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Badcurious : Jeroen den Haan
Funny, sexy, sad, and sappy nonpretentious poetry
A huge, 285+ page collection of nonpretentious poems with a twist that Jeroen den Haan posted as Hieronymus on Instagram.
Funny, touching and vulgar, but mostly different from what you’re used to.
Except for some shadorma and tanka poems, there seem to be no limits on length (or lack thereof), subject and/or form.
Rhyming and not rhyming, observing reality or made-up stuff, it really goes every direction but the right one.
Subjects range from humor to love, mental health to the girl working the register in the local supermarket, and dreams to sexual fantasies.
Nothing is off-limits, nothing is filtered.
Lazy Prey by Jeroen den Haan is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Chapstick Eater: Exploits of an Oddball : Jaclyn DellaTorre
This book is a laugh-out-loud read that is full of heart and cringe-worthy, funny experiences.
A look inside the life of this self-proclaimed oddball whose adventures are enough to have you cracking up with tears streaming down your face.
Whether she’s drunkenly sneaking food that belonged to her UFC fighter roommate or sprinting across the field of Yankee Stadium with her best friend that also happens to be a former New York Giant NFL player or embarrassing herself at a reality star’s wedding this group of short stories will not disappoint.
Notes To Stephanie: Middle Aged Love Letters And Life Stories : Jeffery W Turner
Young adults are not the only ones that fall in love and get married. People in their middle age do that too. This book is the story of one such couple as told by the “notes” written by the husband to his wife.
These notes are not just love notes but also tell the tale of how life tests people and how its events sometimes feel overwhelming. They also show how couples do get through difficult times and proceed on through their lives, not knowing to what destination many times.
If you sometimes wonder if you are the only one over 40 with a difficult adult child, a conflict at work, or something else trying your patience, you are not alone. You will also know that life is also good, and sometimes filled with hope and love. Even for a brief time.
These tales of life’s events and stories that we all share are contained in these pages, these “notes to Stephanie”.
Notes To Stephanie: Middle Aged Love Letters And Life Stories and Notes To My Kids: Little Stories About My Grown Up Kids by Jeffery W Turner are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Stash: The Cincinnati 007 Story : J. K. Smith
The story begins with deadly action during the Lucasville prison riot on Easter Sunday 1993. The scene then flashes back to 1971 with a couple of unsavory con-men drug smugglers visiting India on a quest to orchestrate a scam to infiltrate the Stones 72′ U.S. Tour.
There is never a dull moment as bizarre characters interact in crazy scenes covering four continents. Action sequences include a near-fatal crash in remote Turkey, eluding a deadly mob in Old Delhi, and avoiding the death penalty in Thailand for smuggling heroin.
Two friends separate with one being tortured in Mexico City’s ‘Planet of the Apes’ prison, while the other works with Columbians to free him.
J.K. Smith concludes his story with a stranger than fiction murder mystery involving Thai heroin with toxicological issues screaming for review.
This true version of events will send chills out to potential opiate users.
Marionette: A Zombie Series : SB Poe
This is what happens when the dead don’t stay dead.
As fall descends in the South, the Toles family prepare for another holiday season. Bridger Preston prepares for another day in front of the camera. Tilly and Raj Varma head home after a much-delayed honeymoon in New Orleans. And scattered news reports echo the outbreak of the Marionette virus.
The day the world ends starts just like every other day.
Join the journey from the beginning. This is the story of people who try to live. Some do some don’t.
This is the first book in the Marionette Zombie Series. An ongoing tale of the zombie apocalypse.
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Taken by the Slithering Horror : SE Bloom
In a place of horror and darkness, will she die from the pain, or will she die from the pleasure?
Rebecca tagged along with the arrogant Eric to investigate a cave where strange events had been reported. She didn’t know that an ancient horror was alive in that dark cave, a horror which would control her and force her into bestial acts of lust and terror.
Will she survive the depravity of her cave visit? Will she want to leave?
Find out. Buy a copy of Taken by the Slithering Horror.
This book contains sexually explicit situations, and is intended only for an adult readership.
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Simply Be at 33 : Andrea Polakova
This true story will take you on a journey of self-discovery.
Andrea arrives in London at the age of twenty with no knowledge of written or spoken English.
Soon she meets a psychic who reveals that spiritual realms are real. This revelation sheds a ray of light for new beginnings and encourages her to study fashion design as she always dreamed.
But there is something more. Her spiritual quest and her need to know the truth about life takes her on the road. Andrea sets off on a journey to discover Nepal, Cambodia and Myanmar.
After an unsuccessful attempt to move to Bali, she loses all her belongings and returns to the UK.
She then feels a calling to visit the Huangshan Mountains in rural China where she experiences leaving her physical body behind.
Finally, she travels to Morocco, where a ray of light will convince her to share her life’s journey with the rest of the world.
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The Cop, The Lover and The Classy Clique : Ethel Z. Riddle
In this book, Katrina will feel passion and want and desire.
She finds a feeling she has missed since her husband’s disappearance.
Katrina and Talon “TJ” had a relationship of cop and wife that she did not need to know. They were married out of college, but TJ was an up and rising undercover cop.
After an undercover mission goes wrong, TJ is assumed dead. Katrina fights the battle to win her life back, since his death. She finally begins to move on and be someone in society. Unknown to her, TJ is alive and still deep undercover.
Katrina finds a friend that has made money hand over fist working as a companion. Katrina needs money and needs to be wanted, so she applies. She finds herself in the kitchen of the mansion to which she is waiting for an interview.
An interruption by the owner who runs the companion service happens, but Katrina has no idea who he is. She mistakes him for a stranger and ushers him out of his own house. It shortly becomes evident that he was smitten with her. They meet and she believes it to be an interview, he believes it to be something more.
TJ in the meantime makes his way back into her house to see her while she sleeps (evidence in the first book The Cop and the Classy Clique). She believes she is losing her mind as she feels TJ, but in her reality acknowledges his death.
TJ, Katrina and now Chad are all after love. They now do not know the connection between the three will soon have them sharing love. Smitten with Katrina, soon Tj and Chad will be forced to lay it all on the line.
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All I Gotta Say : Denise R. Wilkinson
A heart-wrenching tale of abuse, mental illness and living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Shattered memories of abuse before Denise was old enough to speak began resurfacing in her dreams nearly twenty years ago. “Yours is a story to be told” is the message she received from a spiritual force prompting this carefully selected collection of stories citing, “Some secrets… you should just take to your grave.”
What was once a box of scribbled memories, sometimes in childlike voices, has now become her memoir.
About the Author – Denise R. Wilkinson was born May 31, 1958, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her story, however, begins with her conception. Her parents’ love affair produced two bi-racial children during the 1950s, one they kept, one they gave away. The racial tension and violence during the civil rights era greatly influenced Denise’s view of the world and people at an early age. Searching for her own identity while struggling through child abuse and domestic violence, Denise candidly shares her experiences of self-discovery and acceptance with wisdom, wit and love.
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Girl Hunter: A Max Becker Thriller : Tim Wickenden
The first in the Max Becker Thriller books: Girl Hunter is set in West Berlin during the Summer of 1960.
Three girls have been abducted and murdered and another is missing. They have discovered that the killer has previously killed six in Munich.
One of the team, newly appointed female detective Ottilie Jäger (Otti), has worked out that the killer is abducting his victims following a strict geographical pattern and predicts his next move. They set a trap, but he spots them and later telephones Max, taunting him. Max suspects that the killer is a teacher and was tipped off.
The following week and from under their noses, he takes another girl. This time he hides the body and tells Max where to find her. When they recover the body, they find a note addressed to Max that says he will take one more and then leave Berlin; his last, he says, will be special and he’s going to keep her.
In the final gripping scenes, the killer brings his evil to the heart of Max’s world and with time running out he has one chance to catch his man when hunter becomes hunted, but does the killer have one last move?
Excerpt from book:
Max and Otti stand just back from the café window and watch as she disappears into the park.
“There he is,” says Otti.
A man comes down the road and turns, joining the path: he’s following.
Otti says, “what do you think? Is it him?”
“Oh, it’s him and he’s just made a terrible mistake.”
Otti replies, “the hunter becomes hunted.”
“It’s what we do best. I’m off, you know what to do.”
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