by Merry Farmer

4.4 stars – 540 reviews

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Four years ago, Lady Cecelia Campbell fell head over heels in love with Lord Rupert Marlowe, the young Earl of Stanhope. Everybody knew they would marry and live happily ever after.

But then Rupert did the unthinkable. He took up a commission as an officer in the army and left England for a post in the Transvaal. Cecelia was left alone in England, loving, yearning, and worrying about him from a distance.

Now Rupert has returned. He is ready to take up his seat in the House of Lords, to take over the administration of the Stanhope estate from his mother, Lady Katya, and most importantly of all, to finally marry Cecelia.

Cece isn’t the same woman Rupert left behind, however. She has grown and flourished and become a woman of strength and opinion. And she’s not going to sit back and let Rupert get away with leaving her for so long. Friends to lovers turn into enemies to lovers.

But when Cece takes a stand and declares her independence in a very public way, the scandal her defiance causes blows every expectation for her future happiness with Rupert to smithereens. It also gains her an exclusive invitation to join the elite group of politically-minded women known as the May Flowers. But the May Flowers are a group of shocking, defiant, sometimes wicked women. They are a bundle of scandals waiting to happen.

Can Rupert convince the new, more powerful Cecelia to forgive him for abandoning her, and can he woo her all over again? Will the scandal of their break-up tear them apart forever, or will it make their love stronger…and hotter?

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Steam level – very spicy!

by Robert MacNeil Christie PhD

4.2 stars – 19 reviews

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With scant progress and too much regress, significant climate action is failing to materialize as tipping points toward climate and ecological collapse rapidly approach. Why has the political discourse on climate soured as carbon emissions continue to accelerate, weather events become more life threatening, and as economies continue to grow yet weaken? What can we do to stem the tide of Earth System chaos?

The answers to these urgent questions are both simple and complex. This eBook explains the basic framework for creating new and effective ways to overcome the global predicament we cannot avoid. We have no time to debate with ideological science deniers now. The best time for climate action was decades ago when climate scientists like James Hansen warned us of the emerging climate crisis; the second best time for global climate action is right now.

Despite making ‘green’ promises and setting abstract future targets, all major institutions operationally ignore the climate crisis, even as some admit there is a problem. The purpose of this Climate Manifesto is to point out why these far-reaching changes in our environment now require us to take drastic steps, not just as individuals but also as whole societies. This Climate Manifesto expresses hopeful realism at the end of the industrial era by explaining what we must do, and how to do it.

• Mobilize to regain our planet’s stability and assure our own survival by stopping our ecosystems and climate from destabilizing further by shrinking the technosphere.
• Reorganize our economies to work with Nature, not try to overpower it for profit.
• Understand the technical sources and human failures that continue to produce global threats to life and civility too. If we understand the causes, we can change the effects.
• Learn and execute strategies to build clean, just economies at human scale that support meaningful lives and wellbeing by transforming society rather than letting it collapse through indifference, panic, or denial.

Unlike victims, survivors of disasters such as being lost in the wilderness, caught in a burning building, or abandoning a sinking sailboat in a squall, accept that they have been thrust into a new reality and that they must behave accordingly. To survive the global crisis today, we must mobilize to destroy the institutions of death by creating new social formations that live in harmony with the only home we will ever have: the Earth System, Gaia.

by E T McNamara

4.2 stars – 42 reviews

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2022 Literary Titan Gold Award Winner, ”Fate’s Final Destiny” is an epic story of two life-long friends who fall in love, only to have fate tear them apart. Set during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, the story begins in Goodwell, Oklahoma. Caught up in the tidal wave of world events, they find themselves beginning new and separate lives. Never fully understanding the reasons for their separation, they find it difficult to move on. As they and their families are experiencing the life-changing events of Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific, these members of the Greatest Generation find themselves swept up by both current and future events. Whether it be the life-or-death decisions made on the battlefield or aboard a navy hospital ship, fate affects both their lives. As the two star-crossed lovers become entangled in the major events that shaped our nation’s destiny, readers will be able to go along with them on their journey through one of the most interesting periods of American History.