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How would you feel if you woke up to discover that your seemingly healthy fifty-six-year-old husband was dead? Crossing the Minefield is the inspirational story of one woman’s gut wrenching journey following a cold November morning that changed her life forever. 

The author takes a more intimate look at the usual stages of grief, including anger, confusion, depression, guilt and acceptance. Issues that are rarely covered in grief books, like widow brain, sex and safe guarding, happiness guilt and skin hunger are also explored. 

With support and advice from the author, other widows and grief counselors, this compelling account gives readers who have suffered any kind of loss a realistic look at the road to recovery. Crossing the Minefield offers empathy, guidance, reassurance, hope and the knowledge that you can cross the minefield of grief and not just survive. You can triumph and emerge reborn as a stronger person. 

Visit the author at www.melindalyons.com.

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Two people from different worlds searching for one another are drawn together by a bond stronger than anything in this earthly sphere, and a love powerful enough to move mountains. Cillian is in danger and Gideon is her true mate. And absolutely nothing will stop him from protecting what is his.

Visit the author at www.jadamsbooks.com. 

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Since 1985, the General Social Survey (GSS) studies have been revealing a decline in friendships. Twenty-seven years later since this study, our world is in even more need of unity with countries in conflict and our uncertain economy. This book is a crucial part in helping people with personal and global transformation.

The Friendship Effect is a two-part book that will teach you all you need to know to be a true friend and to create long-lasting genuine friendships. Part one focuses on being a friend to yourself and living a life based on what makes you happy, which will inevitably attract more friends your way. Part two spotlights the secrets to creating and sustaining lifelong friendships while showing why and how friendships are lifesaving and world changing. The secrets of friendship, which will be revealed in-depth in this section, are:

• Refrain from judging.
• Be a good listener.
• Give your friends advice the safe and real way.
• What to do when meeting someone for the first time through Magical Ease.
• Be an effective communicator.
  
• Retrieve information instead of perceiving it.
  
• Be thoughtful.
  
• Solutions Focus Friendships: a framework that concentrates on the solution versus the problem.
  
• Always have high expectations in your friendships.
  
• Keep your friendships healthy.
  
• Keep your life balanced with friendships: Portfolio of Passions.
  
• Make friends with creative techniques.
  
• The Trigger Effect
  

These points may appear simple or common knowledge. I assure you that the unique strategies you will learn about each point will make you an invaluable friend.

An array of studies and life-changing programs from gurus from around the world are also embedded throughout this book to assist you in creating a life that you are passionate about while making friendships.

Are you feeling like you would like to make friends but don’t know how? Do you feel stuck in a school, job or life plan that doesn’t seem right? Are you having a challenging time maintaining your friendships in our fast paced day and age? You are not alone if you answered yes to any of these questions. That is why this book exists, to help you. Inside reveals all the answers and information you need to create friendships and to live a happier life in a better world.

If you want a book from a genuine author who is passionate about friendships and deeply cares about your happiness, then keep this book tight in your hands and don’t let go. You are already guaranteed one friend before even buying the book, the author. From there on, the sky is the limit.

Visit the author at http://thefriendshipeffect.com.

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Sometimes it's hard to tell where one set of wings ends and the other begins... 

Her old friend Joe had always said Claire was his angel, though the woman she'd become was anything but celestial. She was beautiful, alluring, the epitome of sensuality...and she was filled with a pain so deeply embedded she was sure she could bear it no longer. 

Hope vanished, as did her desire to go on. She'd decided to end her life, but instead of the extravagant meal at a high dollar restaurant being her last, a mix up of names placed her life in the hands of the most virtuous man she'd ever met. An earthly angel named Garrett, who would show her that even she was worthwhile; a man who needed someone like Claire to help him piece together the shattered parts of his own life.

Visit the author at www.lindaboulanger.com. 

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Three touching, inspirational tales that evoke the essence of what we love most about the cold weather holidays.  

Ghosts in the Graveyard:  
October 1816. When Sir Anthony's cousin dies, a grieving widow is left behind, one no longer wanted when her father-in-law, the Duke of Marcross, sires a new heir. She is welcomed to Dunsmere by the Dowager Duchess; she has a plethora of empty bedrooms now that Sir Anthony and his bride, Ginny Delacourt, have moved from the premises. When Lady Avery claims she saw a ghost in the graveyard attached to the church on the Dunsmere estate, Anne, with help from Baldwin, the gardener, and handsome stranger Mr. Williams, attempts to unearth the meaning behind the eerie happenings at the Duchess' estate. Will they solve the mystery of the ghost before the cantankerous Dowager Duchess sends Mr. Williams away and all of Anne's hopes with him?

A Rose For Christmas:  
Autumn 1812. The Dowager Duchess of Marcross wants nothing more than to win the annual flower show and has been developing the perfect Christmas rose, sure to be a winner. However, the rose is stolen and she is faced with a moral dilemma. Can she win the competition without compromising her integrity and sacrificing her reputation? A young Sir Anthony and Ginny Delacourt make an appearance in this heartwarming tale of loyalty, devotion, and gratitude.  

The Lord Who Sneered:  
Christmas 1818. Debutante Lady Sophie Lundell has been warned away from the Marquis of Trevelin by her father, but why? When she meets the infamous Marquis at her first ball, she is fascinated by his scar, one that causes his mouth to be drawn into a perpetual sneer. So determined is she to learn how he came by it, she follows him out onto the veranda and insists on hearing the story from his own lips. Her curiosity transforms into a profusion of emotions when she discovers there is more to the Marquis' wicked reputation than his injured mouth. When Christmas day dawns, she learns that the best of gifts are bestowed only by the heart.

Visit the author at http://heidiashworth.com/. 
Model image from Period Images.

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Little Italy, 1946 
Sophia Mancini would have enjoyed the grand opening celebration of her family’s private detective agency if the volatile chef at Vincenzo’s Ristorante had actually survived the meal. But before Sophia’s chilled spoon hit the spumoni, someone plunged a knife into Vincenzo’s back and the word on everyone’s lips went from mangia to murder.

Visit the author at http://carolinemickelson.com/.
Model photo ©Caroline Mickelson. 

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Heléne de Laurant has not forgotten how the Earl of Gunthar destroyed her father’s castle during Henry II’s war with his sons. Apparently neither have her family and friends, for when someone tries to murder Gunthar, every sign points in their direction. Heléne realizes the only way to prove her loved ones’ innocence is by exposing the true assassin.

As Heléne and Gunthar spar over the identity of the traitor, fierce determination gives way to mutual attraction. Heléne must race against time, and dark secrets of the past, to unmask the would-be killer before the kingdom plunges back into war and takes the life of the man she has unexpectedly learned to love.

Visit the author at http://joyce-dipastena.com. 

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After a devastating raid by the slavers of the eastern Ottalan Empire that cripples her clan, killing the chieftain and his wife, Seraphimé, princess of the Osprey Clan, is left for dead in the snows of her homeland, the Sierran Tundra.

Rescued and then guided by an ancient god who seeks to wake the tundra and rally her nations against the looming Eagle of the Desert, Seraphimé is instructed to strike south for the homeland of the proud and war-like Greyl tribes to seek aid for her beleaguered people.

The terms of that alliance are more than she can bear.

As Seraphimé struggles to choose between her duty and her heart, the Tigil Mstusa plots in the centre of the desert Ottalan Empire.  His raiding party obliterated by a mysterious man and his three black hounds in the tundra, Mtsusa wants revenge and he plans to enact it with the full force of the mighty Ottalan Empire behind him.

Unless Seraphimé makes peace with her fate, she risks the destruction of her people, and the god whom she loves.

The Summer Bird is volume one of the two volume epic The Seraphimé Saga. 

Visit the author at http://www.smcarriere.com.

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A troubled lady...
Malvina is in over her head. Blackmail, highway robbery, murder, and treason are just some of the crimes she’s become embroiled in. With each passing day, her chances of escape—and survival—lessen.

A bored gentleman...
Gideon stumbles upon a holdup where all is not as it seems. Kidnapping one of the robbers’ accomplices hands him the very lady he was sent to investigate. Is she caught up in her husband’s treasonous activities, as his superiors suspect, or is simple highway robbery more her cup of tea? 

A dangerous alliance...
Gideon is determined to help Malvina even if doing so leads to some unpleasant truths. Malvina acknowledges her need for Gideon’s help, but accepting might require her to make the ultimate sacrifice: her son.

Visit the author at http://www.jaimeygrant.com. 

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Five years ago, Cherisse Nicholson’s world collapsed. In a freak accident, her beloved husband, Police Sergeant Brandon Nicholson, was killed in the line of duty. However, all was not as it seemed. With the help of the Evans family, Brandon’s death was investigated, and an international plot came to light involving powerful businessmen and the Mexican cartels. The Evans’ banded together in a multi-agency case to catch those involved and put them away forever. 

With John Woods, Nathan Medina, and Rocky Alvarez behind bars, there is hope that they have stopped a massive smuggling organization – at least until next time. Now it falls upon Assistant U.S. Attorney, Robert Wolffard, to bring them to justice while the Evans’ prepare for their next case. However, their hard work does not come without a price. As Wolffard struggles to keep the major players in jail, he meets the sergeant’s widow, Cherisse Nicholson, and her two fatherless sons, and suddenly the case becomes more personal. The ambitious but lonely lawyer falls in love with her family while Cherisse clings to her unwavering loyalty to her deceased husband. She has a choice: continue to live with his memory, or take a chance at a new beginning.

While Wolffard builds the case of his career and grapples with his personal life, he and the Evans' learn that they are the targets of an assassination. The cartels do not take the loss of their product easily, and they want them all to pay. Will Wolffard live long enough to convince Cherisse to take a chance on him, or will she receive his body in pieces? How many of the Evans boys will live to see the end of the trial? 

The Evans family runs headlong into danger, and they learn the hard way not to become too confident of their skills in this explosive culmination of the Woods trial.

Visit the author at http://www.collettescott.com.