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Cruel And Unusual Magic : Eden Crowne
Cruel and Unusual Magic
When a runaway Soul Eater and his deranged werecat team up with a drug-dealing Faerie Vampire and a heartsick Shinigami Reaper for a Japanese gangster, there’s going to be trouble! Western magic and the Japanese supernatural world go hex-to-hex in this occult thriller.
Soul Eater, monster, murderer and still only eighteen, Julian comes to Japan seeking revenge against the sorcerers who sacrificed his lover to their dark magic. But first, he needs a rare enchanted cord made of braided demon skin. The cord is capable of binding any supernatural creature, even a Soul Eater.
In Tokyo’s red light district where the gangsters are demons hiding in plain sight, Julian comes to the aid of a local crime boss. As thanks, the demon promises to help Julian acquire the cord. Bur first, perhaps the Soul Eater could look into a small problem of unruly mountain demons hijacking the gangster’s shipments?
Aided and abetted by his werecat, Hex, Julian is joined by several companions. Each has their own agenda. The vampire is licking his fangs over the enhanced blood of a Soul Eater. The young Shinigami Reaper is searching for a missing ghostly lover. And Hex, well, the werecat is only in it for the fish.
Everyone just might reach their goal on the mystical shores of the Lake of the Dead in Japan’s frozen north, if they don’t kill each other first. You can’t defeat the demons you enjoy playing with.
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Crime: Murder in a Small Town : Michael Ace Smith
Crime: Murder in a Small Town (novella)
Shalgrove is a sleepy little town in Yorkshire, England. It has around 1550 inhabitants, and it’s the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else.
Most people have lived there all their lives, and their families go back generations. Newcomers are not really welcomed, and it takes a long time for the locals to accept them.
The town plods on without ever entering the annals of history, apart from appearing as a dot on the map.
That is until the body of a young local girl is found, dumped unceremoniously in the bushes and discovered, one frosty morning, by a man walking his dog.
The town is shaken to its roots by the outside world’s invasion of its tranquility, so that Shalgrove will never be the same again.
If you enjoy crime thrillers, then Crime: Murder in a Small Town is for you!
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Kirsty and the Tree : Gary Foster
Kirsty was 7 years old this year and for the first time ever her mum and dad were going to let her start climbing the tree the next time they all went to stay at grandma and grandpas.
The tree stood tall and proud and all alone in the middle of a field right behind grandma and grandpa’s house. But this was no ordinary tree, this was the greatest climbing tree in the world. A tree that has a story. A story that only a mum and a grandma can tell.
Roger the Rabbit Racer, Fudge and Smudge: Pet Detectives, and James and the Mountain by Gary Foster are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Blackout : Tobey Alexander
Blackout
Time is the only constant, we may dwell on the past, but there is nothing we can do to change it. Or is there? Blackout offers a new perspective with the knowledge that there are those among us who have the ability to make leaps back in time. Such a gift comes with a price and Blackout offers an action-packed and character-driven sci-fi adventure that rips you from your seat and thrusts you into a fantastic journey.
Michael Swann is alone, it hasn’t always been this way, but he is haunted by the tragic accident that claimed the life of his teenage son. Since the loss of his son Swann’s marriage has fallen apart and he has become a solitary man, enjoying his time in the mountains and wilderness over everything else.
One fateful day while climbing on the dangerous cliffs of Kalymnos, Greece, Swann stumbles upon a mysterious woman that seemingly appears from nowhere. As he attempts to speak with her Swann suddenly finds himself stood in the middle of a First World War battlefield. Awash with confusion and disbelief Swann struggles to understand what is happening and blacks out.
When Swann awakes, he finds himself in the confines of a converted underground reservoir overseen by General Cole, a stern military officer who runs a secret internationally funded project named Operation Tempus. As Swann learns he is blessed, or cursed, with a dormant ability to leap through time he must choose whether to embrace his gift or turn his back and leave it as a gift unexplored.
When the time comes would you go back?
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The Shell of a Person : Lance Pototschnik
The Shell of a Person
“Welcome to beautiful Costa Rica! Come and experience our diverse wildlife. Exhume nests of dead baby turtles and stay up all night while mosquitoes elicit blood from your very soul! Indulge in the local cuisine. Eat rice and beans until the malnutrition engenders hallucinations! Travel west to Guanacaste, to the peninsula that pokes into the Pacific like a fang. Visit the remote, cocoa-dust beaches where rare sea turtles crawl from the seething ocean to nest. Here, masochists will enjoy camping beside the water to leave civilization and all its conveniences behind. Burn bucketfuls of used toilet paper, shiver in an infested bed, and wade crocodile-filled rivers…every single day!”
Lance Pototschnik and his friends must have booked their trip with that agency. Their incredibly affordable “vacation” was meant to be a relaxing time to meditate on the direction of their languid, aimless lives. Instead, they are introduced to hell and the insane diversity of its tortures.
Marooned on a remote sea turtle conservancy with a handful of fellow unanchored souls, Pototschnik, in his hilarious debut memoir, ponders who he essentially is, and what he is likely to become. In Pototschnik, those who have fallen prey to the desolation of broken dreams, the young and the listless, finally find a voice with the talent to cast out demons and turn them into laughs.
Beneath its shell, this rollicking, episodic story is also a treatise about finding your purpose, realizing your full potential, and learning to love your own life. Pototschnik’s very personal book happens to be the story we have all been hoping for.
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Satori in the Slipstream : Steve B Howard
Satori in the Slipstream
Satori in the Slipstream is a collection of dark stories that will take you to those places where the brutal clarity of truth is sometimes revealed.
Follow the tales of a young woman in Japan trying to escape her past in a Buddhist temple; a junkie street artist trying to draw away his demons with his art; a Japanese soldier confronting the horrific destruction and death in Hiroshima; a young hustler on the streets saying goodbye to his dead friend; and an office lady in Japan contemplating a fatal leap from the eighteenth story of her apartment building. All these stories and more.
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18 to 80 : Darryl W Lyons
18 to 80: A Simple and Practical Guide to Money and Retirement for all Ages
No one accidentally wins with money. It takes careful planning to avoid the money mistakes that derail so many folks today.
Darryl Lyons shares where many of those financial land mines are planted so you can move toward a secure future.
-Dave Ramsey best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio show host.
Guide to Investing : Shyam Bahadur
Guide to Investing in Stocks, Bonds, ETFs and Mutual Funds
The book covers all kinds of investments such as the stocks, bonds, ETFs and mutual funds. It inspires the readers by showing that investing does not necessarily require large funds and it is possible to have enough for retirement by investing in the market. Some of the topics covered are the following:
- stock market terminology, selection and analysis of stocks supplemented with real data from the internet business sites
- the terminology and the discussion of various kinds of bonds and the guidance in the selection of bonds for investment
- mutual funds types, ratings, risk parameters and the selection of real funds
- selection and analysis of ETFs
- asset allocation, diversification, rebalancing and model portfolios
- market volatility and crash
- economic and tax considerations in investing
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Jake, Lucid Dreamer : David J. Naiman
Jake, Lucid Dreamer
“A fantastical tale with a powerful message” raves SPR.
2018 Purple Dragonfly Book Award First Place winner for Middle Grade fiction
2018 International Book Award Silver Medal Winner Readers’ Favorite for Coming of Age
12-year-old Jake has been suppressing his heartbreak over the loss of his mother for the past four years. But his emotions have a way of haunting his dreams and bubbling to the surface when he least expects it. When Jake learns how to take control in his dreams, he becomes a lucid dreamer, and that’s when the battle really heats up.
Using his wits to dodge bullies by day and a nefarious kangaroo hopping ever closer by night, Jake learns about loss, bravery, the power of love, and how you cannot fully heal until you face your greatest fear. This uncompromising novel is a magical yet honest exploration of emotional healing after a devastating loss.
Described as a “poignant coming-of-age novel (that) offers a sensitive and honest examination of a child’s spiritual and emotional battles” by The BookLife Prize.
This moving story is in the genre of magical realism, a type of storytelling popularized by acclaimed authors such as Neil Gaiman, Rebecca Stead, Katherine Applegate, Wendy Maas, and Roald Dahl.
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Awakened by Blood : Lauryn L Hill
Dr. Sofia Pierce was still single at thirty-two. Not by choice but because her soul searched for the man she was certain didn’t exist.
Then one night, a tall lethal vampire walked into her all-night clinic disoriented. After a long night of treating him, he woke up to her sleeping beside him in a chair, holding his hand. When his electric blue eyes studied her, something inside her was awakened.
Gage Gallegos, a vampire most knew as Lucifer, woke up to the most gorgeous molten brown eyes he’d ever seen. But her scent was like a kick to the gut and it called to him.
Gage and Sofia are instantly drawn to each other. Even though they are like night and day, the pull was magnetic, too strong to deny. Sofia, a human, is overwhelmed when she finds herself deeply involved with a vampire most people would run from.
The Alliance, a supernatural police force made up of hybrids, vampires and humans, police the supernatural population in Seattle. Gage, and his brothers, the Phoenix Council, the founders of The Alliance, offer Sofia a job as their resident doctor. Sofia accepts the job because she needs a challenge and because she wants to learn more about their biology.
But it’s one of Gage’s bothers, Ambrose Kane, who is a challenge that she didn’t bargain for. His intense eyes watch and study her. She can’t seem to escape Ambrose and finds herself drawn to a man who makes her want to run rather than face him.
Then after an incident, she is ordered to learn self-defence from Ambrose. Sofia’s spunky personality and humor during her training sessions earn her the respect of the warriors of The Alliance. She quickly forms bonds and friendships with nearly eighty supernatural and human men.
Meanwhile, a killer is on the loose, who has taunted The Alliance for nearly two months. He targeted the warriors and innocent humans alike. But after a mass murder of almost thirty women, The Alliance realizes Sofia may be in danger because the killer has been tracking Gage. As they set up around the clock protection for Sofia, they discover she may be exactly who this killer is searching for.
But it’s the “why” that is disturbing.
And now Sofia and Gage are set on a path of discovery. They are forced to learn things about each other’s past that could tear them apart or bind them forever.
Gage owns Sofia’s heart, body, and soul.
But they may have a fight ahead of them as their world unravels.
Created By Blood and Pandora’s Proposal by Lauryn L Hill are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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