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Against the Machine: Evolution

Earth, 2212. The planet is ravaged by catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The remnants of humanity are divided: the elite inhabit the MEGs, cities transformed into massive, high-tech protective domes, while the rest, the MASS, struggle for survival in the ruined landscapes outside.
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Against the Machine: Manifesto

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation.
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Against the Machine: Luddites

At war against Napoleon, near-bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system, acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites, attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder, North England feels the grip of terrorism.
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Adoring Andy

“We’re more than eagles, we soar even higher!”
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Jojay and the Joy of Anyway

So just what does Jojay have? His great story that is a 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Adaptation Quarterfinalist
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Going to Williamsport

Second Edition, newly revised for KDP 2023 Sports Category Finalist--American Fiction Awards
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The Color of Oceans

Ben Nickerson lives on Cape Cod but his life isn’t the American dream because Ben is an alcoholic. He has a plan though, to get his wife back, to get his life back. He thinks of nothing else. Ben is about to learn that the road back is much more twisted than he ever could have imagined. But he may also learn that there’s almost always a way back…you just have to keep moving.
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Black Sheep

Blacksheep is a hard-hitting story about a young girl's struggle with an abusive mother and its fallout throughout adolescence into adulthood. During a tumultuous and often harrowing journey, the main character meets with an unlikely guardian and must compromise what is right in order to survive, enhancing the story's outlandish finale.
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Against the Machine: Evolution

Earth, 2212. The planet is ravaged by catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The remnants of humanity are divided: the elite inhabit the MEGs, cities transformed into massive, high-tech protective domes, while the rest, the MASS, struggle for survival in the ruined landscapes outside.
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Against the Machine: Manifesto

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation.
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Against the Machine: Luddites

At war against Napoleon, near-bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system, acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites, attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder, North England feels the grip of terrorism.
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THE UNEMOTIONAL WORKER

The Unemotional Worker is a disciplined guide to consistent execution—how to stay steady under pressure, stop negotiating with moods, and build power, money, and mastery through present-moment work.
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Sim One

"Simone sent me a deeply loving email, from the seat beside me. Flying again; at least monthly. Subject line: 'Just read.'" Most of us spend our whole lives searching for "the one." Tom Ahern shares the raw, real, emotional tale of living, adoring, and losing his world's reigning inspiration...
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Marching to a Silent Tune: A Journey from We Shall to Hell No.

Marching to a Silent Tune is a childhood to young adult look at a complicated journey to social consciousness, civil liberties, war resistance and peace activism within the social and military environment of the turbulent 1950s and1960s.
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ONE

What if everything you’ve ever searched for was already within you?
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*More than a Footnote

A celebration of a few of the female geniuses, artists, innovators, goddesses, and not to be overlooked, villains. If men were there, women were too in the revolutions, discoveries, and progress. Every one of their stories deserves recognition in history class, a book, and a statue.
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The Lonely Ayil

The book tells the story of a ram who feels purposeless until he escapes his enclosure and finds a way to help the Jewish community on the "other side of the mountain".
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The Peeper

A serial killer who stalks social media has taken an online interest in framing a humble county bureaucrat.
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