You know what I hate? My cooking. The whole family was at a friend’s house and she made the most amazing Scalloped Portobello Mushroom dish I had ever tasted! I watched her make it, so I knew it was a pretty easy recipe. I am certain I stabbed a few people with my fork to get as many mushrooms as I could. Hubby also went nuts for them, and he doesn’t even like mushrooms. My friend was kind enough to print out the recipe, and within a few days I had gone to the store and got all the ingredients. I was so excited when I was making them that I am sure I drooled a bit. Gross. Anywho… after just 30 minutes in the oven I pulled them out, ready to stab people again for my pieces of the tasty little mushrooms. I took one bite and….. BLEGH! WHAT THE HECK!!??? These were not the same tasty goodies I had at my friends house. BLEGH BLEGH!! Actually they tasted fine, but not like my friend’s at all. Hubby was shocked. He said they tasted exactly the same and he was delighted. The problem is nothing tastes as good as someone else’s cooking. I never like what I cook. I don’t seem to have that issue with cake though. Hmm. Anywho… Here is the link to the recipe on my other blog Pollen Patch. Super easy to make. And when I don’t cook it, it is FANTASTIC! Also Adkins and Keto friendly.
The Trouble With Charlie
by Kenneth Preston
Genre: Psychological | Thrillers | Teen & Young Adult | Suspense
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A mind-bending story of one teen’s descent into madness and another teen’s quest to prevent an unspeakable tragedy.
Fifteen-year-old Charlie Simpson is a ticking time bomb. If somebody doesn’t stop him, he is going to explode. Fellow student Sam Caffey has never met Charlie, but he’s been watching him. He knows that Charlie is dangerous, and he knows that if he doesn’t act fast, people are going to die.
But the more Sam learns about the enigmatic Charlie, the more he begins to question his own sanity. He wants to stop Charlie. He wants to tell somebody that Charlie has killed and is going to kill again. But he can’t. Something in his head won’t let him. Is Charlie controlling Sam’s thoughts? Or is Sam losing his mind?
Sam has seen Charlie kill, but nothing can prepare him for what Charlie is about to do next. Charlie wants revenge. He wants to kill everybody who has ever wronged him. Can Sam stop Charlie? Or will he be forced to join him?
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Sweet Tea & Second Chances: A Boy Next Door Small Town Rom Com (Lovebird Café Book 1)
by Dylann Crush
Genre: Foreign Languages | Classics | Friendship
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The boy next door is about to rock my world… again.
Robbie:
I fell in love with Cassie Belmont when we were five years old. She was my first and I always thought she’d be my last. Then fate stepped in and ripped her away. Now she’s back, and I’m not going to let her go.
Cassie:
The only way to claim my big city future is by cutting ties with my small-town past. At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself until I get caught between a rock of regret and the hard planes of Robbie Jordan’s chest. I only need to survive until he fixes up my grandparents’ house and I can cash out. But he’s got a truck full of tools and has always known exactly how to use them. Not to mention the things that man can do with a hammer…
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Texas Kingdoms
by Robert Broomall
Genre: Westerns | Action & Adventure
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“Texas Kingdoms” is the 30-year story of two men, a woman, and a town.
Will Stewart and Chance Evans come to Texas in 1851, on their way to the California gold fields. Will is poor and determined to make something of himself; Chance is a gambler, determined to separate fools from their money. The two men are attacked by Comanches, and Will is so badly wounded that he can travel no further. He and Chance are forced to winter where they are, and by the time spring comes, they’ve decided to stay in Texas and make their fortunes there. Will painstakingly begins to catch the wild cattle that roam the brush, while Chance sets up a tent by the road where he sells whiskey to travelers and takes their money at cards.
Settlers arrive, among them the beautiful Hope Sommerville. Will and Chance both fall in love with Hope, who will get pregnant by one man and marry the other. As the years pass, Will’s handful of cows becomes a cattle empire, and Chance’s tent becomes Kingdom, wildest town on the Great Western Trail. Will, Chance, and Hope face Indian attacks, war, the loss of children, and the lawlessness of the post-Civil War West. Will’s love for Hope drives him to do great things, while Chance’s love casts him into a vortex of self-destruction and crime, and Hope learns what true love really means. Then one shocking act threatens to destroy them all.
Spanning the period from the Comanche wars to the coming of the railroad and the end of the great cattle drives, “Texas Kingdoms” is a saga of love and friendship and the limits to which people will go for each one.
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Pagan’s Ark: A sci-fi historical thriller (Verus Foundation Book 1)
by Matt Eaton
Genre: Science & Math | Religion & Spirituality | Fantasy
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Buried underground in Rome, an artefact powerful enough to rewrite human history.
The keeper of this strange object is a Catholic priest cloistered deep in the basement of the Vatican’s secret archives.
Is he a heretic or a madman?
For the men of the church in 1951, it must be one of the above: the alternative is unimaginable.
Wartime spymaster turned presidential envoy Bill Donovan must tell Pope Pius XII what he won’t want to hear — the mad priest holds the key to unlocking ancient technology way more advanced than anything in the modern world.
Donovan has to uncover that secret himself… to ensure America’s enemies don’t get there first.
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Stripped Bare (Kate Fox Book 1)
by Shannon Baker
Genre: Mystery | Action & Adventure | Crime Fiction | Women’s Fiction
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In this riveting novel from award-winning author Shannon Baker, a Nebraska county sheriff’s wife investigates a murder — and her husband is the prime suspect.
When Kate Fox receives a late-night phone call, her seemingly perfect life on the Nebraska prairie shatters in an instant.
Eldon, shirt-tail relative and owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in Grand County, has been killed.
Kate’s husband, Ted, the Grand County Sheriff, has been shot and may never walk again.
And worst of all, Ted is the prime suspect in Eldon’s murder.
Desperate to clear Ted’s name, Kate throws herself headlong into the hunt for the real killer.
When Kate finds herself the victim of several mysterious “accidents” she knows she’s running out of time. If she doesn’t find out who killed Eldon soon, she — or someone else in town — may be the next to turn up dead.
But a shocking confession throws everything into doubt, and as Kate keeps digging she unearths unfathomable secrets — the kind worth killing for.
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