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The Dakker Chronicles: Birth of The Defiance : Matt Gerwitz
Some 150 years after colonists first arrived from Earth, the galaxy is very heavily populated. Settled planets are thriving and unsettled planets are being explored. Each planet and solar system are politically independent, though a Galactic Council does exist to provide a unifying force across the galaxy.
Despite the many successes of the new galactic experiment, the original founder’s dream of Utopia was never realized. Planetary governments continue putting on a good show, making the people believe they are living in Utopia. But it is little more than a veneer.
Underneath a thin veil of equality and goodwill is layer upon layer of greed, graft, and corruption. Everything those early colonists had thought they were leaving behind only followed them to DakolonEyo – and beyond. The planet is no Utopia. It is a dystopia with a nice coat of paint and manufactured smiles all around. But not everyone is fooled.
A small group of skeptics – a group that call themselves the Independent Thinkers – are emerging. They don’t believe in the viability of the Utopian ideal. They know that the system they live under benefits those at the top while everyone else suffers. They also know that freedom is the only antidote to Utopianism.
This is the story of how the Independent Thinkers go from being a small group of coffee shop philosophers to a force preparing to overthrow the Utopian ideal. Will they succeed? Only time will tell.
Living In Cleveland With The Ghost Of Joseph Stalin : Marc Sercomb
It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him.
“I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.”
Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con-man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he’s headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he’s a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he’s just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too.
Everybody’s trying to figure out what makes Calvin tick in this quirky, fast-paced metaphysical romp through the heart and soul of 1950’s America.
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Planning Your Day 101: Helping Preteens Make the Most of Every Day (Weekend & Summer Edition) : Sara Williams
This workbook serves as a creative space for tweens to build their own schedule for weekends and summer days. As they work through the book, preteens will learn important life habits like planning, time management, life balance, and flexibility, to empower preteens to transition into a more open mindset in their teen years.
Carefully designed to serve as a practical hands-on approach, the book is full of full-color illustrations, brainstorming activities, and exciting categories that will help any preteen achieve balance in their daily life.
Your tween will be inspired to discover their interests, learn how to schedule their day, and gain the confidence to take control & act with responsibility.
Not only that, this workbook will help them turn their interests into a personalized schedule by taking actionable steps to build their own schedule. It’s a fun-packed and powerful workbook that supports a growth mindset for anyone who completes it.
Planning Your Day 101 is an ideal gift for your friends, family, or any tween you wish to delight on a birthday or for any occasion. Be a game-changer in their lives and give them an interactive, practical gift that will send them in the right direction and teach them critical life skills ahead of their adult years.
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Believe, Live, Run – A Story About Having Faith : Bertalan Thuróczy
In this story, the author tells how from a “village peasant” he became a biomedical engineer and what extreme challenges he had to confront on his way towards fulfilling his childhood dreams.
Long-distance running also played a major role in his complete recovery from a malignant tumor. In this regard, but regardless of sport, the author teaches us how much knowledge and life experience are valuable to enjoy life even in the most desperate moments.
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Joseph and the Seven Swords : Faisal AlOthainah
When the red moon rises, a prophecy is born…
Joseph is a simple village boy with a mysterious past. Taken from his birth mother under the hue of a blood moon, he was placed with a local family and raised as one of their own. But for all their kind acceptance, Joseph has never escaped the sense that he was destined to walk a different path. As strange events begin to occur around him, he realizes he will never be free of the mysteries of his past until he uncovers the truth. The young man ventures out into the world to embrace his destiny.
In the nearby kingdom of Zelaar, Joseph’s stepbrother, King David has taken the throne, but a weak character leaves him vulnerable to manipulation. When his tyrannical orders lead to Joseph’s capture, deceit and betrayal become the young man’s constant companions. Fighting to transcend these dark forces and claim his birthright, Joseph encounters teachers and signs that whisper of an innate and mysterious ancient wisdom. He finds strength and focus on his pursuit of justice, but will learn that the first step to changing the world, is changing oneself.
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Dangerous Encounters : Walter Cannara
Donna Olsen was living a dream life. She was an attractive, confident woman with a touch of arrogance that fit perfectly with her personality, but not enough to be detected.
She was complacent and taking for granted that nothing would disrupt her lifestyle, until one day she was called to her boss’s office and abruptly let go from her job.
Strapped for money, she confided in her friend Lisa and with her, she started to embark on a totally new life that she never knew existed.
To preserve her lifestyle and for the sake of her family, she started doing things that until a few months before would have been repulsive to her and to her moral character.
This book has a little of everything, crime, intrigue, humor, tragedy, sex and love.
As you continue to read, you will be captivated and surprised by the unexpected twists and turns of the story until the last page.
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The Reason for Time : Deborah Court
Maggie Dunn, Alison Budge and Wolfe Corbyn arrive in Toronto on the same flight from London. Sullen but feisty Alison is running from her troubled past in Scotland, hoping to make a new beginning. Wolfe has been banished for crimes he committed at his father’s London bank. Maggie is coming home, to confront her past, reclaim her life and perhaps finally, to stop running.
The three team up, and their fresh start begins well. But Maggie’s health is failing. She is sick and confused. Could her thirty-year age reversal be unravelling? Is her body unable, finally, to sustain her transformation, a year and a half earlier, from a woman in her mid-sixties to a woman in her mid-thirties? To whom can she turn?
Together with her failing health, Maggie is faced with a shadowy pursuer who is determined, this time, not to let her slip through his fingers. When the crisis comes, Alison finds that her friend’s fate is more shocking than anything she could have imagined.
Will the determination of Maggie’s friends be enough to save her?
When Bodies Fall and Summer’s Lie by Deborah Court are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts : Gareth Lush
Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts tells the story of Heracles Olympus: a gifted warrior with a past that haunts him, fuelling him with a secret thirst for revenge and cursing him with a rage he cannot ever quite control. Heracles feels shackled by his life in his home city, until a chance encounter with his past sends him in search of three fabled items that have the potential to shift the power of the world: for better or for worse.
Can Heracles, and his growing band of eclectic followers, find the items before they fall into the hands of the ever-looming organisation known only as ‘Tartarus’?
Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts is the first in a trilogy of novels, part of “The Shield & Snake Saga,” from new author Gareth Lush.
The novel is for anyone with a love of epic fantasy and/or ancient Greek mythology, or just a book to get lost in.
What to expect from Greeks Bearing Gifts:
· A great many references to the mythological figures and monsters of ancient Greek mythology
· A colourful cast of characters and a rich new world to explore
· Epic battles and adventure
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Xonarye : S.H.S
Set in modern times, the story follows Leaf Brodie, a young apprentice builder who discovers an old book in a wall of a house he is working on. The book tells a story of a country called Xonarye that Leaf has never heard of.
Doing what most 19-year-old’s would do, he searches the internet to learn all about it. However, he finds absolutely nothing about the country.
This leaves Leaf wondering whether the book is fact or fiction and if Xonarye existed or still does to this day.
He looks to his closest friends, Dean Summers and Spencer Blake, for insights.
What follows is a series of adventures that will take these three 19-year-old mates around the world on a quest to unlock the secret that lies within the Earth.
Will the lost country Xonarye rise again?
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The Custard Effect : Monique Taylor (chasingthejoy)
The Custard Effect is a story of resilience amidst life’s little difficulties. Featuring Winsome, a mouse, and Custard, a cat, two unlikely friends, who must learn to see each other’s point of view and resolve differences to maintain their friendship. The Custard Effect is both heart-warming and wise!
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“A soon-to-be favourite in our house… Can’t wait for the third book!” (Sarah, South Perth)
“I absolutely loved this book! It’s the perfect combination of light-heartedness and positivity… and you’ll fall in love with Custard.” (Belinda, Baldivis)
“Oooh it gave me goosebumps! Made me all emotional.” (Kim, Secret Harbour)
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