I am going into this weekend with a lovely sort of calm. I was able to acquire the final Lego minifigure (A Yeti with a camera) in the latest mystery pack series. I think I have at least six months before the next series comes out, so I have time to relax. When will it end though? The stress of needing to complete each series is overwhelming. But I can’t stop now! Breath…breath. I have six months…six….
Quiznot
Russell Stoll
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Children’s eBooks | Science Fiction
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An extraordinary event is predicted on a dark world called Earth, a planet still ignorant of the thriving galaxy around it.A rare being of nearly unlimited power called a quiznot will arise on its surface.The powerful take notice and prepare, for if you control the quiznot, you control the galaxy. Which means nothing to thirteen-year-old Timothy Starr — his life is in free fall.After a chance encounter with a beautiful girl, he’s developed psychokinetic abilities driven by his emotions.When his outbursts nearly kill two classmates, he’s banished to the Smithson School, a place that can help him, he’s told. But the teachers don’t seem interested in helping him get better and the few other students he meets with unusual powers are sullen and reclusive.When he discovers that the school is built over the tunnels of an old missile base that may still be in use, Timothy wants answers.But he’s warned that students who ask questions at Smithson don’t live to ask twice.
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Where She Belongs (Destiny Falls Book 1)
Cindy Procter-King
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Romance
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She never wants to go home again. For Jess Morgan, Destiny Falls holds too many painful memories. Nine years ago, a logging accident near the remote timber town killed her dad and her high school sweetheart. To make matters worse, her mother quickly sought comfort with another man. That choice tore Jess apart and drove her to seek a life far away. But now fate steps in, and family obligations force her return home. Before long, she’s convinced that persuading her mom to live with her in Toronto will repair their shattered bond. However, she doesn’t count on a long-ago friend re-entering her life and challenging her convictions. Rugged forester Adam Wright believes in family, roots, and not running from heartache. Now, all he wants is to help Jess break down the walls of the lonely sanctuary she’s built for herself and heal her past hurts. It’s not until she rejects his plans for their future that he realizes his persistence has pushed her away–not at all what he intended. Has he lost his chance? Or can he convince Jess that where she truly belongs is with him… forever?
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Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years
Michael Esslinger
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | History
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ALCATRAZ – the name alone said it all… It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation’s most incorrigible criminals.It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed “Machine Gun” Kelly into a model of decorum.It took the birds away from the Birdman of Alcatraz. When prisoners boarded the boat for Alcatraz, they knew that they had reached the end of the line.Not only was this the toughest of all Federal penitentiaries, but it was also said to be virtually escape-proof.The island was a natural fortress, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait of freezing water and deadly currents.This prison was the U.S. government’s drastic answer to the lawlessness unleashed under Prohibition, which continued throughout the “Roaring Twenties” and into the teeth of the Great Depression.Alcatraz, with its damp cold and austere isolation, its rigid discipline and strict rule of silence, was as tough as the criminals that were sent there, and by the time the prison closed down in 1963, “the Rock” had indisputably done its job.
Alcatraz – A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years has sustained as a staple reference for staff members and tour guides at Alcatraz, and remains one of the most comprehensive references chronicling the history of the island. This mammoth reference navigates the Island’s history through rarely seen documents, interviews and hundreds of pages of historic photographs. Author interviews range from men such as legendary FBI fugitive James “Whitey’ Bulger; Dale Stamphill, a principle in the 1938 escape with Doc Barker and Henry Young; to Atom Spy Morton Sobell, the codefendant of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Historian Michael Esslinger thoroughly details the prominent events, inmates, and life inside the most infamous prison in American History.
NOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of crime and prison violence.
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It’s Just a Little Crush (Lizzie Hart Mysteries Book 1)
Caroline Fardig
Genre: Satire | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Humor & Satire
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Meet Lizzie Hart. Small town girl… big time problems. Hindered only by her raging crush on the office hunk, wannabe sleuth Lizzie Hart spies, accuses, and gossips her way to the truth in this bestselling first book of The Lizzie Hart Mysteries series!
The sleepy town of Liberty hasn’t seen murder in… well… ever. Residents are stunned when the body of a young woman is found strangled, and reporters at the Liberty Chronicle are thrilled, rather disturbingly, over the biggest news story to hit town this century. Lizzie Hart has even bigger problems. Lately, she can’t seem to concentrate on her job as copy editor at the Chronicle with the new hunky investigative reporter, Blake Morgan, swaggering around the office. How can a girl work when she’s using all of her energy combating Blake-induced hot flashes and struggling to repress the giggly inner schoolgirl that’s constantly rearing her dorky head? It’s a good thing that Blake barely knows Lizzie exists. After an odd string of events, however, Lizzie begins to wonder if Blake is really as fabulous as she has fantasized. When Lizzie and Blake find a co-worker dead, Blake’s personality changes completely–and not in a good way. Even though the police rule the death as an accident, Lizzie immediately suspects foul play and senses a connection to the recent murder. She is determined to bring the killer to justice, but is having some trouble getting her Nancy Drew on thanks to the pesky stalker she’s picked up–Blake Morgan. Wait, didn’t she want him to follow her around and pay attention to her? Not like this. Blake has turned from cool and smooth to cold and downright scary, making Lizzie wonder if he should be next on her suspect list.
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The Lonely American
Vera Lam
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Literary Fiction
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The Lonely American bids fair to be the great story of Vietnam, full of unforgettable characters and showing the war as history and literature have never quite managed to portray it. More than anything, The Lonely American is an inspirational tale that touches the reader and gives the gift of greater life, as only literature can do.
Saigon, 1962; the United States is trying to help the South Vietnamese government defeat a communist insurgency. An American Air Force officer, David Emerson, meets a lovely young woman, Lucie Hong. David has a girlfriend back home, but Lucie arouses feelings in him that he can’t control; and Lucie is swept off her feet. David disappears into the war and becomes a hero of the Air Force, flying 47 missions without a scratch to himself. But he never forgets Lucie. Some years after they’ve separated, he finds her, and she tells him about Emma, the daughter he gave her. Unlike so many others, David is not a man to love and run. When Saigon falls to the communists, David, leaving his wife and young son in California, hurries back to a flaming city which most people are trying to escape, desperately determined to rescue Lucie and Emma. They are nowhere to be found. Years go by; as tragedy strikes his own family, David manages to locate Lucie and Emma in France, and goes there. Lucie is lost to him, while Emma loathes and mistrusts him.
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