I was a very proud chicken mamma yesterday. A family that was working on a house next door heard that I had chickens and was hoping to see them. I brought each of the ladies out one at a time and they were amazed at how beautiful and sweet my ladies were. Summer was especially talkative and made the sweetest noises as they pet her and admired her beautiful feathers. I forget sometimes that people don’t really think of chickens as being sweet or even pretty, and it’s fun to see them discover that chickens are truly wonderful creatures.

Gray Shadows (Russian Bodyguard Series Book 1)
Julia Gousseva
4.6 Stars (64 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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They live a life of danger, sacrifice, and bravery. They die saving others but get no fame, no medals, and no solemn ceremonies. They are…

GRAY SHADOWS

Nikolai, a bodyguard in the prestigious Centurion Personal Protection agency, is injured in the line of duty. While recovering from his injuries, he is assigned to a new client. An easy case, his boss tells him.

Nikolai travels to a small quiet town north of Siberia to provide protection for a young woman, on her dad’s request. At first, both Nikolai and his boss see the assignment as a whim of a rich overprotective father. But the more Nikolai learns about the town, the oil company that the young woman is working for, and the people involved, the more he encounters secrets, suspicious behaviors, lies, and threats. In an unexpected and frightening course of events, Nikolai’s easy assignment becomes one of the toughest and the most dangerous.

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Oleanna: A Novel of Norway in 1905
Julie K. Rose
4.4 Stars (24 Reviews)
Genre: Historical Fiction

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Set during the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, this richly detailed novel of love and loss was inspired by the life of the author’s great-great-aunts.

Oleanna and her sister Elisabeth are the last of their family working their farm deep in the western fjordland. A new century has begun, and the world outside is changing, but in the Sunnfjord their world is as small and secluded as the verdant banks of a high mountain lake.

The arrival of Anders, a cotter living just across the farm’s border, unsettles Oleanna’s peaceful but isolated existence. Sharing a common bond of loneliness and grief, Anders stirs within her the wildness and wanderlust she has worked so hard to tame. When she is confronted with another crippling loss, Oleanna must decide once and for all how to face her past, claim her future, and find her place in a wide new world.

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Deluxe UFO Tour Company (The Empyrean, Arizona Series Book 1)
James Wharton
3.8 Stars (32 Reviews)
Genre: Humor & Entertainment | Science Fiction

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“Very funny book! I died laughing!” Eddie Jacobs, deceased.

Laid off, divorced and broke in Detroit, Stan Thompson heads for Phoenix to look for a job. Not being a detail man, he didn’t check the job market in Arizona before he left. Unable to find a job there, in desperation he purchased the bankrupt Deluxe UFO Tour Company, a business that provides tours of alleged UFO landing sites. Predictably, he also didn’t inquire about the details of the business nor the strange town of Empyrean, Arizona where he would move. Lots of tourists visit Empyrean because it claims it is the “Home of the Most UFO Landing Sites on Earth.” However, no one in town has ever actually seen a UFO.

Stan must not only deal with that obstacle, but also the very odd inhabitants of Empyrean, Arizona.

“A comical and happy ride!”

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I.T. Geek to Farm Girl Freak: Leaving High Tech for Greener Pastures
S.A. Molteni
4.6 Stars (13 Reviews)
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences | Biographies & Memoirs

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Have you ever wanted to ditch the nine-to-five job and move as far away as possible from the rat race? Have you ever just wanted peace and quiet in a rural setting away from the sprawl of suburbia? Have you found yourself daydreaming about pasture lands and farm animals on a daily basis? That’s exactly what the author found herself contemplating – more often then not – while working at a high tech job in Seattle.

With her husband 3,000 miles away in Florida and the passing of her father, she knew it was time to make some serious changes in her life. She was ready for an adventure, but little did she know what lay in store for her at the ‘fixer upper’ farmhouse she and her husband would soon become the owners of.

S.A. Molteni has spent over thirty years in the Information Technology field working for various Fortune 500 companies. During those years, she and her husband had always dreamed of living on a farm once they became retired from the rat race.

This collection of essays follows the author in her sometimes humorous transition from “I.T. Geek to Farm Girl Freak” and depicts the lessons that are learned along the way once farm animals become a large part of her life.

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Jim Morgan and the Pirates of the Black Skull
James Raney
4.8 Stars (26 Reviews)
Genre: Children’s eBooks

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A Dark Secret…

A Hidden Island…

A Magic Storm…

An Epic Journey Upon the High Seas!

Over a year has passed since Jim Morgan outwitted the King of Thieves and escaped from London with his friends, Lacey and the Brothers Ratt. Now, at long last, Jim is ready to return home to Morgan Manor.

But a dark vision haunts Jim’s dreams – a Crimson Storm with the face of a black skull. Worse still, his father’s old enemies, Count Cromier and his son, Bartholomew, are far from finished with Jim.

On the run again, Jim must face terrors beyond imagination – pirate battles, hidden islands, sorcerers, and sea monsters. New foes and magic forces will tempt and test Jim. For there are terrible secrets he has yet to learn, secrets about his father, the Treasure of the Ocean, and his own incredible destiny…

There is more at stake than Jim ever dared dream, and should he fail, consequences far deadlier than he ever thought possible…

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