My four little chickies are a happy group. They get hugs and cuddles each morning (like it or not), they know their place in the hierarchy, although don’t talk hierarchy to Naughty… she is a rebel, and we have a comfy routine. So why is it I want to mess all that up. I will tell you why..it’s because I want another chicken. I can’t stop thinking about adding another chicken to my flock ever since that trip to the feed store and seeing all those baby chicks. Chickens are a drug people. Don’t start chickening unless you can take the heat from the kitchen. Umm..er…You know what I mean.
Catch the Sun (The Jan Willem Saga)
Ian Roberts
Genre: Sagas | Historical Fiction
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Crazed with fear, a boy sprints through the African bush.He is pursued by the men who have butchered his parents.It is the beginning of his passage into manhood, which will see him experience the violent siege of Ladysmith, black-marketers and attempts on his life.Living on his wits, he is befriended by a British cavalry officer, Major George Stanley, whose life he saves and who will betray him.
From the slaughter of the South African Boer war of 1899-1902, to the snobbery of Edwardian England, where a decades-old secret leads to tragedy, Jan Willem develops from a naïve orphan into a resolute young man under the tutelage of Major Stanley and De Costa the wily but educated poacher and former priest.
Faced with the scheming of Major Stanley’s adopted sons, Russell and Edward, and the cruelty of their mother, Jan Willem is expelled from an exclusive school, for striking a school master, but finds sanctuary, with De Costa, in the forests of the Major’s estate.
Building a home, for his wife and child, Jan Willem begins to escape the demons of his youth. But the shared and mysterious past of De Costa and Major Stanley, and the determination of the major’s sons to be rid of him, result in kidnap, murder and tragedy.
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STREET CHILD: A Memoir
Justin Reed Early
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Children’s eBooks | Religion & Spirituality | Self-Help
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“The books the world calls immoral, are books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde
“Street Child is not for the faint of heart…” – Nicole Broduer, THE SEATTLE TIMES (Article)
Street Child is the true story of a young boy who runs away from his increasingly dysfunctional and violent family. Placed into state custody at ten years old, his journey in foster care and survival takes many drastic turns until he finds safety with similar peers on the seedy streets of Seattle and San Francisco. While dodging serial killers (Green River Killer) and pedophiles, including a juvenile court judge who oversees his custody, these children develop credulous bonds while trying to protect each other amidst the increasingly dangerous elements.
Author Justin Reed Early takes you on a journey into a life where children become victims and victims become criminals. He brings intimate clarity to real life characters through authentic interactions with frequent devastating outcomes.
Many of the children in Street Child, including the author were featured in the documentary STREETWISE, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Street Child is a journey no child should ever endure.
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Winter Wish
Dixie Minor
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
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On the verge of high school graduation, eighteen-year-old Jessie should be revving up for a big world and bright future. That is, if she can see beyond her beloved mountains in north Georgia. That’s just when a dark-haired stranger named Cade reveals possibilities that are exciting, inspiring, and sometimes more than a little unnerving.
Winter Wish is the heartwarming young adult novel that weaves together romance, mystery, and drama, as Jessie learns that sometimes the best way to care for those she loves is to take better care of herself. With the weight of her mother’s death on her shoulders, Jessie finds herself struggling to carve out a future for herself. She can’t imagine ever leaving home, or tearing herself from her family, a devoted boyfriend Sean, and a needy friend Camille.
After Jessie makes a wish on a star to help her find her way, she meets a mysterious young man named Cade. At the same time, her lone mountainside treks place her in the path of a menacing man who seems intent on silencing her. As Jessie confronts past demons and new threats, her wish upon a star may make all the difference in the world.
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The Journey BeginsA Will Cannon, Bounty Hunter, Western Adventure Novel
Larry Hill
Genre: Westerns | Action & Adventure
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The Journey Begins is the first novel in the Will Cannon, Bounty Hunter, series.Adam and Abel Lee return from the Civil War to find their family murdered, their plantations stolen and the Union Army looking for them because they have been framed for the theft of the Yankee payroll in a train robbery.The Lee brothers soon find out the Blackman Gang is to blame for the crimes but the Blackman Gang flees the area and Adam and Abel fake their own deaths and start their journey west.Their goal is to establish a home base and begin the search for the Blackman Gang.They have to fight corrupt yankee soldiers, many hostile Indians, cutthroat rawhiders, Mexican bandits and some other dirty polecats before they reach the Mora River Ranch.Adam and Abel take the identities of two dead settlers and Adam becomes Will Cannon and Abel becomes Joe Cannon.This book sets the stage for the long bloody hunt for the Blackman Gang.
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The Spirit Of A Witch (Briley Witch Chronicles)
Sarah Jane Avory
Genre: Coming of Age | Fantasy
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Ever wondered what it would be like to truly understand a cat, every last meow, every narrowed glance, every jab of a paw?
When Briley Forester, a shy recluse and gifted games programmer, is torn from the world and dumped into the village of Maepole, she finds out the hard way. Trapped within a backward world without technology, she discovers that being a witch is hard, and that her grouchy talking cat Smokey knows more about men than she does!
Tricked into working as a delivery girl and aided by an ancient grimoire, only by overcoming her crippling self-doubt and learning the powers of witchcraft can she hope to return home.
But her way home is fraught with heartache and danger, love and despair. The powerful Whitehead family, haters of witches, will stop at nothing to be rid of her.
And lurking within the forest, the dark spirit lies in wait, ready to strike…
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