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The Bull Option : Sameer Garach
When Kannada Khan, an investment banker turned homeless man, saves the life of Robert Prosperi, a struggling hedgie, he is repaid with a unique yet risky job offer that could change his fortune forever.
With plans for a theft on Wall Street, Robert aims to undermine his rival, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, and Kannada seeks to return to a life of normalcy. They recruit a motley crew from Main Street—a bartender, a stockbroker, an attorney, a computer hacker, a pilot, a boxer, a confidence man, and an upscale luxury companion—to carry out their scheme.
Three weeks is all they have to infiltrate the heart of American financial power and steal the proceeds from the biggest Initial Public Offering in recent history. However, money isn’t the only motive driving Kannada. Chasing his past flame is his game. Now she’s working for and dating the very Wall Street titan they’re trying to rob.
Dakota and the American Dream by Sameer Garach is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Pablo’s Apprentice : Richard DeVall
A page turning thriller about a criminal mastermind that ends up seeking revenge on the woman that helps get her partner killed.
Once that happens the story is about the two women and how one escapes to Bhutan to live out her life on the money she’s taken from banks.
The other is the story of overcoming guilt and violence and trying to regain a normal life.
In the end, the two confront each other on the banks of the Crocodile River in Bhutan which borders India.
The novel has humor, romance, violence, tragedy, travel and tries to check off as many boxes as it can in the arena of entertainment.
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Parental Blessing : Zornitsa Maleva
Parental Blessing is a Bible for people who want to discover the harmonious and loving bonds between a man and a woman in relationship or marriage.
This book is dedicated to healing and enhancing relationships through method of family constellations and finding how they can help us to deal with blockages coming from negative family patterns acquired from our ancestors and maintained by us – the answers are found in Zornitsa Maleva’s guide to a better life. The author guides you how to live a joyful and a complete life each day by using specific family constellation practices to build a stronger relationship with your family members and to discover the love of your life.
The book reveals ancient Tibetan practices. It introduces the basic Laws of Love. Here you will find the ritual of obtaining the Parental Blessing, by which we connect to our parents and grandparents on a spiritual level through our hearts and all before us (the ancestors), to unlock the flow of love for us in our family. You will find out why you did not have a partner beside you, and why you did find it difficult to build a relationship. After reading this book you will have the relationship and the relations of your dreams here and now.
The change begins with You TODAY and in this very moment. Only one person is needed to change your life, and that is YOU!
Echoes of Reality : Kevin Fitzpatrick
Lucius Antonius, an ancient Roman legionnaire, finds himself drawn into a struggle between mystical roses, each possessing powers that he only comprehends as magical. He is unaware that each rose, a physical construct for an alien artificial intelligence, has a singular purpose on Earth. Unknowingly, he finds himself involved in a subversive interstellar conflict that predates the rise of civilization.
Gifted or cursed with immortality, Lucius wanders the Earth as the millennia-long war unfolds, searching for those who will ally with him before the final conflict. A French priest, a Viking shield maiden and an Irish immigrant make an unlikely team as they confront the secretive Obsidian House.
Echoes of Reality is filled with quantum-based powers that mimic magic, ancient sword fights and modern clandestine assault teams, secretive orders and an insidious evil that takes shape through history. Soon, Lucius and the team find themselves beset by a new adversary who has allied with Obsidian House and their worst fears are realized.
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Bedrolls, Bushes and Beaches: The Hippie Years : Ron White
For those who feel like they don’t ‘fit in’, Ron White’s memoir proves that salvation can sometimes be found right around the corner by following your own inner muse.
Ron’s was to escape the confines of an abusive family situation and a repressive local community by traveling and seeing the world.
Armed with what most would consider woefully inadequate resources and against daunting odds, Ron nevertheless always managed to get where he wanted to go and fulfill his dreams, battling his own inner demons and external foes, obstacles, and seemingly insurmountable challenges along the way.
A delightful autobiography, on par with the best of the genre. For those who want to know what the colorful 1960’s was like up close and personal, this is the book to read.
Samsara: Wolf Howling : Brian Van Brunt
A winding tale set in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wolf Howling is the first of five books in the series Samsara. There is a puzzle to discover; a path among the brick alleyways and uneven streets.
Gather around, you travelers and malcontents. Come and sit a spell here with the gamblers, musicians and thieves. Yes, yes … right here. They wait for you, your brothers and sisters; the ghosts of merchants, of voodoo priestesses and jazz prophets; of poets, seekers, and the Bacchanalian. They gather in the cellar; our fresh, ripe bones thrown into the Caveaux to mix with the dry chalk of our ancestors.
She is a siren, you see that, don’t you? This city. This New Orleans. Full of dichotomies and mysteries; brimming with character and characters. She offers a respite and reflection, a passion and a decadence. Her dowry is culture and sustenance; pleasure and rapacity.
Can you see him there? Coming from the mist. He waits for her. Waiting for the young woman with her dog. She will lean close and whisper to him and there will be dreams of white rabbits, silver lockets, marauding pirates and hungry sharks. It is about to start! Don’t you see? Wait for it now with me. Here it comes …
And it began again.
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Who Murdered Mary? : Pete Geissler
Based on real events perpetrated by real people, Who Murdered Mary? is a gripping tale of shortsighted decisions, heartless animal cruelty, and needless murder of an innocent circus elephant that was aided and abetted by mob rule and officials of a prosperous railroad.
The tale unfolded during three tumultuous days in September 1916 in the peaceful but ill-fated towns of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Erwin, Tennessee.
Who murdered Mary?
The owner and publicist of the circus for whom Mary toiled with uncanny, crowd-pleasing talent?
The fearful citizens of Erwin who became vigilantes and demanded her death?
The Mayors of Johnson City and Erwin who caved into a mob?
Officials of The Clinchfield Railroad? The Progressive Era?
Our contemporary attitudes toward animal cruelty?
Did all of them contribute to this grisly spectacle that refuses to go away?
The Catholic Jesus : Fr Thomas Plant
Knowing Christ Through the Church He Founded
“The Catholic Jesus is superb. Fr Tom clearly shows the relationship of Church and Scripture not simply as a chronological priority but as determining our interpretative method now. This is an excellent curriculum of the Christian faith.” – Fr Richard Peers SMMS, Liverpool Diocese Director of Education
“The Catholic Jesus is an excellent short study of the Christian tradition through the lens of the early Church. In this engaging work, Father Thomas Plant gives his readers the keys to understanding the fundamental mysteries of the Church. Unreservedly recommended” – Rev John Paraskevopoulos, Buddhist Hongwanji Mission to Australia
Mary gave birth to a boy, not a book. Jesus never wrote a word, because he was God’s Word. It is only through the Church which Jesus founded that God breathed the words of the Bible, and so it is only through the Church that we can really come to learn who Jesus is.
• Are you a new Christian seeking to understand the Church’s teachings about Jesus?
• Do your friends try to persuade you that Jesus was just a good man, misunderstood and elevated by the Church for the sake of its own power?
• Do you want to help “Bible-believing” Christians to understand the importance of the tradition of the Church which Jesus founded?
• Are you a church leader looking to run a Lent course or study group on the relationship of Jesus, the Church and the Bible?
• Looking for a gift to give to a newly baptized or confirmed Christian?
A priest and a doctor of Cambridge University, Fr Thomas Plant summarises the recent work of respected biblical scholars in a short and readable form, to help Christians understand and defend the authentic tradition of Jesus which the Church has faithfully guarded and proclaimed through the centuries.
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Data Governance: A Handy Book for Laymen : Saad Khan
Data for organizations is becoming more critical for decision making. The necessity of managing and controlling data and data-related processes has been more focused. This gives an opportunity for a more comprehensive approach and methodology to be developed and practised.
There are many standards on the domain of data governance including DAMA, DGI and more that have defined set of practices and standards to follow.
This book focuses on the domain of data governance generically, the methodology, approach and structure defined are designed to be customized for different organizational needs. A set of policies and processes are listed serving as a set of examples and other processes and policies can be added as required. The maturity matrix enables to measure the level readiness for a DG program in any organization. The methodology briefed in this book is a result of continuous effort and improvement from the experience of implementing these DG programs in several organizations. The methodology is purely iterative in nature as the DG Programs requires. The governance KPIs and measures represent a set of KPIs that can directly be used to measure the effectiveness of the initiated DG program.
The book will help an organization to eliminate silos based data development, helps the organization to consider data development at enterprise level, helps in maintaining cross-department common business vocabulary and helps reform the organization to an information-centric culture. The organization bodies and their responsibilities are also highlighted.
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The Unholy Books of Tristan Wrangler : Don Both
Mia Angel, 18 years old, chubby, avid eyeglasses wearer, from a poor background, nickname Turkey, is the personification of an unpopular teenager. As if this was not enough, ever since first grade she has been head-over-heels in love with the absolute womanizing, Tristan ‘Sexy’ Wrangler — naturally, without any reciprocation from the arrogant Macho.
One morning, thanks to an alcohol-induced faux pas, he finds himself waking up in bed with Turkey in his arms. This is absolutely devastating to his esteemed reputation.
Always on Saturdays: However, he notices that although Mia doesn’t conform to the perfect supermodel image, which is his usual type, she has other qualities and even the power to, quite unintentionally, rob him of his hormone-charged mind…
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