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Watson Manor Eventually : Ronald S. Craig
Watson Manor Eventually
Watson Manor Eventually is the first book in a romantic mystery series.
Jenny Stevens is a dedicated teacher with a passion for nurturing young hearts and minds in a small town middle school. She is caring, trusting and open to the world. Too trusting, it turns out, as she is ultimately forced to leaving the teaching job she loves in order to escape an increasingly abusive boyfriend who won’t respect a restraining order. Her trust shattered, she engineers a tenuous flight out of state.
Charlie Watson (“CW”) is an enigma to strangers, but an open book to his few dear friends. Honest to a fault, ruggedly handsome and tough as nails on the outside, Charlie hides a deeply wounded heart. Seven years into a bitter divorce, he has made a lifestyle escaping behind endless hours as a long-haul trucker, and copious one night stands – which leave him in an empty, quiet desperation.
But Fate ultimately draws these two battered souls together until try as they may, they cannot remain apart. At first they rediscover their sense of humor, and then slowly, haltingly, their trust in true human kindness. Love almost does not come to pass, but they soon realize they are truly soul mates with a shared dream.
Their journey is not easy or straight. Along the way, Charlie is forced to deal with the abusive ex-boyfriend, and makes short work of him. But the challenges do not end there. On the way to establish their new life at ‘Watson Manor’ fate keeps dealing them new cards. Through a series of chance events and encounters, Jenny and Charlie are led on a new life of adventure and service rescuing souls in trouble and re-uniting families before they can even think of forming their own.
The deliciously complicated plot will have you alternately puzzled and perched on the edge of your seat. It is filled with good guys and bad guys (and gals) and characters who muddle in the middle. In the end Charlie and Jenny come to truly know whose side they are on – each other’s.
If you like a good romantic mystery, you will love and devour this book from cover to cover and be chomping at the bit for Ron Craig’s sequel, Watson Manor Unfolding, soon to come!
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The Lion Trees : Owen Thomas
What happens when you get the life you aim for and it hurts like hell?
The Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague’s daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusations involving a missing student and the legacy of Christopher Columbus. And young Tilly, the black sheep, having traded literary promise for an improbable career as a Hollywood starlet, struggles to define herself amid salacious scandal, the demands of a powerful director, and the judgments of an uncompromising writer.
By turns comical and poignant, the Johns family is tumbling toward the discovery that sometimes you have to let go of your identity to find out who you are.
Recent Praise for The Lion Trees:
“[A] cerebral page turner…a powerful and promising debut.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[FOUR STARS]… In its structure and nature, [The Lion Trees] reminds me above all of John Updike’s wonderful Harry Rabbit novels and their ability to summarize the essence of change in American society across a decade at a time.” – BookIdeas.com
“[FIVE STARS]… [A] powerful, gripping and realistic story…Wonderful… The Lion Trees does what so very few great novels can: it will take a lot out of you, but leave you with much more than you had when you began.”—Pacific Book Reviews.
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Morality : Eva Caye
Morality
Princess Grace Encino-Sinclair can handle relentless duties, using her scientific knowledge and consummate social skills to support everyone in the Imperial Family.
Her real struggle is to have a nice, normal private life, quite difficult to achieve since she has been trained in Grandmother’s stelluric science and is constantly followed by Sentinels. As she handles one mind-boggling near-disaster after another, with objectivity but also with heart, she can’t seem to find the right man, one who understands her duties to the Imperial Family come first, one who will support her great destiny instead of his own.
Stuck in her perceived limitations, she meets the magnificent Carlo, and all her dreams seem to come true. Suddenly, the most unthinkable assassination of all occurs, focused on Grace and Carlo; will this tear the Imperial Family apart? When Grace stumbles over long-embedded corruption and must work with the stargate scientists to remedy the situation, she suddenly finds herself the most highly trusted person in the Empire, the power behind the Imperial throne….
Discover the power of ladies as the backbone of Demesne society in this novel of social intrigues, ethics, and justice, as Princess Grace proves to the Emperor she will go beyond the call of duty for any member of the Imperial Family!
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Tears At Midnight : A. B. Leake
Tears At Midnight
Libby secretly wants everything she has never had, a real best girlfriend, a boyfriend, and that perfect first kiss just like the characters in the novels she reads. When sent to the small town of Titan, Texas to spend the summer with her father and new stepmother, Libby realizes that here she has that chance, if she is brave enough to try.
To the outside world, Toby Weston has everything. As the quarterback of the high school football team, guys want to be him and girls want to date him. They have no idea how his life has fallen apart, and he wants his old life back. When he meets Libby, he starts to feel like his life is getting back on track.
While Libby and Toby walk hand in hand down the halls of Titan High, someone is watching, planning and plotting revenge. Will they find the strength to fight for what they have together and Libby’s happiness?
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Toe Up To 10K : Steven Fujita
Toe Up To 10K : A Journey of Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury
In June 2012, the author went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with meningitis.
Days later, he lost partial consciousness, and upon regaining consciousness, he could not speak, eat, breathe independently, control bodily functions, nor move his legs.
This book is about the author’s journey to recovery from the ICU to regaining ownership of his body. It is a story of determination, of hard work, gratitude, and of drawing inspiration.
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Going Back : Richard Watt
Going Back
Some memories aren’t really memories at all…
In 1978, Andrew Macintyre was 15 years old and on the greatest adventure of his life when he was drawn into the troubled life of Karla, the woman who would disturb his dreams for the next 25 years. He has buried the memory of what she did to him ever since, but an encounter with her brother reveals a shocking reality he can’t ignore.
He travels back to the village in Germany he only dimly remembers and the truth is slowly revealed to him; the truth about the boy he was, and about the man he might yet be. Clare, the girl he worshipped from afar, becomes the friend he had needed all along, and together they piece together what really happened. As everyone affected by that summer comes together, Andrew hopes that memories, like wounds, can heal…
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Walking Up a Slide : Daley James Francis
Walking Up a Slide
A Potty-Mouthed Rom-Com for anyone who has ever pined over “The One That Got Away”…
After being invited to the wedding of his college sweetheart, Jason Chapman’s life begins to crumble around him. But with the help of his two best friends, he’s going to face his past, present and future all in one night.
23 years old and drifting through life, Jason’s love life is as stale as the bread in his kitchen, and the fact that the beautiful Lila Holmes is getting married is enough to send him on a downward spiral that sees every part of his life suffer as a result.
Forced to confront his failures, Jason has to rebuild his life from the bottom. It just so happens that “the bottom” is watching the girl of his dreams marry somebody else…
WALKING UP A SLIDE is a raunchy, funny and dramatic slice-of-life story with a beating heart and more than a few dirty jokes.
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Keep Walking : Antonio T Smith Jr
Keep Walking focuses on God having a relationship with Smith’s logic, when he never knew who or what He was.
He was not raised in the church, and when he found himself homeless at the age of six, he created thirteen rules for himself over time that would eventually lead him to God and greatness. He raised himself, and spent many years sleeping in a dumpster not too far from his neighborhood. He never knew what church was; therefore, did not have a relationship with God.
However, when he decided to think his way out of a horrible situation, which honored God, He blessed Smith by creating a relationship with his logic. Similar to the man on the cross next to Jesus, it was not baptism that saved him, nor was it joining a church. It was a positive change in his thoughts when he did not know Him at all, which allowed God to look in his direction and save him.
Smith believes God still lives inside of his thirteen rules of logic, and he believes even stronger, anyone who reads these rules will be extended the same courtesy from God. Yesterday he was an unpopular homeless kid; today he is a well-known Pastor. All because Smith decided to think, and God decided to bless what he thought.
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Rogue Elements : Hector Macdonald
Rogue Elements
Drugs are everywhere. Some think they should be legal. Three world leaders want to make it happen.
Until one of them is assassinated.
Disgraced MI6 spymaster Madeleine Wraye knows just the man to track a killer and keep the remaining two reformers alive. But her former protégé, Simon Arkell, hasn’t been seen in nine years. And there’s another problem: the assassin’s orders may be coming from someone dangerously close to home.
The Day of the Jackal meets Tinker, Tailor in an explosive mix of espionage, conspiracy, narcotics and betrayal. The War on Drugs is lost: who will survive the final battle?
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Dust : Sarah Daltry
Dust
In a world ravaged by war and oppressive forces of evil, a princess must fight to claim her bloodright and save her people.
When the princess, Alondra falls for the beautiful, blue eyes of a hooded stranger, it awakens in her a taste for freedom and an escape from her duty.
But her parents have other plans; they have a Kingdom to protect and Alondra must marry to ensure the peace between nations. Only what happens when your parents choose a cold-hearted assassin as your betrothed?
As lies, illusions and long hidden vendettas surface, the princess has to confront a very secret history. One that makes her realize that she not only risks losing her liberty, but of everything she has known and loved.
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