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Violet Blue : Liz Charnes
Violet Blue: A Fairy Tale
An insecure princess. A thoughtless prince. A capricious fairy. And the One True Wolf.
When Violet Blue, the youngest sister of Snow White and Rose Red, married her Prince Edward, she believed that she had found her One True Love and was beginning her eternal Happily Ever After.
But when Edward accepts an enchanted honeymoon from the notoriously capricious fairy Mirabella, things begin to go awry. Fairies never give anything without a catch, and for Violet and Edward, that catch was a memory. The honeymoon was perfect, but once they returned to their castle they would not remember it.
How important are memories, anyway? Do they really matter? Besides, Shouldn’t True Love conquer all? But when Red Riding Hood tells Violet that Mirabella’s gift was actually a curse and that Violet was Happily Ever Aftering with a prince who was not her own. Violet sets out to find out the truth. Has she married her One True Love? Is she truly living her Happily Ever After?
Or is it all a wicked scheme concocted by the One True Wolf to steal her away?
Who You Calling ‘Nappy Head’? : Talita Bay
Who You Calling ‘Nappy Head’?
Author Talita Bay believes in celebrating everyone’s natural hair.
To emphasize the damage women do to their hair in an attempt to fit in, Bay created an unforgettable book featuring a head of hair named Natural.
Natural and the girl she’s attached to face horrible taunts from children who call them “nappy head.”
Soon Natural is subjected to all kinds of torturous procedures in the salon designed to straighten her out and make her less curly and frizzy.
Will Natural give in to her malicious persecutors or stand strong?
“Who You Calling Nappy Head?” will help readers of both sexes understand the reasons cultural expectations can be so toxic. And it shows men, women, boys and girls how important it is to be kind to your hair and to yourself.
The Goliath Code : Suzanne Leonhard
The Goliath Code: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller
“The characters are compelling and real, the setting devastatingly dystopian, and the action-packed story, as original as anything I’ve read in a very long time. This is a big event series that should be a big event Hollywood franchise.” —Jim Thompson, Original Content
THE END HAS COME AND THERE’S NOWHERE TO HIDE
In the aftermath of a cataclysmic eruption, America becomes a wasteland trapped in a suffocating volcanic winter.
In sixteen-year-old Sera Donner’s isolated Pacific Northwest town, thousands are dead and hundreds are missing–including her own mother.
With precious resources running low, neighbor turns against neighbor, sparking a brutal civil war, and when the new survivalist regime decides Sera’s disabled brother isn’t fit to live, she picks up the rifle she’s vowed never to touch and fights to defend those she loves.
Mysterious Micah Abrams is Sera’s only comfort in the chaos; Micah clings to an inexplicable hope that Sera finds hard to resist but difficult to understand. She longs to let down her guard and reveal to him a secret that’s tearing her apart. But with the stakes higher than ever, can Sera really trust a schoolyard bully suddenly turned prophet?
As the battle over control of the community reaches a fevered pitch, a powerful military leader marches into town with an imposing force, offering food, water, and promises of salvation. Everyone thinks the worst is finally over.
They’re wrong.
What readers are saying about The Goliath Code:
“Best book I’ve had the pleasure of picking up in a very long time.”
“An epic thriller!”
“An intense emotional ride that I didn’t want to end!”
“Took me back to the days when Frank Peretti was in his best days.”
“If you only read one book…this is the one!”
“I couldn’t read the pages fast enough!”
“Love the biblical references and the thrill all wrapped up in one book.”
“Great for anybody who wants a good read and has an interest in the end times.”
“Highly recommend!”
“Vivid descriptions make the story unfold as if watching a movie.”
“You can’t help but be drawn to consider (or reconsider) what the Book of Revelation is all about.”
“A riveting story from beginning to end! Loved it!”
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Beautiful Imperfections : Marjorie Vernelle
Beautiful Imperfections
Wabi sabi, a Japanese term for finding beauty in imperfection, perfectly describes Keith James, “the girl with the boys’ names.”
She arrives in Toronto from the Near Northside of Omaha to go to university, where she encounters two men who will echo through her life.
Like a piece of raku pottery amidst the porcelain, she is unusual and unexpected in the high-end auction houses and fine art galleries of Toronto and San Francisco.
Finding her way to success, she loses her way in love. However, through her tangled relationships with her mentor and one-time lover, a brilliant art historian of Haitian origins, and the handsome Jewish art dealer whom she marries, she ultimately discovers that art, like love, redeems and love, like beauty, is imperfect.
So reads the synopsis I wrote for the back of the book. It gives a fair summary, but Beautiful Imperfections is much more. It is not just a tale about the fight to succeed in the complicated and sometimes treacherous business dealings in the art world. It is about the art itself, those pieces of beauty that delight our eye, inspire us, and call us to become grander than we might have envisioned.
Art drives three talented but imperfect beings to self-actualization, changing their relationships to one another and to themselves.
Finally, Beautiful Imperfections is a love story, a love story in which art holds the key.
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Elmo Ritz : Frank X Cronan
Elmo Ritz
A missing divinity student found in a freezer, tabloid trash picking up the story and running with the cannibal angle and a heavenly soothsayer promoting his all herbal ‘Satanic Interceptor’ collide with a reporter trying to sort it all out despite Betty Boop at her meanest, L.A. cops who get it all wrong, a Mexican sheriff who never quits and an agreeable little dude who steals boats and watches way too much American television. The ending will blow you away.
Recent Reviews of Elmo Ritz:
“fast paced and quick witted.”
“had a very hard time putting this book down.”
“this book keeps moving and really never stops.”
“a must read for anyone interested in action or crime novels.”
“feels like the walls are closing in on you.”
“filled with cliff hangers.”
“packed with many tightly woven mini-dramas.”
“an e-ticket ride for fun and horror.”
“the story itself is highly creative.”
“this book will hold your attention to the very end.”
“clever prose and crafty witch hunts.”
The Book Of Irvine : Grandfather Nebulous
The Book Of Irvine – A Contemptuous Cargo
The Book of Irvine deals with the smuggling adventures of Irvine Bucklefoot and his crew.
They sail their vessel throughout the great oceans of the Hidden Lands and undertake a particularly long and arduous contract to deliver a certain contemptuous cargo, which begins to throw up all sorts of unforeseen circumstances…
Recommended for fans of Tolkien, Lovecraft and Pratchett.
Sere : E.A. Charette
Sere
A military family from FT. Rucker, Alabama is enjoying a much needed vacation.
Unknown to George and Jennifer, they are being ruthlessly hunted down by a powerful criminal syndicate.
The FBI and other agencies are desperately trying to find them first.
Haley, their nine year old daughter, just wants to go camping with her parents.
Mission to Recovery : Diane Winters
Jon Forrest retired from the service and wandered around the country doing repairs for veterans and finding the homeless a place to go.
He knew then he would return home and build a retreat where he could help the homeless find their respect and worth once again.
His neighbor put him in touch with Lily Canon, a beautiful retired veteran that jumped at the chance to help Jon make his dreams come true.
What he didn’t count on was the threat of a dangerous neighbor attempting to take his land away from him.Building his dream became a nightmare as he ended up fending off his neighbor, Craig McKinney.
Jon attempts to fulfill his dream of taking care of the homeless veterans in his community while surviving a house fire and other atrocities Craig commits because he believes the land is rightfully his.
Come along as we follow Jon attempting to build his dream while finding a helping hand by the name of Lily. They both learn to depend on each other and use that strength to build Veterans Helping Veterans.
Beyond The Window by Diane Winters is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Devil in Humanity : Philip D. Hume
The Devil in Humanity
An archaic covenant hungry for its dues. A journalist who treads the boundary between lunacy and lucidity. A publican who entertains as a socialite and a sociopath. Visions that glimpse unfolding possibilities and potential. Old feelings that underscore the blight in mankind. Events and experiences that dance between madness and reason.
Past, present and future conflate, as fate and a centuries-old riddle seek their ominous discovery where Scotland and Scandinavia find a fiery border. All must be confronted as competing destinies strive to bring new beginnings to a legacy that dwells within the sleepy majesty of the Shetland Isles.
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Beyond The Window : Diane Winters
Edna and George Chessmore had worked all their lives and were both successful with their individual businesses. They lost their son tragically a few years previously and worked harder to hide the pain.
After George dies from a massive heart attack, it takes several months for Edna to be able to work once again. When she finally returns to the office, things begin to unravel as she finds someone embezzling large sums of money and she is being followed day and night.
Working with investigators, hiring a body guard and even calling in the FBI didn’t keep her from being secreted away for weeks. Embezzlement, extortion and kidnapping keep everyone searching and digging for answers.
Things begin to unravel as Edna remained missing and people begin to get nervous and make mistakes.
It all hinges on a missing file and everyone wants it, no matter what it takes.
Hang on as Chessmore Industries remains under duress for months due to Edna’s disappearance.
Mission to Recovery by Diane Winters is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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