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Laura A. Ellison : The Last Girl
The Last Girl
Sonya Neslund has gone through some serious changes over the last year. Her mother Carolyn has died from lung cancer and the home she shared with her mother and stepfather Cal had to be sold, forcing Sonya to live with her unemployed father Aron and Uncle Bill Neslund, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Sonya manages to make two new friends during her first day of high school; Bobby Chambers, who is openly gay, and the beautiful Piper Jones. Piper’s friend Jessica Holden does not show up for school, and they soon find out she was viciously attacked, her face slashed.
Sonya and her new friends launch their own investigation to find the slasher, who calls himself the Ravisher, as they deal with pain from their pasts, including a former friend of Piper’s, now institutionalized, who may know the identity of the Ravisher, but uses her information to control Piper as the Ravisher plans his next attacks.
Meanwhile, Sonya could be putting herself in more danger as she uses her photography hobby and budding investigative skills to bring herself closer to the Blue Diamonds, a notorious motorcycle gang, that may hold the key to the Ravisher’s identity.
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Our Love Could Light The World : Anne Leigh Parrish
Our Love Could Light The World
You know the Dugans. They’re that scrappy bunch down the street. Their yard is overgrown, they don’t pick up after their dog. The father hasn’t earned a cent in years. The wife holds them together on her income alone. Their five children run free, leaving chaos in their wake. You wouldn’t want them for neighbors, but from a distance, they’re quite entertaining.
Of course, alcohol is an issue. You can tell from the empty bottles lying under the bush out front.You can hardly blame the wife for leaving one day. Without her at the helm, the rest carry on the best they can.
Their strong sense of family keeps them going. They help each other, and in some cases, rescue each other. They struggle for a better life. While they never follow the rules, or completely conquer adversity, they stare it down, meet their challenges, and earn some much needed respect. They might even make you proud.
Set in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, the twelve linked stories in Our Love Could Light The World depict a dysfunctional family that’s messy and rude, cruel and kind, and loyal to the end.
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Artful Dodger : Nageeba Davis
Artful Dodger
Do you love a hot romance with a twist of mystery on the side? Welcome to the romantic suspense trilogy featuring the irrepressible, irreverent Maggie Kean! Take one funny, wise-cracking artist, one gorgeous, sexy detective, throw in a grizzly murder, a little amateur sleuthing and you have the makings of a wild, crazy mis-adventure.
Being a teacher and a sculptor is not an easy life to have, but Maggie Kean’s life is about to get much worse. On an otherwise ordinary day, minus the burnt toast and stubbed toe, Maggie heads out the front door and discovers a dead body. Not just any dead body…but Maggie’s neighbor, the very grand, very esteemed, and very rich, Elizabeth Boyer. Suddenly, without any warning, Maggie is thrown into the middle of a murder investigation and becomes the prime suspect.
But if that wasn’t bad enough, the lead detective on the scene, is one mouth-watering gorgeous hunk of man who doesn’t take her protests of innocence too seriously. It’s bad enough that the victim ended up in Maggie’s yard, but Ms. Boyer overlooked her grandchildren as rightful heirs of her estate and left Maggie in charge of her will. It’s the “M” trifecta: Money, Murder and Mayhem all rolled up in one crazy adventurous ride!
And that’s just the beginning. Tossed right dab into the middle of a murder investigation, Maggie takes off to solve the mystery on her own. Now all she has to do is evade the police, clear her name, trap a killer…and deal with one sexy detective who drives her crazy while making her hormones do the happy dance!
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O! Jackie : Mercedes King
O! Jackie
O! Jackie, the debut novel by Mercedes King, explores the private life of Jackie Kennedy and how she dealt with JFK’s affairs–including his trysts with Marilyn Monroe.
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March Into My Heart : Patty Lazarus
March Into My Heart: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and Adoption
March into My Heart is a poignant and inspiring story of family, adoption, and the search for the irreplaceable bond between a mother and daughter. Patty Lazarus was happily married and busy raising two sons. By all accounts she was a very lucky woman. But still, something was missing.
Despite her love for her family, she felt a deep longing for the mother-daughter connection she’d always dreamed of.
After enduring her mother’s tragic illness and untimely death, Patty knew that adding a girl to the family was the only way to ease the pain she felt.
She and her husband set out on a four-year, arduous, complicated, and emotional journey through infertility, miscarriages, and adoption ending in a small town in rural Missouri where they would finally meet their new daughter as she came into the world.
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Machine Guns And Cricket Bats : Jeff Grzinic
Machine Guns And Cricket Bats
Machine Guns and Cricket Bats is a behind-the-scenes look into the sometimes ‘dangerous’ and always entertaining world of international cricket.
If you’ve ever wondered what destiny does when it’s not arranging wars, scandals and marriages, ask author Jeff Grzinic. As a toddler in Western Australia, Jeff was involved in a serious car accident, and spent decades recovering from his injuries before becoming an international cricketer – for a country that didn’t even exist when he was born!
Jeff’s story of the battles of attrition in life from behind the crease makes an enchanting and intriguing read for fans of life – not just cricket. Competing in a world of sub-elite international cricket, the rewards are somewhat esoteric and the experiences closer to the bone. His humour leads readers through the underbelly of European cricket, including the cheap motels, spectacular sights, memorable food, and most importantly, the people.
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Australian born and raised of Croatian parents, Jeff Grzinic has been a passionate cricketer since he was old enough to swing a bat. “Although I was probably never going to get the opportunity to play for Australia due to the injuries I sustained in a serious car accident, I certainly made the most of the opportunities presented to me and became the best cricketer I could be. Just when I thought my chances of playing higher level cricket had passed me by, a phone call changed my life forever, and I ended up playing international cricket!”
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Sometimes We Ran : Stephen Drivick
Sometimes We Ran
Our hero had it all: A great job, a beautiful wife, and even a nice car. As he approached middle age all the comforts of a fantastic life were within reach.
Then the zombies came, destroyed the world, and it all disappeared in a flash.
Now he walks in a shattered world filled with hungry undead, dead towns, and desperate survivors. He is low on supplies, running out of time, and with slim hope of long-term survival.
His long walk to escape the dead is slowly becoming a death march.
Then one day he meets another survivor. A young, starving former college co-ed walking the other way.
This is their story.
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Water’s End : Jessica Deforest
Water’s End: A Love Rediscovered
On a journey that takes her from a small Kansas town to the inner circles of Hollywood, Anne Mills chooses the wrong men and loses the only man who is right for her. Divorced after a brief teenage marriage, Anne meets David, a man as beautiful as a Roman god and as elusive as a mirage.
Although she doesn’t believe in love at first sight, she knows instinctively that she will love him forever. When she loses him, she sees no choice but to move on, so she marries a charming West Point graduate and finds herself trapped in a nightmare.
With three children and only a high-school education, she dreams of independence and finding her first love again. It is not until she has given up all hope of ever seeing him again that she finally reconnects with David and learns the secret that makes him keep her at arm’s length.
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Clementine’s Shadow : Peggy Rothschild
Clementine’s Shadow
After moving to the California High Desert for a new start, Deputy Casey Lang faces a hard truth: She must work through her fear of shooting another child or kiss her career goodbye. The disappearance of a six-year-old girl from a summer concert in the park puts Casey’s resolve to the test. The only member of the local force with experience working a kidnapping, Casey knows she is the department’s best chance for finding the child.
Set in a scorched landscape of played out silver mines and dry riverbeds, Clementine’s Shadow tells the story of a child snatched by a predator and the desperate hunt to find her. As the thermostat rises, three unlikely heroes emerge to help Casey save a young girl’s life.
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The Adventure’s of Billy Chicken Toes And The Wolf : Jeannee DeWolfe
The Adventure’s of Billy Chicken Toes And The Wolf: Add Your Own Art Children’s Books
Can One Little Chick Make a Difference?
Once upon a time, a young barnyard chick named Billy Chicken Toes is shooed out of the henhouse to make room for the new hatchlings.
Told to stay close by, Billy’s curiosity leads him far from the farm, where he tumbles down a dark rabbit hole. There he encounters one adventure after another. He meets a wolf who tricks Billy into leading the hungry critter back to Billy’s hen house.
Billy discovers that even a little chick like himself can possess courage far beyond his small size. Will he discover the truth about the wolf and the threat he poses before it’s too late, or will curiosity kill the chick?
Find out in The Adventures of Billy Chicken Toes & the Wolf: Add Your Own Art Children’s Books.
This book lets children be the illustrator of their book. There are blank frames through-out the book that can be drawn in, colored in, or paste pictures in.
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