High school sports hero feels the pull from his home town and leaves a successful career to give back to the people that gave him so much. Old friends are reunited and new relationships are forged in this coming-of-age novel.In this month's issue:* 12 Tips For Achieving Massive Success In Your Life & Business -by Tyler Basu* Pros and Cons of Joining a Business Accelerator Program -by Jerry Jao* You Can’t Do It All, So Expand Your Leadership Circle -by Peter Economy* Does Education Trump Experience When Starting a Business? -By Rieva Lesonsky * Lessons for Entrepreneurs From A Navy Seal -by Martin Zwilling* The Threat from Within- When mobile imperils Your Business Security -by Philip Whitchelo* Building a Startup Empire -by Kriti Vichare* The Secret to Winning the Content Creation War -by Je Bullas* An FBI Agent Reveals 5 Steps To Gaining Anyone’s Trust -by Shane Parrish* Lead Generation: Website Best Practices -by Andy Crestodina* Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business Model -by Nichole Kelly* Manage Your Marketing: Remember You’re in Sales -by Margie Clayman* Dear Brands, This Is The End of Our Friendship. Sincerely, Your Customer -by Vincent Teo* How Do You Have an Eective Social Media Presence and Not Get Sued? -by Mark Schaefer* 7 Sure-Fire Success Principles -by Daniel C. Steenerson* 5 Free Online Tools Too Valuable to Ignore That Will Help You Growyour Business -by Didi Zheleva* Fear - The enTrepreneur’s new Fuel -by Tabitha Jean Naylor* Even Small Businesses Can Have Remote Employees -by Richard Weinberger, PhD, CPA* Who Advises the Entrepreneur? -by Kerrie MacPherson* What Small Business Owners Should Know About Brain Health -by Andrew Greissman Views: 294
Being the new girl is always hard, especially when you're socially awkward. But when my family decides to move to Honeyton at the beginning of my senior year, I try to look at it as a chance to start over. And it kind of looks like I might succeed. Not only do I make a new friend, but I also meet Hunter, Zay, and Jax.The three of them are from wealthy and, rumor has it, dangerous families. Everyone in school seems to be afraid of them, but they don't seem that scary to me, and I end up becoming friends with them. But not everything in this new town is what it seems. Everyone has secrets. Including the guys. A slow burn RH YA high school mystery romance series. Views: 294
How much would you gamble for love? When a tipsy party joke becomes a wager on Rufus’ marriage, he knows he should said no. But Juliana, the unwitting and unknowing focus of the gamble, has more to her than meets the eye. Will it be possible for Rufus to charm the winning Juliana? Does he owe her the truth about his initial interest in her? And who will eventually win the Michaelmas wager?How much would you gamble for love? Rufus Lovell has been thrust unexpectedly into riches, and gained a new set of friends who delight in wagers and bets, with nothing too small or too big to gamble on – even marriage. So when a tipsy party joke becomes a wager on Rufus’ marriage, he knows he should said no.But Juliana Honeyfield, the unwitting and unknowing focus of the gamble, is not the simple and malleable young woman that Rufus’ friends take her for.She demands a lot more from her acquaintances, and the challenge of understanding this intriguing woman and keeping the truth of the wager from her starts to wear thin on Rufus.Especially when his belief in marriage has already been so greatly rocked, and his family history is sunk in crime, alcoholism, and prison.Will it be possible for Rufus to charm the winning Juliana?Does he owe her the truth about his initial interest in her?And who will eventually win the Michaelmas wager?A Michaelmas Wager is a charming Regency romance novella about the unlikely consequences of spur of the moment decisions. Views: 294
"I mean, it's not as if I want a father. I have a father. It's just that I don't know who he is or where he is. But I have one." Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove don't appear to have much in common. Ram lives in the Mexican-American working-class barrio of El Paso called "Dizzy Land." His brother is sinking into a world of drugs, wreaking havoc in their household. Jake is a rich West Side white boy who has developed a problem managing his anger. An only child, he is a misfit in his mother's shallow and materialistic world. But Ram and Jake do have one thing in common: They are lost boys who have never met their fathers. This sad fact has left both of them undeniably scarred and obsessed with the men who abandoned them. As Jake and Ram overcome their suspicions of each other, they begin to move away from their loner existences and realize that they are capable of reaching out beyond their wounds and the neighborhoods that they grew up in. Their friendship... Views: 294
Quad Squad is the story of a group of high school students who fight, make up, mess around, get confused, betray each other, learn, forget, make huge mistakes, pay for them, fall in and out of love, all while hanging around doing nothing much.Quad Squad is the story of a group of high school students who fight, make up, mess around, get confused, betray each other, learn, forget, make huge mistakes, pay for them, fall in and out of love, all while hanging around doing nothing much. Roll call:Andrea: popular, self-centered, but sort of likable. Tim: awkward, angry, truthful. Rachel: good at school but not sure if she should be. Jerry: loyal, friendly, clumsy. Maya: confused by all this change. Mike: new around here and trying to learn how to fit in. Malik: absent, stayed up too late playing video games.Sabrina: sad but trying. Karen: usually stoned. Naeli: always stoned. Vinh: trouble. Views: 293
A wickedly whimsical and delectable brew of mystery, spine-tingling chills and intoxicating romance that makes for an irresistibly fun and page-turning readThe bride: The dearly departed. Who could have killed her?The groom: Is there no love lost for his would-be wife?The medium: She speaks to the dead. She's a fake—isn't she?The doctor: He swore to do no harm. Did he?The ward: He lives in the house, but will he ever be family?The lawyer: He's served the family for decades. If there were secrets, wouldn't he know them?The housekeeper: She runs the house. What has she seen?The maid: She knows all the gossip. What does she have to hide?London, 1852. Genevieve Timmons has made her living posing as a spiritualist to swindle wealthy believers, until one misstep lands her in a jail cell awaiting the noose. Then a stranger, Mr. Lockhart, arrives to make her a peculiar offer. The lord... Views: 293
After a tragic accident, Miranda is devastated by the loss her twin sister. However, it isn’t long before she begins to wonder if her twins death was an accident at all. Now, she must find out who wanted her sister dead, because she is next. (2013's YA Novella)Identical twins, Miranda and Nastasia Moralez, couldn’t be more different. Being the head of the cheerleading team, Nastasia is the most popular girl in the school. Miranda is not, taking photographs in her spare time for the school paper. Life is normal until a tragic accident takes the life of one twin. Miranda quickly realizes that the car crash that took her sister’s life was no accident. It was planned. Now, Miranda has to find out who wanted her sister dead before she succumbs to the same fate.Reviews:"I liked [Sandra Madera's] writing style. The author used a lot of metaphor and imagery that I thought added depth to descriptions" - Emma Wolf, Emma Wolf Blog.“From the very first page I was taken into the story. With many twists and turns I was kept at the edge of my seat. The ending did catch me by surprise. This is a story I would enjoy reading over and over” - Josie Epping, Josie’s Haven Blog."I really enjoyed this short story by Sandra Madera. I thought it was really well written, well put together and had a great plot.... I highly recommend this fantastic short story to anyone who likes YA Mystery and Suspense!" - Megan McCooey, Turn the Page Book Blog. Views: 293
America is on the brink of collapse, devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens, in The Coming Storm, the next action-packed thriller from Mark Alpert.New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most vulnerable and defenseless people into the flood-ravaged neighborhoods. The new laws are enforced by an army of genetically enhanced soldiers, designed to be the fiercest and cruelest of killers. Genetic scientist Dr. Jenna Khan knows too much about how these super-soldiers were engineered: by altering the DNA sequence in ways that could change the fabric of humanity.Escaping arrest and on the run, Jenna joins forces with a genetically enhanced soldier gone rogue and a Brooklyn gang kingpin to resist the government's plan to manipulate the DNA of all Americans. The race is on to stop the evil... Views: 293
Human-raised brothers Tinn and Cole join forces with Fable, daughter of the Queen of the Deep Dark, to stop the fighting between the people of Endsborough and the creatures of the Wild Wood before violence turns into all-out war. Human and goblin brothers Cole and Tinn are finding their way back to normal after their journey to the heart of the Oddmire. Normal, unfortunately, wants nothing to do with them. Fable, the daughter of the Queen of the Deep Dark, has her first true friends in the brothers. The Queen allows Fable to visit Tinn and Cole as long as she promises to stay quiet and out of sight—concealing herself and her magic from the townspeople of Endsborough. But when the trio discovers that humans are destroying the Wild Wood and the lives of its creatures for their own dark purposes, Fable cannot stay quiet. As the unspoken truce between the people of Endsborough and the inhabitants of the Wild Wood crumbles, violence escalates,... Views: 293
Tavia Michaels has discovered that she’s an Earthbound—a fallen goddess with the power to remake the Earth—and that a rival faction of Earthbounds, the Reduciata, has created a virus that is literally wiping swaths of the planet out of existence.
Tavia is captured and imprisoned before she can act on this information, along with her eternal lover, Logan. Huddled in a claustrophobic cell, they lose track of the days, their attempts to escape proving as ephemeral as Tavia’s newly gestating powers. But then Tavia and Logan are mysteriously rescued. . . .
They’re brought to the underground headquarters of the Curatoria, another group of Earthbounds that Tavia doesn’t fully trust. There, she’s told that she can save the Earth before it disappears. She agrees.
Tavia quickly realizes that she isn’t like other Earthbound, and as her abilities continue to awaken, they begin to threaten her centuries-long relationship with Logan. When Benson—Tavia’s former best friend and romantic interest—appears at Curatoria headquarters, Tavia will again have to make a choice about who to be with even as she tries to stop the virus that is destroying the world and uncover the truth about the two Earthbound organizations that have her tangled up in their webs. Views: 293
