Start the Year off right!

January 15, 2020

The New Year brings with it the chance to start again and learn from mistakes. It's a great time to reflect and think about the year ahead. No matter what your plans for the 2020 are, reading inspiring books can help you to start the year off on the right foot.

Turn the page, reinvent yourself, find inner peace, accomplish your dreams and keep the good things going, you have 12 new chapters and 366 new opportunities.

 

 

 
1 Come Smile With Me

Come Smile With Me

Peter Thwaites | Biography

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The book is a short inspirational tale of the adventures and experiences of a polio survivor from the early 1950's. The book is full of amusing anecdotes exploring the first 50 years of his eventful, and certainly not boring life. This is living life to the full in spite of a disability. Peter was unfortunate to be one of the millions world wide who became infected by Polio in the early 1950's. Peter was initially totally paralyzed by the illness and in spite of his doctors reporting that he would never walk again, and probably not sit up, has gone on to live a very full life. Peter is partially disabled but this has not stopped him from participating in a wide range of activities.

2 The Music Box

The Music Box

Joana A Park | Romance

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It's been said that when you truly love someone, it's eternal. This beautiful love story is about 2 people who experienced the extraordinary. A lifetime of hope & everlasting love for each other. Even though they've never met. Inspired by EXO's SUHO (Kim JunMyeon).

3 Catching A Miracle

Catching A Miracle

Mark J. Spinicelli | Mystery

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Catching A Miracle is an inspirational novel about the will of the human spirit to seek answers to the unanswerable. Get ready to be immersed in this non-stop thriller. Download free the whole book of Catching A Miracle today!

4 100 Dates and a Wedding

100 Dates and a Wedding

Steph F. Tumba | Romance

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100 Dates & a Wedding narrates Valérie’s dating experiences in London and shares the lessons she learnt from them. She narrates the worst of her dating experiences London offered and the lessons she learnt from them. She shares without concession, her disillusionment, her joys, and her own ambiguities without concession.100 Dates & a Wedding is a romantic Frenglish (mix of French and English) journal which will make your heart laugh out loud; it is filled with raw emotions and evinces the garbage culture in which we live today. Beware! 100 Dates and a Wedding doesn’t bash on men, it spreads an inspirational message through Valerie’s dates: you definitely need to kiss a few frogs before getting that happy-ending story full of sparkling stars.

5 Real Faith that can Deeply Inspire You Forever

Real Faith that can Deeply Inspire You Forever

Godwin Ihagh | Self-Improvement

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This self-help and spiritual book explains and teaches readers how to develop their "mind power"--what the book calls "faith". General orientation is given on the topic of faith, and a lesson is provided on how to start developing strong faith immediately. The book is for everybody from any religion, race or background. Its aim is to strengthen the faith of people who acquired or inherited an unproductive and less powerful form of belief as a result of growing up in a certain type of family, or associating with a certain type of people. Generally, the book will teach readers how to pamper their faith, guide, and control it so that they can have almost anything they desire; in addition, it will educate readers on how to free their minds of worries and doubts.

6 Gemini Joe, Memoirs of Brooklyn

Gemini Joe, Memoirs of Brooklyn

Janet Sierzant | Biography

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The runt of the litter, Gemini Joe is no stranger to tears. His life is a story: following the Great Depression and his parents struggle to provide for his family. Survival in his powerful, sometimes cruel family was not easy. Although he remembers with affection and occasional humor the holidays, his childhood friends, his mother and grandmother, his tough, bullying brothers and indifferent sister, his family was too much for him. He found acceptance in a bottle of scotch. Health issues beginning at birth and compounded by an addiction to cigarettes from the age of seven. In the end, he managed to conquer his addictions, but was it too late? Gemini Joe’s childhood memories inspire sorrow, anger, sympathy, horror, and amusement. As an adult, he inspires forgiveness for the mistakes he made

7 Like Raindrops on Water: A Love Letter to the World

Like Raindrops on Water: A Love Letter to the World

Jann DiPaolo | Fiction

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Like Raindrops on Water wrote itself. Many of the characters and ideas arrived during Ayahuasca ceremonies. The story line arrived while working with the sacred Andean coca leaves, and the jungle adventure was delivered by the magic of the Peruvian Amazon which breathes inspiration with every gust of air. It is a story about Jonathan, a young man with a fascination for how things were, before the world changed and his friend Molly, who at 105 is a constant source of information for him. Through their friendship and adventures, we see an alternative view of how things could be. We look at a new future of the world with a unique, optimistic and topical vision. Asking the big questions and outlining answers; how can we fix our world, how can this happen, and will the changes be enough?

8 Who Waits For Love?

Who Waits For Love?

Kelsey Park | Romance

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For Zara, single life was a nightmare. She never thought she'd find her one. Little did she know that her short vacation to Pohang would make her a very popular girl thanks to MinSeok, who would flip her world upside down. Book 5 from the XO Book Series. Written by Kelsey Park inspired by Xiumin of EXO.

9 How to Be Happy and Live in Abundance

How to Be Happy and Live in Abundance

Jiri Majkus | Self-Improvement

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Download this FREE e-Book by Jiri Majkus (in collaboration with Bob Proctor Business Associate, Jeremy D. Brown), and discover the authors' inspirational step-by-step method that will enable you to take charge and improve your business, life, and destiny. Download it today!

10 Searching for Sara

Searching for Sara

Nona M. King | Romance

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Sara Little has ached to live in America. But being born of a single mother in London’s working class, she could only dream. Then, scrawled in hasty intensity, Sara receives an invitation to America. Drawn to the possibility of a new beginning, she follows God’s whisper and steps forward into the unknown. But more awaits than the realization of her dreams. Sara’s benefactor is a handsome widower Christopher Lake, a philanthropist dedicated to helping the less fortunate redefine their future. Though devastated by the loss of his wife, he dedicates himself to her last request: To provide Sara the means for a brighter future. Sara’s gift of art inspires Christopher’s sponsorship, and he is determined to protect her gentle heart while propelling her into artistic society. Even...

11 Beginning at the End

Beginning at the End

Nicole Duffeck | Romance

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Everyone has had bad days, but when Ella’s entire world is shattered--first by the unexpected death of her father; and then by the revelation that her husband has been cheating on her, her bad day nearly becomes her last. Standing on the brink of suicide, a sudden moment of inspiration causes her to realize that she still wants something out of this life. Following a childhood dream, she moves to England to live with her odd-couple grandparents. Her well-intending grandmother (Nan) had taken it upon herself to gain Ella the consideration of employment at the law firm of a Gavin Malon, whom Ella soon learns is a “glacier beneath a Gucci”. Download this FREE e-Book today!

12 Being Positive in a Negative World: Doughnuts of Inspiration

Being Positive in a Negative World: Doughnuts of Inspiration

Sy Tshabalala | Self-Improvement

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A dynamite needs a spark to explode, a space shuttle needs a rocket to reach the moon and human beings need inspiration to do exploits. In the book, Doughnuts of Inspiration, the author shares with the reader doughnuts of inspiration filled with a poetic cream. Doughnuts that are meant to strengthen, challenge and inspire the reader into rising against the odds. After all being alive means one is still in the realm of hope and faith and possibilities.

13 Viva La Vida

Viva La Vida

Shubham Singh | Youth

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An inspiring story for all those who think that giving up dreams is an easy way to escape from problems! Meet Caroline, an ever smiley teen who motivates her best friend Alex to achieve that world can never imagine!

14 Fearless Flying

Fearless Flying

Karen Gordon | Romance

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An inspiring, hilariously-fierce chick lit novella filled with relatable sexy, smart women on a glass-ceiling smashing journey. “Bridget Jones for the new millennium.”

15 The Prodigal Heart

The Prodigal Heart

Karen Cogan | Romance

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In this inspirational novel, Rachel thinks she has her life under control. She has succeeded in starting a business and she tells herself all her dreams have come true. But there is one dream that lies buried in her past, so painful that she tries never to think of it. She tries to erase all memory of her heart-stopping first love...Until Jonathon walks back into her life. Their love picks up where they left off. Yet, Rachel longs for a man with a strong faith in God. Does she see a desire to know God stirring in Jonathon? And if she does, can she trust him with her heart?

16 The Secret of The Cherry Blossoms

The Secret of The Cherry Blossoms

Joana A Park | Romance

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The Secret of the Cherry Blossoms is a Sweet Adventure Love Story inspired by Exo's Chanyeol, Suho & Sehun. Written by author Joana A. Park and contributing authors. Book 1 of the XO Book Series

17 Becoming a Man in the Shadowlands

Becoming a Man in the Shadowlands

Dennis N. Randall | Biography

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Never a victim and always a survivor, journey inside the mind of a child overcoming sexual abuse while navigating a pathway through the social insecurities of adolescence in a beautifully written saga about an ugly subject. It is an inspiring survival story and a book worth reading.

18 What Lies Within You: Inspirational Quotes to Lift Your Spirits

What Lies Within You: Inspirational Quotes to Lift Your Spirits

Molly Larkin | Self-Improvement

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A collection of 86 inspiring quotes to lift your spirits.