Last night the baby bassets decorated the Christmas tree, so now we are ready to celebrate the holidays. This of course means it is time for Bake-a-Palooza! This is when I spend 48 hours straight baking holiday cookies for my friends and family. It also means that the only food the baby bassets will get out of me are cookies, so if they want anything else it will be on them. I always love to scour the baking cookbooks looking for new cookies to bake, but I always fall back on the ones my mom baked. The difference between my method and hers though, was she used to bake and hand them out two days before Christmas. I like to hand them out the first week of December when people are not sick of holiday treats. Everyone gets full enjoyment out of them. Time to get my ingredient inventory list together and warn the family. I would love it if you guys would share with me some of your favorite holiday cookies. It would be fun to add something new.
Hometown Secrets (Linda Darby Mystery Book 2)
by David Bishop, Paradox Designs covers-formating
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Drama & Plays | Mystery | United States
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Includes excerpt from David’s latest book, The First Lady’s Second Man.
Hometown Secrets: The long awaited sequel to the first Linda Darby suspense mystery, THE WOMAN, has been released. And Ryan Testler, is back with her again.
Memories are funny things. The way they quietly hang around. Linger. Waiting for something we see or hear, or an unexpected event to slam them forward into our consciousness. To strike us the way headlights assault a dark road. Some memories bring along a smile, others foreshadow danger and there are those which cry out for resolution. All of this is true for Linda Darby.
Linda wonders if she might again be lured into her first lover’s bed. As the pace quickens she does find love, along with friendship, fear, danger, and opportunity. Clashes of personality and conflicts between the agendas of the principal characters eventually coalesce in ways Linda never anticipated.
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Wormwood
by D.H. Nevins
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science Fiction
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Tiamat and his brothers, a legion of one hundred half-angels, have orders to send all humans on to their final judgment. Yet in a moment of weakness, Tiamat risks his life to rescue a hiker named Kali from the very destruction he initiated.
Kali, thrust from the surety of her world into the boundless hell of Tiamat’s, must try to find a way to survive in the Earth’s vast, devastated landscape. Plagued by a legion of Nephilim bent on sending her on, she is forced to trust the one being who could prove to be her greatest enemy.
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Cole Dust: A Cole Sage Novel Book #4 (A Cole Sage Mystery)
by Micheal Maxwell
Genre: Action & Adventure | Literature & Fiction | Mystery
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Can Cole Sage Find The Key That Unlocks A Dark Mystery?
When Cole Sage inherits a house and small farm in Oklahoma, he finds a dusty old trunk that opens up the world of the grandfather Cole never knew. From pre-World War I America to the late fifties, Cole learns of a man tormented by alcohol, racism, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression and an addiction to gambling.
A Blend Of Storylines That’s Both Rich And Touching
As he rebuilds the old farm, Cole reads of forty years of triumphs and disgrace in a family history he’s never known. Along the way, he discovers a love and pride in the man his parents tried to erase. The last volume of George Sage’s journals unlocks a secret hidden away for fifty years that will change Cole Sage forever.
Cole Dust is a treasure trove for lovers of history, family, genealogy, Americana and great epic story telling.
Cole Dust Is A Stand Alone Novel – You Will Love The Other Books In This Series, But It Is Not Required To Read Them First To Enjoy Cole Dust.
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Her Secret Christmas Hero (Cherry Lake Christmas)
by Mallory Kane
Genre: Romance | Literature & Fiction | Holidays
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Do you believe in love at first sight?
Allie McHale is spending this brutal Christmas Eve snowstorm in a barn in Marietta, Montana when suddenly she hears a horrible crash on the freeway near her ranch. She discovers a handsome lone survivor, a prisoner in handcuffs, and despite her apprehension about harboring a criminal, she rescues him anyway.
Jacob Reeves, on his way to Salt Lake City to testify against his organized crime family, is miraculously saved by the most beautiful woman he’s ever laid eyes on, who has every reason not to trust him, but getting through a freezing Christmas Eve forces them to work together to survive.
During the long night, their chemistry is off the charts and Jake realizes that Allie could be the love of his life. But as soon as the storm is over, he’ll be gone. Is Jake destined to break both of their hearts, or will a Christmas tragedy end in a miracle?
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Ambush in Dust Creek (Lincoln Hawk Book 1)
by Scott Connor
Genre: Classics | Literature & Fiction
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When Marshal Lincoln Hawk rode into the lawless town of Dust Creek, his mission was to clean out its trigger-happy outlaws. In a wave of rightful vengeance, Lincoln’s deadly Peacemaker did just that. But some of the outlaws escaped the marshal’s justice.
Years later, when Lincoln rides into Dust Creek again, the town seems to have been abandoned. But it hasn’t. Mason Black and his ruthless outlaw band are waiting for him. From behind every broken window of the tumbledown ghost town, Mason’s guns are aimed at Lincoln’s head.
To see another dawn, Lincoln must face a desperate battle for survival in a world where he can trust nobody and the only law that matters is the law of the gun.
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Ancient Greece: Spartans and The Trojan Horse (Ancient Greece, Spartans, Sparta, Trojan Horse, Trojan War)
by Patrick Auerbach
Genre: History | Nonfiction
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Spartans: The True and Brutal Story Of How The Spartans Become The Strongest Warriors In History
480 B. C.
Proud Xerxes, Emperor of Persia and King of Kings, invades Greece with a million soldiers. He commands thousands of ships and is supported by dozens of allies, among them the charming Queen Artemisia.
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.
Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history. One that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale.
Read how The Spartans became the strongest warriors in history.
Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the Trojan War
The story of the Trojan War, fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age, has grabbed the imagination for millennia. A conflict between Mycenaeans and Hittites may well have occurred, but its representation in epic literature such as Homer’s Iliad is almost certainly more myth than reality. Nevertheless, it has defined and shaped the way ancient Greek culture has been viewed right up to the 21st century CE. The story of gods and heroic warriors is perhaps one of the richest single surviving sources from antiquity and offers insights into the warfare, religion, customs, and attitudes of the ancient Greeks.
The main source for our knowledge of the Trojan War is Homer’s Iliad (written sometime in the 8th century BCE) where he recounts 53 days during the final year of the ten year conflict. The Greeks imagined the war to have occurred some time in the 13th century BCE. However, the war was also the subject of a long oral tradition prior to Homer’s work, and this, combined with other sources such as the fragmentary Epic Cycle poems, give us a more complete picture of what exactly the Greeks thought of as the Trojan War.
The Trojan War, in Greek tradition, started as a way for Zeus to reduce the ever-increasing population of humanity and, more practically, as an expedition to reclaim Helen, wife of Menelaos, King of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon. Helen was abducted by the Trojan prince Paris (also known as Alexandros) and taken as his prize for choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess in a competition with Athena and Hera at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Menelaos and the Greeks wanted her back and to avenge Trojan impudence.
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