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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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Crime: A Small Town with Big Secrets : Michael Ace Smith
Crime: A Small Town with Big Secrets (novella)
When the King Family moves over from England to live in America, they say they have made the move so that Alex can make a new start after being made redundant. They seem to be a nice enough family, and they are soon accepted by the Kendalsett community where Alex is going to work as a mechanic in his own business. His wife, Linz, becomes a mobile hairdresser, and she has soon built up a sizeable clientele.
Their teenage children, Gemma and Jack, were not that keen to come over but were persuaded that it would be best to get as far away from Newcastle as possible so that they could make a new start.
But what secrets do they hide? Did they have anything to do with the murder of the young girl who died shortly before they left? And why suddenly is there a murder in the area they have moved into, which has never known a murder before?
Is one of them responsible for these murders? Or is it more than one of them?
This book will hold you in its grip from beginning to end and keep you guessing right up to the last page. Each member of the family carries a secret with them; only it might not be the same one.
If you enjoy crime thrillers, then Crime: A Small Town with Big Secrets is for you!
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So Alive After 55 : Theresa Fowler Webb
So Alive After 55 – Your Guide to the Finer Points of Active Adult Living
So Alive After 55 is a book about the finer points of Active Adult Community Living, written by the retired Vice President of 9 Active Adult Communities, Theresa Fowler Webb.
Based on more than 20 years of experience, Theresa talks about WHAT an Active Adult Community is, WHY you should consider the lifestyle and what you should KNOW before making a final decision to join one.
This easy read will educate while entertaining you with interviews of current residents and the advice they have for those considering this lifestyle.
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Fit for Joy : Valeria Teles
Fit for Joy: The Healing Power of Being You
First-prize fitness competitor and personal trainer Valeria Teles invites you to reflect on the idea that joy is an ever-present choice.
From a young age, Valeria yearned for a life that would bring her joy. She hoped to find it in relationships and a successful career, but neither brought a genuine smile to her face. She then discovered fitness, which became her escape – keeping her even further from the truth, until she could no longer live without joy.
During a meditative period away from the fitness world, Valeria learned that exercise and enjoyment belong together, and that forgiveness is essential for personal healing.
Now a student of Buddha’s teachings, she shares her vision for conventional fitness that is integrated with emotional and spiritual well-being.
Fit for Joy will inspire you to establish a harmonious mind-body connection that is based on self-knowledge and self-love. Insightful and tender, this book will show you how freedom, joy, and peace come from courage, and that courage can be found by being true to yourself.
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