With the Point Fire burning near Lake Sonoma and 4,400 more people being told they need to be ready leave, I am really grateful that I have a garden with lots of sprinklers and drippers. We are not in any danger whats so ever at this time, but thinking about what-if certainly occupies my head. If we had to evacuate, we have our RV and around here businesses are more than accommodating of people living in their parking lots for as long as the evacuation orders are in effect. As for my house, with all the plants on drippers and sprinklers I could turn them on and the house would be surrounded by a mud puddle pretty quickly. I HAVE A MOTE!! HAHAHA! I don’t have any crocodiles in the mote, but I have a Chaweenie and two terriers that would give your ankle a pretty nasty chomp. All I need to do is put on a Burger King crown and the picture is complete.
American Gypsy Girl
by Mary Zinda
Genre: Coming of Age | Family Life
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April 28, 1969. The future looks bleak for the baby girl asleep on top of her father’s boxer shorts in the laundry basket, but she doesn’t seem to notice. At the moment, Charlene Rae Bucher is blissfully unaware that she will spend her formative years living inside an aluminum camper with a disinterested, dope-smoking father and a vacant, vodka-loving mother. Her extended family will consist of a bunch of equally uninspired adults who park their campers alongside the Buchers. She is truly an unlucky baby.
But babies grow up, and the teenage Farrah Fawcett wannabe stuffs her bra and learns what she can about life within the chain-link fence of Creek’s Edge Campground. A lesson learned inside a rubber tractor tire forces Charlene to grow up quickly–even when no one else around her will. With the help of the retired Methodist minister on site 11A and some eccentric people she meets outside Creek’s Edge, Charlene begins to see that there’s more to life than getting the high score on Donkey Kong. Traveling through a maze of misunderstandings, chance meetings, and new discoveries, eighteen year-old Charlene begins to build a life of her own that isn’t on wheels.
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Blue Waters: A Rick Waters Novel (Caribbean Adventure Series Book 1)
by Eric Chance Stone
Genre: Travel | Mystery
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A casual outing with a metal detector ends in a surprising find: not treasure… but the shocking remains of a gruesome murder!
Rick Waters is a jack-of-all trades: treasure hunter, diver, part-time detective.
Never any good at holding down a steady job, Rick does whatever he can to make a living, from searching for stolen cars or missing persons, to catching and selling catfish from the bayou, or gambling in pool halls.
Whatever it takes to one day fulfill his dream: his very own fishing yacht and charter business!
Little does Rick know, his latest foray into the bayou with his metal detector will forever change his life.
From the bayous of southeast Texas to the seedier neighborhoods of Houston, from the sparkling beaches of the Virgin Islands to the Voodoo drug dens of Haiti, Rick’s quest to find a killer will take all of his wits and skill to stay alive and bring justice for a young woman’s murder.
And if he’s lucky, he might find some treasure after all.
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The Housekeeper’s Daughter (The Woodicombe House Sagas Book 1)
by Rosie Meddon
Genre: Romance | Historical Fiction | Sagas
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A story of family, secrets and love set in the beautiful Devonshire countryside at Woodicombe House.
Kate Bratton dreams of more. It’s 1914, and her life is mapped out ahead of her: continue working as a maid in the beautiful Woodicombe House, settle down with Luke the gardener and, of course, start a family.
Desperate to run away in search of adventure, Kate’s plans are curtailed by the arrival of the Russell family at Woodicombe House. Tasked with becoming a ladies-maid for their daughter, Naomi, Kate gets a glimpse of the other side of life. Little does she know that all families have secrets, no matter their standing.
Will Kate return to the safety of her life before the Russell’s departure? Or will the handsome Ned Russell turn her head?
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A Gunslinger Never Forgets: A Historical Western Adventure Book (Legends of the Lawless Frontier)
by Ethan Westfield
Genre: Romance | Literature & Fiction | History
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After becoming a bounty hunter, Aaron Hardie never expected his life to be calm. Unlike some other bounty hunters, he is not a back-shooter but always gives the outlaws the chance to turn themselves in. Even if he knows that by choosing this tactic he is dicing with death, he always takes the risk. No matter what the cost, he uses his bravery and skills in order to fulfill his one and only dream; save enough money to buy a horse ranch and then marry his sweetheart, Jean. Little does he know that a vicious enemy has other plans for him… Will Aaron manage to take down the mysterious person who stands in the way of his happiness?
One fateful day Aaron wakes up in the middle of nowhere, facing down the burning sand with a bullet wound in the head. Although he survives this near-death experience, the bullet takes his memory. All of a sudden he has no idea who he is, nor any recollection of Jean and the future ranch. As luck would have it, he is found by some of the townspeople who take him back to Waco Flats, his hometown. However, no matter how hard he tries, he still can’t remember a single thing about his past life as a gunslinger. As if that wasn’t enough, he is entirely unaware that the man who wants him dead is riding by his side… Will Aaron regain his lost memory or will he be doomed to get the final blow by his secret enemy?
While Aaron is trapped in the web of his lost memories, he discovers yet another threat. The Comanches are preparing for one last, grand battle against the white man. Knowing that the days of the Comanche are drawing to a close, they want to go out in a final blaze of glory and blood. If Aaron finally escapes the shadowy man who wants him dead, will he survive the bloody battle that brings chaos to his town? Or will he fail in using his gun skills when they’re most urgently needed?
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Hope (Operation Galton Book 1)
by Terry Tyler
Genre: Psychological | Science Fiction | Thrillers
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Terry Tyler’s nineteenth published work is a psychological thriller set in a dystopian near future – the UK, Year 2028.
Blogger Lita Stone and journalist Nick Freer live and work online, seeing life through soundbites, news TV and social media. Keeping the outside world at bay in their cosy flat, they observe the ruthless activities of the new PM and his celebrity fitness guru wife, Mona (hashtag MoMo), with the mild outrage that can be quelled simply by writing another blog post.
Meanwhile, in the outside world, multinational conglomerate Nutricorp is busy buying up supermarket chains, controlling the media, and financing the new compounds for the homeless: the Hope Villages.
Lita and Nick suspect little of the danger that awaits the unfortunate, until the outside world catches up with them – and Lita is forced to discover a strength she never knew she possessed.
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