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  • Dangerous Designs

    Dale Mayer

    language (Valley Publishing Ltd., March 13, 2016)
    Drawing is her world...but when her new pencil comes alive, it's his world too.Her...Storey Dalton is seventeen and now boyfriendless after being dumped via Facebook. Drawing is her escape. Itā€™s like as soon as she gets down one image, a dozen more are pressing in on her. Then she realizes her pictures are almost drawing themselves...or is it that her new pencil is alive? Him...Eric Jordan is a new Ranger and the only son of the Councilman to his world. Heā€™s crossed the veil between dimensions to retrieve a lost stylus. But Storey is already experimenting with her new pencil and what her drawings can do - like open portals.It ... The stylus is a soul-bound intelligence from Ericā€™s dimension on Earth and uses Storeyā€™s unsuspecting mind to seek its way home, giving her an unbelievable power. She unwittingly opens a third dimension, one that held a dangerous predatory species banished from Ericā€™s world centuries ago, releasing these animals into both dimensions. Them... Once in Ericā€™s homeland, Storey is blamed for the calamity sentenced to death. When she escapes, Eric is ordered to bring her back or face that same death penalty. With nothing to lose, can they work together across dimensions to save both their worlds?This is book 1 in the series and ends on a hook, that is picked up in book 2.
  • Sweet, Smart, and Struggling: Does a Dumpster Hold the Secret to Success?

    Carmen Klassen

    eBook (ETA Publishing Ltd., Jan. 26, 2019)
    Living on the edge of poverty is crushing, but single mom Carrie Bennet is determined to somehow make life better for herself and her two children. Every day she has to fight the critical voice of her ex-husband echoing in her head, while trying to keep her head above water and re-build her life.Desperation leads her to pull things out of a dumpster and try to sell them for some extra cash. In the process she finds something unexpected that changes her life.Sweet, Smart, and Struggling is a story about hope, friendship, creativity, and how one woman learns to live life on her own terms.
  • Footprints in the Ferns

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., Aug. 6, 2019)
    A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomeryā€”and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrotā€”as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia.Riches to rags. ... Controlling to chaos. ... But murder ... not this time!One night 10 years ago, 8-year-old Crystal, vanished from her bed in her parentsā€™ house, the only clue a footprint in the flowerbed below the girlā€™s window. Now that footprintā€™s reappeared, this time at the scene of another crime, and Doreen is under strict orders not to stick her nose into Corporal Mack Moreauā€™s new investigation.But while Mack is busy with the new case, Doreen figures it canā€™t hurt if she just takes a quick look at the old one. Her house is empty, her antiques removed, and she has time on her hands. Sheā€™s finished working on Pennyā€™s garden and needs a new project to keep her busy ā€“ and allow her to avoid the heavy work waiting in her own garden. And with the help of her assistants, Thaddeus the parrot, Goliath the Maine Coon, and Mugs the Basset, soon Doreen is busy navigating the world of pawn shops and blackmail as she looks for clues as to what happened to the girl stolen from her bedroom so many years ago. Surely, itā€™s not her fault when her case butts up against the new one ā€“ is it?
  • Evidence in the Echinacea

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., May 7, 2019)
    A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomeryā€”and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrotā€”as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia.Riches to rags. ... Controlling to chaos. ... But murder ... well maybe ā€¦Doreenā€™s success at solving murders has hit the newswires across the country, but all Doreen wants is to be left alone. She has antiques to get to the auction house and a relationship with Corporal Mack Moreau to work out, not to mention a new friendship to nurture with Penny, Doreenā€™s first friend in Kelowna, and Doreen doesnā€™t want to ruin things.But when a surprise accusation wonā€™t leave Doreen aloneā€”about Pennyā€™s late husband Georgeā€™s death and made by one of the men Doreen helped put awayā€”she thinks that maybe it canā€™t hurt to just take a quick look into her new friendā€™s past.Before Doreen knows it, sheā€™s juggling a cold case, a closed case, and a possible mercy killing ā€¦ along with cultivating her relationships with Penny, Mack, and Doreenā€™s pets: Mugs, the basset hound; Goliath, the Maine coon cat, and Thaddeus, the far-too-talkative African gray parrot. And while Mack should be used to Doreenā€™s antics by now, when she dives into yet another of his cases itā€™s becoming increasingly hard to take ...
  • Liam's Lily: A SEALs of Honor World Novel

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., June 19, 2018)
    When former Navy SEAL Liam O'Brian joins Legendary Securities, he looks forward to being shipped somewhere exciting for his first mission with Levi and his crew. Instead, he learns exotic and enormous aren't exactly synonymous when he stumbles upon the oversized pachyderms inhabiting his new backyard. Still, conflicts are universal and Liam's troubles are only just beginning once he finds himself falling for a woman deeply rooted in her family's livelihood and problems.Go-getter Lilianna Howell is a biologist who believes all problems can be reduced to minor ones if only they're nipped in the bud early enough. When her dad can no longer deal with the loss of his son and his detachment threatens the elephant reserve, Lilianna steps into a much larger role, handling the marketing and fundraising. Being close to her sister and her husband--once Lilianna's fiancĆ©--forces her to struggle with distrust from that past experience and a growing attachment to a man who appears in her life like a dream come true. Mammoth issues escalate as Liam and Lilianna team up to save the gentle giants, their newfound loveā€¦ and their own lives.
  • The Art of Clear Thinking: Mental Models for Better Reasoning, Judgment, Analysis, and Learning. Upgrade Your Intellectual Toolkit.

    Patrick King

    eBook (PK Publishing Ltd., March 8, 2019)
    Think smarter, better, and faster. Clear thinking is the key to truth, wisdom, and knowledge.Whether itā€™s from ourselves or others, we rarely see the world as it really is. We arenā€™t able to think clearly. We build our beliefs on lies, assumptions, and deceptions. This ends now.Practical methods to never be fooled, stop making mistakes, and avoid traps. The Art of Clear Thinking takes an in-depth look at the everyday illusions we come across, and how to defeat them once and for all. What makes us jump to conclusions, evaluate incorrectly, and consistently make errors when we should know better? Why do we act against our own interests so frequently?Itā€™s just how weā€™re wired. But it doesnā€™t have to stay that way. This book gives you the tools to clear the fog from your eyes and simply think smarter. Practical methods to instantly be quick-witted, more insightful, and think more critically. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. He has sold over a million books. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. Discover and avoid biases, blind spots, and poor logic.ā€¢The key to intellectual honesty and the biggest obstacle (that you control).ā€¢Just how flawed and biased your perceptions, perspectives, and feelings are.ā€¢Real logic and the fake logic people try to use to fool you.ā€¢How to think independently without being influenced by others.ā€¢Principles from some of historyā€™s greatest thinkers: Descartes, Darwin, Einstein, and more.Scroll up to and click BUY NOW to take your blinders off and become the smartest person around.This is the second book in the ā€œClear Thinking and Fast Actionā€ series as listed below:1. The Science of Getting Started: How to Beat Procrastination, Summon Productivity, and Stop Self-Sabotage2. The Art of Clear Thinking: Mental Models for Better Reasoning, Judgment, Analysis, and Learning. Upgrade Your Intellectual Toolkit.3. 10-Minute Philosophy: From Buddhism to Stoicism, Confucius and Aristotle - Bite-Sized Wisdom From Some of Historyā€™s Greatest Thinkers4. Practical Intelligence: How to Think Critically, Deconstruct Situations, Analyze Deeply, and Never Be Fooled5. Relentless Focus: 27 Small Tweaks to Beat Procrastination, Skyrocket Productivity, Outsmart Distractions, & Do More in Less Time6. Take Rapid Action: Get Productive, Motivated, & Energized; Stop Overthinking & Procrastinating
  • Vampire in Design

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., Jan. 14, 2014)
    Left behind. Scared. And getting really pissed off.Tessa and her friends were supposed to be on their way home. On their way to safety. Instead she wakes up alone, with her friends kidnapped. Targeted and hunted, Tessa goes on the attack, desperate to find her friends and family. But her attackers want her throwback genes and will do anything to have her locked down in their lab.Caught in a dangerous maze, Cody is torn between helping his fellow captives and finding Tessa. Heā€™s young to have the connection thatā€™s growing between him and his best friendā€™s sister. But any future they might have is in jeopardy if they canā€™t stop the blood farm from taking over the humansā€¦and his people.Jared is free at last, but he canā€™t stop thinking about what he went through at the blood farm and those who helped him. Then he finds out something personal that so horrifying, he has to actā€¦even if it means walking back into the place he swore to never return.These three need to be strongā€¦the war is far from overā€¦and they are right in the middle of it.
  • Ford versus Ferrari: The battle for supremacy at Le Mans 1966

    John Starkey

    eBook (Veloce Publishing Ltd., Sept. 22, 2019)
    What happened when America's richest car company, producing many thousands of cars per year, went head-to-head with Ferrari of Italy in the mid ā€˜60s? This is the story of an unstoppable force coming up against the stubbornness of an immovable object ā€“ that is, Ford against Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari, whose company produced fewer than four hundred cars per year in 1963, wasnā€™t going to bow to Ford after he had turned down its offer to buy his company. The only place left to duke it out was on the racetracks of the world ā€¦ and one in particular: Le Mans ā€˜66.eBook ISBN: 978-1-787116-18-4 (9781787116184)Print ISBN: 9781787115729 (9781787115729)
  • Vampire in Deceit

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., Oct. 9, 2013)
    Hurt and hurting, Tessa wages war against her own as she tries to protect those she loves and save those that canā€™t save themselves.Exhausted by the constant attacks, afraid for her friends and family, Tessa is driven to the ends of her reserves as she strives to beat back the never ending wave of war. Thankfully sheā€™s never aloneā€¦inside or out.Kidnapped and injured, Cody struggles to escape and find the girl whose connection to his heart, mind and soul is growing by the moment. The chances of them all surviving this chaos are slimā€¦but he just knows he canā€™t live without her.Jared is determined to help his father and friends. He canā€™t leave them alone to their fate, even when his own life becomes endangeredā€¦again. Only this time, he has allies on his sideā€¦or does he?The war unites humans and vamps as the war ratchets higher to a survival of the fittestā€¦but the people most deeply involved canā€™t take any more. And then they find out the worstā€¦
  • Vampire in Charge

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., Oct. 25, 2016)
    The Family Blood Ties continues to this 10th and final installment of this vampire versus vampire saga. She thought she had it all solved.Tessaā€™s had a hell of a time tracking down the blood farm bosses. And itā€™s not over yet. Just when she thinks she has it solved, it unravels all over again.She should be taking the last of the enemy captive and tying up the final ends. Instead, it appears thereā€™s one more secret to uncover ā€“ and when she does, itā€™s a doozy.Cody is desperate to have this mess over with and have Tessa all to himself. But as the secrets start to unravel, the craziness gets worse.Can they trust anyone? Or does everyone have something to hide?
  • Vampire In Defiance

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., Feb. 18, 2014)
    This was it. For Tessa. For Cody. For Jared. Her family. Her Friends.Moltereā€™s Mountain is collapsing. With Tessa, her friends and family still inside. Tessa wonā€™t go out without a fightā€¦and she wonā€™t leave the others behind. But as she races to save everyone, time runs out.Grounded with an injured wing, Cody wants Tessa to leave while they still can. But most of their friends and family are missing. He wants to do the right thing and save them allā€¦but itā€™s too lateā€¦Jared had led the army into the mountain. Only to find they were looking to annihilate all vamps, not just the bad ones. He canā€™t leave his friends vulnerable to yet another attack. But the mine is a death trap. And he could be the one that ends up dead.The pressure is on ā€“ to save friends, family, each other ā€“ only the enemy is just as determined that no one survives.
  • Vampire in Chaos

    Dale Mayer

    eBook (Valley Publishing Ltd., April 28, 2015)
    Tessa's life has plummeted into chaos. Her father is missing, Goran is unconscious and showing no signs of healing, her mother has taken several steps off the deep end and David, well, she'll deal with him when she sees him - if she can find him. Cody isn't sure what happened to the supposedly successful conclusion to the blood farm madness but he's back in hell and damn it Tessa is once again leading the charge. Jared is on the run, again. With no one else he can trust, but Tessa's friends and family, he searches them out determined to help them solve this war - whether he is welcome or not. With everyone in distress or missing, Tessa struggles to find answers, and create some kind of order amongst the chaos - before their attackers strike again.