Facebook alerted me to a picture I had posted this time last year of my sweet old pup Jethro sleeping in my oldest basset’s lap on the car ride home from camping. We thought for sure that it would be his last summer. It felt sad, and I remember hoping he enjoyed it. Which I really think he did. Just like he did this year camping. The guy is immortal! We once again took him camping with us for a week by the lake. The heat was getting to him a bit, but he did great. The first couple of days though he couldn’t do the family walks, but he didn’t want to be left behind. Thank golly we brought our garden cart. Yup, we put him in a garden cart and toted him around. He wasn’t sure at first, but when he realized what we were doing he was happy as a clam in high tide. It was an added bonus that Junebug could reach him, so he also got a break from her licking his face.

Menagerie
by A.K. Meek, Ellen Campbell
3.9 Stars (31 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Metaphysical | Science Fiction

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The Acme Corporation has finally released their newest product line, Menagerie, robotic animals. It quickly becomes the latest rage in the golden city of Corinth.

Ever since the last animal died off shortly after the Wars over a decade ago, people have mourned their passing, wishing for their return. But no longer. Thanks to the innovative imaginers of Acme, you can buy your favorite extinct pet. And better yet, you can bind to it through a drop of DNA, forging an unbreakable empathic and spiritual link. A true forever friend.

Timothy Hollow is an up-and-coming management analyst with no interest in Menagerie or forever friends; his only desire is to make it to the top of Corinth’s social order. He dreams of one day living miles above the city, in one of the uppermost floors of the most plush super skyscrapers dotting Corinth’s skyline. A modern-day Babylon. He’s worked tirelessly for the last two years, sacrificing all for his job. Now, he’s on the verge of a big promotion, and nothing can stop him. Except for Mom.

An unwitting pawn to nefarious plans, she stops by Timothy’s apartment one fine Corinthian day bearing an unexpected and unwelcome present, a Menagerie.
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This short story has been turned into a novel, Acme’s Menagerie.

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Forget Me Not
by Jacqueline Falcomer
4.5 Stars (10 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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Alex, the storyteller in Forget Me Not unfurls the multicolored banner that is his family history. In vivid and rich narration, from his grandfather’s bull fighting ranch in Mexico and his father’s chiropractic education in Iowa, to his own search for self and the woman he cannot forget, Alex is both guide and lost soul.

Through three generations and across four continents, this tale of yearning, searching, loss and forgiveness grabs the reader on every level and yanks you through turmoil, depravity, tenderness and awakening.

A late-night page turner, this is not a book you will soon forget.

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Shattered Warrior: (Dark Warrior Alliance Book 11)
by Brenda Trim, Tami Julka, Amanda Fitzpatrick
4.3 Stars (36 Reviews)
Genre: Romance

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Detective Orlando Trovatelli is a glutton for punishment when it comes to matters of the heart and not even his shifter instincts can keep him on course.

It’s bad enough that he has feelings for the Vampire Queen, who is mated to one of the most powerful males of the Tehrex Realm, but then he falls for Jaidis, a mated cambion. He clings to the pathetic excuse that Jaidis’s mate is abusing her and the Goddess will reconsider and give Jaidis to Orlando in the end. He learns how wrong he is the night he arrives at Jaidis’s house to find her lying in a pool of her own blood while struggling to save her unborn baby. Orlando is prepared to move heaven and earth to save Jaidis’s life, but ultimately all he can guarantee Jaidis is that he will protect her unborn son.

Struggling with his new responsibilities, Orlando isn’t prepared to deal with the aftermath of the new archdemons. With his Omega on one side of the fence and Zander on the other, Orlando is forced to choose between his loyalty to the Dark Warriors and disclosing their existence to humans.

After everything Orlando has been through, he questions the Goddess and whether his faith in her has been in vain.

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Retribution
by Nicholas Gill, Mark Vickers
4.6 Stars (13 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Literature & Fiction

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When a terrorist splinter group carries out a series of attacks on the West, an American intelligence analyst becomes involved in events far more closely than he could ever have imagined. Forced to witness a brutal murder at close quarters, and even closer to home, he vows to exact “retribution” – whatever the cost.
The analyst becomes the catalyst in unfolding actions and the novel becomes both a detective story to track the mastermind and an action thriller to take out the terrorist organization. Events build to a catastrophic climax; can an international crisis be averted? Can an elusive urban guerrilla be tracked and stopped? What will be the cost?
Fast paced and international in scope, this is the first novel in a series built around a set of realistic characters immersed in extreme circumstances. Technically accurate and well researched; this series of novels takes us into the world of ex Special Forces operatives’ now working in. the private sector.

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Chili to Die For (A Willow Crier Cozy Mystery Book 1) (Willow Crier Cozy Mysteries)
by Lilly York
4.2 Stars (88 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction

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Guaranteed: clean, quirky, and fun!*

A northerner by birth…

Willow moves south when she inherits her grandfather’s ice cream shop.

From the slow southern dialect to the crazy drivers, Willow finds herself at odds with what most call “southern charm.” She becomes obsessed with cook-offs and bake-offs, wanting those trophies for her mantle. With the chili cook-off just around the corner, Willow manages to provoke one of the judges to a fit of road rage.

When that judge ends up face down, dead, in a bowl of Willow’s chili, police chief Grice looks to the newest town resident as his number one suspect. Willow must find out who wanted Ms. Delonda Posey dead before the good citizens of Turtle, OK run her Yankee bottom out of town.

*Contains NO swearing, sex scenes (maybe a kiss or two), or graphic violence

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Death or Bounty (McBain Series Book 1)
by I. J. Parnham
4.5 Stars (11 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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Spenser O’Connor’s luck has finally run out. After years of riding with Kirk Morton’s outlaw gang, he’s been caught and slammed in Beaver Ridge jail. The noose beckons. Then two bounty hunters, Nat McBain and Clifford Trantor, offer him a choice – die at dawn or help them track down Kirk Morton.
Not surprisingly, Spenser chooses to help them.
But this unlikely team soon discovers that Kirk is an ornery and ruthless quarry. Worse, they’re not the only ones after him and the other bounty hunters will stop at nothing to capture Kirk.
When the bullets start flying from all directions, it isn’t long before Spenser wonders if the noose might have been the better choice.

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Fish & Game Cookbook
by Bonnie Scott
4.2 Stars (36 Reviews)
Genre: Sports | Cookbooks, Food & Wine

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Do you love the taste of fish and game?

Excited by unusual or uncommon sources of food, like squirrel or venison?

If you are, and there are growing numbers who love something different, then the next step is how to make your fish or game into a meal that is deserving of all the hard work you put in to getting it in the first place.

Inside the pages of the Fish and Game Cookbook, you will discover a range of recipes and ideas that will do justice to the unique flavors of whatever you have for dinner and includes recipes like:

• Barbecued Venison

• Hearty Elk Chili

• Delicious Duck Fillet Casserole

• Pheasant Pie

• Squirrel Stew

• Fish in Creole Sauce

• And many more…

There are over 150 recipes for everything from fish and venison to duck and quail. Included are many marinades, sauces and sides to accompany your meat, so you will never tire of eating the same thing.

Easy to prepare and with ingredients that you will likely have on hand, the Fish and Game Cookbook will provide you and your family with exciting and memorable meals every day of the week.

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