I have mentioned before that I absolutely love infomercials, and easily get sucked into them. This is the main reason why I avoid them like the plague. Unfortunately garden shows can have the same affect on me, and when one of them mentions a plant that a bee would like, the car keys are in my hand before they cut to a commercial break. On yesterday’s show they had mentioned a plant that blooms in the winter and is a delightful feast for bees. I grabbed my mother in law and off to the hardware store we went in search of the plant called the Helleborus. Surprise surprise, they actually had a few. That never happens. I never find the exact plant I want. It was fate! I was meant to buy this plant today. Hubby can’t argue with that. We also checked out the clearance section and found a bunch of dollar plants that would add much needed color and pep to an otherwise kinda drab backyard. Oh look at that! Frost in my future! I will never learn.
Shelter From The Storm: A Hard-Boiled New Orleans Legal Thriller (Tubby Dubonnet Mystery #4) (The Tubby Dubonnet Series)
by Tony Dunbar
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Genre: Thrillers | Crime Fiction
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The FOURTH sly adventure in the Tubby Dubonnet Series, Tony Dunbar’s witty yet hard-boiled foodie-noir mysteries.
WATER WATER EVERYWHERE… ALSO CRIME
To out-of-town kingpin Willie LaRue, Mardi Gras seems the perfect time for a New Orleans heist – nobody, but nobody will be thinking about a single other thing. Parties, parades, chaos, alcohol – who could be concerned about a little thing like a bank job? Indeed, all might have gone well except for an out-of-season frog-flogger that threatens to flood the French Quarter – something even Hurricane Katrina couldn’t do.
Next thing you know the survivors – thieves and revelers alike – find themselves marooned together. As the LaRue gang plans its watery escape, raffish lawyer Tubby Dubonnet is obliged to take time out from his customary eating and loafing to thwart their murderous intentions. The body count rises as the tempest subsides, and Tubby finds himself fighting not only for his life, but (it seems to him) the very city itself.
A wry, compelling tale of The City That Care Forgot.
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Tilt (Upside Down Book 1)
by Todd Simpson
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Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Ayaka is quite sure that she has created the first true artificial life. But that life is very strange. Very. When a ship full of similar entities arrives in orbit, all of her assumptions are challenged. How could these lifeforms be in outer space, when she had just created them in her lab? What are their intentions, and are they really intelligent enough to challenge the citizens of Tilt?
Tilt explores artificial life from a new angle, and challenges our assumptions of what intelligence really is.
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Oliver and Eleanor: Only one season for Love
by Vasyl Malyi
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Genre: Literature & Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Literary Fiction | Drama & Plays
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Oliver and Eleanor: Only One Season for Love is story about a homeless man who decided to end his life through suicide, unable to bear his life on the streets any longer. After his failed suicide attempt, he went to get out from the rain, escaping unnoticed into an airport. There, he found the grand piano right in the middle of a large hall. He was playing it for the last time, when he met a wonderful, beautiful girl named Eleanor – who turned out to be blind. After hearing the melody about his life, she literally decided to help him and took him to Milan where she was to have a concert. As it turned out later, Eleanor was a talented and world-famous violin player touring the world. Oliver got a chance for a new life. However, he had a secret that he couldn’t reveal to Eleanor, who had just started to trust him. The secret would later come to the surface, telling a story that would explain how such a talented man ended up on the streets, leading such a wretched life.
Oliver and Eleanor: Only One Season for Love is a novel whose idea came to the author’s mind when he was going to work one grey rainy day. On his way, he was listening to classical instrumental music. There was a moment when one melody finished and another one started. In the beginning, it seemed very simple and boring, just like the weather and his surroundings that day. But then, he clearly saw a picture of a lonely, homeless man on the verge of death, who was playing his unheard-of music for the last time in his life, expressing all the pain that he’s carried through his life, all within just a few seconds. At one point, when the pianist seemed to be finishing and that his life would end with the last note, the author wanted to change the track to something lighter, something that would cause depression and feeling how tragic life was like. But then all of a sudden, at the very end, a violin gently and harmoniously flows into the melody, changing not only the melody itself but everything around. The pianist, who had been sitting alone at the piano in a grey closed room where no sunlight could creep in, suddenly started to see the sun coming up, shining on him and wrapping him in its warm embrace. It was the violin that quietly and carefully broke into his nearly finished melody. It came and changed everything from the melody to the feelings the pianist was experiencing. The two melodies fused into one, as if it was one complete piece of music, although it hadn’t seemed so from the start. The grand piano had sounded so complete, yet the violin was able to join in harmoniously in the middle of the piece. That’s how the idea for Oliver was born.
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The Knights of the Spring Dream: An Archaeological Thriller: The Relics of the Deathless Souls, part 2
by Tom Hunter
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Genre: Literature & Fiction | Men’s Adventure | Action & Adventure
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Part 2
An ancient relic holds the key to cataclysmic power, and world domination. The race is on to see who gets it first.
Samuel McCarthy, lead archeologist of a six-person team, must find it first, to keep it out of the hands of the deadly, unstoppable Bruard dynasty.
Senior Bruard soldier, Pin Nam-Gi, continues to track the team after nearly burying them alive. His vicious determination to get to the ancient papal cap is relentless. Stopping him seems a distant fantasy.
The Knights of the Spring Dream, a secret order shrouded in the desert sands, protects the ancient relics of St. Augustine. They are Samuel’s only option. He must seek out Fatima, the head of the Order, and gain her assistance before the ruthless enemy can reach her.
Will Samuel get there first, or will the power of the Bruard prove once and for all that might makes right?
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Marie Antoinette: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History Book 5)
by Hourly History
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Genre: History | Biographies & Memoirs
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Marie Antoinette
Her name was Marie Antoinette. She was the last queen of France and among the most notorious of royalty ever to wear the crown. But besides the tales that would make the national enquirer blush, just what do we know about Marie Antoinette? While the peasants of France were starving for lack of bread did she really say, “Let them eat cake!”? Or was it all a carefully crafted smear campaign?
Inside you will read about…
Groomed to Become Queen
The Failed Wedding Night
Madame Deficit
The Roots of Revolution
Under the Protection of Lafayette
The Last French King and Queen
And much more!
Animosity against Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born woman that many French citizens viewed as a transplanted upstart, had been brewing for several years. But was there any truth to their claims of the queen squandering resources and neglecting the lives of her subjects? In this book we seek to cut through centuries of bias and preconceived notions when it comes to Marie Antoinette. Never mind what you may think you know about this sensational sovereign, here we seek to find the real person behind the historical quips and catchphrases. Come along as we rediscover the life and legend of the ill-fated last queen of France — Marie Antoinette.
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