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Yavapai County Line : A. G. Graham
Yavapai County Line
Yavapai County Line is a family saga and is the first book of the West of the Divide Series, which centers around the Stewart famly who settled in the west in the 1800’s. Yavapai County Line explores the physical, mental, and emotional challenges that confront human beings at home and abroad during times of war. It is the fictional account of one family and how they must pull together to survive under extraordinary circumstance. The novel centers itself around two cousins, L.J. Stewart and Elizabeth Hayden. While L.J. fights for survival during World War Two, Elizabeth is left alone with three small children.
The story opens in 1917; five year old L.J. is the youngest son of Jack Stewart, an elderly plainsman who’s built one of the largest ranches in Yavapai County in Arizona. After the death of his father the boy is raised by his Lakota mother and much older brother on their ranch in the high plains of the Bradshaw Mountains. His cousin Elizabeth lives close by with her parents in Prescott, Arizona. After the unexpected death of Lizzie’s mother, she is raised by an alcoholic father and Willimina Jefferson, her mother’s closest friend.
In 1941, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor Elizabeth’s husband Frank volunteers for the Marines and she returns to teaching in order to support her family. L.J. is sent overseas and eventually stationed in England to prepare for the upcoming Normandy Invasion. He meets and falls in love with Katherine, a young Red Cross volunteer. As the battle that will determine the fate of Europe emerges these two lovers must cherish every moment spent together. It is up to all of them to rebuild once the inevitable damage is done.
Although this conflict is fought abroad, the lives of those left at home hang in the balance as well, just as they do today. Mothers, fathers, wives, and children wait while their loved ones fight for survival. It is their courage, love, and will to overcome adversity that bind them together.
Roscoe Hammer : Dave Gallemore
Roscoe Hammer
In 1948, in Mitchell, Missouri, a small town of ornate garden gates, bearded iris and harmless gossip, bad things shouldn’t happen. But too soon and too painfully, eight-year-old Roscoe Hammer learns that they do.
His baby sister is stricken with a sudden, life-altering illness and as her condition worsens, his family is overcome with despair. While his mother drifts into depression, his father struggles to fill the void. When Roscoe embarks on a plan to help the family heal, he finds himself in the middle of a series of interconnected mysteries. Who killed Crazy George Mabry’s little dog? Who beat George with a tree branch and left him for dead in Harmony Park? Who – or what – lives in the abandoned shed behind Gertie Paulson’s grocery store? And who shot and killed the town’s bully?
Roscoe’s search for the answers – often in the companionship of his best friend, Fatty Gilchrist – is at times frightening, laughable, heart-rending and heart-warming. When all the “facts” are in, when he fears that he alone is in possession of the whole truth, he runs headlong into a lesson that will affect his life forever: There is no such thing as the whole truth and the part of realty we cannot see is often more important than that which we can.
Walk the streets of Mitchell, Missouri with Roscoe and his dog Ranger and his friend Fatty, and make their hometown your own. Listen as they try to decide what is right and just and then reflect on your own sense of the same. And then learn again – because you have always known it but have only forgotten – nothing shapes us like the things that happen to us, the people we meet, and the secrets we keep when we are children.
..”. Gallemore has conjured a rich, resonant growing-up tale that celebrates the depth and diversity of Middle America. His novel provides an array of lovely musing moments … a striking, thought-provoking literary debut.” -Kirkus Reviews
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Tristan McCarthy and The Invisible City : Tim Gordon
Ten-year-old Tristan McCarthy is just like any other orphan living in London’s Candlewick Children’s Home.
Well, perhaps a little smarter. But how is it that a simple stage magician named The Great Elias has the power to send him to the Other World of Rorrim?
And why does this magician think Tristan has the ability to not only find The Invisible City, but save it? And why am I asking you all these questions? Sometimes, magic is real. Age Range: 8 – 12 years Grade Level: 3 – 7
Autumn 1066 : Jack Eason
Down the centuries the British Isles has always been seen by invaders as a legitimate target for exploitation. This novella concerns the last few weeks of Anglo-Saxon occupation, ending on the 14th of October, 1066.
In Autumn 1066, author Jack Eason gives a great sense of ‘place’, of detail. The reader is right ‘there’ in that poignant year, marching, shivering with September cold (as ‘…no warming fires were allowed lest ‘enemy spies would soon spot their approach.’)
From the very first few lines, Eason, practising his unique drycraft, begins to weave his particular brand of magic on his reader. Eason glamour’s with well-crafted dialogue, drawing his reader into the time and into the action. To accomplish this, the author proffers a gentle blend of informative nomenclature coupled with familiar speech, to ease the reader into his story without distancing with words too unfamiliar, which is a criticism frequently made of Bernard Cornwell’s epics. I long to read more. – Martin Bradley
Turning Point, Globular Van der Graff’s Goblin Tales for Adults, The Forgotten Age, The Next Age, The Guardian, Céleste, Race Against Time, The Magisters and The Forgotten People by Jack Eason are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The GingerBread House : James Richard
The GingerBread House
Set in a small town during the 1900’s, The Gingerbread House is a Historical Literary Fiction grounded in nostalgia, mirth, and true love.
When a journalist comes home from Europe to take over the town newspaper from his sister, he becomes infatuated with the local people and their stories.
From an orphaned young girl to a threatening politician to a mysterious and beautiful woman, each individual has a tale to tell in this anthology of brief yet captivating fictional vignettes, each of which rings all too familiar.
The Gingerbread House is very much like gingerbread itself – just as tasty whether one delves into it a bit at a time or all at once.
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Sentinels of the Night : Anita Dickason
Sentinels of the Night
FBI Tracker Cat Morgan has an unusual talent, one she has successfully concealed, even from her fellow agents. That is—until she finds a body with a strange symbol carved on the forehead during a stop in Clinton, Mississippi and crosses paths with the town’s rugged police chief, Kevin Hunter.
Despite his instant attraction to the sexy agent, Kevin is suspicious of her presence at the crime scene and isn’t buying her dubious explanations. He wants her out of the investigation and out of his town.
The discovery of another mutilated body with the same symbol sends Cat back to Clinton, and this time she isn’t leaving. To stop the killer, Cat must find a way to overcome Kevin’s distrust and will face an impossible impasse—truth or lies.
But will either one matter, when the killer fixates on her for his next sacrifice?
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The Princess : Sara Loughrige
The Princess
In the land of Andrion lie the three Kingdoms: Baltion, Castion, and Destion. With tension between the lands thickening and inner turmoil raging, the Kings must lead their people towards prosperity or watch as their country burns.
Book 1- The Princess
Kaelin never wanted to be a Princess. With a father who is overprotective of his spirited daughter, his efforts to reign her in only drive her beyond the castle walls. Seeking out adventure with her childhood friends in tow, she struggles to find balance between her duties as the Princess and her desire for freedom.
Junkyard Lucy : Tony Nesca
Junkyard Lucy
Junkyard Lucy is a collection of stories by underground writer Tony Nesca. Stylistically alternating between Nesca’s unique free-flow style, full of that incredible, rhythmic prose that only he can do, and street-tough, short declarative sentences, the writing shows incredible range.
The themes are varied and widespread – from love,sex, music, death, old age, rebellious youth and everything in-between, Junkyard Lucy is a subversive celebration of being alive, a romantic, sexually charged discourse on life, unfettered and free.
If I Weren’t With You : Rosie J. Pova
“Mama, if I weren’t born, what would you do?” Willy starts a conversation with Mama Bear while he’s on the move, acting like a natural youngster. In a series of simple and direct questions, the bear cub seeks and receives his mother’s reassurance of love and security as the two take a walk in the forest. Mama Bear uses imagery of the forest to communicate her feelings to her cub.
“A sweet bedtime tale reminiscent of “Guess How Much I Love You?” that explores important themes of fear and loss in a gentle and accessible way.” ~ Karla Valenti, Children’s Writer
The Adventures of PJ and Split Pea : S.D. Moore
The Adventures of PJ and Split Pea Vol. III: In the Pink
The award winning Adventures of PJ and Split Pea returns in a four volume fun filled set. Now readers can enjoy three stories, plus coloring book of the hilarious antics of little PJ and his wise cracking British Parrot Split Pea in one collection for a low price. Holy hummingbirds!
That’s four books in one!
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