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Royce Saves The Day; A Magic Propeller Cap Book 1
Royce Saves the Day is a sweet and lively children’s book about a boy who finds a magical propeller cap that lets him and his little sister float out of their bodies and zip into all sorts of wild adventures. One minute, they are at home in Portland, and the next, they are helping an old woman find her lost cat, putting out a fire behind a hotel, or hanging out with Sasquatch families near their soon-to-be Habitat for Humanity house. The book hops from normal life to magic in a blink, and the whole thing feels warm and cozy and full of a big heart.
While I was reading it, I kept smiling because the writing feels soft and gentle, almost like someone telling a bedtime story. The moments with Royce and Yoey were very emotional. I loved how the author lets their bond guide every choice. The magic never feels scary, just surprising, and it works because the story keeps circling back to kindness and curiosity. I found myself really rooting for Royce, especially when he tries so hard to be brave for Yoey, even when he is obviously freaking out a little. That felt real and sweet.
The images were fun and humorous, just like the story. I also liked how much everyday stuff sits next to the big magic. Pancakes and pool days. Habitat for Humanity visits. Video games with friends. It makes the magical bits feel even brighter. The writing is simple but not boring, and some scenes pulled me in more than I expected. The fire scene caught me off guard and made my stomach twist for a second. The Sasquatch world made me laugh because it was just so cheerful and weird in the best way. A unicorn. Why not. It all felt like a kid dreaming with total freedom.
This children’s chapter book was a fun ride. I would definitely recommend it to young readers who like gentle adventures, kids who enjoy stories about siblings sticking together, or families looking for something light and magical to read out loud. It has the kind of charm that makes you want to grab a snack, curl up under a blanket, and drift along with Royce and Yoey as they float toward their next surprise.
Pages: 36 | ASIN : B0G6VPNWTH
Unstuck: Break The Cycle of Self-Sabotage and Rewire Your Mind for Lasting Confidence
Unstuck digs into the everyday mess of self-sabotage and shows how it hides in fear, doubt, old stories, and habits that feel protective but really keep us spinning in place. The book moves through patterns like procrastination, perfectionism, avoidance, and negative self-talk, and ties them back to emotional roots that often come from childhood, comparison, or unspoken beliefs about worth. It blends stories of people like Jamal and Elena with practical tools, reflection prompts, and gentle coaching. The focus stays on helping readers slow down, notice their patterns, and use small steps to build new habits that create steady change.
The writing comes across warm and welcoming, almost like a therapist talking to you over coffee. Sometimes the author repeats concepts, yet that repetition slowly sinks in and makes the ideas feel doable. I appreciated the steady reminder that self-sabotage is not a personal flaw. The book explains this in clear language that feels comforting. Some sections linger on similar examples, but the message that change begins with awareness feels powerful. I liked how the author encourages tiny actions rather than dramatic reinventions. It made me relax into the process rather than brace for homework.
What stood out most was the emotional honesty of the stories. Seeing Elena wrestle with success and Jamal doubt his own worth made the ideas feel grounded. It stirred up a mix of hope and discomfort in me. I caught myself thinking about the ways I shrink from opportunities or talk myself out of progress. The book made those habits feel normal, which softened the shame. Then it nudged me to look at them more closely. Some tools felt simple on the surface, but when I tried them, I felt that surprising spark of relief that comes from naming things I usually avoid. I enjoyed that mix of calm guidance and real challenge. It made the reading experience feel personal.
By the end, I felt encouraged rather than overwhelmed. The message lands with clarity. You can grow at your own pace. You can take tiny steps and still move forward. If you tend to hesitate, overthink, or talk yourself down, this book will likely resonate. I would recommend Unstuck to anyone who keeps circling the same goals and wonders why progress feels slippery. It would be especially helpful for young professionals, creatives, and anyone who feels tangled in fear or doubt. The book offers compassion and direction without pretending that change happens overnight.
Pages: 125 | ASIN : B0G3XKYSTH
The Hands-On Author: Taking Control of Your Book Marketing Journey
The Hands-On Author is a clear and practical guide for writers who want to take control of their own marketing. Author J. J. Hebert breaks the journey into simple steps, starting with building an online platform and moving through reader engagement, advanced promotions, networking, and long-term strategy. The book reads like a roadmap that shows authors how to move from invisible to visible, and from overwhelmed to confident, which makes the whole process feel more doable than many guides I have read.
As I moved through the chapters, I found myself feeling a surprising amount of relief. The writing is friendly and steady, almost like the author is talking directly to you and nudging you along. Some parts felt a bit dense, but in a helpful way. There is real substance here. I appreciated how Hebert explained why certain tasks matter instead of just telling you what to do. The sections on SEO and author websites stood out to me. They made something that usually feels technical seem almost simple. I kept thinking, “Okay, I can actually do this,” which is not a feeling I get from most marketing books.
The ideas themselves are practical and are presented in a fresh way. I liked how often he stressed consistency and connection. That resonated with me personally because it reminded me of why authors want readers in the first place. Not for algorithms. Not for sales charts. For real people. When he talked about book clubs, giveaways, and community spaces, I felt a spark of excitement about reaching readers instead of fear about doing it wrong.
I think The Hands-On Author is a strong fit for writers who want guidance that feels both actionable and encouraging. If you are a new author who has no idea where to start, or an experienced one trying to rebuild your marketing foundation, this book will meet you where you are and give you a clear plan forward. It is also a good pick for anyone who wants a companion that talks to you like a person instead of a marketer. I would happily recommend it to authors who want to take control of their outreach and feel more confident doing it.
Pages: 210 | ASIN : B0G19B16ZL
Changing Course Gracefully: A Strategic Guide to Building Foundational Self-Trust
What exactly is the PARQS Method? For readers unfamiliar with the concept, the acronym represents preferences, awareness, right action, questions, and self-acceptance. This book traces one woman’s lived experience applying the method as a practical framework for personal growth. Rather than drifting through life on autopilot, she learns to engage more intentionally with her choices. That shift unfolds alongside extensive travel, with journeys through Cambodia, Thailand, Russia, and other destinations serving as both backdrop and catalyst. Along the way, she enters into honest, often probing conversations with herself about what she truly wants. The insights that emerge are thoughtful, relatable, and potentially transformative for readers navigating similar questions.
Changing Course Gracefully: A Strategic Guide to Building Foundational Self-Trust by Elaina Kelly Smith is a work of nonfiction that comfortably resides within the self-help genre while also functioning as a reflective travel narrative. The blend feels organic rather than forced, grounding abstract ideas in lived experience.
Smith begins by acknowledging a sense of disconnection from her own agency. Life felt directed by habit rather than intention. Through the combined practices of travel and the PARQS Method, she gradually examines the gaps in her inner life. Each step invites deeper self-awareness. The goal is not radical upheaval, but clarity. Stress softens. Calm becomes accessible. Direction starts to feel earned rather than imposed.
Exposure to other cultures plays a meaningful role in this evolution. Observing how people live elsewhere sharpens Smith’s understanding of what aligns with her own values. She invites readers to undertake a similar process, offering a structured and approachable path for self-examination. While few will replicate her exact journey, the method she outlines is adaptable. Used thoughtfully, it can help readers clarify their own priorities and move toward a life that feels more authentic, grounded, and purposeful.
What ultimately distinguishes this book is the warmth of Smith’s voice. Her prose is clear without being clinical. She writes as a trusted companion rather than an authority figure. Anecdotes feel intimate. Reflections feel earned. The result is a guide that soothes as much as it instructs, offering readers not just a method, but a sense of reassurance along the way.
Pages: 129 | ASIN : B0G9D8MQL5
Broken Alliance
Broken Alliance is a character-driven science fiction adventure that picks up right where Tracer leaves off. We follow Bex, Andre, Kat, and the rest of the Venture’s crew as they uncover a conspiracy tied to black-market thetic technology, corporate power grabs, and the lingering ghost of Sovereign. The stakes scale from street-level desperation to full political upheaval, with personal loyalty binding the whole thing together. By the time the dust settles, alliances shift, institutions crack, and the characters have to decide who they want to be in the systems they’ve helped reshape.
Author David Graham writes with a steady rhythm: some moments hit hard and fast, like the firefight in the Paramor or Bex racing across rooftops; others stretch out with quieter emotional beats, especially in the aftermath scenes near the end of the story. What I appreciated most is how the book doesn’t rush the characters’ inner shifts. Bex’s relationship with identity and agency, Andre’s weariness and stubborn hope, Kat’s complicated sense of duty, these all felt grounded. Even when the plot leaned into big sci-fi spectacle, the emotional center stayed human.
The author also makes some interesting choices about power structures and responsibility. The political hearings, the scramble over the Trelin Base project, and the moral ambiguity of the Alliance add a sharper edge to the adventure (the council scenes show this well). Sometimes the villains are overt, like Davenport, but more often the danger feels systemic, which makes the world feel authentic and messy. I liked that the story refuses a clean resolution. Even the epilogue acknowledges the work still ahead while nudging us toward future threads in the Settled Systems.
By the time I turned the last page, I felt satisfied but also curious. The ending gives the characters a breather, a moment of found-family warmth, and a hint that their fight isn’t done. It’s a good tone to leave on: hopeful but honest. If you enjoy sci-fi that balances action with character, especially stories about crews who choose each other again and again even when the galaxy keeps breaking around them, this one will land well. Fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, or any tight-knit-crew narrative will feel right at home.
Pages: 418 | ASIN : B0DYVSVTML
Dollartorium
Ralph earns his living in a modest Kansas shop, frying corndogs that are undeniably good and reliably popular. The work keeps him afloat for a while. It offers routine, modest comfort, and a sense of pride. Eventually, though, the numbers stop working. Sales stall. Bills pile up. Stability slips away.
At that moment of strain, Ralph’s wife introduces him to “Dollartorium,” a tantalizing promise discovered through an infomercial. The course offers bold ideas and glossy solutions. At first, it feels like salvation. New business concepts suggest a way out, maybe even a breakthrough. Then the foundation collapses. What seemed like an opportunity quickly unravels, leaving Ralph to reckon with the fallout. With the help of his daughter, Stella, he is forced to retrace his steps and search for a more realistic way forward for his family.
Dollartorium, by Ron Pullins, is a work of fiction that probes capitalism, hustle culture, and the pressures these forces place on families. Humor runs throughout the novel, but it never fully softens the sharper insights beneath the surface. The comedy entertains; the implications linger.
Pullins shows a clear awareness of how precarious financial life has become for many people. Ralph’s anxiety feels earned. His frustration resonates. The sense that the system is tilted against ordinary workers gives the story its urgency. The Dollartorium scheme itself feels uncomfortably familiar, echoing countless real-world programs marketed to those already struggling. These promises prey on desperation, and Pullins does not shy away from exposing their ethical rot.
Stella emerges as the novel’s moral and intellectual anchor. She tempers Ralph’s desperation with reason and clarity. Her perspective restores balance and nudges the story toward resolution. Yet even as the family regains its footing, the larger problem remains unresolved. The system that cornered them still stands. Pullins underscores this truth with restraint, allowing the message to land without sermonizing.
The novel closes on a note that is satisfying, though far from idyllic. That choice feels intentional. Pullins has more to say than a neat ending would allow. Through his characters, he gives voice to frustrations that have become commonplace, about inequality, exploitation, and the illusion of easy fixes. The odds remain stacked against the little guy, and the allure of grand, risky schemes proves hard to resist. Dollartorium captures that tension with clarity, humor, and an undercurrent of quiet anger that makes it linger after the final page.
Bloody Fates, Damned Choices
In the Wake of Golgotha follows the reincarnations of Judas and Pilate through present-day New York as a crucifixion-obsessed killer forces them to confront guilt, justice, and whether any betrayal ever truly ends. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
‘The greatest story ever told’ is one full of hope, promise and redemption; however, it is also one of violence, betrayal, pain and punishment. It is this darker side of religion and history, one that too often gets glossed over and painted as mythology and ceremony that I felt was worth a second look. In the Wake of Golgotha is not a story about religion or the Bible, it is a story about bloody fates, damned choices and selfless second chances. It is a story about the death of legend – physically, practically, culturally & ideologically – in both ancient times and in the modern era. If indeed there are two sides to every story, I thought it worthwhile to take a closer look at who was actually responsible for enabling the ‘greatest’ story, why they were chosen, and what price did they pay for their roles in man’s most significant ‘betrayal.’
How did you balance the procedural realism of crime and death-row law with the novel’s spiritual and mythic elements?
When we intellectually and culturally consider capital punishment, we inevitably think in terms of modern era morality and relative to the humanity (adjective, not noun) of crime and punishment. Historical capital punishment is deemed barbaric and neatly banished to museums and mythology. However, despite the cross dangling on billions of necklaces worldwide over the ages, we rarely truly consider the most (in)famous capital punishment: the tortuous and bloody crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Ironically, and fortunately, the cross has become a symbol of peace and harmony; yet as a vessel of crucifixion it was anything but. I wanted to place the act of this particularly painful path of execution in the context of crime and punishment, so believers and non-believers alike would consider the act, the sacrifice, and the men responsible for the ultimate death-row tale. Additionally, I wanted the little we know about the historical elements of the actual trial to be juxtaposed with contemporary criminal trial and death row procedure. While the processes vastly differ, the end result is unequivocally, and frankly unimaginably, the same. Blind faith is a pivotal concept (and trap door) in In the Wake of Golgotha – legally, spiritually and otherwise.
Balthazar’s violence is graphic and ritualized. What role did discomfort play in how you wanted readers to engage with questions of punishment and mercy?
Discomfort is paramount in In the Wake of Golgotha. It is a story about reassessing uncomfortable histories and uncomfortable choices, as well as questioning comfortable mythologies and comfortable beliefs. Religion, and Christianity in particular, essentially is a history of graphic ritualized violence. A bloody history that all too often gets glossed over because of its inherent ‘happy ending’, yet Christianity’s most pivotal chapter and moment is a graphic ritualized act of violence that occured on Calvary Hill, aka Golgotha. My suggestion is that if we are to embrace what happened on that hill, and the divine aftermath, then we must acknowledge the violence that had to occur to fulfill the prophecies and scripture, and acknowledge the men and souls that enabled His bloody fall and ultimate rise. In the Wake of Golgotha casts a shadow about the uncomfortable struggle between God and the Devil, and the impact this eternal confrontation has had on everybody stuck in the middle between them.
When writing scenes of quiet restraint versus lush excess, how conscious were you of pacing language itself to mirror the characters’ inner states?
In the Wake of Golgotha is intentionally paced like a fever dream. Religion (not faith) is a balance of quiet restraint and lush excess – it is a tale of extremes from the lush Garden to the barren Desert. History’s, and literature’s for that matter, greatest and most tragic characters are journey’s into and about the extremes of a soul’s inner states. Ego & Id. Alpha & Omega. Darkness & Light. We all struggle with the shadow we cast in the pursuit of hope and joy while fleeing from regret and despair. Whether in ancient Jerusalem slipping from the pre-dawn stillness of Gethsemane into the gluttonous chaos of Herod’s Court and Temple and up the ragingly sorrowful Calvary Hill, or in modern-day New York stepping from the unnatural hush of an execution chamber into the timeless vacuum of a confessional booth and into the quietly colorful halls of an art gallery – the wildly diverse pacing of time and language relative to calm and chaos is meant to capture the wildly erratic climate of the characters inner states that are caught in a damned timeless maze of moral limbo.
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Judas, now Jude Issachar, an enigmatic social worker and part-time professor, and Pontius, now Peter Pheiffer, an unsettled defense attorney at a ravenous global law firm, have lived many lifetimes since their original encounter. However, Jude is aware of his past and is cursed by the fateful lure of the noose and the tree. Peter is damned by a recurring ignorance, a cruel cyclical awakening that creeps up on him as he is compelled to defend a sociopath who crucified three men.
Condemned for their role in humankind’s darkest betrayal, they must reckon with their pasts-and their futures-after a fateful, bloody collision of violence and addiction two millennia after their sentence began brings these lost souls together once more.
Free and First: Unlocking Your Ultimate Life
Free and First is a deeply personal guide to self-discovery. Elizabeth Jane traces her journey from people pleasing and self-doubt to a fuller, freer life shaped by awareness, boundaries, and self-love. She weaves her childhood memories, her marriage, the collapse of that marriage, her travels, her art, and the spiritual teachings that lifted her along the way. The book unfolds through stories, poems, and reflections that show how putting yourself first can feel terrifying at first, yet life-saving in the end. The message is simple and strong. You can only live your ultimate life when you stop abandoning yourself and finally choose you.
As I read, I felt drawn into the honesty of her voice. She talks about fear, shame, exhaustion, and hope in ways that feel raw and real. Her descriptions of becoming invisible in her own marriage hit me hard. I could feel the weight of that silence building inside her. I admired the courage it took for her to pull apart the patterns she had carried since childhood and to name them without flinching. The poems sprinkled throughout the book gave me a quiet pause every time. They felt like little rest stops that softened the heavier moments and reminded me why the journey matters.
Her ideas about boundaries and self-worth resonated with me. Then it surprised me with a sharply clear insight that made me sit back for a moment. I liked that mix. I also appreciated how she used her art and travel as ways to reconnect with herself. There is something tender about someone discovering creativity for the first time in adulthood and letting it shake their life awake. I found myself smiling through those parts. It made the transformation feel less theoretical and more lived in.
This book is heartfelt and encouraging. It is especially good for women who feel stretched thin or unseen, and for anyone who keeps putting others first until there is nothing left for themselves. If you want a book that feels like a warm conversation mixed with personal stories and simple tools, this will speak to you. It reminded me that choosing yourself is not selfish at all. It is the start of everything that follows.
Pages: 156 | ISBN : 1923250043
LITERARY TITAN 