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The Environmental Gardeners : NR Baldwin
We only have ten years to save the planet!
What if this belief was taken seriously by others not from our world? How would they help to save Mankind? Would they even bother? Hardened military veteran, Brett Martin is about to find out as he finds himself sucked into a dystopian nightmare in which there are few easy ways out.
The Gardeners are here and they have come to prune our planet. As the stakes are raised impossibly high, Martin struggles to come to terms with his new reality and the dawn of a new age.
The Environmental Gardeners, although with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek, is a revealing and insightful novel of our time. It boldly and unapologetically explores many taboo concepts of modern culture and politics through the adventures of its dubiously flawed hero. A must-read for anybody trying to morally navigate through challenging times and by those who simply want to enjoy a cracking sci-fi novel.
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Gretel and Zita : Jiannina Camillo
A poacher shoots; a bear charges; a father and his seven-year-old son flee the scene, but they stumble and plunge into the ravine. Their fall ends when they hit a tree trunk that rebounds them into an overhang. The father is unconscious; the boy has a broken leg.
A vast search and rescue operation is mounted. As a second night of failed attempts to find them sets in, Zita, the mayor of Pianalto, is confronted by a posse out to kill the bear and a town on the warpath calling for the government to review its policy on the protection of the species.
In the nearby peaks, a bear and her three cubs are on the run.
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The Courage to Surrender : John W
Leaving my hometown for college was a dive from all I’d known into a sea of unfamiliarity. Gone were the sports I loved that kept me healthy, my friends who taught me about life via fun and games, and the experiences only found in a small town. I also left a home that I later discovered was dysfunctional.
Although I earned AA and BS degrees, college life showed me a freedom I didn’t manage well. My freedom changed me.
I married my college sweetheart the week after graduation, which was a month before the Woodstock music festival and three months before our “love child” was born.
Full of ambition, I changed IT jobs every few years, staying on the “fast track – high potential” lists from start-up companies to mega-corporations. We started poor but built an American Dream in a few short years. On the outside, we had it all, on the inside I was dying.
Drugs and alcohol finally brought me down after decades of hard-partying. In spring 1982, I returned from a long assignment in Singapore, where I stayed clean and sober. I could be myself and loved it.
I moved my family out of suburbia to clean up our lives. While I attended A.A., my wife slid into the world of IV drug use. We helped her fight her demons, but that lifestyle claimed her. She chose life in a drug den several miles from us. We were in pain.
My single parenting skills were inadequate, but the extra effort by each of us proved enough to get the kids’ college degrees. Much of this story is about recovery from lost love, dreams of a better life, and my struggles to conquer my addictions. The evidence shows sobriety is a way of life – not an event.
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Our Shared Sacred Space : Balu Athreya
Confluence of East and West, Science and Spirituality
This book is an attempt to merge the ancient with the modern; reason with faith; science with spirituality; and the eastern with the western philosophy.
In this age of instant communication and inter-stellar travel, we have the knowledge and technology to experience and share this “living landscape”, our Sacred Space, Mother Earth; but have not developed the “heart” to do so.
This book is an attempt to stimulate that interest. It is to highlight the common threads of humanity in this age of conflicts. It is to show that we need both reason and faith.
It is to document that wisdom is not the special province of any one culture. It is to help develop shared sacred space, shared values and shared celebrations of life on this planet.
In addition, there are two novel ideas in this book. The first is a suggestion that “Information” be considered a major centerpiece of universal building-block. It becomes the fifth element after matter, energy, space and time.
The second relates to the concept of “soul”. As a physician, I wondered why we should not look at “soul” as a concept akin to the concept of disease.
Disease has no existence of its own apart from a living body, although we describe them as if they do. The concept of soul can be explained the same way without diminishing its significance.
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The CHAMELEON Leader : Ranya Nehmeh
The CHAMELEON Leader: Connecting with Millennials
An accessible, interactive, engaging, and essential book for anyone who wants to be a better leader to the millennials, and reap the rewards of this incredibly capable generation.
Millennials make up a significant part of today’s workforce and we would be foolish not to embrace what they have to offer – a unique perspective, an ethical outlook, tech-savvy minds, and a ‘no fear’ approach to the workplace.
Top-down leadership is passé. Millennials need a leadership style that is current – collaborative, open, transparent and inclusive – which caters to their strengths. They want to be a valued part of the leadership process.
This book asks the question: What do you want in a leader? The answers, summarised into nine traits that were identified by hundreds of millennials worldwide as being of the utmost importance in a leader, comprise the CHAMELEON Leader. Why a chameleon? Because chameleons change color according to the situation. They are adaptable!
The CHAMELEON leader is an innovative approach to lead the future workforce.
An informative, straight from the source, fully interactive, exercise-guided book that gives you the practical skills you need to be a better leader, and offers a place to self-reflect on your own existing skills and create a game plan to take action.
#FindYourChameleon
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New Student : Maurice Trent
This is the second book in my children’s series, “Tales from Dulaney Street”. It centers around a young boy, Jayce, and a friend he makes over the summer finding themselves in the same kindergarten class as the school year begins.
The first day of school is never easy but it can be harder for some than others, especially Jayce’s friend, Oliver. On the outside he’s nothing like the other children yet, on the inside, he’s just a normal kid. He likes to run, he likes to play, but, more than anything else, he wants to fit in with his class. Sometimes, though, it’s better to stand out…
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Daily Spiritual Tools : Sherry Woodcock
Humanity has found God in many wonderful places – within churches, synagogues and other houses of worship, or in miraculous events. In these places, we have always expected to find God. But what if we are able to know God within ourselves, and as ourselves, in the midst of the day-to-day events of our lives, work, parenting, paying bills, doing our best and our not-so-best, striving to understand others, and getting stuck as all people do?
Daily Spiritual Tools celebrates the existence of the divine in all human experience. It’s a compilation of meditations and simple practices that open our awareness to perfect and divine order within all things. As humankind moves from a truth of spirituality “out there” to one of God expressing as each of us and in all things, the tools contained in Daily Spiritual Tools help us accept that truth and know it as our own. In doing so we help elevate others and our world. It has been a great joy for me to write Daily Spiritual Tools. May you know the deep truth of God within you as you read it.
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The Killing Spell : Shane Ulrrein
Edward Peach is a fourteen-year-old wizard who receives a letter that he has been accepted into the prestigious Prymoutekhny Wizards Academy for Boys in the faraway land of Aradia. His parents are overjoyed, but he feels reluctant to leave his family, friends, and his comfy cottage in the English coastal village of Manley.
As term begins, Edward adjusts to life in his new school, dealing with bullies, strict teachers, and challenging wizardry classes. He is almost ready to give up when he falls in love with a charismatic, privileged boy—and talented wizard—named Mr. Andreas. Prymoutekhny is a school that has still not opened up to same-sex attraction, so he must keep his feelings secret.
Soon, Edward and the impressive boy realize their deep attraction for each other. This causes immediate controversy in the school, as they are the first two boys from feuding houses to come together—especially in a school where house rivalry can end in murder.
He is then put to the ultimate test as he must risk being with the boy he loves even at the cost of his own life!
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The Fate of Wolves (Legends of Pale Series) : Tarrant Smith
Deegan Volkov is a werewolf—a direct descendant of the first dark soul who’d committed the vile crime for which his ancestor and the other four had been cursed. It was his fate to suffer.
The monster that dwelt inside Deegan had always taken far more than it ever gave. So, when he was faced with yet another impossible choice, Deegan had known no other way. No other path had been open to him. But this last agonizing loss had been too much for his heart to bear, and he’d howled his pain and despair to an uncaring moon never expecting a miracle—or her.
How could Eva Azoulf exist? She was a female werewolf in a world where all the cursed were men and the very last of a bloodline reported to have died out nearly a century ago. She was an impossibility, one that Deegan’s wolf was set on claiming for himself. But the man in Deegan craved more than just her body. To heal his torn and tattered soul, he yearned to find a way to win her heart.
The Love of Gods, Resurrected Darkly, Surrendered Darkly and Kept Darkly by Tarrant Smith are also on Whizbuzz Books.
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I Think You’re Right : Boratus
When college student, Shaun, discovers he can influence the woman of his dreams, Jessica, through subtle hypnotic triggers given to her by her therapist, he begins a seduction process to make her love him. This proves more difficult than he expected when he learns that her therapist, Dr. Maddow, has a similar plan in mind, only he wants Jessica as a complete sex slave.
When Shaun learns that Dr. Maddow is doing the same thing to multiple women to take control of both them and their money, he decides all the women need to be freed from the man’s control. But with the police, attorneys, and other officials paid off by the therapist, Shaun decides he must be the one to stop the man himself.
Can he pull off the impossible while getting the woman of his dreams to love him without hypnotic intervention?
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