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From Scratch : C.E. Hilbert
From Scratch
Maggie McKitrick loves everything about her new life in Gibson’s Run, Ohio—her charming bakery, her quirky customers, her distance from the past. Yes, she loves everything…except her new landlord.
Police Chief Sean Taylor is like a piece of sand in an oyster—irritating, but with the promise of something beautiful. Despite Maggie’s self-imposed man-fast, she wonders what kind of treasure she and the lawman could create together. Sean Taylor likes to keep the peace, but his new tenant is making it nearly impossible to keep anything on an even keel—including his heart.
Despite her sassy attitude, Sean is drawn to the beautiful pastry chef and has an overwhelming need to serve and protect her. As Maggie and Sean draw closer together, her long buried dreams about her life are reawakened into a hopeful prayer…until a threat from her past promises to destroy their future.
Will Maggie be forced to run—again—starting fresh? Or will God answer her prayer and give her the happily-ever-after she’s started from scratch?
Small Town Roads : L.B. Johnson
Let go of the life you wanted to get the one that you were meant for.
With a fresh college degree in Criminal Justice and big future dreams, young Rachel Raines is looking for a temporary place to hide a heart full of loss and a quieter police patrol than Chicago.
The bequest of her late aunt’s house seems like the perfect opportunity for both if she can survive the gigantic spiders, creaky plumbing, and inevitable challenges of being the rookie on a small town force. It’s a place unlike any she has lived in – a tiny rural town with no coffee baristas, no nightlife, and one single restaurant that has a giant cow perched on the roof. It was not the life she had expected.
Sometimes God has other plans for us.
Down the street, her aunt’s best friend, Evelyn Ahlgren, marks the passing of seasons and neighbors, long mired in her loneliness as a widow. When the young woman with scars of her own befriends her, they strike up an unlikely friendship across generations that just might help them both heal with a little help from heaven above.
With L.B. Johnson’s reflective, lyrical writing and moments of deep-seated humor, Small Town Roads is a beautifully told, heartwarming story of finding the best in people, including ourselves, in the most unlikely of places.
True Course and Saving Grace by Brigid Johnson are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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America In The 21st Century : Kathleen Babbitt D.Sc.
AMERICA IN THE 21st CENTURY: A Political, Historical, Sociological Perspective
These books are the unvarnished unmitigated truth about political, historical, sociological America, for better or worse.
So they are controversial.
They explore cultural and political issues, and injustices, in America in the 21st century. they are useful, entertaining, informative, about democracy, freedoms, the Bill of Rights, The Constitution, justice and law enforcement corruption, political corruption , drug dealers and drug systems, the drug industry in America.
It’s also about social science, sociology, political science, and history.
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How to Help Your Kid Succeed in Sports : Hernan Chousa
How to Help Your Kid Succeed in Sports
So what do we parents usually do?
We neglect them, repress them, or neurotically try that one of our kids redeems us. The added value of this book relies on the friendly and colloquial language used by Hernan to share his experiences as a tennis player and father, and to pass on his wealth of knowledge, which was hardly gained through multiple frustrations.
His illustration of the fact that although it is hard for us to accept it, passion cannot be transferred, and as a consequence; if the fire of passion doesn’t burn inside you, it cannot be taught.
Hernan does a great job laying out that you cannot force somebody to desire what he/she doesn’t desire because you can just love what you don’t love in a heartbeat.
Being a parent is a very hard task as well as it is being a son/daughter.
Even though the most common psychologic phenomenon is that kids feel identified with their parents, in many cases it is the parents who feel identified with the kids and aspire for them what they couldn’t achieve when younger.
That implies treating your kid as an extension of yourself that will materialize your frustrated dreams of being famous and multimillionaire.
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The Fourth Age Shadow Wars : David Pauly
The Fourth Age Shadow Wars: Assassins
From the ashes of the Great War, Men, Elves and Dwarves struggle to rebuild their societies in the land of Nostraterra. Secret factions amongst all the races risk plunging Nostraterra into open warfare by threatening the life of Alfrahil crown prince of Men.
As fire arrows plunge down, a desperate Alfrahil rides for his life to try and escape this deadly assassination. Who tries to kill the prince and why?
Assassins, is the first episode in the Shadow Wars series; a tale of present-day politics set within a fantasy world. The story continues in Conspiracy, when Elven and Dwarven connections to the plot to kill prince Alfrahil must be investigated.
The series concludes with the third volume, Myths, where ancient legends come to life, impacting the lives of all who dwell in Nostraterra.
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Hauling It To The Curb : Ken Montrose
Hauling It To The Curb: Cleaning Up Your Life In Early Recovery
This 160 page workbook helps newcomers explore their denial, deal with early recovery, and work the first five steps of AA/NA. It offers practical advice and thought-provoking exercises, while telling the story of a young couple in early recovery.
An Excerpt:
Some of us are born into a dump. Our parents have filled our homes with loads of emotional garbage. Every room holds memories of screaming arguments, or worse yet, stony silences. Every day we pretend we live in a normal home, and every day more garbage arrives. The stench of denial is stifling. We leave as soon as we can to turn our new homes into dumps, taking with us as much garbage as we can carry.
Some of us create our own dumps from scratch. We grow up in loving homes where getting drunk or stoned does not excuse immature behavior. We order loads of garbage until our parents accept living in a dump or force us to leave.
In either case, many of us suddenly realize we live in a dump. Be it a mansion or a mission, it is a dump. Every day the dumptrucks pull up, driven by bitter children, ex-spouses, angry bosses, police officers, and unsympathetic judges.
We cannot understand why they keep “dumping” on us. It takes some of us a long time to remember we ordered this garbage. It takes us even longer to realize we can refuse delivery on other people’s trash.
Not using alcohol and other drugs (AAOD), slows the pace of delivery. Loads still arrive, but most often they are loads ordered before we got clean and sober. The alcoholic who stops drinking still lives in a dump, but with luck most of the garbage will rot away. He may have to deal with other people’s loads.
Recovery requires cleaning out the dump. We get rid of old garbage and learn to refuse other people’s garbage. In recovery we get out from under loads we don’t remember ordering that arrive after we get clean and sober.
If you seem to have misplaced your mansion under the mounds of garbage, read on. It is time to start digging out.
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Save Me Twice : E.A. Dustin
Save Me Twice
Based on a true story: Towards the end of World War II, when Hitler in desperation pulls in young and old to fight a losing war, 16 year old Karl together with his older brother Hans is ripped from his Mother’s house in the middle of the night to join the SS to fight a losing war.
Milman Parry’s delivered this famous lecture “The Historical Method in Literary Criticism ” in 1934, the year before he died, to the Harvard Board of Overseers. He warned about the consequences of propaganda that exploits race—and class for political purposes.
Karl’s journey during the last year of WWII, described in this book, gives a glimpse of the historical consequences of such manipulative propaganda. Mainly, we owe it to mankind and it is our responsibility, to not let history repeat itself.
Read this engaging novel of wartime.
The Blue Journal : I.B. George
THE PAST IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF DESTINY!
The story follows the destiny of Robert Anderson, a little boy of only ten, and his quest to find the truth about his parents. Unsuspecting at the beginning of his journey, Robert finds that his future has already been decided by the prophecy of the Oracle of Konaar.
The adventures he encounters help little Robert discover astonishing things and allow him to develop abilities he didn’t know he was capable of. With the help of a few loyal friends, the boy overcomes one by one all the obstacles that fate throws his way.
The denouement is unexpected, while the exploits taking place until the prophecy is fulfilled are a mixture of adventure and fantasy, alongside undertones of mystery and comic interludes.
Within the pages of this book the readers will rediscover the thrill of adventure stories, regardless of their age because, as the famous sculptor Constantin Brancuși once said, “When we are no longer children, we are already dead.”
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Can We Live a Happier Life?! : Dr. Zeev Gilkis
Can We Live a Happier Life?!
The book interleaves understandings about happiness, brain, mind and how to live a better and happier life with a personal story of a diversified career, interrupted by an advanced stage cancer, the battle, deep meditations, and discovering the answers.
It contains short stories and original illustrations exemplifying the understandings and making the reading more fun. It is a very practical book.
Many people who read this book found it enjoyable, motivational and the practical tips very useful.
The Altar Boy : Phil Stephens
The Altar Boy
Black-robed nuns, priests, bishops, the select fraternity of Altar Boys, and the ancient ceremonies of the Catholic Church. Music of the ’60s, boyhood shenanigans, Cootie doctors, and coming of age. Set in the socially and politically tumultuous period of the 1960s, The Altar Boy is the fictionalized memoir of Carl Sanders, a funny, sensitive kid, who’s caught in the middle when his family is fractured by the intrusions of a priest. We follow Carl’s confusion and pain as he watches the pious façade of the Church fall away to reveal unholy carte blanche, cover-ups, and collusion.
The book opens in the late 1980s. Carl and his brother down beer after beer at a favorite pub, trying to piece together their family’s chaotic past. The stakes are high—someone is about to return after a 20-year absence, threatening to re-ignite the family conflict. As the brothers’ painful recollections of their past become more traumatic, Carl drifts back in time to the era he tried for so many years to forget.
The story is realistic, poignant, and at times very funny. Stephens shines a timely spotlight on the then-unquestioned power of the Church, while taking the reader back to the ’60s era of rock & roll, Catholic schools, social upheaval, and boyhood pranks.
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