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Wacky on the Junk : Kathy Varner
In this hilarious debut memoir, Kathy Varner reflects on a life lived on the fringes of ordinary. From an awkward childhood as the youngest of five, living off sweets and processed foods, to a wild adolescence of drinking, drugs, and Deadhead hijinks, to a harrowing career with social services, Kathy takes it all in stride, embracing the beauty and pain of life with a sardonic wit and a sense of adventure that remains undampened–no matter how wacky things get!
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Transfer from Alcatraz : Eddie Owens
An ex-cop must investigate the death of eight men … murdered 50 years ago. Red Raeburn thinks it will be a routine case of background research. She could not be more wrong.
Some people want the truth to stay buried and Red must use all her wits to get justice for the dead while staying alive herself.
Will Red Raeburn solve the case … or will she join the dead?
The Private Eye
Caitlin “Red” Raeburn – ex-cop, mom, art lover and owner of the Raeburn Detective agency.
The Client
“I was involved in the deaths of eight men over fifty years ago.”
Red is asked to find the evidence that will prove the historic events occurred.
The Case
What seemed like a routine case of background research soon turns into an action-packed search for the truth.
Faced with a warning to let the past stay buried, Red vows to follow her heart and find justice for the dead.
If you like the “Spenser” novels by Robert B Parker; if you like Kinsey Millhone; if you like Lee Child, then you will like Transfer from Alcatraz.
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Transfer From Alcatraz has all the character variety of Pulp Fiction, and all the mystery and thrills of Silence of the Lambs, in a less darker sense.
Eddie Owens’s Transfer from Alcatraz is a mad rollercoaster ride of twists, turns, agendas and I can honestly say, I never saw THAT end coming! Filled with attitude, atmosphere and a cast of characters that are sure to amuse and entertain, this mystery has a very creative plot, indeed!
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Kill Code: A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel : Clive Fleury
When the oceans rise…The truth drowns.
The year 2031. Our future. Their present. A world decimated by climate catastrophe, where the sun’s heat is deadly and the oceans rise higher every day. A world ruled by the rich, powerful, and corrupt. A world where a good man can’t survive for long.
Hogan Duran was a good man once: a good cop, forced to resign in disgrace when he couldn’t save his partner from a bullet. Now Hogan lives on the fraying edges of society, serving cruel masters and scavenging trash dumps just to survive.
But after four years of living in poverty, Hogan finally gets the chance to get back on his feet. He’s invited to join the National Security Council, the powerful paramilitary organization responsible for protecting the rich and powerful from the more unsavory elements of society. All he needs to do is pass their deadly entrance exam, and he’ll be rewarded with wealth and opportunity beyond his wildest dreams.
But this ex-cop’s path to redemption won’t be easy. The NSC is hiding something, and as Hogan descends deeper and deeper into their world, he starts to uncover the terrible truth of how the powerful in this new society keep their power…and just how far they’ll go to protect their secrets.
In a world gone wrong, can one good man make a difference? Or will he die trying?
Kill Code is the first novel in an exciting new dystopian science fiction series from the mind of award-winning author, screenwriter, and director Clive Fleury.
Fans of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, and Divergent by Veronica Roth will be captivated by Kill Code.
You’ll also love this book if you enjoy:
• Dystopian novels and stories
• Stories about futuristic societies
• Stories about disgraced cops
• Stories about unlikely heroes
• Stories about conspiracies
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Surviving C-Diff: A Patient’s Perspective : David and Monica Archer
Did you know your gut contains good and bad bacteria? Did you know you have more than one thousand types of bacteria in your intestines? Have you heard that taking too many antibiotics kills off that bacteria? Fast facts: once the gut bacteria is destroyed, you could end up with a serious intestinal infection!
Some sources say a whopping 24 million pounds of antibiotics are prescribed each year! The extinction of our “inner garden” within our intestines is imminent! Bacterial resistance due to microbes destroyed is a vital concern, i.e. development of life-threatening “superbugs,” such as clostridium difficile (also known as C-Diff.)
We should all be concerned, as we are creating superbugs for which there will be no cure. Antibiotics change how the gut bugs/microbes interact with each other. C-Diff is proof of this!
Your health depends on healing your microbiome. We’ve found that diet is essential to the healing process. That’s why we’ve included some of our own recipes to help.
Do you realize obesity and microbiome are connected? The microbiome in obese individuals are altered. This long-term imbalance can cause health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
We need gut bacteria to fight pathogens. The earlier you give a child antibiotics, the more it can affect them later in life. We’re killing bacteria that help detoxify our bodies. In this book, we explain how to heal from C-Diff and feed gut bacteria, rather than eradicating them.
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The Note Man : Andrew Pine
“Did you really think you’d get away with it?” When Peter Jeffries slapped those words across the window of a luxurious Mercedes-Benz, he’d had no idea what the consequences would be.
Recently fired, the frustrated family man had written the note for the blond woman behind the wheel – the one who’d cut him off in traffic without using her turn signals. He slapped the note and hid, waiting to see her reaction.
Instead, it was her husband who saw it – brutal Irish gangster Jackie ‘The Ox’ O’Neal.
The Ox isn’t the kind of man to take threats lightly – even if they weren’t actually intended for him.
Soon, Peter’s impulsive act of road-rage has resulted in mayhem, murder, and kidnapping – and now, Peter’s life is on the line.
Fast-paced, funny, and frightening, The Note Man is the debut novel of Andrew Pine – deftly exploring the chillingly-plausible consequences of a single act of anger. Fans of John Marrs, Gillian Flynn, and twisted, speculative fiction like Black Mirror will be instantly hooked.
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The Empress of the Clouds : Desiree Ultican
In March 1896, Widow Evaline “Evvy” Amstel has been left with a tremendous debt―before he was murdered, her husband had promised to build and deliver a revolutionary airship, The Empress of the Clouds, to Erasmus Marchand, an embittered Southern millionaire who resents the fact that the damned Yankees won the Civil War. Now that Amstel is dead, no one in Joplin, Missouri, a zinc/lead mining boomtown, knows where the Empress is . . . or if it even exists.
Count Frederick von Zeppelin also has a stake in finding the airship. He has accused Evvy’s husband of stealing the original designs from him and is determined to recover the ship in order to build up Germany’s military might.
Evvy takes over her husband’s failing airship company and the company thrives for a time. But Marchand is fanatical in his quest to find the Empress―to arm it with a weapon of mass destruction at a pivotal moment in history and instigate anarchy. He’ll stop at nothing to achieve his vision and Evvy is proving to be a huge impediment. It’s up to her and local deputy Sean McTavish to find the airship before Marchand or Zeppelin does, because the future of the United States is in peril.
The Empress of the Clouds is a steampunk adventure. This alternative history tale features a spunky resourceful heroine who doesn’t allow adversity and evil to overpower her but seizes control of her own destiny.
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Elliot En Excelsis : J.E. Strube III
When disillusioned but shrewd college drop out Elliot is transported to a fantasy world in crisis, he must rely on his wits to survive.
In a land where humans are near the bottom of the food chain it won’t be easy, but when by chance or fate he becomes ordained as a cleric of a long-forgotten goddess and makes a likeminded friend on the fringes of society, he might just have a fighting chance.
Navigating a treacherous web of political intrigue and shifting alliances in the tumultuous city-state of Belinze, Elliot and his newfound comrades set out to change the small nation to better suit their own vision, for the better or the worse.
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A Thing of Dark Imaginings : Roger Alan Bonner
Amir and Serena lose their only child, a beautiful and talented daughter, Lelah, to a mass shooting at her college in Virginia. Both struggle to recover a semblance of their previous life and joy and optimism. Serena manages to make some progress, but Amir falls short.
He begins to hallucinate. He sees Lelah waiting for a bus, walking down the street, even following him. But he cannot speak to her; he cannot touch her. He sees her only as a child and cannot visualize her as an adult. Soon he begins to hear a voice, an angry, guttural, vindictive voice, that of a Beast. It is constantly in his head, growling, roaring. The voice begins to speak to him. It wants one thing and one thing only – revenge on the “gun people” it holds responsible for Lelah’s death.
At first, Amir resists. Who would not? But then the Beast threatens his life – “you will kill them, or I will kill you.” He finds himself at risk of losing Serena and everything else he has or ever will have.
From there, Amir will embark on a bloody journey of revenge, for which he happens to have a talent and, deep inside, an irresistible desire. He will struggle to regain the life he had before Lelah’s murder.
A Thing of Dark Imaginings is a morally ambiguous tale of murder, grief, revenge, and redemption.
Milky Way Tango: Volume One of the Belt Stories by Roger Alan Bonner is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Beginner Entrepreneur : Angela Jenkins
Guide to How Your Idea for a New Startup Business From Home Can Go from Zero to Profitable FAST
To All Ambitious 7th – 12th Graders:
Is your brain about to explode because you have an idea for a business but clueless about where and how to start? What about you have a business in its infancy stage but still need a few pointers? This book is the all-in-one resource for you. I shuck it down to the core for you in the simplest of terms. It gives you step by step actions to take in order to go from zero to profitable fast!
The Beginner Entrepreneur also shows you how to develop an entrepreneur mindset, the qualities you must possess in order to be successful and how to recognize opportunities. It gives you the steps to become an entrepreneur, different scenarios with marketing strategies that tap into your circle of influence and ways to continue to invest in yourself.
What you’ll learn in this book?
Who an entrepreneur is?
What opportunities does entrepreneurship offer?
How anyone can develop an entrepreneur mindset?
What qualities a newbie entrepreneur must possess?
How to recognize different kinds of business opportunities?
Merits and challenges of having one’s own business?
2 BONUS GUIDES (downloadable): 110 Up-To-Date FREE TOOLS & RESOURCES TO START AND GROW YOUR NEW BUSINESS and 8 STEPS TO MAKE YOUR NEW BUSINESS LEGAL
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Milky Way Tango: Volume One of the Belt Stories : Roger Alan Bonner
Jimmy and Sarah have been close friends on Ambrosa since childhood. They discuss everything; they finish each other’s sentences. Shortly after becoming lovers, they encounter a dreadful stroke of bad luck. As a result of protecting Sarah, Jimmy receives a ten-year prison sentence on a navigational array near the North American nebula, over fifteen hundred light-years distant.
Like any nebula, the neighborhood is a beautiful, explosive, colorful, dangerous place. Asteroids routinely whiz past at 60,000 kph, and the sudden death of cold deep space ever waits.
Jimmy cannot have visitors on the array. His only companion an A.I., he turns to learning to work and survive in vacuum. It is a dangerous life, but he has no choice. He must learn or die.
Sarah pledges to wait for him, but Jimmy refuses to let her waste her youth. He tells her to get on with her life, and she tries to do exactly that. She attends a college on Ambrosa, makes a good friend, studies hard, and even tries to enjoy a bit of romance with a couple of men at the college. But to get on with her life, she must forget a sizable portion of it. It might be easier said than done. For Sarah, all roads lead to Jimmy.
Milky Way Tango is the first of a four-volume romance in a space opera setting.
A Thing of Dark Imaginings by Roger Alan Bonner is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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