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5 Page-Turning Wilderness Thrillers and Nature Novels
https://zurl.co/Fbu8n

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Greedy industrialists are destroying the Earth. Mary and her weather-wrangling wiccans can stop them. They are succeeding, until someone uses their powers against them.

Will Gaia heal, or be destroyed? Read “Our Better Nature”, on Amazon, B&N, and the Boulder Bookstore.

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Better-Nature-James-Porter/dp/B0GJ6QD4QN/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-better-nature-james-porter/1150247825

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A community book exchange in the bus shelter, opposite Colbert, in Les Villettes, France.

📍 Les Villettes, France

https://www.bookcorners.org/library/les-villettes-chemin-des-ecoliers/

#BookCorners #FreeBooks #Books #StreetLibrary #LesVillettes #France #bookexchange #communitybooks #bookshelf

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427001

#HackerNews #Bookshelf #eBookLibrary #SelfHosted #ObjectStorage #TechCommunity

Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. On Putting Together An Anthology of Indigenous Horror While the World Burns
https://zurl.co/sBS8v

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What does my #bookshelf say about me?

#reading #silentsunday #books #literature #philosophy #classics #ancienthistory

7 Graphic Novels That Build Stories from Fragments
https://zurl.co/WHuv3

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Jake is an electrical engineer, and a wizard with ancient devices. But he didn’t know real magic until he met Mary, who uses her powers to control the weather. Together, they team up to heal Gaia from the ravages of human industry. Is it science or magic?

Read “Our Better Nature”, and you can decide.

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Better-Nature-James-Porter/dp/B0GJ6QD4QN/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-better-nature-james-porter/1150247825

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When Shapes Take Hold

Avery Wilde’s When Shapes Take Hold: A Cascadia Mystery is a character-driven environmental mystery set along Washington’s Hood Canal. The novel follows architect Cole Walker after his dogs uncover illegal crab traps near a waterfront lodge, a discovery that leads to forged invoices, concealed shipments, a secret tunnel, and a broader scheme threatening the surrounding community and ecosystem. Wilde develops the investigation through close attention to physical evidence, local relationships, and the rhythms of the fjord. The result is a mystery grounded as firmly in its setting as it is in criminal intrigue.

Cole’s architectural perspective gives the story a distinctive way of observing the world. He reads landscapes, structures, light, and spatial inconsistencies with the same care that an investigator might study testimony. This sensitivity helps him recognize clues, but it also reveals his emotional life, particularly his need for openness, color, and belonging. His gradual movement from guarded isolation toward participation in the community provides the novel with a satisfying internal arc. By the epilogue, his thoughts about building have become a statement of personal growth: “How the shape of things might take hold if he listened.”

The supporting characters give the investigation warmth and consequence. Sam’s steady competence, Tara’s vulnerability and resolve, and the community’s investment in the water make the central crime feel personal. Murphy and Cooper contribute humor and affection while also serving meaningful roles in the plot, repeatedly using their instincts to uncover dangers the human characters overlook. Wilde balances these communal scenes with moments of tension, particularly Cole’s passage through the hidden tunnel and the operation to expose the illegal harvesting network. The novel’s deliberate pacing allows its relationships, setting, and ecological concerns to develop alongside the mystery.

When Shapes Take Hold is a story about learning to belong to a place by accepting responsibility for it. The novel connects environmental stewardship with attentiveness, courage, and public action, culminating in Cole’s defense of the fjord and the community’s recognition of his motives: “You spoke for the water. Not for yourself. People hear the difference.” Wilde presents the Hood Canal landscape as both a living system and a source of emotional meaning, giving the conclusion a sense of earned renewal. The book offers an inviting blend of regional mystery, ecological awareness, found family, and personal restoration.

Pages: 218 | ASIN : B0H66YR4MH

Knoxi’s World

Knoxi’s World by James Nathaniel Miller II is a sprawling Christian action thriller that mixes human-trafficking conspiracies, college basketball, romance, covert rescue missions, political intrigue, and futuristic quantum technology. The story follows Knoxi Musket, an eighteen-year-old University of Texas freshman whose plans for basketball and a future in politics are interrupted when she becomes involved with Alexis Blanca, a trafficking survivor hiding behind the identity of Tejano star Glorietta Zomata. That encounter draws Knoxi and her extended circle into an international corporate scheme designed to protect and profit from forced labor. It’s a big, crowded story, but its central concern stays personal: what happens when someone sees another person suffering and decides that walking away isn’t acceptable.

Knoxi is an appealing lead because her courage comes with fear, confusion, and emotional consequences. She can confront a hostile reporter, fight an attacker, fly into danger, and make hard decisions under pressure, but the book also lets her grieve over the people she can’t rescue. Her faith isn’t simply part of the setting. It shapes her choices, her relationships, and the way she understands responsibility. The strongest scenes often involve survivors such as Alexis, Robbie, and Peaches. Their experiences give the conspiracy a human cost, while the Muskets’ lively family relationships keep the story from becoming relentlessly grim. Humor, romance, sports talk, and affectionate teasing regularly break through the tension.

The novel moves with the restless energy of a television action series. Chapters often end on gunshots, revelations, disappearances, or sudden changes of plan, and the narrative keeps widening until it includes cartels, compromised officials, media corporations, pirates, secret military technology, and a corporate merger with global consequences. Readers of Ted Dekker may recognize the combination of Christian conviction, physical danger, moral confrontation, and heightened reality. Miller’s approach is warmer and more family-centered than Dekker’s darker psychological suspense, though. He’s especially interested in loyalty, marriage, parenthood, and the idea that ordinary acts of compassion can ripple outward. The futuristic inventions occasionally function like narrative wild cards, but they fit the book’s enthusiastic, anything-can-happen spirit.

What I liked most wasn’t the weaponry or the global plot. It was Knoxi’s realization that rescue work leaves wounds even when the mission succeeds. The book gives victory a complicated emotional texture, allowing her to feel relief, guilt, exhaustion, and renewed purpose at the same time. Rolfe Sagan’s surprising role also adds some welcome moral complexity, transforming a hostile media figure into someone whose final actions help expose the conspiracy, although the ending deliberately leaves questions about his fate. Knoxi’s World is earnest, energetic, and openly devotional, with a generous belief in courage, redemption, and the power of stopping for one vulnerable person.

Pages: 297 | ASIN : B0797LYXJN

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KqseCZv0BKG2bAu2bMuXc?si=A3W7QrIXSGSuUWceyxmSnw

Northeast Indian Literature That Interrogates the Nation
https://zurl.co/UWbAv

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5 Cli-Fi Novels and Eco-Thrillers Where Nature Has Main Character Energy
https://zurl.co/sEB1B

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From my #bookshelf: Arguably #Microsoft's best product ever, the Encarta World English Dictionary printed in 1999.

It is still one of my favourite printed dictionaries for the English #language. Tons of illustrations, really good definitions that can be understood by non-native speakers and an innovative approach that combines traditional dictionary definitions with very concise encyclopedic entries.

Can you imagine today's #ai-infested Microsoft creating an educational tool like this?

I can't, but I find it interesting that back then someone in the company decided that investing money in customers' education was worthwhile and they secured approval from the higher-ups.

They probably left the company long ago, but their legacy still lives on. More of this, please!

#education #literacy (and a bit of #nostalgia)

Edit: typo in alt-text

How Octavia Butler Encouraged Me to Write My Novel
https://zurl.co/7IFq9

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One review called “Our Better Nature” a modern fairy tale for hopeful adults. Mary, a thoroughly modern woman, uses her ancient weather-wrangling wiccan ways to heal Gaia from the ravages of the global industrial complex. Along the way, she and her consort Jake find love, intrigue, good food, mystery, danger, and an ultimate challenge. On Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at the Boulder Bookstore.

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Better-Nature-James-Porter/dp/B0GJ6QD4QN/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-better-nature-james-porter/1150247825

#books #ebook #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #bookstodon #fantasy #sciencefiction #wiccan

My IKEA floppy disk box...

#floppydisks

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #disks #Amiga #AppleIIgs #AtariST #nostalgia #bookshelf #gameroom #retrogames #retrogaming #retrogamers #gamers #ByteCellar #photo #drawers #vintagetech #floppies #games

Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics
https://zurl.co/uZK3G

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5 Great Classic and Contemporary Short Stories That Explore Time Travel
https://zurl.co/Z8OS5

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An Ode to Pro Wrestling, the Ultimate Underdog Story
https://zurl.co/XHB9p

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It’s the real world, with a touch of magic. It’s the good people saving the world, and the bad people getting in their way and (almost) defeating them. It’s love, family, betrayal, redemption, pain, healing, good friends, intrigue, conspiracy, evil villains, a little bit of sex, and a lot of good food.

It’s “Our Better Nature”. Mary, Jake, and the world-wide weather-wrangling wiccans set out to heal Gaia from the ravages of man. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, and at the Boulder Bookstore.

#book #ebook #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #bookstodon #fantasy #sciencefiction #wiccan #foodie #foodlover #food

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Better-Nature-James-Porter/dp/B0GJ6QD4QN/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-better-nature-james-porter/1150247825

A charming book exchange in Gorze, France, welcomes readers with a rustic pinecone-framed shelf in a peaceful rural setting.

📍 Gorze, France

https://www.bookcorners.org/library/gorze-chemin-de-vandelainville/

#BookCorners #FreeBooks #Books #StreetLibrary #Gorze #France #bookexchange #bookshelf

Mary and her band of wiccan weather-wranglers are on a mission to heal Gaia from the ravages of the global industrial complex. Read “Our Better Nature”, on Amazon and B&N.

#book #ebook #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #bookstodon #fantasy #sciencefiction #wiccan #foodie #foodlover #food

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Better-Nature-James-Porter/dp/B0GJ6QD4QN/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-better-nature-james-porter/1150247825

Either Napoleon or Frederick the Great said, "An army marches on its stomach." You have to take care of your staff.

Mary and her army of wiccan weather-wranglers are on a mission to heal Gaia from the ravages of the global industrial complex. That takes a lot of energy. They eat well. Read about their adventures and the foods they enjoy in “Our Better Nature”, on Amazon and B&N.

#book #ebook #bookshelf #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #bookstodon #fantasy #sciencefiction #wiccan #foodie #foodlover #food