The variety pack of gladiola bulbs I bought at Costco seemed to be less of a variety and more just a bunch of red gladiolas for about a month. It wasn’t until last week I finally saw a few blues, pinks, and whites starting to bloom a s well. I was delighted. So when one of the blue spears of blooms fell from its weight, I was quick to grab a stick to prop it back up. It was while I was in the process of propping it up that I was ATTACKED!! You just never know when wildlife will come for you. I froze in place with one hand on the gladiola, and the other on the stick while the beast approached. He came right up to me and looked me straight in the eye. He was a mere two inches from my face. He then turned towards one of the gladiola blooms and went in for the kill. Then he popped out and went into another bloom. He repeated this for three or four blooms while I held the plant up. After the last one he zipped right up to my face, stared me up and down, then moved on to the other gladiolas. I didn’t even notice I was holding my breath the whole time. I let out a big sigh, finished staking the plant and sat down at a safe distance from the humming bird. That little critter isn’t afraid of anything, or anyone. NO FEAR!
The Absolutist
by John Boyne
Genre: Historical Fiction | Literature & Fiction
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A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I.
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.
But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will–from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain.
The Absolutist is a masterful tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in one of the most gruesome trenches of France during World War I. This novel will keep readers on the edge of their seats until its most extraordinary and unexpected conclusion, and will stay with them long after they’ve turned the last page.
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Accidental Soulmates: A Vegas Accidental Marriage Romance (Baby Fever Book 2)
by Nicole Casey
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Romance | Holidays
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That night in Vegas changed my life forever.
As a billionaire, I always get what I want.
That night, I wanted her.
So I took her… tasted her delicious lips and devoured every inch of her.
Before I could claim her again, she was gone.
It was only supposed to be a one-night stand.
No numbers, no names, no strings attached.
Until I received a document called Marriage Certificate.
We were accidentally married.
I was supposed to get the marriage annulled.
This was only a mistake.
But when I saw her again, I instantly fell for her.
And now she’s got something to tell me,
Something that’ll change my world, twice over…
She’s pregnant, and I’m the twins’ Daddy.
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Shadows in the Sand (Empyria Book 1)
by Michael Diack
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Mythology & Folk Tales
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The deathly Sanghouls have escaped from the Empty Province and, from within their golden dunes, they seek to wipe out all life in Empyria. Unaware of this, the last surviving humans continue going about their daily routine in the city of Nimar. But when the city’s water pool stops refilling, the Nimerians are forced to move into lands of myth and legend.
Only when Prince Viro, an elf of the southern lands, arrives in Nimar do the humans truly understand the threat to their existence. The two races must unite and reclaim the lost seven stones of light – the only weapon that can defeat the demonic shadow enclosing them.
As four of the city’s most talented young men and women, Athmane, Faria, Bayoud and Mary will be critical to Nimar enduring the perils, both natural and unnatural, that await them.
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Switched Up (a Sterling Towne cozy mystery Book 1)
by Laina Turner
Genre: Mystery | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Sterling Towne decided to take a last minute vacation to a sunny paradise to cheer herself up after a divorce. When the airline misplaces her luggage, she thinks it’s just a typical airline snafu until she gets her luggage back only to find out it’s not hers. Rather the suitcase belongs to someone who thought it a good idea to transport a gold Buddha statue via commercial airlines.
Sterling turns the statue into hotel security for safe keeping but then her room is ransacked, and she’s sure there was someone following her in town. Does the owner of the statue think she still has it? But if so, why not just ask? She’s getting nervous, and even her new friend Steve thinks she might be in danger.
Is she? Or is her imagination just working over time?
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The Burning Hour
by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
Genre: Literature & Fiction | United States | Westerns
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For fans of John Maclean and Louise Erdrich comes a new novel about the volatility of family, tradition, and public necessity set in the dry desert of Nevada’s Ruby Valley.
The Burning Hour is the story of the Mapps, a fiercely independent Native American family, who fight back as government agencies ignore treaty agreements and try to exert control over their family land. Opposite them is Nick Delgado, a young wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management in search of his place in a world that teeters between alien and achingly familiar. Faced with the driest fire season on record, the Mapps must place their trust in a government less than honorable while Nick struggles with regulations and familial expectations to become the man he needs to be.
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