I watched a movie last night on Netflix that I mistook for a kids movie. It had a giant pig and a little girl in it. What could go wrong? I gathered the whole family on the couch and settled in for a pleasant family movie night! It was about five minutes in when the first F bomb hit. OOPS!!! RUN AWAY CHILDREN! RUN AWAY!!! I scooted my baby bassets out so quickly I am sure they felt the wind beneath their feet. I was already hooked on the movie so I had to watch it by myself. I think it will be a long while before I will recover from that movie. It was brilliant and well made, but not what I had expected. I paid the price as I usually do… nightmares. This morning I had to watch a few kid’s cartoons to get over the bad dreams. I might need to spend some quiet time in the garden to help with recovery.
Eat, Pray, Die (An Eat, Pray, Die Humorous Mystery Book 1)
by Chelsea Field
Genre: Mystery | Humor & Satire | Romance
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She used to make coffee.
Now she’s making sure her high-profile clients don’t keel over and die at the dinner table.
A natural career progression, right?
Lucky Izzy is smart, adaptable, and never fantasizes about running home to curl up with her housemate’s cat.
Or so she’s trying to convince the client who could make or break her new career as an undercover poison taster. He’s competent, condescending, and annoyingly attractive, and Izzy doesn’t know whether to sleep with him or poison him herself.
Throw in a loan shark, a secret society, and a soon-to-be-dead girl, and Izzy will have her work cut out for her.
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Village Books
by Craig McLay
Genre: Humor & Satire | Literary Fiction
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*** Winner of the 2012 eFestival of Words award for best literary fiction! ***
Village Books is a local institution… which is good, because most of the staff probably belong in one.
The manager’s addiction to WebMD has turned him into a closeted hypochondriac. The cashier’s husband may have just gone AWOL with a small arsenal of fragmentary explosive devices. The fiction lead is buying urine on the black market. Trying to hold it all together is the store’s long-suffering assistant manager, who is spinning his wheels in retail while he waits for something better to come along.
That something better may be Leah Dashwood, an aspiring actress and new assistant manager with an ambitious plan to transform the store and its staff in a way that will turn their carefully disordered world on its head. Will the store survive or will it be bought over by its evil corporate competition?
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Refusing Excalibur
by Zachary Jones
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The First Civilization collapsed without cause and without warning a thousand years ago, leaving behind a galaxy at war as would-be galactic empires attempt to rebuild the First Civilization in their own image.
Victor Selan fought one of those empires and lost. Abandoned after the defeat of his homeworld, Victor is rescued by the Old Man, an enigmatic figure in possession of a fully operational First Civilization starship.
A starship that the Old Man wants Victor to command. All he has to do in return is agree to put a broken galaxy back together.
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Bitter’s Run: An Oregon Trail Adventure
by Rod Collins
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Following Lee’s surrender of the Army of Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Captain John Bitter of Abiqua Creek, Oregon musters out of the 40th Missouri. A loner, Bitter plans a quick ride home over the Oregon Trail. The good Lord, however, has other plans for him.
After a month on the Trail, two gun battles, a bruising fistfight to settle a blood feud, a new wife, and two adopted sons, Bitter tells Rockford, his big, mean, black horse, “This sure complicates the business of getting back to Oregon.”
Bitter now finds himself the leader of a mixed entourage going west: a black pioneer family earlier wagon trains shunned; an Irish rebel turned galvanized Yankee; a dispossessed Cherokee turned Cheyenne medicine man; the rescued sister of a Bannock chief; a white boy adopted by the Cheyenne; and a scout for the Union Army who is also one of the richest men in Oregon.
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there is no goat
by Jennifer Dunham, Michael Gladstone
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | History
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A comical, disturbing and engaging look into the Pashtun-Afghan culture, written by a female veteran of the U.S. Army.
Tasked with leading a team in support of U.S. Army Counterintelligence, Jennifer Dunham spent fourteen months in Eastern Afghanistan. Charged with conducting in-depth interviews of local men applying for jobs on a U.S. military base, she gained a unique insight into their culture, perceptions and ways of thinking. Through the course of interviewing over 500 Pashtun-Afghan men, Jennifer witnessed the heartbreak of war, the still-apparent control of the Taliban and effects of decades-long oppression on the local population. “There is no goat” provides revelations about the Pashtun-Afghan culture like no other book. The personal stories present the reader with an understanding of the day-to-day challenges and dangers many Afghans face. The book explores the Afghans’ views on crucial topics including politics, corruption, the role of Afghan women and Osama bin Laden. The first-hand accounts contained within the pages of “there is no goat” present exclusive visions into the minds of Afghan men.
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