Last night while we were all hanging out in the backyard, kids playing, hubby BBQ’ing, and the weather being as perfect as it could be, I got to stop and take a break from the daily hustle and bustle. I have been running around busy as heck with kids, work, and life in general, that sometimes I need to be forced to stop. Having family over to celebrate your son’s seventh birthday is a welcomed reason. The sweet added bonus, was being able to spend quality time with my chickies on my lap. Last night it was Heather that sat with me. Having her sit in my lap is as calming as a cat. She doesn’t try to get away, and she makes the sweetest little clucking noises. I spent most of the time, absentmindedly petting her and she just settled in and didn’t make any sort of fuss. She didn’t even poop in my lap. A perfect evening.
The China Pandemic (Graham’s Resolution Book 1)
A. R. Shaw
Genre: Science Fiction
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#1 Bestseller in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic fiction in May 2014!
What the world dreads most has happened- because of a mutated avian bird flu (H5N1) pandemic. It has ravaged the globe. Only 2% of the population has survived. A dying mother knows that her young child is among the few immune to the virus. What will she do to ensure his survival before her own coming tragic death?
Meanwhile, Graham has buried his last remaining family member. Following his father’s advice to make it to the family cabin, he meets with triumph and tragedy; learning new rules along the way. Just when he thinks he’s finally got a handle on this new world, he’s taken by surprise, as he learns he’s not alone. A hidden yet vulnerable community of Preppers are nearby. Will he find the strength to escape these dangers and go on living? And more importantly, will he have the ability to protect those he’s come to trust?
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River Rocks: A West Virginia Adventure Novel
Steve Kittner
Genre: Action & Adventure | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Teen & Young Adult
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Josh Baker and Eddie Debord are two young boys who love nothing more than running the hills and riverbanks of their small hometown in West Virginia. Adventure is always on their minds and one day they find it! Inside an old red milk can that they discover by the river, is a relic from the past. A document that will send them on an adventure of a lifetime! They will make new friends and new enemies and will find themselves drifting downriver, biking down old railroad beds, exploring hidden hollows and finding hidden secrets, all in search of a long lost jewel from the past; a pile of Confederate gold that went missing in 1903. They will cross paths with a belligerent Sheriff, an attentive Mayor, an inquisitive librarian, and a menacing mountain man while trying to connect the dots to this age old mystery.
Suspicion, danger, and sheer terror are around every turn and they must be careful! It could cost them much more than just a couple weeks of their summer vacation.
Be careful wishing for big adventures… one may find you!
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Things Grak Hates
Peter J Story
Genre: Humor & Satire | Literary Fiction
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Grak hates things. Lots of things. And with a peculiar intensity too.
Grak’s contempt is so strong, in fact, that it often leaves his fellow tribesmen bewildered. And when attempting to describe his personality, they find themselves in need of words with greater nuance. “Neurotic” is typically used. “Sociopath” and “narcissist” are also common terms. The most popular descriptor, however, is “pathological.”
Grak, on the other hand, sees his situation in a rather different light. He finds his behavior “necessary” and “selfless,” or even “benevolent” when his mood is just so. Most often, though, he simply attributes his nature to “being human.”
But of all the things Grak despises, his antipathy for olives takes precedence. In his efforts to be rid of this nuisance, he gets his first taste of power and ignites a series of events with troubling consequences. Unwilling to give up his newfound influence, he sets about honing his only true talent: manipulation. But as his grip tightens, Grak’s naively selfish exterior crumbles to reveal a dark and malicious evil …
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Condemned To Die (The Death Eater Series Book 1)
Catherine Stovall
Genre: Horror
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Nineteen-year-old Vega Williams is dead by her own hand, and her tormentors still walk the streets. The destroyers of one of the world’s last pure souls even attend her funeral in the guise of grieving loved ones. In fact, her funeral is nothing more than a social engagement to most of Oakdale’s finer society. With their good intentions painted on their faces, they believe that their secrets and hate filled thoughts are safe behind the veneer of propriety.
However, they didn’t count on Zane Allistor’s presence. The young man that no one, not even Vega, could have recognized turns out to be the reaper of the fallen girl’s vengeance. Using his strange ability to read and manipulate minds, he tracks down those guilty for pushing the girl he loves past the point of no return and uses their misdeeds against them. In a bloody twist of fate, two hearts are united when death leads to life.
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The Meaning of Children
Beverly Akerman
Genre: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction
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Award winning short story collection that captures pivotal moments–of childhood, adolescence, parenthood, and beyond–in the under-appreciated world of women. Disparate decades, genders, and narrative voices woven together by themes of sex, death, guilt, social prejudice.
And love, always love.
A girl discovers a fear of heights as her parents’ marriage unravels; a thirty-something venture fund manager frets over his daughter’s paternity; an orphan whose hands kill whatever they touch is accused of homophobia; a suicidal daycare worker has a very bad day; a mother of two can only bear to consider abortion in the second person; the wife of a retirement-aged professor finds him unconscious near his computer. The 14 stories of The Meaning Of Children speak to all who–though aware the world can be a very dark place–can’t help but long for redemption.
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Nelson Telson: The Story of a True Blue Blood
Heidi Mayo
Genre: Children’s eBooks | Science & Math
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A must-read for humans of all ages, this middle grade novel grows up before your very eyes.
Painfully shy and lonely, eleven-year-old Mariah Miller hates being a human; she’d rather be an animal so she wouldn’t have to go to school and deal with mean old Mrs. Tarbox and her nasty cousin, Travis, who has invaded her life.Enchantment abounds when she finds a magic spearhead on the beach that allows her to talk to a wise old horseshoe crab and a host of other animals.Her father becomes seriously ill, and throughout her trials in the real world, she is often surprised by the unpredictable power of the spearhead.As she travels through time and space, and listens to the wisdom of creatures and people, Mariah makes leaps in her own personal growth, discovers the interdependence of all living things, learns how perspective creates reality, and what it really means to be human.
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