Nonfiction

Becoming a Sun: Emotional & Spiritual Intelligence for a Happy, Fulfilling Lifeby David Karchere

Becoming a Sun is a portrayal of the human journey. It shares essential emotional intelligence and spiritual wisdom that assists a person on their path.

The radical premise of the book is that, on the inside, we are already a being of incredible love, wisdom and creativity. We are a sun on the inside. Our human journey is to become a sun on the outside — a living embodiment of what is in the depth of our soul.

Boys in the Trees: A Memoirby Carly Simon

Carly Simon’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Boys in the Trees, reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song “You’re So Vain.” She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, for her song “Let the River Run” from the movie Working Girl.

The memoir recalls a childhood enriched by music and culture, but also one shrouded in secrets that would eventually tear her family apart. Simon brilliantly captures moments of creative inspiration, the sparks of songs, and the stories behind writing “Anticipation” and “We Have No Secrets” among many others. Romantic entanglements with some of the most famous men of the day fueled her confessional lyrics, as well as the unraveling of her storybook marriage to James Taylor.

Who Let Me Adult?: 20 Lessons I Wish I’d Learnt Before Entering the Working Worldby Dave Colley

This is the ultimate guide book for those entering the working world. Who Let Me Adult? covers the topics that the education system didn’t teach you – such as the low-down on how to get the right job, how to make and grow your money, and how to find happiness.

Sections include:
•Finding a Sense of Purpose
•Accumulating Financial Wealth
•Targeting Career Success

Dave Colley, chartered accountant, lean change and transformation agent, entrepreneur, and life coach, has had a number of “Why didn’t they teach me that?” moments since leaving the education system. He has now made it his mission to help young adults learn everything he wishes someone had told him when he was starting out in the career world. In this one concise book, Dave takes you step by step on how you can have it all.

Dave was highly successful in his career being in the top rankings year after year, yet after having worked in the corporate world for almost a decade, he still felt that he was drifting through life with a lack of purpose. Life was happening to him. Deciding to do something about it, he began a journey of exploring new concepts, seeking to discover real-world, practical ideas.

Dave continues to pursue personal growth and development. As he uncovers important concepts that alter his life, he makes a conscious decision to share what he has discovered with others – by encouraging those around him with his example and guidance and communicating with a worldwide audience through his blog, Reaching Aspiration. Instead of working for 50 years only to end up with a miserable retirement, Dave encourages you to take the time to become educated and informed in order to make better decisions now, to reduce the stress that often comes when dealing with topics you may be unsure or anxious about.

These ideas can be game changers to your life’s success and happiness, and by providing them to you, Dave offers you a challenge to share in his daily mantra:

Today, I choose happiness. To be alive is grand.
I am excited about everything, as it is all in my control.
What is not, is of no concern to me.
I have ten thousand lives to change.
I am focused and will succeed.
Life is short. Let’s do this.

Mine Forever #1by Weston Parker

I never gave a f*ck about my family’s billions.

I’m a military man, honorable and true.

But my damn brother felt differently. He had me tossed in prison for a crime I didn’t commit, and now, all I think about is revenge.

It slowly becomes an obsession until something finally breaks through the dark cloud.

My high school sweetheart.

It’s been ten years since graduation, and she isn’t a little smart-assed girl anymore.

She’s a woman. My woman.

I thought prison would undo me, but nothing could prepare me for the secret my girl held back from me.

A baby. A family. One I didn’t know I had.

And now my brother knows, too. He’ll use anything to destroy me, including my kid.

Money creates opportunity, but there’s a cost it requires.

The payment for wealth is high, and my brother is willing to go all in.

I might have started out honorable, but now?

There’s nothing this ex-con won’t do to keep his family safe.

Even kill.

Every good girl deserves a bad boy ~ Weston

This is book 1 in a three book series. You will need to read the other two books to finish the story.

Rebuilding Aldenby JR Thompson

Philip Bones is a fearless warrior — one who never acknowledges the possibility of defeat.

As a juvenile probation officer, the young man is constantly engaged in spiritual warfare.

But there’s more to Mr. Bones than being a courthouse pigeon. God has burdened his heart to transform the lives of anger-driven, rebellious juvenile delinquents.

More often than not, the wayward youths he sets out to save have no intentions of ever escaping their paths to self-destruction.

Alden Wamboldt, his newest client, is a great example. The thirteen-year-old got himself into legal trouble by assaulting his grandmother with a baseball bat. Who does that? The boy shows no remorse. How dare his grandma confiscate his cell phone!

Motivating Alden to overcome his anger outbursts is going to be a HUGE undertaking. Everyone who knows the teen expects him to either wind up behind bars or in an early grave.

Regardless of what anyone else thinks, Philip Bones is determined his client can beat the odds. Through unorthodox methods, acts of self-sacrifice, and plenty of tough-love, he’s certain he can make a difference.

Mr. Bones might not be able to change the world, but he can make an impact — one teenage criminal at a time.

Rebuilding Alden is an inspirational, faith-growing, Christian novel with a happy ending. If you enjoy feel-good stories, you’ll love this entire series.

The Promiseby Kathryn Le Veque

You met Cullen de Nerra in the January 2019 release ‘By the Unholy Hand’. Now, Cullen is off on his own adventure of political intrigue and a forbidden love!

1208 A.D. – Sir Cullen de Nerra is a knight’s knight. The son of the Sheriff of Hampshire, Val de Nerra (Vestiges of Valor), Cullen has been heavily involved in the politics of William Marshal for many years, but never more involved than when The Marshal gifts his services to a powerful, but unpredictable, warlord, Preston de Lacy.

De Lacy is a rich man with too much time on his hands and a great hatred for King John. Cullen’s task is to keep watch on de Lacy and pass information to William Marshal on his movements and actions. It is suspected that he is behind a renewed resurgence of rebellion against the king and William Marshal must stay one step ahead of him.

Cullen is very good at keeping an eye on de Lacy until a new distraction enters the picture – Lady Teodora “Teddy” de Rivington. Teddy had been betrothed to Preston’s nephew until the lad got himself killed. Now, as a matter of gaining the de Rivington fortune, Preston assumes the betrothal and marries Teddy. With Teddy’s father greatly loyal to King John, Preston is only concerned with using his new wife against her father, but Teddy’s father is pleased for the same reason – using his daughter to gain information on the king’s enemies.

The situation is complicated enough when a new facet arises – Cullen’s growing feelings for Teddy. The woman is caught in a deadly game of politics and Preston refuses to have anything to do with his wife, leaving Cullen as her only source of comfort. What starts off as a polite acquaintance quickly grows into something far more passionate.

As a lonely knight and a lonely lady are drawn together by circumstances beyond their control, the situation explodes. When Cullen prevents King John from abducting Teddy to punish de Lacy, he is declared a fugitive from the law and Teddy is told that he was killed whilst fleeing the prince. Believing he is dead, she also discovers she is pregnant with his child, making the situation far more complicated because her own husband has never bedded her.

It’s a race against time for Cullen to return to the woman he loves and save her from the king, her father, and her own husband. In the beginning of their love affair, he promised to always love her, to always protect her, and to always be faithful to her. He intends to fulfill that promise… or die trying.

The Promise is an epic Medieval adventure you’ll not soon forget.

The Promise is a full-length novel linked to the Le Veque books Vestiges of Valor and By the Unholy Hand

Duke of Havocby Whitney Blake

Book One in an exciting new Regency Historical Romance series. Meet the damaged dukes from the Napoleonic wars and the spirited, strong-willed, and beautiful women who help them discover the joy of living again. Romance, intrigue, and passion ignite in this stunning new series – and read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited!

Lord Reeve Malliston, Third Duke of Nidderdale, is a brilliant military tactician with a musician’s eccentricities. A favorite of the Duke of Wellington, he’s called to fight on the fields of Salamanca. The English victory is supposed to be Reeve’s defining accomplishment, but war is cruel to the duke, who is discharged from the battlefield nearly deaf and with two fingers missing. He comes home a disgraced and broken man, or so he believes.

After his lady wife dies under mysterious circumstances, nasty rumors abound that he went mad, that war shattered his mind and he murdered the mother of his two young daughters. With little care for the social consequences, he does nothing to combat the gossip and descends into debauchery, leaving his children under the dubious care of a pernicious governess and her sister, his equally uncivil housekeeper.

When yet another instance of domestic chaos greets him and his daughters beg him to intervene, Reeve suddenly decides to enlist his old comrade’s daughter as their new governess. With this new woman to be both surrogate mother and tutor, Reeve plans on resuming his risqué lifestyle without worry or guilt.

But Miss Caroline Sedgwyck, though affectionate toward the children and levelheaded overall, is anything but docile. She sees right through Reeve’s penchant for impropriety, much as he detects that her calm indifference to him is a facade. The two constantly test each other as Caroline challenges the duke to do what is best for his family, while Reeve stirs Caroline’s passions.

Desire, friction, and friendship blossom in equal measure between them–is Caroline the woman to quell the Duke of Havoc? Will she restore the music to his soul?

Uncover My Secretsby Ali Parker

Prince.

It is a title that some boys dream of, but as an orphan, I never thought it would happen to me. After being adopted by the wealthiest people in Qatar, I had a new life to look forward to.

Years later, my adopted parents would have a son, a true son. My father gave me the opportunity to have my own business, and I could never repay him for what he has done for me.

After a trip to Qatar to see him, I find out that he is stepping down as the king and wants me to be the new king. I know my brother is the one that should have the seat, but he is only eleven and has spoken out about not wanting to do it.

All this, and now the most beautiful woman somehow pushes her way into my life. She is tough and persistent. Two very attractive qualities in a woman.

I’m in a place of doubt and confusion and all I need is her.

When she tells me who she really is, can I still love her?