Friday, June 5, 2026

One for the Books

 Book Title on Totally 80s looking book cover



One for the Books is a beautifully crafted friendship memory journal designed to preserve your most cherished moments with friends. Featuring thoughtful prompts like “Remember When” and “Still Laughing About,” spaces for photos, and room to write heartfelt stories, this journal serves as a keepsake for the adventures, laughs, and unforgettable memories you’ll treasure forever. With a sleek design and customizable index, One for the Books is the perfect way to celebrate and document the stories that make life special.

You know those stories that get told over and over, ones that start with “Remember when … ” and end with everyone laughing, grinning, or feeling just a little teary-eyed? Those are the moments we live for, and One for the Books is here to make sure you never forget them. This journal isn’t just for writing; it’s for celebrating the friendships and moments that make life unforgettable. It’s a space to capture the laughter, adventures, heartfelt memories, and all the little in-between moments that matter most. These pages are where stories live, friendships are honored, and you can relive your very best “One for the Books” memories anytime you want. One for the Books is your storybook, scrapbook, and memory vault all rolled into one. Your Stories Matter. Every story in this journal is a little piece of you and your friendships. The laughter, adventures, and heartfelt moments prove the love, connection, and joy you share with the people who matter most. So, write it down. Add a photo. Make it yours. Fill these pages with the stories you’ll always remember, the memories you’ll want to revisit, and the moments that truly deserve to be called One for the Books.

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Thursday, June 4, 2026

The Fall of Two Houses

 Castle in front a firey sun


The Fall of Two Houses


Disclaimer: reading may require spiritual cleansing and other purification rituals. What would you sacrifice to keep your kingdom alive? In the Land of Dreams, light means life, tradition is law, and power is bought with blood. As Lord Crushma faces his own slow death, he races to secure his legacy before enemies close in and darkness swallows the Westlands. His solution is a political marriage, but his only heir is unfit to rule, his allies are corrupt, and every choice threatens to damn the realm he's trying to save. His most dangerous option is an ambitious Count, brilliant at starting conflicts and catastrophic at ending them. To refuse her may doom the Westlands. To accept her may ensure its destruction. The alternative is a young girl not nearly old enough to be courted, and Crushma must choose between the lesser of two evils.






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Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Kind Hearts Farm: A New Beginning

 Young Boy and Grandma with Sheep


Kind Hearts Farm: A New Beginning


Kind Hearts Farm: A New Beginning is a heartfelt children’s story about healing, kindness, and the power of love. When Jimmy arrives at his grandmother’s farm, his heart is heavy and unsure. Life hasn’t always been easy, and trusting others doesn’t come naturally. But through gentle days, caring moments, and the quiet magic of farm life, something begins to change. With the help of his loving Grandma and a special little lamb he names Clover, Jimmy slowly learns what it means to feel safe, to be cared for, and to open his heart again. Set against the peaceful rhythm of the farm, this story reminds children that kindness can grow in the smallest moments—and that love has the power to help us begin again.
Perfect for children ages 4–8, this beautifully told story encourages compassion, emotional growth, and connection between generations.




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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Every Person Has a Story to Tell

    Man and Dog sitting on bench watching Sun


Every Person Has a Story to Tell

By Dr. Walter R. Hoge



What if a life is not one straight road, but a thousand remembered paths crossing faith, grief, science, ancestry, and wonder?

Every Person Has a Story to Tell opens like a memoir, but it quickly expands into something larger and stranger: a life archive shaped by memory’s unreliability, family legend, spiritual longing, professional reinvention, and the haunting possibility that the most important places we visit may not belong entirely to this world. The book moves through ancestors, frontier histories, veterinary practice, personal losses, philosophical reflections, and a mystical valley that lingers in the author’s soul like an unfinished calling.

At its heart, the book gathers family history, memoir, faith, and reflection into a deeply personal meditation on memory, purpose, and the experiences that shape a life.

Its atmosphere shifts between grounded recollection and visionary experience. One moment, the book is contemplating squirrels, elephants, and the fragile mechanics of human memory; the next, it is standing at the edge of a glowing valley in what feels like a parallel universe, where fear gives way to peace and purpose. That tension gives the book its pulse: the earthly and the eternal, the documented and the imagined, the ordinary life and the life that seems to whisper from just beyond it.

What makes this book stand out is its refusal to separate disciplines that are usually kept apart. Science and religion, memory and myth, family history and personal testimony all occupy the same terrain. The central question is not simply what happened, but what a person does with what happened: how experience becomes meaning, how grief becomes redirection, and how a life can be measured not only by achievement, but by whether it remains open to wonder, service, and a second chance.

Some stories are told to preserve the past; others are told to light the way back to the self.


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Monday, June 1, 2026

Marvin and the Plant-Based Penis

   Young Bald Boy with Thumb Up.


Marvin and the Plant-Based Penis

Marvin lives in a dome in 2075, fifty years after the collapse. The air is toxic. The water is poisonous. The Y chromosome has disappeared humans are cloned in vats now, carefully designed to survive a world that kills everything natural.

But Marvin just wants to impress a girl. He has a plan: he's going to buy a plant-based penis, impress Zenna, and live happily ever after. There's just one problem. The plant-based penis doesn't work. Looking for parts to fix it leads him on a journey through the Forbidden Territories, where he Meets broken people, view the world outside his done, and discovers what is still destroying what's left of the planet.






Saturday, May 30, 2026

Own the Room: How to Communicate to Be Seen, Heard and Respected

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Own the Room:

How to Communicate to Be Seen, Heard and Respected


Own the Room is not a book about public speaking. It’s a book about human perception. Why do some people command attention the moment they walk into a room while others struggle to be heard? Why do certain leaders, salespeople, creators, and communicators create trust instantly while others feel forgettable—even when they’re more qualified? Because communication is never just about words. Before people evaluate your ideas, they evaluate you. Your confidence. Your certainty. Your emotional control. Your authenticity. Your presence. Human beings are constantly making unconscious decisions about who feels trustworthy, capable, safe, persuasive, and memorable long before logic enters the equation. In Own the Room, communication strategist Jake Stahl breaks down the hidden psychology behind influence, authority, trust, and presence in a way that is both deeply practical and psychologically precise. Drawing from decades of experience training professionals across industries, along with principles from behavioral psychology, social psychology, neuroscience, and NLP, Stahl reveals how subtle emotional signals shape every interaction we have. This book explores why people react differently to the exact same words depending on who says them, why approval-seeking weakens persuasion, how insecurity leaks through communication, and why emotional congruence matters more than rehearsed perfection. Readers will learn how to create psychological trust, regulate tension, project grounded confidence, and communicate in a way that makes people feel seen, understood, and certain. Whether in business, leadership, sales, relationships, negotiations, interviews, podcasts, presentations, or everyday conversations, Own the Room teaches readers how to stop performing and start communicating with clarity, authority, and emotional precision. Because the people who truly own the room are not always the loudest, smartest, or most charismatic. They’re the people who understand how the room works.




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Friday, May 29, 2026

A Little Gift from Us to You… FREE May 29 – June 2, 2026

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A Little Gift from Us to You… FREE May 29 – June 2, 2026

What if the meaning of life isn’t something you chase down like a runaway shopping cart… but something you slowly learn to make peace with?

From May 29 through June 2, 2026, you can download Making Peace With Life FREE on Kindle, and step into a journey that’s equal parts honest, thoughtful, a little metaphysical, and just enough humor to keep you from taking everything too seriously. In this book, Dr. Rob Alex explores the full spectrum of life—the highs, the lows, and all the wonderfully confusing middle parts in between. It’s not about finding a finish line (because spoiler alert: there really isn’t one), but about understanding how every moment—good, bad, and “what just happened?”—fits into something bigger. You’ll dive into ideas about energy, connection, purpose, and why your life is both incredibly small in the grand scheme… and somehow still massively important at the same time. It’s like getting cosmic perspective with a side of “you’ve got this.”

And just when you thought the excitement stopped there… it doesn’t.

The MakePeaceWithLife.com website officially launches on June 1, 2026, along with the very first Make Peace With Life Podcast. So while you’re downloading the book and starting your journey, we’re rolling out a full experience to go along with it. Think of it as the universe saying, “Alright… let’s do this together.” So grab your free copy, take a breath, and get ready—because this is more than a book launch… it’s the beginning of something bigger.




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