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American Dream: Interviews with Industry-Leading Professionalsby Jason Navallo

Let’s face it: Nobody becomes successful on his or her own. If you want to maximize your career potential, you have to find ways to stay inspired and motivated.

This book includes six in-depth interviews with leading professionals from a variety of industries to provide you with the advice, inspiration, and motivation you need to achieve your goals.

Peter Mallouk

Peter Mallouk is the president of Creative Planning, twice named the #1 Wealth Management Firm in America by CNBC. He has been personally featured three years in a row as the #1 Independent Advisor in America by Barron’s.

Ben Caballero

Ben Caballero has been the top-ranked real estate professional in America since 2013 in two categories — number of real estate sales transactions, and cumulative transaction (dollar) volume — as published by the Wall Street Journal and as independently confirmed by REAL Trends. His lifetime production exceeds 20,000 sales and $6 billion, making him the most productive real estate agent in history.

B.J. Armstrong

This top NBA sports agent, whose clients include Derrick Rose and Draymond Green, is a former athlete and three-time NBA champion who once shared the court with basketball greats including Michael Jordan.

Shelly Sun

Shelly is the CEO and co-founder of BrightStar Care, a national home care and medical staffing agency with 315 locations and $350 million in annual system-wide revenue. You may also recognize her from the popular TV show Undercover Boss.

Scott Gerber

Scott Gerber, principal and CEO of Gerber Group, is widely viewed as a leading entrepreneur in the hospitality/food and beverage industry, appearing on shows such as CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, Fox News, and CBS’s Undercover Boss.

Liz Elting

Liz is the co-CEO and co-founder of TransPerfect, the world’s largest privately held provider of language and technology solutions for global business, with over 4,000 employees in 90 cities worldwide.

Whether you are looking to climb the corporate ladder, become a record-breaking professional athlete, or grow your own business from the ground up, you will find the inspiration you need within the pages of this book.

We Are Water: A Novel (P.S.)by Wally Lamb

We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.

After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs’ lives.

We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.

With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.

The Secret Gospelby Dan Eaton

“A dangerous and thrilling adventure … This multi-faceted work of history, conspiracy and religion will gain favour among fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry.”

–Publishers Weekly

In 1958, a young scholar stumbles upon a version of the Gospel of Mark far older than that recorded in the New Testament. Unfortunately, his discovery brings him nothing but vilification and accusations of forgery. Eventually, the Secret Gospel simply disappears.

Fifty-one years later, the scholar is dead, the victim of an apparent heart attack. However, evidence found in his room, coupled with a letter to Cairo-based journalist Alex Fisher, suggests murder–and hints that the missing gospel harbors deep secrets.

Alex, his girlfriend Sadie, and British diplomat Aubrey Bairstow’s attempts to locate the gospel quickly turn deadly. An Islamic terrorist group, an Israeli intelligence agent, and the head of a scandalous Christian sect also want the gospel. In Egypt’s Western Desert, in the midst of a massive sandstorm, the fate of the Secret Gospel will be decided in blood.

As the hunt grows increasingly dangerous, it becomes apparent the lost manuscript has ties to both Nazi Germany and the Vatican’s refusal to condemn the Holocaust. More is at stake than a lost text: the Secret Gospel could spell disaster for the Catholic Church–and change the balance of power in the Middle East.

A rousing religious conspiracy thriller, The Secret Gospel ties religion, politics, and history into a tangled skein of intrigue. It has at its heart a true story – the discovery in 1958 of fragments of a previously unknown account of the life of Jesus by Morton Smith. The rest is pure fiction.

It was shortlisted in the Rethink Press New Novels competition in 2014 and a quarterfinalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.

“A well-written and engaging plot keeps readers going…”

“Thoroughly researched, this novel is steeped in history…”

–Publishers Weekly

Duel in the Darkby Jay Allan

BOOK 1 OF A BRAND-NEW SERIES FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAY ALLAN!

The Confederation is expecting war, an invasion from the totalitarian Union, and the fleet is massed along the disputed borders. But far away, on a quiet frontier, a new threat has come, a mysterious invader. Only one vessel is close enough to respond, an aging battleship called Dauntless…

Sinkholeby Deborah Jackson

Kat Delaney is a world class caver and microbiologist. While investigating one of the deepest caves on Earth, she becomes trapped, along with her team of fellow cavers and scientists. Far below the ruins of a Mayan city, they struggle to escape this mysterious cave, reportedly cursed and haunted by the Lords of Death. Kat’s husband, Mark, a doctor and pioneer of nanotechnology with a deep-rooted fear of caves, must try to rescue her. He enlists the help of a Mayan guide, who turns out to have revolutionary ambitions.

Kat must keep her unravelling team together when they discover that something as threatening as the Lords of Death lurks within the cave. Mark must choose between trusting a guide who is patently untrustworthy, or leaving Kat to die. Will they escape? Will science be the solution? Or will it simply affirm their sentence as the Lords of Death win once again?

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.

Heaven to Betsy (What Doesn’t Kill You, #5): An Emily Romantic Mysteryby Pamela Fagan Hutchins

2015 WINNER USA Best Book Award, Cross Genre Fiction

A heartfelt and hilarious mystery from this bestselling and award-winning author of the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series.

When a dead body swan-dives from a balcony into the pool at a wedding, gossip comes to a halt about disgraced paralegal and former rodeo queen Emily–whose husband left her for a woman who turns out to be a man. Enter Jack, a secretive attorney and sexy mix of cowboy and Indian. She refuses to work for him, until she learns about the disappearance of the six-year old daughter of his notorious client Sofia, the wedding shooter, who is also an illegal immigrant. Emily feels a strange affinity with the girl and launches a desperate search for her. Bodies pile up in her wake across Texas and New Mexico as the walls around her own secrets begin to crumble, and the authorities question whether the child is anything but a figment of her imagination.

Crimson Worlds Collection I: Crimson Worlds Books 1-3by Jay Allan

JOIN THE REBELLION!

The first three riveting novels of the CRIMSON WORLDS series, set in an embattled, interstellar future. As war rages between colonies desperate for land and resources, Colonel Erik Cain faces off against enemy empires — and questions everything in the wake of irreparable loss and destruction. Includes: MARINES, THE COST OF VICTORY, and A LITTLE REBELLION.

Black Werewolves Box Set: The Dark Ones, The 24hourlies & Chasedby Gaja J. Kos

The world of Slavic immortals has never been darker

Enter the world where myth becomes reality, where long forgotten gods walk the earth, and where love forms bonds that cannot be broken even in the raging winds of battle.

Box set contains: The Dark Ones, The 24hourlies, Chased (novella)

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The Dark Ones (Black Werewolves, Book 1)

In a world ruled by lethal Slavic immortals, Rose and her pack of Black werewolves are drawn into the beginning of a war as they try to uncover the being behind the mass murder of White werewolves.

Because the nature of the killings obstructs the normal passage of souls, Veles, the sultry lord of the underworld, offers Rose his assistance; the were is left facing not only the new knowledge of the pack’s hidden lineage but also her growing fondness for the arrogant god…

To win the war, the pack must ascend to The Dark Ones. But to do so, they must be willing to risk being on the receiving end of the immortal community’s wrath.

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The 24hourlies (Black Werewolves, Book 2)

The ascension to The Dark Ones had brought Rose and her pack power. But it had also brought peril.

With the higher immortal circles observing their every move, the only way the pack can prevent from becoming the recipients of their resentment is to keep their presence profitable for the wider community.

When someone begins targeting the twentyfourhourlies, the civil and agreeable vampiric individuals, the werewolves come to their aid.

But what had first seemed like an assignment done to remain in the leaders’ good graces, now becomes a mission for which the pack is willing to risk its safety and anonymity in exchange for the possibility of catching the responsible party.

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Chased (Black Werewolves, Book 2.5)

Katja is more than ready to meet Jürgen’s family. But she feels the need to share the shadows of her past first.

As they travel to Munich, Katja has to fight her fears and open up to the werewolf if she wishes to truly, wholly share her life with someone.

But her visit with the Freundenbergers brings more than just a heart-to-heart as the vampire finds herself in a situation that seems frightfully like an echo of her own nightmares.

The Year Santa Stubbed His Toeby William M Hayes

The man in red really exists.
To all the people in the world that say Santa is just a myth, you are simply and completely wrong. Many tales have been told about the man in red. Some true–some as true as two-headed unicorns with wings living in the city of Atlantis.
This tale is true.
A year not so long ago, Santa was ready to take his yearly pilgrimage on the night before Christmas when disaster struck–he stubbed his toe. Not once, but twice–the second blow was against a gift-wrapped bowling ball that ballooned his toe to twice its size. He could not make his yearly run by himself; he needed help. So on that fateful night, he enlisted four of his best elves to help him make his deliveries around the world: Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, South America, and North America.
A journey that was not only a night of discovery for the elves on that Christmas Eve–but for Santa and the world as well … The Year Santa Stubbed his Toe.