The first thing I did when I got home from the botanical gardens yesterday was pick up that same local magazine I found the gardens in and see what other new places I could discover. I have the explorer bug and I am ready for the next place. I gotta do something about these allergies first, but I certainly won’t let them stop me. I was surprised to see a place that I have driven by at least a thousand times (not an exaggeration) listed in the magazine. The tall white arch across the entrance with the name Denman Ranch on it has a collective of wine tasting rooms including one called Sonoma Apertif that makes Sparkling Mead, a wine made from honey! You know that has to be the next place for me to check out. They are only open on Saturdays so I am going to get all my chores and work done this week and play this weekend! In the meantime, enjoy some of these great pictures I took from the gardens.
Bombshell (Ava #1): A What Doesn’t Kill You Romantic Mystery
by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Genre: Romance | Mystery
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A musical career in the making. A murdered childhood friend. One chance to catch the killer.
Ava dreams of building a better life for her daughter through her island pop songs. Her new temp job leads to a once-in-a-lifetime shot at a record deal, but before she can pack her bags for New York, she discovers a dead body outside her office building. Horrified, Ava recognizes the murdered sex worker as her childhood friend.
The single mother finds herself torn between pursuing her life’s passion or justice for her murdered friend. When another friend is killed, she worries the deaths are connected to a shared trauma that she’s been running from her whole life. After dumping her cop boyfriend, she realizes the pain she keeps locked inside could be sabotaging her shot at lasting love.
Before Ava can move on to a bright future in music, she must confront the truth behind her dark past to catch the murderer or she’ll be next on his kill list.
Bombshell is the first book in Ava’s trilogy and book #7 within the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery saga. If you like sexy single moms, shocking suspense, and journeys of self-empowerment, then you’ll love USA Today best seller Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ award-winning series.
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The Last Word
by Paul Combs
Genre: Humor & Satire | Humor & Entertainment
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Sal Terranova and Camden Templeton are cousins separated by upbringing, the Atlantic Ocean, and a common language. But fate, a run of bad luck, and a dead uncle have thrown them together, and together they must save the family bookstore from financial ruin, from its own insane employees, and probably from themselves. This is the story of what happens when The Sopranos meets Fawlty Towers… in a bookstore.
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The Girl Who Called The Stars (The Starlight Duology Book 1)
by Heather Hildenbrand
Genre: Teen & Young Adult
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Be very afraid of the Shadows.
I know what I’m not. Human.
I can’t remember my life before Earth, but I’ve grown up hearing the stories of a planet ravaged by war and a people in need of a leader who will bring them out of the darkness. I’m supposed to be their light.
My future terrifies me.
But I’m done waiting to have a real life. If I ever want a chance to live free of the Shadows, I’ll need to fight for it because freedom is never free. No matter what galaxy you call home.
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Chasing the Ghost (The Green Berets Book 7)
by Bob Mayer
Genre: Thrillers | Literature & Fiction | War
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Covert operative Horace Chase has been chasing ghosts his entire life.
First, his Medal-of-Honor winner father who died in Vietnam without ever meeting his son. And left him the legacy of an automatic appointment to the Military Academy at West Point which shaped the next thirty-five years of Chase’s life. Then, the ghost of his mother, who died while he was at war in Afghanistan and wounded, causing him to resign his commission and return to the United States, a lost soul.
Chase now wears two hats as a Federal counter-terrorism liaison to the local police department in Boulder, Colorado where he becomes embroiled in two seemingly un-related cases. Working as a detective with Boulder PD he chases another death, this one the apparent rape/murder of Rachel Stevens, an upscale housewife attending night classes at the University of Colorado. And with his counter-terrorism team he is embroiled in a series of killings involving a militia group, a rogue ex-Special Forces officer, a psychopathic ex-CIA contract mercenary, and ruthless drug runners.
From the streets of Boulder, to the highest railroad tunnel in the world, to a swingers club hiding in plain site in suburbia, Afghanistan starts to look pretty good to Chase.
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The Illusions of Hope (The Hope Series, Book 1)
by Wiss Auguste
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Psychological
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A young woman wakes up in the middle of nowhere. Her mind, a blank slate. Her ailment, retrograde amnesia. Armed with her innocence and her kindness, she embarks on a quest for purpose and identity. Will she find herself? Or will she crumble under the pressure of societal expectations and social norms?
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