Scientist are studying the emotions of insects. Turns out that there is “mounting evidence that insects can experience a remarkable range of feelings.” While I have always been a friend to most insects, some I have not. I am starting to feel super guilty right now. Fruit flies usually don’t get a warm welcome from me. It would seem like they are able to watch their buddies and learn from them as well. Remember when the Pixar movie, “A Bug’s Life,” came out and we saw bugs with hopes, dreams, and ambition. IT WAS REAL!!! I am a pesticide free gardener, but I don’t always watch where I step. I think I will stay out of the garden today. Give the bugs a break. I just need a moment to process all of this.
THE BODY IN THE TRANSEPT a cozy murder mystery full of twists (Dorothy Martin Mysteries Book 1)
by JEANNE M. DAMS
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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AN ENCHANTING COZY MURDER MYSTERY FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel.
It’s Christmas Eve in the small town of Sherebury. Dorothy Martin, a recently widowed American, is having her first Christmas in England.
But as she leaves the cathedral’s midnight mass, she literally stumbles over a dead body — and it’s one of the priests, Canon Billings.
He wasn’t very popular and the list of suspects includes most of the town. But Dorothy doesn’t give up easily when it comes to finding out the truth.
Of course, she does get to meet Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, and a good mystery on a chilly English night does have some appeal.
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Little Boy Lost: A Story of Hope and Redemption, Set Amidst the Backdrop of a Mother’s Suicide
by David Peters
Genre: Parenting & Relationships
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Little Boy Lost – the true story of one boy’s heartache and hope while coming of age in small-town Tennessee in the 1970s.
As the youngest of three sons and a bona fide momma’s boy, David Peters thinks that having a mother who spends months at a time in psychiatric hospitals is normal. Then on St. Patrick’s Day 1974, his world shatters when she commits suicide.
At the age of 13, he’s left struggling to make sense of his mother’s death while facing a host of new challenges: the father who has lost his business and checked out of society, the stepmother who despises him and his brothers, and watching his family slide from middle class comfort to living on food stamps.
Ultimately, he finds healing, thanks to the assortment of “surrogate” parents who take him in, his buddies, and baseball and basketball.
Through it all, David discovers that even in life’s darkest moments, if you look hard enough for the light, eventually the sun will rise again.
By sharing his story, David Peters hopes that Little Boy Lost will help readers gain an understanding of how to find hope and healing after family trauma from mental illness and suicide.
A powerful, heartwarming story of resilience in the face of terrible tragedy, Little Boy Lost is perfect for fans of memoirs like The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls or A Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes.
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Between Jobs (The City Between Book 1)
by W.R. Gingell
Genre: Fantasy | Suspense
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When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered bloke hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you’re squatting in your parents’ old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can’t afford is the attention of the cops.
Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet. It’s not my real name, but it’s the only one you’re getting. Things like names are important these days.
And it’s not so much that I’m Pet. I am a pet. A human pet: I belong to the two Behindkind fae and the pouty vampire who just moved into my house. It’s not weird, I promise — well, it is weird, yeah. But it’s not weird weird, you know?
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The Nice Guy and the Devil (Cain Book 2)
by Tom Trott
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Nice, France — Retired CIA agent, Cain, is living a quiet life, trying to stay out of trouble.
But he can’t turn off his old instincts like a lightswitch.
When an unsuspecting American woman becomes the target of criminals, he can’t sit back and do nothing.
What starts as one good deed puts Cain in the sights of highly-trained mercenaries, brings him to the attention of INTERPOL, and puts him on a collision course with evil personified.
With no one he can trust, in a land of double-crosses, Cain must rely on his wits to survive.
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Be My Pumpkin (Farmers’ Market Sisters Book 5)
by Elysia Strife
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Sienna has always been the farm’s marketing specialist. But when the pumpkin patch opens for the season, attendance is unexpectedly low. Joel Kirsch is only supposed to be there installing a security system, but he wants to help. Autumn is his favorite season.
Together, they plan a last-minute fall festival to bring in extra customers. It takes a lot of work to get the word out online and schedule events for the weekend. If the festival flops, Sienna worries about what it will cost the farm and if she’ll be stuck with truckloads of pumpkins in the fields.
But Joel has a secret plan to boost Sienna’s sales. He hopes she isn’t upset when she finds out what he worked out without her input.
Will Sienna forgive Joel for the strings he pulls and see the truth behind his actions? And will the festival be a winner or a frost-laden disaster?
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The Sorrowful Girl (Liam Barrett Gilded Age Novels Book 1)
by Keenan Powell
Genre: Historical Fiction
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She dreamt of seeing the world.
But someone stole her life.
When Deirdre Monaghan is found murdered near a rich man’s estate, police officer Liam Barrett is pressured to make a quick arrest. But he wants justice. As Liam fights to bring Deirdre’s killer to justice, he uncovers a sinister plot. He must choose between his pacifist conviction and his duty to protect his town.
Part social history, part adventure, part murder mystery, part family saga, THE SORROWFUL GIRL is a pacy and absorbing tale of rough men and flinty women carving out their lives despite sectarianism, injustice and corruption. The hurtle towards the final showdown is irresistible. CATRIONA McPHERSON, multi-award-winning author of In Place of Fear
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