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Since its creation, social media has dominated the headlines, and more apps are popping up every day. MySpace and Friendster paved the way for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok…and there’s always a new evolution just around the corner. That’s the beauty of social media. The most successful businesses are utilizing trends to attract new customers, speak to their loyal ones, and maximize their potential. And if you’re going to live up to the competition, your business needs to join them. You need a medium for interacting with customers…and social media is the answer.

Debt just seems like a thing that we all have to deal with for the rest of our lives. At least that is what many people believe, but it is not true! Another false statement is that cryptocurrency is too hard to wrap our minds around. This book was designed to take both of these issues and dissect them together, to form a solution to debt and investing. If you are tired of sitting in debt or you are trying to set yourself up for a life without debt, cryptocurrency can help with that. It is an investment vehicle that has helped people reach their financial goals and sidestep debt.

The United States is under a nuclear attack. Only 30 minutes until doom. Can the government save us? What can you do to protect yourself, your family, and your friends? What will tomorrow look like? This political thriller follows several sets of characters after receiving an emergency alert telling them nuclear bombs are approaching the United States. Impact is only 30 minutes away.

Michael Hart would do anything to bring her back. Fate took her away from him, then, years later, fate pushes him to the town of Malway, a town with a secret. Michael, a retired policeman, believes he has stumbled across a crime, but soon discovers it is something far more incredible, something that could make his one wish come true. But it might come with a terrible price. Death and Repair explores the power of love and the permanence of death. It is a re-imagination of the classic Djinn tales, part mystery, part science-fiction, part love story.

Growing up seaside in Malibu, California, young Luke Dodge forms a deep connection with the ocean. A coming-of-age story, Luke learns by doing as he free dives to feed his family starting at age six, then joins the San Diego Tuna fleet at just 12 years old. His love of the sea is smashed as he and five friends are rammed by a fuel tanker in the dead of night. His ailing mother needs cash for a life-saving operation. Luke's only hope is to enter and win the world spearfishing championship in Spain that pays a $200,000 grand prize.

Ryan hated the move. He hated being uprooted from his home in New York to the rural outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. But little did he know what was in store for him, as he becomes wrapped up in two worlds, and in two conflicts. After touching a baseball bat found in the attic of his new home, the Belle Meade Plantation, Ryan is transported back in time to the Civil War. It is here that he takes part in a baseball game between Union and Confederate soldiers on the eve of the Battle of Nashville. It would be a summer unlike any other.

An astronaut’s gloved hand lowering a thin wire into a hole cut in ice. We hear the howling alien wind reveal: Michael Thompson (40's) in a full spacesuit, kneeling at a 20 foot hole in the icy surface of Europa, Jupiter’s fourth largest moon. The planet is white, glass-smooth, desolate. He continues lowering the wire. We don’t really know what he’s doing, and whatever’s attached to the wire can’t be very heavy or this wire would break.

TV is on, movie credits role. Starring Brad Willoughby in The Laughing Assassin. The aging actor, but much younger than he looks, dark hair and fit physique (50s), hasn’t worked in many years. He watches as he sips on a glass of wine, and the movie plays.... He’s now lost in thought, staring at a younger version of himself. We can sense by the way Brad mouths his lines as he watches his younger self dominates each scene, just how much he yearns for those glorious days now gone.

We see a bright blue cloud-filled sky. Then we are zooming down, revealing what appears to be a swirling dust funnel in a clearing, surrounded by forest. Zooming farther down we see a young boy playing near it. Finally, we see him get swallowed up into a cosmic portal. We now zoom out, farther and farther until we see a large man dressed in regal garb, he is a wizard, searching desperately through a forest for his son. As he penetrates the trees he sees an ominous portal in the open field. A shoe lies on the ground near the swirling mass. He charges forward.

By bridging Marxism and deconstructionism, this essay proves how Orwell's 1984 parallels the modern-day complacency among Americans. Typically, most will point out the obvious similarities like constant surveillance through screens (phones, televisions, computers), the ever-increasing wage gap between the rich and poor, and the creation of new laws that interfere with our constitutional freedoms.

The world is on the brink of annihilation, we just don't know yet. An invisible enemy is waging war under the shadow of a deadly pandemic. The threat comes by way of an alien life-form. They exist among us. They are not like us, like you and I, made up of carbon and nitrogen. But they are here, right now, we just can’t see them. But make no mistake about it, this unseen enemy sees us - and like a whisper in the wind, it brings death.

The search for the perfect man continues into perpetuity. My wife refers to him as “ the perfect man”. Many women spend their lives in search of him, if not in flesh and blood, then in their imaginings. It is not uncommon that the man in their lives sometimes invites comparisons. Where is this man who is the bravest of the brave, the purest of the pure, unbridled in the bedroom? Where is this man who has wealth and unrivaled success, who can unlock the treasures and experiences of a lifetime for the lucky woman who catches his eye?

Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824-1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was a sailor who just wanted to return home, where the biggest story of his life awaited him. Covering almost a year of Loring’s service, I Held Lincoln describes the lieutenant’s command of the gunboat USS Wave, the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, the surrender of his ship, and his capture by the Confederates.

Reimagine cancer survival. That’s what stage-4 cancer survivor Dr. Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested he “accept the inevitable”, but Roby thought otherwise. Quickly realizing that conventional thinking would do little to help him, he created his own, personalized treatment plan targeting his specific tumor. And he survived!

Idealistic and eager to get into combat, Sam Walker, a young pilot, arrives for his tour of duty in Vietnam. But on his first top secret mission, Walker confronts the gruesome reality of war and the horror its impact leaves on its servicemen. No one survives war - they simply escape. Some through death, others through drink or drugs.

A gripping story of love, loss, and redemption in the vietnam war: As Roger Connors, a widower with no children, ponders whether to pursue aggressive treatment for his cancer, a cryptic note arrives from a long-lost USAF buddy announcing the visit of an acquaintance from Vietnam. The startling news resurrects ghosts of fallen comrades and haunting memories of the great love he once knew. Once upon a Mulberry Field follows one man's journey to self-discovery, fraught with disillusionment and despair but ultimately redeemed by the power of love.

Jack Krause is a casualty of war, both in Vietnam and at home. Forty-seven years after his service, Jack has no lack of demons. Born into a dysfunctional family, he creates one of his own as he agonizes over what's gone wrong in his life. Haunted by the war experience that he never came to terms with, he sees his family and friends implode around him.

A unique blend of poetry and song, Polyrics are a creation straight from the visionary minds of author Desmond Drue and voice-over artist Treg Monty. Americus is a curated collection of the duos favorite Polyrics, woven together by the thread of America and patriotism.

After a serious auto accident, Jackson Trotman is taken by his guardian angel into the heavenly realms to a place called The Wall. There he is able to travel into the past, present, or future of anyone who has ever lived. He soon discovers that many of his friends--including his future wife--are destined for hell, and vows to rescue them from their fate, no matter the cost.

By the time of his death in 2023, Tom Horn was the CEO of the celebrated SkyWatch TV and Defender Publishing. He was well known for such books as Forbidden Gates, the Petrus Romanus series, and Zenith 2016, as well as his award-winning documentary, Inhuman.