Books
Sobertude: 50 Uplifting Habits That Create Gratitude, Abundance and Joy in Sobriety : Dirk Foster
Sobertude is gratitude to nourish your attitude.
Getting sober and staying sober can be a challenge for anyone. To fully experience all the positivity and abundance that sobriety (and life) can offer, you must develop healthy, uplifting habits in your life every day.
Discover 50 positive and healing habits to improve your recovery from addiction.
The Sober Journey: A Guide to Prayer and Meditation in Recovery, The Sober Journey, A Practical Guide to Health, Nutrition and Fitness and Polluted! My Sober Journey by Dirk Foster are also on Whizbuzz Books.
Book Links
Website
Facebook (Author)
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon
Rescued – The Poodle’s Story : Steve Castley
Rescued is a feel-good book written through the eyes of Rina, a miniature poodle. If you love dogs and believe in magic and unconditional love, then this book is for you. Below is what Rina has to say about her book.
I’m Rina, the poodle and this is my story. I’d had three homes in six years and wanted what every dog wants: a forever-family. This plays with your head, makes you feel rejected and unloved.
Dropped off to Steve and Bayu, a gay couple living in Bali, Indonesia, I smelled my last chance at happiness. It was now or never. I suppressed my fears, my doubts, and my distrust of people who make promises only to break them. Maybe this would be fourth time lucky.
Come with me on our journey. I promise to hold nothing back. I’ll share adventures, stories of love and hate, health and illness, culinary experiences, travels, infidelity, drag queens stories, visits to cinemas, disasters, and all our little secrets.
Along the way, you’ll meet my friends, both animal and human, and you’ll experience the magical world of Bali, an Asian paradise. You’ll see how I had to train Steve and Bayu to my way of doing things. I’ll share our love for each other and life.
Let me take you into our world and share the evolution of a dream coming true.
Book Links
Website
Facebook
Goodreads
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon
Slipstone Rill: A Gothic Mystery : Michael Matros
Deep with atmosphere, Slipstone Rill is a tale of long-simmering revenge in a remote New England village.
Down from the Chapel, far in the woods, he has waited long enough. Now he will cross the rill, deep in the dark, and climb with sharpened tools to ask his questions.
“From a distance they looked like small birds feeding, perched side by side on the path, watching each other and ready to fly. At least, that was how he later described Jean’s disembodied hands as he approached them through the foggy Saturday dawn…”
Away from Slipstone Village’s old chapel, across the rill and deep in the woods, live the remnants of a reclusive family of carpenters and violin makers. Two generations earlier, their treasured ring of spruce trees, whose wood is necessary for the distinctive tone of their violins, was poisoned by a girl who had been raped by one of the family. Now, with threats and violence, the last of those craftsmen looks to regain the secret of the trees’ regeneration. Telling the story is the village’s newly arrived chapel administrator, whose predecessor had disappeared, along with the chapel’s prized Maggini violin.
Slipstone Rill introduces a warren of underground tunnels, severed hands appearing on the village path, a little girl looking for her lost doll, mysterious stone and tree circles, a curious mouse, a fat dog, and the strains of a faraway violin joining the evening wind as it plays through the chapel tower’s old wood and iron.
Listen to excerpts at www.michaelmatros.com
Bitch Hunt : Taetrece Harrison
In the United States of America, racism against Black women still reigns unjustly; from within the secluded judge’s chambers to the courthouse parking lot, we are presented with five different incidents where powerful Black women are forced to come face to face with being on the other side of the law.
Follow the stories of Taetrece Ann Harrison, Desirée Mary Charbonnet, Gay Polk-Payton, Angela Stokes, and Rhonda Crawford as their experiences in the Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Illinois judicial systems as both attorneys and judges are explored.
Connected by one simple, yet complex dynamic-Black womanhood-what will the end game be for these women who are committed to upholding and enforcing what is right? Will they succumb to the pressures of America’s hand, or will they push forward in the face of adversity?
Book Links
Website
Facebook
Instagram (author)
Instagram (attorney)
On Amazon
A Poor Man’s Supper : Jim Gulledge
Jim Gulledge’s book, A Poor Man’s Supper, is set in the Asheville, North Carolina area and is inspired by experiences from his family history.
North Carolina writer Ruth Moose has said of A Poor Man’s Supper that it …”reads like a ballad and …could be set to music”.
Dr. Gulledge acknowledges the influence of his own European ancestors on his work. “Our folk culture in western North Carolina was and continues to be heavily influenced by waves of English and Scottish immigrants who brought their songs and stories with them from Great Britain. The majority of my mother’s people immigrated from Scotland to Pennsylvania and then down the Great Wagon Road to North Carolina. My dad’s ancestors came from England to Jamestown and then on to the Carolinas. I tried to imagine one of their old folk songs coming to life in prose.”
The main character of the tale is a young woman named Vancie Keller who is trying to survive on her mother’s failing farm near the mountain village of Tugaloo when her life is forever altered by the arrival of two very different men: Josiah Buckland and Jagger Hill. One, she will love, the other she will marry.
Orphaned as a teen, Josiah Buckland came down from the rugged mountains of North Carolina to try to find work and possibly a home. He didn’t expect to find the love of his life. Jagger Hill has secrets of his own. When he comes to town and starts to rebuild, nobody knows him for who he really is, but people will soon learn. Some secrets cannot be kept forever.
Though part romance, A Poor Man’s Supper is also at a deeper level a morality tale about the tremendous consequences of human choices and actions sprinkled with revelry in the natural world, faith, song and myth.
This is Jim Gulledge’s first book and was recently selected for inclusion in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill and the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University.
Book Links
Website
Goodreads
Deer Hawk Publications
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon
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.
Book Links
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest
Goodreads
BookBub
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon
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.
Book Links
Twitter
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon
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.
Book Links
Apple Books
Barnes & Noble
Kobo
Scribd
24symbols
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.
Book Links
Website
Instagram
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon UK
On Amazon
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.
Book Links
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest
Amazon Author Page
On Amazon