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Maiden : Erin Ashley Tanner
Katania Avnaughn dreams of a day when she is no longer at the mercy of her manipulative mother and the taunts of her beautiful stepsister, Ella.
A chance meeting with a journeying Prince makes Katania reconsider her hopes for the future. But then an unexpected death changes her life forever.
Years later, abused and penniless, Katania thinks her life cannot get any worse until she is forced to entertain a cruel suitor.
On a rare trip into town, Katania finds herself at the mercy of an attacker and is rescued by the returning Prince of Ortesia, Valentin. Known to each other from their previous meeting, the attraction between them is renewed and even more powerful than before. But Katania has a suitor and the Prince is all but betrothed to someone else, until a twist of fate has the chance to change everything.
When Katania receives an invitation to a royal masquerade ball, she knows that there is more at stake than a simple welcome home for the Prince. With a new determination to win Valentin’s love and escape her mother once and for all, Katania sets out for the ball. Then, a mysterious maiden championed by the King is put in Valentin’s path, and Katania fears her chance at happiness has once again been thwarted.
A glass slipper may be her saving grace. When the King decrees that the maiden who can fit the slipper will be Valentin’s bride, Katania believes that fate is finally smiling on her. But when she and Ella can both wear the slipper, Katania realizes her journey to love and freedom is just beginning. Facing a gauntlet of challenges from the King, Ella’s resolve to have Valentin for herself and mounting pressure from her social-climbing mother, Katania soon becomes a pawn in a dangerous game of royalty, love and secrets.
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Unveiling Success: Reveal It For Yourself : Ron Lang
Redefines our ideas of success and allows you to set a unique path to revealing your own success.
You will be inspired by the ten true stories of everyday people who have created their own phenomenal success.
You will become empowered by the eight tips to develop your own plan to live your best life.
Invest in yourself! Take the steps to sharpen your focus, improve your effectiveness, and live exceptionally.
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Inflation: What It Is, What It Isn’t, And Who’s Responsible For It : Kelsey Williams
Inflation is an insidious threat to our financial and economic security. It has been foisted upon us to the point that we are in danger of losing much more than the value of our money. The capital markets are facing risks of immensely greater proportion than those of 2008-09.
Economic activity is primarily financed by credit and we are hooked on the drug of money and higher prices – for everything.
We are told often that inflation is spontaneous and that we must learn to manage its effects. That is not true. Inflation is intentional and practiced by governments and central banks the world over. And its effects are unpredictable and destructive.
In addition, the effects of inflation are cumulative; hence, they tend to be more volatile, ongoing. And buried underneath all of the surface weaknesses is the specter of fractional-reserve banking. It is the legalized version of Ponzi scheme. A special section on the topic is included.
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Pop Secrets : Jackie Notter
A fast-paced, edgy escape into a secret world of sexual temptation and liberation.
Thirty-year-old Jackie Notter has had enough of men. After a disastrous marriage, Jackie has a chance encounter with pop sensation Brixton Webber. For the first time in her life, she finally experiences true pleasure. Jackie wants more and Brixton is happy to deliver.
What begins as wild sex turns into a torrid love affair. But they live in completely different worlds, and their age difference complicates matters.
How far will Brixton’s disapproving manager go to keep them apart? Will Jackie’s interloping “was-band” ruin everything? Is Brixton willing to alienate his young and adoring fans for the sake of love, or will Jackie remain his Pop Secret?
2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner
The Mirror’s Touch by Jackie Notter is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Angels of Light: Beyond the Veil : Mark A. Vance
A cocky, wise-cracking, commercial airline pilot has a surreptitious, life-long relationship with the apparition of a dead relative, killed decades earlier in a military plane crash.
When the apparition urges the pilot to solve the mystery of that crash, government censorship and stonewalling ensues, eventually surmounted by confidential information provided by entities disguised as the pilot’s dead relative and murdered comrades.
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Life’s Journeys : Rachelle Scott
“The words glared at me as though they were 3-D: my sin lifting off of the front page of the newspaper to stare me in the face”– Don’t Speak.
This collection of short stories explores life, love, and heartbreak.
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Pussycat Palace : Clive Lilwall
An Animal Farm type satire.
Fyodor, a proud Russian Blue cat, is displaced from his luxury home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during a flood. He escapes to a feral cat colony on the banks of the Mississippi.
The colony has an election involving a hefty outspoken ginger tomcat and a crafty female tabby. All hell breaks loose as the election proceeds. Issues involve immigrant cats moving into the colony, the roles of males and females, color prejudice and sexual issues.
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The Rise and Decline of the American Empire : Mahmoud Demeri
The United States rose from a modest colonial power to a formidable world superpower, but then it went into decline.
The book traces the major events that allowed a loosely held league of thirteen British colonies to become a union of fifty states spanning the North American Continent as well as Alaska and Hawaii. The nation would revolutionize world arts, science, technology, space exploration, and lead the digital revolution- all while promoting the ideals of democracy, freedom, and liberty.
But it also contributed to global conflicts, a nuclear arms race, political upheavals, and the financial collapse of world markets. To this day, it has failed to live up to its promise of turning economic success and prosperity into social progress.
With more than two hundred charts and tables, this book examines where America has been, what led to its decline, and how a rising budget deficit, soaring health care, and Social Security costs, national security concerns, and miscarriages of social justice pushed it into decline. More importantly, however, it offers ideas and solutions to reverse course before witnessing the Decline of the American Empire.
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Taylor’s End : N H Brown
Taylor’s End is a small, sleepy town like countless others sprinkled across rural America; until the police make a gruesome discovery at the rest stop on the outskirts of town. A man has been murdered, and it’s no ordinary killing.
Local Chief of Police, Nick Bremner fervently hopes the murder is an isolated incident, a violent act committed against a lone traveler by some hopped-up hitchhiker who has probably already crossed the state line.
That same day, a stranger arrives in Taylor’s End, a rudderless drifter floating from one town to the next. She seems harmless enough, but she is harboring a dark and menacing secret that she can no longer control.
As the town is gripped by a spate of violent attacks that leave the tight-knit community reeling, will Bremner discover who is responsible before another innocent life is lost? Or will it fall to Connor? The teenage son of the drunken landlord of Webster’s Boarding House and one of the few people who know the frightening truth about their new guest. Can Connor find the courage to stand up and fight back against the evil force threatening to destroy Taylor’s End?
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Growing up in Old North St. Louis : Patrick J. Kleaver
In this deeply personal account, the author reminisces about living in a historic St. Louis, Missouri neighborhood from its peak in the 1950s to its decline in the 1970s, sharing the good and the bad of his personal life.
With detailed descriptions of his house and the neighborhood’s shopping district famously known as the “Great White Way,” and with stops at various neighbors along the way, you’ll feel like you are stepping into his life and literally walking with him on a personally guided tour!
Originally published in 2012, this UPDATED AND EXPANDED Second Edition was originally released in August 2018 with more anecdotes from his life; more photos (including rarely seen ones of neighborhood streetscapes and church interiors and exteriors) and a more detailed history of not only the Old North St. Louis neighborhood, its churches and schools but also side trips to surrounding historic St. Louis neighborhoods. It includes detailed descriptions of what ultimately happened to many of the people and buildings after he left the neighborhood.
**BONUS MATERIAL – in celebration of the first anniversary of the release of this Second Edition, the author has included ADDITIONAL information about what’s happened to his neighborhood from August 2018 through July 2019.
** A must-have for local history buffs and as a guide for those who have thought of publishing their own life story.
City Dweller: A Lifetime Living And Working In St. Louis by Patrick J. Kleaver is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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