Today my youngest basset is going to play his first rainy day football game. I am less worried about him, since he will be running around and won’t notice it as much, and more concerned with the rest of us in the stands. People will bring canopies, but the rain never seems to cooperate. No matter where I sit, the rain will find me. This of course means I will have to have an umbrella and it is really hard to clap, stomp my feet, and cheer while holding one of those cumbersome things. I know they are not aloud, but I am thinking of bringing an air-horn for convenience. I promise I will do only little chirps. Really…I promise. Although I really can’t help it if I get a little excited when one of our players gets the ball and runs down the field for a touchdown. I mean really, that stuff is cool to watch. Just a little air-horn.
COZY MYSTERY: Getaway to Murder: A Cozy Mystery in the Mountains (Book 3)
Liz Turner
Genre: Mystery | Women’s Fiction
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Gentle and loving, with a sharp eccentric air about him, he’s got an army of followers who swear by his book on knowing oneself through psychology. He’s also got a multi-million dollar contract from a big four publisher, and a loyal group of devotees who owe him their success and their lives. Victoria Armstrong believes less in psychology and more in hard work, and she’s glad to cater for Leo’s getaway at the historic Larch Luminary Hotel. Her business needs his business! All is not what it seems, however, when Leo turns up dead! In the midst of the tragedy, a heavy snow storm hits the mountain. The road is impassable so no one can leave, and the RCMP can’t make it in. With tensions mounting and the killer on the loose, Victoria must solve the mystery. Could it be the bull-like gym owner with his long-burning flame for Leo’s secretary? Or maybe it’s the seductive real estate agent with his flaring temper and recent business losses. Maybe it’s the dreamy secretary herself, with the anger that simmers under her air of helplessness? But why kill Leo? One of his followers has taken fate into their hands, and as more bodies pile up, it’s up to Victoria to figure out who!
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Sparrow Man
M. R. Pritchard
Genre: Romance | Horror
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Meg Clark has turned out to be everything her father and the people of her little North Country town of Gouverneur, NY, have been saying her whole life: nothin’ but a piece of white trash. In an effort to hide her past and turn herself around, she spent her inheritance from her dead mother on the perfect little house with a white picket fence. Then something terrible happened and Meg got sent to county lockup so her fiancé, Jim, wouldn’t have to. And then everyone started waking up… dead. Good thing escaping from County wasn’t hard. Jim told her exactly how to get free. Now Meg is running and the walking dead are following. In a last ditch effort to find weapons to protect herself, Meg finds Sparrow instead. A tall, strange man with a quirk, Sparrow has an obsession with feathers and the only goal that’s on his mind is finding an old barn on Route 37 with a snowy owl in its rafters. Meg’s headed to Kingston, where she and Jim agreed to meet if they ever got separated. But sometimes, crossing the border brings more than just freedom and protection and safety. Sometimes it brings questions that someone like Meg would prefer not to answer. And everyone keeps asking questions, including Sparrow. He thinks she’s hiding something and he’s not impressed by her stories of the sins she’s been committing all her life. While Sparrow’s the one who’s a bit cracked in the head, it never occurs to Meg that she could be the one who’s not remembering something. Like what really happened that day she killed those seven men.
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GUARDIANS OF FIRE: A novel of the Sentinelese
DB Daglish
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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Anthropological novel about the little black naked people we know as The Sentinelese. They are an untouched race that live on North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Ocean, (the Islands real name is Chiö-tá-kwö-kwe). Yet these endangered people are only 25 miles from a modern port settlement in the Andaman Islands called Port Blair. So little is known about them because they are unknown, mysterious, guarded and defensive. And they have been living the same way for thousands of years. With a belief in creation and benevolent spirits, they have a simplistic way of life, so basic they have no real concept of time as we know it. They will kill anyone who lands on their island unarmed, if they even managed to cross the sharp coral reef which is dangerous in itself. No one knows what they call themselves, but I did discover the real name of the island, as told by one who had left there and was recorded in an anthropologist’s journal from the eighteen hundreds. I have therefore woven the story of this person into the book. There are many repeated YouTube clips and stories of these people, but no one had any real clue as to their actual lifestyle, beliefs and language, for their words are unintelligible to other islanders as they have been isolated for so long. ‘Guardians of Fire’ reveals as close to what is possible as anyone has attempted. As you read this story you will learn that they are not ‘primitive’, for they are better equipped to handle the world they know, than we are of ours. They are simplistic, but in some ways, they are better off than we are. This novel is based on whatever scant information can be found from journals, historical data, books written from British officials who have visited the island in the eighteen hundreds and right up to the nineteen nineties when some limited but meaningful contact was made by an Indian anthropologist Dr TD Pandit. I have discovered much about these people while doing that research. Although a novel, it is based on accurate observation of similar tribes in the area. I wrote this book because I wanted to know more about them myself. I can now share that with you as you journey with these amazing people over the last 200 years. You will be with them as they experience white humans for the first time, capture by the British, Japanese strafing in WW2, earthquakes and tsunami’s. These are not only an isolated people but ones who are very resilient to that which goes on all around them which both fascinates and frightens them. I hope this book reveals the need to ensure absolute protection of these wonderful, special, but highly endangered people. Enjoy your discovery.
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The Mermaid’s Gift (Sirens Gate Book 1)
M.L. Bullock
Genre: Fantasy | Romance
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Nike Augustine isn’t your average girl next door. She’s a spunky siren but, thanks to a memory loss, doesn’t know it — yet. By day, she runs a souvenir shop on Dauphin Island off the coast of Alabama, but a chance encounter opens her eyes to the supernatural creatures that call the island home, including a mermaid, a fallen goddess and a host of other beings. When an old enemy appears and attempts to breach the Sirens Gate, Nike and her friends must take to the water to prevent the resurrection of a long-dead relative… but the cost might be too high. To make matters worse, Nike has to choose between longtime crush, Officer Cruise Castille and Ramara, a handsome supe who has proven he’s willing to lose everything — including his powers — for the woman he loves. The Mermaid’s Gift is Book One in the Sirens Gate series, a new urban fantasy (and romance) from M.L. Bullock, author of the Seven Sisters and Desert Queen series.
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By the Silver Wind: Book IV of the Summer King Chronicles
Jess E. Owen
Genre: Fantasy | Children’s eBooks
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Shard is a gryfon with a great destiny, and desperate to stop a war. He is hampered on his path to peace by would-be allies, old enmities and grudges between clans of creatures, and the ever-looming threat of the fear mongering wyrms. Everyone believes that Shard is the legendary Summer King, that he alone can make the wyrms see reason and stop their violent marauding before more lives are sacrificed. But when he uses newfound powers to try communicating with their leader, he only ends up making things worse. When the wyrms make a surprising move by attacking where Shard least expects it, he knows he must be willing to sacrifice anything — and everything — to stop them once and for all.
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