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A Dog’s Luck: A Love Story and a Family Saga Intertwinedby Liora Barash Morgenstern

People, dogs, and what lies between them

Ellie, a young woman writing her philosophy dissertation, becomes disrupted by echoes from the past. She follows the voices replaying in her mind to an introspective examination of her childhood and adolescence within her extended family. This intimate inspection of relationships between family members–and the family’s dogs–leads her to uncover three generations of the family secrets and the focal points of tension in the family’s history.

A story of love, separation and longing

A Dog’s Luck is a unique, moving and thought-provoking work of literary art that deals with existential issues in a heartfelt, high-tempo and dynamic style. It touches on love, separation and longing, in an expressive, multi-layered language that provokes the readers to reflect upon subtle nuances of their own inner worlds.

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Partyby Daniel James Brown

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier

“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” – Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.

In this gripping narrative, New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah’s journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.

VIBGYORby Keerthana Jayaraj

When humans experience and let go of strong emotions certain spirits are let out into the world. Shakti is one such spirit and she has a mission. Ruin the lives of those who made the life of the young woman who created her miserable. Shivani, the young woman, has a trauma filled past. But she is ready to put it all behind her and start a new life. In a world that has no time for second chances or broken people, can she and her new friend, a blind man confined to a wheelchair, find the faint light of happiness? Or is Shakti destined to see the young woman’s life fall apart again?

That Woman: Beating the Odds in Colonial New Yorkby Wayne Clark

. 2017 Book Excellence Awards Finalist for Fiction
. 2017 Winner 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading

Kidnapped in France and brought to America as an indentured servant, a young woman takes on the brutal merchant king of New York’s East River waterfront…
Illness suddenly deprives 17-year-old Sarah Da Silva and her older brother Jacob of a mother. Before Sarah has come to terms with that loss, her merchant father grows frail and increasingly desperate in the face of impending bankruptcy. On the rainy night their father scours the docks of Bordeaux, France, to make his final bid to save his family, his children are kidnapped and forced onto a ship bound for New York City where they’ll be separated and sold to the highest bidder as indentured labor.

Purchased by a grotesque merchant whose wealth, backed by a team of henchmen, allows him to dominate the chaotic East River docks, Sarah strikes back the only way she can. Vowing to never allow him to put his hands on her again, she presses a knife to his fat neck. She demands her freedom, a roof over her head and the means to start a business. Her leverage? Knowledge obtained on the voyage that would bring the big man to his knees forever. He yields to her demands but privately swears to become her worst nightmare.

Bitter and Sweet in Dog Townby Sandy Rideout

Two unexpected homecomings to a dog-crazy town. A secret that binds three hearts to the past. Can one spoiled beagle sniff out the truth at last?

Remi Malone has conquered lifelong shyness with help from Leo, her unofficial therapy dog. The promotion she craves is finally within reach. All she needs to do is land a big donation for the hospital foundation from a visiting heiress.

Hannah Pemberton isn’t thrilled about being back in Dorset Hills to open an exhibit of her late mother’s art. “Dog Town” has become a joke and the visit is stirring up old ghosts. She can’t even remember Remi, the hometown advocate.

Tiller Iverson broke Remi’s heart in high school and left town 12 years ago. Now he’s back with his annoying dog, using his charm on Hannah to win the donation and the job Remi wants. He only has Labor Day weekend to pull it off.

Everyone’s stressed… even Leo. And when Leo’s misdeeds get him barred from duty, Remi’s budding confidence is shaken. Will she ever get the second chance she deserves without her canine sidekick?

In Dorset Hills, where there’s a dog there’s usually a way.

Take Me Higherby Ali Parker

From USA Today Best Selling Author, Ali Parker comes a sexy, roller-coaster ride of a Mafia story…

Don’t Blink… You Might Miss Something.

Joe Castaletta has been running the underbelly of Chicago for decades, but it’s now time to turn over the keys to the kingdom. His right-hand man, Demetri DeMarco, is more than ready to race forward into a new way of doing old school. With Joe’s sexy daughter as Demetri’s enforcer and a gang of mobsters to keep things running smoothly, he’s confident, collected and a bastard and a half.

The only thing that’s just out of his reach is the one thing he wants most… Izabella.

This is book 1 in an ongoing series. Cliffhanger inevitable. You will need to purchase the other books to continue the story.

Smartphone E-Commerce: Your Step-By-Step Guide on How to Maximize Sales in Your Mobile E-Commerce Storeby Benjamin Gundgaard

MAXIMIZE your mobile e-commerce sales!
This step-by-step guide enables you to create world-class smartphone e-commerce stores that maximize your online sales!

As Tamara Adlin, CEO at Adlin Inc. and former Customer Experience Manager at Amazon.com, puts it:

“Implement even a few of Gundgaard’s guidelines and watch your conversion climb!”

Here’s what you get with Smartphone E-commerce:

Best practice online shop templates & checklists to build an entire mobile store
This book guides you through all aspects of how to create lucrative e-commerce stores for smartphones, specifically tailored to maximize your profits and customer satisfaction in the future of online shopping.

Smartphone E-commerce provides you with templates & 204 guidelines for all parts of your smartphone e-commerce shop:

Home
Search
Navigation
Filtering
Product pages
Shopping cart
Checkout
Personalization
Up-selling and cross-selling
Customer retention
And much more.

World-class mobile e-commerce standards
Based on extensive user tests of the world’s largest mobile shops-including Amazon, eBay, ASOS, Walmart, and Debenhams-Smartphone E-commerce provides you with a detailed account of what they’re doing right, where they could markedly increase conversions, and how your smartphone-optimized online store could outperform even the biggest names in the e-commerce game.

Based on the customer’s real-life shopping experience
The methodology is based on the customer’s actual shopping experience, which includes crucial factors such as how to:

Maximize the customer’s first impression
Make it easy for the customer to navigate
Persuade the customer to buy your products
Sell more to each customer
Simplify the ordering process
Get the customer back to buy more

Who benefits from this methodology?
The methodology is written for you and everyone currently working with or interested in mobile e-commerce, optimizing or creating new online shops to facilitate purchases from smartphones, and providing their mobile shoppers with a positive and memorable experience. The Smartphone E-commerce methodology is particularly useful for:

Directors/CEOs
E-commerce managers
Shop owners
Project managers
Designers
Programmers
Usability consultants
E-commerce consultants
Online and also “brick-and-mortar” entrepreneurs looking to markedly increase their passive income!

Avoid erroneous investments
By purchasing Benjamin Gundgaard’s new mobile e-commerce methodology, you will increase your revenue potential while saving money on erroneous investments. Smartphone E-commerce shows you how to build your online mobile shop correctly from the ground up. This will undoubtedly help you save a lot of time and money.

Reference book for post-launch optimization
Each chapter provides you with a summary of the primary optimization principles and recommendations, and the end of the book contains a mobile web shop checklist with 204 guidelines to help you create your own e-commerce store. Thus, Smartphone E-commerce can be used as a reference book to enhance specific aspects of existing mobile sites as well.

Easy to read
Since this methodology is a very quick and easy read, you will quickly be able to build one of the very best smartphone e-commerce stores out there.

Landlord Secrets: Immediately Increase ROI and Become a More Effective Landlordby Linda Liberatore

In My Landlord Helper: The Keys to Managing Your Real Estate Investments and Achieving Explosive Growth, you’ll quickly learn how to:

– Grow your portfolio 4x in less than three years
– Implement successful strategies for managing your real estate investments
– Increase your quality of life by streamlining processes that free up time
– Overcome hurdles that hinder growth

Through effective technology, smarter staffing, managed communication, and continued learning, all of this is possible. Its time to finally make your dreams come true and turn your rentals into profit!