Rosewood Academy: The Awakening by Ashley Gayheart

https://www.amazon.com/Rosewood-Academy-Awakening-Ashley-Gayheart/dp/197179242X

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About a girl who finds out she is part magical being. She meets new people at a new school in the magical world. She meets a long lost family member and learns her background from the family member. She falls in love and passes her classes for two years in one year.

A Girls’ Road Trip: From Texas (U.S.) to Prince Edward Island (Canada) by Eula Woodyard McKown

https://www.amazon.ca/Girls-Road-Trip-Prince-Edward/dp/1963851242

A Girls’ Road Trip: From Texas (U.S.) to Prince Edward Island (Canada) recounts the travels of four women from Texas who drove to Prince Edward Island enjoying various spots along the way. The women also enjoyed visiting and sightseeing with friends as they traveled.

Included in the book are descriptions of their activities in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine as they traveled to Canada. After entering Canada, the women enjoyed excursions in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. They continued their adventures as they returned home through Vermont, New York, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

A person who has wanted to travel, but has been unable to do so, will enjoy reading this book to experience vicariously the journey of the four women as they crossed the northeastern United States and Canada.

Last Call From The Minor Leagues to Building Nashville’s $1.5 Billion Sports Blueprint by Jay Grider

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The Green Glitch: What’s Behind the Devil’s Lettuce? by Jason Tremko

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GW9GWVPF

Marijuana has changed. The conversation hasn’t.

From 3% THC in the 1970s to today’s ultra-high-potency products, cannabis has evolved into a commercial powerhouse-reshaping culture, classrooms, and communities in real time.

In The Green Glitch, educator, author, U.S. Army veteran, and 12-step recovery leader Jason Tremko brings a rare frontline perspective to one of the most urgent social shifts of our generation. Drawing from research, lived experience, and years working directly with young people and families, Tremko examines the rise of high-potency THC, the normalization of use, and the mental health questions many are hesitant to ask.

This isn’t politics.

It’s not nostalgia.

It’s a reality check.

Look for the accompanying documentary now streaming on multiple platforms, The Green Glitch extends the investigation beyond the page with expert interviews and powerful real-world stories.

One message. Two formats.

A conversation we can’t afford to ignore.

Silver Dawn: Book One in the Silver Dawn Trilogy by Michael J Rouleau

https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Dawn-Book-One-Trilogy/dp/B0GKDL36MQ

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When Wanda Maximoff died, she didn’t fall into darkness—
she fell into memory, into the place where every truth lives.
There, Mt. Vundagorn restored her with ancient Witness Magic—the power to see through fear, armor, and illusion.

Reborn in silver light, Wanda returns not as the Scarlet Witch…
but as the Silver Dawn Angel, a being who reveals truth simply by standing with another’s pain.

Her presence shatters the kingdom of Latvireal, ruled by Victor Dravane—the Iron Regent, a man armored in control and haunted by unbearable loss. Wanda sees the soul behind the armor and the mask… and Victor, for the first time in years, feels seen.

As forgotten memories rise and buried wounds surface, Wanda and Victor are drawn into a quiet, breathtaking collision of truth, healing, and transformation.

Silver Dawn is a mythic reimagining of Wanda Maximoff—
A story of memory-magic, redemption, and the love that survives even the end of worlds

The King’s Frog Hunter by Ken Young

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990348806

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Book 1 of 3: The King’s Frog Hunter

In the ancient land of Ameram, where giant, man eating frogs lurk in the marshes of the valleys, an aging and vain king has succumbed to the evil that is grasping control of his kingdom. His selfish behavior blinds his wisdom, opening the doors of Castle Ambermal to a wicked sorcerer who uses potions and manipulations to steal the throne from the rightful heir, the king’s only child, Ekala. As the magician begins his plan to revive the power of a once-defeated order of black-hearted creatures, a sculptor of Stone Truth triggers a chain of events that reveal an ancient prophecy and its guardian, Thalmus–The King’s Frog Hunter. Along with his loyal companions, a giant tortoise, a Paint stallion, and a Great Horned owl, the mysterious hunter gathers a unique band of warriors to help the princess in her fight to save her father and the Kingdom. Together they embark on a dangerous quest that will challenge their courage, test their resolve and forge new friendships while battling to fulfill the Prophecy of Ameram.

About the author
I started writing The King’s Frog Hunter for my daughter when she was a child. It was never meant for publication, simply to be a story for her about dangerous adventures of a father and daughter in a mysterious ancient land with good and bad people and creatures. I wrote into the story the values that my wife and I wanted her to learn and embrace: honor, integrity, courage, friendship, loyalty, graciousness and mercy. As she grew, so did the complexity of the storyline and the depth of the characters. It turned out they had more to say than I realized. My characters, both human and animal, continued to lead me into deeper themes, including perseverance, pursuit of wisdom, sacrifice, service to others, and the responsibility to fight the ever-present insidious aspect of evil. When my daughter received a postgraduate degree, she requested, as a graduation gift, that I finish the story and publish it for her. So, I wrote more, re-wrote and edited to weave the stories into a novel. Thus, was born The King’s Frog Hunter (the original title from her childhood). It took many years to mature on the page and then be transformed into a book. The writing (and the lessons learned), was a journey in and of itself. But, to my surprise, the characters were not done and led me to write two more of The King’s Frog Hunter story, Shadows of War, Book 2 and The Burning Battle, Book 3 to complete the trilogy–and their story that began so many years ago.

“Be wise and live in the Stone Truth.”

Ken Young lives with his wife and family of real and imaginary characters and creatures in the forest of the Inland Northwest of the U.S.A. Currently, he is working on a book about the impact of Early Onset Alzheimer’s on a mother of four boys and her husband.

TRAUMA IS YOUR SUPERPOWER by Dr. Louise Stanger

https://www.amazon.com/TRAUMA-YOUR-SUPERPOWER-Louise-Stanger-ebook/dp/B0H223SMXW

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What is the very thing that tried to break you is the source of your greatest power?

Trauma Is Your Superpower is a powerful, illustrated guide to turning pain into purpose.Dr. Louise reframes trauma as a portal to transform. The birthplace of strength… revealing how life’s hardest moments can unlock heightened intuition, deeper empathy and unshakable self-worth. More than healing, this book invites you to rewrite your story…releasing the past version of yourself and stepping fully into who you are becoming.

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About the author
Dr. Louise Stanger LCSW, CDWF, CSAT-1, CIP is a preeminent clinician interventionist and thought leader in the behavioral health and addiction treatments industry. She has performed thousands of family interventions in the US and abroad, gives presentations around the country on various topics related to mental health and addiction, process disorders and chronic pain, and has received prestigious awards from her fellow industry colleagues for her dedication to intervention and recovery. In addition to her work with clients and families, she is former University faculty at San Diego State University and University of San Diego, where she brought in over 5 million in grants for substance abuse and alcohol training and education.

Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About This American Moment by Michelle Berenfeld

https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Lost-Republic-Ancient-American/dp/1966302215

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A lively pocket history of the Roman Republic’s collapse—and its unsettling echoes in our own political moment.

Americans are obsessed with Rome. Billionaires and manosphere pundits wax on about its military might, its gladiators, its emperors, its greatness.

But we’re telling ourselves the wrong story.

In this sharp, eye-opening account, classics professor Michelle Berenfeld redirects our gaze. The Roman Empire isn’t the lesson—the Roman Republic is. Nearly five centuries of representative government, undone by forces that should sound familiar: wealth and power concentrated in the hands of elites, rampant political violence, endless expansionist wars, and a Senate that normalized emergency measures until it had nothing left to protect. One by one, aspiring strongmen seized what the Senate had surrendered, stretching the limits of their legal power, using the military against their own people, undermining elections, and killing their enemies—until one of them, Augustus, gained total control and became an emperor.

Berenfeld’s argument is both clarifying and urgent: Rome’s slide into autocracy was not inevitable—and neither is ours. Smart, spirited, and packed with revelatory detail, Lessons from a Lost Republic is a wake-up call two thousand years in the making, a reminder that the republic is ours to protect.

About the author
Michelle Berenfeld is the John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. An archaeologist and fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she has done research in Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, and Italy. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic and numerous scholarly publications. She lives in Los Angeles.