They say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but I beg to differ. What other holiday to you get to gather with your friends and family, eat great BBQ, and BLOW STUFF UP!!!!??? I love the Fourth of July. We gather together to thank the men, women and animals who have sacrificed so much for our freedom and celebrate what we have. The firework stands are popping up all around town and I am making a mental list on which fireworks are my favorite and give me the most bang (literally) for my buck. I might sneak off and buy a few extras while hubby isn’t looking.
To Kill For (The McKays Book 1)
A.J. Carella
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction
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Families are murder… do you trust yours? Money and a handsome fiance from a good family. What more could a girl want? Jamie McKay appears to have the perfect life but things suddenly start to go horribly wrong. A sudden death and a run in with a would-be killer leave her alone, afraid and a long way from home. Kat McKay, long estranged from her family, returns to the small town she hasn’t been back to since she walked away as a teenager. Determined to find out what happened to her niece she must face the demons from her past, and enlist the help of the man she left behind. Can the McKay’s survive the explosive results?
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World Odyssey (The World Duology Book 1)
Lance Morcan
Genre: Action & Adventure | Historical Fiction
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Set in the nineteenth century, World Odyssey (The World Duology, #1) follows the fortunes of three young travelers as each embarks on an epic journey. Their dramatic adventures span sixteen years and see them engage with Native American Indians, Barbary Coast pirates, Aborigines, Maoris and Pacific Islanders as they travel around the world – from America to Africa, from England to the Canary Islands, to Australia, New Zealand and Samoa. Ambitious American adventurer Nathan Johnson’s journey begins when he runs away to sea to escape a violent father. After surviving a shipwreck and enslavement by one of the indigenous tribes of America’s northwest, his stocks rise and he becomes a successful trader. When Nathan decides to visit Fiji to trade muskets to the natives, he doesn’t know it but his fortunes are about to change again. Sheltered English missionary Susannah Drake’s journey begins after she agrees to accompany her clergyman father to Fiji to help him run a mission station there. They endure a nightmare voyage they’re lucky to survive. When Susannah finds herself sexually attracted to a young crewmember, she is forced to choose between her forbidden desires and the life her father has mapped out for her. Irrepressible Cockney Jack Halliday’s journey begins when he steals hemp from an unscrupulous employer who owes him outstanding wages. For this he’s sentenced to seven years’ hard labor in the British penal colony of New South Wales. Jack escapes to Fiji only to be tracked down by a bounty hunter employed by the British Government to round up escaped convicts. After traveling thousands of miles and experiencing the best and worst that life can offer, these three disparate individuals eventually end up in the remote archipelago of Fiji, in the South Pacific, where their lives intersect.
Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of Fiji: A Novel and The Orphan Trilogy), World Odyssey is an historical adventure published by Sterling Gate Books.
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Lyla
Sean Dietrich
Genre: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction
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Lyla unerringly evokes the life of a troubled family, and the love that grows in it. Quinn must learn how to exist in his mother’s troubled world, without being consumed by her selfishness. Written with fervor and affection for a wounded past, Lyla is an intense and personal epic about a restless woman, and the children caught in her spurring draft. Set during the Great Depression, on the upper coast of Florida, this touching story is about growing up in an achingly anguished household, and finding a way to survive. A stirring memoir that delivers the reader to a sepia-tinted world that is heartbreaking, at times shocking, and triumphant.
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Trouble on the Doorstep (Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery Series Book 5)
Elaine Orr
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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From Hurricane Sandy to Cozy Corner B&B repairs to Aunt Madge’s wedding in three weeks. If Jolie can handle that surely she can deal with a sobbing woman who shows up at midnight playing a scary message on a cell phone. Pooki is frantic about her husband’s whereabouts and more than a little ‘ditzy,’ according to Jolie’s best friend, Scoobie. After taking Pooki to the police station the next morning, Jolie figures she is problem-free. Not really. A shady deal for storm repairs at the Ocean Alley Senior Complex seems to be at the root of Steve Oliver’s hit-and-run death and missing business partner (Pooki’s husband, Eric). When Eric ends up dead at the B&B, Jolie is digging for clues in between burning muffins and appraising houses. But when she doesn’t share all that she learns with her sometimes-boyfriend, reporter George Winters, he’s grouchy. Jolie is convinced she needs to find the murderer (or is it murderers?) and expose fraudulent repair bids. Not everyone shares her views–not the police, her friend Scoobie, and certainly not the murderer.
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You Won’t Remember This
Kate Blackwell
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories | Women’s Fiction
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The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Blackwell’s focus is elemental — on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages — but her gift is to shine a light on these universal situations with such lucidity, it is as if one has never seen them before. In “My First Wedding,” a twelve-year-old girl attends her cousin’s Deep South wedding, where she discovers both mystery and disillusionment and, in the end, finds she’s not immune to her family’s myth of romantic love. In “Heartbeatland,” when a young woman’s husband dies suddenly, she refuses to sell his Jeep to an importuning gay neighbor. The more she clings to the Jeep — and to the memory of her beloved David — the more he becomes someone she doesn’t recognize. In “Queen of the May,” a former belle looks for ways to assuage her loneliness in her large new house in the empty Carolina sandhills.
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