I am just going to say it and hope it makes a difference. Holiday cards are absolutely wonderful to get in the mail. I LOVE THEM! So many people have stopped sending them and I wish they would. Maybe they think it’s more trouble than it’s worth. So not true. It’s one of my favorite things about the holidays. they are like little presents. The mail box is always filled with bills and junk mail, so I get very little joy out of the mailbox. I mean, it’s not necessary to get joy from a mailbox, but at Christmas time I do. Sadly, I have been getting less and less each year. Send those Holiday cards people! They are so worth it!!!
The Heir to Light and Fire: Pyrelight
by Joel Rousculp
Genre: Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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The Great Pyre was dead, killed by the tyrant king. All who followed the Pyre were forced into hiding or put to death. As an infant, Milo only just escaped that fate.
For seventeen years he and his family survived, hidden beyond the edge of civilization, safe and content. But the kings reach had grown. Soon nowhere would be safe.
After receiving a cryptic vision from a dead prophet he is given a power he can neither control nor understand. A power he will desperately need as he sets out with his friend, Iris to find answers in a world more dangerous than he imagined. But some answers only lead to more questions.
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The Girl In the Woods
by Lorna Dounaeva
Genre: British | Thrillers | Psychological
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She finally had the family she had always wanted, so why did she feel as though someone had stepped on her grave?
Suzannah and Noel are desperate for a child so when they get the chance to adopt a young girl called Orchid, they jump at the chance. They have been warned that it will take time for Orchid to settle into their family, but the problems they encounter seem out of the ordinary. Rooms are flooded, mirrors are smashed and Orchid owns up to none of it. Then things take a sinister turn and Suzannah becomes truly frightened. Who is this child they have let into their lives and will they ever be able to tame her?
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Whiskey And Suicide: And other stories (Odd Tales From Bombay And Bangalore)
by Manik Bal
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
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Whiskey and Suicide paints a kaleidoscope of myriad emotions of the Indian middle class families. In a very informal storytelling style, it narrates the dilemmas of the urban families in dealing with the conflicting emotions arising due to contradictory desires. It is the bonds of family and friendship that allow the protagonists to deal with these crises which are depicted by Manik Bal in a detached but empathetic narrative style reminiscent of the great “slice of life” storytellers of the east and the west.
This book is raw and real and these people can be anyone truly. It is remarkably heartfelt, endearing, it claws at you at times with its depth and emotion. Hard to put down. One of those books you hand to a best friend and say “Read this!”
This book by author Manik Bal is a bouquet of feelings. Every story describes the new face of a person’s life. The stories are all very good but out of all my favourite of all these is Her Father’s Killer such an interesting, emotional and unpredictable short story and it really touched my heart.
(Whiskey and Suicide is) The petrichor in Indian fiction writing. The impression is similar to reading Alice Munro. Variety of intricate topics and unusual metaphorical contrast become an accustomed feat of the author.I loved the author’s style of narrating the incidents.
Minimal yet precise. Bapu and Her Father’s killer plots are weaved around two completely opposite emotions.The heart or the author is easily felt with every line, as the lives of the characters seep in, and it is impossible not to get carried by their wave.
It’s a fascinating inside glimpse at dysfunctional family life in modern India in real-world times, subtlety told with enough detail to make your hair curl.Whether it is the alcoholic father who takes the wrong path after his wife’s death or the sensitive couple in “Subtlety”, most characters are sketched in details.
Modern India is a complex place with the variety of demographics ranging from the multi billionaires to people who are not able to get a day’s meal. The financial liberalization and the IT revolution has created a middle class that is ambitious both in economic aims and spiritual aims. Whiskey and Suicide is empathetic without being condescending.
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From the Valley of Orchids (The Legend of Saru Book 1)
by Niels Saunders
Genre: Fantasy | Horror
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Gods and Demons Clash in Mythological Japan
In the Kingdom of Yamato, magic is misunderstood. When humans pray at shrines to the spirits of the land, their wishes are not granted directly. Instead, sometimes gods are born: shapeshifting animals with the power to conjure weapons and enter the realm of dreams.
When a snow monkey named Saru is born from a prayer of hope, he longs to understand the truth about his nature. At an enchanted temple, he crosses paths with the demonic monk Akame whose infernal magic destroys everything Saru loves — and could soon threaten the whole world.
Saru flees to Otari Village, a settlement of kind people who welcome him into their homes. The village, however, is plagued by ghosts and wicked men who would exploit Saru’s powers. With Akame’s arrival looming, will Saru save the village, or lose everything again? How far will he go to protect those he loves?
From the Valley of Orchids is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Legend of Saru.
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Hunted (Donald Cameron Naval Thriller Book 11)
by Philip McCutchan
Genre: History | Action & Adventure
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A secret radio broadcast warns that Hitler’s newest and most powerful battleship the Attila, is moving in the for the kill under the cover of fog and snowstorms.
Its target, the liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, now doing duty as troop ships crossing the North Atlantic.
Cameron commanding the destroyer Glenshiel must outwit an unseen enemy… positioning himself between the battleship and its prey in a split-second game of hide, seek and destroy.
But with the British fleet out at sea and communication lines down, it becomes harder and harder to distinguish between friend and foe.
On the Glenshiel itself seeds of discord are sown by tensions amongst the men and distressing news of events at home.
A resentful actor, a navyman recently betrayed by his wife’s affair and a power hungry officer are but a few of the characters ensnared in this tragic nightmare at sea.
Cameron weighs up the lives of his men and his duty to the Royal Navy. Will they make the ultimate sacrifice?
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The Time Traveler’s Christmas (Guardian of Scotland Book 3)
by Amy Jarecki
Genre: Romance
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A man’s life can fall apart in an instant…
Tougher than oxhide, Lachlan Wallace can take about anything except a breakup call from his wife two minutes before competing in the Karate Championship of the World. Arriving home with a loss, he agrees to watch his uncle’s cat over the holidays. Or so he thinks — until he awakes on a fourteenth-century battlefield beside a woman fighting for her life.
Never underestimate a woman’s determination…
Taken from her at the age of two, Lady Christina de Moray hasn’t seen her son in thirteen years. While traveling with Robert the Bruce’s army to exchange an English prisoner for the lad, a battle erupts. Losing the fight, Christina is rescued by a mysterious warrior while the English escape with her son yet again.
And never bet against the potency of passion…
Left with no way back to the twenty-first century, Lachlan agrees to help Christina rescue the lad from his English captors. If the heir is not returned by Christmas next, the Bruce will make his decision whom to grant the de Moray lands, including Lady Christina’s hand. Once his duty is fulfilled, Lachlan hopes to discover a way home — as long as he keeps his mind on the goal and ignores his growing love for the spirited woman who gives him her trust — and her heart.
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