The time has come. School begins on Wednesday. In a huge pile on the hall closet floor is all the school supplies I need for both kids. Right next to the paper bag of mystery stuff. I got lots of stuff gathering on the floor of that closet, but that’s not my main concern right now. I have completed my back to school shopping and I have it. I get a point for that. Now I just have to dig it out of that closet before 7am tomorrow morning. I am also going to practice my bob and weave technique. On the first day of school, if you stand in one place too long you get volunteered for everything. I learned that the hard way…bob and weave, bob and weave.
Spooky Spirits
James Kipling
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
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It started forty years ago with the brutal murder of a teenage girl. Now a whole flock of sheep has been mysteriously torn to pieces and strange ghostly happenings are on the increase in the sleepy seaside town of Hal’s Cove.
Seventeen-year-old Jeannie Rowlands soon finds herself right in the middle of a story that spans not only decades but other dimensions, and will end in a violent struggle for our very future on the shores of Hal’s Cove’s loneliest, most windswept beach.
Following a strange encounter when out celebrating her birthday, Jeannie’s once perfect boyfriend becomes distant and violent. And, to make things worse, she starts seeing and hearing ghostly apparitions on nearby North Shore Beach. As one part of her life falls apart, however, Jeannie finds herself offered an extremely well-paid job at a beach café and with a boss she hardly sees. She soon forms a kind of friendship with her most regular customer, an intriguing dark-haired boy she knows as Phay’n, who doesn’t speak a word of English and flees every time her boss returns.
With more ghostly happenings and violent incidents occurring every day, Jeannie soon starts to realise that all of these various elements are connected and that their story is one of epic love and tragedy that will involve the fate of entire races of people… including our own.
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The Good Life
Jodie Beau
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Romance
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Roxie is sitting on the toilet when he tells her he wants a divorce. Stunned at first, she soon realizes her loveless marriage has killed her spirit and turned her into a bored trophy wife, isolated in a condo with an ironing board and an obsessive desire to impress people.
On a quest to find the carefree girl she used to be, she heads back to her hometown to start over. That’s when she finds the letter from her best-friend, Hope, in her luggage:
Dear Friend,
I’m really proud of you for taking this leap of faith. And even though I’m going to miss you like crazy, I understand why you have to go. My only concern is that you are going to be building a new life without my wisdom and guidance, which I think we both agree is an influence you really shouldn’t be without. No offense, Rox, but you don’t have the best track record when it comes to making decisions on your own. I mean, you are the one who married that jackass to begin with.
That’s why I’m volunteering to act as your sponsor. I’ve come up with a way to keep you moving in the right direction. It’s called the Good Life List and it’s your new syllabus. Remember when I threw that bachelorette party for Lindsay and everyone had to complete tasks in order to win a free day at the spa? This is kind of like that (except I’m not handing out hits of ecstasy and there aren’t any bonus points for performing oral sex in public). You need to complete each challenge on this list by the end of the summer. You always say there are no dress rehearsals in life, but I disagree. Right now you have no one to impress – (except me ;), no one to answer to – (except me 😉 and no one to please – (except me ;).
This is your in-between. This is your dress rehearsal. So go on now and make me proud, little one.
Love you! Muah XOXO
With the Good Life List in hand, and some help from a charismatic (and gorgeous) roommate, Roxie is only a few check marks away from reclaiming her life. She will forget about being a good wife, and start living a good LIFE – even if it means getting thrown out of a bar or skinny-dipping in her neighbor’s pool at 3am.
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Catching the Westbound
D.C. Hicks
Genre: Sagas | Historical Fiction
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He came into this world with two distinctive qualities—an extraordinary vision and an indomitable spirit, but at the age of ten years old, R.J. Watkins was banished from his small Appalachian community after being unjustly accused of igniting a mining accident. With a little help from fellow riders of the rails, R.J. learned how to survive on his own, but eventually his train came to rest with the Benton and Walters Best Show in America, where R.J. cultivated his unusual talents.
At seventeen, R.J. answered another whistle call of destiny, and he met the powerful McClennan family.Like a dazzling display of fireworks to their fourth of July picnic, R.J. provided the perfect blend of flavor for their family that had long since grew stale.But when he had hard time adjusting to the lavish extremes of the East Coast high society, R.J. learned to navigate their foreign world by completely transforming himself.A metamorphosis so complete that within a few short years he was the talk of the town, a man he barely recognized.Still all the talk was for naught because with the closing bell on a single autumn day in 1929, the McClennan fortune, which took generations to amass, was gone.
To stop the head-on collision with destitution, McClennan’s eldest son, Cosmo, made a deal with a devil, but it fell upon R.J. to pay the dues.No longer able to afford the luxury of other’s opinions, R.J. shed his finer sensibilities and used every trick he learned along the way to save his new family.Will his efforts be enough or ultimately destroy them?
From majestic corners hidden deep within the mountains to New York City’s finest ballrooms, Catching the Westbound chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of R.J. Watkins, a boy who came from nothing but with unparalleled determination, will, and resilience became the last great pioneer of industry.
After a lifetime of traveling paths of decadence and despair, by grace alone, he discovered the road that would lead him home.
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Netherworld (The Chronicles of Koa)
K.N. Lee
Genre: Horror | Mythology & Folk Tales | Fantasy
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What would you do if a demon threatened your mother’s life? If you’re like Koa, you’d sharpen your enchanted sword and go after him…
Our world is threatened by the creatures of an alternate land called the Netherworld. Koa and the Netherworld division are there to keep the vampire population in check. Koa is a powerful half-blood vampire. Her best friend is her boss, she has a cursed mother, an enchanted sword, and an attractive human pet.
Koa also has a problem. A Netherworld serial killer, with a taste for little girls, threatens everything Koa has worked hard to protect. Not even Koa’s boss, Halston can stop him. But he knows one prisoner that can. Too bad that prison is in the Netherworld.
Is Koa ready to journey to the Netherworld to release the one creature that can break her mother’s curse and protect all that she holds dear?
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Someone has stolen classified documents from the Netherworld division’s vaults. Read the secret interviews that were leaked to the press, and discover the hidden clues of Dark Prophet and Lyrinian Blade (The Chronicles of Koa #2 & #3)
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All Roads Lead Home (Bellingwood Book 1)
Diane Greenwood Muir
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Polly Giller returned to Iowa from Boston to start a new life, not that her old one was all that bad. With her inheritance, she purchased an old school building in Bellingwood and is in the middle of renovating it when the bones of two bodies are pulled out of a ceiling.
The whole town knows who those bones belong to, but when she also finds crates and crates of items from the sixties through the early nineties in the old root cellar, they wonder if the two things are connected.
A welcoming committee shows up at Polly’s front door and these women soon become her fast friends. Fortunately, the leader of the group is married to the Sheriff and he is there to make sure mysteries are solved and everyone stays safe, but when Polly’s old boyfriend from Boston shows up, that becomes a little more difficult.
The women might be a little older than Polly, but she finds out they might be even more wild than the friends she had when living back east.Lydia Merritt, the Sheriff’s wife, is a woman filled with love and passion.Beryl Watson is an artist and more than a little flamboyant.Andy Saner wants to organize and label the world, but loves with a great big heart and Sylvie Donovan, with her two young sons is trying to make it as a single mother.
The men in Polly’s world are just as interesting.Henry Sturtz is the carpenter and contractor in charge of construction and might have a little crush on his boss, while Doug Randall and Billy Endicott are her Jedi Knights in Shining Armor.
Polly’s immediate family might be gone, but her new family offers a great deal of love, fun and entertainment.
Read along as the extraordinary, yet quite ordinary, people in Bellingwood tell their stories.
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Big As All Hell And Half Of Texas (Memoirs of Marlayna Glynn Brown Book 3)
Marlayna Glynn Brown
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Following the author’s wildly beloved award-winning OVERLAY and CITY OF ANGELES memoirs, BIG AS ALL HELL AND HALF OF TEXAS continues the author’s story. This final volume candidly explores the pertinent societal question: how does an ill-equipped adult child of alcoholics navigate life after a childhood fraught with abuse, scarcity and neglect?
Continuing her engrossing journey from the moment CITY OF ANGELES ends, the author shares the vignettes of her life – replete with enlightening mistakes, edifying consequences, forgiveness and personal redemption. This memoir is an honest and inspirational account of the author’s ultimately successful battles with depression, divorce, single parenting, and ill-fitting love affairs.
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