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OOF: An Online Outrage Fiesta for the Ages : Strobe Witherspoon
“Wildly entertaining …Sometimes sad and sometimes hilarious, Witherspoon’s timely metafictional novel explores the ways (mis)information can shape public discourse in the digital media age.” – Booklife by Publishers Weekly
”Strikingly original …an innovative literary experiment that supplies a thoughtful commentary on the ‘discourse virus’ of our age …Witherspoon tackles a broad spectrum of media, including comically scathing excerpts from tweets, podcasts, blogs, and even academic journals and also keenly exposes the ways in which Strobe, the character, is implicated in his own online assault, due to his obsessive attachment to public life.” – Kirkus Reviews
OOF explores the role of satire in a society lurching from one ridiculous crisis to the next, where media outlets rely on clicks to stay alive and everything is filtered through a lens of anger and misinformation.
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Strobe Witherspoon just sold his latest satirical novel for a lot of money. The book in question, FLOTUS: A Memoir, is a fictitious autobiography about a former first lady of the United States reflecting on years of misery at the hands of her much older POTUS husband. When a chapter is leaked in advance of the book’s publication, an Online Outrage Fiesta (OOF) ensues via news outlets, blogs, Twitter, troll farms, and everything in between. Witherspoon has his life placed under a microscope. Family secrets are exposed. Now, an anthology has been put together to document Witherspoon’s downfall—and settle the score.
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”an impressive achievement of unflinching honesty from a noteworthy talent, as resonant and relevant as it is entertaining …OOF tugs at the threads that connect American cynicism with radical extremism and weaves a character-rich tapestry of insight …Each voice, whether of a New Yorker journalist or an Internet influencer, is rendered with uncanny fidelity. Perhaps most masterful is that key events are not depicted but merely alluded to, allowing the text to provide an elegant framework for a more personal story painted almost invisibly in the negative space.”– BlueInk Review
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Alphabet Christmas : Janet Herbert
Learning the alphabet is a foundational skill for the importance of reading and writing. It is something that becomes a milestone and a stepping stone into the world of reading, writing, and speaking. When you learn to recognize the symbols and sounds of the alphabet, a solid foundation for learning and communication is put into place.
I have always been fascinated with this process as an English teacher and mother of four children and nine grandchildren. I saw it open the door in their minds for endless creative experiences and possibilities.
In the same creative process, I have incorporated rhyming words to further enhance the learning and remembering experience. I have used colorful art and fun memories to help entice the child to learn letters and sounds.
I hope that reading and learning through Alphabet Christmas will be a blessed and educational experience. At the end of the book, there is a space to draw the child’s favorite gift. The next page has a Christmas List ready to be filled in. This will serve as a memory keeper for years to come.
Christmas is such a special holiday for old and young alike, and I hope to enhance this wonderful season in your life by filling it with color and fun and memories with children.
Memoirs of a Rebel: The Black Market Shooting : Kon Georgiou
As Kon Georgiou sits in his Supermax (HRMU) cell one night, he recalls the last two years prior to the shooting. He goes from a life of drugs, girls, partying, loyalty and brotherhood to a life behind bars in one of Australia’s hardest prisons.
This book will give you a rare glimpse into club culture in Australia and the complete course of events that took place in the cellar of the Black Market Cafe in November 1997, where three high-ranking members of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club were shot dead by two Rebels MC members.
KG also recalls the events that led up to the destruction of bike culture in Australia. KG opens up a door into bike-club culture never before seen, in order to somehow show his part in keeping the culture alive in the readers’ minds by sharing his thoughts and experience as a Rebels MC member.
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Operation Lionhearted : Maribeth Barber
Her planet’s future is at stake…but her past is on the line.
Lindy Tremaine is proud of her work with the Meridian Intelligence Department. Clever, courageous, and armed with an uncanny intuition, she is determined to protect the planets of the Kellan Star System from all villains and schemers, even if it means going undercover as a fashion journalist.
Tragedy, however, lies beneath Lindy’s self-possessed demeanor. She is an empath, a native of the war-torn Valya, and the man responsible for her mother’s death—the former prince Rael Navorre—still rules her home planet with an iron hand. Haunted by fragmented memories of bloodshed, Lindy refuses to revisit Valya or embrace her heritage, preferring to invest in her career and her adopted family.
But now Lindy and her best friend, Jo Camrin, have received the most daunting assignment of their MID careers: they must protect Valya’s exiled royal family during peace negotiations with Rael. Committed to this mission despite her fears, Lindy soon uncovers a web of lies and technological horrors…as well as the best-kept secret in the Star System.
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My Love Affair with German Shepherd Dogs : Pamela Brink
Have you ever wondered what goes into producing the beautiful German Shepherd Dogs you see at dog shows? The hours of searching for a stud dog in breed advertisements, reading pedigrees, reading about the genetic health of the breeds, taking training classes and practicing at home, keeping up to date with what is a proper diet. Regular checks at the vet and testing for genetic issues. Best of all breeding puppies.
A breeder, trainer, and exhibitor of German Shepherd Dogs shares her experiences in rally, obedience, and conformation in both the USA and Canada. Each dog is taken in turn. A behind-the-scenes look at what owners/breeders do when they are not competing. Some dogs leave a lasting memory, others do not. Competing can be nerve-wracking yet still be fun.
An Academic Nurse’s Tale and Patientology: Toward the Study of Patients by Pamela J. Brink are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Chasing Time : Thomas Reilly
Retired history professor Tony will stop at nothing to heal his wife’s terminal illness, even if it means he has to chase time.
Tony’s wife is dying a slow death and with each day, she crawls closer. It’s torture to watch her slip away so when Tony discovers a magical object from his youth that might unlock the key to her cure, Tony vows to use it.
On his travels, he unearths clues, puzzles, and a miracle cure. He meets intriguing people who help him in his quest.
Will he find the cure to his wife’s disease in time?
It’s a frantic race against time and death to save his beloved.
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God, the Devil & the Curse of Tippecanoe : Lawrence David Niren
Fact: Whoever is President in 2020 will either die in office, be shot, or be deathly ill. Nine Presidents prove that.
On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison was sworn in as the new President. He was 68 years old, which made him the oldest President ever. He rode into the Capital on a horse without a coat or hat in miserably freezing winter, and was known as a great hero in the War of 1812, in many Indian Wars before and after, and in the Battle of Tippecanoe against the nation of Shawnee Indians, where he killed their Indian chief, and the brother of the chief, who was said to be a prophet, put a curse on Harrison that he would die as President, and that every President who followed him, would also either die as President, or would almost die, every 20 years after Harrison, known as The Curse of Tippecanoe.
On April 4, 1841, just 31 days after he was sworn in as President, according to history, William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia, and since then a President has either died or almost died, from assassinations, illnesses, or from assassination attempts every 20 years. The curse has been perfect, and can be verified by anyone who reads history on Presidents in the United States, who were sworn in, following Harrison in 1840, and 1860 with Lincoln, 1880 with Garfield, 1900 with McKinley, Wilson in 1920, FDR in 1940, Kennedy in 1960, Reagan in 1980, Bush in 2000, and 2020, when either the insect Trump will be shot, beheaded, or suffer with excruciating pain from an illness like the plague, or a Democrat President will be shot by a Trump nazi moronic worshipper. Either way, whoever gets elected President in 2020 will either die in office, be shot, or be deathly ill.
But did President Harrison really die in office on April 4, 1841, just 31 days after he had become President, or did something else happen, like what happened to Job in the Bible?
This novel explores an extraordinary test, that God and the Devil made on Harrison, and details his life before he became President, while he was President for 31 days, and his fascinating life after, including his ownership of a wild lesbian and bisexual brothel in Canada, where evidence has been found that may prove that Harrison never died in 1841!
Other books by Lawrence David Niren are also on Whizbuzz Books:
ANGELA & THE DEVIL
The Angel, The Lesbians, & The Magnificent Grant
The Lex Talionis of Brett Kavanaugh
The Ecstasy
Juvia, Kennedy & the Trial and Confession of Trump
Compassion I
Compassion II
Light of The Lord’s Lesbian
The Kazandra Appearance
The Good & The Evil
INRI YHVH
Drink From The Furry Cup
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Fog Banks In Time : Michael E. Davis
We can only know what we access through our senses of sight, smell, taste, and touch. But, there exists another dimension where only a few people go and experience the sixth sense.
Fog Banks explores the world of magic that Yeats speaks about.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” W.B. Yeats
Almost An Orphan by Michael E. Davis is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Winter Grows on Paris : Amit Kumar
Winter Grows on Paris is a curated collection of poetry by Amit Kumar, a Max Planck fellow and a critically acclaimed poet, essayist and researcher.
These select poems soulfully deconstruct the curious interplay between love, self and silence as much as they are about journeys, people and places.
In rhymes and blank verses, these poems weave stories by delving deep into and caressing gently the myriad human emotions “Self” endures and experiences while negotiating the jazzy, vivacious, poignant journeys of loving, unloving then loving again interspersed with hope, despair, nostalgia, joys and torments in equal measures. Journeys which ultimately become voyages of self-discovery.
Intensely emotional and often a tad philosophical the poems take the reader through a passionate journey of life in multichrome taken in many lands, across many winters, summers, springs and autumns, through full moons, dark nights and shades in between.
As bodies turn into water
Seine flowing silently
now freezes to a halt
and I cross it over
walking on my frozen destiny
to embrace you
equally frozen
in the envelope of my mist
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Mountain Of Fangs : Carlo Hart
A brimming sense of despair. A hotbed of horrific beasts. Who will survive the hellstorm?
Frazier Mountain, California. Kevin Murphy can’t seem to catch a break. Fleeing to an imposing pine-forested peak after a series of Hollywood fiascos, the beaten-down writer fears the gorgeous woman on his arm won’t stick around if he doesn’t find success soon. But their idyllic cabin in the woods becomes a house of horrors when he discovers the area is secretly a haven for disturbing creatures and deadly vampires.
Desperate to show he’s strong, Kevin and his girlfriend rush to assemble a monster-fighting force. But all his efforts might be for naught in the face of their maniac neighbor’s plan to use a legendary spellbook to unleash all-out annihilation.
Can the troubled wordsmith rebuff a bloody invasion without becoming fiend fodder?
Mountain Of Fangs is the pulse-throttling first book in the “Mountain Of Fangs” horror series. If you like creepy locales, inhuman threats, and the clash of swords and gunfire, then you’ll love Carlo Hart’s uneasy climb.
Buy Mountain Of Fangs to dodge death’s bite today!
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