Nonfiction

Road to the Breakingby Chris Bennett

Nothing survived “The Breaking” unchanged; lives and fortunes, love and hate, freedom and slavery …

It’s early 1860, and war hero Captain Nathaniel Chambers, commander U.S. Army Fort Davis in the west Texas wilderness, has received shocking news – his father is dead. He must return home to Virginia and claim his inheritance before a maniacal neighbor can murder his widowed mother and seize the family plantation.

But he’s torn by a terrible dilemma – to stay in the army and turn his back on his fortune, his mother and his beloved childhood home, or become the thing he despises; a slave master! Is there no other choice?

An epic journey across a young nation seething with debauchery, brutality, corruption, and political intrigue, unwittingly on the brink of an unimaginable disaster; the American Civil War. Nathan Chambers has left the violent army life behind in Texas, never imaging he’s on the very Road to The Breaking.

The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spyby Judith Pearson

This WWII espionage biography brings "one of America's greatest spies back to life” in a “story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense” (Patrick O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs)

Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, but her gender–and her wooden leg–kept her from pursuing politics. As Hitler advanced across Europe, she put her gift for languages to use with the British Special Operations Executive, a secret espionage organization. She was soon deployed to occupied France where she located drop zones, helped prisoners of war flee to England, and secured safe houses for agents.

Soon, wanted posters appeared throughout France, offering a reward for Hall’s capture. By 1942, Hall had to flee France via the only route possible: an arduous hike on foot through the frozen Pyrénées Mountains. Upon her return to England, the American espionage organization, the Office of Special Services, recruited her and sent her back to France disguised as an old peasant woman. While there, she was responsible for killing 150 German soldiers and capturing 500 others. Sabotaging communications and directing resistance activities, her brave work helped change the course of the war.

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cookingby Stephanie O’Dea

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the first cookbook from Stephanie O'Dea, the extremely popular slow cooking blogger: affordable, delicious, nutritious, and gluten-free recipes to delight the entire family.

In December 2007, Stephanie O'Dea made a New Year's resolution: she'd use her slow cooker every single day for an entire year, and write about it on her very popular blog. The result: more than three million visitors, and more than 300 fabulous, easy-to-make, family-pleasing recipes, including:

• Breakfast Risotto
• Vietnamese Roast Chicken
• Tomatoes and Goat Cheese with Balsamic Cranberry Syrup
• Falafel
• Philly Cheesesteaks
• Creme Brulee

— and much more. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the perfect cookbook for easy, quick prep, inexpensive ingredients, and meals that taste like you spent hours at the stove.

Understanding Childhood Trauma & How To Let Go: 11 Effective Tools You Need To Heal (From a Fellow Survivor)by Julian Demarco

Are you or someone you know plagued with symptoms of anxiety, depression, or phobias from a painful past? What would life look or feel like if you found a way to not only ease them but potentially remove the emotional aspects? Are you ready to take the necessary steps towards your healing and freedom? 

The author is a survivor of child sexual abuse and adult domestic violence, that caused symptoms of Complex PTSD, depression, and anxiety. The outlook on life was that this was how life was going to be after failed therapies. It was only after discovering techniques from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) that freedom from the past was attained as the symptoms faded. This was life-changing! Having a deep desire to assist others to also break free from their pain led to the pursuit of training and became certified in NLP. 

Understanding what you’ve gone through from abuse and traumatic events, Julian conveys with respect, compassion, empathy, and sympathy for your situation. Included are 11 NLP techniques written in detail that, based on Julian’s studies, were found to be most successful while keeping in forethought that not everyone will respond to the same techniques.  This book is written in an easy-to-understand language and being mindful not to give specific details as to not trigger the reader. This is the must-have book to ease you through your painful past and to assist you in becoming truly free. You deserve to be happy and have the freedom from your hurtful past, and to take back control of your life. Julian paves the way for you and gives you the keys.

The Dual Path: An Earth To Stars Adventureby AnnaMariah Nau

What would you do if your eccentric, possibly magical aunt invited you to learn to “live the world”? Would you accept even if you had no idea what she meant? Twelve-year-old Zelia said, “Yes!” And the magic began.

When twelve-year-old Zelia agrees to spend the summer with her Aunt Joy, she hopes for a peaceful, not-too-boring vacation from her parents. But from the moment she sees her aunt dancing up the road in her kaleidoscopic dress, she realizes she’s in for an adventure.

Soon Zelia abandons everything she thought she knew about herself and the “real world” as she claims a new name, dives into a magical book, embarking on the dual path to discover her own surprising powers. They encounter mythical creatures, including a wise power bestowing unicorn. They meet talking animals and trees, learn to see fairies again, travel from the Earth to the stars right into a magic wand garden. As they journey, they gather a joyful, wise-cracking band of travelers and later call themselves The Crystalline Heart Family.

It’s not just the magical creatures that surprise her, however. She is fascinated to learn the true story about unicorns’ disappearance and discover that “pretend” creatures like Puff the Magic Dragon and the Purple People Eater are based on real interdimensional friendships.

It turns out there’s a logical science to the magical world. As Zemma masters its tools, she learns that her mind has no limits. Zelia learns how to fish by simply inviting her dinner into a net. And she flies with the help of an amazing bicycle created only for her. All the while, Aunt Joy offers her guidance as she challenges everything she ever believed – and finds out that becoming a woman means claiming her true gifts, learning to laugh, and embracing the impossible.

As they go on their way, Zelia and Aunt Joy help people and make powerful friends, but also see signs of a terrible curse stifling the world: the dead-eyed ones, the Unmakers. Clever and dangerous, these entities cast mind-dulling spells on whole towns, replacing delight and passion with drudgery and conformity.

Zelia must decide if she will return to the ordinary world or leap into the next with her new friends to join the fight for freedom and creativity.

The Dual Path is the first book in the Earth to the Stars Adventures series

The series is a playful and powerful journey designed to open readers’ hearts and minds aged ten and older. The story is inspired by the author’s years of exploration in transformative communities. Still, it will appeal to anyone with an awakened imagination and a desire to be completely, joyfully themselves.

Stay tuned as future adventures are still being dreamed.

Positively Negative: How to turn Negative Messages into Positive Onesby Stephen Krempl

Looking for the tools to be seen as a positive person, especially with senior management? Positively Negative: How to Turn Negative Message into Positive Ones is your solution to becoming successful through positivity. You will learn why, when, and where you need to be positive. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to master positivity in specific situations, and the unintentional effects of using negative words when you communicate.

Positively Negative outlines the best way to articulate unpleasant messages in five key opportunities when interacting with senior management: one-on-one, team meetings, conference calls, business presentations, and company socials. So, when these opportunities arise, you can plan, prepare, and perform to be seen as a problem solver who helps the organization achieve its goals. All the while, you will avoid unintentionally becoming that negative, whining complainer company leaders remember for the wrong reasons.

To expand your positive word vocabulary, we provide 18 different word sets to help you transition from Negative to Neutral to Positive using the words, phrases, and questions provided. At the end of each chapter, there are practice statements to help you understand how to convert negative statements to positive ones.

Key points:

o The neuroscience and the impact of negative words on the brain

o The difference between being positive, neutral, and negative

o The mindset needed for communicating positively.

o How your perceived authenticity can impact your intention and impact.

o The mindset you need to have in order to be positive.

o Understanding the 95/5 rule in communications.

o Do you want to be great or just good?

o Understanding the rules of the game.

o The five situations that are either a mine field or fold mine.

o One-on-one conversations and the importance of being positive.

o Are you a problem solver or problem barer?

o How to bring up unpleasant news positively.

o Team meetings and the importance of being positive.

o How do you build your positive brand and reputation?

o Understanding how to ask questions vs. being questioning.

o Conference & virtual calls and the importance of being positive.

o Realizing that there are only three ways to respond to all interactions.

o Presentations and the importance of being positive.

o The importance of your openings, transitions, and closing.

o Understating the difference between content vs. process.

o Q&A and the best way to respond when you don't have the answer.

o Social events and the importance of being positive.

o How to prepare for socials with senior leaders.

o How do you talk to anyone about anything?

o 18 Example sets of positive words, phrases, and questions to remember.

How do you want to be remembered? Focusing on the aforementioned five key situations, Positively Negative provides you with the best methods for articulating and communicating negative messages more positively. At the end of this book, you will have the tools needed to be seen in a more positive light, and positivity leads to success!

Professional Builders Secrets: How Custom Home Builders Can Sign More Contracts at Higher Margins While Delivering a Better Client Experienceby Russ Stephens

Are serious about systemizing your building company?

Maybe you’re keen to get started, but you don’t have the tools you need right now. And maybe you’re a little overwhelmed by all the strategies and tactics you’ve been told are necessary to implement into your business. However, there is no need for you to try to figure out everything yourself, on your own.

At the Association of Professional Builders (APB), their mission is to improve the construction industry for both builders AND consumers. APB believes builders deserve more money than they are currently earning from building custom homes. Additionally, consumers deserve a better experience than they are currently receiving.

Earnings and experience go hand-in-hand. You can’t deliver a world class service on tiny margins without systems. This is why father-daughter partnership, Russ and Sky Stephens are helping residential home builders to implement proven systems into their building companies.

Within Professional Builder Secrets, you’ll find the systems and processes you need. Step by step, Russ and Sky have provided a path to generating more quality leads, more sales, as well as increased margins. Along with their own story, they’ve also included the success stories of past APB clients. With their book in your hands, world class service is only a few pages away.