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Continuing with Non-Fiction Week!

Ways to tap into the beautiful thing that is your brain - what a fun topic to discuss. with Dr Helen McKibben, the author of Drop: Making Great Decisions. Just listening to her talk. about how we all can simply be better mentally and physically is pretty much what we all need right now. 

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Your brain is already equipped with everything you need to identify and make excellent decisions for yourself. If only you’ll learn how to let it.

In Drop: Making Great Decisions, Dr. Helen McKibben teaches us how to use science to do just that. With over 35 years of experience as a seasoned clinical therapist specializing in techniques using neuroscience, Dr. McKibben’s approach combines the study of the body, the brain, and the interaction between emotion and memory. Drop: Making Great Decisionsdraws on her research to help us tap into the biomechanics of emotions, resolve triggered feelings, and make better life choices.

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Welcome to Non-Fiction Week!

An incredible journey has been told in Mansur Nurdel's book One More Mountain and I was honored to discuss the book with him in our episode. And what a journey he'd endured, as well as the journey of writing the book. Definitely an autobiography to check out!

About the book:

This book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all.

Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and political persecution. In 1988, I was one of them.

My family are followers of the Baha'i Faith, a religion founded in Iran and practiced by millions of people worldwide today. Muslims in Iran consider it a blasphemous, illegitimate religion. For more than four decades, Baha'is in Iran have been stripped of all human rights. We are routinely arrested, detained, tortured, imprisoned, and executed without cause.

This is my story about what life was like living under Islamic rule. It's a story about determination, perseverance, and Faith.

I was 25 when I fled Iran with two friends. We crossed the forbidding Zagros Mountains in the height of winter, seeking asylum in Turkey. More than a year later, I arrived in America, speaking little English, knowing no one, and understanding little about the country except what I gleaned from television.

One More Mountain provides a never-before-seen look at what life in Iran is still like for those who have no power, no voice, and no freedoms.

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Continuing with Women in Fiction Week!

Author Deborah Swenson not only writes a romance, there's also time travel in her Desert Hills Trilogy. Yes, you read that right, time travel! Yet she is able to capture those two. tropes into a great Western Romance trilogy. We discussed her shift from writing nonfiction to the series full of great characters. 

About Till My Last Day, Book Two of the trilogy:

Rebecca Young Ackerman was raised to be a prominent lady in Boston society in the late 1800s. Being the dutiful daughter, albeit young and naive, she always did as her father said. When he marries her off to a man of his choosing, she realizes how fast dreams of marital bliss can fall apart. Fearing for her life, an unexpected telegram regarding her brother gives her the opportunity she needs to take her boys and flee from her narcissistic husband. Always looking over her shoulder, her fear is real. Traveling across the country, a chance encounter with a certain gentleman finds herself wishing for a better life.

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Welcome to another Women in Fiction Week!

Calling herself an accidental author, Jeanne Cooney has been penning out two different cozy mystery series and nothing is stopping her for doing more and more! We discussed her journey to writing and some tips for new authors. 

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Retired farmer Doris Day Anderson Connor and her quirky friends and relatives are solving crime in the Scandinavian-Lutheran farming community of Hallock, in the northwest corner of Minnesota. 

This book, the second installment in the It’ s Murder series, has Doris and her sister, Grace KellyAnderson, the owner of the local café , taking ninety-year-old Rose O’ Brien ice fishing.

The day ends, however, with nothing to show for their efforts except a dead body. With Rose distressed over the crime, Doris feels compelled to make inquiries in an effort to move the murder investigation along, much to the chagrin of the sheriff, an old boyfriend and a current puzzle. While in the café , at a funeral, and during a gender-reveal-party blizzard, she uncovers answers, but she also learns secrets and lies that lead her to wonder if she truly knows the residents of her hometown. After all, at least one of them is a killer.

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Continuing with Women in Fiction Week!

Author Candace Simar expertly weaves a fictional story into actual historical events and I'm so excited for you listeners to get to know her work! With her Abercrombie series and Sister Lumberjack being the fifth book, Candace discusses her start in writing and her future works. 

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Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’ s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. 

Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left alone with heartache and a mortgage. Without a well-paying job, she will lose her Foxhome farm. Her son marries and moves away. Though she feels too old, she musters courage to strike out on her own. She has to save the farm by herself. She has no one else. Trouble follows Sister Magdalena, a jolly nun who struggles with rules. A giant of a woman, she is sent to sell hospital tickets to lumberjacks working the forests of Minnesota. It is dangerous work, and those with a ticket receive free health care if they are injured. She travels alone to isolated logging camps in the dead of winter, sometimes by snowshoes. The jacks call her Sister Lumberjack. 

These three lives intersect at Starkweather Timber, a haywire logging camp, where everything goes wrong. Their unique friendship turns their lives in unexpected directions.

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Welcome to Women in Fiction Week!

Author Deborah Wilde is such a beautiful and brilliant force of an author! I had a great time talking to her about her work and her approach with Big Demon Energy, an enemies-to-lovers urban fantasy that's sure to jump start with love for her work. Don't miss our episode!

About the book:

Aviva Fleischer hides a dangerous secret. She’s carefully concealing her infernal heritage, a.k.a. Cherry Bomb. Maybe it’s weird naming her demon side and referring to her in the third person, but guys do the same with their junk, and unlike most of them, Avi isn’t deluded about Cherry’s prowess.

Avi’s been working her ass off, climbing the ranks of a supernatural policing organization to enact change and empower those like her forced to hide their true nature. Sure, she’s bent the rules now and then, but her arrest record speaks for itself. Her promotion is in the bag.

Instead, the director strikes a deal with Avi: spy on the operative sent in to work a rash of bizarre murders and prove she can be a team player, or kiss that new rank goodbye.

No problem.

Okay, maybe just one.

Her co-leader, Ezra Cardoso, is a charming, ruthless vampire with his own agenda, whom she fantasizes about: mostly staking him then vacuuming up his remains.

But when the killer sets Aviva’s team firmly in their sights, she’ll have to decide whether to keep playing by the rules or show everyone exactly what she—and Cherry Bomb—are capable of…

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As part of the Rodeo in the Blood Series, author Jim Overstreet discusses the second book A Montana Inheritance and his plans for the rest of the series. A lifelong cowboy who knows all the absolute ins and outs of the rodeo life has given his writing talents into this fantastic series that you don't want to miss. 

About the book:

A Montana Inheritance brings back all the rugged and passionate characters of the Rodeo in the Blood series for another drama-filled adventure. Fans of thrilling rodeo rides and the complexities of human relationships will find themselves drawn into the tense conflict between Rusty Blackstone and Warren Weston.

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When PhD physicist W. Michael Farmer wanted to know more about one of biggest mysteries in the Southwest, he turned truths and facts into a book, thus starting his writing career into just what Western literature needed. Discussing his first in the two-book series Desperate Warrior, he discussed his approach in writing about history's fascinating character Chato, as well as his other works. 

About the book:

In the untamed pages of history, the saga of Pedes-klinje-known to the Mexicans as the relentless Chato-blazes a trail through the blood-soaked annals of the Apache wars. From 1877, his name was etched in the fiery heart of battle-a figure brimming with ferocity, hunger for power, and a disdain for peace with the white invaders.

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Author Valentina Cano Repetto, dialing in from her mill (yes, her mill!) in Italy and the inspiration behind her historical horror Sanctuary. We discussed her writing process with this incredible book as well as her upcoming works.

About the book:

Grief leaves a stain.

Sibilla Fenoglio wants nothing more than to live with her husband in this run-down, derelict watermill. Uninhabited since the Renaissance after a mysterious disaster befell the previous owners, the mill requires extensive repairs. But there is something frightening about the mill. Repairs are violently undone, half-seen figures begin stalking Sibilla through the grounds, and haunting echoes of the previous owners’ lives infiltrate the present. As the disturbances grow more vicious and her husband more secretive, she realizes that she and her child are in danger.

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Author William Klem and his very interesting take on immortality gets explored in his novel Magglio Cervantes. We discussed his journey in writing this and future works. 

About the book:

After the demise of his family he is destined to spend centuries traveling the earth. The cruel circumstances that leave him alone in the world also render him immortal. Struggling with internal turmoil he must find a way to go on . . . because anything is now possible.

Adventuring and death-defying developments unfold. There will be the Black Plague of Medieval Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, a boating mishap, Oxford University, the Dutch East India Company, the New World, the American Revolution and Civil War, spelunking, the Salem witch trials, a brush with the Papal Father, a bloody nose, blueberry scones and hot chocolate, a belvedere, an Irish pub, the Great War, and paella. But after a person has had their fill of worldly experiences, can the elusiveness of inner peace be tamed?

With so much grief and trauma behind him can Magglio Cervantes find meaning in this life?

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