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  The Anomaly

  Craig A. Falconer

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  I guess saving the world once wasn't enough … 
  First it was the auroras, lighting up Europe every night. 
  Then came the weird clouds over Africa. 
  The tidal shifts … the failing crops … the crazy changes to animal migration … 
  And I think all of this is just the start. 
  I don't buy the official line that these are natural occurrences. 
  Not anymore. Not since a whistleblower hid a coded message in my invitation for an upcoming commemoration ceremony on The Vita. 
  Now I know the truth—that Earth is in serious danger from the side-effects of their reckless research. 
  Since the moment I found out, I’ve known what I have to do. 
  Three years ago, I went into space and almost died saving the world from a madman’s evil plan. 
  When I made it home, I swore I'd never leave my family behind again. 
  But to make sure we'll still have a planet to call home in another three years, I have to go back. 
  And this time, they're coming with me …

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  The Flying Inn - A tale of...

  G K Chesterton

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  Progressive Islam takes over England, and two men go on the run with a barrel of rum and a wheel of cheese, intent on keeping English pub life alive. Packed with songs, satire, and style as only Chesteron could write."Perhaps prophetical more so than prosaic (and not at all in the sense Chesterton intended it) The Flying Inn is one of those books which should rank among the classics" - The Distributist Review"Chesterton said that the book he most enjoyed writing was The Flying Inn. He enjoyed creating the comical scenes as much as the polemical ones, the drinking songs as much as the bitter satire and the hard-edged debate. As the hero of the novel says, “It’s as innocent as Heaven and as hot as hell.” The novel is a vehicle for Chesterton to tee off against corrupt and ineffectual politicians who had not merely lost touch with common citizens but were actively taking away their basic rights and freedoms. Besides politicians, he also makes room on his skewer for journalists, textual critics, health gurus, idiot socialists and capitalist toadies. [...] the drinking songs in The Flying Inn [are] "true Temperance songs: temperance is about moderation not abstinence. Self-restraint and self-control are acts of freedom. Prohibition is not. Though drinking may be a caprice [...] it is a caprice that cannot be forbidden to a citizen, but can be forbidden to a slave.”And what are these drinking songs that came under such fire? Simply some of the dearest and most delightful poems that Chesterton or anyone else has ever written: The Song of Right and Wrong, The Song of the Dog Quoodle, Wine and Water, The Logical Vegetarian, The Good Rich Man, The Saracen’s Head, and The Rolling English Road."

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  Dog's Green Earth

  Neil S. Plakcy

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  Number 10 in a best-selling series, which can be a stand-alone listen. 
  Reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan has built a new life for himself after prison, including a home with his fiancée and his golden retriever Rochester. It matters deeply to him, enough to risk it all to bring justice to a killer in his neighborhood. 
  When the clue-sniffing Rochester discovers a body during one of their nightly walks, Steve must look to his neighbors for suspects. Could a killer be lurking along the oak-lined streets? 
  Steve inherited his townhome from his father, and it's more than just a house to him-- it's the place where he recovered from the loss of two miscarried babies, the pain of losing his parents and the misery of his brief incarceration. Now that he has a new sweetheart, and a loving dog, protecting his home is even more important. 
  Could someone in the homeowner's association be sabotaging efforts to keep River Bend a well-maintained place to live? It's up to Steve and Rochester to dig up the clues to bring a murderer to justice, and protect the place they call home.

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  The Gardener Murders

  Callum Dalziel

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  Detective Inspector Ron Scott of Police Scotland is faced with a series of murders on his patch. Based at Greenock police station in Inverclyde, Scott and his team are seeking a murderer who has been given the title "The Gardener" since his victims were being killed by common gardening tools. To add to their caseload, a four-year-old girl has been kidnapped from a shopping mall.

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  Stories About Spies Who AREN'T...

  John Buchan, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  Spies come in all shapes and sizes but all of the spies in this volume are decidedly not like the urbane British agent James Bond, who regularly saves the world.  These spies are on a missionand whether that’s saving their own lives, or the lives of many others imperilled by their Nation’s foes.

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  Death of a Tom Turkey

  Lee Hollis

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  Thanksgiving season brings murder most fowl to Bar Harbor, Maine, as food writer and restaurateur Hayley Powell investigates a farmer felled at a turkey shoot . . .  
   
   
   
  The relationships between bad-tempered Tom Farley and his neighbors are as bitter as a bowl of raw cranberries, but would one of them have taken it far enough to replace birdshot with a real bullet and make him a target at a shooting competition? That's what the injured turkey farmer is claiming from his hospital bed—in between terrorizing the nurses—and he insists it's because a property developer is looking to buy them all out for big money. But Tom says he was born on that land, and he intends to die on it. Sadly, that happens sooner than he expects. 
   
   
   
  Now an inquisitive Hayley has a cornucopia of suspects to consider, from an agoraphobic therapist to an ex-Army sniper, while also preparing for Thanksgiving. But with the strange twists and dark secrets still to be revealed, this case will not be as easy as pie . . .

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