(Ratings from Amazon.com, as of this morning.)
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The Joy Luck Club: A Novel, by Amy Tan, $1.99
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3,843 ratings
5-star: 74%
4-star: 16%
3-star: 7%
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties.
https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Luck-Club-Novel-ebook/dp/B004IYISSK/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/joy-luck-club-amy-tan/1100023550?eahttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dirty-rich-cinderella-story-lisa-renee-jones/1128512690?ean=2940159153630n=9780143038092
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-joy-luck-club
Hannibal: A Novel (Hannibal Lecter Book 3), by Thomas Harris, $2.99
2,834 ratings
5-star: 71%
4-star: 16%
3-star: 7%
You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he’s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world.
But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter’s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward. . . .
https://www.amazon.com/Hannibal-Novel-Lecter-Book-ebook/dp/B002DNZGIS/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hannibal-thomas-harris/1100014957?ean=9780440339243
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/hannibal-14
The Love Story of Missy Carmichael, by Beth Morey, $2.99
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485 ratings
5-star: 58%
4-star: 28%
3-star: 8%
The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife's native Australia, taking Missy's beloved only grandchild half-a-world away. She spends her days sipping sherry, avoiding people, and rattling around in her oversized, under-decorated house waiting for...what exactly?
The last thing Missy expects is for two perfect strangers and one spirited dog named Bob to break through her prickly exterior and show Missy just how much love she still has to give. In short order, Missy finds herself in the jarring embrace of an eclectic community that simply won't take no for an answer--including a rambunctious mutt-on-loan whose unconditional love gives Missy a reason to re-enter the world one muddy paw print at a time.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Story-Missy-Carmichael-ebook/dp/B07RGXJYZJ/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-love-story-of-missy-carmichael-beth-morrey/1131493126?ean=9780525542469
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-love-story-of-missy-carmichael
Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, by Patti Callahan, $1.99
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2,858 ratings
5-star: 72%
4-star: 17%
3-star: 6%
When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis — known as Jack — she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford professor and the beloved writer of The Chronicles of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters.
Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, found a love that even the threat of death couldn’t destroy.
In this exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women weren’t meant to have a voice — and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn’t know they had.
Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story — a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Mrs-Lewis-Improbable-Davidman-ebook/dp/B07BB5PSJF/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/becoming-mrs-lewis-patti-callahan/1132102993?ean=9780785218081
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/becoming-mrs-lewis
204 Rosewood Lane (Cedar Cove Book 0), Debbie Macomber, $1.99
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874 ratings
5-star: 66%
4-star: 20%
3-star: 8%
Judge Olivia Lockhart’s plate is full. Her hometown of Cedar Cove is the kind of community that’s always relied on each other for support, but lately it seems everybody needs somebody to lean on, especially Olivia’s best friend, Grace Sherman, whose husband disappeared six months prior. Thirty-five years together, then—just gone. Moving forward without closure is hardly ideal, but for librarian Grace, it may be time to start a new chapter.
For Olivia, helping her good friend start over is just the beginning. There are enough marriages, separations, and babies being born in Cedar Cover to keep anyone on their toes. And when Olivia’s ex-husband makes it clear he wants her back, it throws a serious wrench at her on-again, off-again relationship with newspaper editor Jack Griffin. Sometimes the right path isn’t always clear, but finding the courage to follow your heart will lead you right where you belong.
https://www.amazon.com/Rosewood-Lane-Cedar-Cove-Book-ebook/dp/B087RR64ZH/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/204-rosewood-lane-debbie-macomber/1100343297?ean=9780369700636
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/204-rosewood-lane-7
Dirty Rich Cinderella Story: Lori & Cole, by Lisa Renee Jones, $0.99
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330 ratings
5-star: 74%
4-star: 18%
3-star: 4%
Seduced for a night. Taken forever.
With only nine months left at Stanford, and despite being top of her law school class, Lori Havens takes leave to care for her sick mother. That means she juggles three jobs, the best of which is researcher for novelist, and syndicated columnist of "Cat Does Crime," Cat Summer.
One evening after finishing up her work at Cat's apartment building, Lori has an encounter with a sexy stranger, and does something out of character. She goes home with him. The night is perfect, he's perfect, wealthy, powerful and from out of town. Morning comes, and despite their connection, Lori leaves before he finds out she's far from the equal he believes her to be. She's not a charity case and she's not after his money. She will make her own. In other words, she leaves before her prince charming finds out she's no princess.
Flash forward a few months, Lori’s mother is healing, and Cat's husband, Reese, has merged his firm with another and Lori lands an internship there, with school credit and scholarship money.. Everything is falling into place. That is until fate reveals a wicked twist of events and Lori walks into a conference room to find her new boss, Cole Brooks, one of the partners, is her one-night prince charming. One sizzling shared look across a boardroom, and it’s clear: this man is not done with her. It’s not long before Lori is informed that she’ll be working high profile cases with her one night prince charming which will require long nights and travel, starting immediately.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CGLGKC6
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dirty-rich-cinderella-story-lisa-renee-jones/1128512690?ean=2940159153630
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dirty-rich-cinderella-story
Looking for Me: A Novel, by Beth Hoffman, $1.99
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946 ratings
5-star: 64%
4-star: 24%
3-star: 8%
Teddi Overman found her life’s passion for furniture in a broken-down chair left on the side of the road in rural Kentucky. She learns to turn other people’s castoffs into beautifully restored antiques, and eventually finds a way to open her own shop in Charleston. There, Teddi builds a life for herself as unexpected and quirky as the customers who visit her shop. Though Teddi is surrounded by remarkable friends and finds love in the most surprising way, nothing can alleviate the haunting uncertainty she’s felt in the years since her brother Josh’s mysterious disappearance. When signs emerge that Josh might still be alive, Teddi is drawn home to Kentucky. It’s a journey that could help her come to terms with her shattered family — and to find herself at last. But first she must decide what to let go of and what to keep.
https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Me-Novel-Beth-Hoffman-ebook/dp/B00AFPVNQ0/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/looking-for-me-beth-hoffman/1113858303?ean=9781101622759
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/looking-for-me-1
Harvest Wishes (Starlight Inn), by Jessica Anne Renwick, $0.99
59 ratings
5-star: 71%
4-star: 26%
3-star: 0%
After moving home to start a new life, can Madison find healing and a second chance at love while planning her small town's fall festival?
A failed marriage. No job. A looming court date to face her abusive ex-husband. Worst of all, she’s had to move back in with her parents. But just when Madison Talbot thinks things can’t get any worse, she bumps into her high school sweetheart—literally. Romance is the last thing Madison needs, especially with the man who once left her high and dry—so she keeps telling herself.
Dylan Stewart returned to Cedar Lake to be with his family after an unimaginable tragedy and is set on staying for good. When Madison moves back to town, he’s got one more reason to make his work-from-home arrangement stick. As the guy who broke her heart first, can he help her see him in a new light?
After reconnecting over festival planning at the Starlight Inn, old feelings between them spark to a flame. But between family meddling and the wounds from Madison’s traumatic past, the ties between them soon begin to unravel.
Can these two learn to face the world together, or are they doomed to repeat their past mistakes?
https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Wishes-Sweet-Romance-Starlight-ebook/dp/B08PP8T4P8/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harvest-wishes-jessica-anne-renwick/1138673753?ean=2940162275688
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/harvest-wishes
Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB Series #2), by Meg Gardiner, $2.99
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575 ratings
5-star: 61%
4-star: 28%
3-star: 8%
In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another, from her car at a stoplight. A mother is ripped from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads outside Austin.
Caitlin's unit discovers the first victim's body in the woods, laid out in a bloodstained white baby-doll nightgown. A second victim in a white nightie lies deeper in the forest's darkness. Around the bodies, Polaroid photos are stuck in the earth like headstones, picturing other women with their wrists slashed. The women in the woods are not the killer's first victims, nor are they likely to be his last.
To track the UNSUB, Caitlin must get inside his mind; he is a confident, meticulous killer, capable of charming his victims until their guard is down, snatching them in plain sight. He then plays out a twisted fantasy — turning them into dolls for him to possess, control, and ultimately destroy. Caitlin's profile leads the FBI to focus on one man: a charismatic, successful professional who easily gains people's trust. But can they apprehend him before it's too late? As Saturday night approaches, Caitlin and the FBI enter a desperate game of cat and mouse, racing to capture the cunning predator before he claims his next victim.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0725MVZ34
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/into-the-black-nowhere-meg-gardiner/1129708121?ean=9781101985564
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/into-the-black-nowhere
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Part 2 of today's list: https://markjameswooding.locals.com/post/1095708/details-of-some-ebooks-on-sale-today-part-2-of-2-september-22-2021
Dr. Drew interviewed Scott Adams recently, and Scott Adams mentioned the absurdity that Republicans went to overthrow the government on Jan 6, but they neglected to bring their guns. On the first or second anniversary of the event, that alleged oversight made the narrative appear absurd to me, so I made a "video" that was supposed to be audio from January 6, captured on a video camera from which the lens cap had not been removed. I'm posting it again just because.
While I was waiting on hold to talk with a human at the IRS, I decided to put some food out for the dogs. I set the full bag of dog food on a chair, and walked away to get the bowls. When I turned around I saw the bag slowly tipping over, spilling much of its contents onto the floor. Fortunately I had help cleaning it up.
The main task for today is to begin revising McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader. It may take a couple of weeks, possibly more. I still have to work at Publix, and next week I start a new job in the memory care unit of a rehab/nursing home facility, and I'll also be working at Publix at least one night.
After that I'll take a look at the double-slit experiment, and see if there is an interpretation that is consistent with my theory of wave physics.
Also, I came across the attached meme, which I had created two or three years (or so) ago. I thought I'd include it because I still like it.
I recently proposed a theory of matter and energy called Wave Physics. In this theory, the only things in the universe are energy and the universal membrane, which is the medium through which all energy is transfered and stored.
Tonight I realized that according to this theory, everyone and everything in the universe are connected to each other at all times. Things that would be impossible according to the standard model of particle physics, are very possible in the universe of wave physics. Psychic transmissions and the power of prayer are physically possible and make sense if the universe works in any way like the theory I proposed.
If you've ever heard the phone ring and felt sure who it was before answering it, and were proven correct, this makes sense in wave physics, but not with particle physics. If you've ever looked intently at someone, and had that person quickly turn and look directly at you (I have), that phenomenon makes sense if all of us are parts of the same vast, ...
I was only scheduled to work three days this week, so I decided to work on a theory I'd been playing around with for fun over the last few years. I'd never been a big fan of the standard model of particle physics, so a few years ago, just for fun, I thought about exploring some alternate ideas, with zero training and zero experiments.
This week I wrapped up a few loose ends, and posted it to a community I created called Wave Physics. Originally I had called it Alternative Physics, but I changed my mind, so the link still has alternativephysics in it, but the community name is Wave Physics. I'd love for people to pay $5.00 a month to tell me how wrong I am.
https://alternativephysics.locals.com/
I also posted it on my personal website:
