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Work & Wagers : Sherrie Sushko
Work & Wagers
Meet David Wagers, a cool, collected and incredibly handsome Private Investigator in the New York City area. David is hired to investigate the unsolved murder case of Courtney Tabbin, a popular, young woman with a promising future. Along the way, David encounters some interesting and suspicious characters and a complex office drama. Was Courtney’s murder just a random act of violence, or something more personal?
While digging deeper for answers, David also manages to juggle an understaffed office and even forms an alluring, new friendship with Victoria under the unlikeliest of circumstances. With impeccable skills of observation, deduction and razor-sharp instincts, David moves steadily towards solving the case but not without a few twists and turns, and managing to turn a few heads along the way.
Work & Wagers (David Wagers Case #1), a cozy murder mystery, is the first book in the new and exciting David Wagers detective series.
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Plague of Angels : John Patrick Kennedy
Plague of Angels
She’s the Queen of Hell. He’s the Son of God. They’ll end humanity… together.
Nyx is the ruler of the banished Angels. When her flock returns home, she’s stuck on Earth with none other than the Son of God.
Surprisingly, God’s son tells her he was tricked into sacrificing himself for a cause he doesn’t believe in – mankind’s redemption. As his mortal body dies, the Son of God offers the Queen of Hell a paradise on Earth if she completes a single mission: helping him obliterate humanity.
Nyx launches a thousand-year campaign of violence, sex, and betrayal to force God’s people to worship her instead. From the back streets of Jerusalem to the Pope’s bedchamber, Nyx and her companions work to destroy the worshippers of God.
What Nyx doesn’t realize is that her arrangement with God’s son isn’t as simple as it seems. The Son of God has plans that nobody will see coming…
Plague of Angels is the first book in The Descended saga, a series of dark fantasy novels that provide a twist on an old story. If you like fantasy fused with religion, thought-provoking plots, and graphic violence, then you’ll love John Patrick Kennedy’s tale of the underworld.
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Finding Southern Comfort : Regina Kay Roemmich
Finding Southern Comfort in a Not So Comfortable World
A book of poetry and insights into a ever changing world. In this book you will find a young girl growing up into womanhood in small town rural Arkansas, a father working himself to the bone just wanting a few minutes alone, an older woman wishing she was young again.
There are children who have no future and In the future; a humanoid wanting to feel like a human. There is humor, there is sadness, there is hope for the future, There is a beginning, middle and end to each poem. Set yourself down with a cuppa for thirty minutes and feel.
Not Like My Mother : Azra Alagic
Not Like My Mother
Survival triumphs against all odds in the battered Balkan lands. It is an heirloom passed down from generation to generation along with richness of tradition, recipes, love and land.
At fourteen, Samira leaves her childhood home to create a new life with returned soldier Azis. She carries with her visions of romance and babies, but his dark secrets have consequences for everyone around him.
Samira’s love for life and her effervescent spirit are passed on to her mischievous sons and daughters, but the traumas of war return to drive their family apart. Her beloved son, Muhammed, flees home and his father at the tender age of twelve. Though it breaks Samira’s heart, she knows it is the only way for her son to survive.
Years pass, and after wandering from one Balkan region to another, Muhammed joins Anika and her family, who are escaping the oppression of Tito’s communist Jugoslavia across the Austrian border. The young couple look with hope far across the other side of the world, to Australia where they are promised a life filled with opportunity and success. They carry with them the pride of their culture, the traditions of their heritage, and a willingness to work hard and succeed in the golden land.
But happiness is elusive and another Balkan war and religious differences begin to create a rift in the family. Unable to shake the emotional and psychological shadows of their past, it is left to Anika and Muhammed’s daughter, Yasna, to try to repair their fragile domestic peace and break the cycle of anger and displacement. Will her hope and love for her family, the country of her cultural origins and its people save them all?
Not Like My Mother is a poignant story that tracks the spirit, the love and the pain of three generations of women and their families over two continents, as well as examining the divide between three religions that has torn a country and its people apart. A meditation on a country, its people, its politics and its colliding differences.
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The Queen of Hearts : Valérie Lieko
Caribbean Black Jack : Book 1 The Queen of Hearts
At the end of the 18th century, Liliane de la Roche is treacherously abandoned by her wealthy lover on a deserted Caribbean island. Castaway in an unknown and hostile environment, she will do anything to survive.
Centuries later, Andrew Brooks is a card dealer in one of Sint Maarten’s prestigious casinos. One night, a mysterious woman, Soledad de La Cruz, plays Black Jack at his table and will turn his life upside down.
Dive into a nail-biting suspense while discovering Caribbean folklore and beliefs throughout history.
The Queen of Hearts is the author’s second novel and the first part of Caribbean Black Jack, an addictive series containing four books.
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Benjamin Sorrow : P.G.Challis
Benjamin Sorrow : One for Sorrow
Benjamin is retired. Borell is drunk.
Jackson Burns, a genius scientist and an old friend of Benjamin’s, is brutally robbed of an important and powerful device. The good news is only Jackson knows the secret to the device’s operation.
The bad news is he’s now being hunted for this knowledge. Benjamin leaves retirement behind and returns to the secretive Society to protect his friend and recover the stolen device.
Meanwhile, Borell, a talented thief and competent killer, is hired by a mysterious woman to find the same device.
With his criminal past and immoral attitude, can he recover the device first, or have Benjamin and Borell been set on a collision course?
Player : M L Sparrow
Player
Let the game begin…
After a tragic accident which leaves her tormented by guilt, Chloe Newman accepts a scholarship to study a St. Joseph’s University. Traveling from England to Texas, the last thing she expects is to meet the schools charming quarterback on her first night. However, Parker Mitchell is a player both on and off the field.
Parker is immediately fascinated by Chloe and, after a rocky start, they manage to find a way to make their relationship work despite interference from others on campus, including Parkers jealous ex, and the ghosts that haunt Chloe’s conscience.
But, the real test comes when they visit Parker’s family over Christmas break and he finds himself being pulled back into their lifestyle…
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Friendship : Francis Mandewah
FRIENDSHIP: A True Story of Adventure, Goodwill, and Endurance
Young Francis Mandewah dreamed of a better future, but saw no way out of his impoverished situation… until one day when he met a man who would change his life forever.
An African boy from the region made famous by the Hollywood film “Blood Diamond” is befriended by an American pilot. That friendship brings great opportunities and blessings that affirm the boy’s faith in a God of miracles. But the boy’s journey also brings many trials and tribulations that test his courage, strength, and endurance.
The Hollywood movie “Blood Diamond” starring Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for five Academy Awards. It brought attention to a rebel war in West Africa in which “blood” diamonds, also known as “conflict” diamonds, were used to finance warlords and their activities.
Two decades before this war Thomas Johnson, a pilot from Minnesota, was employed to fly boxes of gems and alluvial diamonds in Sierra Leone, from Yengema to Freetown where a British Airways jet would fly the gemstones to London.
This American pilot met and befriended young Francis Mandewah, an impoverished Sierra Leonean boy, and gave him generous support that opened new a new life of opportunity, which would eventually take Francis to America. Along the way Francis had many harrowing experiences, including crossing the Sahara Desert, which almost cost him his life. His challenges continued in Italy, Greece, Turkey, and finally in America. In the end, Francis became aware that his real voice that has emerged through all his trials and tribulations is one of deep faith and gratitude for God’s miracles and wonders in his life.
“On my way home I walked in a haze. I was in shock over the miracle that had just happened in my life. That night as I settled down to sleep on my mat on the floor of my cousin’s house, I lay in the dark and prayed, “Dear God, I can’t take any more heartbreak. Please let this be real. What did I do to deserve such a blessing? I promise to do well in school and make You proud. Please don’t let me die in my sleep tonight.” –Francis Mandewah
Saving Grace : L B Johnson
A Story of Adoption
It started with a birth certificate and ended up with an adoptee facing the same decision her birth mother made. For she was born to a teen mother on a warm day in August–a small, painful beginning in which she had been an unwilling participant, yet one that would shape her destiny.
Her childhood couldn’t be happier but when fate tears her adopted family apart and she finds herself alone – and pregnant, still a teen. The options are obvious, but there is only one decision she could make: to give her child up to a family praying for one, and walking away.
Written in a series of vignettes written to the child she may never meet, Saving Grace is a deep look at family and how we find love and healing with souls, both two and four-legged, that may not share our blood or our last names but who are our true family.
True Course and Small Town Roads by Brigid Johnson are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Olivia Stone and the Trouble with Trixies : Jeffery E Doherty
Olivia Stone and the Trouble with Trixies
Can a broken young girl help a guilt-ridden grotesque stop the monsters?
An Unprotected City
The Grotesque statues have been taken down from the roof of St. Giles Old Priory School. With the Guardians statue-trapped, there is no one left to protect Haven from the monsters.
Unexpected Heroes
Despite crippling injuries from a falling grotesque statue, twelve year old Olivia Stone finds herself on the front lines in the battle between Good and Evil.
Olivia needs to; rescue Yip, the smallest living grotesque and the cause of her accident, discover the hidden power locked within herself and find a way to out trick the trixies. But trixies know every trick in the book.
Trixies may look sweet and childlike but something nasty is drawing these solitary pests together and their pranks are turning deadly.
Five Stars “This was a great read. Every chapter holds suspense and leaves the reader wanting to know what happens next. Not the usual Trixie tale.”
Gail Kamer
(Amazon review)
‘It has elements of a junior Stephen King novel, without being too graphic for sensitive children.’
Debra Clewer
(Goodreads review)
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