Hmmmph…. I waited too long. Now I have to name him. A week ago I found a huge black cricket in my garage. Right there on the step by the door. When I first saw him I thought he would be a delicious treat for my ladies, but then I got distracted and forgot about him. The next day I saw him again on the very same step. The ladies would just love a fat snack like him, I thought again. But once again my attention span is short and he was quickly forgotten. The days passed and I would find him there, exploring the step, not making a sound. Just being a cricket. I found myself looking first, before I stepped into the garage to be sure I didn’t squish him. It’s been too long now. By now he has probably made friends with the garage slug, Mary. Mary the slug is new, maybe a few months or so. I kinda missed Frank the slug, so when I saw Mary it was a nice, familiar feeling. She was welcome to eat all the dropped dog foods she could find. Now she has Dr. Doom the black cricket.
Fatal Retribution (Raina Kirkland Book 1)
Diana Graves
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Fantasy
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A celebratory camping trip turns bloody when a mindless creature attacks five young adults on Mount Rainier in the dark early morning hours. Just one more deadly incident in a dangerous trend of disease and carnage that’s taken place all over Western Washington. Raina is driven to find answers after she was forced watch her brother die on that mountain, but questions only lead to more questions. Like what does a hand full of college students and an ancient Greek myth have to do with a blood born illness that turns humans into the undead?
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Innkeeping with Murder (The Lighthouse Inn Mysteries Book 1)
Tim Myers
Genre: Mystery
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Innkeeper Alex Winston owns Hatteras West, an exact replica of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When one of Alex’s guests is found dead at the top of the lighthouse, at first no one is sure what killed him. But a series of ‘accidents’ soon after show that someone is targeting Alex’s Inn for mayhem, trying to do more than just put him out of business.
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Almost Heaven
Jerry Horton
Genre: History
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This is an inspiring memoir written about a young man coming of age in West Virginia in the 1960’s. It is a memoir but also a real thriller story as we follow Jerry from the streets surrounding Lincoln playground to Chicago Steel mills to the French Quarter in New Orleans and to San Francisco in the Summer of Love 1967. The book then moves you to the Central Highlands in Vietnam where Jerry is an infantry platoon sergeant. Jerry’s interesting and truthful account of his childhood years and transition to an adult and Infantry Sergeant are truly endearing. It is an honest and compelling story. It gives a first person narrative of hand-to-hand combat in the trenches of Vietnam that can leave you scared, glad to be alive and eternally grateful to those who died for our freedom. Jerry joined the army to simply be able to afford to go to college. Forty years later he has a PhD and multiple degrees but they were earned at a heavy price for this patriot. Jerry shares his experiences in Vietnam in an articulate, honest and direct assessment of his time in Vietnam, the men he served with and the horrors of war. It is an incredible story of leadership and survival. We see Jerry develop as a young boy who is very independent and then see him being schooled on the streets of Charleston, West Virginia learning how to come to grips with the breakup and divorce in his family. He takes refuge in becoming the best he could be as a basketball player on the courts of Lincoln playground. Later we see him leaving home for the mean streets of the Chicago Steel mills and then on to Louisiana where he completes one year of college and then goes flat broke. Then the book shifts to New Orleans Louisiana and the excitement of the French Quarter. Jerry’s life is rocked by the turbulent waters in New Orleans; he had no money no plan and is drifting. He seeks out another lifestyle in California hitching to and then living in San Francisco during the Summer of Love 1967. He describes how it was, the music and time and place and he takes you there through his vivid descriptions. Once again, his life spins into turmoil and as he tries to get back on the path to achieve his life’s dream of going to college he is drafted in the Army. He finds himself becoming a leader, an infantry sergeant. His goal is to bring himself and his men back home alive, the reader gets the sense that all his life Jerry has been prepared for this moment. The reader is taken through and see’s through Jerry’s eyes what combat is really like. This story covers much ground and has something for everyone. You live through Jerry ‘s experiences of what it’s like to conquer your own demons, you read about his mother’s courage having Jerry in the Salvation Army by herself, the excitement and freedom of the 1960’s and you learn what it is like to want something so bad you lay your life down for it. It is a book you truly won’t lay down once you start reading.
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The 8 Mistakes of Amy Maxwell (Amy Maxwell Series Book 1)
Heather Balog
Genre: Mystery | Humor & Satire
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Amy Maxwell’s got four kids, a useless husband and crusted applesauce on her yoga pants that haven’t seen the inside of a gym in over a decade. She’s convinced her teenage daughter is up to no good, her ten year old can’t stop chattering in her ear and her oldest son has befriended a teenaged boy twice his age who is a tad bit strange. And don’t even get her started on having a toddler when you’re in your late thirties. She just can’t keep up. Forget tired; she’s exhausted and feeling unfulfilled, dissatisfied and like a disappointment to everyone; her kids, her parents and most of all, herself. To relieve her stress, Amy finds herself fantasizing about everything from the pool boy next door to finding out that her daughter was switched at birth. She can’t help her thoughts, but she figures, if they’re in her head, they can’t hurt anyone else, right? When Jason, a very sexy forty something year old single father moves in across the street, Amy finds her fantasy world has gone into overdrive. When Amy and her 13 year old daughter, Allie, stumble upon the body of their neighbor, shot to death in her living room, Amy finds herself thrown together with Jason in the most unpredictable way. Amy finds herself bumbling around Jason, trying desperately to stop her fantasies and her underlying attraction towards him as this who done it mystery slowly unfolds. And Amy soon realizes, nobody is who she thinks they are… even Amy herself.
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Fairy eBooks)
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Genre: Fantasy | Children’s eBooks
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The Nutcracker is a Christmas story about a little girl named Maria and her wooden doll, the Nutcracker, who becomes alive to fight the evil seven-headed Mouse King. Includes 20 illustrations by Artu Scheiner and Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach.
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