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Eternamente V de sublime

Eternamente V de sublime. 3ª edición. 2026. 144 páginas. ISBN 9798248507818. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Indepenently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Eternamente V de sublimeUn libro atrevido con textos que no tienen miedo de decir las cosas por su nombre.Nueve poemas que incomodan a los “conservadores”, desafían a los “revolucionarios”, abofetean a los “moralistas y puritanos” y motivan a luchar aún más contra el feminicidio.En Eternamente V de sublime, la Vulva —no la vagina— toma la voz para declarar su independencia, su libertad, en un manifiesto poético contra aquellas voc...
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SYNTOPIA EPISTEME A Design Odyssey

In a near future of rising seas and failing empires, a young woman designer builds a floating world from the ruins of the old one, confronting climate dystopia with low-tech ingenuity under the pressure of global powers.Floating Eden Defies Empires.As the world is being parceled out, Ayesha, born Bajau, a stateless Southeast Asian sea dweller, loses her mother in a traumatic accident. Orphaned in Sumatra, adopted in Singapore, her Leonardesque gift for drawing leads her to study design in France.At every stage of her journey, mentors and bullies, some real and some composite, appear like stepp...
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Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine

Lisa Doyle is fine. Absolutely fine.At least, that's the story she's been telling herself.Her best friend is getting married. Everyone around her seems to have a partner, a plan, and a life that makes sense. Lisa, meanwhile, has four glasses of wine in her, a talent for making bad situations worse, and a growing sense of being left behind.So she does what any sensible woman in a crisis would do. She announces that she's engaged.There is only one problem.Brian does not exist.Now Lisa needs a fiancé before the wedding, her actor flatmate is far too willing to get involved, and the real Brian, w...
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Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers

BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS includes stories about family dysfunction in a not-so-blended family, work, Adolf Hitler’s imagined alternative lives and possible reincarnation, the spirit of Kurt Cobain, a green angel giving an aging alcoholic man a second chance at redemption, men struggling to find some meaning in their lives, and more. Many of these stories deal with feelings of alienation and abandonment, and feelings of the characters that they do not fit in in their families, their lives, their jobs, or, sometimes, in their very bodies.In all there are thirty-eight stories and ...
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The Visitor

He wakes up in a different body.So begins the journey of Ash—short for Pin Asher9919—who awakens on a hospital bed on, he believes, a different planet after an automobile accident took the bodily life of an Earth human named Edward Fleishman. Ash is told he was the victim of a serious brain injury and miraculously recovered from being brain dead in a coma, but Ash feels he knows the truth: his spirit has replaced the distressed spirit of the former Edward Fleishman.Thus, Ash's new life on earth begins, complete with a spouse who is a stranger to him, a body he is not sure how to use, a wor...
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The Swipe That Shouldn’t Have Happened 2: When Love Gets Real, Messy, and Impossible to Ignore

Emma Clarke thought the hard part was falling in love.She was wrong.Because staying in love?That’s where things get complicated.Now officially offline and very much together, Emma and Noah are stepping into something far more dangerous than dating apps and fake relationships—Real life.And real life comes with:Miscommunication that hits harder than silenceCareer choices that pull them in different directionsFamilies who suddenly have opinions about everythingAnd the quiet fear that love might not be enoughWhen an unexpected opportunity threatens to separate them—and a familiar face from t...
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The Slumbering King: Close your eyes, and he takes your mind

"Close your eyes, and he takes your mind."Dr. Aris Thorne thought moving to the quiet, fog-draped village of Oakhaven would save his career. He came to study a rare, localized form of fatal insomnia. Instead, he found a curse.When the sun sets, the villagers are paralyzed by terror that walks the tree lines-an ancient entity that calls The Slumbering King. The rules are simple: stay awake, or become his next vessel. As Aris begins to hallucinate the king's whispers, he realizes his scientific instruments are useless against the creeping dread. Trapped by the encroaching forest, Aris must uncov...
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The LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere… You Were Never Outside It

The door was never confined to an apartment.It was never trapped behind a wall.It was never something that could be closed.In THE LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere, the nightmare has evolved beyond recognition.The world feels normal again.The voices have faded.The strange disappearances have stopped.People have moved on.But Daniel knows the truth.The pattern never ended.It simply became invisible.Now, a new tenant discovers a door that shouldn't exist.A door with no number.A door no one remembers seeing before.A door that appears only when noticed.As old horrors begin to awaken in new pl...
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Tares among the Wheat, Volume One

Superstition, mysticism, and religion weave like tangled vines through the tales of Amelia’s newly discovered ancestry. As a widow struggling to sustain herself and her ten-year-old son, Amy’s modest life is tragically disrupted when a dubious lawyer determines her late mother, adopted at birth, was the estranged daughter of the recently deceased Lexington McClary. Although the net worth of the once enormous estate is petty, Amy decides to travel several hundred miles to attend the funeral, in the hope of at least learning a semblance of her newfound ancestry.After the interment, alone in ...
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Name Drop, Me? Never!

Hugging Eric Clapton... drinking espressos with Ronnie Wood... tea with Emma Thompson in her kitchen... turning down an audience with Roger Moore in St. Moritz… it’s all in a day’s work for some random lanky bloke called Sebastian Wocker. But why has this relative nobody continued to cavort with so many household names? In an honest account of his experiences with the great, the good and the occasionally odd, Wocker shares with us his close encounters of the famous kind. ‘A great read. Deserves to be widely read and acclaimed!’&n...
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Battle Lines Drawn

Picking up where things left off, family becomes pitted against family after the reading of a will. Follow along with the Nolans, the Drakes, and others as they shore up positions for upcoming battles among the families. Meanwhile, someone has been lurking in the shadows pulling the strings. Find out who in the third novel of the Milliken Mills series

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Last Will & Punishment

The lives of the Nolan family were rocked with the sudden death of one of their own. Now the reading of a will throws their world into even more chaos. Will it tear them apart for good or bring them closer together? Find out with the second book of the Milliken Mills series.

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Naughty Disney

Naughty Rhymes 

It was such fun to be bold 

these are rhymes for the old beloved characters rewritten

 with me you may not be smitten 

I make no apology each one was written with glee 

Cover is a scribble of mine x

 


 

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Bloody Night VII: AFTER THE LAST SUN

The sun is gone.But something is still watching.After the final battle for the throne, humanity believed it had survived the end of divine judgment.They were wrong.Because in the silence that followed, reality itself began to change.Time fractures in abandoned cities. Shadows move without owners. And deep within the fabric of space, an impossible signal begins repeating across the stars.Jack Cross thought the war was over when he refused the crown.Now he understands the truth:The throne was never the conclusion. It was a trigger.Something ancient has awakened beyond the reach of suns and stars...
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A Numbers Game

A Numbers Game is Tinamarie Cox’s follow-up poetry collection to Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues. Where Midnight Hues focused on traveling through a depressive episode, A Numbers Game dives deeper and explores the beginnings of her mental health struggles.Cox has curated poetry, prose, images, and artwork from her past and present, which examines the formula that added up to a life-changing decision and shines a light on the effects that lasted for years post-survival. Tinamarie Cox’s unique collection of works has created something just as much poetic as it is memoir. It gives a hu...
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Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues

Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues dives into the mentality and emotions that can overtake a person during a depressive episode. This is a journey alongside mental illness via poetry and prose, which includes a raw account of the ups, downs, and hopelessness.Author Tinamarie Cox finds writing poetry therapeutic for her emotional and mental health struggles. Looking back over her notebooks, she noticed a recurring theme in much of her work. At her darkest, she was describing herself as sinking, drowning, and fighting to swim against the heavy currents. These are the relatable elements descr...
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Poems and a story with Drawings for Kids: Book 2

Poems and a story with drawings for Kids: Book 2 by a female Irish Author

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Poems and Drawings for Kids: Cute rhyming verses first in a series

Fun wee verses and drawings for kids by a female Irish author.  

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99 Names

Two young people from different sides of the tracks find love and a renewed sense of purpose amid rising racial and religious tensions in south-western Sydney.Returning from his first Friday prayer session at the local mosque, the kid meets Issi, a budding graffiti artist. Both sixteen, both of them loners, outsiders, they find comfort and solace in one another's company. As their relationship blossoms, jealousy, gang rivalry and parental interference conspire to upset the unlikely summertime romance.The kid's home life is mired in dysfunction and despair. He has flashbacks to his childhood in...
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EDDIE

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points ata person, but she is not able to see or understand what's happening? The first shock wave thatany parent dreads, her son has a special ability and a very dangerous one at that. How can she protect him? Eddie tries to hide from a traumatic event and befriends another young boy while playing in the park, not knowing the real truth about Ben. Not Yet! The story is about how, when truth surfaces t...
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Runway Princess

She was never meant to be a model. He wasn't supposed to care. Young, innocent Angélique Moreau arrives in New York City expecting a brief holiday before starting work as a humble governess back in Europe. But a chance encounter with celebrated Manhattan fashion photographer Xavier Samson changes everything. Almost by chance, Angélique is propelled into the glamorous, cutthroat world of international fashion.Their first encounters in Xavier's penthouse studio are punctuated by friction and mistrust. Working together, as artist and muse, they must suppress whatever feelings lie beneath t...
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Circle of Peace: A Greek Tale

For fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne comes a Greek mythology adventure about a woman’s fight for peace in the face of chaos.In this captivating retelling of the Greek story, Perse—Circe’s mother and Helios’s wife—returns to her husband with a bold demand: a grand hall of her own in exchange for aiding his troubled sister, Selene, who has enraged Zeus by engaging in an affair with a mortal. Perse succeeds in her mission, but the House of Helios is soon plunged into sorrow when Clymene and Helios’s son, Phaethon, ignores all warnings and commandeers He...
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Threads of Blood

When Lana, a kind homeless shelter worker, is nearly robbed, she tries to make friends with her mugger. His name is Rafael, and Lana wants to guide him onto a better path. Across the city, a burglar called Kathleen enlists Rafael as her young protege. However, she is a police informant.

Elsewhere, across the San Gabriel Valley, there is a spate of disturbing murders. There appears to be no connection, but ambitious Detective Archie Delgado views things differently. His colleagues in the homicide bureau mock his wild theories, but Delgado is determined to prove he is right.

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Private Members, Public Scandals

Unexpectedly elected to the House of Commons in Tony Blair’s landslide victory in May 1997, the 27-year-old Rowan Cannon found herself in the Mother of Parliaments with ambitions to make real and meaningful improvements to the lives of her constituents. Rowan may be bright, vivacious and attractive, but she will soon cross swords with the press who dismiss her as just another ‘Blair babe.’Rowan is determined to assert her feminist credentials against a patriarchal system and seeks to break down class privileges too. However, she soon discovers that politics is far tougher and dirtier tha...
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The Pendragon Prophecy

A modern-day American farmer convinces his wife and a handful of believers calling themselves "The Knights of the Golden Prarie" that he is the last heir to the throne of King Arthur. His misfit Knights of the Golden Prairie have one summer to prepare for The King's Challenge, a secret tournament between knights to determine the world's future and finally rid the world of monsters and magic. Will The Pendragon Prophecy be fulfilled?

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Waking Purgatory

A RIVETING PARANORMAL HORROR MYSTERY exploding with secret family legacies soaked in despair against mankind’s obsession to open and explore the blind spot between heaven and hell... Purgatory, Illinois: A town trapped between heaven and hell... Amanda Lemon and her curious twins quickly learn there is a thin line between madness and genius. Their new home is not the idyllic small town they prayed for after all. What will happen on Halloween? Why is the ancient society known as ECHO lurking in the shadows? Never wake the dead. Never...

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Finding Paul Bunyan

What if the legendary giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his pet blue ox Babe really did exist? Young Billy Bunyan and his disabled brother Hap are determined to find out with unexpected consequences that will change their broken family's future forever.

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The Mermaid Latitudes

A miniature painting of a mermaid drawn in bat’s blood is taking the art world by storm. Why was it adrift at sea in a bottle, a coded message etched in the glass? Who painted it and why? It is up to Larry Settlebottom, a sheltered museum curator, to decipher the riddle. His adventures take him to Mexico and beyond as he encounters modern-day pirates, corrupt oceanographers, and a band of romantic sea gypsies, all leading him to a remote island where madness, death and art live together.

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The Five Pearls

THE FIVE PEARLS is a story of personal redemption against incredible odds, peppered with teen narcissism, secret pregnancies, and misguided burglaries; A true portrait of under-privileged, throwaway kids and mismanaged adult lives in today's America. A part-time teacher has his hands full with a the Tadpoles, a band of disillusioned and rebellious teenagers that don't want or need anyone's help. Or so they think...

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Welcome to Bittersweet

Fifteen-year-old street thief Eddie Doyle has spent his life surviving on the streets of New York—until one desperate act changes everything. Fleeing with his deaf sister aboard an orphan train bound for Kansas, he finds himself in a world both harsher—and more hopeful—than he ever imagined.At Bittersweet Farm, under the watch of Mary Christmas, a retired Wild West Show sharpshooter and her “found family”, Eddie and a group of forgotten orphans learn what it means to belong. But danger lingers beyond the wheat fields, and the past refuses to stay buried.In a land of second chances, E...
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El coleccionador de arrugas. Poemas de la vejez.

El coleccionador de arrugas. Poemas de la vejez. 2ª edición. 2021. 246 páginas. ISBN 9798783170911. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU."soy / frágil / ... /un pañuelo desechable / una pensión devaluada / uno número para el terror de las estadísticas / una sombra sin luz / una voz muda / una mirada ciega / un sueño encerrado sin ilusiones..."En estos poemas de la vejez, el poeta expone el lado sombrío y triste de los viejos: la soledad, el abandono, la enfermedad, la depresión, la ilusión vana, la desesperación, entre otros temas. Son poemas duros co...
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Confesiones.

Confesiones.  2ª edición. 2024. 234 páginas. ISBN 9798876121042. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Confesiones fue escrito en 2019 y es el segundo libro de poesía visual del poeta.La obra reúne un total de 36 poemas en los que el autor equilibra el uso del lenguaje coloquial con el lírico, manipulando los espacios físicos, diferentes tipos de letras, fotografías y dibujos para crear un paisaje, muchas veces irónico, de los diversos temas de la vida cotidiana: el amor, los recuerdos, los sueños, la soledad, la esperanza, la frustración, el existe...
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Fuga da cidade de máscaras. Poesia visual.

Fuga das cidades das máscaras. Poesia visual. 2ª edición. 2023. 230 páginas. ISBN 9798391562269. (Poemas escritos em 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.A massificação nas grandes cidades, o consumismo desenfreado, o anonimato nas ruas, a solidão nos prédios e condomínios, as máscaras que se usam na vida cotidiana e nos relacionamentos pessoais, a luta do individuo — como ente único — para não perder a sua identidade e a sua essência na vida tumultuada nas grandes urbes, são alguns dos temas de Fuga das cidades das máscaras.Escritos com rebeldia, sarcasmo e intrig...
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Un momento en el tiempo. Los cuentos de la atemporalidad

Un momento en el tiempo. Los cuentos de la atemporalidad.3ª edición. 2025. 172 páginas. ISBN 9798312963694. (Cuentos escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. Un momento en el tiempo. Los cuentos de la atemporalidad es un libro optimista, tal vez utópico, de ensueño.Los siete cuentos de este libro hablan del amor y de la amistad que sobreviven a través de los años, cultivando las remembranzas, la lealtad, alimentando el fuego de esas relaciones personales que no deberían desaparecer.Los personajes de estas historias son hombres y mujeres adultos que están entre ...
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On Green II: Love and Speed

Dash
By: Dash

In the wake of his exodus from his life in New York, Dustin Cameron returns to his hometown of Sanford, Florida, to lie low and pick up the broken pieces of his life once again.

However, after discovering the local street racing scene, he learns that the Orlando chapter of the club is being threatened by a reckless and dangerous new champion whose actions hit too close to home.

With a war brewing for the club's future, Dustin's cover is blown when he is tapped for help by a familiar, iconic face. Cylinders fire when he decides to take matters into his own hands.

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On Green

Dash
By: Dash
Having escaped a troubled past, Dustin Cameron now lives and works as a mechanic in Queens, New York. Struggling to make ends meet, he takes an off-hours gig as a rideshare driver to supplement his income. But what started as an ordinary night on the job ends up leading him into a harrowing encounter with wealthy billionaire playboy Bob Bellhorn, owner of Bellhorn Logistics.After the encounter, Bob exploits Dustin's past as a criminal street racer and hires him to compete in a mysterious and highly illegal world-wide street racing ring on a business deal. Spiderwebs begin to form, however, whe...
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War Torn

War Torn: A Riveting Tale of Love, Sacrifice, and Survival in the Heart of WWIIAmid the horrors of war, can love cross enemy lines and survive the battle within?October 1942. Frances Meyer, a gifted violinist, faces an unthinkable choice: stay in Nazi-occupied France under the menacing gaze of an SS officer obsessed with her or risk everything for freedom. With her ailing Jewish husband, she boards a fragile boat to escape, but fate has other plans. Shipwrecked in the unforgiving Atlantic, her fight for survival lands her in the last place she expected—a German U-boat. Commanded by the enigm...
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The Binary Butterfly

Do you know when the world ended?What is the measure of a person’s hope through their life? What drives and thrives in the toil of people?Akureyri City, a future vision of a concreted relic of human determination, one built from sweat and industry and raised in a paradigm in which the very builders are those that suffer most and glean the least. A skyward hive of consciousness, where money and power are not always what matters.A place where the stories of the many soak into the tarmac like oil: trodden on, climbed over, forgotten.This is a story about existence.Four lives intersect by chance...
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Wine Tasting Guide & Journal: A Beginner's Companion to Tasting, Choosing, and Pairing the World's Most Famous Wines

Uncork Your Confidence and Discover the Joy of WineDoes the wine world feel complex and exclusive? Let Strasbourg-based wine writer Daniel Savin be your friendly guide. Trained in oenology and writing in a clear, approachable style, he helps you explore wine with curiosity and pleasure.Inside this 140-page guide, you'll discover:Famous Varieties Demystified: Profiles of 20 essential red, white, rosé, champagne, and sparkling wines, including their fascinating histories, most famous growing regions, and recommended wineries.Your Tasting Toolkit: Simple, step-by-step instructions on how to prop...
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Where Sunflowers Stand: A Traitor in Ukraine. A Spy in Russia. A CIA Man. And the Fight for Freedom.

Alex Curtner, the CIA’s Chief of Station for Russia and Ukraine, is in dire straits. His most critical operation is on the verge of collapse. Russian counterintelligence is closing in on a spy – Alex’s prized asset at the top of Moscow’s hierarchy.It all started with a whisper. A traitor inside the Ukrainian General Staff tipped off the Russians: Ukraine had prior knowledge of Moscow’s war plans. Now the noose tightens, and Alex must do the impossible – unmask the traitor before the Russians can neutralize his asset.But if they strike first, the CIA’s operation – and Alex himse...
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