James H mayfield

FREE until June 8th, on Amazon Kindle!

For generations, medicine has carried a sacred promise: to heal, to serve, to place the well-being of others above self-interest. Yet behind the white coats and institutional prestige, something quieter and more troubling has been unfolding. Physicians are burning out, losing meaning in their work, and questioning the very profession they once considered a calling.

In The Disease of Me, R. Chris Jones, M.D. examines the growing fracture between modern healthcare systems and the inner lives of the doctors working within them. Drawing from over two decades in medicine - including leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones explores how technological expansion, corporate employment models, staffing shortages, shifting cultural expectations, and regulatory pressures have reshaped what it means to practice medicine today.

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What begins as ambition slowly mutates into deception in this razor-sharp financial thriller from Chris Skinner.

Clint Davidson is brilliant, charismatic, and dangerously convincing. He understands one thing better than anyone around him: people want to believe. They want easy wealth, exclusive access, insider opportunities, and the thrill of being early to the next financial revolution. Clint gives them exactly that.

Wrapped in the seductive language of cryptocurrency, blockchain innovation, elite finance, and digital assets, his investment empire grows at terrifying speed. Billionaires, politicians, celebrities, royalty, venture capitalists, and desperate dreamers all circle the same illusion, each convinced they are too intelligent to be fooled.

FREE until June 7th, on Amazon Kindle!

Interdependent Agreements is a book derived from a lived practice.

Born out of real moments – resistance at the kitchen table, tears after difficult transitions, the quiet repair between a mother and her child – this book introduces a new way of relating. One that moves beyond control and compliance, and into clarity, responsibility, and mutual respect.

Kara Ann Ray offers a framework shaped by attachment theory, developmental psychology, and embodied awareness – but more importantly, by experience. Through stories that feel immediate and unfiltered, she explores what it actually looks like to parent in real time: when emotions are high, when patterns surface, and when the opportunity to do things differently presents itself.

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It begins like any other Tuesday morning in New York City.

Emily Lombardo, a sharp-witted, coffee-dependent twenty-eight-year-old from Queens, steps into an elevator at the World Trade Center's North Tower. She's running on too little sleep and too much of a stranger's painful story rattling around in her head. She isn't looking for anything, certainly not love. And then the doors close.

Christopher Anderson, Jr., handsome, well-dressed, smelling faintly of citrus and sea air, smiles at her with perfect white teeth and asks what floor she's going to.

She hasn't pushed a button yet.

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What does it truly mean to live a Christian life - not just for a season, but for a lifetime?

The Christian Walk: From Start to Eternity is a biblically focused guide through every stage of the believer's journey. From the defining moment of salvation to the glorious promise of eternity, this book walks alongside you through the triumphs and trials, the mountaintops and valleys that define a life surrendered to God.

Whether you are taking your first steps of faith or have been seasoned in God’s Word for decades, these pages will challenge you, encourage you, and anchor you deeply in the truth of God's Word. You will discover how to grow in grace, stand firm against spiritual warfare, deepen your prayer life, and hold fast to the eternal hope that is yours in Christ Jesus.

Every chapter is a milestone. Every page, a reminder that the God who began a good work in you is faithful - and He will complete it.

FREE until June 5th, on Amazon Kindle!

A few years ago, Chris Tarpey was standing inside a house that smelled like decades of cigarette smoke, trash piled in every corner, borrowed money stretched as thin as it could go – and he signed the contract anyway.

That decision changed everything.

Today, Easy Day Real Estate flips 60 to 70 homes a year in Eastern North Carolina and manages a rental portfolio of 100+ units. Not because of luck. Not because of a head start. Because of a plan, a process, and the willingness to take action when most people would have walked away.

Flipping to Freedom is the book Chris wishes had existed when he started – the one that tells you the whole truth about how flipping actually works. Not the TV version, where three-line math and demo days make it all look easy. The real version: the numbers you have to know, the costs nobody talks about, the mistakes that are expensive enough to end careers before they begin.

**FREE until June 4th, on Amazon Kindle!

What if the crisis of our time is not disagreement - but the slow erosion of trust?

We live in an age of instant judgment, shrinking patience, and conversations that fracture before they begin. We are more connected than ever, yet increasingly unsure of one another. Institutions strain. Relationships thin. Public life feels louder, but understanding feels harder to find.

A Slow Work of Trust begins with a quiet observation: trust rarely disappears all at once. It drifts.

FREE until June 2nd, on Amazon Kindle!

Most expatriates arrive in Papua New Guinea believing the difficult part will be the terrain, the infrastructure, or the logistics. It usually isn’t. The real challenge is communication – not vocabulary alone, but understanding how people listen, respond, disagree, avoid conflict, build trust, and protect relationships in a country unlike anywhere else in the world.

In The Tok Pisin Field Manual, Pierre Bussy writes from lived experience rather than theory. This book is a practical guide shaped by years of working alongside Papua New Guinean teams, managing projects, navigating misunderstandings and slowly learning that many workplace problems in PNG are not technical problems at all – they are communication problems.

Through clear explanations, real scenarios, cultural observations, and usable Tok Pisin, the book explores what everyday interactions in PNG actually feel like: the meaning behind silence in meetings, why “yes” does not always mean understanding, how hierarchy shapes conversations on site, and how a few words of Tok Pisin can completely change the way people respond to you.

FREE until June 2nd, on Amazon Kindle!

What if the person who has been showing up to your life every day is not actually you?

At some point most of us stopped being ourselves and started being really good at something else. The one who holds it all together. The one who keeps everyone happy. The one who achieves and performs and seeks and pleases and rebels and jokes their way through every room they walk into. We picked these up so young and wore them so long that we forgot they were ever costumes in the first place.

What if the exhaustion you feel is not because something is wrong with you. What if it is because you have been playing a character for so long you forgot there was someone underneath it.

Unwrapped is not about fixing yourself. It is about finding yourself. The version that was there before you decided it was safer to be someone else.

FREE until June 1st, on Amazon Kindle!

AI is not coming. It is already here. And it is already picking the winners.

It is in your phone. It is in your bank. It is in your hospital, your child’s classroom, your office, and the quiet rooms where the future is being decided. It writes the email while you sleep. It reads the market while you wait. It is helping someone else move faster than you, think bigger than you, and serve customers better than you. It did not knock. It did not ask. It just walked in. The time for excuses is over.

WAKE UP OR BE LEFT BEHIND is not another careful, polite book about artificial intelligence. It is a plain, honest talk with anyone who still thinks they have years to get ready. If you run a business, lead a country, teach a class, raise a child, build a company, or simply hope to have a good job tomorrow, this book is for you. The truth is hard but useful: AI will not wait for any of us to feel ready.

FREE until June 1st, on Amazon Kindle!

For families navigating the aging journey, before crisis creates chaos.

When a loved one's health begins to change, most families discover they never had the conversations that matter most. They do not know who should speak when their loved one cannot. They have not documented wishes. They are making life-altering decisions under pressure, without clarity, and too often without agreement.

Care Matters and Healthcare Power of Attorney by Stephanie Goodman gives families the framework, the language, and the practical tools to change that, before panic sets in and crisis arrives.

Drawing from decades of personal caregiving experience and real family stories, Goodman introduces the powerful concept of Golden Agreements: a structured approach to the conversations, legal documents, and shared understandings that protect everyone and create family unity when aging, illness, and decline arrive. This is not a legal handbook or a medical guide. It is a compassionate, deeply practical roadmap for the human side of aging.

FREE until May 29th, on Amazon Kindle!

Alma de Leon has spent her whole life surviving.

Surviving the gunshots outside her apartment building. Surviving the exhaustion of raising her son alone. Surviving the constant pressure of keeping a job that barely covers rent, groceries, and soccer cleats. Every day is a balancing act between fear, sacrifice, and the desperate hope that tomorrow might finally be different.

But survival has a cost.

When a violent incident shatters an ordinary morning, Alma’s fragile routine begins to unravel. At work, she’s pushed to the edge by a manager whose kindness feels unsettling. At home, memories of the man she loved refuse to stay buried. And beneath the surface of her carefully controlled life lives something darker - something rooted in trauma, grief, and secrets she has spent years trying to outrun.

FREE on May 27th, on Amazon Kindle!

My brother’s best friend ruined me in a roadside motel… and it was never supposed to leave that room.

One canceled flight. One bed. One storm that trapped us together. Levi Hawthorne is fifteen years older than me—my brother’s ride-or-die, the man I’ve secretly craved for years, even though I shouldn’t. The one my brother trusted to get me home safe. Instead, he pinned me against motel sheets and wrecked me so thoroughly I forgot every reason he was off-limits… and begged him not to stop. Now we’re back home, smiling like nothing happened, lying to my brother’s face every day. But two pink lines don’t lie. Levi Hawthorne was supposed to be my one reckless secret. This baby just blew that plan to hell.

FREE until May 24, on Amazon Kindle!

What happens after the breakthrough? After the motivation fades and real life starts testing everything you said you believed about yourself?

In The Mentality Changer 2, Kyle A. Greene returns with something deeper than inspiration. This is about movement. The kind built through discipline, heartbreak, healing, consistency, leadership, faith, and the everyday decisions nobody applauds but that shape your future anyway.

Through 24 powerful journeys, he speaks directly to the overlooked student, the exhausted parent, the dreamer stuck in transition, the leader trying to stay strong, and the person silently carrying more than anyone knows.

Inside these pages, you’ll discover lessons on legacy, mentorship, confidence, purpose, discipline, influence, and resilience. Stories like The Glow Stick Principle, Consistency Over Clout, Lead the Pack, Even If You Walk Alone, and Your Story Is Someone Else’s Survival Guide challenge readers to stop chasing temporary moments and start building lives that leave lasting impact.

FREE until May 24th, on Amazon Kindle!

What if the biggest threat to your retirement is not how much you saved… but what happens after you retire?

In Retirement Wake Up Call, Tom Jacobs challenges the traditional retirement advice millions of Americans have been told to trust for decades. Save consistently. Stay invested. Ride out the market. Hope it recovers in time.

But hope is not a retirement strategy.

After watching his own parents lose nearly half of their retirement savings during the 2008 financial crisis, Tom began asking hard questions about whether the financial system is truly designed to protect retirees when they need stability the most. What he discovered changed the direction of his career, and the conversations he now has with people preparing for retirement every day.

FREE until May 24th, on Amazon Kindle!

After the death of his blind Vietnam veteran father, Ira Latham began confronting a question that had quietly shaped his entire life:

What if the drive to become someone was never really about success at all?

Raised between silence, instability, faith, and survival, Ira spent much of his life chasing meaning through movement. Wrestling, the Marine Corps, higher education, startups, leadership, ambition, achievement. Each became another attempt to prove his worth, outrun insecurity, and build a life significant enough to justify the weight he carried.

From a childhood marked by isolation and learning struggles, to military service, global travel, entrepreneurship, spiritual collapse, and the unraveling that followed the failure of his startup during COVID, Insight of the Unseen traces the inner life of a man slowly realizing that achievement and purpose are not always the same thing.

FREE on May 20th, on Amazon Kindle!

Getting Ready for the Start 0f….Classical Concert Musings makes no claim to be a definitive, all encompassing, comprehensive review of a cross section of the major works of varied top historic classical music composers. It is exactly what the title suggests-my musings on a particular work, a particular composer, and a particular performance. It can more accurately be called a series of vignettes of one person’s thoughts about a particular work.

There are thirty-two mini-reviews. The focus is on one or more of the major works of the giants from Bach to Shostakovich.That also includes two who have in recent years gained wider recognition as classical music masters. One is Duke Ellington. The other is Florence Price.

The reviews convey my half century plus passion, love, and appreciation of the works of the old masters. Getting Ready for the Start 0f….Classical Concert Musings is my capsulized take on an evening of what has always been one of delightful listening at the concert hall.