The baby bassets are experiencing something I don’t think they have in their young life. A true winter. It is cold, and has been raining for days and days, I might even say weeks. Some of the reservoirs were so low that they were considered empty. After the huge storm we had they rose to 4%, so you can see how bad our drought is, and what a good storm that actually was. Some of the kids are still not fully getting that it’s winter because they are still showing up to school in shorts and t-shirts. They seem happy, so I’m not going to tell them.
The Shoulders of Giants (A Jake Abraham Mystery)
Jim Cliff
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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A missing girl.A ruthless killer. A rookie P.I.
Jake Abraham is a child of the 80s, brought up by Jim Rockford, Thomas Magnum and three beautiful girls who worked for a man named Charlie. He’s loving his new job as a Private Investigator and already has his first client – a disgraced former police captain whose daughter has disappeared.
When the girl shows up dead, Jake is drawn into a dangerous world of organised crime, police corruption, infidelity and serial murder. With a terrified city in the grip of a killer who’s always one step ahead of the police, how can a raw young P.I. hope to make a difference?
The Shoulders of Giants is a fun, fast paced thriller in the mold of Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker.
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The Fried Twinkie Manifesto: and other tales of disaster and damnation
Ryan Moehring
Genre: Humor & Entertainment
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Whether solving biblical foreskin mysteries, having his head split open by a crowbar-wielding man named Thor or getting busted for pickpocketing in a remote Mexican desert, Ryan Moehring reveals in his debut collection of stories and essays, The Fried Twinkie Manifesto, that his irreverent wit and capacity for uncovering nuggets of insight from the rubble of the mundane make him one of humor’s most promising newcomers.
While maintaining a voice unmistakably his own, Moehring evokes the wild imagination of Tom Robbins, the soul of Sedaris, and the wisdom of Vonnegut. Though readers will more often than not find themselves laughing out loud, Moehring’s eye for the profound and his unyielding honesty ensure that they are just as likely to cry—or cringe.
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One Way Ticket to Anywhere: A Boy Sets Out On His Own
Rich Ochoa
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Parenting & Relationships | Sports & Outdoors
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RICH’S mother kicks him out of the house in a drunken fury when he refuses to eat kidney beans. The sixteen year old is put on a bus and rides cross-country to meet his father, whom he had been conditioned to fear as the monster who abducted him as an infant. Two months later, his step-mother offers him a one-way bus ticket to anywhere he wants to go. After perusing a road atlas for a place to finish high school, the protagonist devises a plan. He’ll “Go Greyhound” from Idaho to his former hometown, Lindale, Texas. He’ll build a fort in the woods behind the high school where he’ll sleep until he can land a job, cash some paychecks, and find a room to rent. As he steps onto the bus and into adulthood, he counts his belongings as twenty dollars cash, fifty dollars of food stamps, and a garbage bag full of clothes.
One Way Ticket to Anywhere is the sad-yet-hard-not-to-laugh-at story of a teenage boy’s struggle to avoid becoming a high school dropout while he deals with the emotional, financial, and social ramifications of parental abandonment. The book captures the essence of a boy’s resilience, but is at its most compelling when it reveals the way human beings react to his situation. An encounter with a frumpy middle-aged lady sitting next to him on the bus changes his perspective on life. His psychotic head football coach terrorizes him in bizarre and creative ways. A kind-hearted young accountant, rents him a spare room in his office building and becomes a big-brother figure. But, perhaps the most endearing supporting characters are Rich’s friends—teenagers themselves—they’ll do anything to help him survive.
One Way Ticket to Anywhere is a memoir that never strays far from its resonating message of perseverance and resolve of a boy who becomes a man with each turn of the page. The reader will cringe at the seven-year-old being told of the birds and the bees by his inebriated mother, laugh at the young teenager who’s terrorized by the vicious family dog, and root for the nomadic young man who is stripped of everything typical of the senior year experience except for his goal to simply walk across the stage.
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Stepping Stones
Steve Gannon
Genre: Short Stories | Science Fiction
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A collection of stories from bestselling author Steve Gannon.What do a Las Vegas insomniac, an amateur inventor whose tinkering threatens to trigger a war, a boy with a strange and terrible gift, a medical researcher who discovers the secret of eternal life, a beautiful woman in a coma, and a homicidal rock climber all have in common?Read “Stepping Stones” to find out!
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A Christmas Promise (Billionaire romance) (Bought By The Billionaire Brothers Book 9)
Alexx Andria
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Romance
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All the wealth and privilege in the world cannot erase the memory of one woman.
Laird Tiechert doesn’t do “forever.” The son of a construction magnate, he spends his time perfecting the art of perpetual bachelorhood. That is, until several months ago, Lana Winters was thrust into his care .
Broken, damaged and needing someone she could trust, Laird found himself in a role he’d never played — as a caregiver. Laird told himself he was playing a part for the sake of protecting the club, Malvagio. When his part was done, he walked away. Except, Lana never truly left his heart. And that’s a problem.
Lana Winters, still struggling to overcome what’d happened to her in the darkened halls of the notorious club owned by the Buchanan family, wants nothing to do with men or relationships… especially someone like Laird. But there’s something about Laird that draws her out of her shell and forces her to confront her feelings for the man, even though he’s the worst for someone like her.
Can Laird keep his Christmas Promise or will his failure ruin Lana forever?
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