I got hit yesterday with the worst cold in the WORLD. It actually was pretty average with classic symptoms of stuffy head, sniffling, and sneezing. Pretty boring really, but super convenient. I know I got it from my oldest son, and his was only really bad for one day. By the second day it was completely tolerable. I say it’s convenient because we are very busy this weekend and I need to be over it all by Friday afternoon at the latest. Since the timing is so perfect I really don’t mind that my head feels like it is about to explode at any moment. I knew I was going to get sick the first time my oldest sneezed. I could have avoided the whole thing if I just didn’t hug him and give him snuggles. As you can see by the use of the word snuggles, there was no way I was going to avoid it. I am positive I am going to be one of those moms that still uses all the pet names when my children are fifty years old. Today I am looking forward to being on the better end of this cold, so I can get to work packing for the weekend. C’mon cold…stick to the timeline. I got things to do.
The Skystillers: A Thriller
by Walker Larson
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Literary Fiction | Thrillers | Men’s Adventure
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Sometimes the world isn’t ready for the truth…
Will Leonhardt, a solitary ex-Air Force pilot and combat veteran, receives a mysterious letter and a prepaid plane ticket summoning him to an obscure observatory in Hawaii. So begins a journey that will lead him to a shadowy group of rogue scientists known as the Terra Program. Desperate for a distraction from his own past and future, Will agrees to pilot the program’s flight to the moon. The groundbreaking scientific experiment he and the other astronauts will perform there could change humanity’s understanding of itself and the planet forever, but first they must undergo months of intense training at the program’s secret facility.
As Will gets to know the program’s personnel — from the arthritic, chess-playing astronomer, Doctor Whitfield, to the beautiful young botanist, Sage Galloway — he begins reluctantly to experience what he has never known before: friendship… and even love. But as launch day draws near, it becomes increasingly clear that all is not as it seems and a hidden enemy threatens the mission and the lives of everyone involved. Now, Will must utilize all his training and stoic courage to save the lives of the people he has come to care for and uncover the secret at the heart of the Terra Program… and at the heart of the universe itself.
The Skystillers is a literary conspiracy thriller that combines elements of science fiction with action, mystery, and philosophical inquiry. A compelling story of danger, intrigue, and cosmology conspiracy, the novel also explores the implications of what we believe about ourselves and our place in the universe and how scientific questions can impact human life.
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Withering Leaves: A Psychological Contemporary Novel about Choice, Separation & Love
by Sam Cohen
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Friendship | Classics | Women’s Fiction
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Would you give up one love to retrieve another?
The life of Kobi, sixty-year-old retiree, turns upside down overnight due to a leg injury. He finds himself bound to a wheelchair and helpless, with little to do but reminisce about his life and past loves.
His neighbor Leah is in love with him, and they spend hours discussing the meaning of life and love.
Kobi tells Leah about the heart-breaking relationship with Rachel, an English actress – the intense love affair that ended abruptly when Rachel broke up with a letter and then disappeared without a trace, leaving him with relentless hope that he will see her again.
After his leg healed, Kobi received word from a friend that he had recently seen Rachel. Following the latest news, Kobi decides to leave everything behind and try to find her, but this decision may cost him dearly…
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Shockwave (Star Kingdom Book 1)
by Lindsay Buroker
Genre: Science Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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What if being a hero was encoded in your genes?
And nobody told you?
Casmir Dabrowski would laugh if someone asked him that. After all, he had to build a robot to protect himself from bullies when he was in school.
Fortunately, life is a little better these days. He’s an accomplished robotics engineer, a respected professor, and he almost never gets picked on in the lunchroom. But he’s positive heroics are for other people.
Until robot assassins stride onto campus and try to kill him.
Forced to flee the work he loves and the only home he’s ever known, Casmir catches the first ship into space, where he hopes to buy time to figure out who wants him dead and why. If he can’t, he’ll never be able to return home.
But he soon finds himself entangled with bounty hunters, mercenaries, and pirates, including the most feared criminal in the Star Kingdom: Captain Tenebris Rache.
Rache could snap his spine with one cybernetically enhanced finger, but he may be the only person with the answer Casmir desperately needs:
What in his genes is worth killing for?
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Beyond Dead: An Afterlife Adventures Novel (A Paranormal Ghost Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)
by Jordaina Sydney Robinson
Genre: Foreign Languages | Teen & Young Adult | Humor & Satire
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Dead, snarky heroine? Check.
Dead, sarcastic BFF? Check.
Murdered ghost stuffed in a locker? Check.
Death is not what Bridget Sway expected. Not at all.
The afterlife is a mess of bureaucracy littered with nonsensical rules. It’s a fashion disaster for a uniform and a job that doesn’t pay. It’s a heinous communal living situation with housemates who have no concept of privacy or personal space. And it’s a handsome parole officer who is a stickler for those nonsensical rules that no one has bothered to explain.
As if all of that wasn’t bad enough, someone has stuffed a dead ghost in her locker… and the afterlife police are ready to pin the murder on her.
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The Knights Templar: The True and Surprising Story Of Histories Most Secretive Order
by Patrick Auerbach
Genre: History
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Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery, while inspiring popular culture from Indiana Jones to Dan Brown.
The order of the Knights Templar was founded by Hugh de Payens, a French nobleman from the Champagne region, along with eight of his companions, in Jerusalem around 1119.
They originally consisted of a group of knights who protected Christian pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land against attack from brigands and Saracen pirates, after the crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099.
The order’s full name was the “Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon”.
They were given quarters next to the temple and adopted their distinctive uniform – white tunics with an eight-pointed blood-red cross.
In 1129 they took monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and pledged themselves ready to die for their faith.
They were gradually transformed into a chivalric order of warrior-monks who fought with distinction in the Crusades.
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