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Blood Bond : Kristal Dawn Harris
Dark forces are working against the vampire king and the woman he wishes to take as his own.
Most everyone has history and skeletons in their closet, but Gracie Munroe has more than most. She was born half-vampire, half-human and is hunted by both. Exhausted from living on the run, she arrives at the Stoney Inn, only to realize a powerful vampire awaits her. Dark, deadly, and dangerous, this vampire refuses to be ignored and claims she belongs to him. His alluring presence tempts her resolve to end it all, and his touch ignites an inferno that can only be tamed by the King of the Vampires.
Victor Raynaud has spent centuries searching for his mate. The responsibility of ruling the vampire nation weighs heavily on his wide shoulders. It’s only by chance he’s led to a half-vampire woman who challenges his authority and is destined to stand at his side. Her life is in danger. Dark plots, among his kind, seek to destroy her, but Victor will go to any length to ensure her safety. As he fights for her life, while protecting his throne, can he win the heart of a woman who has been stripped of a nation, family, and rightful place…by his side?
This is a hot, steamy novella. Bring ice to cool the heat.
Queen of Hope by Kristal Dawn Harris is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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Paloma, Joey and Leon Discovering the World (and Themselves) – Gardening: Kris Friedman
A lovely panda girl, a smart koala and the bravest lion you can imagine. Best friends. Living together. Day by day they experience the beauties of life, sometimes wondering, sometimes struggling and of course laugh and play a lot.
In these lovely stories our kids can learn a lot about life, how to solve their problems, how to love and enjoy their life – just by experiencing it through the life of their beloved characters.
The stories are short (takes about 15 minutes to read each), easy to understand and full of fun – so our rascals can have them just before sleep time.
Now all the books come with a vocabulary at the end – to help our loved ones understand everything even easier.
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Modern Day Cowboy : Nathaniel Sheft
There’s a certain family dynamic that runs through this story like a calcifying vein. Morality is somewhat up for grabs and the meaning of death is more important than the meaning of life. The women of this story are not traditional; it is and isn’t a love story, and the flawed teen protagonists is not relegated to just some girlfriend.
This is a first-hand look into the secret annals of women’s gun fighting, started by the Aristocratic Houses of the 16th century.
The Organization or O.W.A, controls everything. Hundreds of millions of dollars are bet daily via the internet on the ultimate form of gambling.
Today’s fighter pay will start at $300,000, and all fights are listed as high-noon. Only .45 caliber old Western handguns are allowed. Each fighter will take their perspective corner and the countdown will begin. The first fight on today’s schedule will be in the woods, somewhere in Minnesota.
Two top fighters will be featured: The Housewife, who is in pink hair rollers and wearing a floral bathrobe; against the SoCal Bunny, a former Southern California Playboy bunny. The second fight will come live from Park City, Utah. It will feature local favorite, Reese, the ex-actress whom most know as Sundance.— Against Amy, known as Aim, a former company exec with a long list of kills. The third fight…
Mattie Pilson had just graduated from high school with no direction in her life. She preoccupied her time by babysitting Maurice, a mentally challenged kid. Then one terrible day it happened, Maurice was gunned down while under her care. Come to find out, it was a declaration of war from some unseen enemy. Someone set up a row of domino’s and then pushed the first one. At first, all she could do was watch; then one day her boss at the gun shop, Rusty, asked an unorthodox question.—Would she like to be trained as a gunfighter?
Seems she had a lifelong enemy before she was even born. Her enemy has wealth, nobility, and power; she holds dreams in her hand. Mattie is simplistic, just a nuts and berries type of girl. Despite her enemy having an entire continent at her whim, she desired the one thing Mattie had yet to appreciate, David.—So she went after Mattie’s prize, with a white wedding dress.
This is a game of conflict and consequences: the first being about moral dilemmas; the second is about a generational Pandora’s box, and the third is about losing your one true love. This little girl has to grow up real fast, this is a different kind of job market. Everybody is not meant to be CEO, only one very good fighter. ‘To be or not to be’, the infamous Lucy (the most dangerous title of all). And come to find out, the last person Mattie would ever suspect, was actually the Lucy that started this mess.
“I’m attaching disclaimers to this story right now, what you read is not an admission of guilt,” a statement from Mattie Pilson.
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Oliver Winthorpe & The Race to Paris : Dominic Jennings
London, 1901 – Anticipation is building for the Race to Paris, a competition many hope will inspire Britain’s inventors to succeed where so many before them have failed. To fly.
Amongst all the chaos of Edwardian London is young Oliver Winthorpe, a frustrated, budding engineer who longs to invent. But his dentist father won’t let him.
Unbeknownst to young Oliver, his family past, kept secret from him for so long, explains not only his inquisitive nature but his thirst for invention. And many more things besides.
And when he breaks into a private section of his beloved library one night, in search of something he cannot explain, it will start a journey that will change not only his life, but those of generations to come.
The first book in the “Oliver Winthorpe” series, The Race to Paris sees Oliver and his ragtag team of friends build a pioneering airship, learn incredible family secrets and fight through fire, financial ruin and betrayal to not only enter the race, but risk everything they have to win.
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Like a Handkerchief Girl : M. V. Southworth
This is a memoir of a young girl growing up in a small town. She hangs onto propriety in a world that does not. Unpopular in school and underestimated in general, this “fledgling” soars traveling throughout the United States and then to Spain.
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The Call of Magic – Book One of The Fool’s Journey : A. R. C.
“The Fool’s Journey” is a massive new series by prolific author A. R. C., revolving around a cabal of warrior mages, and focusing heavily on the inclusion of Tarot, both inherently and thematically.
Written in two parts – with blog posts acting counter-point to the monthly-published novels – A. R. C.’s innovative way of storytelling allows you to experience and discover more about the world while waiting for the next story to drop.
And so the adventure begins:
Freshly graduated from high school, Emma Lie has never let go the betrayal her father served her. On the eve of her college departure, burdened with grand designs, Emma finds herself branded by a strange mark.
Bewildered by its appearance, Emma becomes distracted, then suspicious, of a captivating boy named Thies. Amid a passionate moment, she demands the truth from him. The cryptic answers Emma gets in return skew her reality forever.
Emma is thrust into the world of magic, stolen away from her home. Lofty intentions derailed, her mother in mortal danger, and forced into magical servitude, Emma must fight for survival and the life she had planned even as she battles for her own heart.
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The Detour – A Road Trip with My Mom, Her Pug & a 1986 Volvo : Jennifer Ammoscato
Michael Garland is so good at getting lost that the thirty-year-old coder lives an almost virtual life. He works from home, shops exclusively online—and does not drive.
The poor man is shocked to discover his mother’s last wish is that he bring her ashes in the old family Volvo from San Francisco to her childhood hometown of Lebanon, N.H.
Guilt for reaching his mother’s deathbed too late will fuel the trip—with additional gas supplied by his mother’s Pug, Puddles, he must bring along.
Armed with a GPS, a series of ever-more detailed lists, and the support of his best friend, Savannah, he embarks on an emotional side trip that will change his life.
“A story told with sensitivity, warmth and humour and with a main character you can’t help but love. The Detour is one for fans of Graeme Simsion and Gail Honeyman.” – Tess Woods, Harper Collins author, Love and Other Battles, Love at First Flight
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How to stop talking and start communicating with Motivational Interviewing : Dr. Monica Gilbert
We walk the walk but do we talk the talk? As clinicians, do we speak with parents or to them? Is it effective in motivating them to adhere to interventions or do you find that sometimes they inhale and exhale at the sight/sound of parent training sessions?
Research shows that parents who receive parent training obtain better outcomes out of their children’s treatment, decrease their overall expenditures in therapy and become empowered to maintain these behavior changes over time.
However, while parents are bringing their children to treatment (which is indicative of their desire to find help, unless of course, they are mandated by court), it is still a challenge to help parents follow through with interventions at home.
Without addressing the etiology of parents’ non-adherence or lack of consistency in treatment, it is impossible to help them move past these barriers. It has been found that parent and clinician’s communication with one another supports whether parents will likely adhere to treatment.
Surprisingly as clinicians in the field, we are not trained on how to effectively communicate with clients. Sure, we learn the theory; we practice and practice some more, and we even read and write about it. But is that enough?
Before we begin our journey into Motivational Interviewing (MI) think about a parent, grandparent, teacher or a supervisee/supervisor you have worked with in the past that has been reluctant to follow your recommendations. Or perhaps you were that person that was hesitant to follow a professional’s recommendation. Keep that example in mind, and as you navigate through the chapters, think about how your interactions would have been different if you/they used more of an MI approach.
The primary goal of this manual is to shape clinicians’ communication approach to foster a working alliance with parents, teachers and other professionals working in the field of behavior analysis. MI is not just a patient-centered “mumbo jumbo” psychological approach, it is a patient (or caregiver) focused approach that aims to change behaviors by allowing patients to acknowledge their current needs and move them towards change.
Through our discussion, we review current research on Parent Training (PT), outline barriers to parental involvement, discuss adaptive and maladaptive communication styles, present a behavior analytical conceptualization of motivation, introduce the concepts of MI and provide examples and exercises to practice the concepts.
A major concept in these chapters is ambivalence and resistance. Resistance is understood as a direct byproduct of maladaptive parent-clinician communication styles that increases distress and leads to parental disengagement. To address resistance, we reveal a program focused on increasing clinicians’ awareness of their communication style with caregivers (and other professionals) and explain ways to modify current interactions to decrease noncooperation and increase parents’ motivation in the treatment process.
Although this manual uses the term “parents” and “caregivers” interchangeably, the interventions are equally applicable to professionals working with teachers, supervisees and other staff as well as a host of others working in helping situations.
From the first chapter to the last, we provide interactive “real world” exercises as well as a “MI toolbox”.
The Healing : Karen E Stokes
Following the discovery of a photograph found within the pages of a book purchased at a local market, a young boy enters the lives of the main characters, Jess, a single mother, and her seven-year-old son, Jonas.
On the surface, the boy appears ordinary, almost angelic, until his presence reveals something much more sinister.
As the mystery deepens, Jess realizes she is battling something far greater than she had first imagined and the boy is a ghost trying to communicate a message, but was it an accidental drowning or an abhorrent crime?
What really happened that fateful hot summer’s day by the park lake?
The Healing is a paranormal ghost story set in Friar Ridge, Somerset.
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Sharing My Wife : C J Edwards
Now re-released as a 3rd edition, with a completely new erotic scene. Sharing My Wife was top-selling erotica author, Charlotte Edwards’ very first adult e-book. First published in 2013, and a constantly top seller ever since. Red hot and not for the prudish! Over 18s only!
Sharing My Wife tells the tale of Suzi, an ordinary housewife who nearly lost her husband through being less than exciting in the bedroom. When the penny dropped, instead of lashing out, she took a good look at herself and decided to change in order to please her husband. Through doing so, she discovered a whole new side to herself – a somewhat dark, submissive and very sensual side!
As she went deeper in, the liaisons became more scandalous and depraved and she thoroughly enjoyed every moment. In this story, Suzi is introduced to the pleasures of women for the first time when her husband arranges a surprise liaison with another couple.
‘Suzi was carefully and lovingly prepared by her husband for their visitors. After bathing and pampering, she was given a taste of Champagne, before being firmly and securely cinched into a leather corset that displayed her to her very best; her arms were cuffed behind her back and her legs spread with a bar. Her husband enjoyed her quivering helplessness for a while and in her turn, Suzi appreciated his attentions, his strong hands warm and comforting.
Finally, when he had had his fill and she was left wobbling on the precipice of her own desire, she was gagged. They had discovered early on in her journey that the one faculty Suzi had to give up, for total submission, was her voice. She was ready just in time as the doorbell sounded and her husband left her standing in the middle of the room; alone and vulnerable as she waited for their guests.
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