My oldest basset just came up to me, grabbed both my shoulders, looked me straight in the eyes, and very seriously told me I needed to finish decorating the house for Christmas. Whoa! He is very very concerned about this. Mind you, I have every room in this house decorated. Well… not my bedroom. I need some escape from the holiday craziness, but the rest of the house is screaming holiday cheer. He went on to list the exact decorations that I hadn’t put up yet, which seems to be about another three hours worth of work. I thought I was done (whimpering a bit inside)! I cant let him down though. He loves the Christmas season and all it’s magic and by golly I want to keep it that way as long as possible. I have only had one cup of coffee so far, and I am using that to write this post, which I was almost going to be late on because I was getting hooked on a Hallmark Original Movie this morning. It was Operation Christmas… love it! I ripped myself away from it and it is currently taping. I will use my second cup of coffee to finish decorating. The noon post will just have to be a hot cocoa with marshmallows.
Taking Flight
by Adrian Magnuson
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Family Life | Literary Fiction
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Jeremy Walsh’s parents assume he’s been abducted by the elderly man he met on a cross-country flight, but it’s the other way around.
Two unlikely companions meet in midair: 13-year-old Jeremy, sent against his will by his career-absorbed father to spend the summer with his bipolar mother, and Harry, one-legged and afflicted with mid-stage Alzheimer’s, who escapes the confinement of home for what may be his last adventure. Their journey begins, trailed by Harry’s wife and Jeremy’s parents, who threaten to cut it short. It’s a race against time and circumstance.
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EMP
by Wilson Harp
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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In a flash of searing light, the world changed. A massive solar flare has crippled the modern world and brought chaos and destruction. David Hartsman is stuck in the remote farm town of his youth on what was expected to be a short visit to check on his ailing parents. While his wife and his daughter are hundreds of miles away at home in Chicago, David must face the dangers associated with his own survival and the pressures of not being with his family. In a worldwide catastrophe, every struggle is personal.
EMP is the dramatic story of one man and his struggle for survival in a world that is falling apart.
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Fat Chance
by R.J. Leahy
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Humor & Satire | Mystery
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Sean McDermott is a private detective in New York City, it says so right on his business card. It’s an ok job, but it isn’t as exciting as most people think, and that’s fine by him. He makes it a rule not to get involved in active police cases or in any case where people are likely to get hurt–especially him. So why does the mob suddenly want him dead? Sure it’s all a mistake, but dead from a mistake is still dead.
Taking advice from his friend, the Juke, he starts on a cross country drive to LA (what can I tell you, he has a few phobias, and flying is just one of them), where he figures he’ll be safe and makes it as far as Mystic Falls, New Mexico before the borrowed Mercedes conks out. Mystic Falls? Think Green Acres–without the sophistication.
It should have been easy. All he had to do was lie low and wait for the car to be fixed. A good plan too, if only the local “character” hadn’t turned up missing with him fingered as the prime suspect. Now if he ever wants to get out of this sleepy desert asylum before the mob finds him, he’s going to have to find her. Simple? Fat chance.
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Amish Knitting Circle Christmas: Granny & Jeb’s Love Story
by Karen Anna Vogel
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Religious & Inspirational Fiction
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Granny Weaver started a knitting circle believing women are stronger spun together, just like her wool. But she was young once with her own struggles. In 1963 Deborah Byler is twenty-one and has turned down seven marriage proposals from hopeful suitors in Millersburg, Ohio. At her parent’s request, she goes to live with relatives in the new Amish settlement in Smicksburg, Pennsylvania, praying she’ll find a match. Jeb Weaver lives in a strict Swartzentruber Amish settlement, and he can no longer abide under the rules of the Ordnung. His older brother left the family farm and settled in Smicksburg, and convinces Jeb to do the same. When Jeb meets Deborah, he finds her too liberal and outspoken. Deborah thinks Jeb’s judgmental and a complete stick in the mud. Their constant clashing makes sparks fly. Will an African American man, who hitchhikes around the country to attend Martin Luther King Jr. marches, help Jeb and Deborah see their own prejudices?
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Constant Vigilance
by Will Stevenson
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences
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This story chronicles the development of “Constant Vigilance” in an ordinary guy who by happenstance finds himself in the cross hairs of powerful forces determined to control and prevent the spread of information that may harm their interest. The circumstances he stumbles into threaten his safety and his way of life. His path to understanding tests his beliefs and relationships.
The concept of Constant Vigilance has more relevance today than at any time in the history of the United States or in the history of Mankind. Not only do we need to guard our liberty from the abuse of the power and authority that we have granted to our government, we also need to guard against the abuse of power garnered by multinational corporations.
The story examines events from the past and interprets these events in a light that leads to the conclusion that the future of mankind is under threat. In the final analysis, the road less traveled may be the only option left.
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