We were only gone two days camping, but I swear the two days of sunshine made the garden explode with blooms and growth. It could all just be in my head though. Who cares, my brain is making me happy. Good job brain. Here’s some chocolate.
If She Ran (Martina Monroe Book 2)
by H.K. Christie
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Three months. Three missing women. One PI determined to discover the truth.
Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department.
Diving into the cold case files Martina stumbles upon a pattern of missing young women, all of whom were deemed runaways, and the files froze with minimal detective work from the original investigators. The more Martina digs into the women’s last days the more shocking discoveries she makes.
Soon, Martina and Detective Hirsch not only uncover additional missing women but when their star witness turns up dead, they must rush to the next before it’s too late.
A gripping, unputdownable thriller full of mystery and suspense.
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Nice Dragons Finish Last (Heartstrikers Book 1)
by Rachel Aaron
Genre: Fantasy
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The start of the series that won back-to-back RT Magazine Reviewers’ Choice Awards!
As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don’t cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn’t fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reached the end of her patience.
Now, sealed in his human form and banished to the DFZ–a vertical metropolis built on the ruins of Old Detroit–Julius has one month to prove he can be a ruthless dragon or kiss his true shape goodbye forever. But in a city of modern mages and vengeful spirits where dragons are considered monsters to be exterminated, he’s going to need some serious help to survive this test.
He only hopes humans are more trustworthy than dragons…
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The Worst Day Of My Life, So Far
by M.A. Harper
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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IT’S A GOOD DAY WHEN YOU DON’T RESORT TO RAT POISON… M.A. Harper’s acerbic wit offers a wickedly entertaining seat on the always-wild Alzheimer’s ride. Fighting her way back to sleep after her mother’s latest Alzheimer’s-driven 3:00 a.m. ramble, Jeanne Roth reminds herself: Tomorrow will be here soon, and it’s going to be just like today was, like something out of Lewis Carroll on crystal meth. Capturing the hilarity and heartbreak of those who’ve lost their minds to Alzheimer’s, and the tensile strength of mind required of their caregivers, The Worst Day of My Life, So Far is a thoughtful, powerful book about doing the laundry and going to bed content in the knowledge that you have once again made it through the day without, as Jeanne says, having “yet poisoned her, nor put my head in the oven.”By turns sharp and poignant, Harper is at her most deliciously acidic rehashing the awkward adolescence familiar to most of us, fearlessly probing the questionable decisions of our twenties, and scathingly exposing the failures of our thirties. She lovingly relates Jeanne’s touching memories of her once-beautiful and dauntless mother as Jeanne attempts to reconcile them with the woman who no longer remembers how to use a telephone or toilet tissue. As always, Harper handles the situation with wit and grace, copious amounts of chocolate ice cream – and bourbon.
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Courage in the Mountain Wilderness (Call of the Rockies series Book 4)
by Misty M. Beller
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
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Keeping her son safe on this epic journey may be harder than she imagined.
Otskai never wished her husband dead, but her new-found freedom — something she’s never been allowed — brings a relief she willingly embraces. Even her two-year-old son’s penchant for danger doesn’t daunt her. When she’s asked to join the group sent to bring back her runaway cousin, how can she refuse? Yet their journey is more dangerous than she — and her son — are prepared for.
Caleb Jackson has embraced the mission the Nez Perce Chief sent him and his friends on. With his past shadowed in failure, maybe he can find new purpose for his future somewhere in these wild Montana mountains. When Otskai joins the group, he’s more than willing to help with her feisty toddler, especially when the boy looks at Caleb with such unbridled adoration. Oksai is another matter. Even as her resilience and quiet beauty weave into Caleb’s heart, she’s determined to push him away.
But no journey into the wilderness comes without cost. When their perils escalate, Otskai must face her worst fears and decide if independence is worth the price — and heartache — for both her and her son.
From a USA Today bestselling author comes another epic trek through breathless landscapes and adventure so intense, no one will never be the same.
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Secondhand Smoke: A Wickedly Dark Comedy
by Patty Friedmann
Genre: Literary Fiction | Humor & Satire | Contemporary Fiction
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JERUSHA’S POISON… to just about everyone–particularly her adult children. Fortunately, poison is the very superfood of the satirist. Patty Friedmann, the reigning queen of black comedy, hits one out of the park with her family straight out of Tolstoy–unhappy in its own way, a uniquely twisted Southern way.
Meet the Baileys. Born and bred in a working class New Orleans neighborhood, Zib and Wilson think the thick cloud of cigarette smoke enveloping their mother is what probably killed their father. Certainly the toxicity of Jerusha’s dark, cynical attitudes has driven her children far from the nest. Wilson has escaped to Chicago, married a woman who hates him, converted to Judaism, and become a decorated professor of Organic Evolution. Zib, almost forty, has made it only as far as the Florida Panhandle, where she’s an assistant manager at the local Winn-Dixie, doomed to fending off a sleazy boss given to late night phone calls. Only one person, as isolated as she is, shows Jerusha any affection: Dustin Puglia, chubby, wise, and fearless, a ten-year-old living next door with a poisonous mother of his own.
Although Wilson and Zib have forged independent lives away from their mother — as well as each other — their father’s death brings them back together for a darkly droll, yet heart-wrenching round of domestic insanity. Does it remind you of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY? Or THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS? Patty Friedmann got there first! And she’s just as funny and observant as the authors of those splendid screenplays.
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Ride ‘Em Tough: A Short Story
by Neenah Davis-Wilson
Genre: Sports | Westerns
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Crazy Eight is a mean, roman nosed, buckskin bronc only one man has ever ridden the full eight seconds of a saddle bronc ride.
Levi Hale, Eli’s dad.
Eli’s twice before drawn Crazy Eight as his ride, and twice been dashed to the ground within a second or less. And the last time laid him up for months.
Eli’s healed now, and eager to get back on the circuit. And he’s drawn Crazy Eight for the third time. Will he finally listen to his father’s advice? Or will he ride his own way as he always has — and meet disaster again?
Could this be the last time he ever rides… ?
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