Each morning I wake up and check on the baby chicks, and I am thrilled to find them still alive. YAY, I am a good chicken mamma! It’s pretty easy to take care of them. I just need to be sure they have food, water , and heat. It’s not rocket science. Although things could happen, so I do not take it for granted that they are doing well. As of right now I am not sure which two I am keeping for myself and which two are going to my friends place, but I think I have come up with two names. My partner in crime came up with the first. Gertrude. I would call her Trudy. I think that is a great name. The other would be Nina. My grandmother was named Nina, but I’m not necessarily naming her after my grandmother. It just seems like a nice name for a sweet chicken.
Fire War
T.T. Michael
Genre: Science Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
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Late in the 21st century, the United Continental States of America (or UCSA), comprising the former USA, Canada and Mexico, is running smoothly: unemployment has been all but eradicated, terrorism is quashed in the country, and internal dissent diminishes by the day. Most people thank President Meyers for this. Many can no longer remember when there was last an election, but as long as he keeps the country safe from the terrorist group Hariq Jihad (‘Fire War’), this seems a small price to pay. Gunnery Sergeant Anthony Jackson is the model Marine: highly trained, absolutely efficient, and unquestioningly dedicated to his country. The only thing he can conceive of putting before his nation is his family, his wife Courtney and two daughters Maya and MacKenzie. Conscripted into the personal security detail of President Meyers, he begins to get glimpses that not everyone is as content with the current situation as he is, but attributes this to terrorist agitation and fringe lunacy. When his older daughter Maya begins to question the creeping erosion of personal liberties and the revoking of democratic rights, however, he begins to fear for her safety, as well as his own and that of his family. In a climate in which entire families disappear due to minor offenses, one can’t be too careful. The tensions between liberty and safety, between family and country, will force Jackson to rethink all his beliefs, and lead to a collision with the system he has dedicated his life to serving. Fire War is a suspenseful, gripping and unnerving examination of the paradoxes of power, the price of liberty, and the dictates of conscience. The world you live in will never look the same again.
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Head Over Heels: A story of love, friendship… and shoes
Sara Downing
Genre: Romance | Humor & Satire
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Thirty-something teacher and professional shopper, Grace, has a passion for shoes. In fact they were responsible for her meeting her partner, Mark, when she speared his foot with one of her dangerously sharp heels whilst running for a train. Mark is the other passion in her life, or so she thinks… When he suggests they try for a baby – but is reluctant to tie the knot on their very long-term engagement – the cracks in her champagne lifestyle start to appear. As Mark becomes ever more controlling, Grace begins to see her blond and sexy boss, Tom, in a different light. A conventionally one-man woman who doesn’t ‘do’ affairs, she suddenly finds herself in the midst of the sort of tangled lifestyle she has only read about in the celeb pages. Throw in the added complications of an untimely pregnancy, a case of mistaken identity and some pretty zany friends and Grace’s life is thrown into turmoil. Retail therapy and even the comfort of her vast shoe collection can’t help her out of this dilemma…
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Planting Dreams: A Swedish Immigrant’s Journey to America (Planting Dreams Series Book 1)
Linda K. Hubalek
Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Religion & Spirituality | Historical Fiction
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Can you imagine starting a journey to an unknown country in 1868, not knowing what the country would be like, where you would live, or how you would survive? Did you make the right decision to leave in the first place? This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson (author Linda Hubalek’s ancestor), as she ponders the decision to leave her homeland, travel to America, and worries about her family’s future in a new country. Each chapter is written as a thought-provoking story as the family travels to a new country to find a new life. Why did this family leave? Drought scorched the farmland of Sweden and there was no harvest to feed families or livestock. Taxes were due and there was little money to pay them. But there were ships sailing to America, where the government gave land to anyone who wanted to claim a homestead. Follow Charlotta and her family as they travel by ship and rail from Sweden, to their homestead on the open plains of Kansas.
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Crypt: a horror short story
Darcy Coates
Genre: Horror
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In 1965, a young child went missing while he and his brother explored a disused cemetery. When his body was found floating in the river three days later, his older brother insisted the death wasn’t an accident. That something dark and deadly lived in the cemetery’s crypt. That it would kill again. More than fifty years later, Sara finds herself facing the gate to the abandoned graveyard, with the story of the dead child ringing in her ears. She’s there with one specific purpose: to uncover the decades-old secrets of the crypt. Crypt is a chilling half-hour story by award-winning horror author Darcy Coates.
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The Gallery of Wonders (Magora Book 1)
Marc Remus
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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When a mysterious fire ravages the town of Donkleywood, causing the death of her beloved grandfather Nickolas, eleven-year-old Holly O’Flanigan, numb with grief, loses all hope of ever becoming a famous artist like him or of escaping her abusive foster family, the Smoralls. While hiding from them, Holly discovers a secret attic where her grandfather left a decidedly unusual paintbrush and a canvas with the image of a fantasy world — one Holly and three friends literally fall into. The painting is a gateway to the parallel world of Magora, where everything and everyone are created by painting. With her three sidekicks in tow, Holly enrolls in the exciting Cliffony Art Academy, where they learn to weave painting with magic, just as Grandfather Nickolas could. Her hopes of becoming a painter and escaping the Smoralls finally seem to be coming true. Meanwhile, valuable artwork is being stolen from the Gallery of Wonders. As these paintings could provide a portal back to the real world, Holly begins a search for the thief. She believes that the dark Duke of Cuspidor might be the culprit and that he has a spy among the instructors of Cliffony. But Holly’s self-doubt keeps her from making any progress in school, and she struggles to learn the brushstrokes she needs so urgently. They not only bring objects, people, and animals to life, they’re also Holly’s best defense against the dangerous Unfinished — monstrous beings created when an artist leaves a painting incomplete. Like vampires, the Unfinished hunger for the one thing that can flesh out their bodies — blood. And because Holly is a Gindar, an artist with the rare ability to create a brand new species, they want Holly’s blood most of all.
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Alice in Wonderland (Illustrated) (Fairy eBooks)
Marie-Michelle Joy
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The story of a little girl who fell down a rabbit hole and found herself in Wonderland continues to delight readers of all ages. Accompanied by the classic illustrations of John Tenniel, it is one of the best loved novels in the children’s literature. Optimized for Kindle Fire HD
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