"Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life." - Christina Scalise, Organize Your Life and More Are You Organized? Does any of the following describe you? Stressed, low on cash, low on time, hectic schedule, late for appointments, forget important items, forget important tasks, always looking for lost items, your kids lack responsibility, you live in a cluttered home. Disorganization can be stressful, time consuming, messy and expensive but there is help. "Yes, YOU can be organized too! Learn the best kept secrets of becoming organized and staying that way. Learn how to be efficient, save time and money, reduce stress and clutter, get the help and cooperation you need from family members and prove to yourself that it can be done. In this book you will find a vast collection of: 1. Incredibly easy to follow organizing tips. 2. Short articles. 3. Examples to help get you started. 4. Budgeting and financial information. 5. Ideas to organize using new or recycled products. 6. Organizing challenges with references to help you accomplish each one. 7. Information to help you organize absolutely everything! No more long, drawn-out explanations, just the help you need now! Get organized today! The results will simply amaze you!

Organize Your Life and More: Save Time and Money, Reduce Stress, Remove Clutter

Self-Help

Scalise, Christina

Stress Management

Brighton Publishing LLC

Many years ago, a fortune was stolen. Despite the tireless efforts of some very dangerous people, it was never recovered. For all anyone knew, it was lost forever. For all anyone knew, it was forgotten. But anyone who really believed that would be mistaken. Because the Mafia never forgets. Maggie Vargas is a social worker in the small town of Rockford, Michigan. She is smart, beautiful, and has a flair for fashion. She has a relatively simple life she adores and a job made much easier because of a special, hidden talent... ...Maggie Vargas is psychic. Not psychic in a big-picture, predict-the-future way, but she can see things just under the surface. It's an ability she has had ever since she was a young girl. And try as she might to keep her gift secret in this small Midwestern town, Maggie Vargas's luck is about to run out. Soon, Maggie discovers she has attracted the attention of the head of the Italian Mafia, a man who long ago lost a great deal of money to Maggie's own thieving grandfather. Before long, however, she meets his son, Dominic Rossi, and it isn't fear she feels when she looks into his eyes. In a whirlwind game of cat and mouse that ensues, Maggie Vargas and all her powers are put to the ultimate test. Not only must she attempt to free herself from the Mafia's tightening grip, but she must reconcile the tempest of lust and romance she feels for the Adonis son of the man who just might end up killing her.

Maggie Vargas: On the Run

Literature & Fiction

Otto, Beth

Contemporary

NOT MY MOTHER'S SON Back Cover Blurb R. K. Avery Devious. Conniving. Deceitful. Insidious. David Miller thought he knew his mother. He thought kidnapping three children was the most appalling and horrendous thing any human being could do and she couldn't possibly do anything more monstrous. He thought there was nothing else she could do or say that would astound him. How wrong he was. After Beatrice Miller, David's serial-kidnapping mother, is sentenced to thirty years, David moves to Phoenix, Arizona; and with the help of a trust fund and an old friend, he starts the Never Give Up foundation, an organization dedicated to finding and returning exploited and missing children safely to their families. With all the wicked things his mother had done, David feels it is his unspoken duty to do something worthwhile. Hesitant at first, but after reading his mother's journal, David is determined to mend their dysfunctional relationship. Every time David visits Bea in prison, she seems deranged, insisting that people are trying to kill her. She ends each brief encounter with the chilling statement, "Remember David, things aren't always what they seem." As word about the foundation spreads, the services of Never Give Up are requested time-and-time-again to help where other agencies have failed. That is, until the police come knocking on David's door and arrest him, taking him back to Bunting Valley, North Dakota, for the murder of a newborn baby boy. Forced to shut down Never Give Up, David is amazed at how quickly the entire world turns their backs on him. The trial begins and his mother's testimony is the only thing that can save him. Telling the truth is as foreign to Beatrice Miller as giving up drugs is to an addict. As everyone in the courtroom holds their breath, you will, too. Remember, things aren't always what they seem.

Not My Mother's Son: Things Aren't Always What They Seem

R. K. Avery

Married men live longer than single men. That's a fact. But marriage doesn't seem to play a role in women's life expectancy. However, women with strong, long-lasting female social relationships are likely to live years longer than those without. If you rely on your female friends to help you decide what to wear to land the perfect job, advise you how to get your newborn to sleep at 3 a.m., confide in you with their closest secrets, that not only improves the quality of your life, but also the longevity of it. So why, then, is that friend so hard to find? And why is she so hard to keep these days? As the second decade of the 21st Century accelerates full speed ahead, more and more women are finding that their fast-paced lifestyles are leaving important casualties in their wakes-especially friendships. Increasingly, women bemoan learning of friends' engagements on Facebook rather than in-person or by telephone. Or they may experience the dull ache of being texted pictures from an event they weren't invited to. Nicole Zangara has learned much about women who find building and maintaining satisfying lasting friendships in today's increasingly-digital age more difficult than ever. As communications become more impersonal, real interaction often becomes more infrequent; and women, in particular, must work harder than ever to nurture and protect important friendships. There is no fault, no intent, behind the electronic apathy and other modern-day forces which can separate friends from one another, but the challenges still remain. With an eclectic mix of personal experiences from her own life, plus stories shared by a diverse group of women of all ages, Nicole Zangara presents a highly entertaining, funny, poignant, and thoroughly illuminating look at female friendships in the modern age. Her goal is both to educate and inspire, and to tear down any fears women may have about building the important friendships needed to make life so much more enjoyable.

Surviving Female Friendships: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Zangara, Nicole

Parenting & Relationships

Major Grey Colson's retirement from the Clay County Sheriff's Office isn't exactly what he had bargained for. Cancer had taken his beloved wife Ann's life-and changed his forever. Their home of over twenty years is nothing but an empty shell and a constant reminder of her suffering. Leaving their home to his newlywed daughter, Colson leaves the stifling heat of Georgia for their condominium in beautiful Daytona Beach, Florida. The memories there are of happier times. The plan is to enjoy the ocean view and cruise the beach in his Corvette; but he's worried that being idle will drive him crazy. Then, one day fate intervenes when his cell phone rings. It's an old acquaintance and retired detective who persuades him to assist with one last surveillance job. Colson reluctantly accepts the offer; something about the job bothers him-but how bad can it be? One or two hours and the job will be done. Quick and dirty. He ultimately lives to regret it. An encounter with an egomaniacal Volusia County Deputy during a traffic stop leaves him with a less-than-positive perception of the local sheriff's office. But the Daytona Beach cop he later encounters gives Colson renewed hope that not all the locals are incompetent. It's Officer Matt Sanders who rolls up on Colson after he decks a punk for slapping a young girl at the beach. Professional and by the book, Colson knows cops like Sanders are a rare commodity. An eventful first month to say the least, but the seemingly unrelated events soon intertwine around one man-Martin Cash-and he pulls Colson into a world of human trafficking, murder, and blackmail. As a former commander of Internal Affairs, Colson knows all the players and their dirty secrets, but now he's out of the loop and it's getting under his skin. The Sheriff is turning a blind eye and his organized crime unit is getting nowhere. Colson finally decides to leave it alone and let the police and the bad guys play their game without him. But all of that changes in an instant when his daughter falls into the middle of Cash's lethal operation. If they can't get the job done, Colson will. With nothing else to lose, he abandons the code of conduct he's lived by for nearly thirty years and does what has to be done-policy and procedures be damned.

Code of Misconduct: Conduct Unbecoming

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Griffith, C.A.

Mystery

With money, power, and greed as their motivation, this whirlwind adventure weaves a complicated web of wrongdoing, narcissism, and retribution when an evil quartet executes its plan and carries out the inconceivable.

The Deadly Prize

Hamill, Elaine

Gary Harmon, Jr. is a bright high-school senior and is known to his friends as "Geeky Gary," the class nerd. Accustomed to being the butt of jokes and pranks, he finds solitary comfort in his hobby of watching old horror movies and building models of their characters which decorate his room. Jake Miller is the new kid at Kingston High School; he befriends Gary and in time, he becomes more than just a friend-he becomes Gary's fierce protector. Unfortunately for these two friends, they both long for the attention of the lovely red-headed Elizabeth Wilcox, the most beautiful girl at Kingston High. She has no interest in either of them-she is, after all, dating Eric Mead, the star quarterback of the Kingston Knights football team. Gary's high school years are difficult at best, and made even more difficult without a father. Gary, Sr. is incarcerated in a mental institution for having killed Gary's mother when he was just an infant. Gary longs for guidance and direction and for a way to deal with the teen angst he often feels without a father in his life. Then, on one fateful day, Gary Jr. makes an incredible discovery when he finds an original, first-issue Alpha model TX-90 Polorama instant camera that had once belonged to his father-so many years ago. The camera is common looking, like so many others found in thrift shops and in garage sales. It has the smell of time, the patina of wear and use, and that feel of something very old. But this camera is more special than even Gary knows. The camera gradually becomes an obsession with Gary when he learns that this is no ordinary piece of photography equipment. This camera has unique powers that Gary can't seem to resist as they are revealed to him... ...even when they become very dark and very sinister. The Halloween dance becomes the setting where Gary extracts revenge against those who have long tormented him, as well as Elizabeth Wilcox's new boyfriend-the traitor, Jake Miller. With his newfound tool, Gary Harmon, Jr. sees his future through a very different lens as he is faced with having to decide if he should follow in his father's footsteps, forever under the dark influence and the mysterious powers of the camera.

Replica: Your Greatest Fear Lives

Warren, David

From the talented pen of author Elizabeth Brown comes an inspirational, semi-autobiographical story of a family who grew up with the wonders of farm life during the 1930s and 1940s. Travel back in time to a place of purity and innocence where fond memories were made; memories so wonderful-and so valuable-they are now forever etched into the minds and onto the hearts of those who made them. Written in a style reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Series, Brown's work opens the door to a rich American history of life on the farm. This superbly written story of the trials, tribulations, love, hope, and happiness of farm life is a true-to-life account of those wonderful times. Opening a window to the past, Elizabeth Brown's book gives more than just a glimpse into the daily trials of life in rural America. It is also remembrances of how farm life was wonderful-for the most part-when the sky was the bluest, the clouds were the whitest, and the rain in the summertime was the warmest. The smell of freshly baked pies coming from her mother's kitchen, the assortment of smells from the barn, the scent of the chickens with their eggs, and the wonderful smell of freshly mown hay were all part of the farm experience. "Wild flowers grew all around us and plenty of wild berries were waiting to be picked. We were only limited by our imaginations-and in our case, imaginations ran wild." With a thoughtful glimpse into the past, you'll share cherished memories of love, laughter, and tears. And you will learn how memories-both large and small-later become the threads in the very fabric of our beings.

Tales of Our Youth: Generations of Love and Hope

Biographies & Memoirs

BROWN, ELIZABETH

Community & Culture

Everyone has a story to tell. That's what I have been told. If I were to describe just who I am, the answer would be simple: I am you. I am the same as any one of you, and any of you could have written this story. I could tell you where I was born, where I grew up, where I went to school; but in all actuality, it doesn't really matter because it could have been Any City, USA. My love for this country and my love of life inspired me to put pen to paper merely because I am dumbfounded with where we've ended up. If I were to break it down in the purest form of what the reason is, I would have to say it's because of the shunning of factual information dismissed by the majority of the American public. As I wrote in the first two chapters of this book in detailed memories, it gives most of the individuals who have lived in my era a sense of how things have drastically changed. How they've become more complicated from a time when things were ever-so-simple-and how this was stolen from us by a very powerful group that still exists today. Yet, everyone just stands by and continues to endure the injustices to our human race across the globe. The family in this book portrays hope for the future. Their courageous struggle finds you rooting for the good guys like sitting in some theatre, biting your fingernails to the very end. The irony is that the timeline follows exactly with what is going on in today's world. Our heroes have all been killed and the evildoers who have a plan for us must be stopped without question. The book lends the questions, "Did Jim Garrison-the only man who brought a trial in the Kennedy assassination against big government-do enough to stop those forces and bring justice to our world? Have we all done enough?" I close my eyes and dream of those easy-going days of old, when dinners were the most important time of day, when families came first in our lives. The days when I watched Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy greet those fans at Love Field with huge smiles on their faces shortly before tragedy struck. The day our world-as we knew it-changed forever. Where are our heroes today? What happened to our hope? The family in this book is the hope-the optimism-that we all possess. We must never let them take away our aspirations. And that is the key for our world's survival which will conquer any criminal force.

Bilderberg: Ultimate Control

Reynolds, Nolan J

The obesity epidemic is here. We are inundated with statistics, news stories, TV shows, documentaries, magazine articles, books, and infomercials about this huge problem facing America and other developing countries-and for good reason. The problems related to overeating and under-metabolizing what we eat are enormous. Even though there are thousands of health books promoting fitness and weight loss, if we look around as we walk through the streets and the malls of America it's clear these books aren't resonating with people. More and more adults are becoming overweight and diabetic every day. Like most middle-aged adults, when I entered my 40s I began to experience weight gain and loss of fitness, despite my usual efforts to exercise. At the same time life became even crazier and busier for me with work, social, and family responsibilities. Time pressures forced me to begin a new approach to my fitness training and to my health. The Burn Calories While You Sleep approach was invented as a means to get thin and fit despite the huge time pressures in my life. I found that with this new approach to working out and the adoption of some new common sense rules for eating, I was able to lose substantial weight, getting back to my high school graduation weight-but twice as strong-at age 56. Once you've achieved your weight and fitness goals, the maintenance phase of this program allows an individual to maintain this high level of fitness while working out for only 35-40 minutes twice a week (plus some other tips and tricks that take little or no time out of your day). Why does the method in this book work? It works because it's one of the first books that asks and answers the question, "Why do we lose metabolic activity as we get older?" If you don't know the answer to this question, then you cannot know the solution to the problem of aging-related low-metabolic rate. The main focus in this common sense book is to provide a set of rules or guidelines that can be imprinted in your brain which will allow you to efficiently become fit, healthy, energized, and feeling young. Of course, this cannot be achieved without some behavioral changes. You'll learn why we tend to gain weight as we get older and how to reverse this, change your metabolic rate, and literally "burn calories while you sleep." You'll learn why walking on a treadmill for an hour or more six days a week won't solve your weight problem. You'll realize why fad diets and fad exercising don't work. You'll also learn other simple and incredible pearls of wisdom and tips about raising healthy and fit children, living longer, and staying young as you age. This information will provide you with a concise outline to achieve a healthier and more youthful future for you and your children. It is teachable, learnable, and most of all-sustainable!

Burn Calories While You Sleep: Change Your Metabolism to be Thin, Fit, Healthy, and Live Longer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fischell, M.D. Tim A.

Diets & Weight Loss

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