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Igniting Vengeance : Tom Hansen
Born of frost and bound to fire, she will sacrifice everything to keep her sisters safe.
Ynya Oblique finds her parents slaughtered, her village razed, and her sisters kidnapped by the tyrant Frost Queen of the North. After burying her parents, Ynya vows vengeance on those that have wronged her, and promises to find her sisters.
Her bright red hair and the magic that burns within her makes her an obvious target for roaming patrols, but Ynya has a few fiery tricks up her sleeve. Naturally playful and incredibly hot-headed, keeping a low profile does not come naturally to her. But she will do anything to find her sister.
But no one can get under her skin quite like her older sister. Despite their differences, the two must learn to work together to find safety in an unforgiving world.
Igniting Vengeance is the exciting first entry in the Frost Fervor Concordance. This Dark Young-to-New Adult Fantasy story is chock full of adventure, action, and righteous fury.
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The Certain Hope : E. C. Jackson
Love at first sight. It’s every girl’s dream. But Tara Simpkins is finding out it’s not as easy as it seems. Is this truly the man God sent to be her husband, or is she just desperate to escape her loneliness?
The recent loss of both parents has left her reeling, and close friends don’t think she’s in any position to make major life decisions.
She and her new-found love are convinced they can live happily ever after in the home of their dreams. His family thinks he’s moving way too fast and might disappoint the kind-hearted woman he’s fallen head over heels for.
And then there’s Leah. Leah is supposed to be part of his past, but what if she decides she’s his future? Tara’s match made in Heaven may be over before it truly begins.
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Constance: One Road to Taken : Peter Elliott
The Life and Photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914-2000)
Constance Stuart Larrabee was a leading woman photographer, fêted in both South Africa and the United States of America.
Her early career was spent in a South Africa that was divided into camps, white and black, Afrikaans- and English-speaking. Full-blown apartheid had not yet been introduced but South African society was marked by regimented townships, influx control, and segregated living areas.
Despite her background, she managed to penetrate into the rural reserves and the townships. Her early photographs provide a lens into the lives of women and children living on the land while their husbands worked deep underground or in the factories that spilled out onto the ridges of the Witwatersrand.
From an early age, Constance Stuart was fascinated by photography. She studied art both in England and Germany, and subsequently started a studio in Pretoria. Although the studio was successful, Constance’s prime interest lay in chronicling the lives of black people living in the countryside, and later in the city and mines.
She covered the Allied advance in France and Italy towards the end of the war. In the late 1950s, she married and settled in the USA, where she continued her photography in a more leisurely manner. This survey uncovers much that is little known about this plucky woman who dedicated most of her life to photography.
She was called courageuse (courageous) by the French and was intrepid as a war correspondent and as a solo woman photographer in South Africa. She would go anywhere to capture the photographs she wanted to take.
About the author
Peter Elliott has had a lifelong interest in both history and art and his interest in Constance’s photography was piqued when he was researching a World War II war story about South African military experiences in the Apennines in Italy in the freezing winter of 1944–45. This interest drew him into a prolonged contemplation of Constance’s Southern African photographs and their context. This book results from his determination to unravel the enigma that was Constance, a photographer who retreated from engagement with the political significance of the photographs she made, but nevertheless left a legacy of stunning images.
Peter Elliott is the author of two previous books, Eight Months in the Veneto and Nita Spilhaus (1878–1967) and her artist friends in the Cape (described as “a comprehensive resource” by South African Art Times). He lives, together with his wife, in the Languedoc, France, in an area close to the mountains, and surrounded by vineyards.
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Shadow Pact : Tally Adams
On a quest to find her missing sister Amber, Emily finds herself in the middle of an age-old conflict between vampires and werewolves.
When she runs into trouble, Emily is rescued by an anomaly of the supernatural realm: the handsome vampire-werewolf hybrid, William.
Now caught between two worlds, they must navigate the vampire and werewolf courts to try and save Amber, themselves, and whatever peace that remains between the feuding species.
With countless dangers at every turn a twisted vampire queen, a bloodthirsty Coven, and a power-hungry werewolf king who will stop at nothing to dominate the magical world Emily’s courage will be tested.
She must become a part of a world she never knew existed to thwart plans of uprooting the reality she holds dear.
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Sex, Lies, and High School Queens : Zachary Ryan
They all thought they did a masterful job of keeping their secrets close to their chest. These stupid fools thought they were the high court of this kingdom, but they had no clue who was really pulling the strings.
You might wonder to yourself, who would be that heartless to make them backstab their friends, expose other’s secrets, and lose their morals? You don’t need to know who I am, but you better remember my name, The Marked Queen.
Danielle, Andrew, Delilah, Aman, and Jasmine all are now faced with a mysterious villain whose one goal is to ruin each of their lives. They must protect their secrets at all cost, or they’ll be the next victim on Marked Day. They know what’s at stake, and they’ll stop at nothing to continue being: the rich spoiled girl, the normal teenager, the girl who isn’t banging the principle, the straight vlogger, and the girl who isn’t her dad’s punching bag.
What happens when The Marked Queen changes up the game just in time for prom? Will each of our favorite puppets survive? Or are they willing to backstab each other just to keep up their personas? The only thing lost at this prom wasn’t going to be their virginity.
Sex, Lies, and High School Queens explores the major theme of self-acceptance. Can they learn to accept all their flaws or pray victim to The Marked Queen? Each chapter continues to fill your sweet tooth until the climactic moment at the prom where you get to have that final bite of the bitch cake you’ve been dying to consume.
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Relationships, Speak now or Forever Hold Your Peace : Ronald Jacobson
One Man’s Opinion on Relationships and Mariage!
There is no perfect marriage. All marriages have fights and disagreements. The average marriage has less than a 50% survival rate.
As much as you might love one another, you may not be compatible in ways you never thought about. For instance, you may think you have the same views on raising children. Naturally, you will both want good friends, doing well in school, respect, love, and all the normal things that are involved in raising a child.
The how is where the issues come in. How do you react when the child acts up, do you both believe in time-outs, punishing, even hitting? How long is the punishment or time out? The way you were both raised has lots to do with how you handle the situation. Since you might have both been raised to do the same things, how you were raised might be completely different. If your child suffers from an illness like depression, how will you handle that? This type of illness can put a great deal of pressure on a relationship.
A relationship will go through many issues over the course of a lifetime, many things you have yet to contemplate, things nobody has ever told you. In my book, I try to cover some of these issues to better prepare you for what is ahead.
Part of the proceeds will be donated to the American Diabetes Association
About Ronald Jacobson
Ronald Jacobson was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 1st, 1958 to Jewish parents. Ronald was the youngest of three brothers. In 1971 the family moved to Miami, Florida where Ronald graduated from Florida International University with a degree in Psychology. He later went on to earn his Masters in Psychology as well.
In 1992 Ron married and has since had two daughters ages 24 and 20. This is where Ronald received most of his experience for this book. Between, his education in Psychology, raising his own family, and his observation of other relationships around him, Ron has written a very honest description of the pros and cons in most relationships. For instance, one thing Ron learned early on is if you earn any brownie points in your relationship, use them quickly, they come with an expiration date, even though the date is not written anywhere.
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Never Write a Book. It Will Never Write You Back : Gigi Wolf
From taking and failing online IQ tests, to what happened in history when women took off their bras, or new American pastimes like FOMO and YOLO, yoga pants for the military, living a fuller life with a robot suitcase, why being a hypochondriac is misdiagnosed for every symptom of disease, or how to avoid being mistaken for a zombie and thus dispatched by the non-zombie population, this book uses adages to lead the reader down proverbial homey paths like “Absence Makes the Heart Go Wander,” “Good Things Come to Those Who Take Them,” “To Err is Human, To Forgive is Too Much to Ask,” and “Honesty is the Best Policy, and I’m Uninsured.”
These are adages to live by in today’s Troubled Times.
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Lightborn: An Epic Fantasy Tale of Messiah : Allen Martin Bair
What if Jesus Christ had been born in an epic fantasy world of knights, elves, orcs, and magic?
Twenty years before, a powerful Necromancer was defeated by the combined forces of the world of Gaetera, but not before leaving a nation and a people shattered and cursed with a living death.
At the same time, a young woman acolyte of the Divine Light gives birth to a son without a father in her convent cloister.
Years later, a young unknown human man called Ission appears within the borders of the fallen kingdom devastated by war and necromancy preaching compassion and mercy on those who have been abandoned and cast off by the rest of the world as monsters and abominations.
Rumors then begin to spread of feats of healing and miracles impossible even for the most powerful of those trained as priests or those trained in the arcane magical arts.
As Ission’s controversial teachings challenge old prejudices and unresolved conflicts, he draws the attention of monarchs and commoners alike as everyone begins to ask the question, “Who is Ission?”
In the battle-scarred world of Gaetera, the answer to that question will lead either to another devastating war, or the rebirth of a people long thought lost to the Darkness. But the message sent to the world by him will change the face of Gaetera forever: The Kingdom of Light has come.
Finding My Platoon Brothers: Vietnam Then and Now : Glyn Haynie
Glyn Haynie carries the names of 13 brothers forever engraved on his heart. They are the names of brothers killed in combat during the War in Vietnam.
The bonds formed in battle are unique and not understood by anyone who has not served in the military. The men in their foxholes do not fight for lofty ideals or principles; they fight to protect the man standing on either side of them. For these Vietnam Veterans, there is an additional element included within this bond of brotherhood. That is the disrespect and abuse these soldiers received when they returned from Vietnam.
This newest book by author Glyn Haynie describes his efforts to find and reconnect with his brothers of First Platoon. These men, with whom he served during the War in Vietnam, are a real part of his family.
Join the family reunion as these veterans get together and share their experiences, rekindle past friendships, and reforge their bonds of brotherhood. Travel back to Vietnam with the author as he visits old battlefields and former Fire Support Bases and reconnects with, and comes to peace with, the memories of brothers who died in battle.
This incredible story of honor, healing, and redemption will touch the hearts of readers in a great many ways. The author includes many photographs, maps, journal excerpts, and well-written descriptions that help the reader truly participate in this incredible journey.
This story is a fantastic narrative that all Americans should read.
When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War Memoir by Glyn Haynie is also on Whizbuzz Books
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Differentiated Leadership : KK Brown
Meeting leaders where they are and getting them to where they need to be, yourself included
Differentiated Leadership provides you with a way to better understand leadership mindset, potential, and behavior.
It provides relatable examples and tangible recommendations for enhancing leadership skills including coaching, training, interviewing, hiring, performance management, managerial courage, planning, etc.
The book empowers you to elevate your level of leadership and that of those you lead. It is a thorough yet to the point resource for leaders at all levels.