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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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A Question of Proof : Joseph Amiel
A Question of Proof
From Joseph Amiel, best-selling author of Birthright, Deeds, and Star Time, comes this most compelling legal thriller. A Question of Proof is a spell-binding and profoundly moving courtroom drama in which a lawyer struggles to defend the woman he loves against the accusation that she murdered her husband.
Tough and street-smart, a principled rebel against an establishment he has always scorned, Dan Lazar has risen from the working class to become one of Philadelphia’s top criminal defenders. But now divorced and badly missing his young son, disillusioned by years of representing vicious criminals, humiliated by the politically ambitious DA’s charge that he bribed a witness in a brutal rape-homicide case, Dan is burned out, depressed, and ready to call it quits. On the surface he would seem to have nothing in common with Susan Boelter, the beautiful and patrician wife of Peter Boelter, who runs the city’s dominant newspaper and heads one of its most powerful families. But when Peter deserts her and files for divorce, moving to seize everything that is precious to her, including custody of their thirteen-year-old daughter, Susan turns to a reluctant Dan for help. Suddenly, Peter is found dead. Susan becomes the prime suspect in his murder.
Driven by his new-found love for her and by an inner need to defend someone in whose innocence he can truly believe, Dan starts to investigate. He soon discovers a maze of conflicting evidence and of growing doubts and mystery about the woman he thought he knew and loved. And he realizes that the truth he desperately seeks – especially about Peter Boelter’s death – depends on finding the answer to a question of proof.
From Philadelphia’s courtrooms in City Center to the mansions in its moneyed suburbs, A Question of Proof is the gripping story of one man’s internal battle between love and justice and the lengths to which a wealthy family will go to hide its secrets.
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Corr Syl the Warrior : Garry Rogers
Corr Syl the Warrior
On an Earth on which intelligence evolved long before humans appeared, tensions are rising between humans and the ancient multi-species Tsaeb civilization. When an armed human patrol crosses the border into a small Tsaeb district, the district council asks a young Tsaeb warrior named Corr Syl, who is descended from rabbits, to investigate and prepare a response.
Corr learns that spies have infiltrated his district, and he realizes that many lives are at risk. He catches a glimpse of something truly evil, and with no time to spare, plans a response that will end the immediate dangers, but that might start a war.
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