it was his duty to defend the South since he was raised in Tennessee. He leaves his family and girlfriend and sets out across the Mississippi to find a battle where he can kill some Yankees. Along Came A Gunfighter is the adult story of his magical adventures along the way until he makes peace with himself and those around him.

The Cabin: Mia’s Story (Book One) (The Cabin Novellas)

by Natalie Stark

When Nathan Chaplin stepped out of the rain and into my life, I believed at last I could put my sinful past behind me.

But on our wedding night, I knew I could no longer keep my scars and my secrets from my new husband. I loved Nathan, but I also craved the love and the touch of another.

Setting out into the mountains for the secluded honeymooner’s cabin, my past finally catches up with me. Separated from Nathan in a freak storm, I end up alone in the cabin with another, who reawakens those dark and forbidden desires within me.

Dark and romantic, sensual and sexy, â??The Cabin’ will be the place where I can explore the more illicit side of my character.

â??The Cabin: Mia’s Story’ is the first book in a series of character and sexually driven novellas. Each novella will tell a different story about those who visit The Cabin and what they enjoyed there. Some people return more than once to The Cabin as they had so much fun the first time.

‘The Cabin: Chloe’s Story’ Now Available!

*For readers aged 18 years and over.*

Home Through Sankara

by Arthur Flynn

Ronny Murphy feels stuck in a rut after he graduates from college, and he thinks that joining the Peace Corps will give him the purpose that he needs. He prepared himself for the deprivation and the heat, but what he really finds in Africa is different than he could have ever imagined.

Join Ronny on this adventure and meet spies, strongmen, and “bush mad” friends. Follow him from snowy Massachusetts to the beaches and jungles of Africa and then to the desert and beyond. Deliberate with him as he struggles with the decisions that will change his life.

You will get lost in the realism of this adventure and and you won’t be able to put it down until you have found your own way home.

Exodus: A Requiem for Jacob Forlorn

by lazarusInfinity

From the writer of the heartwarming and inspirational ebook “The Little Boy and the Sea”, comes a dark and haunting novel for the Kindle and print with “Exodus: A Requiem for Jacob Forlorn”.

A tale of love, lust, betrayal and vengeance. What happens when everything you’ve worked for and sacrificed for is suddenly taken away from you? What happens when the greatest love you’ve ever known isn’t what it seems? What happens when your most loyal childhood friends and family pass away? What happens when one man takes a fateful journey between love and hate, light and darkness…Heaven and Hell?

Jacob Forlorn is a beleaguered everyman escaping from the shadows of a bitter and broken past to find his place in life when he meets Miranda, a beautiful and mysterious woman with a past of her own. Drawn by love at first sight, a whirlwind romance brimming with intense passion ensues, culminating in the birth of a beautiful child. But all is not well in paradise. Against the remains of a hidden past, something dark and deadly emerges, threatening to either warn Jacob or rob him of both his heart and his sanity. Jealousy, resentment and deception emerge, soon forming a deadly web of intrigue, lust and secrecy which all have repercussions far beyond anything he ever imagined.

As dark visions and nightmares haunt him repeatedly, Jacob soon begins to walk a very fine line between right and wrong, against a backdrop of misery and death that pushes him to the limits of his faith in God. Someone…or something is after him. The secrets of the past begin to destroy him both physically and spiritually, forcing him to make a dangerous choice.

Love. Lust. Betrayal. Vengeance. It all comes to an end and something has to give. The journey to Hell and back has now begun.

The Cure for Sodomy

by Ken Shakin

Weaving together history and gossip, Ken Shakin tells the tale of the Sodomite. From oversexed altar boy to electroshock crucifixion, a ravenous youth is cut short by the Cure For sodomy â?¦ once upon a time, a crime against the state.

Lunch Break Shorts

by Ann Mullen

Lunch Break Shortsâ??A collection of six short stories, including one alternate ending, for your lunch break reading pleasure. Approximately 27,000 words. A quick read.

Encounterâ??A late night call sends Lila on a dangerous journey.
No Moreâ??An abusive husband and a road trip turns deadly for Denise.
A Gray Areaâ??Lonnie faces the aftermath of his wife’s murder. Will he get revenge?
A Gray Area 2 (alternate ending)
Instinctsâ??Sarah’s blind date goes horribly wrong.
Bittersweetâ??Evidence of a cheating husband causes a wife to panic.
The Irony of It Allâ??Lois plans the murder of her husband.

The Bashful Vampire Murder & Comic Book Murders (Frank Callahan Mysteries)

by Bob Frey

RE: A Frank Callahan Mystery Twofer

Double your pleasure, double your fun with a Frank Callahan Mystery Twofer. Frank Callahan is a gay LAPD detective who first appeared in the free-for-all mystery, The DVD Murders. He and his long-term friend and partner, Detective Barry Jennings, are back in two contemporary crime fiction stories that will keep you guessing all the way.

The Bashful Vampire Murder begins where most vampire tales end: in the apprehension of a vampire hunter right after he has driven a stake through his quarry’s heart. The defense attempts to prove that vampires exist and the homicide was justified. To Callahan’s horror, the trial ends in a hung jury. Only the resourcefulness and savvy of the tough cynical detective stand between justice and the killer being allowed to walk.

In the Comic Book Murders, the two flatfoots run the gamut of superhero and villain suspects, from Captain America and the Caped Crusader to the Joker and Firebug until outstanding police work and dogged persistence lead them to the unlikely killer. On the way, we get to visit a kinetic comic book convention, the backstreets of Hollywood, and a firebombing in Westwood on Halloween eve.

Defending Elton

by TJ Cooke

TV scriptwriter TJ Cooke has come up with a highly original concept, and a gripping plot. The story revolves around maverick London lawyer Jim Harwood, his on-off relationship with work colleague Loren, and his whirlwind romance with the beautiful yet enigmatic Sarena.

Jim is instantly smitten by Sarena, a Sri Lankan beauty who is in London to further her studies. However, with a jealous Loren on their tail, their dalliance comes to a sudden and catastrophic end, one which Jim fears might see both him and Loren charged with murder.

Though Sarena’s demise was accidental, Jim knows that to a jury it will look like a classic â??love triangle’ murder. He reckons he has no option but to distance both Loren and himself from the crime scene, and does so by providing the police with both an alternative scenario and a far more likely suspect…

…Enter the hapless Elton Spears, an unhinged and gullible â??care in the community’ patient. Jim knows that Elton is potentially dangerous, and that he has committed previous crimes which might suggest he’s the likely assailant. He seems the perfect patsy.

Indeed, Jim seems to have all bases covered… not only has he used all his criminal law experience to frame Elton, but he represents him too, thereby having control and conduct of his case…

Jim’s strategy to escape from criminal culpability seems as risky as it is reprehensible, and when things start to go wrong at Elton’s murder trial he not only regrets his actions but seeks a path to redemption.

Meanwhile the unpredictable Elton starts to recall details which suggest that Jim is covering his tracks. Jim also fears that Loren might have her own agenda, one which will see Jim carry the can whilst she emerges unscathed… but it’s the suggestion that some other unknown and altogether darker forces are at play which causes Jim to worry even more.

Haunted both by his actions and his past, Jim finds that his efforts to â??put things right’ are overtaken by events. He may have cleverly outwitted the authorities, and skilfully manipulated the system, but playing with truth can be a very dangerous game…

Described as a â??devilishly clever and inventive tale’ and a â??tense and edgy thriller’ Defending Elton is full of neat twists and turns, which keep you guessing how things will turn out, right to the unexpected end. Fay Samuels

Into Pieces (Part One)

by AK Dawson

How far would you go for revenge?

Claudia left South Africa to chase a career in London, but a phone call in the middle of the night changes everything. A family member has been murdered by car hijackers. Devastated, she returns to her home city of Durban seeking justice. When she finds out that the police can’t help her, she decides to look for revenge instead. And the only way she can catch the hijackers is if she uses herself as bait.

*******

Into Pieces is a psychological thriller in two parts. This is part one.

You can also read both parts together in a single edition for Kindle.

Clan Fraser, Once Removed

by AK Dawson

A bittersweet comedy, more bitter than sweet, about two brothers on a road trip through Scotland.

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Yeovil Literary Prize 2011 – Highly Commended

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Richard is miserable. Only, he doesn’t know it. He’s a graphic designer at Newcastle upon Tyne’s hottest hot-shop and thinks the world revolves around him and his job.

But now he has to take two weeks off work because his brother Charlie is coming to visit from South Africa. Half-strangled by his umbilical cord at birth, Charlie’s a bit different. To Richard he’s an embarrassment, and the idea of a road trip to a castle that bears their family name doesn’t exactly set off fireworks.

While stopping over at a hotel in Scotland, Richard meets Dot, who works on reception and is bored enough to talk to anyone, even a self-centred designer. He falls in love. Now all he has to do is convince her that, deep down, he’s a nice person. And that means he has to get along with Charlie.

â??Urban, spiky and smart. The writing style is fluid and it grabs you from the get go. Recommended!’ – Darren Floyd, author of Match Days.

Yellowbird, There’s a Problem

by Lee Bachand

Amy Becker arrives on the NSU campus with everything: a genius IQ, movie star looks, and a shipping magnate great-uncle who provides the jet, penthouse, designer clothes and jewels. Nothing is too good for her great-uncle’s “Yellowbird.”
School is a new experience for a girl who has had tutors since she taught herself to read at age two. Amy is not at NSU for the education, however; it’s her chance to see a normal life. Her great-uncle sees her as his successor. Amy’s parents insist on the time at NSU to give her a chance to see and consider a life other than following her great-uncle. Amy goes along with her parents’ wishes because she loves them, but she is committed to running the shipping company.
Once at NSU, Amy tries to blend in, but events keep getting in the way. An abusive boyfriend, attempted date rape, jealous and resentful sorority sisters, and any number of other problems are no match for a girl who used her mother’s shotgun, at the age of twelve, to defend herself from kidnap by two Russian Mafia members. Amy has skills, resources and determination.
Yellowbird’s real problem is hidden from her and the ever-present bodyguards. Forces from two countries want control of the shipping company and think the great-uncle will sell with her out of the picture. They want her dead. They data mine to find a Virginia Tech-type killer to point at her, and stumble on a perfect subject in Jared Parker, a twisted loner enabled by politically powerful parents.
A few precious seconds on the last day of school will determine if years of self-defense training will be enough to protect her and her fifty classmates, or if Jared will slaughter them all. She has experience on her side. She has killed before.

The Tortoise and the Hare, and a Five Year Old.

by Curt Lincoln

This is a story of a father telling his daughter a bedtime story. It is a short work around four pages. This is a perfect Amazon Prime book.

Parker’s Island

by Kimberly Schwartzmiller

Delaney Miller is a preacher’s daughterâ?¦a good girl. Delaney had been secretly in love with Logan Barnett for months, but when she learns she can’t have him, she throws caution to the wind and attends her senior party being held on a nearby island with another young man, Brian Walters.
Brian has been in love with Delaney for as long as he could remember and is thrilled when she unexpectedly accepts his invitation to the party. But things don’t go as planned for either of them. Waking up naked and alone in a strange room, Delaney learns that sometimes bad things happen to good girlsâ?¦

The Kron Cipher

by Dave Michael Rogers

The Lockridge Device exists and Free Energy is real, but there are those who will go to any lengths to ensure it will never see the light of day again. Daniel Bateman finds himself in the middle of an International conspiracy and the target of violent deadly intentions as he learns the secrets of the Kron Cipher.

Interrupting Infamy

by Inara Everett

When tech-savvy Dylan lands his first job, his boss Larry steals his ideas and pretends they’re his. Dylan protests, demanding that Larry acknowledge his work – and Larry responds by convincing the head of HR to fire him.

Larry’s tactics feel a lot like the bullying Dylan and his friend Eric suffered in high school. Dylan and Eric had plotted to blow up the school and kill their classmates in revenge, but were forced to abandon the plan when the police got wind of it. Now Dylan decides to revive the plan, only this time targets his workplace.

Dylan asks Eric, now in the U.S. army, to help him. Elvie, a female alter-ego who inspires Dylan’s dark side, offers him constant encouragement. Will Dylan go through with it? His life spins in and out of control as he tries to make up his mind.

Interrupting Infamy – an alternate reality novel about school shooters Dylan and Eric – examines whether evil is a temporary state of mind or an uncontrollable and inevitable force.

A Hazy State of Separation

by Kevin Hammond

John is a troubled writer working his way through a brand new novel. He has a family and a loving wife but something has happened recently. The line between fiction and reality has become blurred. As he loses his grip on reality his life begins to evolve into a work of fiction. Alike the story he is working on, his life is turning into a horror story. It all begins with the little white rabbit turning up outside his home. When he unravels the nature of the rabbit, the dead finger, the mysterious spy in the blue toyota, and the ghost of a dead girl haunting his home, he finds that the line separating reality and horror has become hazy

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Garden Guide – A No Nonsense, No PhD, No Fuss Guide to Great Gardens with Hand-Holding How To’s for Beginners and Straightforward Instruction for Advanced Gardeners

by Sarah Olver

We’ve all admired our neighbor’s gorgeous gardens filled with flowering perennials and longed to recreate their beauty in our own back yard. But if we’re being honest, when it comes to gardening, most of us have no idea where to begin. Additionally, in these economic times, who can afford to hire an expert to come in and do the job for us? That said, regular folks all across North America and Europe are returning to the soil, shovels in hand. With the help of this book, there is absolutely no need to fly blind into the world of green thumbs, perennials, and herbs. The name–Garden Guide: A No Nonsense, No PhD Guide to Great Gardens with Hand-Holding How To’s for Beginners and Straightforward Instruction for Advanced Gardenersâ??truly says it all. Indeed, this book is the hand-holding garden guide that will walk even the most timid novice right through the gardening process from beginning to end.

In addition to straight forward, practical advice in everyday language, you will love the stories and anecdotes Olver shares from her fifteen years of backyard, organic gardening adventures. Easy and entertaining, youâ??ll probably read this book in one sitting, but you’ll reference it for years to come. The beauty of Garden Guide is that Olver divides her advice into two sections: Beginning Gardeners and Advanced Gardeners. No matter what your skill level, there are simple explanations, tips, and tricks that will walk you through every aspect of the garden process. Garden Guide features details such as:

- Everything you need to know about location, from sunlight to drainage to selecting just the right spot
- How to understand soil types, how to amend and condition them
- pH levels and soil testing broken down in simple terms
- Step by Step guide for planning your PERFECT garden no matter where the location
- Fertilizing made manageable with explanations for all those numbers and organic alternatives
- Composting broken down so you can start immediately
- Pests obliterated with loads of organic suggestions
- The basics of garden maintenance from deadheading to dividing perennials
- Loads of helpful website suggestions for purchasing plants online, getting ideas, locating county extension offices, perennial databases and so much more.
- Gardening terms are defined in language you will both understand and remember

If you have time to read only one book on gardening, this is the book to choose. Short enough not to feel like an encyclopedia and just long enough to wet your gardening appetite, Olver has woven basic garden science and practical ideas for everyday people into each page. With her warm, inviting, no-nonsense instruction, you will be amazed how simple and doable gardening really is. Not only will it thoroughly educate you in basic gardening, Garden Guide will send you well on your way toward beautiful perennials gardens and leave you inspired and hungry to begin planting in your own patch of earth.

How To Grow Your First Strawberry Garden

by Michael Curtis

Want to grow your first strawberry garden? You can do it with
this fun and easy gardening guide.

From choosing the right spot to soil preparation to harvesting, How To Grow Your First
Strawberry Garden shows you the right way to grow big strawberry’s no matter the size of your plot.

You’ll learn the best way to plot your Strawberry garden and how to get your soil in the
best shape; how to plant your seeds properly; and how to care for them the right way as
they grow. You’ll also know the best time to harvest your strawberry’s and the best ways
to enjoy them.

The Ultimate Healthy Eating Roadmap

by Scott Christ

An organized reference guide of the the healthy eating topics you need to understand to get in the best shape of your life (and stay that way). This eBook is a “best of the best” compilation of articles I’ve written about on my website (www.TheHealthyEatingGuide.com).

Here are just a few things you’ll learn:

- Find out the “secrets” of people who have been successful at losing weight and keeping it off.
- Learn what really matters when it comes to nutrients (carbs, fat, protein, sodium, etc.). You’ll discover which ones are good, which ones are bad, and how much you should be eating of each.
- Get the facts about health trends like organic food, antioxidants, gluten free eating, grass-fed beef, wild salmon, and more.
- Learn how to stock a healthier kitchen and why it’s one of the most important things you can do when you want to look and feel your best.
- Learn how to make better choices at restaurants, which can save you thousands of calories and help you lose 10 pounds or more this year.
- Get my best tips for cooking healthier meals that don’t taste “healthy,” so you can impress your friends and family.
- Learn the best way to burn fat (according to the latest research).
- Discover the best and worst alcohol to drink when you’re on a diet.
- Find out how to lose 20 pounds over the next 20 weeks.
- And much more!

SPICES: A Whole Spectrum Of Health Benefits (Healthy & Tasty Series)

by Shirley Miller

Most processed foods contain artificial ingredients. It’s fast, it’s convenient, but how healthy is it?
Most of us enjoy these comfort foods rather than maintain healthy eating habits.

This book was born from author’s love for healthy eating. It is for families who are interested in living a healthy life. This book is for people who know the real value of the saying, “healthy eating and healthy living!”
Processed foods and artificial ingredients play an important role in the food industry. They are widely used by restaurants, food companies and people who desire that seemingly “delicious” taste! However, have you ever thought about the ingredients of the food you are eating? Have you ever dared to look up the composition of these ingredients?
With this book, you will learn a lot of things about SPICES. This book shows how the “fine details” in food preparation contributes not only to the taste of the food but also to your health!
Here are questions that this book can answer:
– What are spices?
– What makes spices healthy for me?
– How can I use spices to improve my health?
– Can I grow my own spices?
And a lot more! It will answers many questions and gives the most accurate information and updated news about spices!

Shirley Miller, the author, a researcher, and a food enthusiast have long since discovered the power of foods to healthy living. She’s a member of Canadian Health Food and Association (CHFA).
Now, for a limited time, you can get your copy for $0.99 only. Take this opportunity today to begin a healthy life-style by changing your eating habits.
“One of the best health books so far! It contains a lot of information about healthy eating and spices. I’ll definitely recommend this book to my patients, friends and family!” lt;/b> – Jane Black, Dietitian, San Francisco
“I am a certified food lover and I constantly look for books about healthy living and with this book, I found more than what I wanted! The information is precise and I can easily understand it! It is definitely worth my time and efforts!” – Taylor Gibbs, San Diego
Hurry! Buy a copy for only $0.99 before the price goes up!

Things My Grandmother Taught Me About Organized Living

by Gloria Barry

Has chaos come to visit in your life? Do you feel stressed and overwhelmed by all of the small things you need to get done in a day? If so, “Things My Grandmother Taught Me About Organized Living” can help you get back on track. This read shares some simple truths that will help you be a calmer person as you care for yourself, your environment and your belongings.

Grandma’s Guide to raising backyard chickens (Grandma’s series)

by Anton Smithers

This is a guide for beginners who want to breed a few chickens for their backyard, be it for meat or eggs or both!

We cover everything you need in the book :-

Buying chicks
* Choosing which breed is best for you
* Building a correct size coop
* Buying and making your own chicken feed
* Emergency chick feed
* Breeding
* Dealing with problems and disease
* Learning chicken behaviour
* Increasing egg yield
* Keeping your chickens happy
* Butchering

It’s full of great tips and secrets from my Grandma who has been breeding and keeping them for over 30 years.

Creating YOUR Plan for Weight Loss Success (How to Lose 100 Pounds)

by P. Seymour

Losing 100 pounds is NOT easy! This book is NOT filled with the latest promises and solutions for fast weight loss. You can find plenty of other books on those topics if you’re not ready to give up the rollercoaster ride just yet.

What you will find here is a blueprint of tips and ideas for getting started…an outline of sorts for designing a plan that will work for YOU.

This is a quick read from a real woman who is on a journey to lose 100+ pounds. These ideas helped her to FINALLY start a weight loss plan that actually become fun and inspiring. This blueprint can help you too.

If you’re ready to lose the weight and change your life, whether it’s 100 pounds or 20 pounds, then “Creating YOUR Plan for Weight Loss Success” is for you! Grab your copy today!

THE MYSTERIOUS CAT: Quotes for Cat Lovers (Quotes from around the world)

A selection of 200+ quotes and sayings about cats, whose independence, beauty, mystery and gracefulness have long fascinated humans, especially writers and artists.

Mark Twain, for instance, seems to have had a very high opinion of cats, as did Edgar Allan Poe, Robertson Davies, Robert A. Heinlein, and many other well-known writers of various countries, who are represented in these pages.

Anyone who knows and loves cats will find much to smile over, ponder, agree or disagree with in these quotes and proverbs. Some are meant to be humorous, others are evidently heart-felt expressions of the love and tenderness that felines can inspire in humans of all ages. Some quotes are newly translated by the editor from from German, Spanish and French sources.

A small sample:

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
Andre Norton

The smart cat doesn’t let on that he is.
H.G. Frommer

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see.
Eleanor Farjeon

What a cat doesn’t know is not worth knowing.
Colette

No one shall deny me my own conclusions, nor my cat her reflective purr.
Irving Townsend

A house without a cat is like an aquarium without fish.
Jean-Luis Hue

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Italo Calvino

The cat you bring into your life, will immediately take up its center space.
Aba Assa

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.
Tay Hohoff

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
Leo Dworken

There is much more – for your enjoyment!

The Illuminati Kid Can Save You

by Graham Carroll

“Strap in and listen damned hard or else you’ll suffer and die at the hands of the psychotic, satanic and paedophilic elite . . . “

Cartoonish, maybe, but deadly serious: it’s The Illuminati Kid Can Save You. This is the story of Warren James, the Illuminati Kid, the mighty schoolboy nemesis of the elites, and the story of the Truth. Take a paranoid sprint through the world of conspiracy and the truth of who and what we really are. Through the dark and deviant tale of Warren you’ll hear about the tyranny, the conspiracy, its roots and the impact it’s having on us right here and now; and about the way out, the exit, the end of suffering – ENLIGHTENMENT. It’s all here (unless, of course, it’s simply the fantasies, the rantings of a madman) and, according to our seemingly deranged narrator, it can save you.

WARNING: Obscenities throughout (as you’d expect to find on the bloody frontline of any war). Enjoy your transformation and heightened paranoia . . .

Decide.Act.Persist: 21 Life-Changing Goals and Resolutions

by Matt Bishop


Why wouldn’t you want to reach your
full potential?


Stop waiting for the right time.
It’ll never come. You’ve got to act NOW

 When’s the last time you made a new year resolution and achieved it? How
many goals did you set last year and actually follow through on? 5? 2?
None? 

 If you’re the kind of person that waits for an opportunity, the right group
of people and the right financial situation to come along, you’re just spinning
your wheels. Nothing is going to just fall into your lap. YOU create the life
you want, not anyone else.

 Yes folks, there is light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s not a freebie,
salvation, karma or good fortune. It’s a moving train coming towards you at
full speed. And if you don’t decide to turn things around and start making the
right choices, you’re going to get ran the hell over.

Turning your life around isn’t all that difficult. All success requires of
you is the courage to make decisions, take the right actions and determine,
come hell or high water, that you’re going to achieve whatever it is you set
out to achieve.

 You CAN lose weight.

 You WILL buy that new car.

 You CAN get out of debt.

 You WILL undoubtedly succeed in
achieving the goals you set this year.

 Know that. Own it. The life of your dreams is right around the corner if
you dare to go and get it.

 Excerpts

If you’re not better off financially today than you were a
year ago, you’re not doing something right. Discounts add up. Coupons add up.
Start paying more attention to these little details. They all amount to
something –> more cash in your pocket.

 Giving is a good seed to plant. Not just because you know you’ll get it
back though. You do it because it’s the right thing to do.

 To supplement means to add to an already excellent diet. It doesn’t matter
how many vitamins you take, if you’re not eating healthy foods throughout the
day, no amount of supplementation will do you any good.

 Too often we let things that are of little importance destroy our
relationships with our families and friends. Shift your focus from what bothers
you to what really matters; caring about others. Make peace and mend your
broken relationships.

Also Included:
*Weight loss tips
*Exercises routines
*How to be happy
*How to be a better person
*Goal setting

 These 21 life-changing resolutions are just that; life-changing. I’m not
talking about getting the latest piece of technology you’ve wanted for a few
weeks. I’m talking about goals that will have a profound impact on your life if
you will truly work towards them and not give up this year. About The Author 18 months ago I was extremely underweight, jobless, living in a really old apartment, broke, and drunk on every day that ended with a ‘y’. Today, instead of doing 12 oz curls on a regular basis, you’ll find me in the gym. I make an excellent income through writing and co-writing books, training, and teaching others. I want to show you how YOU can take it to the next level. There is untapped potential and greatness inside each one of us. Let me know how I can be of service.

Blood Bound (The Bonded Triology)

by Tara Sampson

For eleven years, Leo Risso, a slave to the night, patiently watched over his charge without once letting himself be known. Sticking to the deepest of shadows, cloaking himself in the shroud of darkness he carefully bided his time.

The monumental day that he had been so patiently waiting for has finally arrivedâ??the day that Shelby Tanner comes of age and he can finally claim her once and for all as his treasured bride.

Night after night, Shelby gets lost in vivid dreams involving a mysterious dark knight that had unexpectedly saved her. She had only been ten years old at the time when he swept in like a guardian angel and brought her back from an accident that should have ended her young life. As the years progress, the dreams come more often than not, leaving her feeling more edgy and restless each time.

Imagine her shocked surprise when the very same knight that plagues her dreams on a nightly basis suddenly shows up in her apartment with every intention of claiming her as his own.

This is a story of steamy seduction, of ultimate betrayal, of bewitching prophecy and timely rebellion that will certainly keep an avid reader, young or old, blood lusting for every last word.

How to Lose 20 Pounds Exactly what to do (and not to do!) to lose weight once and for all

by Suzanne Reilley

What if you could shed more pounds in the next 90 days than you have in the past 3 years?

I’ve been studying weight loss and fitness for the past 16 years and over that time I’ve seen a lot, learned a lot and made a ton of mistakes.

Academically, I have a degree in Kinesiology/Exercise Science, have done research at Johns Hopkins, trained over 60 individual clients, written more than 50 articles and produced more than 30 videos. I’ve been featured in DailyCandy, The Washington Post and taught at Rancho La Puerta, Rated Top Destination Spa by Travel + Leisure 2010/2011.

I’ve spoken at Santa Monica College, the American College of Sports Medicine Regional Conference, the Mom’s Club of West Hollywood and numerous other venues.

I’ll stop boring you with media stuff. More importantly, I helped Kim Levine, a successful business leader and mom in her 50′s to lose 100 pounds over the course of 2 years.

I’ve also had the pleasure of helping Nathan Weiner, a guy in his mid-20′s to lose 40 pounds and finally let go of his “fat kid” reputation. After our six months together, Nathan went on to lose another 30 pounds on his own.

I have countless other success stories under my belt. The most important point I’m trying to make here is that I’ve been around the block. I’ve seen trends come and go. I’ve gone through a lot of information and fielded a lot of questions. I’ve worked intimately with people going through the same weight loss struggles as you.

While everyone’s challenges are slightly different, it’s pretty easy to boil down this weight loss thing into a few simple concepts – a cliff notes of sorts.

As with any author, I add my own flavor to the mix. I love yoga, rock climbing and frisbee and like to avoid gyms at all costs.

I have a slim, toned, petite figure, yet I’ll choose chocolate and white wine butter sauces over six pack abs any day. I like broccoli and almond milk too – it’s all about balance.

I wrote this book because I want to share my wisdom with you, and because I want you to lose weight in a way that can work for YOU…in a way that doesn’t suck. I’m not saying you won’t have to be committed to your goal, but let’s make this whole thing as efficient and easy as possible.

The easier it is for you, the quicker you’ll get to your ideal body and the simpler it’ll be for you to enjoy it.

Let’s cut to the chase, take the most important actions and lose those 20 pounds already, shall we?

Unspoken

by Carolynn Amara

You fell in love with Alex and Anna Ramirez in “Unbroken.” Now join them as they continue their life together as a family with four kids, a faltering business and their continuing battle with post traumatic stress disorder. The only constant Anna and Alex have been able to enjoy since his return home from Afghanistan has been their undying love and support for each other. But even the strongest of bonds can be broken when words are left unspoken. Will their love still be enough to see them through or will it shatter, breaking the only unity the two of them have ever known?

Stop Depression, Start Living Now: An Easy Step-by-Step Guide to Mindfulness Meditation

by Darlene Watson

>> Amazon Best Seller
Stop Depression, Start Living Now is a complete and easy guide to fight your depression with mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation is a proven method to reduce depression and now everyone can learn how to do this with the help of this book. 
What you will learn in this book:

* What depression is
* The different types and severities of depression
* How mindfulness meditation can prevent relapses and/or stop depression all together
* Whether you have been suffering from depression for a week or years
* How mindfulness meditation can help relieve or eliminate depressive symptoms
* How to live a life full of freedom and joy. 

Depression affects millions of men, women, and children around the world and many are left without much hope, even after therapy and medication. If you have ever wrestled with depression, it is important that you know that there is hope in a technique called mindfulness meditation.

Mindfulness simply means being mindful, or aware of your present state of feelings, body functions, and thoughts. Researchers have been studying the effects of mindful meditation on depression and are finding that it can bring freedom to sufferers once and for all.

Isn’t that what everyone wants? A simple life full of happiness, peace, and joy 
Drawing from Eastern meditation tradition, mindful meditation teaches people to gain control over their thought life. It is no secret that the mind can be full and always racing with thoughts that can cause all sorts of negative emotions. All the way from anger to fear to extreme sadness, negative emotions can reek havoc on an individual’s life.

As you practice mindful meditation and learn the magnificent power of your breath, negative and painful thoughts will slowly subside and more and more peace will enter your mind. You will notice less and less depression and more and more joy.

Other chapters included in the book give insight into how depression hurts, a detailed guide on how to practice mindful meditation, the power of the breath, using guided imagery as an aid, various mindfulness research, and how you can learn to manage your emotions better via meditation.

Battle of Gettysburg, The: A Guided Tour

by Edward J. Stackpole

A fully revised and updated version of the 1960 classic. A must for Civil War buffs, amateur and professional alike.

FUN NUMBER FLASH CARDS(COLOR AND INTERACTIVE )

by REDHEN FAMILY

FUN NUMBER FLASH CARDS is a colorful picture book for children ages 3 – 6.This book builds to teach and fun together for your kids. Easy way to learning counting,addition and subtraction.

Acne Cure – The Truth About How to Get Rid of Acne, and Quickly Have Clear Beautiful Skin.

by Kathy Clarkston

Are you suffering from a bad case of acne? I will tell you everything you need to know about acne without having to spend hundreds of dollars on a doctor’s visit. This information has helped thousands of people understand their acne, and subsequently make it disappear! Most people that are suffering from acne have no clue what it is, or how they got it. They think that it is just a phenomenon of nature. This is far from the truth!

Instead of waiting for acne to occur, why not stop the breakouts before they start? This may sound like it is easier said than done, but there are many tips that you can follow to give yourself the best chance of avoiding acne. The Acne Cure tells you everything that you need to know to stop acne before it has a chance to start! If you are in need of comprehensive information on every aspect of acne there is no better resource than “The Acne Treatment”

In this book you will learn the following:
- Find out what really causes your acne breakout.
- Find the truth behind top acne myths and facts.
- Why most over the counter products don’t work.
- How to prevent breakout from happening in the first place.
- The top simple secrets to keep your skin clear and smooth.
- The top simple home remedies you can be using.
- Is lack of sleep causing your acne?
- What you should do every day when you have acne.
- What foods are great for your skin, and what food you should avoid eating

You have probably heard about all of the natural cures that are available for acne. But you really want know which treatment methods will produce results? Realize what your skin is trying to tell you! Get “The Acne Treatment” to discover how you can enjoy vibrant, healthy, clear skin today!

How to Cure Constipation — Your Quickest Proven Methods for Clear Soothing Relief

by Michelle Williams

Does your stomach feel cramped, bloated, stuck and have chronic pain? Does it hurt so bad that it affects the quality of your life? What is exactly is constipation and what are the best natural methods to give you relief from your pain? Constipation can strike at any time, “How to Cure Constipation” details a unique method of reversing constipation symptoms by removing numerous triggers as well as toxins using a natural process.

This is a simple, powerful & natural self treatment process which borrows it’s formulation directly from tried and tested, facts as well as age old remedies. In this book you will find what the best natural remedies are to treat your constipation. You’ll discover the following:

- A better understanding of constipation.

- How to keep the disease from getting worse.

- Simple detoxification and soothing using a little known & cheap product.

- Remove certain foods from your life and see results in days.

- Find out the best foods and treatments that can help you.

- You’ll discover what will improve your colon and help with the pain.

- How to cope with the constipation so that you can still perform important daily tasks.

- Know what type of exercise can give you relieve from the symptoms of constipation.

- You’ll find what type of special foods you should avoid.

- What type of stretching you can be taking to treat your condition.

- The step by step constipation treatment for relief.

All these answers for you and much more. See genuine & permanent results to live life free of constipation. There is a natural solution, a solution that works. You will be more than happy to live pain free with the information in “How to Cure Constipation”.

DEFEATING PREGNANCY BACK-PAIN: Discover 5 Simple Ways To Manage And Defeat The Debilitating Effects Of Back Pain During Your Pregnancy! (The Pregnancy Success Series)

by Lily Langford

DEFEATING PREGNANCY BACK-PAIN

The Pregnancy Success Series: 3

Uncover 5 shockingly simple
ways to avoid, reduce and even
eliminate back pain during pregnancy
forever!

Also revealed are the often
overlooked causes of back pain
during pregnancy, and the dangerously
simple strategies to ensure a back-pain
free pregnancy, avoiding pain and trauma.

There’s no reason to suffer needlessly
when the simple step by step methods and
easy to implement strategies are revealed.

Learn the hard way, or use the simple
tools inside…

Ten Commandments for Choosing God’s Best

by Leah Marasigan Darwin

How do I know he is the ONE???

How do I know he is NOT the one?

Every Christian single woman dreams of marrying God’s perfect chosen man for her. But when the man refuses to come, she may be tempted to panic, hurry up and marry anyone just to prevent her from turning into an old maid. Then she ends up saying, “I wish I had known…”

Whether you are meeting single men in school, in church, in the workplace, or nowadays, in internet dating sites, you need to have wisdom in choosing the man God has chosen to best match you as a person.

PREGNANCY AND YOUR SLEEP: Discover 5 Things that Will Quickly Get You To Dreamland And Help You Get The Shut Eye Your Body Craves! (The Pregnancy Success Series)

by Lily Langford

PREGNANCY AND YOUR SLEEP

The Pregnancy Success Series: 2

In this volume, Lily reviews
the most common causes of lost
sleep, rest and vitality during
pregnancy and how it can get it back.

Also revealed are the shockingly
common mistakes that cause loss of
precious sleep during pregnancy that
can potentially harm the vitality and
health of mother and child!

Discover the easy to follow
guidelines and simple remedies
to regaining control and ensuring
the most restful nights sleep during
pregnancy.

Assure success and uncover the
simple strategies inside

Hey Bully, Did You Really Do That? – A Must Read for All Dog Lovers

by L. Lee Stout

You may have seen the priceless look of an English Bulldog on a television commercial or patrolling a sporting event as a team mascot. This special breed of dog always stands out among their animal peers in any given situation, simply on appearance alone.

But what makes these Dogs so unique? What are the quirky behaviors that drive so much fascination with a short legged creature standing just inches above the ground?

Munson, the barrel chested Bully living in Atlanta, is no exception, providing never ending tales that will leave any dog owning family with a wide range of emotions from surprise to laughter, along with an unfair amount of frustration mixed in for good measure.

Hey Bully, Did You Really Do That? is a must read for Bulldog owners, future owners, and all Dog lovers around the globe.

**A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to help abused pets**

The Big Bone Lie: The Myths About Osteoporosis (DeliveredOnline Guides)

by Russell Eaton

What is the dirty little secret about osteoporosis that pharmaceutical companies and doctors don’t want you to know about? Has a worldwide osteoporosis epidemic been ‘created’ unnecessarily? Why is there so much disinformation about osteoporosis?

This short book explodes once-and-for-all the myths that plague this disease. You will discover an alarming truth about the real nature of osteoporosis and why you have been conned into false beliefs about the disease. This is the only known book that points the way to truly keeping your bones strong and warding off osteoporosis.

I go deeper into this important issue on my blog: www.deliveredonline.blogspot.com

Good Hater: George Henry Hoyt’s War on Slavery

by Bill Hoyt

Massachusetts abolitionist George Henry Hoyt treated the Civil War as a John Brown raid on an epic scale. A young Boston lawyer who briefly represented Old Brown following the Harper’s Ferry Affair, Hoyt followed John Brown’s son back to Kansas, where he joined the Kansas Seventh Volunteer Cavalry, known contemptuously in Missouri as Jennison’s Jayhawkers. While rising from Second Lieutenant at the war’s beginning to Brevet Brigadier General at its end, Hoyt consistently treated the Union army as a mere tool for pursuing abolition through direct action. As the chief of the Red Legs – Kansas’ most feared and hated irregular outfit – Hoyt used the power of the Union to punish regular Missourians for the evils of slavery.

Women’s Guide to Men: Updated Dating Advice & Tips for Online Daters!

by Dr. Jacob Ray

Thanks to Kindle Readers “Women’s Guide” has just BECOME #1 IN THE KINDLE UK SHOP UNDER ONLINE DATING! Get it now and find the best guy for you! Help make this book a blockbuster and zap all the zeros with your new arsenal for dating success! Forget about a matchmaker or a heartbreaker, let the nine time Bestselling doctor help!

Ladies? If you are alive and breathing without your man get this book. Dr. Jacob Ray is an International Bestselling Author on Suicide. He applies his vast clinical experience to the world of dating! Stop wasting money on guides written by amateurs who do not have advanced clinical training in psychology. They cannot give you the insight you need to avoid dangerous men. Get the scoop on guys to avoid and attract the right guy for you. This no-holds-barred guide spares no feelings, be prepared to look at yourself in relation to dating. Dr. Ray covers many different types of men: cheaters, players, beaters, deserters, the mystery man, the fuddy-duddy, the stalker, and many more! Dr. Ray puts his readers through a screening process to ready themselves for getting to know a dater they’re interested in. He covers every facet of dating. Daters can find tips on fashion, how to handle anxiety, how to navigate through conversation, how to ask the right questions in the beginning to weed out bad daters, and how to eliminate men using the Red Flag System. Ladies? This book is just for you. It gives you an unmatchable glimpse deep into the psyche of the modern man. This economy-friendly priced Kindle edition lets you save money for dating and is priced to move at less than a buck! Grab a notebook, a box of tissues, and dive in to this revolutionary guide. Let a real doctor help you find your dream guy using real psychology, not a matchmaker’s guesswork. “Women’s Guide to Men: Updated Dating Advice & Tips for Online Daters!” makes a great gift for that lonely single friend, gift it on Kindle or in print!

DEFEATING POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION: Discover The Signs And Symptoms Of Postpartum Depression And What You Need To Do To Stop Suffering Now (The Pregnancy Success Series)

by Lily Langford

DEFEATING POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

The Pregnancy Success Series: 7

In this volume, Lily reviews,
the true signs and symptoms of
Postpartum Depression and uncovers
both common and uncommon ways to find
relief without drugs or medicines.

Also inside are often misunderstood
myths about Postpartum Depression and
it’s true causes and how to support a
loved one and ultimately reach full health
and vitality.

Avoid falling victim to the
shockingly common mistakes made
by most and assure a successful
Postpartum Experience.

Assure success and discover the
secrets inside.

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The Sweetwater Trail (The Brides of Ardent)

by N. L. Campbell

Felicity Sinclair slept between silk sheets in New York â?¦ but on the trail to the Oregon Territory, she’s awake at night, wrapped in a quilt of regret. Her father’s railroad swindle cost Felicity everything, including her engagement to Edmund Ormond.

But Felicity isn’t the demure debutante she appears to be. She rolls up her lace edged sleeves to survive the trail to the Oregon Territory, a journey of 2,000 miles of trial and error, where every mile travelled is drier than the one before. Where the game is scarce and the graves common, and life depends on keeping the oxen alive.

Rye Jones, with eyes as cold as a Kansas river crossing, studies her at night over the campfire. How much of her father’s deceptive wiles did Felicity inherit? The wagon train leader invested in the Garrety-Brown Railroad and lost his medical practice, his wife and his child. But Rye is drawn to Felicity by her determination to leave her past in the prairie grass.

Felicity must choose: a scratched out existence in the Oregon wilderness with Rye or escape to a life of ease in New York with Edmund.

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Soul Hill Lullabies

by Stephanie Mesler

Soul Hill Lullabies, a poem cycle by Stephanie Mesler, tells the story of life on and around Alma Hill, New York. The Hill, as locals call it is located on the southernmost edge of Allegany County, where the mountains of western New York meld with those of Pennsylvania. Nestled beside the Adirondacks and Catskills at the edge of Appalachia, Alma Hill is taller than Lookout Mountain in Tennessee but more modest. The Hill has been home to the poet’s people for much of the last two and a half centuries. Both of her parents grew up on or in the shadow of Alma Hill. Soul Hill Lullabies reminds us that family is tied to land, even in generations far removed, and that land is bound to time, which never ends.

A civil servant loves Kafka

by ruben garcia cebollero

To Eduard
and Albert:
the life cycle of fungi
to survive,
for friendship
by faith.

Thank you)

Nous sommes prisonniers de notre transparence

Le sens du combat
Michel Houllebecq

Mi Amor and Much More. by Gaston Sanders

by Gaston Sanders

This is an epitaph of my inner feelings, thoughts, and innocent conclusions on love and life and the glorious experience of discovery. My loves of present and past may seem naive to some, but when I experienced them, I was thrown (emotionally) into a utopian wonderland filled with joy, excitement, empathy, and love. Adoration for my loves is a given. The losses that I have endured are always with me, making me who I am. Read these verses with openness and pleasure, just as they are meant to be read; then think on the loves of your own life, with fondness and comfort. Thank you for reading these, and please give me a customer review when you are finished.

Gaston Sanders, Author of:
The Silent Heroes
The Mystery of the Missing Homework
Cole’s Fairyland Adventure
Princess Grace and the Dragon
Sirus Toad and the Grumpy Troll
And the dark poetry: Daydreams and Nightmares

Daydreams and Nightmares by Gaston Sanders

by Gaston Sanders

A book of dark poetry from the mature mind of a country artist. Poems of life, nightmares, and death with observations of the sinister side of life. Opinions on the creeping machinations of a disturbing id. An up close look at the festering desires and dreams that reside in the depths of the mind. Like them or dislike them; their reality remains the same. Don’t look too close at the darkness’ evil depths. There resides terror…
I hope you enjoy my book. It was a pleasure to write…
When you’ve finished reading, please write a customer review for me. Thanks in advance… (-:

Books also by Gaston Sanders
The Mystery of the Missing Homework
Cole’s Fairyland Adventure
Sirus Toad and the Grumpy Troll
The Silent Heroes
Mi Amor and Much More

Summers Lost

by Robert DeLaMartre

Poetry of love and madness. In this book of 19 poems, the author traces some of the deepest feelings of both love and madness, and the links between these human phenomenon.

Thankfully, most of us find love, but not the insanity.

Poetry and Rage: Stories of Love and Hate Vol.1

by Ivan J Torres

A free soul is one that lends a deaf ear to the shackles of a corrupted mind. It sees life as a journey of bliss and wisdom. It sheds its clothes and welcomes the rain over its nude self with naive joy. A free soul transcends and knows that there is more to this world than what we are taught since birth and refuses the brainwash to seek out tirelesly the everlasting knowledge of a life without frontiers and man-made rules. The rule of life is to enjoy the moment for it will not return, respect that which you cannot understand and love one another. What are you waiting for? Get up, go out and be free.

The visions of a macabre mind

by Stuart Mackay

The visions of a macabre mind were written by the author when he was in his early twenties.

Two Odes: An Okapi’s Ode And An Okapi’s Ode To Track And Field

by R.E. Skibiski

Here are two odes. In AN OKAPI’S ODE, an okapi recites an ode. But it’s not just any old ode. Far from it. It’s an ode about none other than the athletic competition of all athletic competitions, the one that athletes from all over the world attend for two weeks every fourth summer to contend for medals. What spectator, though, can keep track of all the different sports during those two weeks? Few can. But fear not! Here’s the good news: being no run of the mill rhyme-writing ruminant, the okapi, in a poem that’s hard to topi, does all of us a favor by putting all those different sports, from archery and badminton to weightlifting and wrestling, in one whale of a nifty nutshell. It’s quite a feat. But will the okapi’s ode get the gold in the end? Well, you’ll just have to be the judge of that! And in AN OKAPI’S ODE TO TRACK AND FIELD, an okapi recites an ode. But it’s not just any old ode. Far from it. It’s an ode that’ll help you make head or tails of a sport that lots of people like to watch but don’t know much about. How many kinds of jumps are there? What’s a hammer? What are the differences between a decathlon and a heptathlon? Who can answer such questions? Few can. But fear not! Here’s the good news: being no run of the mill rhyme-writing ruminant, the okapi, in a poem that’s hard to topi, does all of us a favor by putting the sport of track and field in one whale of a nifty nutshell. It’s quite a feat. But will the okapi’s ode cross the finish line in first place? Well, you’ll just have to be the judge of that!

Valley of Blue Hope

by Lowell Uda

In these poems, I acknowledge a sense of rootlessness–that I, like my immigrant grandparents and even my second-generation parents, will not return to the place of my birth. The poems express my love for the Montana mountains, valleys and streams where I live my life in gratitude and fullness.

Keeping Shop and Other Early Poems

by Lowell Uda

Keeping Shop is about staying in touch with language during a difficult period in my life. In these early poems I tried different voices in order to arrive at change in myself. In the end I learned that all I’d done was to hide from others, even those closest to me, because of a fear of commitment. Which voice was really mine? The self-irony I used became a self-protective shield that not only thwarted my attempts at self-revelation but also denied my deepest desire for wholeness.

Doll Face

by dc Wilson

Doll Face is a metaphorical story written in rhyming verse.

It tells the tale of Doll Face – an uninvited misfit that dares to mingle at the prince’s masquerade ball.

Hired to be the chamber maid but her beauty allows her to mingle and be mistaken for the princess.

Once the prince and princess discover their uninvited guest – Doll Face is removed from the castle into a foreboding path where she meets the Green Queen.

Doll Face discovers The Green Queen does not care that she is beautiful. Her beauty cannot save her this time. However, she learns how to find strength using a gift from the “Fairy Conscious.”

MCUW: Main Character of the Upside-Down World 1 (MCUW: Main Character of the Upside- Down World)

by Marzia Matalone

What is it a Poet? What is it Poetry?
Just a bunch of nonsensical words, piled up in your mind and then released in a chaotic way, hoping they’ll find out their own forms on the page?
Of course not…at least not to me!
I’ve always been writing, prose or poems: it’s just the same!
Because writing is a form of Art…it just uses different means to get to the soul.
If I had to say what poetry is to me, I’d rather talk about it as a different dimension of sounds and images in wich nothing makes real sense, yet everything is just Sense in itself.
It’s like looking at something from an hidden window…from that angle all seems different, still being what it is.

Secrets Behind Words

by Sayantan Sen

Love is more subtle than prominent. These collection of poems will dig your heart and find out the sighs, sorrows, joy and love you have hidden inside for a long time. Sit back. Relax. And let these words touch your soul and your deepest feelings!

Serpent Line

by Christopher Wileman

On the morning of Thursday 7th July 2005, Muslim extremists targeted London’s transport links in a series that would force London into absolute chaos. Between 8:50am and 9:50am, Islamist suicide bombers detonated improvised rucksack explosives on three separate London Underground trains and a London Bus. These attacks killed a total of fifty two members of public, and left over seven hundred injured.

In this sequence of 20 poems, Christopher Wileman tells the story of the 7/7 Bombings from start to finish.

Preview:
I lit a candle to mark doomsday begun,
And from a bridge, the distant vista
Of Eden enswathed in smoke.

2012-2013 CAPA Writing Contest

by Virginia (Pinny) Bugaeff

This is the anthology of the winners of the 2012-2013 CAPA Writing Contest. Daniel A Uitti, Editor/Chair; Richard Moriarty, President; Jerry Labriola, M.D., Honorary Chair; Brian Jud, Honorary Chair. Winners represent four divisions of entry.

Essay – 1st Place – Virginia (Pinny) Bugaeff; 2nd Place – David Garnes; Honorable Mention – Dodie Milardo; Honorable Mention – Matthew Goldman.

Poetry – 1st Place – Michael Kilday; 2nd Place – Charles Wellesley; Honorable Mention – Eileen Albrizio; Honorable Mention – Taryn Yates.  

Short Story - 1st Place – Nancy C. Butler; 2nd Place- Richard S. Colon; Honorable Mention – M.J. Allaire; Honorable Mention – Derek Couturas.

Children Story – 1st Place – Dawn Aldrich; 2nd Place – Elizabeth Bonadio; Honorable Mention – Karin Lefranc; Honorable Mention – Francine Morlando.

Beneath All Heavens

by Jason Fowler

…written for you.

Beyond Fields of Rabbit’s Foot

by C.J. Cala

Beyond fields of rabbit’s foot, where foxtail touches every tree, where no current frost or flake fell, Kivi, the dwarf, sat, undisturbedâ??his blue beard nearly reaching to his knees. THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FOR FREE THROUGH GOOGLE BOOKS / GOOGLE PLAY.

Descending

by Jack Gardner

A short poem of a man and his mind.

Life: An Autopsy

by Jaden Wilkes

A book of poetry examining a life of love, loss, longing and redemption. Jaden takes the reader on a journey through the human body, traveling through the experiences and people who create the whole.

Landscapes traversed include the longing of lovers past, the hope of lovers future, and the sensuality of lovers present.

From the angst of new love to the devastation of love lost, Jaden will take you along on the exploration of the human mind, a living autopsy.

40 poems
18+ for violent or sexual imagery

Mirrors – a book of Haiku

by Lori Orisson

Haikus written in Wisconsin and Michigan between 2009-2012

Technicolor Dreams – Circumnavigate to Yourself

by Andrew Kaikai

A Collection of Poetry and Haiku on a wide range of topics.
The Collection is divided into three parts and includes pieces about Nightmares and Daydreams, The Beauty of the World, and Love and Philosophy.

Twentieth Century Italian Poetry in Translation

by Martin Cooper

Twentieth Century Italian Poetry in Translation
Montale, Saba, Quasimodo, Ungaretti, Campana: their biographies and a selection of their poems in English.

Twentieth Century Italian has had the privilege of much attention from foreign readers and critics. This book brings together Ungaretti, Saba, Quasimodo, Montale and Campana, leading poets in the history of the Italian language. This anthology makes available a good selection from each poet.

A key aim is to present the texts, and provide readers with biographical and critical information about the four featured poets.

The book is not aimed solely at readers with a wider knowledge of contemporary Italian culture and literature: it can be enjoyed also by general readers of poetry.

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Into the Current

by Marcella Haigh

—Paula’s tranquil vacation at sea in the Pacific is shattered when she stumbles upon dangerous cargo.—

Paula is stepping into a new chapter of her life. She finally came to terms with the fact that she and her lackluster boyfriend were not meant to be. Breaking things off freed her up to finally pursue her dream: to do Christian volunteer work overseas. But a clean break is not as easy as it sounds, and self-doubt shadows her ambition.

She buys a passenger ticket on the freighter Vintage Verity, hoping that six weeks at sea will help clear her head before she arrives to her new exciting adventure. Little does she know that plenty of adventure is waiting for her on the cruise. Her fellow passengers and crew are not all who they appear to be, the intriguing medic Luke in particular.

Luke is a man with secrets, and a job to do. He was always satisfied with his ability to stay in control, until Paula shakes up his focus.

Soon they are caught in a deadly chase, with no safe haven in sight. To stay alive they’ll have rely on each other.

But will it be enough?

The Incubus (A Christian Thriller about Spiritual Warfare and things that go bump in the night)

by Len du Randt

Something evil is brewing in the small town of Kelwick. Something malevolent stirs in the shadows.

When Justin and Rebecca Greene fall pregnant; strange things begin to happen around the apartment. Subtle at first, the ghostly occurrences soon escalate to the point where Justin is forced to question his wife’s mental state of mind, and the future of their marriage.

Unknown to the couple, a powerful demon, an Incubus, is sent to separate them and lay claim to their unborn child. If it is successful, the consequences could seal the fate for millions of people around the world.

The Incubus is a novel about Spiritual Warfare and things that go bump in the night.

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Huntress Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers)

by Alexandra Sokoloff


From Thriller Award-winning author Alexandra Sokoloff – Book 1 in the riveting new Huntress FBI series about a driven FBI agent on the hunt for that most rare of all killers: a female serial.

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Francisco when he witnesses an undercover member of his team killed right in front of him on a busy street, an accident Roarke can’t believe is coincidental. His suspicions put him on the trail of a mysterious young woman who appears to have been present at each scene of a years-long string of “accidents” and murders, and who may well be that most rare of killers: a female serial.

Roarke’s hunt for her takes him across three states…while in a small coastal town, a young father and his five-year old son, both wounded from a recent divorce, encounter a lost and compelling young woman on the beach and strike up an unlikely friendship without realizing how deadly she may be.

As Roarke uncovers the shocking truth of her background, he realizes she is on a mission of her own, and must race to capture her before more blood is shed.

                                                                   ——

Reviews:

“Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.”
— The New York Times Book Review

“Alexandra Sokoloff’s talent brings readers into the dark and encompassing world of the unknown so completely that readers will find it difficult to go to bed until the last page has been turned. Her novels bring human frailty and the desperate desire to survive together in poignant stories of personal struggle and human triumph. But the truly fascinating element of Sokoloff’s writing is her deep dig into the human psyche and the horrors that lie just beneath the surface of our carefully constructed facades.” — Fiction Examiner                                                                “This interstate manhunt has plenty of thrills… Sokoloff’s choice to present both Roarke’s and the killer’s perspectives keeps the drama taut and the pages flying.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Sokoloff is simply amazing!” — Bookreporter

“Sokoloff is an author not to be missed.” — Bestselling author Heather Graham

Hell’s Bells

by Trevor Firetog

Andrew and James are looking forward to meeting their favorite author, but when a homeless woman, who claims to be the author’s “biggest fan,” begins to stalk the two friends, they have to wonder if this creepy old woman is who she appears to be, and why the sound of bells follows her wherever she goes.

The Last Woman On Earth

by Steve Wands

The Last Woman On Earth is a short story where Noelle, a good girl with a mean streak, is pressured into joining her boyfriend, Zeke, and his younger, simpler brother Burt to hang out in their new fallout shelter. Little does she know the two boys have ulterior motives, but little do they know her father taught her to be prepared for anything.

Approximate word count: 2,700

The Image In The Pane

by Steven Samuel Stafford

Irving Moore is a troubled man. Learn what unearthly discovery led to his nightmares coming true.

Where The Dead Men Lie (Secret Apocalypse Book 3)

by James Harden

WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE – Book 3 in the Secret Apocalypse series.

Rebecca Robinson and her friends are on a desperate journey across the Australian Outback.

They have one, ultimate goal.

Save Maria Marsh.

She is the only person on record who has shown resistance to the deadly Oz virus.

This is their only goal. This is all that matters.

Everything else comes second. Including their own survival.

The military tried to rescue Maria. They failed. A mercenary team of ex-Special Forces soldiers tried to rescue Maria. They failed as well.

Now Australia has been cut off from the rest of the world. Isolated. Quarantined.

Rebecca and her friends are the only hope.

Where The Dead Men Lie is a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie thriller. It is the third book in The Secret Apocalypse series.

Rebel Angels

by James Michael Rice

On the surface, the small New England town of Hevven appears to be the ideal place to raise a family. It’s quiet and quaint, and far removed from the hustle and bustle of the city. But Hevven is a town with a bloody past, and a dark secret. After a chance encounter with a serial killer, six teenagers uncover the grisly truth about their home town. Now, wanted by the police for a murder they did not commit and stalked by a madman who will stop at nothing to silence them, Mike Swart and his friends make a desperate decision that will alter their lives forever. At a remote cabin in the mountains of New Hampshire, six teenagers will make a stand against an evil from which they cannot escape. But can they survive long enough to share their secret with the world? A novel that offers suspenseful action and intense drama, Rice’s Rebel Angels is an exciting thriller that keeps the reader glued to its pages well into the wee hours of the morning.

The Shells Of Chanticleer

by Maura Patrick

Welcome to Chanticleer, a beautiful land where everything is always, absolutely perfect. Enjoy the fairy-tale landscape, the festivals and forests, the bountiful buffets, a sparkling room of your own.

In Chanticleer there is nothing to be afraid of, as eliminating your every fear is what you are there for. Don’t try to escape the situations tailor-made to scare you; it’s all for your own good. But a word of warning: In Chanticleer it’s best to learn your lessons quickly and get out as those who can’t, or won’t, are subject to an unusual punishment.

Sixteen year-old Macy Winters can’t shake the feeling that there is something not quite right about the place, but no one will tell her what it is. Macy, however, can’t stand secrets and soon discovers the hideous fate that befalls any student who fails to do what is asked. Spooked by what she now knows, she vows to do everything she can to get out of Chanticleer quickly. Yet when she falls for Sebastian, a fellow student, she changes her mind. For to leave Chanticleer is to forget everyone there, and forgetting Sebastian is the last thing she ever wants to do.

But no one in Chanticleer is quite who Macy thinks they are and confiding in the wrong person can produce disastrous results. Caught in a world where to harbor a fear is to be forced to face it, Macy inadvertently puts herself on a collision course with the very fate she is trying to avoid.

Enter a world of secrets; where no one is quite who they seem to be, where what you dream comes true, and where what you fearâ?¦. happens.

Biology of Blood (A Digital Short)

by MARK PARKER

Ever wonder what it would feel like to learn someone you’re close to isn’t quite who or what they seem? Biology student, Draymond Steller, studying at Southridge College in Vermont, is about to learn this lesson the hard way. Soon he will realize life has many complex layers, some of which are only apparent once the sun goes down, and the moon is high in the night sky. What Dray learns after his Wednesday evening Invitation Only biology group, will change his life in unimaginable ways. And not all of them good!

The Book of the Nine Ides

by Benjamin Goshko

After spending four years in a juvenile psychiatric facility, Ashley Minden, a sixteen-year-old gender dysphoric, has been released into her family’s custody. While the transition to home life and high school would be difficult for any teenager, Ashley has the added burden of being a conduit of Qualkhoikhom, a mad god, who gives her the eyes to see a terrifying, hidden world. Now, Ashley must either find a way to escape Qualkhoikhom and live a normal life, or succumb to her delirium, becoming the mad god’s final sacrifice. — A ninety page novella.

Ocean Snow

by Doug Johnson

Here we go, thought Oakburn Police Chief Bill Johnson. He had no real desire to go in the kitchen. A barrage of gibberish was spewing from some freaked out meth head in there and it put the sour taste of dread in his mouth. No, he has no real desire to go in there… but it was his job to go in there. “Clear!” someone shouted from the second floor, jolting Johnson’s muscles into action. He crouched and lumbered into the kitchen, clumsily ducking the table leg that Cecil swung at his face. Johnson ducked behind his shield and blitzed Cecil, bulldozing him into a corner. Cecil slid on the broken glass and went down hard, grabbing the shield and pulling Johnson down right on top of him. He snaked his arm around the shield and clawed at Johnson’s helmet. Cecil knew this was no human. He could smell it. he wanted to rip its face off and expose whatever was hiding inside. It had to die.

Beyond The Blue, The Blue Series Volume 2 Part 1

by Josephine Dillon

The War begins in two worlds. David must learn to survive in the Underworld; a dark domain created by God to destroy and absorb damned human souls. Chased by the Ruler of Nine, trapped in a Hell he once only dreamt about, David will either adapt and evolve, or become another harvested soul for the collection. Dillon questions the Divine and his place in the Living World without his brother.

Lethal Memories: A Supernatural Suspense Thriller

by R. L. Persley

Lethal Memories: A Supernatural / Paranormal Murder Mystery Thriller (Novella)

New Jersey newspaper reporter, Jon Elan, is a recent heart transplant recipient. He experiences strange debilitating dreams and unfamiliar memories that escalate when he is sent to cover a story about an unusual rash of both white and black church burnings in his home town of Telby, North Carolina; a place he vehemently hates. Jon, a bigot himself, has no interest in covering the story.

While in Telby, Jon encounters an attractive African-American woman, Brenda Evans, who believes that the murder of her brother, Tony, is related to the burnings. Jon agrees to help Brenda solve her brother’s murder and by doing so becomes the target of two separatist groups; one black and one white. They both have something to hide and will do anything to protect their respective secrets.

The more Jon learns about Tony, the clearer the relationship between the church burnings, Tony’s death, and even the reason why Jon hates Telby becomes. Worst yet, he discovers that his heart will continue to deteriorate if he fails at resolving Tony’s death.

Will Jon succeed at solving the murder or will he die trying? Together, we can uncover the mysteries which are literally, hidden in his heart.

The Kahoochie River Monster!

by Timothy Robinson

Deep within the waters of the Kahoochie it lies in wait — big, mean, and…literate?

Format: 7k Word Short Story
Genre: Dark-humored Satire

Recommended Audience: 17 and Up

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The Mea Culpa Document of London

by JZ Murdock

A medieval Witch Hunter and Judge of the Inquisition has a problem; the same one his mentor had to deal with years before. This is a document that was found by a modern researcher, who had his own problems (further explored in “Death of Heaven”).

Dark Vengeance: The Devil’s Playground

by Ivan J. Torres

God’s watchful eye has been absent for centuries leaving the Devil free to roam. A man confident and ruthless has an overdue debt to pay and the Devil loves to collect with a twisted style of his own. The Devil always gets what he wants and more. He will have you all!

Secret Sins: Murder in the Church

by Kathy Bobo

In the middle of the Gateway to the West, St. Louis, Detective Virginia Breeze is drawn into the world of religion and Lottery Games after the Deacon of a world renowned, Mega Church is found dead in the baptismal pool.

Against this high profile backdrop, Detective Breeze is lured into a web of deceit of a mysterious serial killer, she is drawn into the worldwide ministry of famed Pastor Shawn Graves and within a landscape of wealth, power and influence after a winning lottery ticket valued at $1 Billion Dollars is discovered in the Sunday Morning Collection Plate.

Detective Breeze rushes to find the winning lottery ticket and a cold blooded killer before he kills again.

The Conqueror Worm

by JZ Murdock

Jimmy and James are two young boys who leave on the same block. They are best friends, adventurers in the realm of childhood and they decided to dig for buried treasure. What they dig up is a terror beyond their ability to put it into words. Unless that word is, a scream.

The adventures of Jimmy and James are continued in the book, Death of Heaven.

Mr. Pakool’s Spice

by JZ Murdock

It is months beyond the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. A father and his two children are trying to make it through the wintry back woods of Oregon state to somewhere safe.

They have been without food for too long now and are weak from evading the walking dead. Between the cold, lack of proper shelter and their fear, life is wearing them down. On top of all this, it feels like they are being followed but it has become hard to tell if it is a “normal”, an “afterlife”, or–?

They met up with a man who had a strange hat. He acted nice and even gave them some of the spice he had, to make what little food they may find taste better. Sometimes it’s the little things in life that make the day worth living. He tells them a rumor of a safe encampment.

But there is something strange about this man that makes the father uneasy. Something about the man is familiar and if the father could just remember what it is. Uneasy, they move on without him.

Is it this man who is following them? Are they even being followed? Can they survive the “afterlifes”?

ALSO included in this ebook is a second short-short story that has never been published until now, called “The Regeant’s Daughter – ‘An Eye for an Eye’” that won a little award. No, I’m not being ironic, it was a very little award, just for and from Authors. But hey, it got one right?

Beyond Doorways

by Casey Fry

Beyond Doorways is a collection of five separate horror short stories. Each tells a tale of monsters, whether they are those found hiding in closets, behind the eyes of an innocent, beyond a locked door, or in the chime of a clock.

The Sound of Blood (Vampires’ Song)

by H.I Moscato

“Jesus, Helena! How many of these things have you fed on?” Athena asked with complete horror in her voice. I suddenly felt like some kind of sick twisted slut. That was when Ruby started waving around the little oriental fan he had in his hand. “Don’t forget about me, darling. Helena stopped my pain; my fangs fell out and voila, I’m a real boy again!” Everyone’s stares suddenly got even heavier from Ruby’s glowing endorsement. I didn’t think this was helping my cause. “While you all reminisce over Helena’s achievements, there is an undead out there spreading its disease.” Attila added smoothly. “Geza, you and Elekâ?¦” He stopped and looked at Marta. “And Marta, get cleaned up and go help find the undead before this spreads out of control.” Attila was giving orders as if he were still king and Geza didn’t like it. “You don’t give the orders anymore!” he roared, “Helena does.”

A 21st Century Haunting

by Luke Wespieser

Lilly Anderson is dead. Survived by an indolent mother and a self-absorbed sister, her death seems little more than a conventional suicide. All that changes however, when a mysterious status update and a text message apparently sent from from Lilly’s phone threaten to break through the dysfunctional family’s egocentric shell. The sleepy village of Critchley begins to awaken to the gruesome possibility of murder, with the Andersons starting to realise that there may be darker forces at work, and that the secrets of their past may be finally coming back to haunt them.

At the Brink of Neverendings

by Leonard Little

After he’s wrongly executed by the state of Texas, Daniel O’Connel’s ghost seeks revenge on the man who really killed his wife.

At the Brink of Neverendings is a story of vengeance that could eventually cost Daniel his eternal soul.

The Blood Brothers: Comedy Horror Shorty

by Rudy Namtel

Mysterious events in dark alleys of Vampyre City! Vampires are in panic! – Or is it enthusiasm?? – The young police man Sanghetti finds out: a bloody scandal â?¦
You hate blood? Then this is the right stuff for you! Believe me! Although we confront you with masses of blood â?¦
(estimated 3.400 words)
Comments:
â??Woooonnnndddeeerrrrrfull! A master of words â?¦”
â??â?¦ like in a movie â?¦”

Derilium part one: Rise of the Dead

by John Stearn

This is part one of Delirium, part two: Surviving the Dead is also for sale on Amazon. Both parts are for sale as a single book titled; Derilium
This has been re-edited on 15th May 2013.

Welcome to Ambleton, a lovely coastal town full of charm, character and gratuitous violence. Derilium is an unrelenting, disturbing violent story, a piece of Horror-Zombie fiction which will horrify and turn your stomach. Dr Adam Monk has perfected a virus, which reanimates the dead into Ultra-Violent killing machines. Joseph Bishop kills for the rush of energy he calls Derilium, when he has tasted flesh his Derilium rush surges through him and he kills everyone who gets in his way. Joseph’s violent escape from a police raid unleashes the walking dead.
Alice and Bethany are twelve years old and have to fight off one zombie after another to reach their mother in time before she turns in to a zombie. Who will survive as the town descends into mayhem? Derilium is a story of revenge and ultra-violence. Experience the bone crunching, gut ripping and eye popping killing in the sick depraved world of Joseph Bishop. This is a graphic Horror-Action-Urban Fantasy, which will draw you into the heart pounding violence, as it explodes around you. Derilium will stay with you long after the final dramatic page.

Derilium part two: Surviving the Dead

by John Stearn

This is part two of Delirium, part one: Rise of the Dead is also for sale on Amazon. Both parts are for sale as a single book titled; Derilium
This has been re-edited on 15th May 2013.

Welcome to Ambleton, a lovely coastal town full of charm, character and gratuitous violence. Derilium is an unrelenting, disturbing violent story, a piece of Horror-Zombie fiction which will horrify and turn your stomach. Dr Adam Monk has perfected a virus, which reanimates the dead into Ultra-Violent killing machines. Joseph Bishop kills for the rush of energy he calls Derilium, when he has tasted flesh his Derilium rush surges through him and he kills everyone who gets in his way. Joseph’s violent escape from a police raid unleashes the walking dead.
Alice and Bethany are twelve years old and have to fight off one zombie after another to reach their mother in time before she turns in to a zombie. Who will survive as the town descends into mayhem? Derilium is a story of revenge and ultra-violence. Experience the bone crunching, gut ripping and eye popping killing in the sick depraved world of Joseph Bishop. This is a graphic Horror-Action-Urban Fantasy, which will draw you into the heart pounding violence, as it explodes around you. Derilium will stay with you long after the final dramatic page.

The day the world woke up!

by Wolvoman80

Jack Half is a conspiracy theorist who just wants to get his new home in Scotland, and meet his family, but with war and chaos around him that might not be easy! To make things worse for Jack he is about to find out the best kept secret in mankind’s history!

The Return of Dracula

by Anon.

Dracula returns to London.

Wychwood

by Eily Nash

Dr Lucis Ferre is a dashing, debonair heart surgeon, the man of fragile Ellis Harwood’s dreams. Falling under his spell, she soon realizes things are not as they seem. Lucis has a heart of darkness, forged in the foundry of his secret occult practices. On a harrowing winter’s night, Ellis’ life is hanging by a thread, as the dream brutally becomes a nightmare.
Does Ellis have an Angel waiting in the wings to offer deliverance from the evil doctor and sanctuary from his cruelty?
By a twist of fate, Ellis finds herself in the Hamlet of Wychwood. It is a place where the veil between worlds is gossamer thin, nothing is quite as it seems and magic abounds. Enigmatic Peter Cabot, local country Doctor and Hepzibah, his eccentric housekeeper, set about healing her battered body and bruised heart. But the malevolent Lucis has unfinished business.
Will Wychwood weave its magic spell, or will Ellis choose to go back to her evil husbandâ?¦. A choice must be madeâ?¦..

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Free sports Kindle books for 18 May 13

Moron: The Behind the Scenes Story of Minor Hockey

by Todd Millar

There will always be morons. People who scream at their teenaged kids, guys who climb up the glass like Spider-Man to yell at a rookie referee, women who brawl in the stands. This is a wake-up call not only to those morons, but to the rest of us.

We need to root out elitist volunteers who are endangering the heart and soul of hockey.
We need to outlaw body checking in Peewee, which has been proven to hurt our kids.
We need to improve our effectiveness in combatting concussions and head injuries.
We need to read the rules and regulations from Hockey Canada and understand best practices to enforce them for the safety and benefit of our children.
We need to discover and expose the abuse within the system.
We need to stamp out bullying across the system.

If we do nothing, minor hockey is in serious danger. It is time we stop letting morons dictate what minor hockey looks like for our kids.

“… As I began to walk more quickly, I could see that this father was violently angry. His face was bright red as he screamed, and the veins on his neck were popping. At this point, he put his leg up on the boards – he was a tall man – and he reached up, clinging to the glass. As a superhero (or super-villain) might have done, this irate father had Spider-Manned himself up the side of the glass at the side of the hockey rink, and was now peering over the top edge of the glass, yelling at the top of his lungs at the teenaged officials. He was screaming every name you could possibly imagine at these poor young referees on the ice.”

Survival Sheets (The Survival Quick Guide)

by Michael Roberts

This is a quick guide and may save your life.
I recommend everyone who buys this to read it every time they go out for camping or hiking, it is good practice and may save your life.

I will assume that everyone who has this has a few basic items such as, a Knife, a mess kit (aluminum) and this guide.

The topics I discuss in this guide are as follows: Shelter, Water, Food, Fire, Cooking, Medical, Scavenging, Rescue, and other Useful Information.

How to Jump Higher — The Best Tips for Explosive Jumping Power — Quickly add 2-10 Inches to your Vertical Air.

by Doug Dawson

Your about the discover the best proven tips and methods to jump higher with explosive power. Unlock the secrets of the best techniques to performance to massively increase your vertical air. Give yourself the powerful tools to build your body into an endurance machine

Caution: If you want an easy way out, this book is not for you. But if you’re ready to get to work and get some powerful results and elevate your speed, height and explosiveness in your game, and leave your competition in the dust this is for you. Give yourself the upper edge and improve your athleticism and gain explosive power.

You’ll get the insight to the best training solutions to turbo boost your stamina, strength, jumping power and mobility. Learn why most athletes are training harder and still getting less results. This book is specifically tailored for you to get you started on the right track. In this book you’ll get useful advice on:

Practical hints on how to generate massive power
Exactly how to do each workout, and exercises for strength.
How to use and train all your muscles involved in the vertical jump
Mixing long and slow speed to give your body the tension for peak performance
The best window of time to refuel your body.
Effective gym exercises to create speed.
What is the optimal diet to feed your body for energy
Why the recovery phase of training is so important, and most athletes make this mistake
The effective treatment methods for injuries.
The truth about bad jumping techniques
The best ways to prevent injuries to your body.
The step by step stretches you need to know, to warm up before your jump.
The liquids to have and avoid to remarkable performance.
What kind of recommended supplements to get an upper edge in your game
The best ways to do strength training.
The top shoe injuries to avoid.
How to relieve tightness in certain parts of the body for better performance.
The top mistakes you could be doing without knowing.
How to prepare for your jump
The best ways gain inches by slightly changing your jumping position to use explosion you already have.

Find the answers you always wanted to know to turbo boost your jumping vertical!

Every Inch of the Way; My Bike Ride Around the World

by Tom Bruce

In March 2011, I set off from my home to cycle unsupported around the world. I’ve written this book to share my story and the amazing experiences that I had. It’s not a book full of arty descriptions about beautiful places, it doesn’t have any clever metaphors; it’s just my story. It tells the story of a normal person spending nine months experiencing the world from the saddle of a bike. I’ve included bits of history, observations about people’s daily life, comparisons of countries and my own opinions as my story is told. My motivation is to show people that anybody can have an adventure if they set their mind to it. I only had one rule; I had to make it round the world on a bike: every inch of the way. I hope you enjoy my story; it will be great to have you along for the ride…

This book also contains photographs from my adventure.

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Free science fiction Kindle books for 18 May 13

The Fringe Worlds (The Human Chronicles – Book One)

by T.R. Harris

The Fringe Worlds will be available for FREE from May 18 through May 22!
Begin the adventure here with Book One of The Human Chronicles Saga — one of the Best-Selling Sci-Fi Series of 2012. 


Adam Cain is an Alien with an Attitude!

After all, how would you feel if you were abducted by aliens and transported into a strange, new universe away from your home, your family — everything familiar to you? Would it make you happy? Not likely!

Now imagine you’re stronger, faster and more coordinated than every alien you encounter. Would you start kicking some ass? Of course you would!

This is the story of Human superiority in the galaxy, a gritty, realistic profile of a young Navy SEAL who doesn’t like aliens very much — and he makes them pay for disrupting his happy life back on Earth!

Here’s an excerpt:…Riyad stopped his story and narrowed his eyes at Adam. “You must know by now, my friend, that we Humans have certain advantages over most of the creatures out here. In fact, I understand you bested two Rigorians your first day on Nimor. That is no easy task.”

“I didn’t pick that fight! They challenged me,” Adam said in his defense.

“Oh, I’m not being critical. I’m just pointing out a fact. In the six years I have been out here, I have found creatures who were faster, who were stronger and who were tougher than we are. Some even exhibited remarkable intelligence and coordination. But none combine all these traits into one being like we do. Out here, WE ARE THE SUPERMEN. No, we can’t fly, and we can certainly be killed by the weapons they possess, but none of the creatures I’ve encountered can stand against us in a fair fight.”

Synopsis: Four thousand years ago, the Juireans exterminated the Klin race then used their technology to forge a galactic empire known as the Juirean Expansion. Now it’s revealed that the Klin still exist — and are in hiding somewhere in The Fringe Worlds. But more than that, the Klin have begun to use the Humans for some secret purpose, a fact that could bring about the total annihilation of the Human race. But only the Klin know Earth’s location, contained in the stolen computer core from a derelict Klin starship. Now Adam must race against the Juireans, as well as the Fringe Pirates, to recover the missing computer core — and find his way home. Adam could care less about the centuries-long feud between the Juireans and the Klin. All he wants to do is get home. And if a galactic empire stands in his way — well too bad for them!

Love him or hate him, Adam Cain is about as REAL as it gets.

The Fringe Worlds is the first in a series of books in The Human Chronicles saga. Full of adventure, space battles, galactic empires and exotic locales, it’s also laced with humor and an honest realism not often found in science fiction these days.

This book has been completely REVISED & EDITED, and is designed to be a light, quick and fun read, as well as an introduction into the exciting events, characters and exotic worlds of The Human Chronicles series.

Book 1: The Fringe Worlds — available NOW!
Book 2: Alien Assassin — available NOW!
Book 3: The War of Pawns — available NOW!
Book 4: The Tactics of Revenge — available NOW!
Book 5: The Legend of Earth — available NOW!

Have FUN. Try the books. You’ll like them!

Visit TheHumanChronicles.com for information about this series and upcoming books.

Ninth Orb

by Kaitlyn O’Connor

Scientifically speaking, it made sense to send two hundred women and ‘frozen pops’ to establish the colony on New Georgia and insure a good gene pool. But when the colonists arrive after fifteen years of space travel, and discover that the alien compound directly across from their new city is filled with young, virile Xtanian men eager for ‘queens’ Eden Chisholm has her hands full trying to keep the peace. The Xtanian’s themselves are stunningly human-like, but their customs are completely alien to Earth culture. In the Xtianian society, women are rare and therefore the men are of little value beyond what they provide for the comfort and safety of their ‘queens’. And the queens have harems.

Rating: Contains graphic sex, explicit language, profanity, some violence, group sex, and some material that could be offensive to sensitive readers. Genre: Futuristic Romance. This book contains excerpts from other books.

Dark Stars: The Year’s Best Science Fiction Short Stories

by Gary Cuba

Danger, adventure, betrayal and heartbreak blaze to life in the pages of Earthbound Fiction’s sophomore collection. Packed with brilliant new sci-fi from Sylvia Hiven, Suzanne Van Rooyen, Patricia Correll, John Dromey, Timothy Sibiski and many more, every page will transport you to a world of wonder and discovery.

Rixmians: Episode 1 (The Unknown Aliens Saga: Book 1)

by Jonathan Kittrell

The year is 2546 and Abigail Hermon lives in New Port, a star colony constructed by the Earth Senate. She also happens to be the Mayor’s daughter. When several explosions go off in separate parts of the city, Abby and her father must figure out where they came from and who set them off.

Episode 1 of the new serial novel, Rixmians, by Jonathan Kittrell.

How Teddy Roosevelt Slew the Last Mighty T-Rex

by Mark Paul Jacobs

Still stinging from his recent election loss, former president Theodore Roosevelt sought refuge in the Brazilian jungles in early 1914 on an expedition to trace the last unmapped Amazonian river system, the Rio da Dúvida or The River of Doubt. Co-commanded by famed Brazilian explorer Colonel Candido Rondon and staffed with Roosevelt’s 24-year-old son Kermit, naturalist George Cherrie, and more than a dozen local porters and laborers, the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition was plagued by disaster from its very onsetâ??incompetent planning and inadequate outfitting would result in near mutiny, hunger, death, and even cold-blooded murder. But Roosevelt meets an odd stranger along his ill-fated journey, who tells an astonishing tale that could challenge the very core of modern Natural History. Weakened by illness and starvation, Teddy Roosevelt is caught in a web of unfathomable danger, the results of which would alter his life and the lives of his companions forever.

The Saffron Chronicles

by Bryan Walker

A message from Dr. Elstridge:
“Throughout the inhabited planets of the systems, one question has never been thoroughly answered to anyone’s satisfaction. What happened on Saffron? Or maybe, better yet, how could a planet end up so wrong?
Images taken by the first voyage to the colony after the call for aid, painted a shocking picture that mixed with first and second hand accounts to continue to spawn endless speculation and countless rumors. After years of searching through files and code, we believe we have sifted through all the conjecture and found the original report, uploaded to the network the day of the call. I will warn you that many of the events detailed in this chronicleâ??for lack of a better wordâ??are disturbing and caution is advised. But I believe the truth has to be known.
These people must be spoken for.
This can never happen again.
As to the authenticity of the enclosed, I believe it to be the real McCoy, so to speak. The people detailed within, according to our records, all lived on the colony and in the regions it suggests. It also seems to explain everything from the state of the planet’s surface layers to the conditions of the wildlife, and provides insight into what may have brought about these â??Once Men.’ It even leads us toward understanding the strange DNA strings attached to the unidentifiable corpses of unknown substance.
One thing that’s for certain, if the events chronicled in this account are the truth, as I believe them to be, then we were all wrong, and what was attempted on Saffron can’t be called an atrocity, because in order to describe it properly we’re going to need to invent a new word.
Lastly, to the crew who came together and made this report possible, lending us your insight and your humanity, it’s a sad truth but we failed you. You and the planet you were unfortunate enough to be born on. As a collective, as a culture, as a speciesâ?¦ we failed you and we owe you thanks. After reading this I feel like I know you better than some â??friends’ I have, and sometimes I wish I could have been there with you. Other times I’m glad I wasn’t. But through the good, and the bad, and the ugly, I would have followed you to whatever end, and because of this report, in some small way, I can. So on behalf of all of us, if you are reading this somehow. What you did, we will never forget. And thank you.”

Utopia (Utopia Series)

by Lisa J Harries

They woke up to find that the end of the world had already happened. Everyone they had ever known and loved were dead and they had survived.

Suddenly they are thrown into a world that no longer makes sense, a world that has no rules, only a necessity for the continuation of mankind, and it is entirely up to them to make it happen.

The apocalypse has been.
There are no handbooks.
No predictions.
Just a desperate plea for survival.

Unaccounted Factor (in Russian language)

by Sergey Zaytsev

ЮдгаÑ?Ñ? Ð?ноби не повезло. Ð? пеÑ?вом же боÑ? он не вÑ?полнил пÑ?иказ и бÑ?л изгнан из космиÑ?еского Ñ?лоÑ?а ФедеÑ?аÑ?ии. СÑ?н бикаэлки и Ñ?еловека, он, наделеннÑ?й необÑ?кновеннÑ?ми способносÑ?ями, окÑ?наеÑ?ся в гÑ?ажданскÑ?Ñ? жизнÑ? и бÑ?сÑ?Ñ?о осознаеÑ?, Ñ?Ñ?о она не менее опасна, Ñ?ем бои на далÑ?ниÑ? Ñ?оÑ?посÑ?аÑ?.
Yudgar Onoby broke the order in his first fight and was expelled from the Federation Space Navy. Being a son of Beckaellian and earth man, he possessed some special gifts. Yudgar tried to adapt himself to the civil life. But he had no idea that sometimes such civil life could be as dangerous as the fights for the far space outposts.

This book is written in Russian language

Forever Immortal (Vladar)

by Cory Ferguson

Vladar is a vampire on a quest to achieve true immortality, where he no longer needs the blood of humans to survive. He runs into several complications along the way including other vampires, a servant of God, and the love of a human woman.

Colonisation

by Richard Holliday

At the beginning of a new century, Earth stands polluted. Humanity has outgrown the home that brought it to life.

As the gears of civilization start to falter and seize, attention is turned to a new world that has been just out of reach but now looks like a prime territory for a new human empire. But before the grandiose strides to intergalactic humanity can be made, the ground has to be broken and the baby-steps toward colonisation of Earth’s closest neighbour, Mars, have to be taken.
Join the two hundred or so pioneers that are tasked with making history as they prepare to leave their homes forever for a new life on the Red Planet, where adversity from both their own species and their new home tests their will to survive.

Colonisation is 82,500 words and is Richard Holliday’s debut full-length book on the Kindle Store.

Pilgrimage to the Enemy (Russian Edition) (The Invincible)

by Sergey Zaytsev

This book is written in Russian language:
It is not so easy to be a courier of Post Corporation of Nove-2, the capital planet-megalopolis. And Maston Nix could find it out, having landed on Shelter, which were very dangerous and unpredictable planet with dart past. No one could know what exactly was going on there, as Shelter had been entered in the list of unreliable planets. And Nix had to feel it on his own back. But he didn’t want to give up without fight, as the punishment for the failed mission was death.

Everything Is So Different Now -and- Revolting

by S. A. Barton

The stories in this collection previously appeared in two ebook anthologies, combined here under a single cover.

Everything Is So Different Now:
This collection contains stories and heroes dealing with big changes. From the end of the world to the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, it’s all about the struggle to transcend… or merely to survive.

Revolting:
There are moments upon which the future hinges. No matter the outcome, the world is a different place after they pass. These stories are about those moments, and the people who rise to the occasion… for good or ill. These five stories will take you from the distant past into the far future, and from the depths to the heights of the human spirit.

S. A. Barton books and blogs can be found at sabarton.com

WEAPON Combat League: Book One

by Jonathan A. Price

In this futuristic action story viewed from constantly-shifting perspectives, the secrets of a customizable military battle suit known as Weaponry-Equipped Armor for Protection, Offense and Navigation–WEAPON–are leaked to the public. As a result, technologists all over the citizenry of Terradin begin constructing their own custom suits, using them for crime, competition and all-out chaos.

When attempts to rein them in only cause more destruction, the General of the Terradin Defense Force, Patricia James, decides to take a different approach: creating an official, sanctioned competition to encourage the WEAPON-wielders to use their skills and powers for sport, fame and fortune. Twenty-four individuals are assembled, each with their own reasons to fight, each with a powerful WEAPON under their control. Can they be disciplined enough to follow the rules and fight honorably? And what of those who disagree with the General’s ambitions?

Troubleshooters: The Longest Joke Ever Told

by Ian Thomas Healy

Troubleshooters: The Longest Joke Ever Told is a big-budget action movie of a novel, filled with gunfights, explosions, chases, and memorable one-liners. Think Bruce Willis meets Mel Gibson with a dash of Chow Yun Fat and directed by James Cameron, leading toward a last-page punchline like a kick in the head. Buckle your safety harness for this nonstop, in-your-face ride.

Times are tough in the economic downturn of the late 2040s. Angel, an ex-prostitute-turned-assassin, has just killed her ex-boyfriend without making a dime on it. Camaro, a courier, is wanted by the Feds for smuggling coffee and evading pursuit. And Haiwee, once the greatest hacker on the planet, has ruined her body with the drugs used to enhance her reflexes and is destitute with no reputation left to cash in upon. So when a billionaire offers them a big paycheck to retrieve one of three collectible bottles and destroy the other two, the three young mercenaries don’t ask questions. In pursuit of their contract they travel to central Australia to face a local crime lord, to Brazil where they must deal with a pedophile Bishop of the United Catholic Church, to the flooded waterways of London, and even to the King’s palace of Borlovia, all in pursuit of the elusive TIS bottles. Aided by Mikio, a cybernetic ninja, and Tatiana, an artificial intelligence, the heroes risk life and limb for one big fat payday. If they fail, the billionaire will hold them accountable for all their expenses, essentially enslaving them.

Oranges and Lemons

by Richard Holliday

A gritty and desperate tale of hope against seemingly unwinnable odds, Oranges and Lemons tells the story of Scott Whitney as he tries to fight against a great beast that threatens to ruin his farm and tear his family apart – a fight that has tragic consequences.

10,800 words in length, “Oranges and Lemons” is Richard Holliday’s début short story on the Kindle store.

Earthquest (Hired Gun)

by D.A. Madigan

When Webster Madison, Hired Gun is dumped at the other end of the galaxy from Earth by treacherous aliens, he must fight his way back home across the hostile stars. Hijacking a ship full of slaves, he successfully leads the human cargo in rebellion against the crew and embarks on a career as an interstellar buccaneer and liberator of the oppressed… unaware that his former wife, the powerful, amoral alien shapeshifter Gharsheek Verrane, is stalking him across the starways with homicidal intent…

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Sam Curtis is using his newly found superpowers to reshape the world in his own twisted image. Should Webster somehow manage to set foot once more on his native planet, he will find himself walking into a lethal trap elaborately planned and set by his deadliest foe…

The Return of Satan

by Jim D. Geiser

It’s been ten years since Satan was last heard from or seen, and other atrocities now fill the public’s mind. His status has been reduced to nothing more than an urban myth. But now, the successful terrorist attack that killed the Secretary of State seems to have had an unsuspected consequence . . .

Satan has returned and there is hell to pay.

Decommissioned

by Amy Donnelly

In the future on a planet far from home, a young Marine fights for her life against accusations that she betrayed her Captain. She knows that something is wrong, she had loved every second of serving under the Captain’s guidance. But when she is stopped for questioning things only get stranger as genetic testing reveals that she is not the one they seek. Who could it be? And if she was never in the service, why does she remember it so clearly?

Final Shipment

by Richard Mercer

Carson was just an average guy, with an average job. Carson served aboard the Nauk, shipping much needed supplies and food to different planets all across the galaxy. He was doing his routine rounds, checking for oxygen leaks, when disaster struck. At first they thought it was a glitch, an organism being detected through a leak in the hull. Oh how wrong they were.

Final Shipment is a short science fiction story, filled with suspense and mystery and is an approximate 4000 words.

Blacklist Publishing: Free Sampler

Blacklist Publishing promises to bring you the kinds of books the other presses do not dare: the forbidden, the forgotten, the condemned. Our wonderful list exclusively features titles from authors whose works have been burned, banished, or simply neglected by history. From a book for adolescents on the problems of turning yourself into an artificial vampire (Flesh of the Fallen), to a chilling dystopian novella written by a literary computer (Beyond the Senses). From a seditious fragment of an ancient hypertext (Theatre of the Gods) to a book which proposes, with heretic bravado, that we are all the fleshy descendants of old gods (The Gorgon Wakes). With these controversial titles and many more available to preview in this sampler, we are expecting a hearty series of battles with clerics, politicians, frigid lunatics and conservative activists.

The Crucible Theory

by Milton Reid

Thaddeus was finding that his world was not what most of those who lived in it thought it was. There was a truth that was not evident. There were factors that in the most part were unbelievable.

It can be argued that modern history began just six thousand years ago. For over two hundred thousand years before then, people had not progressed beyond hunter and gatherer? Did people suddenly decide to change or did something intervene? Before then our history was scratched onto cave walls. Is it a coincident that written history and religion seem to parallel each other? The argument between science and religion regarding creation has long been contested. Both can’t be right, or can they? What if there is an explanation?

Some people know the answer. One such is Thaddeus Reader, who finds himself as the connection between ancient men of this world, and the others who consider themselves the dominant species. His people came as refugees. Driven from their home by hunger and room to live, they found here the things they needed, but at a cost.

They found a population with ideals completely different to their own, and their creed was not to interfere but to blend in. They were told to suppress their influence until the time was appropriate; but something went wrong.

Thaddeus was driven by dreams and thoughts from deep within his mind that connected him by fate to one of the last true indigenous people of Earth.
Thaddeus is compelled to find them, and his journey takes him around the world and through history, to the last continental landmass to be discovered on this planet.

Here he finds the answer to the dreams that have haunted him all his life, and a woman to replace a love tragically lost to him in his youth.
This combined with a surprising conclusion presents a novel of adventure and intrigue.

Action drama and romance and what happens when people of different races conflict. People flee their homelands for political or personal reasons; imagine that a whole world population decides it is time to move — what might happen?

Death By Commuting

by P.J.G

The world moves closer to complete financial collapse and suffering from his own mental delusions Nathanial Booker begins to detach himself from the reality of his successful London lifestyle. However, something in the Universe has greater plans and Nathanial is forced on a chaotic adventure across Europe. Fighting through the darkest corners of humanity, that struggles to hold itself together amidst an uncertain future, he is forced to try and save us from our own meaningless end.

An Empty Land of Plenty

by Mark McNamara

Given enough time and the right conditions life will always find a way, even in the interior of a comet as it makes its way through the interstellar void. 30,000 years ago this comet swept by a very different Earth than the one we know today, a planet where two types of humans struggled to survive against the environment and each other.
The lethal virus that rained down from the sky proved to be the death knell for those who called themselves The People, but through a mother and her daughter they leave a legacy that will come to be the salvation of humanity when the comet returns with its deadly pathogen.
Rusty Weber,a nerdy high school senior, doesn’t know how or why he survived the Prionic Flu but sees the newly-depopulated Earth as a fresh start, a chance to do things his way. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he realizes that the girl he secretly loves has also survived, and he sets out to find her in this new and often dangerous world.

Heroes in the Making (Part 5) (Harcos, Recalibration)

by Will Beach

Remember you can buy all five parts in the first book in the series and save money! Look for Heroes in the Making (Book 1)

The team arrives to Area 51 after a long night of warfare. Gideon sets Alec and his team up with a nice place to rest. However, the fight isn’t over just yet.

Alec wakes to sunshine and clear skies, but is not allowed to leave? The president denies Alec’s request to return home. How will Alec react to this?
What will become of Alec and his team?

The saga continues… be on the look out for “The Secret Shadow Society”

Joe Missouri chapter 1 (The Chronicles of Joe Missouri)

by R.e. Whipple

In the distant future, on a far away planet, where most humans no longer have children, homes, or even home worlds, comes one man who is unusual: Joe Missouri. Having been selected with his wife, Allora, to move off the local planet, Europa, to breed, Joe really begins to discover the world that he’s grown up in.

This is part one of a weekly serial!

Relic Worlds: Pick Your Path 3 – The Cosmic Orb

by Jeff McArthur

Lancaster James’ search continues as he travels to distant planets in search of the Cosmic Orb, a relic of incredible power.

Join Lancaster James on his exciting adventures to explore ancient ruins on distant planets in search of powerful relics that could unlock the greatest mysteries of the universe. Only this time, YOU call the shots.

In Pick Your Path books, the reader takes control of the storyline, determining what the main characters will do at key moments of the story. Your choices will determine how the story will end. Will Lancaster discover the lost secrets of this ancient civilization, or will he be killed by local animals, or the dangerous elements? Your choices will determine his fate, and the fate of the galaxy.

In The Cosmic Orb, Lancaster must fly to several mysterious planets to locate the orb, and once he knows where it is, he must get it safely to the museum. Solve the mystery of this and the other four Pick Your Path books, then go to the website to claim your prize.

www.relicworlds.com

Sleeping To Be Awake (The Long Await)

by Christopher Cogar

A 19 year old boy finds himself in trouble on his birthday. The night of his day of partying he falls asleep and goes into unrealistic realities. He begins to feel lonely but only to think to himself if he falls asleep will this all be over? Or will he fail?

The Sumerian Device: The Book of the Artifice

by Bryan Walker

What is Anzillu? That is a question pondered at length in bars near docks all throughout the inhabited systems of the verse. The Demon of Deep Space, some call it. They speak about it the way ancient people used to talk about sea monsters or dragons, in hushed voices and never with less than a set of drinks in their bellies. Most of the stories come second or third hand and describe impossible, even paranormal happenings. Skeptics balk at such talk, claiming that the tales are tall, that it’s nothing more than a person and a ship, but those that have seen someone recount their encounter first hand know what its like to look into the eyes of someone who has come to the end of what they can understand. So what is Anzillu? The only true answer anyone ever gives comes from those that have seen it first hand. â??I don’t know.’
In The Book of the Artifice a chance encounter between a brilliant young man and the thing called Anzillu triggers a series of events that will resonate throughout the systems of the verse. It is the first stretch of road on a journey that will lead a group of characters capable of amazing, seemingly impossible things, to challenge everything they think they know about the nature of the universe, the whole of existence, and themselves.
â??The Sumerian Device’ is a story that bridges the gap between the normal and the paranormal without ever relying on the supernatural, while exploring the various shades of humanity.

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Neurology: Update on Multiple Sclerosis (Audio-Digest Foundation Neurology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Neurology is specifically designed to provide the participant with knowledge-based competencies identified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in its Neurology core competencies. These competencies include, but are not limited to:

Basic neuroscience that is critical to the practice of neurology
Pathophysiology and treatment of major psychiatric and neurologic disorders and familiarity with the scientific basis of neurology
Neurologic disorders and diseases across the lifespan
Psychiatric disorders and diseases across the lifespan
Patient evaluation and treatment selection
Employment of principles of quality improvement in practice

The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Differentiate MS from other conditions characterized by white matter lesions or demyelinating lesions.

2: Choose among platform immunomodulators, plasmapheresis, and other therapeutic approaches to treat and manage symptoms of MS.

3: Diagnose and treat neuromyelitis optica.

4: Summarize the challenges and approaches for development of stem cell therapies to treat MS.

5: Elaborate on the advantages of mesenchymal stem cells and the preclinical data supporting their use for the treatment of MS.

Urology: Go With the FLow: Managing Common Diseases of the Urinary Tract (Audio-Digest Foundation Urology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Urology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Renal cancer
Impotence and infertility
Female stress urinary incontinence
Calculus disease
Interstitial cystitis
Pediatric urologic problems
Penile malformations
Reflux disease
Sexually transmitted diseases

The goal of this program is to improve the management of common diseases of the urinary tract, including treatment of geriatric nocturia, phytotherapy for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), sacral neuromodulation (SNM) therapy, and antibiotic prophylaxis for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women and children. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Identify coexistent medical conditions that maycontribute to nocturia in older male patients.

2: Review the agents available for the treatment of nocturia and their efficacy as shown in recent studies.

3: Explain the problems with trials of phytotherapy and list some of the agents used in the alternative treatment of LUTS.

4: Describe the peripheral nerve evaluation (PNE) and tined lead staged implantation procedure used in SNM therapy .

5: Discuss recent trials of antibiotic prophylaxis for the prevention of recurrent UTIs in women and children.

Anesthesiology: The Future of Anesthesia Care (Audio-Digest Foundation Anesthesiology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Anesthesiology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information including, but not limited to:

Hazards of working in the OR
Hemostasis and hemotherapy
Opioids vs. non-opioid anesthesia
Inhalation anesthesia
Muscle relaxants
Local anesthetics
Preoperative medication
Airway management
Monitoring the anesthetized patient
Epidural and spinal anesthesia
Peripheral nerve blockade
Cancer therapy and its anesthetic implications
The allergic response
Anesthesia for nonoperative locations
Postoperative recovery
Management of acute and chronic pain

The goal of this program is to update clinicians on future changes and advancements in the clinical practice of anesthesiology. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Provide a view into the future of anesthesiology.

2: Discuss how the coming changes will impact the safety of anesthesia care.

3: Review the current status of health care in the United States.

4: Address the issue of physician shortages vs right-sizing.

5: Assess the changing practice of health care delivery.

Psychiatry: Substance Abuse (Audio-Digest Foundation Psychiatry Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Psychiatry is specifically designed to provide the participant with useful and up-to-date information on accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in all types of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to:

Anxiety disorders
Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Geriatric psychiatry
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Mood disorders
Multiaxial illnesses
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Sexual disorders and paraphilias
Sleep disorders
Substance-related disorders

The goal of this program is to improve the recognition and treatment of substance abuse and dependence. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Identify patients at risk for dependence on prescription opioids, heroin, and alcohol.

2: Describe treatment strategies for opioid dependence.

3: Compare and contrast traditional and newer treatment strategies for alcohol abuse and dependence.

4: Explain some of the mechanisms, such as environmental cues, that contribute to nicotine addiction.

5: Discuss pharmacotherapy for nicotine addiction.

Obstetrics/Gynecology: Issues in Gynecologic Disease (Audio-Digest Foundation Obstetrics/Gynecology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Obstetrics and Gynecology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, such as:

Antepartum and intrapartum assessment
Breast disease
Contraception
Domestic violence
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
Ethical issues
Female stress urinary incontinence
Genetics
Genital tract infections
Gynecologic oncology
HIV and AIDS
Infertility
Menopause and hormone replacement therapy
Primary care topics
Sexually transmitted diseases
Risk management and legalities

The goal of this program is to increase the rate of early detection of ovarian cancer and improve the management of women with endometriosis. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Review methods of measuring test efficacy and determine how they apply to disease screening.

2: Recognize early symptoms of ovarian cancer and identify women who should undergo screening for ovarian cancer.

3: List current and promising ovarian cancer screening tests and distinguish them by levels of efficacy.

4: Discuss the efficacy of surgical interventions for endometriosis.

5: Determine the appropriate medical therapy for patients with endometriosis.

Gastroenterology: Ischemic Bowel/Endoscopy/IBD (Audio-Digest Foundation Gastroenterology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Gastroenterology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, procedures and techniques and/or the diagnosis and management of:

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Ulcer disease
Liver disease
Pancreatic disease
Cancer within the digestive system
Endoscopy
Esophageal disease
Colon problems
Transplantation
Nutrition

The goal of this program is to improve the management of ischemic bowel disorders and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and the practice of small bowel endoscopy. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: List the risk factors and comorbidities associated with ischemic bowel disorders.

2: Compare the characteristics of reversible and irreversible bowel ischemia and the symptoms and patient presentation of each.

3: Explain the mechanisms of bowel injury involved in acute mesenteric ischemia.

4: Summarize the new techniques of small bowel endoscopy, including capsule endoscopy and balloon-assisted enteroscopy.

5: Discuss nonbiologic therapies for IBD presented as abstracts at Digestive Diseases Week.

Family Practice: Issues Concerning the Elderly (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Family Practice is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information which builds on the AAFP Core Educational Guidelines, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Conditions of the Eye
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Conditions of the Nervous System
Conditions of the Skin
Care of Adolescents & Older Adults
HIV Infection/AIDS
Human Behavior and Mental Health
Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Occupational Medicine
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Rheumatology
Risk Management & Medical Liability
Sports and Recreational Medicine
Urgent and Emergent Care

The goal of this program is to improve the management of dermatologic conditions and to address caregiving and driving concerns with older patients. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Select appropriate treatment for actinic keratoses and pruritus.

2: Determine causes of drug eruptions, based on clinical findings and drug history.

3: List challenges and rewards associated with caregiving.

4: Distinguish active problem-solving approaches from passive approaches.

5: Identify red flags and counsel older patients about driving safety.

Family Practice: Psychopharmacology and Bipolar Disorder (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Family Practice is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information which builds on the AAFP Core Educational Guidelines, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Conditions of the Eye
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Conditions of the Nervous System
Conditions of the Skin
Care of Adolescents & Older Adults
HIV Infection/AIDS
Human Behavior and Mental Health
Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Occupational Medicine
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Rheumatology
Risk Management & Medical Liability
Sports and Recreational Medicine
Urgent and Emergent Care

The goal of this program is to improve the psychopharmacologic management of bipolar disorder in the primary care setting. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Select appropriate agents to avoid treatment-emergent manic episodes.

2: Discuss efficacy of antidepressants in patients with bipolar disorder.

3: Describe effects of lamotrigine, lithium, and atypical antipsychotic agents.

4: List side effects of atypical antipsychotic agents used to treat bipolar disorder.

5: Address safety concerns associated with treatment of bipolar disorder.

Orthopaedics: Upper Extremity Update: Part 2 (Audio-Digest Foundation Orthopaedics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Orthopaedics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Upper extremity disorders
Fractures
Dislocations
Total joint arthroplasty
Orthopaedic infections
Spinal disorders
Orthopaedic trauma
Tumors of the bone and soft tissues
Sports medicine
Congenital anomalies
Nontraumatic bone and joint disorders
Foot disorders
Nervous system disorders

The goal of this program is to improve functional outcomes after upper extremity surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Assess stability of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint.

2: Detail approaches for stabilizing an unstable PIP joint.

3: Discuss the role of hand surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

4: Recognize and manage postoperative infections.

5: Discuss the shortcomings and complications associated with wrist surgery.

Emergency Medicine: Head Emergencies (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the care of patients presenting to the emergency department in such areas as:

Airway management
Asthma
Bite wounds
Burns
Cardiovascular emergencies
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Envenomations
Infectious diseases
Ingested foreign bodies
Gastrointestinal emergencies
Psychiatric emergencies
Risk management
Pain management
Poisoning & Toxicology
Resuscitation
Sports injuries
Trauma

The goal of this program is to understand causes and risks associated with syncope and intensive care unit (ICU) delirium. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Define true syncope and differentiate it from seizure.

2: Identify pathophysiologic causes of syncope.

3: Explain features of history and physical examinations that help risk-stratify patients with syncope.

4: Interpret electrocardiograms for signs of Brugada syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and prolonged QT interval.

5: Implement nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic interventions for ICU delirium.

Pediatrics: Febrile Infant/Encephalitis (Audio-Digest Foundation Pediatrics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Pediatrics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Allergy & seasonal concerns
Cardiopulmonary disease
Dermatologic problems
Cancer in children and adolescents
Fever
Gastrointestinal problems
Genetic concerns
Hearing impairment
Infectious disease
Neurologic problems
Newborn screening
Nutritional concerns
Psychosocial issues
Respiratory disease
Sports injuries
Urologic disease
Visual impairment

The goal of this program is to improve management of the febrile infant and the child with encephalitis. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Stratify febrile infants according to modifications to the Rochester criteria.

2: List the 4 most important risk stratification criteria for febrile infants, according to the modified Rochester criteria.

3: Choose the appropriate inpatient management strategy for a febrile infant, based on his or her risk classification.

4: Differentiate clinical features of encephalitis from those of encephalopathy.

5: Recognize the most common causes of encephalitis in infants and children, including herpes simplex virus, enterovirus, congenital infections, and metabolic disorders.

Otolaryngology: Strategies for Improving Your Surgical Practice (Audio-Digest Foundation Otolaryngology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Otolaryngology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Head and neck cancer
Hearing loss
Sleep apnea
Asthma and allergy
Dysphagia
Otitis media
Thyroid diseases
Sinus diseases
Pediatric diseases
Vestibular disease
Headaches
Skin disease

The goal of this program is to improve the practice of surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Consider how culture change can be brought about in health care.

2: Evaluate the roles of perception, assumption, and communication in medical errors.

3: Describe unique ability and how it affects surgical practice.

4: Apply delegation and growth strategies to a surgical practice.

5: Discuss the frontstage/backstage model of surgical practice.

The Meaning of Madness

by Neel Burton

This book proposes to open up the debate on mental disorders, to get people interested and talking, and to get them thinking. For example, what is schizophrenia? Why is it so common? Why does it affect human beings and not animals? What might this tell us about our mind and body, language and creativity, music and religion? What are the boundaries between mental disorder and ‘normality’? Is there a relationship between mental disorder and genius? These are some of the difficult but important questions that this book confronts, with the overarching aim of exploring what mental disorders can teach us about human nature and the human condition.

Dr Neel Burton is a psychiatrist, philosopher, and writer who lives and teaches in Oxford, England. He is the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Richard Asher Prize, the British Medical Association’s Young Authors’ Award, and the Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award.

A riveting read for anyone looking for a window into the world of mental disorder… –Professor Robert Howard, Dean, The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Most books on mental disorder are either polemical or over-technical. This remarkable book by contrast provides a highly readable and at the same time authoritative account that by combining literary and scientific sources shows the deep connections between ‘madness’ and some of our most important attributes as human beings. –Professor Bill Fulford, University of Oxford

Burton somehow avoids oversimplification. This is all the more remarkable, since his scope is fairly all-embracing, switching smoothly from side-effects of lithium to the nature of existential anxiety, to the quest for meaning in life… His writing is frequently almost poetic, yet he is capable of being crisply definitive… Ultimately this is a work of contradictions, an undemanding read that could challenge your view of the world. –Medical Journalists’ Association

General Surgery: Trauma: Lessons from the Military (Audio-Digest Foundation General Surgery Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest General Surgery is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to:

Hazards in the operating room
Professional liability, risk management, and quality improvement
Blood products and transfusion issues
Comorbid illness in the surgical patient
Surgical management of oncologic conditions
Intraoperative and postoperative infection
Preoperative patient evaluation, including surgical risk assessment
Critical care, postoperative recovery and complications
Management of acute and chronic pain
Trauma and burns

The goal of this program is to improve the management of trauma patients. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Recognize signs that suggest a trauma patient requires a damage control (DC) procedure.

2: Describe recommended DC techniques for managing trauma patients with injuries in the liver, spleen, gastrointestinal tract, and pancreas.

3: Discuss how military experience may be applied in the civilian patient population.

4 : Explain the importance of quality improvement efforts in the intensive care unit (ICU).

5: Describe effective ways to implement quality improvement strategies in the ICU.

Ophthalmology: Glaucoma Pearls (Audio-Digest Foundation Ophthalmology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Ophthalmology is specifically designed to provide the participant with up-to-date and accurate information on diagnosis and management in the major subspecialty areas of practice, including, but not limited to:

Allergy
Cataract surgery and intraocular lenses
Corneal and external disease
Extraocular-muscle dysfunction
Glaucoma
Neuro-ophthalmology
Orbital disease
Ocular oncology
Pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus
Refractive surgery
Retinal and macular disease
Systemic and autoimmune disorders

Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the management of glaucoma. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Describe the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed glaucoma and recognize the role of intraocular pressure in the diagnosis of glaucoma.
2. Recognize the causes and risks of overdiagnosis of glaucoma and estimate the risk for progression of glaucoma in individuals.
3. Choose effective strategies to manage open angle glaucoma.
4. Summarize the disease process, mechanism, and treatment of angle closure in acute angle glaucoma.
5. Evaluate and choose the appropriate strategy for patients with normal tension glaucoma.

Cardiology Study Guide; Concise Information That Every Med Student, Physician, NP, and PA Should Know

by JT Thomas MD

Just the facts are included in this book. This is the perfect text if you are looking for a quick review of the information you need to know about medicine. This rapid access information won’t waste your time. This Internal Medicine Study Guide has distilled the key details down to the concise facts that you will understand and remember.

This Cardiology Study Guide is an ideal resource for medical students and anyone who wants to understand more about internal medicine.

This book quickly reviews the information about the most common cardiology questions and answers. Did you know the exam findings of left heart failure include S3 gallop and an S4 gallop? The valsalva maneuver will increase the murmur of obstructive cardiomyopathy? Mitral valve prolapse and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy are two cardiac murmurs increase with the valsalva maneuver?

The Cardiology Study Guide will present this information and the other key details about Cardiology in a way that you will find useful for patient care, clinical rotations, and board review.

Buy this book now if you want this quick and concise information about Cardiology.

Anesthesiology: Anesthesia and Outcome (Audio-Digest Foundation Anesthesiology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners — physicians and other healthcare professionals — with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Anesthesiology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information including, but not limited to:

Hazards of working in the OR
Hemostasis and hemotherapy
Opioids vs. non-opioid anesthesia
Inhalation anesthesia
Muscle relaxants
Local anesthetics
Preoperative medication
Airway management
Monitoring the anesthetized patient
Epidural and spinal anesthesia
Peripheral nerve blockade
Cancer therapy and its anesthetic implications
The allergic response
Anesthesia for nonoperative locations
Postoperative recovery
Management of acute and chronic pain

The goals of this program are to increase knowledge of the impact of anesthetic choice on outcome after lower extremity total joint replacement and in aortic surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Review techniques for reducing thromboembolic complications after elective lower extremity joint replacement.

2: Analyze the impact of anesthetic choice and technique on perioperative blood loss, cognitive function, risk for infection, peripheral nerve injury, and peripheral blood flow.

3: Discuss the outcome studies about the use of epidural anesthesia and/or analgesia in aortic surgery.

4: Explain the transient interest in combined epidural/general technique for aortic repair.

5: Recognize the potential role of epidural cooling in thoracoabdominal aortic repair.

Gastroenterology: Infectious Diseases (Audio-Digest Foundation Gastroenterology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Gastroenterology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, procedures and techniques and/or the diagnosis and management of:

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Ulcer disease
Liver disease
Pancreatic disease
Cancer within the digestive system
Endoscopy
Esophageal disease
Colon problems
Transplantation
Nutrition

The goals of this program are to improve the management of Helicobacter pylori infections and to promote the appropriate use of retrovirals for the treatment of AIDS. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Assess patients with gastritis and dyspepsia for H pylori infections.

2: Compare various treatment regimens for H pylori infection.

3: Predict gastric cancer risks among patients with H pylori.

4: Determine which early antiretroviral drug intervention is best for treatment-naive HIV-positive patients.

5: Discuss findings of recent clinical trials on use of antiretroviral agents in the ongoing management of HIV-positive patients.

Ophthalmology: Glaucoma Update (Audio-Digest Foundation Ophthalmology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Ophthalmology is specifically designed to provide the participant with up-to-date and accurate information on diagnosis and management in the major subspecialty areas of practice, including, but not limited to:

Allergy
Cataract surgery and intraocular lenses
Corneal and external disease
Extraocular-muscle dysfunction
Glaucoma
Neuro-ophthalmology
Orbital disease
Ocular oncology
Pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus
Refractive surgery
Retinal and macular disease
Systemic and autoimmune disorders

Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and management of glaucoma. After hearing and assimilating this program, the participant will be better able to:

1. Recognize the features of neovascular glaucoma (NVG) and describe approaches to managing retinal ischemia and intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with NVG.
2. Summarize-results of recent studies evaluating the use of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy for NVG.
3. Discuss the benefits of procedures for treating glaucoma, including aqueous shunt surgery and the Ex-PRESS shunt.
4. Compare and contrast safety and efficacy of tube shunts vs traditional trabeculectomy.
5. Evaluate the contribution of corneal thickness and hysteresis to IOP and the risk of developing glaucoma.

Anesthesiology: Patient Safety (Audio-Digest Foundation Anesthesiology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners — physicians and other healthcare professionals — with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Anesthesiology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information including, but not limited to:

Hazards of working in the OR
Hemostasis and hemotherapy
Opioids vs. non-opioid anesthesia
Inhalation anesthesia
Muscle relaxants
Local anesthetics
Preoperative medication
Airway management
Monitoring the anesthetized patient
Epidural and spinal anesthesia
Peripheral nerve blockade
Cancer therapy and its anesthetic implications
The allergic response
Anesthesia for nonoperative locations
Postoperative recovery
Management of acute and chronic pain

The goal of this program is to improve anesthesia patient safety. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1:Describe common anesthetic medication errors.

2: List the likely contributing factors resulting in anesthetic medication errors.

3: Provide recommendations to minimize anesthetic medication errors.

4: Consider how culture change can be brought about in health care.

5:Evaluate the roles of perception, assumption, and communication in medical errors.

Obstetrics/Gynecology: Looking for Trouble (Audio-Digest Foundation Obstetrics/Gynecology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Obstetrics and Gynecology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, such as:

Antepartum and intrapartum assessment
Breast disease
Contraception
Domestic violence
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding
Ethical issues
Female stress urinary incontinence
Genetics
Genital tract infections
Gynecologic oncology
HIV and AIDS
Infertility
Menopause and hormone replacement therapy
Primary care topics
Sexually transmitted diseases
Risk management and legalities

The goals of this program are to improve the detection and management of pregnant women with thrombophilias and to clarify strategies for prenatal genetic screening. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: List adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with thrombophilias.

2: Identify pregnant women who warrant testing for thrombophilias.

3: Discuss recommendations for prevention of thrombophilias.

4: Discuss the pros and cons of prenatal genetic screening strategies.

5: Counsel patients about the most appropriate prenatal genetic screening strategy.

Anesthesiology: Current Concerns with Neuraxial Anesthesia (Audio-Digest Foundation Anesthesiology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners — physicians and other healthcare professionals — with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Anesthesiology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information including, but not limited to:

Hazards of working in the OR
Hemostasis and hemotherapy
Opioids vs. non-opioid anesthesia
Inhalation anesthesia
Muscle relaxants
Local anesthetics
Preoperative medication
Airway management
Monitoring the anesthetized patient
Epidural and spinal anesthesia
Peripheral nerve blockade
Cancer therapy and its anesthetic implications
The allergic response
Anesthesia for nonoperative locations
Postoperative recovery
Management of acute and chronic pain

The goal of this program is to improve neuraxial anesthesia and its associated problems. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Discuss the pathophysiology of perioperative neurologic injury.

2: Consider (and put into perspective) the relative frequency of neurologic injuries associated with regional anesthesia and pain medicine practice.

3: Anticipate the diagnosis and management of neurologic injury and reduce the likelihood of complications.

4: Exonerate “bad bupivacaine” as a cause of failed spinal anesthesia.

5: Explore true causes of failed spinal anesthesia and choose a safe procedure for cases in which spinal failure occurs.

Oncology: Thyroid Cancer/Seminoma (Audio-Digest Foundation Oncology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Oncology is specifically designed to provide the participant with up-to-date and accurate information on areas of competency as identified by the ABIM Medical Oncology MOC Examination Blueprint and ASCO’s Core Curriculum Outline. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

The 37 cancer types and sites
Treatment regimens and methods, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapies, and biological response modifiers
Other treatment-related issues, including oncological emergencies, paraneoplastic syndrome, bone marrow transplantation, local therapy of metastatic cancers, and management of malignant effusions
Complications, including infections and other complications of treatment; effects of disease and treatment on the patient, including psychosocial and psychological issues
Supportive care, including pain management, hematopoietic growth factors, transfusion therapy,nutritional support, end-of-life care, etc.
Procedures, including chemotherapy administrations, tumor assessment, bone marrow aspiration, biopsy and interpretation
Geriatric oncology

The goal of this program is to improve the management of thyroid cancer and seminoma. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Explain the role of oncogenes in the development of thyroid cancer.

2: Discuss current and potential clinical use of oncogenes in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer.

3: Assess available treatment options for patients with metastatic or locally advanced thyroid cancer.

4: Recognize the potential role of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) agents currently under investigation in the treatment of thyroid cancer.

5: Choose an appropriate treatment strategy for patients with stage 1 seminoma.

Orthopaedics: Guidelines for Orthopaedic Trauma (Audio-Digest Foundation Orthopaedics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Orthopaedics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Upper extremity disorders
Fractures
Dislocations
Total joint arthroplasty
Orthopaedic infections
Spinal disorders
Orthopaedic trauma
Tumors of the bone and soft tissues
Sports medicine
Congenital anomalies
Nontraumatic bone and joint disorders
Foot disorders
Nervous system disorders

The goals of this program are to improve management of orthopedic trauma and postoperative infections and to improve risk management practices. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Prioritize orthopedic trauma calls and assess which types of injuries require the most urgent attention.

2: Determine whether patients suffering orthopedic trauma should be treated in a community hospital or transferred to a trauma center.

3: Recognize infected orthopedic hardware and evaluate whether it can be salvaged.

4: Comply with Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations governing emergency treatment and patient transfers.

5: Identify the most common causes of medical malpractice claims, and take proactive steps to prevent them.

Urology: Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women: Surgical Options (Audio-Digest Foundation Urology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Urology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Renal cancer
Impotence and infertility
Female stress urinary incontinence
Calculus disease
Interstitial cystitis
Pediatric urologic problems
Penile malformations
Reflux disease
Sexually transmitted diseases

The goal of this program is to improve the management of urinary incontinence in women. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Determine which patients are most likely to benefit from transobturator sling placement.

2: Identify patients presenting with intrinsic sphincter deficiency and modify treatment appropriately.

3: Assess whether patients would derive greater long-term benefits from a bladder neck sling.

4: Inform patients about injectable bulking agents that may support sling function and improve quality of life.

5: Discuss benefits and disadvantages associated with single-incision “mini-sling” procedures for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence.

Orthopaedics: Children, Athletics, and Orthopedic Injury (Audio-Digest Foundation Orthopaedics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Orthopaedics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Upper extremity disorders
Fractures
Dislocations
Total joint arthroplasty
Orthopaedic infections
Spinal disorders
Orthopaedic trauma
Tumors of the bone and soft tissues
Sports medicine
Congenital anomalies
Nontraumatic bone and joint disorders
Foot disorders
Nervous system disorders

The goals of this program are to improve management of pediatric orthopedic conditions and sports injuries, and to review the orthopedic preparticipation physical examination for student athletes. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Communicate effectively with referring physicians when managing the child who presents with a suspected fracture.

2: Explain some of the pitfalls in the diagnosis of fractures in pediatric patients.

3: Discuss general guidelines for allowing a child to return to sports after an injury, and list some of the conditions that preclude returning to play.

4: Summarize the basics of rehabilitation of pediatric sports injuries.

5: Describe the elements of the orthopedic preparticipation physical examination and the pre-existing conditions the examination may identify.

Oncology: Colorectal Cancer (Audio-Digest Foundation Oncology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Oncology is specifically designed to provide the participant with up-to-date and accurate information on areas of competency as identified by the ABIM Medical Oncology MOC Examination Blueprint and ASCO’s Core Curriculum Outline. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

The 37 cancer types and sites
Treatment regimens and methods, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapies, and biological response modifiers
Other treatment-related issues, including oncological emergencies, paraneoplastic syndrome, bone marrow transplantation, local therapy of metastatic cancers, and management of malignant effusions
Complications, including infections and other complications of treatment; effects of disease and treatment on the patient, including psychosocial and psychological issues
Supportive care, including pain management, hematopoietic growth factors, transfusion therapy,nutritional support, end-of-life care, etc.
Procedures, including chemotherapy administrations, tumor assessment, bone marrow aspiration, biopsy and interpretation
Geriatric oncology

The goal of this program is to improve the management of colorectal cancer. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Utilize the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system to assess prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer (CRCA).

2: Recognize the association between adequate nodal sampling and outcomes of patients with CRCA.

3: Choose effective chemotherapeutic and biologic agents for metastatic colon cancer.

4: Compare the advantages of preoperative radiation therapy (RT) to those of postoperative RT in the treatment of rectal cancer.

5: Determine which patients with rectal cancer should be referred for adjuvant therapy.

Pediatrics: Pediatric Orthopedics (Audio-Digest Foundation Pediatrics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Pediatrics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Allergy & seasonal concerns
Cardiopulmonary disease
Dermatologic problems
Cancer in children and adolescents
Fever
Gastrointestinal problems
Genetic concerns
Hearing impairment
Infectious disease
Neurologic problems
Newborn screening
Nutritional concerns
Psychosocial issues
Respiratory disease
Sports injuries
Urologic disease
Visual impairment

The goals of this program are to improve evaluation and management of pediatric back pain and sports injuries. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Recognize red flags in the child with back pain that may indicate serious pathology.

2: Choose appropriate imaging studies for pediatric back pain and sports injuries.

3: Explain the role of exercise and stretching in treatment of pediatric back pain.

4: List the most common sports injuries in pediatric patients.

5: Identify pediatric sports injuries that require surgical intervention.

Urology: Prostate Cancer: What’s New in Systemic Therapy? (Audio-Digest Foundation Urology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Urology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Renal cancer
Impotence and infertility
Female stress urinary incontinence
Calculus disease
Interstitial cystitis
Pediatric urologic problems
Penile malformations
Reflux disease
Sexually transmitted diseases

The goal of this program is to improve the management of advanced and hormone refractory prostate cancers. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Prevent toxicities associated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) by providing appropriate monitoring.

2: Recognize and respond to bone mineral density (BMD) loss in androgen-deprived patients.

3: Assess prostate tumors for signs of androgen independence and modulate therapy accordingly.

4: Compare the efficacy of traditional chemotherapy regimens for treating metastatic prostate disease.

5: Apply recent advances in immunotherapy and angiogenesis-inhibiting therapy to the treatment of prostate cancer.

Otolaryngology: IMPROVING CONTROL OF HEALTH CARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS (Audio-Digest Foundation Otolaryngology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Otolaryngology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Head and neck cancer
Hearing loss
Sleep apnea
Asthma and allergy
Dysphagia
Otitis media
Thyroid diseases
Sinus diseases
Pediatric diseases
Vestibular disease
Headaches
Skin disease

The goal of this program is to reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Explain why the risk for HCAIs is higher in intensive care units (ICUs).

2: Discuss possible reasons for failure of hospital to reduce the incidence of HCAIs.

3: Describe how HCAIs are transmitted in the hospital, particularly in the ICU.

4: Adopt evidence-based preventive measures, (eg, hand hygiene), barrier precautions, and chlorhexidine sponge baths).

5: Utilize innovative technologies to prevent HCAIs.

Otolaryngology: Neurology and the Otolaryngologist: Clarifying the Clinical Confusion (Audio-Digest Foundation Otolaryngology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Otolaryngology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Head and neck cancer
Hearing loss
Sleep apnea
Asthma and allergy
Dysphagia
Otitis media
Thyroid diseases
Sinus diseases
Pediatric diseases
Vestibular disease
Headaches
Skin disease

The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with dizziness, neurologic symptomatology, sleep apnea, or Bell’s palsy. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Review the differential diagnosis of dizziness.

2: Diagnose and treat seizure disorders and migraine headaches.

3: List risk factors for stroke and methods used for treatment, and primary and secondary prevention.

4: Explain the scoring system and treatment of sleep apnea.

5: Describe the natural history of Bell’s palsy and explain the importance of early medical therapy and facial nerve decompression.

Pediatrics: Developmental Concerns (Audio-Digest Foundation Pediatrics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Pediatrics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Allergy & seasonal concerns
Cardiopulmonary disease
Dermatologic problems
Cancer in children and adolescents
Fever
Gastrointestinal problems
Genetic concerns
Hearing impairment
Infectious disease
Neurologic problems
Newborn screening
Nutritional concerns
Psychosocial issues
Respiratory disease
Sports injuries
Urologic disease
Visual impairment

The goal of this program is to improve communication with children of different ages and the management of children with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Utilize methods for interacting with children of different ages to obtain information.

2: Educate parents on how to interact with their child appropriately.

3: Recognize ODD, based on criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.

4: Differentiate other similar or underlying conditions (eg, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) from ODD.

5: Describe the importance of recognizing ODD in childhood and the outcomes of aggressive behavior.

Pediatrics: Hot Topics (Audio-Digest Foundation Pediatrics Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Pediatrics is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Allergy & seasonal concerns
Cardiopulmonary disease
Dermatologic problems
Cancer in children and adolescents
Fever
Gastrointestinal problems
Genetic concerns
Hearing impairment
Infectious disease
Neurologic problems
Newborn screening
Nutritional concerns
Psychosocial issues
Respiratory disease
Sports injuries
Urologic disease
Visual impairment

The goal of this program is to improve the management of childhood obesity and diabetes. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Discuss the causes of childhood obesity.

2: Determine which pediatric patients require treatment for hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

3: Differentiate between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes in children.

4: Recognize when to screen for diabetes in children.

5: Determine the appropriate treatment for the child with diabetes.

Urology: Issues in Managing Urogenital Cancer (Audio-Digest Foundation Urology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners ââ?¬” physicians and other healthcare professionals ââ?¬” with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Urology is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Renal cancer
Impotence and infertility
Female stress urinary incontinence
Calculus disease
Interstitial cystitis
Pediatric urologic problems
Penile malformations
Reflux disease
Sexually transmitted diseases

The goal of this program is to improve the management of bladder and kidney cancers. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Describe second-look transurethral bladder resection and radiation therapy for patients with bladder cancer.

2: Discuss bladder-sparing treatment options with eligible patients.

3: Assess the effects of radical cystectomy on disease management and quality of life.

4: Evaluate whether a patient with kidney cancer is likely to benefit from cytoreductive nephrectomy.

5: Explain new targeted therapies intended to shrink tumors and slow the progression of kidney cancer.

Ophthalmology: Hot Topics (Audio-Digest Foundation Ophthalmology Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Ophthalmology is specifically designed to provide the participant with up-to-date and accurate information on diagnosis and management in the major subspecialty areas of practice, including, but not limited to:

Allergy
Cataract surgery and intraocular lenses
Corneal and external disease
Extraocular-muscle dysfunction
Glaucoma
Neuro-ophthalmology
Orbital disease
Ocular oncology
Pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus
Refractive surgery
Retinal and macular disease
Systemic and autoimmune disorders

Educational Objectives
The goal of this program is to improve the diagnosis and management of optic neuropathy, giant cell arteritis, and pituitary apoplexy. After hearing and assimilating this program, the participant will be better able to:

1. Recognize the signs and symptoms of typical and atypical optic neuritis (ON) and sarcoidosis.
2. State the predictors of increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis in a patient with typical ON.
3. Select appropriate treatment strategies for patients with typical or atypical ON.
4. Diagnose and treat giant cell arteritis.
5. Describe the diagnostic criteria that identify patients with pituitary apoplexy.

Emergency Medicine: Stroke Management (Audio-Digest Foundation Emergency Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Emergency Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information, including, but not limited to, the care of patients presenting to the emergency department in such areas as:

Airway management
Asthma
Bite wounds
Burns
Cardiovascular emergencies
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Envenomations
Infectious diseases
Ingested foreign bodies
Gastrointestinal emergencies
Psychiatric emergencies
Risk management
Pain management
Poisoning & Toxicology
Resuscitation
Sports injuries
Trauma

The goal of this program is to improve the management of stroke. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Review the results of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) trial.

2: Evaluate the inclusion and exclusion criteria for use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in stroke.

3: Discuss informed consent for use of tPA in stroke and required documentation in patient’s medical record whether tPA used or not.

4: Identify when intra-arterial administration of tPA is appropriate.

5: Describe the devices used for mechanical clot disruption.

Internal Medicine: Cancer Part I: Prevention and Screening (Audio-Digest Foundation Internal Medicine Continuing Medical Education (CME).)

by Audio Digest

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Internal Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Gastroenterology
Hematology and medical oncology
Rheumatology
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
Endocrinology
Infectious disease
Nephrology and hypertension
Cardiology
Geriatric medicine

The goal of this program is to improve the effectiveness of cancer prevention stategies. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Describe the current state of chemoprevention for cancer.

2: Detail the limitations of population-based studies of chemopreventive strategies.

3: Educate patients about primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of cancer.

4: Use evidence-based guidelines for identifying patients likely to benefit from screening for colorectal or breast cancer.

5: Discuss the evidence for and against screening for prostate and lung cancers.

Beat Your Addiction Before It Beats You

by Alistair Rhind

This book is written to help you stop your addiction. Whether you are struggling with an alcohol problem, trying to quit cocaine, smoking, sugar , sex addiction or cannabis addiction, ‘Beat Your Addiction Before It Beats You’ has been written by Alistair Rhind, leading International Addiction Consultant, to help you quit successfully right now.

Addiction leaves people struggling with problems they don’t understand. Being in the grip of addiction is painful – like a trap you can’t escape. After a while you feel too exhausted, beaten and broken to even try. Help is available and this book aims to set people free from addiction.

Not everybody is sure if addiction is their problem and this book will help each individual decide for themselves if this is true for them or somebody they love. For those who’ve already sought help with addiction, the material in this book is an ideal route to freedom.

This book, based on 35 years of experience working with addicts, will guide individuals to life-long recovery and allow them, once and for all, to beat addiction of any kind.

Beat Your Addiction Before It Beats You will also help families and friends who worry that someone they love is changing for the worse and seems unable to see the problem, or to want to do anything about it.

This book starts at the very beginning – discovering and accepting the problem. Then, in supportive manageable stages, the recovering addict is taken through quitting, regaining control, developing a new outlook, dealing with cravings and avoiding relapse. The recovery process laid out in this book draws on clinical practice, decades of personal experience, theories of addiction and established self-help programmes to offer a solid and well-balanced solution to what can seem like an impossible problem. You can beat your addiction – and this book shows you how.

Alistair Rhind was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1956 and trained as a psychiatric nurse in the late seventies. He continued his specialist training in addiction therapy under the clinical guidance of Dr Max Glatt, an international authority in alcoholism and addiction.

Alistair’s continued training and clinical experience led him into counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, coaching, NLP and Reiki healing and his professional development has taken him across the UK and to the USA. He has worked in many leading private rehabilitation clinics, including The Priory, and has been Treatment Director in four top UK clinics, where he designed and implemented successful treatment programmes for: alcoholism; addiction; smoking; gambling; self-harm; sex addiction; eating disorders; stress conditions and the problems of families dealing with addiction.

Alistair has also trained other therapists and health professionals in the â??how to’ of working successfully in his specialist field and for the past thirty-five years he has been developing an approach to addiction recovery which is grounded in his skills as a practitioner, his knowledge, gleaned from vast clinical and personal experience and in practical wisdom gained from extensive study of what genuinely works. This ensures that his clients have the best possible chance of achieving recovery.

Once described as looking like a cross between Fitz in Cracker, Dr Bob, and Frazier, Alistair looks like he could eat Mike Tyson for breakfast -however, his calm and persuasive aura would soon have â??Iron Mike’ Tyson in a gentler frame of mind. He’s also been described as an addiction guru, so his writing embodies those qualities: it’s tough and direct, yet calming and insightful. His down-to-earth approach, which is based on a lifetime of experience dealing successfully with addiction, is condensed into this book, so that many others, beyond those with whom he’s worked one-to-one, can experience the freedom of liberty from addiction.

Clean Maggots

by Steven Crown

When an asteroid cracks a glass dome that sustains life on a far away planet, the panicking aliens must flee or perish.
The aliens know that earth is the only planet with the same atmospheric conditions as under their dome. They devise a plan to wipe out the human race, by sending invincible swarms of flies onto earth that will lay “clean maggots” into living flesh.
The aliens hope to infect and destroy every living thing on the planet with their maggots, and then inherit earth once all living things have perished, and the maggots have all died out.

Connections to the Cosmos

by George E. Hunter

This book is aimed at anyone even remotely interested in the universe. It explains, with clarity, a wide range of topics, from the mystery of a black hole to the catastrophic explosions of a supernova. It guides you in an interesting and humorous way to understanding the complexities of the Cosmos.

From the amazing properties of space and time to the spectacular display of an aurora, the book will capture your natural curiosity about space and make you marvel at its beauty.

With over 80 stunning photographs, and 17 easily understood illustrations, along with lots of incredible facts, you will soon be captivated by the wonder and surprising diversity of the Cosmos.

The Incident at Wolf Hole

by Ray Bellon

A suspenseful and fun story about how Mother Nature teaches a man a lesson about pride and helps him to settle an argument with his Wife. On his short adventure he makes unlikely friends in unlikely places and has to fight for his life against a pack of wolves. How does the last Yellow Daisey of the summer figure into this story set on a cold night in early Autumn? And do you believe magic?

Lablife III: Ars Gratia Scientiam

by Sarah Parrish

Kat realizes that she is a lot like a synaptic protein: she helps keep things together.

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The Age Of Love

by Julian Anderson

When Billy falls for a girl who is very young. He knows the risks of what could happen especially since he’s in the work of law.

Violet is very troubled since her parents fought ever since she was a little girl, she knows Billy from him being her babysitter and she looks up to him as her hero, and lover.

Love in the Mist (MacKay’s)

by S.R. Roddy

Dreams are said to be our subconscious thoughts and desires. What then does it mean to dream of someone from another time? Tasha had begun to wonder about her own sanity, who falls in love in a dream? Then one fate filled night a mysterious man steps out of the mist boldly walking into her world. Will she be brave enough to follow the path fate has set her on or will she falter at the threshold?

Complicated Affairs ~ A Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novella

by Lady T. L. Jennings

Summary:
Sebastian Coxe, a young dashing man from London, arrives in the company of his shy twin sister Octavia to spend the season in Bath. There he meets Baron Carl Whitmore, a private gentleman who has withdrawn from society and with no intentions whatsoever of involving himself in a forbidden liaison, especially not with an infamous rake….

Keywords:
Notorious reputation, romance, raining, misunderstandings, M/M erotica.

Please note: This novella contains erotic scenes which include the practise of gay sex (oral sex and anal intercourse) and is intended for adult readers.
The story also includes love and romance between gay men. If you are offended by this, please get over it or read something else…

An extract from the story:
“The message was short and written in an elegant longhand on thick paper. Carl Whitmore stated politely that he had enjoyed their company and asked if they would like to come to his estate during the weekend for a shooting excursion.
“Do you understand what this means?” Mrs Coxe said, and her voice went up several octaves.
“Ehâ?¦ it is an invitation to spend the weekend at his estate?” Sebastian said, stating the obvious. “Well, we did talk about shooting the other day, and he said that his estate had rather good hunting grounds.”
Mrs Coxe gave him an apologetic look, the kind reserved for feebleminded young children.
“Sebastian, my dear son. Clearly you do not comprehend the situation. This means that the Baron is falling in love with your sister, of course!”
A new outburst of female screams surrounded Sebastian, but he was unaware of the turmoil and only stood there, perfectly still, with the handwritten letter in his hand.
Oh, he thought vaguely. That was not really according to the plan.”

Product details:
Category: Gay Victorian Romance and Erotica
Format: Kindle eBook
Written and published: 2012
Professional proofreader: Pauline Nolet, www.paulinenolet.com
Length: Bedtime companion (~19000 words)
Publisher: My Secret Quill

About the author:
Lady T. L. Jennings is a shy writer who loves the Victorian era and afternoon tea. She lives on the outskirts of Oxford in England, and writes Victorian erotica and romance with a dash of gothic mystique in longhand with a fountain pen. She collects books, corsets, and lovers (all with varying levels of success).

Also by Lady T. L. Jennings:

~Blackmail~
A Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novella
Keywords: London, first love, persuasion, voyeurism, threesome (MMM) including male/ male oral and anal sex.

~Seduced by a Dandy~
Keywords: Autumn ball, dancing, temptation, M/M, sensuality, penetration.

~A Gentleman’s Secret~
Keywords: Burglary, innocence, curse, longing, oral pleasure, M/M.

~Secret Letters~
Keywords: Oxford students, love letters, quarrel, gay romance, homo-erotica.

~Sinful Dealings~
Keywords: Theatre, blindfold, bargains, bondage, threesome (MMF).

~Master and Servant~
Keywords: Forbidden temptation, male erotica, suppressed desire, fellatio, lucky charms.

~ Lust and Lace ~
A Victorian Romance and Erotic short story collection. Vol. I.

~ Corsets and Cravings ~
A Victorian Romance and Erotic short story collection. Vol. II.

~ Secrets and Seduction ~ (coming soon)
A Victorian Romance and Erotic short story collection. Vol. III.

Miss Spencer Rides Astride (Heroines on Horseback)

by Sydney Alexander

William Archwood, heir to an earldom and affianced to a woman he can’t stand, needs to disappear before his betrothal becomes a marriage.

Grainne Spencer, the unladylike daughter of a Master of Hounds on an Irish estate, has been running her father’s stables to her own liking for years, and she isn’t about to give that up.

But when a certain Mr. Archer is employed by her father to take her place when she is married, Miss Spencer decides to take her fate into her own hands. Suspecting her imminent removal from the stable-yard to the drawing room, Grainne plots with an amorous gypsy to escape the constraints of society for good… if she can just slip from under the prying eyes of that nosey Mr. Archer.

Amongst the green pastures and fine blood-horses of Ireland, Mr. Archer and Miss Spencer must fight against the fates others have planned for them — and the undeniable attraction that has sparked between them.

Kissing Maggie Silver

by Sheila Claydon

Maggie Silver intends to put as much space as possible between herself and her family just as soon as her parent’s ruby wedding celebrations are over. She is fed up with their constant advice and her never-ending babysitting duties. There’s a great big world out there and she wants to see it before she settles for suburbia. Then Ruairi O’Connor turns up at the same time her sister-in-law goes into labor, and suddenly everything becomes a lot more complicated.

As for Ruairi, in a few weeks time he will be on the other side of the world, so now is not the time to fall in love, especially with Maggie. Until now he’s thought of her as little more than a child so why has he suddenly discovered she is very grown up indeed and the only thing he wants to do is kiss her.

Iris Bromige An Appreciation

by Shirley Brealey

This is the second volume of a series about famous romance authors of the past. Here you will find a list of all Iris Bromige’ books with a synopsis on each of them.
This is the follow up to the one I wrote about Lucilla Andrews which is also available on Kindle.

These are famous writers from years gone by and certainly do not deserve to be forgotten. I am hoping by bringing these authors to the notice of people that just maybe they will be re-published especially on Kindle.

Watch out for more in the series in the near future.

To Tame a Renegade (Delaney Brothers)

by Connie Mason

Hot on the trail of an elusive bank robber, Chad Delaney couldn’t afford to stay long in one place. But the hard-hearted bounty hunter had a soft spot for children in need, an affliction that led him straight to the door of Sarah Temple, her five-year-old son in hand. In no time, Sarah’s violet eyes and fiercely independent manner rooted him to the spot. He’d heard the rumors of her wanton ways, and watching the sway of her hips and the gleam of her raven hair, he wished to sample every one of them.

The last thing Sarah wanted was to be nursed night and day by the rugged lawman who showed up at her doorstep, The burns on her arms were minor compared with the pain brought by years of the town’s scorn. But under Chad’s tender ministrations, she felt the heat of her fury turn to flames of desire. And she vowed to conquer his wanderlust with white-hot passion, to tie him to her in a bond forged of true love.

Love Bites (Vampyres of Hollywood)

by Adrienne Barbeau

She’s gorgeousâ??and only 450! He’s hot. She’s a vampyre movie star. He’s a cop. So what if they’re different species? In more than one way.

“Charming!” –The Romantic Times

“Adrienne has taken a very tired genre and super-injected it with a hyper-charged blast of raw sexual energy. A wild, tense, exciting ride that instantly grabs you by the neck and doesn’t let go!” –Rob Zombie, director of The Devil’s Rejects and Halloween

“Love Bites is pure fun from beginning to end.” –David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Creepers

“A fast, funny, sexy take on Hollywood vampires. Her vampires are not only divine, they’re famous!” –Anne Stuart, New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Ice

A witty take on vampyresâ??and Hollywood. Not to mention loveâ?¦

Ovsanna Moore is the star of 17 blockbuster horror films, a few not quite so successful, and 3 that went straight to video. She’s also a 450-year-old vampire, whose clan includes Orson Welles and Theda Bara and most of Hollywood’s A-list actorsâ?¦but not too many people know that.

Peter King is the poster boy for hunky Beverly Hills police detectives. When he detects Ovsanna’s pearly whites are often times bloodied fangs, instead of borrowing his mother’s garlic and holy water, he asks Ovsanna for a date. And a romantic Christmas Eve turns into a holiday of horror. Right through New Year’s.

First the paparazzi, then the werewolves, then the agents, and the rougarou at the Sportsmen’s Lodge–everyone wants a piece of Ovsanna. Literally. And it doesn’t help that Ovsanna’s personal assistant and sometimes lover is using black magick to get rid of Peter.

Ovsanna calls on her clan, the Vampyres of Hollywood, to help her and Peter fight for their lives against a menagerie of supernatural beasts that give John Carpenter’s The Thing a run for its money. Love does more than just bite in this witty, vampire-thriller romance.

Barbeau’s “Scream Queen” credentials make her the only author who could combine such a fast-paced, edgy plot with tongue-in-cheek references to the inner workings and vanity of Hollywood. A whirlwind of action, Love Bites is a hilarious and clever take on vampyres–as well as on Hollywood–that readers will never forget.

“The fast and furious final pages will leave fans hoping for a third installment.” –Publishers Weekly

“An engaging, sinister romp.” –Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, creator of the Saint-Germain vampire series

Living Dead Girl (The Vampire Hunter)

by S.C. Reynolds

When Aurora Stone awakens to find she’s been buried underground, she frantically claws her way to the surface. But the nightmare has only just begun; she was buried in her own grave and has been resurrected on the one year anniversary of her death.

Aurora immediately seeks the help of her best friend, Henry, who is no longer the awkward sixteen year old she remembers from a year ago. Henry is tall, muscular, with piercing blue eyes.

But Henry isn’t the only one who’s captured Aurora’s attention. Lucas, a sexy vampire, is watching her every move. He’s been ordered to send her back to the grave, but he is immediately attracted to Aurora and can’t bring himself to re-kill her.

As Aurora struggles with her new un-dead body, she must make a decision between the boy next door and the vampire who has nothing to lose. And time is running out – plagued by blackouts she can’t control, Aurora knows her days may be numbered. She was brought back for something epic, but will she get the chance to find out what?

Again

by Diana Murdock

How many more lifetimes will she live before she gets it right?

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author DIANA MURDOCK introduces AGAIN.

Here is what they’re saying about this tale of timeless love…

“Beautifully written, I couldn’t put this story down. The characters came alive for me. I cried with one and cheered for the other.” ~ Elena Aitken, author

“This was a unique storyline that was clever and well done, go pick up this book!” ~Tarrin Lupo, author

ONCE UPON A TIMEâ?¦

LADY CATHERINE, a medieval noblewoman has it all: Beauty, wealth, and a handsome, valiant knight whose love for her knows no bounds. Though secretly holding out for a love that would consume her, she acquiesces her fate to wed this knight, a man she loves no more than she could a brother. But a chance meeting with a devastatingly handsome merchant shakes the very foundation of her world, compelling her to act and think in ways she never thought possible.

LOVE CAME BACK TO HAUNT HERâ?¦

ERYN REXFORD, a modern-day photographer, has everything many women dream of: Beauty, wealth, a sexy and successful husband, a career she loves, and a beautiful house nestled in a community of beach homes. But passionate love, the one thing she longs for, she learns to live without, until recurring dreams and visions spark memories of a life lived long ago and of a man whose love promises to follow her through time. Eryn recognizes a whisper of that promise in the eyes of a handsome stranger who stays close enough for her to notice, but not close enough for her to remember.

LOVE HAS NO BOUNDARIESâ?¦

Two women, born centuries apart, both accept lives of obligation and responsibility; lives without passion, with men who would claim them for their own. Until, that is, a chain of events complicates things in ways they never imagined, all because of one man’s love for a womanâ?¦a love that crosses through centuries to find her again.

A Midsummer’s Magic

by Mary Chase Comstock

When magical spells and love collide, everything goes wrong – until it goes right! Midsummer’s Magic takes the reader on a bewitching romp through Regency England and an enchanted story in which anything can happen.

Fighting Destiny (Central Coven)

by K. D. Carrillo

Chloë desperately wants a normal life. She wants to go to college, make friends, fall in love, and just be an 18 year old girl. There is only one problem, Chloë is a witch.

Soon after arriving at the university Chloë meets Finn, Anita, and Dean. The four college freshmen become inseperable. Love and friendship blossoms, but their carefree college days are violently interrupted. College students begin to go missing, and so have several powerful supernatural beings. Chloë and her friends are drawn to investigate by a mysterious visitor.

The four learn that the supernatural world has plans and expectations for them, plans they aren’t happy with. Can they fight their destiny, or will they learn to accept it?

The Glenmore’s:Revenge

by Susan Horsnell

The Glenmore Family are a powerful but well respected family with a 150,000 acre ranch one hour from the town of Gold Springs.
The heads of the family are Virginia and Joseph and they have four children – George, James, Ben and Laura. They are a compassionate family who are well known for their assistance to those less fortunate than themselves.
They come to the assistance of a young girl who has been beaten and horse-whipped then left to die on the track leading to their ranch.
She is taken to their ranch to recover and George is surprised to find himself falling in love as he tries to help her recover her memory.
An overlooked wire is finally brought to their attention and leads to the girl’s home of Austin.
With the help of a Ranger and the girl’s best friend, Kate, the young girl eventually remembers her past.
The cruel outlaws responsible for her beating keep watch over the ranch in the hopes they can recapture the girl and obtain the information they are sure she has.
The search for these outlaws becomes a matter of urgency when murder, shootings, robbery and beatings begin to affect the Glenmore Family and their ranch.

Luscious Part 1 (Erotic Romance)

by Jayda Marx

My name is Luscious. Well, actually my name is Hope Bixby, and my stage name is Luscious; I work as an exotic dancer (read: stripper) at a hopping little topless bar, lovingly named Juggz. Sounds classy right? Actually, it’s not so bad. I’ve worked here for a little over a year, ever since I left my parents’ house in the tiny, one-stoplight town in rural Kentucky where I grew up. And no, I wasn’t a runaway forced into dancing as a means of survival. Truth is, I like it; at least I did at first. The first night I took the stage, it was a rather liberating experience. The problem is that I only come in contact with the wrong type of guys – you know, the ones only interested in one thing. I had my share of meaningless one night stands, but had given up on actually finding love. And then I met HIM.

*This series contains steamy scenes and is meant for an adult audience*

Carmen: A Vampire’s Innocent Seduction

by Sheridan La Fanu

A suspenseful story set in the beautiful countryside of rural France. A handsome stranger seduces a beautiful young lady of the estate, but there is more to the story. A story that will take some time to be revealed. What is the connection of this charming stranger to the delapidated estate just a few miles away. Another story that proves once and for all — love bites.

By the author of the Vrykolakas Undead Series.

Cocktails and Cockpics – A Grinder Love Story

by Chris Tracey

How do gays find love when sex is as easy as picking a man from an iPhone app?

Is there more to gay life in London than cocktails and cockpics?

Handsome but shy Peter and his best friend Blake think it’ll be as easy as G A Y to find boyfriends using the iPhone app Grindr. But carried agay by the endless supply of men and the dazzling excitements of London’s gay scene they find it’s not as easy as they’d hoped to find love (though the men are easier than they dreamed).

Endless nights of grinding, partying and casual sex can take their toll even on gym toned Peter and young, dumb and full of cum Blake. Will either man snag a boyf without losing their liver, themselves and their friendship in the process?

‘For 99 cents, what the heck? And it turned out to be a romance worth reading… If you want to download a fun read for your commute, I recommend it.’ LAMBDA LITERARY March 2012

‘At last a novel that captures the truth about the highs and lows of the gay scene in 2012 London!’

‘Now we know what happens to gays in the end!’

UPDATED to correct typos 12 April 2012

!Celebrating sales of over 7000 copies!

How The Military Watches Out For Men Who Love True (Lunchtime Love Stories)

by Maya Sheppard

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Kayla Bell has been dating Lieutenant Ryan St. Cloud, who is stationed at White Sands Missile Range. The two are in love and have been talking about a life together. He’s looking for the perfect wedding ring before proposing. His best friend is also newly married, but his wife is self-centered and uncaring. Kayla finds out a secret, and struggles between making a moral decision or will she keep a secret that’s wrong. 
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All I Have

by Felicia Rogers

This is a sweet romance novella.

Nicholas Wiseman, son and soldier, has a plan for his life…until tragedy strikes.

Ellie Pickett, daughter and college graduate, has a goal…yet returns home.

Sadness, brought about by the loss of someone precious, causes both Nicholas and Ellie to place future plans on hold. Priorities change as they come to know one another and expose their vulnerabilities.

The Boleyn Effect (The Boleyn Ending)

by Deborah Foulkes

The Boyelyn Ending is exactly the same but with a more historical ending.

All Leigh-Anne Boorman had to do was seduce married Harry Cobain and her debt to George would be clear.

‘Anne Boleyn was a great woman and bet none of you could do what she did.’

That was the start of the challenge laid down. A simple game of flirtation and seduction, but soon Leigh finds herself playing a very different game.

Will she come out the other side with her head intact or will she suffer the same fate as the Queen.

Set in the historic city of York are you ready to step into the dark world of deceit, betrayal and love

Ravishing Room Service (The Heavenli Hotel Collection)

by Cordelia King

“‘Good morning,’ she said. ‘What can I get you today?’ She couldn’t tear her eyes away from this man. He had dark chocolate eyes and skin that hinted at Latino heritage. He was impeccable in a starched shirt and tailored gray suit, the only concession to the early hour was his hair which was still damp from the shower. She imagined him naked in the shower, his body slick with moisture…
Seriously, she needed to get a grip on herself. She encountered eligible businessmen every day of the week. She was meant to be a professional.”

Regina has buried herself in work to try and forget her wreck of a personal life. But sleeping alone isn’t good for her, and soon her sex-starved body starts longing for a playmate.

When Oliver comes to stay in the Heavenli Hotel where she manages the restaurant she’s instantly drawn to him. She tries to be professional, but it seems that the attraction isn’t all one-sided.

It looks like she may be on Oliver’s room-service menu…

CLANNAD

by Emma Feix Alberts

In 1993 Hope Larson has an upscale life as the mistress of Senator Kevin Malone. Malone is the frontrunner for the presidency of the United States. Everything explodes when Hope witnesses the murder of Malone’s running mate Sean Kelly. Everything comes to light when it is discovered that Malone was backed by an American wing of the IRA called Clannad; Gaelic for family. Hope must run for her life with Clannad always one step behind. It is the story of brutality between nations. Children who are taught from birth to hate and the quest for redemption.

The Chronicles (Past Earth Series)

by Maree C Burke

In 2498 the human race is on the brink of extinction, with the ability to love and nurture all but non-existent. Mankind has evolved into the lowest form of life, intent upon murder, rape and brutalisation.
In a desperate bid to save humanity, nine academics unite and call themselves Zodiac and following the sacred word of their most treasured and respected â??Chronicles’, they create a plan to save what is left of the human race. In the Wastelands across the globe they create nine safe havens; fenced communities governed by Martial Law and overseen by a new government called, the Citadel; they call the cities, Compounds and although they are safe, the law is severe.
With the focus on rebuilding society, the need to breed is crucial, but the senseless violence is inhibiting success and women are scarce. Zodiac create a serum, that when injected bonds a male and female until death; it is an artificial state of bliss and creates a safe environment in which to procreate. The serum overrides an individual’s free will and all who seek protection within a Compound must, by law, partake. Couples are scientifically selected based on DNA, it is called, â??The Right of Connubial’ and it is both accepted and loathed in equal measure; it is something everyone anticipates with hatred, but are unable to see issue with, once they are post ritual. To have unsuitable DNA is a death sentence.
With so much at stake, Zodiac also decide to utilise the ancient Transfers and send teams back, five hundred years into our past, in an attempt to stave off the cataclysmic atrocity that created this current futureâ?¦the Rebellion disagree.
Focussing on five US Navy SEALS, left stranded on Past Earth, mandates slip ungoverned and in a world where personal attachments are forbidden, two friends fall in love with the same woman. When the Transfers re-activate and the secrets, lies and hidden mandates that dictated these men’s lives come back into question, do they implode, do they follow orders, or do they make the decision to fight against a future they left behind?

Something Old, Something New

by Carol Ayer

Megan is one hundred percent positive she never wants to get married…but will her niece’s fairy tale wedding and a reunion with her ex change her mind?

“Something Old, Something New” runs about 5500 words and is set at a storybook park.

The Journal

by Matthew DeRiso

His heart aches. He pines for the love that was, and longs for a love that might be. He is alone and lonely. And so he begins a journal. Within it, he lets his thoughts and emotions flow in free-form poetic style, finding healing in the process. He writes of the past; of his lost love, their courting, their time together, and their breakup. He writes of his life now, void of love, and being so very lonely for it. And he writes of the future; of the love he hopes to find, imagining how they would meet, and how they would live and love. In writing his journal, he opens his heart and lays it bare. In reading it, one learns of a man’s heart, unshielded and genuine. But the journal contains more than just the outpourings of a heart. Within the continuity of the entries there also lies a story – the story of a man’s romantic life. More than a book of poetry then, The Journal is in essence and form a poetic story. It is the story of a journey through loneliness and a search for love.

Winter’s Magic (Music City Hearts Series)

by Cynthia Gail

Owner of La Bella Vita, a five-star day spa nestled in the affluent suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, Beth Sergeant knows her elite clientele firsthand. She attended their private schools. She was even engaged, although briefly, to one of their most recognized bachelors. But she never fit in to their social-elite world.

After losing his parents to a car accident at a young age, Nick Chester was raised by his grandfather, the wealthiest man in Nashville. When he chooses to socialize, he has a never-ending list of exclusive events and beautiful women vying for his attention. Yet he never lets himself forget that everyone has an agenda.

Beth can’t resist Nick’s charm and accepts an invitation to dinner, despite her deep-seated insecurities. She proves she’s nothing like other women Nick’s dated and learns to trust him in return. But just as the last of their resistance crumbles and true love is within reach, challenges from Nick’s past threaten to destroy everything and force Beth to reveal her most guarded secret.

Images In Scarlet

by Velda Brotherton

The Civil War over and her family dead, Allie Caine packs up what’s left of her father’s photography equipment in the “what’s it” wagon and sets out for Santa Fe and a new life. Finding a man sprawled across the trail is not something she expected, but this discovery changes all her plans. Jake soon becomes a part of her life, and their adventures together bond them in a way only hardships can.
Jake left Andersonville Prison at the end of the war to wander the countryside trying to discover who he is and why he carries a photo of a beautiful woman named Lorena. He’s convinced he loved her, but the wounds he sustained and the long hellish imprisonment have wiped out all memories of his former life. Even as he and Allie grow closer, he can’t give up the notion that he must find the woman he loved, maybe still loves.
Cole Younger approaches Allie while Jake is away from camp and takes her off to take photos of Frank and Jesse James and the gang. Jake follows. His plans to rescue her go slightly awry when he tumbles through a window of the hideout and is tied to a chair. All Jesse wants is a photograph of himself and the gang for posterity and he pays Allie well for her services before sending her and her shamefaced hero on their way.
Allie’s ex fiance joins the wagon train for two reasons. He want Allie back and will do anything to get her. He is also convinced that Jake is a man named Ethan Hollingsworth who killed his lover, Lorena before the war. A wanted poster offers a reward of $10,000 for the capture of Hollingsworth.
Allie has no interest in the man she once loved because he left her when she needed him the most. Besides, she has fallen in love with Jake and does her best to convince him that he could not kill anyone, and that he should stop his pointless search for Lorena. At one point she is willing to give up her plans and go with him, but he won’t allow that and takes off on his own when his dreams and visions get so strong he can no longer deny them.
Images in Scarlet takes the reader on an exciting journey from Westport, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico with two likeable, slightly flawed characters who will capture your heart and bring you laughter and tears as they struggle to find a life together.

Once Was: Book One of the Asylum Trilogy

by Miya Kressin

“Fear choked me as I slithered beneath another set of low-hanging branches. Dirt and rocks dug into my hands, filling the space beneath my fingernails while I crawled. Briars caught my hair, but all my attention was on the nemetonÂ?my peopleÂ?s sacred spaceÂ?twenty feet beyond the willow that hid me. Speeding breaths disturbed the branches, steaming in the chilling air.”

Prophet of Bas and imbued with the strength and magic of her goddess, Roseen is a woman bound by faith and compelled by honor. When a powerful vision calls her back to Madani, her home, and Sheelin, the island where she first experienced her calling to Bas, she encounters a land ravaged by war and desecrated by marauders. She also finds Cade, a talented blacksmith forced to craft swords for the invading Army of Righteousness and with whom she shared a childhood and now shares a different type of bond altogether.

Being with Cade in Madani brings Roseen’s past to collide with both her present and future. With the courage and heart to match his skill, the blacksmith may be Roseen’s best ally in the carnage ahead. Can he see past his own feelings to let the priestess’ power be unleashed? Not content to allow him fight alone, Roseen will be forced to find her faith and lend her strength and magic to her people, lest they all be destroyed.

Turnabout

by Jack Adler

Turnabout is an ironic coming-of-age novel about a 15-year old high school student who inadvertently sees one of his teachers commit a homicide against another teacher and then blackmails this teacher to make him into a better person, academically and socially.
The teacher, meanwhile, also faces a deepening crisis with his wife whose behavior led to the homicide. The escalating blackmail imbroglio creates a tremendous intertwining impact on their lives with dramatic turnabouts. The student gets involved with a wild fellow student who introduces him to the world of sex and drugs. Then he is blackmailed himself by his fast friend to cover up the death of a young call girl from a drug overdose.
Both student and teacher are brought before the police for questioning about drugs and an improper relationship, with their lives and futures in jeopardy. Ultimately, as portions of the truth emerge, each learns from his experiences as their lives are drastically changed by their actions.

White Chocolate (The New Castle Series)

by Lydia Michaels

Kat D’Angelo’s bittersweet life is about to get decadent. Four years after the scandal of her young pregnancy, Kat has finally managed to come to terms with her otherwise lackluster life. Budgeted to the penny and scheduled to the minute, Kat’s highest priority is her daughter, Mia. After being deserted by Mia’s father, abandoned by her conservative family, and broke to the point of near starvation, Kat has grown into a woman incapable of trusting others with her happiness. She is determined, for the sake of her daughter, to maintain a simple, organized life, free of unnecessary pleasures. However, when Tyson Adams, a successful, African American entrepreneur, becomes her new neighbor, Kat learns that some pleasures are too sweet to resist.

A beautiful telling of the power of love, the fear of diversity and a mother’s unconditional sacrifice that bursts with emotion, touches the heart, and erupts with passion. Unforgettable.

Starling Darling (The Westover Series)

by Dorothy Annie Schritt

With their little daughter, Patty Cake, who was lost to them for 13 years, safe at home with them, we find the Westovers enjoying life to the fullest, until they discover what happened to their sweet child. Shay wants revenge for Patty’s sake and his. Samson And Sunset left us with a new baby on the way, thrilling the whole family. Life is never simple for these two lovebirds. They get dealt cards that would try the best of us.

Will Shay hold his family together or will he seek comfort in the arms of another woman? Callie has always let her faith in God lead her, she leans on God for answers, and simply solutions, but will an accident take Callie’s faith from her, or bring her closer to God?

Kelly, Wes, and Patty will find that they must grow up faster than they had anticipated. Did Shay and Callie raise them to be strong enough to overcome the adversity they must face?

Starling Darling is as sensual as Samson And Sunset, yet, for Shay and his Callie, their love is still so pure, and as innocent as the day they met. Starling Darling will keep you turning the pages, seeing what and where these two are going next.

This sequel to Samson And Sunset will not disappoint as some sequels do. It will keep you waiting in anticipation for book three of this Westover series, seeing just what life has in store for the whole Westover family. Callie and Shay still live for each other’s touch, and Callie longs for the oh so famous, Shay hold. If you have read Samson And Sunset, then Starling Darling is a must read.

His Gay Motel Secret (Gay Sex Stories With Hot Guys)

by Hayden de Las Casas

The original gay sex story from Hayden de Las Casas is back. Hayden has finally listened to his devout fans, and is re-releasing all of the books in his ‘gay sex stories’ series. The content has been revised and updated, and he has paid a commission to have every gay sex story cover completely revamped. He has been able to do this because of his loyal fans, who have requested that he do this many times in the past. If you would like to contact Señor de Las Casas, his email is haydendlc@gmail.com Why not head over to his author’s page to find out more about him.

I have retained the original description, which attracted fans to buy his books in the first place.

The last thing Damien expected was a lucky break. A dedicated and successful business man, he has been run down by the people closest to him. But Damien is learning that sometimes people just make their own luck or lose it all in the process. Maybe he has finally found something new to believe in.

Hayden wants to be completely honest with his loyal fans. This book contains more than 8,500 words, and contains material NOT SUITABLE for minors under the age of 18. It is suitable however, for anybody searching for categories such as gay, gay books, gay sex, gay sex story, gay sex stories, or gay fiction.

ECHOES OF THE PAST

by David Wray

TIME 1946
PLACE Country Western Australia

Alan Burroughs, former AIF soldier ended his war in late 1944 as a
patient in a Psychiatric Hospital.
Released as ‘cured’ near the end of 1945 he flees to a small country
town in an attempt to escape the disturbing memories that still haunt
him.
But he finds that there is no escape until he feels compelled to assist
a Ghost to exact revenge on her murderer – her husband.
Alan finds love and forgiveness and finally lays to rest his own ghosts.

Sky Paintings

by Autumn LeBeau

Have you ever had a best friend? Someone willing to walk through the fire with you? Someone to share all your hopes and dreams and fears with? Someone you have laughed all night with, the one person who “gets it.” The one person willing to drop everything and come running when you need her to. A sister of the heart and soulâ?¦your best friend. Kedrian Sutherland and Paige Matheson met in junior high, and in a way, the rest is history. Paige had just moved to Connecticut and had no friends; Kedrian took her under her wing and became more than just another childhood friend. The bond they created was almost instant, and they did everything together. From the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard to the lights and action of Hollywood, these women will touch your heart with every challenge they face, every obstacle they overcome, the only way they know howâ??together.

When Darkness Falls

by Anne Ireland

This book is made up of 2 paranormaol romances, A Modern Vampire and Dark Ancient Queen.

KISSED BY AN ANGEL (Angel Series)

by Kathy Clark

Kristi Harrison loved her job as a flight attendant for Worldwide Airlines until a crash killed her fiancee and her best friend. Unable to deal with survivor’s guilt, she escaped to a friend’s beach house in Florida were she hoped to find the one thing that had eluded her for the past six months…peace.

When nightmares drove her from her bed, she sought the quiet of the moonlit beach. It was there that Scott Sanders, driven by his own midnight demons, first met her. He was living in his own hell, trying to deal with a plane crash in the jungles of Vietnam that has taken his best friend and RIO…while Scott was the pilot.

They had both been kissed by the angel of death and survived. Together they learn how to forgive without forgetting and how to move forward and learn to celebrate life.

REVIEWS:

Romantic Times 4+. “The strong plotting, the rich characterization, the intense emotional atmosphere are all simply outstanding. Bravo!”

Romantic Times Special Achievement Award of “Series WISH Hero for Cmdr. Scott Sanders” Best hero of the year.

Waldenbooks Lovenotes Recommended Book

USA Weekend Recommended Book

NOTE FROM AUTHOR: As I wrote Kissed by an Angel, the character of Kahuna kept bugging me to give him a book of his own which became Phantom Angel. While writing that book, I realized I wasn’t quite finished with the Angel series and Angel of Mercy was born. These three books sprung full-blown out of my subconscious and practically wrote themselves. I felt like I was merely a conduit for the characters who were desperate to have their voices heard.

As I have put my other books up on Kindle and other ebook formats, I have updated them to present day. But the Vietnam War was a vital element in the Angel series, so I kept these three books in that timeline…not quite historical…but not quite current either. I believe they are strong, complex stories that will remain timeless about a subject and a generation that cannot and should not be forgotten.

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7 Blind Dates

by Felicia Mires

Arabella Jones has been best friends with Camille since their days in college. Her parents died when she was a teenager, which explains why she gives up everything familiar to move to Camille’s hometown and start a new career as as a news anchor, even adopting Camille’s family as her own. That doesn’t mean accepting a date from Camille’s attractive older brother Jeff. If something went wrong, Camille and her parents might never forgive her. She’s risked too much to blow it all on a romance with a brother, even if he is cute enough to make her toes curl.

Arabella has to grin and take it when Camille’s back-up plan comes into play. Truly inspirational. Lord, help us. Seven blind dates, all hand-picked by Camille. Who will Bella choose?

1) A date to Camille’s wedding? Everybody loves Davis.
2) A cowboy on a mechanical bull? Bella might just kill her sister for giving Camille his name, but she does learn a new line dance.
3) An exclusive ice-house restaurant?…without a coat. Usher in the flu.
4) A horseback ride in the country? Guy Stewart says he really understands women. They love to talk, talk, talk. Bella might disagree with himâ?¦if he ever lets her talk.
5) The man running for District Attorney? Maybe her boss had introduced them instead of Camille, but it’s still a blind date. Besides, he really knows how to treat a girl, even if he does pay someone to water his plants.
6) A charming dad with the most adorable little girls? Does she want a ready-made family?

Surely one will be a man worthy of a lifetime’s commitment.

Jeff has a few plans of his own when Bella won’t look his way, and he’s not giving up without a fight. If a bouquet of flowers delivered every day won’t do it, then perhaps a sunset ride on a hot air balloon will get her attention. He’s bathed this project in prayer, and he’s trying to trust God with the end result.

Is Arabella listening to God?

This Christian romance is approximately 193 print pages.

House of Cards

by Ilana Waters

Eighteen-year-old Sherry has just begun her newly independent life in Paris when she is kidnapped by a group of vampires. They hold her hostage in the House of Cadamon, their catacomb lair beneath the city, ruled with an iron fist by a leader known as “the Master.” The only thing keeping Sherry alive is her ability to tell vampire fortunes through tarot cards, a task she is forced to perform night after night. She finds an unlikely ally in Lucas, a four-hundred-year-old reluctant blood drinker who is as much a prisoner of Cadamon as she is.

Things get even more complicated when Sherry and Lucas begin falling for each otherâ??hard. Will they be able to keep Sherry alive long enough for them both to escape the House of Cadamon? Or will the Master and his band of evil minions succeed in controlling the lives of the young loversâ??by whatever means necessary?

With its breathtaking Parisian setting, fast-moving plot, and strong-willed heroine, this paranormal romance will keep you spellbound!

“This is a fun and exciting romance that vampire fans will not want to miss!”
–CurseoftheBibliophile.blogspot.com

“I found HOUSE OF CARDS an easy read that’s funny and filled with surprises. If you enjoy YA paranormal romance novels, this is definitely the book for you!” –InterestedinAll.blogspot.com

“This romance was very different and very exciting. A must-read for any paranormal â??junkie!’” –AngiesAngelsRKids-Furkids.blogspot.com

“HOUSE OF CARDS is unique in many ways. One thing that stood out to me was the writing style. It is very fluid, and the descriptions of Paris are fantastic!”
–PeskyPiksiPesterNomi.blogspot.com

“The story stays with you even when you’re not reading. Waters describes Paris and the catacombs so well that you feel like you’re there!” –BooksCompleteMe.com

Dancing With Tulips

by Lawrence Grodecki

Titles can be deceiving and no one knows this better than Robin Belcour. She is the envy of every woman she knows and adored by her eight male clients and two partners . . . or is it seven and three?
With her natural beauty, education and “special” training – and with her ability to charm on a dime – she has it all, but only according to others. She prides herself in playing the game of love, winning by acting and remaining unattainable . . . but in control.
Then her plans become unravelled in sleepy Victoria, a deception of its own . . . her secrets are only a pale part of the bigger picture. As events unfold beyond her control, what was once all so predictable becomes a battle with the past, a duel with deception, including the intrusion of a few simple tulips . . . will she learn to dance or will they cripple her forever?

“Then the strangest thing happened . . . Karen covered her naked body with Andrea’s robe, put her hair up and then put on that chauffeur’s hat . . . she told me to sit down again and just wait there for a minute. Then she went over to this platter. It had three tulips on it, but she only left one on the platter and put the lid back on. Then she disappeared with this platter – after all this – such a fuss over a single tulip?”

After about 300 pages you will have the answers.

Bound by Blood: Two Novellas of Paranormal Romance

by Sarah Bella

A pair of irresistible short novels from one of today’s most exciting authors of paranormal romance. In Bonded by Blood, Caoimhe has spent hundreds of years as a vampire, swapping one feeding partner for the next, hoping against hope to avoid the blood sickness. When she meets Edana she knows she’s met her Blood Mate, but Edana wants to shift the power between them and will use any means necessary to convince Caoimhe that power exchange can be fun. In Half of Me, Leanan Sidhe Drake meets his match in Penny, a human artist with fae blood. His taste for the kinky side of life helps teach her a thing or two about creating art but not before they realize a passionate pull so deep it binds them eternally. Both Drake and Caoimhe lean toward the sexually adventurous and can’t resist the call of passion.

Warriors in the Mist: A Medieval Dark Fantasy

by Susan D. Kalior

Medieval Dark Fantasy: An epic romance is featured in this masterfully written novel that takes place in the mystical, magical Dark Ages. Kamara Lania is a pacifistic priestess whose goal is to unite the realm with the divine love. Meanwhile, a violent self-serving warlord, Kayenté Ketola, is acquiring dominion of the realm on his journey to become King. They are both thwarted by a supernatural being “The Cold One” who is consuming the world because good and evil in their extremes, always fall. Mystical interplay, characteristic of Shakespeare, throws the Priestess and the Warlord into a harrowing and complicated, even comical transformation where they each must become more like the other to save the world. This novel impassions the heart, unleashes laughter and pumps adrenaline. The plot erupts with mysticism, magic, and romance as the mystery unravels with unpredictable twists and turns in the spirit of Hitchcock, while richly exposing the psychology of the human struggle, highlighted by entanglements with supernatural beings. This novel promises to entertain and to lighten the darkest most secret corners of the hidden self, while imparting wisdom needed in today’s world.

Excerpt:

She crawled carefully through dancing feet, under clanking swords, and a rain of blood. She heard whisking and whipping, thumps and thuds, grunts and groans, curses, prayers, and the blasting beat of a thousand hearts, the world yet spinning round and round.

She prayed the warriors would be too engaged in battle to bother with her. Her gown kept catching under her knees, pulling the neck down around her shoulders. Metal feet slammed down around her. Something wet poured over her neck and dripped down her skin curving around her throat. It smelled like blood. However, everything reeked of blood. She kept moving, forbidding tears, wishing she’d drank a second glass of wine, for the elixir seemed to distance her somewhat from the horrors she normally felt.

Ahead, on the outskirts of the battle, she glimpsed a lone oak tree ahead of her, looming there, a live thing, like a mother bidding her to come and fall upon her breast.

Thinking only of the tree, the tree, the beautiful tree, she found herself more quickly there. She dropped her shoulder against the fragrant bark, and curled into a tight ball, very still, afraid to move, lest a knife come flying at her, the way Kayenté had once told her it could.

Her eyes were closed, but the image of swords and bludgeoned bodies flashed erratically in her mind. This battle was like the one in her nightmare: warriors, swords, arrows, blood; and she curled against a tree in a dirty white gown, trembling. Would The Cold One appear next?

Her arm was snatched. Someone pulled her forward so swiftly, she felt like a shooting star. Her vision blurred, so fast they did run. When they stopped, she fell to her hands and knees in the thick foliage, panting hard with burning lungs. Someone stood next to her. Would she now behold The Cold One? What was, was; and what was to be, was to be. She could not change it, so she sat back on her knees and looked up to see dust covered leather pants, and a sword dripping blood. Raising her eyes further, she saw Kayenté’s face. It was Kayenté who towered over her!

Her hand flew to her heart. “You aren’t The Cold One.”

He squatted, resting the sword over his knees. “I don’t know about that.”

On A Summer’s Day

by Averil Seymour

A collection of short stories, some paranormal

The Dream Weaver

by Amy Baker

Are dreams just dreams or are they something more?

The Miller boys have had their fair share of heartache. First with the loss of their mother and then a tragic accident that has left their little sister lying lifeless in a coma. So when a gorgeous “counselor” shows up in their pool house, the Miller men welcome the distraction with open arms. But when Anda sets her gaze on Sam Miller, the oldest Miller brother and successful aviation engineer, sparks begin to fly uncontrollably.

Sam Miller doesn’t want for much. He’s a partner in a successful aviation company, he’s self confident and good looking. But when a new counselor arrives to help his brother Jack, Sam is awe struck by her beauty and for the first time in his life fearful that things might not work out in his favor. Hoping to put an end to his bachelor status, Sam sets out to make Anda his one and onlyâ?¦even if it means a lifetime of mashed potatoesâ?¦;)

FairLorians are a society of Dream Weavers whose sole purpose has been keeping harmony and balance throughout the Universe. By entering people’s dreams they can influence decisions and manipulate outcomes; outcomes that can affect the planet and therefore the entire Universe. So when Anda, a beautiful young Weaver, refuses to subscribe to the life that is bestowed upon her and avoids another mission, she isn’t shocked to find out that she is in troubleâ?¦again. But this time the penalty for her infraction isn’t laughable. Her mother, part of the council of Weavers, has had enough of her irresponsible behavior and decides to teach her a lesson once and for all. She sends Anda to the one planet that is known throughout the Universe to be the most troubled hoping that she will learn her lesson and alter the outcome that her irresponsibility set in motion. But in the end, will Anda learn her lesson and want to return to her life as a Weaver or learn more about herself and how she doesn’t fit in?

The Dream Weaver is a story meant for a more mature reader as it contains a few sexy scenes between Anda and Sam. The language is a bit salty too. It is a fun read but with some serious concepts. Don’t pass it up.

***This book is recommended for adult readers due to its mature content.

The Dark Side of Light: A Medieval Time Travel Fantasy

by Susan D. Kalior

Shallee, a PhD social activist in the twenty-first century, has disrupted the harmful social programming instigated by Raymond Mackelvie, a powerful business magnate who has been controlling the masses for decades. Hence, Mackelvie sets out to destroy her. Interestingly, her circumstance parallels a ninth-century past life that has always haunted her. In that life, her royal family, trying to unite Denmark, was overthrown and slaughtered by the Curonian, Droghan. Tumbling through time, Shallee finds herself in that past, two years after she died. She meets up with the warrior, Shokane, who once loved her. Together they plot to restore Denmark, fighting for heart on a perilous adventure into the dark side of light. Black magic abounds and mythical beings arise in this riveting suspense where multi-dimensional realities bleed together to reshape a fate that hinges on a romance transcendent of time and space.

Friday Nights

by Casey Wilder

Friday night is date night for Court Beaumont and his reputation for leaving his dates happy and satisfied guarantees he’ll have his share of ladies to choose from. Will this Friday night be more of the same or will Court finally meet his match?

A short story of approximately 10,000 words.

Warning: Contains explicit sex and graphic language

Kathleen Kirkwood Sampler #1

by Kathleen Kirkwood

In this Sampler Edition, Kathleen Kirkwood offers the first four chapters (approximately one-fifth) of three of her best-selling novels – A SLIP IN TIME, SHADES OF THE PAST, and HIS FAIR LADY.

Johnny, the Mark of Chaos, an Urban Dark Fantasy (Tazmark Dark Fantasy/Horror Series)

by Susan D. Kalior

Dark Fantasy: Enter the darkness in Book One of this intriguing dark fantasy. Meet johnny: a seductive, vampiric, magical, time-bending being who wreaks chaos on earth. For over nine hundred years he has answered the conscious and unconscious call for destruction. Meanwhile, the Shen, Jenséa, a naïve embodied angel (who believes herself merely human), is tormented by her compulsion to paint violent scenes, which unbeknownst to her, are premonitions of her future. Bored from lack of challenge, johnny invites himself to be her guardian devil to help her survive what is to come, and to teach her about her angel power. He is challenged at last, for her power, when activated, could burn him to oblivion. Confusing matters are the changes they incite in each other, including a magnetizing romantic love.

Told from Jenséa’s point of view, this is a story about life’s gentler side unconsciously seeking balance with the tougher aspects of being. Thrown into a fantastic adventure with her diametric opposite, Jenséa begins to learn the deeper meaning of life, surpassing everything she ever deemed true. Contrary to conventional plots that pit good against evil, this plot unites good and evil to transform both. This brilliant tale touches the deepest yearnings in every human, yearnings that are lifted to a startling resolution.

The First Of Their Kind

by Ginger Lee Lewis Petrucci

Growing up on the Barrier Islands of North Carolina, Jane is an Islander girl through and through but her life changes when she meets Lucas, her other half, which makes them whole. It is true love at first sight in more ways than one as their sexual desires fuel their strengths and abilities! Together they discover they are unique as individuals and mysteries abound about their lives. Jane and Lucas find that they can fight their own battles with their unknown powers, fueled by their love for each other when an unexpected powerful adversary tries to come between them, threatening to destroy what was meant to be. Discover and uncover the power of their love and what they mean for the future of their world.

The Devil’s Playthings

by Melissa Silvey

Do you believe in angels? Do you believe the devil is real? He was an angel too, who fell from heaven with one purpose: to destroy all of humanity. Where do a girl named Emma, who has been touched by so much evil in her young life, and a priest who is loved by everyone, fit into his plans? Read “The Devil’s Playthings” to find out.

Crystal (Thirst)

by Orlando Lucian Dinu

Three years after the vampires attacked the colony, Daniel, being possessed by an evil demon, decided to use the crystal globe as a desperate attempt to save his consumed soul. Tyria failed to use her powers and to end the war against the bloodthirsty beasts, but an unexpected event could change the balance of power.

At approx. 6500 words, “Crystal” is the fourth volume of the Thirst series.

The Last Rose of Summer – a Short Story

by Kate Lord Brown

A new short story from the author of THE PERFUME GARDEN and THE BEAUTY CHORUS

An abandoned house in Spain holds the key to a woman’s past, and her daughter’s future.

Midsummer’s night, the Festival of San Juan, and the beautiful Valencian coast is ablaze with fire. Liberty meets John, the love of her life, there. She hopes that together they will discover the truth about the Villa del Valle. Can John learn to live, and can Liberty learn to let go before it is too late?

Praise for THE BEAUTY CHORUS

â??A wonderful, escapist, nostalgic read’ Red Magazine
â??A story of love and adventure. I can already see the movie.’ Daily Mail
â??The book soars as if it had a pair of Merlin engines strapped to its covers.’ The Spectator
‘A captivating story of adventure, romance, loss and heroism.’
You Magazine (Mail on Sunday) Reading Group Book of the Week

Praise for THE PERFUME GARDEN

â??Brown’s pacing is exquisite, revealing each twist slowly and deliberately, leaving you gripped to the end.’ We Love This Book (The Bookseller)
â??If I could have given this book 11/10 I would have done so.’ Novelicious
â??Sweepingly romantic â?¦ heartbreaking at times; a vivid, gripping read’ Katherine Webb, author of The Legacy

Roses and Black Glass: a dark Cinderella tale

by Lani Lenore

In early America, at a time when dealings with dead bodies is considered taboo, Cindy’s father is a mortician. She, for one, is fascinated by the controversial work, until her mother dies and her father marries Anna van Burren, who brings two new sisters into the family.

Cindy’s misery only grows from there.

Following her father’s untimely death, Cindy’s life spirals into darkness as she is forced to become a servant in her own home, to wait on her hated siblings and stepmother. She has become so sequestered that she can’t even let the one man she continues to think about know that she is alive.

She met him once in the mortuary years ago – a handsome, curious boy who had been a surprise to her – until she’d discovered who he was.

Now a man, Christian is a perfect specimen, and also the object of her step-sisters’ affections. According to a stipulation of his inheritance, he must marry before age twenty-one. That day is fast approaching. Any hope Cindy has of seeing him again – or of salvaging anything that should have been left of her life – seems lost.

Cindy’s world is filled with misfortune. She believes she must be cursed.

It takes the appearance of a strange woman who brings a wicked prophecy before Cindy can see how blessed she could become – and to see what sacrifices were made to give her hope once again.

That Which is Unexpected (The Gods’ Executioner Series)

by A.L. Bridges

Cole Treyfair is a college student that just so happens to be descended from a race of Aztec warriors that were able to control the blood in their bodies. After watching his mother being killed in front of him, Cole was taken in by his godfather. Now that his godfather is dead, Cole has been called home to Arizona by the only family he has left.

Chezarei Vaele is Cole’s unrelated sister that was adopted by Cole’s godfather, and she also happens to be in love with Cole.
Oh, and she’s the key to the end of the world.

To prevent the world from ending, Cole must protect Chezarei from various gods that wish to build the world anew; all while dodging his sister’s advances, learning to control his newfound power, and guarding a secret that will lead to his death if anyone learns of it.

Will Cole be able to stay alive, and keep Chezarei safe?

That Which is Unexpected is a humorous contemporary fantasy with a bit of romance, and is the first book in The Gods’ Executioner series by A.L. Bridges.

*Due to sexual content and humor, as well as some graphic violence, this book is not recommended for those under the age of 14*

What the Heart Desires – Part 1 (Contemporary BDSM Erotic Romance)

by Allora Adderly

When Kimberly meets Felix, it feels like everything in her life is falling into place. They settle into a comfortable routine and all is well…until she meets Garrett. He’s a typical bad boy with a chip on his shoulder. Even when Kimberly is with safe, reliable Felix, she can’t seem to get the handsome jerk out of her head…

This is Part 1 of a 3 part series. Each part is approximately 10,000 – 15,000 words long. Be sure to check out Parts 2 and 3 or alternately, pick up the bundle!

Excerpt:

“Your paper is due on a Saturday?”

“Yes.”

Garrett eyed her curiously. “So then why did you wait until Friday night to get the book? Are you a procrastinator, Kimmy?”

Kimberly blushed. “I’m not usually a procrastinator,” she said, inexplicably eager to defend herself. “But I guess this time I was. I’ve beenâ?¦busy.”

Garrett clucked in disapproval. “Naughty girl,” he said. “You ought to be punished.” Then he flashed Kimberly another one of his cocky yet endearing grins to let her know he was just messing with her.

Even though Kimberly knew Garrett was joking, his words sent a shiver up her spine – and to other places. She couldn’t help but wonder what sort of punishment he had in mind.

Birds Flying High

by Rebecca Suzanne

Has there ever been someone you’ve seen and in an instant wanted to be with them? Well, what if they were married. What if you were engaged? How do you push down feelings that you aren’t even sure exist?
Laurlei is starting her career, finally, and on the first day of her internship at Modern Times, a magazine company, Carter takes her breath away. After a few weeks they find out that their feelings are mutual. It doesn’t help that her relationship hits rough waters the same time she finds out Carter’s marriage isn’t so happily. Does that make everything okay, though? Can they get over their crushes and be professional adults? Or will temptation get the best of them, becoming a scandal worth writing about of their own?

Bonnie Serendipity – A lesson in love vol 1 (lessons in love)

by Clyde Seren

It was one night that would change my life forever! In fact it wasn’t a night, it was a moment. A fleeting split second in time that would have a profound effect on me for the rest of my life…

Bound to be Punished: Part II (Bound to be Punished Series)

by S.P. Miller

Intended for mature audiences only.

After discovering his ex-flame Anne during a business trip to Los Angeles, Charles Donahue sets a dark plan in motion to enslave her. She had made the mistake of leaving him…and he was going to make sure that she never thought about doing it again.

Anne, naive and innocent, slowly allows Charles to take her back. Waking up beside him the next morning, Anne is eager to find out what the day holds for her.

She could have never guessed what Charles has in store.

– — –

A smirk played on his lips, and he nodded as he told her, “Don’t worry, I’m watching where we’re going.” He’d known her for years, and he was willing to bet good money that she’d stuffed her underwear (soaked from her arousal the night before) into her purse to take home, rather than wear it, which meant she was bare and naked beneath her skirt.

“Charles,” she protested as he began pulling the hem of her skirt up, attempting to shove his hand away, “come on, watch the road.”

His eyes hadn’t left the road, though, and he laughed softly, knocking her hand lightly out of his way and resuming his trek toward the bare skin of her knee.

“What’s the matter Anne, haven’t you got any panties on?” he teased her as he succeeded in pulling the skirt of her dress up far enough to slid his palm over her knee and then further up the soft, delicate skin of her thigh.

A Christmas Gift

by Mary Heathcliff

A long time ago, Cristina committed a mistake that made her family deeply hurt. Now, she wants to give her father and her stepmother a Christmas gift that makes their lives happier and amends the mistakes she committed in the past. Though she knows it will not be easy, she will try with all her heart. Will she succeed?
Matt never thought he would see Cristina again, but when it happens, he knows it is time to actâ?¦

Everything

by George Higham

As people go throughout their lives opportunities arise, some good some not so good. We meet others, we work with them, we play and even fall in love. At least, that’s what we tell ourselves. Quite probably it’s true most of the time, but how do you know? How can you be sure?

“Everything” follows a few friends and others whose lives interact from time to time as they make lives for themselves. Claude, Jonathan and Sarah have known each other for a few years since university. Circumstance gives them different options and paths. How they react to those options and the people they meet and know has deep effects on themselves. There are always consequences to our actions, whether that action is really not taking any action at all. Alice has her plans for her life ahead tested right at the start. How she reacts, responds and makes choices about her life is a story in itself. Like many others, how they all approach life is a mixture of instincts so deep they are unaware of them, beliefs and habits they pick up. Habit is often called learned behaviour, it’s the habits picked up through unlearned behaviours that cause many problems.

Claude is building himself a career, travelling around the country, conscious of his status and how he can improve it. Being in a very competitive environment, he learns how to get on and keep his cards close to his chest. Jonathan and Sarah got married very early after leaving university and are trying to build their lives together whilst at the same time building their working lives apart. A seemingly impossible juxtaposition, but one that is faced successfully or unsuccessfully by many. Alice has to reassess what she will do when she is blown off course by some bad news. They all appear to want the same things out of life to some degree: comfort and someone to be comfortable with. All stories that are about how people interact are in essence about love, which straight away creates many questions. Not least being: is what everyone thinks that love is the same thing? What do you have to do if you think you love someone and that this other person might want to love you? On a day to day basis, week to week, month or year, when going through life, taking everything that life throws at you – which sometimes can be extreme and tragic – what we do and how we treat others around us can define who we are, what we are and how others will think of us. There are many risks in life, but the greatest risk can give the greatest reward. Perhaps the greatest risk is trusting someone else with your life. With everything.

*****
“Everything” is the first novel by George Higham, who when not writing, enjoys the mountains in winter – the snowier the better- and getting out and about in summer. George is married, lives in the Kent countryside of Britain and has enjoyed (to some extent at least) a varied career in industry so far.

In The Mood For Romance – The Living Collection of Introductions and Excerpts From Elizabeth Lennox

by Elizabeth Lennox

In this single collection, Elizabeth Lennox provides the excerpts to all of her works of romantic fiction, as well as many short stories which serve as introductions and back stories for her characters.  She also provides insights into writing several of her series, and explains the ties between the characters in those books.

Elizabeth will continue to update this collection as she releases new introductions and books.

On Fire A Romance Fantasy

by Arman Antonyan

They were gone for hours. Gone since the city banished their presence.

Their feet hit the path over again, the soles of their leather shoes beating against the damp soil and rocks lining the path ahead of them. Surrounding them, trees, brush and greenery otherwise darkened by the night, leaned around them. The air, cool and moist, coated the backs of their throats as they breathed in and out. In and out.

The brisk air and the moisture and the way the cold tickled the backs of their necks reminded them of their reality. The reality of their situation. They would be living like this now. Running away from the lives they denied.

The Perfect Husband

by Elizabeth Wells

Maureen orders a husband online. It seems like a reasonable thing to do, as she knows what she wants: someone to make her meals, clean up after her and someone to chat to last thing at night.

What could possibly go wrong?

Maureen gets her husband. His name is Stefan and he’s not bad looking. He cooks, cleans and talks (sort of), but it’s all the other things Stefan may or may not be doing that take Maureen on a scary rollercoaster of a ride.

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