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Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

About Everyone Is an Entrepreneur: Selling Economic Self-Determination in a Post-Soviet World

Westerners today grow up with abundant opportunities to determine their own values, identities, and roles in society. But for generations, millions who lived under Soviet rule in the USSR had these essential freedoms withheld, determined instead by a central authority that claimed the right to choose for them and enforce compliance. Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s decisive collapse, the old communist paradigm continues to limit those who come of age in a post-Soviet world.

Everyone Is an Entrepreneur showcases the experience of an American author acclimating to life in the developing post-Soviet economy of Armenia. Along the way, he examines how the intelligent and hardworking people he lives among are stuck in a state of transition away from all-encompassing, bureaucratic control. They struggle to adjust to the responsibilities of economic self-determination because they have never learned how to see the world through entrepreneurial eyes.

Entrepreneurship is a principled way of seeing the world, a paradigm that applies to people in all cultural and economic circumstances: Artists, office workers, doctors, teachers, farmers, and laborers alike. By adopting this universal outlook, anyone can produce more wealth, accomplish bigger goals, and take control of their life like never before.

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Dad & Daughter

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An XII standard student Riya, daughter of an air force officer, went all the way to help her father when she knew he was cheated by his senior for making him commit misappropriation of public funds. Riya knew this was likely to lead to a court-martial and dismissal of her father from service. In that process, she got into a series of problems. Will she be able to save her father successfully? A must-read story !!!!

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Marriage in Heaven

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This is the story of Wing Commander Krishnan who was in love with Rukhsthana, a Muslim girl, but could not think of marrying her because of vehement opposition from his sister, Shobha, a divorcee with a daughter and son, living with parents. Her strong objection was that if ever the wedding with a lady from another religion took place, the entire life and future of her children would be marred with the great stigma attached to that family. She had categorically denied acceptance to such relations to avoid endangering her daughter’s marriage market.
Krishnan had to live to look after the welfare and comforts of his sister and he had to struggle to educate her children; the daughter a doctor and the son an engineer, as dictated to him by his father on his death bed.
The sacrifice is never-ending and finally what happened is very interesting to keep every reader at tender hooks imagining what could be the life of Krishnan towards the end.

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Progressive Digression: A Book of Poetry

About Progressive Digression: A Book of Poetry

A collection of mostly free verse poems written throughout the author’s adolescence and young adulthood. This is the familiar story of striving for progression, while continuously digressing. It is an attempt to show the struggle that we all face in growing: we move on, but not always forward, and not always in a straight line. In these pages are stories of unrequited love and sadness, as well as hopefulness, found truly only in One Source.

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World of Shawn

About World of Shawn

This is the story of a lonely kid who develops a computer game, using what little of quantum physics that he has read, that renders game levels from maps of any format; the result is just a little too realistic. When he tries to combine this “World of Shawn” with a favorite game of his childhood, “World of One,” he soon finds Worlds colliding, to the detriment of his friends. Shawn must step up and rectify things, rescue the princess and save the World.

The interaction and constant dialogue between the characters in this story, as well as the humor and action intertwined, have drawn comparison to that in such works as “The Lord of the Rings,” “Harry Potter,” and “Narnia,” so if a reader has an interest in any of those, as well as an interest in video games, either in the past or the present, it would be a safe bet that they would enjoy getting to know Shawn and his World!

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“Your Hero”
(Book Excerpt)

I watch you from afar,
You don’t know who I am,
But I care for you,
And would die to defend you.
You are my Princess,
And I am here to save you.
I am Always,
Your Hero

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“The One”
(Bonus Material)

When no one else is around, you are the one who listens.
When all is darkness, you are the one who turns on the lights.
When the evil in this world seems to have overcome the good and all that was once true is utterly gone,
You are the one who keeps me going just one more day.
You are the one that holds back the tide.
You are the One.

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These are songs that helped me in the development of “World of Shawn” and songs that help recall scenes and elements from Shawn’s World, in chronological order. These would also be awesome for a WoS movie soundtrack, if a movie was ever produced! More will be added as I recall them:

1.Live For The Night – Krewella
2.Surrounded – BT+Aqualung
3.Atmosphere – Kaskade
4.Another Night Another Dream – La Bouche
5.Wake Me Up – Avicii+Aloe Blacc
6.Creep – Radiohead
7.Tidal Wave – Sub Focus+Alpines
8.Wild One Two – David Guetta+Nicky Romero+Sia
9.Starlight (Could You Be Mine) – Don Diablo+Matt Nash
10.Take Me Home – Cash Cash
11.Take Me – Tiesto+Kyler England
12.Never Say Goodbye – Hardwell & Dyro feat. Bright Lights
13.If I Lose Myself – Alesso+OneRepublic
14.Down – Mat Kearney
15.Worlds Apart – Jars of Clay
16.Hurt – Johnny Cash
17.Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia
18.Save The World-Zedd Remix – Swedish House Mafia+John Martin
19.Pompeii Remix – Bastille+Kat Krazy

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The Forbidden Love Affair

About The Forbidden Love Affair

Zarayah Mello knows the love she dreams of is doomed from the start…
But the heart wants what the heart wants.

Thirteen-year-old Zarayah Mello knew she loved fellow karate class student Zaire from the moment she laid eyes on him. She also knew that her parents, siblings, and even her beliefs would never accept her love for him.
But after she turns fifteen, they cross paths more and more and form a friendship, her improper love for him only grows.
Torn apart by life and circumstance, she’s brokenhearted. Until she turns eighteen and he comes back into her life, sweeps her off her feet, and makes secret plans to propose to her on graduation day. But Zarayah doesn’t know that Zaire is hiding a secret from her—the kind of secret that rips solid marriages apart, never mind their budding love. Besides, will anyone forgive her for falling for her older brothers’ friend? And will she still love him when she learns the truth he’s been hiding from her?

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Daggers and Destiny: A YA fantasy prequel novella to the Althuria Chronicles

About Daggers and Destiny: A YA fantasy prequel novella to the Althuria Chronicles

A strange stone. A pursuit for power. A new beginning.

An orphan with no job, no home, and no last name, sixteen-year-old Mala scrapes along day by day with her younger brother, Baz, in their small village.

But when she discovers a mysterious stone, her whole world comes crashing down.

Suddenly, she faces massive adversity, a quest for bloody revenge, and a power so great she fears it.

Will she find peace amidst the chaos?

Or is her world fated to burn?

Brimming with magic, action, and a riveting quest for revenge, Daggers and Destiny explores a world of ruination and renewal. This prequel is an exciting, epic YA fantasy adventure exploring the wondrous kingdom of Althuria.

This is a four-book series.
Reading order:
Smoke and Spells
Shadows and Shifters
Runes and Rebellion (Coming July 2022)
Void and Valor (Coming Fall 2022)

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My Impossible Secret (Trollmageddon: Book 1) by Darcy Callan

My Impossible Secret (Trollmageddon: Book 1) by Darcy Callan

There are worse things in life than being the new kid in high school: Like having a weird name. Or having a major secret that you can’t share with your BFF because she’s totally human and would freak if she saw your true form. Or having a date with the hottest guy in school, but your parents will ground you for life because he’s a dragon shapeshifter, and historically your two races are at war. Or being hunted to extinction by a radical group of humans who have almost destroyed your entire gene pool.
Or you could be a troll.
I’m Ozelle Bandercock, and I happen to be all of these.
Let the school year begin.

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After the Apocalypse – The Kim and Kaya Chronicles

About After the Apocalypse – The Kim and Kaya Chronicles

A rebellious young woman. A beloved companion. Can they survive the horrors of a post-apocalyptic world?

Kimberly and her beloved dog Kaya grow up in an underground military base during a nuclear apocalypse. They are more than anxious to explore the new world now that the radiation levels have subsided, but there are evils inside the base that might be greater than what exists on the surface.

Are the teen and her loyal pet ready to face the dangers and horrors of what was left behind?

Bestselling author Scott W. Kimak spins another tale of love, loss, and suspense in this
breathtaking prequel to the “I call him HIM” trilogy.

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Bark: You don’t know me, you just know my skin By Archangel Chic

About Bark: You don’t know me, you just know my skin By Archangel Chic

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A teenage biracial girl struggles to come to terms with her identity in a racially driven world.

Bark: You don’t know me, you just know my skin is a young adult novel that tackles racism through the eyes of a 14 year old biracial girl. There are subtle and blatant examples throughout the book but in the end, the protagonist realizes validation comes from within. She learns this through nature and a friendship with a quirky older woman.

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Mommy Isn’t Perfect By Samantha Powell

About Mommy Isn’t Perfect By Samantha Powell

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Do you wish mommy would have been able to tell you more about growing up as a girl in this world?

If you want to know key mommy advice and tips on how to make it through middle school, high school or young adulthood, this is the book for you!

Coming from a mommy perspective, this book reveals all the mistakes a mommy may have made because she isn’t perfect and how you can avoid them or spot them a mile away! Included within is raw mommy advice and tips from your first heartbreak to buying your first home.

Sometimes as girls we just wish we knew more growing up and this book gives you just that!

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Hotel Stuff By Jade Brown

About Hotel Stuff By Jade Brown

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Basil Francis either spends her time alone or with her parents—who she describes as her best friends. She’d never expect her life to change, not until she’s invited on a date by one of her school’s most popular losers. The date leads to her making the hardest decision of her life, and like any outcast would do, she takes the bait.

Hotel Stuff follows the journey of a sixteen year old who thought that she knew herself, but discovers a version that is too altered to part with. It is a narrative overrun by love, anxiety, adolescence, and self recognition.

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Dreamers Never Lie By Kristina Catlin

About Dreamers Never Lie By Kristina Catlin

If there was one thing Sophie and Izzy hadn’t expected, it was the swarm of reporters waiting for them at their new school.

In Prairie Lake, being conjoined twins had been no big deal. They’d just been two girls, nothing more, inconsequentially stuck together.

But here, in the city, they were news. They weren’t just Izzy and Sophie. They were also the very abnormal daughters of Terra Tremaine, the legendary actress that had mysteriously left L.A. for Minnesota and hadn’t been heard from since.

Unfortunately, the paparazzi weren’t the only new arrivals in the twins’ lives.

There was Abby, the crazy great aunt who harbored a dark secret; there was Mr. Butler, the ethically-challenged donut-munching professor; and then there was Enrico, the peculiar son of an antiquated contract killer– a contract killer that wants someone close to them dead.

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THE PRICELESS GIFT: The Tale of a Strong Woman Cut in The Web of Sexual Harassment, Pain, Love, Betrayal and Forgiveness

About THE PRICELESS GIFT: The Tale of a Strong Woman Cut in The Web of Sexual Harassment, Pain, Love, Betrayal and Forgiveness

Discover a Deeply Intrinsic Story That Speaks of Betrayal, Pain, and Forgiveness…

Life is never a straight line…When a heart is closed off due to betrayal and pain, sometimes the only cure is to open it and take a chance…

Independent and full of life, Priya was a typical modern-day woman in India until she became a victim of sexual abuse in her workplace.

Humiliated, with her heart filled with fear and with her soul shattered into thousand pieces, she was hiding from the world, hoping that the pain would go away – to make things worse, the encounter left her pregnant.

However, despite everything, Priya decided to continue with the pregnancy. When her son was born, in that very moment, the pain was transformed into the all-consuming power of a mother’s love.

Still, life is never a straight line…Many years passed, but then one day, her abuser, Vijay, comes storming back into Priya’s life…but this time as a broken man begging for forgiveness…

Priya can’t let go of the past that easily… but what if the only way to heal is to forgive?

Stunning and beautiful, A Priceless Gift is a tale of two Indian families torn apart by hate and anger while seeking redemption through love and forgiveness – a tale rooted in India yet shared by diverse cultures across the world that shows that life doesn’t always proceed as planned.

Immerse yourself into a deeply intrinsic story as Hemalatha Gnanasekar entangles her characters’ fate in an intricate web of betrayal, pain, love and forgiveness…

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Finding Warrior Pose

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Jaya Gupta is having a bad week. Her dating prospects have fizzled, she has just lost her job, and her traditional Indian-American family expects her to get married.

When her grandmother uncovers the deed to a long-lost plot of land in India, now the home of a world-famous yoga ashram, Jaya is intrigued. Sent on a six-month holiday to learn yoga, Jaya is pulled into a new global travel backpacking scene.

She falls for Josh, a fellow traveler, and meets the all-powerful Panditji, the head yoga master. But when she stumbles upon Panditji’s long-hidden secret on the night of the Shiva Moon Festival, everything changes. With Josh at her side, she sets off on a freewheeling, romantic adventure to find the mysterious source of an ancient secret. In a race against time itself, can Jaya find the inner strength to reach a higher level?

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The Starlight Chronicles: An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series: Collector Set #1, Books 1-4

About The Starlight Chronicles: An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series: Collector Set #1, Books 1-4

IT’S HERE AT LAST – THE STARLIGHT CHRONICLES, COLLECTOR’S BOXED SET, BOOKS 1-4, with SHORT STORY EPISODES IN BETWEEN EACH BOOK!

Box Set includes:

BOOK 1, SLUMBERING
A CHRISTMAS EPISODE, AWAKENING
BOOK 2, CALLING
A STARRY KNIGHT EPISODE, FALLING
BOOK 3, SUBMERGING
A WEDDING EPISODE, SEEING
BOOK 4, REMEMBERING
A DATE NIGHT EPISODE, BELONGING

Hamilton Dinger has a nearly perfect life as he enters into tenth grade at Apollo Central High School. He has the grades for the top of the class, the good looks, and the charm to get away with just about anything. There is no need for him to believe in anything other than himself, and the idea of good and evil is laughable.

But all that changes when a meteorite strikes his town, and the Seven Deadly Sinisters, and their leader, Orpheus, are released. They prey on the city residents, collecting their souls for energy and nefarious purposes. As this is happening, Hamilton’s longtime dormant supernatural powers are awakened, and he discovers he is a fallen Star. And not only that, he has been called to seal away the Sinisters once more – all to Hamilton’s dismay.

As the supernatural calling interrupts his perfect life – with his friends at school, his fame on the football team, and his prestigious job at the mayor’s office – Hamilton finds a mix of relief and further aggravation in Elysian, a changeling dragon who declares himself to be Hamilton’s “mentor,” and Starry Knight, Hamilton’s infuriating, secretive, and powerful co-defender, another fallen Star who has the power to seal away the Sinisters and their soul-sucking minions.

Can Hamilton and his team find a way to work together to save Apollo City? Can Hamilton overcome his own selfish desires to find the will to fight? Find out in the first part of this epic fantasy adventure series about superheroes, fallen Stars, and high school from C. S. Johnson!

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Surviving Seventeen

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In “Surviving Seventeen,” Jamila Coleman talks about her seventeenth year of life, and how the few years before it aided in making it as strenuous as it was. Once a promising athlete who appeared as though she was on her merry way to a lifetime of nothing but success, along with coming from a seemingly well put together, religious, two parent home, Jamila’s life looked like a fairytale from the outside. She seemed to have it all.
But that was when Jamila was a child. Upon reaching her teen years, Jamila’s life began shifting, and she was exposed to situations that were not only hurtful, but were also hard to navigate and therefore, quickly took a toll on her. Young, naive, and barely having had any real guidance, Jamila starts trying to put herself together using the bad experiences she goes through, gaining insecurities and self-hate in the process.

Even then, Jamila still remained optimistic and hopeful for the future…until she wasn’t.
Seventeen was a whirlwind that smacked Jamila in the face. From her parents sudden split, to unemployment, a mental health crisis, apparent hyper-sexuality, an extreme weight gain, and a strong crave for something that was slowly ruining her, Jamila found herself asking “where did I go wrong?” a lot more than often.
Surviving Seventeen is a personal story that speaks volumes and has the ability to touch anybody that has suffered greatly with mental health, been a victim to emotional abuse, or just simply had way too much on their plate at a young age. While it focuses on the life of a seventeen-year-old African American teenager, the bigger picture of it is diverse in the sense that Jamila’s struggles aren’t immune to the rest of us, and we can all empathize with her while also getting a laugh or two as she tells her story in an upbeat, comedic manner.

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Starlight

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Chloe Branson’s summer of beach vacations and pool parties just died a sudden death. Now she’s forced to help hide superstar boy band Spaceships Around Saturn… At least until her secret service agent dad figures out who fired shots at their show.

The SAS guys aren’t happy with the situation, either. The bad boy picks fights with middle sister Aralie, and the heart-throb can’t escape obsessed little sister Emery.

But after super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what fans mean when they say SAS is “out of this world.” If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn’t want to come back to Earth.

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The Boy with the Spider Face

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A transformative science fiction and horror novella about acceptance, reflection, and revenge.

Jeff Pritchet isn’t much different from other teenage boys, with one exception. His monstrous, spider-like appearance and loner persona make him a target for bullying, when all he wants is a friend who sees beyond the surface.

Enter transfer student, Aarav Jain. Thoughtful, accepting, and insightful, he sparks an untapped hope in Jeff, transforming his life. But as the boys grow closer, their deepening relationship becomes hijacked by a darkness Aarav can’t escape and a life-altering secret Jeff can barely contain.

The unconventional pair find themselves marked for hatred, and when his bond to Aarav is threatened, Jeff discovers a sinister side he never knew he had, proving that, when pushed too far, emotions can be deadlier than venom.

Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.

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Traitor’s Revenge

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Pirate Captain Alethea Hera found comfort with her life in the Undersea world of submarines, sunken cities, and sea monsters – a destination for all those, such as herself, who wish to run away from their past.
But now, the discovery of an enchanted gemstone and a legendary treasure drives her past to haunt her.
Alethea’s love-sick daughter Marina has her eye on an attractive Viking shieldmaiden, but raised in piracy, even she can’t ignore the allure of a treasure hunt. Unfortunately, this hunt will not only drive her apart from her love, but from her mother and her life in the Undersea world.
Will Alethea dare to face her past in order to keep her pirate crew safe? Can Marina make the right choice for her future, and whether her mother has a place in it?

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