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Walks in the Garden (The BackYard Trio Bible Stories Book 1) : Sara Kendall
Go on an adventure with The BackYard Trio as they Walk in the Garden of Eden.
EZ shares the story of God’s creation on this Earth with Avra and Scooter.
Learn what God did in six days, and what He did when Adam and Eve disobeyed Him. (Gen 1:1 – Gen 3:24)
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Bear with Me (Strawberry Shifters Book 1) : Marilyn Barr
Blue eyes, dimples, and silky brown hair; Grant Luther has all of Alison’s weaknesses.
When he asks for one last chance to save their marriage, she agrees to relocate their family to isolated Strawberry, Kentucky in pursuit of his career dreams. Grant views Alison’s sensory issues as limitations and protects her from outside threats. When he finds his new job includes changing him into a shifter in a war against the soul-sucking Sluagh he vows to keep the changes a secret. What he doesn’t know is Alison has been hiding a magical secret of her own. One that makes her a target of the Sluagh.
Will Alison emerge from Grant’s shadow to protect her family? And can Grant learn that being different can be a strength not a weakness?
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Paranormal Investigators’ Club: Mysterious Blackwell Mansion : JD Broyhill
One rainy and spooky Halloween night, three brothers- Jeremy, Stephen, and James -set out to explore the mysterious Blackwell Mansion, a legend in the town of Pineville. Their best friends, Brandon and Sheila, are also eager to have some Halloween fun and agree to join them on the adventure. The five children have no idea that the mansion holds more secrets than they can solve in one night.
As the group wanders around the abandoned house, two of the kids get separated from the others and experience something very strange and creepy. Once the five are reunited, they head for home-but their encounter with Blackwell Mansion is only just beginning. Their presence may have triggered something unexpected. The kids decide to go back and discover all the house’s secrets, and they form an investigating group that they name Pic5-the Paranormal Investigators Club-5, because there are five of them. But back at the mansion, they face scary supernatural events that make them wonder if they can make it out safely.
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Love’s Deception : Nicolas Russo
A middle-aged man enjoying a night out sits at a bar in a restaurant when his haunting past walks through the door. The love of his life whom he hasn’t seen for some thirty years.
The initial shock sends Rick Martella into a frenzy of emotions while attempting to evade her detection. As he contemplates what to do, his mind races back in time to a love that began so pure and innocent to one riddled with lies and betrayal. A love that left a hole in his heart of which he could never fill and so much pain his dazzled eyes refused to see. A love that broke him but in time made him stronger to move on to a happy life.
Love’s Deception is a unique story of the joys love can bring and the devastation it can bestow on someone so young and not prepared for the power of its wrath.
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The Boy in the Barn : James Kramer
This is a riveting story about child abuse, toxic stress, and murder occurring in the 1960s when many people looked the other way, and there was no such thing as mandated reporters.
Suffering silently and blaming himself, a little boy struggled to understand his world. It wasn’t until school authorities had to intervene due to obvious and severe injuries that his life started to change.
This autobiography describes the events of the author’s childhood that permeated his life. Joy was non-existent. Life was bleak.
Living in the most extreme isolation and placed in a barn, the author was subjected to extreme mental and physical abuse. He survived to tell the tale and encourage others to move forward. He encourages prevention, early recognition and intervention, and forgiveness.
Elephant : Natalie Rodriguez
When was the last time you were shut down for experiencing a mental health struggle or feeling unheard by others, including those closest to you?
Summer of 2006. Four childhood best friends. A family secret.
After a strange encounter leaves him hospitalized, a timid teenage boy named Matt “Matty” Smith comes home to a continuous series of events met with anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Under the guardianship of his grandma, Lucia, Matt lives with unspoken questions about his grandfather and parents. The elephant in the room. As Matt develops over the summer, the secrets only grow more profound and complex. Will the answers ever come? While searching for answers, Matt and his three childhood best friends encounter the meanings of love, forgiveness, and fate.
This story is for those who feel their voice is unheard and for children, teenagers, and the adult who never had the chance to heal from their pain.
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City of Sound and Light : Dave Walker
Tera knows a secret… Someone is going to die on election day. But that’s not what worries her.
She learned the secret from a dying spark, one of the fairy-like companions people in her world use to communicate, and she found the spark in her father’s office.
A radical leader is on the rise, and the old factions are determined to stop him at any cost. If anyone finds out her father’s involved, it might be the end of him. If anyone finds out what she knows, it might be the end of her.
The only way to keep her city, her family, and her life from ripping apart is to follow the spark deeper into this deadly game of politics that no one can know she’s playing.
Her only advantage is her obscurity. She has no following. No one listens to her or even knows her name. But that’s about to change.
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Christianity a Flawed Religion : Warren William Luce
How Christian Dogma Inadvertently Keeps Humanity in Bondage to Sin and a Suffering World and How To Fix It
This book shows how Christian dogma has strayed far from God’s word and the teachings of Jesus Christ, the harm it does, and what to do about it. That dogma claims that sin is innate in our character, having inherited it from Adam, and there is nothing we can do to change that. Therefore, not being perfect, we are deserving of God’s condemnation to hell.
But God says we are magnificent beings, like Him. We are not at fault for Adam’s disobedience. He says we can turn from any sin, do what is right and good and He will forgive us as long as we forgive others
Jesus said go and sin no more and told us how to do it. He said we are the light of the world, let our good works shine. He said when you show kind caring and forgiving love to everyone, you will enjoy life and your destiny will be heaven.
Based on the words of God and Jesus, this book explores a new reality of religion which, when followed, will make our world better, perhaps even the paradise that was intended for us.
Shades of Lies : Annalyn J. Rasul
This collection of poetry and prose about pain, infertility, betrayal, love, loss, and healing. Annalyn J. Rasul’s new book imparts hope and healing to readers as they devour in the life-changing journey ingrained in each heartfelt poem.
Poetry is a powerful therapy that allows one to release and expressed hidden emotions to pen and paper. The best poetry is always written from the heart when one is struggling with emotions and trying to gain clarity about the situation.
These poems are compelling, raw, and emotional. It leaves the readers with a sense of connection, hope, and inspiration that no matter what we are going through, we can overcome it.
We are the authors of our life. We can write a beautiful ending to our unique life’s journey.
The Torch of Hope and Inspirations by Annalyn J. Rasul is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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William Ottoway’s Utopia and Other Stories : Christopher Griffith
‘Come, Manou, this is superstitious clap.’ So says William Ottoway to his island’s priest, for the modern world has surely extinguished any notion of the supernatural. But some who have lived before our technological revolution hold grave concerns about this new reality which has all but supplanted the numinous element of human existence. Despite warning from his best friend’s mother against attempting to replicate paradise, William puts faith alone in idealism to create a utopian society in the tropics. All seems well, until his serpent brother appears with temptation…
“William Ottoway’s Utopia” concerns the dream of a man who seeks to escape stresses of everyday life for promised ease in this world’s tropics; to his dismay, he is unable to flee influence of the one appliance which has arguably shaped all our experience in the last half-century, the humble television set! William is a good man, but will he be ravaged and ruined by his brother Tom who brings discord and disharmony to his island paradise?
“Rick With A (Bipolar) View” details the experience of a young man suffering from bipolar disorder who wants to be a professional DJ. Unsure whether or not the repetitive beats of electronic music and his obsession with trance and techno may be the cause of his illness, he nevertheless accepts offer of a Friday night gig and ‘takes the roof off’ the nightclub, coming down back at home in glow and reflection of his achievement.
If all this sounds too intense then do please head over to “Break Out the Bubbly!!”, a comic piece set in a supermarket whose Manager is acting in a very strange manner indeed. The initial boredom felt by our hero Emily is quickly shattered by Carol’s arrival and subsequent farce as she seems intent on closing the shop during opening hours to conduct inquisitions in the boardroom! The champagne keeps going missing, you see, and she needs to find the culprit. Is he, or she, a little closer to home than everyone thinks?
Fantasy for the next story, “Saman’s Revenge”, in which our titular hero is seriously miffed with the Earth-goddess Thera; she’s punished him an aeon ago for misdemeanour which he firmly believes really wasn’t his fault at all. Anyway, when you’re immortal and old as the hills themselves it doesn’t bother you too much to wait a few millennia before exacting your revenge on modern-day teenagers Jack, Roxie, her boyfriend Mark, and his brother Norman. But what is the young people’s relation to Thera, and temple ruins on top of the village hill, Shadyridge?
Which leaves “Young Shakespeare”, my imaginative retelling of some of Will’s ‘lost years’ when he reached London; after all, who wouldn’t want to fall in love with Anne, listen in awe to Sir Walter Raleigh’s perorations on, well who knows, meet his future friend and rival Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe, then cogitate at length upon the Reformation against whose profound change the budding writer begins to conclude he might wish to work?
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