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186 quick, healthy, and budget-friendly recipes — plus free access to hundreds more online!Tired. Broke. Hungry. Welcome to adulthood — where the real struggle is deciding between cooking dinner or just going to bed.Too Tired to Chew is your culinary survival guide for those days when life’s chaos leaves you running on caffeine and sarcasm. Created by S.C. Watson, a certified nutritionist, chef, and behavioral change specialist who lost over 200 pounds by ditching the diet drama, this book is packed with real-life recipes for real-life exhaustion — no fancy equipment, no overpriced ing...

For more than a century, Saint Orison's Asylum has stood abandoned on a cliff above the sea.Its windows are black.Its doors are chained.And every local knows the same rule:Never enter after sunset.When restoration architect Elias Vale is hired to document the ruined asylum before it is demolished, he expects decaying corridors, forgotten patient records, and the ordinary horrors of a Victorian institution.Instead, he discovers something buried beneath the hospital.Something older than the asylum.Older than the town.Older, perhaps, than the church that was built to imprison it.Behind a wall of ...

Dirk Strangelove has spent years surviving Sanctuary's machinery of faith, bureaucracy and compromised memory. When answers begin arriving to questions he was safer leaving alone, he is forced into a darkly comic speculative-noir investigation of identity, free will and the systems that decide which version of the truth survives. The second Dirk Strangelove novel can be read after Die Twice, File Once or as a standalone entry into Sanctuary. The novel is entirely human-written by A. N. Mercer. The cover artwork was created with generative-AI assistance.

For the past three years, attractive women with criminal records have been vanishing from Sydney – prostitutes, drifters, those with nowhere to turn. The mastermind behind their disappearances has always stayed one step ahead, leaving no trace . . . until now.Detective Billie McCoy, part of Sydney's elite undercover squad, stumbles onto a shocking slavery ring while on what should have been a routine assignment. Run by a ruthless cop, the operation drags Billie into a web of corruption far deeper than she could ever imagine.Trapped among prisoners who trust no one – ex-crims who despise co...

The fifth and final part of the fantasy series, ‘Heart Stone’.
Across the worlds the war for the Heart Stones rages. The united minotaur clans of Dainnor clash with the Kingdom of Lors; on Tarnasus, Lord Edrigu prepares to crush Akil’s rebellion and on the Twins, the people begin to slowly open their eyes to the truths that surround them. The Guardians – powerful magi entrusted with the protection of their worlds – face their own trials as each of them await the call of the Demiurge to unleash the sethundra.

Part 4 of the fantasy series, ‘Heart Stone’.“Food for every belly, jobs for every citizen and a roof over every head. This is what the Republic has brought the citizens of Crystal City. So remember, be thankful!”Crystal City, a name that conjures an image that sparkles and shines, but now a cloud hangs over this once fair place. The people huddle in street corners, looking for meagre shelter from the almost constant downpours, children hide from gangs of nabbers, and the mysterious voids walk the streets, seemingly oblivious to all that surrounds them.Katy and Dylan find themselves on ...

Part 3 of the fantasy series, ‘Heart Stone’.
As forces on the world of Tarnasus begin to gather against each other, the three sethundra, Artemis, Baccus and Dardanus leave to bring word to the remaining Guardians that they are in danger of coming under attack from the mysterious Brethren.
Meanwhile, Katy and Dylan flee the Academy at Sky Rock, only to find themselves on a new world where they are forced into facing a destiny that neither expected or wanted.
And hidden in the Vale of Glamorgan, the residents of the village of Carreg-y-galon prepare themselves for war.

Part 2 of the fantasy series, Heart Stone.

“By ancient Pact, by oath of fire, I claim entrance to the Academy of Sky Rock.”

With the news of the death of his wife, a grief-stricken Paul returns to the Welsh village of Carreg-y-galon, determined to be a proper father, and to settle down and build a home for his children, Katy and Dylan. But he does not receive the welcome he’d been expecting. He finds that his in-laws’ home has been attacked, Bryn talks of magi, Guardians and Heart Stones and worst of all, Katy and Dylan have vanished.
And then he meets the sethundra.

“In the absence of control, chaos will reign and that freedom of thought and deed will open the door for whatever may lurk beyond it to enter.”The Directorate, a land in which people can live in peace without fear of crime or war or famine: as long as they do not ask any questions. The Most Esteemed Grants Committee keep a rigorous control of scientific and technological advancement and anyone daring to create a work of pure fiction would soon find themselves under the close scrutiny of the Inquisition.But Why? What is the Directorate trying to hide?When Tobias Maunfeld, a young inventor, ...

The scene was set, the lights were lit and the audience waited in eager anticipation for the drama that was about to unfold in the Woody Meadow Players latest production “Death Comes to Creedal Manor”. Little did they suspect that a real crime was about to be committed before their very eyes – and not just one to the performing arts.

Death was on the bill.

“Have you ever caught a movement out of the corner of your eye, but when you looked, there was nothing there?”Grandad’s stories were the best, far better than anything Dylan had ever seen written down in a book. But when one evening Grandad tells him about the mysterious sethundra both Dylan and his older sister Katy discover something they didn’t expect.Every story their grandfather had ever told them was true.With no warning, they find themselves set upon a path to unravel the mysteries of their own family and caught up in a desperate struggle that will not only decide their fate, bu...

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...

The paperwork says Dirk Strangelove is dead. Sanctuary still expects him at work. When a missing factory worker draws him into a system that edits memories, reassigns names and treats personhood as company property, Dirk must decide how much of himself he can trade before the record becomes permanent. A darkly funny speculative noir for readers of hard-boiled mysteries, corporate dystopias and identity thrillers.

Before wildland firefighters were seen as heroes, they were cursed, threatened, and run off from the very communities they were trying to save. In Before We Were Heroes: Southern Fires, Bill Beebe a 30-year veteran forester and firefighter who served on National Type 1 Incident Management Teams across Arkansas, Alaska, and the nation pulls backthe curtain on an untold chapter of American history. This isn't the version told at retirement banquets. This is the raw, gripping story of a brotherhood forged not in glory, but in grit. From the sweltering swamps of eastern Arkansas to the remote wild...

In the isolated town of Hollow Creek, people have started smiling.Not laughing. Not grinning.Smiling.At first, it seems harmless. A cashier holds a smile a little too long. A teacher stands motionless outside her classroom with her lips stretched impossibly wide. Neighbors stop speaking altogether, choosing instead to watch from their windows with the same expression.Then the disappearances begin.When bestselling true-crime journalist Ethan Hale returns to his hometown after twenty years, he discovers something impossible: every victim was last seen smiling.The deeper Ethan digs, the more he u...

Emma Brooks has spent years helping strangers tell their stories.As the owner of a cozy neighborhood coffee shop, she's become the unofficial therapist, matchmaker, and keeper of everyone's secrets—except her own.Lucas Carter, a bestselling travel journalist, has returned to town after ten years away. His career has taken him across the world, but the one conversation he regrets walking away from happened in this small café... with Emma.Now fate seats them across from each other every morning.Their conversations begin politely.Then become playful.Then dangerously honest.Between forgotten dr...

What if you could relive your teenage years knowing everything you know today?At forty-seven, Nathan Brooks has accumulated a lifetime of regrets, missed opportunities, and memories he wishes he could change, but then the impossible happens. He wakes up thirteen years old again in 1987, armed with decades of memories and the chance to live his life over.At first, it feels like a dream come true as Nathan gets to see his parents while they're still young, reconnect with old friends, and experience the sights, sounds, and excitement of the late 1980s all over again. Most importantly, he has anot...

Richard K.A. Kletting Born in Germany in 1858, Richard Karl August Kletting was educated and trained in the classics, engineering and architecture in his homeland before moving to Paris where, at age twenty-one, he was employed as a draftsman on three of the City of Light's most impressive Second Empire, Beaux Arts monuments. After serving a year in the German Army, Kletting followed his brother, Oscar, to the United States and they both traveled westward, settling in Utah in 1883. The day after he arrived in Salt Lake City, Richard was hired by architect, John Haven Burton, and together ...

After discovering Mattie's fenced grave in Yellowstone National Park, author Nan Weber followed her own curiosities through four years of research to trace the steps of this mystery woman's spirited life. The result is the inspiring story of a strong woman trying to better her life during difficult times.

128 pages; 5.25x8.25 inches; 28 b&w photographs; maps & illustrations; appendix; trade paper. Updated new edition. $16.95

Ten years after the sudden death of his husband, Jack Bell has built a quiet life on the French Riviera. His routine is settled, and his grief is managed. Until he runs into an old flame.

Their reunion feels like a second chance at happiness. But as the days pass, the coincidences begin to stack up. What begins as a rekindled romance quickly turns into a desperate struggle for survival. As the shadows of the past close in, Jack is forced to piece together a terrifying puzzle: is he falling in love again, or is he falling into a trap?

This first book in the series "A Quest for Ancient Wisdom" also serves as a prequel to Rhuna's adventures. In the ancient, mystical past when an idyllic Atlantis-like civilization flourished, its people with exceptional powers could build giant stone structures like the Pyramids, and transform elements such as sand to stone and metal to gold with concentrated energy of the mind. This utopian Atlan Empire is rocked when one of its most preeminent Masters rebels and seeks to subvert the ideals of Atlan society. Roaming the countryside in a black robe, misusing his powers on innocent people,...

The death of a pope always creates a power vacuum. Even external forces will use the opportunity to attack once they get the chance.

On the other side of Rome, a wounded friar arrives at a Lutheran church with vital evidence of a conspiracy. The young pastor is dragged into an intricate web of lies, deceit and bloodshed, all the while dealing with his own personal demons.

As such, the fate of more than just the Vatican lies in the hands of someone they consider a heretic.

Cassandra has spent her life as the Council's weapon, feared for the pain she can inflict and trusted to extract secrets no one else can reach. But when she is sent to interrogate Nikolas, a captive dragon bound by his sister's control, one touch shatters the spells holding him—and opens a portal to a realm long believed lost.Stranded in Fabeldyrverden, Cassandra must navigate a world of ancient dragons, dangerous prophecy, and a mate bond she never expected. Nikolas may have escaped his sister's chains, but the truth he carries could ignite a war between realms.Across the world, Arianna has...

Alessandra Bianchi thought her life would be ordinary again after long ER nights—until a brutal, silent stranger rolls into her ER, claims she's his mate, and disappears. Evan O'Brien returns to consciousness miles from home with his body smeared in another's blood and a fragmented memory of torture. He tracks the only perfect match he can scent to a small-town nurse, and the moment their eyes meet, the world they both knew fractures.Caught between community rules that bind loyalties and predators who want Hawthorne—the ancient shifter hiding a secret that could change everything—Alessan...

Catriona Sullivan never meant to be anyone's epic fate. She's a wandering bartender, thirty‑something, with a knack for tripping over cookie tables and a life she hasn't bothered to plan. When a near‑mythic best man at a wedding stops her heart with a look and then disappears for months, her ordinary loneliness turns into obsession—and into danger.Jace McFadden is three centuries of regret in a handsome, controlled shell. He has avoided bonds and death for years—until he meets Cat and discovers a truth the Community dare not ignore: she may be his Blood Affinity. But Amanda, a cruel va...

When Millicent Calderwood finally receives the keys to the home she loved as a child, she expects dust and memories-not a floating man in a red mist and a web of old magic that reaches for her head. But the estate won't wait: a revenant keeps replaying the witch's cruelty, an imp hunts in the edges of town, and the people who shepherd her new life insist she's the only one who can finish what was started centuries ago.Thrown into a world of ritual, reluctant alliances, and slow-burning desire, Millie must learn rites from a housekeeper who is older than anyone should be and trust a brooding ca...

Lhorak, an unlicensed assassin, soon finds out what it is to be hunted and that sometimes, one has to kill twice to get paid. In the Green Empire’s frontiers, the City of Dhent's districts, warrens, criminal precincts and belligerent boroughs remain under the rule of warlords and sinister forces. #Solarpunk #Sword and Sorcery short story

Paraíso perdido. 1ª edición. 2021. 312 páginas. ISBN 9798457512009. (Novela escrita en 2004)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Paraíso perdido, una novela imprescindible para interpretar la literatura actual latinoamericana con la propuesta sin ambages de luz y sombra, es una historia de conmovedor humanismo.En Paraíso perdido encontramos entre otras muchas razones, una que nos trae la remembranza del paraíso que insaciablemente buscamos toda la vida y que, irónicamente, está tantas veces antes nuestros ojos. Y es que, obviando el impulso humano con todas sus contradicciones, e...

En un viejo planeta de polvo. Poesía [1985-1990] 1ª edición. 2021. 170 páginas. ISBN: 9798545936120.Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU.EN UN VIEJO PLANETA DE POLVO. POESÍA [1985-1990] es un libro que reúne algunos poemas de juventud del escritor ecuatoriano Patricio M. Trujillo O. Como está escrito al principio del libro:“Los poemas de este libro son voces del pasado (1985–1990), sueños de una era que fue importante. Se los podría olvidar, y algunos dirán: “Había que olvidarlos”. Pero considero que toda creación merece una oportunidad de mirarse en el espejo y pensar...

Microrrelatos de un espejo. 2ª edición. 2025. 174 páginas. ISBN 9798263142445. (Cuentos escritos en 2021)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Microrrelatos de un espejo es un ejemplo de cuánta ironía, crítica, análisis y filosofía se puede escribir en pocas líneas. Es un juego de metáforas de infinitos significados que dependen de la perspectiva del lector: un abanico de posibilidades para entrar en el alma humana.Los 149 microrrelatos de este libro se explayan por diversos temas que exploran el universo masculino y femenino, en un mundo donde el tiempo y la prisa se conjugan en...

Imagen. 2ª edición. 2024. 144 páginas. ISBN 9798333924797 (Poemas escritos entre 2020 y 2021)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. En la poesía visual, las palabras, muchas veces con desviaciones lingüísticas, juegos semánticos, se completan con el movimiento de los versos que rompen el espacio convencional, y con las imágenes que sugieren diversos significados al texto.El lector de Imagen, libro que reúne veintiún poemas visuales, transita de manera original, libre de convenciones, por un “mundo” en el que las palabras dicen más de lo que quieren decir. Textos escrito...

Horizontes inesperados. 2ª edición. 2024. 182 páginas. ISBN 9798875740732. (Cuentos escritos entre 1994 y 2021)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Horizontes inesperados reúne diez cuentos sobre la esperanza, los sueños, las obsesiones, las angustias y las ilusiones. Sus personajes, cuando menos lo esperan, se encuentran frente a decisiones de las que no hay cómo escapar.Las palabras y las historias fluyen con espontaneidad con temas de la vida cotidiana, con personales reales y transfigurados que luchan para oír sus propias voces.La manzana: un retrato de dolor, angustia y amor c...

Aprendiendo a olvidar. Poesía. 1ª edición. 2021. 153 páginas. ISBN: 9798736134977 (Poemas escritos entre 2020 y 2021)Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU.1ª reimpresión (12 de octubre de 2023)“debía haberte querido un poquito más / sin tener vergüenza de quererte un montón // sin miedo de que tú me quisieras / tal vez un poquito más”“a olvidar estoy aprendiendo // los minutos me recuerdan / una y otra vez / la memoria es más minúscula / que el océano de las galaxias” Aprendiendo a olvidar es un libro de pequeños poemas escritos entre 2020 y 2021. Esta poesía ...

Have you ever thought about the meaning of dreams? Have you ever wondered what lies beyond the dream?Dreams constantly arouse people's curiosity and amazement, although they infinitely exceed common understandings. Everyone, thinking about the world and themselves, at least sometimes asks: What is all this? How did all this come about? What is it really about? That's why this book has needed to be written.The inspiring book DREAMS is a collection of short stories that includes: "Messages from Dreams", "It Was Just a Dream", and other stories. In the book, real-life true events a...

Eos: diosa del amanecer. Prosa poética. (Microrrelatos escritos en 2021)2ª edición. 2023. 178 páginas. ISBN 9798865038566.Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Eos: diosa del amanecer. Prosa poética.En la mitología griega, Eos (hija de los titanes Hiperión y Tea) es la diosa de la aurora que cabalga en su carro anunciando la llegada del día. Se levantaba temprano, se cubría con un manto, enganchaba sus cuatro caballos a su carro y cabalgaba frente a Helios (el sol).A partir de esta referencia mitológica, se puede entender a Ella (el personaje de estos textos poéticos), a quien a...

Otra vez tú... maldito siglo veintiuno. 1ª edición. Poesía visual. 2024. 153 páginas. ISBN 9798344125374 (Libro escrito en 2021)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. Otra vez tú... maldito siglo veintiuno reúne ocho poemas visuales críticos —¿pesimistas?, ¿rebeldes?— sobre la sociedad contemporánea. El mundo vive una “edad de oro” tecnológica como nunca antes se ha vivido. Los logros científicos le ofrecen al ser humano beneficios y comodidades extraordinarias; sin embargo, los males del siglo pasado y de otras épocas han resucitado con fuerza abrumadora, a tal ...

Ciegos, sordos y mudos. 2ª edición. 2023. 172 páginas. ISBN 9798867119218. (Obra de teatro escrita en 1992)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Ciegos, sordos y mudos.“Esta obra del teatro del absurdo es asustadoramente realista.”“Ciegos, sordos y mudos: ¿una tragicomedia distópica o apocalíptica?”“El humor de una tragedia y lo absurdo de lo real del mundo contemporáneo.”Ciegos, sordos y mudos, escrita en 1992, es una obra de teatro humorística que retrata el caos ambiental del planeta provocado por el inmediatismo de una sociedad consumista, en la que no se quiere ver...

El amor para toda la vida. Cuentos. (Cuentos escritos entre 2019 y 2023)2ª edición. 2023. 151 páginas. ISBN 9798861543859.Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.El amor para toda la vida es un título irónico, sarcástico, casi una burla para el contenido de los doce cuentos que le abofetean al lector al poner al descubierto el lado oculto de la familia, que todos saben que existe, pero que en el momento de defender a la “familia tradicional”, muchos parecen fingir que no pasa nada.Los doce cuentos de El amor para toda la vida muestran el lado sombrío de la familia: la violencia f�...

Basta de pedir perdón. 1ª edición. 2020. 251 páginas. ISBN 9798668798421 (Novela escrita entre 1994 y 1996)Independently Published. Impreso en EE.UU.“El tiempo es inevitable. Las ilusiones un día se acaban. ¿Por qué insistimos en la necesidad de agarrarnos a lo que se va?”Basta de pedir perdón es una novela de suspense y psicológica escrita en 1994. Rojas, un joven de veintiséis años, durante los diez últimos años de su vida ha vivido internado en diferentes clínicas psicológicas, hasta que conoce al único doctor que no cree que esté loco; entonces se le presenta la oportu...

Fragmentos de una tragedia. Vampira. 2ª edición. 2023. 182 páginas. ISBN 9798394809453 (Microrrelatos escritos en 2020)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Fragmentos de una tragedia. Vampira es una metáfora lírica contemporánea sobre la violencia contra la mujer. Los 160 micorrelatos, narrados desde tres puntos de vista, forman un círculo (sin principio y sin fin) de lucha, aceptación, amor, desesperación y sobrevivencia.Fragmentos de una tragedia. Vampira es una historia de suspense sobre la dominación y la sumisión. Como si fuera una leyenda fantástica de antaño, estos mic...