I made the announcement Sunday night, that we were decorating the tree Monday night. Everyone acknowledged and agreed. They even showed a little enthusiasm. I was relieved that the tree would finally be decorated. It was going to look so nice. Now fast forward to 8pm last night. So how does the tree look all decorated? It doesn’t. No one had time to do it. Erg. Now that I have had a few days to look at it with just the lights, I see there is a huge hole where there are no lights. The whole center strand of lights had gone out. Hubby went out and bought a new strand and replaced it, but he tried so hard to blend the lights (that are not the same white as the ones that came with the pre-light fake tree) with the top and bottom sections of lights that there are huge holes in the middle. Erg. I keep daydreaming of throwing that tree off a cliff. I know that’s not the Christmas spirit, but that tree is giving me some stress. Wait.. no… the tree is annoying the padoodle out of me. I’m not buying a new tree. That …tree… will bring me joy if I have to throw it in the street and run over it with my car to show it who is boss. Totally rational reaction to a tree. Totally.
Dark Heart (Detective Charlie Cooper Mysteries Book 1)
by Catherine Lee
Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery | Thrillers
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Dead men tell no tales. When a kidnapper winds up in the morgue, can his captive be found before she joins him six feet under?
Sydney, Australia. Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his transfer out of homicide to a quieter station fast approaching, the weary detective’s only regret is the decade-long serial killer case he couldn’t crack. But when he’s called to one last murder scene, Cooper can’t believe the victim is the perp he’s been chasing for years.
Certain the sociopath’s latest abductee still lives, the desperate cop races to find her before the clock runs out. But with her journalist husband interfering and the question of who felled the psycho looming large, Cooper fears it’s lights out on his career… and an innocent’s life.
Can he tie up the clues and grasp the redemption he craves?
Dark Heart is the captivating first book in the Detective Charlie Cooper Mysteries series. If you like heroes haunted by failure, spine-tingling suspense, and unexpected twists, then you’ll love Catherine Lee’s unforgettable police procedural.
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The Daughter Claus (Santina Series Book 1)
by D. Thrush
Genre: Fantasy | Literature & Fiction | Romance
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It’s not all tinsel and candy canes for Santa’s daughter!
Grumpy, workaholic Santa always favored Tina’s younger brother, grooming him from birth to fill his boots when he retires. There’s just one problem – Nicholas, Jr. hates Christmas. He even writes anti-Christmas songs for his rock band, Black Ice. When their father winds up in the hospital, it falls to Tina to leave college in sunny Florida and temporarily return home to the frozen North Pole to run the family business. Not only does she have to put her classes on hold, she has to leave a new romance with her brother’s bandmate.
It isn’t easy dealing with rowdy reindeer who enjoy karaoke, the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart, her best friend’s flirtation with an elf, a long-distance relationship, and resistance from her father! Yet there’s a bigger problem – Tina likes it. She excels at running the family business. But who will deliver the presents on Christmas Eve? Santa is supposed to be a man, right? Should Tina go back to college and her new love or fight to be the next Santa?
Christmas magic, girl power, and a dash of romance make this a fun story any time of year!
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Second David Trials and Tribulations (The Empire of Israel Book 3)
by Joseph Ganci
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Historical Fiction
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Vast wealth and greed!… Envy, trickery, lust, murder, and underhanded power grabs! Assassination, attempts, Incest!, and deadly family plotting. Human sacrifice and battling with giants.
Not 21st-century tabloid headlines but the Bible that you THOUGHT you knew:
David and Solomon!… Bathsheba and Absalom!… Joab, David’s chief henchman, and Nathan, the fabled prophet!
Joseph Ganci’s new must-read novel is a time machine, transporting the reader into ancient biblical times, revealing previously unforeseen mysteries, intrigues, and violence.
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Ms. Never
by Colin Dodds
Genre: Science Fiction
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What do we give away when we click “I AGREE” to the terms of service on our phones? · Why are the billionaires squirrelling away all that money? · Why do old photographs and songs seem to refer to a history we can’t remember? · Why do professional sports teams need new stadiums so often? · And why is everyone so depressed? These are just a few mysteries that Ms. Never – a new science-fiction novel by Colin Dodds – takes on (and possibly answers) in startling fashion.
Farya Navurian seems like an ordinary young woman trying to get ahead in the city while struggling with depression. But her depression is anything but ordinary – it has the power to destroy time and space. Growing up the moody daughter of a space-faring hero of The Greater Anointed Imperial Ohioan Commonwealth, Farya annihilated most of that world and its history, leaving behind the husk-like Buckeye State. One day at a record swap, she meets Bryan, a divorced telecom CEO. More than record collecting, what they share is that they each carry a howling secret. Bryan’s business is a cover for a bigger operation that buys human souls and sells luxury afterlives using shady terms of service in mobile-phone contracts. The two of them fall in love, and as they start a life together, their secrets back them into a corner where they have to come clean – and take drastic steps – to save themselves, and possibly reality itself. Ms. Never is a distinctly 21st-century vision of consent, memory, and the ways we create and destroy the world every day.
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Foam On The Crest Of Waves
by Silke Stein
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Can facing the past transform the present?
In a small fishing town on the Mendocino coast, the tides of time have washed over rumors and suspicions, yet the members of a maimed family still struggle to cope with their memories:
a broken woman refusing to let go of her vanished husband;
her widowed brother clinging to the shatters of the life he loved;
his troubled daughter planning to turn mermaid on her fifteenth birthday…
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Fire in the Fjord (Charles Dollimore Book 2)
by M. C. Smith
Genre: War | Historical Fiction
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It is February 1940 – just six months since Britain declared war on Germany.
Hitler has set his sights on neutral Norway and its precious iron ore he needs to feed his voracious war machine. Control of Norwegian waters by Hitler’s forces would make breaking the Allied blockade of Germany a little easier. Risky – Britain’s Senior Service still rules the waves. His secret weapon – German air power, especially the fiendish dive-bomber, the Stuka.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is under mounting pressure for continuing in his belief that a peaceful solution is possible. His First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, knows otherwise.
And so does Captain Charles Dollimore, who has command of HMS Burscombe, one of the most powerful cruisers in the British fleet, yet he is having problems with his immediate superior, Rear-Admiral Nicklesworth, ¬who resents his decisiveness and intuitive grasp of the situation.
Rank and tradition is everything in the Royal Navy. But it can bring a kitbag full of problems for the families whose men dedicate their lives to the service. Charles’ son Philip, living in the shadow of his father’s high reputation, has raised eyebrows over his temperament under duress. He has a weakness for drink – and problems on the women front to boot. His career has been knocked back by the irascible Captain Vian aboard HMS Cossack and has been posted to a desk job in London.
And more of the same for Midshipman David Clark, born into a family that have, for over two hundred years, been producing successful officers for the Royal Navy. He was never interested in serving but has no choice. It is a recipe for trouble.
There is trouble everywhere, it seems, even with those for whom the navy offers escape from more dubious or inferior origins. The war just makes the trouble worse.
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