As you all are all too well aware, being sick these days is nothing like it was two and a half years ago. Three years? For the past three days I have had a real doozy of a cold with sneezing, sniffling, and a whole lot of coughing. Three years ago, even with all these symptoms, I could have gone out into the world and done my grocery shopping, errands, and even a fun trip to the hardware store. People may have looked at me like I was gross, but not much after that. Nowadays if you even sniffle outside of the home you can feel the judgement from others washing over you. You may even get sprayed with Holy Water / Sanitizer. Not fun. Starting last Sunday I have been staying home, except for dropping the boys off at school. I took some cold medicine to mask the illness, but a few rogue coughs could get me tarred and feathered if I’m not careful. Not worth it I guess. It’s really hard to get tar out of your hair. ERG!
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Gathering Storm: A 1920s woman breaking all the rules (The Rum Runners’ Chronicles Book 1)
by Sherilyn Decter
Genre: Historical Fiction | Sagas
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She left criminal life behind. Will her new business venture send her to sleep with the fishes?
Florida Coast, 1932. Edith Duffy might be grieving her gangster husband’s death, but she’s no damsel in distress. Leaving the sordid world of Philadelphia bootlegging, she settles in a small town outside Miami and buys a speakeasy. But when she launches a lucrative rum-running operation, indignant locals conspire to destroy her.
Edith lands squarely back in gangland culture, with a Bible-thumping preacher campaigning to shut her down and smugglers resentful of her skill. And now she must forge alliances and make unlikely allies just to survive. Luckily, her mentor is none other than the wife of the notorious Al Capone…
Will Edith’s fondness for underworld profits lead her to a dead end?
Gathering Storm is the first book in the Rum Runners’ Chronicles, a fast-paced historical women’s fiction trilogy. If you like atmospheric settings, mob stories, and independent heroines, then you’ll love Sherilyn Decter’s Prohibition-era adventure.
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Hearts Never Lie (Lily’s House Book 4)
by Rachel Branton
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Romance | Women’s Fiction
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Some Secrets are Meant to be Shared
Caring for the animals at Safe Haven Exotic Wildlife Sanctuary has filled the holes in Zoey Morgan’s life and soothed the memories that haunt her. It helps that she works with Stephen Carey, whose uncle owns the sanctuary, and Declan Walker, who is as wild and untouchable as the animals they help. When a storm hits, flattening buildings and flooding roads, the sanctuary goes into lockdown. Zoey learns that her younger sister is lost in the storm, and she will risk anything to find her. So will the man who loves her — if she’d let him. Can he slip past the walls Zoey has built to hide her secrets?
All Ruth Truman wanted was to open a little cafe and do what she does best, but the price tag is years out of reach. Then a not-so-chance meeting with a gorgeous photographer and help from her hodgepodge family might just put the goal in reach. Except now both her future and her heart are at risk — will the cost be too high?
A blind-date-gone-wrong is not the way Bianca would have chosen to celebrate the news that she might be losing her business, but saying no to the sister who took care of her after their mother’s death proves impossible. So for one date, one torturous evening, she’ll endure the company of an infuriating, heartless man she has no intention of ever seeing again. She doesn’t expect her heart to have other plans. Sometimes the unexpected is not only what you need, it’s exactly what you’ve been waiting for all along.
You first met Zoey, Ruth, and Bianca as runaway teens in House Without Lies. Now they are all grown up and finding love in this intertwined three-story romance.
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Tonkawa: Seven Sinners (Tuc & Pokak Book 4)
by Ash Lingam
Genre: History | Classics | Westerns | Teen & Young Adult
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From the Amazon bestselling author of Texas Ranger, Capt. Bates and the Sundog Series. Ash Lingam brings you an exciting new western thriller, Seven Sinners, Tonkawa, Tuc & Potak #4.
Once upon a time in the west, a white man lived among the Northern Plains Indians. He professed to be a man of God, but his vengeful nature was full of violence and fury. He adopted the ways of the northern tribes and lived in peace with the natives until white men began to encroach on the land of those who had lived there for hundreds of years. So, he takes up arms against the invading horde of evil men who commit the Seven Deadly Sins.
When Tuc and Potak adopt a wild dog, their lives change forever. They discover there is much more to the wolf-like beast than meets the eye. The famed medicine man believes it possesses some, unknown, knowledge.
The legendary vigilante appears in a dream to warn Potak that he and Tuc can neither escape nor hide from the danger that looms on the horizon. The Sinner Killer is coming to Texas to seek revenge, and he will choose a path that intertwines with that of the mysterious shaman and the fierce warrior. As the forces of good and evil collide, the Tonkawa cousins are thrown into a vortex so violent they will be lucky to survive.
Adventure abounds in “Seven Sinners,” Ash Lingam’s fourth installment of the popular Tonkawa: Tuc & Potak series. Fast-paced and gritty, the tale shows the struggle between good and evil, and justice served. It will leave you gasping for air until the very end.
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When the Dog Bites: A Madison Revere Mystery (Madison Revere Mysteries Book 1)
by Glen Ebisch
Genre: Action & Adventure | Mystery
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Madison Revere, a lawyer in her twenties, is living on the New Jersey shore. She hopes to soon be made an associate partner in the law firm where she works. One night, while out walking her neighbor’s dog, the little pooch suddenly leaps up and bites a man who is passing by. This event leads to a chain of occurrences that cause Madison great worry. In addition to biting dogs, Madison must also deal with her lazy, tyrannical boss, a masked stalker, a new love interest, and her status-conscious mother who disapproves of him. Can she solve these problems before the dog bites again?
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Scab Among the Stars (Lunar Lives Book 1)
by J.T.R. Brown
Genre: Fantasy
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Seven gods, seven moons, seven tribes, and one planet.
Each moon orbiting the planet Chancel is the sovereign domain of one of the gods, and when a human dies on the planet, they are resurrected into lunar life on the moon of their tribe’s deity.
For Rin’za, an initiate oracle of a time-scrying agency, life on Chancel is peaceful and predictable. Then he receives a prophecy that a child sacrifice from millennia ago will return to Chancel with a warning that Mukjal, the god of death, is plotting an attack that will claim both the first and lunar lives of all Chancelites.
To thwart the plans of the bloodthirsty god, Rin’za and a party of unlikely heroes must find the child and travel to Mukjal’s hellish moon, Scab, to find proof of the plot. Can twin warrior-priestesses, one disfigurer, a dead child, and an initiate oracle survive the horrors of the death god’s realm? If they bring back evidence can they convince the bickering tribes of Chancel to unite against an unprecedented threat?
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I Love You Through Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall: A Keepsake Gift Book That Celebrates the Special Bond Between Parents and Children
by Junia Wonders, Daniela Volpari
Genre: Children’s eBooks | Foreign Languages
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An endearing picture book with enchanting illustrations is the perfect gift for baby showers, birthdays, and special holidays.
In a precious and beautifully rhyming text, a parent asks a child if they want to know how much they are loved, taking them through different seasons, milestones, and celebrations big and small, showing them that they are loved always.
Evocative of special occasion classics such as Guess How Much I Love You, Pat the Bunny, and Love You Forever, Junia Wonders’ new picture book, I Love You Through Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall, featuring extraordinary tempera style illustrations with beautiful saturated pastel hues, will be the perfect keepsake for any gift-giving occasion such as a baby shower, birth of a baby, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, or any event to share a loving message.
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