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Lost You Found Me : France Neptune
Rachel thought she and Dennis were the perfect couple. So handsome and fine, he was her first love, a dream come true, and the first boy to tell her she was beautiful. It wasn’t long before she was head over heels.
When he told her that he couldn’t live without her, it felt like fate, but Rachel hadn’t counted on Dennis’s other side.
Holding on to the hope that things would get better, Rachel stayed with him and rode the emotional roller coaster, determined to make their relationship work, until the day came when she couldn’t take it another minute. Decisions were made that put a chain of events into motion that she never would’ve imagined she’d be capable of surviving.
Girl, Be You! by France Neptune is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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7 Things You Should Know about Being a Leader : Wes Husted
This book will energize your motivation to lead, hone your skills as a leader, and inspire you to look at leadership from a new and fresh perspective.
Written in an easy-to-read style for the beginner as well as the seasoned leader, it will help you achieve your leadership goals while adding value to your organization and avoiding pitfalls along the way. If you are striving to be successful in your career, this book will help you set a course for continued success.
Wes Husted is an experienced leader recognized for his strategic business skills at the C-Suite level. Winner of the SmartCEO Top Ten CFOs in the Washington DC, Virginia, and Baltimore area, Wes is active in consulting Washington area entrepreneurs and CEOs in leading strategic growth and achieving maximum valuations at exit. Mr. Husted holds a BSBA and MBA from Regis University of Colorado. He is married and has two children, and travels extensively to conduct archaeological research for his doctoral degree. He has written three books for children: A Wonderful Day, How to Answer Kids’ Questions About God, Jesus, and the Bible, and Zach and Sprocket’s Great Adventure.
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Owenoak : L. P. Cowling
The tormented soul of a corrupt Genie. A mad-man on the cusp of world-ending power.
A magical city at the centre of the continent’s military and political power. People from all over the continent come to Owenoak to have their problems solved, more often than not, at the Guild. For within the Guild resides problem solvers. Members ranking from lowly Rank One Guildmembers, to powerful veterans dubbed Rank Six.
Owenoak follows the story of four young Guildmembers, eager to make a name for themselves as heroes of their city-state. Whilst adventuring together they will face trials of skill and cognitive ability, form friendships and rivalries, and aim to stop a would-be God from devouring the continent in fire.
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Blip : Christopher O. Clugston
Humanity’s 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment with Industrialism
What we do to enable our existence simultaneously undermines our existence…
Since the inception of our industrial revolution, we increasingly ingenious Homo sapiens have been depleting – persistently and increasingly – the finite, non-replenishing, and increasingly scarce NNRs (nonrenewable natural resources) that enable our industrialized way of life, and our very existence.
Regrettably, because the NNR utilization behavior that enables our species’ existence – and that is essential to perpetuating our existence – simultaneously undermines our existence, both our NNR utilization behavior and our resultant industrial lifestyle paradigm are unsustainable.
As a perverse consequence of our unparalleled ingenuity, we have become enmeshed in a self-inflicted, inescapable, and self-terminating “predicament” – we are doomed if we persist in our unsustainable NNR utilization behavior, and we are doomed if we do not – a predicament that will resolve itself catastrophically for humankind.
The premise of Blip is that our enormous and ever-increasing utilization of the finite and non-replenishing NNRs that enable our industrial existence is causing:
- Increasingly pervasive global NNR scarcity, which is causing
- Faltering global human prosperity, which is causing
- Increasing global political instability, economic fragility, and societal unrest.
This scenario will intensify during the coming decades and culminate in humanity’s self-inflicted global societal (species) collapse, almost certainly by the year 2050.
Blip substantiates these seemingly inconceivable assertions by synthesizing the quantitative and qualitative evidence produced by hundreds of scientists, scholars, researchers, and analysts in the various physical sciences and behavioral sciences that address the origins and evolution of industrial humanity and human industrialism.
These experts produced the “dots”, which are connected clearly and comprehensibly in Blip.
We will soon discover that humanity’s self-terminating experiment with industrialism represents a mere 300-year “blip” along the three million year timeline of human existence.
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Castor Starlight : Laara C Oakes
Race To Polaris
Rogue drones, six-eyed aliens, and getting chased across galaxies aren’t your normal daily routine. But to thirteen-year-old Starseed Castor Starlight, it’s business as usual when he’s hired for yet another dangerous mission.
With the fate of planet Eastland hanging in the balance, Castor and his space dragon Reggie race from the Andromeda Galaxy to the Milky Way in their Shapeshifting Supercomputer Starship to catch an elusive thief who holds the key to solving a mysterious crime.
Will the trio survive their heroic adventure and uncover the mastermind behind this treacherous plot in time to save the planet?
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The Untold Story of Everything Digital : Tom Green
The story of how our high-tech world came to be.
It’s digital technology’s genesis story; the amazing journey of Jay Forrester and his team of sassy, brilliant engineers, who, in a single, white-hot decade of fantastical invention, built the first-ever, real-time digital computer (1949). It was the beginning that changed everything.
In 1949, a new class of engineer entered technology—the builders of real-time digital computers—the digerati. Steeped in electronics and pulse circuits, they spoke a new and different language, used a strange, new form of math, and built black boxes that had unseen worlds hidden deep within them.
The provenance of every digital device has but one address: 211 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA…and but a single year of birth: 1949.
The Untold Story of Everything Digital is the story of the very first digerati and how their machine became the beginning that changed everything.
Seemingly overnight, the world, quickly and irrevocably, began going digital…and was the better for it.
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Perform Like a Rock Star and Still Have Time for Lunch : Orna W Drawas
As with her best-selling first edition, Orna Drawas shows readers how to become Rock Stars in their world. With entertaining stories, fun anecdotes, surprising statistics, and real-life examples, the reader learns key business and life lessons.
The second edition has two new chapters. The “Fishing for Solutions: Coaching for Success” new chapter leads the reader through the process of teaching others to solve problems for themselves. The coach doesn’t need to have all the answers but rather helps others think clearly, review all their options, and make the best possible decision moving forward.
Additionally, “The Good. The Bad. And the Conflict.” new chapter demonstrates that conflict is actually the impetus for change and positive improvement. If handled well, conflict encourages people to grow, creates opportunity, and builds better relationships.
The book is a fountain of ideas presented to take advantage of your strengths and identify those significant tips and techniques that will turn you into a rock star. You will learn to:
- Master your day when you plan your work and work your plan. Take control of your day and you get control of your life.
- Focus on the real priorities and feel great about your accomplishments.
- Create a breakthrough goal, something that when achieved has the opportunity to up-level everything is your life. And then make it happen using a simple formula.
- Outsmart and defeat procrastination for once and for all.
- Stop rewriting the same To-Do list day after day. Create a list that leads to action.
- Delegate effectively by motivating others to follow through and succeed.
- Coach your employees, colleagues, boss, and even your family to accomplish the results they desire and achieve the success they deserve.
- Deal with interruptions, follow the rules of email to increase everyone’s productivity, and run meetings that bring immediate results.
- Identify conflict as an opportunity to improve the situation, find a better solution, and create positive change.
Who wouldn’t want to perform like a rock star and still have time for lunch? Surprisingly, it’s much easier than you might think!
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Job 2.0 : Del Staecker
God and Lucifer battle again for a single soul
God and Lucifer are at it again! Job 2.0 is an updated retelling of “Job”, one of the oldest books in the Bible.
More than three millennia after their first contest, the Creator of the Universe and his highest errant minion are struggling a second time over the fate of a single soul. The story takes place in modern times, using every-day language and ordinary life situations. For this battle, the center of their attention is not God’s most favored servant, rather, it is an everyday person.
What could this rematch mean for humankind when a nobody is in Lucifer’s cross-hairs? More importantly, what does it mean for us all?
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All About Annie : MJ Miller
When Annie dives into a hot new bestseller she suddenly sees her life story come screaming off the pages. Every embarrassing moment memorialized page after page.
Add a mysterious author, a ransacked apartment, an attempt on her life and an old flame, and Annie’s life is in a free-fall. But Annie is determined to find out if she’s the muse behind a bestselling murder mystery.
Is the elusive author the one guy who broke her heart into a zillion pieces? Is she finally going to get her happily ever after or at least a little revenge? When fiction meets reality, she’s about to find out… even if it kills her.
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Roland’s Path : RJ Hanson
When two servants of evil escape during young Roland’s watch, he is driven by his own shame and vanity to take up his axes and track them down himself.
Raised on the rural edges of Gallhallad, can he survive the dangers and complexity of the road ahead?
With the help of his lifelong friend Eldryn, the Cavalier hopeful, and an uneasy bargain with a dagger-wielding cutpurse, Roland pursues a wizard of unknown powers and a woman of uncommon beauty and skill.
Will Roland’s vanity not only doom him, but a kingdom he hoped to one day serve as well?
In Roland’s world of Stratvs, vanity has a high price. A price paid with the blood of the innocent and the guilty. Around him, swords once pledged to justice rust on the altars of the self-righteous.
Roland’s Path is Book I of “The Heirs of Vanity” Series.
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