Lead Boldly, Think Deeply: What Courageous Leaders Can Learn from Great Teachers

Lead Boldly, Think Deeply: What Courageous Leaders Can Learn from Great Teachers
Lead Like a Teacher—and Build Teams That Think, Engage, and Solve Problems. Think back to the person who had the greatest influence on how you think and grow. Chances are, it was a teacher who asked the right questions, believed in your potential, and created space for you to problem-solve. Fast-forward to the professional workplace. Leaders are overwhelmed, teams are disengaged, and too much energy is spent complying with systems that were never designed to help people think, create, and innovate. When leadership rewards compliance over creativity and certainty over curiosity, it’s evident we’ve drifted from what actually works. It’s time for a new approach for leaders.Lead Boldly, Think Deeply offers a different way forward. Award-winning teacher and researcher Dr. Katie Trowbridge has done decades of work with educators, administrators, and business leaders and uncovered a clear truth: Teachers are some of the most adaptive, courageous leaders in existence—and organizations can learn from them.

Grounded in the wisdom of great educators, Trowbridge challenges leaders to move past surface-level management and start designing cultures where curiosity is valued, trust is built, and thinking runs deep. Based on her research on the gap between education and the modern workplace, Trowbridge uses her trademarked CREATE Method to reframe leadership as the design of environments where people feel safe to ask bold questions, take risks, and solve problems together—skills today’s workforce demands. The result is teams that don’t just comply but engage, collaborate, and care deeply about what they’re building together.

In this book, you’ll learn how to: Use the CREATE Method’s six leadership roles to build trust and engagement. Run meetings that generate thinking, not passive agreement. Turn employees into problem-solvers rather than order followers. Bridge generational differences through curiosity and shared purpose. Lead with confidence while staying grounded as a lifelong learner. For middle managers, executives, HR professionals, and educational leaders, Lead Boldly, Think Deeply offers a practical, human-centered approach to leadership—one that replaces control with courage and leaves a lasting legacy of impact. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Sauna Like a Viking: In the Quest to LIVE to a Hundred

Sauna Like a Viking: In the Quest to LIVE to a Hundred
For generations, Nordic cultures have embraced sauna and cold exposure as a way of life—building resilience, improving health, and extending vitality deep into old age. In Sauna Like A Viking, Erik Berggren combines ancient tradition with modern longevity science to show how heat, cold, movement, and recovery can dramatically improve the way you age. $2.99 on Kindle.
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Free: In the Day of the Flood

In the Day of the Flood

A novel for readers who love immersive ancient tales

When she breaks a sacred law to save an abandoned baby, Deghóm is cast out into a world facing ruin. She was raised to serve the sky, her voice echoing through the caves of the hill country. Now a salt river is tearing open the land bridge between two seas and threatening to drown the world.

Cave rituals and reed boats, sharp obsidian and glowing amber come to life in a historical fantasy that feels like recovered memory. It is an epic tale from a lost world of haunting beauty, told in a voice that lets ancient tongues sing again.

In the Day of the Flood is the first novel in the Four Lights series.

For readers of Jean Auel, Madeline Miller and Tolkien: where historical epic meets fantasy. Free on Kindle.
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Free: The Vintner’s Obsession

The Vintner's Obsession
The finest vintage was never in the bottle.

Lucas Blackwood doesn’t have time for consultants, especially not one like Avery Bennett, who thinks she can rebrand his family’s century-old vineyard with a few social media posts. The minute she arrives at Blackwood Estate, Lucas makes one thing clear: she can observe, but he’s running the show.

Avery didn’t claw her way to the top of Atlanta’s marketing scene to be dismissed by some gorgeous, dirt-under-his-nails vintner with a stubborn streak a mile wide. She came to California to do a job, and Lucas’ gruff attitude won’t stop her.

But harvest has a way of pulling people together. Long days working the vines give way to private wine tastings, lingering conversations, and a slow-burning attraction that threatens to change everything.

Tropes: Billionaire, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, City Girl/Country Boy, Workplace Romance Commitment-Phobic Hero Free on Kindle.
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Blood & Guilt: A Modern Vampire Romantasy (Vampire of Montenegro Series Book 1)

Blood & Guilt: A Modern Vampire Romantasy (Vampire of Montenegro Series Book 1)
Hidden in a Montenegro crypt for 50 years…

He’s a vampire who feeds from a priest and seeks to control his bloodlust.
She’s an American tourist who takes refuge from a storm in his chapel.

What happens next is unexpected.
He believes he’s beyond redemption but is he?
Their connection is slow, intimate, and dangerously real.

“Blood & Guilt” is a deeply sensual, character-driven vampire romance about trust, confession, and daring to love when you believe you are unworthy of it. The book delivers a lush Montenegro setting, a morally complex vampire hero, a refreshing heroine, and a romance that burns slow and devastating.

If you love dark fantasy romance where the greatest battle is fought inside the hero’s own soul, this is your next obsession. Books 2, 3 and 4 continue the adventure in a vampire castle and across Europe. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Unwanted Significance

Unwanted Significance
Tyler Carson and Alana Adler fall deeply in love despite coming from very different worlds. But as family secrets, racial tensions, and painful legacies emerge, their relationship is pushed to the breaking point. A powerful, emotional novel about love, identity, forgiveness, and choosing your own future. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: The Great Italian Race: An Educational Travel Adventure For Kids

The Great Italian Race: An Educational Travel Adventure For Kids

Follow four racing cars, Alexa, Cesarino, Giorgino, and Gianni, as they speed across the most beautiful landmarks in Italy. This humorous update to the “Tortoise and the Hare” is a fun, educational travelogue that introduces children to Italian culture. From the ancient ruins of Rome to the coastal cliffs of Portofino, the cars overcome obstacles and confront each other throughout the long race across the country. Free on Kindle.
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Free: The Dragon in The Closet

Orin Bean has terrible luck and a problem with monsters. However, his Nana seems to be a powerful witch, but he’s really a perfectly normal boy who just happens to have a dragon in the closet. What kid wouldn’t want that? A fantasy comic book series for kids ages 5 to 10

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The Diner by The Lake

The Diner by The Lake
A young woman, Lindsey, and her best friend, Danica, set out to re-open an abandoned diner in small town, Erie, Pennsylvania. In the process, they turn the dying business area around. With this new-found aspiring environment, Lindsey catches the attention of a California real states mogul, Jake Dawson. With love and romance, betrayal, wealth, happiness, and success all in her life, can she keep this gold streak going in this romantic comedy? $5.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Exoskeleton: This is a Sci-Fi Techno-Thriller Full of Suspense, Intrigue, and Action

Exoskeleton: This is a Sci-Fi Techno-Thriller Full of Suspense, Intrigue, and Action. (P.H.A.N.T.O.M. CELL, THE BACKSTORIES)
Alec Byrne was once a “taxpayer-funded lethal weapon,” an elite Air Force Special Operations Lieutenant whose career ended in a shattered spine and a wheelchair. Trapped in a purgatory of self-pity and alcohol, his only hope for redemption comes from a top-secret military project: the Exoskeleton, a revolutionary “super skin” designed to transform a paralyzed soldier into a super-warrior. But as Alec takes charge of the research team to fix the suit’s flawed neural interface, he discovers the technology is a sham, controlled by remote programs and buried under layers of government deceit. The price of walking again is a torturous spinal implant that grants Alec unimaginable strength and speed, restoring the lethal confidence he thought he had lost forever. However, the line between military advancement and global conspiracy dissolves when Alec realizes the threat isn’t just external; a trusted team member is working to sabotage the project from within. Now, he must confront a manipulative foe known as the Dark Angel and navigate a web of betrayal that reaches the highest levels of the Pentagon. In a world where technology and treason combine, Alec and his unit of outcasts—the P.H.A.N.T.O.M. Cell—become the only line of defense against L.E.G.I.O.N., a shadowy organization intent on global domination. For Alec, the deadliest threat isn’t a bullet; it’s the chilling possibility that his own identity has become the enemy’s ultimate target. He must decide if he is willing to become the weapon his country demands, even if it means losing what remains of his humanity. Free on Kindle.
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Free: The Road to Hidden Acres (The Hidden Acres series Book 1)

The Road to Hidden Acres (The Hidden Acres series Book 1)
If it all fell apart tomorrow, what would you do to survive? Marcus Adair was marking time as a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then the Omega virus swept across the face of the world leaving a catastrophic death toll in its wake. One of the rare few to survive the plague, if only barely, Marcus finds a world irrevocably altered and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory. Gas has become a precious and ever diminishing commodity. With his family dead or lost to the breakdown in communication systems, Marcus needs a purpose, a goal, a reason to survive. His thinks of Hidden Acres, the old family farm tucked away in western Indiana. It is a place of fond childhood memories filled with golden, summertime adventures. It may also be the last place where he has family. With nothing to lose, he packs his few worldly possessions into his old backpack and starts the long trek across the remains of the American heartland. Can he get there safely? Will he find family if he makes it that far or merely the ghosts of what once was? This is the story of Marcus’s journey and the people he meets along the way, who are each just trying in their own way to survive. This is the first book in the Hidden Acres series. Book 2 is “Ashes to Ashes”, followed by “When the First Bird Sings”. The fourth and final book of the series will be published in 2027. Free on Kindle.
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Free: The Good Girls Guide To Hexing: A No-BS Guide to Energetic Self-Defense

The Good Girls Guide To Hexing: A No-BS Guide to Energetic Self-Defense
No curses. No drama. Just bad energy returned to sender.

You’re the nice one. You remember everyone’s birthday, apologize when other people step on your toes, and answer midnight phone calls from people who wouldn’t water your ferns if you were dying. You’re not tired because you’re weak—you’re tired because you’re carrying everyone else’s emotional luggage and calling it kindness.

It’s time to retire the doormat routine and open a proper defense department.

The Good Girl’s Guide to Hexing isn’t a book of dark magic, curses, or giving your ex boils (tempting, but the boils won’t pay your rent). It’s a deadpan, practical manual for one glorious verb: RETURN.

When hostility, guilt shipments, or corporate passive-aggression come at you, you don’t attack. You simply decline the delivery and send it back to the manufacturer, original condition, postage prepaid.

Inside this no-nonsense guide to energetic self-defense, you’ll discover:
The $12 Starter Kit: Skip the “witch tax”. Your entire defense array comes from the hardware store and the grocery aisle.

Threshold Warding: Turn your front door into a boundary statement using plain salt and iron nails (peas in the freezer extra).

Mirror Magic: Build standing return desks and carry pocket-sized deflector compacts for toxic family dinners.

Stealth Workplace Defense: Learn why salt packets under your monitor hold lines better than HR ever could.

The Block Button Sacrament: Banishing for the modern age, plus 26 complete, grounded rituals to clear emotional space.

No theater, no fluff, and zero “love and light”. Just clean, administrative boundaries that leave your space quiet, your energy yours, and your mind out of everyone else’s courtroom.

Don’t start shit. Return it. Scroll up and grab your copy today. Free on Kindle.
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Cowboys and Chaos

Cowboys and Chaos
This book club dives (literally!) into the pages of a cozy mystery. This quirky group of brave members must solve the mystery to get out of the book.  It’s so much fun – you’ll wish for a book club like this! $0.99 on Kindle.
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No Lights No Law

No Lights No Law
When an EMP destroys America’s power grid, Frank Tilley has only one mission: reach his grandchildren before the darkness claims them.

With society collapsing and his loyal dog at his side, Frank begins a desperate journey across a lawless West Coast. Every mile brings new dangers, and time is running out.

The grid is down. Civilization is gone. And Frank may be his grandchildren’s only hope. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Playboy in a Kilt

Playboy in a Kilt
When former playboy Connor fakes an engagement to shed his reputation, he ropes in his sister’s best friend–the woman he’s secretly loved for years. Sophie’s got enough on her plate, but playing fiancée for the sake of her business’s future seems harmless enough. As pretend feelings start to feel all too real, they’ll both have to decide if this fairy tale might just be the real thing. Free on Kindle.
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What We Keep in the Quiet

What We Keep in the Quiet: This Gothic Horror is a Thrilling Peek into the Life of Abigail, High-Functioning Schizophrenic, The Family Secrets Lead Her to the Hollow Line from a Soiled Legacy
Abigail Shelby was trained, not raised—shaped by a mother who treated beauty like currency and obedience like a blood oath. At sixteen, Abigail learns the rules of survival in Shelbyville: smile when it hurts, lure what you need, and never let anyone see you bleed. The past doesn’t just haunt her; it brands her, and every lesson comes with a price. Now thirty-seven, Abigail has traded fear for finesse and is sharpening her claws for husband number three—Roger Blackwood, a rising political star with a future governor’s grin. But behind the emerald silk and country club perfection, Abigail’s mind is a locked room full of echoes, and her mother’s voice still slips through the cracks. When Abigail’s carefully built life begins to buckle, the question isn’t whether she will break—it’s what she will become when she does. What We Do in the Quiet is a southern gothic horror-thriller steeped in old money, family rot, and the kind of legacy that refuses to stay buried. In a town where everyone is watching and every favor has teeth, Abigail must decide what’s worse: the ghosts she inherited, or the monster she’s willing to be to outrun them. Abigail follows the Hollow Line, discovering her true legacy and the deceit and lies her mother sowed. Is the black book truly soiled or just misunderstood by those who falsely claim it? $0.99 on Kindle.
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The Disciplined Athlete: A Christian Sports Devotional for Teen Boys

The Disciplined Athlete: A Christian Sports Devotional for Teen Boys
One injury. One bad game. One coach’s decision. That’s all it takes for many teen athletes to start believing the wrong story about who they are. If you’re raising a teenage athlete, you want him to compete with confidence; but he needs something even more important. To know that his identity is found in Christ, not in the scoreboard.

The Disciplined Athlete is a 60-day Christian sports devotional for teen boys that helps young athletes build bold faith, unshakable discipline, and mental toughness rooted in Scripture. Designed for busy student athletes ages 13–18, each daily reading takes about 5 minutes and connects God’s Word to the real challenges athletes face: pressure, failure, comparison, confidence, leadership, temptation, perseverance, and purpose. Whether he plays football, baseball, basketball, soccer, wrestling, track, cross country, golf, tennis, or another sport, he’ll discover how Biblical truth applies in the locker room, at practice, on game day, and in everyday life.

If you’re looking for:

• A Christian sports devotional for teen boys

• A daily devotional for athletes that fits into a busy practice schedule

• A Christian book for student athletes that speaks their language instead of preaching at them

• A meaningful Christian gift for a son, grandson, nephew, or teenage athlete

• A resource to help a young man grow in faith while pursuing excellence in sports…

then The Disciplined Athlete was written for you.

Inside, your athlete will learn how to:

• Build confidence that isn’t dependent on the scoreboard or his last performance

• Respond when he’s benched, injured, overlooked, or makes a costly mistake

• Develop Biblical discipline when no one else is watching

• Handle pressure from parents, coaches, teammates, and social media

• Keep sports from becoming his identity or his idol

• Understand what the Bible teaches about training, self-control, and honoring God with his body

• Stand firm when classmates or teammates question his faith

This isn’t a devotional filled with clichés or long sermons. It’s written for teenage athletes who want honest conversations about real struggles and practical Biblical wisdom they can use when the pressure is on. Every devotion is built to strengthen character, deepen faith, and remind young men that their greatest victory will never be found on a scoreboard. A season can shape an athlete. God’s Word can shape the man he’ll become. Start Day 1 today and begin building a foundation of faith, discipline, and resilience that will last long after the final whistle! $2.99 on Kindle.
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Dragon’s Guarded Mate

Dragon's Guarded Mate
The quiet student with haunted eyes isn’t human. Aaron is a dragon living among us, and one touch tells him I’m his fated mate. With something deadly hunting students, he’ll burn the world before he lets me become the next victim. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Drained

Drained
Who reports a homeless person missing? They’re already missing.
They make the perfect target.
The corpse is drained of blood.
When more bodies start to show up posed out in the open, Detective Aaron Jeffers and Brianna Matthews find themselves on the trail of a serial killer. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Starship Cat Boxed Set

Starship Cat Boxed Set
Princess earned her place aboard the cargo ship Amiira Yasmine by saving a space station, but celebrity comes with would-be cat-nappers, impossible demands, and a crew stretched dangerously thin.

Sometimes only a cat can save the day.

Pick up this boxed set to join Princess on her space adventures! $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Three Easy Lessons

Three Easy Lessons
LR Penn, author of the psychological thriller Gambled Lives and the theatrical farce Game Face, turns to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where a piano teacher with money problems and an Afghan war vet with drug problems must fight to survive when they get into the crosshairs of both the Russian mafia and the NYPD. Free on Kindle.
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FORCED: Black African American Billionaire Romance Urban Fiction Series (The Kensley Family Dynasty Book 1)

FORCED: Black African American Billionaire Romance Urban Fiction Series (The Kensley Family Dynasty Book 1)
This is a marriage made in hell. A marriage that is set out to fail. At least that’s what I think. And I have every right to think this because I, Belle Gist, was just forced into love. Forced into an arranged marriage. But it isn’t with just anyone. It is with Thorton “Thor” Kensley, Heir II to the Kensley Family Dynasty, one of the very rare Black multi-billionaire family dynasties in the world. Thor and I knew each other our whole lives, but never dated, but somehow our families arranged for us to get married because they stated that it was about time that the two of us had, and it might as well be with each other. Just what the hell do they know? But there is something most don’t know, and that’s because way back then, I used to have a crush on him. But that was then, this is now. And now, all I know is that Thor and I are the last two people who should be together—much less married—and now we are going on an uncertain journey together, and this is supposed to last forever? I am now the wife to a man who is part of a multi-billionaire family dynasty. I’m supposed to be happy. I may have known Thor and the Kensley family my whole life, but do I really know them? Especially Thor, my now husband. A husband who has a connection to a past lover who is now trending in this present time . . . and not in a good way. And now, I am fixed on this past lover just as I am fixed on trying to make a forced arranged marriage work out for the best, because whatever I find out about his past lover could quite possibly have an effect on the future of our marriage. Nothing is ever gonna prepare me for what I’m in for. $0.99 on Kindle.
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When Success Becomes the Problem

When Success Becomes the Problem: How Education Lost Understanding and What It Would Take to Get It Back

Education is not failing. It is succeeding at the wrong thing.

For decades, modern education has defined success through performance. Grades, rankings, standardized assessments, and credentials have become the dominant measures of achievement. Students are trained to meet expectations, optimize outcomes, and compete effectively.

And they do.

But beneath that success, something is breaking.

Anxiety has become a baseline state. Burnout appears earlier and more often. Meaning feels increasingly fragile. Students learn to perform without integrating, to achieve without inhabiting, to adapt without understanding.

This is not a generational weakness.
It is a structural design flaw.

In When Success Becomes the Problem, this book traces how standardization became dominant, how performance replaced understanding, and why educational reforms repeatedly fail when assessment and purpose remain unchanged. It reveals why wellbeing initiatives backfire, why comparison distorts development, and why systems always revert unless success itself is redefined.

Moving beyond critique, the book offers a rigorous reimagining of education built around human capacity, discernment, integration, and readiness rather than speed, ranking, and control.

It is not a call for softer education.
It is an argument for deeper rigor.

If education continues to measure the wrong thing, it will continue to produce fragmentation while appearing successful.

If we change what counts, everything else can change.

The question is no longer whether reform is needed.

The question is whether we are willing to redefine success. $0.99 on Kindle.
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Free: Believe It or Knot

Believe It or Knot
What would you do if a tree started talking to you? When nine-year-old Beau Johnson learns that his Navy family is moving from California to Florida, his perfect world suddenly feels anything but perfect. Leaving behind his friends, his neighborhood, and everything familiar is harder than he ever imagined. Then Beau meets Knot. Hidden among the trees in his new community, Knot is no ordinary tree. Wise, funny, and surprisingly insightful, he becomes Beau’s closest confidant during a season of change and uncertainty. But convincing anyone else that Knot is real proves nearly impossible. As Beau faces the challenges of a new school, struggles to fit in, discovers new friendships, and begins to see the world through different eyes, Knot teaches him lessons about courage, kindness, perspective, and what truly matters.

In this heartwarming middle-grade novel, readers will discover: A memorable friendship between a boy and a talking tree

Valuable lessons about resilience and adapting to change

Themes of family, belonging, and personal growth

Humor, adventure, and heartfelt moments

Encouragement to see wonder in everyday life

A story that sparks imagination while nurturing empathy

Perfect for readers ages 8–12, Believe It or Knot is an uplifting story that reminds us that friendship can appear in the most unexpected places—and that sometimes believing is the first step toward discovering something extraordinary. A charming, imaginative tale about growing up, finding your place, and learning to believe in possibilities. Free on Kindle.
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Free: Tanner

Tanner
He’s the grumpy billionaire next door. She’s the city girl with nothing left to lose. Now he wants her land and she’s not giving it up without a fight.

In just a few weeks, I lost my job, my fiancé, and every plan I thought was solid. Then came the inheritance: a rundown farmhouse in Whispers, the kind of small town I swore I’d never end up in. Renovating it was supposed to be my fresh start. Sparring with my brooding, golden-eyed neighbor? Definitely not part of the plan.

Tanner Whiteman owns the largest whiskey distillery in the country. He’s older, infuriatingly handsome, and dead set on buying my land. It’s the only thing I have to my name and I’m not selling. He says I’m not cut out for country life. I say he’s not ready for me.

But as the tension between us turns electric, the lines blur between rivalry and something far more dangerous. Every glance, every argument, every late-night encounter pulls us deeper into a connection neither of us expected and neither of us is ready for.

Then the threat hits. Fast, brutal, and personal. And suddenly, the man who always gets what he wants is fighting to keep the one thing he can’t afford to lose. Free on Kindle.
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