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The Power of Comparison: A Manual for Better Living : Robert Prior
We’re all products of our comparisons. What we think of ourselves, the way we feel and how we behave are affected by the comparisons we make. The comparison-generating properties of social media mean this is more relevant than ever before.
Our comparisons also influence the everyday decisions we reach, often to our disadvantage. From eating to investing, driving to buying and working to dating, we can use them far better than we do.
In The Power of Comparison, you’ll learn how to tackle the mental health problems comparisons can cause as well as ways to turn them to your psychological, physical and financial advantage. It’s a manual for better living in this exciting, yet challenging, new era.
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Worldlies : Darrell Reeves
When great powers awaken, the world dims into the darkest pit.
Hector, Steven, and Katie have nothing in common save for one tiny thread that links them; they are brimming with untapped power. Up to this point, they have lived their lives normally; school, family, and teenage dreams. Now that their abilities are coming to the surface, threats loom from every corner. It seems the only way out is with the help of one of their teachers who has an inexplicable talent for understanding and nurturing their power. The only problem is that she’s too good at it.
As the trio journeys deeper into their own capabilities, they open doorways to bleak pasts and a menacing future. One which ensures that the group’s collective power will be our planet’s destruction.
Worldlies is an imaginative sci-fi novel that follows the journey of three teens who struggle with developing their newfound powers and also themselves. The world quakes, reality becomes grim, and supernatural powers soon become the least thing to fear.
Greek Accidents by Darrell Reeves is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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From Benefits To Billions: A 21st Century Epic : Mark Bashford
From a modest upbringing in South Wales, to the CEO of the hugely successful company, Forward Cover Insurance, whose unstoppable momentum is set to take the American market by storm, Mark Bashford takes us on a good-humoured, light-hearted and disarmingly honest journey through his young adult life. Reflecting on the unexpected components of his ultimate business success.
Youth Without Ambition
A young man is content to drift through life aimlessly, innocently and happily.
Stares Into The Abyss
Life on benefits drives him to an act of desperation.
And The Abyss Stares Back
A mysterious man who only answers to the name Dad stops him in his tracks and confronts him with the only two options he has left in life.
Get rich or die…
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Survivors of the Sun: A post-apocalyptic thriller : Mia Kingslie
Georgia was not a survivalist and she did not have a bug-out plan. She was a happily married woman, at home with three children and their Boston Terriers.
In an instant, everything changed. The power went off, and no-one knew why. By nightfall, Nathan, her husband had still not returned. In time, the water stopped running.
With only three days of food left in the house and dwindling water supplies, she has no choice but to flee Kansas City.
Their world changes dramatically, entering a post-apocalyptic age, with looting, rioting, and violence becoming the norm. As they escape across country, Georgia has to overcome her fears and keep her loved ones safe.
Together they face heart-wrenching decisions as they encounter the inconceivable.
Their journey leads them through a harsh new reality. The struggles and hardships that they endure, threaten their very existence, testing their loyalty, fortitude and love for each other in ways they could never have imagined.
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Flying With Kindness : Eric Simmons
Sibling rivalry, a cranky little boy, and a frustrated mother could be any parent’s typical day.
Flying With Kindness is a deeply moving story and travel adventure to the Grand Canyon.
It’s a book about a boy named Basil and the normal sibling rivalry with his younger sister, Ava. Basil has a strong personality. In addition, kindness doesn’t seem to come natural for Basil.
Basil’s parents are trying to teach him the importance of kindness. He thinks kindness is too much work. By chance, Basil’s family meets an old lady, an encounter which sets up a chain of events and teachable moments in kindness.
This is a great read-aloud for parents needing to help their children learn to get along and share. This book is especially for young toddlers and written for ages 2-8 years old. Your child will want you to read this over and over again.
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The House of Fortune : Nick Kelly
Qatar in the 1920s when life was hard for the people of the desert. On the north east coast pearl-diving was the only means of income and families could wait for months for their loved ones to return from sea.
We follow the Al Bahr family in the village of Mafjar and a young girl Lulua whose simple life helping her mother is about to end. Through the turbulent times of World War II, conflict and colonial power in the Middle East the novel covers the discovery of oil and its impact on the Al Bahr family.
From Cairo to Kuwait, London and the United States we see the tremendous change that happens in Qatar as one man leads his family through the decades.
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Behind the Celebrities : E. Hampson
This book is about my personal experiences regarding celebrities of stage, films and television. The book is a varied account of my experiences as a boy in the theater and then later, my time spent in celebrity management.
From an early age, I was aware of the showbusiness style in and around the theater, my mum was a wardrobe mistress so I had the run of the theater and watched from the side of the stage, it was so exciting and awakening.
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The Dancer : Dale Stubbart
The simple story of a young woman in love, a young woman who is trying to find out who she is.
While the story is simple, the manner in which it unfolds is anything but. And sometimes the ride is so wild it has everyone, including the Author, hanging on to their seats.
The Dancer starts on the Stage and that’s where it ends. In between, it goes to the beach, an Artist’s Studio, and to a Native Village. We come to understand that the Artist’s Studio and Native Village are other worlds.
Sometimes she felt like she was living on a yo-yo. Flown towards the ground, then hovering there – a few inches away from the ground – before being spun back the other way and flown towards the sky, hovering there and then flown back towards the ground. From one extreme to the other – that was her life.
Why, oh why, had her Director (fool that he was), chosen this particular dance for her to perform? Spinning back and forth between the other dancers reminded her of that yo-yo. She liked Ramon and Raul equally well and couldn’t choose between the two of them. The Director knew this, so why had he chosen the three of them for this dance?
Will the Dancer find true love? Will she find her place in the World?
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The Hand of Fate : Alvira Michaels
She was still coming to terms with being adopted, then all of a sudden she was thrust into the limelight by a celebrity and had to deal with the resulting fallout.
Determined to live her life her way, on her terms, Alexandra Gray, who hails from London, finds love across the pond and settles in San Francisco to start a new life.
After riding a rollercoaster of emotions, Alex embarks on a personal journey that eventually uncovers the truth of who she is, and reveals her true path.
This is a story about a woman who overcame adversity despite the odds stacked against her, a story about not giving up, no matter what life throws at you.
The Hand of Fate is a reminder that although some things are fated, we ultimately have a hand in our own destiny. If you have faith and believe in the magic of the universe, anything is possible.
And sometimes those who have passed before us help light the way.
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Rethinking America: Lies Masquerading as Truth : Richard Otto
This volume is my reflective journey in search of the truth as I rethink the meaning of our past wars, the assassinations of our progressive leadership, the growth of our national security complex, the overall history of the country and the vitriolic nature of our current politics.
The conclusions I ultimately deduced from my research are astonishing and disturbing, but, nevertheless, if we are willing to embrace truth, there is still time to save our country and the planet in which we all live.
But we must act with urgency, not the incrementalism that the Democratic establishment are casually pursuing, or in the case of the Trump administration are repudiating, for the present difficulties that confront the nation and humanity require comprehensive solutions that are sufficient to drastically diminish the real threats that extreme poverty, pervasive injustice, unfettered power, perpetual war and climate change so horrifyingly represent.
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