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Old 05-17-2016, 05:57 PM   #1141
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Monkey -- Do you have a cousin out here in my area??? This guy was hanging on the back of a lawn care truck I passed this morning! He indicated that he knew you. I had a hard time taking a photo *while* I was driving, but he refused to stop for me.
Yep, that's cousin Fred. Always on the go. He dreams of being a groundskeeper at a banana plantation. "One day," he says, "one day."
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Old 05-17-2016, 07:21 PM   #1142
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Laura Sobiech tells the amazing story of how God used her son’s battle with cancer to touch the lives of millions.

"Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed forever." This is what Laura Sobeich prayed when she found out her 17-year-old son had only one year to live. With this desperate prayer, she released her son to God’s will. At that point, Zach Sobiech was just another teenager battling cancer. When his mother told him to think about writing good-bye letters to family and friends, he decided instead to write songs. One of them, "Clouds", captured hearts and changed not one life but millions, making him an international sensation. But Zach’s story is not just about music. It’s a testament to what can happen when you live as if each day might be your last. It’s a story about the human spirit. It’s about how God used a dying boy from a small town in Minnesota to touch the hearts of millions - including top executives in the music industry, major music artists, news anchors, talk show hosts, actors, priests and pastors, and school children across the globe. Zach once said, "I want to be known as the kid who went down fighting, and didn’t really lose." Fly a Little Higher is about how God used Zach to do something big.
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Monkey -- Do you have a cousin out here in my area??? This guy was hanging on the back of a lawn care truck I passed this morning! He indicated that he knew you. I had a hard time taking a photo *while* I was driving, but he refused to stop for me.
For a second there, I thought that the poor monkey had gotten hit by a truck and was embedded in the grill of the truck. Ouch! ha

Funny, thanks for sharing it.
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For a second there, I thought that the poor monkey had gotten hit by a truck and was embedded in the grill of the truck. Ouch! ha

Funny, thanks for sharing it.
He *was* attached to the open back meshwork of a trailer carrying lawn equipment. But he seemed to be happily waving at passing cars, as he flapped with the bounces, so I don't think he minded. He seemed quite a good sport!
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The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–1945; Citizens and Soldiers

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A major new history of the Third Reich that explores the German psyche.

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?

In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials - personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence - to answer this question. He offers an unprecedented portrait of wartime Germany, bringing the hopes and expectations of the German people - from infantrymen and tank commanders on the Eastern Front to civilians on the home front - to vivid life. While most historians identify the German defeat at Stalingrad as the moment when the average German citizen turned against the war effort, Stargardt demonstrates that the Wehrmacht in fact retained the staunch support of the patriotic German populace until the bitter end.

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“Exhaustive…A first-rate historical read.” -- Washington Times

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“[Stargardt’s] method of using letters and diaries of ordinary Germans yields unexpected insights, both into the Germans’ humanity and their turn to barbarism.” -- Economist

“In this gut-wrenching work…Stargardt…examines the German experience during WWII. His extraordinarily deep and wide research allows him to fill in an otherwise solid history of the war with intimate, newly unearthed recollections of harrowing service on the battlefield and homefront. Such is the complexity of human nature that, after millions of deaths, massive destruction, and unbelievable ‘psychological shock waves,’ Germans maintained their fierce nationalism and took pride in their ability to endure individually and collectively…Stargardt has produced a brilliant, sobering work.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Melville’s stories are masterpieces to be appreciated on more than one level. They are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth and show the timeless poetic power of Melville’s writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends.

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He *was* attached to the open back meshwork of a trailer carrying lawn equipment. But he seemed to be happily waving at passing cars, as he flapped with the bounces, so I don't think he minded. He seemed quite a good sport!
Oh yes, I recognized, after a few seconds, that it was the back of a trailer (millions of people own one with that kind of construction, including me).
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I suppose that the publisher wrote the blurb, which said, "As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?" At any rate, that opinion is surprising to me. I have never heard that viewpoint expressed before.

Germany declared war on the U.S. after Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and, I think, after the U.S. declared war on them on the next day, December 8, 1941 (interestingly, I learned just recently, that Germany had no agreement with Japan that they would do that if the U.S. declared war on Japan. Which makes you wonder why Hitler would have done it!). Perhaps the publisher had in mind December 11, when the U.S. declared war on Germany. The U.S.'s entry into the war ended up being a game changer, but at the time they were a third-rate military power in most respects and I doubt that many people thought that Allied victory in World War II was all but assured based on the U.S. joining in.

The only other possibility that I can think of is that the publisher was thinking about Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June, I think that it was, of 1941. The Soviets did eventually have a huge and effective military, but in 1941 it was far from it, at least as far as the "effective" part is concerned. All of the smart money at that time would have been bet on Germany defeating the Soviet Union and, in fact, throughout 1941 Germany conquered enormous parts of Soviet territory and looked unstoppable. Only in very early 1942 did some doubt about that arise, when Germany failed to take Moscow.

As far as why Germany continued the War when their loss was all but assured (in my opinion, probably no earlier than in 1943, with their defeat at Stalingrad and maybe as late as the Normandy invasion in 1944, when they had to start fighting a genuine two-front war) is concerned, remember that the people of Germany weren't in control. A jerk, Adolf Hitler, was and he ultimately didn't care if Germany went down with him.

Unrelated to that question, if you borrow the audiobook for a week, you're going to have to do a lot of listening fast--I noticed that the narration runs over 24 hours. If it was me, I'd put it on my wishlist--it is very highly rated. Then, I'd buy it sometime when I ran across a good deal on it.

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Unrelated to that question, if you borrow the audiobook for a week, you're going to have to do a lot of listening fast--I noticed that the narration runs over 24 hours. If it was me, I'd put it on my wishlist--it is very highly rated. Then, I'd buy it sometime when I ran across a good deal on it.
You have 45 days to listen to this book. Normally, it's 30 days, but with really long books, they bump it to 45 or 60 days.

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You have 45 days to listen to this book. Normally, it's 30 days, but with really long books, they bump it to 45 or 60 days.
Gotcha. I've never done an audiobook rental, and I didn't pay attention to the wording, "deal of the week."

That would still be a pretty short period of time for me, because I often am listening to several different audiobooks within a given period of time. Therefore, it takes a while to get through one. Right now, I think that I'm listening to about 5 of them. ha

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Just found out that I can move my Audible billing date up to 30 days, one time a year. This is useful to me as I want to use the 3-month "hold" feature for the summer and it require 12 months between uses. I was about 14 days off, so I moved the billing date and now I can Hold the account before I get billed next.

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Felix Castor used to cast out demons for a living, and London was his stomping ground. But in a time when the supernatural realm is in upheaval and spilling over into the mundane world of the living, his skills are in renewed demand. With old debts to pay, Castor is left with no choice but to accept one final, well-paying assignment: a seemingly simple exorcism.

Trouble is, the more he discovers about the ghost in the archive, the more things refuse to add up - and the more deeply he's dragged into a world he wants no part of. What should have been a perfectly straightforward job is rapidly turning into a "who can kill Castor first" competition, with demons, were-beings, and ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. But that's okay. Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off.
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Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before - before Dara kissed Parker, before Nick lost him as her best friend, before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred. Now the two sisters, who used to be so close, aren't speaking. In an instant Nick lost everything and is determined to use the summer to get it all back

But Dara has other plans. When she vanishes on her birthday, Nick thinks Dara is just playing around. But another girl has vanished, too - nine-year-old Madeline Snow - and as Nick pursues her sister, she becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances may be linked.

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Jana DeLeon's A Miss Fortune Mystery Series, Book 1. A $1.99 Whispersync deal!

The Whispersync deal is cheaper at the present time than usual, because of a markdown of the book to $0.00. The digital list price is only $0.99, so the drop is not much; but it's all the excuse that I need to post this very popular (based upon the number of ratings at both Amazon, for the ebook, and Audible, for the audiobook), very highly rated book.

I know that I've posted a relatively large number of self pub Whispersync deals lately. That hasn't been by design, it has just worked out that way. Even though rules of this thread do not forbid that, I know that many of you probably would not like to see so many posted. Expect things to balance back out in the near future.

If you're not familiar with the A Miss Fortune Mystery series, you might be interested in knowing that one reviewer likens it to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. Even a confirmed non-fictionista such as myself knows how very popular that series is and how well that comparison speaks of this book!

Title: Louisiana Longshot (A Miss Fortune Mystery, Book 1).
Genre: Fiction (Mystery).
Author(s): Jana DeLeon.
Price: $1.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
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Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.5 stars/3,970 reviews (Amazon).
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Pages/Audio Length: 250/7 hours and 20 minutes.
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It was a hell of a long shot....

CIA assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever—in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price placed on her head by one of the world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off-grid, but she never expected to be this far out of her element. Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune, but she's determined to fly below the radar until her boss finds the leak and puts the arms dealer out of play. Unfortunately, she hasn't even unpacked a suitcase before her newly inherited dog digs up a human bone in her backyard.

Thrust into the middle of a bayou murder mystery, Fortune teams up with a couple of seemingly sweet old ladies whose looks completely belie their hold on the little town. To top things off, the handsome local deputy is asking her too many questions. If she's not careful, this investigation might blow her cover and get her killed. Armed with her considerable skills and a group of elderly ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune has no choice but to solve the murder before it's too late.
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