Mick Jagger, Tony Bennett, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and Prince, I have worked with them all. Along with actors such as Michelle Rodriguez, Will Smith, and Roddy McDowall. And many more. I traveled around the world: scuba diving with hammerhead sharks, trekked through jungles to ancient ruins, and cycled up mountains. I’ve worked as a stagehand for over forty years. Too bad I didn’t realize how good life was until after my girlfriend of eighteen years dumped me. Then I stopped to take a look back at my life and see what made it worth living again.WINNER: BRONZE MEDAL for Non-Fiction—Music/Entertainment, READERS FAVORITE 2026WINNER: BRONZE MEDAL for Non-Fiction—Music/Entertainment...

Pacific Swell is a noir-infused nautical thriller that begins in Los Angeles, where Jonathan“Johnny” Lennox, a successful immigration attorney, is drifting through life withoutconsequence. That all changes when the intoxicating Carmen Escobar enters his world andpulls him into a dangerous plot to steal a fortune and a luxury yacht from her wealthybenefactor.Violence isn't the only thing waiting offshore.Once the heist goes sideways, Johnny finds himself stranded in the middle of the PacificOcean, only to be pulled aboard a Hawaiian fishing boat captained by Kai, a man whose calmwisdom may be his last chance at redemption.But Carmen isn’t done with him yet.As their fates collide again i...

A 2025 Golden Wizard Award RecipientFrom 15x Award-winning and Amazon Bestselling Author Sheri Poe-Pape comes a brand-new heartwarming picture book that celebrates the love between a grandpa and his grandchildren.Time spent with grandparents is precious and a chance to make special memories that will last a lifetime. This beautiful keepsake book will help children and their grandfathers honor that special bond. With warm, inviting illustrations and an engaging story, kids will be eager to hear it again and again.Grandpa plays games with usGrandpa reads with usGrandpa snuggles with usGrandpa laughs with usGrandpa enjoys music with usGrandpa just totally loves us!Perfect gifts for grandfathers...

For folks in search of some fascinating end-of-summer reading, author Joe Calitri’s new book, 2020: The YEAR the Earth Stood Still, is an eye-opening look at the lasting impact that 2020 had on American society and freedoms.  It’s a thought-provoking memoir that offers a critical perspective on one of America's most tumultuous years in recent history, highlighting concerns of government overreach, societal division, and threats to individual liberties.2020: The YEAR The Earth Stood Still is a critical examination of the transformative events that unfolded across America during 2020, delving into issues of government authority, societal fragmentation, and the erosion of individual fr...

Murder on Mersea Island" by Andrew Hixson introduces recently retired military intelligence officer Silas Quirk as he investigates the mysterious locked-room death of his friend Sir Geoffrey Linton at a reclusive manor on Mersea Island, uncovering hidden passages, cryptic clues, and complex relationships among the household members, while contending with local inspector Alice Hargreaves and the housekeeper Winifred Hall's guarded legacy amidst a setting charged with secrecy and tension.

The Spain in these pages is fictional. The moral weight of civil war is not.Spain has fought itself before.The first time, the world watched and drew lessons. Poets wrote about it. Painters captured it. Philosophers argued over what it meant. By the time it ended, nearly a million Spaniards were dead, and the country that emerged from the rubble spent forty years pretending the war had never happened.The second time, no one was watching. Or rather, everyone was watching, and no one was doing anything about it. In the early years of Spain’s Second Civil War, the nation has fractured along fault lines no one predicted. As foreign powers profit from the conflict and maintain official neutrali...

In a small rural town, Bernard's seemingly perfect life is shattered when Sally, his beautiful wife and Joshua, his young son, are murdered in cold blood. Nearby, in a local village a refugee, far from home, attempts to put his violent past behind him and escape the consequences of his monstrous deeds. Caught between his fractured reality and the lies he spins Ahmed travels from town to town. Ahmed's psyche begins to unravel. Will he be able to outrun his guilt or will the truth finally catch up with him. As the investigation unfolds it seems that there were quite a few people who might have had reason to kill Sally. Leading Inspector Lawrence to think that perhaps he should look for the per...

It's Only A Cigarette! Live and Learn How To Stop Smoking.This book is a helpful and practical guide to quitting smoking cigarettes, and overcoming your addiction to nicotine.It is written by Anjali Paul. She started smoking at the age of fifteen and smoked 30 or 40 cigarettes (sometimes more) every day for over 40 years. She decided she wanted to break the addiction as well as quitting, so she came up with a systematic way to do it. She successfully quit smoking for good in March 2020. She has been a (tolerant but firm) smoke free zone since then.This book explains how to cope with the physical, emotional, mental, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual causes and symptoms of smoking.She...

Pranita Upadhyay has everything she thought she wanted — a dream job, a promising career, a life that shines from the outside. But when tragedy strikes, the glittering façade of the corporate world shatters, leaving her alone with an irreparable loss.Haunted by what she cannot change, Pranita leaves behind the chaos of the city and retreats into the Himalayas. There, under the guidance of a wise yogi, she discovers a different way of being — a path of meditation, introspection, and renewal.Years later, she returns, transformed and ready to build a life not just for herself, but for countless others who are trapped in the same cycle of ambition and despair. A deeply moving story of pain,...

In a society where the law is written by criminals, justice is a luxury only the powerful elite can afford.When Thandi’s body is discovered after a weekend away, the truth behind her death is buried almost as quickly as she is. There are suspicions, but most know better than to ask questions in a town controlled by the callous Connard family. Everyone except her closest friends, that is.What begins as a desperate attempt to uncover the truth soon leads them into a dark world of corruption and sexual violence, where victims have no voice and powerful predators know how to buy, break and bend the law to their will. When the system built to protect the innocent instead shields those responsib...

Alex Curtner, the CIA’s Chief of Station for Russia and Ukraine, must expose a traitor before Russian counterintelligence catches his most valuable spy.A traitor inside Ukraine’s General Staff has tipped off the Russians: Ukraine had advance knowledge of Moscow’s war plans. Now, Russian counterintelligence is closing in on Alex’s prized source near the top of Moscow’s hierarchy.To protect his source, Alex must uncover the traitor. If the Russians strike first, his operation – and Alex himself – could be compromised, costing Ukraine territory and countless lives. And if Ukraine is pushed to the brink, a return to nuclear arms could become a last, desperate gamble.From the war ro...

The Zodiacs. They're not what you think they are. They are mythical creatures mixed with a few humans, who meet once a year to figure out who's going to die and who will be born under their signs. After the last Gemini was removed from her position for helping to thwart the apocalypse, a new Gemini awoke.
But when the Zodiac signs start being killed off, can the new Gemini figure out who's killing everyone before she becomes a victim herself?