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A Road Built By Many Hands: A Long Journey Home

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          A Road Built By Many Hands: A Long Journey Home Raw, gritty, and deeply human, A Road Built by Many Hands: A Long Journey Home is a powerful story of Opioid addiction recovery, family, community, and the grace found when broken people choose to keep going. In Pine Hollow, Michigan—where rusted trucks outnumber second chances—mechanic Josh Granger is fighting for his life one sober sunrise at a time. Once the man everyone relied on, Josh is now clawing his way out of the wreckage left by Opioid addiction, shame, and a town that never forgets a mistake. With his sister Rachel’s unshakable faith, Maria’s quiet strength, hard-earned truth from Hank, and the steady pull of a recovery group, Josh begins the brutal climb toward redemption. But healing isn’t neat. Old wounds reopen. Ghosts demand payment. And when a storm slams into Pine Hollow—both literal and emotional—Josh is forced to confront the hardest truth of all: forgiveness isn’t granted once. It’s ...

🎉 Win a FREE Make Peace With Life Shirt! 🎉

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  🎉 Win a FREE Make Peace With Life Shirt! 🎉 What if one shirt could do more than just cover your torso? What if it could start conversations... Spread positivity... Boost your confidence... And remind both you  and everyone around you  that life is meant to be lived with a little more peace, a little more laughter, and a whole lot more happiness? Well... That's exactly why we created the  Make Peace With Life  shirts. And now... We're giving them away! Yes... you read that correctly. We're literally giving you the shirt off our back. (Well... not the one we're currently wearing. That would make for a very awkward blog post.) Why Our Shirts Are Different Our shirts aren't just fabric and ink. They're conversation starters. We've heard countless stories of complete strangers stopping someone wearing a Make Peace With Life shirt just to say: "I love your shirt!" Those simple interactions create smiles. They start conversations. They spread positive...

Can't Find My Way Home (Those Damned Yankees)

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  Can't Find My Way Home  (Those Damned Yankees) Can’t Find My Way Home Recreates the Chaos and Human Cost of the American Revolution The American Revolution is often remembered through its ideals. Former U.S. Naval Officer Ray Deptula wants readers to experience it through its uncertainty, exhaustion and human cost — the same way they would any other conflict. “Ironically, the British experience in the American Revolution was strikingly similar to our own in Vietnam and even more recently in Afghanistan, where a superpower took on a woefully inferior foe and where expectation and actions of the government, the military and the people were not necessarily aligned,” Deptula said. His website https://raydeptulaauthor.com/ In Can’t Find My Way Home, the second installment in his Those Damned Yankees series, Deptula combines meticulous historical research with emotionally charged storytelling to recreate the Revolutionary War as it was lived by ordinary people caught inside ext...

The Personal Equation: How to Stop Living Against Yourself

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  The Personal Equation: How to Stop Living Against Yourself You're not broken. You don't need fixing. And yet something feels off. Not dramatically. Not enough to call it a crisis. More like a piece of furniture in the middle of the hallway — you keep bumping into it, but you've long since stopped moving it because you've come to believe it belongs there. This book is not a sunrise on a cover. It won't tell you to get up at five, journal your gratitude, or manifest your best self while simultaneously letting go of something that sounds like a laundry detergent commercial. It will do something simpler — and harder. It will ask:  What is actually going on inside you right now? The Personal Equation  proposes a formula that fits on a napkin: Look. Accept. Take one small true step. Three words. One multiplication. Because if any one of them is zero, the result is zero — no matter how hard you try at the others. Across twenty-two chapters, this book walks with you throu...

Get Sh*t Done: Why Your Brain Isn't Built for 2026 (And What to Do About It)

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  Get Sh*t Done: Why Your Brain Isn't Built for 2026 (And What to Do About It) Get Sh*t Done is kind of a productivity book—but it’s really a book about dealing with all the crap life throws at you while you’re trying to be productive. Guiding you through the chaos are Hank, a tired and overwhelmed raccoon desperately trying to clear his to-do list, and the squirrel, the living embodiment of every distraction, impulse, unnecessary side quest, and fascinating idea preventing him from getting there. The book explores why knowing what you need to do and actually getting yourself to do it are two very different things. Instead of pretending life can be conquered with the perfect planner, morning routine, or color-coded calendar, it offers practical ways to make progress when your attention, motivation, responsibilities, and emotions are all pulling you in diffe...

Every Author Needs the Author Octopus Shirt (And Here's Why)

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  Every Author Needs the Author Octopus Shirt (And Here's Why) Let's be honest... Writing a book is one of the few jobs where you're expected to be an author, editor, proofreader, marketer, social media manager, graphic designer, accountant, customer service representative, website developer, public speaker, podcaster, email marketer, and somehow still find time to actually write. If you've ever thought,  "I wish I had eight arms,"  congratulations... You're officially an author. That's exactly why the  Author Octopus Shirt  exists. Because Writing the Book Is Only the Beginning Many people think an author's job ends when they type "The End." Experienced authors know that's actually when the real work begins. Now you need to: Edit your manuscript. Format it. Design a cover. Upload it to retailers. Build a website. Run social media. Schedule promotions. Answer emails. Record podcasts. Create videos. Attend book signings. And somehow st...