I had a new alarm clock.\u00a0 I can’t say that I appreciated\u00a0him at first, but I finally decided that he wasn’t going away anytime soon.\u00a0 He wasn’t all that punctual either, but oh, was he persistent!\u00a0 Peck, peck, peck, flutter, flutter, peck, flutter, peck.\u00a0 Every ten minutes for an hour or more each morning.\u00a0\u00a0 A pair of cardinals lived at our place for several months.\u00a0 I haven’t seen or heard him for awhile.\u00a0 I think\u00a0my alarm clock is gone.\u00a0 I guess I miss ‘Red’.\u00a0 I looked forward to seeing him fluttering and pecking at the brand new crystal clear windows even if I didn’t appreciate the earliness of the hour some days.\u00a0 He never did figure out that he was fighting himself.\u00a0\u00a0I guess\u00a0people are\u00a0a lot like\u00a0him in that respect.\u00a0 Fighting ourselves or each other when we should be fighting the enemy!<\/p>\n
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside.\u00a0 Travis Boyette is such a man.\u00a0 In 1998 in East Texas he strangled a high school cheerleader, then watched as Donte Drumm, a local football star, was convicted and sent to death row.\u00a0 Now nine years have passed, Travis has just been paroled for a different crime; Donte is four days away from execution.\u00a0 Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor, and for the first time in his life wants to do the right thing.\u00a0 But, can a guilty man convince lawyers, judges and politicians that they’re about to execute an innocent man?\u00a0\u00a0Try reading\u00a0John Grisham’s new legal thriller The Confession<\/em>.<\/p>\n The residents of Southport, North Carolina, can’t help but notice that the lovely new waitress in town is very guarded.\u00a0 Katie knows her sudden arrival has raised questions, but her past is her business and she’s determined to avoid forming any personal ties.\u00a0 That’s why she’s almost angry with herself for allowing Alex, a handsome father of two, steal her heart.\u00a0 Katie knows she should take her terrible secret and go back on the run before her dangerous\u00a0past comes roaring back.\u00a0 Before it’s too late, she\u00a0needs to find a Safe Haven<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Written like only Nicholas Sparks can.<\/p>\n If you\u00a0enjoy romantic mysteries,\u00a0you will like The Girl In The Gatehouse <\/em>by Julie Klassen.\u00a0 Banished from the only home she’s ever known, Mariah Aubrey hides herself away in an abandoned gatehouse on a distant relative’s estate.\u00a0 There she supports herself and her loyal servant the only way she knows how – by writing novels in secret.\u00a0 Then Captain Matthew Bryant leases the estate.\u00a0 This intriguing mystery takes readers inside the life of a secret authoress at a time when novel-writing was considered improper for ladies and the smallest hint of impropriety could change a woman’s life forever.\u00a0\u00a0 Come in and Check It Out. . .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a new alarm clock.\u00a0 I can’t say that I appreciated\u00a0him at first, but I finally decided that he wasn’t going away anytime soon.\u00a0 He wasn’t all that punctual either, but oh, was he persistent!\u00a0 Peck, peck, peck, flutter, flutter, peck, flutter, peck.\u00a0 Every ten minutes for an hour …<\/p>\n