I have been absolutely obsessed with a preying mantis that is living right by my front door. Normally I see them in the yard and can admire them and move on with my life. Not this time. This little mantis spends her days on the steps by my front door. I am so worried about her getting squished by a delivery driver or by any one of us coming and going. I have tried moving her out of the way, but she always makes it back to the center of the step. Maybe she is waiting for an Amazon package. I don’t want to move her too far from her territory since we are at the end of her season, and I really want her to lay and egg. Today I am going to make a sign warning for everyone to watch out for her. Hopefully that will make me feel a little less on edge.
A Corpse for Christmas (The Izzy Palmer Mysteries Book 5)
by Benedict Brown
Genre: Mystery | Literature & Fiction
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Snowy mountains, a picture-perfect Christmas village and… Wait! Who’s that dead among the pine trees?
Hired to protect a mysterious client on a festive family holiday in the Scottish Highlands, private detective Izzy Palmer poses as a nanny to investigate a string of threatening letters. To solve the case she’ll have to deal with a pack of feuding aristocrats and uncover the truth about a decades’ old rivalry, all while caring for a distractingly adorable baby girl. It’s enough to make even the most dogged detective despair.
When the exclusive winter resort is snowed in, tempers flare and a fake Father Christmas turns up dead in the snow. With a lord, an admiral, a professor and a celebrated artist among the suspects, Izzy will need the help of her eccentric sidekick (turned undercover chef) and a makeshift princess to find the killer and stop her white Christmas turning red…
“A Corpse for Christmas” is a classic, Agatha-Christie-style murder mystery with humour, intrigue and a little bit of ‘Home Alone’ thrown in for good measure. As a standalone novel in the Izzy Palmer Mystery series, you don’t need to have read any of the previous books to enjoy this delicious but hilariously deadly Christmas tale. If you love whodunits featuring outrageous characters, Machiavellian suspects, baked goods, warring relatives and genuine, Christmassy warmth, then this is the book for you.
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Like A Feral Dog: A Short Story (Tait Gonzales: The Prophetess Book 1)
by Reed Blitzerman
Genre: Horror | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Psychic Tait Gonzales is broke and starving when her friend, Manny, calls from the county lockup.
She tells him to get a lawyer. “I can only work with the dead.”
That’s perfect. Because the only person who can exonerate him is lying on a slab in the morgue.
To find the truth, she’ll have to dig like a feral dog.
A fresh story of paranormal suspense, for fans of Dean Rasmussen, Wendy Wang, Darcy Coates or J.R. Erickson. A dark twist on TV’s Ghost Whisperer and Medium series.
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Charleston Green: A Novel (Tipsy Collins Series Book 1)
by Stephanie Alexander
Genre: United States
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2021 Annie McDonnell Memorial Literary Award Finalist
2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist for Paranormal Division
2020 Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize Quarter Finalist for Fiction
2020 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Silver Medalist for Paranormal Fiction
“I am always on the lookout for exciting new writers, and once I started reading Charleston Green by Stephanie Alexander, I was captivated. This novel leaves the reader entranced; the writing is skillful and clever and funny. I highly recommend this book.” — New York Times Bestselling Author Elin Hilderbrand
“With humor, heart and a heaping helping of Southern Charm, Charleston Green brings an entirely new meaning to the term ‘unwanted house guests.’ Tipsy is a lovable, flawed, complex heroine that readers will root for from the first page to the last — and pitch-perfect storytelling will leave fans begging for a sequel. This is Stephanie Alexander at her best!” — USA Today Bestselling Author of Feels Like Falling, Kristy Woodson Harvey
If Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it’s that everyone in Charleston is a little crazy — even if they’re already dead.
Tipsy, a gifted artist, cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she’s always avoided dead people. When Tipsy and her three children move into the house on Bennett Street, she realizes some ghosts won’t be ignored.
Till death do us part didn’t pan out for Jane and Henry Mott, who’ve haunted the house for nearly a century. Tipsy’s marriage was downright felicitous when compared to Jane and Henry’s ill-fated union. Jane believes Henry killed her and then himself, and Henry vehemently denies both accusations. Unfortunately, neither phantom remembers that afternoon in 1923. Tipsy doesn’t know whether to side with Jane, who seems to be hiding something under her southern belle charm, or Henry, a mercurial creative genius. Jane and Henry draw Tipsy into their conundrum, and she uncovers secrets long concealed under layers of good manners, broken promises and soupy Lowcountry air. Living with ghosts, however, takes a toll on her health, and possibly even her sanity. As she struggles to forge a new path for herself and her children, Tipsy has a chance to set Jane and Henry free, and release the ghosts of her own past.
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The Void War (Empire Rising Book 1)
by D. J. Holmes, Tom Edwards
Genre: Science Fiction
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It’s the year 2465, two hundred years since the stars were opened to humanity by the invention of the shift drive. So began the First Interstellar Expansion Era, catapulting humanity into a deadly race for the limited resources of navigable space.
Now tensions between the human nations are threatening to boil over into open hostility. Into this maelstrom steps the exiled Commander James Somerville of the Royal Space Navy. Banished from London to the survey ship HMS Drake he is about to make a discovery that may change his fortunes and throw Britain into a deadly war with its closest rival.
The Void War is a military science fiction novel and first book by new author D. J. Holmes
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Peaches & Paprika, Calico Cats of Distinction: Our First Year in Connecticut
by Carol Lowbeer
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home | Foreign Languages
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Peaches and Paprika, two stunning tiger-calico sisters use photo cartoons to tell their amusing, poignant tale of surviving three New York shelters, a narrow death row escape, and the use of flirtation and charm to help them secure a permanent home in Connecticut. Peaches poses artfully for shelter photographers in order to captivate human “adopters” who search for a pet cat on the internet, while Paprika, her shyer sister, stays in the background but plalys “second fiddle” artfully. Once secure together in their “forever” Connecticut, Peaches develops into a little “diva” while Paprika engages in more acrobatic activities such as walking on the tops of doors. You will chuckle and recognize many pets you have known when you read their heartwarming story, told in photo cartoons.
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Peace Dreamer: A Journey of Hope in Bad Times and Good
by Cheryl Melody Baskin
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting | Religion & Spirituality
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Discovering and healing new parts of yourself are part of life’s journey and honors the saying, “peace begins with me.” Peace Dreamer embodies heart-centered inspirational wisdom and down-to-earth life coaching techniques for achieving more moments of inner peace, happiness, self-care, and renewed hope for yourself and for the world.
“Cheryl Melody Baskin is one of the most evolved souls in our world and her loving way of relating to the reader will bathe you with endless possibilities and nourish your soul.” Barbara Gaughen-Muller, President – United Nations Association, Santa Barbara, California; Co-founder/President – Rotary eClub of World Peace.
Feed your inner spirit with hope, happiness, love, dreams, idealism and optimism even as you struggle with everyday challenges.
Peace Dreamer provides you with the solid tools and inspiration to never give up on yourself or the world, no matter how messy life becomes.
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