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It's been six decades since Owen and Lou have been friends. Trying to escape from bullies in grade school, the two built a fort and grabbed a radio. Both loved the rock and roll music of their time. When, instead of music, the two hear a strange signal, they know something weird is happening. The two didn't tell anyone for decades. Finally, they find someone to help look into the strange phenomenon. What they find is too strange to be true, although they know it is, and comes with danger.

When a volcanic eruption plunges the world into a nuclear winter, a new era begins. The New Age is now in its hundredth year. People have come out of the underground shelters to slowly rebuild their lives. Trying to communicate with no phones and no internet. A small group of people can see that the worst parts of history are repeating. Forming a group, the friends start peaceful protests against the abominations going on. Doing that puts all of them in danger, but they know the word has to be sent out, or history will repeat itself, and in all the wrong ways.

A new home, a new job at a local library, has Jan feeling lucky.  Both of those things are a dream come true. Shortly after Jan moves in, strange things begin happening. Trying to deal with those things has Jan on edge and mentally scared to death. Finding her dream slowly turning to a nightmare, Jan knows she needs help. She hates sharing the horror, but knows it is the only way to find out what is happening,

People living in and around the small town of Thomas Falls have bad feelings about the Anderson Army base. Watching as the base expanded on public lands that are a part of Owl Mountain, the bad feelings grew.  One family has a strange connection to the base and the mountain. Ben's grandmother knew a lot about Owl Mountain, and the warnings and secrets it held.  When she passes away, he finds an old map. Surprised to see it was it drawn by his late grandfather. Ben knows an adventure is coming. With his best friend, Kyle, by his side, the two are heading up the mountain for answers to...

Nursing is one of the most demanding professions in the world, physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Repeated exposure to trauma, patient loss, ethical conflict, and high-pressure environments can lead to burnout, moral distress, anxiety, and long-term nervous system overload.Calm in the Chaos is not a typical self-help book. It is a practical, clinically grounded guide designed specifically for nurses working in real healthcare environments.This book explains what prolonged stress and repeated trauma exposure actually do to the nervous system and provides structured, realistic tools t...

You were trained to survive the battlefield.No one trained you for the war that follows.Stand Down: Healing PTSD and Suicide Tendencies for Veterans is a practical, no-nonsense guide written specifically for veterans facing post-traumatic stress, moral injury, and suicidal thoughts.This is not a clinical textbook.This is a field manual for surviving the internal fight.If you’re dealing with flashbacks, anger, isolation, emotional shutdown, or thoughts that won’t let up, this book gives you real tools you can use in the moment, not just ideas to think about later.Inside this book, you will ...

Aging brings change, but no one should have to face it alone.As people grow older, the challenges they face are often invisible:loneliness, grief, loss of independence, and quiet emotional pain that goes unspoken.Elder Care: Supporting Seniors Through Loneliness, Loss, and Life Transitions is a compassionate, practical guide designed to help seniors, caregivers, and families navigate the emotional realities of aging with clarity, dignity, and support.This book goes beyond awareness.It provides real, actionable strategies to support mental and emotional well-being in later life.Inside, you’ll...

First responders are trained to manage the scene.What they are rarely taught is how to carry what comes after.After the Call: A First Responder’s Guide to Processing Trauma, Loss, and Moral Injury is a grounded, practical guide for those navigating the emotional and psychological weight of emergency work long after the sirens stop.This is not a clinical textbook.It is not a demand to relive what you’ve seen.It is a structured, real-world guide designed to help you understand what happens after the call and how to recover without losing yourself in the process.Inside this book, you’ll lea...

Behind clinical skill and professional composure is a reality few outside healthcare truly understand.Long hours. High-stakes decisions. Patient loss. Litigation risk. Administrative pressure. and the constant expectation to perform without hesitation, no matter the cost.Under the White Coat: Mental Survival for Medical and Dental Professionals is a practical, clinically grounded guide designed for physicians, dentists, residents, and advanced clinical professionals navigating the psychological demands of modern healthcare.This is not a motivational book.This is a survival framework.Inside thi...

Big feelings. Busy thoughts. A world that doesn’t always feel the same.Every child experiences the world in their own way.For some, that experience is stronger, faster, deeper, or simply different.NeuroPath Jr.: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Learns is a gentle, empowering guide designed to help children ages 5–13 understand how their brain works, how their feelings show up, and what helps them feel calm, focused, and confident.Inside this book, children will learn how to:- Understand their thoughts, feelings, and sensory experiences- Recognize patterns in how their brain works- Build f...

What if you didn’t have to figure everything out all at once?This book was created for those navigating identity, mental health, safety, and belonging, especially in moments when everything feels overwhelming, confusing, or uncertain.Rise Together: Finding Strength, Safety, and Self in Who You Are is a practical, supportive guide for teens and young adults in the LGBTQIA+ community who are trying to understand themselves while staying safe and grounded.Inside this book, you’ll find real-world guidance for:- Understanding who you are (without pressure to have all the answers)- Managing anxi...

You are not broken.Your nervous system learned to survive.Now it can learn to feel safe again.Trauma changes how you think, feel, and respond to the world.It can leave you constantly on edge, disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand.In Restore After Trauma, Lori Caputo-Hartford offers a clear, compassionate, and practical guide to understanding PTSD, complex trauma (C-PTSD), and the path back to safety.This is not a theory-based book.It is a real-world guide built for people who are living with trauma every day.Inside, you’ll learn how to:- Understand trau...

TARGETEDMore than a book, it’s a lifeline for anyone facing bullying in today’s world.Bullying doesn’t just happen in one place.It happens in schools.Online.In friendships.At work.Even within families.And when it does, it can feel overwhelming, isolating, and relentless.But you are not powerless.And you are not alone.TARGETED is a powerful, practical guide designed to help you understand, respond to, and recover from bullying in all its forms, including cyberbullying and emotional abuse.This is not just a book about what bullying is.It’s a guide for what to do when it’s happening.Ins...

When someone you love dies by suicide, the world often grows quiet in the wrong ways.Conversations stop.Support fades.And grief becomes isolating, complicated, and heavy with questions that may never be answered.After the Silence: Navigating Grief After Suicide Loss was written for those living in that aftermath for the people left behind, learning how to survive a loss that words rarely know how to hold.This is not a book about “moving on.”It is about learning how to live with what happened.Written with compassion, honesty, and deep respect for the complexity of suicide loss, this book ge...

When someone you love dies by suicide, the world often grows quiet in the wrong ways.Conversations stop.Support fades.And grief becomes isolating, complicated, and heavy with questions that may never be answered.After the Silence: Navigating Grief After Suicide Loss was written for those living in that aftermath for the people left behind, learning how to survive a loss that words rarely know how to hold.This is not a book about “moving on.”It is about learning how to live with what happened.Written with compassion, honesty, and deep respect for the complexity of suicide loss, this book ge...

What RemainsLove, Memory, and Carrying Them ForwardBy Lori Caputo-HartfordGrief does not end when the pain quiets.It changes shape, and something remains.What Remains is the third book in the After the Silence series, written for those living in the long aftermath of losing a loved one to suicide.This is the stage that few people talk about.When life has resumed.When support has faded.When the world expects you to be “okay.”But love, memory, and grief are still present, just quieter, more complex, and deeply personal.Unlike books focused on crisis or early loss, What Remains speaks to the ...

The year is 1990, and community icon Edna Coffman, the current School Board Chairperson and just retired fifty-year English teacher at Pacer Coulee High School, is fed up with her beloved school fielding substandard sports teams who have recently been unable to compete with their conference rivals. In an effort to return the local sports fortunes to their former championship status, Edna manages to hire thirty-something’s Luke Carter and Madison Danielsen to the football and girls’ basketball head coaching positions at the small, rural town of Pacer Coulee, Montana. The unique-to-small tow...

When everything feels overwhelming… where do you turn?If you’re here because something feels too heavy right now, not because your thoughts won’t slow down, your chest feels tight, or you don’t know how to keep going start here.Right Now: What To Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Go On is not a traditional mental health book.It’s a moment-by-moment survival guide for when life feels too much.This book is designed to be used in real time during panic, emotional overwhelm, or moments when your thoughts start turning dark.You don’t have to read it all.You don’t have to understand ev...

When someone you love is struggling with suicidal thoughts, depression, or mental illness, it can feel overwhelming, confusing, and terrifying. You may not know what to say, what to do, or how to help without making things worse.Walking Beside the Edge is a compassionate, practical guide for caregivers, family members, and loved ones supporting someone through emotional crisis, mental illness, and suicidal thoughts.Living with or loving someone who is battling depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD, or other mental health challenges can feel like walking on eggshells, constantly bracing for the ne...

When Gabby Gopher finds Buster the Bear in a meadow with his head stuck in a log, she knows she needs to get her friend help—and get help fast! When initial attempts by several animals to free Buster are unsuccessful, Gabby seeks the sage advice of Oliver Wendell Owl, III. Oliver quickly makes a plan, but it’s clear they will only get Buster’s head unstuck if all the animals on Bridger Mountain work together as a team. Will the wise old owl’s plan work? You’ll have to join the adventure in order to see if the animals can set Buster free! 

The year was 1969 when twelve-year-old Maggie Stone’s world suddenly begins to spin out of control. Her mother, Lillian Stone, who suffers from a mysterious mental or neurological condition that frequently sends her to bed in an unresponsive state for hours at a time, has forced Maggie to be the responsible adult at far too young of age. When her mother goes into a debilitating spell that she cannot be revived from, Lillian ends up in a San Francisco hospital and Maggie is dispatched to an orphanage. As Maggie deals with her conflicting emotions, she finds herself both fiercely protective an...

In Converso Jews: A Hidden Family Story, the author, Gordon Blitz, offers a dual storyline following Jews who practiced their faith in secret during the period of the Inquisition and the current love story of Isaac and Pablo, a Sephardic Jew and a Catholic who meet at a gay Jewish synagogue. We ultimately encounter people of faith who are attempting to uncover their converso heritage trying to explain why their families have continued to practice certain traditions for the last five hundred years without understanding why. And if that was not enough, we follow Pablo who goes through the coming...

At the end of his Grand Tour, somewhere between Athens and Constantinople, Christian Selwyn, the young Earl of Hazelmere, vanished - seemingly without trace.

His startling re-appearance at a grand ball, takes society by storm and fuels endless speculation. Where has he been during these three missing years? What happened to him? 

And more importantly, how did it happen? 

Only one thing is clear.  The earl who left England five years ago, has returned a changed man.  A man with secrets.

In sports parlance, Barry was a flagrant foul waiting to happen. Raised in a power and control environment, he grew to resent and distrust authority figures. Labeled a frustrated, angry troublemaker, Barry obliged, living down to those expectations. His crime was being a free spirit in a world made for the corral.In sports parlance, Katrina was a team player – someone who would win the coaches’ award for her good sportsmanship and positive attitude. She was the soloist at church, the teacher’s pet at school, and the debutante at home. Labeled a sincere, compliant, and well-adjusted dream...

When darkness falls in Dark Storms, no one can trust their mind—or their senses—as the line between reality and nightmare blurs beyond recognition.Dark Storms presents a chilling collection of stories that navigate the eerie and unsettling forces lurking within human nature and beyond.Each tale delves into the macabre, drawing readers into scenarios where the ordinary world is tainted by the extraordinary. Whether it’s a struggling man’s encounter with an enigmatic farmhouse and its unnerving owner, or the spiraling descent of characters grappling with mysterious, malevolent forces, th...

Yellowstone Chip Samuell’s contributions as an entertainer and wrangler caught author Nan Weber’s imagination. After finding traces of Yellowstone Chip’s writing at the historic OTO Dude Ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, Weber tracked Chip’s history. In the course of her research, she found Chip’s memoirs, his music, his cartooning, and his family. What has emerged from these home sources and civil records is the picture of a first-class wrangler and entertainer during the heyday of dude ranches and singing cowboys, a fascinating story which you will witness in the pages of S...

A man struggles with addiction, but instead of salvation, invites something far worse into his life. A young girl sets out for the big city, looking for a new life full of art, creativity, and love, but fate send her down a dark path she could have never imagined. Two men, bonded by tragedy, search for answers and justice, but instead encounter a terrifying truth that no one would believe.  Cycle of a Rose is an epic journey through humanity, loss, addiction, and sacrifice, asking what the cost of our humanity is and what we are willing to do to keep it.

He’s a little messy. He knows it. You will too.As a photographer, Marcos Ferreira is good at capturing moments. Holding onto them is another story.Told through twenty-six relationships—one for each letter of the alphabet—The Alphabet Lovers traces Marcos’s life across years, cities, and the men who define each chapter.It begins with Adam—his first love, and the one he can’t escape.Then comes Seth—steady, generous, everything Marcos says he wants… and still not enough to keep him from walking away.And Liam—the one who might finally change everything, if Marcos can hold it toge...

He’s a little messy. He knows it. You will too.As a photographer, Marcos Ferreira is good at capturing moments. Holding onto them is another story.Told through twenty-six relationships—one for each letter of the alphabet—The Alphabet Lovers traces Marcos’s life across years, cities, and the men who define each chapter.It begins with Adam—his first love, and the one he can’t escape.Then comes Seth—steady, generous, everything Marcos says he wants… and still not enough to keep him from walking away.And Liam—the one who might finally change everything, if Marcos can hold it toge...

Discover the 51 key advice and fundamental principles for selling more and succeed selling.If you sell or want to sell, this book is for you. Turn your sales into extraordinary with hundreds of priceless concepts and essential advice for selling more.A book 100% loaded with techniques for professional success and essential tips for negotiating and selling, written from experience.Among many other advice, it includes:-The keys to modern selling, and how to help your client to buy.-The keys and strategies to differentiate us from the competition.-How to avoid competing only for price and se...

A blend of fiction, timeless sales wisdom and two original characters debating eternal concepts. With plenty of humor, fundamentals, real field experience, and a sense of story that makes sales feel human again.
You don’t need fancy persuasion tactics, a perfect sales pitch or be the best salesperson in the world. You need to know the eternal sales techniques that will always work to get more and better clients.

My book BEYOND - The Paradigm, is an attempt to broaden your perspective on what may await us on the other side. No matter the outcome, I hope my work will spark curiosity about what is really out there waiting for us in the outer limits.Initially, I never intended to continue the short story of 'The Wrath of God' from the book, believing the outcome would not be a happy one, since I had grown attached to my characters. But that being said, I did write a footnote in the book after the story, 'to be continued soon'... Some feedback convinced me to move forward with it, although a short sto...

Join us on a thrilling adventure with “Jonathan, Dragon Master,” the second captivating installment in Joseph R. Mason’s The Tales of Trymyll trilogy. This spellbinding novel continues the journey of teenage wizards Jonathan and Thomas, introducing new allies and escalating challenges that will enthrall readers of all ages.In this sequel to “Thomas, Wizard’s Son,” Jonathan and Thomas are joined by Glynda, a courageous fifteen-year-old orphan from a powerful wizarding lineage, and her steadfast protector, Samuel, a formidable dwarf warrior. Glynda wields a magical sword capable of s...

Embark on an extraordinary journey with “Thomas, Wizard’s Son,” the captivating first installment in Joseph R. Mason’s acclaimed trilogy, The Tales of Trymyll. This enchanting novel invites readers of all ages into a richly woven tapestry of magic, adventure, and self-discovery.Meet Thomas, a typical 13-year-old who dismisses the existence of magic, wizards, and dragons. His skepticism is shattered one fateful Sunday when he stumbles upon an invisible cave, leading him to the mystical land of Trymyll. Guided by Howell, a charming purple dragon, Thomas encounters a genuine wizard and be...

Some doors should never be opened. Some stories refuse to stay buried.In this chilling collection of short fiction, the familiar twists into the unsettling and the ordinary slips quietly into nightmare. A decaying house whispers to those who dare cross its threshold. A creature glimpsed in the dark woods may be more than just legend. An urban myth begins to bleed into reality with terrifying consequences. And in the deepest corners of the human mind, something far more insidious waits to emerge.Blending haunted spaces, cryptids, urban legends, and psychological dread, these stories explore the...

Join agent O'Hara in the exhilarating Archeological Thriller, The Pyramid Code, where the past, present, and future all collide in a web of intrigue and deception. Former soldier Marc O’Hara is acting as a reader for an intelligence service in London when the call comes in.  He's to be re-activated as a field agent and assigned to solve a 13th century alchemical riddle.A terrorist cell called the Red Death has the same goal.  If the terrorists solve the clues first, they will unleash an ancient flesh-eating toxin.  Even more alarming, they will possess the key to the most...

Navy SEAL and celestial being incarnate MICHAEL Sheppard has twenty-four hours to defuse a plot to unleash an extraterrestrial plague from the depths of the "Devil's Triangle."When TASK FORCE ARCHANGEL goes missing on an expedition to a supposed ancient alien relic, SHEPPARD is called out of retirement for one last mission: to infiltrate the undersea oasis undetected.Inside, he'll discover THE MAN UPSTAIRS, a social media tycoon, his cohorts, and extensive corporate assets, on the verge of releasing a novel pathogen, ELYSIAN, poised to trigger a global paradigm shift for humanity.Furthermore, ...

The story is about:... the dreams and visions of inexperienced virgins three sisters (tre sorelle: Angela, Trifona, and Gracijana), daughters of the Italian Crossi family whose father is the distinguished captain of the ancient and famous Boka Navy...… the religious virgin Angela who marries a versatile Croat from Boka Kotorska...... Angela's descendants tell her life story through their memories...… the longings of Mary Magdalene in all the women of the world...… the impregnable fortress of the City-State of Kotor in the Boka Kotorska fjord in South Dalmatia with its Catholic-oriented D...

The story "RISAN IS TEUTA" was published 2019 in the Croatian language in the Montenegrin literary Magazine ARS by publisher OKF Cetinje: ARS : 2019. Nr. 1-2 (pages 141-150) : https://okf-cetinje.org/marisstella-octek-risan-jest-teuta/The story is Historical literary Fiction, which is why it is presented in some versions of the WIKIPEDIA in the content of Historical topics about the Illyrian tribe, the Illyrian Queen Teuta, and the small city Risan in BOKA KOTORSKA - BOCCHE DI CATTARO - BAY OF KOTOR.Author is Writer, Essayist, and Editor of the City-State Boka Kotorska (CSBK-CSBC): known as th...

Charming B&B Turns Crime Scene: Ghostly Clues Unravel Murder Mystery. Local Author's Death Unveils Scandal, Love Child, and a Heroic Ancestral Spirit.In Murder with a Terrace View, Molly Harrington and her brother Kevin breathe new life into their inherited Classic Revival Manor home, transforming it into a bustling bed and breakfast. However, their idyllic country retreat quickly turns into a chilling crime scene when local celebrity author Aubrey Rhodes is found dead on his room's terrace following a successful book launch party at their B&B.Aubrey's death plunges the Harrington sibl...