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Trent’s Redemption : Bailey Thomas
Trent Jacobs had everything he wanted in life until the flash of a muzzle ripped his world apart. Now he only has guilt.
Permanently removed from fieldwork due to questionable events, Trent retires from the FBI. He retreats to the small town of Mill Creek, Idaho, to become the town sheriff.
Margaret King knows what it’s like to be alone and isolated. Losing her parents as a child was impossible, but the death of her brother damn near killed her. When a strange van appears on her street and her apartment is broken into, she turns to Trent, the only man she knows she can trust.
After Maggie shows up terrified and haunted, Trent’s guilt explodes. She makes him want things he doesn’t deserve, including her.
As their past collides with the present, Trent is forced to face his demons to protect her. Or risk losing her.
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skate[scape] skate + escape : Peter Soutullo
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The Relationship Between Creativity and Skateboarding – Visualized
skate[scape] skate + escape is a unique book capturing the creative intersection of graphic design and skateboarding. Through interviews, visuals and words, it seeks to answer the question, “Why do you skate?” This project, years in the making, was an idea to merge Peter Soutullo’s two passions: graphic design and skateboarding.
The creative element that can be found throughout skateboarding has always had a unique kinship to art and design. Both can be extremely creative, expressive, rewarding, loud or quiet—whatever the hell you want it to be. Many awesome skaters and photographers have donated photos and their stories or quotes to explain why they skate. For some, it could be an escape from real life or maybe an outlet for creative expression or just a mode of transportation to the corner store. It’s different for everyone. There is no wrong or right reason to ride a skateboard. Just push.
This book is a visual collaboration between graphic design and skateboarding. The connection between creativity and skateboarding is unquestionable and this book is a great example of that. This is a unique collection of meticulously designed layouts, insightful words and awesome photos from amazing skateboarders like Lizzie Armanto, Mark Gonzales, Natas Kaupas, Tommy Guerrero and more. It also features iconic photographs from the amazing J. Grant Brittain along with other photo contributors such as Jerry Martin, Pete Hon and others.
This book is a 8.5 in. x 8.5 in. image wrapped hardcover, with 120 pages of well-designed exciting visual content, with an introduction written by Don Pendleton.
House of Darkness : James Ostby
House of Darkness is a literary novel that tells the story of the life of Jonathan Gorgious in Victorian England. Also featured are Simon Slope, Maxwell Backbone, Uncle Thurston, sailor Jack Blevins, and various other characters of some distinction.
Jonathan is the son of a farmer and former pugilist, Elbert, and a beautiful mother, Cordelia. Early in his life, Jonathan falls in love with a schoolmate and neighbor, Phebe Moss. They are bound together for life.
As Jonathan and Phebe’s fortunes unfold they face everyday trials and challenges with intelligent resolve. Jonathan inherits a shipping business from his uncle Thurston; Jonathan and Phebe have two daughters, Marie and Rose; Marie leaves home for years and leads a life of dissipation; Jonathon sails to Italy as a common crewmember on one of his ships. Somewhat to his surprise Jonathan finds himself immersed in his own personal philosophy, and he is afflicted with mental disorders.
In the end …, and Jonathan lives a reclusive life in his House of Darkness.
This book is free to download (mobi and epub version)!
Rat-Tail Curves and Mark IV by James Ostby are also on Whizbuzz Books,
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The Hidden Blade : Marie Mullany
The bluron’s wings delivers a stark command of death as the Empire teeters on the edge of a most uncivil war. For the first time in Her long history, a ducal line has failed. The last duke of Etendulat is dead and none of his heirs have undertaken the Trials of Dusang. The wealth of farmlands that lies at the heart of the Blutben peninsula lack a ruler and greedy men circle the bountiful plains.
Into this high-stakes game, Louis is sent to end the ambitions of Tybalt du Mamel, Baron of Somfaux, who would reach for the Etendulat Sash. With every step, he uncovers more of a treacherous plot that is poised to strike at the heart of the Empire. Forbidden magic shadows him and ultimately he must make a dire decision: Can he take the life of an innocent for the greater good?
From the pen of Marie M. Mullany comes a new epic fantasy series!
“The Hidden Blade is one of those rare gems you find in the Independent Publishing arena. Well written, imaginative, with great characters and a wonderful story.” – Maxwell Alexander Drake
“A rich and sumptuous brooding Fantasy treat. Not to be missed.” – Caldon Mull
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Emily: a YA Spin on Jane Austen’s Emma : Kirstin Odegaard
Emily Holzhaus, beautiful, clever, and popular, had lived nearly ten and seven years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
…Except, with her sister moving out and getting married, how can Emily apply to UCLA? Her father dreads an empty house, and he expects Emily to stay close.
…And then there’s Blake, who persists in his frowny face disapproval of what will be Emily’s matchmaking triumph: the sweet and zany Harryet with the smooth yet vulnerable Elton. Blake tells Emily to stop meddling, but he can’t see the magic like Emily can.
…Ooh, and perfect Jane Santiago, who’s hiding a secret boyfriend. Who wouldn’t be distressed or vexed (or, okay, intrigued) by that? “Just leave it alone, Em,” Blake says, but flawless, thousand point GPA Jane has a clandestine romance? As if there’s anyone in the world who can leave that alone.
But when Emily’s matchmaking and sleuthing reveal unexpected truths, she is forced to reevaluate what is most important in a friend—and what to do with longstanding friendships that are rancid beneath the surface.
Humorous, smart, and fun, Emily is a YA spin on Austen’s Emma about what happens when plans unravel, friendships evolve, and secrets explode.
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They Called Him Marvin : Roger W Stark
It was WW2. Duty Called. He went. She being with child did not. He didn’t come home.
Follow Lt Dean Sherman, B29 pilot and his crew as they train and enter the war in the Pacific. Unfortunately, they were shot down over Nagoya, Japan, May 14, 1945. Captured by the Japanese, Dean and his crew were tried as war criminals and executed a month before the war ended.
The book also follows a Japanese family, the Kyoshi’s, as they deal with being on the ground when the B29s firebomb Tokyo. They elect to send their children to a safe area that had not been bombed for the duration of the war. they went to live with an uncle in Hiroshima.
Dean’s wife, Connie raises their son Marvin.
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IR 60 Indigenous and Black WisDub : Ebilotoh & Dubzaine
An invitation to political activists who remain detached from spirituality and also mystically inclined individuals aiming to be “spiritual, not political.” IR invites you to a dialogue, hoping it will widen your vision, challenge your preconceptions, and encourage self-reflection.
At the center of Indigenous and Black WisDub is a dialogue on:
- The pre-colonial histories of anarchist Africa.
- The outernationalist networks across India, Mexico, Vietnam, Jamaica, and Turtle Island.
- The confluence of political and spiritual dub in the visionary lives of Ho Chi Minh and Emir Abdelkadez and the importance of dreams, waking visions and meditation played in the lives of these and other revolutionaries.
- The legacies of Canute Frankson, Pandurang Khankhoje, Bhagat Singh, the Punjabi anarchists of the Ghadar Party, the Black anarchist fighting against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, and other anti-colonial and anti-fascist revolutionaries like Jamaican Canute Frankson.
- The outernationalist networks across India, Mexico, Vietnam, Jamaica, and Turtle Island.
- The inner dub reflections of Assata Shakur, John Trudell, Bhagat Singh, Jean” Binta” Breeze, Douglas Cardinal, Dhangsha, Huey P. Newton, Dr. Butch Bilal Ware among others.
All of this is grounded in the philosophies and dialogues from Indigenous Peoples from the Solomon Islands, West Papua, Turtle Island and beyond, amplified through voices like former American Indian Movement Chair John Trudell, whose words flow in unison with the revolutionary vision of Assatta Shakur as she spoke with us in Havana, Cuba.
As we state in our book, “According to spiritual teachers from multiple traditions, our senses are an important source of knowledge. Seeing is associated with believing, hearing is associated with understanding.”
Therefore we have created a special soundtrack to accompany this book featuring musicians and producers like UR (Underground Resistance), Steven Stanley, Dhangsha and IR :: Sankara Future Dub Resurgence. The soundtrack features the vocal WisDub of Angela Davis and Chuck D as well as traditional Indigenous singers from Turtle Island, over a flow of raw drum & bass, contemplative house, digital noise, and natural silence.
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Fit For Purpose: Acceptance : Briony Beattie
What if your life changed in an instant?
What if you lost the only family you ever knew?
What if you lost that sense of belonging and everything you existed for, came crashing down in an instant?
What if you lost a physical and mental part of you to the ravages of war?
Being abandoned by his parents at a young age and growing up within the care system, Jimmy Ferguson finally found his calling and a sense of belonging when, at the tender young age of sixteen, he joined the British Army. It was here that he met his best friend, Angus Brown, and together, they would become inseparable, moving up the ranks and eventually seeing active duty. Jimmy had finally found his family.
Ten years later Corporal Jimmy Ferguson was deployed on a six-month tour. Excited to return and marry the love of his life. His life would never be the same again, having being ambushed by an Improvised Explosive Device. Like his missing legs, everything he knew and cherished had disappeared, gone in an instant…
In the ensuing five years since his injuries, Jimmy had slipped into a spiral of despair and self-harm, cutting off the world and finding solace with the inside of a booze bottle and his new best friend, Jack Daniels. Hatred consumed his every existence, loneliness dictated his life, and all he wanted was for the quick slice of death’s gnarled hand to take him away from this place…
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Breaking the Bottle Legacy : Molly Watts
In the spirit of This Naked Mind and Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, Breaking the Bottle Legacy simplifies the science of alcohol and neuroscience to teach you how to break “unbreakable” drinking habits.
No ultimatums. No preaching. Discover your brain’s power to change and drink less.
Are you tired of worrying about alcohol but not sure you’ll never drink again?
Do you wonder if you’re traveling down a genetic path towards alcoholism?
Do you feel stuck—believing you should change your drinking habits but unable to make real progress?
In these pages you’ll discover:
- How science, society and industry challenge your power over alcohol (and why you are NOT powerless)
- Why being an adult child of an alcoholic may be affecting your drinking (it’s not because of your genes)
- How to use your own brain to change your relationship with alcohol (It’s 100% possible)
- How to undo urges and beat cravings—changing your desire for alcohol forever!
If you want to worry less, not rely on willpower to control your drinking, and to find peace with alcohol, then this book is for you.
Podcaster, mentor and author, Molly Watts, shares her journey as she overcame her past as an adult child of an alcoholic who developed her own dysfunctional thirty-plus year daily drinking habit. Her writing expands on her popular podcast of the same name.
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No Bound Love : Jennifer Vickous
Sarah goes through a divorce and is a single mother. She moves to a new city with the money she inherited from her late mother. Diana is a Recovery Bail Bonds agent. Both women become neighbors and become friends. From that friendship forms a romance.
But not all is good. Diana’s abusive ex-girlfriend comes back into her life as well as Sarah’s ex-husband.
Plus, there is a dangerous rapist that Diana and her brother Daryl are trying to catch.
Sarah’s brother comes into town and tries to steal her inheritance because he discovers she has a same-sex relationship.
Will they be able to keep their relationship going?
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