I need a hobby. Garden was my hobby, but now it has become an obsession. I found 5 little caterpillars in the garden, and ten seconds later I’m on Amazon looking for caterpillar loving plants and more caterpillars. I find caterpillars for free in my yard, and I want more. I have them…but now I want more. I hadn’t really even thought about caterpillars, until I saw a few. Now I can’t stop talking about them. I have already been in the backyard MANY times today, just to look at them. They don’t do a whole lot. Mostly eat my plants. Some walk around. Pretty cute really. It’s been a few minutes since I bugged them. I’m going to go see what they are up to. I will see ya all later.
A Country Catastrophe: A Jane Carter 1920s Historical Cozy (Book Five) (Jane Carter Historical Cozy Mysteries 5)
by Alice Simpson, Celia Kinsey
Genre: Historical Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Mystery
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Jane investigates a clock tower that mysteriously strikes thirteen, a fatal car crash, and a gang of masked riders who appear bent on destroying the local farmers’ melon crop.
About the Jane Carter Historical Cozy Mystery Series:
This charming historical cozy mystery series is set in the fictional American city of Greenville during the 1920s and features Jane Carter, a young widow who returns home to live with her father after the tragic death of her journalist husband.
Jane’s father owns a local newspaper and wants Jane to take it over someday, but Jane is adamant that she has no desire to be a reporter. Instead, she turns her talent for writing to concocting melodramatic romances for fly-by-night rags who almost never pay on time.
Jane claims that she’s holding out for a millionaire before she marries again, but the only man who makes her heart beat faster is Jack, a reporter on her father’s staff. Not only has Jane vowed she will never be a newspaperman herself, she’s doubly insistent on never again marrying one.
While trying to turn out enough column inches of overwrought romantic bilge to keep her old car on the road, and herself in shoes, Jane runs into the most extraordinary circumstances. In Jane’s madcap world, it’s a constant round of kidnappings, curses, stolen jewels, counterfeit paintings, and hidden stashes of gold. There’s plenty of crime to go around, but nary a murder.
Accompanying Jane on her adventures is her best friend, Florence. Jane and Flo may get into one perilous situation after another, but they are never damsels in distress, because, as Jane puts it, “A real lady always carries her own pocket knife.”
All this getting into harm’s way alarms her father’s housekeeper, Mrs. Timms. Mrs. Timms believes it’s her mission in life to turn motherless Jane into a proper lady, but seeing as Jane has just turned twenty-four, Mrs. Timms considerable efforts appear to have been in vain. However, the housekeeper won’t give up trying, just as Jane won’t give up on seeing Mrs. Timms and her father center-aisling it to the altar and saying, “I do.”
This series is adapted from Mildrid Wirt’s Penny Parker mysteries, which have fallen out of copyright. The author has made extensive alterations and additions to both the characters and plots of the original novels, but readers familiar with Ms. Wirt’s stories will notice many similarities.
These are murderless mysteries. Despite a constant crime wave, there seem to be no murders in the city of Greenville. There may be plenty of peril in the form of kidnappings, heists, and the occasional assault, but nobody ever dies, and justice is always served.
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The Deer King: Novella One
by Ben Spencer
Genre: Fantasy | Literature & Fiction
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When a Deer King is born, nations tremble.
Emmaline Rain’s father is the Stoneman. His responsibility: travel into Massaporan lands and end the life of the reincarnated Massaporan deity — the Deer King — the instant he is born. But when he fails in this task, the delicate equilibrium between Emmaline’s people and the Massaporans is disturbed. It seems likely that the violence of the past will be renewed.
Emmaline’s father is soon murdered by a priest of the Bronze Titan for his shortcomings. Newly orphaned, Emmaline absconds with the Saving Stone in the hopes of finding the Deer King and completing her father’s work. But when she comes face-to-face with the Deer King, she realizes that relations between her people and the Massaporans are more complicated than she has been led to believe.
The Deer King is the first in a planned series of fantasy novellas set in Dreyland, a colonial world where the indigenous people rely on the strength of a reincarnated god to help them offset the technological superiority of the settlers.
Start reading today and discover this epic, character-driven fantasy series!
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Resolution: Nick Smith Book Five (Nick Smith Series 5)
by Stephen Birch
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Action & Adventure | Science Fiction
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First it was Bill. Now it is Jeff. Nick will seek revenge, but he also believes that there is a better way for all to live. It is Klaus who now controls the remnants of the British army. He uses it to ruthlessly control the south of England. The remaining people hide as they struggle to survive, but Nick has decided that it is time to end the oppression. He plans to remove the oppressor and achieve his revenge at the same time. He sets out to hunt Klaus down. Unlike Simon though, Klaus is careful and patient, and he has his own plans. Reeves farm is attacked. More of Nick’s people are hurt and hostages are taken. The situation becomes extremely uncertain for everyone as Klaus begins to unravel under the pressure.
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Nightmare House: A chilling gothic thriller of ghosts and haunting (The Harrow Series Book 1)
by Douglas Clegg
Genre: Horror
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In Harrow, no one rests in peace.
A young man inherits the most haunted house and comes face to face with its diabolical horror. Read the supernatural chiller of the legendary haunting from the bestselling author who “can chill the spine so effectively the reader should keep paramedics on standby!” – Dean Koontz.
Note: The Harrow series consists of several books set in or around the haunted estate in the Hudson Valley. Each Harrow story can be read out-of-order because the main continuing character is the dark mansion itself or those people who have or will touch it.
The Harrow Series:
Book #1, Nightmare House – set at Harrow in the 1920s, the grandson of its creator has come to claim his deadly inheritance and explore the terrifying mystery within the ancient stones and passages of the house.
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Sons of My Fathers
by Michael A. Simpson
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Teen & Young Adult
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Sons of My Fathers, based on the true story of author Michael A. Simpson’s family, is a multi-generational journey that intertwines two dramatic stories set one hundred years apart — the heroic saga of 19-year-old Ulysses Simpson who, when “hell comes to Georgia,” joins his father on a course of revenge, a path that will forever change the destiny of their clan. And the true tale of another young Simpson man six generations later who, despite his moral reservations, enlists in the U.S. Army, following in the footsteps of his father who was a WWII Marine Corps combat veteran and one of the legendary fighting force’s elite instructors during the Korean War.
When Ron volunteers as a “walking dead” — the term for those who fly unarmed medevac helicopters during combat because of their high mortality rate — but is instead assigned to fly a Huey gunship, he fights a personal war with himself over whether to keep a century-old family oath. As his brother Michael comes of age and experiences his first love, Ron’s fateful decision forces him to confront his family’s past and risk sacrificing his own future, an act that ultimately sets a landmark precedent for “soldiers of conscience” who would follow him in military service.
Deeply personal and compellingly written by the younger brother in this story, the book is uniquely set against America’s involvement in two great civil wars — our country’s own conflict in the 1860s and Vietnam in the late 1960s. It is an evocative journey into the author’s family history and the universal themes central to it — the bonds of family and star-crossed love, duty versus faith, the true nature of patriotism and conscience in war, and the turbulent end of innocence. Rich in emotional textures, Sons of My Fathers is a transformative and timeless coming-of-age narrative.
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