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When her engagement was broken off just days before her wedding, Mona was forced to deal with the heartache, embarrassment and financial ramifications that ensued. Citing it as the toughest experience of her life, Mona is now turning to help others fight through their own relationship struggles and triumph in their time of need.

On a balmy Tuesday during the summer before ninth grade, a car accident on a rain-slicked highway flipped Janna’s safe and happy world upside down, and her adolescence dissolved into a summer of restraining belts, feeding tubes, therapy schedules and chicken salad sandwiches from the hospital cafeteria. Since that day, Janna’s life has been a navigation through the inescapable struggles of her father’s brain injury, a study of her mother’s resilience and unconditional love, and a challenge to find herself.

‘The Voices Never Stopped’ deals with Jennifer's personal journey and road to recovery from mental illness and gives insight into what someone with schizophrenia disorder is thinking and feeling and how Jennifer started blogging about her illness and ended up writing a book.

Jessica Hart is new to Seattle, days away from the big three-o, and just months away from marrying the perfect man when her fiancé, Jim Carozza, gets into a car with a creepy stranger who looks like a Vegas pit boss. Suddenly, her seemingly perfect life takes a bizarre turn. Her big brother, Greg, tells her to go home. The police tell her to go home. Her inner voice even tells her to go home. Unfortunately, Jessica has never been the kind of girl to do as she’s told. Instead, she dives head first into trouble looking for answers but soon finds out that every answer leads to more trouble.

Douglas Lain work has regularly appeared in nationally distributed literary magazines and journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Amazing Stories since 1999, and his first book Last Week’s Apocalypse was a collection of these stories published by Night Shade Books. His second short story collection is entitled Fall Into Time and was published by Fantastic Planet Press (an imprint of the Bizarro publisher Eraserhead) in June of 2011. His novella entitled “Wave of Mutilation” appeared in October of 2011. His surreal nonfiction book “Pick Your Battle” was published in July of 2011 with Kickstarter funding. Finally, Lain’s first novel, entitled Billy Moon tells the story of Christopher Robin Milne’s fictional involvement with the French general strike in May of 1968, is due out from Tor Books on August 27th of 2013.

Drugs, sex and advertising...not necessarily in that order. In Ad Nomad, the Case Histories of Dane Bacchus, we enter the world of pharmaceutical advertising, where corrupt and ingenious creative minds market medicines and devices with more flair and guile than is used in promoting corn flakes, cars, and mouthwash. In these pages, you will find driven account people, maniacal creative directors, art directors and copywriters pushed to the brink of mental mayhem. Ad Nomad—conspiracy, criminal acts, sexual deviancy, drug abuse, fraud, strange heroism, deception, psychological torture, political oppression, violations of trust and the only question you should be asking is, “Am I in it?”

Chilltown is a wild, hip-hop oriented animated comedy web series.  Based on the hit underground comic book and created, written and animated by Leesa Dean, it revolves around the lives and misadventures of three hip-hop heads, G, Marv and Plad, straight outta Chilltown, NJ.  Added in the mix: G's wannabe mogul cousin, K Deuce and Lele, K Deuce's girl.  Most of the episodes satirize pop and rap culture and many revolve around the music business.  A second show, Lele's Ratchet Advice, a animated parody of dating advice shows, hip-hop style, also recently launched.

"Some days I am overwhelmed by the amount of thoughts and ideas circling through my mind. I reach in to grab one so I can mull it over, feel it, turn it inside out and get to know it, but another always attaches itself to the end and a train forms. I open up the drawers to my card catalog file I keep in my brain and begin to dismantle the train and stick everything into it’s proper drawer. This is tricky and cautious work".

Are you looking for an advantage in life? Learning how to use your memory will give you that advantage. Most people who succeed in life have an above average memory. You will learn to: Memorize entire books, plays, scripts or speeches. Actually raise your I.Q. Get excellent exam results. Cut your study time in half. The true potential of your mind is virtually limitless.

You want to start your own business, but "risk" isn't your middle name. You're not alone. Many successful entrepreneurs are averse to risk--but they have learned the tricks to working around it. And now you can too, with School for Startups. This practical guide shows you how to build a business the smart way--without risking major assets such as your house, savings account, or health insurance.

It’s no “secret” that millions of people believe in the law of attraction and that many are frustrated with their lack of satisfying and positive results. Some, like me, have had success with harnessing the law of attraction and getting many things in life they want and desire.Those that are not successful do not realize that 99% of the time the reason they do not achieve the success they want in life is because of self-sabotage and the conditioned mindset they were taught at a very young age that they still carry with them. Most do not realize that success is a choice.

The selection of stories on this anthology comes mostly from the book of the same title, now in its fourth printing, and as popular today as when it first came out in 1991. Hausman here selects the stories that are mysterious as well as factual. He should know, he lived them, witnessed them and wrote about them in such places as Havasu in the Grand Canyon and on the Navajo reservation. The sound effects come from field recordings of desert animals, birds, insects and amphibians, and the music is by jazz musician Ray Griffin.


Alex Jansen and her father moved in with her grandmother and grandfather when she was five, her mother died the next year, followed by her grandfather and then her grandmother, all before she was twelve. With everyone outside her father passing away, her life held on to the one person she could always turn to, her father’s lovely girlfriend Stephanie Lee. When her father ends the relationship, Alex Jansen refuses to accept the direction her short life has taken, and it is her journey to redemption of what she deserves which paints the story of ‘Inside the Circle.’

Danny and I were good friends, check that, Danny was a good friend to me. We grew up neighbors and by virtue of being a neighbor, I associated with him when my cooler friends wouldn’t. He suffered from Asthma, wore glasses so thick you could burn insects with them, and always had a runny nose under is carrot red hair.

Michael Hattam, a PhD student in early American history at Yale University. He never graduated high school and only received a GED when he was 17. After spending his 20s doing various jobs such as data entry and being a messenger in New York City, he enrolled at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in the fall of 2007. After two years there, he transferred to the City College of New York, from where he graduated in 2011. Michael was fortunate enough to be offered admission to Yale University's PhD program in History with a living stipend, full tuition remission, and health care for himself and both his boys, 7 and 6.