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Wildflowers and Train Whistles : Lillian “Sissy Crone” Frazer
Wildflowers and Train Whistles: Stories of a Coal Mining Family
Sissy Crone, a coal camp kid, brings to life the faded past of her hometown, Minden, West Virginia, through a collection of stories told firsthand of heartache and loss, balanced by glorious triumphs.
Sissy brings us along as a companion through her early years in a childhood that could never exist in a modern world.
Wildflowers and Train Whistles is a book about an ordinary family that survives extraordinary challenges as a coal camp family living in hardscrabble times of the 1950’s.
She and her six siblings color a dark, damp coal camp town with humorous antics and daring adventures to bring excitement to the hills near the New River Gorge.
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The Search for Alice : Amy Koto
The Search for Alice
When Kallie Bennett, a jaded teenage girl plagued by her alcoholic mother and her peers molded out of sheer bubble gum perfection, chases after Alice in Wonderland herself, she ends up lost in her own version of Wonderland, which forces her to face her utmost fears and introduces her to familiar characters with a dark twist.
Among these characters is Ches, a gorgeous vampire with a conflicted conscience, who becomes Kallie’s guide and blossoming love interest. She also crosses paths with Queen Hartley, a manipulative witch who has the power to strip away one’s memories and imagination, which brings a bone chilling new meaning to “off with their heads.”
In The Search for Alice, Kallie starts to realize that her Wonderland is just as frightening as her own reality and that she cannot always run away from her problems. She must figure out a way to defeat Queen Hartley and return home before it is too late, but she soon learns that escaping Wonderland means leaving Ches behind forever.
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Misheard Lyrics : Mike Ellsworth
Misheard Lyrics: What if everything you heard was wrong?
Misheard Lyrics is an irreverent and often hilarious novel about misheard lyrics, religion, messiahs, friendship, and the nature of the universe.
The two main characters are Charles and Chip. Charles is a writer who is attempting to write his first novel who was raised Catholic but rejected the church by age 12. Chip is a Methodist minister with a profane and rebellious streak that almost prevented him from graduating from divinity school. Both are looking for answers.
The novel combines magic, dream and reality, and important dualities include humanity and divinity, good and evil, dream and reality, and love and power.
Each chapter title involves a misheard song lyric and many are discussed in context throughout the novel. The book alternates Charles’ attempts at starting his book with the pair’s discussions about the book and religion in general as well as biographical flashbacks from Charles’ life that feature other characters. Edie was Charles’ girlfriend back in 1975. PSTD from her tour in Viet Nam as a photographer for Look magazine complicated their relationship. Karen was Charles’ wife until her lesbian romance with Munch caused their divorce and Charles’ subsequent hatred of gays. Steve was Charles’ piano virtuoso friend reduced to bankruptcy and working odd jobs. Poet Allen Ginsberg also appears as Charles’ mentor.
As Charles searches for answers, he leads us through various religions and possible Apocalypses. And as he completes each chapter, he gets together with Chip, with whom, after much obscene byplay, he discusses some of the theological issues. Along the way, Charles starts suspecting that he may exist only for the entertainment of the Viewerverse, a pan-dimensional audience watching a cosmic reality show, of which he is the star, and which finds his misfortunes hilarious.
It’s kind of like Even Cowgirls Get the Blues meets My Dinner with Andre, but with swearing.
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Tall Tales from Nesbit Elementary : Tyler Capobres
If you thought your school was normal, Nesbit Elementary is the exact opposite. Inside you’ll meet Bridgette, who loves to run and rarely stops; Kyle, who lends out his pens and never gets them back; Shannon and Tyler, who are always laughing at the strange events that happen in their school; Derek, the coolest kid in class, with breath stinky enough to stun a cow; and Charlie, who loves food and comic books.
As you dodge cockroaches with glowing red eyes, and ghostly teachers who punish misbehaving kids, don’t be late to class! Otherwise the ghost of Principal Nesbit will find you and drag you to his office, never to be seen from again!
Punching Holes by Tyler Capobres is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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If You Can Order A Pizza You Can Trade : Stephan Haller
If You Can Order A Pizza You Can Trade – A Mechanical Approach To Options Trading
This book is about managing your own money by trading options.
It shows a mechanical approach to trading, without guessing or predicting.
The strategies presented in this book are backed by numerous studies conducted by the tastytrade research team and the author’s personal experience.
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Revelation: Creatures Rule the Night : Nathaniel Connors
Revelation: Creatures Rule the Night
The hunted, that is what Jonathan Armand has become.
Generations have died before him, many by the shape-shifter that taunts him now. It is his curse for carrying the name, and the burden of being the strongest of those before him.
He is the last Armand, and as he stands in the void ready to lead his army, he realizes that hunted or hunter, the blood of one will change the fate of all.
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Raised from the Shadows : Darren Mockler
Set in Victorian England during the mid to late 1800’s. A time of affluence due to the rise of the British Empire and with it a class divide epitomised by the political-social unrest in London’s dark underworld the East End.
John Cutty is a troubled young boy struggling through childhood as he is exposed to life events that leave him with deep emotional scars inflicted by psychological trauma. With his sanity at stake, he finds sanctuary in the deepest recesses of his mind to escape from the painful experiences and draws strength from an inner guiding voice.
With adulthood comes a change of fortunes as John moves to London and with it the potential for a new life and career. Following a chance encounter, he is drawn to the excitement and menace of Whitechapel and the East End. All seems well until a reunion with his estranged mother triggers a series of events with explosive consequences played out on the dark streets of Whitechapel.
What follows is a fast-paced journey through the life and mind of a serial murderer that climaxes with an explosive internal battle between John Cutty and his dark alter ego with his sanity and the life of his loved one at stake.
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Eyes To The World : Kadeem Graham
Eyes To The World
In our tumultuous political time, these are a selection of socially conscious poems that reflect upon the issues affecting the world today, in it’s harsh and difficult reality. But also I offer a sense of hope and optimism for the future, that we can find the light in our times as well, there is hope.
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Daisy : Karen Botha
Daisy
It may take a criminal mind to be a savvy business woman.
If so, Daisy is set and driven to succeed. But to hold on to what she’s earned, she must live between black and white. She must spend her life in the gray.
That makes it difficult for a woman to know who she’s dealing with, in business and in bed.
Idris made it his business to know hers, leaving no skeletons undiscovered. When the two meet, sparks fly and sexual tension ignites. Passion, lust, and desire come before sensible decision making.
Has Daisy gotten involved with the wrong person this time?
Can this gorgeous man be trusted, or is it him that needs to beware?
Daisy is a mixed race urban romance where the road to true love is anything but easy.
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A Thread of Darkness : B. E. Stefanko
A Thread of Darkness (Tales of Redemption Book 1)
A darkness rises centuries after the gods that once fought over the planet were forgotten.
Three unlikely heroes, strangers to each other, but thrust together by fate, quest to stop the evil from spreading.
Hunted by unseen evil and tormented by their own pasts, Scythe, Gideon, and Charity struggle to cope with newfound abilities granted by the gods themselves.
Imperfect heroes struggle with failure and loss, set in a new fantasy world where magic was lost, but has come back to haunt them.
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