Pool Party (Dottie Dotts the Cat Book 1)

Dottie loves to swim! But cats aren't supposed to like water, are they? Dottie has to find the courage to be herself at her friend Andy's pool party -- even when her friends are watching. 

In this Pool Party series, your kids will discover a unique way to: 

•Build more self-esteem, so they can become more outgoing and confident in who they are.

•Stay true to themselves, which keeps them from living life based on other people's opinions. 

•Pursue their desires, allowing them to be more comfortable and happy with anything they want to pursue in life. 

The Pool Party Series teaches a big life-lesson with a cute, little story that easily resonates with your kids. 

Nurturing your child's development now will do wonders for their future. Go ahead and grab your kids a copy!

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Sonnet Rhythm: A Collection of Thoughts & Poems

   

Sonnet Rhythm: 

A Collection of Thoughts & Poems

In C.T. Meginord's debut poetry collection, she partakes the reader through four different perspectives. A journey filled with black inquires, free expressions, love, and spirituality. Sonnet Rhythm is design to enlighten, capture and impel words to come to life through the honesty of ones thoughts.

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The Framework: Structure for the Black Community

   

The Framework: 

Structure for the Black Community

This succinct overview of black experiences and realities serves as a guide to take rather complex circumstances and translate them into a series of lessons. Andrew Raybon pulls from his life experiences, ranging through various social classes, to encourage communities of color to reframe our objectives and responsibilities to each other. Heavy emphasis is placed on collectivism in a country that inspires individualism. His deep consideration of these issues is informed by his studies in human services, years of travel and military experience, and his devotion to the black community. His intention is to serve and ignite the discussions and actions that will lead to transformative thinking in a new decade of opportunity in the United States of America and beyond.

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Make It Out Alive: 

The medieval light fantasy romance full of dangerous adventures

Are you ready to take a break from reality and head off on a magical journey of danger and discovery?

Do you yearn for a thrilling read to lift you out of the mundane and get your heart pumping?

Make It Out Alive tells the story of Violet, a young girl living in a fantasy world who has been forced through circumstances out of her control, to live by stealing essential food and goods just to ensure that she and her witch grandmother survive from day to day. 

But living this way was always bound to catch up with her, and now, as refugees living in the forest on the outskirts of the kingdom, Violet’s enforced misdemeanors are about to bring her whole world crashing down around her. 

The King has had enough of her lawless ways and sends Ryland, a skilled and fearless bounty hunter, to track Violet down and return her to the kingdom where she will face execution. But when Ryland and Violet become lost in the forest, their own survival becomes their only goal. As each realizes that they must rely on the other to get out of the forest alive, they begin to grow closer as an unexpected bond forms between them. 

What perils will they face as they seek a way out? Is anywhere safe? Will they ever reach a place of safety? And what of the relationship they have formed? Will Violet still be led to her death for the sake of a bag of money?

In her latest book, EmmaELLIS tackles issues such as finding love suddenly, unexpectedly, and through an unlikely source and challenges readers to think about the decisions they would make in similar situations, forcing them to question their own morality. But she does so in a safe space – a fantasy world in the pages of a book. You may not even realize at the time that you are making moral judgments as you are swept along with the story with the pair facing one tragedy after another.

Emma is a writer who loves to travel and is inspired by Paris – the city of love – in her writing. In Make It Out Alive, she introduces us to Violet, a girl who is non-conformist in a way that many of us would like to imagine ourselves to be. Violet is a good person who has rejected some of the ways that society has tried to mold her to its own view of the world. In doing so, she creates for herself a simple life in which her happiness or contentment is judged by her own values. The price she pays for that life is exile from the kingdom and a need to break the law in order to survive. Ryland is the very opposite. An enigmatic character, driven by greed and prepared to ignore his moral compass in the hunt for the bigger buck. As happens to all of us at some points in our own lives, Make It Out Alive throws these two very different characters together and examines how they cope in testing times and alongside a companion who is so very different from them.

The book will appeal to fans of romance novels who also like their stories to be a little bit out there. With Emma’s latest release, you’ll find yourself engulfed in dilemmas of the heart while simultaneously having your heart in your mouth as the daring duo battle to find salvation from everything the forest throws at them.

But beneath the surface, you’ll be asked to question what each is motivated by on their quest and where the fine line between trust and self-preservation lies.

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White Knuckle

 

White Knuckle: A Poetry Collection

White Knuckle is a concise exposé of a severe childhood experience.

Bruce's debut poetry collection, an autobiographical report on the reality of life in a poverty-stricken, drug and violence-fuelled environment, is a gut-wrenching composition of grief, loss, and abandonment at an early age.

This powerful book is brutal, tragic, and moving: an essential read.

Praise for White Knuckle:

"These are vital poems rooted in personal experience but which reach out into common ground."

— Bob Beagrie, Ek Zuban

"There are experiences in poetry to which you become a witness. And it is essential that there be witnesses."

— Helena Nelson, The Sphinx Review

"Steven Bruce's poetry is intelligent, sharp, and demands to be heard."

— Mandy Maxwell, The Stanza

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After Dinner Conversation

  

After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy

After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Magazine - A monthly fiction magazine of original philosophy and ethics short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family.

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Once Upon a Time Bitches

 

Once Upon A Time Bitches 

Hi, I’m Branden. That is me on the cover. Yes, I have a boy’s name, a Mom bod, and the tattoos are not photoshopped. Once upon a time I realized we all have a story, we all have a struggle and happiness is relative.

I am not cynical or hardened, I am just stating the facts. Here’s the deal:

Prince Charming doesn’t exist. 

Fairy Godmother is drunk.

Glass slippers don’t come 2 day prime shipping from Amazon.  

There is no magic fairytale, but if YOU work at it enough you can come pretty close creating your version with a happy ending. The best part is, in life you can continue to make edits until that sh*t reads exactly how you want it to.  

You may not agree with everything I say in this book but the most important takeaway is that YOU have to be your own f*cking hero. No more damsel locked in a tower, bullsh*t. 

That ends now. Join me as I take you through my 7 Magical Maxims for creating a fairytale life. (I know what you are thinking: Branden, no one gets a fairytale life.) Can you stop being so damn cynical for two seconds and just go with this? Good. Here they are: 

#1 Realize that no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself.

#2: Accept total responsibility for every damn aspect of your life.

#3: Stop comparing yourself to others and just f*cking be you.

#4: Dream dreams that are so big they make people doubt you.

#5: Your life is the sum of your choices.Choose well.

#6: Eliminate everything evil and negative from your kingdom.

#7: Love yourself so hard you have an abundance to share with others.

Is it possible to design a fairytale life? Control your destiny? Be the hero in your story? I believe you can and that’s why I wrote this book. I am going to make you a little uncomfortable. Back out now if you aren't ready. 

Sh*t is about to get real bitches…

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on Amazon / Kindle

 

The Gold Elephant

 

The Gold Elephant

The Gold Elephant is a true story about a man, a serious man, a ladies' man, a businessman, a real man's man-the man. Take a ride through the fast-paced streets of America. This legendary timepiece defines the true meaning of from nothing to something, taking place during the most volatile period in American History, a true rags-to-riches story about loyalty, respect, and hard work.

Journey through the streets of the world's capital, Washington, DC, through the eyes of a man with wisdom, strength, vision, and determination, a natural-born leader. He reached the highest heights of the underworld and many political circles, a man that turned one hundred dollars into millions.

There have been many articles, blogs, and documentaries trying to tell his story but can't come close to this, the true untold story of Michael "Fray" Salters. More than a legend, a man like no other whose morals and integrity would not allow him to break the rules, the ten laws of life. A man who gained respect of gangsters and formed personal friendships with an R&B Legend and a first-round number two NBA draft pick. He had friendships and business relationships with top politicians in the city, and not just those in Washington, DC, but also in Miami, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York City, Buffalo (New York), California, Atlantic City, and Las Vegas casinos. There was only one and there will never be another. The Gold Elephant.

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A REFLECTIVE GUIDE ON ETIQUETTE AND GOOD MANNERS FOR KIDS 

Children are our future, and having them learn to be a better person for the good of our whole society is the need of the hour and something that was kept in mind while creating this book.

This book is written with the aim of helping our young kids learn etiquette that will help them appear civilized in today’s world. It is also to make them understand the concept of good manners and how being polite, kind, and loving towards other people will build their character in the best way possible.

What’s Inside

Exercises and Puzzle games are added after each point of etiquette and manners so that kids can perform those acts in their daily life so that their habits can develop. 

The book discusses the following etiquettes and manners:

1. Communication etiquette
2. Table manners
3. Personal hygiene manners
4. Etiquette at a formal event
5. Etiquette about personal space.

“Are you ready to go on an exciting adventure of learning etiquette and manners? 

That’s right, let’s go!”

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The Forgotten Stories: Journal of Nightmares

  

The Forgotten Stories: Journal of Nightmares

Back Matter/Description:

With time slowly dwindling away, a terminally ill psychiatrist decides to reminisce through some of his old notes. He resolves to share old stories from therapy sessions as a form of maintaining his legacy. These are not cautionary tales, but rather reflections of accounts from juvenile minds. But when he re-visits these old memories, his mind paints a different, grimmer scene as compared to the original interactions.

The Forgotten Stories: Journal of Nightmares will take readers on an interactive, eerie adventure through the minds and memories of the doctor and his young patients, revealing a world full of haunting creatures they wish they’d never encountered.

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31 Cents to 43 Countries

 

31 Cents to 43 Countries

31¢ to 43 Countries: Hardcore Tips to Increasing Profits 

provides tips and tricks to increasing an organization's bottom-line. Dina Preston-Ortiz and husband, Don Ortiz shares their unique anecdotes for increasing profits through sheer guts and grit, by being purposeful, adapting and finding innovative solutions in dynamic environments of constant change.  

Learn how to manage talent, find excellence, adapt in difficult and controversial situations, do more with less, while keeping clients coming back for more.  

You'll discover tools for:

•    Making good decisions in atmospheres of uncertainty

•    Successfully leading in virtual environments 

•    Creating competitive advantages that can't be copied

•    Leveraging talent and relationships to optimize resources

•    Finding the right work and life balance

Dina and Don reveal their own personal stories to help you create a unique niche in your own industry market.  With proven strategies, their simple 3-section the framework lays out information to help increase profits.

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Dark Tales From Dreamdale: 

Nightmares Are Everywhere Here!

When a scary nightmare creature escaped its underworld prison, a brave boy, Arden Wonder, must slay the quirky dream monster, Count Comatose. Before the vampire villain gets an opportunity to feed on the young souls that will allow Count Comatose to unleash a nightmarish apocalypse which will corrupt reality. Every dreaming child will morph into fantasy creatures and be the monster's slaves in its lair- forever!

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Dark Tales from Dreamdale: 

Tale of the Werewolf's Wand 

On a full moon, Halloween night of his twelfth birthday, Arden Wonder’s best middle-grade friend, Happy Buckets, becomes a shape-shifter! He dramatically transforms into a silly, fun loving, carefree and brave werewolf, who isn’t the least at all threatening. Happy the Shape-shifter isn’t all that tamed either. Happy still has monster instincts that take over his personality, and he has no control over. But everyone in town doesn’t know that.

Happy is looking for protection from his friends. There is a hunter Down Under in Australia named Benjamin Boogieman, who wants to destroy the boy. Arden doesn’t realize that Happy is the last shape-shifter. An order to save his best friend from becoming extinct, Arden discovers an enchanted weapon at the Dreamporium where all the cool kids hang out after school, that can protect his friend. It’s a supernatural wand that can help safeguard Happy from being trapped in his monstrosity. But if Happy isn’t careful about how to use the magic wand, there could be consequences.

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Rise of Thera 

Destiny cannot be avoided, but it can be controlled

Armageddon, Ragnarok, or Yawm ad din? Different names for ‘Day of Judgement’ and when the final battle, led by the devil, against God will take place. Every holy book name this event, but no one ever tells you what happens afterward. Thera, a child raised by an angel and a devil, born in a world where the aftermath of this battle plays out. The ancient humans destroyed, the supernatural scattered through the world, and heavenly beings joining forces with hell... left to pick up where their leaders failed. Learn how this new world will function through Thera’s eyes! Can you handle the truth?

You can also describe the book as a diary of an immortal, who survived the Apocalypse and now has her own adventures in this new undiscovered world and the friends an enemies she makes. Unlike the perfect, grammar correct books usually published, my book has mistakes in it on purpose as it is meant to partially be a diary, well also like a collection of events put together from a first viewer point.

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Slow down To Hell with the Joneses: Living Simplisticly and loving it

  

Slow down To Hell with the Joneses: 

Living Simplisticly and loving it

Happiness is not meeting some unseen, unrealistic expectation–either not being thin enough, strong enough, cool enough, good enough when “enough” doesn’t exist. We are trying to adjust to our “sick” society. And it is like a hamster wheel. We run faster and still get no where but to the sad town of Discouraged. There are no Jones. Jones is in our head. Here we learn what is important and how to truly live.

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and Kindle Unlimited

Once Upon a Time Bitches

 

Once Upon A Time Bitches 

Hi, I’m Branden. That is me on the cover. Yes, I have a boy’s name, a Mom bod, and the tattoos are not photoshopped. Once upon a time I realized we all have a story, we all have a struggle and happiness is relative.

I am not cynical or hardened, I am just stating the facts. Here’s the deal:

Prince Charming doesn’t exist. 

Fairy Godmother is drunk.

Glass slippers don’t come 2 day prime shipping from Amazon.  

There is no magic fairytale, but if YOU work at it enough you can come pretty close creating your version with a happy ending. The best part is, in life you can continue to make edits until that sh*t reads exactly how you want it to.  

You may not agree with everything I say in this book but the most important takeaway is that YOU have to be your own f*cking hero. No more damsel locked in a tower, bullsh*t. 

That ends now. Join me as I take you through my 7 Magical Maxims for creating a fairytale life. (I know what you are thinking: Branden, no one gets a fairytale life.) Can you stop being so damn cynical for two seconds and just go with this? Good. Here they are: 

#1 Realize that no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself.

#2: Accept total responsibility for every damn aspect of your life.

#3: Stop comparing yourself to others and just f*cking be you.

#4: Dream dreams that are so big they make people doubt you.

#5: Your life is the sum of your choices.Choose well.

#6: Eliminate everything evil and negative from your kingdom.

#7: Love yourself so hard you have an abundance to share with others.

Is it possible to design a fairytale life? Control your destiny? Be the hero in your story? I believe you can and that’s why I wrote this book. I am going to make you a little uncomfortable. Back out now if you aren't ready. 

Sh*t is about to get real bitches…

Click here to get Once Upon a Time Bitches 

on Amazon / Kindle