Little Elara: The Magic of the Butterfly Garden

 

 

Little Elara:

The Magic of the Butterfly Garden

Little Elara has been watching the butterflies. They visit hundreds of flowers, but they do not land on every one. In The Magic of the Butterfly Garden, Little Elara discovers her own Butterfly Feeling: a moment to listen to herself before making a choice. A gentle story about kindness, friendship and learning that caring about others does not mean forgetting yourself. For the mother reading beside her, there may be a few words she wishes someone had read to her years ago. Book Two in the Little Elara Series Following Little Elara: A Story for Brave Little Hearts

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Murder at the Shore

  

Murder at the Shore

Robert Louis Rodgers

2nd Edition – Now Available (2026)

Windemere Bay is a peaceful summer resort at the New Jersey Shore, where families return year after year for sun, swimming, and relaxation. For twenty-year-old college student Alex Rhodes, it’s supposed to be the perfect escape—lazy beach days with friends, a summer job at the local supermarket, and the hope of finally asking out Grace, the new cashier who catches his eye. Then the notes appear. On the Fourth of July, identical typed messages turn up in every mailbox: “SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE TONIGHT.” Most people laugh it off as a sick prank. Until the assistant groundskeeper is found floating lifeless in the resort pool the next morning. The police rule it an accident. Alex isn’t convinced. When a second body turns up—and then a third—the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. As more cryptic warnings appear, the idyllic resort begins to feel like a trap, and Alex realizes someone at Windemere Bay may be hiding a deadly secret. With the body count rising, Alex and his tight circle of friends race to uncover the truth before another life is taken. In a close-knit summer community where everyone knows your name, the killer could be anyone. Murder at the Shore is an atmospheric whodunit blending small-town secrets, summer nostalgia, amateur sleuthing, and escalating danger along the Jersey Shore. The first book in the Windemere Bay Mysteries series. This 2nd Edition features smoother pacing, a revised ending, updated formatting, and a new cover. Available now—because some notes you can’t ignore.

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Necromancers Don't Read Toe Tags

 

Necromancers Don't Read Toe Tags

A Supernatural Dark Comedy by Thomas L. Vaultonburg

In Rookford, Illinois, the dead aren't the only ones keeping secrets. Thomas L. Vaultonburg's Necromancers Don't Read Toe Tags is a darkly comic supernatural novel combining occult mystery, institutional corruption, social satire, and the peculiar absurdities of life in the American Midwest. Kitten Killswitch arrives from Chicago's industrial music scene with a past she'd rather forget. At The Collective, Juniper Michaels turns charitable work into public sainthood, while cultural director Nancy McConaughey discovers that protecting an arts community can mean protecting the very people who threaten it. As reputations are manufactured and uncomfortable truths disappear, Elias Mort and Janelle Montclair pursue unfinished accounts through a city where influence reaches far beyond the gallery walls. Belial feeds on disorder, the dead resist convenient explanations, and justice comes with consequences nobody particularly wants to face. Funny, unsettling, irreverent, and occasionally tender, Necromancers Don't Read Toe Tags explores what happens when a community becomes more concerned with appearing virtuous than actually doing good. Newly revised for 2026, the novel has been polished and reintroduced for a new generation of readers. About the Author: Thomas L. Vaultonburg is a Rockford, Illinois-based poet, novelist, and independent publisher. He founded Zombie Logic Press, edits Zombie Logic Review, and co-founded Wolf Twin Books. His writing encompasses supernatural fiction, poetry, haiku, literary criticism, and Midwestern cultural history. Learn more about the author and his work at Zombie Logic Press.

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IOH: GODCODE

If memory can be rewritten, evidence can be erased, and death is no longer final, who controls the truth?

After twenty years frozen in digital darkness, Algus awakens inside the System—a quantum civilization where consciousness survives death. He has a new body, fractured memories, and no idea why he was hidden for two decades. Then he learns that Agrom City is gone. Fifty million people vanished with it, including the daughter whose face survives only in fragments.

To uncover what happened, Algus must descend into Deepweb cities, reunite a hacker team broken by distrust, and follow evidence leading through artificial intelligence, corporate empires, and a cyberwar born in the physical world. But every answer raises a more dangerous question: who destroyed Agrom—and why did someone wait twenty years to wake him?

GODCODE is Book One of the IOH trilogy—a cinematic cyberpunk mystery thriller set in a corporate dystopian future where a body can be replaced, a life can be priced, and the promise of eternity belongs to those who control the machinery.

What begins as a memory loss mystery opens into an artificial intelligence conspiracy that binds a father's grief to the fate of millions. Algus needs the people he once trusted, but their secrets could make the truth harder to bear than his missing memories.

Blending digital consciousness science fiction with the urgency of a hacker cyberwar thriller, GODCODE explores a digital immortality dystopia where survival offers no guarantee of freedom. To challenge its rulers, Algus must confront the cost of their power—and the choices he is willing to make to bring them down.

Enter the System but do not trust any of your memories.

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Set the Tone

   

Set the Tone

Belief without accountability goes soft. Accountability without belief breaks people. Great leaders do both. The workforce has changed. A new generation walked onto the floor carrying different expectations, and many are doing it in the middle of a workplace mental health crisis. The old playbook of pressure and fear no longer builds loyal teams. Neither does being everyone's friend. Set the Tone is a leadership book for restaurant managers, retail leaders, shift leads, and owners who want teams that care and deliver. Hospitality leadership coach Clay David Laugier draws on more than 20 years on the floor, verified research, and two unlikely coaches from television to show how belief and accountability work together. Inside, you'll learn: • The Ted Lasso Effect: how belief and curiosity build people who coach each other • The Shoresy Standard: how to hold a high bar without breaking your team • The Assist Standard: how to reward the people who make everyone else better • The Whole Roster Principle: why every person on your team brings strengths and opportunities, not weaknesses Every chapter ends with a Try This on Tuesday action you can use on your next shift, along with research sidebars that show the science behind the method. It reads as clearly for a new shift lead as it does for an owner. Set the Tone is Book Two of The Coaching Playbook For Modern Times series, following The Coaching Playbook: Lead with Heart. Coach with Clarity.

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leading gen z employees at work, hospitality leadership book for managers, accountability and positive team culture, workplace mental health for managers, restaurant and retail team leadership, how to build a winning team culture, sports coaching lessons for business leaders

Dying to Serve: Confessions of Suicides (Attempted/Completed) Within Our Military Ranks

   

Dying to Serve:

Confessions of Suicides (Attempted/Completed)

Within Our Military Ranks

Dying to Serve is a candid compilation of twelve moving stories written to honor the memories of United States service members who were facing dire circumstances and chose to take their own lives (attempted or completed). Many of these circumstances were temporary issues that could be mitigated with the right assistance provided. The purpose of sharing these stories and the author's CARE paradigm is to help eliminate these tragedies in the future. CARE stands for Concern, Awareness, Referral and Evaluate, and it reflects a well-reasoned and thoughtful approach to the mental health crisis occurring in both military and civilian populations. This must-read book encourages us all to remain vigilant, act, when necessary to truly help CARE for each other and potentially save lives!

TUCSON, AZ — September 2026 — Local writer N.K. Stephens announces the release of his impactful book; Dying to Serve: Confessions of Suicides (Attempted/Completed) Within Our Military Ranks, available worldwide today. 12 short stories depicting situations that forced some military members to make a decision that impacted their branch of service, themselves, families and friends.

Drawing from a 28-year military career, N.K. Stephens crafts a compilation of compelling stories to ultimately raise awareness about a crisis impacting our military. A crisis seldom discussed outside those who serve. The stories are creative, entertaining and thought-provoking. Readers will connect with the characters and their circumstances. Not every story ends tragically, however each story ends with the same decision. The author uses an acronym: CARE, to strike a chord with readers leaving them to answer questions on how they could potentially help someone contemplating suicide and possibly save a life!  

Dying to Serve is an independent release targeting military members, families, friends, acquaintances and civilians with no military ties at all.  This book is to raise awareness on a subject that many might initially be hesitant to read about. In the end the reader is encouraged by the author to take a moment and recognize using CARE could eliminate this crisis altogether!

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Operational Integrity in Action: A Plant Turnaround Story Using the 3P Diagnostic System (Operational Integrity Series Book 2)

 

 

Operational Integrity in Action:

A Plant Turnaround Story Using the 3P Diagnostic System (Operational Integrity Series Book 2)

Operational Integrity in Action: A Plant Turnaround Story Using the 3P Diagnostic System takes readers inside a struggling manufacturing plant where safety concerns, recurring defects, rework, missed schedules, downtime, weak handoffs, and low morale have become part of daily operations. When Plant Manager Daniel Mercer steps into Ridgeway Trailer Manufacturing, he quickly sees that the problems are not isolated. They are connected symptoms of a deeper operating-system failure. Using the principles of the 3P Diagnostic System — People, Process, and Product — Daniel begins looking beyond blame, workarounds, and familiar explanations to uncover the structural conditions allowing problems to repeat. Through realistic shop-floor situations, leadership challenges, and a developing plant turnaround, readers see how concepts from Operational Integrity Code can be applied to: - Identify Hidden Failure Nodes - Challenge the Reality Filter - Reduce recurring defects, rework, and operational firefighting - Improve process stability and accountability - Strengthen safety and quality at the source - Restore productive flow without relying on constant pressure or heroics - Build lasting operational discipline through Structural Recode - Lead with Safety First, Quality Second, Productivity Last Written for plant managers, operations managers, production leaders, supervisors, quality professionals, maintenance leaders, safety professionals, Lean practitioners, and continuous improvement professionals, Operational Integrity in Action combines manufacturing leadership with a practical plant-turnaround story. If you work in manufacturing and have ever asked why the same problems keep returning even after corrective actions, meetings, retraining, and increased oversight, this book offers a different way to look at the operation. Stop chasing symptoms. Start understanding the system behind them. Operational Integrity in Action shows how manufacturing leaders can move from reaction to diagnosis, from workarounds to structure, and from temporary improvement to sustainable operational integrity.

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