At B&N:
Go On, Girl, by Hillary Grossman, free
157 ratings
5-star: 46%
4-star: 31%
3-star: 16%
Executive, wife, and mother of an outgoing first-grader, Sydney Clayton crushes her day-to-day obligations at work but flounders in the cutthroat world of parental politics.
She manages to avoid the local drama until she's faced with an ultimatum: join the Forest River PTA or risk her daughter becoming a social outcast. Sydney reluctantly becomes treasurer, and takes the recently vacated position of the president's sidekick. If protecting the children's freedom of speech, one best friend ban at a time, isn't complicated enough, Sydney and her husband receive an unexpected offer for their house they don't think they can refuse.
Embroiled in the deception and manipulation rife among the elementary school moms, Sydney struggles. Should she sell the home she worked so hard to build in a town where betrayal runs rampant? Or should she stay put to avoid the fallout from uprooting her child? As Sydney focuses on what is best for her daughter, and lets go of her judgments, she finds friendship can develop in very unexpected ways.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/go-on-girl-hilary-grossman/1129700396?ean=2940162226369
At Amazon:
$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No, by Alex Hormozi, $0.99
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992 ratings
5-star: 99%
4-star: 1%
3-star: 0%
[This looks too good to be true. I haven't read it yet, but it was only 99 cents.]
Description from Amazon.com: I took home more in a year than the CEOs of McDonalds, IKEA, Ford, Motorola, and Yahoo….combined….as a kid in my twenties….using the $100M Offer method. It works. And it will work for you.
Not that long ago though, my business had gotten so bad that I literally couldn’t even give my services away for free. At the end of each month, I would look at my bank account hoping to see progress (but there wasn’t). I knew something had to change...but what?
Over the next 48 months, I went from losing money to making $36 for every $1 spent. In that time period, we generated over $120,000,000 across four different industries: service, ecommerce, software, and brick & mortar.
But, unlike everyone else, we didn’t have great funnels, great ads, or a wealthy niche. In fact, we didn’t even send emails until we had crossed $50M in sales(!). Instead, we were able to do this one thing really well….we created offers so good, people felt stupid saying no.
Here’s exactly what this book will show you how to do:
How To Charge A Lot More Than You Currently Are…
a. The Tiny Market Big Money Process we use to laser focus on niche markets overflowing with cash
b. The “Unfair” Pricing formula….how we 100x’d our pricing (and got more people to say yes….for real)
c. The Value Flip...so you never get price compared again (that’s a promise)
d. The Virtuous Cycle of Price...use it to outspend your competition (for good) while using your product to attract the best talent.
How To Make Your Product So Good, Prospects Find A Way To Pay For It
e. The Unbeatable Value Equation….to make what you sell worth more than your prospects have ever received
f. The Delivery Cube….to make delivering your products and services cost less but provide more
g. The Trim & Stack Hack….to maximize profit using the absolute best delivery methods. (This has never been shared publicly and was how we made $17M in profit on $28M in revenue in a year when I was 28 years old).
How To Enhance Your Offer So Much, Prospects Buy Without Hesitating
h. The Scarcity Stack….how to use the three different types of scarcity in every offer you make (without lying) to get people to buy the moment you ask
i. The “Everyday” Urgency Blueprint... to get prospects to buy RIGHT NOW, using everyday life to create real, ethical time pressure
j. Unbeatable Bonuses...and watch your prospects' hesitations melt away as they begin reading their credit cards to you before you even finish!
k. God-mode Guarantees...so good they make anyone say yes (even people who would never normally consider buying). I’ll show you how to stack and layer all 4 types of guarantees together. I even give you my 13 favorite guarantees word-for-word to swipe for yourself.
l. Magic Naming Formula to get the absolute highest response rates and conversion rates from everything you do to get new clients
And so much more…
The methods contained within this book are so simple, so instantaneous, and so effective, it’s as if they work by magic. If you implement even one tactic in this book, you’ll see the change in your prospects' demeanor. And you’ll know the $100M Offer method worked when you start hearing “What do I need to do to move forward?” ...before you even ask for the sale.
https://www.amazon.com/100M-Offers-People-Stupid-Saying-ebook/dp/B099QVG1H8/
The Locked Door, by Freida McFadden, $2.99
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4,060 ratings
5-star: 60%
4-star: 29%
3-star: 8%
Some doors are locked for a reason…
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.
Until the day the police arrived at their front door.
Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way.
Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.
Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her.
As long as they don’t look in her basement.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092RXXJDM/
Go West, Young Man, by William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, $1.99
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500 ratings
5-star: 63%
4-star: 25%
3-star: 8%
Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first—and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmett Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail. The journey will be long and hard. The physical hardships and grueling mental challenges will bring out the best in some—and the worst in others. But with the guidance of an experienced wagon master and scout, they are determined to reach their destiny, no matter how high the cost . . .
Twenty-seven wagons. Twenty-seven different hopes and dreams.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08F2Y1X4Z/
Grizzly Killer: The Making of a Mountain Man, by Lane R. Warenski $0.99
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818 ratings
5-star: 70%
4-star: 21%
3-star: 6%
He went to the mountains in search of adventure. What he got was a struggle to survive.
Zach Connors followed his father into the Utah wilderness in search of furs and fortune. But after a vicious bear attack leaves him orphaned, he can either learn to survive on his own or become nature's next victim…
With the help of a wounded Ute warrior and a spirited canine, Zach fights for life as the bitter-cold winds close in. Together, the unlikely trio joins forces against hostile natives and ravenous predators. But Zach never expected that amongst the uncharted wilds, he'd find the opportunity for love…
Can Zach stake his claim in a treacherous world or is he destined for a frozen grave?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU9WQYO/
[There are 12 other books in this series. The ebooks are all $2.99, but I don't know if that is a sale or the regular price.]
Killer’s Choice (87th Precinct Book 5), by Ed McBain, $0.24
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361 ratings
5-star: 49%
4-star: 31%
3-star: 15%
Annie Boone is dead. She was shot four times in the chest, pieces of the liquor store’s windows spread over her body like raindrops from a lethal storm. For 87th Precinct Detectives Carella, Kling, and newcomer Hawes, even more troubling is the loss of one of their own. Detective Roger Havilland is murdered shortly thereafter, a shard of glass through his jugular.
Faced with a host of suspects—from Annie’s former mother-in-law to her ex-husband, employer, and a string of boyfriends—the detectives find themselves with a victim whose identity spurns all conventional definition. She was the store’s saleswoman…as well as a divorced mother, pool shark, society lady, drunk, and patron of the ballet. Each facet of her life has a corresponding potential suspect. The only way for Carella and the men to find her killer—and maybe that of Havilland, too—is to find out who she really was. The problem is, the only one who really knew her died in a shower of glass.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005WZZRQU
The Empty Hours (87th Precinct Book 15), by Ed McBain, $0.99
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121 ratings
5-star: 52%
4-star: 27%
3-star: 14%
Three different stories, one prolific author.
She was young and wealthy…and now she’s dead. With only a name and a pile of cancelled checks to go on, Detective Steve Carella has his work cut out for him in finding her killer. But he’s in for a shocking surprise when the checks lead to more than just murder in The Empty Hours.
In “J,” Passover is supposed to be a day of celebration. This year, however, it is a day of murder when the rabbi is found stabbed to death, and the only evidence is a “J” painted on the synagogue’s wall. A local anti-Semite is assumed to be the perpetrator, but if Detective Carella thinks the case is going to be that easy he’s got another thing coming.
A ski vacation with a beautiful blonde is just what the doctor ordered for Detective Cotton Hawes in “Storm”…until he stumbles upon the body of a young woman beneath the crystalline snow. And with the local cops bungling the investigation, Hawes is on the clock to find a mountainside killer before he strikes again.
https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Hours-87th-Precinct-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B005WZZSUU/
Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here! (87th Precinct Book 25), by Ed McBain, $1.66
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93 ratings
5-star: 47%
4-star: 38%
3-star: 13%
At midnight, one day dies as another comes to life. For the men of the 87th Precinct, they all bleed together in a never-ending cycle of crime and punishment. But every now and then, a day stands out as more unusual than the others. This is one of those days.
Carella and Hawes investigate a murder; Kling delves into a store-front church bombing; Meyer checks out a house haunted by larcenous ghosts; Willis and Genero look into a naked hippie’s four-story death fall; Delgado takes an assault case in the Puerto Rican barrio; and Kapek hunts a man and woman mugging team. But when a gunman kills a grocer and shoots Parker twice, the rules of the game quickly change. With Parker’s life hanging in the balance, the detectives of the 87th will stop at nothing to get their man.
For the first time, bestselling author Ed McBain puts all of his characters into one supercharged installment of the 87th Precinct series.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005WZZTX6
[There are over 50 books in this series. The Kindle versions of dozens of these are $2.99.]
Daughter of the Antediluvian World: An Atlantis Origin Story, by A. L. Hooke, $0.99
7 ratings
5-star: 81%
4-star: 19%
3-star: 0%
The key to the survival of an entire race lies in her genes, and she doesn’t know it.
Ryan Jones is a gifted archeologist plagued by questions about her past and lucid dreams about Atlantis, the ancient civilization lost to history. When a mysterious gift arrives from her long-dead parents, Ryan abandons the stable life she has fought to create to cross the globe in search of answers. Fierce secrecy is literally in her DNA, but she must place her trust in strangers and her unique abilities to find her way home.
Her quest leads her deep into the heart of darkness, where the centuries-long search for the lost city finally ends. There, she finds that the secrets hidden in her genetic code could save an entire race from the brink of extinction – but there is a cost.
Ryan must choose between her past and her future, her family and the man she loves, and the next great leap in evolution or the destruction of the human race.
https://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Antediluvian-World-Atlantis-Origin-ebook/dp/B09FY8THR1/
Free books recently released by Project Gutenberg ( gutenberg.org ):
Roses: by Henry C. Andrews
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66266
Star Book No. 220: Babies Are Such Fun to Dress (knit and crochet patterns for babies), by Anonymous
Dr. Drew interviewed Scott Adams recently, and Scott Adams mentioned the absurdity that Republicans went to overthrow the government on Jan 6, but they neglected to bring their guns. On the first or second anniversary of the event, that alleged oversight made the narrative appear absurd to me, so I made a "video" that was supposed to be audio from January 6, captured on a video camera from which the lens cap had not been removed. I'm posting it again just because.
While I was waiting on hold to talk with a human at the IRS, I decided to put some food out for the dogs. I set the full bag of dog food on a chair, and walked away to get the bowls. When I turned around I saw the bag slowly tipping over, spilling much of its contents onto the floor. Fortunately I had help cleaning it up.
The main task for today is to begin revising McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader. It may take a couple of weeks, possibly more. I still have to work at Publix, and next week I start a new job in the memory care unit of a rehab/nursing home facility, and I'll also be working at Publix at least one night.
After that I'll take a look at the double-slit experiment, and see if there is an interpretation that is consistent with my theory of wave physics.
Also, I came across the attached meme, which I had created two or three years (or so) ago. I thought I'd include it because I still like it.
I recently proposed a theory of matter and energy called Wave Physics. In this theory, the only things in the universe are energy and the universal membrane, which is the medium through which all energy is transfered and stored.
Tonight I realized that according to this theory, everyone and everything in the universe are connected to each other at all times. Things that would be impossible according to the standard model of particle physics, are very possible in the universe of wave physics. Psychic transmissions and the power of prayer are physically possible and make sense if the universe works in any way like the theory I proposed.
If you've ever heard the phone ring and felt sure who it was before answering it, and were proven correct, this makes sense in wave physics, but not with particle physics. If you've ever looked intently at someone, and had that person quickly turn and look directly at you (I have), that phenomenon makes sense if all of us are parts of the same vast, ...
I was only scheduled to work three days this week, so I decided to work on a theory I'd been playing around with for fun over the last few years. I'd never been a big fan of the standard model of particle physics, so a few years ago, just for fun, I thought about exploring some alternate ideas, with zero training and zero experiments.
This week I wrapped up a few loose ends, and posted it to a community I created called Wave Physics. Originally I had called it Alternative Physics, but I changed my mind, so the link still has alternativephysics in it, but the community name is Wave Physics. I'd love for people to pay $5.00 a month to tell me how wrong I am.
https://alternativephysics.locals.com/
I also posted it on my personal website:
