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Callaghan’s Rescue : Sherri Storey
Just picked up for a major motion picture deal. Nash was still in disbelief. This documentary that he had decided to make, had just been a whim, an excuse to follow Calla back to Sierra Leone. He had never imagined just how big this project would become when he had first embarked on it, how life-altering. And now he was returning, for a second time, to finish what he had started, not willing to accept the soul-crushing rejection, not able to return to his life of self-indulgence.
He was one of Hollywood’s biggest actors. He was rich and famous…and utterly miserable. All it took was returning home for a family wedding to realize just what his life was missing; her – Calla. She was the girl he had never got over, his best friend’s girl. And they had been far too young to deal with the mistakes they had made, the broken hearts, the harsh lessons… the tragedy.
Calla hasn’t been home in years, and returning for her sister’s wedding has only served to remind her why she continues to devote her life to such selfless work as a doctor in the struggling but beautiful country of Sierra Leone. The past still haunts her, the guilt of her actions so long ago still burdens her. She made a promise at 18, after that fateful night, to spend her life making a difference, making up for a life lost too soon.
Using the documentary as a guise, Nash follows her back to Freetown. But he is unprepared for the lesson in humility that awaits him from the wonderful, impoverished people there. Is it possible to find love in a place so filled with suffering and hopelessness? Can they find themselves in a country so lost?
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Guns of Perdition (The Armageddon Showdown Book 1) : Jessica Bakkers
IT TAKES GRACE TO HUNT WHEN IT’S DARKSOME
Jessie expects he’ll be forever cleaning up after the cowpokes of the Bad Hoss Saloon. That’s until the day a drifter strides through the doors, and blows away a blood-sucking demon, along with Jessie’s belief in an everyday world. Jessie is captivated by the enigmatic Grace with her pearl-handled revolvers and wolf companion. He throws in his normal life and follows her across the Wild West, as she hunts down and slays the evil creatures that roam the frontier.
Along the way, they seek the aid of a Native American warrior, cross paths with a Cajun Queen, and encounter a small-town tycoon with a deadly hunger for gold. Animosity and distrust plague Grace and Jessie, and their strange group of allies, but they must put their differences behind them if they’re to have any hope of finding and defeating the frontier’s true evil, the Darksome Gunman.
“The Armageddon Showdown” is a dark-fantasy, weird western series of epic proportions, focusing on the age-old battle between good and evil, though in the Wild West, it’s not always clear just who is good and who is evil.
Join Grace Dyer and her band of miscreants as they battle demons and demi-gods, in the frontier’s deadliest conflict…the Armageddon Showdown.
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Summer’s Lie : Deborah Court
What would happen if a middle-aged woman started getting younger?
A woman in her mid-sixties is caught up in a noxious fog that results from a chemical plant explosion near Toronto. Some people fall seriously ill. Of those, the only survivor is a woman who is taken to hospital, unconscious and gravely ill. As she recovers, two things become clear: she has lost her memory, and she is getting younger. The team of doctors who guide her recovery name her Jane. Among the doctors is a geneticist who finds a chromosomal anomaly in Jane which he feels is the key to her survival and her astonishing, unprecedented age reversal. He becomes obsessed with studying her, dreaming of being the scientist who discovers the secret to age reversal. To accomplish this, he needs continued study of Jane’s progress and of her tissues.
Jane does not reveal that she has recovered her memory. She escapes the hospital as a woman in her mid-thirties, taking on a new identity and living a new life as a waitress. She receives help from a surprising source who is not revealed until late in the novel. She stays one step ahead of the pursuing geneticist, and at the end of the novel, she leaves Canada and escapes to an unknown future in the UK.
If you love a good mystery, and if you love palindromes and rhyme (Jane’s obsessions) you will love this fascinating, entertaining book.
The exciting sequel, When Bodies Fall, will be out in September, 2020. Watch for it!
When Bodies Fall and The Reason for Time by Deborah Court are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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No Soy Chapiadora: An Interracial Short : Molly Manos
Maria is an expat from the United States living in the Dominican Republic. Though her background and language ability makes day to day life easy, she struggles in finding love. She’s only moderately interested in the locals and many foreign men only approach her for one reason. She is about to give up until she meets Scott.
Can she put aside her old ways in exchange for a chance with Scott or does she reveal her identity?
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Rebel : T.L. Davis
Lane Daniels is a cowboy in a rapidly urbanizing area of Colorado in the 1970’s.
He is jealous of his time and hates school, despite the fact that he is quite good at it. That doesn’t mean his heart beats for anything other than the countryside and the freedom of isolation.
But, high school is filled with irrational classes and strict rules and that pushes him to embark on a Kerouacian Journey into adulthood in the summer of 1978. He encounters unscrupulous bosses and a drug-addicted philosopher along the way until he comes to realize he must return home, but even that is fraught with peril.
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The Midas Deception : Frankie Albritton
Midas and his Eternal Ones are employing dark powers to manipulate gold markets and change human history during the tumultuous period encompassing the 19th and 20th centuries.
Matt List, Cowboy, Army aviation pioneer, and banker must fulfill a prophecy and accept the leadership of the Eternal Ones or risk losing Helena, Midas’ beautiful daughter.
Follow him from the cabarets of Berlin to the Bund in Shanghai as he searches for the relics that will enable him to continue the journey of the Eternal ones or to end it.
Will Matt harness the awesome power needed to fulfill the ancient prophecy, or will he sacrifice love and eternal life to end the journey of the Eternal Ones?
The Midas Plot by Frankie Albritton is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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No Way Home : Christy Cooper-Burnett
What does a time-traveler from 2070 do when her transponder fails and she is stuck hundred of years in the past?
Christine Stewart’s plan for the day is simple: wake up and head off to work, traveling to Oklahoma in 1867 to deport a cyber-criminal. After work, it’s back to 2070 Los Angeles to prepare for a vacation with her son, Michael.
That’s the plan.
Then the system fails, leaving Christine stranded with no supplies and minimal training. What started as a bad situation only gets worse when she is flung even further into the past to a place in time where her choices and actions mean so much more to the world than whether or not she ever makes it back home again.
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Hot Winter Sun : Jessica Russell
Against the turbulent backdrop of the English Civil War, where political treachery and religious persecution are commonplace, an unlikely romance springs up between Catherine Trefelner, a strikingly beautiful village girl, and Robert Bradshaw, co-heir to one of Cornwall’s richest estates.
Staunch Royalists, Robert and his twin brother Julian are loyal to the clever but misguided King Charles, while Catherine’s father is a fanatical Puritan, living for the day the Parliamentarian Army unseats the King, and makes Royalist families conform or seek refuge in France.
After eloping, the couple return to Briarwood, where Catherine is suddenly transformed from the overworked daughter of a blacksmith to Lady of the Manor. Family members react differently to what is considered an unsuitable match, but Robert, deeply in love with his new wife, knows Catherine will only work a credit to their household.
For reasons known only to them, intense animosity exists between Julian and Catherine, yet her remarkable personality and unusual mind work in her favor as she settles into the household. She bonds with the twin’s father in a unique and unexpected way, has an amicable relationship with her sister-in-law, and even attempts to charm away the resentment of another family member whom she desperately wants to understand.
Ever cynical, Julian continues to question Catherine’s motives, but the only true shadow over her happiness is a fear of her father, who has indeed threatened vengeance over her marriage to a Royalist. On the verge of making peace with Julian, Catherine could never envision the tragedy about to strike and Julian’s heinous accusations in its wake. Grief-stricken, she flees England to the family’s consternation, only to discover it was a dreadful mistake. In an abrupt and stunning twist of fate, Catherine has no choice but to return to Briarwood and throw herself on Julian’s mercy, knowing that he is as unpredictable as she is constant. But is she running back to safety or into even greater danger?
Culminating with a shocking answer to what all believed was an unsolvable murder and Catherine’s close call as the second victim, Hot Winter Sun is ultimately a tale of love, hate, revenge, envy, mercy and redemption during one of the most chaotic and unstable times in England’s history.
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Upgrading Earth: It Was Never Meant to Be Saved, It Was Always Meant to Be Upgraded! : Jamie Slaats
It Was Never Meant to Be Saved, It Was Always Meant to Be Upgraded!
A refreshingly sensible book about an optimistic future for planet Earth!
Evolutionary science doesn’t answer it. Religion generally doesn’t seem to answer it. The elephant in the room is a question that demands a response: What is the practical purpose of the earth? Does one exist?
If we analyze all existing data in the world, does any of it uncover a blueprint plan for an optimistic, reassuring, and hope-filled future for us and our planet? What if Earth is in fact an organic super-technology? What if it was never meant to be saved, but rather needs a complex upgrade? We upgrade our phones, computers, TVs, clothing, and city infrastructure. So why not planet earth? But then more questions arise. How? When? How long? What’s the next version? Who leads the upgrade?
Forget the apocalyptic future! Our future is bright!
Let me take you on a journey in discovering if answers to these questions exist. And if they do, let me introduce you to how you can play a personal role in the great upgrade … if you desire.
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Managed Care : Joe Barrett
Is it too much to ask that a managed care facility refund a year’s advance payment when your grandfather dies before he can move in?
Frank Johnson doesn’t think so, which is why the thirty-three-year-old now lives in a nursing home, locked in a chess match feud with management that doesn’t occupy nearly enough of his time.
“Witty, occasionally crass, and an unqualified delight.” – KIRKUS REVIEWS
Maxy Awards “Book of the Year” 2019
Pencraft Awards “Best Fiction Book of 2019”
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