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The Whistleblower : Shenandoah Titus
In this groundbreaking book written by one of the nation’s foremost authorities on workplace bullying, harassment, and retaliation, Attorney Shenandoah Titus shares unparalleled insights and subject-matter expertise.
This book is written for you! If you or a loved one have ever been, or have concerns about, being bullied, harassed, or retaliated against at work – whether the public or private sector – then you will benefit from reading this book! If you have friends or colleagues who have experienced workplace abuse – whether a whistleblower in the traditional sense or not – give them the opportunity to experience this book.
Sadly, harassment, bullying, and retaliation also occur within the school setting, including higher education. Therefore, if you are a parent of a student, or have any affiliation with educational institutions, you will benefit from this book.
The more enlightened you are about bullying, harassment and retaliation – as a parent, teacher, student, administrator, faculty member, government or private sector employee (including senior management), the better prepared you will be to render help when called upon.
Unlike books written “about” whistleblowing, often derived from studies or interviews with whistleblowers, The Whistleblower: Defeating Bullies, Harassers & Management Gang Retaliation, is unique in that this is one of the rare books written BY a whistleblower.
In this book, Attorney Titus shares his experience as the first-ever Anti-Harassment Program Manager for the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), from which he resigned on April 13, 2018, prior to settling his whistleblower retaliation action against DHS on July 27, 2018.
This is not an autobiography, nor is this an angry, ranting “tell-all” book to be sensationalized by the media. Rather, this book is about truth and transparency.
Behind its shiny public relations image – bullying, harassment, and management retaliation were allowed to occur at DHS without meaningful accountability. Attorney Titus boldly confronted the system and prevailed.
This book is also about offering a few pearls of wisdom – and hope – to whistleblowers and survivors of workplace bullying and harassment across the country, and indeed the world – both in the public and private sector. Hope is a powerful ally, without which there can be no substantive change.
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Ranikhet Express: The Love Track : Piyush Baindara
Ranikhet Express is as young as first love, unaware smiling through the “woo-wooing” of the night train to the Pantnagar.
Little aware of his destiny, Palash boards the train of his life and makes the way to Pantnagar in 2004 when his to-be “beloved” Jigna meets him at a place far from his roots.
The early morning arrives with a mist of uncertainty, though they get along more while still being so far, only to be supported by those who may never meet them again.
The story moves on to friends, relatives, and a few strangers and then makes Palash and Jigna play their life-changing game. Like a tree that has to let go of comfort, Jigna and Palash embrace the unknown. They stand not only for each other but also for their love.
Ranikhet Express is a love song, which also carries the pain and equal bounty of uncertainty. It will surely resonate with your own journey when Jigna comes to Palash for forever.
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The Very First Bible : A.W. Mitchell
After 2,000 years of political editing, additions, deletions, theological focus groups and sloppy translations, the modern bible has more in common with modern art than it does with the very first Christian bible as it was originally transcribed.
Now you can read the original gospel and scriptures in their pure unadulterated form as they were after being gathered by Marcion of Sinope in 144 A.D. But it’s what’s not in The Very First Bible that will surprise you – did you know it didn’t contain the Old Testament or stories of its god?
The Marcionite Church, which at one point had millions of adherents and was larger than the Catholic Church, was founded on The Very First Bible and the belief that the Old Testament was incompatible with the teachings of Christ.
This special first edition includes illustrations along with a Study and Reference Guide where you’ll learn about the key people and events surrounding The Very First Bible and the Marcionite Church – and the suppression of both for 2,000 years.
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A Journey Through the Seeker’s Realm : Dustin S Garton
This book provides a new, yet absolutely and uniquely ancient, way to begin your spiritual life. Starting with easy lessons and stripped-down concepts to teach you a gratifying spiritual practice without becoming bogged down by heavy theological arguments or difficult dogmatic concepts. Master Garton does away with distractions and overly obtuse arguments to get directly to the heart of the matter: how can you live a spiritual life in a material world?
This is spirituality made simple for the beginner who needs to know how to start the journey. This is about helping YOU to follow your own path by learning to understand the road. You will learn a simple code of beliefs and simple rituals to help you find that spiritual core you can feel inside. No condescension or judgment, just a simple guide to help you find your way.
Sacred Union is about learning to know yourself and your personal relationship with the Gods, not distant deities who haven’t spoken in thousands of years. This is a book about YOU and how YOU can find a direct path. We remove the jargon and the haughty language and give it to you straight. This is not about someone else’s concept of God, this about YOUR understanding and your path.
A Journey Through the Seeker’s Realm is your starter pack for spiritual growth, with so much more to come!
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Lessons From My Mother’s Life : Tam May
It was the 1950s. The war was over and women could go back to being happy housewives. But did they really want to?
Women should have been contented to live a “Leave it to Beaver” life in the mid-20th century. They should have been fulfilled. Women’s magazines told them so. Advertisers told them so. Doctors and psychologists told them so. Some were. But some weren’t.
In the 1950s, women were sold a bill of goods about who they were and who they should be as women. Some bought it. But some didn’t.
These five stories are about the women who didn’t.
A teenage bride sees her future mirrored in Circe’s twisted face. A woman’s tragic life serves as a warning about the dangers of too much maternal devotion. And the lives of two women intersect during two birthday parties, changing both of them. These and other moving tales of strength, discovery, and hope are about our mothers and grandmothers and the lessons their lives have to teach us.
False Fathers by Tam May is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Groop : A. J. Sahnow
People are going missing on a world-changing scale, and only one man seems to care.
Lydia Dove has been missing for four months. Sean Mallory, stuck in a dead-end job and afflicted by invasive dreams, believes that if he can find her, then maybe he can find others. Taunted by anonymous emails and troubled by his past, even he doubts his ability to see it through – but the ever-growing mystery of the missing is too alluring to resist.
Through his trips to the nearby city, explorations of the surrounding small towns, and interactions with individuals who seem to know more than they let on, his grip on reality is starting to falter. Perhaps trying to find Lydia is the last thing that he should do.
The first novel by A. J. Sahnow, a London-based writer and musician, The Groop is a mystery/thriller influenced by horror and weird fiction.
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Judy’s Journey: One hell of a trip : Victoria Allen
A true-narrative account of the events of a dementia patient, Judith, who at the relatively young age of 69 years is diagnosed with an Alzheimer’s-type dementia.
Jim, her husband was her full-time carer, but after he falls ill himself, following several strokes, Judith has to be admitted to a Mental Health Unit for assessment, due to the common behavioural difficulties often found accompanying dementia.
The story follows the family stresses of the decisions that are required to ensure that the best care is provided to Judith. The account tells of Judith’s progression through the assessment unit; a residential home; a nursing home; back to the assessment unit, and then into the medical ward. It catalogues the alarming prescribing practices provided to dementia patients. It is in the medical ward, that events take a turn for the worse, and become very unclear, with medics admitting that they have no idea why Judith has suddenly become totally incapacitated, being unable to walk, move, speak or eat.
Judy’s Journey follows the traumatic account of finding answers to Judith’s condition, through numerous hospital complaints processes; recorded meetings with doctors; an Independent Hearing; a detailed report from 2 top doctors; and a Coroner’s opinion. Most disturbingly, the book looks at the lengths that the psychiatric profession will endeavour to go to protect their practices and profession.
The book provides the basis for stricter prescribing practices to be implemented, and provides a detailed case-specific report on a very much, misunderstood illness, associated with the exact medication supposedly “helping“, dementia patients.
The book provides vital information to anyone experiencing or involved with dementia, covering the safety issues and failures that can occur when treating these elderly dementia patients.
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Dancing Stones : Rebecca Smee
Fifteen-year-old Teya Mamani is no normal teenager. Her smart mouth hides the damage and chaos inside, and only her secret self-harming allows any relief from her demons. She just wants to hide, but her mother is hell-bent on sending her to Peru. After all, she’s half Peruvian. But how many Peruvian girls have flaming red hair and massive, freakish green eyes?
But when she finds herself in Peru, her sanity seems to teeter even more. She is plagued by sinister black birds and terrifying nightmares. Then there’s the mysterious black-haired boy. James Dean of Peru, they call him. What is he into? Black magic? Gangs? Or is he simply a lost soul, just as damaged as her?
The closer she climbs towards the lush, mystical mountains of her ancestors and the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the stranger things become. Is there some magnetic force that distorts reality, or is it delirium, caused by the effects of altitude?
Or has she simply fallen under the dizzying spell of first love?
But when she is forced into a savage world where darkness and despair threaten at every turn, and ancient, malicious forces seem to have some secret plan for her, Teya must find the strength to fight, to stop the horror that will change the course of history forever.
But time is strange. And time is running out.
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Techno Ranger : A Sam Harper Military Thriller : Thomas Sewell
North and South Korea collide. 1LT Sam Harper wants to fit in on his military intelligence new job supporting the Rangers.
A North Korean general sends a naïve Special Forces lieutenant and team across the DMZ. To steal technology from the lab Sam protects.
A traitor and a CIA temptress may teach Sam the wrong lessons about who to trust.
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Harmony Lost : Stella Jorette
In 1969 London, rock and rollers swing hard. So finding a mini-skirted young woman unconscious in an alley comes as no surprise. But unlike the usual drug-addled head-case, Pam wakes with almost no memory and an angry voice jabbering in her head. She finds herself married to Martin, although the boundaries of the relationship seem undefined. And he’s a peculiar young man, over-imaginative and lost in his music and dreams of stardom.
Martin doesn’t have time for his wife’s new manipulative game. Amnesia, his arse. He’s busy reassembling his band and flirting with anyone, male, female or otherwise, who can further his career. It’s all so difficult. Pam’s a pushy American who’s supposed to be helping him succeed, but she’s not dropping her stupid act. She’s so different now, talking to herself and bizarrely…nice.
Right up until the ugly side of rock and roll catches up with her.
Will the voice raging in Pam’s head drive her insane or land her in prison? Or can she catapult Martin to stardom, control her inner demon and uncover her origins?
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