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.