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They’re Having a Laugh : Bob Price
A political satire that’s out of this world. Politics is not all drama. People make sure it’s also sexy, funny, and intriguing.
A romp through the corridors of power in a parallel UK reality exposes the difference. Same events. Different consciousness.
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Survival of Species : Sol Rothman
A 1940s Bronx tenement kid survives a childhood of dyslexic confusion and cruel, alcoholic abuse to test his crazy wit and talent in Will Eisner’s art bullpen.
Survival of Species is a raw, authentic, deeply affecting memoir of survival and risky adventure set in that bustling marketplace of the South Bronx, where train lines and waterways converge at Hunts Point — the destination for fresh foods and waves of greenhorn immigrants in mid 20th Century New York.
It’s hard not to fall in love with Solly, a scrawny little kid who throws himself into games and encounters with danger on the streets, while at school and at home he stubbornly survives crushing dyslexic ridicule, and the seething bigotry and irrational violence of alcoholic abuse.
Revealed through the patchwork of their lives, his mom, Molly, loves her children strong, and works to keep them together through the hard times. She teaches Solly how to laugh at life’s cruelty, and hide your devastation inside. But even she doesn’t know the intense torment and fear he endures as the chosen victim of his Nazi-sympathizing stepfather — nor does his closest sibling, Millie, though she too is subject to Harold’s tyranny. His oldest brothers, who might have saved him, are off fighting their own battles in WWII.
As he struggles to believe in himself, Solly creates his own rules to understand the outside world, and begins to grapple with bigger questions that shape his life, reflecting Molly’s confounding choices. As her life repeats itself in her children, he grows up translating the world through his streetwise imagination, skewed humor, and the movies that become the frame of reference for his life. Inspired by Sid Caesar, the artists of Mad Comics, and his own fever of sexual experimentation, he evolves into an endearingly crazy mix of all three — realizing his humanity and creative talent at his first job in the adult world of Will Eisner’s art bullpen in Manhattan.
The story of author Sol Rothman’s life can make you laugh out loud one moment, and shock you with gut-wrenching brutality the next. So reader, be warned: Survival of Species is not written for the very young, the faint of heart, or the politically correct.
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Fate’s Restless Feet : Anthony Delstretto
It was expected to be a quick and glorious colonial conquest. War to the knife in a cactus labyrinth awaited.
In 1911, brothers Gianni and Renzo Como land with an elite Bersaglieri regiment in Tripoli, Libya, as the Kingdom of Italy declares war on the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Renzo risks everything to live up to his duty to protect his brother during a treacherous battle fraught with confusion, courage, and cruelty.
Despite dire warnings, Angelina Scrivatti undertakes the perilous journey to America to claim a promise of marriage. She arrives at a Michigan mining town to discover the man she loves in the grip of alcoholic despair. They become swept up in a storm of ethnic violence on a fateful Christmas Eve — with one final chance for personal redemption.
ABOUT THE SERIES
“The Last Italian, A Saga in Three Parts” begins in 1882 Italy and spans more than six decades of personal, social, and political tumult. Three generations of the Como and Vacci families face rapacious landowners, deadly epidemics, harrowing warfare, perilous immigration, and Fascist brutality during the Kingdom of Italy’s final sixty-three years. Throughout, as the characters struggle to balance their commitments to love, loyalty, and honor against the implacable demands of survival, Fate forever stands ready to abruptly intervene.
Besides Volume II, “Fate’s Restless Feet”, the other books in the series include:
BOOK 1: GOD’S TEETH (Italy 1882) – also on Whizbuzz Books.
Love, jealousy, murder, vendetta. All in the time of cholera. Then the brigands strike!
BOOK 3: DEATH TO THE WOLF (Italy, Russia 1942)
Pitiless winter descends on Mussolini’s wartorn Italy. The family, divided like Italia itself, stands on the precipice.
L’edizione in lingua italiana di questo libro, I PASSI IRREQUIETI, è disponibile utilizzando il seguente link: https://books2read.com/u/3GAYja
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No More Flu for Suzie Sue : Christine E. Cirillo
The Health Awareness Adventures continue with Suzie Sue!
Suzie Sue caught the flu and needs your help to feel better again! Follow along with this fun read and coloring book to learn how to prevent and stop the spread of the flu.
Counting Sweets for Claire the Panda by Christine E. Cirillo
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The Day of the Deputy : David Welch
Stanton Brunner has always lived in the shadow of famous lawmen. His father is a respected town sheriff, his grandfather a legendary, retired U.S. Marshal. But Stan never wanted to have it out with the bandits of the world, and was content to live the quiet life of a frontier town gunsmith.
This comes to a crashing end when Bloody Brit Talmadge and his band of outlaws ride into town. Talmadge is a hardened killer with a cruel philosophy to match. He means to rule the town and surrounding valley with an iron fist, and that requires eliminating all who might challenge him.
When tragedy strikes Stan’s family at Talmadge’s hands, the young man finds himself with a choice: slink away and do nothing, or take up the badge where no one else will. If he stays and fights, he faces seasoned killers who have him outnumbered, and have the townsfolk running scared. Stan, on the other hand, has never shot at a man, never enforced the law, and never really been in a serious fight.
Beyond his inexperience, he’s also torn between a duty to see justice done, and a seething, justifiable desire for revenge.
About the only thing the man has going for him is courage, and soon enough that courage will be the only thing standing between a small town and complete annihilation.
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For Your Pies Only: A Selection of Comic Verse : Steve Walton
Though after writing,
Comedy verse.
I limber up,
For better or worse.
Instead of walking,
Down the aisle.
An old friend,
Ran a mile.
When we were,
The best of chums.
Learning hard,
To play the drums.
When it was,
To Rod Stewart.
He would always,
Beat me to it.
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Tell Me You’re Mine: The British Billionaires : J.S. Scott
A chance encounter between a secretive billionaire and a plus-size PR expert could be the perfect solution to both their problems – or a delicious scandal in the making – in New York Times best-selling author J. S. Scott’s new “British Billionaires” series…
I am the type of woman who always plays it safe. In my professional life as a public relations “fixer”, and in my personal life, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. Really, who needs the wild highs and the I-want-to-die-because-he-left-me lows of a relationship? At least, that’s what I thought…until I met him.
Damian No-Last-Name-Given is sexy as sin, and I’d developed some kind of weird, instant attraction to him the moment he settled his chiseled body next to mine on a flight from London to Los Angeles. His sexy British accent did crazy things to my previously dormant female hormones, which had eventually led me to do the most impulsive thing I’d ever done in my entire life. I kissed him while everyone else in business class was sleeping. Or had he kissed me? All I knew was that we were both very willing participants, and that panty-melting embrace had rocked my entire world while it was happening.
Unfortunately, that moment of spontaneity would haunt me once I found out Mr. British Hottie’s true identity. He’d held his last name back for a reason. Oh no, I couldn’t make some once-in-a-lifetime misstep with an ordinary businessman. When I screwed up, it had to be one for the record books, and it had to happen with one of the most powerful men in the world. And, oh yeah, he also absolutely had to be the biggest man-whore on the planet.
Once I knew the truth, I could have easily convinced myself that the kiss wasn’t all that earthshattering – if Damian Lancaster hadn’t boldly swaggered into my office the very next day to apologize, and to make me a business offer I couldn’t possibly refuse….
Goodbye sanity; hello madness.
Mine for Tonight, Billionaire Unmasked ~ Jason, Billionaire Undercover ~ Hudson and Mine for Tonight by J.S. Scott are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Strive to Better Yourself: Accomplish Your Goals and Achieve Your Vision : Arnel Duvet
Accomplish Your Goals and Achieve Your Vision
Those who take bold leaps in life discover that things have a way of working out when we allow risk and opportunity be frequent guests in our lives.
In his book Strive to Better Yourself, accomplished life and career coach Arnel Duvet demonstrates how to achieve short-term goals while making steady progress toward your long-term vision. He provides clear, simple guidance on how to get up and keep moving forward when life knocks you down. He will help you cultivate a system that propels you to succeed no matter what stands in your way. If you’re ready to make a paradigm shift in your thinking,
Arnel Duvet will show you the system he has developed and utilized with his clients in one-on-one trainings and workshops.
Through motivation and determined effort, you can build a new life today with this book as a trusted resource and guide.
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The Harry Heron Series eBook Boxed Set : Patrick G. Cox
In the vein of Horatio Hornblower, Patrick G. Cox weaves an exciting, authentic tale of Henry (Harry) Nelson-Heron, a young Midshipman in the British Royal Navy in the early 1800s. When Harry and his best friend Ferghal make the treacherous journey to London to find a ship, fate smiles on them. Harry is appointed a Midshipman aboard the HMS Bellerophon, and Ferghal joins him as a seaman. Transferred to HMS Spartan, the seafaring life takes Harry and Ferghal across the seas and into an unimaginable future.
On the return voyage, in the midst of a sea-fight with the French during the Napoleonic wars, an explosion happens that is clearly not the result of cannon fire from the 64-gun French ship. In that moment, Harry, Ferghal and Danny Gunn, a ship-boy, disappear from the deck and land 400 years into the future on the deck of the NECS Vanguard, a starship whose Captain is none other than James Heron, Harry’s twelve times great-nephew, a keen military leader who quickly becomes a father figure to Harry and the boys.
They are plunged right into the action and intrigue of a modern interstellar fleet battling enemies on Earth and in outpost colonies on other planets. As celebrities and curiosities, Harry and Ferghal are the target of the Johnstone Research Group, who want to use them as lab rats, and who are aligned with the Consortium, a heavily armed and determined enemy, but the North European Confederation’s crushing defeat of the Consortium at Pangaea has led to full-scale war. Meanwhile, all is not well aboard the NECS Daring. Catapulted into a life-or-death situation when the ship is destroyed, Harry and Ferghal must use their knowledge of some very old weapons and skills to save their crew and return to their ship.
On a voyage of exploration, NECS Beagle disturbs a strange alien race called the Niburu. Humanity stands to be wiped out one world at a time if the Niburu are not stopped. In the ensuing battles, the smaller ships of the Fleet must deliver a very dangerous provided by their shadowy allies the Siddhiche to deal the final blow to the Niburu and win the war.
The arc of the series reveals how Harry and Ferghal outwit and outlast those who target them for destruction and elimination, including a secret organization of assassins known as the Pantheon, who have operatives at every level of government. But the Pantheon have never dealt with someone like Commander Harry Heron, and they have no idea what is in store. Their plans spiral out of control when he brings them down through his savvy use of integrity, intelligence, and his unique ability to communicate with the artificial intelligence of any network in proximity, even though the effort is almost his undoing.
Through it all, Harry, Ferghal, and Danny grow into brilliant leaders and fine young men, supported by their friendship and mentorship with Captain (then later Admiral) James Heron and his sister, the feisty Aunt Niamh, a mother figure and a force to be reckoned with as their greatest advocate and protector. Love wins out in the end: the bonds of family love and the fulfillment of married love for Harry and his sweetheart Mary.
Books in the “Harry Heron” Series by Patrick G. Cox also featured on Whizbuzz Books:
Harry Heron: Into the Unknown (Book 2)
Harry Heron: No Quarter (Book 3)
Harry Heron: Savage Fugitive (Book 4)
Harry Heron: Awakening Threat (Book 5)
Harry Heron: Hope Transcends (Book 6)
Captain James Heron: First into the Fray
Other books by Patrick G. Cox also on Whizbuzz Books:
Limehouse Boys
Magnus Patricius
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The Dacian Enigma : Charles Edward Williams
A soldier’s tale set in 2 C.E. during the expansionary Roman eastern frontier campaigns. The Emperor Trajan is increasingly provoked by the Dacian King in the east who rules a powerful and civilised region.
The Dacian King named Decebalus taunts the Roman Empire by disobeying treaty agreements and randomly attacking Roman forts.
The continued deceit and deception of Decebalus leads to the Romans engaging in vicious battles to restore the respect and rules of the Roman Empire.
The soldier gains promotion through the ranks due to battlefield acts of bravery and courage. He learns valuable lessons in raw power and politics as well as in his personal life.
A Dacian battlefield incident comes back to haunt and claim revenge on the soldier.
The Arc of Dacicus by Charles Edward Williams is also on Whizbuzz Books.