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Mike and Me : Anita Green Burkett and Jada Elise Mitchell
Mike and Me – A Guide to Caring for the Grieving-Sensitivity Training for the Non-Grieving
Countless others are grieving all over the globe for their loved ones. There are plenty of people who have endured more loss than I have, perhaps even losing many at once. Where there are those who grieve, there are those who do not know what to say. There are also those who think they know what to say to the grieving. I’m not certain which one’s words are more painful.
This is my sensitivity training for the non-grieving. Remember, everyone is different, but this pointer would have helped me a great deal. Don’t ask, “How are you?” Perhaps a person could show concern and say, “I care,” or “I am thinking about you,” or “You are on my mind.” Give the person a hug and say, “I am here for you.” I could have handled those words much better. I knew that people were concerned, but I couldn’t truthfully say that I was great, never been better.
I have tried and still try to avoid answering the question of how I am. It sometimes makes me want to tell them exactly how I feel, which would not be a good thing to do.
What do people expect the grieving to say? I said in the beginning, after I could actually hang around after the church service without crying, “I’m fine.” I had a friend remind me that I was lying in church. So when the next person asked how I was, I told him the truth-and it was not pleasant. I apologized the next time I saw him. Jesus is my source of strength, but even so, we still grieve.
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The Grandfather Paradox : Steven Burgauer
The Grandfather Paradox
Marooned in the present, their only hope for the future lay in the past.
But first there was still the small matter of staying alive. The planet they were marooned on was crawling with bird-beasts, immense parrotlike carnivores that stood two meters tall, weighed upwards of fifty klogs, and had a giant scooped beak like a pelican. They normally swallowed their prey whole, though not before crushing them to death in their vise-like jaws.
Then there were the vipers — writhing snake-like creatures armed with dozens of sucker-bearing tentacles. They sprayed their victims with acid, then ate them while they were still alive.
But it got worse. Much worse . . .
Now, join Andu Nehrengel and his three female clone companions on an intense voyage through time. First stop: the Civil War and the Battle of Shiloh, April 1862, one of the most horrendous land battles of all time. Meet Mark Twain when he is still a riverboat pilot. Journey with him north to Missouri when he joins the Confederacy.
Then it’s back to the future and on to Mars!
And when you’re done reading this adventure, check out these other fine books by author Steven Burgauer: The Fornax Drive, The Brazen Rule, The Night of the Eleventh Sun, and The Road To War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture.
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Island Of The Gods : C.M. Kane
Island Of The Gods
A young adult adventure, with a twist.
In the nine hundred years since the Gods returned to Earth, much has changed. We are no longer masters of our own world. Tae Rames, a precocious seventeen year old downloads a vid she knows she shouldn’t, and her life is changed for-ever. She discovers that the dead god Loki may not be dead at all, just trapped. She quickly realizes that someone very powerful has gone to a great deal of trouble to keep this secret. She tries to erase the evidence of her snooping but is found out; unfortunately her new enemies mistakenly blame her twin brother and kidnap both him and her mother. Not knowing who she can trust, she decides her only option is to free Loki and plead for his help. The problem is that Loki is in the one place no-one ever wants to go –The Island.
It is a place where all of Earths criminals are sent to fight and die, a place from which there is no escape. To add to her woes, unbeknownst to her, an enemy with a twisted hatred of his own has started to stalk her. After hearing Tae’s prayer, even Zeus himself has decided to come and investigate, in an effort to find out exactly what’s going on down on the troublesome planet. In doing so, he inadvertently brings along a whole set of problems for himself when some of the other gods follow him, curious as to what he’s up to.
Freaks I’ve Met : Donald Jans
Freaks I’ve Met
Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Jack heads for Southern California.
Dreams are a dime a dozen in the City of Angels. Broke, barely scraping by, and hating his life as a temp, L.A. is definitely not what Jack expected. But after reading “Best Paying Jobs of 1987” in Time magazine, he decides to go after the only one he thinks he has a shot at: institutional bond broker.
Once frustrated that his dazzling lack of experience keeps getting in the way, Jack is ecstatic to land a job at Freedom Capital, a no-name firm with a hire anybody mentality. Pumped to be on his way to his first few million, Jack eagerly engages in the challenged ethics of his new employer.
When a series of innocent events lands him in prison, he’s sure things can’t get any worse. He would be wrong.
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Ship The Kids On Ahead : Bill Stokes
We all have that one older funny family member. You know the one, he tells stories from his experiences and usually has people rolling their eyes. William Stokes is that person! He presents a delightful collection of memories that are truly life lessons even today! Stokes, through his memories and wit, provides opportunities to learn through laughter, sharing of memories and love.
Many will shake their heads in remembrance of similar experiences and crack a smile if not a full on belly laugh!
From chapters on “The Hammer is in the Petunias” to “Merry Christmas” one cannot help but feel warm and comforted in those memories he shares that are full of life lessons. His writing style is comfortable, breezing along with ease and sucking the listener along on the ride. Jump aboard and experience those eye rolling, belly laughing moments; it will be a wild ride!
This was originally self-published in 1968 and has been re-published in all modern formats as a birthday present from a grandson to his grandfather.
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Naheli’s Sacrifice : Rabea Scholz
Naheli’s Sacrifice
Through cold glass walls, Naheli looks down on the altar of the ocean goddess where she will die in seven days. She doesn’t mind much; the empaths have wiped her mind so clean that she hardly remembers what she once longed for. Only sometimes does she think of a colour in secret, or hum a forbidden tune.
Then her only remaining friend, the only one they haven’t found yet, hands her a letter that changes everything. Forgotten feelings begin to surface, and Naheli remembers what it is like to cry, to laugh. To love.
But her time is running out, and with the Sacrifice only days away, she sets out to solve the mystery of the letter — and discovers that most of her life has been a lie, and there may be some things worth living for.
Finding Home : Jason Patrick
Finding Home : A Charlotte Island Clean Romance Book
A Love so Strong It Won’t Let Go!
After a bitter divorce, Megan Sterling and her son Benji are starting a new life on Charlotte Island. Megan hopes that a new job, a new school, and the slower pace of life on the island will be exactly what she and her son need to heal and move on. Despite her difficult marriage, Megan desires to find love and build a new life on the idyllic island.
Josh Reynolds moved to Charlotte Island to join the police force and begin a new life of his own. But when his girlfriend abruptly left him, his heartbreak raised a struggle with past troubles that now threaten to overtake him.
When Megan runs into her former high school sweetheart Josh at a local coffee shop, it ignites an old flame. Josh’s fondness for Megan results in his own excitement at reconnecting with his past love. Can Megan and Josh find love again as adults? Does Josh have the strength to overcome his struggles, or will it destroy their second chance at love?
Finding Home is the first book in the Charlotte Island series of stand alone clean romance novels. If you enjoy emotional and heartwarming stories, relatable characters, and visiting a favorite place, then you will love Jason Patrick’s romantic book and series.
Get Finding Home and fall in love with the Charlotte Island series today!
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Race Against Time : Jack Eason
In 2012, many otherwise rational people had convinced themselves that because the Mayan calendar stopped at December 21st of that year, that we were about to enter the biblical end of days.
But it didn’t happen. Why are we still alive? Read the archaeological adventure Race Against Time for one possible explanation.
Turning Point, Globular Van der Graff’s Goblin Tales for Adults, The Forgotten Age, The Next Age, The Guardian, Céleste, Autumn 1066, The Magisters and The Forgotten People by Jack Eason are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Mary Bernadette : John F. Bronzo
Mary Bernadette : Secrets of a Dallas Moon
This is a young Vietnamese girl’s tale about the murder of JFK. Her name is Mary Bernadette and she is killed in the blow back of a secret CIA mission to Vietnam to capture the second gunman on the grassy knoll to shoot Kennedy, who in 1971 is a Russian adviser to the Vietcong. She speaks to you from her grave in this thrilling work of historical fiction, as she shares with you what the CIA does not want you to know.
However, the story is much more than that – it is a heart wrenching saga of love found and love lost, as a young man and a young woman take Frost’s path less traveled and pursue their dreams on a personal journey that spans the globe. I, as the author, may have created these characters, but my readers tell me that you will adopt them as your own, because they will force you to fall in love with them and their tragic tale.
For in the end, I believe we all have a personal journey within us, and I hope this story will help others find and tell theirs.”
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A Cold Dish : Mike Sherer
A Cold Dish
Imagine if a nearly omnipotent villain was ruining your life. If every failed endeavor was caused by him. And not only your life, but the lives of your parents had been and the lives of your children would be warped by this evil influence. And then imagine becoming aware of this. How would you fight back?
In my mystery/suspense novel six victims of a generations-old revenge plot struggle to end their curse and save the next generation.
“Revenge is a dish best served cold”. This revenge is Antarctic. And Biblical. Of “Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord” proportions. As described in the Second Commandment, from Exodus 20:5 – “for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.” How would such a revenge play out on a human scale?
Six strangers, each on their own private mission, come to the small town of Eureka Springs, in the Arkansas Ozarks. An injured NFL quarterback desperate to heal a blown-out knee. An unpublished writer on her first assignment. A wounded vet just back from the Middle East haunted by the ghost of a fallen comrade. A budding out of control artist hiding out from the dangerous friends of the imprisoned ex-boyfriend she narc’d on. A financial adviser,who has illegally transferred money from one fund to another to cover personal losses, desperately seeking the big deal that will make everything right. And a minister attempting to avoid the personal disgrace that could defrock her. To learn they are not only connected in myriad ways they are unaware of, but also embroiled in a revenge plot stretching back generations. Perpetrated by Timothy Thomas Franklin, a man badly injured by their grandparents, who has been exacting revenge upon their parents and them ever since.
Why Eureka Springs? The numerous mineral springs there possess legendary healing qualities, venerated by local Native Americans for centuries, and more recently exploited by American settlers and their descendants. The water changes their lives, for better then worse. Four years later they assemble once again, this time at Medano Lake, in Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, to once more partake of the magical water, for their sake and the sake of their children. Only this time they are aware of what they are getting into and will do it right. They think. Fifteen years later their children, the fourth generation, deal with the repercussions of that fateful immersion in Medano Lake.
Biblical revenge. Generational warfare. Mystical waters. Haunted Christmas cards. A boomer villain of mythic proportions. A spiritual transgender who serves an ancient pantheon of pagan gods. And six damaged people learning to love and hope, against all odds, and fighting to protect their children, the fourth and final generation.
This is “Lost” meets “The Iliad” by way of the Old Testament.