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Twisted Daisy : C. M. Smith
“Devil Child!”
That’s what Daisy’s mother calls her.
Devil Child. Useless. Loner.
Daisy thinks she’s all these things until she’s pulled into the Sister World. A world just like our own where magic is free to exist and mermaids rule the Undersea.
Here she is valuable. Here the world’s future depends on her. Here she is their only hope.
But not everyone sees her this way. There is a monster terrorising the Sister World and he is intent on destroying Daisy.
And as Daisy grows and learns more about herself the more she fears her mother was right all along.
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Hidden Agendas : Claire Riddick
Hidden Agendas
After the disappearance of her fiancé, Caffrey Hansen’s life is in limbo, until she aids a dying man in a traffic accident on a busy Atlanta street.
With his last breath, the man entrusts her with a tiny disc that can only be read by an alien machine. When Caffrey returns to her office, a stranger touches her face, leaving her sick and disoriented. In a matter of hours, she becomes an unwilling messenger on the run, not knowing who to trust, driven to find people she has never met, intent on protecting a secret she cannot remember.
One man, Brad “Mace” Mason, knows if Caffrey is captured by the alien faction currently controlling the Earth-Hurratt Alliance, the aliens could wipe her mind clean and place her in a new life. Can Mace protect her from such a fate, or is he already too late?
One Before Bedtime : N.S. Johnson
One Before Bedtime : 13 Tales of Mystery, Fantasy and Suspense
Spirits occupy a seaside inn, technology invades a marriage, troubled voices rise from an airliner graveyard, and an atheist is hijacked to Heaven.
“One Before Bedtime,” an Amazon Five-Star-Rated anthology of 13 short stories, gathers a captivating collection of original short stories for young adults, and everyone older—sweeping together Gothic tales, dark mystery, and fantasy, with humor.
These accounts offer satisfying reading to everyone for, as author N.S. Johnson has written, “The extraordinary and inexplicable occurs at least once to each of us.”
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When We Love : G. Whitman
When We Love
“I care about you Lauren, but I can’t just jump back into things with us. Look you needed time, now I need time.”
“Time for what?”
“Time to figure out if I can trust you. I’m not a part-time guy. When I love and care about someone, I give myself completely. That’s what should happen when we love someone.”
“Hank please…”
Lauren’s life has been about her job teaching and raising her daughter. When her daughter goes off to college, Lauren finds herself alone for the first time in years. Now when she finally takes time for herself, she meets a local painter, Hank Waters.
Hank Waters loves to paint and when his creative juices don’t flow, he shell fishes. The women he meet are usually interested in one thing- money. When he meets Lauren, she’s like a breath of fresh air. Someone who shows some interest in him and someone who he finds captivating as well as pretty.
As their relationship develops, they need to recover from old feelings and old relationships. Will Hank’s ex be a threat? Lauren and Hank need to learn how to trust again, but that may take more time than they’re willing to give.
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Tales from the Taverna Table : Phil Johnson
Tales from the Taverna Table
Love is at a crossroads, lives will change!
Nine stories of relationships on the edge, with dilemmas to face, secrets to be revealed and decisions to be made.
Decisions will change the lives of each of the main characters forever… but will they have the courage to decide, as they sit at the table in the taverna by the sea?
Nine stories of love, hope, shock and surprise, set in the beautiful and romantic Ionian islands of Greece.
This is the first foray into contemporary fiction by Phil Johnson; a former BBC and ITV Reporter and Presenter.
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Are You For Real?! : David Stern
Are You For Real?! Going from Excuses to Authentic Selling and Living Your Dreams
“The business of selling brings freedom—it allows you to live your dreams.”- David Stern
David Stern discovered the value of freedom that a career in sales affords. Born to business-owning Holocaust survivor parents, he helped his parents with their small business before starting his own entrepreneurial venture at the age of 15.
Now, after more than forty years in sales, he shows audiences and coaching clients their opportunity of freedom through mastering the strategies of selling.
At the heart of his sales philosophy is the question, “ARE YOU FOR REAL?!” (The title of David’s book) This question embodies the essence of selling—nothing happens until you are honest, authentic, and confident.
In this book, David shares his wisdom and sales secrets, tells humorous and inspiring stories, and asks introspective questions to guide you on the path to success.
In ARE YOU FOR REAL?! you will discover how to:
- Deal with and dispose of your excuses once and for all
- Find perpetual job security through sales
- Sell yourself to sell your product
- Master effective communication skills
- Being persistent without being “pushy”
- Develop essential negotiation and decision-making skills
- Set realistic short-term goals while focusing on the big picture
- Plan for success and prepare for the unexpected
- Create a work/life balance through proper time-management
No more layoffs, tyrannical bosses, or the 9 to 5 grind. Freedom awaits you, and it begins by saying “Yes” to sales and getting real.
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Decoding Air Travel : Nicholas Kralev
Decoding Air Travel is the most comprehensive and insightful work to date on the intricacies of the modern air travel system from a customer perspective, and the most effective tool for making travel more affordable, convenient, comfortable and fun.
It’s the only book that can teach you how to save hundreds — even thousands — of dollars per ticket by building your own airfare, how to fly in Business and First Class for the price of coach, and how to enjoy various travel luxuries at no additional cost.
The book has two goals: Improving your travel life and saving you lots of money. It seeks to achieve those goals by helping you become a knowledgeable, empowered and sophisticated traveler who has mastered an increasingly complex and frustrating system and can work it to his or her advantage.
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Cutting the Soul : Theresa Larsen
Cutting the Soul: A journey into the mental illness of a teenager through the eyes of his mother
Theresa Larsen’s son, Matthew, comes to her with a cut on his hand, explaining it away as an accident with a pocket knife. But as she cleans and treats the wound, she discovers dozens of slashes covering both of his arms. Thus begins Larsen’s compelling personal memoir about what it’s like to be the parent of a mentally ill teenager.
“Cutting the Soul” offers a firsthand look at mental illness, both financially and emotionally. Matthew, fourteen years old when he starts cutting, goes on to face other hardships, including suicide attempts, severe depression, and multiple stays in psychiatric hospitals.
Readers get an inside look at Matthew’s life through the inclusion of his selected journal entries, and Larsen shares her own struggles of pain, fear, and helplessness as she tries to save her son. “Cutting the Soul” is an inspiration for anyone traveling a similar challenging journey. At its heart, it is a story of recovery for it shows that recovery is possible even when it appears all hope is lost.
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Gravity’s Eye : Ian C Douglas
On Mars, your best friend sometimes turns out to be your worst enemy. Zeke Hailey is struggling with life at the Chasm, the 23rd century school for psychics. His extrasensory skills have dried up and there’s a prehistoric robot out to kill him. At least he has a new mate, in the shape of latecomer Fitch Crawley.
Only there’s more to Fitch than Zeke realizes. The boy has a genius for hypnosis, making fools of the teachers. Fitch has an invisible pet too, the Spikeworm, a creature armed with a deadly venom. Zeke teams up with Fitch and an old foe, setting off on a Martian road trip. But this search for answers will bring them face to face with monsters and, most dangerous of all, a demon from beyond time.
Zeke will have to do more than survive his mind-bending friend and the ancient robot. As the universe starts to unravel, Zeke must choose between saving his friends or the human race. For nobody but Zeke can stop the apocalypse of Gravity’s Eye.
The Infinity Trap and Electron’s Blade by Ian C Douglas are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Phase : Les Farley
Phase
Nelvin Crumbholtz is anything but your regular guy, as much as he would like to be. Skinny, nerdy and trapped in a dead end job as a telemarketer. The job market is just too competitive for him to find anything better. Huhh. Anything better. Boy! Was he in for a surprise.
His car is on its last leg, he barely makes ends meet and no girl will look his way because of his anemic appearance. He works out faithfully to improve his appearance; but to no avail.
Countless hours have been spent keeping his resume in tip top shape and every evening he is at the computer surfing the web for companies that he can submit it to. One night after doing so he experienced something that defies description. To try and relate his experience to someone would only invite laughter or ridicule.
He wants something better. What he gets is . . . well . . . you just won’t believe it.
There’s a new superhero in town. Meet . . . PHASE.
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