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Wild Passion : Sheri Chapman
When Kaitlin’s father promised her hand to the foulest individual in the newly settled town, she decided she’d had enough! No man would control her anymore!
Kaitlin packed her meager belongings and headed out on foot from their remote home to find refuge in the small settlement. However, she marched straight from one man’s command into another’s. The Oglala War chief on a mission for revenge found a beautiful woman to rescue. Once the warrior had saved the girl’s life, she owed it to him forever.
Kaitlin arrived in the Oglala village in an injured state. She did not understand the Lakota language and believed they were healing her. Eventually, the solitary white woman believed these natives would return her to her community. While with them, Kaitlin learned some of their language and customs.
She made meaningful relationships with the villagers. In addition, Kaitlin also learned about the Oglala’s way of life (gathering, leather curing, basket weaving, and more). Ultimately, Kaitlin became strongly attracted to and fell in love with the fearsome war chief. When she discovered that she was considered his property and not a person with rights, Kaitlin vowed to escape, even if it meant leaving her happiness behind.
Tamed by the wild culture of these caring but fierce people, Kaitlin learns that freedom isn’t always defined by personal expectations. Being a slave could never be an option, but how could she ever want liberty when her freedom is claimed by an attractive war chief who has also captured her heart?
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The Colored Line : Tiffany Richardson
At the age of eight, Norah Johnson witnessed a tragedy that has shaped every aspect of her life. Now thirteen years later, all grown up, but still healing, she takes on a new job as an officer at the local police station.
All the time in the world could never make her forget her past pain, but her new partner, Spencer Bryant, helps her believe in love once again. At times she finds it hard to surrender to all of the new emotions she feels for him. She’s so afraid to lose him the way she lost so much before. But in time she gives in to what her heart wants and lets herself fall in love with him.
When the past comes back to derail their happily ever after, Norah must make a hard decision. Can she let go of the past for her future? Can love really heal all wounds? When all love matters can it sustain past heartbreaks?
A Year in Haiku by Tiffany Richardson is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Compact Frogland: Three Books in One : Geoffrey Todd
The entire three-part epic poem, “Frogland: An Heroic Epic.”
The reader of any age will enjoy this engaging story that seeks to use rhyme and meter in a refreshing way. Parents will enjoy reading the book to younger children, while older children will profit from reading poetry that is both fun and easy to understand.
In Book One, “The Glug-Glug Toad”, we join characters like Siegfried the gnome and Trog the frog as they journey to save Frogland from the ravenous Glug-Glug Toad.
Book Two, “The Shrug-Shrug Scroll”, tells the story of how brave commandos saved Frogland from the dragon-like Shrug-Shrug, which sought to sap the energy and willpower of Frogland’s citizens. It also recounts how Frieda the gnome and her friends seek to secure permanent safety from the creature.
Book Three, “The Snake Wars”, tells the story of how Frogland’s citizens must save themselves from the great cobra Whist, who has set himself up as god of the snakes. Here they seek the help of some very special human children to attempt to overthrow the false god and defeat his snake army.
The entire saga is around 5,000 lines in compelling rhyme and meter and represents a great value for the money.
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The Lean Recruiting Toolkit : Craig E Brown
An Agile Blueprint for Creating & Executing Top Hiring Strategies
Are you tired of having that “perfect” job candidate slip away between your fingers? Are you frustrated with ever-changing hiring requirements? Are you discouraged by the lack of qualified talent in the marketplace?
The Lean Recruiting Toolkit provides simple solutions to these and other challenges facing talent acquisition professionals in today’s hyper-competitive, candidate-driven marketplace. It is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and executing your very own Lean and Agile recruiting strategies to ensure you hire better employees faster — who end up staying longer. What’s more, using the Kaizen theory of continuous improvement, your results get better and better over time, freeing up your schedule to do the rest of your job!
Using the Lean Recruiting Canvas created by recruiting expert Craig E Brown, you will be carefully guided through this strategic framework in a methodical, yet efficient, fashion. Whether it is…
- Accurately defining the core problem that led management to believe that hiring someone is necessary,
- Deciding which characteristics and traits are necessary for a specific role based on proof points,
- or analyzing the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of your new hire to ensure business requirements are met or exceeded.
In this timely release, Brown provides actionable and best-in-class strategies for finding your next hire — with loads of fantastic examples and real-world anecdotes along the way.
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Ripe: Three Books in One : Sienna Shaw
Alice DeMille knew she was the kind of woman every man had waited his whole life to meet. Smart, shrewd, sassy, sensual, sensitive, and so many other superlatives could describe her. Yet, as a recently single mother raising two teenage girls, getting noticed (for the right reasons) in the suburbs of Miami was a challenge. All this was about to change.
Setting out for a blind date with a successful lawyer, Alice’s life would unravel in stunning, unexpected ways, and she would find herself 35 stories in the air, dangerously dangling over the rooftop railing, fully nude, staring down on the asphalt below. She wondered if there would be pleasure or pain coming next.
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Landing Eagle : Mike Engle
Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landing
Fifty years ago, in a small, fragile spacecraft designed for only one purpose—landing on the Moon— two American astronauts prepared to fly that spacecraft from its 10-mile high orbit above the Moon down to a landing on the Sea of Tranquility. It was a sea in name only. It was actually a bone dry, ancient dusty basin pockmarked with craters and littered with rocks and boulders.
Somewhere in that 500-mile diameter basin, the astronauts would attempt to make Mankind’s first landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong would pilot the Lunar Module “Eagle” during its twelve-minute descent from orbit down to a landing. Col. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin would assist him.
On the way down they would encounter a host of problems, any one of which could have potentially caused them to have to call off the landing, or, even worse, die making the attempt. The problems were all technical-communications problems, computer problems, guidance problems, sensor problems. Armstrong and Aldrin faced the very real risk of dying by the very same technical sword that they had to live by in order to accomplish the enormous task of landing on the Moon for the first time. Yet the human skills Armstrong and Aldrin employed would be more than equal to the task.
Armstrong’s formidable skills as an aviator, honed from the time he was a young boy, would serve him well as he piloted Eagle down amidst a continuing series of systems problems that might have fatally distracted a lesser aviator. Armstrong’s brilliant piloting was complemented by Aldrin’s equally remarkable discipline and calmness as he stoically provided a running commentary on altitude and descent rate while handling systems problems that threatened the landing. Finally, after a harrowing twelve and a half minutes, Armstrong gently landed Eagle at “Tranquility Base”, a name he had personally chosen to denote the location of the first Moon landing.
In Landing Eagle-Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landing, author Mike Engle gives a minute by minute account of the events that occurred throughout Eagle’s descent and landing on the Moon. Engle, a retired NASA engineer and Mission Control flight controller, uses NASA audio files of actual voice recordings made inside Eagle’s cockpit during landing to give the reader an “inside the cockpit” perspective on the first Moon landing. Engle’s transcripts of these recordings, along with background material on the history and technical details behind the enormous effort to accomplish the first Moon landing, give a new and fascinating insight into the events that occurred on that remarkable day fifty years ago.
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Diary of a Thirteen-Year-Old Zombie : William Todd Guerra and Geoffrey A. Todd
Roy is smarter than the average zombie. He likes to look sharp. He enjoys peace and quiet. Most of all, he wants some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
This book is full of laughs for the young reader and the reader who is young at heart.
Caution: though humorous, this book does contain ruthless zombie violence.
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THE TRAGIC + DIVINE : Melody Felix-Prieto
She’s human. He’s a fallen angel. They’re a tragedy waiting to happen.
Alexis Minerva has never been the type to cause trouble. With good grades, and a clean school record, she’s on the track to move out of Dixon-a small town with even smaller minded people.
But on the night before her 17th birthday, she meets Milo James-a sexy, mysterious angel with a thirst for danger who represents a mother’s worst nightmare. From the moment her eyes locked with his, there was an undeniable connection she couldn’t shake off.
Convinced she’ll never see Milo again, Alexis goes back to her mundane world counting down the days until graduation. Then one day, Milo shows up in Dixon unexpectedly rocking the small community.
Determined not to follow in her sister’s footsteps despite Priscilla’s troubled past haunting her every move, Alexis tries her best to avoid Milo, even though he seems to be everywhere she goes. But a chilling phone call from her sister changes everything. Now she must step into Milo’s world to find her sister-a fast-paced world filled with less-than-holy activities and late-night wild parties.
As the tension intensifies between Alexis and Milo, Alexis discovers a dark secret that threatens to tear them apart setting off events that will change her life forever.
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Shoot First: Code of the News Cameraman : Hank Schoepp
For 29 years (1968 to 1997), Hank Schoepp covered the news for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. There were events he documented in the camera and witnessed firsthand which commanded regional, national and worldwide attention. Among these: getting tear-gassed during student protest and rioting at U.C. Berkeley; Patricia Hearst’s kidnapping from start to finish; searching for a vanishing school bus, its driver and 26 children in Chowchilla, California; traveling to Guyana after a mass suicide of over 900 people in Jonestown; rushing to the murder scene of a San Francisco mayor and supervisor; accounting for the devastation of the Bay Area’s Loma Prieta Earthquake, and narrowly escaping flames of the Oakland Hills Firestorm.
But there is more to this story than yesterday’s headline news, and more than meets the eye of the cameraman who shot it first and thought about it later. Filling in the years between are all the other interesting people, places and things that happen on a newscast. Here again, the reader peers into the lens of a camera to focus on subjects of every stripe: from celebrity to man-on-the-street, to hero and heroine, criminal, victim, even animal, though not necessarily in that order of importance. And, looking beyond the lens is the more intimate view of family members and of how the news touched their lives as well.
Growth and inner conflict come with the territory. The need to change attitude from passive to aggressive while shooting breaking news is addressed and ultimately resolved. Still, there will be those occasions, albeit rare, when the author questions the purpose of what he does for a living: Why am I here, covering this event? When called for, personal observation and candid opinion are offered in retrospect about working in a profession otherwise guarded by objectivity. And running parallel to mind over matter is the technical evolution of television news gathering, as chronicled through three decades of growing pains.
Shoot First will attract readers wanting to share that angle of what the author saw through his camera lens, a good number of whom are faithful viewers of television news. Additionally, there are students in journalism class learning their craft and also wanting to share the stories behind the stories; a large general audience interested in the social and civic history of the recent past; a significant senior citizen audience, recalling, or trying to recall, where they were and what they were doing when all hell was breaking loose: the book’s readership appeal reaches well beyond viewership appeal to include a broader range of age groups.
And, while there are memoirs written by and about news reporters and anchorpersons, no one has truly acknowledged those who perform behind the camera, telling it from their point of view, exclusively, completely, the way it really was, and is. Until now.
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Neverland : Anna Katmore
Strange things are happening in Neverland…
Although Angelina McFarland loves reading fairytales, she never dreamed of falling right into one. Literally! But who is this flying boy who saved her? And why doesn’t he want to grow up?
Desperately trying to find a way off this cursed island, Angelina runs into a ruthless pirate. Hook captures her and keeps her trapped on the Jolly Roger to lure the flying boy out of his hiding.
But is James really the heartless man she heard about? The more time Angel spends with him alone, the more she starts to wonder who actually is the bad guy in this story… and who isn’t?
“Any last words?” Hook asks me.
“Go to hell, you freaking…filthy…godforsaken…”
Our noses almost touch as he dips his head and brushes a strand of my hair behind my ear. “Angel, the word you’re looking for is pirate.”
RONE Awards finalist USA 2015
Mind the cliffhanger
The sequel Pan’s Revenge is already available.
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