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Christmas, Criminals, and Campers 

(A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery Series Book 4)

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH A SMIDGEN OF HOMICIDE

USA Today Bestselling author Tonya Kappes brings you southern and quirky characters in her mystery series. Her stories are charged with humor, friendship, family and life in small southern towns.

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky where NOTHING is normal.

Abby Fawn, the librarian, cannot believe her luck. Her favorite romance author, Nadine White, has rented a cozy camper at the Happy Trails Campground for the winter months.

Abby is devastated. She discovers Nadine White is nothing like the person she portrays in interviews. Nadine is also different from how she presents herself on social media. In fact, Nadine White is not nice at all. Abby lets her feelings be known. She thinks Nadine is a fraud. . .after she finds out Nadine has a ghost writer.

When Nadine White is found dead in the Normal Library, Abby Fawn is Detective Hank Sharp’s number one suspect.

It’s time for Mae West to put up her camping gear for the winter months. It’s also time to put on her sleuthing gear. She needs to figure out who is framing Abby Fawn. Mae must act before Abby becomes the ending in Nadine White’s final chapter.

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Interruption


Untether the pleasure.

Reclaim the magic.


Interruption: Kingdom of Paradimia

The Princess Annals Book 2

by Victor Pierce

Genre: Erotic Romantasy


Aaliyah’s journey continues in this erotic fantasy-scape as she struggles to understand whether love includes depravity.

Exposed to a handful of soul dust, Aaliyah re-awakens and sets off to free Gabriel from his prison within the Dry Woods. Outside, she is again confronted by a gryphon but with no not-to-bright knight to defend her. Good thing the gryphon only wants companionship. The flight of a wandering heartsick gryphon is not a direct route to anywhere and after watching a raunch of unicorns, Liyah tumbles into a magical river far from her desired destination. Between encounters with dwarves who remember her forgotten promise and fairies who sell favors for power, she must master the primal magics of patterning and untether the pleasures she once bound to fidelity.  For Liyah has learned that Gabriel, the man who anchors her, is not only trapped in the Dry Woods but also bound by primal locks that will age him to death if opened incorrectly. 

Every bit of new magics comes with a cost: soul-dust addiction, bargains that entangle desire and duty, and adversaries who want her power for themselves. With time collapsing and a witch’s spell hovering like an axe, Liyah must decide whether the route to rescue is the same path she promised never to tread—pleasure given away to reclaim what matters most. The question is simple and brutal: how much will she sacrifice to save him?

 

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Liyah blinked and found herself back in her body in the castle’s kitchen. Edwin gazed at her, concerned. “What happened? Are you all right?”

Indeed. She looked down to where the bag of red dust should have been cupped in her hand. The bag, along with its siblings on the table, had disappeared. For a moment, Liyah mourned. She wanted to return.

Edwin must have read her expression. “I removed it. It’s addictive. Soul dust. If I’d known something so powerful was left hanging around in the kitchens, I would have checked and removed it earlier. Perhaps magical royalty is less concerned with lower magics. Are you alright?” He’d rounded the table and stood beside her, rubbing her back.

She wasn’t, but she didn’t want him focused on her. She needed him to return to the dragon. “Lower magics?”

He sighed. “I forget you do not remember certain things. Most things, it seems, related to magics. In my kingdom, Paradimia, we are not generally born magics users, but we do have access to lower magics—magics not of people, but of things, like the soul dust. Low-level magics—from something inanimate, like the dust—may be used by anyone, whether they are magical themselves or not.”

She’d thought this land was without magics, but it seemed there were magics within, just not many magics of living beings. She nodded. “So it is not likely low-level magics would be hanging around in a kitchen. I understand.” She felt around on her body. “I don’t seem to be injured, so perhaps it is time I started my journey.”

“Do you not wish for my company?”

She needed him elsewhere. “It isn’t that I don’t want you with me. My parents need your assistance. Bethela will need another story for the spell needed to put my parents back to sleep. And I am going to the Dry Woods to free Gabriel. You see? We are fated to part ways now.”

It was a pity his expression grew suspicious, for she had relayed the truth. His voice broke as he spoke. “Is it what I did with the gargoyles? Is that why you no longer wish for my assistance?”

She had only briefly thought of the gargoyles since she died. It must have weighed on him. “It is not the gargoyles, although I know you to be the true knight you are from what I witnessed. And I know you to have love in your heart, even when you sometimes speak to me without consideration. No. Here I ask you to be the guardian I know you to be.”

“But why is it important that your parents go back to sleep? Surely they can be of greater assistance awake. They will eventually remember who you are.”

Liyah reached out and squeezed his arm. “I already know who I am, Edwin. That is thanks to you. I am Aaliyah, and I am kind and courageous and determined. I know those things about myself because of you.”

Edwin sighed and leaned back against the table. His golden locks fell against his handsome face. “So now I need to help your parents go back to sleep.”

“Yes. If anyone remembers who I am, a spell will find and kill me. Like the spell that protected the castle.”

He frowned. “Yes. That was very dangerous.”

“And my father says this spell is far worse than the one that chased us about Haven. So, you see, it is imperative that they go back to sleep. I do not wish to separate, but I must free Gabriel. When I left him, he was afire again.”


The Princess Annals: Kingdom of Haven

The Princess Annals Book 1



In this fantasy world of the erotic, Aaliyah must journey to find her lost identity. Aaliyah awakens in an empty castle with no memory and only an enchanted clock to send her on her quest. Seduce by one not-to-bright knight, Aaliyah finds herself hunted by an unseen force yet imbued with powerful magic. She must coerce horny pixies, swap sex stories with a dragon, and rely on that same not-too-bright knight to seduce the gargoyle king and his coven in order to secure the incantation that will reveal who she is. And her unknown enemy is catching up to her fast.

Aaliyah’s journey sends her to Gabriel imprisoned in a magical wood. She grows to love Gabriel and discovers that the only thing which can release him now is love, absolute. But how can she love completely if she doesn’t know who she is?

Beware gentle reader; thread carefully through this erotic romp as a woman awakened to her innate powers risks all to discover her true self before an unseen enemy annihilates her.

This is the first Aaliyah story in the series.

 

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Victor Pierce is a seasoned writer with a focus on erotic fiction. He enjoys classic mythology and horror novels. His first series, The Princess Annals, draws together his love for mythology and the erotic. He resides in College Park with his partner and her anxiety-ridden black cat and overly-social gray cat. You may reach him at victor.pierce@bookofvenus.com or at or at https://www.bookofvenus.com/connect-with-us/

 

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History of Montana

A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Treasure State (U.S. States)

A Sprawling Legacy From Tribal Lands to the Treasure State

Montana is known for its majestic landscapes, but the true soul of the state lies in its untold stories. This book connects you to the real Montana: a land forged by perseverance, ambition, and constant change. From the ancient ways of Native Americans to the hard-fought battles for statehood, Montana’s past is full of powerful stories. These stories challenge the myths. They deepen your connection to the American West. You may have been born under the Big Sky. Or you may just be beginning to discover it. This is your opportunity to understand the impact of the events. You can learn about the lives of the people. This is also a chance to see the turning points that shaped Montana into what it is today.

Inside, you’ll uncover:

  • The early lives, alliances, and conflicts of the Native American nations who first lived here.
  • How the Lewis and Clark Expedition forever altered the land and its people.
  • The brutal and chaotic rush for gold and the towns that rose and fell in its wake.
  • Montana’s path to statehood and the political battles that almost derailed it.
  • How homesteading reshaped the landscape, and the cost it carried for Native tribes.
  • The rise of the mining empires and the laborers and tycoons who clashed in the shadows.
  • Montana’s hidden role in the Cold War, including nuclear silos and strategic secrets.
  • How modern Montana navigates environmental pressures, economic change, and identity.
  • And so much more!

This book provides insights into a state where land and history are deeply intertwined and where the past still shapes the present.

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The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs and the Rest of Us


A high-octane playbook where old-school wisdom meets the power of AI—packed with insights, deliverables, and real-world strategy for anyone determined to thrive in an era of seismic disruption.


The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs & The Rest of Us

by Joseph Gulesserian

Genre: Nonfiction Business, Entrepreneurial Self-Help



A must read for those interested in the future of business and beyond.” – Amazon reviewer

 

We are all entrepreneurs, as we try to break away from the chains of normative expectations in this grand adventure we call life—where we strive to thrive, survive, find purpose, and make sense of all we can be.

The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs & The Rest of Us is an action-packed, high-octane playbook that delivers skills, insights, opportunities, and occasional wit. It takes the reader to a place where old-school grit and new-school AI reconcile! It is a place where Elon Musk meets Jack Ma and a Harvard MBA encounters the Streets.

You may be working in an organization, in management, a gig worker, running a business, or creating the next Nvidia. Either way, this book equips you with actionable know-how and skills that are nothing short of life-changing and saves the empowerment hype for the fictional section of the library.

Happy Hour is over, and the last patrons will be unceremoniously thrown out of the New Orleans bar to a street named Yesterday! Arguing with the future is like calling the cops to give out speeding tickets at the INDY 500. Scrolling for answers on TikTok or YouTube Shorts leads to a street called Empty.

The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs connects the past, confronts the present, and predicts the future before it happens.

It’s where glory meets tragedy—and it’s all here:

*Does innovation actually pay?

*Who are the 12 greatest entrepreneurs that changed civilization—and what can we learn from them?

*How to master the art and science of sales, negotiation, financing, and brand-building

*How to leverage AI for competitive advantage

*How will AI reshape the employment market

*Tales from the Streets…

*What will the future of Tomorrow look like?



In The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs, Gulesserian’s third book takes you through fascinating and indelible destinations filled with twists, turns, glory, and tragedy—culminating in a knowledge-packed read that delivers real, actionable results. With a blend of humour, insight, and sharp wit, he takes the gloves off for all 12 rounds and presents a truly unique perspective forged from his lifetime of entrepreneurial business and brand-building, along with his time as a business management professor.

This book not only enriches and charges the reader’s mind with hard-earned wisdom—it also stands as an essential reference for your personal library and a call to arms!

 

What readers are saying:

“If Michael Porter and Anthony Bourdain co-wrote a business book, it might look like this. The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs fuses sharp strategic frameworks with gritty real-life business lessons from the trenches. From learning curves to AI disruption, Gulesserian doesn’t just talk theory—he’s lived it.
Wit, insight, and humility pour through every chapter. The negotiation section alone should be required reading. And the “Tales from the Streets” offer the kind of context no MBA program dares touch. Highly recommended for anyone who wants their business knowledge with teeth.” – Amazon reviewer

 

“From AI to competitive strategy to opportunity, to the history of innovation — and especially the negotiation chapter — this book is simply worth its weight in gold. It’s the street-smart MBA you wish existed: bold, raw, yet refined — and full of moments that make you rethink the past, the present, and the future. There are plenty of feel-good and empowerment books, but this one actually delivers actionable skills, insight, and strategy — in a way that’s entertaining.” – Amazon reviewer

 

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Joseph Gulesserian is a seasoned entrepreneur, brand strategist, and former business management professor who taught corporate finance, statistics and marketing at the post graduate level. With over 30 years of real-world experience he has launched companies, created consumer brands from scratch, and helped others grow theirs by uniquely blending street-smart strategy, business school training and hands on know-how.

He is also the author of the bold and prophetic The Practical MBA on Economics—a no-nonsense, eye-opening look at how the global economy really works, why fiat money is eroding your wealth, what you can do about it, while providing a looking glass into the future.

Known for blending humor, wit, irreverence, and actionable insight, Joe writes for entrepreneurs, career-minded professionals, and anyone ready to thrive in a world of seismic disruption.

He believes business is not just for boardrooms—it’s a survival skill. The Guerrilla Guide for Entrepreneurs is his call to arms.

 

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Hey, Idiot!: Chronicles of Human Stupidity

Over 200 true stories of boneheadedness and buffoonery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Stupid History!

Former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory has shown us gray matter-challenged examples in various areas. These range from the criminal world to the hallowed halls of government. This time, though, everyone, everywhere is fair game if they’ve exhibited outrageously stupid behavior. Consider:

* The forgetful fireman who left cooking oil on the stove and returned from a call to find the station house burned to the ground

* A lung cancer patient who caused an explosion when he lit up a cigarette—in his oxygen tent

* A 58-year-old billiards player who was suspended from competition after testing positive for a muscle-building hormone

* F. Edward Hebert, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who said, “The only way we’ll get a volunteer army is to draft them”

Hey Idiot! lets everyone from bosses to public officials, doctors to sports heroes, skewer themselves with their moronic words and actions.