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When one credulous young country boy with lofty plans leaves his Mexican rural life for the promise and riches of the ‘big city’, will it live up to its reputation? In a unique fusion of fact and fiction, D. Grant Fitter’s debut novel gives a rare insight into life south of the border, recapturing the golden era of one of the world’s most eclectic cities.

Since Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act in 1958, the United States has led Earth’s exploration of space. From winning the Space Race to first reaching Mars, the Government’s long history of supporting the Space Program is envied around the world. However, with the Shuttle Program complete and NASA turning their funds towards the private sector, many are concerned about the future of space exploration.

The statistics from Kaufmann Foundation are grim to say the least; with 95% of businesses failing within their first five years. Many who have fallen victim to this number cite their lack of information and preparation as a major cause in their company’s failure. However, a compelling new book by a renowned U.S. business consultant could be the definitive answer to reversing the statistics for good.

Popular novelist Kris Radish transports her legion of readers to the lush, sometimes dangerous, and always captivating scrub country of Central Florida with the same emotional depth, sense of humor, and lust for life that has helped her carve out her own genre, "Broads Who Have Been There." Her ninth novel, A Grand Day to Get Lost, explores new emotional and physical territory as Radish resurrects a literary icon, uncovers a secret world of writers, pours a few glasses of whiskey and introduces a group of characters you will not soon forget. A wrong turn down a remote Florida backwoods highway turns into the ride of a lifetime for Emily Weaver, a university librarian, when she mysteriously discovers a manuscript written by Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, dated years after the beloved author's death. Emily unwittingly begins a treasure hunt in a world that is as beautiful as it is dangerous, and it is a hunt that could not only change her life, but the landscape of the entire literary world. Is it really possible that the renowned author of The Yearling faked her own death in 1953?

Tourists looking to get off the beaten track in Turkey and explore in detail the unspoiled Bodrum Peninsula can now download a brand new ebook giving a full and comprehensive overview of this much loved but lesser known area.

M.O Ward (Buddy) and Judy K. Ward have an ingenious analogy to represent their new personal finance book. Using the image of a jig saw puzzle and comparing it to people’s feelings about their money, they illustrate the overwhelming confusion and frustration many feel in trying to put together their financial picture to the difficulty you would have if you tried to put together a jig saw puzzle without having any straight edge pieces to frame the puzzle or without having a box cover picture to guide you in connecting the pieces. It’s an entirely-serious comparison to the financial illiteracy that is crippling the United States with no end in sight.

While paintings and movies showcase the torrent of men who put their lives on the line during the Civil War, few recognize and tell the story of the four hundred women who fought as men on both sides of the conflict. One hundred and fifty years later, author Whitney Elizabeth Hamilton is bringing this little-told story out of the dark and into the public’s spotlight.

If anybody knows TV/film production and direction inside out, it is New Orleans’ George R. Blow. With heaps of writing experience and an extensive background with the nation’s third-largest communications corporation, his skills have been uniquely fused for the publication of his latest novel.

From the New World Order to Israel’s supposedly special treatment by God; a number of long-standing doctrines are of constant debate and confusion to the Christian world. In his latest book, LaFenus Jennings both explains and exposes a myriad of such beliefs.

In 2005 Barry Adkins became the recipient of the worst news any parent could receive; the death of his child. Alcohol poisoning took the life of his eighteen year-old son, Kevin, after an evening of binge drinking, on the very night he had moved out on his own.