Last night I was having some pretty awful nightmares about being chased (I like to keep my nightmares old school) and I was awoken to the sound of either fireworks or an alien invasion. Half awake and fully freaked out I went straight to Facebook and ask what the heck that was. Nothing..no response. For the next 5 minutes I waited for any sign on Facebook that there was trouble. No reports of gunfire or aliens on any of my friends news feeds. At that point I was certain the world was okay, or at least our town. If it’s not on Facebook, it didn’t happen.
Night of the Aurora (Salmon Run – Book 1)
J.A. Marlow
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Science Fiction
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A new life in Alaska, a massive aurora, and a hidden spaceship under the ice and snow…
For Hawk and Zach Callahan, getting to the small town of Salmon Run presents the first challenge. They think they have it made when they board the unique train that will take them through a dark roadless wilderness to their new home. The same night a massive Aurora Borealis strands them in the middle of nowhere.
An Aurora also affecting an alien spaceship hidden beneath the ice and snow…
Welcome to Salmon Run, Alaska! A place of wild animals, wild lands, and wild inhabitants…oh, and native legends come alive and an interplanetary alien conflict at their backdoor.
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Blue Wide Sky: A Smith Mountain Lake Novel – Book One
Inglath Cooper
Genre: Family Life | Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction
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First love… forever love.
Sixteen-year old Gabby Hayden wasn’t the kind of girl who gave a hoot about boys. She had a few real loves. Water-skiing, going out on Smith Mountain Lake with her dad and her dog. Anything else ranked a distant second. Until the summer smart, caring, gorgeous Sam Tatum gave her his heart. It had been the most wonderful time of her life, lazy days hanging out at the dock, skinny-dipping at midnight, staring up at the stars from the back of Sam’s truck.
They are planning their future together when Sam’s father is transferred to South Africa. Devastated, Gabby and Sam promise to wait for each other during the two years before he returns for college. But lonely and angry, Sam makes a mistake that will change the course of both their lives.
Years later, an unexpected diagnosis brings Sam home to his parents’ house on Smith Mountain Lake where he believes he can find peace and acceptance. What he finds, however, is the girl he once loved, now a woman unwilling to lose him again, a woman who will make him realize that both love and life are worth fighting for.
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Foul Player (The Doctor Jillian Sanders Mystery Series Book 1)
Sue Parker
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Murder is the last thing on OBGYN Dr. Jillian Sanders’ mind, but it’s the first thing she must consider when her brother’s ex fiancee turns up dead.
Up all night delivering babies, Dr. Sanders is summoned to the ER to see a young pregnant woman possibly in premature labor.Within minutes, the back doors of the emergency room burst open and paramedics rush in a late twenties Jane Doe, clinging to life after being run down while jogging.
A side-long glance is all it takes for Dr. Sanders to recognize the victim as her brother’s former fiancee and long time family friend.Of course, it could be Kara’s twin sister Sara, but based on a recent conversation with Kara-a conversation Dr. Sanders promised to keep secret against her better judgment- the chances of that are slim.
When resuscitation fails and the police write the incident up as an accidentalhit-and-run, Dr. Sanders must tell all.And when her old flame, Detective Mike Daniels, the detective assigned to the case, appears to have other priorities,Dr. Sanders decides to investigate Kara’s death on her own.
Throughout the novel, Dr. Sanders attempts to keep some semblance of her life prior to Kara’s death.She continues to see patients, deliver babies and and perform surgery.She also resolves a relationship with her ex husband and learns to love again, all the while somehow managing to maintain her sense of humor.
But as Dr. Sanders will soon discover, there is nothing funny about Kara’s case and there is much to lose by getting involved.Not the least of which… is her life.
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My First Summer in the Sierra (Illustrated)
John Muir
Genre: History
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EXCERPT:
In the great Central Valley of California there are only two seasons–spring and summer. The spring begins with the first rainstorm, which usually falls in November. In a few months the wonderful flowery vegetation is in full bloom, and by the end of May it is dead and dry and crisp, as if every plant had been roasted in an oven.
Then the lolling, panting flocks and herds are driven to the high, cool, green pastures of the Sierra. I was longing for the mountains about this time, but money was scarce and I couldn’t see how a bread supply was to be kept up. While I was anxiously brooding on the bread problem, so troublesome to wanderers, and trying to believe that I might learn to live like the wild animals, gleaning nourishment here and there from seeds, berries, etc., sauntering and climbing in joyful independence of money or baggage, Mr. Delaney, a sheep-owner, for whom I had worked a few weeks, called on me, and offered to engage me to go with his shepherd and flock to the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers–the very region I had most in mind. I was in the mood to accept work of any kind that would take me into the mountains whose treasures I had tasted last summer in the Yosemite region. The flock, he explained, would be moved gradually higher through the successive forest belts as the snow melted, stopping for a few weeks at the best places we came to. These I thought would be good centers of observation from which I might be able to make many telling excursions within a radius of eight or ten miles of the camps to learn something of the plants, animals, and rocks; for he assured me that I should be left perfectly free to follow my studies. I judged, however, that I was in no way the right man for the place, and freely explained my shortcomings, confessing that I was wholly unacquainted with the topography of the upper mountains, the streams that would have to be crossed, and the wild sheep-eating animals, etc.; in short that, what with bears, coyotes, rivers, cañons, and thorny, bewildering chaparral, I feared that half or more of his flock would be lost. Fortunately these short comings seemed insignificant to Mr. Delaney. The main thing, he said, was to have a man about the camp whom he could trust to see that the shepherd did his duty, and he assured me that the difficulties that seemed so formidable at a distance would vanish as we went on; encouraging me further by saying that the shepherd would do all the herding, that I could study plants and rocks and scenery as much as I liked, and that he would himself accompany us to the first main camp and make occasional visits to our higher ones to replenish our store of provisions and see how we prospered. Therefore I concluded to go, though still fearing, when I saw the silly sheep bouncing one by one through the narrow gate of the home corral to be counted, that of the two thousand and fifty many would never return.
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Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in God: How to give love, create beauty and find peace
Frank Schaeffer
Genre: Arts & Photography | Humor & Entertainment | Religion & Spirituality
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Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God—an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with a lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve. Schaeffer writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe. Schaeffer writes that only when we abandon our hunt for certainty do we become free to create beauty, give love and find peace.
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