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Dead Man’s Hand : David Nix
An action-packed historical western for fans of William Johnstone and Louis L’Amour.
Condemned to die, he’s about to find a reason to live.
Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop.
Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train begin looking to Paynter for leadership, and he reluctantly falls into the role.
The opportunity to escape arises when the wagon train is attacked by bandits, but Paynter’s growing ties to the travelers compel him to stay. As his trial approaches, Paynter must lean on his friends for salvation, but the laws of the west are swift and harsh, and a grueling confrontation with his past is on the horizon.
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The Detective Wakes : Jim McGhee
Detective Inspector Barney Mains knows he’s only in the South of France to fly the flag. That he should leave it to French officers to find the missing British celebrity.
But after years behind a desk in Edinburgh Police HQ he just can’t resist the urge to investigate a real live case again.
Especially when it lands him in the middle of a shocking conspiracy.
It’s one which will lead to murder and put Barney and those around him in deadly danger.
Then present him with the biggest dilemma of his life.
He’ll be forced to question twenty years of training and a lifetime of doing the right thing.
For, faced with political corruption at the highest level, he must choose between justice and the law.
And only one of these options comes with a very attractive bonus.
It might just keep them alive…
This is Book #1 in the series of standalone mysteries featuring Scots DI Barney Mains and Capitaine Jean-Luc Verten of the French Police Nationale.
Look out for Book #2, The Major Minor Murders, and Book #3, A Killer Legacy.
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Journey to the Hopewell Star : Hannah D. State
A mysterious star could bring stability to her world…or lead her to a blistering end.
Quiet and introverted twelve-year-old Sam Sanderson is comfortable living a simple life on her family’s peaceful farm. That is, until a mysterious visitor arrives one night, thrusting her on a formidable and dangerous journey across galaxies.
With little direction and no training manual, her mission is to find the elusive Hopewell Star to save a dying planet. But with time running out, a destructive business mogul tracking her every move, and deadly disasters threatening her community, she’ll have to rely on her wits, courage, and friends to make things right and restore peace to both worlds…all while surviving seventh grade.
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To Heaven and Back With Angels : Timothy A. Peak
Timothy A. Peak had an amazing experience of going to Heaven during brain surgery. The Angels explained to him where his 5-month-old grandchild who passed away from SIDS was. They told him about what happens to us and our loved ones when we die.
Tim answers many questions that we on earth have about what exactly happens to us after death. He was told by the Angels that his grandchild was sitting at the right hand of our Father and that he is a Saint. He was also told to go back and tell his parents not to be sad. He knows they are sad and they will be able to raise him as an infant when they go to the Heavenly Kingdom.
The Angels truly understand our pain while we are here on earth, but life is a mission we must all complete. Tim explains how the Angels have so much love for us that you can actually feel their love.
Anyone suffering from grief will find comfort from Tims’s personal experience. This book was written in a way that is very easy to read and understand. Tim explains in detail how we get there and what to expect when we arrive.
Once you start reading about Tims’s journey, you will not be able to put this book down. It is a true story that you will remember for the rest of your life in such a loving way. It was a number one bestseller in Canada and has received many great reviews.
Please read and share. Enjoy!
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Leading with Empathy : Gautham Pallapa
Learn to lead others through adversity with the power of human connection.
Leadership is about more than outlining a compelling vision for the future and commanding one’s followers to achieve it. True leadership involves a genuine understanding of what other people are feeling, seeing things from their viewpoint, and imagining yourself in their place.
In Leading with Empathy: Understanding the Needs of Today’s Workforce, accomplished executive and business leader Dr. Gautham Pallapa delivers an inspiring call to action on becoming an empathic leader. Organized into three parts, the book begins with a candid acknowledgment of the adversity facing people worldwide as they suffer through recent events, including the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment, Black Lives Matter protests, and the economic downturn.
Following that, the author describes the role of empathy in understanding how negative events affect us as human beings and how it can be a panacea in combating the anguish and suffering experienced by people from all walks of life. He also discusses what steps and actions empathic leaders can and should embrace to enable their workforce and others around them to achieve their full potential. Finally, the author explores his belief that one can only achieve progress through strategic disruption.
The book is full of enlightening anecdotes and stories that bring to life the ideas and concepts within the book. It also includes a variety of straightforward exercises and simple tips to reduce stress and anxiety and increase happiness and positivity.
Leading with Empathy also includes:
– Stories, anecdotes, and personal musings that grant visibility and validation to the suffering of others
– Exercises and strategies to reduce stress, anxiety, and improve happiness and positivity
– Actions that enable leaders to empower people through empathy, collaboration, and communication.
Leading with Empathy: Understanding the Needs of Today’s Workforce is a must-read for anyone who finds themselves in a leadership position. By re-centering empathy in the framework of effective leadership, the author offers readers a powerful tool to lead others. An essential read for executives, managers, and business leaders of all types, Leading with Empathy will also earn a place on the bookshelves of military, athletic, and educational leaders who seek to inspire their followers and empower humanity in the face of adversity.
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The Other Side Of Good : E. A. Coe
When reputed criminal, Theo Jackson, proposes a donation to the city for a new youth center, the mayor sends police officer, Denton Jones to negotiate the terms.
Theo and Denton were once friends before taking different career paths. Denton’s efforts inexplicably make him a target for a corrupt city official, but a dishonest bureaucrat is the least of the city’s problems. Theo uncovers evidence of an international criminal organization facilitating human trafficking in the city. Repulsed by the crime, Theo enlists an unlikely coalition of clergy, law enforcement, and criminals to try to stop it.
In the process, readers are dragged into the uncomfortable gray areas of life where the wrong thing sometimes seems a better choice than the right thing; where a little bad turns into almost good; and where dark white and light black become the same color.
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The Warning Signs: Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy : M. Ainihi
Don’t ignore…
…the warning signs
Something lurks beneath the waves on an island where the sun never sets; a ghost tries to stop an up-and-coming serial killer; a heartless sorceress is thrilled when she finds access to the human realm; a boy tries to win his crush’s heart by challenging a horrifying local legend.
Delve deep into the shadowy, unexplored territories of the imagination with these short stories that are sure to frighten and enchant.
From misunderstood spirits to encounters with mythical creatures, these twisted tales include run-ins with ghosts, mermaids, werewolves, sorceresses, vampires, murderers, and their victims.
Rise, Lost and Endow by M. Ainihi are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Notes From a Dead Planet: Please Prove Me Wrong : Paul Brown
Notes from a Dead Planet has a premise and a challenge.
The premise: Humans, like all living things, have a built-in drive to reproduce and consume resources beyond the ability of nature to support them. Unfortunately, we’ve evolved the ability to override the natural controls that keep other species from destroying their habitats, so that now we’ve caused a global collapse of Earth’s life support system. Our drive to consume is too powerful for us to overcome, and we are dooming all life on the planet to extinction. Our culture, built around this urge, keeps us from changing our ways. Corporations, a natural result of our drive to consume, own our governments, and they fight all attempts to rein in our self-destruction. As long as we are controlled by corporations, our own creation, we can’t survive. That’s why international efforts to address climate change and mass extinction have failed utterly.
The challenge: Please prove me wrong by taking decisive action today, to stop global collapse. If the world makes the necessary commitment to a single-minded effort to rescue the web of life we depend on, we just might survive. Notes from a Dead Planet offers the solutions; it’s up to you to apply them.
People deserve to know that humans are hard-wired to consume resources until the biosphere collapses, very soon. Although we have the capacity for reason, science, and morality to prevail over our basic instincts, our culture suppresses this. Notes from a Dead Planet explains what people deserve to know, namely, the juggernaut of overpopulation, mass extinction, and global warming; the few remaining solutions that just might reverse it; and the obstacles to recovery. This is the only honest presentation of the full picture, backed up by hundreds of hyperlinks.
Time isn’t on our side, but enough people are suffering from the ongoing collapse that maybe, just maybe, they’ll commit to evolutionary change and we can reverse it.
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The Complete Works of a Lost Girl : Kelleen Goerlitz
The Complete Works of a Lost Girl is a collection of playlets and poems which capture the beauty, tragedy, tension and freedom that is the human experience.
This work contains seven playlets ranging from a Greek tragedy to dystopian fiction and sixteen poems of different styles.
Over a decade ago the words which make up this body of work were given a voice and encouraged to find their way out of a tumultuous mind and flow out into the world through the tip of a pen.
They may be imperfect, but in their imperfection, they are true to the mind which created them and the heart which gave them life.
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Yiayia’s Kitchen Family Traditions : Brianna Koucos Midgley
“When I spent time in Yiayia’s kitchen, she taught me about ingredients and recipes. I also learned about my heritage and many Greek traditions. While I learned to cook and bake, Yiayia also taught me important lessons about life.”
In Yiayia’s Kitchen, the most important thing is family. Koukla worries because her cookies don’t look as good as those Yiayia (Grandmother) and Theia (Aunt) are making. Her cookies are different. They don’t look as pretty, and it makes her sad. She longs to make the same beautiful shapes as her aunt and grandmother. Yiayia sees she is upset and explains she didn’t always know how to make such perfect cookies. She, too, had to learn. Yiayia tells Koukla the cookies will be delicious because they all made them together, and even if they look different on the outside, they came from the same ingredients.
A heartwarming story about tradition, family and unconditional love, Yiayia’s Kitchen, Family Traditions will be a favorite for readers of all ages.