My garden is bursting with beautiful blooms, and when the sun comes out the bees are loving every single flower. YET… I am finding no little jars of honey on my doorstep. Kinda rude don’t cha think? I wonder where these little bees are coming from. Is it someones hive or do they live wild in a tree by the creek? They spend all day going back and forth from their place to my garden. They live somewhere, and I will never know. So about that jar of honey.
PAGASA: This is the Future of War (Future War Book 6)
by FX Holden
Genre: History
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China moves to take over Pagasa Island in the South China Sea, putting it on a collision course with the USA that very quickly takes the region to the brink of total war. Set in an all-too-possible future, PAGASA is ‘a whirlwind of a novel’ that follows the lives of ordinary men and women facing extraordinary peril, on all sides of the conflict.
On Pagasa, Philippine Seabee Captain, Heraldo Bezerra, and his small force of combat engineers come under attack from Chinese Coast Guard frigates and commandos of the elite Jiaolong special forces.
In Hong Kong, pilot Karen ‘Bunny’ O’Hare signs on to act as an aerial bodyguard for US flagged merchant marine vessel, the White Star Orion, which is shipping vital materials to PAGASA to help the Philippine Government fortify the island.
In the Celebes Sea east of the Philippines, Captain of the Constellation class frigate, USS Congress, races to rendezvous with the White Star convoy, knowing he is sailing his ship into the eye of an approaching storm.
At Batu Bay in Brunei, maritime militia leader Abdul Ibrahim, receives a visit from a Chinese client bearing heavy calibre gifts and a simple request: sink the Orion.
And high in the skies over PAGASA, China Southern Command Special Aircraft Squadron leader, Li Chen, takes China’s untried Zhi Shen J-16 fighter into combat with US stealth drones, to fight for the control of the seas first sailed by her ancestors during the Han dynasty in 210 BC.
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The Rain Maker
by Michael Martin
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Jacqueline Caldwell “JC” Macy has won the prestigious Sir Griffith Bascome Lawrence engineering competition. Her design could become the most game-changing project Africa has ever seen — or a huge fundraising scam.
Wary from the start, JC’s adoring bestie and personal assistant, Mary Josephine “MJ” Byrne sees a confederacy of profiteers: lawyers, bankers, politicians, and celebrities, lined up to enrich themselves on the backs of the world’s poor.
An American expat who left a promising career and fled an abusive father, MJ takes on the forces of hypocrisy — “white saviors,” the “Humanitarian-Industrial Complex,” faux environmentalism, family dysfunction — that are pushing her friend to the brink. Despite JC’s astonishing gifts, MJ may be the only person who truly cares about her.
A volatile genius with a mile-wide rebellious streak and a growing love for the white powder that makes escape seem easy, JC — and her once-in-a-century project — are on a collision course with self destruction.
If not for one loyal, loving, honest friend. But is honesty enough? Is loyalty? What about love?
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Our Worst Strength: American Individualism and its Hidden Discontents
by James F Richardson
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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We are all settlers on our own personal frontiers.
It’s our national way of life. Individualism. America has now taken individualism to its logical extreme like no other society on Earth. And the results are mixed. Radical autonomy without wisdom and lots of social support is a dangerous gift. It can even become a curse of self-destruction.
This book explores how individualism affects the five major domains of American life that comprise 80% of our waking time – work, fun, food, friends, and family.
Using fresh national research on older Americans’ life experiences, his training as a cultural anthropologist, and his own awkward life experiences, Dr. Richardson has crafted a first-of-its-kind social history of the late 20th century and what it yielded to us as a nation.
Part One – How to Make a Hyper-Individualistic Society in Seven Easy Steps
Part Two – How It Became Awkward at Work
Part Three – How We Got Lost in the American Fun-house
Part Four – How We Came To Eat Whatever, Whenever
Part Five – How We Turned Friends into Entertainment Devices
Part Six – How We Shriveled the American Family
Part Seven – The Future of Individualism in America
Dr. Richardson argues that individualism is not an inevitable way of life. We can take our gifts of autonomy and calibrate them to a more community-oriented future. We have to truly understand what we have before we make changes we would regret as a country.
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Drizzle of Death (Baker Street Cozy Mysteries Book 4)
by CeeCee James
Genre: Mystery
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Includes free recipes from USA Today Best Selling Author, CeeCee James.
Georgie Tanner didn’t expect much more than old world charm when she led a group of tourists on a visit to a local Amish township. But when a young girl pulls her aside, she discovers a dark underbelly to this peaceful village. A young man, just returned from Rumspringa – the Amish rite of passage to adulthood – has been found murdered. The girl is terrified to tell any of the elders for fear she’ll be banished from her community. With nobody else for her to turn to, Georgie reluctantly agrees to help. But when the community moves to cover things up, Georgie discovers her only witness has gone missing. With no evidence and no one willing to listen to her, it’s up to her to find the missing girl before she becomes the next murdered victim..
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Infestation (S-Squad Book 1)
by William Meikle
Genre: Horror
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It was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders.
But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem.
Soon they are in a fight for their lives, for there are things in the icy seas off Baffin Island, scuttling, hungry things with a taste for human flesh.
They are swarming.
And they are growing.
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