Yesterday morning while dropping off the kids at school, the topic of conversation among the parents was politics. No matter what your view, people are concerned and there are important issues that need to be addressed. I stood quietly in the group while concerns and opinions were voiced, and thought of bacon. I couldn’t help myself. I was hungry. I can’t take on deep issues if my stomach is growling at me. I tried to at least have a thoughtful look on my face, and my thoughts were of different ways to cook bacon, most of them involved making a bacon basket and the multitude of items I could fill it with. I am chopping on my tenth piece of bacon as I type this. I think I am ready to talk politics now.
James Yancey: Taking the High Road (Taking the High Road series Book 3)
Morris Fenris
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels | Romance | Teen & Young Adult
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The War Between the States had dragged on far too long, leaving behind a welter of broken bodies and broken men. One of these is James Yancey, Lt. Colonel, CSA. Captured by the Union Army after the Battle of the Wilderness, he was sent to the officers’ prison camp at Johnson’s Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. Having been forced to abandon his men is a tribulation that eats at him; that does, in fact, color his whole existence with self-blame. Even after he is released, at war’s end, James is haunted by memories of what he considers his own disgrace. With the South going through Reconstruction, his best option seems to be a move west, to join his two brothers already situated in California. During a brief stop in Charleston, his former home, he locates a girl from childhood plantation days, Emma Palmer, and seeks her hand in marriage. Emma’s parents had died during the war. Having escaped its deprivations by touring Europe, she has recently returned to live with an aunt. Careless and giddy, she is so overwhelmed by the excitement of the prospect that she accepts. Once James is settled, he will send for her to join him. In San Francisco, James reconnects with his brothers and buys the Condor Ranch. Meanwhile, Emma packs all her personal belongings and heads west, accompanied by her traveling companion, Molly Buchanan. While Emma dithers and complains about every small annoyance, Molly, an orphan forced to make her own way, embraces each new adventure with a can-do spirit. The contrast between these two young ladies couldn’t be greater, as James and his brother, Matthew, discover. James’ sense of unease, almost of entrapment, increases the more time he spends with his betrothed. From their friends’ home through travel to the ranch to scrutiny of the hacienda itself, Emma is a non-stop complainer of magnitude. James is beginning to worry that he’s made a big mistake. Especially since he is more drawn to Molly and her quiet competence than he is to the girl he invited to journey across country. James is nothing if not an honorable man. Still haunted by the specter of his troops fighting and dying far away from his command, he knows that sole responsibility for Emma rests on his shoulders. Yet he wants only to be with Molly. To complicate matters further, Rosa Alfaro, the ranch housemaid and resident troublemaker, has decided she wants James. And nothing is going to stand in her way.
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Electronic Gags: A Futuristic Dystopian Science Fiction Thriller
Kudakwashe Muzira
Genre: Science Fiction | Humor & Satire | Humor & Entertainment
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Electronic Gags presents a chilling portrait of a dystopian United States ruled by a tyrant. After a military coup, the United States of America becomes an autocracy. To tighten his grip on power, President Brandon Ward, the megalomaniac at the helm of military dictatorship, introduces a new surveillance system that can monitor people’s offline conversations. Privacy is dead. Freddie’s life changes when the government arrests his best friend, Michael, for attending an opposition meeting. Michael’s mother accuses Freddie of betraying her son. Against all odds, Freddie must prove his innocence and save Michael from death row. The only way for Freddie to save Michael is to overthrow the government. Unlike your everyday action hero, Freddie is not an agile ex-special forces operative. He is just a fat biologist who works in a wildlife refuge. And the government is watching him. It is watching everyone.
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HELL HATH NO FURY: Sixth in a Series of Jess Williams Westerns (A Jess Williams Western Book 6)
Robert J. Thomas
Genre: Action & Adventure | Westerns
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HELL HATH NO FURY is the sixth in the series of western novels based on the character Jess Williams. In book six, Jess Williams finds out that the only woman he had ever gotten close to has been raped, beaten and murdered by two men. In a rage of fury, he sets out to hunt down the two men responsible. As he does, fate comes into play when Jess meets up with a woman by the name of Annie McCracken, who happened to have been raped by the same two men that Jess is tracking down. Jess is in for one wild ride when he agrees to let Annie McCracken ride with him and find the two men that the both of them are hunting. Jess has never had a woman for a partner and Annie proves to be more than a handful. The wild and sometimes funny banter that takes place between Jess and Annie will keep you turning the pages, but make no mistake, this is yet another action-packed western with lots of lead flying and lots of men dying at the skillful hands of Jess Williams.
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The Messiah Conspiracy – The Race To Clone Jesus Christ : (Book One): A Gripping Medical Suspense Thriller Conspiracy
IAN C.P. IRVINE
Genre: Mystery | Suspense
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The most gripping science fiction medical thriller you will ever read! For fans of Dan Brown, Sam Bourne, Scott Mariani and John Lyman. The Messiah Conspiracy, previously called ‘Crown of Thorns’, is a fictional thriller which takes place in the field of genetics and human cloning. Hugely controversial, you will either love this book or hate it. Some will feel challenged and uncomfortable by the topic it deals with, and others will be drawn into it and unable to put it down… the question is, what will you think? A young student at Oxford University has an idea for his doctor’s thesis (PhD), which fulfils not only the criteria for ‘originality’, but goes far beyond it. For if Jason Dyke is right, his idea will soon change the world and shift the delicate balance of power from one nation to another. Jason’s idea is simple: In the genetics laboratory at Oxford University, he will clone Jesus Christ. But when the CIA finds out about his plan, the President of America realises that if the UK succeeds, the balance of power will shift from the USA to Europe. And he realises that the only way to stop this happening is for America to create its very own clone of Jesus Christ. The race is on… Whoever reads this book will never forget it. And they will ask… one of two questions:- 1: Is it really possible? 2: When will it happen?
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Backyard Chickens: A Guide to Raising Chickens in the Backyard of Your Home (Homesteader, Raising Chickens Book 1)
Shane Reece
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home
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