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Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona : Al & Sunny Lockwood
Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona
In this feel-good travel memoir two veteran travelers explore the wonders of grand European cities discovering colorful characters, amazing architecture, fascinating art, and mouthwatering cuisine.
Join Al and Sunny Lockwood as they ride the choppy green waters of Venice’s Grand Canal. Visit St. Mark’s Basilica, glittering with gold and candlelight.
Stroll with them through romantic Florence letting its Renaissance art refresh your heart.
In Rome, visit the Sistine Chapel still vibrant with Michelangelo’s unique paintings. Stand in the Colosseum and imagine gladiators battling to the death-roar of the crowd.
Enter the most visited monument in Spain: Barcelona’s jaw-dropping Sagrada Familia and feel your soul expand in its stark and stunning beauty.
Roam shaded side streets filled with unusual shops and sweet-smelling bakeries.
Ramble across magical bridges and through hidden squares.
Relish evening meals that last until the stars come out.
Let gelato set your taste buds dancing while accordion music starts your toes a tapping.
Come along with these two spirited explorers as they make surprising discoveries in both famous and little-known neighborhoods, and share their delight in seeing the world anew.
Buy Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona today and embark on a breathtaking adventure for the young at heart.
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The Pickwick Club Disaster : John E. Keefe
The Pickwick Club Disaster: Boston’s Deadliest Building Collapse
The temperature outside still hovered at a balmy seventy degrees, but inside the crowded, smoke-filled, second floor speakeasy, it was a different story. Several people would later remember the room being decidedly hot and stuffy.
The five-piece orchestra had just finished playing a lively Charleston, and dozens of couples—men in their shirt sleeves and women in the latest, flapper-style dresses—remained on the floor while they waited for the last dance of the evening. The orchestra leader was skimming through his sheet music, trying to decide what to play, when the lights suddenly grew dim, flickered a few times, and then went out, plunging the room into darkness.
A moment later the old, five story building began to shake, sending fears throughout the crowd that an earthquake had struck.
The first anguished screams were quickly drowned out by the ear-splitting screech of boards and timbers being torn apart, then the ripping, tearing noise gave way to a thunderous roar as the ceiling fell and countless tons of bricks and debris started to crash down from the upper floors. Terrified patrons rushed for the door. Many of them didn’t make it. The floor gave way beneath them sending everyone and everything—tables, chairs, bricks, beams, and plaster—tumbling downward like an avalanche into a pitch-black abyss. No one could have imagined that the collapse had been triggered by vibrations set off by dancers doing the Charleston.
The Pickwick Club Disaster spotlights the negligence and the deliberate deceptions that brought the building to that sorry state. It describes the hurried investigation, the criminal trial, and the frantic efforts of public officials to distance themselves from blame, and it takes a glimpse into the lives of each of the forty-four people who perished.
Surviving Toxic In-Laws : Miriam Davids
Surviving Toxic In-Laws : The Big Bullies
Ever wonder why most people around the world don’t get along with their in-laws? Is it all about the adage that has been in existence for ages – “When you marry someone, you do not marry the individual. Instead, you marry the person’s entire family”? If so, should this give some in-laws the right to be cruel and nasty to new members of the family?
This book introduces readers to simple ways they can recognize, handle and survive toxic in-laws while protecting their marriage.
Surviving Toxic In-Laws is a couple’s guide to building and creating a more united front as a couple. Written for all couples, married or not, that desire to uproot any ounce of toxicity sprouting from their in-laws.
Written for couples currently under the wrath of toxic in-laws and are eager to acquire ways on how to cope with toxic in-laws; gain tips on how to counter their toxic in-laws’ evil actions with wits about them, especially if they want their marriage to survive against all the odds.
This book gives readers:
- Practical insights on how to deal with the toxic parent in laws.
- Everyday steps for handling overt controllers, manipulators, and narcissists
- Tips to tackle different issues.
The RIGHT Approach : Mike Wallach
The RIGHT Approach: Positive and Purposeful Parenting
As parents grimly discover all too often, the terrible twos is a challenging phase of a child’s life that seems to last well beyond its nominal time frame. For parents who feel that progress with a child’s behavior is a hard-fought battle with rare victories, it’s time to adopt The RIGHT Approach.
This brief and simple guide is designed to help frustrated parents make positive progress and improve the relationship with their children. Basic principles of applied behavioral analysis are presented in a practical fashion, giving parents the strategies and tools they need to find success at home.
This reference guide begins with an examination of the current situation and an adjustment of the mind-set to focus on positives. These adjustments are tested with the boss analogy, which compares reactions to a child to reactions to a boss in a professional setting.
A breakdown of the five functions of human behavior sheds light on the reasons behind a child’s moods and actions. Capped off with behavioral response strategies suitable for a variety of situations, The RIGHT Approach will grant troubled parents the techniques and concepts needed to improve relationships with even the most stubborn of children.
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Fudge and Smudge: Pet Detectives : Gary Foster
During the day Fudge and Smudge were guinea pigs, just like any other guinea pigs that you might see at a friend’s house or in a pet shop.
However, when the sun goes down and night arrives, and all humans are fast asleep in their beds, Fudge and Smudge have a very special job to do.
For Fudge and Smudge are pet detectives. Their mission to patrol the village of Barley Close protecting and serving all the pets who live there.
Roger the Rabbit Racer, Kirsty and the Tree, and James and the Mountain by Gary Foster are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Picture : Roger Bray
A warehouse in Japan used as an emergency shelter in the aftermath of the 2011 Tsunami. A distraught, young Japanese woman in dishevelled clothes sits on a box, holding her infant daughter. Ben, a US rescue volunteer, kneels in front of her offering comfort. They hug, the baby between them. The moment turns into an hour as the woman sobs into his shoulder; mourning the loss of her husband, her home, the life she knew. A picture is taken, capturing the moment. It becomes a symbol; of help freely given and of the hope of the survivors. The faces in the picture cannot be recognised, and that is how Ben likes it. No celebrity, thanks not required.
But others believe that being identified as the person in the picture is their path to fame and fortune. Ben stands, unknowingly, in their way, but nothing a contract killing cannot fix.
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Didn’t Get Frazzled : David Z Hirsch
Didn’t Get Frazzled
A fictional story about life and love in medical school, Didn’t Get Frazzled takes the reader on a four year adventure into the bowels of Bellevue Hospital and the equally strange world of the mid ‘90s New York City singles scene.
“Echoing the comedic tone of the 1989 comedy Gross Anatomy, the novel’s affection for this uniquely strange experience makes it the best fictional portrayal of med school since ER. Readers will savor the experience.” – BlueInk Review (starred review)
International Book Award Bronze Medal Winner Readers’ Favorite (Fiction – Humor/Comedy) and INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
Medical student Seth Levine faces escalating stress and gallows humor as he struggles with the collapse of his romantic relationships and all preconceived notions of what it means to be a doctor. It doesn’t take long before he realizes not getting frazzled is the least of his problems.
Seth encounters a student so arrogant he boasts that he’ll eat any cadaver part he can’t name, an instructor so dedicated she tests the student’s ability to perform a gynecological exam on herself, and a woman so captivating that Seth will do whatever it takes to make her laugh, including regale her with a story about a diagnostic squabble over an erection.
Didn’t Get Frazzled captures with distressing accuracy the gauntlet idealistic college grads must face to secure an MD and, against the odds, come out of it a better human being.
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In the Rhyme of Life : Jacqueline Rae
In the Rhyme of Life
I was in the fourth grade when I started writing my rhymes, which I thought to be poetry at the time. My mother had written a few poems, that I thought were really good, and I simply wanted to be like her. Or maybe I just wanted her to like me. I’m sure I thought that this could be a way for her and me to have something special together. A shared interest, just the two of us, but that was really it, the elementary reason, and the beginning of my writings. With six kids, special attention was somewhat rare.
I grew up during the Great Depression and much of what I wrote at that time, may not have had tremendous literary content, given my age, and the hard times I grew up in. I remember my early writings to have had a few rhyming lines about this or that, similar in style and verse, as with nursery rhymes…but nothing too special in topic or theme…until I wrote “Dear Sweet Mom” at eighteen years of age. Sometime after writing that poem, I submitted it to a local radio station. To my surprise, it was chosen to be read over the air waves. Sadly however, my Mother never heard the broadcast as she and I did not have telephones at that time, and we lived so far away from each other then.
For me, I felt it was a turning point in my life. I had been writing in verse, and rhyme, and even wrote a few songs in my early years, plus a few that I considered real poems. Over time I realized I had developed somewhat of a habit of writing things down as life presented itself to me. I just wrote as things happened…or after they happened. I wrote a lot about family. My family, yes, but it could be yours too. That’s the thing about poetry…like music, it can make you laugh, it can give you hope, it can make you cry, but also comfort you in the process. They can tell all kinds of stories. Are they my stories, yes…here again, they could be your stories too. Poetry, like music, is universal.
The Owlmen : S. E. England
The Owlmen
THE OWLMEN – NEW FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING OCCULT HORROR TRILOGY, FATHER OF LIES!
IF THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL COME FOR YOU…
Ellie Blake is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction – an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor.
However, there is disquiet in the village. Tanners Dell has a terrible secret, one so well guarded no one speaks its name. But in her search for meaning and very much alone, Ellie is drawn to traditional witchcraft and determined to pursue it. All her life she has been cowed. All her life she has apologised for her very existence. And witchcraft has opened a door she could never have imagined. Imbued with power and overawed with its magick, for the first time she feels she has come home, truly knows who she is.
Tanners Dell though, with its centuries old demonic history…well, it’s a dangerous place for a novice…
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Upon Broken Wings : E. L. Reedy & A. M. Wade
Upon Broken Wings
To save their souls, a high-functioning Autistic boy, unaware that he is dead, must convince a suicidal comatose boy to choose to live.
Bound by a dark act of hate and despair, high school freshmen, Andrew and Kiernan, learn that their untimely deaths did not bring an end to their pain, but only began the suffering of those left behind.
While his lost memories return, Andrew must master seemingly impossible feats, both spiritual and physical.
As a dark spirit stalks Kiernan through the borderlands of life and death, he must also face the pain his actions have caused his loved ones. To save both their soul.
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