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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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The Bacchus Virus : K.C. Orvik
The Bacchus Virus
All Kari wants to do is hate her job quietly for the next thirty years, try to salvage her marriage, and occasionally hang out with her fabulous friend, James. But, as things tend to do, it all goes to hell.
A back alley buggering here, an over excited exhibitionist there. It’s nothing Kari hasn’t seen or heard before as a 911 dispatcher. But something about the increasing frequency with which these events are occurring makes Kari wonder what might really be going on.
Before anyone can realize the danger, a pandemic of rapacious lunatics has taken over the city, leaving Kari in a fight for her survival and her sanity. Because the infected aren’t just at risk of losing their lives, but also their minds. Their very sense of self is on the line. As the surrounding population rapidly succumbs to the spreading virus, she teams up with the few other survivors she feels like she can trust.
The city has fallen into chaos, and they’ve been cut off from the outside world. No one knows if help is on the way, let alone if it exists at all. Cornered, and with limited survival skills, they must come up with a plan to reach a safe haven. Someplace to ride out the storm. But the infected aren’t the only problem, and the biggest threat of all is much closer than Kari realizes.
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No Dancing, No Dancing : Denis Dragovic
No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis
What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?
No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we can better respond to the emerging global humanitarian crisis.
Meeting young entrepreneurs striving to build their businesses, listening to tribal leaders give unvarnished views of foreign aid or negotiating the release of a kidnapped colleague, this riveting work brings the reader into the global humanitarian crisis while engaging with questions of cultural imperialism, Western aid models and foreign interventions.
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Red is The Royal Blood : Tshiama Nambombe
Red is The Royal Blood
During the mid-sixteenth century, a king, his daughter, his brother and some civil servants admire the work of a young artist in an African kingdom. The artist has sculpted a stunning likeness of the princess. The king is so pleased with the artist’s work that he promises to give him anything he would like in return. The artist, in love with the king’s daughter, asks to marry the princess. Will the king honour the artist’s request?
A man recently appointed as the king’s commander-in-chief of the royal army has been charged with deterring all future rebel activities in the kingdom. He is vehemently against a marriage between the artist and the princess. He claims that royal blood must marry only those with royal blood. Could there be another reason for his opposition? Could he also be interested in the princess?
The commander-in-chief will stop at nothing to keep the artist and the princess apart. Will the artist, a peasant, be able to escape his wrath?
While many believe the artist and princess should marry, some will stop at nothing to prevent such a union, because Red is the Royal Blood.
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The Promise : Anne Jean Michele
The Promise
Anger, bitterness and selfishness seem in control and must surely win. Condemnation must command. Yet does it?
Amidst difficulties that should bring down even the strongest, occasional gut-busting laughter slivers through. Is the promise even possible?
A love-story, shaky, yet deeply satisfying. Shock that will rock the soul. Amazing how a hideous tragedy that elicits tears of anguish can take your breath away in incredible beauty. Life.
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Crime: Violence Knows No Boundaries : Michael Ace Smith
Crime: Violence Knows No Boundaries (novella)
Pine Ridge is a small town, unaccustomed to violence of any kind. Here the people believe that crimes of brutality only happen in big cities and distant places. When the gory details of a dismembered body found on the edge of town start to trickle through to the residents, it triggers deep fear.
For the recently appointed Sherriff, Bob McCallum, the murder creates a test not just of his policing skills but also his ability to maintain support among a community that still sees him as an outsider. McCallum had hoped that a quiet rural town would provide him with an opportunity to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and rebuild it again. This act of brutality now threatens to destroy his career and any chance he may have had of reestablishing his life. At the same time as hunting for a twisted killer, he is also forced to confront the fact that in Pine Ridge he may always be considered an outsider.
A tale in which violence and loneliness overlap and make us question how deep community ties really run. Just how quickly will fear lead to finger pointing and false accusations?
If you enjoy crime thrillers, then Violence Knows No Boundaries is for you!
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