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On September 29, 1932, Paraguayan forces recaptured Fortin Boqueron and other small garrisons nearby from the Bolivian Army. In December 1932, Bolivia sent many troops and weapons to the North Chaco for a full-scale offensive aimed at taking the whole region and then advancing right up to Asuncion,

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Tuesday, 29th September -- Yesterday was 95 degrees and today it was supposed to drop to 84. But you know what happened? The fog started rolling in through the Golden Gate, and now the high will be 75, which is very tolerable, thank you very much.
Can you imagine, you have two little kids, three cat Read more of this blog post »

In writing Back to the Bonnet, I had the pleasure of becoming well acquainted with Miss Mary Bennet – well, with my imagined version of her at any rate – and in this blog I want to talk a bit about the way I see her personality.

In my view, she is a character that is very open to interpretation. Jane Read more of this blog post »

I am offering you, Dear Readers, a free copy of my book on Kindle - September 29 and 30. "Pioneers of the Plains: Coming to America"

Pioneers of the Plains: Coming to America

Get your copy now; reviews are greatly appreciated!

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Hi everyone,

Me reading books, has been on halt lately. I'm co-producing a web series with my husband called Space Heroes-you guessed it- science fiction- and we just launched our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The amount of paperwork it brought, was overwhelming.

If you ARE a trekkie, you will be e Read more of this blog post »

Today I am minus a tooth, but also minus the searing pain. Call it an almost fair trade-off.

I also am minus the first four unedited chapters of my novel, which is to say, I finished the rewrites. I have since sent Chapters 1 through 4 off to the editor, and am doing my best to not check the mail eve Read more of this blog post »

Hi, everyone!

Like a Falling Star, the second stand-alone in the Fate series and Kate's story, is coming in 2021! I'm hoping it can be out by March. If you loved her in The Aftermath of Drifting Away, you should look out for this release!

I'm so excited to tell you more. For now, you can add Like a Fa Read more of this blog post »

Costumes are usually essential to the superhero genre, and I grew up in the 70s and 80’s, when color, spandex, and no small amount of camp were in style.

NOTE: TO SEE THE PICTURES REFERENCED, GO TO WWW.KARENJANOWSKY.COM/BLOG

Thinking about those costumes now, I don’t think they’d work well for some of Read more of this blog post »

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Part 1 - The Portrait of a Writer Struggling in his 20s.

More than anything, this book demonstrates a writer struggling to create something in his 20s. Filled with ideas, vignettes, poems, bursts of frantic energy, it never emerg Read more of this blog post »

La lecture chez Diderot    Hello and welcome to a new blog series which I’m calling “Clutching My Pearls.”
   I have thoughts. And a lot of those thoughts have to do with disagreeing with the proposition that Jane Austen was a fierce social and political critic of the times she lived in.
   Unqu Read more of this blog post »

Friends,
Free books are coming soon!
Starting Wednesday, September 30th, download FREE Kindle copies of two of my books. Go to either of my web pages, CrimesInOurWake.com or CrimesOfVengeance.com for direct access to my Amazon pages. From there, download both Kindle books for your reading enjoyment. T Read more of this blog post »

Edvard Radzinski’s Stalin is literally and figuratively an enormous work. But perhaps a quarter of a million words is still insufficient to do justice to a subject as monstrously bloodthirsty as Jozef Stalin. Even a list of names of those he ordered killed might not be longer than this tome.

Pub

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I've always been a fan of holiday ghost stories in the grand Victorian tradition. I mean, what's a better pairing than festive yuletide joy and the terrifying prospect of someone returning from the dead to haunt you?

Given that this has been a particularly crappy year for so many, many reasons, I fi Read more of this blog post »

Hey Bookies!

Just popping by with a quick update. I just wanted to let you know that I have a new hot firefighter romance on the way! It is the first one in the Wildfire Series.

SOME LIKE IT HOT is a romance about a caterer and a firefighter! She has three dating rules and he breaks everyone! It has b Read more of this blog post »

We're just a few short weeks away from the release of the third book in the Guardian's Prophecy series: Weaponforger! The waiting is killing me!

eBook preorder is up on Amazon

The journey of a refugee does not end with his/her reaching a destination of safety. The initial excitement and relief slowly gives way to practical day to day struggle to rebuild their shattered lives. Finding a livelih...

What the Dead Want by Norah Olson

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

What the Dead Want is the story of Gretchen, who, still mourning the mysterious loss of her mother, is asked by her great aunt to come help her sort out her old house. When Gretchen gets there, however, she is introduced to a world where histor

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(BagTown Cover Art: Malcolm Smith)
ICYMI!!!

Valerie Day and John Smith, the masterminds behind the music of Nu Shooz, are always looking for creative ways to involve their fans in whatever they're doing and that certainly includes an active presence on social media. The band was first formed way b Read more of this blog post »

 

Get Money Do Good: A True Story How-To
Launch Date: October 12, 2020





Twelve Children. Four Countries.

Two Capitalists. One Story.

Debut author J.D. Vermaas confronts autism, human trafficking, capitalism, and conventional methods of “doing good” in this brutally honest adoption memoir. With the spirit

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Remember the theory? That an asteroid crashed into our planet and the global ice age that followed “extincted” the dinosaurs? Well, check out a 5-minute video entitled, “Extinction: The Facts.” It’s narrated primarily by Richard Attenborough, and it’s not only timely—it’s stunning in its implication

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Here at My Stories, we produce beautiful, professionally-bound memoirs about people’s unique lives. We have built an efficient process that makes it fun, easy and affordable to create a cherished legacy – a legacy that will be handed down for generations. We you questions that uncover your feelings,

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Recently I had a family member die from cancer. Unfortunately, my side of the family only learned about the deceased family member’s…

The post Consequences Of Our Decisions appeared first on Brittany Gates.

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by Andrada Costoiu

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This morning: I open the cabinet where I hold music cds and I find an animal kingdom instead! And some sleeping dolls!

I ask: where are the cds?!!!

My kid: mmm…there!! (pointing at a pile next to the cabinet!)

Note: this just made me smile and made my day! These lit

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Quote of the Day: "The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more." - Kin Hubbard

— Reinhold Kanzler (@ReinholdKanzlR) September 29, 2020

​The other morning I felt led to walk to a place I love but don’t often go to. First, because it’s close and too easy and short a hike, and second, because right now with the rains, the river has been flowing and uncrossable (unless barefoot).
 
But I felt called, so I went.
 
I found myself walking s Read more of this blog post »

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By special request from my lovely Insight Timer Live Crew!

Where might one go to learn more about the goddesses? This is of course, in addition to listening to me tell you about them on Insight Timer !

Books

For Archetypes and mythology look at

Naming the Goddess edited by Trevor Greenfield which is fu

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He sits at the end of every boozer
The typical right wing sorta loser
Peppers conversation with "am not racist, but..."
Well if that's the case, keep ya mouth shut?

Reckons he's prim and proper
Lacking all pretension
But gets the "Britain Thirst"
Everytime foreigners get a mention
Cos he's the king of the Read more of this blog post »

Thrilled to report that BEFORE YOU GO will be published in China, releasing this November.

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As the landscape of church has shifted in 2020, many questions still abound around the future of church, particularly online.  Even though there are a lot of questions around the online church movement, I’m convinced that the answer for the church of the future is more online, not less.  I’d rather

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You'll have to bear with me during these pre-election times. The USA is so polarized at present; I have not seen anything quite like it before in my lifetime. The Vietnam War is possibly the closest we've come to something like this, but it pales in comparison, because the poles now are just so extr

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