For the life of me I can not figure out Iggy. Every time I go to shut the coop up for the night she comes bolting out of the nest box, down the ramp in an almost comical fashion that looks like she is going to face-plant it right to the ground, and rushes to the door. It’s like she is in a panic. She stops right at the door and hunkers down. GEEZ! Take your time Iggy, I can wait the few extra seconds if you really want a pet and a hug. She gets both each time. I would understand it more if I was giving her a treat and that’s why she comes rushing out, but all I ever give her is a pet and a hug. She clucks sweetly and I gently push her back into the pen. You can’t help but feel good when a chicken loves you.
Lines of Thunder: The First Days on the Front (Lines of Thunder Universe)
Walter Blaire
(5 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction
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He’s the only sane soldier on the eternal front… it’s enough to drive him mad.
Gole Naremsa is a raw recruit, new to the trenches of the eternal front. Despite a lifetime of training and a genetic inheritance that makes him a born warrior, it’s not what he expects. Gole is tossed out of the troop train and into the real war. He’s surrounded by other soldiers just like him, all of them twitchy, impulsive, and deadly. Over the generations their genetic twisting has gone off the rails and turned into the Pollution. Now it howls in their blood for mayhem and violence, and it offers the worst advice. The enemy wants to kill him — that’s to be expected. The Pollution wants to fight everyone in sight — business as usual. The problem is that Gole’s own sergeant wants him dead too. One blindly thrown punch, one minor accident with a noisy corpse, and now he’s an example for all the other recruits. As one of the old-timers says: “A fresh, dumb replacement can give service exceeding his value if you plink him at the right time, in front of the right audience. The Pollution sits up and takes notice, if you follow my meaning.” It’s shaping up to be a race between who will kill Gole first: the increasingly dangerous enemy or his own unit. At least the enemy isn’t rude about it. Gole needs to stop inventing new ways to get in trouble. He needs to navigate his sanity-challenged unit and understand the harsh world of the eternal front. He needs to do this soon, because the enemy has a big trick up its sleeve, and only Gole seems to see it coming…
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Last Boat To Camden Town (The Christy Kennedy Mysteries Book 1)
Paul Charles
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Genre: Mystery
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Naturally enough it was murder that brought them together…
The body of Doctor Edmund Godfrey Berry is discovered at the bottom of Regent’s Canal, in the heart of Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy’s patch of Camden Town. Did Dr Berry jump, or was he pushed? And does his death have anything to do with the mysterious demise of teacher, and one of Berry’s former patients, Susanne Collins? It soon transpires that beneath the surface of comfortable respectability, there lurks a secret more terrible than even Kennedy could imagine. Last Boat To Camden Town combines Whodunnit?, Howdunnit? And Love Story and Paul Charles’ trademark unique-method-of-murder to produce a detective story with a difference.
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A Highlander for Christmas
Jamie Carie
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Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Romance | Religion & Spirituality
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A Christmas Novella: Lady Juliet Lindsay has made a colossal mistake. In the face of her parents’ rejection she realizes that a single stolen kiss could cost her everything. Sent to her aunt and uncle’s home in Scotland, she finds something in the rugged highland beauty that steals her heart… and a highland man, who seems her other half. Iain MacLeon, chieftain of the clan MacLeon, has one thing on his mind in a time where politics are like a tempest brewing — sheep. He loves his people and his land but he didn’t know he also needed a woman to share the load. And then he sees her… the flame-haired Englishwoman who steals his heart and holds it hostage against all his beliefs and all he holds dear. But how will he persuade his clan to love her as he does?
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The Old Men
John Isaac Jones
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Action & Adventure
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For years, the old men had been hanging around the country grocery store whiling away their days playing checkers and dominoes and talking about politics, women, drinking and life experiences. All that time, the store owner readily approved their presence in the store and went on about his business as if they were not there. Then, one fateful morning in 1956, a new owner bought business who was not quite as tolerant. The narrator of this story, an unnamed thirteen-year-old, was the son of the new owner and explains how his father dealt with the old men who hung around the store.
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The Ol-Kai people : A story from the land of the six peoples
Jesse Hutson
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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In 1966 a newly independent Guyana had successfully upended two hundred years of British government, thus leaving the country in the deep throes of political turmoil. The Ol-Kai people: A story from the land of the six peoples is author Jesse Hutson’s powerful novel that reimagines those tumultuous times, as seen through the eyes of Billu Latchman, an East Indian teacher and newspaper editor who must navigate a new world thrown into abject disorder, as it strives to evolve from a slave plantation society to a modern state. Startling and raw, this evocative novel offers a rare vantage into an exotic land as it clashes with contemporary culture. At twenty-four years old, Billu Latchman is a young man swept up in perilous times. Having no parents, his Aunt Emily and his ailing grandmother are all that he can claim as family. What’s more, the new independent republic under the rule of a recently appointed President does not bode well for Billu and his people. The regime is comprised of Afro-Guyanese, a people who have long fostered tensions with Billu’s East Indian community, the largest group in this “land of six peoples.” When, in his newspaper, Billu offends an important person in the new British Guiana, Billu finds he has no recourse but to go into hiding to save himself and his relatives, first taking up with Pastor Jim Jones and visiting the remote settlement of Jonestown near Venezuela. There Billu and his friend William gain an intimate understanding of the infamous Jonestown, its inhabitants, and the charismatic Pastor Jim Jones, with followers of the People’s Temple describing their lives before and after they came to the settlement. Grappling with his homeland, Billu eventually seeks refuge in Copenhagen, where he lives with Auntie Madge and forges a new life, falling in love with a local woman named Eva. However, he finds himself ultimately drawn back to Guyana and the quest for the fabled city of El Dorado, leaving behind the life he built in Europe for the call of home. Along the way, Billu suffers the slings of a deeply discordant country, as well as the solace of women who take him in and minister to his spiritual wounds. Exploring an irreparably damaged nation and the forever foreign soils of Europe, The Ol-Kai people offers a glimpse of a Guyana long gone and the people left reeling from its utter change.
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