It is very unsettling when you smell the very strong and unmistakable smell of smoke right when you are laying down to go to sleep. We have been hearing fireworks going off for weeks now, and it was just a matter of time before some idiot was going to start a fire. In California we have had enough with the fires. DONE BEYOND DONE! Hubby and I checked the local news sources and alerts, and nothing had been reported. That made us feel only slightly better. At 1 a.m. I finally fell asleep. This morning, when I woke up, I could still smell the strong smoke smell. I went online to check the police reports and I saw a short but shocking list of burglaries, death, and car accidents. OH MY!! Ok.. I am sorry I complained about the smell of smoke. I will take smoke over burglaries, death, and car accidents. THIS! This is why I don’t watch the news and spend my free time shoveling large amounts of dirt and riding bikes with my family. Dirt is good.
Parker & Knight
by Remington Kane
Genre: Mystery | Thrillers
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When beautiful, nineteen-year-old Tiffany Grace is found murdered inside the house next door, Detectives Rick Parker and Joanna Knight are brought in to investigate.
What they find is a tangled web of love, lies and infidelity between the homeowners, Alex and Mandy Kent, and their young neighbors, murder victim, Tiffany Grace, and her handsome brother, Steve.
As Parker wades through the Kents’ marital woes, he also has to deal with his own, as his marriage comes to a close.
Did Alex Kent kill Tiffany, a young woman he lusted for deeply?
Or did Mandy Kent kill her, to keep her from her husband?The truth is even more twisted than Parker and Knight could have imagined.
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Wild for You: A thrilling opposites attract romantic suspense (Tropical Heat Book 2)
by Sophia Knightly
Genre: Literary Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Contemporary Fiction
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To Love, Honor and Protect
Detective Clay Blackthorne has his hands full when he promises to safeguard an old college pal’s sister without letting her know what he’s up to. He never imagines that lively Marisol Calderon will knock his socks off and put a ring on his finger–and all at his suggestion! Their marriage of convenience is meant to protect her and Clay doesn’t plan on being hitched for long to the tempting beauty. But the honeymoon sure feels real to him…
Sassy Marisol is used to doing whatever she wants–and right now her plan is to shake up the hot detective’s hard-edged demeanor. But the fun turns to danger when a mystery stalker bent on marrying her marks her as his prey. Temporarily becoming Clay’s wife seems like a practical way to thwart the stalker. But as passion ignites and Marisol falls for the tender heart buried beneath the tough detective’s chest, Clay’s true identity is revealed and she begins to wonder who–if anyone–she can trust…
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The Lost Art of Self
by Marc D Brown
Genre: Poetry
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Marc D Brown is a poetic Everyman
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The Lost Art of Self – a collection of poetry & prose, delves into subjects such as love, mental health, loss etc and makes a compelling poetic argument that we are all works of fiction, stumbling painfully toward authentic existence on an all-too-human terrain.There is a substantial thread of the universal human experience woven into the poetic narrative.Who among us has not felt, at one time or another, a sense of being out of touch with self and exhausted from giving to a world that takes more and more without giving in return.
The Lost Art of Self makes a compelling poetic argument that we are all works of fiction, stumbling painfully toward authentic existence on an all-too-human terrain.
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Alfheim Academy
by S.T. Bende
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Literature & Fiction
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A new series from internationally bestselling author S.T. Bende.
Aura Nilssen has spent most of her sixteen years in hiding. As crown princess of Alfheim, her life depends on avoiding the assassins who killed her parents and want to destroy her realm. When hunters corner Aura on Midgard (Earth), she’s immediately evacuated and enrolled at Alfheim Academy — a training ground where telepathic teenagers, daily combat lessons, and communication from beyond is the norm. She attends classes that enhance her energetic abilities, labs that fine tune her mental acuity, and workouts with a supernaturally good looking — and suspiciously evasive — training partner. But it’s what she learns outside the classroom that proves most difficult: as Queen of Alfheim, Aura’s grandmother played a heartbreaking role in the death of Aura’s parents… and her iron fisted monarchy is pushing the realm to the brink of extinction. If Aura doesn’t take her grandmother’s crown, the home she’s only just begun to love may be lost forever.
When an unprecedented attack threatens the very heart of Alfheim, Aura has to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect her new home. Her choice may mean the difference between survival and annihilation — not only for Aura, but for the world she’s always been destined to rule.
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A Pearl for Kizzy: A World War II Novel (Kizzy series Book 1)
by Ed Bethune
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Coming of Age
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Kizzy, a spirited child, lives with her family on a one-room ramshackle houseboat in Big Pearl, Arkansas. They fish, dig for mussels, look for pearls, and sell the shells to the button factory. It is a crude life made harder by the Great Depression, natural disasters, and prejudice.
At the onset of World War II, Kizzy befriends a young boy — a refugee from Nazi Germany — and a cultured young woman who encourages her to read and learn from Jane Austen’s books.
Kizzy yearns for a better life, but as she comes of age her dream of getting off the river is threatened by the evil Bully Bigshot and his Eugenics Center, a corrupt outfit that wants to rid the world of “river rats” like her through abortion and “better breeding.”
… And there is Cormac, the lascivious man Kizzy calls her “make-do stepfather.”
Kizzy’s struggle mimics today’s culture war. Daring, but realistic, the novel examines love, pride, compassion, courage, hope, morality, and duty — the things that inform and shape our destiny.
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Death Under The Fireworks: A Culinary Cozy Mystery (A Murder In Milburn Book 4)
by Nancy McGovern
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Holidays | Mystery
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Nora Newberry could use a weekend getaway. She feels trapped & alone in her small town of Milburn, Wyoming and she just wants a break for a little while. So when she receives an invitation to visit an old friend for the 4th of July weekend, she jumps at the opportunity!
Nora met Katya when she worked as a chef in New York City. It’s been years since they’ve seen each other and it would be wonderful to catch up. And to do so on a private island in Portland, Oregon (who knew they had private islands in Portland, Oregon?!) seems like a dream come true! Especially considering that Katya’s in-laws-to-be, the owners of the island estate, have offered to pay Nora to cook a few meals while she’s there!
It can’t get better than a paid vacation with an old friend! So, without much need for consideration, Nora packs her things and heads off for a weekend in paradise!
Unfortunately, her dream weekend turns into a nightmare when her host dies at the dinner table. And, as if that’s not bad enough, it appears as if it was something in a dish Nora prepared that did him in…
Find out what happens in Death Under The Fireworks, the 4th installment of Nancy McGovern’s popular culinary cozy mystery series, “A Murder In Milburn”!
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