Spotlight: Heal With Words by Allison Vandrak

Self-Help / Body, Mind and Spirit / Health and Wellness

Date Published: October 2023

Single daily entries of insight to inspire, empower, and expand your perspective and shift your internal world. At the end of the day, you are the expert of your own life. Your meaning and takeaway from this book is uniquely yours. Let each page guide your mind into a more shifted and positive one. Spark your truth.

Excerpt

Live your life as if everything you want to go well is going well, because either way even if it isn’t, you still have to make sure YOU are well with your own self and what you have control in navigating.

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About the Author

I’m here to guide and aid in healing with my writings through my therapist lens, and help expand your insight and perspective. This is my passion and I desire to help people see their true potential through their own eyes.

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Cover Reveal: Not Quite a Scandal by Bliss Bennet

Genre: Historical Regency Romance 

An inheritance lost. A betrothal threatened. A scandal brewing…

Outspoken Quaker Bathsheba Honeychurch knows how difficult it is for an unmarried woman to successfully champion political change. Her solution? Wed best friend Ash Griffin as soon as he comes of age and begin remaking the world. But when Ash’s urbane, aloof cousin arrives with inconceivable news, Sheba’s future dreams are suddenly at risk…

The death of the Earl of Silliman reveals an appalling lie: it is not Noel Griffin, but his long-lost cousin Ash, who is the true heir to their grandfather’s title. Raised to place family above all, Noel accepts his grandmother’s bitter charge: find Ash, disentangle him from his religious community, and train him to take on the responsibilities and privileges of a title that Noel had been raised to believe was his. Noel certainly won’t allow a presumptuous, irritating Quakeress to thwart him in doing his duty—no matter how fascinating he finds her...

When scandal threaten

s both their reputations, can Sheba and Noel look beyond past dreams and imagine a new world—together?

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Bliss Bennet writes smart, edgy novels for readers who love history as much as they love romance. Despite being born and bred in New England, Bliss has always been fascinated by the history of that country across the pond, particularly the politically-volatile period known as the English Regency. Though she's visited Britain several times, Bliss continues to make her home in the States, along with her spouse and an ever-multiplying collection of historical reference books.

Bliss's Regency-set historical romances have been praised as "savvy, sensual, and engrossing" by  USA Today, "catnip for the Historical Romance reader" by Bookworlder, "romantic, funny, touching, and extremely well-researched" by All About Romance, and "everything you want in a great historical romance" by The Reading Wench. Bliss's latest book is Not Quite a Scandal, the second book in The Audacious Ladies of Audley series.

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Spotlight: Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman by Zilka Joseph

Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? “Sweet Malida” is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs. Using various poetic forms, the poet launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian Jews, explores its special connection to the Prophet Elijah, while seamlessly weaving in memories, bringing to life the past and lost loved ones as well.

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About the Author

A creative writing coach and manuscript advisor, Zilka Joseph is the author of five collections of poetry. She was born in Mumbai, lived in Kolkata, and now resides in Michigan. Her work is influenced by Indian and Western cultures as well as her Bene Israel roots. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry Magazine and The Bombay Literary Review, as well as in international anthologies. She has been nominated for awards, participated in festivals, featured on NPR/Michigan Radio, and interviewed for podcasts including Rattlecast and Culturico. Her chapbook Sparrows and Dust won a Notable Best Indie Book award and was a Notable Asian American Poetry Book. Two of her books, Sharp Blue Search of Flame and In Our Beautiful Bones, were Foreword INDIES Prize finalists. The University of Michigan awarded her a Zell Fellowship, the Michael Gutterman award, and the Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship. Her next book, Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman (Mayapple Press), will be published in February 2024. Learn more about her at zilkajoseph.com

Spotlight: Meant for Stone by Natasha Madison

From Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Madison comes a brand new sports romance.
A spin-off from the Hollywood Playboy & This Is Crazy.

Ryleigh
Growing up in Hollywood, I was surrounded by liars and phonies.
So when I got my law degree, I knew I wanted to work as a district attorney.
Busy days turned to long nights—I was on my way up the ladder.
Then he happened.
Bullied his way into my life as if there was no choice.
Suddenly everything I thought I wanted wasn’t as important.

Stone
I had one thing on my mind and that was never going to change: The game.
The only goal I had was beating the records set by my family.
I didn’t have time for anything else.
Until she walked in the room.
The earth shifted, just like the stories said it would.
I said it wouldn’t happen—not to me.
I didn’t have the time, but now she was the only thing on my mind.
I knew it was her.
Now I had to convince her.

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About the Author

When her nose isn’t buried in a book, or her fingers flying across a keyboard writing, she’s in the kitchen creating gourmet meals. You can find her, in four inch heels no less, in the car chauffeuring kids, or possibly with her husband scheduling his business trips. It’s a good thing her characters do what she says, because even her Labrador doesn’t listen to her…

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Spotlight: The American Daughters by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Genre: Historical Fiction

A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates—from the award-winning author of We Cast a Shadow

Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the pair spend their days dreaming of a loving future and reminiscing about their family’s rebellious and storied history. When mother and daughter are separated, Ady is left hopeless and directionless until she stumbles into the Mockingbird Inn and meets Lenore, a free Black woman with whom she becomes fast friends. Lenore invites Ady to join a clandestine society of spies called the Daughters. With the courage instilled in her by Sanite—and with help from these strong women—Ady learns how to put herself first. So begins her journey toward liberation and imagining a new future.

The American Daughters is a novel of hope and triumph that reminds us what is possible when a community bands together to fight for their freedom.

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Spotlight: I'm Yours by Melody Anne

Genre: Small Town Romance 

Meet a new family by NYT’s best-selling author, Melody Anne.

If you love the Andersons, you won’t want to miss this new series that has family, friends, a mysterious woman bestowing a magical game, and some steaming hot . . . Guess you’ll have to read to find out.

Melody Anne brings you the Windsor family. Thomas and Linda Windsor have three sons—Blaze, Callan, and Zachary—inseparable but entirely different in looks and personalities. They attend college together and save a woman who’s drowning, then are shocked when she tells them they’ve done good and if they play the game she gives them, they’ll be granted a gift . . . but, if they begin the game and don’t finish, their lives will fall upon hardships. She disappears, leaving the game on their porch. They think nothing of it as they toss it aside, until a few months later when they’re bored, and they begin playing . . . but don’t finish.

It's been ten years since Blaze graduated, and he’s changed from that time. He’s no longer the happy-go-lucky man he was when the world was his oyster. Yes, he’s successful; yes, he has money; and yes, he has a different woman on his arm every other week, but he can’t seem to find happiness. He can’t seem to settle down. Why?

When his Gramps dies, he’s forced to come back home where he’s told he must open the box he received 15 years earlier. How in the hell does his Gramps even know about this? But here it is, sitting on his Gramps desk. He opens the box and reads the instructions inside. He has nothing else to lose at this point, so he decides to follow the map.

Courtney Blaire is sick of being the family nerd. She’s brilliant with a photographic memory and always has her nose in a book . . . usually nonfiction. When her siblings challenge her to step out of her comfort zone, she shocks them and accepts . . . They just want her to find her strength and realize she’s braver than she thinks and more beautiful than any of them, and they want to see her soar.

Her siblings tell her they’ve given her the gift of a male escort, who will be showing up at her office. She reluctantly agrees to meet him. She’s trying to be brave while she feels heat at just the sight of this man . . . who she already knows. She can’t believe he makes his money by selling his body. What a body it is, though.

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About the Author

Melody Anne is a NYT best selling author of the popular series: Billionaire Bachelors, Surrender, Baby for the Billionaire, Unexpected Hero’s, Billionaire Aviators, Becoming Elena and some solo titles. As an aspiring author, she wrote for years, then officially published in 2011, finding her true calling, and a love of writing. Holding a Bachelor’s Degree in business, she loves to write about strong, powerful, businessmen and the corporate world.

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