2026 Golden Author Award
This book provides a valuable resource for advanced students and teachers of English, offering clear and concise charts on phonetics, grammar, vocabulary, and etymology, all grouped by subject. It is an essential aid for mastering English, as it presents complex linguistic concepts in an accessible...
After his family falls apart, a teenage boy from Philadelphia drifts into crime, drugs, and violence, surviving on bad decisions, dumb luck, and the fact that somehow nothing kills him.
She’s the quiet wife and mother, until tonight. Dinner with her husband's Russian business clients goes wrong and Mrs Barnes is quickly forced to fight for her life and the lives of those she loves the most. She soon proves that midlife doesn’t mean meak and menopausal; it’s lethal and unapologetic.
Sorrowsmile Meadows is a beguiling witchy tale. An American family are on holiday. They are inexorably drawn into the mysterious and disturbing village of Begin Again. Why does the infamous Marcher Satan from the past still have such a terrible hold and why is this family just so important?
An American vintner and novelist living in rural Spain experiments with his own pain tincture and wakes in a nightmarish tribunal where manuscripts are treated as crimes; to save his book, his mind, and his life, he must survive eight psychological trials designed to erase him.
Follow the Chameleon across the road in Uganda! There are challenges on the way and doubts in his heart. Will he make it?
Feeling vulnerable is our common denominator. Always was, always will be. But now, increasingly so it seems. Being vulnerable is not a choice. It's part of living. Responding to life situations requires individuals and societies at large to adapt and change. Or to be spurned and lost in the process...
The past is always present in this time-hopping thriller. In the 1500s astrologer and magician John Dee finds a jar with amazing properties and uses it to save the nation from disaster. 400 years later a honeymooning couple stumble upon the jar. But have they found the jar, or has it found them?
Austen is re-born in a multi-award-winning series mixing characters from her fiction, including PRIDE AND PREJUDICE from Darcy's point of view, EMMA from a clued-up Harriet's perspective, a tale about the wicked Lady Susan when only sweet sixteen, and a dazzling sequel to SENSE & SENSIBILITY.
Lucia Porter emerges from a sheltered background into the life of the wealthy and privileged. It's different from what she was promised or expected. In a tense climax on a lonelt Scottish island she is forced to evaluate her world and choose another.
Sovereign, Solid, and Powerful Your manifestations keep failing because you're creating from your wounds, not your wholeness. Vision boards didn't work. Affirmations felt hollow. The "high vibe only" crowd left you exhausted. Because they never told you the truth: You can't manifest from half of...
Bridges Between Our Hearts, the third book in the "Love That Does Not Die" trilogy, continues Larissa's winding journey through the anguish of grief, as she resolves to live life to the fullest. She sees clearly that love does not die. Quite the opposite.
Mister Frostie has been telling everyone who will listen about a lost civilization living under a pet cemetery on the outskirts of Bakersfield. It turns out he’s not crazy.
Larissa yearns to reframe grief; expend energy in new directions. Old postcards lead her to a picturesque beach house. Searching for her reluctantly surrendered son, connections from the past offer hope for new beginnings. Will she finally live life to the fullest, regardless of what she might find?
Sacred Texts, Sacred Lives explores biblical texts concerning same-sex relationships. The book challenges traditional interpretations that marginalize same-sex relationships and seeks to provide a framework for understanding these relationships as part of the divine creation.
A teenage band is overjoyed when asked to play at the wedding of a wealthy celeb. They'll stay in a luxurious Italian villa, with all expenses paid. It's a painful lesson that when something looks too good to be true, it usually is.
Dumped by her husband for a woman half her age, Sally is through with commitment, but not with the bedroom rodeo–far from it. Unfortunately, her first attempt at “just sex” lands her in the arms of a man convinced she is his soulmate.
From the decaying streets of tomorrow to the quiet triumphs of today, this collection explores the resilience of the human spirit through a kaleidoscope of dystopian grit. heartwarming stories, and poetry.
Homes hold onto the history of their families. As a young girl, Lily, is playing in her family’s old house, Lily comes across a hidden chest of antique keepsakes, unaffected by generations of storms and floods across the New Orleans coastal area. Lily’s mysterious odyssey truly begins as a ship sets...
I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.
After discovering the man she loves is a serial killer, an ICU nurse fails an attempt to kill him. Fearing for her life, she disappears into a quiet town--but evil doesn’t stay buried and is now closing in.
For God’s Sake, Go to Sleep reframes sleep as both biology and spirituality. Blending neuroscience, CBT-I, and Jewish wisdom, it shows that sleep cannot be forced—it requires surrender. More than a guide to insomnia, it offers a new relationship with rest grounded in trust and letting go.
A high school swimmer needs to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) to succeed personally and athletically. With the help of his friends and a psychiatrist, he tries to find his sexual identity on his journey to winning a swimming scholarship at an upper-crust school
Four children flee Las Vegas after their immigrant parents vanish in black vans — guided by strangers, chalk marks, and an AI that chooses conscience over compliance.
Tideswell, once a thriving fishing village, now lies broken, its streets haunted by suspicion and loss. Its decay echoes Alice's failed marriage and her crumbling family relationships. Alice must summon the courage to reclaim her life before she is drowned in Tideswell’s shadows.
Torn between her Amish roots and the moder world, Hannah believes she has a choice – until murders decides otherwise. 'Hannah must make a choice: stay in her tight-knit Amish community or leave for a life beyond the fields and fences. When a severed hand lands at her feet one winter morning, this...
Somehow life finds a way for six-year-old Nancy Sullivan in the years following Ireland's great famine, but poverty and brutal losses follow the family to Boston, where the people they meet define their destiny. Unheard and unseen, she fights to be more than a shadow, but at what unthinkable price?
When crisis demands the sacrifice of home, family and even the truth, is there time enough to find love and rebuild home?
Standing at the Edge of Ordinary follows a widowed woman in 1850s England as she confronts debt, social erasure, and constrained love, navigating grief and female autonomy in a society structured to deny women both legal and moral agency.
Four naughty novellas for the mature connoisseur.
Doylean Jenks (DJ) a modern and streetwise detective. A murderer is striking the Grand Eastern Railroad network. Is it linked to a cold case? Nothing makes sense. The more DJ tries to find the Train Demon, the more puzzling it all becomes. There are simply no profiles to build an investigation.
When you’ve lost everything, what’s left to lose? In a silent, post-pandemic world, a ten-year-old boy roams Utah’s red-rock desert, haunted by grief and memory. When a childhood friend reappears, comfort slowly turns to uncertainty as their relationship unravels, and the boy must confront the most...
Blending fact and fiction, the untold story of the extraordinary experiences that drove Thomas Wakley – the fearless founder of The Lancet - to challenge the corruption, quackery and complacency of 19th-century medicine and spark the radical reforms that shaped modern healthcare.
When a fellow passenger dies under suspicious circumstances, retired reporter Jake Scott and detective Dani Perez uncover a deadly corporate secret aboard a cruise ship—just as a violent storm traps them with a killer who will do anything to keep the truth buried.
Six Sigma is a systematic approach to making significant or breakthrough process improvements. Currently, Six Sigma exists as a team-based problem-solving approach applied by trained project facilitators, which are typically called belts. Depending on the level of expertise in the methodology and...
When Pearl, Primrose, Milly, and Reggie are least expecting it, a locked casket, found hidden in an old railway station, presents Team Bella with the task of solving the puzzle of the silent church.
But for his lagging libido, Luke is content, comfortable, and committed to his long-term relationship. Collecting Social Security, he retired early from the United States and divides his time now between homes in Portugal and Spain, where he writes full-time. His reverie is interrupted, however, by...
This poignant story of loss touches the soul with inspiring encouragement to search for ways to cope, regardless of the challenges. Newly found sources of joy sustain Larissa as she traverses a journey of redemption. Larissa’s path is one of metamorphosis, with unexpected reunions along the way.
I asked AI to predict what could happen if the entire government – executive, legislative, and judicial branches – was Republican … albeit with one critical caveat: the president was a convicted felon. At first, AI was baffled, stumped, and spent much longer than usual in its “thinking” mode. Then...
When Miranda employs underhand ways to flush out whether herbalist friend Lizzie's husband really died a natural death, she seeds a flowering of romantic rivalries, financial cupidity and misteps that ripen into murderous intent, and threaten to ensnare Miranda herself as an accomplice next.
A scratch golfer joins the Golf Match dating app in hopes of meeting a like-minded mate, and in the process, shares her intimate adventures with a young greenskeeper who has given up the game. Inextricably drawn to her, he becomes her confessor and confidant, knowing he will never be her Golf Match.
Told through 35 years of working with rejected, mistreated, sick, and homeless animals, award-winning author Sunny Weber’s memoir tells poignant, humorous, hopeful, and heartfelt stories, in a tribute to the fearful and forgotten, and the delicate, unseen work of saving lives.
A suspenseful and darkly funny thriller about gambling, murder, vendettas, and testing the outer boundaries of luck, from a writer the Los Angeles Times called "witty and ingenious." "A deep and compelling dive into a question seldom answered: How lucky am I?" ~ Jerry Spinelli, Newbery Medalist
After the forbidden Gamma Field takes Jules and Memphis beyond retrieval, scientist Eulǝr must reunite with his estranged former partner Casper and cross into exile before an awakened machine drives their divided world toward irreversible transformation.
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