It is surprisingly hard for me to avoid cake. Tomorrow is my youngest baby basset’s 14th birthday. I KNOW!! I look too young to have teenage sons. Crazy! Enough about me… back to me. I am trying to cut back on sugar and eat healthy, and all the other stuff that makes me smile, but there is always a cake around every corner. It’s like it is stalking me. Every month of the year there is a reason to have cake. I can only deny myself so many times before I crack and eat a huge piece. It never ends with just one piece either. As soon as that cake makes an appearance I am coming up with a plan to get a second and third piece. I am amazingly successful at coming home from parties with cakes that aren’t even mine. I have mad skills when it comes to acquiring cakes. Today I will be buying the Costco chocolate cake for the family celebration on Sunday. I will have to buy a separate dessert that will keep me from eating the birthday cake before it is time. I hate you cake. I LOVE YOU!!!
The Bear Trap: A Will Carter Investigation
by Grant Pies
Genre: Science Fiction | Thrillers | Mystery
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What could be worse than being dead? This is what private detective Will Carter can’t shake from his mind when the parents of Rose Bishop, a young girl missing for two months, hire him for the seemingly hopeless case. The Chicago PD has given up, the community has moved on, and even Carter’s partner thinks they are chasing a ghost.In a city known for corruption, it’s no surprise Carter finds himself running up against the police and turning towards the Russian mafia for help in tracking down Rose Bishop.But the further Carter delves into the missing person case, the more enemies he makes, the more lies he uncovers, and the more he tests the limits of his partnership.Only after it’s too late does Carter realize he has pulled the curtain back too far, looked where others have always averted their eyes, and exposed a carefully crafted cover story. Only after the trap is sprung does Carter realize it was ever set, and soon he will realize what precisely could be worse than death.
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Tangled Web: A Steamy Friends-to-Lovers Rock Star Romance
by Jade C. Jamison
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Literary Fiction
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He shouldn’t have expected his best friend to stay single forever…
Katie’s had a secret crush on her best friend Johnny Church since high school, but he’s never looked at her the same way. When he leaves home to become a famous rock star, she stays behind, eventually becoming engaged.
But when Johnny comes home to visit this time, things seem different somehow. He’s still her friend — but there’s something else there. And Katie realizes she should have told Johnny she had a fiancé, because maybe the attraction was mutual after all…
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An Icy Death: The High Country Mystery Series
by Loretta Jackson, Vickie Britton
Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery
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Wyoming Winters can be Murder!
In the heart of a raging blizzard Sheriff Jeff McQuede discovers a woman frozen to death in her car. At first he believes her death to be an unfortunate accident–until he finds clues that point to cold-blooded murder. Margaret’s husband, Arthur, left her in the stalled vehicle to brave the storm and manages to reach Joe Trevino’s isolated ranch. The case becomes more complicated because of the recent warehouse robberies at Trevino’s store. McQueede finds that Trevino is Margaret Burnell’s business partner, and that she has traveled from their Casper store to conduct a company audit. In addition, Margaret has planned to meet with her only child, a run-away daughter she hasn’t seen in years. Trevino, the missing daughter, and Arthur Burnell would all profit financially from Margaret’s demise. Has a relentless killer tracked and sabotaged the Burnells, or did Arthur simply abandon his wife for his share of the money, leaving her to die an icy death?
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The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Malachi the Queer: Gay Fiction (The Clay Gay Universe Book 1)
by Damian Jay Clay
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Finding the truth about who you are is only the first step. The second is fighting to hold onto it.
The son of a Baptist pastor has a secret: he’s gay. When his family discovers his secret, they send him to a gay conversion camp where his resolve is put to the ultimate test. From the depths of the profound darkness of what he is forced to endure, he may discover there is love and light to be found.
A genius and a good Christian boy… That’s the general opinion people have of Malachi Russell – so smart, quiet and well behaved. The perfect son for a celebrity, Baptist pastor.
But Malachi has secrets he’s kept hidden for the past three years. He doesn’t believe in god and, what’s more, he’s beginning to realise he’s gay. These are things he knows he must keep hidden until he can escape his family because he knows they will never accept them.
When his father begins to suspect that Malachi has developed feelings for men, he sends him to a gay cure camp in the middle of nowhere. Handcuffed and forced into the back to a people carrier en route to the camp, Malachi wonders: Is it possible to be so sure about yourself, to be so sure of who you are and yet still be terrified that you can be changed, not by evidence or reason but by indoctrination and fear?
Only his time at the brutal camp will tell.
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Polar Vortex: A Novel
by Matthew Mather
Genre: Thrillers | Romance | Science Fiction
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Arctic meets Da Vinci Code in this breathtaking thriller from Matthew Mather, worldwide bestseller over a million copies sold, translations in 24 languages and film development by 20th Century Fox.
A flight disappears over the North Pole. No distress calls. Vanished into thin air.
Mitch Matthew is a writer struggling to make ends meet when his wife’s brother Josh offers them a first class seat on a flight from Hong Kong to new York. When his wife needs to stay behind, it becomes an opportunity for some quality time with his five-year-old Lilly.
At check in, they run into a strange Norwegian arguing with a huge Russian. A mysterious redhead is guarding a package in the business lounge. But everything is fine, until…
With hours of Allied Airlines 695 disappearing, a massive international search in launched. Aircraft and ships are dispatched from Russia, China, America, Canada and Norway. As tensions rise, the world edges to the brink of apocalyptic war.
In an area overflown by dozens of satellites from as many nations, ringed by radar and missile installations dating from the Cold War… How can a modern airliner simply vanish in one of the most heavily monitored places on Earth?
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Beautifully and Wonderfully Made
by Jean L. Kuhnke
Genre: Westerns | Religion & Spirituality
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Addison returned from the beginning of her Pa’s cattle drive with two cows and two calves that got mixed with the market cattle. When she got home, the house was empty, the garden neglected, and a weeks’ worth of eggs still in the nests. As she began to piece the clues together, she realized that Nola just up and left without leaving a note or anything.
Addy, as everyone except her step-mother called her, concluded that she alone would have to keep the ranch running until Pa returned. The trouble was, he didn’t. For several months she struggled to keep the secret about Nola deserting them, but the town already knew. What they didn’t know was that Pa hadn’t returned; they expected that he was only a few days behind the rest of the wranglers.
The ranch was too much for the Addy even though she was tall and strongly built; something that Nola ridiculed her about constantly. Nola’s biggest complaint was that Addy was ‘an ox of a girl,’ among other things. Doing all the inside chores and maintaining or repairing things on the ranch would work for a week or two, but it had been months.
She had food and a roof over her head but not the strength or energy to run a ranch single handedly. The Wilson children were facing troubles of their own, after their parents were killed in an accident, until the Parson and his wife convinced them to join forces.
With Thelma’s help, Addy began to see that she wasn’t the misfit Nola made her out to be. Together, with the help from Darrel and Minnie, they became the family each of them lost.
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