This year I am going to try very hard to buy most of my Christmas gifts for my friends and family from local merchants. This has always been such a tricky thing to do. Yes, it is best for my community, but time is not always on my side and ordering things online is so quick and easy. On the other hand it would also be a great chance to get out and explore shops in my community that I have never seen before. The area that I live in is a vacation destination for people all over the world with it’s beautiful wineries and incredible artists. I should be able to find a few gifts right?
Bluestone Homecoming (Welcome to Bluestone Book 1)
MJ Fredrick
Genre: Romance
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War correspondent Leo Ericson returns to his hometown of Bluestone Lake, Minnesota, when his parents notify him his young son is having trouble fitting in at school. Leo doesn’t know how to be a single parent since the death of his wife, and he certainly has no desire to return to Bluestone. But he needs a place for his son, a place where he’ll be with family, while Leo does his job. He’ll stay long enough to get Max settled, then go back to work. School counselor Trinity Madison watches Leo struggle with his son, trying to overcome the mental barricade she’s erected against the man who sent his son away when he’s perfectly capable of caring for the child. The situation brings about her own unsettled feelings about giving her child up for adoption when she was young. But as she observes Leo’s difficulties, his sacrifices, she softens toward the man. While he’s in town, he ends up working with some old friends and Trinity on a committee to revitalize Bluestone. The former resort town is struggling and looking for ways to bring tourists back. Leo finds himself charmed, then smitten with the feisty counselor, but will he still love her when he learns her secret?
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Trail of Thread: A Woman’s Westward Journey (Trail of Thread Series Book 1)
Linda Hubalek
Genre: History | Biographies & Memoirs
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Trail of Thread: A Woman’s Westward Journey, Historical Letters 1854-1855 Trail of Thread Series, Book 1.
Taste the dust of the road and feel the wind in your face as you travel with a Kentucky family by wagon train to the new territory of Kansas in 1854. Find out what it was like for the thousands of families who made the cross-country journey into the unknown. In this first book of the Trail of Thread series; in the form of letters she wrote on the journey, Deborah Pieratt describes the scenery, the everyday events on the trail, and the task of taking care of her family. Stories of humor and despair, along with her ongoing remarks about camping, cooking, and quilting on the wagon trail make you feel as if you pulled up stakes and are traveling with the Pieratt’s, too. But hints of the brewing trouble ahead plagued them along the way as people questions their motive for settling in the new territory. If they are from the South, why don’t they have slaves with them? Would the Pieratt’s vote for or against legal slavery in the new state? Though Deborah does not realize it, her letters show how this trip affected her family for generations to come.
This series is based on author Linda K. Hubalek’s ancestors that traveled from Kentucky to Kansas in 1854. Twelve old quilt patterns are mentioned in the letters, and the sketched designs are in the back of the book for reference.
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Invisible Armies
Jon Evans
Genre: Thrillers
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In a world where security cameras prove what you have done and databases define who you are, the few who know how to manipulate the technology can play God. They can change the future; they can alter the past. They can make big money, they can save the world, and they can get away with murder over and over again. Danielle Leaf grew up believing she was safe. Now she knows she was wrong. Award-winning author Jon Evans returns with a compulsive, fast-paced story that examines issues of Third World exploitation and the extreme edge of anti-capitalist activism. Invisible Armies is Cold War suspense for the modern age, a thriller that looks behind the power of protests and the politics of big business.
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The Black Hood: A Will Cannon, Bounty Hunter, Western Adventure Novel
Larry Hill
Genre: Westerns | Action & Adventure | Classics
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The vigilante, The Black Hood, is doing a good job fighting Marx and his hired killers in Dogtown, Colorado, but Will Cannon thinks the Black Hood might need some help. Will rides to Dogtown to buy saddle horses from some young bronc busters there and he finds himself right in the middle of the fight. Will enlists the help of the three brave young bronc busters and they set out to end the criminal careers of all of the men in the Marx Gang.
All of the Will Cannon novels are classic Western Adventures.
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The Awkward Owl
Shawnda Blake
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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Being awkward makes life hard for a little owl learning to fly. While all the other owls swoop and soar, the awkward owl ends up crashing into a big oak tree. Will he ever get the confidence he needs to take to the skies?
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