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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?
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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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Raji: Octavia Pompeii : Charley Brindley
Rajiani Devaki (Raji) is a girl of thirteen from India. In 1925, on a cold December morning in Virginia, Vincent Fusilier (Fuse) finds Raji sleeping in his parents’ barn. He thinks she’s a vagrant and tells her she has to go.
She doesn’t understand English and doesn’t know where she is, having recently escaped from a house in Queens New York where she had been held for the past nine years as an indentured servant.
After Vincent leaves for school, Raji slips into his house to find something to eat. She peeks into the front room and is startled to see a man sitting in a wheelchair. He stares at her but apparently cannot move or speak.
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Not in the Cards : Amy Cissell
Welcome to Oracle Bay, the town where the local psychics were already expecting you!
Oracle Bay has always attracted the preternaturally clairvoyant. When anyone with seers’ blood in their veins steps foot in Oracle Bay, their powers awaken, they receive a visit from the Psychics Union, and shenanigans ensue.
Sandy Franklin is on the run from her old life and her almost-ex-husband. Lured to Oracle Bay by a too-cheap-to-be-believable apartment and attached tarot reader shop, she found new friends, a job she didn’t know was possible, and an opportunity to hide from her past while building a new future.
When Vincent, the handsome stranger who owns most of Main Street, announces he’s selling Oracle Bay to stave off personal problems, Sandy and the other resident psychics devise a plan to save the town using their divination skills and a little old-fashioned sleuthing.
The one thing Sandy couldn’t predict was how hard she’d fall for the one man who could crush Oracle Bay and her hopes for a new life without blinking an eye… Will Sandy get a second chance at true love with the man whose past might be even more dangerous than her own?
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By Eastern Windows : Gretta Curran Browne
He went East in search of adventure. What he found would change his life forever…
Set in the beauty of Scotland, the magic of India, and the hostility of China, peopled with memorable characters of all races.
By Eastern Windows is the story of a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie, who is posted to India where he meets Jane Jarvis, a young girl from the Caribbean – different, exotic and exciting – who becomes the greatest love and the greatest tragedy of his life.
It is also the story of the young men who travelled with him, far from home, serving their king in a country they came to love, while coping with the complex differences between East and West.
“Fabulous and heartbreaking … fresh and authentic in every detail … it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye’s The Far Pavilions – Dr Aileen Keegan.
If you like true-life stories, authentic characters, and vivid settings, then you’ll love Gretta Curran Browne’s captivating novel.
All Because of Her and A Strange Beginning by Gretta Curran Browne are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Unkindness of Ravens : E.D. Degenfelder
When wealthy philanthropist Eleanor Abbott is murdered in her historic Los Gatos, California mansion, it leaves her daughter Madeline reeling in disbelief. Already struggling to cope with a volatile, estranged husband and a failing small business Madeline must set aside those worries to attend to family matters and deal with personal grief.
But nothing is ever as simple as it seems. As Detectives Scott Cooper and Isabelle Morales work to solve Eleanor’s case, another vicious, grisly murder occurs striking too close to home and changes the direction of the investigation from a random act of violence to a targeted, intentional murder.
Odd happenings at the huge old house and anonymous threatening notes lead the detectives to believe Madeline’s own life may be in danger. The final straw is when she learns that the death of her father eighteen months prior was probably not the accident it was believed to be but yet another murder.
Someone seems to be intent on destroying the entire Abbott family. But who… and why?
A hundred-and-twenty-five-year-old mansion, long-held family secrets, decades-old simmering hatred and conspiracy threaten Madeline’s life and legacy in this thrilling novel.
Enjoy this debut novel from E.D. Degenfelder. First in a trilogy, this exciting mystery is laced with suspense, twists and turns, intrigue and betrayal.
DiscoverGate 6 … Murder at Black Oaks, the second novel in this exciting trilogy by E.D. Degenfelder. Each book is a stand-alone novel with no cliff hangers.
Gate 6 … Murder at Black Oaks, the sequel to Evan’s first novel, Unkindness Of Ravens, is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Once An Insider, Now Without a Church Home : Amanda Farmer
This is the story of one couple’s faith crisis after realizing the church they have spent 25 years serving as leaders in has made subtle but profound changes over the years.
It is their journey from being trusting followers of Jesus to questioning everything about their faith. Who is really following the Bible? Who is really interpreting the Bible correctly?
This is a personal memoir that follows the changes in the American Evangelical Church as it becomes more popular to embrace Calvinism, Authoritarianism, Complementarianism, and Covenants and the effect this can have on one’s faith.
The story illustrates the pain of going from being an accepted member of a church – from being on the inside – to realizing that the leadership desires that you leave the fellowship.
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The Pocket Advisor : Sue Ohrablo
A Family Guide to Navigating College
Congratulations, you’re headed to college! While it is an exciting time in your life, it can also be challenging to find your way around, learn what’s expected of you, and connect with the people that can help and support you when you need it.
The Pocket Advisor: A Family Guide to Navigating College is a practical, easy-to-use guide for navigating college. Drawing on over thirty years’ experience as an academic advisor, Dr. Ohrablo provides concrete tips on how to access the information, resources, and services you will need to be successful throughout your college career.
You will learn how to communicate using the language of higher education, understand who the key players are, and learn how to avoid and overcome challenges and obstacles that students commonly encounter. Included in the book are checklists and worksheets that will help you get oriented to your institution and will serve as valuable resources as you begin your higher education journey.
Students have lots of questions, and The Pocket Advisor has the answers! Included in the book are the following:
- What classes do I need to take and how do I sign up for them?
- How many courses should I take each semester?
- What does the bursar’s office do?
- Where can I find my academic advisor?
- What do my professors expect from me?
- How do I connect with my professors?
- What do I do if I run into academic or personal difficulty?
Dr. Sue Ohrablo has been supporting diverse college students (freshman through doctoral level) as an academic advisor, counselor, and professor for over 30 years. Through her extensive work with college students, she has developed an in-depth understanding of the questions students have along with the challenges they face. She has successfully partnered with thousands of students over the years, providing them support and assisting them in navigating the college experience.
In this book, Dr. Ohrablo has combined her own advising “must-knows” with her insider knowledge of how institutions really work to provide you with a comprehensive guide to finding your way through an often-complex environment. She is experienced in helping students to engage in academic planning, decision-making, and problem-solving while developing positive, lasting relationships with the students she has advised.
Professionally, Dr. Ohrablo is established as an internationally known expert in the field of academic advising and student services. The author of High-Impact Advising: A Guide for Academic Advisors, Dr. Ohrablo serves as a higher education consultant and trainer to institutions that wish to improve the quality of academic advising and support they provide to students.
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