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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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The Glorious Zadok Journal : Timi Showemimo
The Journal is very unique, describing the fascinating details of the Hebrew special days and seasons. The Gracious Zadokites priest in the Old Testament majestically uses the months and days to ingeniously determine and observe the precise time the holy festivals fall and other special events.
The Glorious Zadok Journal is captivating and insightful literary work.
The Glorious Zadok Journal can be used dedicatedly for personal meditation, inspiration, and spiritual enlightenment.
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Vincent Vino : Nathan Crace
In November of 1955, private investigator Vincent Vino was on a late-night stakeout on a cold and rainy night in New York City. The former World War II hero turned all-star NYPD detective had gone on to make a name for himself as a P.I. by depending on his “gut” to solve some of the City’s toughest cases–but not even Vince could have foreseen what would happen this night.
Drastic changes 58 years later in Washington, DC force the Navy to cut funding to a secret program in the Big Apple, setting loose America’s darkest secret in its biggest city–and uncovering troubling secrets of that fateful night six decades earlier that very powerful people want to keep buried.
The truth also sets into motion a series of events that has the CIA, DoD, the Kremlin, Beijing, and the world’s top security firm scouring the City in search of a young female Army doctor from Miami and the one man who could have all the answers–whether he wants to know them or not–nearly sixty years after his death! Vincent Vino is a twisting thrill ride of old-fashioned detective work, modern-day science, and espionage with a classic film noir feel.
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The Planet Baggers : CD Warhurst
Imagine being abducted by aliens while you were weeding the garden.
Imagine the woman of your dreams being abducted too.
Imagine being whisked off on a joyride around the galaxy to discover strange new planets with even stranger inhabitants.
Well, stop imagining all that and read The Planet Baggers instead. It has all of that and more, including alien shoe shops and a vaguely scary monster or two. Space is a big place. Don’t you want to know what’s out there?
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For Infinity and Beyond : Terri Peel Bechtold
Mothers love their daughters unconditionally and daughters love their mothers just the same. They have an extraordinary, almost magical bond that flourishes and strengthens as life happens
every second,
of every minute,
of every hour
of every day.
Enjoy this remarkable story of a Mother’s enduring love for her daughters and their sincere gratitude for a rich life filled with amazing ordinary experiences and time spent together creating life long memories.
Discover how this boundless love and gratitude is passed to the next generation and For Infinity and Beyond.
May it inspire Mom’s and children everywhere,
to always remember and never forget
to be grateful for and embrace all life experiences and to say “I Love You” every morning and every night!
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Erotic Games and Misdemeanours: A wicked tale of love, lust, betrayal and revenge : Yvette Noire
Chanelle Maddison is a real class act — attractive, smart and obsessively career-driven, she has the world at her feet professionally. But it’s a different story when it comes to her personal life, where Chanelle is the ultimate ice queen.
That’s certainly been Hayden Wolfe’s experience as her attentive protégé. A consummate ladies’ man, Hayden is known for bedding every girl in sight but the only one he really wants is the one woman he cannot have — Chanelle.
On the eve of his departure from the business, Chanelle invites him to play a flirtatious game — all under the watchful eye of a stalker bent on vengeance and willing to extract it no matter the cost.
In an era of diverse sexual inclinations, fuelled by everything from social media to revenge porn, there will always be winners and losers in the game of sex. But knowing which is which can be hard when all sides are willing to give and receive in equal measure.
It’s all fun and games, especially when someone gets hurt!
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