Monday, March 30, 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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Saturday, March 28, 2026

The 40+ Supplement Guide: Unlocking Health and Vitality

   In Shape Man and Woman


The 40+ Supplement Guide:

Unlocking Health and Vitality


The 40+ Supplement Guide: Unlocking Health and Vitality, a practical, evidence based guide that helps readers over 40 cut through the noise of the supplement industry and build personalized, safe regimens to support energy, sleep, cognition, joints, and long-term health. The book synthesizes nearly 1,000 high-quality public sources into clear, actionable guidance and a reproducible framework for evaluating new supplement claims. The book is structured to be both a reference and a practical handbook: a concise primer on mitochondrial and metabolic health; focused chapters on sleep, cognition, joint health, and cancer prevention; a chapter on widely marketed supplements that lack credible evidence; and a step by step framework readers can use to evaluate new claims. The author, Bernard O’Donnell, is a seasoned investigator with over 40 years’ experience uncovering facts at the highest levels of international organisations. His career has been defined by rigorous fact finding, methodical analysis, and a commitment to uncovering the truth. Frustrated by the flood of supplement books, articles, podcasts, and videos that offered little more than personal opinions or commercially sponsored endorsements, Bernard set out to conduct his own independent research. With no ties to supplement companies and no agenda other than clarity, he approached the subject as he would any complex investigation: by gathering evidence, testing claims against credible sources, and separating fact from speculation. The result is this book - a carefully researched guide to supplements for people over 40. Bernard does not ask readers to accept his personal views. Instead, he presents a body of evidence drawn from almost 1,000 medical studies, academic papers, medical journals, and other high quality papers that readers can examine for themselves. His goal is to provide a transparent, accessible foundation that empowers individuals to make informed decisions about their own health. His investigative background ensures that every recommendation in this book is grounded in verifiable research - not hype, not sponsorship, and not opinion. For readers seeking clarity in a crowded and often confusing marketplace of health advice, Bernard offers what he has always valued most in his professional life: evidence, integrity, and the tools to make decisions with confidence.


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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Dandelions in Third Space

  


Dandelions in Third Space


Many immigrants experience the concept of third space, a culture and language unique to themselves within the intersection of past and present, of there and here. In Dandelions in Third Space, Edytta Wojnar describes her own experiences with this third space she created for herself after emigrating from Poland, which resulted in the loss of language and family. Within this collection of 70 poems, many explore acculturation, investigating what it means to be an immigrant, what it means to be a writer who has lost a language. Expanding the metaphorical concept of third space to marriage, Wojnar describes the continual translation and adoption that occurs between two people’s backgrounds and psychological traits. Wojnar doesn’t shy away from any topic, describing her experiences as an immigrant, a wife, and a mother with refreshing, sometimes brutal, honesty.

“My Mother’s Necklace”, Dandelions in Third Space 
“I left my home country & learned
a lie can be true—
life can be wasted
& there is a metaphor for every loss—
even language.”




  

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Weight of What Remains: Poems of War, Memory and Renewal - A Veteran’s Journey Through Loss, Sea, and Home

  Stones stacked on a beach with sunset behind them.


The Weight of What Remains:

Poems of War, Memory and Renewal - A Veteran’s Journey Through Loss, Sea, and Home


The Weight of What Remains is a powerful and deeply human poetry collection tracing one man’s journey through war, memory, exile, and renewal.

From the dust of distant battlefields to the hush of the sea at dusk, these poems move across continents and decades — from youth and military service to love, loss, healing, and the quiet strength of endurance.

Written with clarity and emotional honesty, this collection explores:

• War and its lasting echoes
• Veteran experience and unseen battles
• PTSD, survival, and brotherhood
• Migration, identity, and belonging
• Nature, sea, and the wisdom of the earth
• Grief, memory, and lifelong love

These poems do not glorify conflict. They bear witness to it — and to what survives after.

Through images of deserts, oceans, stone walls, factories, fields, and moonlit waters, the voice that emerges is reflective, grounded, and unafraid to hold both sorrow and beauty in the same breath.

For readers of contemporary poetry, war poetry, memoir in verse, and deeply reflective writing, The Weight of What Remains offers a journey from fracture to resilience — from silence to peace.

This is a book about what endures.

And what remains.





Back cover of book with description.



 






Saturday, March 21, 2026

The Sexy Art of Conversation: How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection (Sexy Challenges)

  Couple Conversting Over A Book


The Sexy Art of Conversation:

How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection (Sexy Challenges) 


Conversation is foreplay.
And most people are doing it badly.

The Sexy Art of Conversation is not about small talk, polite chatter, or “How was your day?”
It’s about 
connection that lingerswords that arouse, and conversations that change energy in a room.

This book explores the four powerful layers of conversation—physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual—and how mastering them can transform your relationships, intimacy, attraction, and emotional connection.

You’ll discover why:

  • The right words can create instant chemistry
  • Vulnerability is irresistibly attractive
  • Deep listening is more seductive than any pickup line
  • Conversations can heal, ignite desire, and build trust
  • Energy exchange happens long before touch ever does

Blending relationship psychology, metaphysical wisdom, sensual awareness, and humor, this book teaches you how to:

  • Create emotional intimacy without force
  • Speak in ways that lower defenses and open hearts
  • Ask questions that unlock desire and truth
  • Recognize and dissolve conversational energy leaks
  • Turn everyday conversations into magnetic experiences

Perfect for:

  • Couples looking to deepen intimacy
  • Singles wanting stronger attraction and connection
  • Spiritual seekers curious about energy exchange
  • Anyone tired of shallow relationships and surface-level talk

This isn’t manipulation.
This isn’t scripted romance.
This is 
conscious conversation—where words become touch, listening becomes intimacy, and connection becomes electric.

Because when you learn how to truly speak—and truly listen—
everything changes.




 


  

Friday, March 20, 2026

"Fighting the Workplace Mob"

   Book Title on Red Background




My name is Jesse Rosson. I worked as the Human Resources Manager at Flynt Management Group, LLC and was stationed at HUSTLER Casino. I believed my calling there was simple: to lead with integrity, to protect the casino, and to uphold the principles of fairness and honesty in the workplace.

But when I uncovered conduct that clashed with those very principles, I was forced to confront a choice: remain silent and protect my career or speak up and risk losing it all. I chose to speak up and use my voice. That decision led to my unlawful termination and the long, painful legal battle that followed.

This book is more than a record of that fight. It is also a testimony of how God met me in my darkest hour. When my career crumbled, my faith was tested like never before. Yet through the ashes of loss, God revealed a greater purpose: to walk in truth, no matter the cost.

As I grew closer to my faith, I meditated and prayed on this bible verse and felt led to expose wickedness.

Ephesians 5:11 

"Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them."




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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Hodgepodge A Random Collection of Poems and Songs Like Nothin' You've Ever Read

 Cowboy looking across a highway at some buffalo



Hodgepodge

A Random Collection of Poems and

Songs Like Nothin' You've Ever Read

By Jerry D. Jackson


What if a book refused to stay in one lane—and instead invited you to wander?

Hodgepodge: A Random Collection of Poems and Songs Like Nothin’ You’ve Ever Read isn’t built like a tidy poetry anthology; it feels more like opening a well-worn notebook found on a kitchen table, its pages filled over years of living. The world inside is stitched together from memory, humor, heartbreak, faith, satire, and sudden bursts of song. One page leans into playful rhythm and country wit; the next pivots toward raw reflection or spiritual reckoning. There’s no single road here—only a series of side paths, each carrying its own mood.

The atmosphere shifts constantly, and that’s the point. Some pieces carry the cadence of front-porch storytelling, where laughter drifts as easily as summer air. Others move inward, grappling with mortality, regret, grace, or the quiet persistence of belief. The tension isn’t plot-driven—it’s emotional. What happens when a mind refuses to filter itself? When sentimentality and sarcasm share the same page? When a song lyric becomes a confession?

There’s a distinctly Americana pulse running through the collection—echoes of old hymnals, country ballads, and small-town conversations—yet it also carries the unpredictability of spoken word. The poems don’t posture. They meander, they jab, they wink. At times they feel like campfire tunes; at others, like late-night thoughts scribbled in the margins of memory.

What makes this collection stand out is its embrace of imperfection. The title signals it plainly: this is a hodgepodge. But beneath the randomness lies a quiet question—can a life ever be summarized in one tone, one genre, one voice? The book suggests otherwise. It honors the messiness of being human: contradictory, nostalgic, faithful, funny, wounded, hopeful.

In a literary landscape that often demands cohesion and branding, this collection leans into variety as its truth. It doesn’t ask to be categorized; it asks to be experienced—piece by piece, mood by mood.

Sometimes the most honest portrait of a life isn’t a straight line, but a scatter of songs that somehow still belong together.


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