New Book Release: Misfᴉts Abroad by Martine Robinson Beachboard

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Experiences are unique. Responses are universal.

A new environment in the Old World broadened the author’s perspectives. This collection of essays introduces colorful people and places encountered in Europe. The stories center on a time spent living and working with military communities in Germany and traveling further abroad.

The author balances the appeal of an unusual circumstance with the resonance of universal human experience. The reader will identify with the Misfits and the missteps they make when immersed in a new culture. The Misfits may be learners on the bilingual continuum, civilians on an army base, sailors far from home, young people in the wrong marriage, Americans not blending in, or the occasional ones who do. There’s even a story about a man who had never been in his own country. The characters are quirky, compelling and memorable.

Misfits Abroad is affiliated with Livingwell Publishing.

About the author:

Martine Robinson Beachboard has loved words since she first learned about them. This occurred when, at the age of 2, she spent a week with her older brother in the hot, sticky backseat of the green Ford her parents drove from Washington, D.C. to Phoenix. She studied enough words to win a citywide spelling bee in seventh grade. Next thing you know, she was a newspaper editor in Arizona. Her weekly personal column developed a loyal following and evoked a range of reader responses and emotions.

When she moved to Europe she continued writing. She has lived or traveled in 40 countries, most recently serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Kosovo.

She was awarded first place in column writing from the Arizona Press Club. Her editing has been recognized with four first-place awards by Arizona Press Women. A Penney-Missouri Newspaper Awards competition named her a finalist in single-story reporting. A former professor, she is currently a teacher of English as a Second Language.

Early in her journalism career, she learned that everyone has a story. With increased interviewing experience, she realized that everyone is a story.

New Book Release: Your Undercover Brother by J. Salvatore Domino

 

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Able Body, the private investigator with the funny name, operates a small suburban detective agency. Struggling to make ends meet in a shady line of work, he pays his bills following cheating spouses and catching small-time criminals.

While he waits for his big score, Able lives an unglamorous lifestyle consisting of late-night stakeouts, cold coffee, and stale donuts.

His life takes a perilous turn when his former girlfriend, the wife of a prominent lawyer, and a woman he has tried for ten years to forget, asks him to help find her husband’s murderer. Against his better judgment, he takes the case and sets out to find the killer.

The investigation catapults him into a tangled web of deceit and intrigue that almost costs him his life. Warned by a hot-headed police detective to stay out of the investigation, Able walks a tightrope in his quest to solve the crime before the police arrest the wrong person.

Discovering the truth behind the killing destroys his naivety, forcing him to take a hard look at his life and his chosen profession. It sets him on a new course, leaving him to wonder if he can return to his former unpretentious self.

About the author

J. Salvatore Domino is an author and blogger based in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.

His journey from technical writing to the boundless realm of writing fiction is a testament to the power of transformation.

Demonstrating his storytelling prowess, he captivates the reader, inviting them into a world where the lines between the imagined and the real are artfully blurred. His tales span a spectrum from comforting to thrilling, while his characters are crafted to evoke strong reactions, mirroring the complexities of real-life individuals.

Whether your choice is a brief escape or an extended adventure you’re sure to enjoy a captivating reading experience. Why not join him for a few minutes or several hours of enjoyable leisure?

New Book Release: Peace & War by David Anderson Swift

 

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It was the Sixties, a time of Peace, Love, and War. The Sixties was when a real Consciousness Revolution was taking place in America, one that literally changed the world. This is a historical fiction novel based on true events about a young man growing up in the turbulent Sixties who must choose between Peace or War when he discovers that the 'peace and love' movement wasn't always so peaceful or so loving. Would he take his anger into the streets as so many of his friends were doing, or would he remain faithful to the values that had led him into the 'peace & love' movement? Experience that glorious time when the hippies became our nation's heroes, preventing the potential for an armed revolution from taking place. This book not only about the turbulent Sixties but is relevant for what many young people are facing in the world we live in today. This must-read inspiring transformational novel is for anyone who is interested in creating real change in our world.

About the Author:

Anderson Andrews, also known as 'the old Scotsman,' has released eight (8) transformational novels ... The Literary Works of Anderson Andrews ... covering topics that include all aspects of life, death, and beyond. It was at the Standing Stones on the Isle of Arran that he found the inspiration to complete all of these works. Now, delve into the mind of one of the most unique authors of our time and discover a world that few have ever experienced. As a retired lawyer, he is now an author of change, and has been writing and teaching about spiritual subjects since 2001. He has holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Master's degree in International Public Administration, a Juris Doctorate degree in Law, with over 40-years of metaphysical teachings. After retiring from 20-years as a successful trial lawyer, he became the owner of Transformational Novels ... writing books to unlock potentials, expand awareness, and change consciousness. He has written his books in ways that appeal to people from all walks of life. For the rest of 2020 and 2021, his focus will be on some much-needed prison reform, to bring light into the darkness, to change our fear-based criminal justice institutions from that of punishment and retribution, to one that functions with love and compassion. Please read, A CONSCIOUS TRANSFORMATION, written in two parts, THE CRYSTAL PRISON and THE CRYSTAL CHRYSALIS. Thank you. Please know that you are appreciated.

New Book Release: Vanished Voices by Cynthia Lang

 

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When actor Elle Tuckerman loses her voice and her role off-Broadway, she flees to Tucson to help her ailing, enigmatic mother. Adjusting to her new reality, as well as the unfamiliar Southwestern landscape, she works with asylum seekers, their pasts treacherous, their futures uncertain. Elle grows curious about her own family’s stories. Do past voices reverberate in the air? Can they help her find her way forward? Across the centuries—in Maine, Ohio, and Tucson—families’ lives intertwine in scenes of relocation, transportation, and change.

About the Author

Cynthia Lang graduated from Smith College, won a Vogue Prix de Paris, and worked as a staff writer on Glamour. After free-lancing (Glamour, Parents, Mademoiselle, Vogue Children, and New York Times Magazine), she wrote publications for Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) and taught at the College of Communications, Boston University. She is co-author with Jerome Kagan of Psychology and Education: An Introduction (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) and with Harry Levinson, Executive (Harvard University Press). She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

New Book Release: Men in Books Aren’t Better by Amanda Nelson and Lisa-Marie Potter

 

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Pressured by her looming deadline and an unfinished romance manuscript, author Molly Covington applies her immersive research skills and goes all in. She hires a male companion for inspiration during three days of research in Las Vegas.

Enter sexy, confident Jared Washington—an extreme sports enthusiast and relationship skeptic who moonlights as a Plus One male companion. Molly’s contract puts him within arm’s reach of buying his own business and making his dreams come true.

The chemistry between her and Jared is surprisingly easy. Before their Vegas rendezvous comes to an end, one of them will need to lay all their cards on the table to discover if they’ll be lucky in love.

About the authors:

Amanda and Lisa-Marie are a co-writing team of best friends who share imaginary worlds, including a short story, Shivers, published in Moments Between. Lisa Marie Potter (BIPOC) is a mom of four who grew up in Nottingham, England, and now resides in Alaska with her husband and golden retriever. Amanda Nelson grew up in Maryland and moved to Arizona, where she attended college and currently lives with her husband and four kids. Both women are hopeless romantics, but Lisa-Marie enjoys suspense novels, while Amanda's second go-to genre is romancy. The duo also review books on their socials, hike the Olympic National Park, and fight over the same fictional crushes.

New Book Release: Winslow Scarecrow by Stephen G. Bowling

 

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He’s friendly as can be! But when his kindness causes a stir, can this cornfield guardian use his noggin to make everyone happy?

Winslow the scarecrow wouldn’t hurt a fly. Full of song and wearing a silly hat, the bespectacled fellow stretches out his arms and welcomes the crows to rest their weary wings. But he’s shocked when the other straw-filled-scarers get upset because they think he’s falling down on the job.

Listening to his brightly dressed pals argue over what is proper, he thinks hard to come up with a better way. And hoping to find an agreeable solution, he spies the fallen corn on the ground going to waste and the kernel of an idea begins to sprout.

Can Winslow protect the farmer’s crops and still welcome the rascally rooks?

Winslow Scarecrow is a charming children’s picture book. If you or your child like resolving conflict, seeing problems from all sides, and bringing people together, then you’ll adore Stephen G Bowling’s beautifully illustrated tale.

About the author:

Stephen G. Bowling is an award-winning author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Much like Peter Pan, Steve never wanted to grow up. Or rather, while he didn’t mind getting older, he never wanted to lose the child-like enchantment of imagination and wonder. Creating colorful worlds and stories for children has allowed Steve to both preserve his own imagination while sharing the joy of learning with children worldwide. He currently has six children’s books published. His books have also won several illustration awards.

Steve has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Brandeis University. He is an entrepreneur who has worked on and holds several U.S. Patents. He heads The Prometheum Foundation, a non-profit philosophical organization that helps teach students critical and analytical thinking, freedom of thought, and entrance into the marketplace of ideas.

Everyday foods and spices that can keep you healthy - by Vijaya Schartz

 

There is a phantom ship that glows like a beacon in black space,

appears and vanishes, and never registers on scanners.

The space pirates fear it. Their victims pray for it... but its help comes at a price...

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For the longest time, particular foods and spices have been known to have healing or preventive properties.

My mother always told me to eat my carrots for rosy skin.

Blueberries are good for your eyes.

A spoonful of peanut butter a day will keep children (and adults) free of warts.

Chicken noodle soup will help cure a cold.

Garlic, a natural antibiotic, is good for the heart and will kill worms in the digestive system.

Honey is a natural antibiotic.

Blue cheese (the stinky kind) is also a natural antibiotic.

Chamomile tea will calm your stomach and help you sleep.

Warm milk before bed will help you sleep.

These old-wives remedies have proven in time to be not only effective but medically sound.

The modest myrtle plant

Even our universal aspirin, salicylic acid, now synthesized and produced chemically in pharmaceutical labs, comes from nature. Myrtle is a humble flower European people steeped and consumed as a tea to ward off headaches. In antiquity, the same substance (salicin) was extracted from willow leaves and bark.

But spices in particular are still regarded as potent remedies in many parts of the world. Here are a few interesting ones:

A pinch of Cayenne Pepper in your morning coffee is good for your heart and blood.

Curry is a gentle laxative, especially with vegetables.

A concoction of turmeric, fresh ginger, cinnamon and milk will ease arthritic pain.

Moroccan spice (blend of paprika, cumin, cinnamon, clove, ginger, and cayenne) taken daily will prevent herpes flare ups.

Cinnamon lowers blood sugar.

Sage can help brain function, even in Alzheimer’s patients.

Turmeric is all the rage, hailed as an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, and antiparasitic remedy (but beware of contraindications like gallbladder disease, blood clotting disorder, liver disease, diabetes, blood thinners, antiplatelet medications).

Wishing you all a healthy and energetic life.

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New Book Release: La Bugambilias A Bilingual Queer Novel by Lalo León

 

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Lalo León brings his Millennialist perspective to his debut novel “Las Bugambilias – A bilingual queer novel”, touching on themes of faith, culture, identity, and sexuality.

Michael closes his eyes, and he can see it clear as day. The dream that has been plaguing him for the past 2 years, seductively haunting him even in his waking hours. He describes what it looks like every Saturday to Pastor Roberts during their special appointments, hoping that through practice he can kill the fantasy within him before it can bleed out into his real life. But the pressures of church, home and culture reignite the passions within him, and by the end of the summer he will find himself questioning if the world around him will end or will he have to venture into the reality he has tried to deny for so long.

About the author:

At the age of 20, Lalo León was placed into conversion therapy through his local church and remained an ardent adherent to the practice for 10 years. It was not until a series of compounding crisis, that he stopped the therapy and began to deconstruct the falsehoods that he had been led to believe. “Las Bugambilias – A bilingual queer novel” is a cathartic culmination of his time in conversion therapy and retroactively explores not only the damaging effects of conversion therapy, but also the Americentric views of maleness that lie at the heart of the practice. Lalo is a proud Mexican-American, born and raised in Southern New Mexico. He holds an engineering degree from New Mexico State University, and master’s degree from Arizona State University. He currently resides in Phoenix Arizona.

New Book Release: The Presence of Conflict - Audio Book and paperback by Elvis Bray

 

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The Presence of Conflict is a sequel to my first novel, The Presence of Justice. My protagonist, Andy Hanson, has graduated from West Point Military Academy, Ranger School, and Escape and Evasion School. The book starts as he is landing at his Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan, and ends when his tour is cut short because of injuries sustained in battle. The book goes back and forth between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Arizona. It has most of your favorite characters from The Presence of Justice and many new characters from the war zone. The book is an action-packed fiction war Thriller suited for most audiences.