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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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2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything : Mauro F. Guillen
Once upon a time, not only was the world neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies, but also babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees, and people yearned to own homes and cars. Companies didn’t need to see any further than Europe and the United States to do well. Printed money was legal tender for all debts, public and private. In school they told us how we were supposed to “play the game,” and we grew up thinking that the rules would remain the same as we took our first job, started a family, saw our children leave the house, and went into retirement.
That familiar world is rapidly vanishing as we encounter a bewildering new reality driven by a new set of rules. Before we know it there will be more grandparents than grandchildren in most countries, middle-class markets in Asia will be larger than those in the U.S. and Europe combined, women will own more wealth than men, and we will find ourselves in the midst of more robots than workers, more computers than human brains, more sensors than human eyes, and more currencies than countries. That’s the brave new world awaiting us within a decade.
For many of us, these trends are not just confusing but also profoundly unsettling. Do they spell our downfall or might they actually represent more boom than gloom? Either way, it’s the end of the world as we know it.
I began researching these trends about seven years ago and I’ve shared some of the early results of my analysis with my classes and executive education courses at Wharton, where I am the Zandman Professor of International Management; through my massive online course on Analyzing Global Trends on Coursera and EdX; and with audiences at my speaking engagements at conventions and corporate boardrooms. Over the last three years, more than 15,000 people have heard me make a presentation about global trends and another 100,000 have taken my online classes. Whether online or face-to-face, my audience includes students, young professionals, investors, middle managers, seasoned executives—all of whom yearn for information and analysis as to where the world is headed. In the classroom, I have taught young account managers from the world’s leading technology companies and community bankers and insurance brokers from the midwest. They sign up for my classes and lectures because they want to be more effective in their jobs and to figure out why the world is changing so quickly.
I tell my audiences that they need to keep in mind one number, and one number alone: 2030. That’s the year 2030 AD. That will be the year in which the world we know today will come to an end.
“To an end?” they murmur.
Yes.
Here’s why. By 2030 AD, East Asia will no longer be the most populous part of the planet; South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa will be. That’s a far cry from the final years of the 20th century, a mere two decades ago, when East Asia, comprised of China, South Korea, and Japan, among others, was the region that owned this statistic. Don’t get me wrong: as time goes on, fewer babies are being born in countries like India and in Nigeria, but in far greater numbers compared to most of the world. In addition, they’re seeing their life expectancy extend significantly.
And the pandemic will only accelerate these trends. People are postponing having babies, emerging markets will recover more swiftly, technology use will intensify, and economic inequality will grow even faster. 2030 is the year in which we will see the new reality all around us.
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The Neighbor : Lorhainne Eckhart
Park ranger Ryan is shocked when Jenny, a one-night stand from years ago, moves to his Montana town with her troublesome daughter, Alison. But he can’t resist the pull he feels toward her — especially once Alison goes missing and the truth about her daughter’s real identity comes out…
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Only Our Destiny : A.G. Russo
The Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). Up to 85 percent of Italian Americans have their roots in this region. The story of the Coriello family begins in the fictional fishing village of Punto Roccioso along the Amalfi Coast. Alta Italia (Northern Italy) looks down on their southern countrymen as uneducated peasants. With limited opportunities available, many southern Italians dream of escaping poverty by leaving the land they love for a better life in America. But like all dreams, hardships, sacrifices, and realities intrude.
Having lived through World War I, the Spanish Flu, the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, and racial laws, Raffaela must raise and feed her ten children without any help from her estranged abusive husband Giuseppe, who refuses to give her money. With the support of her two oldest children, Geno, and Luisa, she struggles to survive. World War II devastates Italy and Italian Americans alike when “Il Duce” joins Hitler’s side, leaving Italians vulnerable at home and the object of hatred abroad. Young Italians are sent around the world to fight in a war they don’t believe in. At home, Jewish families are under increasing threat. Yet, Italian men and women rebound to fight the Germans and Italian Fascists with a large and fervent partisan guerilla army.
Meanwhile, in America, Raffaela’s young Uncle Corrado has struggles of his own. He vows to move from the tenements of New York’s Little Italy, build a business, marry, bring over family members, and make good on his version of the American dream. But America is not so welcoming. Ignorance and prejudice reveal the ugliness of the immigrant experience as numbers of Italian Americans find themselves confined to internment camps during World War II.
Their courage and the ability to survive are a testament to the resilience of the Italian people who left their homeland with little else but a dream and changed America in the process.
(Caution: strong language, domestic violence, war violence.)
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Hidden In Plain Sight: Tales From A Secret War : Joe Claypool
When Jaycee joined the Air Force, he thought he would be around airplanes every day; instead, a year later he was on a red clay trail wondering if he and his team would survive the day.
As a small group of Airman Recruits started basic training, they had no idea they were going to be part of two seminal events; i.e. the quiet re-emergence of United States Air Force Special Operators and the Secret War that had started to blossom in Laos in the mid-1950s, the war that expanded and became known to the public as the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
Less than a year after completing basic training they found themselves in Laos assigned as members of a highly classified Counter Insurgency Study Group.
They arrived in Laos with specific instructions to avoid aggressive contact with hostile forces and stay “hidden in plain sight” around other friendly forces wherever and whenever possible.
“Boy Scouts with guns”, was a mindset that came to a shocking halt when one of their numbers was killed in an ambush. The first team death listed as “training accident in the Philippines”.
Two “War Dogs” continued their training and seasoning into an effective, self-sufficient unit that could function and survive on its own in the Mekong Plain and up in the Annamite Mountains of Laos in an area that later became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The heavy veil of secrecy they operated under became particularly oppressive when they began to realize that the intel they were gathering and the recommendations forwarded “up the hill” by their immediate superiors was being largely disregarded and the simple solutions for cutting down the traffic on the Trail were being ignored.
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Lady Scandal – A Sexy Historical Regency : Larissa Lyons
Sparks—and stockings—fly when an interview for a husband turns into a game of forfeits, and a scandalous lady and one handsome rogue learn how very right they are for each other.
All of London is ablaze with rumors about the identity of the female brazen—and desperate—enough to advertise for a husband.
Zeus Tanner, a self-made man full of pride if not pedigree, answers the ad, vastly curious about the property alluded to by the mysterious Lady Scandal. He may not care about winning the lady, but he certainly wants her lands.
After a miserable arranged marriage, newly widowed Juliet determines she’ll not be married off again without having her say. Shielding her identity, she braves deciding her own fate. What she never expects is the sizzling encounter that happens when she meets applicant twenty-four…
***Lady Scandal is a fun and super sexy Regency-styled Historical Romance written using period-appropriate slang (known as cant) and words common during the early 1800s. Zeus, Juliet (and Larissa, of course) bid you “Sparkish fine reading”.***
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