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Why You Felt Crazy

Why You Felt CrazyWhat Gaslighting Does to You, Why Leaving Is Hard, and How to Find Your Way OutIf you've ever found yourself asking...Am I overreacting?Maybe it's my fault.Why is it so hard to leave?...this book was written for you.Why You Felt Crazy explores the hidden psychological effects of gaslighting, emotional abuse, and coercive control. Rather than offering quick fixes or generic advice, Quinn Morgan explains how manipulation slowly erodes your confidence, your memory, and your ability to trust your own instincts.Written from lived experience, this book helps readers understand:Why ...
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Pieces Of Us

When his ex shows up on his doorstep after three years of silence, Collin doesn’t know if it’s fate, a mistake, or something in between.What begins as one night of catching up turns into an unpredictable ride through old haunts, reckless dares, and unspoken truths. As Collin and Lacie navigate fights, stolen moments, and the ghosts of their shared past, they’re forced to confront the question neither has answered: are they still in love, or just in love with who they used to be?Pieces of Us is a raw, intimate, and chaotic love story about two people who can’t seem to let go no matter h...
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The Path of Good Response. A thought-provoking speculative thriller, set in a dystopian corporate nightmare. (The Schelldhardt Series Book 1)

For fans of blurred-reality stories like Inception, The Matrix, and The Truman Show.What if there were a way to make a perfect decision? If poor choices, even addictions, could be controlled from within the mind.Schelldhardt is the largest company in the world and will do anything to grow. When Joe Massey is unexpectedly offered a role aboard Schelldhardt’s luxurious corporate headquarters at sea, his main priority is Rachel. Joe has trailed Rachel through school and university into the workplace and cannot imagine life without her.Realistic dreams disturb Joe’s sleep as he is drawn deeper...
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My F in Life

A hilarious comedy about friendship, family and fresh starts, set in the Scottish HighlandsThis uplifting, fast-paced story tackles the challenges of middle-age and will have you laughing, crying, and wondering how many Fs rule your life too.Jaye never expected everything to fall apart when she turned fifty, but Fs are back in charge and ruining her life again.Fitness… Her spare tyre’s self-inflating but she’s allergic to exercise, unless it’s wine bottle unscrewing where she’s fast becoming an Olympic athlete.Frustration… Why has her soulmate of 30 years shacked-up with his young,...
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You Don't Need Fixing

You Don't Need FixingThoughts on emotions, relationships, and the art of being yourselfYou don't need to be better. You need to live better.There is no right answer to who you should be. No correct answer to what you should become, what you should feel, or how quickly you should figure it out. And yet, most young people spend enormous energy trying to become a version of themselves they think the world wants to see.This book is not a self-help book. It won't give you techniques, checklists, or a plan for personal improvement. Instead, it offers something rarer: understanding.Understanding why ...
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The Three Piggs - Night Of The Wolf

Your mother read you the tale of The Three Little Pigs.The story she read to you was a lie.Deep within an ancient forest, live the three Pigg brothers. Very different but very close. Arnold, the eldest, a battle-hardened former special forces warrior retired to his secluded, hand-built log cabin. Brother Harold, a brilliant scientist with strength to match his intellect who spends his days conducting sometimes dangerous experiments in his brick home and laboratory. Youngest bother Norman is an accomplished architect and fitness fanatic, proudly residing in the innovative straw-bale house of hi...
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Club Carnivore

Ready to be served?

It's Jennifer's birthday, and her best friend is taking her to the exclusive opening of the elite steakhouse, Club Carnivore! What begins as an enchanted evening of gourmet delights soon becomes a waking nightmare of pain, terror, and unnatural appetites.

Club Carnivore: What are you hungry for?

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Creatures of the Night

In the adult film industry, every generation has its Queen: Ginger Lynn, Jenna Jameson, Sasha Grey. This generation’s Queen is Madison Walsh, praised by her followers as “the ivory goddess” and “the envy of angels.” When you’re the most popular star in the industry, you draw fans . . . And Madison’s number one fan is devoted and deadly.This new stalker leaves a trail of bodies in their wake, and they crave the blood of this once-in-a-century beauty. Enter Evan, a production assistant learning to live again after his wife’s unexpected death. The two begin an unlikely romance, ju...
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Mountain Hellbeast

Everything went wrong at the end of the first day . . . Just after sunset. Alone while her housemates are away on a business trip, Susan had enjoyed having the place to herself: remote, no neighbors, the scenic Appalachian mountains rising over her.Then she saw the creature emerge from the darkness. A creature that defies nature. But at least it won’t come into the house after her . . . Will it?The Internet is down, her phone has no signal, and no one is coming to help. Haunted by the skull-faced creature, harassed by criminals who sense she is alone and vulnerable, Susan must summon the wil...
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The Lantern and the Sea: A Novella

Lose yourself in a story of quiet longing and hard-won trust.The Lantern and the Sea is a moving new romance about rebuilding after loss, finding your own voice, and choosing love in the face of uncertainty. Dubrovnik, Croatia. Isla has spent years repairing broken cellos and protecting the fragile pieces of her own heart. She keeps her world small, focused on her music, her students, and her carefully guarded secrets. Everything changes when she meets Adrian, a reserved yet fiercely loyal restorer who is quietly wrestling with his own scars. Their encounter begins to challenge everything...
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'Willows Rewilded'

A Silent Spring?It proves anything but…After a century of dereliction, Toad Hall stirs back to life.Its revival is led by the irrepressible Horatio Toad, newly returned to his ancestral home with six wives, no money, and a plan to save the estate by making nature pay. His uneasy partner is Georges Montgolfiere, an eccentric and radical Rewilder who speaks of a Silent Spring—an eerie absence of birdsong and wildlife, a warning etched into the land itself.Horatio dreams of zipwires, cafés, and gift shops. Georges dreams of ecological redemption. Ideology collides with insolvency—and neith...
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Es que te quieren

Es que te quieren. 2ª edición. 2026. 164 páginas. ISBN 9798245544458 (Novela escrita en 2020)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.En medio de una epidemia que ha obligado a que las autoridades decretaran toque de queda, Álvaro, un maestro jubilado de setenta años de edad que, desde su juventud conversa con los muertos, y su hija Salomé, se ven obligados a permanecer encerrados en su casa durante más de cinco meses. Conforme el mundo se desmorona con la epidemia que no respeta fronteras, Álvaro se reencuentra con algunos muertos, seres queridos, familiares, amigos, que le hacen rev...
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Terror urbano. Microrrelatos.

Terror urbano. Microrrelatos. 1ª edición. 2023. 182 páginas. ISBN 9798852622556. (Microrrelatos escritos entre 2019 y 2023)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Terror urbano. Microrrelatos.La mayoría de los ciento veintiún microrrelatos de este libro reproducen con exactitud el significado de su título: el miedo muy intenso que se vive en las grandes y pequeñas ciudades.Ese terror urbano que está presente en la gran mayoría de las urbes: la inseguridad de andar por las calles por miedo de los asaltos, los asesinatos, los secuestros; la violencia doméstica que afecta a todo tipo ...
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Antiparadigmas inquietos. Poesía visual

Antiparadigmas inquitos. Poesía visual. 2ª edición. 2023. 184 páginas. ISBN 9798859178292. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.La definición de paradigma de la RAE es: “teoría o  conjunto de teorías cuyo núcleo central se acepta sin cuestionar y que suministra la base y modelo para resolver problemas y avanzar en el conocimiento”.Antiparadigmas inquietos son 37 poemas visuales que cuestionan y deforman poéticamente la verdad, el conocimiento, las creencias, la vida en sí misma, con un solo objetivo aparentemente ingenuo: provocar una constante ...
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Eternamente V de sublime

Eternamente V de sublime. 3ª edición. 2026. 144 páginas. ISBN 9798248507818. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Indepenently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Eternamente V de sublimeUn libro atrevido con textos que no tienen miedo de decir las cosas por su nombre.Nueve poemas que incomodan a los “conservadores”, desafían a los “revolucionarios”, abofetean a los “moralistas y puritanos” y motivan a luchar aún más contra el feminicidio.En Eternamente V de sublime, la Vulva —no la vagina— toma la voz para declarar su independencia, su libertad, en un manifiesto poético contra aquellas voc...
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SYNTOPIA EPISTEME A Design Odyssey

In a near future of rising seas and failing empires, a young woman designer builds a floating world from the ruins of the old one, confronting climate dystopia with low-tech ingenuity under the pressure of global powers.Floating Eden Defies Empires.As the world is being parceled out, Ayesha, born Bajau, a stateless Southeast Asian sea dweller, loses her mother in a traumatic accident. Orphaned in Sumatra, adopted in Singapore, her Leonardesque gift for drawing leads her to study design in France.At every stage of her journey, mentors and bullies, some real and some composite, appear like stepp...
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Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine

Lisa Doyle is fine. Absolutely fine.At least, that's the story she's been telling herself.Her best friend is getting married. Everyone around her seems to have a partner, a plan, and a life that makes sense. Lisa, meanwhile, has four glasses of wine in her, a talent for making bad situations worse, and a growing sense of being left behind.So she does what any sensible woman in a crisis would do. She announces that she's engaged.There is only one problem.Brian does not exist.Now Lisa needs a fiancé before the wedding, her actor flatmate is far too willing to get involved, and the real Brian, w...
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Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers

BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS includes stories about family dysfunction in a not-so-blended family, work, Adolf Hitler’s imagined alternative lives and possible reincarnation, the spirit of Kurt Cobain, a green angel giving an aging alcoholic man a second chance at redemption, men struggling to find some meaning in their lives, and more. Many of these stories deal with feelings of alienation and abandonment, and feelings of the characters that they do not fit in in their families, their lives, their jobs, or, sometimes, in their very bodies.In all there are thirty-eight stories and ...
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The Visitor

He wakes up in a different body.So begins the journey of Ash—short for Pin Asher9919—who awakens on a hospital bed on, he believes, a different planet after an automobile accident took the bodily life of an Earth human named Edward Fleishman. Ash is told he was the victim of a serious brain injury and miraculously recovered from being brain dead in a coma, but Ash feels he knows the truth: his spirit has replaced the distressed spirit of the former Edward Fleishman.Thus, Ash's new life on earth begins, complete with a spouse who is a stranger to him, a body he is not sure how to use, a wor...
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The Swipe That Shouldn’t Have Happened 2: When Love Gets Real, Messy, and Impossible to Ignore

Emma Clarke thought the hard part was falling in love.She was wrong.Because staying in love?That’s where things get complicated.Now officially offline and very much together, Emma and Noah are stepping into something far more dangerous than dating apps and fake relationships—Real life.And real life comes with:Miscommunication that hits harder than silenceCareer choices that pull them in different directionsFamilies who suddenly have opinions about everythingAnd the quiet fear that love might not be enoughWhen an unexpected opportunity threatens to separate them—and a familiar face from t...
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The Slumbering King: Close your eyes, and he takes your mind

"Close your eyes, and he takes your mind."Dr. Aris Thorne thought moving to the quiet, fog-draped village of Oakhaven would save his career. He came to study a rare, localized form of fatal insomnia. Instead, he found a curse.When the sun sets, the villagers are paralyzed by terror that walks the tree lines-an ancient entity that calls The Slumbering King. The rules are simple: stay awake, or become his next vessel. As Aris begins to hallucinate the king's whispers, he realizes his scientific instruments are useless against the creeping dread. Trapped by the encroaching forest, Aris must uncov...
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The LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere… You Were Never Outside It

The door was never confined to an apartment.It was never trapped behind a wall.It was never something that could be closed.In THE LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere, the nightmare has evolved beyond recognition.The world feels normal again.The voices have faded.The strange disappearances have stopped.People have moved on.But Daniel knows the truth.The pattern never ended.It simply became invisible.Now, a new tenant discovers a door that shouldn't exist.A door with no number.A door no one remembers seeing before.A door that appears only when noticed.As old horrors begin to awaken in new pl...
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Tares among the Wheat, Volume One

Superstition, mysticism, and religion weave like tangled vines through the tales of Amelia’s newly discovered ancestry. As a widow struggling to sustain herself and her ten-year-old son, Amy’s modest life is tragically disrupted when a dubious lawyer determines her late mother, adopted at birth, was the estranged daughter of the recently deceased Lexington McClary. Although the net worth of the once enormous estate is petty, Amy decides to travel several hundred miles to attend the funeral, in the hope of at least learning a semblance of her newfound ancestry.After the interment, alone in ...
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Name Drop, Me? Never!

Hugging Eric Clapton... drinking espressos with Ronnie Wood... tea with Emma Thompson in her kitchen... turning down an audience with Roger Moore in St. Moritz… it’s all in a day’s work for some random lanky bloke called Sebastian Wocker. But why has this relative nobody continued to cavort with so many household names? In an honest account of his experiences with the great, the good and the occasionally odd, Wocker shares with us his close encounters of the famous kind. ‘A great read. Deserves to be widely read and acclaimed!’&n...
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Battle Lines Drawn

Picking up where things left off, family becomes pitted against family after the reading of a will. Follow along with the Nolans, the Drakes, and others as they shore up positions for upcoming battles among the families. Meanwhile, someone has been lurking in the shadows pulling the strings. Find out who in the third novel of the Milliken Mills series

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Last Will & Punishment

The lives of the Nolan family were rocked with the sudden death of one of their own. Now the reading of a will throws their world into even more chaos. Will it tear them apart for good or bring them closer together? Find out with the second book of the Milliken Mills series.

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Naughty Disney

Naughty Rhymes 

It was such fun to be bold 

these are rhymes for the old beloved characters rewritten

 with me you may not be smitten 

I make no apology each one was written with glee 

Cover is a scribble of mine x

 


 

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Bloody Night VII: AFTER THE LAST SUN

The sun is gone.But something is still watching.After the final battle for the throne, humanity believed it had survived the end of divine judgment.They were wrong.Because in the silence that followed, reality itself began to change.Time fractures in abandoned cities. Shadows move without owners. And deep within the fabric of space, an impossible signal begins repeating across the stars.Jack Cross thought the war was over when he refused the crown.Now he understands the truth:The throne was never the conclusion. It was a trigger.Something ancient has awakened beyond the reach of suns and stars...
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A Numbers Game

A Numbers Game is Tinamarie Cox’s follow-up poetry collection to Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues. Where Midnight Hues focused on traveling through a depressive episode, A Numbers Game dives deeper and explores the beginnings of her mental health struggles.Cox has curated poetry, prose, images, and artwork from her past and present, which examines the formula that added up to a life-changing decision and shines a light on the effects that lasted for years post-survival. Tinamarie Cox’s unique collection of works has created something just as much poetic as it is memoir. It gives a hu...
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Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues

Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues dives into the mentality and emotions that can overtake a person during a depressive episode. This is a journey alongside mental illness via poetry and prose, which includes a raw account of the ups, downs, and hopelessness.Author Tinamarie Cox finds writing poetry therapeutic for her emotional and mental health struggles. Looking back over her notebooks, she noticed a recurring theme in much of her work. At her darkest, she was describing herself as sinking, drowning, and fighting to swim against the heavy currents. These are the relatable elements descr...
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Poems and a story with Drawings for Kids: Book 2

Poems and a story with drawings for Kids: Book 2 by a female Irish Author

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Poems and Drawings for Kids: Cute rhyming verses first in a series

Fun wee verses and drawings for kids by a female Irish author.  

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99 Names

Two young people from different sides of the tracks find love and a renewed sense of purpose amid rising racial and religious tensions in south-western Sydney.Returning from his first Friday prayer session at the local mosque, the kid meets Issi, a budding graffiti artist. Both sixteen, both of them loners, outsiders, they find comfort and solace in one another's company. As their relationship blossoms, jealousy, gang rivalry and parental interference conspire to upset the unlikely summertime romance.The kid's home life is mired in dysfunction and despair. He has flashbacks to his childhood in...
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EDDIE

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points ata person, but she is not able to see or understand what's happening? The first shock wave thatany parent dreads, her son has a special ability and a very dangerous one at that. How can she protect him? Eddie tries to hide from a traumatic event and befriends another young boy while playing in the park, not knowing the real truth about Ben. Not Yet! The story is about how, when truth surfaces t...
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Runway Princess

She was never meant to be a model. He wasn't supposed to care. Young, innocent Angélique Moreau arrives in New York City expecting a brief holiday before starting work as a humble governess back in Europe. But a chance encounter with celebrated Manhattan fashion photographer Xavier Samson changes everything. Almost by chance, Angélique is propelled into the glamorous, cutthroat world of international fashion.Their first encounters in Xavier's penthouse studio are punctuated by friction and mistrust. Working together, as artist and muse, they must suppress whatever feelings lie beneath t...
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Circle of Peace: A Greek Tale

For fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne comes a Greek mythology adventure about a woman’s fight for peace in the face of chaos.In this captivating retelling of the Greek story, Perse—Circe’s mother and Helios’s wife—returns to her husband with a bold demand: a grand hall of her own in exchange for aiding his troubled sister, Selene, who has enraged Zeus by engaging in an affair with a mortal. Perse succeeds in her mission, but the House of Helios is soon plunged into sorrow when Clymene and Helios’s son, Phaethon, ignores all warnings and commandeers He...
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Threads of Blood

When Lana, a kind homeless shelter worker, is nearly robbed, she tries to make friends with her mugger. His name is Rafael, and Lana wants to guide him onto a better path. Across the city, a burglar called Kathleen enlists Rafael as her young protege. However, she is a police informant.

Elsewhere, across the San Gabriel Valley, there is a spate of disturbing murders. There appears to be no connection, but ambitious Detective Archie Delgado views things differently. His colleagues in the homicide bureau mock his wild theories, but Delgado is determined to prove he is right.

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Private Members, Public Scandals

Unexpectedly elected to the House of Commons in Tony Blair’s landslide victory in May 1997, the 27-year-old Rowan Cannon found herself in the Mother of Parliaments with ambitions to make real and meaningful improvements to the lives of her constituents. Rowan may be bright, vivacious and attractive, but she will soon cross swords with the press who dismiss her as just another ‘Blair babe.’Rowan is determined to assert her feminist credentials against a patriarchal system and seeks to break down class privileges too. However, she soon discovers that politics is far tougher and dirtier tha...
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The Pendragon Prophecy

A modern-day American farmer convinces his wife and a handful of believers calling themselves "The Knights of the Golden Prarie" that he is the last heir to the throne of King Arthur. His misfit Knights of the Golden Prairie have one summer to prepare for The King's Challenge, a secret tournament between knights to determine the world's future and finally rid the world of monsters and magic. Will The Pendragon Prophecy be fulfilled?

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Waking Purgatory

A RIVETING PARANORMAL HORROR MYSTERY exploding with secret family legacies soaked in despair against mankind’s obsession to open and explore the blind spot between heaven and hell... Purgatory, Illinois: A town trapped between heaven and hell... Amanda Lemon and her curious twins quickly learn there is a thin line between madness and genius. Their new home is not the idyllic small town they prayed for after all. What will happen on Halloween? Why is the ancient society known as ECHO lurking in the shadows? Never wake the dead. Never...

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