I think my old pup Jethro would have thought it was a perfect day at the beach yesterday, aside from all the young pups getting in his face, if it weren’t for that one rogue wave that smashed him up against the wall and swept him off his feet. According to him, he almost died. From my point of view it wasn’t quite that dramatic. I felt pretty bad though. I have never been an off-leash kinda person, but Jethro is about a hundred years old and his running off days are long gone. I decided to test the waters and took the leash off. Predictably he stuck close to me. After a few minutes though he decided to break away from my side and explore a little. One thing I must note. At this beach there is a sand wall that comes right up to the water, so if a larger wave rolls up, you don’t really have a lot of room to get out of the way. That hadn’t been a problem though, that was until I let him off the leash. Poor pup got all of three feet away from me when the wave came up, took out his feet and pushed him up against the wall of sand. Thankfully I was right there and grabbed his harness to keep him from rolling around. The wave only made it up to my knees, but to him it was a tidal wave. He spent the rest of the trip glued to my side.
Breaking the Darkness: Taken
by Felicia Starr
Genre: Fantasy
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Opening her eyes to an imposing prison of complete darkness, Kasha is accused of possessing powers and abilities she had no previous knowledge of. Haunted by memories strung together by lies and deceit, she soon discovers that maybe her beloved grandmother kept many secrets. Secrets that could be her salvation… or her undoing. As she struggles to control her newfound powers, only time will tell if they will be enough to help her decipher who has imprisoned her or what they want from her. She must search for the answers and the freedom she so desperately desires. Could a handsome man who vows to help her get away prove to be the man of her dreams… or perhaps her worst nightmare? Not knowing who to trust, she must find a way to escape before she pays the ultimate price and finds herself taken by the darkness.
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A DANGEROUS HARBOR: Pilgrim’s Progress Trilogy (A Romantic Mystery Sailing Trilogy Book 1)
by RP Dahlke
Genre: Romance | Mystery | Women’s Fiction
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When Katrina Hunter is forced to shoot her sister’s stalker, she takes the required leave of absence from the SF police department as her chance for a long over-due sail to Mexico. But when she discovers a floater close to her first port-of-call, she naturally does the right thing; she reports the dead body to the Mexican Navy. Except that doing her civic duty brings her into the Ensenada police station where she comes face-to-face with her unfortunate past. A past that could cause her to lose her hard won position as a detective in the San Francisco police department. Though the handsome, Italian-Mexican investigator, Raul Vignaroli, finds Katy attractive, he is quick to take advantage of her secret. Now, instead of releasing her, he chains her boat to the dock. Though Katy is furious, Raul coerces her with a combination of Latin charm and subtle threat into helping him uncover which of the American sailors in this small Baja port is a killer.
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Leaving Egypt
by Paula Sadok
Genre: Literary Fiction
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This multi-generational novel traces the history of a Middle Eastern Jewish family from its roots in Aleppo, Syria through its establishment in Cairo, Egypt, and finally to its resettling in New York in the aftermath of Egypt’s revolution in 1952. Sarah, her daughter Marcelle, and her daughter’s daughter Lauren, each struggle with the legacy of their family and culture while trying to find their own identities as women. Leaving Egypt explores the complex negotiations immigrants face as they struggle to set down roots in an unfamiliar place, the way we are all irrevocably shaped by politics and events beyond our control, and the powerful and complex bonds between mothers and daughters.
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A Fork in the Road
by Melissa Nykorchuk
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences | Contemporary Fiction
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The life of Antonia “Cap” Capelli, is anything but normal. Brought up in a life of dysfunction, she is now living in a residential facility for girls until she turns 18 years old. This story is written from Cap’s point of view, detailing the living conditions for the girls living in the juvenile justice facility with her. This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between the life of Cap and a real person are coincidental. Cap is a fictional character, but her life is anything but fictional. Girls living in residential facilities undergo much of the same treatment as Cap herself did. Learn about life as a teenager in the system that forgets about teenagers and dumps them on society when they turn 18. Cap’s lack of preparation for turning 18 should surprise you, but for anyone working in the Juvenile Justice System this is no shock. The author worked for a number of years in residential facilities for teenage girls, and life on the inside of lockup for girls was anything but normal.
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The Blacker Death: A Bam Matthews Thriller
by Larry Enright
Genre: Thrillers | Mystery
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“Only three things in life are guaranteed: you’re born, you die, and somewhere in between, if you keep playing the odds, you’ll get lucky. What makes me such an expert? Nothing really. My name is Bam Matthews, I’m an FBI agent, and in forty-eight hours, give or take, I’ll either be damn lucky or stone-cold dead. Guaranteed.” And so it goes for Bam Matthews, an FBI agent at the end of his career, who in his own words “should have retired years ago, but other than my job all I’ve got is a dog who can beat me at checkers, an old farmhouse in Jersey with a sixteen penny nail I drove into the kitchen wall to hang my piece at night, and this Gremlin that I’ve kept running for thirty-six years.” The story opens when a New York hit man comes to town and whacks a local drug dealer right under the FBI’s nose. A complicated case to crack, but nothing compared to what Bam and his partner find lying on the sidewalk bleeding to death after leaving the murder scene: the first-ever case of Ebola to be reported in the city. This gritty first-person thriller follows a breadcrumb trail through murder, panic, fear, and revenge, drawing you inexorably to an unforgettable heart-pounding conclusion.
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