FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {04-09-2020}

How To Talk To Anyone: A Practical Guide to Overcome Shyness and Social Anxietyby James J. Downes

Asking others what we need or want is natural and desirable, and is an important part of interpersonal communication. In this book we will refer to different types of requests such as: asking for favors, information or help, asking for defective merchandise to be changed, proposing activities, etc.

Being assertive when making requests means asking for what we want, properly, while respecting the rights and feelings of others. This includes:

— Asking for things frequently, as this increases the chances of other people accepting our requests and getting what we want.
— Request information on issues that interest us or that we do not understand (e.g., in class or at the doctor’s office).
— Expose what we want clearly, to facilitate the other to understand us and to reduce the chances of our message being ignored or distorted.
— Make requests persuasively, to make it easier for the other to access them.
— Consider how the other feels so as not to bother him unnecessarily.
— Respect the right of others to reject our requests.
— Non-assertive ways of making requests: inhibition and aggressiveness

This book will help you understand how you can effectively communicate with others and how to avoid being misunderstood.

Stealing Jake by Pam Hillman

When Livy O’Brien spies a young boy jostling a man walking along the boardwalk, she recognizes the act for what it is. After all, she used to be known as Light-Fingered Livy. But that was before she put her past behind her and moved to the growing town of Chestnut, Illinois, where she’s helping to run an orphanage. Now she’ll do almost anything to protect the street kids like herself.

Sheriff’s deputy Jake Russell had no idea what he was in for when he ran into Livy–literally while chasing down a pickpocket. With a rash of robberies and a growing number of street kids in town–as well as a loan on the family farm that needs to be paid off–Jake doesn’t have time to pursue a girl. Still, he can’t seem to get Livy out of his mind. He wants to get to know her better . . . but Livy isn’t willing to trust any man, especially not a lawman.

Boogie House: A Southern Mystery: (The Rolson McKane Series Book 1) by T. Blake Braddy

A southern mystery with hints of the supernatural, like James Lee Burke meets Stephen King.

When a dead man asks for help, it’s best for you to listen.

Meet Rolson McKane.
Ex-cop. Ex-husband. Current alcoholic.
And just maybe the only man who can solve a vicious, racially-motivated murder in his hometown.

When Rolson McKane was a little boy, something bad happened to him and his family. Everybody knows, but he doesn’t much like talking about it, so he’s spent most of his adult life drinking it into submission.

His problems come to a head when he drunkenly slams into another car with his own. He loses his gig as a small-town cop, and most people he cares about–which isn’t many–turn their backs on him.

And then the body in the Boogie House appears.

It’s not that he finds a young man’s body in the woods across from his small plot of land. It’s that–well–the dead man visits him in his sleep and asks for help solving his murder.

He agrees, mostly because drinking himself to death has lost its appeal, and besides, the local cops don’t seem to care much about solving this brutal, unexplained crime.

Rolson gets tangled up in the town’s dark past and his own personal issues when he steps out to solve this on his own. Will he be successful, or will the shadows lurking in the town finally drag him to his final resting place?

Mission: Impossible to Forgetby Jacki Delecki

Professional cellist Emily Hewitt loves nothing more than creating music. Sharing her musical gift with the world is all she lives for. Until her life is threatened. Caught up in a treacherous conspiracy, Emily becomes the pawn in an international play for power and must be assigned a bodyguard.

Former Special-Ops Marine Nick Jenkins is out of a job and out of patience. Discharged from the Corp because of hearing loss, the last thing he wants to do is babysit someone who’s surrounded by the haunting sounds of music he can no longer appreciate.

When danger turns deadly, will Nick be able to save Emily?

Daisy in the Doghouse by Joe Barrett

From the author of Managed Care, the Maxy Book Awards 2019 "Book of the Year"

What happens when an ex-CEO, frustrated with the corruption in the American financial system, hijacks his twelve-year-old daughter’s blog to try and change things from the bottom up?

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Jack Sullivan, former CEO and current stay-at-home dad, struggles to find an outlet for his frustrations with the unfair financial systems of corporate America. Meanwhile, Daisy, his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, has recently garnered a substantial following for her new blog, documenting surreptitious “social experiments” performed on her unaware family. When Daisy’s blogging activities are outed, Jack decides to leverage his daughter’s popularity with American youth to communicate the greed and hypocrisy inherent in the corporate professions of many parents. Inspired by her father’s rants, the popularity of Daisy’s blog soars, resulting in an unlikely sequence of events that ultimately has a very positive impact on way that people treat each other in American society.