Biographies & Memoirs

The Werewolf Queen (Wheel of Crowns Book 1)by Brandi Elledge

I always wished I had supernatural powers. Now I wish I didn’t.

Sadie’s a dud, a failure–the only one in high school who doesn’t have any kind of supernatural powers. Her psychic bff, Jo, knows something about Sadie’s future, but just won’t tell. And what the heck is going on when one of her teachers starts looking at her while he’s going on about powerful lost keys, portals of madness, and destinies?

Then it all starts.

On her 18th birthday, Sadie starts to feel weird. And when werewolves, vampires, and demons all turn up to spoil her party, the weirdness really ramps up.

Leaving her best friend, her family, and the only town she’s ever known, Sadie must find safety. But while the king of the werewolves can offer her somewhere to hide while she’s learning about her new powers, he can’t stop his psycho witch fiancée from finding new ways to try and kill her. Of course, the murderous tendencies of this psycho witch only get worse when she realises the Werewolf King is, um… attracted to Sadie.

And all that’s before Sadie sets off to try and find one of the lost keys. Before she visits hell. Before she picks up a pet ogre.

And before she realizes just how powerful she can become.

But if it really is her destiny to collect one of the lost keys, will she be able control her newfound power and help save the world and all the people in it she loves? Or will she buckle under the pressure?

She’s about to find out. A mansion surrounded by demons and full of vampires and witches intent on her destruction awaits. Oh, and that psycho-witch fiancée of the Werewolf King. What could possibly go wrong?

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hackerby William L. Simon

In this "intriguing, insightful and extremely educational" novel, the world's most famous hacker teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data (Frank W. Abagnale).

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies — and no matter how fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. As the FBI's net finally began to tighten, Mitnick went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated game of hide-and-seek that escalated through false identities, a host of cities, and plenty of close shaves, to an ultimate showdown with the Feds, who would stop at nothing to bring him down.

Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escapes — and a portrait of a visionary who forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, and forced companies to rethink the way they protect their most sensitive information.

"Mitnick manages to make breaking computer code sound as action-packed as robbing a bank." — NPR

Shards of A Shattered Soulby S.C. Stokes

After facing down the jaws of death and barely living to tell about it, Vera Sandrinas’ life is about to get a whole lot more dangerous.

With her dying breath, Vera pleaded with the Allfather for her life, and it was granted…in the form of Dragon’s Fire. Now a war has broken out in heaven, and Vera’s learning that divine mercy comes at a price.

The magic dividing the realms of the living and the dead is torn asunder, and as the undead rise, Vera must face a second death to seal the rift between between realms in time.

But if she fails, her debt will cost her more than she bargained for.

Fans of Raymond E Feist and David Gemmell will love S.C. Stokes’ Shards of a Shattered Soul, an arcane adventure full of mystical creatures and expansive fantasy worlds.

Winter of Solace (The Executioner Knights Book 5)by Kathryn Le Veque

Caius d’Avignon, the knight known as The Britannia Viper, finds himself on the opposite side of William Marshal… and the Executioner Knights are caught in the middle…

Welcome to another Executioner Knights’ tale!

When Caius d’Avignon is sent north at the request of a cousin of William Marshal to help in a dispute between neighbors, Caius couldn’t have imagined how his life would change.

Caius is one of the Marshal’s premier knights, a man who served in The Levant with many of the Marshal’s agents, but he had one distinct difference – he’d been branded The Britannia Viper by the Saracen commanders for his hard strike. There is no one fiercer in battle. Therefore, William Marshal has great confidence that Caius will solve the situation – if not by diplomacy, then by the sword.

But Caius is caught off-guard by the situation when he arrives. The Marshal’s cousin is an unscrupulous and cruel man who has all but decimated his neighbors and demands they be destroyed. When Caius goes to speak to the neighbors to demand their unconditional surrender, the first thing he sees is a woman of astounding beauty.

Emelisse de Thorington is that woman.

Caius is drawn into the feud whether or not he wants to be. He comes to discover that the Marshal’s cousin is wicked and has harassed a noble family for years while telling William Marshal something quite different. The man is a thief and a liar.

But Caius can’t tell the Marshal that without jeopardizing his relationship with the man. There’s also the not-so-small fact that he’s fallen in love with the strong but battered Emelisse.

Will the career knight choose love over his career?

Find out in yet another exciting Executioner Knights adventure!

The Autoimmune Answer : Using Functional Medicine to address the cause, eliminate symptoms, and optimize quality of lifeby Dr. John Bartemus

The Autoimmune Answer is your roadmap for healing from autoimmune disease naturally. No high powered immune suppressing medications necessary.

Each chapter of this book presents a real case from Dr. Bartemus’ office and uses it to help you understand the specific autoimmune disease being discussed in that chapter. From symptoms, to key findings in their past medical records that were overlooked, to relevant testing, to creating an individualized and specific care plan, each chapter walks you through the journey of a real person from suffering to healing.

The autoimmune diseases covered in this book include:
Parkinson’s Disease
Psoriasis
Crohn’s Disease
PANDAS and PANS
Traumatic Brain Injury induced autoimmunity
Celiac Disease
Gluten Sensitivity
Thyroid autoimmunity – Grave’s Disease and Hashimoto’s Disease

Other topics include:
Gut-Brain Axis
Microbiome Health
Depression and Anxiety

The book also covers the spectrum of food reactions from food allergy to food sensitivity to food intolerance and helps you understand and determine which one(s) you are suffering with and how to correct them.

Which diet is the right diet for you? Find out how to determine which diet is the correct diet for you in your current situation. Is it a ketogenic diet? Is it a Paleo diet? Is it a Gluten Free or Low FODMAPS diet?

Lastly, you will learn why you cannot “Dr. Google” yourself to health if you have an autoimmune disease. And you will be empowered with the information you need to find and create the healing you desire.

O Beloved: Being, Becoming and Beyondby Shunya Pragya

In today’s hyperconnected world, human consciousness remains hijacked by the made-up frameworks–social, commercial, political, and religious. As a result, our living experience is driven, designed, and defined by a cosmetic self, always busy in responding to the demands of this world culture. In this way, the entire journey of life shrinks into a resume of material achievements at the cost of bypassing the existential experiences which are deeply meaningful and life-enriching. Mostly, the efforts to look beyond the web of routine life are academic, abstract, and off the real ground. Therefore, ordinarily, we deprioritize exploring our existential connection, thinking that either they are non-valuable or non-achievable. Ultimately, looking inward to realize our existential consciousness becomes a luxury of philosophers or monks; and does not get appreciation in the mainstream, among masses.

The Book, O Beloved- Being, Becoming, and Beyond offers a crisp and clear approach for a surgical self-exploration at an ordinary level for masses to uncover the pure field of consciousness, which was always available to us, but forgotten. This book is an open invitation to all who desire to access the pure Being beyond the constructs of the made-up mind and identity. As a brush, it will gently scrub out the dust of designed belief systems, limiting your mind. The purpose is not to reform you into something extraordinary like a superhuman, psychic, enlightened person or an intellectual, etc. but to restore your Being into its inmost natural and existential state while living in day to day reality. It is achieved by offering solid perspectives and gentle practices to deepen the awareness of your Being and Becoming. Thereupon, as a catalyst, this very insight brings about a change in you to outgrow your accumulated limitations; and allows you to access the field of pure consciousness flowing within yet unbound.

The book is organized into four sections. The first three sections are full of poetry, philosophy, vivid imagery, and excellent illustrations to keep up the interest and gently unlock the mental knots. Thereupon, the fourth section presents a mindfulness meditation technique, organized into four simple, yet profound steps: Knowing, Establishing, Living, and Moving Beyond. It enables you with practical tools to go beyond the objective experiences made up of–thoughts, feelings, sensations, and sense of self, into subjective awareness. This insight into unconditional awareness is the source of intrinsic and acausal joy, which, sadly, our mind invents outside, out of ignorance. Finally, the last cherry on the cake is the conclusion chapter, which indicates that there is no finality but continuity. So, one must keep going on and on.

This book will transform you quickly if you consume it slowly!

Civics, Law, and Justice–How We Became U.S.: Insights from a Trial Judgeby J. Layne Smith

If you have questions about U.S. civics, law, and justice but don’t want to wade through dry and dull legalese to get the answers, you will love this down-to-earth collection of essays that provide an insider’s view of the legal system. In Civics, Law, and Justice–How We Became U.S., career trial lawyer and judge J. Layne Smith offers crystal-clear insight and straightforward answers to everything you’ve ever wondered about the art and science of justice in American history and society.

How does a judge feel when handing down a sentence? Which is better: A republic or a democracy? And what do King Henry VIII and his six wives have to do with the U.S. Constitution? Infused with Smith’s warmth, clarity, and humor, this accessible collection will make you feel like you’re learning about U.S. civics, law, and justice while having a cup of coffee with a knowledgeable friend.

His Many Desiresby Ali Parker

I don’t fit into the world around me.

My brother and father are far more the billionaire type.

Art is what wakes me up. Expressing my soul through a paintbrush.

That and the beautiful woman that stole my heart years ago.

But she belongs to their world. An executive for the accounting firm my family runs.

And we live clear across the country from one another, but that doesn’t stop the way I feel.

Every time I see her, I want to change everything about myself until she takes notice.

Funnily enough, she doesn’t want me to change a damn thing.

She says that now, but when she finds out all that I desire of her, with her, she might not be so compliant.

Or maybe that’s what she’s been waiting on this whole time.

This is book 1 in a 3 book series. You will have to read book 2 and 3 to complete the story.

Bewitching Belleby Debra Kristi

"Your kind are not smiled upon here, little witch."

The fact that my family isn’t welcome in the French Quarter is a message I keep receiving from the local practitioners. Stay out, keep to my own business. Only, my family and friends are my business. And both my mom and my friend have serious magickal issues that stem from the Quarter, and the people that operate there.

I refuse to keep to my tiny space in the world when dark influences from the past are trying to take control of my mom. Or the bokor’s magick seeks to own my friend or destroy her family. That’s not who I am or who I want to be. I’m going to get involved, do whatever I can to keep my loved ones safe. And hopefully, the power thrumming in my family’s blood will give me the edge.

I may be a high school kitchen witch, new to the craft, but I refuse to be intimidated by anyone or anything. Is stubborn determination a pro or a con when it comes to protecting my clan?

This fast-paced, action-packed, young adult, paranormal coming-of-age adventure, about a New Orleans, magickal bloodline family is ideal for fans of The Bane Chronicles and The Originals.

Flight 3108by Sharon Mikeworth

A terrifying plane ride into the unknown.

Mason Tucker, a passenger of American Skyways Flight 3108, en route from Florida to New Hampshire, believes he is headed home to his apartment and a cat named Bruno. But unbeknownst to him, the aging aircraft he is flying in will shortly be encountering severe weather, where it will be forced off course and sent directly over a mysterious section of ocean commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle.

There, buffeted on all sides by the treacherous elements, the plane encounters a strange vortex. Drawn in by it, Mason and his fellow hapless travelers can only hang on and struggle to survive as they are dragged out of their familiar world and propelled straight into the unimaginable.

"Just when you think you’ve figured out what will happen next, what new, uncanny obstacle will ignite another flame in Mason’s path, you discover how very wrong you were. The unknown and the known intersect to form new realities in this unique and unpredictable sci-fi thriller in which the past and the future are nearly indecipherable." — Jennifer Padgett, Seattle Book Review