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(Some of the books below may still be available. I haven't checked specifically. Most are usually 1 or 2 days but sometimes they are free longer.)
NOTE TO READERS OUTSIDE THE USA
Yesterday I wrote that Amazon introduced some changes to international websites and it seems to have messed some things up. This seems to still be the case. I was hoping it would be fixed now and I hope this is not the new "normal!"
Many books show up free in the USA but not to Canada, and possibly not to other countries. These are the books with the ***. They should all be free within the US. Readers from other countries please check the prices of all the books listed today (in case I missed any asterisks by accident.) Thanks.
Editor's Pick:
***So We Bought the Farm
NONFICTION
General self-sufficiency and survival
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Weekend Homesteader: September
“Twelve months to self-sufficiency! This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise. The September volume includes the following projects: • Eat seasonally • Can tomatoes • Bring your chickens home • Experience voluntary simplicity The second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.”
3 Scabbards Anyone Can Make
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Weekend Homesteader: September
“Twelve months to self-sufficiency! This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise. The September volume includes the following projects: • Eat seasonally • Can tomatoes • Bring your chickens home • Experience voluntary simplicity The second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.”
3 Scabbards Anyone Can Make
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
Ask Jackie: Water bath canning
This was listed yesterday but is recommended and so I wanted to make sure those who didn’t check yesterday still saw it today. “This volume answers questions entirely about water bath canning. Here, Jackie shares jam, jelly, and preserves recipes including pear-vanilla jam and ginger-quince jam, and provides an overview of proper pickling. She also gives step-by-step instructions for canning fruit, as well as tips for sugar-free canning.” From Backwoods Home Magazine; Jackie is a columnist there.
Brewing Beer: Problems (Troubleshooting Your Home Brew)
Vegetable Gardening 101
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How to Grow Beans and Peas: Planting and Growing Organic Green Beans, Sugar Snap Peas, and Heirloom Dry Beans and Peas
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Your Family Legacy - How to Create a Cherished Family Gift
”How to collect those unforgettable family memories for your own Family Legacy How to conduct an interview with the person whose memories you are intending to publish How to organise and format the material for publication (step-by-step instructions) How to create an eye-catching book cover How to upload your formatted material for publication How to make money self-publishing books to Amazon and Amazon Kindle and what type of books to write for maximum profits. You Will Also Discover: How to create a unique book to use for fundraising efforts How to publish your own novels, poetry, family recipes, children's books etc. How to create a unique gift book for a child, a 21st birthday gift, an anniversary gift etc, using family photographs. How to turn your new-found knowledge into a Profitable HomeBased Business”
Easy Angel Wing Dress: Crochet Pattern for Baby Girls
Ask Jackie: Water bath canning
This was listed yesterday but is recommended and so I wanted to make sure those who didn’t check yesterday still saw it today. “This volume answers questions entirely about water bath canning. Here, Jackie shares jam, jelly, and preserves recipes including pear-vanilla jam and ginger-quince jam, and provides an overview of proper pickling. She also gives step-by-step instructions for canning fruit, as well as tips for sugar-free canning.” From Backwoods Home Magazine; Jackie is a columnist there.
Brewing Beer: Problems (Troubleshooting Your Home Brew)
Vegetable Gardening 101
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How to Grow Beans and Peas: Planting and Growing Organic Green Beans, Sugar Snap Peas, and Heirloom Dry Beans and Peas
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Your Family Legacy - How to Create a Cherished Family Gift
”How to collect those unforgettable family memories for your own Family Legacy How to conduct an interview with the person whose memories you are intending to publish How to organise and format the material for publication (step-by-step instructions) How to create an eye-catching book cover How to upload your formatted material for publication How to make money self-publishing books to Amazon and Amazon Kindle and what type of books to write for maximum profits. You Will Also Discover: How to create a unique book to use for fundraising efforts How to publish your own novels, poetry, family recipes, children's books etc. How to create a unique gift book for a child, a 21st birthday gift, an anniversary gift etc, using family photographs. How to turn your new-found knowledge into a Profitable HomeBased Business”
Easy Angel Wing Dress: Crochet Pattern for Baby Girls
Health
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Where Would You Like Your Nipple? “A survivor's guide to navigating the breast cancer abyss with humor and hope.”
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Where Would You Like Your Nipple? “A survivor's guide to navigating the breast cancer abyss with humor and hope.”
Ideas/Theory
The Art Of Instant Rapport: How To Build Instant Rapport With New Friends, Romantic Interests, And Coworkers
• “How to start and hold a conversation with anyone • How your body language is crucial when building rapport • How to display open and welcoming body language • How to create vocal rapport • The rapport cycle and how to build rapport each step of the way • Techniques that allow you to never run of things to say • Steps and techniques to help you improve your rapport building skills • How to build rapport with socially awkward or tough communicators“
The Art Of Instant Rapport: How To Build Instant Rapport With New Friends, Romantic Interests, And Coworkers
• “How to start and hold a conversation with anyone • How your body language is crucial when building rapport • How to display open and welcoming body language • How to create vocal rapport • The rapport cycle and how to build rapport each step of the way • Techniques that allow you to never run of things to say • Steps and techniques to help you improve your rapport building skills • How to build rapport with socially awkward or tough communicators“
True Accounts
The Mousetrap
“winner of the 2003 San Diego Book Award for an Unpublished Memoir -- she tells the harrowing true story of her experiences as a young Bohemian woman in the years after the Second World War ended. She tells of the understandable brutality with which she and her family and friends were treated after the Germans lost the war. She also tells the story of a mother-daughter relationship that, because of the terrible times in which they lived, threatened to kill them both.”
"We Were Never Beggars" (One-Act Plays)
“Ireland, December 1849. The Great Irish Potato Famine has forced three mothers to seek the refuge of the Workhouse. The Workhouse, built to house 800, is catering for 5,000 refugees from starvation and has run out of money. Mary McMahon enters and gives an account of her attendance at the inquest of her son, Brian. She learns how her husband and four surviving children have fared in the Workhouse and makes plans to tell her story. This One-Act Play is based on a true incident in Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland, in December 1849. The distress is the area was documented in The Illustrated London News and the account of the inquest comes from Gleanings in the West of Ireland by Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne “
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So We Bought the Farm
"When Steve Riddle moved his family to the country, he never planned on starting a farm. Raised a military brat accustomed to the nomadic life, he never dreamed about putting down roots and raising animals. Most of all, he never imagined he'd write a book about it. In this collection of anecdotes about raising sheep, goats, cattle, and chickens, Mr. Riddle is a storyteller in the classic sense. He takes readers on a frank, personal, and rollicking ride through the challenges, missteps, and disasters he has faced as a beginning farmer. Hold on to your hat and suspend your disbelief, because these stories are so outrageous, they must be true. Includes illustrations by award-winning Native American artist Anita Caldwell Jackson."
Love, Johnny: A Soldier's Letters Home
“In 2005, while clearing the house after the death of her mother, the author came upon a cache of letters. In an old "Lux" soap box, in a basement storage cupboard above the oil tank, were 302 letters, cards and telegrams in bundles tied with pink ribbons, the significance of which was instantly apparent. Many months later, having read all the letters, and shed a few tears, the idea of a book was born. The project finally got underway in 2008, becoming a retirement project and labour of love. Now, four years later, the book is complete and tells a story of love and hope amidst the frustrations of war and separation, and a relationship that survived for 53 years and into eternity.”
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FICTION
The Mousetrap
“winner of the 2003 San Diego Book Award for an Unpublished Memoir -- she tells the harrowing true story of her experiences as a young Bohemian woman in the years after the Second World War ended. She tells of the understandable brutality with which she and her family and friends were treated after the Germans lost the war. She also tells the story of a mother-daughter relationship that, because of the terrible times in which they lived, threatened to kill them both.”
"We Were Never Beggars" (One-Act Plays)
“Ireland, December 1849. The Great Irish Potato Famine has forced three mothers to seek the refuge of the Workhouse. The Workhouse, built to house 800, is catering for 5,000 refugees from starvation and has run out of money. Mary McMahon enters and gives an account of her attendance at the inquest of her son, Brian. She learns how her husband and four surviving children have fared in the Workhouse and makes plans to tell her story. This One-Act Play is based on a true incident in Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland, in December 1849. The distress is the area was documented in The Illustrated London News and the account of the inquest comes from Gleanings in the West of Ireland by Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne “
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So We Bought the Farm
"When Steve Riddle moved his family to the country, he never planned on starting a farm. Raised a military brat accustomed to the nomadic life, he never dreamed about putting down roots and raising animals. Most of all, he never imagined he'd write a book about it. In this collection of anecdotes about raising sheep, goats, cattle, and chickens, Mr. Riddle is a storyteller in the classic sense. He takes readers on a frank, personal, and rollicking ride through the challenges, missteps, and disasters he has faced as a beginning farmer. Hold on to your hat and suspend your disbelief, because these stories are so outrageous, they must be true. Includes illustrations by award-winning Native American artist Anita Caldwell Jackson."
Love, Johnny: A Soldier's Letters Home
“In 2005, while clearing the house after the death of her mother, the author came upon a cache of letters. In an old "Lux" soap box, in a basement storage cupboard above the oil tank, were 302 letters, cards and telegrams in bundles tied with pink ribbons, the significance of which was instantly apparent. Many months later, having read all the letters, and shed a few tears, the idea of a book was born. The project finally got underway in 2008, becoming a retirement project and labour of love. Now, four years later, the book is complete and tells a story of love and hope amidst the frustrations of war and separation, and a relationship that survived for 53 years and into eternity.”
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FICTION
Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship
To Hide in Athens and Other Stories (Nate & Adel and Other Stories)
“delves into the horrors of the Holocaust in Greece. Nikolas (Nikki) Covo is a 14-year-old Sephardic Jew from Salonika who is sent by his family to hide from the occupying Germans with a Greek Orthodox priest in Athens. He must discard his Jewish identity and pretend to be a devout Christian. The first three stories follow Nikki through this ordeal, including his falling in love with the priest's daugther, Dora, his escape from Athens to fight with Greek patriots in the mountains, his revenge on a German prisoner, and the pathos of a family destroyed by war. The last story in the collection, "Therapy" -- first published in Raphael's Village -- jumps forward 13 years when our hero, now a psychiatrist (the Dr. Nick introduced in "Adel's Journal") and a naturalized U.S. citizen, tangles with Adel, his patient.”
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Ripe Chokecherry Moon
Frontier action/drama novel. See link for plot
A Time in Heaven
“A fishing trip to a remote Alaskan camp called Heaven lured them to an adventure neither could have imagined. … the story of these two very different people that find themselves abandoned in the Alaskan wilderness. Their time on the isolated island finds them faced with danger from the elements, wild animals and treacherous humans. It also finds them falling in love.“
To Hide in Athens and Other Stories (Nate & Adel and Other Stories)
“delves into the horrors of the Holocaust in Greece. Nikolas (Nikki) Covo is a 14-year-old Sephardic Jew from Salonika who is sent by his family to hide from the occupying Germans with a Greek Orthodox priest in Athens. He must discard his Jewish identity and pretend to be a devout Christian. The first three stories follow Nikki through this ordeal, including his falling in love with the priest's daugther, Dora, his escape from Athens to fight with Greek patriots in the mountains, his revenge on a German prisoner, and the pathos of a family destroyed by war. The last story in the collection, "Therapy" -- first published in Raphael's Village -- jumps forward 13 years when our hero, now a psychiatrist (the Dr. Nick introduced in "Adel's Journal") and a naturalized U.S. citizen, tangles with Adel, his patient.”
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Ripe Chokecherry Moon
Frontier action/drama novel. See link for plot
A Time in Heaven
“A fishing trip to a remote Alaskan camp called Heaven lured them to an adventure neither could have imagined. … the story of these two very different people that find themselves abandoned in the Alaskan wilderness. Their time on the isolated island finds them faced with danger from the elements, wild animals and treacherous humans. It also finds them falling in love.“
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
Code Word: Paternity, A Presidential Thriller
“The Armageddon genie—nuclear terrorism—is out of the bottle, freed by bin-Laden’s heedless avengers and “a…dictator with Ray-Bans and a fondness for movies,” as America’s president puts it privately a few hours before announcing a decision that will mark him forever as either a hero or a mass murderer. In a twenty-first century Pearl Harbor, nuclear terrorism takes its first city—Las Vegas—and stalks Baltimore… A scientific trail scented by an ultra-secret U.S. program hidden for years behind the code word “Paternity” points toward the nation that made the bomb. …Struggling to lead a divided, panicked America…the president …politicians… and generals maneuver with the lives of millions at stake…” “…forthcoming in trade paperback in November 2012.”
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Here Be Dragons
A fable about politics, art, and human nature. “A story about art. A story about an individual. A story about a society. A story of extinction of the species that believed themselves to be great.”
Code Word: Paternity, A Presidential Thriller
“The Armageddon genie—nuclear terrorism—is out of the bottle, freed by bin-Laden’s heedless avengers and “a…dictator with Ray-Bans and a fondness for movies,” as America’s president puts it privately a few hours before announcing a decision that will mark him forever as either a hero or a mass murderer. In a twenty-first century Pearl Harbor, nuclear terrorism takes its first city—Las Vegas—and stalks Baltimore… A scientific trail scented by an ultra-secret U.S. program hidden for years behind the code word “Paternity” points toward the nation that made the bomb. …Struggling to lead a divided, panicked America…the president …politicians… and generals maneuver with the lives of millions at stake…” “…forthcoming in trade paperback in November 2012.”
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Here Be Dragons
A fable about politics, art, and human nature. “A story about art. A story about an individual. A story about a society. A story of extinction of the species that believed themselves to be great.”
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
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State of Refuge
“In a post-American world, where an oppressive global government blankets all of humanity, the entire prison system has been dismissed in favor of an ungoverned region of forced exile. Caustically, it is named the State of Refuge. Amidst violence and anarchy, the convicts within must fend for themselves if they hope to survive. When seventeen-year-old Derek Vaskez is wrongly sentenced there, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy much larger than he could ever imagine. He alone possesses something that many ruthless people are searching for and would kill to obtain—something so valuable that it could change the entire world as he knows it.”
Fractal Cadence
“An apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic science fiction novel. In the near future, medical technology has advanced. Processed bamboo structures could replace bone, and any flesh within the reach of pixie dust could be regrown. When Lila Stevens loses her leg in a car crash, she proves to be the exception. Beyond the reach of modern medicine, in a society terrified by the disobedient edges of knowledge, she was the new pariah.…She built a life for herself within the boundaries imposed on her by the loss of her leg, uniquely independent, living self-sustainably half way up a mountain abutting the edge of federal Adirondack parkland. “As she stumbled along in her independence, civilization faltered, then fell.”
Catalyst (The Catalyst)
“The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic America in which foreign Armies have set foot. The battle rages on as our main character, Jimmy Smith, fights to not only regain his homeland but to also find meaning in his life. Jimmy, once injured, is thrust on a journey to find the last fully functional hospital. His trek across the war-ridden land puts him in contact with one-of-a-kind characters and life changing circumstances. Can Jimmy survive the hostile world, and gain direction in a world less forgiving than our own?”
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State of Refuge
“In a post-American world, where an oppressive global government blankets all of humanity, the entire prison system has been dismissed in favor of an ungoverned region of forced exile. Caustically, it is named the State of Refuge. Amidst violence and anarchy, the convicts within must fend for themselves if they hope to survive. When seventeen-year-old Derek Vaskez is wrongly sentenced there, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy much larger than he could ever imagine. He alone possesses something that many ruthless people are searching for and would kill to obtain—something so valuable that it could change the entire world as he knows it.”
Fractal Cadence
“An apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic science fiction novel. In the near future, medical technology has advanced. Processed bamboo structures could replace bone, and any flesh within the reach of pixie dust could be regrown. When Lila Stevens loses her leg in a car crash, she proves to be the exception. Beyond the reach of modern medicine, in a society terrified by the disobedient edges of knowledge, she was the new pariah.…She built a life for herself within the boundaries imposed on her by the loss of her leg, uniquely independent, living self-sustainably half way up a mountain abutting the edge of federal Adirondack parkland. “As she stumbled along in her independence, civilization faltered, then fell.”
Catalyst (The Catalyst)
“The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic America in which foreign Armies have set foot. The battle rages on as our main character, Jimmy Smith, fights to not only regain his homeland but to also find meaning in his life. Jimmy, once injured, is thrust on a journey to find the last fully functional hospital. His trek across the war-ridden land puts him in contact with one-of-a-kind characters and life changing circumstances. Can Jimmy survive the hostile world, and gain direction in a world less forgiving than our own?”
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
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Storming the Gates of Hell (The Dain Chronicles)
“The Darkness has arrived! A sickening evil freely walks the land; a plague that threatens the very souls of men. The books of Isaiah and Revelation both speak of a time when Satan will wreak havoc among God's children. … Ancient writings speak of men who performed deeds larger than life, something sorely missed in the modern environment of the 21st Century. Where are the men of courage and strength in today's world? Are all champions relegated to times long past? …A great battle is about to begin. It will start in one small town, where a hero's faith will be tested through the fires of adversity and heartache. If the evil is not stopped, it will soon cover all the world in pain and suffering. Success hinges on one special man. An imperfect individual, who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people he loves and to overthrow the schemes of Hell. The fate of man's future lies in the hands of one... very flawed... individual.”
The Thousand Road
``As the shocked world watches apocalyptic events unfolding in the news, a young man living near the Sussex coast is pushed over the edge into the heart of the action. While Ben was expecting the world to descend into war and it should come as no surprise to him, it was still impossible to actually be ready for it. He has been waiting ten years to meet a mysterious young woman at this tumultuous time and to flee Britain for sanctuary on the fringes of Eastern Europe. There he is to wait with her for the signal to execute a monumental and desperately dangerous task: to face an enemy so deadly, so powerful that the outcome is practically inevitable. Ben keeps his ultimate fate to the back of his mind. For now he is perplexed over how to meet this young woman, and whether she really even exists. He has only ever spoken to her through his mind, and he has only ever seen her once in a heart-breaking dream ten long years before. Of course he has considered madness as a strong possibility, but with the coincidences mounting up, and the storm-clouds of war gathering, dare he hope that in the eye of this world-storm the long awaited meeting could also be drawing near? The Thousand Road is a unique love story and a captivating thriller, drawing the reader deep into a world of mystery, romance, danger and the supernatural.
Just Nice Reading
Memory of a Christmas Star
“A long lost letter. A small brass button. Two obscure clues that resurrect a long ago tragedy of two young sisters, a Norwegian immigrant and the Great Chicago Fire. Can love survive so many decades and heal the scars? Share the wonder, hope, and mystery of a magical star and a gift of gratitude in this story destined to become a holiday classic.”
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Sky of Red Poppies
“Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960's Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence of her religious classmate Shireen. But Shireen has secrets of her own. Together, Roya and Shireen contend with becoming the women they want to be, and in doing so, make decisions that will cause their tragic undoing. In the unraveling of family secrets, Roya begins to question how she was raised and how to become the person she wishes to be. Set against the backdrop of a nation forced to mute its profound identity, Sky of Red Poppies is a novel about culture, politics and the redeeming power of friendships.”
Never By My Name
“Never By My Name celebrates a relationship a young boy had with his grandfather. It would be while fishing the lakes and streams of North Carolina that he would learm the value of having a grandfather who believed nothing on this earth was more important than their moment. Dedicated: To Grandfathers. You've made this world a better place. “
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Storming the Gates of Hell (The Dain Chronicles)
“The Darkness has arrived! A sickening evil freely walks the land; a plague that threatens the very souls of men. The books of Isaiah and Revelation both speak of a time when Satan will wreak havoc among God's children. … Ancient writings speak of men who performed deeds larger than life, something sorely missed in the modern environment of the 21st Century. Where are the men of courage and strength in today's world? Are all champions relegated to times long past? …A great battle is about to begin. It will start in one small town, where a hero's faith will be tested through the fires of adversity and heartache. If the evil is not stopped, it will soon cover all the world in pain and suffering. Success hinges on one special man. An imperfect individual, who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people he loves and to overthrow the schemes of Hell. The fate of man's future lies in the hands of one... very flawed... individual.”
The Thousand Road
``As the shocked world watches apocalyptic events unfolding in the news, a young man living near the Sussex coast is pushed over the edge into the heart of the action. While Ben was expecting the world to descend into war and it should come as no surprise to him, it was still impossible to actually be ready for it. He has been waiting ten years to meet a mysterious young woman at this tumultuous time and to flee Britain for sanctuary on the fringes of Eastern Europe. There he is to wait with her for the signal to execute a monumental and desperately dangerous task: to face an enemy so deadly, so powerful that the outcome is practically inevitable. Ben keeps his ultimate fate to the back of his mind. For now he is perplexed over how to meet this young woman, and whether she really even exists. He has only ever spoken to her through his mind, and he has only ever seen her once in a heart-breaking dream ten long years before. Of course he has considered madness as a strong possibility, but with the coincidences mounting up, and the storm-clouds of war gathering, dare he hope that in the eye of this world-storm the long awaited meeting could also be drawing near? The Thousand Road is a unique love story and a captivating thriller, drawing the reader deep into a world of mystery, romance, danger and the supernatural.
Just Nice Reading
Memory of a Christmas Star
“A long lost letter. A small brass button. Two obscure clues that resurrect a long ago tragedy of two young sisters, a Norwegian immigrant and the Great Chicago Fire. Can love survive so many decades and heal the scars? Share the wonder, hope, and mystery of a magical star and a gift of gratitude in this story destined to become a holiday classic.”
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Sky of Red Poppies
“Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960's Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence of her religious classmate Shireen. But Shireen has secrets of her own. Together, Roya and Shireen contend with becoming the women they want to be, and in doing so, make decisions that will cause their tragic undoing. In the unraveling of family secrets, Roya begins to question how she was raised and how to become the person she wishes to be. Set against the backdrop of a nation forced to mute its profound identity, Sky of Red Poppies is a novel about culture, politics and the redeeming power of friendships.”
Never By My Name
“Never By My Name celebrates a relationship a young boy had with his grandfather. It would be while fishing the lakes and streams of North Carolina that he would learm the value of having a grandfather who believed nothing on this earth was more important than their moment. Dedicated: To Grandfathers. You've made this world a better place. “
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