A requirement for living in California is belonging to a gym. However, you are not required to actually go to the gym, just the membership is a must. This particular gym offers boxing classes and I have been going consistently for about a month or so. I didn’t want to mention it before just in case I got popped in the face and cried. A definite possibility and so not something I would want to publish for anyone to see. Enough people witness me doing stupid stuff already I don’t need to add to it. One thing I have learned about myself in this class is my inability to hit someone. If I don’t hate you and you didn’t steal my piece of cake, why would I hit you? I think some cake stealing visualization is needed.

Rae of Hope (The Chronicles of Kerrigan)
WJ May
4.5 Stars (52 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult

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How hard do you have to shake the family tree to find the truth about the past?

Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family’s history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed.

Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter?

As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her sixteenth birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It’s up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family’s past and have a ray of hope for her future.

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Out of the Blue (Beckett Lodge Series – Book 1)
Colette Makray
4.3 Stars (49 Reviews)
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Short Stories | Religion & Spirituality

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Tess and Tom Beckett had always dreamed of opening a pet-friendly vacation Lodge deep in the rugged Northern wilderness, but when her husband dies unexpectedly, Tess is left to run the business alone.Until the day a stray dog swims in from the lake and threatens to steal her heart and question her belief in miracles.

Police officer Brandon Bishop wants nothing more than to forget what happened with his latest case.How could he and his beloved but aging K-9 partner Toto have been so wrong about finding that little girl?Maybe his Boss was right – a relaxing vacation at a secluded Lodge was just what the pair needed to clear their minds and move on.

Big city socialite Joanne Lawrence can’t believe her misfortune.First, her ex-husband gives their five-year-old son a huge slobbering dog for Christmas, and now she has to take the massive mutt on vacation! But when tragedy strikes, Joanne learns about the true power of a dog’s love.

‘Out of the Blue’ is a unique story about love, friendship, and the incredible bond between dogs and their people.

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Vengeance (The SSU Book 1) (The Surgical Strike Unit)
Vanessa Kier
4.1 Stars (51 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Romance

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Scarred by a tragic past, one woman will do anything to exact vengeance…

Left for dead after assassins killed her parents, Jenna Paterson believes she survived for one reason only. Vengeance. She vows revenge on the men behind the attack, including her once beloved older brother, Kai. But Kai has disappeared with a microchip containing data on a top-secret government research program.

Ten years ago, undercover agent Niko Andros sent a vicious Mexican crime lord to prison. Now the man has been released and he’s kidnapped Niko’s aunt. The price for his aunt’s freedom is Kai and the microchip. Niko will do anything to save his aunt―including using Jenna as bait.

As Niko dives back into the deadly criminal underground he’d barely escaped, Jenna discovers she’s not as tough as she thinks. Teamed up to find her brother, Niko and Jenna fight to survive in a dangerous world of lies, betrayal, and hidden agendas. Only love can save them…if they’ll let it.

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Between a Rock and a White Blaze: Searching for Significance on the Appalachian Trail
Julie Urbanski
3.9 Stars (42 Reviews)
Genre: Sports & Outdoors | Travel

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Four years removed from her first long-distance hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, Julie, aka Stopwatch, is ready to embark on another thru-hike, this time following the white blazes of the Appalachian Trail, a 2181 mile continuous footpath from Georgia to Maine. She is accompanied by her husband, Matt, aka Optimist, for whom it is his second thru-hike of the AT. They are both burnt out from stressful jobs and are both hopeful that the simplicity of the trail life will recharge their batteries, especially since they have experience on their side.

For Julie, it is a chance to improve the person that she came to be and came to dislike, and for Matt, it is a chance to relive old memories while living the trail life he’d come to love. While they could never predict all that would unfold over the months ahead, with volatility in the weather and in their moods, they expect the trail to change the way they see themselves and the world around them. They are also not alone on the trail. Each day they are presented with new perspectives from the varied cast of trail characters hiking alongside them, a few of which have a lasting impression on their hike.

This book is for those that appreciate challenges that lead us down the path of self-honesty, who are willing to join Matt and Julie as they make their way through rainy weather and rocky terrain, as expectations meet reality, as they meet new people along the way, and as they search for meaning in it all, all the while following the white blazes of the Appalachian Trail.

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Pirates or Patriots (The Bradford Chronicles)
L.D. Watson
4.9 Stars (19 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Historical Fiction

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When young Ephraim Bradford lands in America he hopes to begin a new life. But his plans are altered when he encounters the pirate, Jean Lafitte and General Andrew Jackson, not to mention the girl who steals his heart. Pirates or Patriots tells the story of how a young Englishman from Shropshire falls in love with a Maryland farm girl only to risk his life and his love at the Battle of New Orleans.

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