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This book is about overcoming all the odds. It is achievement paired with loss, and accomplishment paired with adversity. It is having faith that in all things, even the most challenging and heartbreaking, you can learn and gain something important. It begins with the hope and belief that you can get through anything, even if it's your only option.
The definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice.
Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to have killed over 100 people and is known to have murdered over a dozen, including a toddler, and his own teenage niece. Yet it was on Death Row that he pulled off his most audacious murder—killing another inmate with a military grade explosive.
As personable as he was ruthless, Pee Wee defied easy categories. He killed to avenge minor slights as well as for pleasure, using any convenient method—including stabbing, shooting, poison, suffocation, and drowning. Evidence suggested he forced at least one victim to dig his own grave, stand in it, and be shot.
With escalating callousness, Pee Wee murdered acquaintances, friends, family members, and strangers. Yet within his North Charleston community he was well-liked—a family man who took neighborhood kids to the beach and hosted cookouts. Ice-cold within but outwardly charming, he joked with judges, reporters, and Harpootlian himself, but didn’t hesitate to hatch a plot to kidnap the prosecutor’s daughter in order to extort an escape.
Dig Me a Grave is a haunting look at a prolific, remorseless killer, as well as a provocative exploration of justice and the death penalty.
Exceptional leaders start by looking inward and making big changes, one small step at a time.
In his three decades of military leadership, Jody Fletcher discovered two fundamental truths: If you don’t show up as a good human, you’ll never be a great leader. But being a good human doesn’t automatically make you someone worth following. These qualities must be learned, and the first lesson starts with taking a hard look at the person staring back at you in the mirror.
Well-meaning organizations often promote people into positions of leadership without offering much—if any—proper training. In Good Humans Make Great Leaders, Fletcher offers a simple and sturdy bridge between self-awareness and practical leadership skills to teach new and aspiring managers to lead with trust, respect, and empathy. Throughout, you’ll learn how to
With warmth and humor, Fletcher approaches the journey to better leadership with compassion—because your most powerful leadership tool is your humanity.
You did everything right.
You saved. You invested. You followed the rules.
So why does retirement still feel uncertain?
In The Retire Ready Roadmap™, financial planner Kyle Hammerschmidt reveals the critical piece missing from most retirement advice: a plan-first system that connects. every part of your financial life. Because retirement isn’t just about having a large portfolio—it’s about turning decades of savings into a life you can actually live.
Most retirees are handed pie charts, generic rules of thumb, and vague guidance like “stay diversified” or “delay Social Security.” But when the paychecks stop, the real questions begin:
Inside, you’ll discover how to:
Whether you’re five years away from retirement or already there, this book will help you move from uncertainty to clarity—so you can retire with a plan, not just a portfolio.
Because retirement shouldn’t be a guessing game. It should be the most intentional chapter of your life.
Start building your roadmap.
Want marketing that works? Stop selling and start connecting.
Forget the buzzwords and the hot new tactics. Good marketing is choosing the message and channel that actually land with audiences. So what do you say, and how do you know it will work? The marketing that wins is rooted in simple principles: Be authentic, speak to a real audience, and make it resonate. The challenge is turning those principles into a narrative strategy that performs in the real world. Because marketing shifts. People shift. Platforms shift. You need a framework that’s built to adapt.
Enter the O.D.D.S. Method: a fail-safe four-part framework from marketing consultant and entrepreneur Shanise Ling, EMBA, that will dramatically simplify and fundamentally change how you go about creating a marketing strategy that works. The O.D.D.S. Method teaches you how to:
Blending real-world stories with actionable marketing strategy, Odds Are It’s Marketing is an exploration of what it means to build visibility, credibility, and impact—especially for those who’ve been underestimated, overlooked, or undervalued. To build brands that can’t be ignored, you need clarity, confidence, and purpose. But most of all, you need a great story. What will yours be?
"An act of love—toward the past and the future alike." —Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author
"Deeply unsettling and profoundly redemptive." —Seattle Book Review, 5/5 Stars
What if healing isn't about fixing what's broken—but remembering what's true?
For decades, Amy Scott Rooker lived split in two: the bright, high-achieving woman everyone saw and the invisible girl inside who carried unspeakable wounds. She tried to outrun the pain with perfection—law school, prestigious jobs, an ever-shrinking body. But underneath it all, she was barely holding on.
Then her mother died. With her death came rupture. The fragile order Amy had built her life around began to crumble. And in the midst of that collapse, a dragonfly appeared.
So began her journey to heal. Through psychedelic medicine, mystical experiences, and unflinching self-inquiry, Amy discovered the strange intelligence of pain—how every hurt can become a doorway, every loss a lantern. She learned to forgive what almost broke her and to love the woman rising from the wreckage.
My Mother Is a Dragonfly is a testament to the fierce, tender work of reclaiming your life—not as a story to be fixed, but as the one you came here to live.
You’ve landed your first serious job. Now what?
Whether you’ve earned a certification, finished your undergraduate degree, or completed your master’s program, your biggest competitive advantage when it comes to your new career is common sense. While most schools don’t teach their students how to thrive in the “real world,” there’s no need to worry—The Graduate’s Guide to Grace in the Workplace is the road map you’ve been looking for.
Filled with straightforward advice and scenarios you’ll actually face, this helpful guide will coach you through everyday interactions that build trust, earn respect, and open doors to advancement. With practical knowledge—and zero fluff—learn how to:
Whether you’re preparing to start your career or settling into your first role, The Graduate’s Guide to Grace in the Workplace is the perfect companion to help you shine in your job and grow your career with confidence.
WOMAN! — Volume I of The Trilogy of Alchemy
by Aline J
She didn’t lose herself.
She was trained to forget who she was.
WOMAN! is a raw, unfiltered exploration of 12 feminine archetypes — the patterns women unconsciously repeat in love, identity, and survival.
Each chapter exposes a different version of the modern woman:
the overgiver, the chaser, the strong one who forgot how to feel, the one who confuses chaos with love.
This book goes into the part no one wants to look at —
the shadow behind your choices, the patterns that keep repeating, the emotional loops that don’t break, no matter how aware you think you are.
Written with sharp honesty, sarcasm, and zero filters, this is not a soft self-help book.
At times it is gentle. At times it cuts. But it never lies.
It´s not a story of victimhood.
It is an autopsy of illusion.
With psychological insight, symbolic storytelling, and raw emotional clarity, WOMAN! exposes the hidden wounds behind modern relationships, performative empowerment, and inherited beliefs about femininity — not to shame you, but to return you to your power.
If you have ever thought,
“I know better… so why does this keep happening to me?”
this will feel uncomfortably familiar.
And when you close the final page, you will not feel broken but you will feel seen.
Because something older than memory has been stirred.
And this time, you know.
We love each other — so why is this so hard sometimes?
Most couples don’t struggle because they don’t care.
They struggle because they don’t have a clear way to work through real-life issues—together.
Most relationship books give you advice.
Some give you communication techniques.
But when real issues come up—money, boundaries, habits, expectations—
you’re still left trying to figure out what to actually do.
This workbook is different.
Instead of theory, you’ll get a simple, structured system to:
Each pact focuses on specific situations couples actually face, including:
Every pact gives you:
With this system, you’ll be able to:
This isn’t something you read once and forget.
It’s a system you’ll return to again and again—
whenever your relationship needs clarity.
You don’t need to be perfect.
You just need a better way to work through things—together.
Every meal is a moral act. Every bite carries a cost measured in carbon, in suffering, in land and water and life. We pretend otherwise because the alternative is to sit with the math and let it change us.
On the Ethics of Killing: The Moral Math of Eating strips away the comfortable distance between the eater and the eaten. Blake Binford walks readers from the fluorescent aisles of the grocery store to the predawn stillness of a deer blind, from the industrial kill floor to the act of cleaning a wild bird. Along the way, he asks the questions most food writers avoid: What do we owe the animals we eat? What does it cost the land to feed us? And what happens when we stop pretending the answers do not matter?
Grounded in ecology, philosophy, and the plain physical reality of killing what you eat, this book is not an argument for or against any single way of eating. It is something harder. It is an honest accounting of what each choice costs and who pays the price.
The Gig Magnet: Fully Booked Edition
5 Books in 1 for Musicians Who Want Consistent Work, Stronger Positioning, and a Career Built to Last
You already know what it feels like to put real hours into your craft—and still watch opportunities go to someone less prepared. Not because they were better, but because they were easier to book, easier to trust, and easier to say “yes” to.
The Gig Magnet: Fully Booked Edition is built for musicians who want to stop relying on luck, gatekeepers, and vague “exposure,” and start building professional momentum on purpose. This is not a motivational book. It is an integrated career framework—five volumes in one—designed to help you become bookable, credible, and memorable across the full reality of modern music work: performance, teaching, collaboration, and professional visibility.
Some ideas are forbidden not because they are false—but because they threaten the foundations of power.
In an age of expanding government, managed narratives, and pressure to conform to an evolving moral orthodoxy, the principles that once defined a free society are increasingly dismissed, distorted, or suppressed. The Forbidden Idea confronts this erosion by asking a deeper question than most political debates ever reach:
Do you believe in coercion, or do you believe in individual liberty?
A foreword by Dr. Ron Paul sets the tone. Drawing on political philosophy, natural law, economics, and history, Mark A. Monoscalco presents a rigorous yet accessible defense of individual liberty grounded in consent, moral agency, and voluntary cooperation. Rather than framing individual liberty as merely a policy preference or cultural slogan, this book argues that it is a moral necessity for any just society.
Unlike conventional political books that argue about what government should do, The Forbidden Idea examines whether government has the moral right to do it at all.
What makes this book different:
Most discussions of individual liberty stop at policy. This one begins with first principles.
The book compares individual liberty with its major philosophical rivals—central planning, collectivism, utilitarianism, and authority-based moral systems—and explains why societies built on coercion, even when well-intentioned, inevitably undermine both prosperity and human dignity.
This book invites readers to rethink what individual liberty actually requires and what is lost when it is compromised.
Inside, you’ll explore:
The Forbidden Idea is written for readers who are new to the philosophy and history of individual liberty. This book will also resonate with readers of The Law, The Road to Serfdom, and The Ethics of Liberty.
This is not a call to outrage. It is a call to clarity—about what individual liberty truly requires, what coercion destroys, and why the belief that human beings are not owned remains the most dangerous idea in politics.
If you are ready to understand individual liberty not as a slogan but as a coherent moral philosophy, The Forbidden Idea will permanently change how you see power, society, government, and yourself.
About the book cover:
Some words are closely related in meaning, such as light and enlightenment or darkness and ignorance. Darkness cannot resist light—it disappears when light is present. In the same way, ignorance cannot resist enlightenment; it fades when understanding is introduced.
From the perspective shown on the book cover, you stand outside the gates, surrounded by darkness—a symbol of ignorance. The elites of society want to keep you there, unaware of the ideas that could set you free. Behind the gates, the books glow with light, representing knowledge that brings enlightenment—The Forbidden Idea. To escape the darkness, read this book.
The future of work isn't waiting for you to catch up.
AI is reshaping jobs. Teams are being reinvented overnight, and entire industries are shifting faster than most of us can catch our breath. The new competitive edge isn't expertise-it's adaptability.
But real adaptability isn't just about staying positive or being flexible. It's about building a system that helps you evolve without losing what matters most. In Bend, Don't Break, Matt A. West introduces the Adaptability System-a practical, research-backed framework for navigating change with purpose. With relatable stories and hands-on tools, this book will help you:
Packed with exercises and challenges, Bend, Don't Break helps professionals, leaders, and teams flex with change instead of snapping under it. Whether you're leading through uncertainty, shifting roles, or simply trying to stay relevant, Matt A. West will help you meet the future with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
Inclusionable uses the overlooked strategy of inclusive leadership to build team performance and boost business results. Learn it. Live it.
Too often, inclusion gets reduced to buzzwords or check-the-box exercises—detached from the real pressures of leading a team and driving business results. Inclusionable bridges that gap. This isn’t a book about setting surface-level hiring goals or measuring diversity. It’s a hands-on guide for managers who want to lead better, build trust, and create a team where people thrive and perform. Grounded in extensive research and real-world stories, Inclusionable shows how inclusion, done right, isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s your edge.
Whether you’re managing five people or an entire organization, this book helps you integrate inclusive leadership into your everyday work—with practical, actionable steps you can take right away. You’ll learn how to:
If you’re a curious, forward-thinking leader who’s ready to unlock the full potential of your team, Inclusionable is your next essential read.
Death is a certainty, and while much about the path is uncertain, how we choose to shape the journey is up to us.
Most of us know that a lack of a game plan can lead to disaster. Why then does death feel like a sudden, uncomfortable, closed-lip topic? Losing someone we love is an inevitable part of life. What if we could think about caregiving early and with solid insights into what makes a difference for those we love—and ourselves?
With Love offers tools to help you feel more prepared for the inevitable—from having hard conversations and making key financial and legal decisions, to assembling care teams and managing care, to getting the support you need to grieve and move forward. Whether you are early on in the journey or recovering from the loss of someone you love, With Love shares insights, advice, and frameworks that can help you be a more effective carer for yourself, your elders, and everyone on the path with you (there are more people than you think).
The path may not be easy or like anyone else’s—but you don’t have to walk it alone. With Love is an honest, heartfelt, and practical roadmap to having a more positive caregiving journey.
Parenting doesn’t come with a manual. But fellow mom Jen Shoemaker Davidson is here to offer straight talk and practical strategies for establishing loving and trusting communication to last a lifetime.
When her own kids entered their teenage years, Jen realized she had important topics she wanted to share with them—but getting them to open up and talk to her would take her full commitment to showing up, even when it was hard. What started as simple “life lesson lunches”—intentional times to sit down and focus on important conversations—became a tried-and-true philosophy for fostering connection throughout their teenage years.
In Keep Talking, Davidson has created a trusted companion for parents navigating the meaningful—and often messy and embarrassing—conversations essential for maintaining open communication with your kids. Through her practical tips and tools, here’s just a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
With sample conversations to help you get started, Keep Talking offers parents open and honest guidance without judgment, delivered with laughter and love.
Twenty-five Supreme Court decisions speak in this book—not as legal arguments, but as lived consequences. A ballot that never got counted. A body claimed by the state. A right narrowed until it disappears. 6–3 and 5–4: Betrayal From Within traces how closely divided rulings have reshaped American life.
The Supreme Court was once seen as the conscience of the nation—the last safeguard of rights and equality. 6–3 and 5–4: Betrayal From Within tells a different story.
Across twenty-five landmark decisions of the twenty-first century, this book reveals how the Court has redefined freedom, democracy, and justice itself. Each case—from Bush v. Gore to Dobbs, from Citizens United to Trump v. United States—speaks in its own voice: a taxpayer dollar forced to fund a sermon, a union fee that can no longer be collected.
Through these haunting first-person narratives, the book transforms legal doctrine into lived experience. It asks readers not just to understand these rulings, but to feel them—to see what happens when law becomes ideology and neutrality becomes complicity.
With prose as sharp as its outrage, 6–3 and 5–4 exposes a Court that claims to defend the Constitution while hollowing it out from within. A reckoning for anyone who still believes justice wears a blindfold—and a warning for those who know she doesn’t.
Are you tired of diets that worked in your 20s and 30s but no longer move the needle after 40? Are you frustrated with stubborn belly fat, bloating, sugar cravings, or the feeling that your metabolism has simply slowed to a crawl? You’re not alone—and there is a natural solution you haven’t tried yet.
Pink Salt Weight Loss Tricks for Women Over 40 reveals how something as simple, natural, and mineral-rich as Himalayan pink salt can help you finally burn fat, rebalance your hormones, and feel like yourself again.
This is not another fad, crash diet, or complicated meal plan. Instead, this book delivers powerful pink salt weight loss tricks designed specifically for women navigating the challenges of midlife—when hormones shift, metabolism slows, and belly fat becomes harder to lose.
Inside, You’ll Discover How to…
Why This Book is Different
Most diet books ignore the fact that women over 40 face unique challenges. Hormonal shifts, adrenal fatigue, thyroid changes, and metabolic slowdown can all make weight loss harder—unless you address them head-on. This book does exactly that.
By focusing on pink salt weight loss tricks, you’ll learn how to work with your body’s natural chemistry instead of fighting against it. You’ll discover how one of the purest, most mineral-rich substances on Earth can help you detox gently, rehydrate effectively, and regain the energy and confidence you thought you lost.
What You’ll Get Inside
✔ A clear explanation of why women over 40 gain weight differently—and how pink salt helps you fight back.
✔ Morning, evening, and meal-time rituals that train your metabolism to work harder for you.
✔ Delicious anti-inflammatory recipes and flavor-packed meal ideas that won’t leave you feeling deprived.
✔ Tips for combining pink salt with intermittent fasting, exercise, and stress management for even better results.
✔ A practical daily checklist to keep you on track without overwhelming your busy lifestyle.
Imagine This…
Waking up with more energy than you’ve had in years. Looking in the mirror and finally seeing your waistline return. Enjoying food again—without guilt, bloating, or constant cravings. Feeling in control of your body and your health, instead of constantly battling against it.
That’s what these Pink Salt Weight Loss Tricks are designed to deliver.
✨ If you’re ready to say goodbye to fad diets and quick fixes, and instead embrace a natural, sustainable way to burn fat and feel amazing in your 40s and beyond, this book is your roadmap.
✅ Simple.
✅ Natural.
✅ Designed for women over 40.
Your transformation begins with one mineral.
Your journey begins with this book.
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Winner, Death & Dying category.
An inspirational story for anyone who's grieving, Through the Darkness explores the unbreakable bonds between loved ones, even after death.
On April 18, 2017, Charlie unexpectedly loses her only child, sixteen-year-old Isaac. Devastated, she throws herself into investigating the circumstances of his death, which she suspects was related to medical negligence. As Charlie falls into darkness, she begins to sense that Isaac is communicating with her from the other side, a spiritual realm where he returns after crossing over. There, Isaac calls upon four generations of his ancestors to help him save his mother's life.
Not long after, Charlie learns that her husband, Chris, has terminal cancer. Pushed to the brink, Charlie embarks on a quest for answers and consults with world-renowned psychic medium Allison DuBois. Based on actual events, Through the Darkness is filled with thought-provoking discussions and acts as a road map for navigating through grief to a place of renewed hope and purpose in life.
