With all the baking I have been doing and with the smell of cookies filling up the house, it is very very easy to not want a single cookie. ERG! I think I am at the point when I am a little angry at those smelly little things. I want some vegetables. MY KINGDOM FOR A CARROT!!

No Place for a Lady (Heart of the West Book #1): A Novel
Maggie Brendan
4.1 Stars (72 Reviews)
Genre: Historical Fiction | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Religion & Spirituality

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Crystal Clark arrives in Colorado’s Yampa Valley amid the splendor of a high country June in 1892. After the death of her father, Crystal is relieved to be leaving the troubles of her Georgia life behind to visit her aunt Kate’s cattle ranch. Despite being raised as a proper Southern belle, Crystal is determined to hold her own in this wild land–even if a certain handsome foreman doubts her abilities.

Just when she thinks she’s getting a handle on the constant male attention from the cowhands and the catty barbs from some of the local young women, tragedy strikes the ranch. Crystal will have to tap all of her resolve to save the ranch from a greedy neighboring landowner. Can she rise to the challenge? Or will she head back to Georgia defeated?

Book one in the Heart of the West series, No Place for a Lady is full of adventure, romance, and the indomitable human spirit. Readers will fall in love with the Colorado setting and the spunky Southern belle who wants to claim it as her own.

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South Mouth – Hillbilly Wisdom, Redneck Observations & Good Ol’ Boy Logic
Cooter Brown
4.8 Stars (13 Reviews)
Genre: Humor & Entertainment

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Cooter Brown offers up an unparalleled collection of over 500 examples of Hillbilly Wisdom, Redneck Observations and Good Ol’ Boy logic in “South Mouth”. lt’s a very funny — and often insightful — book.

In the tradition of rural America (especially the South), we welcome you to come in, sit a spell and sample some of the unique ways we express ourselves. You’ll get a heapin’ helping of “South Mouth”

  • If things aren’t going well: “I’m as bad off as a rubber-nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest.”
  • If a co-worker is lazy: “They call him “blister” because he doesn’t show up until the work is done.”
  • If the temperature is falling outside: “It’s gonna be colder than a cast iron commode on the shady side of an iceberg.”
  • If a job is frustrating: “It’s like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.”
  • If you’ re ready for dinner: “I’ m so hungry I could eat a stink bug off a dead skunk.”
  • If someone is less than attractive: “If I had a dog as ugly as him, I’ d shave its butt and make it walk backwards.”
  • If your wallet is empty: “If a trip around the world cost a dollar, I couldn’t get to the state line.”
  • If you’ re describing a winding road: “The road was so crooked you could see your own tail lights.”
  • If someone is acting less than intelligent: “He’ s a seven story buildin’ with a five story elevator.”

Who knows, maybe you’ll end up spicing up your conversation with some of colorful language and become a “South Mouth” yourself. Or maybe not. Either way, take it from Cooter Brown, “You’ll have a good ol’ time.”

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Kula (Surfing Detective Mystery Series)
Chip Hughes
4.8 Stars (11 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Summoned to the Honolulu hilltop mansion of radio pitchman Barry Buckingham, presumably to trace his missing wife, the Surfing Detective is in for the letdown of his career. Kai Cook is hired to track another lost family member. A dog.

Despite his qualms, Kai would seem a natural for the case, since the golden retriever named Kula is a famous surfing dog. Yet the PI knows nothing about finding missing pets. But he does know where to find help—Maile Barnes, an ex-K9 cop and kindred spirit with the keys to unlock the dark underworld of animal theft in the islands.

Then a questionable tip takes Kai to a late-night rendezvous, his tipster winds up dead, and the detective himself becomes a suspect. Can he clear his name and find the murderer before he strikes again? The PI tracks the illusive retriever from O‘ahu to the Big Island to Maui, but the killer is one step ahead—other players linked to the dog’s disappearance keep turning up dead.

Is a ghost from Barry Buckingham’s past behind the murders?Or is Kai’s client just a misunderstood man with a lost pet? To solve this third case in the Surfing Detective series, Kai Cooke must do what he never does—take on a partner. Teaming up with the headstrong K9 cop is his only shot to liberate the famous surfing dog, who is somehow always at the center of this mystery.

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Exiles of Raifor (Raifor Saga)
Claude Ashton
5.0 Stars (7 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction

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The Cataclysm devastated the galaxy. It destroyed worlds and wiped out entire species. That was over four hundred years ago. It ended in the unification of the galaxy under one rule. Thus the Great Eternal Empire of Raifor was formed. At its head sat the Nobles, descendants of the First Emperor imbued with powers that not even the Magus of the seven orders could hope to match. For millennia they have followed a strict system of succession. Now, for the first time since its inception, that system has failed and war has returned to the galaxy. It is up to the Exiles to make it right.

Lose yourself in the universe of Raifor, where magic and science meet. Exiles of Raifor is an action packed blend of science fiction and fantasy that is sure to leave you wanting more. Explore new worlds, meet new characters, take part in an adventure which spans an entire galaxy. Enjoy the debut of a new name in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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Risking Exposure
Jeanne Moran
5.0 Stars (9 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult

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Munich, Germany, 1938. The Nazis are in power and war is on the horizon. The law makes fourteen-year old Sophie Adler a member of Hitler Youth; her talent makes her an amateur photographer.

Then she contracts polio. During her long hospitalization, her Youth leader supplies her with film. Photographs she takes of fellow polio patients are turned into propaganda, mocking people with disabilities. Sophie is now an outsider, a target of Nazi scorn and possible persecution. Her only weapon is her camera.

Will she find the courage to separate from the crowd, photograph the full truth, and risk exposure?

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Picture Imperfect
Nicola Yeager
3.8 Stars (11 Reviews)
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Romance

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Chloe Dixon is a struggling artist in her early thirties. She’s lived with her boyfriend Mark for almost two years and things seem to be going smoothly. Then one day Mark unexpectedly announces that he’s going on holiday to Greece for a week with an old friend – and a couple of girls. And suddenly the Picture is far from Perfect.

Mark insists the holiday will be quite innocent. And Chloe trusts him. But can any woman really trust her boyfriend cavorting around a Greek island with another woman? And is she being unreasonable to think that this might not be a very nice thing to do to your girlfriend? As Chloe completes her latest canvas, she starts to wonder if this is the moment to take Mark out of the picture completely?

‘Picture Imperfect’ is a sparkling romantic comedy about trust, holidays and relationships. It is perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jane Green.

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Mama Played for the King
Sharon Poppen
5.0 Stars (5 Reviews)
Genre: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

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Scottish soldier Robert Stewart and Charlotte Roussard, a French young woman, meet shortly before the start of the Second World War.A gifted piano prodigy, Charlotte is attending the Paris Conservatory of Music. It was love at first sight for him. After a brief courtship, they cross her parents, marry and move to Canada.

During Robert’s employment on the Alcan Highway during the war, Charlotte bears him two sons and a daughter. At war’s end, Robert hires on with a railroad and moves his family to San Luis Obispo, CA.Depressed by the weather, the responsibility of marriage and motherhood, Charlotte begins to lose touch with reality. Upon the death of her mother, Charlotte’s father asks that his daughter return to France to care for him.Against Robert’s protests, Charlotte returns to France while Robert remains at his job in California.

Their decisions thrust their children into a life of insecurity, unacceptance and anger at their absent father. Phillip, the oldest child, becomes the man of the family as his mother slowly slips into a land of make believe. Is Phillip up to task?

When his grandfather passes away, Charlotte is institutionalized leaving fourteen year old Phillip to deal with a disinherited uncle, a self-righteous church and an exploitative bureaucracy that separates the children by farming them out as menial workers. Upset at the separation, Phillip’s anger toward his father grows deeper each day.

Does the father ever learn of his wife’s mental collapse, that his children have been separated and placed in the service of strangers? Does Phillip mange to reunite with his siblings? At what cost?

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