I am not gonna lie. I was pretty bummed that no one volunteered to make the decorations for my youngest basset’s class for the school walk-a-thon. This was the first year, in about four years, that I wasn’t involved with the planning and I was enjoying the break. I was happy to have my summer back and not be worrying the whole time about decorations or all the tiny details that go into planning the second biggest fundraiser for the school. It turns out I should have worried a little, because only a week and a half or so before the event and still no one was stepping up to do it. I certainly couldn’t have the 5th grade be without decoration! Hubby says I could, but refuse. Yes, that is true. I love how proud the kids are when they see their tent decorated in an awesome way. They may be getting too old for cute little decorations, but as long as they still enjoy it at least a little, I will make it happen. The theme this year was the Trolls movie, and part of the decorations I made were 18 giant crazy flowers. I think after the walk-a-thon I am going to change the nice happy faces they have now and make them angry looking for an evil garden in my front yard for Halloween. Yup…that’s gonna rock. PICTURES TO FOLLOW!
White Tide
by Steve Blake
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Thomas Palmeri finds himself hunted by a vicious drug cartel when he finds and turns over to the police a stash of illicit drugs. The cartel wants the millions of dollars that went missing with the drugs returned and will kill anyone who stands between them and their money. Palmeri, aided by an FBI agent and her partner, must find a way to stop them before they find and kill him.
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If the Moon Had Willow Trees (Detroit Eight Series Book 1)
by Kathleen Hall
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Award-winning author of The Otherness Factor takes us to Detroit during the turbulence of the Sixties.
Detroit,–July 25, 1967, two days after Detroit cops raid a blind pig (speakeasy) inciting the biggest race riot in American history. Maggie Soulier wakes to a deejay’s cry for ‘anyone left in the city’ to hustle pop to police sweltering at highway checkpoints leading into the firestorm.
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by Darren Beyer
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A manned, interstellar survey ship has gone missing.
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by Douglas Lindsay
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Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity; shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomson’s uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer…
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