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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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Freefall (Vol 1 of the Amalie Noether Chronicles) : Jana Williams
The deep-space transport ship, the Vera Rubin, is light years from Earth when botanist Elle Silver begins to question the use of their space-travel drug, HCH.
Elle notices a growing number of her friends and fellow colonists awaken from their 90-day sleep cycles exhibiting a variety of negative side-effects and she begins to believe the drug is the culprit. Some effects are minor – others are a far bigger concern on a tiny ship packed with colonists. With each sleep cycle completed, more and more colonists awaken both confused and barely concealing a simmering rage – rage that could be a catastrophe on a ship as crowded as the Vera Rubin.
Elle needs proof, but she also needs a plan. If the drug that allows them to travel deep-space is at fault, what then? Elle and her friends Ashok, Achebe and Jin-Hai are pressed to their limits to find a solution to their problem before the ship erupts into chaos… with light years left to travel.
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Frankenstein : AD Wayne
Only one woman can save all time and space.
Let’s go to the 26th Century!
In the year 2510, a 21st Century woman named Frankie becomes the biggest assist on the starship LSS Slicer. In her DNA is the secret to the Greys’ most powerful technology to restore time.
Ultimately, she is the target of the most Dangerous evil force out there.
Her Mission: Stay alive and fight.
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The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less : Neel Burton
Self-help, with a twist
The Secret to Everything has been known to mystics and scholars for centuries and millennia, and, today, is increasingly being confirmed by both philosophy and science. Socrates certainly knew it, as did the Buddha, and more recently, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, and Emily Dickinson. It is a secret not because it is hidden as such, but because it is so difficult to see, running counter to so many of our most basic assumptions.
Each of the book’s ten chapters exposes a particular aspect and practical application of the secret, while also keeping it carefully under wraps. On the surface, the chapters may seem to have little in common, but they are all built around the same wisdom. Your challenge, as you read, is to find the common thread that runs through all the chapters. The secret is discussed at the end, but don’t peek or you’ll spoil the fun.
[Neel Burton] draws from religion, philosophy, art, and science, discussing both ancient and modern texts. Now, don’t misunderstand me; this doesn’t feel like reading a heavy text. It isn’t like that at all; it is highly accessible while still being thought-provoking. –Jamie BJ, Amazon.com Top 100 Reviewer
This is a gentle, easy read, arranged around bite-sized chunks to reflect on. I very much enjoyed it and loved the mix of philosophy, ancient wisdom and mental health topics and I appreciated the author’s breadth of knowledge and experience. Now that I’ve finished it, I will be dipping into this book again from time to time, to reflect on further. –Susan Glazier on Amazon.co.uk
About the author
Dr Neel Burton is a psychiatrist, philosopher, and wine-lover who lives and teaches in Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of Green-Templeton College in the University of Oxford, and the recipient of the Society of Authors’ Richard Asher Prize, the British Medical Association’s Young Authors’ Award, the Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award, and a Best in the World Gourmand Award. His work has featured in the likes of Aeon, the Spectator, and The Times, and been translated into several languages.
Contents
Introduction
1. How to see
2. How to dream
3. How to be religious
4. How to be wise
5. How to be fearless
6. How to live
7. How to love
8. How to win
9. How to party
10. How to think
The Secret to Everything
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