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I am always there.
Perhaps I always have been?
Perhaps there is no end for me…

1910
The mentally unwell are considered dangerous and a blight to be kept hidden from family and society. The recently opened Kenmore Asylum is bursting at the seams. Amidst the churn, Nurse Harriet tries to make a real impact on her charges. But one of them, Alice, seems beyond anyone’s help…

1950
Bonnie is a fresh, determined nurse trainee, out to prove herself and make her way into the world. But nothing is as she expected when the shadows are rife with the spirits of those who haven’t walked the halls of Kenmore in a very long time.

2021
The notoriously haunted Kenmore Asylum stands abandoned behind an easily circumnavigated fence. YouTube ghost hunters Aiden and Devin seek fame and fortune behind its walls—but something else just might find them first.

Avis Paulson memories

Most people don’t realize they’re in a toxic connection until they’ve already lost pieces of themselves. It rarely starts with chaos. It starts with charm, attention, intensity, or the feeling of being seen in a way you’ve been craving for years. By the time the confusion begins, the emotional investment is already deep -- and the behavior that once felt comforting now feels destabilizing, unpredictable, or unsafe. This book was created for the moment you start to question what’s happening. Not months later. Not after the damage. Right now -- while you’re still trying to make sense of the shift.

Then cancer came back.

This time, his own.

With a foreword by cycling legend Sean Kelly, Screw It. Keep Going. is not your typical cancer memoir.

It is a brutally honest, darkly funny, and deeply human story about grief, prostate cancer, heart disease, love, loss, second chances, terrible decisions, ridiculous cycling disasters, and why riding a bike sometimes becomes the thing that keeps you moving when life falls apart.

Readers keep saying they laughed, cried, and couldn’t put it down.

From hospital rooms and scan results to long roads, sleepless nights and impossible rides, this is the story of what happens when life repeatedly knocks you down—and the stubborn decision to keep turning the pedals anyway.

Because sometimes that’s all you can do.

And sometimes it’s everything.

The First Complete Guide to Bitaxe and Open-Source Bitcoin Mining

Build, run, and understand your own open-source Bitcoin miner with a practical guide designed for home miners, hobbyists, and technical readers.

If you want to truly understand Bitcoin mining—not just plug in a machine and hope—this is the book for you.

Bitaxe has ignited a revolution: small, quiet, affordable, fully open-source Bitcoin miners that anyone can verify, modify, and operate at home.

Until now, mastering Bitaxe meant digging through Discord chats, GitHub repos, fragmented tutorials, and scattered forum posts.

This book changes everything.

Here’s the dirty secret nobody told you when you became an actor.

The people booking work aren’t necessarily more talented than you. Sometimes they’re less talented. So why do they book and you don’t?

They have a system. A repeatable, professional approach that turns auditions from nerve-wracking lottery tickets into the engine of a long-term career — more bookings, more re-bookings, and more time doing the art you love.

In Walk In. Own It. Book It., actor and coach Bob Gatchel hands you the system the industry never bothered to write down — one he forged in the trenches across stages, on camera, behind the microphone, and on both sides of the audition room. No theory. No “manifest your dream role.” Just the hard-won professional playbook.

A burned-out English teacher wants to survive a world where stories are now reality, but the AI running it only keeps characters worth reading about. In the Crucible, his success hinges on writing something worth keeping, as the boring get incinerated.

A child divided. The horrid boons of deceit. Two lives in one body. Death of the grandmother cell. Cleansers and balms that free the trapped soul. The identity of time and the quick end of humanity.

From the deadly time travel of “Apiolitis,” to the gender-altering technology of “Ms. Watch,” to a psychiatrist who must wrestle with erasing memories in “The sins of Amaya Hearth,” each tale puts theory to the test.

In these twelve ironic and original stories, Henthrik R. Devakumar explores the lines where technology blurs with belief—and where one must draw the line.

A daring escape.
A new beginning.
The year was 1787.
The lives of runaway slaves John and Priscilla Saunders had a profound impact on the island of their new home, Martha’s Vineyard. FROM SLAVE TO FREEMAN is a multifaceted family legacy of African American, Wampanoag Native, and spiritual heritage which is still alive today on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. It is a history fraught with political and social battles, as well as the faith needed to endure them. Though the Island has evolved over the centuries, the fight for justice has remained, year after year, for the Wampanoag tribes who live and meet there. Through powwows, festivals, and clambakes, they carry on the culture of their ancestors and share their rich history with Island visitors.

After a life-altering setback returns him to his hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona, Alex Findley is determined to live a predictable and mundane life.

Until he meets his new coworker, Ann Summerfield.

She’s cheerful; she’s competitive; and worst of all—she wants to spend time with him.

When Alex discovers a mysterious magic staff in a nearby pond, it triggers anxiety-inducing visions, interdimensional travel, and a power that everyone except him seems to want.

Stuck in worlds far from home, Alex will need to confront his self-doubt—and his growing feelings for Ann—if there’s any chance of returning to his once-cherished routine.

A sharp, practical guide to spotting deception through baseline behavior, body language shifts, verbal inconsistencies, and high-pressure communication patterns in negotiations, interviews, and everyday professional conversations.

As the youngest knight in the court of Afallennau, Galeas serves as Her Majesty’s voice. Born blind, Galeas is known for her kindness and untarnished virtue, using her words and intuition to handle matters of diplomacy throughout the realm.

When King Theomacha sends her to a village that appears to be slowly drowning, Galeas is shocked to hear this impending disaster may be the work of the House of Corbenic, whose guilds are responsible for every architectural and creative art in the kingdom. How would their notoriously brilliant guildmistress, Lady Belakané, benefit from flooding the river Fand and rending nature asunder?

Accompanied by her legendary guide and steed, Hengroen, Galeas quests past the flood to the House of Corbenic and meets Belakané’s only daughter, Liban, whose injury in her youth has shattered her faith in love and loyalty. That, and a mysterious curse that bleeds water from her skin, one that may swallow the world entire if left unchecked.

Haunted by images of lost oceans and a relic that erases itself from the memories of outsiders, Galeas must break the curse, save Liban, and confront an unthinkable question: what if King Theomacha has been lying to her from the very beginning?

What happens when the man who can’t swim falls for the woman who keeps him afloat?

Casey Cunningham has a cabin the size of a generous coffin, a porthole sealed with marine tape, and a job she secretly loves — teaching six-year-olds to blow bubbles and pretend they’re mermaids on the cruise liner Pacific Jewel.

At twenty-two, she’s escaped small-town Oregon, her mother’s quiet disappointment, and a community college degree she finished but never used. The ocean is her whole world now, and she’s learned to keep her loneliness tucked somewhere below the waterline where it doesn’t show.

So when her boss assigns her to private swimming lessons with a VIP passenger, Casey expects some wealthy retiree afraid of the deep end.

She does not expect Chris Haymarket.

As in that Chris Haymarket — the superhero franchise guy, the one three separate magazines have named the most attractive person alive, the man who looks like someone Photoshopped a human being and then gave him a twenty-million-dollar smile.

He’s charming. Self-deprecating. Clearly used to winning people over in seconds.

And he is genuinely terrified of water...

What is it really like to be a Notary Signing Agent in today’s gig economy?

In this honest and eye-opening memoir, Suzi Lee McMullen pulls back the curtain on the world of loan signings, long drives, unpredictable schedules, difficult customers, low fees, and unexpected moments that make the business unforgettable.

With humor, heart, and hard-earned wisdom from over 4,800 signings and 225,000 miles on the road, this book shares the real life behind the “6-figure income” promises flooding social media.

Vera spent her entire life pretending the darkness inside her doesn’t exist.

Raised among The Mother’s Guardian’s - an elite order descended from Gods and trained to kill without mercy - she learned early that weakness is dangerous, obedience is survival, and monsters are never spared.

Which is a problem when there’s something beneath her skin that’s terrifyingly alive.

But it’s the God in the shadows who truly unsettles her.

There’s something dangerous about the way he watches her, as if he can see through the walls she’s spent years building. Every encounter leaves her feeling exposed, off-balance, and terrifyingly understood.

With each new piece found and every salacious whisper from the God trying to possess her, she begins to fear that the darkness inside of her isn’t something to suppress . . . it’s something waiting to be set free.

Every Knight generation needs three children. Because only one survives.

It’s just a family superstition. That’s what the Knights tell themselves. But in their world of contracts, hunters, and blood debts, superstitions have a way of coming true. Three siblings. Three seasons. Three obsessions.

Bought by Santa:
Two Santas executing a man in the snow was not something I ever thought I’d see. Yet that’s what happened when I left the club with the man I was about to baby trap. Nicklas Knight sees my captivity as the answer to his twisted prayers. He needs a breeder, and I need money. Spending December in this Mafia Santa’s bed isn’t the worst thing... right?

Hunted by Valentine:
My bastard husband was too much of a coward to kill me himself. So he hired the notorious Hunter of New York City. I should be terrified of Valentine Grant. But for the first time in my caged life, I feel alive. That’s the cruelest part because in our world, love doesn’t survive. Neither do I.

Tricked by Jack:
A masked stranger knocked on my door at midnight, and like the doomed girl in every horror movie, I let him in. Now I’m a bride at Sanctuary of Shadows—a gothic carnival where Jack Knight doesn’t need me to say “I do.”

Three dark mafia standalones. One overarching plot. One family superstition the Knights should have taken seriously.

Contains two HEAs and one tragedy. For mature audiences only!!

3-Minute Wrestling Devotionals for Rising Athletes is a great gift for any wrestler dealing with the pressure of competition and the emotions that come with it.

This book features 64 weekly devotionals with real-life stories of Christian wrestlers who faced adversity and came out stronger on the other side.

Each devotional only takes about 3 minutes per week, so they fit into busy schedules.

My book is a verse-by-verse study of the Book of Isaiah. It comes from a historical and Biblical mindset with heavy use of commentaries from many scholars. It is beautifully formatted with verse-by-verse explanations, verse sections and chapter summaries, and an application for today at the end of each chapter. This book also has over 130 illustrations. This is a good resource for anyone doing an Isaiah study or just wanting to know more about the prophetic book. It is available anywhere you can get books online in paperback, hardback, and Kindle (on Amazon).

The story is about getting a second chance at life, experienced as the beauty of an “Indian summer” with its beautiful autumn colours. But that can only happen after a snap frost — the killing frost!

Peter’s Indian wife, Isabella, abandoned him and their two-year-old son, joining her tribe to become the shaman and El Curandera. Her tribe, the Tarahumara, lives in the Sierra Madre, under the drug cartel’s murderous rule. Peter returned to Australia with his son, Ron. Years later, Peter’s daughter Mary’s husband, John, a psychologist, is arrested for abusing female patients. Mary divorces him.

Her mother’s death gives Mary a feeling of freedom, but a chilling, killing frost blown into her life — the enduring madness of her ex-husband. Mary inherits a company, Columbus Enterprises. She learns Ron is adopted and must travel to the Cayman Islands. Ron searched for his mother.

As a literary editor, Mary travels to the Edinburgh Writers’ Festival. Here, she meets Oscar, a Swedish aero-engineer. Mary invites Oscar to join her on the trip to the Cayman Islands, leading to a lasting love affair. Ron believes Isabella is his mother.

Mary is imprisoned and drugged by her ex-husband John, who is involved with the Sonoran Drug Cartel. Ron finds his Indian heritage and his destiny. The showdown with John happens in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Mary bravely faces her tormentor, strengthened by her newfound love.

She swore she’d never forgive him.
He never stopped loving her.

Laird Evans has it all: brilliance in court, powerful family ties, and a future paved in gold. But something is missing—the career he truly wants and the girl he let go.

Fenella Baxter’s modeling career is fading fast, and she’s out of time. She’s sworn off regrets until a surprise run-in with Laird leads to one reckless, tequila-soaked night. Now he’s back, hotter than ever, and determined to make amends.

While old feelings resurface, Fenella lands a contract that could revive her dream career. But her new boss hides more than charm. He’s manipulative, obsessive, and holds a secret that once tore her and Laird apart.

As her star rises, the danger closes in. And choosing the wrong path this time could destroy everything.