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In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventureby Nathan Van Coops

They have a dangerous past. They just haven’t lived it yet.

“We broke something. How do you break time? Can something so bad happen that you fracture the world?”

Benjamin Travers has been electrocuted. What’s worse, he and his friends have woken up in the past. As the friends search for a way home, they realize they’re not alone. There are other time travelers, and some of them are turning up dead.
When Ben meets an enigmatic scientist and his charming, time-traveling daughter, salvation seems at hand, but escaping the dangers of the past may lead to a deadly future.
If he hopes to save his friends, Ben must learn to master space and time, and survive a journey where past and future violently collide.

Action and romance heat up in this first book of the time travel adventure series.

Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weightby Linda Bacon

Mainstream health science has let you down.

Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence.

You’ve heard it before: there’s a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we’re in trouble. That much is true—but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality—not the numbers on a scale. In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. Popular methods for weight loss don’t get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can’t match unattainable body standards. It’s time for a cease-fire in the war against obesity.

Dr. Linda Bacon and Dr. Lucy Aphramor’s Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. They also help make sense of how poverty and oppression—such as racism, homophobia, and classism—affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.

Body insecurity is rampant, and it doesn’t have to be. It’s time to overcome our culture’s shame and distress about weight, to get real about inequalities and health, and to show every body respect.

Dark Fragmentsby Rob Sinclair

Dark Fragments: an edge of your seat thriller from the best-selling author of The Enemy Series

Murder. Money. Revenge.

Outwardly, Ben Stephens appears to be a normal, hard-working family man. In reality, his life has been in turmoil since the murder of his wife, Alice, seven years ago. The killer was never caught.

Now re-married – to the woman he was having an affair with while still married to Alice – Ben’s life is once again spiralling out of control, and he’s become heavily indebted to an unscrupulous criminal who is baying for Ben’s blood.

When Ben’s estranged twin sister, a police detective, unexpectedly returns to his life, asking too many questions for comfort, it becomes clear that without action, Ben’s life will soon reach a crisis point from which there will be no return.

In order to avoid falling further into the mire, Ben must examine the past if he is to survive the present – but just how much pressure can one man take before he breaks?

Dark Fragments is a fast-paced thriller with a blend of mystery, suspense and action that will appeal to readers of psychological thrillers, as well as a broad section of crime, thriller and action fans. If you like authors like Mark Edwards, Robert Bryndza and C.L. Taylor you will love this unforgettable thriller.

The Physics Of The Dead – A Supernatural Mystery Novelby Luke Smitherd

What do the dead do when they can't leave …and don't know why? The afterlife doesn't come with a manual. In fact, Hart and Bowler (two ordinary but dead men) have had to work out the rules of their new existence for themselves. It's that fact (along with being unable to leave the boundaries of their city centre, unable to communicate with the other lost souls, unable to rest in case The Beast catches up with them) that makes getting out of their situation a priority.But Hart and Bowler don't know why they're there in the first place; if they ever want to leave, they will have to find all the answers to be able to understand the physics of the dead. What are the strange, glowing objects that pass across the sky? Who are the living people surrounded by a blue glow? What are their physical limitations in that place, and have they fully explored the possibilities of what they can do? Time is running out. Their afterlife was never supposed to be this way, and if they don't make it out soon, they're destined to end up like the others. Insane, and alone forever…

Loving Her Cowboysby Jan Springer

** Sequel to Cowboys for Christmas and Cowboys In Her Pocket**

After spending ten years in a maximum-security prison Jennifer Jane (JJ) Watson got early parole and a job on a remote Canadian cattle ranch playing housekeeper to three of the sexiest cowboys she’s ever met…a single woman shouldn’t be experiencing such scorching ménages with three sexy-as-sin men. Her love for her cowboys continues to grow as she gives into the fevered heat and scorching passions she feels for each of them.

Passion burns bright when she’s wrapped in the arms of her cowboys. But JJ’s simmering restlessness explodes and she’s seriously making up for lost time by pursuing her dreams. There’s only one little problem. She hasn’t revealed to her bosses what she’s been up to while they’re away tending to the cattle and doing their ranch chores. She knows when they discover her secret, there will be hell to pay.

Ranchers Rafe, Dan and Brady have found the woman who completes them. She makes their secluded ranch a home-sweet-home. She’s vulnerable, sweet and willing to share her bed with all three of them. But when JJ’s secret is unwittingly revealed, they’re stunned, angry and they figure it’s time to dole out some fiery punishment in some mighty naughty ways…

Cowboys Online series
Book 1 ~ Cowboys for Christmas
Book 2 – Cowboys In Her Pocket
Book 3 – Loving Her Cowboys (Coming Nov)
Book 4 – Cowboys In Her Heart (Coming Soon)

Dogs with Bagelsby Maria Elena Sandovici

Liliana is the disappointing daughter of hardworking immigrant parents. She’s a girl looking to be rescued from her own insecurities and bad decisions. Unable to afford rent in New York City proper, she craves a life of luxury that isn’t hers, while subsisting on bagels and coffee. In desperate need of support – emotional and otherwise -, she clings to potential saviors, never bothering to question if the attachments she forms really fit her.

In a parallel story-line, her mother, Maria, is trying to reject all offers of help, especially those of her estranged husband. She’s never forgiven him from taking her away from Romania, where she was happy. She’s never forgiven herself for following him to New York. And she’s never come to terms with the ugly fights and mutual betrayals that ruined their marriage. Enmeshed in her own drama, she doesn’t notice her daughter’s troubles until it’s too late. Desperate to keep Liliana from making a mistake that will alter the course of her life, Maria reveals her best-kept secret, a story so shocking it might have the power to jerk Liliana back to reality. It could, on the other hand, alienate her forever.

DOGS WITH BAGELS is a story about the American dream gone bad. It is also a story about mothers and daughters, about female friendships, the struggle to survive in one of the world’s most expensive cities, and nostalgia for people and places one has loved in the past.

All characters in this book are deeply flawed, but they are so compelling that readers asked for a follow-up novel. LOST PATH TO SOLITUDE (coming soon!) revisits the same cast a decade later, to find them facing new problems, yet oddly enough stuck in some of the same patterns.

Cowboys For Christmasby Jan Springer

Jennifer Jane Watson has spent the past ten Christmases in a maximum security prison. The last thing she expects is to get early parole along with a job on a secluded Canadian cattle ranch serving Christmas holiday dinners to three of the sexiest cowboys she’s ever met!

Rafe, Brady and Dan thought they were getting a male ex-con to help out around their secluded ranch. The last thing they expect is an attractive and very appealing woman fresh out of prison. In the snowbound wilds of Northern Ontario, female companionship is rare. It’s a good thing the three men like to share…

They’re dominating, sexy-as-sin and they fill JJ with the hottest ménage fantasies she’s ever had. Suddenly she’s craving Cowboys for Christmas and wishing for something she knows she can never have…a happily ever after.

Cowboys Online Series
Book 1 – Cowboys for Christmas
Book 2 – Cowboys In Her Pocket
Book 3 – Loving Her Cowboys (Coming Nov)
Book 4 – Cowboys In Her Heart (Coming Soon)

Cowboys In Her Pocketby Jan Springer

After spending ten years in a maximum-security prison Jennifer Jane (JJ) Watson got early parole and a job on a remote Canadian cattle ranch playing housekeeper to three of the sexiest cowboys she’s ever met…

Spring has finally arrived at Moose Ranch and a single woman fresh out of prison shouldn’t be experiencing scorching ménages with her three sexy-as-sin cowboys. But JJ’s love for her men continues to grow as she gives into the fevered heat and scorching passions she feels for each of them.
Life is perfect.

Until her new life is tested when mysterious happenings occur on the ranch.
Food goes missing. A fleeting figure. An intruder during a violent thunderstorm. One of her cowboys is viciously attacked and injured. Will JJ’s newfound freedom and happiness be ripped away?

Rafe, Brady and Dan never expected to get an attractive and very appealing female to help them out at their secluded ranch. But in the wilds of Northern Ontario, female companionship is rare. It’s a good thing the three men like to share…

Brady, Dan and Rafe have never been happier. Their cattle ranch is flourishing and their continued desire to share the sexy woman who cares for them makes their life complete. Until danger threatens to rip everything apart…

Sequel to Cowboys for Christmas

Cowboys Online Series
1. Cowboys for Christmas
2. Cowboys In Her Pocket
3. Loving Her Cowboys (Coming November)
4. Cowboys In Her Heart (Coming Soon)
…more in the works

The Inside Story of a Wine Labelby Ann Reynolds

This concise book written by a 20 year wine industry veteran gives wine enthusiasts an inside look into the industry that creates the product they enjoy. It gives them this inside perspective from the outside of the package, the wine’s label. All required and non-required items that appear on US wine labels are explained to further the casual to serious wine drinkers enjoyment and understanding.

Study Hacker: Study less, improve your grades and enjoy everlasting academic successby Despina Gavoyannis

Do you feel like you spend way more time studying than you should or even want to? Truth is, many students do! Of those who don’t, very few know how to use the small amount of time they do study to help them achieve the grades they are after. In either case, this book will help you overcome any obstacles you face when it comes to spending less time studying while also improving your grades.

The techniques suggested in this book have been used by Despina Gavoyannis and countless other students she has worked with to achieve great academic success. Despina went from failing to placing in the top 4% of the state in less than five months, and in her final year of high school nonetheless. Using the methods she describes in this book, you can also achieve the same, if not completely surpass these results.

That’s what study hacking is all about. This is the book for you if you find that you:

– Are uncertain about what to do after you finish school
– Know you have bad habits which are preventing you from succeeding
– Struggle to be organised or to manage your time
– Find that you get stressed out by upcoming exams, university applications or the thought of what to do once you finish school

Going well in school can be a tough process. Becoming a study hacker will make your success in this process as effortless and as easy as possible!

Blackbirdby Abigail Graham

Second chance? Yeah, right.

Our life was a fairy tale. I was the princess in the tower and Victor was the brave brash prince who came to rescue me. It started a whirlwind romance. Everything was perfect. I accepted his proposal. We set a date.

Then I learned my lesson.

It all went to $&*% and I had to learn to rescue myself. I built a business empire, started a new life, and swore off men.

Now he’s back in my life and wants back in my heart- and my bedroom. Oh, and he’s working for my business rivals trying to destroy everything I’ve built.

It should be easy to tell him where to stick it, but just the sight of him brings those old feelings back. He has the body of a god and an attitude to match, but he swears up and down it was all lies, he really does love me- and I’m in danger.

So that’s it- if I trust him again, I could lose everything. Do I still believe in love?