Tuesday, May 26, 2026

The Honu Diary: A Journey of Coming Together (The Pono Trilogy Book 2)

         Man and Woman Kissing on Surf board


The Honu Diary:

A Journey of Coming Together

(The Pono Trilogy Book 2)


Noelani Lee happily escaped the busyness of California city life to fulfill her post-divorce dream of starting fresh in a beautiful tropical paradise. Life would be easy peasy frolicking on pristine beaches with her sexy, much younger fiance…until it wasn’t. Her adoring fiancĂ©, Rodrigo, enjoyed the reprieve from their hectic urban life. However, the idyllic island life wasn’t what Rodrigo wanted for their happily ever after. An enticing, once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity beckons him back to the states. Noelani’s ancient ancestors are summoning her to dive deeper into her spiritual legacy. Yet following her ancestor’s guidance could ultimately derail any future happiness with her soulmate and love of her life.







Monday, May 25, 2026

The Emissary: An Epic Science Fantasy Adventure : (The Selanian Chronicles Volume 1)

 Man and Two Women in Futuristic Clothing


Two timelines. Two worlds. One unfolding mystery. In the summer of 1982, Philip Brannon’s life changes in an instant when he nearly runs over Silana, a mysterious young woman living deep within the forests of Oregon. Drawn to her despite her reluctance, he soon discovers that she may not belong to his world at all. Silana fears her presence has already disrupted the natural course of time—and that the consequences are only beginning. Six thousand years earlier, on the distant world of Piral, a stranger arrives under far more unsettling circumstances. His first encounter is a corpse left abandoned by the roadside an ominous sign of deeper unrest. Pulled into an investigation led by Nova of the Selanian Order, he becomes entangled in a mystery that reaches far beyond a single death. As secrets begin to surface, the fragile order of Piral’s Neo-Victorian society begins to fracture, and tensions rise toward something far more dangerous. Though separated by time and worlds, these two storylines are bound by forces not yet fully understood. What first appear as isolated events may prove to be part of a much larger design—one that could reshape both realities. In a world of breathtaking beauty—home to enchantresses, mermaids, unicorns, and dragons—the clock is ticking. Can the truth be uncovered before everything collapses into chaos? The Emissary is the first installment in The Selanian Chronicles—a character-driven science-fantasy series blending interconnected timelines, immersive worldbuilding, and a slow-unfolding narrative.

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Queen of the Island: A True Story of France and The Early Settlement of Canada by Glenn Stewart Coles

   Daisy on the side of a beautiful Cliff


Queen of the Island:

A True Story of France and The Early Settlement of Canada


The true story of Margeurite Roberval (nicknamed Daisy) has been told for almost five hundred years. When eighteen-year-old Daisy is forced to sail from France to Canada in 1541, her secret lover gets a job as a settler and follows along. When their affair is discovered, Daisy, her lover and her handmaiden are abandoned on a remote island on the Saint Lawrence River. Facing brutal winters, starvation, predatory beasts, and despair, the three must summon courage, ingenuity, and unbreakable bonds to survive.

Meticulously researched, Queen of the Island plunges readers into the intrigues of Renaissance France. It unveils King Francis I’s hidden motives for sending Cartier westward, the royal court that sealed Daisy’s fate, her surprising influence among the powerful, and the astonishing events awaiting her upon an improbable return home.

Saturday, May 23, 2026

The Sexy Art of Conversation: How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection

  Man and Woman in a deep conversation


The Sexy Art of Conversation:

How Powerful Words Create Attraction, Intimacy, and Deep Connection

(Sexy Challenges)


Conversation is foreplay.
And most people are doing it badly
.

The Sexy Art of Conversation is not about small talk, polite chatter, or “How was your day?”
It’s about 
connection that lingerswords that arouse, and conversations that change energy in a room.

This book explores the four powerful layers of conversation—physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual—and how mastering them can transform your relationships, intimacy, attraction, and emotional connection.

You’ll discover why:

  • The right words can create instant chemistry
  • Vulnerability is irresistibly attractive
  • Deep listening is more seductive than any pickup line
  • Conversations can heal, ignite desire, and build trust
  • Energy exchange happens long before touch ever does

Blending relationship psychology, metaphysical wisdom, sensual awareness, and humor, this book teaches you how to:

  • Create emotional intimacy without force
  • Speak in ways that lower defenses and open hearts
  • Ask questions that unlock desire and truth
  • Recognize and dissolve conversational energy leaks
  • Turn everyday conversations into magnetic experiences

Perfect for:

  • Couples looking to deepen intimacy
  • Singles wanting stronger attraction and connection
  • Spiritual seekers curious about energy exchange
  • Anyone tired of shallow relationships and surface-level talk

This isn’t manipulation.
This isn’t scripted romance.
This is 
conscious conversation—where words become touch, listening becomes intimacy, and connection becomes electric.

Because when you learn how to truly speak—and truly listen—
everything changes


Thursday, May 21, 2026

Lessons from the People Who Paid me (and the Ones Who Didn't)

   Several balls on a Balancing Board


Lessons from the People Who Paid me

(and the Ones Who Didn't):

A Field Guide to People Who Will Make or Break Your Brand


Lessons from the People Who Paid Me (and the Ones Who Didn't): A Field Guide to People Who Will Make or Break Your Brand by Ricka Raga is a 2026 best-selling guide focusing on the hidden dynamics of client management, brand strategy, and the realities of running a creative or service-based business.Raga, a brand strategist with over 13 years of experience, shares raw, actionable insights on, recognizing patterns, setting boundaries, and building a sustainable business.

The book is aimed at creatives, freelancers, consultants, and founders looking to move beyond surface-level business advice and build a sustainable brand.

What if the biggest lessons in your business did not come from your best clients, but from the ones who tested your limits?

In Lessons from the People Who Paid Me (and the Ones Who Didn’t), brand strategist Ricka Raga reveals what really happens behind client work. This is a direct look at patterns, mistakes, and hard earned clarity that no course or certification can teach.

This is not a book about getting more clients.
It is about understanding them.

Through real world experience working with businesses across industries, Ricka breaks down the hidden dynamics that shape every project. Some clients move your business forward. Others quietly drain your time, energy, and margins. The difference is not luck. It is pattern recognition and structure.

You will learn how to recognize recurring client archetypes, build systems that protect your business, and shift from reactive execution to strategic authority.

This book challenges the traditional narrative of freelancing and creative work. It moves beyond aesthetics, beyond hustle, and beyond surface level advice. It focuses on what actually builds a sustainable and scalable business.

Inside, you will discover:

  • Why experience is about pattern recognition, not time
  • How weak boundaries quietly destroy your business
  • The real reason beautiful brands fail to generate revenue
  • How to filter clients before they cost you time and money
  • Why systems, not talent, drive long term growth
  • The mindset shift required to move from service provider to authority

Written with clarity and conviction, this book is for creatives, freelancers, consultants, and founders who are ready to stop guessing and start operating with intention.

If you have ever been underpaid, overworked, or stuck in projects that never should have started, this book will change how you see your business and the people you choose to build it with.

Because in the end, your success is not just defined by what you do.
It is defined by who you allow in.






Sunday, May 17, 2026

The Roads Don’t Love You

  Young woman agains the scene of the city behind her.




The Roads Don’t Love You is a raw, emotionally charged UK urban fiction novel following Mara, a quiet West London girl who falls into county lines, toxic love, prison and street life after becoming involved with an older road boy who changes the course of her life forever. Blending gritty London realism with deep emotional storytelling, the book explores trauma, obsession, survival, girlhood and the devastating reality behind the lifestyle so many people glamorise online. As Mara spirals deeper into violence, loyalty, revenge and repeated prison sentences, she’s forced to confront the truth about the roads, the people she loved, and herself. Dark, immersive and heartbreakingly honest, The Roads Don’t Love You will appeal to readers of UK street fiction, toxic romance, prison drama and emotionally driven coming-of-age stories. He wasn’t her first mistake. He was just the one that changed everything. Mara is fifteen when she first notices him — older, dangerous, already known on the roads. To everybody else, he’s trouble. To Mara, he feels like escape. What starts as excitement quickly turns into obsession. Drawn into county lines, fast money and a world where loyalty means everything, Mara loses herself chasing love in places that were never built to protect girls like her. The deeper she falls, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between passion and control, survival and self-destruction. Then the roads start taking things back. Friendships. Freedom. Innocence. Prison stretches. Violence. Trauma that follows her long after the bruises fade. And somewhere between the streets, the cells and the chaos, Mara is forced to face the hardest truth of all: The roads don’t love anybody back. Raw, emotional and unflinchingly honest, The Roads Don’t Love You is a powerful story about toxic love, survival, girlhood and the brutal reality behind the lifestyle people romanticise online. Perfect for readers of gritty UK urban fiction, emotionally charged street romance, and realistic stories about county lines, trauma and survival.


Saturday, May 16, 2026

MANUFACTURED MINDS: The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out

   Boy in front of Telephone Screen intently


MANUFACTURED MINDS:

The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out


They didn't target your child's attention. They targeted the window before your child could defend it.

Internal documents unsealed in 2026 reveal how major platforms segment children by "age of acquisition" — tracking lifetime revenue projections that are three to five times higher for children captured before age ten. Their internal term for these children is not "users."

It is native integrations.

Your child wasn't exposed to the algorithm. Your child was installed by it. Before identity formed. Before the prefrontal cortex could push back. Before you knew there was a window — and that the window was closing.

Screen time limits don't work. The platforms' own suppressed research proves it: by month six, restrictions return usage to within five percent of baseline. The parental controls weren't built to protect your child. They were built to protect the platform from the appearance of not protecting your child.

Manufactured Minds gives you what the platforms spent billions making sure you'd never have:

  • The truth about the "installation window" — and how to close it before the machine opens it
  • Age-adapted protocols for every stage: Foundations (4–9), Awakening (10–13), Sovereignty (14–17)
  • The Cognitive Immune System — the one capacity the algorithm's entire business model depends on your child never developing
  • The Family Freedom Compass — a shared household tool that turns your liberation into theirs
  • The Algorithm Spotter, the Choice Game, the Maker Hour, and the Identity Journal — practices that build minds the feed cannot predict

You started this book reaching for your phone. You will finish it reaching for your child's hand.

The platforms called your children native integrations.

This book turns them into native immunities.

K. R. Strand — Researcher, rebel, and survivor of the attention economy.


Your thoughts aren't yours anymore. They're predicted, shaped, and sold — every scroll, pause, and hesitation harvested to keep you hooked, divided, and compliant. Platforms don't recommend content. They engineer your reality. And they're terrified you'll notice. Manufactured Minds is the book that makes you notice — then hands you the escape keys.


THIS IS NOT ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT SCREEN TIME. Every chapter answers the question the previous one planted. Every exercise compounds. By the final page, you won't have merely read about opting out — you'll have performed your own escape.



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Friday, May 15, 2026

From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: Learn How To Stop Being A Stupid Bitch

   Book cover on White with a Woman in Big hat


From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:

Learn How To Stop Being A Stupid Bitch

(The Working Woman's Guide)


From Brilliant Bitch... details the specific steps one must take to successfully go from being a Brilliant Bitch--To a Dynamic Diva! It includes true, personalized events which women face on a daily basis, and details how to avoid becoming the victim and be the Victor instead! Tired of being a weak, whiny, woman who never seems to be in control? Tired of sitting on the sidelines while others learn to live life on their own terms? Then learn how to be a woman that grabs the bull by the horns and understands how to shape & create her own Destiny! Learn to tap into the Dynamic Diva in YOUR life. She is a force to be reckoned with, and she only requests that you unleash her positive, powerful energy on YOUR behalf. There is a Dynamic Diva in all of us. It knows that you CAN ACHIEVE all that you'd like to receive! Learn the 7 Steps to begin to experience your different levels of Bitchdom, so that you can tap into your Wisdom, and don't 'Deny' your power, learn to 'Rely' on your Power!


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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Self-Knowledge In a World Of Fictitious Perceptions: BEYOND TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS

 Picture of Lighthouse on Mountain



"The devil's biggest trick is to convince the world he doesn't exist."

There are people in your life talking **
at** you — not to you. Dismantling your ground before you've said a word. Stacking devaluations of your aims, your intentions, your identity — sometimes all three at once. And the most sophisticated part? You're not supposed to notice.

This is not about feeling trapped. This is about 
intended devaluation — and what to do about it.

When you're out of the reach of people with devaluative tendencies — 
magic things happen.

Inside:

➤ NLP: everything you need to know — Built for people dealing with the real aftermath of narcissistic contact. The tools that achieve in minutes what can take years — at a level beyond Practitioner, where the real work begins.

➤ The Game Is On — The narcissist measures success differently. Projective identification, hidden competition, the false selfin motion. Once you understand the internal landscape, the moves become readable — and you stop being a piece on someone else's board.

➤ Classic psychiatry — for the boost of everyday — Kernberg's Object Relations Theory, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy, the DSM-V alternative model decoded for practical use. The internal structure of narcissistic disorder, not just its surface symptoms.

➤ Number one rule of Wall Street — Associate with Performant people. Avoid narcissists. The Wolf of Wall Street understood future faking better than most therapists. A lens you won't forget.

➤ Industrial models in life — OODA loops. Antifragility. C.M.M.I. maturity levels. Because the same frameworks that run high-performance organizations can run a high-performance personal reality. The process is not a product — and that one distinction changes the architecture of everything.

➤ Dissecting underlying social dynamics — The social fabric determines what gets through and what doesn't. Some environments are designed to suppress signal. Knowing which one you're in changes everything.

➤ An impeccable stalker with Maths — Fat tails, stochastic volatility, Fisherian runaway selection as a mirror of narcissistic behavior. How to distinguish a real scenario from a manufactured illusion. Your vision is fundamental.

➤ The 4 Levels of personal development: (beyond) an introduction to Satsang — Perceived Value Is Floating. Rhythms & States. Detached Sense of Identity. Construction as the Logical Solution. A framework built before the noise, for whoever is ready to move past the surface.


"**THE INDIVIDUAL WITH MORE ALTERNATIVES HAS THE CAPACITY TO CONTROL.** That single idea changes everything — and it's the last thing a narcissist wants you to understand. This book is not another guide on toxic relationships. It is a precise toolkit built from classical psychiatry, advanced NLP, industrial management models, and the mathematics of illusion — assembled for one purpose: to give you back your clarity, your agency, and your direction. You'll learn to read the patterns others miss. You'll understand what's actually happening beneath the surface of the relationships that drain you. And you'll find that the way out is not emotional — it's structural. _What the narcissist doesn't want you to see is that the game has rules. And once you know the rules, you stop losing._"









Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Mind of a Soldier: 34 Laws for the War After the War

  Book Title on Black Book cover with silhouette of man in back ground


Mind of a Soldier:

34 Laws for the War After the War


The system built you for war. Nobody built you for this.

You did everything right. You served. You sacrificed. You came home. And now you are sitting in a VA waiting room with a number, filling out the same form for the fourth time, being told that the approved treatment is available in seventeen days — while the thing you came in for does not pause for the appointment.

Mind of a Soldier is not a self-help book. It is not a memoir. It is a field manual — written by a retired Special Operations EOD Sergeant Major who was the first Black Tier One EOD operator in U.S. history a — for the war that nobody briefs you on before you take off the uniform.

The 34 laws in this book document what the system does not tell you:

  • Why the PTSD diagnosis was built for a single traumatic event — and what it misses about a career warfighter
  • Why the treatment fails 91% of the people it was designed to serve
  • Why the civilian world's version of you is either a hero or a monster, and why neither one is you
  • Why your nervous system, your sleep, your body, and your identity are not broken — they are miscalibrated for an environment that no longer exists
  • Why "Thank you for your service" ends the conversation it pretends to start
  • Why the most dangerous thing you will ever do is not the mission — it is the silence after it

This book does not ask you to be vulnerable the way a therapist does. It tells you the truth. It names the system failures with data, the identity fractures with precision, and the path forward with the same directness that kept people alive downrange.

It was written for the veteran who is performing wellness in the waiting room. For the spouse who cannot explain why the person they love is unreachable. For the civilian who wants to understand but does not know where to start. And for the policy maker who needs to see the gap between what the country promises and what it actually delivers — measured in the people who fell through it.

The author is not writing from the other side of a clean recovery arc. He is in the valley. Still figuring it out. Every day. The same way you are.

The war does not end when the uniform comes off. It changes AO.

This is the field manual for the next one.



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Mind of a Soldier: 34 Laws for the War After the War

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