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Freeing Linhurst : Al Cassidy
Freeing Linhurst
A Journey to Uncover the Truth
Linhurst State School and Hospital, the abandoned mental asylum in the small town of Spring Dale, has been shrouded in mystery as long as Jack Alexander can remember. Before her untimely passing, his mother — an investigative journalist for the local paper — had begun to inquire about the truth behind its crumbling walls. Devastated, Jack is determined to uncover the truth about Linhurst no matter what.
As he digs deeper, Jack unearths powerful secrets that have long been buried by patronizing adults and a modern day plot that threatens to destroy the property in just days and erase the memories of those who once called Linhurst home.
Working against the clock — and the better judgement of his best friend Celia — Jack slips into the abandoned property…on Halloween night. What they discover could destroy Linhurst forever or spark a revolution that could change the future of Spring Dale.
A Dangerous Discovery : Zachary Brock
A Dangerous Discovery
Can Ace and Zeke survive the discovery of a lifetime: a secret the Vatican will stop at nothing to protect?
Marion (Ace) Acevedo grew up on the streets as a Latin American. The things he had to do to survive as a child, no one should have to do, but a chance encounter changed his life.
Now he is the face of an international corporation. Wealth, social standing and travel is what his life is all about. He loves what he does, and with the guiding hand of Ezekiel (Zeke) Smith, his mentor and friend, his life cannot get much better.
Unbeknownst to Ace and Zeke, the acquisition of a new company in Peru holds a secret the Vatican does not want discovered. Special agents from the Holy See will do anything to stop this secret from being released.
As Ace gets closer to uncovering this dangerous secret, he must use every skill he was taught from the streets and from his mentor. But, even with an unknown stranger looking out for him, Ace may lose it all, including his life.
Hometown : Matthew Keville
Hometown
It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season.
It happens every Fall. Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren’t found at all.
Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories. There’s something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry.
Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start…changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.
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Twisted Tales : L.H.A
Twisted Tales
The twenty young adult flash fiction stories featured in this collection of twisted tales will creep inside your mind and stay with you long after you’ve finished the book.
Author L. H. A brings a visual sensibility to twenty twisted stories about the blurring of boundaries between the realistic and the impossible. In one of the stories featured, a girl believes she is “defective” because she cannot speak. But she finds a mysterious notebook that will lead to a magical adventure and will reveal the truth about who she really is.
Other stories feature a boy mustering the courage to stand up to a bully, a man determined to change the world, a fairy who ends up hunted by humans, and an old man confined by a debilitating disease.
Each of the twenty stories features not just a fantastical concept but a message that will resonate with readers of any age!
Ritual : V L Young
Ritual
Ritual follows Nikki, a quiet young woman who works to survive. When her best friend Alexia is kidnapped by Immortals, she does everything she can to save her.
Along with her boyfriend Cole and werewolf Conrad, they must fight to stop an ancient Ritual from being performed that will unleash new terrors into the world.
Will Nikki be able to stop the Ritual and what will she uncover before time runs out?
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Stockholm Ransom : S.K. Vall
Stockholm Ransom
Stockholm Ransom is a lush, vibrant, thriller…the tale of a young woman whose kidnaping turned into a lustful, passionate, breath-taking affair.
Feisty 26 year-old Sukhi Rai has just escaped her captor, having been kidnapped and sexually abused. Once back safe and secure with her wealthy family, Sukhi tries to come to terms with what has happened to her.
Dr Meller, the Rai family’s new, young and handsome therapist encourages her to talk about her captor in order to aid her recovery.
But something isn’t quite right with Sukhi. Her relationship with her kidnapper was not all it seems and she is diagnosed with Stockholm Syndrome.
Determined to discover the identity of her kidnapper, she undertakes her own dangerous investigation only to uncover a whole hornet’s nest of family lies, betrayal and secrets.
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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