Science Fiction

Man Downby Roger Smith

A guilty person is always his own hangman.

It's ten years since businessman John Turner, his college professor wife and infant daughter fled violence-torn South Africa for a new life in Tucson, Arizona. A life that seems prosperous and peaceful until a home invasion plunges them into an orgy of bloodshed. As three masked gunmen terrorize the Turners, exposing the fault lines in a marriage built on a foundation of lies, John is forced to confront the truth about his complicity in an unspeakably brutal crime in Johannesburg a decade ago and ask himself a question: is it payback time?

Man Down is both a harrowingly propulsive thriller and a meditation on moral ambiguity and the roles choice and chance play in the shaping of a life.

Lowcountry Punchby Boo Walker

DEA Agent T.A. Reddick's life is in a downward spiral. Brokenhearted and branded a cop killer after a drug bust gone wrong, he's haunted by the guilt of hard choices made in a hail of gunfire and the pain of a fiancée who left him on Christmas Eve. Desperate to start over, he returns home to Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to shake off tragic memories. But when a movie star's death shines a spotlight on Charleston's underground cocaine trade, T.A. must go undercover to find the main supplier and shut the ring down.

The pressure is on as T.A. adopts an entirely new identity and attempts to earn the trust of the powerful drug kingpin. But things are about to get even more complicated. An ex-lover shows up threatening to blow T.A.'s cover, a budding relationship with the woman of his dreams is about to fall apart, and a deadly hurricane is bearing down on the coastal city.

In a high stakes game where there are no second chances, T.A. will have to leave the downward spiral of his past behind–or risk losing it all.

Intermittent Fasting: The Science Of Intermittent Fasting: The Complete Guide To Unlocking Your Weight Loss Potentialby Connor Thompson

Maximize Your Weight Loss and Health Potential with the Science of Intermittent Fasting

Are you thinking about losing weight or have you been trying to lose weight unsuccessfully?

Have you tried numerous fad diets and weight loss programs?

Are you ready to try something that will shed those excess pounds and boost your heath?

Intermittent fasting is a method which alternates between controlled eating and fasting. It isn’t a ‘diet’ as such, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you should starve yourself, but it has been proven to reduce weight for the millions who have tried it.

Now, in The Science of Intermittent Fasting: The Complete Guide to Unlocking Your Weight Loss Potential, you can discover how intermittent fasting could work for you, through chapters that look at:

• What intermittent fasting is all about
• Cellular repair
• Improving brain health
• Insulin levels
• Inflammation
• Cholesterol
• Cancer and diabetes
• Aging
• How to get the most out of your fasts
• And lots more…

The scientific benefits of intermittent fasting on your health and weight loss are clear to see and with an in-depth look into the research and studies carried out on intermittent fasting, The Science of Intermittent Fasting is the perfect book that deliver all the answers.

RESET: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happyby David Sawyer

Are you happy? Is there more to life than this? What if there is another way? ~ “Hidden in plain sight within the 300 or so pages of RESET is an elegant synthesis of the latest thinking in financial independence, lifestyle design, and age-old philosophical wisdom – cunningly disguised as a breezy pep talk from your witty mate down the pub. In a world that’s forever racing past us on a screen, it’s a reminder of the potentially life-changing power of a book.” – MONEVATOR

What if that way doesn’t involve jacking in your job, leaving your partner, having a midlife crisis, uprooting your existence? What if that way just involves small actions, taken every day? With no more effort than you now spend tending your social media flock, superglued to a screen.

Best of all, what if that way costs you little? In fact, what if that way saves you a tonne of money and lets you retire a few years earlier?

“Sawyer’s RESET shows us how to achieve material wealth. It emphasizes discipline, sacrifice, and hard work…” – WILLIAM D. DANKO, PhD, co-author of The Millionaire Next Door

What if someone said that by following this way you will get:

• An idea of what you were put on this earth to do.
• Increased happiness, purpose and meaning.
• A practical plan to future-proof your career.
• A way to declutter your life, so you’re able to see and think clearly again.
• A fully costed route to financial independence (you can call it early retirement if you like).
• A system to manage your finances.
• An investing plan that will knock your socks off and explain how you can get your F.U. Money.

DAVID SAWYER is not a guru. He’s just a middle-aged, married-with-two-children, Glasgow public relations guy who woke up one day and decided to change things. Six years later, the result is RESET – the unconventional guide for midlife professionals that will wipe the windscreen of life so you can see clearly again.

It’s a page-turner (part story, part practical guide), which draws on the experiences and research of hundreds of academics, philosophers, Nobel prize-winners, actors, Olympic athletes, self-help authors, investors and personal finance experts. 

“A comprehensive introduction to things you didn’t learn in school but should have. RESET is a complete program with enough motivation and details to make it easy to begin without being too complicated. You’ll feel like doing one or two things right now.” – JACOB LUND FISKER, PhD, author, Early Retirement Extreme

“RESET is an incredibly detailed and comprehensive guide to planning and achieving the life you desire. But that’s only true if what you desire is to work on your own terms, to achieve goals that are meaningful to you, and to move rapidly towards your financial independence.” – JOHN KINGHAM, managing editor, UK Value Investor and author of The Defensive Value Investor

If you read RESET and carry out its recommendations, within a year, you will have transformed your future. It’s never too late. Carpe diem. You are the master of your fate: you (and no one else) are the captain of your soul.

Glastonburyby Brian L. Porter

Hidden in the shadows of Glastonbury Tor lies an ancient secret.

After millionaire Malcolm Capshaw hires Joe Cutler and his team to search for a fabled artifact, they enter a maze of lies, murder and betrayal. The real purpose of their search is soon exposed, as an old London crime family displays an unusual interest in an ancient town where Christianity laid its roots in England.

There, aided by the enigmatic professor Lucius Doberman, Joe and his team must solve the mystery of Glastonbury before the sinister historian Walter Graves makes the discovery that could cost him and the whole team their lives.

By the Unholy Handby Kathryn Le Veque

Spies. Killers. Gentleman knights. Medieval England is about to face the Unholy Trinity.

You read about them in ‘Lord of Winter’. Now discover Book One in 2019’s exciting new Medieval series!

1200 A.D. – In the time following the death of Richard the Lionheart and the ascension of his brother, John, to the throne of England, a plot against the new king is hatched from an unexpected place – deep within the bowels of The Lateran Palace in Rome. It is rumored that the Pope himself is behind it. It is a plot so dark, and so dastardly, that William Marshal needs men who specialize in dark and dirty games in order to save a king they all hate, yet a king that England desperately needs.

The Marshal needs the men known as The Unholy Trinity -the Executioner Knights.

Sir Maxton of Loxbeare is the leader of this unholy band of cutthroats. A big man with dark hair and dark eyes, Maxton fostered in the finest houses, but there is something unsettling about him. He is a man who easily kills without remorse, and he never questions an order, no matter how unsavory it is. William Marshall tasks Maxton and his comrades with seeking out the papal assassins, and the duty soon becomes a high-stakes game of chess, with checkmate being the life of the King of England.

Enter Lady Andressa du Bose. A great heiress who was cheated out of her inheritance by a conniving aunt, Andressa has spent unhappy and bitter years serving in the convent she was essentially sold to. A chance meeting with Maxton introduces Andressa to a world she wants to be part of, and a man she is greatly attracted to, but in that meeting, she has unknowingly given Maxton a lead on something he very much wants – a clue to who the assassins really are. All signs point to papal operatives. Maxton has a job to do and he’ll use anyone he can to complete it, including the lovely pledge who is increasingly on his mind… and in his heart.

Join Maxton and Andressa in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where all is not what it seems, and even those most devout can sometimes hold a terrible secret. It soon becomes clear that Maxton must make a choice… give in to his feelings for Andressa, or save a king, and with that, England’s sovereignty.

It’s a showdown of good against evil, and the power of love against a knight’s sense of duty, in this larger-than-life Medieval Romance.

Note: Read Lord of Winter by Kathryn Le Veque as a prequel to this series!

The Measurements of Decayby K. K. Edin

Winner of the 2018 NYC Big Book Award's Distinguished Favorite in Science Fiction In the far future, Earth's nearby star systems have been colonized. Outfitted with a device that allows them to escape into hallucinations at will, people spend most of their time withdrawn into their own minds. Tikan Solstafir, a renegade who refuses the illusory life enjoyed by others, lives in self-imposed exile on a starship. When a mysterious enemy attacks the ship, Tikan embarks on a mission to destroy the galactic tyranny and liberate humanity from its own dreams.

Meanwhile, in the 21st Century, a disillusioned philosopher believes that humanity's collective misery originates in people's failure to communicate with others and make sense of the world. Growing increasingly misanthropic and monomaniacal, he proceeds on a hermetic quest to save humanity from itself, while also succumbing to his own moral decline.

As these stories intertwine, a young girl reappears through various epochs, fleeting through Ancient Greece, Medieval Norway, Bolshevik Russia, among others. Unbound by time, Sielle has formed few attachments. Eventually thrust into Tikan's world, she becomes unwillingly entangled in a political scheme spanning centuries.

An engrossing and multi-layered science fiction epic, The Measurements of Decay is K. K. Edin's stunning debut. At once a tortured love letter to philosophy and a space opera spanning centuries, it is a novel of ideas wrapped in a cautionary tale.

Purchase The Measurements of Decay today and discover how small events in the present grow to dominate the far future.

Gain With Pain: Chronic Illness Productivity Hacksby Erin Zarro

Sometimes life gets complicated.

Your doctor has informed you that you have cancer. Or fibromyalgia. Or perhaps lupus. When you receive a serious
health diagnosis, you can do one of three things: act as if nothing happened and try unsuccessfully to muddle through, shut down completely…or find your new normal.

In Gain with Pain: Chronic Illness Productivity Hacks, Erin Zarro shares her daily struggles with multiple serious health
conditions, and how she found her new normal. She gives you exercises to do to mentally prepare yourself for the day, shares how to plan activities so you don’t completely exhaust yourself or worsen your condition, and suggests ways you can get past the grief of your diagnosis and move on with your life.

Even if you don’t have serious health problems, you can use the list-making techniques outlined in this book to help
organize your time so that the rigors of a busy schedule no longer get in the way of your productivity and happiness. To allow you the kind of time to enjoy friends, family, and the life you deserve.

Gain with Pain: Chronic Illness Productivity Hacks is Erin’s first self-help book about coping with the daily struggles of chronic illness. You may also enjoy Life as a Moving Target, a poetry chapbook that explores what life with a chronic illness is really like.