Ray and his family have just moved into a small house beside a strange, vacant lot where another house once stood, and where a huge wide hole mysteriously awaits the brave or foolhardy. Ray and his friends consider the empty lot just an exciting playground until Ray hears tales of how the lot’s house burned down years ago, leaving a girl to die in the fire. According to the neighborhood kids, the little girl will come out at night to haunt anyone who dares to jump into the empty lot’s hole. "The Empty Lot Next Door" is the true story of a haunting that Arthur Mills, who changed his name from Ray, experienced as a child. Although his haunting experience occurred over thirty years ago, the more time has passed, the more Arthur has grown convinced that the ghost Candle Face was real. Continuing to research the haunting, he now plans to write a prequel about who Candle Face really was.

“So many had taken bits and pieces of me and kept them for their own pleasures and vice,” writes Marynell Lund about her incredible life of abuse. Born to a mother who did not love or want her, and a father whose affection manifested itself in sexual abuse, Marynell experienced a childhood of pain, fear, and self-loathing that ultimately led her into abusive marriages. She chose the title "The Normal Side of Insanity" for her memoir because amid the incest, drug addiction, mental illness, and alcoholism of her family, she was the only person not participating in the insanity. Today, Marynell educates people about abuse, but beyond that, she is a living example of hope and that a better day can come for anyone. As she said in a recent interview, “The sky is the limit once you learn to love yourself.” She wants victims of abuse to know they are not alone and they do not have to deal with their pain by themselves. Her message in "The Normal Side of Insanity" will educate readers and give much-needed hope to many.

Randy Jones is a melting pot on the brink of boiling over. Jones is trying and failing to fit into racial and cultural niches, hoping his shelves of spiritual and metaphysical books will keep him from caring. Acquaintances find that asking of his ethnic heritage is an invitation to embarrassment. Even his self-employment from home is partly a retreat from the stench of being misunderstood. Then the shampoo bottle speaks to him in the shower. Soon after, his girlfriend leaves town for a week-long trip, trusting Randy to run her urban coffee house, and strange patrons challenge his sanity further with their ridiculously racial sensibilities and impossible exhibitions of power. With exotic yet primal assistance from a host of unusual characters, Jones trial in "Skinquake," by author Eric Mattingly, reveals the paradox of race's importance and unimportance. His plunge through the rabbit hole of ethnicity does for the cynical, feigned-integrated, postmodern mind what Huck Finn's did for the intractably segregated one.

Amora Madre has just experienced the shock of her life. Not only has she learned that her childhood imaginary friends are real, but they are not human. She soon finds herself in Washington, D.C., having been chosen by the Intergalactic Supernatural Intelligence Agency (ISIA) to fight an evil supernatural syndicate determined to destroy the balance of good and evil on Earth. Amora’s mission is played out in Maria Lucia’s new novel, "Liberation: Book One of the Andrusian Chronicles." Author Maria Lucia was inspired to write "Liberation" while living in Washington, D.C. Visiting monuments and the National Archives made the story’s fragments come together as if the Andrusian race were calling her to write their chronicles. The novel has a special twist regarding the nation’s capital and its founding, and Lucia was inspired by the intangible sense of power felt walking the streets, viewing the monuments, and considering what happened to make the United States a land of freedom. In "Liberation," the concept of American freedom reaches a new level.

"Healing with Words," by author Diana M. Raab, is a unique, compassionate story written by a nurse, author, and mother of three, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered by a diagnosis with DCIS with invasion. Five years later she was diagnosed once again to yet another, seemingly unrelated and incurable blood cancer—multiple myeloma. The book includes the author’s experiences, reflections, poetry, journal entries, in addition to writing prompts for readers to express their own personal story. While coping with her loss, Raab realized that in addition to seeking immediate health care and having a supportive family, her lifeline to survival was writing about her experience. When Raab received her abnormal mammogram report, she pulled out her journal and began writing. She usually wrote first thing in the morning when her thoughts were the purest. Raab considers journaling to be like a daily vitamin—healing, detoxifying and essential for optimal health.

Both of Dr. Jerry Burgener’s books, "Desert Journey" and its new sequel "Return to the Desert," are fictional, but largely autobiographical, portrayals of a man’s spiritual journey toward greater understanding about life, its value and purpose. Jerry travels into the desert where he learns lessons from his Native American spiritual guide, Tom. Together, the two men explore what has held Jerry back in life, and also how life, with all its events—joys and tragedies—is always a blessing. In "Return to the Desert," Jerry finds he needs a refresher on lessons he previously learned, but also that it is time to build on previous lessons to advance farther in his self-knowledge. Devastated to find his girlfriend has been cheating on him, Jerry seeks sympathy from Tom, not at all expecting Tom’s reaction that the situation is a blessing in disguise because it will provide among other things a new learning experience for Jerry.

In this revolutionary book, you will discover which of the six major types of Personas you have unwittingly acquired, and you will learn how to free yourself from the power it has over you. Like a remedy for an illness, "The Evolutionary Glitch" by Dr. Albert Garoli serves as a guide to confronting and rising above the root of your problems. Drawing on ancient wisdom as well as the latest discoveries in neurobiology and quantum physics, "The Evolutionary Glitch" will radically change the way you see yourself and the world around you.

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo O’Higgins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodríguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Bellolio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudo’s prime theft and murder suspects. Fearing he will die, Barbudo reveals the identity of his two suspects to visiting scientist Ted Stone, thereby placing Stone’s life in jeopardy. "Frozen in Time" by author Theodore Jerome Cohen is a work of fiction based on real events that took place between 1958 and 1965. It is a tale of greed, betrayal, and murder—one in which the reader is given a window into the frozen world at the bottom of the Earth that few people ever will read about, much less experience.

Helping a child grieve can be difficult and confusing; children cannot always articulate what they feel, and adults are often very deep in grief themselves. "A Child’s Grief" by author Judy Strong is a unique book that offers insight and information for helping a grieving child. This book will help you and the child you care about to understand the deep impact of loss and what it takes to begin to heal. The personal interviews offer a collective body of wisdom from those who survived the loss of a parent, and attest to the personal pain and the turmoil they felt. This book offers tools and solutions for helping a grieving child address bereavement in a positive way.

Author Dennis M. Powers has penned numerous books about adventurous maritime exploits from treasure hunting to salvaging ships, but it’s hard to argue that "Tales of the Seven Seas" does not top the list for dynamite sea and human interest stories. The subject, Captain John O’Brien, lived and sailed during the exciting period of the late 1860s to early 1930s as full-sail ships became steamers, as the last glorious days of exploration ended, when South Seas royalty still held power, and a lack of regulation allowed adventure to flourish on the high seas. Whether a fan of maritime stories, or one who likes high adventure, every reader will be engrossed by "Tales of the Seven Seas." Best of all, this gripping story is true, yet seemingly so fantastic that it is based on fiction. Powers is the first author to compile the full story of Captain O’Brien, and no author is more qualified or more skilled at telling a good seafaring tale. Once they set sail, readers will never forget crossing the seven seas with Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien.