Today is day 2 of the annual Cookie Baking Palooza. I feel like I started late yesterday at 11am, but come to think of it, I think I always start at 11am because I usually have to get baking supplies. I completed nine batches of three different kinds of cookies. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. Ideally today I will make Spritz cookies with cherries, Spritz filled with chocolate, and Raspberry Lemon cookies. I think that will complete all the cooking, unless I am forgetting something. This year I decided not to be cruel to the family and I set aside a few cookies for them to nibble on. Usually I tell them the can’t eat any until all have been packaged up and I know I have enough. I always have enough. Way too many in fact. But every year I worry I didn’t bake enough as I look over a table with no less than 14 batches of cookies. Yaaaa… they can have a few cookies.
I Bring the Fire Part I : Wolves (A Loki Series)
by C. Gockel
Genre: Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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Amy Lewis is on her way to her grandma’s house. She’s being chased by a very bad wolf.
Galaxies away Loki, Norse God of Mischief and Chaos, is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover, and with no idea what he’s done wrong — this time anyway. He does know Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something he’s forgotten…
Amy’s and Loki’s fates are about to collide. They’ll have to work together to defeat gods, elves, magic sniffing cats, and nosy neighbors. If Loki can remember what he’s forgotten, and Amy can convince him not to be too distracted by Earthly gadgets, Earthly pleasures, or three day benders, they just might pull it off…
This first installment of the USA TODAY bestselling I Bring the Fire is for anyone who suspects chaos and mischief makers might have their own redeeming qualities, and anyone who just wants a good fantasy romp through modern Earth, ancient Asgard, and beyond!
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Honeymoon Cottage (A Pajaro Bay Novel)
by Barbara Cool Lee
Genre: Romance | Mystery
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Heartwarming books with characters you’ll love: Welcome to Pajaro Bay.
Camilla Stewart desperately needs to start over. Her ex-fiance ripped her off and disappeared, leaving behind his eight-year-old son. She soon finds herself out of gas in a tiny beach town with the lost boy in tow and the key to an abandoned cottage in her pocket. But there’s more to the village of Pajaro Bay than meets the eye, including a handsome local cop poking into her business, a bunch of quirky neighbors determined to pull her out of her shell, and, oh yeah, a killer on the loose who is somehow linked to her, the young boy, and the darling little house known as the Honeymoon Cottage.
Get away to the little California beach town where the cottages are cute, the neighbors are nosy, and it’s always possible to find your personal Happily Ever After.
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An Odd Bird (Of the Wing Book 1)
by P.K. Butler, Madli Silm
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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Birds carry a message for Claire that she doesn’t understand.
Eleven-year-old Claire doesn’t tell anyone of her uncanny power to attract birds. She is a devoted birder, home schooled in the woods of central Pennsylvania, who discovers she’s part of a local legend, one involving a Red-tailed Hawk. The hawk saved her as a toddler; now it’s her turn to save the hawk.
Claire and her mother Louise live in a densely forested region of North Central Pennsylvania where her mother is about to open a small rural grocery store. While drifting through the woodland with her sheepdog, Claire encounters a local Red-tailed Hawk known as Big Red and a crusty old man (with a pet chicken), who tells her amazing stories about the female hawk. Like herself, Jerry is an oddball with an affinity for birds. But as Claire develops a cautious friendship with this mysterious and erratic elder, her new friendship with Victor falters. He is best friends with her foe, Billy, a bully in the seventh grade. And Billy’s father is a drunkard obsessed with killing Big Red. Claire works to defend the raptor, whose life increasingly entwines with her own, while dodging Billy’s mean-spirited plots against her. Finally, Victor comes to Claire’s aid. And together they work to solve the strange mystery of her ability to attract birds, a mystery including the wizardly old man and a mystical hawk to whom they give the name Ku-Khain.
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Twenty-One Trees
by Linda Cousine
Genre: Drama & Plays | Family Life | Coming of Age
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Sometimes, secrets are the ties that bind two people together for life — especially the painful ones. Savannah May Holladay and her best friend from childhood, James “Birdy” Johnson, harbor many dark secrets.
Birdy also has an undying love for Savannah that spans over two decades. Unfortunately for him, Savannah is a wealthy debutante engaged to the town’s most eligible bachelor — and Birdy is a truck driver.
But after a nasty incident, Savannah wakes up in a hospital bed and can’t remember one thing about the past seven years — not her marriage to Birdy instead of her boyfriend, and especially not the birth of their four children. In what feels like an instant, she’s lost her perfect life and become an impoverished housewife.
Savannah must struggle through her memory loss to recover some kind of love for her husband and children. Will Birdy’s unwavering devotion be enough to carry her through and bring back her lost years? Or could Birdy’s own secrets make matters even worse?
Wealth, poverty, love, loss, and amnesia create a challenging road for Savannah May Holladay. Find out how she traverses these obstacles and unearths the hidden bonds with her childhood friend in Twenty-One Trees.
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A Lap Around Alaska: An AlCan Adventure (A Lap Around… Book 2)
by Shawn Inmon
Genre: Travel
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If you dream of packing up your four-wheeler, your snow boots and camera, and setting off to explore the wilderness, A Lap Around Alaska will give you a rare glimpse into the Land of the Midnight Sun, of moose, bear, and bald eagles, of monumental glaciers and scenery so staggering it brings tears to your eyes.Find out what it’s really like to cross 1,400 miles of the Alaskan Highway and travel some of the loneliest and most spectacular parts of America and Canada, all without leaving your easy chair. Join author Shawn Inmon and his twenty year old Subaru Outback on his epic solo road trip through British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska. Part personal odyssey, part travel memoir, take an expedition into one of North America’s last remaining wildernesses.If you hunger for untouched beauty and want to experience the majesty of the pristine North for yourself — Shawn saved the passenger seat just for you. This book also includes two bonus memoirs of life in Alaska in the 1970s — My First Alaskan Summer and My Matanuska Summer.
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Disturbing the Water: Thirteen original ghost stories concerning fish, fishing and fishy places
by Peter Wise
Genre: Horror | Historical Fiction
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All alone in wild, remote places… obsessively pursuing their quarry in the fading light… is it any wonder so many anglers claim to have witnessed ghosts?
In a change from the usual haunted houses and gothic go-to’s, these original tales of tragedy, redemption and the unexpected feature a variety of watery realms, including a Highland river, an Irish lough, a North American wilderness, a Cornish seascape, long-lost carp lakes, and a Ukrainian water source with magical properties.
But you don’t have to be an angler to appreciate these tales of tragedy, redemption and the unexpected.
There are echoes of real history thrown in for good measure, including the English Civil War, the Second World War and even a Victorian serial killer. So prepare for some chills at the water’s edge… and beyond it.
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