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Madam Norma’s spirit appears to her friend, Angel Ken. She asks him to write her memoir.

STACKS Library of Truth is a fast-paced, thought-provocative story that is tailored for fans of the X-Files who want to know more about the alien forces that exist beyond our conceptions. The story revolves around a library employee at the Library of Congress who accidentally unearths a dark agenda by those in power.

Cal Donovan, a theology professor at Harvard, receives an urgent message from a former graduate student, Samia Tedros. Now a museum conservator in Cairo, Samia has discovered a miraculous fragment of papyrus with three unknown lines from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene so explosive that a wealthy man is willing to kill to ensure no one ever sees it.

At the Vatican, another drama is developing. The new Pope has defied centuries of tradition and appointed a nun, Sister Elisabetta Celestino, as his secretary of state. Powerful insiders are outraged that a woman now sits as the second most influential person at the Vatican, and they plot to destroy her.

When Samia shows up at Cal’s doorstep in the dead of night, he is drawn into a deadly competition to possess a papyrus with the power to rescue Sister Elisabetta and change the course of Christianity.

Katherine MacDonald is on her own. Divorced with two small children while Edinburgh is being bombed during World War II, she is desperate to survive. Her long hours working at a laundry barely pay her bills. Her only solace is writing, but she could never imagine how a little pen found in an antiques store would change her life.

Astonished, Katherine watches as the pen drags her hand across pages, scrawling out words from the past—the words of the medieval knight Francois Jacques LaMar. Soon, Katherine finds herself time-traveling into the past to witness Francois’ life as he rises from being a miserable orphan to a Grand Marshal of the Knights Templar, honored by all. And in his writing, he reveals a secret treasure that he hid away that still waits to be found.

Amid the chaos of World War II, Katherine begins to search Francois’ writings for clues to the Knights Templar’s hidden treasure. Overcoming treachery and setbacks and finding trustworthy companions, she travels to the black, dangerous Cuillins Mountains on the Isle of Skye, little realizing the Nazis also seek the treasure.

In this win only, winner takes all society, what is the role of failure in leadership?

Why are there so many books on leadership? Simply put, because people want, desire, and need leadership! Most people in positions of leadership and authority will talk about how to become successful only, when discussing leadership. In my book, I focused primarily on how to become successful by using your failed experiences.

Failure said to success, without me, there is no you!

When I examine wildly successful people in all industries, such as business, sports, CEO’s, academia, medical, civil service, the military, you name it and what I find as a common denominator is they all learned how to understand, accept, embrace, and learn from their failures.

Do you want to succeed as a leader? If you do, you must learn how to do three things. Fail graciously, get comfortable with your failed experiences and learn from those experiences. Everyone wants to succeed but no one wants to fail. When utilized correctly, failure is the greatest resource on the planet to help you be all that you can be. I have created a formula for this. Get the book and learn what the formula F+RR=S, means.

In this, easy to read book you will learn:

• Why you are not afraid to fail

• That failing can actually be fun

• When an organization makes it ok to fail, their people, are more creative, survive, and thrive

• How to take action and become successful using your failed experiences

When the president-elect is assassinated, Jim Murphy of the Chicago PD gets the blame as the country encounters an unprecedented constitutional crisis. While serving as extra security his moment of distraction offered the assassin the opportunity to strike. To redeem his good name Jim Murphy volunteers to investigate the mysterious disappearance of gangbangers who turn up as blood-drained corpses. His investigation connects the murders to an ailing Big Pharma tycoon conducting secret blood experiments to save his life.

Meanwhile, the election is thrown into Congress for resolution after no surviving candidate wins in the Electoral College. With many twists and turns Jim Murphy discovers a connection between the Big Pharma tycoon and a political coup in the making instigated by the same tycoon who wants to save not only life but his country by making it great again. Jim Murpy teams up with the "backdoor' president elected by the House of Representatives to put down the coup on the verge of succeeding. The tycoon escapes to Cuba where he dies a painful death as a result of his dangerous experimentation with the young blood of gangbangers.

Einstein’s Compass by Grace Blair is a “YA Time Traveler Adventure.” Historical fantasy science fiction. The book intertwines events in Albert Einstein’s life with fantastical elements while including scientific concepts. Topics that emerge include coming of age, antisemitism, and bullying.

Most of us are familiar with Einstein’s legacy as a scientific genius and a giant of physics. But where did his ideas originate? How can one person be so brilliant? Imagine he has been reborn into the modern world after living the life of a spiritual leader in ancient Atlantis, where science and the divine made sense.

Einstein’s Compass centers on Albert, his friend Johann, a classmate named Werner Von Weisel, and two villains named Raka and Countess Victoria von Baden. As a young boy, Albert’s father gave him a jeweled compass. We later learn the compass originally belonged to Countess von Baden’s family. It has magical qualities which only Albert and Johann are aware of. Raka, Albert’s twin brother thousands of years ago, has always been jealous of Albert and wishes him harm. Raka learns the compass contains a powerful stone called the Shamir stone, and he uses Werner and the Countess to exact revenge and take the compass for himself.

The book includes “Mystical Travelers” famous biblical and scientific persons like Moses, Jesus, and Newton, who guide Albert along the path to rediscovering his forgotten knowledge destined to affect the word.

Einstein’s Compass is a fascinating blend of the factual and the fantastical with enough of the metaphysical to leave readers wondering what is possible and what is reality. Imagine that a Wrinkle in Time meets The Chronicles of Narnia with a little Harry Potter thrown into the mix.

“The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”

– Albert Einstein

It is part science, part science fiction, part fantasy, part thriller, and all fun for young adults on up.

While most use their summer breaks for pleasure, third grade teacher Cindy Moore is using her summer vacation to tie up some loose ends concerning her grandmother’s estate.

When Cindy enters the storage unit that holds her grandmother’s belongings, she is merely looking for items she can sell to recoup some of the rental fees she’s spent paying for the unit.

Instead, what she finds are secrets her grandmother has taken to the grave with her. The more Cindy uncovers, the more she wants to know. Why was her grandmother abandoned by her own mother? Why hadn’t she told Cindy she’d lived in an orphanage? And how come her grandmother never mentioned she’d made history as one of the children who rode the Orphan Trains?

Join Cindy as she uncovers her grandmother’s hidden past and discovers the life that stole her grandmother’s love.

Get ready for an adrenaline-pumping adventure! Meet Jon Howe, the ultimate Time Agent from the 25th century. His mission: save the world from a parallel universe invasion! But that's not all. Jon has a new mission - win over the heart of the stunning and fierce Shoshanna.

The World Quantum Physics and Time Bureau needs Jon to go back in time to 1939 Morocco to stop the impending invasion. But he can't do it alone. He teams up with Shoshanna, who's not exactly thrilled to work with him. As they hunt for the Leon Key, a crystal pyramid device that can take them to another universe, they face challenges and danger at every turn.

But there's more to Shoshanna than meets the eye. Jon soon discovers she's from the other universe and is blown away by her extraordinary skills. As their relationship deepens, they discover the truth about the invasion and must risk everything to save Earth.

With the Nazis hot on their heels, Jon and Shoshanna make a daring escape to the planet Moorgliss. There, they face the evil dictator Moogur and his army of superhuman soldiers. It's a battle for survival as they fight to stop the invasion and save humanity.

But it's not just the fate of the world that's at stake. Jon is stranded in the past, and time travel is currently a one-way street.

Will Jon and Shoshanna be able to save the world and find their way back home and their own time? It's a race against time as Jon fights for his future and his love for Shoshanna.

You'll have to read to find out!

Trouble always seems to find Amanda Pennyworth, the American Consul to the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. While on an excursion to nearby Amapas Beach in the company of a tour group from the United States, one of the guests, Danielle Overman, a beautiful and enigmatic woman, is brutally murdered, and Amanda is called on to help find the killer. Unfortunately, no one among the group has a believable alibi; everyone is a suspect, and everyone has, as Amanda discovers, a motive. The Mexican police seem unwilling to conduct a thorough investigation, and the American Ambassador is only interested in avoiding an international incident. It’s up to Amanda to uncover the mystery. But the killer has further mayhem in mind, and when the action shifts back to the United States, Amanda, who is home on vacation, is once again called on to pursue the person who wanted Danielle to die and who was willing to commit a further savage crime to cover their tracks.

This is the third novel in the Amanda Pennyworth mystery series, all of which take place in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.