Normally when I look outside and see rain I have visions of staying inside snuggled on the couch staying dry. Unfortunately for hubby, the rain is not stopping me from making plans in the garden. Plans that include him. When he hears my high pitched voice call him, “BUBBEEE??? You know what would be fun?” By fun, of course, I mean both of us out in the rain doing some heavy lifting. I do have a list of inside To Do’s that I need done, and I am sure giving him the option of doing inside work, as opposed to outside work, inside would win. The harder the rain the higher the chance of that light switch that broke a week ago would get fixed. Now don’t think I am being manipulative. I tell him exactly what I am thinking all the time (poor guy), so he knows full well exactly what I am going to say before I even think it. That’s what 17 years together can do.
From Garden To Grave (The Leafy Hollow Mysteries Book 1)
by Rickie Blair
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Murder. It’s a perennial problem.
Verity Hawkes is a shut-in. After two years bunkered in her apartment, the only thing that gets her out is the disappearance of her beloved but eccentric aunt. As she takes over her aunt’s landscaping shop, she’ll need to go from hoarder to horticulturist in a hurry…
Her new home of Leafy Hollow is quaint, except for her most obnoxious client. When a series of freak accidents kills the customer, all signs point to Verity as the killer.
The hunt for answers is on, and Verity must question a tipsy carpenter, a bacon-peddling vegan restaurateur, and her dreamy landscaping competitor to keep her new life afloat. Failure to find the truth could put her back in a confined space for much more than two years…
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Contact Us: A Jake Corby Sci-Fi Thriller (Jake Corby Series Book 1)
by Al Macy
Genre: Science Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Humor & Satire
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On May 22, 2018, every person on Earth sneezes. Simultaneously.
Hours later, an alien spacecraft appears over New York City and broadcasts a dire message of impending doom. The future of the human race will depend on the whims of a solitary extraterrestrial who appears in the form of Walter Cronkite. Yes, that’s right, Walter Cronkite, the deceased news anchor!
Ex-FBI troubleshooter Jake Corby has faked his death and dropped out of sight, living like a hermit in a small town. But the president is convinced Corby’s still alive. He wants Jake, with his unique problem-solving skills, added to the team that will try to defeat the strange but powerful alien. Jake needs to overcome his introvert tendencies if he’s going to help save the planet.
The alien has some nasty surprises for the residents of Earth, and the race is on to figure out his true motives and the meaning of the sneeze event–before it’s too late.
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Rum and Raindrops: A Blueberry Springs Sweet Romance
by Jean Oram
Genre: Romance | Literature & Fiction | Contemporary Fiction
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One nature guide. One accidental forest fire. And one steamy investigator hot on her tail.
Life would be easy for Jen Kulak if she hadn’t just burned down the forest she depends upon for her business’s wilderness adventures. It would be even easier if she hadn’t accidentally fallen head over heels for the fire investigator tracking her every move.
When the pressure on Jen heats up will she run like she has in the past? Or will she find the strength to fight the accusations that could cost her everything, including her own happily ever after?
Find out in this small town contemporary sweet romance, the second standalone book in the Blueberry Springs series. Warning: This book will cause you to laugh out loud. Please proceed with caution when reading in public.
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The Vigilante Terrorists
by Joe Messerli
Genre: Thrillers | Political
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Two Navy SEALs, a physician, a police officer, a science teacher, two computer programmers, and their U.S. Marine leader. All of them once had distinguished careers but now have one thing in common — their lives were shattered by the media and Deep State forces. Now they’re fighting back in deadly fashion. Their list of targets is specific and well chosen. They train and prepare, not leaving anything to chance. They combine their experience and expertise to form one of the most powerful domestic terrorist groups the world has ever seen, waiting for the perfect time to launch their war, a new American Revolution.
Meanwhile, a third-party presidential candidate, Brent Martinez, has taken the nation by storm and is a serious threat to break the two-party stranglehold of power in America, but Democratic and Republican forces are mobilizing behind the scenes to fight back, forming a temporary alliance to bring down the newcomer before he can shake the system to its core and change the foundations of the American political system forever. They plan an elaborate, well-financed character assassination smear campaign using their allies in the media, Big Tech, Hollywood, and political propaganda organizations.
As the presidential election nears, what will happen when the perpetrators of the Martinez smear campaign are themselves targeted for a different kind of assassination?
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Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree
by Mary Ellen Sanger
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Mary Ellen Sanger had made her life in Mexico for 17 years when she suddenly found herself in prison in Oaxaca, Mexico, arrested on invented charges. She spent 33 days in Ixcotel State Prison in the fall of 2003.
These stories of the women she met there, illuminate her biggest surprise and her only consolation in prison: the solidarity that formed among the women she lived, ate, swept and passed long days with while inside.
Nine lyrical tales show the depth of emotions that insist on their own space, even in these harshest of circumstances.
The largest and brawniest woman in the prison, doing time for armed robbery, kills a rat with her foot, then turns to the author for help with a very special letter.
Another young woman, only nineteen years old, has already been in for three years, guilty of kidnapping her own child.
And Ana, a political prisoner, teaches the author about creative ways to turn the tide, one including frog-eating snakes.
Mary Ellen weaves her own tale through the stories. Accused of a crime that doesn’t exist by a powerful man in Mexico, she depends on the fierce solidarity of friends on the outside, and a brilliant lawyer who trusts in the rule of law… even in Mexico.
The women incarcerated in Ixcotel State Prison said that the blackbirds chattered in the lone pomegranate tree in the courtyard whenever a woman was about to be released.
They are chattering now.
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Excerpt from introduction by Elena Poniatowska:
Mary Ellen’s hands blister, but she never shows her wounds. Nor does she show her resulting callouses. She assembles in the courtyard and joins the circle of women who at first reject her for her blond hair and her blue eyes. She shares pistachios with them, and when she innocently tells them that she likes to write poetry but the words won’t come here in the pen, Concha sends her a lifeline:
“Don’t worry, blondie, someday you’ll write the good stuff again.” …
“Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree” is a life lesson. If they were to throw me in jail, I would carry it with me to read each night, as some read the Bible or the Gospels. In its pages I would find strength and faith in humankind, and I would know that to believe in “the others” is a path to salvation.
I suppose and believe that I am not wrong in saying that for Mary Ellen, Mexico is a woman who one day, will find herself.
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