Publishers Weekly says, "Bastille’s debut artfully combines magic, technology, and romance when a witch and a bioengineered actor fall in love despite a centuries-long conflict between their homelands."

Kirkus Reviews calls MagicLand “A bracing dystopian tale that deftly mixes magic, evolution, and romance. In this promising first novel, Charles Bastille introduces a world that features a surprisingly well-balanced mishmash of genres with robust elements of SF, fantasy, and romance all wrapped up in a post-apocalyptic package."

According to BookTrib, the "unique storytelling" and "the plot and tropes in the novel are intricate and layered... the basic themes are immediately recognizable. Characters in MagicLand are working through the issues inherent in our own world: technology and science versus spirituality, racial relations and shared ancestry, the concepts of power and love and ultimately good versus evil."

MagicLand is a love story set more than 2,000 years in the future when humanity has split into two separate species: the magicians of MagicLand and the augmented, cybernetic beings from Gath. The two species have been at war for 2,000 years. But then a young actor from Gath crash lands in MagicLand and encounters the beautiful young magician Aurilena.

Together, the two discover a terrible secret that lies at the heart of the centuries old conflict between their two species. It’s a secret that leads to a kiss that could end the war once and for all. The only question is will it end in brutal violence or give way to an improbable peace between implacable enemies? The answer to that question may depend on whether Aurilena can discover the true source of power behind her unique gifts before it’s too late.

The story behind MagicLand is never-ending. Search the internet for "The MagicLand Chronicles" to find an ongoing series of stories related to the 2,000+ year MagicLand timeline featuring characters and plots that do not appear in the main novel.

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Selina Delangre has been in the sea salt business for over 30 years, so obviously this woman knows salt. She is the current owner of the most globally recognized natural sea salt brand, Celtic Sea Salt. Following in her father-in-law’s footsteps, Jacques Delangre (author of Sea Salt’s Hidden Powers), Selina writes about her challenges of growing a small family business into a thriving global empire. From the heartache of her mentor’s murder to navigating through the COVID pandemic while keeping her business running, she has learned a lot throughout her journey. Sharing her real life personal and professional stories, Selina goes in depth of her trials as a woman owned business owner and her unique experience as a mother of a special needs son. She shares her knowledge of trends in the natural products industry, her understanding of the science behind healthy sea salt and her wisdom from learning a very spiritual journey as a mother of a son with severe brain damage.

This book is educational, inspiring and insightful for anyone who is a mother, business owner or interested in natural health.

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Consumers will mislead you. Not on purpose though, which makes it worse.

The consumer perspective is an essential part of optimizing your business strategy. Marketers can make better business decisions if they can predict in advance what consumers will do. However, these two question types inadvertently trigger an unwanted procedure in the mind of the consumer that is at best unreliable. Despite being well intentioned, consumers are not aware of the trap that is awaiting you inside of their brain.

A well-crafted experiment allows the decision maker to side-step the psychological trap and test a wide range of hypotheses. The experiment also allows you to quantify predicted consumer behavior in the most important metric – profit.

This book will walk you through the stages of an experiment while focusing on the role consumers play on firm profit. You’ll get an introduction to the foundations needed without all the complex math.

Whether you’ve been experimenting with consumer choices for decades or are just getting started, this book has something for anyone interested in crafting a better strategy based on a deep understanding of consumers.

This beautifully realised Australian western romance set in northern NSW cattle country circa 1923 is an unusual bird in contemporary writing downunder, a conventional popular Western-style historical adventure re Arthur Upfield written with all the style and language of a literary awards winner. It is a beautiful tale and a remarkable evocation, fun and moving, adventurous and filled with the spirit of great yarners and stylists long gone, glowing with the spit-and-shovel characters and clichés that have struck gold in Australian writing from the days of JF Archibald and ‘Inky’ Stephensen and their protégés to the Wintons and Courtenays of our time.

Fascinating historical detail, entertaining side stories, indelible characters, the headiness of young romance, the romance of the Western, but most of all, the mercurial language of a lost literary past, a match for even Cormac McCarthy.

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Want to sell more books but don't how to get to that next level? Seasoned book marketing expert Penny C. Sansevieri has created the master class.

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To outsiders, the relationship between Manhattan antiquities assessor Annalisse Drury and sports car magnate Alec Zavos must look carefree and glamorous. In reality, it’s a love affair regularly punctuated by treasure hunting, action-packed adventure, and the occasional dead body.

When Alec schedules an overseas trip to show Annalisse his mother's birthplace in Bari, Italy, he squeezes in the high-stakes business of divesting his family’s international corporation. But things go terribly wrong as murder makes its familiar reappearance in their lives – and this time it’s Alec’s disgraced former CFO who’s the main suspect.

Accompanied by friend and detective Bill Drake, Annalisse and Alec find themselves embroiled in a behind-closed-doors conspiracy that threatens the reputation and legacy of Alec’s late father – linking him to embezzlement, extortion, and the dirty business of the Sicilian Mafia. The search for the truth sends the trio straight into riddles, secrets, and an historic set of rosary beads. Annalisse leads Alec toward a discovery that is unthinkable, and events that will change their futures forever.

Scattered Legacy is the third in Marlene M. Bell’s thrilling Annalisse series, which weaves romance, crime, and historical mystery into addictive tales to instantly captivate fans of TV show Bones or Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

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Do you want to learn the ins and outs of email marketing over the holiday season?

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In Book Three of the Housekeeper Mystery Series, murder knows no bounds. It’s a beautiful Sunday morning in Austin, Texas, and Mrs. B. has a sense of contentment as she enters the church on her favorite religious holiday, Easter Sunday. She sits in the last pew and watches parishioners arrive: the old, the young, single folk, and families with children. All dressed in their Easter Sunday finery.

From the back of the sanctuary, the well-modulated baritone voice of James Litton says, “Please stand.” In unison, the congregation stands to the first rousing chords of Bach’s Easter Oratorio. In his white surplice carrying the bronze cross high in the air, the altar boy precedes the priest, deacon, and altar servers. Mrs. B. looks around. The beautiful music and the solemn majesty of the procession fill her soul and bring tears of joy to her eyes. She feels a spiritual connection with the uplifted hearts in the assembly. This day is the core of their belief: Jesus is risen.

After the gospel reading, Father Melvyn closes the book, steps away from the pulpit, and walks forward to address his congregation. Standing tall, centered in the light streaming from the windows high above, his snowy white vestments shimmer in the sunlight. The grey streaks in his hair are more prominent and his hazel eyes shine bright above his freshly trimmed reddish mustache.

“On that day, over two thousand years ago,” he begins, projecting his voice to the back of the sanctuary, “after suffering...”

Whock. A strange, intrusive sound interrupts his words. No one moves—Something thuds to the floor.

Mrs. B.’s heart skips a beat. Time slows, and goosebumps rise on her arms. Her eyes, wide as saucers, are glued to the priest who lunges toward the pews, a horrified expression on his face.

Again that intrusive sound. Whock, and a red flower explodes on Father Melvyn’s white vestment. He drops to his knees and keels over.
Then, all hell breaks loose.

People run for the exits, screaming and crying. Parents cover their children’s bodies with their own; the elderly are almost trampled in the panic.

Against the sea of people pushing toward the back of the church and the exit doors, Mrs. B. fights her way to the front of the sanctuary, kneels beside Father Melvyn, and prays, “Please, God. Don’t let him die.”

In a heartbeat, the peace of the holiest day in Christendom is wiped away. In a matter of hours, a bloody web of intrigue and murder unfolds, and Austin finds itself in the grip of religious persecution as old secrets and enemies resurface. A far-reaching, treacherous international plot is uncovered, and Mrs. B. and Father Melvyn inexplicably find themselves targets of an assassin in this fast-paced, dark murder mystery. Will they foil the plot? Survive the assassin? Buy it and find out.

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Frank Sinatra, also known as The Voice, Ol’ Blue Eyes, Leader of the Pack, and countless other titles, was a man of many faces. Part mobster, part philanthropist, part political activist, and part civil rights leader, Frank participated in powerful institutions and movements that shaped America’s history.

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An intensely suspenseful thriller centering around the investigation of the brutal murder of two young women by a serial killer, Sons of Brutality by Daniel Jeudy is decidedly dark but gripping.

Plumbing the seamy depths, the novel goes underground to find snuff clubs, drug-addled Satanists, occult murder, and the mob. Los Angeles is being bathed in blood as multiple sprees of vicious murders threaten to overwhelm a police department on the brink. Detective Addison Mowbray and his partner Jed are the tenacious sleuths on the hunt for answers, but as they bounce between leads, red herrings, and horrific new crime scenes, it becomes clear that something far more sinister is brewing in the City of Angels. As the trails of bodies begin to overlap, an even deeper evil reveals itself, pushing these veteran detectives, an eccentric medical examiner, and an entire city to the edge of madness.

The novel is a murder mystery at first glance, but there is an ocean of occult intrigue and social commentary lurking beneath the surface, and the contextual choices in this novel couch it as an allegory for our troubled times. Widespread social unrest and the increasing desperation of regular citizens are far from fictional, which makes it even easier for readers to immerse in this tense, pulse-pounding page-turner. Watching how evil forces can take advantage of instability for their own diabolical ends puts a fine point on the existential threats simmering within our own society.

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A creation and tool of war, orders to kill were all Eira ever knew. When a fateful mistake throws her in the path of a mysterious shapeshifting dragon, she takes an offer too hard to refuse—fight back and seize the freedom she long craves. But the darkness of her past runs deep, and the walls she created to protect herself may not be able to continue to save her… or her heart.

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What would you do if someone murdered your teenage daughter?

It seems like I've been a cop all my life, almost twenty years, eighteen of them as a detective. And I've seen some terrible things, things that to this day keep me awake at night. Jasmine was one of the worst.

It wasn’t a good time for me. For eight years I’d played Dr. Watson to Harry Starke’s Sherlock Holmes, and then he was gone. He quit the force, leaving me without a partner. Jasmine was my first case as lead detective and it was doozey.

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Not only will Tony have you laughing out loud while he reveals the secrets behind how the human body functions, you will also learn how to teach your clients to look at their own body chemistry to understand the underlying causes of a wide variety of health issues. Beyond learning how to create amazing results with your clients, you’ll also gain insights into methods that can take your business as a health professional to a whole new level.

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In this ordinary world of extraordinary technology lies a kid genius, David Massie. After the abrupt disappearance of his older brother, Morgan, David spends his days fending off the class bully and searching in Morgan’s past for answers. Then one rainy day, his world implodes thanks to a mysterious dark armored figure.

That fateful encounter triggers a series of alternate realities in which David, his parents, his school, even society at large continuously morphs into different scenarios each day. But as strange as those realities were, nothing prepared David for time coming to a screeching halt. To return his world to normal, David teams up with a Time Cop named CP. Together, they unravel the mystery of the Quantum Flux.

A quick read full of action and adventure — and an ending you won’t see coming — readers will be eager to see just where David’s journey takes him next.

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A group of messages preached over a twenty year period about our need to grow in our hunger for God, Himself, rather than what He can provide for us.

Christians are subject to suffering as much as non-Christians. A Bridge for Troubled Souls offers Biblical principles as a means for finding hope while introducing steps one can take to implement Biblical truths. Acting in accordance with the Bible’s teachings is proposed as the path to relief from the pain of stressors common to all humanity.

Overview: This book uses the act of building a spiritual bridge as an analogy for integrating structure into one’s life. The process is divided into three steps containing corresponding images and anecdotes of progress.

Step One offers foundational declarations from Jesus explaining why He came and what He intended to accomplish. Luke 4:18 presents five tasks Jesus proclaimed as the basis for His mission. These require the faith of belief on the Christian’s part and represent the foundations of the bridge: 1. To preach the Gospel, 2. To heal the brokenhearted, 3. To preach deliverance to captives, 4. To restore sight to the blind, and 5. To set at liberty the oppressed.

Step Twocontains the seven fundamental commands of Christ. Following these commands instills spiritual structure into the Christian’s beliefs and daily life, which, in turn, provide the supporting pillars of the bridge: 1. Repent, 2. Be baptized, 3. Take Communion, 4. Love God and others, 5. Pray, 6. Give, and 7. Teach.

Step Three describes the Fruits of the Spirit as nine evidences that one has implemented the commands/teachings of Jesus. These “Fruits” are examined individually: love, joy, peace, longsuffering (patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. They form the overarching span of the bridge upon which the Christian walks.

This is a simple proposition, and it is one the author has experienced while surviving suicidal depression. He continues to maintain the book’s principles as a daily means of managing PTSD, residual treatment-resistant depression, and chronic acute anxiety—all stemming from violence during childhood. He is 66 years old, has been a Christian since 1977, and can testify to the power of applying the Bible’s teachings, apart from any religious organization or rituals. He is not anti-religion and attends weekly worship services at his home church. He simply wants to reach those who feel shut out of formal religious exercises.

A peaceful and melancholic nobleman is summoned from his routine duties to an unusual diplomatic visit; he finds unexpected love, fights for honor, and everything suddenly changes for his future and that of his kingdom. Faced with an increasingly hostile situation, he looks to help the lives that intertwine with his own, because they seem more likely to be spared; whatever's coming, his responsibilities put him in the thick of it. His fate is uncertain, but this is the story of everyone for whom he fights and how they choose to remember him.

A book that I had written with the gracious permission of David Drake, author of Hammer's Slammers. This book chronicles in anthology format my unit, 2-4 Cavalry as they help the New Hope government fight against the El Cator insurgency. Some of the Hammer's Slammers universe is included but is a total creation  of my own mind.

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The year is 1980 in a small, sleepy New England town. A serial killer has begun a deadly game of catch-me-if-you-can with local police, who have dubbed the carnage, “The Mommy Murders.”  The frightened community believes the killer is in some way connected to the psychiatric unit of the general hospital. Nurses disagree.

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Recognize and understand characteristics of unhealthy relationships with others.

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