Named one of Book Riot's 100 Must-Read Romantic Comedies!

Elementary school teacher and part-time librarian Sarah Mayhew has the perfect plan: show off her cycling skills at her school's bike retreat and attract her oblivious coworker in the process. Her end game? Fall in love. Only one problem: she needs to find someone to teach her how to ride a bike pronto. But when she catches sight of Chris Dean, her best laid plans are about to go off track . . .

The book interleaves understandings about happiness, brain, mind and how to live a better and happier life with a personal story of a diversified career, interrupted by an advanced stage cancer, the battle, deep meditations, and discovering the answers.
It contains many short stories and original illustrations exemplifying the understandings and making the reading more fun. It is also a very practical book.
If you want a happier, healthier & more successful life, better relationships, understanding the relevant processes in the brain, using intuition in management and also in daily life and better decision making, this is the book for you!
Being happy is a choice!

Many people who read this book found it enjoyable, motivational and the practical tips very useful. A few citations from the reviews, will describe the best the uniqueness and value of this book:

I am so glad that I was able to read this one. The mind is such a powerful thing. The short stories keep you wanting to read more. Reading the author's own personal story put a lot in perspective for me.

It has given me different ways of thinking and I am sure I will be using this information for a long time to come.

I was inspired by his words. He has a unique way of writing and you feel like being in the middle of a conversation and not reading a book. That is a good thing. This is an excellent self-help book, very uplifting and reminds you to take a little of everyday to enjoy life.

This is a great book! Points you to the important things in life and gives you an easy step by step guide to easily make significant changes to your life and to increase your happiness. I read it from beginning to end over half of the night and just couldn't stop reading until I finished it. Warm heartedly recommended.

This book is just wonderful. Not only that it is both interesting and fun to read, it also makes you think: Can you live a happier life? The book is well written, easy to read, and so fluent, that I couldn't stop reading. I highly recommend reading this book. You will enjoy the reading, it will make you think, but above all, it will make you feel better. Highly recommended!

A must read book ! We all deserve to live happier life and Dr. Gilkis is providing excellent tips based on his life experience and great observations on how practically achieve this essential goal. The book is fluent , fun to read and his great tips are easy to adopt .highly recommended !

I really enjoyed this book. It was not a lengthy read, and it went relatively quickly once I started. It is not the easiest read at times, since it presents some very in depth information on the brain and how it works. I am fascinated with brain studies and the process of how things work, including the mechanics of the mind and its effect on our long term thinking and feelings. It is truly amazing to me how much of our behavior, beliefs, and more are influenced by our mind. And the author did a great job of explaining it to the reader.

I found the author’s personal story to be touching and I am impressed that he was able to overcome as much as he did. But on top of all of that, it was very inspiring to me to see how he took everything he learned and let it influence his entire life. He made a comment early in the book when telling his story about how he was always pushing himself to do more, achieve more, and succeed in everything and he neglected his personal health. It wasn’t until he was diagnosed with an advance stage of cancer that he rethought his entire life and his actions and thoughts changed. Talk about a testimony! And it is one of great power, truly amazing and inspiring to read.

This is a great self-help book for anyone needing to slow down and take some time to reflect on life and what is going on around them. So many of us live a life that is fast paced, hectic, and go go go, and we forget to stop and enjoy life and just be in the moment. We live in a fast-food mentality

A WOMAN RUNNING FROM THE IRISH MOB

After Siobhan’s older sister marries a rancher in Wyoming, Siobhan is forced to rely on her quick fingers and her wits to put food on the table.

But when the police demand that Siobhan testify against mob boss O’Malley or go to jail for picking pockets, she flees disguised as a young boy, hoping to escape both the authorities and the mobster who owns her.

A MAN UNDERCOVER WITH TRAIN ROBBERS

Investigative reporter Ned Harte has been chasing big stories all his life. This time he’s cooperating with a federal marshal to infiltrate the Mitchell gang—in the hopes of getting the scoop on the gang’s capture.

But when the train job spirals out of control, Ned must make a choice: stay with the gang and let innocent people die, or blow his cover to save Siobhan and the others.

A FROZEN WASTELAND BETWEEN HERE AND HOME

Siobhan has never ridden a horse, and Ned is in danger of bleeding to death. They’ve got miles to go before they can rest—if they stop, the harsh Wyoming winter will kill them.

With the Mitchell gang searching for them, will Siobhan be able to keep Ned alive until they reach safe haven?

Thief of Hearts: Siobhan’s Winter Flight is a clean, inspirational mail order bride romance. While this book is part of a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone book.

The invitation to join the secretive Guadel should have been the fulfillment of dreams Va'del didn't even realize he had. When his sponsors are killed in an ambush a short time later, he instead finds his probationary status revoked, and becomes a pawn between various factions inside the Guadel ruling body.

Jain's never known any life but that of a Guadel in training. She'd thought herself reconciled to the idea of a loveless marriage for the good of her people, but meeting Va'del changes everything. Their growing attraction flies against hundreds of years of precedent, but as wide-spread attacks threaten their world, the Guadel have no choice but to use even Jain and Va'del in their fight for survival.

Publisher's Note: Frozen Prospects is a YA Epic Fantasy book, and is the first novel in the Guadel Chronicles Series, a series of books which were written so that they can be safely enjoyed by teens and adults alike. Frozen Prospects is followed by Thawed Fortunes, and is only one of several free YA books available from Dean via Kindle.

Dean Murray is the successful author of multiple clean young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy books which collectively have more than 480,000 copies in circulation.

Reviews have compared Through the Riptide to novels by Nicholas Sparks.

An attractive thirty year old professional woman leaves NYC after being attacked there and finds a new job by the seashore. She has to decide whether she will date her ex-boyfriend or a mysterious new man she meets on a bus ride. Filled with passion, emotion, romance and the excitement of a summer by the sea...

#1 Amazon Bestseller and the 2016 International Pacific Book Award Winner for BEST HISTORICAL FICTION! 

In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
 
Praise for Alaska
 
“Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes. . . . Alaska takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
“Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”—Boston Herald
 
“Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—The New York Times

Quiet and soft-spoken, Kate Zook is the responsible eldest daughter in an Amish family and prides herself on fulfilling her role. Then, one fateful snowy night, she uncharacteristically speaks her mind—and unwittingly plays a part in a horrible accident.

Wracked by guilt over her role in the tragedy that left her brother David injured, Kate devotes herself to his care, going so far as to take on his chores in the fields. Even so, her brother’s resentment toward her grows, and David torments Kate, making her increasingly isolated life even more difficult.

Though Kate’s parents have emotionally withdrawn, someone outside the home takes an interest in Kate and notes her clear grief. Samuel, a local boy, has recently returned from a wild rumschpringe—the Amish term for exploring the wider world—and recommitted to his community. Intrigued by Kate’s gentle yet loyal ways, he begins to fall in love with her. But tensions rise as he refuses to put up with David’s rage. As Kate’s heart begins to stir and cry out for happiness, she must rely on faith to find forgiveness or risk losing out on love.

Determined to save his dying father, Roland Roper only has one hope. Decades after the Greystone war, wizards are now presumed to be extinct. That is, until rumors fly that one has been sighted outside the village. Knowing it's his father’s only hope, Roland sets out to find this forgotten wizard.

With the help of his friend Tristan, the two set out on an adventure into the unfamiliar world. Attacked by a magical creature in the dark woods, they learn he is connected to the forgotten wizard. Taking the creature hostage, the two decide to use him as leverage to attract the wizard.

Even with the help of this creature, convincing the wizard to heal his father turns out to be more of a challenge than once thought. In a struggle to save his father, Roland learns what it takes to be a man in this coming to age story.

New release price only until 12/20/2016.

Broken Stories is a compilation of short stories and novelettes that accompanies the Broken World Series. From California to Oklahoma, South Carolina and Colorado, readers will get a glimpse at what other people went through before, during and after the zombie virus outbreak.

Some of the characters featured in these stories have close ties to the main characters in the Broken World series, while others are brand new. It’s an emotional, intense and exciting look at how the zombie apocalypse has changed the world.

Save the girl.
Save the day.
Save yourself.

The mission sounds easy enough, but it is anything but easy for Parker Jenkins. Yesterday, ordinary, poverty-stricken Parker was an ordinary high school kid, getting bullied relentlessly and trying to get by. Today, he's a time traveler with gifted powers expected to carry out the extraordinary. Teaming up with another time traveler, Scarlet, they must save an innocent girl on the run before the villains kill them all. If they don't, their present-day selves will die. But can the ordinary perform the extraordinary?

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Get the first THREE Lynlee Lincoln Series books, PLUS a bonus holiday prequel all in ONE Bundle. Inside you’ll find:

The Trouble with Holidays (A Lynlee Lincoln Series Prequel)
Falling for a human who doesn't believe in magic was the last thing Lynlee Lincoln needed. Beck Hale was a young architect and she was a Neutralizer-in-training--they were drawn together, but worlds apart. When Beck's apartment gets flooded, she invites him to her home for Christmas. Lynlee tries to ignore the pull of the mistletoe, but after all, 'tis the season.

Trolling for Trouble (The Lynlee Lincoln Series Book 1)
The Lynlee Lincoln Series One: Magical and undead creatures can get into plenty of sticky situations. Lynlee Lincoln loves her job as a neutralizer, but she needs a break from the supernatural chaos after an ultra-busy Halloween night. Coming home, she's ready to collapse into her bed and forget the day... until she discovers two children scavenging through her refrigerator. One look at the pair and she feels a tug on her heartstrings, then she learns their father is the man she spent years trying to forget. When Beck pleads with her to help save his daughter, Lynlee gets thrust into a heap of trouble.

Tangled Up in Trouble (The Lynlee Lincoln Series Book 2)
Lynlee Lincoln isn't just a witch, she's also a Neutralizer. Her job is a juggling act to keep magical and undead clients out of trouble. But getting back together with her old flame throws one more ball into the mix and romance with a guy who has two kids can get complicated. When her old mentor asks her to investigate the goings-on of a dark witch, things turn messy. The witch is stalking supernatural creatures to collect ingredients for a potion that Lynlee can't seem to figure out.

To keep those closest to her from becoming the next victims, she may have to confront the demons within herself.

This Spells Trouble ((The Lynlee Lincoln Series Book 3)
It took some work, but Lynlee Lincoln has finally found balance between her life as a witch and her relationship with Beck Hale. A human boyfriend with two kids wasn’t something she ever planned, but their new arrangement lets her have her cake and eat it, too. Just when she’s getting comfortable, puzzling visions of impending danger at home begin to haunt her dreams.

And if personal issues aren’t troubling enough, Lynlee and the entire organization of Neutralizers go on alert when a phantom creature begins staging magical episodes on live television. If they can’t put a stop to the sensational events, all hell will break loose in the human world. Can Lynlee keep both her new family and the world safe without getting swallowed up in the process?
 

The Ecsoli have taken Anaskar, raiding the city for bones of the Sea God and holding King Oseto captive in his own palace. Yet there he discovers an even greater threat in the form of his own Greatmask, who grows impatient for the Sacrifice.

Hiding in the blackened streets, Flir must deal with her uncertainty regarding Kanis while gathering a resistance force, where she discovers even her vast strength seems useless before the blue-cloaked Ecsoli.

Beyond the Wards, Ain heads home, ready to face the shame of failing at the Sea Shrine. Instead, he finds mysterious and deadly Darklings hunting his loved ones. In his desperation he makes a startling discovery about his Pathfinder heritage.

Meanwhile, miles distant, Sofia and her father struggle for mastery of Argeon and Osani as they race toward the city. A battered Notch finds himself making a similar journey, just as unsure if he will return in time to help the city in its darkest hour, as enemies pour through its broken walls.

       A Shocking Revelation... An Impossible Rescue...The Government's Worst Nightmare...

Ryan Webster, a former student turned fugitive, has kept the promise he'd made to his dying grandfather and rescued a new species of monkey from their burned out home in the Amazon jungle. But the explosive secret they carry is about to be exposed. It's a secret the President of the United States doesn't want revealed. Recruited by the government to confirm that their genetic code will ignite a social panic and upend economic order, the country's top geneticist is obsessed with securing his own immortality and will do anything to achieve that goal.

Trapped in the custody of a relentless FBI agent chosen to lead the government's cover-up, Ryan must find a way to rescue the monkeys he's promised to protect, before they suffer unthinkable torture in the name of mankind.

Swimming Monkeys: Revelation extrapolates the explosive potential within the human genome into a powerful and entertaining thriller about a young man's commitment and the thin line between right and wrong.

Like millions of other kids, Jim grew up wanting to be a superhero. Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, Jim actually had the goods: a plethora of super powers that would have been the envy of any meta on the planet. But when his tryout with the Alpha League - the world's premier group of supers - goes disastrously wrong, Jim basically becomes an outcast.

Two years later, Jim is still bitter about what happened to him. However, he soon finds himself the centerpiece in an odd turn of events that gives him a second chance at his dream. But nothing is as easy as it sounds, as Jim soon discovers. Among other things, he’s made an enemy of a prospective super teammate, he’s being stalked by an unknown pursuer, and a shadowy cabal bent on world domination has identified him as the only obstacle to their plans.

It’s a lot for one super to handle, even with a smorgasbord of abilities. But if saving the world were easy, everyone would do it…

THREE LOST SHEEP. TWO BROKEN FAMILIES. ONE BLIZZARD.

After Chase Williams' first wife died of pneumonia while he was out-of-town, his young daughter stopped speaking. Three years later, he's still not ready to marry, but little Pearl desperately needs a mother. He doubts that any woman can heal his broken heart, but he's willing to propose to a woman who'll be kind to Pearl.

As the oldest of six children, Bridget Doyle became responsible for the cooking and cleaning when her mother died of a post-partum fever. Marrying's not an option for her--if she leaves her two youngest siblings alone, who will stop their drunken father from taking the belt to them?

Bridget discovers that her youngest brother, Tom, has been playing matchmaker: he's been writing letters on her behalf to a rancher in Wyoming. Not only has Chase proposed, he's agree to let her bring Tom and Mary with her. The catch--she's also got to find a way to communicate with his mute daughter Pearl, while playing second fiddle to the ghost of Chase's first wife.

Will Bridget find a way to heal Chase's broken heart and bring two fragmented families together?

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Perhaps the greatest American spy novel! Ever!

International Best Seller. Rights sold in UK and Japan. Spanish and French language editions coming in 2014.

The classic American spy novel, from the author of, "False Flags: Betrayal in London," "The Sandler Inquiry: A Spy in New York" and "Payback in Panama."

Noel Hynd is (a few notches above the Ludlums and Clancys of the world." - Booklist

Love and betrayal, spies and patriots, murder and romance, Roosevelt versus Hitler on the eve of World War Two. "Winds of War" meets "The Eye of The Needle."

This espionage thriller follows FBI agent William Cochrane's efforts to stop a Nazi spy from assassinating FDR. Toss in a love affair with a British Secret Service operative and you have the makings of a page-turner. LJ's reviewer found the book "complex in characterization, crisp in dialogue, and thorough in its background" (LJ 3/15/85).

"First rate!" - The Cleveland Plain-Dealer

"A Chiller!" - Los Angeles Times

"A Super spy novel!" The Savannah News-Presse


It is 1939. Roosevelt is winding down his second term in the White House. The Nazis have taken Austria, and Stalin’s Red Army is systematically eliminating the Kremlin’s enemies. Europe is going to hell in a handbasket. With isolationist sentiment running high in America, and the president’s popularity at an all-time low, Hitler seizes the moment and dispatches his secret weapon: An agent named 'Siegfried' who conceals himself behind the mask of middle-class America. A chameleon who can change identities and personalities at will. A cold-blooded killer who will win the war for Germany.

A banker, linguist, and demolitions expert who has successfully infiltrated German intelligence, FBI Special Agent Thomas Cochrane is handpicked by Roosevelt for an impossible mission: To find Hitler’s spy before he carries out a plan that will remove the president from office at a critical moment in the century’s history. As Cochrane, with the help of British Intelligence agent Laura Worthington, circles closer to his elusive quarry, a spy with supporters in the highest levels of U.S. government readies the world stage for a final act of annihilation that will alter the tide of war--and the future of the free world--in unthinkable ways.

Imagine a world where your most precious inalienable rights are denied. Where individual freedom is a thing of the past. Imagine World War II without FDR ...

Seventeen-year-old Raine Cooper has enough on her plate dealing with her father’s disappearance, her mother’s erratic behavior and the possibility of her boyfriend relocating. The last thing she needs is Torin St. James—a mysterious new neighbor with a wicked smile and uncanny way of reading her.

Raine is drawn to Torin’s dark sexiness against her better judgment, until he saves her life with weird marks and she realizes he is different. But by healing her, Torin changes something inside Raine. Now she can’t stop thinking about him. Half the time, she’s not sure whether to fall into his arms or run.

Scared, she sets out to find out what Torin is. But the closer she gets to the truth the more she uncovers something sinister about him. What Torin is goes back to an ancient mythology and Raine is somehow part of it. Not only is she and her friends in danger, she must choose a side, but the wrong choice will cost Raine her life.

A MAN STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE
The last thing blacksmith Walter Jonas wants is to follow in his father’s footsteps. Master of a dying art, he’s struggling to find his place in a world dominated by factory-produced goods brought to Texas by train.

If he can’t find a way to compete with the big companies back East, he’ll lose everything: his home, his forge, and his marriage.

A WOMAN IN SEARCH OF A FAMILY
Ida Cleary grew up in an orphanage, but that didn’t stop her from making a life for herself: she’s been supporting herself by working in a garment factory since she was sixteen.

But at twenty-five, she feels like she’s sewing her way into spinsterhood. Her only chance at marrying is to become a mail-order bride.

A CHRISTMAS IN NEED OF A MIRACLE
When Ida arrives in Salvation to marry Walter, she learns that his situation is more serious than he let on. She vows she won’t raise her own children in poverty, or worse, allow them to be raised in an orphanage like she was.

As Christmas approaches, will Walter’s skills and Ida’s tenacity be enough to keep them from being tossed out into the cold?

Winning the Blacksmith’s Heart is a sweet inspirational mail order bride romance. While this book is part of a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone book.

In Faith Parson’s heartwarming clean romance stories, courageous men and their mail-order brides join together to make a new life on the Western frontier.