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Character : João Carrapa
A curious and incisive journey about beauty, morals, humor and many other themes related to the human experience, in the form of rhyming blocks.
If you are wondering how to live a full life and like poetry, this book is for you!
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Murder in Bay City : John Hynes
“The Chronicle’s of Johnny Blake,” is a recipe for romance mystery and lies add chills and thrills for seasoning and what do you have a good read. This is a 12 episode series, with Murder in Bay City episode one.
A wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom and his wife is missing and is the prime suspect.
Episode two Bay City Murder on the East side. A second young girl is found murdered on the east side Bay City. What clue did one of the young murdered girls leave behind?
Both episodes have 5-star reviews on Google Play. Also available on Amazon Kindle ebook and paperback with episode one on audiobook. Read both episodes today.
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Gracie & Zeus Live The Dream : Elizabeth Roderick
Grace Morgan has been on the music scene long enough to know the life of sex, drugs & rock & roll is just a dream. But after a messy divorce, Grace wants to give her dream of being a music journalist one last shot.
She moves to LA with her 21-year-old foster son, Zeus. They live in a motel on cup noodles and hope, until Grace finally gets a break: a story about Inez Carter, hot-mess frontwoman of the popular band Karma Korn.
The story delivers more sex, drugs and rock & roll than Grace bargained for. Karma Korn’s drummer, Nelson, has Grace rethinking her post-divorce vow of celibacy. And after they’re invited to an elite Hollywood rave, where they mistakenly drink the electric Kool-Aid, Zeus is scouted to be the lead guitarist for another star band.
However, the story soon goes sideways, and things aren’t adding up. Someone is spreading rumors about Grace, trying to sabotage her career and reputation. Then someone tries to kill her. Grace is left frantically trying to connect the dots in the dwindling hope she’ll be able to salvage the story, her relationship with Nelson, and her life.
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Not My Ruckus : Chad Musick
Folks know 14-year-old Clare isn’t normal, even for a tomboy. She runs too much, talks too little, carries a gun too often, and holds a grudge forever. Only her papa’s job at the bank keeps gossip quiet. It’s unwise to risk the cold anger of the man who knows everyone’s secrets.
Clare feels prepared for everything from fire, to flood, to demon attack. When her neighbor Esther kisses her, though, Clare has no ready script. Maybe she could write one, given time she doesn’t have. At the moment of that first kiss, Esther’s mom is bleeding out from a gunshot wound.
Clare can read the signs everyone else is determined to ignore. A murder was only the beginning. Esther needs protection, whether she wants it or not, and Clare won’t abandon her friend just because things are hard.
Maybe one day she’ll be forgiven for doing what’s needed.
Note: Not My Ruckus is an intense book about trauma and love. Please check the publisher’s website for a list of content notes.
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Becoming Nobody: A Personal Account of One Man’s Search for Self-Klowledge : Rick Branch
The subtitle of Becoming Nobody is, A Personal Account of One Man’s Search for Self-Knowledge, which tells you just what this book is.
Most of the many chapters within are emails I wrote for a fellow seeker (Ana). You won’t be seeing the emails I first typed out for her; the original versions had grammatical and other errors I’ve tried to correct. Though very few list the date written, they are close to being chronologically accurate, spanning from 2008 to 2018. Covering a range of topics, these “chapters” are all tied to my perspective on getting to the truth of who I am.
Becoming Nobody is for those who seek a deeper understanding of what it means to be a person or self. As counterintuitive as it may seem, I found that making the most of my life is not a matter of becoming ‘a somebody’, but of ‘becoming nobody’. This gave me the peace of mind I’d been searching for.
I don’t claim to know what’s best for others; I’m only passing along what works for me. Citing findings in philosophy, psychology, and science, I also include many personal experiences to back up my conclusions.
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1845-1870: An Untold Story of Northern California : Daniel L. Smith
1845-1870 An Untold Story of Northern California is a revisionist historical non-fiction narrative of the American settling of Northern California, and their difficult experiences with local native conflicts that arose. These hostilities have been eyeballed and extensively written about through the eyes of the indigenous locals. Modern knowledge on the true experiences of the pioneers settling of this specific area of 19th century Northern California, today, is seemingly swept under the rug.
This literature serves as a window for the reader to understand the mindsets and culture of the American settlers as they homesteaded the Northern California region from 1845 to 1870. This literature includes massive amounts of information regarding unheard-of regional hostilities and depredations against the American settlers during this time frame.
1845-1870 An Untold Story of Northern California also exposes and ties in certain cultural, religious, and legal functions that solidified the history of what truly happened during Northern California’s unstable history!
A must-have for students, teachers, and history enthusiasts!
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The Fountain of Youth: Stories from the Free City, Book 1 : Nathaniel Warner
When Jack enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he expected adventure and danger. He expected to see new and terrible things. And, he expected to be in the company of those he could trust and those who would help see him safely through. But he never expected the love of his life would be by his side. Or that they would be marooned on a tropical island paradise. An island paradise that may hold the secrets to the mythical Fountain of Youth.
Together, with a small group of shipwreck survivors, they will either weather the challenges in front of them or die trying.
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Vuel: Gang Fighters : Kregt Cadizan
In VUEL, the spectacle of the gang fight fills stadias. Vuelans come to see the violence. There’s no pretense of moving a ball toward a goal. Players attack each other with the purpose of disabling their opponent, Gang Fighters tells the stories of these vuelans before they met our familiar Earth humans.
An aspiring vuelessa serves a young gang fighter as they scheme to disrupt the Games of Pleasance – Our basic skills were matched for each other. I knew that I was to serve his need and held onto him while he used me for his pleasure. Moments later I whispered, “I will go with you this brightness and assist in any way I am able.” His thought came to me: I knew you would. You must.
Aeia developes full telepathinc ability and reads the vuelan’s histories. She also gains full awareness of her biological processes, including arousal- which she finds difficult to control. – I tried to remember the last time I was not in some level of arousal. That thought evaporated when he penetrated me. My sense of his penis stroking the wall of my vagina at that place where it touches my bladder made me moan to myself. Maybe my espo heard me. I couldn’t be sure. The exhilaration produced within my vagina had overwhelmed my thoughts, taking my existence to a subliminal paradise.
Loee, who became the Wild Stream, may become the vuelessa of Puerta Lavaka… if she can stimulate the horde leader to amorig her well enough that the horde makes him the new Regua of Puerta Lavaka – This was my task for vuel. I would make this simple horde leader feel like the conqueror he needed to become… Backing toward a closed treasure chest that was brought from the Tiburo, I stared at the growing erection he was releasing from his pantos. My eyes widened and I licked my lips. Holding my mouth open. I backed toward the chest as he approached me. The vuelen from the hold who had originally named me the Wild Stream began to call out, “the Wild Stream flows!” I wondered: Can they tell that I am wet for this vuelo?
Young vuelessa Oseio is appointed to Centium’s Council of Commerce. She knows they don’t require her perspectives of vuel. They need her influence with the gang fighting champion of the Games of Centium. She offers herself as a forfiet slavuela to lead the Centium gang fighters into the stadia of Refurio.
The future Prime Vuelessa of the Domesticate is paired in her training with the daughter of a vuelessa formerly from Earth. Young
Viya and Wazja are trained with vuelen to use their musculature to enhance and control amorig. Their training leads them to a challenge that will determine their future vuel.
The Resjed beings bring their near space transport to assist Kregt, Eloe and Ua Exerva extract a mind control device from Commander Dekt’s brother. The Intempla civilization devices are programed to shut down when removwed from a human/vuelan and the host dies soon thereafter. Auvee was described in the first book. She returns now to mix a coma inducing aroma to try to save Bartik’s mind.
Brand is locked to a platform in Centium: I had not been fed and the bowl of water was empty when a beautiful vision walked up. This young vuela was no hallucination. I was afraid to look at her but could not look away. Then, unbelievably, she leaned down and said slowly, in English, “just nod. Are you from Earth?”
The 3rd book in the “VUEL” series.
Vuel: Vuelessa of Centium and Vuel: Perception is Everything by Kregt Cadizan are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer : Morhaf Al Achkar
The book tells the stories of 39 patients with incurable lung cancer. It aims to help patients, families, and healthcare providers understand the experience of living with cancer. It also invites reflections on the essential questions of meaning, resilience, and coping with adversity in life.
The author is a family doctor, teacher, and researcher who is also a stage IV lung cancer patient himself. He is patient number 40.
This book offers insights for all of us, healthy or not, who seek to better understand ourselves. The Book Review Directory
Impressively informative, exceptionally well written. — Midwest Book Review
This is an intimate and challenging read, especially if you have personal experience with the pain of terminal cancer, but it is also essential. — Self-Publishing Review
The author’s nonjudgmental stance allows this book to be read by people with differing stances on many topics without feeling criticized. — The Journal of Family Medicine
A young general practitioner with lung cancer searches for his identity and for an “answer to my existential struggle”. He facilitates conversations about some of life’s big questions with 39 others with the same diagnosis, “hoping that by developing the language to explain our struggles as cancer patients, others can understand us better, and with that, also better understand themselves.” — ManyBooks Review
Being Authentic: A Memoir and A Love Attempt by Morhaf Al Achkar are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Steeled Toes and Cowboy Boots : Heylia-Dru Yarbrough
Ex-bull rider turned rancher Jaffery Dufrey has never hidden the fact he comes from a long line of outlaws and lawmen. But the thing he’s most proud of is being part of a dying breed – the African-American cowboy. His focus is on Sweet Briar, a working cattle ranch that has been in the Dufrey family for generations, and Sanctuary, the forty-five acres of Sweet Briar land dedicated to providing a haven for at-risk youths.
Jaffery spends time working with the kids sent to Sanctuary, teaching them self-worth through training them to become competition riders who compete in the amateur rodeo circuit is something he’s passionate about, and educating them about black cowboys’ place in history.
Jaffery is approached by his Crawford about leasing one hundred acres of Sweet Briar land to Willard Gas for use as underground storage for natural gas, but he doesn’t trust Crawford’s explanation that an arrangement with Willard Gas would be good for Hallowell’s economy and has no intentions of deeding as much as a clump of dirt from of Sweet Briar’s over fifteen hundred acres to Crawford, but he’s still willing to give Willard Gas’s engineer and opportunity to explain the process of natural gas storage to him. Jaffery should have known given Crawford’s flexible morals, Crawford would play dirty and shouldn’t have been surprised when Willard Gas sent the beautiful Ms. Harvey as their representative.
Texas transplant Engineer Michal Harvey isn’t looking for love, not after the fiasco of her last relationship sent her running from Texas to Georgia, and shouldn’t have been surprised that the rugged rancher, could not hide his surprise that she was female. After all, industrial inspections in the oil and gas industries is a male-dominated field. But she was not here with an ax to grind, make friends or impress the local bull-riding demi-God. She was here to convince him to do business with her company Willard Gas and make a name for herself in the STEM field.
But being around Jaffery is easy. Falling into a friendship feels organic and natural. Communication is fun and funny. And the heavy undercurrent of desire sizzling through their friendship does nothing to stop her from enjoying spending time in Jaffery’s company, learning about his work with his kids and the community.
Michal never counted on the hunky, laid-back cowboy, and the more time she spends with Jaffery, whether at the ranch, exploring downtown Hallowell, going to the rodeo, or overnight camping with him and the kids, the more she sees his fun side and her attraction to him grows. She just hopes he never finds out her boss pressed her into spending time with him because he needs Jaffery focused on anything but the contract she’s supposed to get him to sign with Willard Gas.
However, a fire that destroyed the family church and an attempt to set fire to Sanctuary’s dorm leads Jaffery to find out about Crawford’s duplicity and Michal’s supposed role in all of it, resulting in a breakdown of their budding relationship, which will take work to rebuild and make their journey will be wilder than eight heart-stopping seconds on the back of a thousand-pound bull.
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