Cool Off The Hot Seat! Tips for 'Acing' Your Job Interview 3d cover updated 2023
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Cool Off The Hot Seat! Tips for ‘Acing’ Your Job Interview By Rebecca Rothman McCoy

Your interviewer is staring you down from across his desk and the butterflies in your stomach are more active than Hitchcock's Birds. Your palms are sweating, your heart is racing, and the worst-case scenario is all you can envision in your future. You want this job. You need this job. You have to have it...! Has he noticed my discomfort? you wonder as you stutter when asked what sets you apart from all the others that have been interviewed before…
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Commonwealth Universe, Age 1, Volume 4: First Law by Michelle Levigne

Before the Commonwealth existed, there was an expanding, multi-galaxy civilization. Due to the combined effects of a too-aggressive policy of expansion, civil unrest, the inequality and abuse of the classes, and the categorizing of augmented humans as a slave class, the Central Allied Worlds (CAW) disintegrated.   The period of darkness and barbarism that followed is referred to as the Downfall. Various groups of people fled the Central Allied Worlds (referred to by its descendants/survivors simply as "First Civ") as…
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The Good People of Coralville by Lazette Gifford

    MARCH: THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CORALVILLE   Chapter 1   Thursday Mr. Hunt prayed over the bowl of cereal, while Tony studied the edge of the ratty tablecloth, ignoring the droning voice. He muttered "Amen" in unison with his foster parents, and reached toward his spoon. That usually kept them happy. But when he looked up today, Mister Hunt still scowled. The older, gray-haired man tossed a neatly folded newspaper across the table, nearly knocking the corn flakes…
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Captain Angus, The Lighthouse Ghost by Wendy Laing

Two children holidaying at the Cape Otway Lighthouse Station in Victoria Australia meet the ghost of an old Scottish sea captain who roams the world helping the 'spirits' of lighthouses and helping 'conserve' the towers. Captain Angus befriends the children and takes them on virtual reality trips via a magic time tunnel. Together, they experience sailing on an old sailor's vessel, see a shipwreck rescue, witness the tower being built, and even meet one of their own ancestors! GENRE: Mid-grade…
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Different Blood by Margaret L. Carter

Different blood flows in their veins--but our blood quenches their thirst. From Bram Stoker's 1897 creation of Count Dracula, portrayed as a foreign invader bent on the conquest of England, the literary vampire has symbolized the Other, whether his or her otherness arises from racial, ethnic, sexual, or species difference. Even before the bloodsucking Martians of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, however, popular fiction contained a few vampires who were members of alien species rather than supernatural undead. Even…
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Hello Again by Deborah Nolan

Are we more than the roles we're expected--or even willingly--to fill?   In her forties, Cassie McBride has come to the realization that she lost herself in marriage and trying to be a good mother to her two children, both now in college. While she loved her job as a family court lawyer, she can no longer separate what made her happy and what she did because she believed she was supposed to in order to be fulfilled.   After…
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Kadesh, A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Max Overton

Holding the key to strategic military advantage, Kadesh is a jewel city that distant lands covet. Ramesses II of Egypt and Muwatalli II of Hatti believe they're chosen by the gods to claim ascendancy to Kadesh. When the two meet in the largest chariot battle ever fought, not just the fate of empires will be decided but also the lives of citizens helplessly caught up in the greedy ambition of kings. Genre: Historical: Ancient Egypt      Word Count: 90,…
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Who Wants Tyler Dead? By Frances Evlin

Marielle Jones has been hired to drive 8-year-old Tyler, his 10-year-old sister and their maternal grandmother on a camping trip across Oregon. When Tyler claims someone pushed him into the river, Marielle refuses to believe him. But, later, the party is shot at, and Marielle realizes something scary is going on. Is it possible someone wants an eight-year-old kid dead? Why? In the musty, dank corridors of an historic old military fort, astonishing answers emerge. Genre: Cozy Mystery     Word…
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Uncle Billy’s Chicken Hut and Salvation Emporium by Jeffrey G. Roberts

    Uncle Billy's Chicken Hut and Salvation Emporium   West of the bustling metropolis of Phoenix, along Interstate Highway 10, is the magnificent and mystical desolation of the mountains of Southwestern Arizona. It is as alien as the planet Mars, and just as foreboding. Yet, hidden away between the peaks and valleys and desert vistas, is a most incongruous edifice - part diner, part carnival atmosphere, with equal measure of whimsy, and just a smidge of nightmare. And it…
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Easter Fires by JP Rakov

Kat Dueschner is determined to be the opposite of her heavenly-minded mother. She wants to be an adventurer rather than a nurturing mom and, as a result, Kat frequently gets into mischief. Joining her companion, Juan, on a night-time adventure to build an Easter fire in the hills, Kat is bit by a rattlesnake. Although her mother is leery of entering the forest, she rescues her daughter only to befall her own tragedy. The situation makes such an impression on…
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Love Storm By Beryl Trebble

Kris Kastell, a widow, wants to leave the manipulative world of racing driving far behind her. When a wealthy entrepreneur and father of a young daughter advertises for a caretaker for his child and household, Kris is persuaded to take the position despite deep misgivings about her future employer's abrasive demeanor and his brittle Portuguese girlfriend. Soon Kris is a popular, efficient hostess at Raoul Metier's country home. Despite her growing bond with Metier's only child, she finds herself at…
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Mirror, Mirror by Dalziel Laing

Inspector Georgina Borg's life is an emotional rollercoaster. She's deeply in love with Professor Richard Thompson yet can't get herself to commit to a permanent relationship--a puzzle even she can't explain adequately. At work, she's in charge of a case pursuing a serial killer who's remained a mystery for ten long years. She's followed his distinctive but maddeningly elusive trail from Sydney to Melbourne. Now suddenly the killer targets a victim with an entirely new profile. Despite the change in…
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Love and War by Kristin Rodgers

Edie Stephens believes she's happy with her own fabulous apartment, a good job, friends and family who love her, and a dedicated boyfriend. But hidden beneath the facade of a perfect life is a smothered past filled with lost love, regret, and shameful secrets she ran away from but can never truly escape. Edie's carefully ordered world is thrown into upheaval when she unexpectedly runs into the unvanquished ghost from her past. After years of burying all the things she…
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And the Lucky Winner Is… by Cathan Shoniker

      Prologue   Thank heavens. Only two more rooms to clean and she'd be finished for the day. The hallway outside suite #246 of the Sand Castle hotel was silent. "Housekeeping," Hanna called out. She picked up an empty champagne bottle and the remnants of a late-night dinner from the silver tray left near the door. "Housekeeping," she called once more. No answer. The young Asian maid pulled her heavy cart closer, opened the door and brought in…
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Catch Me If You Can by Margaret Pearce

  Chapter 1   The Bolton Road Fundraising Concert Janet Hopkins, draped in a tablecloth, long raffia hair secured under her chin with elastic, clung dramatically to the potted palm, as the water from the hose tried to sweep her across the chook shed. The other special effect was Billy Williams drumming away on the upturned rubbish bin. The movie tableau was very realistic. It was Dorothy Lamour caught in the cyclone. Nancy Edwards watched the audience with an expert…
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Stories from the Vale Series by Kathy Ann Trueman

Generations ago, ships full of refugees from a vast war accidentally blew into a narrow, sheltered harbor between the cliffs of two mountain ranges. The people called the vast and fertile valley beyond the harbor the Vale and settled there. The Vale was also home to wild animals, dragons, and magical creatures called elves...and magic.   As the years passed, humans with no actual magical talent came to be born with a Gift--a single ability. Among the Gifted, only healers…
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Killer in Pair-a-Dice by Dennis N. Griffin

Not far from the glitter of the Las Vegas Valley's world-famous adult playground, a serial rapist and murderer--the Phantom--claims his victims, seeking to inflict pain on those who remind him of the unbearable agony he's endured... Detective Steve Garneau of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is assigned as the lead investigator on the case. Working under a microscope of feminist groups and politicians alike, he pursues his elusive quarry but makes an unfortunate comment that an unscrupulous reporter overhears--and…
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3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, Volume 7: Writing Blurbs That Sizzle–And Sell! by Karen S. Wiesner

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble)   Bonus Companion Booklet for Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell! CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction {A Writer's Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationships} Bonus Companion Booklet contains all the blank worksheets, checklists, charts, exercises, and/or other aids from the main book along with detailed examples. This companion booklet is provided as a supplement, assuming readers have…
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Blind Gods by Jack Adler

  During an age when Macedonians hold sway in ancient Greece and Rome is on the ascendancy, Agis, a king of Sparta, attempts to reform the city-state before it sinks into decline. Unfortunately, helots that were conquered and kept in servitude to Spartan threaten to rebel just when improvement is at last on the horizon. GENRE: Historical Fiction (Sparta)    Word count: 68, 614 (ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and…
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Radically Real! The Quest for Authenticity by David C. Weiss

    Chapter 1 What is Radically Real?  You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand. And…