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L.A.M.P. : John D. Sperry
Laddin Shahera is an orphan who became a digital thief, a streetjacker who takes jobs for cash and lives in the underground of Bagh City just to survive, but he’s looking for something bigger.
When the last sultan of Earth hears of his talents, Laddin finds himself more than seven billion kilometers from Earth, hacking into an alien network that could get him killed.
His goal? Steal the mysterious Link Access Manipulation Program (LAMP), and don’t get caught.
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Breathe, Create, Connect to Shine : Dreja Novak
This illustrated textbook will guide you on your way to personal contentment. It is structured for the modern person who needs not only to believe, but also to understand and be convinced to be able to start creating their own reality. It is a great source for anyone who is going through a personal crisis and is searching for the right path.
The textbook is interactive and filled with exercises and practical content that is easily applicable to daily life. The beautiful and colorful illustrations will evoke positive emotions in you as you read along.
The knowledge is gathered from various scientific and spiritual fields, from Eastern wisdom to quantum physics, epigenetics and personality typology. Quantum physics today confirms that spirituality and science are inseparable and this book connects the spiritual world with the scientific one in an artistic and artful way.
The book is divided into three parts, which are the three important actions:
With the first breathe action, you take care of your mind, body and soul. This part explains the science behind the concepts of thoughts, feelings, subconscious, meditation, why everything is energy and how it is all connected. You will learn how to increase your energy field and how your heart can create the strongest magnetic field that extends far beyond your body.
With the second create action, you give sense to your life. You will learn about the manifestation technique and how to clearly define your goals. This part also contains a short summary of the theory called Reality Transurfing, developed by Vadim Zeland. Transurfing is a different way of thinking in order to achieve what you want in life.
With the third connect action, you strengthen harmony with people and the environment. This part introduces the new Drive-Response theory for discovering different personality types. In order to foster good relationships, you need to understand yourself and the people around you. Your personality creates your reality and that is why it is important to become aware of the unconscious patterns and desires that lead and shape your life. By understanding and implementing the Drive-Response theory, your relationships and your understanding of others will improve.
How you choose to see the world will ultimately define how you live your life and what comes back to you. We communicate through energy!
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Mya : Jared Kane
Temporis Destruit Omne – Time Destroys Everything
Like a thesis, Mya begins with its theme: Regret is hell. Riding the train alone, the line is written in a journal by Colin, a narrator of dubious intention. The locomotive comes to an unexpected stop and he’s stranded next to a poor borough of an unnamed city in an unnamed state. The trip was recommended by his psychologist—something about closure. Also recommended was the journal that rests on his lap. As he waits for his journey to resume, memories of his time in the city flood him. He daydreams. He relives his attendance at the city’s venerable university. Most poignantly, he experiences again the beautiful and mysterious Mya, the memories of whom have haunted him ever since. But are they memories?
Between the lines of Mya’s romance is a meditation on virtue and vice when everything is set ablaze around the protagonists. The locations are strange but familiar, and foreign sights and smells tweak the reader’s imagination. Ultimately, Colin’s story is his own, but is it how things really happened? Has he re-evaluated his decisions? Could doing the right thing lead to disaster, and vice versa?
In the interim, misfortune twists their lives as tragedy strikes the city at its bitter heart. Amidst the chaos, Colin and Mya’s relationship blossoms. In a caste society, cruel decisions are made silently, on the periphery, that keep the two entrenched while they battle their own demons, take out their frustrations on each other, and finally transcend their trauma together. Mya keeps the reader guessing until the very end, holding its secrets close to its heart. It’s unabashed and unafraid of stark truths and of romanticizing its darkness. In the end, the reader must decide what’s real and what’s true, which may or may not be mutually exclusive.
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Sally to Shay : Shay Robertson
Sally to Shay is a powerful account of one person’s struggle to love themselves and find self-worth.
A traumatic early life could have led Sally to believe that happiness is something only experienced by others. But true love and happiness are worth working for. Finding new hope and support, Sally spends months under the surgeon’s knife to become his true self.
Sally to Shay is a must-read for individuals and families going through the same turmoil. Medical references and graphic surgical pictures are included for reference and self-help.
This book has been written to assist others on their journey, to help them understand necessary procedures, and for family and friends sharing the transition journey, to give them an insight into what it entails.
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Amid Convictions and Contradictions : Rubén Yudelevich
Rubén Yudelevich is, in his own words, “Chilean by birth, Israeli by adoption, innocent citizen, and dreamer of unattainable utopias.” Amid Convictions and Contradictions will shed some light on those utopias, in an age where many are concerned at the shift in world order and the polarization of our societies.
This book is a collection of the author’s reflections that deal with: human passions, knowledge, time, language, faith, hope, fear, uncertainty, freedom, justice, curiosity, fanaticism, and divinity.
By weaving his reflections together with quotations from thinkers and philosophers, as well as classic and modern poets and writers, the author creates a live and polemic dialogue that will resonate with the reader.
Using varied and evocative forms of expression, the book flows naturally from one theme to the next, and as such, it is easy to pick up and read a few pages at random.
From the futility of war, to the dangers of greed, to when to remain silent, to how to find common ground in these divisive times, this is a book to turn to when we need a dose of wisdom in our ever-complex world.
Amid Convictions and Contradictions was first published in Spanish in 2017 under the title: Reflexiones.
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A Cross of Crocuses : Ken Ross
Nora and Basil are in their eighties and their health is in decline. They need assistance from their five children, but they are surprised which of the children come to their rescue.
Among the family, there are arguments, dirty dealings and suspicious behaviours. The couple receive care, but it isn’t the care they had expected. Slowly, dejection set in, health worries increase, and tragedy looms.
Within the pages of this book, the reader will envisage what is it like to be old, or realise perhaps that this story awaits them when their parents reach old age. It is not a beach read, but a serious look at how a family is capable of disintegrating when all its members have different motivations for their actions.
Just as Nora and Basil find no solution to their suffering, maybe readers too will accept that to some of us, old age can be a tragedy, unless we are caring and willing to offer a helping hand. A compelling tale that grips the reader from the first page.
Jesse & The Thinkers, ANN: Irresistible Spirit, Wasted Pain, Protection and An Old Affair by Ken Ross are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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How I Learned I’m Old : Romney Humphrey
Baby Boomers are famous for denying they are old. “I don’t look at all like my mother did when she was my age,” they boast on their way for a six-hour hike. “My children have no idea how cool I am,” they pronounce. “Seventy is the new thirty-five,” they chant.
How I Learned I’m Old tells them otherwise, but they’re laughing so hard, it doesn’t hurt to face the truth.
From Linda W in San Diego: “What I got was a ton of laughs from a woman who apparently leads the same life I do. Humphrey is a wonderful addition to the firmament of fresh women humorists that lighten our lives, a talent sorely needed at this moment.”
Melly in Denver couldn’t contain her enthusiasm, “You will laugh so hard people will think you have lost your mind. Great wisdom and insights too. What a gem!”
From Laren in LA: “With good cheer she describes her journey into the awareness that she just isn’t as young as she once was. And, somehow, as a result, it’s just easier to grasp that it’s okay — actually kind of cool — to move on in years. This is a fun read with valuable perspectives anyone “of a certain age” is sure to enjoy.”
Cori in Seattle says, “The author’s tongue is planted firmly in her cheeky cheek, but anyone can relate to her no-holds-barred description of the physical changes that all women experience as they age. Her childhood recollections will inspire the reader’s own teen memories, and the gems of wisdom she sprinkles throughout are inspiring — and might have you dancing in the aisles with a grin on your face the next time your local grocery store plays ’60s favorites on its Musak machine!”
How I Learned I’m Old is a collection of humorous essays embedded with a smattering of serious insights. Together, they tell the tale of what happens when middle age mysteriously departs and old age claims its territory.
Topics like ‘The New Party Game’ (counting wrinkles on other women’s faces), the insulting arrival of chin hairs and the sudden inability to monitor personal opinions in the presence of strangers have universal appeal. So do chapters about ‘Mean Girls’ in their seventies and the emotional legacy of mothers.
The book is divided into sections; “Mind” “Body” and “Spirit”. Always with a comical overtone, it also delves into the more important benefits and realizations of the aging process; what friends teach us by example, who we miss most when they’re gone and which values really matter.
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BIG LETTER little letter : Donnie Cox
A book for learning the alphabet that also teaches synonyms for “big” and “little.”
This book contains many words that young children are used to hearing but also some that are less common to help increase vocabulary.
Your young child can learn so many things all at once in a fun way that will have them asking for more.
BIG LETTER little letter is a fun learning experience!
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From Murder Incorporated to the PGA Tour : Peter Cimno
The Remarkable Untold Story of Charlie “The Bug” Workman & His Son PGA Pro Chuck Workman
Charlie “The Bug” Workman was America’s most notorious, yet unknown, Jewish hitman. Member of Murder Incorporated and key player in both the Mafia Commission and Combination Mob. His mob legacy was that he killed the infamous Jewish Mob Boss, Dutch Schultz in 1935.
However, his true legacy was much different than the “killer/thug/hoodlum” reputation that the general-public was fed.
Arrested 5 years after he took out Schultz, Workman was finally sent away after pleading non-vault to first-degree murder, which carried a mandatory 12 ½ year prison sentence, during a devious prosecution set-up led by Thomas Dewey. He wound up serving 24 years.
From behind prison walls, his top priority was keeping his beloved son Chuck out of the mob. As he told his mob contingent, “Anyone who tries to bring my son into this life, will answer to me when I get out.”
Due to his street reputation as a man of respect and honor in and outside the mob world, he accomplished just that. He kept his promise to the only child he had.
How he managed to do that is something legends are made of. This story has NEVER been told.
In his riveting memoir, “From Murder Incorporated to the PGA Tour” Chuck Workman tells the undisputed, unvarnished truth, putting an end to many questions about his father’s life – as everything written about him was fabricated, because he never ever talked to anyone in the media – and all about his own.
He pulls back the veil on the man beyond the myth (known both as Charlie “the Bug” and “Handsome” Charlie, exposes some hidden inner-workings of the Combination Mob and Sicilian Mafia.
He also dives into grave detail on how the most feared gangsters this country has ever known, led him to a straight, legitimate life as a PGA Golfer and Entrepreneur. A legendary career, that included the rebirth of Bethpage and the fulfillment of his teenage dream of becoming a PGA Touring Pro.
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Battle Cry : JL Snyder
Fate shows no mercy or compassion. In its heart, there is only cold and emptiness. And at times it unleashes great pain. One that can only be quenched by vengeance.
Sixteen-year-old Kaí-Ling was raised in the ways of the sword. She is the child of a former samurai warrior and an American mother. When revenge seems like her only hope, Kaí-Ling embarks on a journey to right the wrongs life has dealt her.
The lifelong lessons and skills she acquires, as well as the friends she makes along the way, aid her in her quest to fulfill her destiny. Robbed of her father’s love before she was born, Kaí-Ling now seeks vengeance upon those who took him from her.
“Battle Cry . . . When revenge seems like her only hope!”
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