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To Raise A Clenched Fist To The Sky : T Thorn Coyle
To Raise A Clenched Fist To The Sky
1969: Magic. Tear gas. Revolution.
Eighteen year old Jasmine Jones, hereditary sorcerer, steps off a Greyhound bus in Oakland and walks straight into an uprising.
Battling the shadowy danger stalking her family and friends, Jasmine must shake up the Association of Magical Arts and Sorcery and find her place among the Black Panthers, who keep secrets of their own.
Book One of The Panther Chronicles: A thrilling urban fantasy series.
When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War Memoir : Glyn Haynie
Writing this book was the first time that I examined in detail my experiences with First Platoon in Vietnam. Over the past 47 years, I had never discussed it with my First Platoon brothers or even my best friend Mike Dankert, who was with me during it all. I don’t know which is more difficult, reliving the events of 1969 while writing the book or sharing my story.
It’s the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3rd Battalion/1st Infantry Regiment 11th Brigade Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who’d enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who’d all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time.
I share my experiences about weeks of boredom and minutes to hours of terror and surviving the heat, carrying a 60-pound rucksack, monsoons, a forest fire, a typhoon, building a firebase, fear, death and fighting the enemy while mentally, physically, and morally exhausted.
Finding My Platoon Brothers: Vietnam Then and Now by Glyn Haynie is also on Whizbuzz Books.
Seeds Of Hope : Debbie Tremel
Seeds Of Hope
Every day people around the world are dying by the thousands as storms, natural disasters, famines, diseases and violence escalate.
It may be too late to save the world, but the prophecies say there may be a way to create a new one, a world of peace, love, and kindness.
This tiny seed of hope is what drives Sophie, Daniel and the others in their alliance of families into the northern wilds where they face the challenges of learning to survive on their own, compounded by the daunting journey through their own hearts and fears.
If they survive the natural world and the evils that emanate from the decaying world they left behind, they will still have to face the question, can something beautiful grow from the damaged seeds of society?
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Naughty Rookie : Merill Crabtree
Naughty Rookie: Wild wild nights under the covers
Eden, a young Christian girl decided to go to school in New York.
On getting there she fell into the wrong group and became an escort. She met a wealthy client who urged her to become his personal toy and she agreed.
Two years later, she ran into James, a Sunday school teacher in a local church and fell in love with him. She tried to break her contract with the escort agency which was owned by a greedy woman but the agency refused to let her go.
The wealthy client also refused to let her go. Now someone is after her life and she had no idea if the escort agency or the wealthy client sent an assassin after her.
She had no choice to turn to James for help and she discovered that even James wasn’t who he claimed to be.
Only Humans Do : Lorraine Grandchamp
Only Humans Do
Athletic, handsome, debonair, an accomplished cook and stylish homemaker? Unfortunately David Ashurst is none of these. He’s newly separated and struggling to adapt to the single life when he meets Kate whose track record in the marital field isn’t exactly one of success.
Their friendship sees them through changes in their lives and together with other friends they ably demonstrate that when it comes to love and relationships they’re old enough to know better and young enough not to care that they should.
But there’s an old saying that man is the only animal that trips over the same stone twice and, if only humans do, then in his search for a lover-cum-housekeeper David seems determined to prove it’s untrue by tripping oh so many more times than that…
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Onwards Flows the River : Caroline Windsor
Onwards Flows the River
It is 1971. Hannah Matheson, whose affluent Quaker family lives in Devon, moves to a hostel in London to study for a degree. Her extravert and exuberant personality initially brings her into conflict with the hostel’s caustic deputy warden, Jo Ackroyd, whose abusive upbringing was very different from her own. In desperation Hannah persuades her old schoolfriend, Kate Deveraux, who, following the death of her parents, is often lonely living in her London flat, to come and live with her at the hostel.
Kate, a hospital receptionist, has long been valued by Hannah’s family as a calming influence upon their daughter and she is a regular visitor to their home. Kate’s unspoken affection for Hannah’s solicitor brother, Aidan, has grown over the years and she longs for him to notice her. Jo and Kate get on well from the start and Kate is determined to help Hannah overcome her antipathy to the deputy warden.
At Christmas Hannah invites Kate, Jo and Jo’s younger sister, Beth, to stay with her in her family’s holiday cottage in Devon. Beth, unlike her atheist sister Jo, has a deep spiritual awareness which is something she finds she has in common with both Kate and Aidan. Kate, however, soon realises, to her dismay, that her love for Aidan is clearly not reciprocated.
Hannah, meanwhile, resumes her close relationship with Daniel, a friend of Aidan’s, who is also a solicitor in the family firm – Mathesons. Her passionate nature, however, is constantly frustrated by him and she is driven to look elsewhere to satisfy her needs.
The book follows the relationship between the three women, as their inter-twining lives and loves threaten to destroy the friendship that unites them.
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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