So…many…rocks. I spent the whole weekend moving rocks from point A to Point B to point C. One rock at a time. My front yard project is my biggest task yet. I might have bitten off more than I can chew, but I won’t let that stop me. I had asked a few landscapers how much it would cost for them to do the job of taking out the lawn, putting in a dry riverbed, and planting lots of bee and butterfly loving plants. The price was just too high for the ambitious plan I had in mind. I kept being told I had to settle for less. My dumb brain said I can do it myself then. I started with having a few guys take the lawn out and haul it off. The next step, being the dry riverbed, was my task to complete. I would need rocks…lots of rocks. Well, I lucked out incredibly. One friend had a pile of river rock they didn’t want from when they first bought their house, and another friend lived on a hill that had plenty of boulders. All I needed to do was picked them up. So I grabbed my bucket and went to work. One day to gather the rocks, and one day to place them. Today I feel it.
Archangel Down: Archangel Project. Book One
by C. Gockel
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.
Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea… but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.
Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.
A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions–and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:
The archangel is down.
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A Letter From America
by Geraldine O’Neill
Genre: Historical Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Literary Fiction
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It is the late 60’s in Tullamore, County Offaly, and life is full of exciting possibilities for Fiona Tracey, as she prepares to leave Ireland to work for a wealthy family in New York.
Fiona’s parents have the local shop and bar, and her younger sisters are already leading independent lives. Bridget is at a convent school preparing to be a nun and Angela has led a life of her own since she was hospitalised up in Dublin for years with childhood polio.
Then, sudden tragedy forces Fiona to postpone her departure for New York. As her mother sinks into illness and depression, her responsibilities mount. When help is offered by her aunt and cousin, Fiona is mystified by her mother’s animosity towards them.
As summer approaches, an American architect, Michael O’Sullivan, takes a room above the bar. Within a short time Fiona finds herself involved in an unexpected and passionate affair.
Then, as a surprising incident threatens Bridget’s vocation, Angela uncovers information which explodes old family secrets.
Before Fiona can embark on an independent life again, perhaps in New York, she must find a new understanding of her family – and of herself.
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Dead Lawyer on Aisle 11 (Michael Gresham Legal Thrillers Book 7)
by John Ellsworth
Genre: Thrillers | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Crime Fiction
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SOMEONE IS KILLING OFF LAWYERS IN THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
Michael Gresham is assigned to prosecuting the case against the at-large killer. When Michael’s team has tried everything else to find the killer, they turn to twelve-year old Annie Gresham to create a criminal profile. Annie, the savant daughter of Michael Gresham, gathers together all the known evidence and begins mining the data. The killer moves closer and closer to the investigators. Now everyone is a potential target, especially those who are getting the closest to making an arrest. Annie creates a shocking profile of the killer, leaving the FBI agents skeptical of Michael Gresham. The noose slips around Michael and he struggles to arrest the killer before the FBI turns on him.
Michael is put on administrative leave. He retains Joy Heavens to come to his defense. Help comes from an unexpected source when Marcel Rainford returns from his work at Interpol and joins Michael’s team.
In a shocking twist, the true identity of the killer becomes known–too late, for the jury meets and returns with its verdict. Marcel pulls out all the stops to obtain enough evidence to require a new trial. Video is purchased from an unexpected source and brought to court.
One day remains to file for a new trial and complete Michael’s struggle to be free. Will the judge buy the shocking truth? Or is Michael’s jail cell now his long-term home?
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The Willows (Unabridged): Horror Classic from one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories and early modern supernatural tales
by Algernon Blackwood
Genre: Horror
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The Willows is one of Blackwood’s best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment — river, sun, wind — and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows, which “moved of their own will as though alive, and they touched, by some incalculable method, my own keen sense of the horrible.” – Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. After managing to land their canoe for the evening, during the night and into the next day and night, the mysterious, hostile forces emerge in force, including large, dark shapes that seem to trace the consciousness of the two men…
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre.
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Taxing Courtship (The Hands of Destin Book 1)
by Jaycee Jarvis
Genre: Romance
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In a sultry magical realm, an enchanting Lady ensnares a virtuous tax-collector into her dangerous double life.
Lady by day, lockpick by night, Em has some serious misgivings about her latest sneak job. It stinks of espionage, and she’d be more comfortable with straightforward theft. Her intuition proves right when she is confronted by her client, a sweet and sexy mind-reading tax-collector named Quintin. The job turns sour when they are discovered by his blackmailing boss. Posing as lovers to throw off the scent, their passionate embrace haunts Em even as she returns to her brittle facade as a pampered Lady of the Realm.
This double life is further threatened when her criminal contact is thrown in the stocks, leaving her in danger of exposure, and even worse, with no way to support the temple that has been her responsibility since her mother’s death. In desperation, she seeks Quintin out and is horrified to discover he is a Hand of Destin, marked for service to the Troika by a feline familiar. Hands are loyal and true, defenders of the weak, upholders of the law, notoriously honor-bound. In short, everything that she, a willing outlaw, is not.
Despite their differences, the attraction between Em and Quintin only grows stronger, even as she seeks out new ways to earn the beans she needs for her temple. When Em’s father starts talking marriage settlements with a wealthy, but odious, suitor, Em realizes just how much Quintin means to her. But can she find a way to save her temple and still marry her poor but perfect tax collector?
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