ASWIFTT Research Journal
The ASWIFTT Research Journal is an ASWIFTT tool to help authors and writers improve their research skills. The journal is a necessary tool to help authors and writers establish an organized strategy and process for research. The ASWIFTT Research Journal gives authors and writers a space to write and organize content from documented sources before adding to a literary piece.
Beyond Midnight: Seven Peculiar Tales of Mystery and Suspense.
A collection of seven strange and supernatural tales from the storyteller who gave voice to The Midnight Society of Are You Afraid of the Dark? These yarns invite you into the lives of several individuals who find themselves trapped in unusual dilemmas that range from eerie to impossible, from frightening to deadly. Join bestselling author D.J. MacHale on a twisted journey that will take you to the limits of sanity and challenge you to find a way back.
Chicks and Dice
Christian is a deluxe gigolo living in Las Vegas. He has many friends, issuing from the same mold: chicks, pimps, crooner, Shylock and other living in Las Vegas. Sin City is built on the fantasies people coming to visit, and dream having fun and excitement. Most of these are about sex, gaming and fame. Christian has a female clientele: patron that enjoys his romantic behavior and the pleasure he can give them for some dollars. So, with those, regular and occasional, he lives a lush life scrolling from casino to casino, from hotel to hotel, bringing them, if they pay for, for luxurious restaurants to fancy bar. A gigolo make love, but avoid falling in love. Until he met Ronny, Ronelle MacArthur. Together, they will live some romantic time until she has to fly back East. Christian usually left a little gift to her passionate patron. But this time, it will lead to a burden. And gaming will add drama to the World Capital of Entertainment. Dreams are usually confused with fame and fantasy. Christian and his friends how to use it for their profit. And trouble too. A 21st century tale of romance, sex, lush and dreams, set in the gaming capital of the world, where fun and drama could happen, as fortune could be made and vanish at once. And entertainment is everywhere as the action goes.
From Cowgirl to Congress: Journey of a Suffragist on the Front Lines
To celebrate Women’s History Month in March, An eyewitness account of Jessie Haver Butler, the 1st woman lobbyist and a suffragist on the front lines of the women’s movement in 1920—with Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt. During her long life devoted to women’s rights, Jessie lectured alongside George Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem and Marlo Thomas.
Just Say It
Turning forty, Lisa Grant is broke, alone and living in rural Gloucestershire, hurtling towards an inevitable midlife crisis. Romantically, she pushes people away. She cannot say, “I love you.” Jack, the only love of her life, put the Atlantic Ocean between them after they fell out the last time and now lives in New York. Fearing for her sanity, she addresses the problem she has carried with her for the past forty years – her narcissistic mother, Elizabeth. When Lisa was six years old, her father disappeared, and her mother kept the truth about why he left the family home hidden. When starting her journalistic career, Lisa reconnects with her father and discovers grim truths about her controlling mother. After four decades of sparring with her impossible mother, Lisa cultivates a more rational and sympathetic approach to discovering why her mother lacks empathy. Believing childhood trauma may be responsible, Lisa harnesses her journalistic skills to investigate her mother’s past and is shocked by what she finds.
Roller Closer Ride
The Crows had achieved the impossible when they established Crowdom, a nation of Genetically Modified Crows with a combination of ambition inherited from Humans and the prowess for survival characteristic of Crows. Threatened on their southern, eastern and northern borders they also become aware of a madman Geneticist who created new hybrids that defy the Laws of Genetics and threaten internal stability. Hi-tech treasures that Crowdom possesses enable Koko, a CrowMan with super dominant traits to become King and carry the burden of uniting two nations.
The Adventures of a Southern (Baptist) Buddhist
This true story is about a girl who is born up north; into a conservative, fundamentalist/evangelical family—but then becomes a Liberal Buddhist. Her family moves back to their roots in the Appalachian south, where Pam is molested by her grandfather. She later owns her sexuality by becoming promiscuous; beginning a pattern of serial dating, marrying and divorcing. She is first married at 18 to another 18 year old, who gives her a beautiful son—but he is a redneck and they have nothing else in common. Her second husband is a talented musician, but turns out to like sex with men. Her third husband speaks five languages and is a Pakistani, but he beats her up. Her fourth husband is a chef who makes delicious meals, but turns out to be a felon and a crackhead. Finally, the love of her life neglects to tell Pam for seven years that he is married. In the meantime, Pam completes two degrees and works as a counselor, and then 20 years as a hospice social worker.
The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club – Book One
The first book in a 7-book series about troubled relationships, questionable choices, art theft, and other dodgy dealings in a not-so-retiring retirement community. With more than 2,500 five-star reviews, this cozy mystery should appeal to fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series.
The Body In The Barrel
The Body in the Barrel is a crime novel set in 1973 San Diego, where a Harbor cop and a producer of X-rated films join forces to unearth the past, facing hard truths about their own histories despite death threats from the Chinese Tong and heat from San Diego’s conservative establishment.
The MENtal Fight Of Your Life
The ultimate aim is to have a relationship that is healthy in the sense that it allows for both partners to form a bond that lets them not only grow together but also grow independently as people. The book’s overall attitude regarding the importance of fairness and respect as a way to find happiness in marriage rings true. Chapters discuss familiar topics such as what does it mean to really love your wife and being faithful and consistent in your dealings, understanding what men really need, having dating standards, the things to consider before you say I do among others.