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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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Into a Strange Land : Ben Anderson
The McGunnegal Chronicles (Volume 1)
The McGunnegals are strange. It has been that way for generations. Mothers hold their children close when they walk by, lest they catch the McGunnegal strangeness.
But when Colleen McGunnegal and her cousin Frederick fall through a portal in her crazy grandfather’s potato cellar, they find themselves in the land of the Others – a land that needs them to be stranger still, and which will change the course of their lives, and perhaps all of Ireland, forever.
C.S. Lewis meets Grimm, meets MacDonald, meets Tolkien in this good, clean, high fantasy adventure with depth and heart and an Irish twist.
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Abyssal Sanctuary: Remnants of the Damned : Gavin Hetherington
Abyssal Sanctuary: Remnants of the Damned
Witness the Birth of Fear.
Something is shifting in the secluded and sinister town of Lakefield View. With a sense of disturbed magic in the air, five employees of a small café – Justin Rutherford, Tiffany Hawkins, Eric Watson, Christina Mayer, and Carmen Stevens – continue their night like it was any other. That is, until their shifts are cut deadly short when Tiffany’s sister is killed in front of their very eyes…
Thrust into a world of murder and mystery; there seems to be no escape. A wicked history forces them to realize their pasts are entwined by a murderous event that occurred in all five of their childhoods. The town; the people; their lives; none of it is what it seems.
An epic tale of friendship, fear, life and death, the five friends must survive a cruel twist of fate in a seemingly inescapable town while being targeted by psychopaths, killers, witches, and blood-hungry creatures. There is only one question in Lakefield View – how long can you survive for?
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When Eagles Dare To Fly : James W Hoddinott
When Eagles Dare To Fly
This is a powerful story of Mitch and Raymond growing up in a society where men have lost purpose. Robbed of pride, men drink to forget their past and hopeless future: alcoholism and the destruction of their families result. Children are forced to endure physical and mental abuse of their mothers and families. The children realize the cycle must be broken. Joining together, they show their parents a better life.
A seemingly insignificant death – a murder – galvanizes the youth to action. Reverting to the ‘old ways,’ the spiritualism of their forefathers, they vow to return to the days when they were a proud and loving people. During their journey they discover an amazing fact. That bigotry and racism are just barriers erected to hide the fact that mankind suffers from the same diseases.
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Steep Drop : Kevin Richard White
Steep Drop
A troubled young man – unsure, unwilling to conform, in a nowhere job, seemingly trapped in a battle of head vs. heart – leaves his beautiful wife after some years of a rocky marriage. Disappearing, he goes into his head to uncover the truths and lies of his love, wondering about the what ifs, reliving the memories and ultimately coming to the conclusion that he should have never left her. We see the good times and the bad times, how they shaped him and her, and how he was able to come to the decisions and how he somehow justifies his terrible act.
However, when he chooses to reappear and reconcile with her, she wants nothing to do with him anymore, seeing as she went under a transformation of her own. A deep and intense character study of two damaged individuals, Steep Drop is not afraid to dive into the more painful moments of a lover’s thoughts. While the more unsettling pieces of their relationship come to light, it nevertheless shows a poetic beauty and power into the harrowing and undeniable fact that love can conquer all – and if utilized wrong – can damage all as well.
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Winter : Sarah Remy
Winter’s not your ordinary teenager.
While trying to rescue his sidhe family from exile, he mistakenly unleashes the monstrous Dread Host upon humankind.
Winter’s mother wants nothing more than to find a way to break the curse keeping the sidhe imprisoned on Manhattan. New York city is driving Winter’s father slowly mad. Winter’s sister wears Chanel and longs for a Fairy Court she’s never seen. And Winter’s mentor is a talking mouse.
Winter wants to save the world.
When he discovers an unlikely changeling lost in the subway, Winter realizes he’s been given a chance to finally banish the Host, and maybe even save his family. But the changeling isn’t quite what she seems, and Winter’s already unstable world begins to spin out of control.
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