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These are the books our community can’t stop talking about. Loved, reviewed, and recommended—find your next read here.

"Awaken the Light"

Awaken the Light

Awaken the Light is not a book of rules, dogma, or beliefs to adopt. Instead, it’s a quiet invitation back to something you’ve always carried within you: your presence, your truth, your inner light.

In a world that tells you to seek answers outside yourself, this book reminds you to turn inward. Through gentle reflections and soul-centered guidance, it helps you remember what was never lost—your own wisdom, your own wholeness, your own light.

This isn’t about becoming more.
It’s about uncovering what’s already here.

If you’ve ever longed for clarity, peace, or a deeper connection to yourself, Awaken the Light will feel like coming home.

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THE WAY HOME:: A GUIDE FOR THE SPIRIT’S RETURN

Have you ever felt the quiet ache of knowing this world is not your final home?The Way Home is a soul-centered guide for those who sense life is more than material success, survival, or the ticking of time. With compassion and clarity, this book illuminates the soul’s journey through matter, the laws that shape our reality, and the inner work needed to return home in peace.Through teachings, allegorical stories, guided meditations, and reflection prompts, this book helps you:🌿 Understand the difference between your spirit and physical self🌿 See through the illusions of the material world🌿 Release fear, ego, and attachment🌿 Remember the soul’s true origin🌿 Prepare for a con...
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"What If This Is Enough?"

  • What if you didn’t need to fix yourself to be whole? 🌿 What If This Is Enough? is your gentle reminder that you already are.
  • Tired of striving, comparing, and never measuring up? This book is your deep exhale. ✨
  • What If This Is Enough? — a soulful pause in a world that never stops pushing.
  • You don’t need to be more to be loved. 💛 This book reminds you of that truth.
  • Slow down. Breathe. Rest. What If This Is Enough? is waiting for you.
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The Visitor

An idyllic journey through Australia becomes a nightmare when she discovers terrifying secrets about the man she is with, others he was with have since vanished. She must escape from him in the middle of nowhere. She gets away and goes back to England. His body is found and she is charged with murder. She will not say what happened on that day!

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Lonestar Ranger

When Daniel MacLean pins the lone star of a Texas Ranger on his chest, he's looking to avenge the woman he'd planned a life and family with. His pursuit takes him to the border town of Uvalde where he finds a power hungry man hellbent on overrunning the entire territory. As he works to keep the peace along the border, he continues to cross paths with a Mexican woman, Lucia Tarrango, who is trapped in the middle of it all. Will hard riding and straight shooting be enough to settle the score or is he charging headlong into an all out border war?

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The Stolas Cipher: Free Energy & Forbidden Knowledge

Discover the Forbidden Secrets of Free Energy in This Gripping Occult Thriller. The Stolas Cipher: Free Energy & Forbidden Knowledge. Based on Real Life Events. In a world gripped by energy crises, one man's desperate pact with a demon unlocks the ultimate revolution—but at what cost? Dive into this pulse-pounding occult thriller that blends military grit, supernatural horror, and groundbreaking innovation, perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Dean Koontz, and real-life conspiracy theories like Nikola Tesla's suppressed inventions.Meet Markus Reed, a battle-hardened U.S. Air Force veteran scarred by 12 years in Iraq's shadows. As a logistics expert in AFSOC and CJSOTF, Markus ...
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Duty: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond

A collection short stories about national service by author Martin Roy Hill. In the title story, "Duty," a Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII. In "Something Far Away," a former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past. A Navy investigator faces a different kind of ghost aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier in "Destroyer Turns." "Brandenberg's Diaries" tells the story of a retired spy's last mission during Glasnost. A group of soldiers faces the curse of war over several generations in "The Stragglers." And in "The Use of Innocence," a Vietnam vet contemplates a younger generation eager for another war.

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WAR STORIES: Tales of Courage, Leadership, Blunders, and SNAFUs

The first nonfiction book by award-winning novelist Martin Roy Hill, WAR STORIES describes acts of great heroism and acts of pure blundering, intrepid leadership and self-serving vainglory, brilliant wartime technological developments and not so brilliant ideas. Some will awe the reader with their inspirational stories. Others will astound the reader by the military stupidity they reveal.

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Chimera Island

Chimera Island. For more than a century, the tiny atoll has been the subject of legend and rumors. Mysterious sightings. Strange deaths. Unexplained disappearances. A transport plane sent to Chimera to evacuate frightened scientists from a climate research station on the island disappears, along with a Chinese spy ship prowling nearby waters. The U.S. Coast Guard sends its most secret team to investigate, Deployable Specialized Force-P—the P is said to stand for phenomenon.DSF-Papa, led by Lieutenant Commander Douglas Munro Gates, discovers there is more to the legend of Chimera Island than rumors and folklore. The climate research station is wrecked. Strange creatures skulk thro...
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Polar Melt: A Novel

They call it simply "the object."It sits at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, waiting.Waiting . . . for what?An American research ship disappears in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea only to reappear a few days later. When a special U.S. Coast Guard unit boards the vessel, they find it deserted, its power grid wrecked, two bombs waiting to explode, and an even darker secret hidden below her decks.A few miles across the international maritime boundary, a massive Russian oil platform harbors its own secret. Below the behemoth lies a mysterious energy source so powerful it threatens to topple the balance of world power in favor of Moscow.The Russians will to kill to protect it. The Americans will kill to ...
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Eden: A Sci-Fi Novella

“If this is Paradise, how bad could Hell be?”

A sandstorm uncovers a long buried secret in the Iraqi desert, an ancient Sumerian temple dating back at least 6,000 years to the beginning of civilization. An American army patrol sent to investigate the ruins is trapped inside the temple’s eroded walls, first by an insurgent ambush then by another, even more powerful sandstorm. When an enemy mortar shell blasts an opening into a hidden burial chamber, Captain Adam Cadman and his soldiers take refuge deep in the ruins. What they find hidden inside threatens to destroy every belief about the beginnings of mankind—as well as modern civilization as we know it.
 

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The Last Refuge

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."  Samuel Johnson Iraq, 1991: Operation Desert Storm. In a terrible friendly fire incident, a U.S. helicopter massacres a small convoy of American MPs. Among the dead: a mysterious American civilian engineer discovered by the soldiers behind enemy lines.San Diego, CA, 1993: A freelance journalist is hired to write a story about a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the dead engineer's widow against the government and the defense contractor he worked for. The problem: the government insists the lawsuit does not exist, and the contractor claims the engineer did not work for them. Worse, someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.Peter Bra...
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Empty Places

He warned her. People die in lonely and empty places. But she didn't listen.Peter Brandt is a war-scarred news service reporter who has seen more than he can bear to remember. Returning to the States, he discovers his former wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, brutally murdered and the local cops doing nothing to find her killer. Driven by guilt and regret over his failed marriage, Peter sets out with an old friend, retired cop Matt Banyon, to find Robin's killer. Following clues she left behind, Peter and Matt unearth a shadowy world of sex, drugs, political corruption, and a wealthy Cuban freedom fighter with a suspicious past. Peter and Matt soon become the hunted, and Peter must finally fa...
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The Butcher's Bill

2017 Best Mystery/Suspense Novel (Best Independent Book Awards)2018 Clue Award for Best Thriller (Chaticleer International Book Awards)Meet William Butcher, aka The Butcher, former Navy SEAL, now a disgraced ex-NCIS agent.Those who stole $9 billion in cash from Iraq want him dead.The cops want him for murder.Butcher's only hope is his former NCIS colleague and closest friend, Linus Schag.Together Schag and Butcher tear away the veil of conspiracy, uncovering a criminal enterprise reaching into the highest levels of government.Ripped from today's headlines, this sequel to Martin Roy Hill's highly praised The Killing Depths takes the reader from the California mountains to the coastal waters o...
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The Killing Depths

A submarine. A secret mission. And a serial killer.

A killer lurks beneath the waves of the western Pacific Ocean. 

The USS Encinitas, the first attack submarine crewed by both men and women, stalks the Crescent Moon, a renegade Iranian sub armed with nuclear-tipped missiles. But another predator hides aboard the American sub, a murderer who has already left a trail of dead women behind on shore.

While the crew of the Encinitas plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with the Crescent Moon, NCIS investigator Linus Schag must discover the killer’s identity before his – or her – blood lust leads to the submarine’s total destruction.

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