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The Secret Broker : Simon Crane
The Secret Broker
On the North Pacific, a Japanese ship Shīsupiritto runs into trouble. The battering from the elements is the least of the captain’s concerns; he has his own excuses for allowing the concealment of cargo and unauthorised passengers. How did anyone learn the truth about the Shīsupiritto’s cargo?
Powerless against the brutal mercenaries that board his ship by helicopter, the captain meets Butakhan, a power-hungry and ruthless warmonger who kills one of the ship’s crew, and then leaves, taking the concealment with him.
Why? Meet Luca Voss the young Swiss man, an eligible, mysterious bachelor with whom JJ falls in love. JJ, an Anglo-Chinese twenty-eight year-old, intelligent and guarded, flirtatious and sexy, sets off with Luca on an epic journey. Realizing that she is on an odyssey and that it is too late to return home now, JJ is Luca’s right-hand woman as the battle commences.
A romance, action thriller, political novel, the narrative is woven from the attributes and concerns of the twenty-first century and reveals what lies behind the secrets of the Families, nations-states, and individual agendas that otherwise remain hidden from view.
Luca Voss is the instrument of the Families’ peacekeeping exercises as he power brokes complex strategies with the world’s movers and shakers, as well as being their financial markets guru and arbitrator between the Families.
These Thy Gifts : Vincent Panettiere
These Thy Gifts is a forbidden love story spanning 50 years between a priest and the widow of a mobster. It encompasses history, mystery, comedy, gangsters, beautiful women, war, and religion.
2006 is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for the future of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imagined.
As Trimboli examines his faith, he must also examine his past. This poignant new novel takes readers back fifty years to meet Trimboli as a young and passionate priest, ready to tackle the world. The church, however, has other plans and exiles him to a small town in New York State. It is there that he meets the intriguing and beguiling Rosalie LaMarca. The two will form a connection that will have lasting consequences for both their lives.
Trimboli’s adventures will take him to the front lines of Vietnam and back. He will encounter abuse in his time serving the Catholic Church, but he will also bear witness to moments of unimaginable grace.
Follow Trimboli as he confronts his past, his choices, and what it means to be a man of God.
A Woman To Blame and Shared Sorrows by Vincent Panettiere are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Henry and His Manners : Tracy Schlepphorst
Marie Antoinette’s Darkest Days : Will Bashor
This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family’s arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the “waiting room for the guillotine” because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half months would pass before she would finally stand trial and be convicted of the most ungodly charges.
Will Bashor traces the final days of the prisoner registered only as Widow Capet, No. 280, a time that was a cruel mixture of grandeur, humiliation, and terror. Marie Antoinette’s reign amidst the splendors of the court of Versailles is a familiar story, but her final imprisonment in a fetid, dank dungeon is a little-known coda to a once-charmed life. Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen’s life, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history.
Marie Antoinette’s Head by Will Bashor is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Stiger’s Tigers : Marc Alan Edelheit
Stiger’s Tigers
Winner of the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Bronze Award for Fantasy!!!
The empire has endured many centuries but is now threatened by multiple wars and a major rebellion in the South.
A nobleman from an infamous family, imperial legionary officer, and a born fighter… Captain Ben Stiger finds himself reassigned from a crack legion to the rebellion simmering in the South. Placed in command of a truly terrible company, the 85th Imperial Foot, he is unknowingly sent on a suicide mission to resupply an isolated outpost, the garrison of Vrell.
Along the way he must rebuild his new company, gain the respect of the men he leads, survive an assassination attempt, fight bandits, rebels, and an agent of an evil god. His companions on this journey of discovery and adventure are one of the few remaining elven rangers and a paladin on a quest for the High Father.
The battle to save the empire and the world begins here in the first book of this exciting new series!
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Grandma’s Face Tells Her Story : Elaine McKay
Grandma’s Face Tells Her Story
Grandma’s face has a lot to say. It’s her turn to put her grandchild to bed, but it’s her cartwheeling eyes, her twitchy nose and the useful gap in her front teeth that make up the real bedtime story.
An endearing and fun rhyming bedtime story that celebrates the special bond between grandchildren and grandparents.
The Catskinner : rcheydn
June 30, 1997
The date is forever fixed in the memory of Hong Kong people.
It was on that singular Monday that Britain handed the Crown Colony over to the People’s Republic of China.
The decision-making process leading to the change of sovereignty was often referred to as the Three-Legged Stool.
But serious doubts were expressed and in 1987, with only a decade remaining before the world as Hong Kong people knew it was to change, a fourth leg appeared.
Instead of ensuring stability it posed a unique danger to the lives of five and a half million local inhabitants and set in train a series of devastating events which threatened to unleash global chaos.
Now on the 20th anniversary of this momentous event the question is asked:
Could what is written in The CATSKINNER really have happened?
The Feathers by rcheydn is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Be Still the Water : Karen Emilson
Be Still the Water
An emotional, slow-burning story of family love and sacrifice, of secrets revealed and promises broken.
Set in 1906 along the unspoiled shores of Lake Manitoba, “Be Still the Water” brings us into the fold of the Gudmundsson Family—immigrants determined to begin life anew in the Icelandic farming and fishing community of Siglunes.
At the heart of the novel is dutiful Asta, the middle daughter who lives in the shadow of her siblings— fiery Signy, headstrong Leifur and sweet, naive Freyja.
When Freyja goes missing, Asta embarks on a quest to bring her sister home. She tells the family’s story some seventy years later, while on her deathbed, finally discovering the truth of what happened on those fateful days that set the course for her life and the lives of everyone she loved.
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A Knucklehead in 1920s Alaska : Norma Huss
A Knucklehead in 1920s Alaska
Nineteen-year-old Bill Collins travels to Alaska in the 1920s to work and save for college. He finds adventure, misadventure, and not much money. His temper gets him into scrapes and out of jobs. He faces hardships, finds friends, and has experiences that change a boy into a man.
During three summers and one winter, Bill survives hunger, earthquake, stomping caribou, and icicle frost. He learns about stopes, sluice boxes, and powder smoke. He finds friends, one who faces a bear for him, and enemies eager to knife him or smash his hand with a twenty-pound sledge. He has one lucky day and more than a few really bad days.
This is the story of one hot-headed young man determined to earn his own way, but in his own words, a true knucklehead.
“It’s a must read book for readers who are interested in history, adventure, the northern “Wild West”, memoirs or just a plain good story.”
“His story of how he and his buddy wire up a hotel in Alaska so it’ll have a 25V bulb in every room, is hysterical.”
“The author goes into great detail, which gives the reader a true picture of what life was like in the wilderness of Alaska.”
“It’s appropriate for the general reader. Truly a historic and informative piece.”
Quotes from five star reviews.
A bonus short mystery is included—Yesterday’s News.
Ava & The Trinity : C J Black
Ava Mara had no idea she was the Keeper of an Artifact till the Lady told her everything.
But the revelation came at a very high cost: a bloody assault on her family and the death of her only sibling. Despite the stupefaction and grief, Ava knew for sure she would not let the murderer off unpunished.
And ever since forcing her way in to be part of the Order Of Graves, Ava learned that everything was not as black and white as it seemed to be.