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America High by Dalton Lewis

About America High by Dalton Lewis:

America High is a high school as a microcosm of America. It features a murder mystery, a controversial election, a terrible secret, and arguments about racism and LGBTQ issues. It also features a wonderful cast of teenagers trying to navigate high school.

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Grave Digger Academy by C.A. King, USA Today Bestselling Author

Grave Digger Academy by C.A. King, USA Today Bestselling Author

There is a reason why people don’t believe in monsters and it’s not because zombies, vampires, mummies, and ghosts don’t exist…

Welcome to Grave Digger Academy- the last place anyone wants to end up.

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It’s Makayla’s first year in the paranormal academy system. When all three of the schools she applies to deny her entry, there’s only one left. Unfortunately, she’s more interested in finding a way out of Grave Digger Academy than in learning its curriculum.

Gravediggers actually do the digging. Grave Diggers, however, keep buried bodies where they belong—six feet under.

This year’s students are about to learn corpses can be temperamental, and when the dead refuse to cooperate, there’s Hell to pay.

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To Pieces

About To Pieces:

Jane Flynn – a self-described Plain Jane – finds life taking a dramatic turn junior year of high school when she undergoes her first bipolar episode. Hers is a wild ride through devastating depression and soaring mania as she navigates friendship, first love, and dark family secrets.

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Wilderness

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A plague has devastated the land.

Bloodthirsty creatures stalk the night.

A loose band of survivors fight for their lives.

Can they make it through?

And what will become of them if they do?

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To Pieces

About To Pieces:

Jane Flynn – a self-described Plain Jane – finds her life taking a dramatic turn junior year of high school when she undergoes her first bipolar episode. Hers is a wild ride through devastating depression and soaring mania as she navigates friendship, first love, and dark family secrets.

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Ring Fold by Scott Swisher

Ring Fold by Scott Swisher

“High-octane, engrossing, and action-packed. A truly unmissable sci-fi read.” — Readers’ Favorite

“An exciting, heartfelt time travel novel. Scott Swisher mixes up scene-setting and action-based adventure exceptionally well. His imaginative descriptions of different historical periods transport readers with ease, and strong character development make this enjoyable sci-fi tale a standout.” — SPR

Jordan Zesker is one of only five surviving descendants of “The Ring.” She thinks the 1920s are tough, but family debt and speakeasy blues will soon seem insignificant. Her blood type, a bona fide blessing and a curse, has placed her in the sights of TEMPUS. Shadowy forces have long worked to weaponize the chosen few endowed with the gift to transcend time and space … and absolutely nowhere is safe.

When Jacob appears out of the blue, bearing news too strange to believe, a staggering decision must be made: will Jordan cling to her desolate life or trust this stranger and help assemble an intergenerational team to somehow save humanity?

Accessing the Fold, an extra-dimensional passageway through time, Jordan must race to find her fated kin across the ages. Rocco in 1956. Paul in 1973. Steffi in 1984. Carissa in 2015. Each will prove essential in the battle for humankind’s future—and past.

Should diabolic entities succeed in overtaking the Fold, it won’t just mean the end of Jordan’s kind but all things good.

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The Agency: The Norwood Nanny Chronicles by Monica McGurk


About Featured Book: The Agency: The Norwood Nanny Chronicles by Monica McGurk

Limited time $0.99 promotion from 9/2-9/16/22

The Norwood Nanny Chronicles begin . . .

When American orphan, Bree, arrives at Norwood College—the elite English training ground of nannies to the world’s rich and powerful—she knows that making it through the first year to land a spot in the coveted certificate program is the key to her future. She also knows she can’t go it alone, bonding quickly with her groupmates: an errant (and broke) nobleman, son of one of England’s oldest families; the ambitious and whip-smart daughter of a self-made immigrant; and the ditzy, husband-hunting daughter of a disgraced playboy aristocrat. What none of them realize is that there is more to Norwood than meets the eye: the school itself may unlock the secrets of Bree’s own shadowy past, and the classmates’ very lives will depend on their ability to work together to meet the dangers ahead.

“Fast-paced and full of unexpected twists, Monica McGurk’s The Agency is the perfect mashup of Mary Poppins and James Bond. If you love deftly drawn characters in exotic locations and a compelling plot that will keep you reading past your bedtime, this is the book for you!”
—Kathy Wilson Florence, journalist, blogger, and author of Three of Cups, Jaybird’s Song, and You’ve Got a Wedgie Cha Cha Cha

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Life Skills for Your ADHD Teen: Coping Skills and Life Lessons to Prepare Your Teen for The Emotional World Ahead

About Life Skills for Your ADHD Teen: Coping Skills and Life Lessons to Prepare Your Teen for The Emotional World Ahead:

All teens need help preparing for the adult world. For parents of an ADHD teen, additional navigation is essential—starting today!

The average human brain isn’t fully developed until around the age of 25. That’s already 7 years into adult life.

When you consider the neuro differences between a typical brain and an ADHD brain, your teen may have greater developmental challenges.

Think of how hard it is to sit down and dedicate time to your budget or to find a moment to stay on top of household chores.

When the world gives you (an adult) problem after problem, it’s almost impossible to control your emotions.

But you know how to manage your impulses, your focus, and your time. Does your teen?

The emphasis on early intervention is wonderful—if you have a toddler.

However, the support for parents who need to teach their teens complete independence is extremely limited. Until now!

In this companion for adults with ADHD teens, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:

● What ADHD feels like for a teen but how this doesn’t have to stop them from becoming self-empowered adults
● How a potential lack of dopamine and reduced frontal lobe activity makes life for an ADHD teen even more challenging
● How a teen’s enthusiasm for technology can help with personal hygiene
● 3 diets proven by experts to ensure your teen is getting all the nutrients they need
● How to get teens to use their senses and get excited about cooking before flying the nest
● Techniques to support teens when they are feeling stressed, anxious, or angry
● 10 ways for teens to get better at time management, along with a BONUS — the procrastination enemy!
● How color-coding makes organization simpler for the ADHD brain
● The answer to one of parents’ great debates—Should your teen get a job?
● How teens can start managing their money before they get into financial trouble
● What essential adult documentation a teen will have to be responsible for and how to model a practical filing system
● How to teach teens crucial skills like listening and positive self-talk to boost their confidence in social situations

And much more.

For sure you have done your research and found tips to help teens be more responsible or how to help your ADHD teen improve their grades. You might have found yourself more frustrated than when you began.

All children are unique and each child will go through the teenage years differently. The exact same can be said for teens with ADHD. Take it from someone who knows!

You don’t have to go through this feeling like you are alone. From personal experience and with the right advice, you can be a rock for your teen, improve your relationship, and prepare them for an amazing life.

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The End by John Barnes

The End by John Barnes

This is not your classic love story. “The End” is a thought provoking tale set at the end of the world—filled with wars, earthquakes, flooding, and more. Shining light on some of life’s most pertinent questions, this is an ambitious story of romance and adventure, with shocking events that will make you think about your personal journey on earth.

The end is near, but life and love go on in a California town. Jake Peterson is the captain of the football team, senior class president, and a good Christian guy. Jake’s grandparents were killed by a drunk driver when he was 12, and because of that, he made a commitment never to drink alcohol. He falls in love with the prettiest girl in school—Katie Martin—who is in the party crowd and likes to drink.

Jake and Katie’s love grows amidst their differences on drinking and during major tragedies leading up to the end of the world. During their senior year, there are natural disasters, diseases, wars, political fighting, and more. They have to deal with extremist groups too. But the only thing that slows Jake and Katie’s relationship is their difference of opinion about drinking.

As graduation nears, Katie gives Jake an ultimatum to break his commitment on drinking or move on. Jake struggles to make his decision, but before he can tell Katie his answer, something changes their relationship forever. Katie and Jake deal with shocking events—even stars falling from the sky. Can their love survive the most astonishing changes happening in the world?

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Souled Out

About Souled Out:

My name is Ell Clyne. I’m just a normal girl living in your average small town, trying to make a buck at a dead-end job.

Scratch that. Normal was thrown out the window the night I became the Cypher.

The truth is, I work for vampires. My bank account makes me feel like an influencer without the vagina-scented candles. And that spot in my chest—right where my soul should be—was metaphysically scooped out to make room for the revolving door of souls I read each night before I return to sender. It isn’t the philanthropic job of my dreams, but I told one hell of a lie to get it.

I did it in order to save someone I love more than myself.

When my lie is discovered, the vampires want answers… Even if it kills me.

In a world full of enemies—and one particularly hot yet extremely vexing coworker—I must discover who sold me out and why before I permanently lose my soul, my life, and my family forever.

Because liars pay in blood.

Fans of fanged urban fantasy with a dash of horror, humor, and family drama will savor the twists and emotional scars of Souled Out.

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Blood Ties (The King’s Chosen Book 1) by L. Waithman


About Featured Book: Blood Ties (The King’s Chosen Book 1) by L. Waithman

At the heart of an ancient prophecy is young Lucas, who has the sole power to save two medieval kingdoms from destruction . . . but will he discover this ultimate secret before it’s too late?

Lucas has been raised as a blacksmith’s son; an outsider ostracized by the other village children. One night at a nearby monastery, a mysterious black stone whispers a haunting premonition to Lucas. When his father is murdered, the monks take Lucas in, convinced he is an extraordinary hero foretold by destiny. However, a restless Lucas runs off to join a circus where he draws the attention of the powerful King Itan, who believes Lucas is one of “the chosen”―a group of boys who are descendants of great warriors. The king will stop at nothing to compel Lucas to join his chosen army, all while the soldiers who killed Lucas’s father are closing in. Before long, Lucas is embroiled in a plot to defeat the king while an unseen enemy begins planning to bring the young man down before he learns of his remarkable power.

This first novel of L. Waithman’s richly imagined fantasy series will leave you eagerly awaiting Lucas’s next adventure.

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Cherokee Summer by Susan Antony


About Featured Book: Cherokee Summer by Susan Antony

Kindle addition in sale for .99 from August 5th to August 26th 2022.

When Ace leaves home to spend the summer in Cherokee, North Carolina the last thing she expects to find is a boyfriend—until she meets Cherokee Tribe member John Spears. As Ace and John’s friendship blossoms, they find their life experiences mirror each other and they fall in love. Despite hurdles thrown by well-meaning family members and jealous frenemies, the star-crossed lovers remain committed to their mutual belief that the universe has drawn them together. However, when Ace sends John a strange text and then suddenly disappears, the two must rely on their trust in each other to save both their lives and their love.

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Z2134 by Sean Platt

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About Featured Book: Z2134 by Sean Platt

Free from 7/24/2022 through 8/18/2022

It’s 2134 in a dystopian America, one century after a series of zombie plagues first infected then obliterated much of the world’s population.

The survivors formed six walled Cities throughout the continent, all under the rule of a totalitarian government that enforces strict control over its populace.

You must obey your government.
You must be a good citizen.
You must be a productive citizen.
You must not break the law.
Or The City Watch will find you and arrest you.

Jonah Lovecraft, a former Watcher, was arrested for the murder of his wife. Like most criminals, he has one chance at freedom ― to participate in The Darwin Games, a televised survival show pitting two players from each city against one another in The Barrens, the uninhabited areas outside the City Walls.

He’ll also have to face another enemy ― the zombies still roaming The Barrens.

As he fights for his freedom against impossible odds, his daughter, Anastasia, stumbles into people who have information about her father ― information that will change her life forever.

While putting her in the crosshairs of her father’s enemies.

Z 2134 is the first book of a dystopian trilogy from the bestselling authors of Yesterday’s Gone.

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Extraordinary Lies by Jennifer Alsever

About Extraordinary Lies by Jennifer Alsever:

Two girls from opposite worlds —each of them with unique gifts. Brash and bold Charley can touch a hand and glimpse a person’s dark secrets and dangerous future. Refined and shy Julia can stir a deadly energetic force that uproots trees and crushes cars in a moment of rage.

When they join a group of teens for a summer of psychic tests at Stanford Research Institute, the experiments quickly turn deadly and more sinister motives emerge. Truth and lies intertwine, and soon, ambition and war outstrip science in a race to manipulate their gifts.

If they are to survive, the unlikely duo must figure out a way to work together. Can Charley and Julia do this and control their innate powers that have long been exploited—and suppressed—by the rest of the world?

If you like Cold War spy novels, historical fiction, page turner books and supernatural suspense, then you’ll love Jennifer Alsever’s enthralling paranormal thriller. Inspired by true events!

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Dancing on Broken Ankles

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When sixteen-year-old Aubergine’s parents uproot her from the posh NYC life to live off-grid in a tiny home, she reaches out to the only person available for friendship—the boy-next-door.

Aubergine White, a talented ballerina and a self-professed mean girl, who enjoys all the advantages of being a gorgeous, rich girl at her elite New York City private school, seems to have it all, until her parents get fed up with the hustle of city life and whisk her a thousand miles away to homestead off-grid in Montana.

Soon after arriving in her exile from upscale fashion boutiques and classical theatre, Abs learns she needs a career-ending ankle surgery which leaves her completely devastated. She receives no empathy or guidance from her parents as her father is preoccupied with the on-going care of her mother’s mental health.

Aubergine’s life changes for the better when she befriends the neighbor, Fulton. Fulton was the biggest dork at her old school, but now that she is forced to spend time with him, she finds him to be kind, patient and most importantly, he shows her the compassion she had been missing. Just when she starts to trust him, a new wound is opened when Fulton finds a way to move back to New York. She becomes determined to get a one-way ticket back to the city and she is holding on to the hope that her old life—and her former boy next door—will be waiting for her when she gets there.

A clean and wholesome, coming-of-age story about close proximity enemies who become allies and then, maybe more . . .

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Wicked Blood

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Cynthia has never met her father. She only knows one thing about him: he’s a dangerous mage with a track record of killing shapeshifters like her.

Finished with school and struggling to figure out what to do next, Cynthia boards a plane to Berlin following a mysterious postcard from her father. She hopes to find him and finally solve the mystery of her origins. But then Nathan, her vampire hunter ex-boyfriend, asks for a favour. Look up the hunters in Berlin and find out why there’s been radio silence from the supernatural community of Berlin for the last eight months.

What should have been a simple request leads to unimaginable danger.

The more Cynthia digs into the whereabouts of Berlin’s supernatural community, the more she uncovers secrets that threaten her life. Something is going down in Berlin, but who is behind it? She finds herself torn in two directions: should she be loyal to her people, the shapeshifters? Or should she follow her heart? Which choice will keep her safe, when everyone seems to be out for her blood?

It’s a dangerous time to be in Berlin… and the answers to Cynthia’s questions might just strike closer to home than she realises.

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Dragon’s Wish

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Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 was a dangerous town…
Under the suspicion of the greedy and affluent citizens that ran it, Gallows Hill had no shortage of visitors that year.
Hang the Witches…
Along with the rest of their clan, Elspeth Walsh’s family had fled Wales in the years before to escape the persecution by the hundreds of the guilty and innocent alike.
The Devil’s spawn…
In the wilderness of a newly settled America her family flourished, birthing a way of life absent of the persecution and mass hysteria moving through Europe and their homeland in the untamed forests and valley’s surrounding Salem they embraced their heritage and let their inner monster out to play.
Hunt them down, make them confess…
For Elspeth Walsh and her family lay no claim to witchcraft. What they are is far more deadly. Theirs is a secret century’s old and it must be protected at any cost.
Bronze scales and Golden wings…
In their human skins they’ve lived in peace beside the human race for a millennium. But that’s all about to change beneath the harsh scrutiny and growing fears of the wealthy to claim a twisted sense of justice. Before it’s too late, Elspeth and those she loves will need to escape again…or risk joining the condemned-on Gallows Hill.
Hang the Dragons…

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Confession by Sarah Forester Davis

About Confession by Sarah Forester Davis:

When I was twelve, I met this boy. His life was the complete opposite of mine. He grew up on the beach with his single mom, spending his day surfing and wandering around Flagler in his swim trunks. I grew up on the Halifax with my callous parents, behind a gated driveway, wishing my life wasn’t already planned out for me.

I knew my parents wouldn’t approve of our friendship, so I spent two years sneaking over to his house, hoping at some point I’d have a say in how I lived my life.

When I was fourteen, there was an accident. As much as I wanted to keep him a secret, as much as I needed to see him every day, we were forbidden to ever see each other again. If I disobeyed my parents there would be consequences, ones that would destroy him.

Three years have passed, three years of watching myself waste away without him, sinking into a deep depression that I struggle to pull myself out of each morning. But then the unthinkable happens, his mom, she’s tragically gone and I find myself back in his life.

This connection we have can only be explained with one word. Soulmates. At seventeen, we are no longer innocent little kids. On the verge of adulthood our relationship has changed over time.

We need each other. We have each other. Our chemistry is undeniable.

But there are secrets that have suddenly become unraveled. There are mysteries that we find ourselves trying to solve. There are people who show up in our beach town, strangers who bring buried knowledge about the past.

We find ourselves thrown into the middle of a dangerous game that could cost us both of our lives, and there’s one simple fact that seems to shout out at us as each day passes.

There was a reason we were kept apart.

Confession. This is our story.

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Crystal’s Hole Heart

About Crystal’s Hole Heart:

Having life experience was something Crystal could understand, but it didn’t mean she had to like it.

Challenges she faced brought her on a closer walk with God.

The norm for her seemed to consist of doctor’s visits and a long list of don’ts.

Was it so bad for her to want a normal life instead of dreaming about what it could have been like?

She had a sassiness and stubborn way about her that came across as direct.
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She knew life had to be lived to the fullest regardless of how she was perceived.

Along her journey she stumbled upon two friends with a little nudge of faith.
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Could this friendship be the bond to give her a chance to live the life she’s only dreamt about?

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The Forbidden Love Affair

About The Forbidden Love Affair:

Zarayah Mello knows the love she dreams of is doomed from the start…
But the heart wants what the heart wants.

Thirteen-year-old Zarayah Mello knew she loved fellow karate class student Zaire from the moment she laid eyes on him. She also knew that her parents, siblings, and even her beliefs would never accept her love for him.
But after she turns fifteen, they cross paths more and more and form a friendship, her improper love for him only grows.
Torn apart by life and circumstance, she’s brokenhearted. Until she turns eighteen and he comes back into her life, sweeps her off her feet, and makes secret plans to propose to her on graduation day. But Zarayah doesn’t know that Zaire is hiding a secret from her—the kind of secret that rips solid marriages apart, never mind their budding love. Besides, will anyone forgive her for falling for her older brothers’ friend? And will she still love him when she learns the truth he’s been hiding from her?

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