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Illuminating Crystal : PB Morlen
Illuminating Crystal
18-year-old Crystal Blue, a child from the stars, has answered a call to earth so that she may spread her light by opening the door to the new age and closing the door on the old one.
But she doesn’t now this…yet.
When she discovers an ancient manuscript in the basement of a bookstore buried deep within a box, she inadvertently unleashes a powerful force, a polarized energy of lightness and dark, harnessing her with unique powers so she can walk between worlds, an ability attained only by masters, shamans, medicine men and women.
It is 2011 and the Fourth Age is passing away, entering the Fifth: the Age of Illumination, an age where ancient prophesies claimed the world would come to an end. But it won’t. Not the way most humans think it will. These are indeed the end of times for century old belief systems and structures, and it might seem like the end is near, but a new world is dawning, transitioning from the old into the new. The Earth and Mankind are poised on the brink of the greatest compassionate shift in the history of humans… and it’s going to get intense.
Crystal’s mission, to travel the world and unveil the ancient’s well-guarded secrets—secrets of the divine feminine human—is paramount to a successful transition. But Crystal would rather not go. She’s just found a bit of happiness with the handsome Adam Walker, loves her new job at the Blue Crystal bookstore, and has just rekindled her relationship with her sister, Claire. Only after being saved from a botched kidnapping by a certain green-eyed stranger is Crystal convinced she must go, otherwise, Earth and Mankind are certain not to survive the changes ahead.
It is now up to her, but a dark force now follows her, intent on her destruction.
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The Unholy : Paul DeBlassie III
The Unholy
A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop.
Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, the Unholy is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neogothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.
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Deadly Deadly : M J Vigna
Deadly Deadly
Get lost in this western epic of adversity, despair and triumph.
Don’t let the cover fool you; this is a story for the more mature reader. It revolves around a deep bond that is established after a young man, alone in the world, discovers a newborn Texas Longhorn Bull and rescues him from deaths grip.
As the bull matures, due to his lethal 7’ horn spread, he eventually becomes know as Deadly. The unique relationship grows into an inseparable partnership and they become an indomitable force, which will be a blessing for the beautiful woman who ultimately depends on them as her only hope for survival.
Deadly Deadly is an exciting, larger than life story that takes place during the growth of our nation westward. It details the hardship encountered on a very special trail drive in the 1800s.
This exciting novel tells a truly original story among a backdrop of harsh and extreme conditions. Crafted with an enormous passion, this amazing story pits an eclectic cast of characters against the unforgiving elements and the evils of men. A one-of-a-kind story, readers cannot afford to pass up.
With a Texas Longhorn as one of its main characters, Deadly Deadly stands out against the homogenous backdrop of today’s fiction. Inspired by a life long love and study of horses, whether it was raising, training, showing, breeding or through art, author M. J. Vigna combines this priceless hands-on knowledge with an exciting Western setting to create a captivating, character-driven story that is as gripping as it is heartfelt. Expertly written with authority and passion, whether it’s the loveable characters, unique relationships, budding romance, or natural and man made dangers, this remarkable novel creates something stunning that will capture the hearts of every reader.
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Wonderment : Nigel Hey
Wonderment: A Love Affair With Adventure, Writing, Travel, Philosophy, and Family Life
Wonderment is a memoir designed to intrigue, invoke smiles, and perhaps bring more brightness to readers’ lives. Some readers have called it inspiring. Reviewers give it a unanimous thumbs-up.
This book is a fast-moving blend of thought and action, from author Nigel Hey’s childhood nightmares to the suspense of a brush with death in the neurology unit of a London hospital, to adventures among the Indians of the American Southwest. Amazon greeted Wonderment with a royal flush of five-star reviews and it was nominated for the biography prize in a 2013 regional book contest. Press clippings accumulated from around the United States and United Kingdom.
Wonderment became a different kind of story because Nigel Hey had a different kind of life, in which he has found contentment, excitement and joy while being called upon to meet and overcome an assortment of unusual challenges. Sometimes it is funny or mildly quirky; sometimes it is thoughtful: it is after all the life history of a writer born to travel and invested with a love of adventure, people, new experiences, and the mystery of who we are and why. One reviewer remarked that it is laced “with the humor, romance, family lore and drama that anchors a life well lived.”
As a child Nigel Hey had come face to face with mortality. As he matured, a personal sense of spirituality took form, gently, almost without his knowing it. In the final stages of writing Wonderment he discovered how precious it had been in times of adversity. No matter how distressed he had been by the difficulties of life, he had found solace in the all-encompassing greatess that is the divine scheme of all things. He realized he needed to share his story with his children. He also wanted to share it with the world.
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The Priest’s Wife : PJ Connolly
The Priest’s Wife
One man, two women, a child. How did a young nun come to find herself caught up in such an unconventional arrangement?
There are strange goings on in the Wicklow hills where the former Sister Susan is married to the man who was once her priestly confessor. The Priest’s Wife is the story of a marriage. But this is no ordinary marriage. All chance of a peaceful existence went out the door with the arrival of a young French artist to whom she offers shelter but who rewards her kindness by making unprecedented demands on the marriage, demands which face Susan, the narrator of this story, with an extraordinary dilemma.
Tragedy and treachery are the twin demons which conspire to wreck the quiet life Susan had hoped for when they went to live in the Irish countryside outside Dublin.
Believing herself to be pursued by a vengeful God she ends by making a proposal the sheer audacity of which may well shock some readers. In doing so she throws herself at the feet of the mystic mountain which lies across the valley and holds within his bosom a secret which is known to only a very few.
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The Frenchman : B.B. Boudreau
The Frenchman
Robbery, escape, rendezvous, pursuit and romance all season “The Frenchman ” as Jean LaChance, running from his criminal past, finds solace in the isolation of the bleak California desert. There, in search of the money he and his unscrupulous partner have stolen, LaChance instead finds Lilly Parsons and her children.
Over four days they forge a sense of belonging for the first time in their lives, loneliness and despair begin to melt away. This bond of trust is seemingly broken when Lilly flees with the children, unaware that the money is in the trunk of her car. Now LaChance is in determined pursuit of the woman and children he has grown to love, but he is unconvinced of their motive for leaving, taking the money and sending the cops. What will he do when he finds them?
All the Luck : Beth Bruder
All the Luck: A Guide to Becoming the Luckiest Person You Know
Some people have all the luck. They appear to float along, effortlessly acquiring all the best things life has to offer: a loving family, an active social life, a great house, a fulfilling career. In short, they have everything you want. The good news is that it isn’t just luck. Lucky people have a secret. They know how to be lucky, and you can learn how too. By following the Twelve Tenets of Good Luck, you can create for yourself the life you’ve always wanted.
The Twelve Tenets include:
- Belief. You can have anything you want in life, so long as you believe that you can.
- Confidence. The more highly you value yourself, the more highly others will value you.
- Happiness. Things will not make you happy, only you can make you happy. And if you are happy, the good things will follow.
- Focus. Know what kind of luck you’re looking for.
- Bravery. Fortune favors the bold.
- Persistence. If you turn back at the first sign of trouble, you’ll never get where you want to be.
- Flexibility. Sometimes you have to take a detour.
- Responsibility. When you take control of your life, you give yourself power.
- Awareness. Listen with more than your ears.
- Serenity. Anxiety and anger are deterrents to good luck.
- Kindness. You can catch more flies with honey, and both you and your flies will be happier for it.
- Gratitude. When you are grateful for what you have, you will always feel lucky.
Fans of The Happiness Project, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, and How to Win Friends and Influence People will love this comprehensive guide to achieving success in every area of life.
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Diamond Fields : Randall Reneau
Diamond Fields
Geologist Trace Brandon has traded mining in Washington State for the sunshine and warm waters of the Cayman Islands. For the past year, his only encounters with crooks have been social, and no one has tried to kill him. But a phone call from Cyrus “the Virus” McSweeny lures Trace into a dangerous new mining project. This time the query is West African alluvial diamonds: rare and extremely valuable…green diamonds.
In the steamy backwater city of Monrovia, Trace and his partner, Will Coffee, team up with expat mining engineer Gordon Watson and an Idaho potato-farmer-turned-diamond-miner known as the “Mormon.” Together, they will make an extraordinary find—what miners call a “First Water Stone.”
When rebels attempt a coup, Trace and his partners are caught up in violence and treachery that threaten to engulf them all…
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Swimming Naked : John Ferneau-Leinen
Swimming Naked
“Swimming Naked” is cast in a time when it was fun to be a kid. A time when the two main rules were: Do your chores, and get your fanny home when the street lights come on. A time when there were no organize sports. Baseball, football, or what ever were pick-up games played on a vacant lot or side yard somewhere in town, with no adult intervention. A time when toy guns were not frowned upon, as make believe cowboys and Indians acted out skirmishes down the block or in ones backyard. A time when make believe Marines, or Army troops, fought the Germans and Japanese re-enacting battles of World War II. A time when your dog was a companion tagging along where ever you went, and everyone in town knew your name as well as your dog’s.
“Swimming Naked” is a time of special memories. The old home town. The neighborhood, and the house lived in that was our special place in the world. Who can forget that secret place where we found solace when things weren’t going so well. How about those good times enjoyed with relatives, friends, neighbors, and playmates. The puppies, kittens, critters of all kinds that brought joy, and yes, sadness to our young lives. There are so many nuances of life that have brought us to where we are today. It’s time to enjoy those memories.
“Swimming Naked” takes place during the early forties when our country was at war on two fronts, World War II. The story, and story lines are based on my life from age nine to twelve when I lived with my paternal grandparents in Sibley, a small town in northwest Iowa, following the death of my mother from cancer at age twenty-nine.
Here and there I have evoked author privilege, adding a bit of embellishment where needed. You might term this book as faction, a lot of fact and a bit of fiction. Though it began in a time of grief it developed into, perhaps, one of the happiest and most memorable periods of my life. The memories are special, and afford me great comfort and joy when I look back to those years of innocent childhood.
The characters are real, but some of the names may be fictitious, or partially fictitious. For with declining years also comes declining memory. Rest assured though, the names that I recall are true and factual, and I delight in including them in the following text. For “Swimming Naked” is not an exposé, but rather a testimonial to the wonderful people sharing a small boy’s life during a tragic time. Few remain, but those who do and those who are gone, still occupy this old man’s young heart.
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The Next Age : Jack Eason
Prepare yourselves for a wild ride as you read about an apocalyptic possible alternative future for mankind. The Next Age follows our fight for survival in the thirty-second century. It’s not too late. We still have time to change our ways. This story need not become a reality…
For countless millennia we swallowed the myth perpetrated by the world’s many religions that we were the only sentient species in the cosmos made by an all-powerful God. As it turned out it was an arrogant belief.
In the twentieth century, during the period known as the Cold War, between America and its allies versus the former Soviet Union and its acolytes, we revealed our existence to the universe by launching two probes into deep space. The whole event passed into history and was completely forgotten until the thirty-second century, when mankind got a wake-up call that none of us was prepared for.
Turning Point, Globular Van der Graff’s Goblin Tales for Adults, The Forgotten Age, The Guardian, Céleste, Race Against Time, Autumn 1066, The Magisters and The Forgotten People by Jack Eason are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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