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I had such a lovely comment yesterday from Anonymous, who wrote:
I very often get free books that you post, you have many that interest me.. and since I've noticed in some of your posts that you are able to collect a small commission if something else is purchased after selecting a book from your site, I figured that when I was browsing amazon tonight for a specific baby carrier.. I'd pop over to your site and go through a link before I made the purchase.. I hope it worked.. It's the least I can do to support a blog that I've come to love:)Anonymous, you brought tears to my eyes! (I imagine for many readers it's hard to imagine a real person behind a blog of lists! of all things, so that might sound really weird--but I assure you it's true.) Thank you so much for being so thoughtful and kind. You really made my day! (And yes it did work. :) :) )
(Side note: I can get statements from Amazon about what items commissions are coming from but I can't tell WHO buys anything--so please don't worry about blowing your cover in any way.)
Lately, there have been more of these helpful purchases than there were before; I don't know if there are more readers feeling similarly to Anonymous above, or whether more people are buying stuff after clicking here just by chance.
If none of this seems explained well enough, please see HERE, where I wrote in greater detail a long time ago about how this works and how you can help if you have gotten helpful things from this blog.
Thank you again, Anonymous, and all the rest of you who are expressing appreciation in this way. I am so grateful!!!
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NONFICTION
General self-sufficiency and survival
How to Hunt Deer Up Close: With Bows, Rifles, Muzzleloaders and Crossbows
Shooting Back - The Right and Duty of Self-Defense
”This church massacre would have claimed even more than the 11 lives and 53 injured recorded that day if not for one man. Armed with just a snub-nosed .38 revolver and crouching behind a pew, he dared shoot back—sending the terrorists running away with him in hot pursuit.
This is the true story of Charl van Wyk and it’s one that anybody who values the right to defend their life, and the lives of others, should know. “
How to Hunt Deer Up Close: With Bows, Rifles, Muzzleloaders and Crossbows
Shooting Back - The Right and Duty of Self-Defense
”This church massacre would have claimed even more than the 11 lives and 53 injured recorded that day if not for one man. Armed with just a snub-nosed .38 revolver and crouching behind a pew, he dared shoot back—sending the terrorists running away with him in hot pursuit.
This is the true story of Charl van Wyk and it’s one that anybody who values the right to defend their life, and the lives of others, should know. “
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
Natural Colors to Dye For - How to use natural dyes from plants and fungi
Container Gardening Designs & Woodworking Plans- Ideas for Organic Gardening & Urban Gardening
Landscaping for Repelling Deer (Specialty Garden Series)
Container Gardening Ideas Plus Vertical Gardening-How to Produce More Organic Vegetables in Less Space
Make Your Own Soap the Easy Way: Your Complete Guide to the Art of Soap Making, Including the supplies, lye, process, homemade tips and soapmaking recipes
Crafty Cans and Perplexing Plastic - The Ultimate Upcycling Guide (Green Crafts)
Growing BBQ Spices in a Garden (Specialty Garden Series)
How To Compost Manure
The Practical Guide to Wwoofing: Volunteering with W.W.O.O.F - 'WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES/ WILLING WORKERS ON ORGANIC FARMS'
Volunteering on organic farms around the world, to learn the skills/life.
So Simple Crochet Hats: Puppy Dog Hat
Home Canning: An Easy To Follow Guide On Preserving Complete With Home Canning And Preserving Recipes
Home Canning Recipes Vol 1 : A Collection Of Water Bath Canning Recipes (30 Home Canning Recipes Using The Water Bath Canning Method)
Gardening Basics (Gardening Basics For Beginners)
Health
Caring for Treasures: Helping Your Parents Through Life and Death
How To Relieve A Tooth Abscess At Home : Nature's Wonder Paste
Natural Colors to Dye For - How to use natural dyes from plants and fungi
Container Gardening Designs & Woodworking Plans- Ideas for Organic Gardening & Urban Gardening
Landscaping for Repelling Deer (Specialty Garden Series)
Container Gardening Ideas Plus Vertical Gardening-How to Produce More Organic Vegetables in Less Space
Make Your Own Soap the Easy Way: Your Complete Guide to the Art of Soap Making, Including the supplies, lye, process, homemade tips and soapmaking recipes
Crafty Cans and Perplexing Plastic - The Ultimate Upcycling Guide (Green Crafts)
Growing BBQ Spices in a Garden (Specialty Garden Series)
How To Compost Manure
The Practical Guide to Wwoofing: Volunteering with W.W.O.O.F - 'WORLD WIDE OPPORTUNITIES/ WILLING WORKERS ON ORGANIC FARMS'
Volunteering on organic farms around the world, to learn the skills/life.
So Simple Crochet Hats: Puppy Dog Hat
Home Canning: An Easy To Follow Guide On Preserving Complete With Home Canning And Preserving Recipes
Home Canning Recipes Vol 1 : A Collection Of Water Bath Canning Recipes (30 Home Canning Recipes Using The Water Bath Canning Method)
Gardening Basics (Gardening Basics For Beginners)
Apparently quite basic.
Health
Caring for Treasures: Helping Your Parents Through Life and Death
How To Relieve A Tooth Abscess At Home : Nature's Wonder Paste
Ideas/Theory
Energised: An Introvert's Guide to Effective Communication
No, Never Alone: "I Promised"
”a book created to challenge America to look into the mirror of their old age, a reality check of what it to come. By changing our behavior today, we may change how our children and grandchildren care for us tomorrow, God's way or Hitler's way! …“
The 21st Century Constitution
“asks two critical questions: is the Constitution, drafted in 1787, a political document appropriate for the 21st century? And, if not, how does the Constitution need to be amended? The net result is the first book to analyze 1787 Constitution clause-by-clause, and to propose over 200 changes to that document appropriate for an Information Age, including previously discussed amendments such as term limitation and public financing amendments, as well as 21st-century amendments not previously considered, such as Citizen-approved National Objectives, a National Database consisting of freely searchable public materials such as government statistics and books, a Federal Academy, a Right to an Education, a National Poll, and many, many other provisions. The new Constitution builds on the central premises recognized by the Framers, and is one that they very well might have crafted had they met in the Philadelphia of 2001, and not 1787.”
Energised: An Introvert's Guide to Effective Communication
No, Never Alone: "I Promised"
”a book created to challenge America to look into the mirror of their old age, a reality check of what it to come. By changing our behavior today, we may change how our children and grandchildren care for us tomorrow, God's way or Hitler's way! …“
The 21st Century Constitution
“asks two critical questions: is the Constitution, drafted in 1787, a political document appropriate for the 21st century? And, if not, how does the Constitution need to be amended? The net result is the first book to analyze 1787 Constitution clause-by-clause, and to propose over 200 changes to that document appropriate for an Information Age, including previously discussed amendments such as term limitation and public financing amendments, as well as 21st-century amendments not previously considered, such as Citizen-approved National Objectives, a National Database consisting of freely searchable public materials such as government statistics and books, a Federal Academy, a Right to an Education, a National Poll, and many, many other provisions. The new Constitution builds on the central premises recognized by the Framers, and is one that they very well might have crafted had they met in the Philadelphia of 2001, and not 1787.”
True Accounts
Echoes Of Communism
“The vignettes are a small glimpse into the universe of a child and a young woman growing up under communism and the pained, tumultuous transition of a young adult to life in a free, capitalist American society.”
Sharecropper's Son
“What seems on it's face an autobiographical account of self-proclaimed "Old Fogey" Bert Hayes' childhood experiences growing up as the eleventh of twelve children born to a poor sharecropping family in the Georgia piedmont is simply a pretext for what is actually an eloquently presented blueprint of the powerful philosophy that not only saw that poor sharecropper from the red clay hills of Georgia to the sands of Middle East and eventually as Professor Emeritus of Humanities and History at Athens State University, but also saw his entire generation through the tribulations of the Great Depression forward through the Second World War. In an age where our country seems to be desperately trying to find itself, lost in the "new" philosophy of "It's not my fault," Sharecropper's Son is a clear call to action for the present generation to learn from the mistakes of the past and avert the coming disastrous consequences of the new "blame society." Every voting age person in America should read this book. “
Dying To Live
“My true account of growing up on a storybook farm, experiencing a killer tornado, surviving teenage confusion, an adventurous four-year ride on a submarine, a skydive, not maturing into your regular adult, discovering the world is not a bowl of cherries, a crash to the bottom, and, finally, accepting that the only person responsible for me, is me.” I have listed this book again below because after the author’s autobiographical story is his short story about a pandemic.
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America
Between Heidi and Horror: A Brief Memoir of the Somme
The Hidden Legacy of World War II
Author “weaves life with her paratrooper father into the larger narrative of World War II and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation. The book describes the seldom told story of how the war trauma of World War II impacted one family. This personal story is combined with the author’s thorough research and investigation of the reality for those World War II veterans who could not forget the horrors of war. This nonfiction work fills in the missing pieces of the commonly accepted societal view of World War II veterans as stoic and unwavering, a true but incomplete portrait of that generation of warrior.”
Kidnapping the Generals: The South's Most-Daring Raid Against the Union Army
Turning Points - The Life of a WWII Milne Bay Gunner
Emigrating Home
““Hassan! Don’t tune into Berlin when we’ve got guests! The moment war breaks out you’ll come under suspicion as a spy for Germany. We should all be interned.” “I am not a spy for anybody.” It is 1938. The world is heading towards the Munich crisis and World War II. Hassan, who had obtained his medical degree in Germany, goes home to Egypt. His wife Jeanne and his five and two-year-old sons, Yasseen and Yazeed, remain in Jamaica, a British colony at the time.”
Here are six excerpted chapter from the full-length CAN'T GIVE THIS WAR AWAY: THREE IRAQI SUMMERS OF CHANGE AND CONFLICT. It doesn’t appear the entire book is available at the moment.) The chapter numbers are given just before the title.
2. Can't Give This War Away: An Idea as Good as Any
3. Can't Give This War Away: Forty Minutes at a Gas Station
4. Can't Give this War Away: A Close Call, For Luck
5. Can't Give This War Away: Tarmiyah
8. Can't Give This War Away: Just Like Old Times
9. Can't Give This War Away: The End of the Affair
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FICTION
Echoes Of Communism
“The vignettes are a small glimpse into the universe of a child and a young woman growing up under communism and the pained, tumultuous transition of a young adult to life in a free, capitalist American society.”
Sharecropper's Son
“What seems on it's face an autobiographical account of self-proclaimed "Old Fogey" Bert Hayes' childhood experiences growing up as the eleventh of twelve children born to a poor sharecropping family in the Georgia piedmont is simply a pretext for what is actually an eloquently presented blueprint of the powerful philosophy that not only saw that poor sharecropper from the red clay hills of Georgia to the sands of Middle East and eventually as Professor Emeritus of Humanities and History at Athens State University, but also saw his entire generation through the tribulations of the Great Depression forward through the Second World War. In an age where our country seems to be desperately trying to find itself, lost in the "new" philosophy of "It's not my fault," Sharecropper's Son is a clear call to action for the present generation to learn from the mistakes of the past and avert the coming disastrous consequences of the new "blame society." Every voting age person in America should read this book. “
Dying To Live
“My true account of growing up on a storybook farm, experiencing a killer tornado, surviving teenage confusion, an adventurous four-year ride on a submarine, a skydive, not maturing into your regular adult, discovering the world is not a bowl of cherries, a crash to the bottom, and, finally, accepting that the only person responsible for me, is me.” I have listed this book again below because after the author’s autobiographical story is his short story about a pandemic.
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America
Between Heidi and Horror: A Brief Memoir of the Somme
The Hidden Legacy of World War II
Author “weaves life with her paratrooper father into the larger narrative of World War II and the homecoming of the Greatest Generation. The book describes the seldom told story of how the war trauma of World War II impacted one family. This personal story is combined with the author’s thorough research and investigation of the reality for those World War II veterans who could not forget the horrors of war. This nonfiction work fills in the missing pieces of the commonly accepted societal view of World War II veterans as stoic and unwavering, a true but incomplete portrait of that generation of warrior.”
Kidnapping the Generals: The South's Most-Daring Raid Against the Union Army
Turning Points - The Life of a WWII Milne Bay Gunner
Emigrating Home
““Hassan! Don’t tune into Berlin when we’ve got guests! The moment war breaks out you’ll come under suspicion as a spy for Germany. We should all be interned.” “I am not a spy for anybody.” It is 1938. The world is heading towards the Munich crisis and World War II. Hassan, who had obtained his medical degree in Germany, goes home to Egypt. His wife Jeanne and his five and two-year-old sons, Yasseen and Yazeed, remain in Jamaica, a British colony at the time.”
Here are six excerpted chapter from the full-length CAN'T GIVE THIS WAR AWAY: THREE IRAQI SUMMERS OF CHANGE AND CONFLICT. It doesn’t appear the entire book is available at the moment.) The chapter numbers are given just before the title.
2. Can't Give This War Away: An Idea as Good as Any
3. Can't Give This War Away: Forty Minutes at a Gas Station
4. Can't Give this War Away: A Close Call, For Luck
5. Can't Give This War Away: Tarmiyah
8. Can't Give This War Away: Just Like Old Times
9. Can't Give This War Away: The End of the Affair
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FICTION
Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship
BITTERSWEET FREEDOM IN A FAR LAND: Book One of the Tuckaseegee Chronicles
“Set in the American colonies in 1750, this is a tale of discovery, acceptance, war, love, and cultural awareness. A realistic historical piece, this novel is fraught with danger and heartbreak, but buoyed by romance and the hope for survival into future generations. A meticulously researched, exhaustive look at the uneasy coexistence of early settlers and native populations, the novel fully immerses the reader in a foreign world. Historical fiction buffs especially will want to know what happens to the MacNeills and the Cherokees in the next installment. The prose is flawless and the characters are robust and believable. Impressive.” Review from Publishers Weekly.
Empire Found
“Book Three in the Empire Series of … historical dramas. Life is hard and brutal on the convict ships, as through all weathers, the First Fleet battles its way to Terra Australis Incognita, the unknown land of the South. In chains onboard the convict transport Alexander are Jack Woolf and Henry Howe who have been sentenced to transportation for life to New South Wales. Escape is impossible... or is it?”
Midwife : Liza
“LIZA is the first book in the MIDWIFE series, which tells the story of midwives, women and childbirth in England from medieval to modern times. “
Why Aren't You Sweet Like Me?
“A young couple, Camille "Honey" Shaughnessy and Don Shepard fall in love on the eve of World War II. As America enters the war, and Don is pressured into the service by his father, the two newlyweds struggle to maintain contact. Don becomes a hero, saving the lives of his comrades, but will he make it home alive? …a novel based on the actual love letters exchanged between the author's grandparents.”
Hope in Hungnam
“Hope in Hungnam takes place during the darkest days of the Korean War in 1950: from the brutal Battle of Chosin Reservoir to the stunning Christmas Eve evacuation of 100,000 civilians from Hungnam, North Korea. As the flames of war engulf the Korean Peninsula, US Marine Jack Stiles desperately searches for meaning in the frozen killing fields of North Korea. Bloodied by war and bigotry, Stiles' world is changed forever when he is critically wounded at Chosin Reservoir and left for dead. Nursed back to health by a mortal foe, he soon faces the realities of war, life, and love with new clarity.“
Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jacob Walden?
“Cold War Mystery about Air Force Captain Jacob Walden shot down over Vietnam in 1970 and the untold story of why he never returned home. “
Wings of Angels
Woman pilot WWII.
WAFFEN
From review: “Mark, the young German man who we follow from childhood to his eventual return after the end of the war, is a well-developed character who I felt I knew well. As with most youths, he feels very isolated when all his friends joined the Hitler Youth, yet his father prohibits him from doing so. When he was taken to the "traitor camp," he was persecuted for the beliefs of his father, a stern and stubborn Catholic farmer who opposed Hitler and the war. Mark, who only wants to love Marie and go about his future as a farmer, feels like an outcast. Later, shortly after he graduates from school and is inducted into the army, we watch his transformation from an eager young volunteer of the SS Waffen, filled with the romance of war, to a scared and damaged veteran for whom the war had become terrifyingly personal. This is not a long book, and it moves along at a good pace, making it an easy yet engaging read.”
Rags, Bones and Donkey Stones
“Returning home from France in April 1919, scarred both mentally and physically, Liam Murphy looked forward to rebuilding his life. But so much had now changed. His wife, Bridget, was doing the household repairs; his son was sitting in his Dad’s chair; jobs that the men had left when they enlisted were now taken by women; and Liam’s trade as a carter was rapidly being taken over by the motorised trucks…. a novel peopled with rich characters that gives a humorous yet poignant insight into the struggle to rebuild Britain after the devastating losses of World War 1.”
Light Over Water
“Life in Little Cove is safe, familiar and sedate, until events an ocean away draw Sam Eliot and Alison Granger into a tightening spiral of tragedy, failure and betrayal. In April 1917 the United States enters the war in Europe. Sam and Alison are affected by the disintegration of their safe world as Sam enlists, only to experience a personal … an influenza epidemic sweeps the globe and nobody emerges undamaged. Can faith survive in the darkness of a world at war and unspeakable loss?”
The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II
“Would you like to thank a soldier and help a military family? Read on! The Last Jump is a war story, a mystery, a love tale, and a tribute to the people who won World War II. Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers. The reader is transported back in time to an imperfect America, with all is incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings, struggling with racial and gender issues while fighting for its very survival. It was a time when Americans stood shoulder to shoulder to free the world from tyranny. It celebrates the spirit and courage of ordinary citizens pitted against the militaristic regimes of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It was a time when the sons of presidents and senators served, fought, suffered and died alongside average Americans and famous celebrities.” See link for more.
Operation Claymore
“confidential retelling of an untold commando mission into Norway during World War 2 - Operation Claymore.”
BITTERSWEET FREEDOM IN A FAR LAND: Book One of the Tuckaseegee Chronicles
“Set in the American colonies in 1750, this is a tale of discovery, acceptance, war, love, and cultural awareness. A realistic historical piece, this novel is fraught with danger and heartbreak, but buoyed by romance and the hope for survival into future generations. A meticulously researched, exhaustive look at the uneasy coexistence of early settlers and native populations, the novel fully immerses the reader in a foreign world. Historical fiction buffs especially will want to know what happens to the MacNeills and the Cherokees in the next installment. The prose is flawless and the characters are robust and believable. Impressive.” Review from Publishers Weekly.
Empire Found
“Book Three in the Empire Series of … historical dramas. Life is hard and brutal on the convict ships, as through all weathers, the First Fleet battles its way to Terra Australis Incognita, the unknown land of the South. In chains onboard the convict transport Alexander are Jack Woolf and Henry Howe who have been sentenced to transportation for life to New South Wales. Escape is impossible... or is it?”
Midwife : Liza
“LIZA is the first book in the MIDWIFE series, which tells the story of midwives, women and childbirth in England from medieval to modern times. “
Why Aren't You Sweet Like Me?
“A young couple, Camille "Honey" Shaughnessy and Don Shepard fall in love on the eve of World War II. As America enters the war, and Don is pressured into the service by his father, the two newlyweds struggle to maintain contact. Don becomes a hero, saving the lives of his comrades, but will he make it home alive? …a novel based on the actual love letters exchanged between the author's grandparents.”
Hope in Hungnam
“Hope in Hungnam takes place during the darkest days of the Korean War in 1950: from the brutal Battle of Chosin Reservoir to the stunning Christmas Eve evacuation of 100,000 civilians from Hungnam, North Korea. As the flames of war engulf the Korean Peninsula, US Marine Jack Stiles desperately searches for meaning in the frozen killing fields of North Korea. Bloodied by war and bigotry, Stiles' world is changed forever when he is critically wounded at Chosin Reservoir and left for dead. Nursed back to health by a mortal foe, he soon faces the realities of war, life, and love with new clarity.“
Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jacob Walden?
“Cold War Mystery about Air Force Captain Jacob Walden shot down over Vietnam in 1970 and the untold story of why he never returned home. “
Wings of Angels
Woman pilot WWII.
WAFFEN
From review: “Mark, the young German man who we follow from childhood to his eventual return after the end of the war, is a well-developed character who I felt I knew well. As with most youths, he feels very isolated when all his friends joined the Hitler Youth, yet his father prohibits him from doing so. When he was taken to the "traitor camp," he was persecuted for the beliefs of his father, a stern and stubborn Catholic farmer who opposed Hitler and the war. Mark, who only wants to love Marie and go about his future as a farmer, feels like an outcast. Later, shortly after he graduates from school and is inducted into the army, we watch his transformation from an eager young volunteer of the SS Waffen, filled with the romance of war, to a scared and damaged veteran for whom the war had become terrifyingly personal. This is not a long book, and it moves along at a good pace, making it an easy yet engaging read.”
Rags, Bones and Donkey Stones
“Returning home from France in April 1919, scarred both mentally and physically, Liam Murphy looked forward to rebuilding his life. But so much had now changed. His wife, Bridget, was doing the household repairs; his son was sitting in his Dad’s chair; jobs that the men had left when they enlisted were now taken by women; and Liam’s trade as a carter was rapidly being taken over by the motorised trucks…. a novel peopled with rich characters that gives a humorous yet poignant insight into the struggle to rebuild Britain after the devastating losses of World War 1.”
Light Over Water
“Life in Little Cove is safe, familiar and sedate, until events an ocean away draw Sam Eliot and Alison Granger into a tightening spiral of tragedy, failure and betrayal. In April 1917 the United States enters the war in Europe. Sam and Alison are affected by the disintegration of their safe world as Sam enlists, only to experience a personal … an influenza epidemic sweeps the globe and nobody emerges undamaged. Can faith survive in the darkness of a world at war and unspeakable loss?”
The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II
“Would you like to thank a soldier and help a military family? Read on! The Last Jump is a war story, a mystery, a love tale, and a tribute to the people who won World War II. Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers. The reader is transported back in time to an imperfect America, with all is incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings, struggling with racial and gender issues while fighting for its very survival. It was a time when Americans stood shoulder to shoulder to free the world from tyranny. It celebrates the spirit and courage of ordinary citizens pitted against the militaristic regimes of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It was a time when the sons of presidents and senators served, fought, suffered and died alongside average Americans and famous celebrities.” See link for more.
Operation Claymore
“confidential retelling of an untold commando mission into Norway during World War 2 - Operation Claymore.”
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
Tipping Point: Action-Adventure Thriller
“With news just out that Arctic sea ice appears to have broken the 2007 record daily extent and is now the lowest in the satellite era according to NSIDC, Kindle thriller TIPPING POINT couldn't be timelier...Get carried along on a rip-roaring action-adventure thriller that will take you on a fast-paced journey from Wales, London and Paris to San Francisco and the freezing wilderness of the Arctic... “
Countdown to Jihad
Great reviews.
Lesson One: Revolution!
http://frugallysustainable.com/2012/11/frugal-days-sustainable-ways-52/; http://whitewolfsummitfarmgirl.blogspot.ca/2012/11/the-country-homemaker-hop-45.html
Tipping Point: Action-Adventure Thriller
“With news just out that Arctic sea ice appears to have broken the 2007 record daily extent and is now the lowest in the satellite era according to NSIDC, Kindle thriller TIPPING POINT couldn't be timelier...Get carried along on a rip-roaring action-adventure thriller that will take you on a fast-paced journey from Wales, London and Paris to San Francisco and the freezing wilderness of the Arctic... “
Countdown to Jihad
Great reviews.
Lesson One: Revolution!
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
Dying To Live
Includes “short fiction ‘Waiting to Die:’ a tale of today and the coming, feared, pandemic.” This books was listed above also in the True Accounts section because part of it is that too.
2060: On The Run (A Future Noir Thriller)
“In the overcrowded, noisy and sweltering streets of New York, in the year 2060, paranoia, fear and poverty are everywhere. An energy crisis paved the way for a new political party, which promised to solve the country’s problem. However, this administration quickly began enforcing dictatorial legislation that left anyone who opposed the government outcast from society; unable to get a job, cut off from the power and forced to survive on the streets. Unsurprisingly, this led to riots and the, eventual, emergence of underground rebel factions. It’s the job of a task force, known as PeaceKeepers to bring these rebels to justice. Heller was one of the first recruited to the new department, but what he’d once idealistically seen as a worthy cause, becomes a bitter pill to swallow..“
The Emergence
“For 11-year-old…Derek Choate, his world changes when he discovers a mysterious haze rising from the forest outside of his small hometown in the rural Midwest. At first, the haze is treated as a curiosity, but soon it spreads, eventually obscuring the land across every continent and absorbing all surface water on the planet. As society breaks down from this unrelenting natural disaster, Derek and his family try to survive even as an opportunistic cult takes up residence in the town church. … How long can Derek last on his own as he tries to navigate the hardships and hazards that await in the haze?”
This Machine Kills
“In the all-too-near future, Britain has been turned into a number of gated cities run by the all-powerful ClearSkies Corporation. Whilst those inside the cities lead a gifted existence where a responsible civilian’s most important duty is to spend, the people left in the crumbling Old-Towns desperately cling to life. It is in one of these dilapidated areas that Taylor, a security officer with a troubled past, patrols the streets with his trigger-happy team. Their task is to make sure the hungry people that mass on its edges do not infiltrate Hope City. Taylor’s job is soon to be made significantly easier by the fifty-foot-high concrete wall being built around the city’s perimeter. Once the wall is complete, the inhabitants of Hope City will be permanently free of their starving neighbours. Taylor’s plan to quit his job is threatened when he is given information about The Shepherd, a revolutionary who may just have the power to bring down the rulers of Hope City. Not since anarchist punk rocker Billy Nothing led the ill-fated Uprisings a decade before, have ClearSkies’ powers been challenged in this way. When events take a deadly turn, Taylor is forced into a brutal fight with the city he has sworn to defend. “
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Dying To Live
Includes “short fiction ‘Waiting to Die:’ a tale of today and the coming, feared, pandemic.” This books was listed above also in the True Accounts section because part of it is that too.
2060: On The Run (A Future Noir Thriller)
“In the overcrowded, noisy and sweltering streets of New York, in the year 2060, paranoia, fear and poverty are everywhere. An energy crisis paved the way for a new political party, which promised to solve the country’s problem. However, this administration quickly began enforcing dictatorial legislation that left anyone who opposed the government outcast from society; unable to get a job, cut off from the power and forced to survive on the streets. Unsurprisingly, this led to riots and the, eventual, emergence of underground rebel factions. It’s the job of a task force, known as PeaceKeepers to bring these rebels to justice. Heller was one of the first recruited to the new department, but what he’d once idealistically seen as a worthy cause, becomes a bitter pill to swallow..“
The Emergence
“For 11-year-old…Derek Choate, his world changes when he discovers a mysterious haze rising from the forest outside of his small hometown in the rural Midwest. At first, the haze is treated as a curiosity, but soon it spreads, eventually obscuring the land across every continent and absorbing all surface water on the planet. As society breaks down from this unrelenting natural disaster, Derek and his family try to survive even as an opportunistic cult takes up residence in the town church. … How long can Derek last on his own as he tries to navigate the hardships and hazards that await in the haze?”
This Machine Kills
“In the all-too-near future, Britain has been turned into a number of gated cities run by the all-powerful ClearSkies Corporation. Whilst those inside the cities lead a gifted existence where a responsible civilian’s most important duty is to spend, the people left in the crumbling Old-Towns desperately cling to life. It is in one of these dilapidated areas that Taylor, a security officer with a troubled past, patrols the streets with his trigger-happy team. Their task is to make sure the hungry people that mass on its edges do not infiltrate Hope City. Taylor’s job is soon to be made significantly easier by the fifty-foot-high concrete wall being built around the city’s perimeter. Once the wall is complete, the inhabitants of Hope City will be permanently free of their starving neighbours. Taylor’s plan to quit his job is threatened when he is given information about The Shepherd, a revolutionary who may just have the power to bring down the rulers of Hope City. Not since anarchist punk rocker Billy Nothing led the ill-fated Uprisings a decade before, have ClearSkies’ powers been challenged in this way. When events take a deadly turn, Taylor is forced into a brutal fight with the city he has sworn to defend. “
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http://frugallysustainable.com/2012/11/frugal-days-sustainable-ways-52/; http://whitewolfsummitfarmgirl.blogspot.ca/2012/11/the-country-homemaker-hop-45.html
Thanks for the listings...found some that looked very interesting! Blessings!
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DeleteThanks so much for sharing all your hard work on Waste Not Want Not Wednesday! I've pinned this and hope to see you back next week :)
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