I spent the entire night last night, starting at 1:30, with my oldest basset getting sick. The poor child would lay down for a minute, then he was up again hugging the porcelain god. Hanging out with him the whole night was a bit gross, but it was also kinda neat to have the time to chit chat with just him. It would have been great conversation if it weren’t for the rude interruptions from his stomach. I am feeling completely drained this morning, but at least I know I will have the same opportunity with my youngest baby basset tonight.

Living with Gusto
Elizabeth Day
4.0 Stars (122 Reviews)
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Literary Fiction

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Let’s begin at the end. The final words from Ophelia, the narrator: “I sometimes wonder if I did it on purpose, if I consciously broke everything in my life that was working. And if so, if I had known how it would feel to have my husband unable to look at me, if I had realized my daughter and I would go months without speaking, and if I had understood the extent of the destruction I would bring to the life we had built, would I have still done it? Would I have still made that single decision that became the turning point in our lives? “I still wonder. Had I not created that catalyst that landed me in the grip of despair, would I have been able to hear Gusto telling me, “The suffering needs to end”? Or would the suffering have remained as silent as his voice had become? “For now, I’ll do as Gusto once asked me to do when the answers were mine to create. I’ll let the questions roll on the backs of waves until the ocean of time turns them into something I want to reach out to and pull to me, until clarity surfaces and I want nothing less than to embrace it like the sweetness of a mango. “For now, I have the one answer that matters. I know who I am. I am Ophelia.”

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Blind Sight (The Celadon Circle Book 1)
Nicole Storey
4.8 Stars (66 Reviews)
Genre: Coming of Age | Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult

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Jordan has visions of monsters, demons, and death. Seventeen, orphaned, and born into the family business, she doesn’t have friends, she doesn’t have choices. Her uncle, older brothers, and a few annoying angels dominate her life, demanding she tow their lines – and the punishment is severe when those lines are crossed. When Jordan is ordered to help hunt down a monster, she’s not sure which she dreads more: the elusive, blood-thirsty creature or spending time in a cramped backwoods cabin with a brother who despises her. To make matters worse, a demon shows up and warns Jordan that she could be her family’s next assignment. In a game between Good and Evil where God seems to have tapped out early, lines are blurred and not everything is as it seems. Jordan learns a little too late that the real monster is closer than she thinks.

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Skeeter: A Cat Tale
Anne L. Watson
3.8 Stars (120 Reviews)
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home | Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Humor & Satire | Women’s Fiction

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“Dealing with a dog, to put it crudely, is like dealing with a person who’s a bit dumb. Dealing with a cat is like dealing with a person who’s more than a bit crazy.” When a stray kitten romps into Lynne’s life, she has no idea what she’s getting into. As Lynne describes in letters to her friend Angie, Skeeter is all cat — high-spirited, contrary, and inventive. He’s so goofy that he reminds Lynne of her own nuttiest escapades; so irrepressible that even Lynne’s neighbor, Mark, gets wound around his paw. And when Angie visits to see Skeeter for herself… Well, no one who meets Skeeter will ever be quite the same again.

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The Mayor’s Mission (Home to Milford College Book 2)
Piper Huguley
4.7 Stars (32 Reviews)
Genre: United States

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Milford, GA 1868: Milford College is in trouble. The mission to create teachers and preachers for the recently freed populations is on a shaky course because of problems between the married founders. Mayor Virgil Smithson has been away to the constitutional convention in the newly established state capitol in Atlanta for almost five months. He’s late in getting back home. Worried about her husband, Amanda Smithson manages the crowded and growing school by herself. How they will pay the taxes on the school property if Virgil doesn’t return from Atlanta? More problems: The Milford daughters-in-law arrive in town, determined to wrest what they see as their rightful inheritance from the Smithsons. Amanda has hired an old school chum from Oberlin to teach the older students. And he’s a tad too affectionate with Amanda for Virgil’s liking. Just when it all seems impossible to resolve, the Smithsons must endure another crisis that threatens to tear them, and the dream of their school—-apart. When life becomes difficult, it will take all of God’s love and mercy for the Smithsons to come together to fight within the bonds of holy matrimony that united them less than two years before. It will be the mission of the mayor, and his wife, to do what it takes to keep the new and coltish educational tradition that they began together going– to keep their love alive.

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Homesteading Handbook vol. 1: The Beginner’s Guide to Becoming Self-Sustainable (Homesteading Handbooks)
Michelle Grande
4.2 Stars (32 Reviews)
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home

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Learn how to homestead and learn to be self-sufficient with this helpful handbook. Modern-day homesteaders are throwbacks to the days of old. They raise and grow much of their food, practice food preservation techniques and know how to live off the land. While some may scoff at the lifestyle of a homesteader, they tend to be happier and healthier than most people caught up in the hustle and bustle of the Western lifestyle. Homesteaders make efficient use of their time and their money in an effort to be largely self-sufficient. This book covers many of the topics a beginning homesteader is going to want to learn more about before getting started. Here are just some of the many topics covered in this helpful handbook:

  • What homesteading is and how it can benefit you.
  • Why the all or nothing approach isn’t the best approach for most people.
  • Urban homesteading: Homesteading with limited space.
  • How to get started when money is an issue.
  • 20 ways homesteading can save money on groceries.
  • How to save money by buying food in bulk. Includes a number of places you can buy bulk food from you might not know about.
  • Purchasing land and building a home.
  • How to get free or inexpensive land for a homestead.
  • Growing your own produce.
  • How to store food by preserving it: Canning, drying, fermenting, freezing and root cellaring.
  • Raising livestock.
  • Beekeeping.
  • Rainwater collection.
  • Greywater collection.

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