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18th Winter : Stella J. Raasch
Fragments of legends can be found in the past, present & future. It is the responsibility of the elders to pass those legends on to each generation. But as time passes, some legends fade & are forgotten. Bloodlines may become lost, or even extinct. Perhaps that is for the best.
Nestled in the small town of Sun Valley, Idaho, lives a family with a dangerous secret, and a deadly past…
Collette’s ethereal features are the constant source of her discontentment and alienation from others. But on her tenth winter, her parents unexpectedly bring home two unusual puppies, whom she instantly feels an enigmatic, unbreakable bond with. Plus, she senses that her very existence, her mortal heart and soul, is intertwined with theirs in some way.
When Collette’s eighteenth winter is upon her, she learns of the curse that was placed upon her family’s tribe, the disgraced Cyokiana…the tribe of the beasts. Worse yet, her parents expect her to believe that she will become the creature of legend due to their transgressions against the Great Spirits of their people.
Despite the destiny that she supposedly faces, Collette becomes dangerously close to the ruggedly handsome Bryce Chatterton, whom she shares a love of the outdoors with. But when Bryce encounters a mysterious, old Indian woman making peculiar warnings, he suspects that something is terribly off about Collette’s family, and their beloved dogs – they are not what they appear to be…
On Christmas Eve, with the silver moonlight of the Great Spirits guiding her fate, the legend becomes reality. And her lust for vengeance cannot be quelled.
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Silent Whispers: What One Thinks is Crazy, Another Knows is True : Tami Urbanek
When Tami Urbanek began working with the public as a medium, she never envisioned how her path would change.
Moving beyond working with people’s spirit guides, deceased children began arriving to share their own shocking experiences. These children revealed the horrific torture and government scientific experiments that ultimately led to their death.
With a heavy heart, Tami listened to their stories and helped them to feel loved and safe in order to cross over to the other side.
Tami, along with two other women, began traveling to different locations, within the United States, to assist deceased children who were caught in a cycle of pain.
Little did they know they would eventually begin attracting the attention of extraterrestrials. It became obvious the ETs were also invested in the experiments and they would attempt to thwart the efforts of these three women.
Silent Whispers will challenge readers’ belief system and perhaps lead them to question the reality that surrounds them.
Silent Whispers: The Power Within by Tami Urbanek is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Made of Shadows : Archi Ofmn
What should you do when you accidentally incite a war between a ruthless terrorist organization and a group of maniacal cultists?
According to Audrey, brimming with both hope and power, you should try to take both groups down to impress your heroes. Of course, the best-laid plans often fall apart, and when she crosses paths with Beta, a silver-haired and merciful lieutenant in the League, their lives come crashing down around them as they realize their idols aren’t so perfect after all.
As the war in Miami forces their lives onto darker and darker paths, Audrey must face the grim reality of her heritage and the duty that comes with it, while Beta must come to terms with the ramifications of his bloody crusade.
With opposing forces converging on Miami, all hellbent on total control of the city, the pair must decide what they truly stand for, and no one path seems to offer either of them a happy ending.
Made of Shadows is the first book in the “Wisp” series, following Audrey Umbra and her struggle against villains that seem to lurk in every corner.
Stories of the Mother Bear : Myrtle Brooks
In Jackson, Wyoming, 1977, a cache is discovered in the attic of a deceased man’s home containing letters and diaries spanning two centuries. The newspaper report of the unusual contents reaches a journalist and confirms a vision he experienced 23 years earlier as a 9-year-old boy on a camping trip in Grand Teton National Park.
Learning his memories of a mother grizzly bear who transforms the lives of the humans who cross her path were not imaginary after all, Chicago Sun-Times reporter Bill Larkin sets out in search of why he is among the chosen. Wrestling with his dread of the force driving him, Bill hears that same compelling voice caution him against turning back and losing his spiritual calling. As he pieces each story, letter and entry together, the common thread eludes him: until a Native-American elder counsels him to seek the rest of the answers within himself.
Stories of the Mother Bear is a literary fiction/fantasy memoir woven around historical events. It begins in Omaha, where Bill Larkin’s near-idyllic 1950s childhood is shattered by the Vietnam War era. As a college student journalist, his prized objectivity turns into a solid stance against the war, after the loss of twin sons belonging to a family in the long-ago Teton camping party.
Years later, married with four children, Bill returns to Jackson Hole. He learns the deceased, Rufus Headrick, and his family were black cowboys who ranched in the area after the Civil War. Rufus’ grandfather, Elias, a freed slave, kept a journal from his days as a Texas cattle hand through the family’s ever-westward travels to Teton before it became a national park.
Portrayed in Elias’ journal is a large, engraved brass key his son received from a Kiowa youth he met along the Chisholm Trail in exchange for his pocket watch. The key is yet to be found. Who is the estate’s rightful heir? And what connection does the Headrick Family have with the Mother Bear?
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Challenges of the Gods : C. Hofsetz
After Mike goes through a gut-wrenching betrayal by his fiancée, he finds himself in what he thinks might be the afterlife. But this is no heaven.
The gods made a mistake and created another Earth in a parallel universe, putting both universes in peril. They need someone from his planet to destroy the alternate, and Mike is randomly selected for the job.
Trapped in an impossible choice, Mike accepts his mission and is returned to an Earth—and a body—so unlike his own. There, he meets Jane, who is—unbeknownst to him—the secret leader of an organization bent on tracking down Earth’s saboteur. In the face of her passion for humanity, Mike’s resolve falters. If Mike won’t complete his mission, the gods will.
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Seasons Of Mind : Douglas Thornton
This is the work of someone who has tried to gain insight into the growth of his mind by observance of the things that affect it. Therefore, it is neither free of fault, nor oblivious to what it has tried to accomplish, that of setting forth an interpretation of the poetic spirit.
These texts were composed during the years 2011-2012 in the silent hours at a desk, or in some instances, in the middle of a field, separate from one another, but all bearing towards that same idea of understanding.
This is perhaps why the book will be uninteresting to most, but to those of a reflective nature might such a perusal bring an unexpected vision, or fraternal sentiment, to their off-handed hours, that the reader is not asked to start from the beginning and read to the end, but rather to open the book patiently and find their own way amongst it.
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None Yards! : Tom Danyluk
30 Years of John Madden in the Broadcast Booth
John Madden, the churning, eruptive Oakland Raiders head coach, quit the sideline for good in early 1979. By the winter of ’81, he had become pro football’s premier TV analyst in a dazzling, rocketing shot to the top. For nearly three decades, he remained there.
Former NBC announcer Charlie Jones once said, “John Madden is one of those people who has IT, whatever IT is. That extra star-quality within their profession. You know it when you see it. Tom Cruise has IT. John Elway has IT. So does John Madden.”
For Madden, IT was the ability to deliver pro football to his audience in a widely consumable style. From the CEO to the car mechanic, his message was embraced. To the complex, he injected simplicity; to the obvious, he identified technique; to the combatants in uniform, he added warmth and levity.
This book, however, is no treatise on the Madden style, or some draining dissection of his popularity. It’s simply a collection of quotes, the things he said along the way. His words and critiques and opinions, from the rise of the Walsh 49ers through the Aikman-Irvin-Smith Cowboys to the brilliance of Brady/Manning. Thirty years of oral history.
It’s Madden on football, as he witnessed it live.
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The Time Was Right : Kyle Goings
Untold stories of a small town’s greatest athletic era.
Incorporated in 1909, Orland isn’t much different from other rural towns in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley. Life happens just a tad slower, nut orchards line the sides of country roads for as far as the eye can see, and high school football games are still played under the lights every Friday night. Yes, things in this small farming community seem to have gone unchanged for some time now.
There was a time, though, when the town buzzed with excitement and livelihood – a time when its athletic teams matched up with and defeated some of the west coast’s biggest sports powerhouses, including Oregon state champion Medford High and San Francisco’s historic Polytechnic Institute. In the 1950s and 60s, the Orland Trojans ruled the land. These are their untold stories.
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Noël: Of Memories and Sleep : Benjamin Boudreaux
The town of Beauséjour, located in Southern Louisiana, is home to many Cajuns and Creoles, who are happy to spend their days fishing and crabbing; tilling and sowing; eating, drinking, and laughing. But this town is also home to sinister secrets, which are soon to be unearthed by a child of thirteen summers by the name of Noël Broussard, as well as his friends Évangéline Lejeune, Marc Lejeune, and Amédé Fontenot.
Many strange and terrible things occur, such as denizens visited in their dreams by a nightmarish entity; children selectively spirited from their homes by a demonic creature; and telltale signs of a wolf-like being infecting hapless wayfarers. These are spirits straight out of the traditional oral folklore of the Cajuns and Creoles of Acadiana – and they are very real! But there is something linking them all together – the key to everything – and it will prove integral for Noël as he struggles to solve the mystery and end the terror that plagues his hometown.
This story – the first in a series – delves into the subject of memory, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of fear, anger, sadness, and failure. Noël will have to learn (and accept) many things about himself if he is to succeed.
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Echoes of Evil : Judy Nichols
Separated by nearly a century, Rowan and Bobby Lexington are both all alone in the world. Their mothers are dead, and they’ve been left in the care of strangers. Worse yet, they hear screams that no one else hears.
“People do evil things to each other every day”, Sister Bernadine tells Bobby at the orphanage. “I believe those evil deeds cling to them–following them wherever they go, even as they go about their business and pretend they’ve done nothing wrong. I think you can hear echoes–the echoes of the evil deeds people are desperate to hide. You are special, Bobby Lexington.”
It’s a gift neither Bobby nor Rowan wanted. But they must learn how to use it as if lives depended on it. Because they do.
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