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    (A letter I will never send, to a mother who would never read it anyway)   Non-fiction / Memoir Date Published: 06-01-2023     None of us were raised by perfect mothers, nor can we ourselves be perfect parents. But some mothers sure do know how to ruin a life, well, almost. I say almost because, although my mother's parenting left severe damage in its path and, regrettably, and inevitably, shaped some of the decisions I made, I am grateful to have realized the issues I was facing. So, I now have the opportunity to properly address those issues, to minimize their  impact on my life. This book holds the words I would express to my mother, if I thought she cared to acknowledge my feelings at all. Many others have been “raised” by narcissistic mothers and have been deeply affected. But it is still possible to live happy lives, free of Mom’s burden. Writing has helped me immensely in...

    (Savage Raptors MC)   Motorcycle Club Romance, Age Gap, Action Date Published: May 26, 2023     Solena -- At the age of fifteen, my parents forced me to give my baby up for adoption. I never got to see his little face or hold him. All these years later, it still hurts -- so much that one night I decide to dull the pain with alcohol and sex. There’s only one man I want, but the President of the Savage Raptors MC might be more than I can handle. I’ve had a crush on him for a while now. He says he can only offer one night. I want more. I want it all. Atilla -- Lost my woman seventeen years ago. Thought I’d lost my daughter too… until she showed up on my doorstep. Now I have a pregnant teen living with me, and a woman who wants more than I’m able to give her. Solena is far too young for me. Hell, she’s barely older than my daughter. So why is keeping my distance so damn difficult? Is it r...

  Death at the Three Sisters Three feuding sisters. A faded spa. And a woman, dead in the water…  As they head towards retirement, Suzanne, Hazel and Tessa Walsh are locked in bitter disagreement about the future of the lakeside beauty spa they jointly own. Should they keep The Three Sisters going as their parents wished, or should they sell to a neighbouring hotelier who seems determined to acquire the failing business, even at a preposterously high cost? When their employee, Sophie Hayes, is found drowned close to the spa one cold January morning it rapidly becomes clear that it’s no accident: Sophie has been murdered. But who could possibly want to kill her — or was she mistaken for someone else? As DCI Jude Satterthwaite seeks the answers he and his team dig ever deeper into the complicated and embittered relationships between the sisters and their neighbours. As the investigation proceeds Jude becomes convinced that Sophie’s murder may only be the beginning. It’s ...

  If I Had a Hammer by Teresa Trent May 1-26, 2023 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: A new job, a brutal murder, and Camelot has ended. In 1963, Dot Morgan’s life was changed forever. She witnessed the assassination of John F Kennedy through the lens of her boxy Kodak Instamatic camera, bringing traumatic aftereffects of the brutality that happened as they stood on the parade route in Dallas. She starts her first real secretarial job with a boss who has no sympathy for her trauma. When Dot’s only work friend has a mysterious accident at a demolition site, she digs around on her own only to find very little love between two brothers and no one hammering out justice to find a murderer. The suspects are all around Dot and as she tries to sift through their motives, her cousin Ellie is going through PTSD on her own, losing interest in work, and her fiancé all the while quoting some of JFK’s finest speeches. With so much change in her world, can Dot still tell the differen...

    Overcoming Learning Disabilities and Achieving Success Nonfiction / Self-Help / Education Date Published: March 22, 2023     "Breaking the Label" is an autobiographical self-help book by Paul Geise, who shares his personal journey of overcoming self-doubt and academic challenges due to a learning disability. The book is intended to inspire and motivate students who feel inadequate in their abilities to learn, and to provide practical advice and strategies that have helped the author and others like him succeed academically. Geise shares his experiences growing up in Metro Detroit, Michigan, and feeling frustrated and defeated in his early years of education. He discusses the challenges he faced due to his learning disability, including being told that he would never be able to keep up with his classmates and pursuing an academically-based career was out of the question for him. However, he refused...

    A Second Chance, Fake Relationship Sports Romance   The Underdogs, Book Two   Contemporary Romance / Sports Romance Date Published: May 18, 2023     What’s a woman to do when she’s faced with the impossible decision to give an old flame a second chance? Shore up her defenses to ward off his charms, of course. Once upon a time, Merrick Jovanovitch was my everything. I fell fast and hard and forever. Then, I pushed him away. The end. He’s suddenly back in my life, the newest addition to my fresh-start city’s football team. When I’m blackmailed by a vicious wife of one of Merrick’s teammates to help the team land a reality TV series, I don’t have the option to run from my problems this time. The secret I’ve been keeping from Merrick for three long years needs to stay where it belongs—in the past. With pressure mounting on my unsteady shoulders, I need a release valve to keep...

  The Not so True Adventures of Brandon, Josh, and Adam by Barry Fellinger   GENRE : Children's Fiction Eleven-year-old cousins Brandon and Josh return home safely at the end of their Almost True Adventure, only to discover that their cousin Adam has been captured by the very same aliens from the Intergalactic Council on Obedience to Parents they just escaped from! Now the boys must figure out how to get back into space, rescue Adam, and return home safely again! It's a Not So True Adventure full of action, surprises, old friends, new enemies, frenemies, and what's that about doubles troubles? A hilarious and once-in-a-while serious story of past, present, and future antics, based on some of the three cousins' escapades in real life! Excerpt: Double Trouble OR WHICH COUSIN COUSIN IS WHICH?   Oh, this is making my head hurt! Brandon is up there, but it’s not me. But it’s the right Brandon who will know what to do. But Josh is up there, but it’s not the ri...