We have all been cooped up in the house for a week now because of the fires that are ripping though Sonoma county. Yesterday I just couldn’t take it anymore and decided to sit outside in the backyard for a few minutes. I noticed there were a few branches, that had been blown in last week, that I could just throw in the yard waste real quick like. Can’t be outside too long, so just a quick clean up. Five hours later and I had completely cleared out the backyard of all weeds, and dead plants. I even sprayed down the deck and cleared away all of the horrible ash that had blanketed the yard for the past week. Horrible reminders that the fire is still so close. The blackened leaves burned from the fire were out of my yard as well. Normality felt nice. This morning I looked on the deck to find a fresh blanket of ash. It looks thicker than the ash from last week.
Improper Influence (Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller Book 5)
by Melissa F. Miller
Genre: Thrillers | Suspense
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Sasha and Connelly are back in Improper Influence, a gripping legal thriller by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Melissa F. Miller.
Even Sasha’s most daunting cases to date haven’t prepared her for her current challenge: finding a wedding reception venue that her mother and Connelly can agree on.
Wedding planning woes become the least of her worries, though, when Bodhi King, a forensic pathologist for the City of Pittsburgh, comes to her for help. Young women across the city are dying, and he suspects their deaths are connected. After he voices his suspicions, he becomes a target. Bodhi needs Sasha and Connelly’s assistance to unearth the truth before it’s buried along with more victims — and him, if whoever’s trying to silence him succeeds.
The trail is long and dirty, leading to political influencers, backroom deals, and the biggest law firm in town. But Sasha and Bodhi won’t stop until they free the city from the grip of corruption–whatever the cost.
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Regan’s Reach
by Mark G Brewer
Genre: Science Fiction
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Young Kiwi tech entrepreneur Regan Stein has just sold ten percent of her company for a massive price. The buyer, aerospace and defence giant USDynamics wants a share of Arteis, her new cyber defence system. Plus they’ve picked out Regan as a fresh creative genius and want in on whatever she has planned next.
Washed out from negotiations and cash rich Regan decides to take a break for six months and freshen up her thinking. Tramping off track, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, she accepts a Satphone appeal for help from an unknown caller. Doing the right thing finds her the rescuer of a comatose man, human but yet strangely alien. Within hours her life has changed.
While in orbit at the mercy of a quirky artificial intelligence and acting as nursemaid to the injured alien she finds out traitorous moves have been made against her company by foreign business powers. Trapped on the ship she is unable to fight back and instead embarks on the journey of a lifetime, assisting the AI to return the man while leaving her trusted team to deal with the attack at home. The two month interstellar journey sees a growing relationship with the AI and a formidable partnership developing. They arrive at their destination in the midst of a political crisis. Meanwhile, at home on earth her team have their own problems. They find themselves collateral damage in a corporate war full of intrigue, murky politics, and betrayal.
Will Regan survive the trip across the galaxy? How will her friends deal with the threats? Will her company survive the attack? And who would want to be in Regan Stein’s sights if she returns at all?
This is classic science fiction, the first part of a series that includes technology, androids, interstellar travel, action, politics and mystery. The series tracks sixteen years in the life of the remarkable Regan Stein and her friends. It will entertain you, challenge you and provoke your thinking on everything from the nature of the human heart to the nature of evil.
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Mrs. Schadenfreude
by Mike Young
Genre: Short Stories | Contemporary Fiction
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The ladies of the “smart” set are scandalized by the public dissolution of reigning society matron Mrs. Elaine Waverly’s marriage to picture perfect husband George. But for Mrs. Lydia Kincaid – Mrs. Waverly’s old friend and secret arch-rival – nothing could be sweeter than the long awaited disgrace of her “perfect” friend.
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World War 2: Navy SEALs: True Stories from the First Navy SEALs
by Ryan Jenkins
Genre: History
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These are the First Navy SEALs, learn the stories of their fearless courage in WW2
Hollywood tends to have a romantic vision of the way war works. War is hell. This book takes a look at one aspect that has gained little attention in the modern age, the Underwater Demolition Teams, also known as the UDT. The brave men that signed up for these early teams faced real dangers that many of the modern Special Forces teams face, without much of the equipment that is carried. For many of them it was a death sentence. These were the first Navy SEALs.
Find out about the early pioneers in the field from Italy. While the Italians were not on the Allied side in WWII their ideas paved the way for other countries to develop their own teams. Italy had a different method that included torpedoes.
UDT’s weren’t just all about blowing things up. They also played a vital role in recon missions. Sneaking onto beaches and landing sites was dangerous work that they willingly accepted in order to help others land safely. Read about their daring New Year’s Eve mission that could have saved hundreds of lives.
When called to, they enjoyed the thrill of clearing the path for other soldiers and Marines hitting the beaches, much like modern day Rangers. This was a deadly and dangerous business though. While you may have heard about the Marines being the first boots on the ground, for many battles it was the UDT that blew the obstacles out of the way for them first!
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Lawyer’s Lady (Sweet Town Clean Historical Western Romance Book 14)
by Sarah Christian
Genre: Romance | Westerns
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After caring for her elderly grandparents, spinster Laura Berg was ready to experience a new life on the frontier. But instead of opening her bakery and adopting one of the town’s orphans like she planned, she finds herself in an unexpected custody battle with the orphan’s long lost wealthy – and very handsome – uncle.
Gerard Barnes has a very simple goal: find his nephew and bring him back to Boston, where he can be properly brought up as an heir to the family’s fortune. What he gets instead is an adventure through the Black Hills with Laura after the boy runs away. Now he finds his goal changing, torn between familial duty and a burgeoning love for this independent beauty.
When their search becomes a matter of life and death, Gerard and Laura have only each other to turn to. Will it be enough?
Historical romance comes alive in quiet Sweet Town. Established in the Dakota Gold Rush of the 1870s, Sweet Town is surrounded by gentle hills and fields of clover. It’s a place where anyone can start over and romance and redemption are never out of reach.
Sweet Town romances tell the stories of the community as its members fall in love. These clean western stories follow residents of Sweet Town from mail order brides to a cowboy with a dark past. Anyone might find a miracle when they open their heart.
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