Month: June 2016
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A Pirate’s Life: Update.
A note to let you know that our Pirate has been in hospital since Monday.with a Corneal Ulcer.Tuesday she was moved by ambulance to a higher care trauma hospital. At this time she has no vision in her left eye. As soon as the infection gets under control they will be doing a corneal transplant. […]
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Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? by Portia Porter, Esq.
Given the title one might think this is a self-help book for the cheapskate looking to get a divorce without spending a dime. However it is more about what it is like to start your own practice and avoid getting ripped off by clients and the legal system. Part Fiction, part inside look at our […]
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The Beauty of The End by Debbie Howells
Having read The Bones of You by Debbie Howells and loved it, I was so happy to receive a copy of her new book The Beauty of the End, from Netgalley/Kensington. The book is a psychological thriller. Told from the point of view of the main character, Noah, former attorney turned novelist and drunk. He […]
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Father’s Day Thoughts
It’s been 6 years since Daddy left us. I can’t say the other word yet. Not any where ready for that. Every day I think of countless things I need to ask him. How do I get these deer to stop tearing up my yard? Can I shoot a turkey out of season if it’s […]
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Jane Steel A Novel by Lyndsay Faye
A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer says the NYT about Jane Steel. “Reader, I murdered him”. What a great opening! Jane Steel has suffered more loss and ugliness in her life at age 9 than most people will in a lifetime. The loss of a Father she doesn’t remember and […]
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UNHOLY CODE (Lana Elkins #3) by Thomas Waite
Former NSA agent, Lana Elkins, is back! Still cyber sleuthing trying to keep track of the jihadists, homegrown terrorists and the white supremacists especially the one they call “Steel Fist”, the head of a radical supremacist organization with millions of dedicated crazies following his every word and Anti-Islamic rantings on the internet. His popularity only […]
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Rosalia’s Bittersweet Pastry Shop
The book begins in 1955 and then jumps to 2004. The story of Rosalia begins when the Carmelite Order at Santa Lucia del Mela, Messina,Sicily,led by Madre Carmela, finds a half-dead girl while they are out gathering almonds from the groves, to use in their incredible and world famous pastries. Jumping ahead to 2004, Claudia […]
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