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Author of the epic fantasy adventure Servants of the Moon and Sun series. Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm is the first in the series.

The Diabetes Book was previously published as "Living on a Tightrope: Coping with Diabetes Hall of Famer Ron Santo was a diabetic who starred for the Chicago Cubs in the 1960’s. These were the dark ages of diabetes care, and Santo struggled with his disease in secret. His amazing story illustrates the unique problems of living with diabetes and helps show the incredible progress that’s been made in treating it since then.One thing hasn’t changed: old wives tales and incorrect common “knowledge” are so rampant that millions of people believe things that simply aren’t true. This includes many diabetics and it’s even worse among the general public. This can result in genuine fear, a naïve disregard for its seriousness, or anything in between.The Diabetes Book is easily readable and uses compelling real-life stories to explain practical realities to diabetics, those who love them, and those who worry about it. It inspires everyone – diabetic or not – to pursue strong, healthy lives.

"That evil now comes near to overflowing its bounds.”
Allabva stood, staring at Hronomon. This was what he wanted to talk about? Was this real?
“What do you mean, overflow its bounds?” Allabva asked.
“Perhaps you saw the sky split open last night?” Hronomon said.
Allabva shared a look with Mother, then both nodded, faces pale. 
“And a few months ago,” Mother said. “What does that have to do with this?”
“Those are cracks in the prison. More will come in the next months. We must prepare, be ready to stop it. When the evil bursts its prison, all the world will feel it.”
*****
Allabva is content with a quiet life, tending her mother’s orchard and nurturing a budding romance. Though legends of the Nightshade Unicorn, a frightful beast, echo in the shadows, Allabva pays them no heed. Unicorns—Nomord—are peaceful, lighthearted, and all female.
Until a male Nomord, the Forerunner, singles her out, summoning her on an urgent mission to aid the great Shrongelin—another being from legend—and save the world from an impossible, evil menace.
Now, she races against time and faces the realization that what she didn’t know can hurt her—and threaten the entire world.

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A family desperate for a fresh start finds themselves tangled up in a strange connection to a mysterious old house.

After experiencing marriage troubles and dark pasts, Ian and Lyana Keane are ready to leave Boston behind and move with their two kids--Ariel (15) and Zach (12)--to the sleepy New Hampshire town of Littleton. They are inexplicably drawn to an old house that they all feel an immediate connection to--a home complete with a rich history, extensive grounds, intriguing character, and a Caretaker. 

But as time goes on, strange things begin to happen with the house and the family living within its walls. They see recurring symbols, experience realistic hallucinations, uncover mysteries they can't explain. One by one the Keane family realise that dark forces - or something stronger - are afoot. Be it cursed ancient mythology, dark magic, or just chilling coincidence, the Keane family are forced to rely on Marshall the caretaker for help, but is he really as kind and cooperative as he seems?

Seventeen-year-old Ross Collins has three main cares in life: sport, girls and scraping by on just enough revision for his exams. But then, just one day after passing his driving test, he causes an accident in which another driver is killed.
The police arrest him for causing death by careless driving.
Devastated, distraught and overcome with remorse, he sets off on a desperate search for redemption in religion. He joins the Alpha Course, but there he meets Omega Bee, a theology student whose faith is crumbling. She sabotages his quest by teaching him the truth about the human origins of Christianity and the Bible.
But who needs truth when you have killed somebody?

In the gorgeous small town of Ivy Falls, Torran is putting all her passion into building her new career in house restoration, trying desperately to help the town keep its identity and charm. She has no time for love but when her childhood sweetheart, Beck, comes back to town and outbids her on her dream house at auction, sparks fly. This man broke her heart. Can she ever trust him again?

For Beck, Ivy Falls means trauma and loss. He knows his sudden departure hurt Torran badly but there are things she doesn’t know. He never intended to return to Ivy Falls so why is he there, bidding on his childhood home? His feelings for Torran are as strong as ever but Torran means Ivy Falls and Beck can’t go back there. Can he find a way to heal his past and find his future?

Offered the chance to run his twin brother's A.I. company, Anthony Wilson ditches his failing screenwriting career to start anew in Macau. The job turns highly lucrative when Anthony's new client, Cash Cheang, a pompadour-topped and Johnny Cash-loving casino operator, hands him a bag full of cold hard Yuan to implement a facial recognition system in his casino.Hearing about Anthony's past life as a screenwriter, Cash offers him another job - ghostwriting a biography about the casino mogul's life rising from the mean streets of Macau to becoming one of the city's most notorious and successful businessmen. Anthony accepts the job while also agreeing to help Cash sell his latest scheme, a cryptocoin aimed at raising funds for

Allowing readers to escape into richly imagined worlds that reflect and refract our own. Through mythic quests, magical realms, and heroic journeys, fantasy novels delve into fundamental questions about identity, morality, and the human condition. By conjuring alternate realities, fantasy authors invite us to confront our deepest fears and desires, to challenge societal norms and conventions, and to reimagine the possibilities of our world. In this way, fantasy novels serve as a powerful tool for social commentary, personal growth, and cultural critique, offering readers a chance to engage with complex issues and ideas in an immersive and transformative way.

It uses carefully selected words to evoke emotions, capture moments, and provoke thought, transcending the mere act of communication to become an art that resonates with the depths of the human experience. Through various styles and forms, from the haiku to the sonnet, poetry explores themes as diverse as love, grief, nature, and social injustice, offering both the poet and the reader a means to explore the complexities of life and the subtleties of emotion. It serves not only as a mirror reflecting societal values and personal experiences but also as a window into the diverse cultures and historical periods from which it springs.

Swordplay, magic, intrigue and friendships stronger than iron: the first volume in the new swashbuckling fantasy series by the best-selling author of The Greatcoats.

Damelas Shademantaigne picked a poor night to flee a judicial duel. 

He has precious little hope of escaping the wrath of the Vixen, the most feared duellist in the entire city, until he stumbles through the stage doors of the magnificent Operato Belleza and tricks his way into the company of actors. An archaic law provides a temporary respite from his troubles - until one night a ghostly voice in his head causes Damelas to fumble his lines, inadvertently blurting out a dreadful truth: the city's most legendary hero may actually be a traitor and a brutal murderer.

With only the help of his boisterous and lusty friend Bereto, a beautiful assassin whose target may well be Damelas himself, and a company of misfit actors who'd just as soon see him dead, this failed son of two Greatcoats must somehow find within himself the courage to dig up long-buried truths before a ruthless band of bravos known as the Iron Orchids come for his head.

Oh, and there's still that matter of the Vixen waiting to duel him....

Magic and science were one once.
The Artificers of old could create great wonders
beyond imagination.
But these great builders were banished long ago, and
their machines have lay dormant for many years.
Until now.
Now they awake, and work once more. But no one in the
Empire knows why or how, or how to stop it.
A mysterious group intent on raising an ancient evil have appeared once more.
And they are up to something in Slade's home town…

For fans of Karen Russell's Swamplandia! comes a new tale of found family and magic.After his mother dies, Peter Berry collects memories in broken watches the way others collect photographs. Peter takes his box filled with broken watches and flees his childhood home to a battered apartment complex in San Francisco—his mother's favorite city—in an attempt to bury the box with the dark truths of her haunting memory before she returns to take him too. The night Sofia Morales's daughter disappears, Sofia begins to hear her daughter's voice. Her world crumbles—her marriage crumbles. After demanding her husband leave, Sofia runs from Buenos Aires, Argentina to San Francisco—a city she always wanted to visit—renting an apartment in a beat-up complex at the edge of North Beach and blasting the radio to escape the voice of whom she can't bear to listen. Peter and Sophia become close friends in the confined space of the city, finding companionship in the shadow of their unspoken nightmares. When Sofia receives a letter from her estranged husband, and Peter proves unable to bury his box of watches, the ghosts of their pasts once more threaten the lives they have created, now tearing at the fabric of their friendship with the tormented memories they keep, whether real or imagined. Unfolding over three decades, Life Between Seconds sets Peter and Sophia on a collision course with their respective pasts propelling them toward either redemption or damnation. Engrossing, heartbreaking, and surreal Douglas Weissman's first adult novel is a meditation on trauma, family, and how to heal after a great loss.

"From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book’s epilogue, Burnell’s voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus MC standing centre ring. [Usurper Kings is] a work of breathtakingly beautiful discovery." Kevin Hogan

Sapha Burnell’s stellar poetry collection inspects the feminine through time.

From act I’s genesis and the search for meaning within the hunter gatherer mindset, to the existential singularity of a transhumanist future, Usurper Kings is a mind bending cerebral and emotionally rebellious series of poems.

Infinitely feminine, mighty and sometimes rebellious, the essence of Usurper Kings is the search to remember feminine might and discover the power to take it back.

The first epic saga of the tale of history's first woman, Lilith. An ancient legend spanning back to the beginning of time, before there was Adam and Eve, there was Adam and Lilith. Lilith has lived a life of rebellion and chaos, birthing a race of half-demons known as the Lilim. Lilith's human avatar, Laylah Rodriguez must hunt these wayward demons to restore balance with Heaven and Earth 

The World In Our Words demonstrates humanity, the highs and lows experienced within life. As the reader goes on a journey around the world you will also go on a journey through poetry styles and subjects.

Allowing the poet to express them authentically with no restraints, a collaboration which is truly special.

Offering a platform to those with limited opportunities for their own works.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide."From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book’s epilogue, Burnell’s voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus MC standing centre ring. [Usurper Kings is] a work of breathtakingly beautiful discovery." Kevin Hogan

Sapha Burnell’s stellar poetry collection inspects the feminine through time.

From act I’s genesis and the search for meaning within the hunter gatherer mindset, to the existential singularity of a transhumanist future, Usurper Kings is a mind bending cerebral and emotionally rebellious series of poems.

Infinitely feminine, mighty and sometimes rebellious, the essence of Usurper Kings is the search to remember feminine might and discover the power to take it back.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstore worldwide.This fictional account exposes the dark underbelly of the custody industry in American villages. Children are treated like footballs and are simply kicked from place to place, parental rights are routinely violated, often with one parent who is considered no more than a paycheck, and the custody enterprise of judges, lawyers, and counselors profit from the displacement and misery of children. The novel punches hard in the gut and does not let up until the untimely and tragic climax.

GIRL IN THE ASHES takes the reader deeper into the morally gray area of doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Caught in the now dark City of Lights, with survival a daily challenge. GIRL IN THE ASHES is a Trojan horse into Holocaust education, that seeks to reveal a different view of the atrocities of the occupation through a new lens that allows more and new people into the conversation.
France has fallen to the Nazis and as people flee, Odette Lefebvre uses the chaos to kill men she finds deserving. After succumbing to the sinister charms of the new German doctor running the hospital, Odette must keep her head down to avoid unwanted attention or risk exposing her murderous secret and endangering those she loves. But the secrets of those close to her could unknowingly mean her death.

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide."From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book’s epilogue, Burnell’s voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus MC standing centre ring. [Usurper Kings is] a work of breathtakingly beautiful discovery." Kevin Hogan

Dozens of Pickard's short stories have been published, including Hardwired, which won a Ray Bradbury Creative Writing Prize in 2005.

Pickard’s extensive background working with cutting edge technology has proved helpful for imagining fictive universes and societies. Strong satire keeps readers grounded, thinking and laughing.

In his first series, the Three Kingdoms Chronicles, he uses his passion for ancient History and his experience living in Asia to bring you a retelling of China’s most famous civil war. When not writing, Baptiste creates content for two video channels, “Yunique France”, and “Back In Time Fiction”, the channel dedicated to the very best genre of literature.

My name is Keenan Booker and I am a Published Author. I own my publishing company: StarGate Publishing. The books I have written range in many different subjects, such as: Medieval History, Caribbean History, Social Sciences, Philosophy and Spirituality. My most recent completed work is a two volume Encyclopedia titled: The Encyclopedia on The Alchemy of Women. 

Available on Amazon and leading online bookstores worldwide.An American Civil War veteran must survive a clash of empires if he's ever going to find his way back to the woman he loves.

This is book 5 of the Long Century series, although YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ THE PREVIOUS BOOKS to enjoy this one.

The Prussian Prince is a swashbuckling adventure that'll take you into the heart of the Austro-Prussian War, featuring historically accurate depictions of the Battles of Tratenau and Königgrätz, with real historical characters such as Otto von Bismarck, King Wilhelm I, the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, and so much more as Germany marches toward unification and dominance over Central Europe.

Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann has been writing since childhood, and has a B.A. in writing from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in Bradford, PA. He has lived in Columbia, SC for more than twenty years with his wife and editor, Jay-Jay Flanagan-Grannemann, and a coterie of cats. Joel has a day job in back room operations at a major national retail chain where he has worked in various capacities since 1995.

Sci-fi fantasy characters often serve as the bridge between the known and the unimaginable, embodying the essence of exploration and innovation. These characters, whether human, alien, or a creation of pure fantasy, navigate worlds where technology and magic redefine the boundaries of possibility. They are architects of their destinies, wielding advanced technologies or arcane powers to confront challenges that stretch the limits of their courage, wisdom, and moral compass. Through their journeys, they confront not only external adversaries but also internal conflicts, exploring themes of identity, responsibility, and the nature of humanity itself. Their stories are set against a backdrop of vast galaxies, dystopian futures, or realms where dragons soar and cities float among the clouds, offering a canvas for the exploration of complex ethical dilemmas, the consequences of power, and the quest for understanding in a universe of endless diversity. Sci-fi fantasy characters, with their rich backstories and diverse capabilities, invite readers and viewers to question what it means to be human and to imagine what lies beyond the horizon of our current understanding.

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