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We Never Lost Hope : Naomi Litvin
A Holocaust Memoir and Love Story
Five relatives narrate their harrowing World War II experiences in this family chronicle.
It could be said that rather than writing this affecting and effective book, Litvin sculpted it. Her breezy but vital narrative provides the shape and overall historical context for her family’s story, but her relatives are the ones doing the real work. Using the first-person accounts of her parents, an aunt, an uncle and a friend of the family, the author offers a nuanced and multifaceted look at the plight of Jews in mid-20th century Eastern Europe.
From a small Angora farm in Satu-Mare, Romania, to the horrifying grounds of Auschwitz and finally, to a new life in America, the five distinct voices of Edith, Hilda, and Mendi Festinger, Nate Litvin and Kurt Meyers provide a powerful and intimate journey through one of mankind’s darkest hours. Litvin does well not to mute her sources with an authoritative filter.
The book’s undeniable authenticity comes from the life events retold by each narrator–while most historical texts offer one individual’s take, We Never Lost Hope presents five survivors working through their memories.
Litvin augmented the book with photographs, news articles and other ephemera (telegrams, maps, etc.) that support the sense of intimacy and reality. Since some accounts can occasionally run long, it may have been helpful for Litvin to provide more editorial insight and direction. Still, the book is a soaring testament to the strength and adaptability of five remarkable people.
The Masada Faktor and Beneath A Stormy Cloud by Naomi Litvin are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Beneath A Stormy Cloud: Moving On Without Her : Naomi Litvin
The stinging reality of the effects of the Holocaust on the second generation is illustrated as Naomi Litvin attempts reorientation to the world at large after losing her mother, a Romanian Holocaust survivor.
In her second book, Beneath A Stormy Cloud: Moving On Without Her Naomi Litvin knits a jigsaw-puzzle-like anthology of her mother’s poetry with her own juxtaposing responses.
Within these pages, Naomi’s thought-provoking commentary is a deeply personal struggle with her grief.
Edith was her mentor, heroine, and best friend. Mother and daughter share the stage in this creative, special slice of history.
The Masada Faktor and We Never Lost Hope by Naomi Litvin are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Poseidon Files : Mike Rickett
Two scientists discover that a top-secret installation in Alaska run by the American military, ostensibly conducting research into the upper atmosphere, is in fact developing technology that could transform the weather into a weapon of mass destruction and kill millions of people. They are horrified and decide to warn the world by copying vital classified files. But fate plays a decisive hand when the car they escape in plunges into a fast-moving river during a violent storm in freezing temperatures.
One of them, George Parry, survives and escapes pursuing military police believing his colleague, Keri Murdoch, is dead, managing to grab a microchip containing classified files before the car is swept down the river. Parry makes his way to Toronto and then on to Liverpool in the UK intending to give the files to the Press to warn the world of the potential dangers. But he is followed and murdered in a Liverpool hotel room but not before passing the microchip onto an unsuspecting woman during a psychic reading in an attempt to hide from his pursuers.
Artist and mystic Naomi Richards, 26, leads an uneventful life, enjoying the new-found freedom in bustling Liverpool that a divorce from a cheating husband has brought her.
Naomi makes a precarious living from art and her psychic abilities and when Parry hides in a city centre pub and sits for a psychic reading with her, Naomi realises that he is frightened of something or someone sinister following him. He hands her a keyring as a token for the reading but before she can discover what he is scared of he runs out leaving a notebook and the keyring behind.
Naomi is not to know that the secret microchip is contained in the keyring but because she was the last person to see Parry alive she becomes a target.
In Toronto, private investigator Alex Nelson is hired by FBI station chief Gram Rogers to recover the files and she travels to Liverpool only to discover that Parry has been murdered and that the last person to see him alive was Naomi.
Celebrity climate change activist Myron Hill is a leading light in the Environment Rebellion protest movement who also hears rumours of the research in Alaska. He decides to investigate and discovers that secret files have been copied; files that prove how destructive it would be to the environment. But Hill is not who he appears to be and he too has a secret.
FBI chief Gram Rogers encourages Alex to befriend Naomi believing her to have hidden the files but Alex becomes a target for assassins herself when an attempt is made to poison her on the streets of Liverpool.
Naomi and Alex are pursued by both the Russian Mafia and the GRU who are keen to redeem themselves after the fiasco of the failed attempt to murder the Skripals in Salisbury but one of their numbers is found murdered in Naomi’s apartment. They flee to Snowdonia to stay with Naomi’s brother but there is an attempt to murder Naomi in the mists of mount Snowdon. But the supernatural takes a hand to save her.
They return to Liverpool where the final drama is played out on the streets of Liverpool where Naomi is abducted and held hostage by a criminal gang. The supernatural comes to her aid in a final confrontation which takes place in a notoriously haunted sunken cemetery that lies alongside Liverpool’s majestic Anglican cathedral in which the Mafia gang are killed.
Will the world be warned about HAARP? Is there a cover-up? The final chapters reveal that people and events are not what they seem.
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The Adventures of Darla and Mickey: Raven Midnite : Kay El Magnus
Volume 2 of the exciting and highly entertaining “Darla and Mickey” series takes place shortly after the Parakeet siblings manage to stop Archie the Crow and his two pesky pals from trashing Old Man Haggerty’s famous Bird Fountain.
Anxious to get out of the birdcage and spread her wings once again, Darla complains to Mickey about getting free.
All of a sudden, a couple of animals from the area came to congratulate them for the wonderful job they’ve done protecting the neighborhood of Olive Tree, and as a token of their appreciation, they brought them a shiny new key to open the birdcage door.
Needless to say, Darla rejoices!
In the midst of showing her gratitude, it seems all the animals of Olive Tree became very excited and zipped over to greet a surprise visitor who just arrived in town.
Curious about the popular stranger, Darla takes Mickey along (against his better wishes) to check this person out.
Finally arriving at the big oak tree near the town’s library, they spot a large group of animals gathered at its base.
Sifting through the overjoyed crowd, they make their way to the center and laid eyes upon the majestic visitor whom everyone calls, Raven Midnite.
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I Choose Pain : Eros Da Artiste
Lionel Davis is a brilliant, handsome, upwardly mobile marketing executive. He is also recently single, disowned by his mother, plagued by depression, and armed with a Doxepin prescription and a harrowing family secret that threatens to drag his relatives down.
Joseph Thompson is a gorgeous, intelligent, and sugar-sweet financial secretary. Yet, he’s haunted with childhood memories of traumatizing abuse from his mother’s live-in boyfriend and humiliation from his peers. He is also hopelessly in love with his childhood friend. But the question is how will his friend react when he tells him…?
Felipe Walker-Hartfield is a bodacious, stylish, no-nonsense, fun-loving personal trainer and financial advisor. He is happily married to Jimmy Hartfield. But, he has excessive guilt over the success he enjoys, because it was built through the sacrifices of his deceased grandmother. He also deals with hurt from the church surrounding his marriage to Jimmy.
Cordell Kennedy is a Beautiful, vibrant, and iron-willed music professor and musical genius working on “One of the Greatest Symphonies ever penned by a Black composer”. The only issues halting its completion are his turbulent past, his crippling silence concerning it, and his “being a ho”. But that’s not his fault… is it?
Four successful Black and beautiful gay men are best friends from college. Taking a topsy turvy trip down the road to redemption from their past…and preparing for an escape cruise to the Bahamas.
Boy… are they in for the ride of their lives!
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A Road to Redemption: America’s Second Revolution : Mark F. Geatches
Two decades after the Wave of Destruction that nearly destroyed America, the United States is no longer recognizable. Dictator Joseph Stoner has transformed it into a socialist utopia. A society where, even though there is no freedom, there is also no opposition to his tyrannical rule. The weekend sabbaths where food, beer, and weed are handed out freely, have replaced self-will, disapproval, and even a sense of ambition in the soul of the people.
When three kids, Zammi, his sister Sydney, and their best friend Straz sneak into the forbidden structure that was once Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library, they realize how much has been lost. Not just gadgets and other possessions of a once-wealthy nation, but a sense of community, truth, and freedom as well. Determined to make things right, they create a clandestine organization called The Liberation, and embark on a risky plan to overthrow the President.
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Fullness, A Memoir : Azure Moyna
Having recently gotten married, landed her first corporate management job and purchased her first home, 28 year old Azure thought she had finally overcome her past.
But nearly choking to death on her own vomit after yet another secretive binge forced her to seek professional help and confront the origins of her consuming and shame build behavior of compulsive eating and extreme dieting.
This raw, illuminating and tragically comic book is the story of child Azure struggling to survive her upbringing by a brilliant, sociopathic father who starved and belittled her as well as adult Azure attempting to save her marriage and her psyche while contending with her preoccupation with food, her body, a fat phobic society, and her insatiable hunger for love and acceptance.
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Overtaken by Destiny : Joseph B Hale, Ian B Hale, and Vanessa C Hale
Jack, Ben, and Charles are ripped out of their normal lives in a futuristic United States and flung into a world in turmoil.
Corruption and evil are normal ways of life in this new world. These high schoolers have some martial arts and fencing skills, but will those be enough to protect themselves and make a positive difference in a world filled with greed and slavery? They discover magical gemstones that give them an edge but also make them targets. They must also learn to properly manage these new powers as they face warlords, slave cartels, and mages. These friends must fight using their intellect, magic, and steel to overcome the obstacles that face them as they search for a way to return home.
Rumors say the distant country of Celel may be able to offer information about their own world, but are they just rumors?
Along the way, they befriend several members of the new world, some of whom travel with them. Charles develops an affection for a slave girl, which complicates his future plans.
As their travels bring them almost within sight of home, the three discover that there are forces—both good and evil—working in the background.
In addition, a darkness worse than the corruption and chaos around them looms on the horizon, threatening everyone in this new world.
Who is behind the scenes, and what choices will these three friends make?
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The Red Giant and the White Dwarf : Cecília Vizvári and Flávió Vizvári
Do you know what makes the Milky Way so beautiful and shiny? Well, it all started when the Red Giant got into a fight with the White Dwarf again.
Sir Carapace rushed to their aid on the back of The Pegasus, while the Space Pot cooked another batch of plum sorbet for the Black Hole, lest he tasted the light of the stars again and threatened to devour the entire galaxy…
I will not reveal the rest, read the tale!
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A Quest for the Truth: A Historian’s Argument for the Existence of Sasquatch : Levi Machovec
There exists ample evidence that points to the existence of the legendary Sasquatch. From historical reports to the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Film, this book will cover everything you need to know about Sasquatches.
This book is perfect for believers and skeptics alike as it offers a scientific approach to Sasquatches that has seldom been taken before. After reading, you will be convinced that Sasquatches are biologically real unknown animals (and not paranormal entities) that will one day be acknowledged by the scientific community.
The goal of this book is not to prove the existence of Sasquatches, but instead to present the evidence in a concise way that will hopefully convince the scientific community to treat the subject seriously.
By reading these pages, you will take the red pill and see the world for what it truly is: a world where the legendary Sasquatch is real.