I have been attacked by elves! I have no clue what I did to piss them off, but they are obviously mad and have decided to mess with me. It started with my car. I have been driving that beat up 2008 minivan for at least 6 years. SIX YEARS! I know all the bings, dings, and bleep bleeps it makes. Last week I got in, turned the key, and a whole new set of dings, bings, and bleep bleeps started happening. Nothing was familiar! It was the weirdest thing. It drove fine, but had developed new features like back-up sensors. For six years I had no idea this car had back-up sensors. It’s also making sounds for other things, but I have no clue what for. Maybe for dressing bad or having crazy hair. Who knows. Fine. I now have to get to know my car all over again. But now my computer is sounding completely different as well. New bings, dings, and bleep bleeps from it now. WHY???? I can’t handle this much change from technology! You know who never would have done this to me? My rotary phone. It took forever to dial a number with that guy, and golly forbid you accidentally dialed the wrong number and had to start all over, but he was CONSISTENT!
What Lies in the Sea (“What Lies” Adventure Mystery Series Book 3)
by Steve Kittner
Genre: Sports & Outdoors | Thrillers
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In the year 1715, A Spanish Treasure Fleet comprised of eleven ships and one French “tag-a-long” vessel was blown onto the reefs off of the east-central coast of Florida by a massive hurricane.
Eleven of the twelve vessels were dismasted, broken like kindling and sent to the seafloor in less than twenty feet of water, taking gold, silver, emeralds, and rubies with it. Only the French vessel survived. Fast-forward to 1973, Captain Henderson and his mate, Butch Dawson, while on a dreadful nighttime run to the reef, inadvertently locate some well-preserved ribs of a sixteenth century vessel off the coast of Cape Canaveral. Between those heavy wooden beams lay a king’s fortune. Trouble for the team ensued immediately and the treasure recovery had to wait — for forty-five more years.
Leap ahead to current day, Josh Baker, Giselle O’Connor and Eddie Debord are rolling south in Eddies fully restored VW Bus. After repairing a small issue with an accelerator cable, they met a young man with a story — a story from 1973. A tale of treasure made credible by his possession of a single gold Spanish Escudo left for him by his grandfather.
The action begins and never stops in this fast-paced land and sea treasure hunt adventure. The friends are relentlessly pursued by a couple of blundering criminals as well as the Casino controlling Florida Mafia, who wants a piece of the action as well. The good guys can seemingly never catch a break as they try to help locate and recover the lost cargo they have signed rights to excavate… but as always, it seems others don’t play by the rules.
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True North (North Brothers)
by Amy Knupp
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction
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It might be a fake date, but what if he’s not faking it?
Loner Cole North has always been the odd guy out. His IQ is sky-high, but he’s not so bright when it comes to people or relationships. Years ago, he spurned expectations, shunned his family’s business, and embraced a career in construction instead. Now he values his job above everything, in part because of his secret feelings for his boss, Sierra. While he could never be right for her personally, he endeavors to be exactly what she needs professionally.
Remodeler Sierra Lowell might be creative, hardworking, and a color-outside-the-lines thinker in her job, but there’s one line she’s never crossed. It’s tough enough to be a woman in a man’s job without adding sex or emotions to the mix. Smart, sexy Cole is without question her right-hand man, but the lines get blurred when Sierra’s life is complicated with a wedding date crisis and the television opportunity of a lifetime.
Cole impulsively steps up to be her go-to guy for both. When their fake date is interrupted by a family emergency, having Sierra at his side makes him realize there’s a fine line between alone and lonely and that maybe he’s ready for less of both. Can he find a way to go from being a right-hand man to the right man for her?
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Death on the Line: The MacKay Mysteries, Book 1
by Carol Amorosi
Genre: Historical Fiction | Mystery
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He signed on to map the New World, not solve a cold-blooded homicide. But his dream job just became his worst nightmare… An outcast with no formal education, Angus MacKay’s dream comes true when he sails to the Colonies to assist Mason and Dixon on their ground-breaking expedition.
However, the contentious Maryland-Pennsylvania border has seen plenty of turmoil following eighty years of skirmishes pitting neighbors against each other. Tensions reach a boiling point when Angus stumbles over a dead body.
When an incompetent sheriff is determined to arrest Angus, the game changes from drawing a line on the ground to defining the line between good and evil. Will he catch the real culprit before it’s too late? Or will it be his head in the noose?
From the treacherous crossing of the stormy Atlantic to the wild, untamed wilderness of Colonial Pennsylvania, Death on the Line is a rich, entertaining tale of a moment in American history and a young man’s quest to make something of himself. Book 1 of The MacKay Mysteries, a series of historical murders.
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Death at the Dog (Inspector Guy Northeast Book 2)
by Joanna Cannan
Genre: Mystery
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It is late 1939 and Crescy Hardwick is a charismatic, if unpredictable, divorcée who seems to have found her place in the world at last…
She loves and cherishes the rural cottage she has rented for the past few years.
So, it is especially galling when she receives notice from the landlord of her impending eviction.
Being Crescy, she does not take it well…
But she is not the only person in the community to despise her landlord, Mathew Scaife. Most of the local people and even his own family seem to resent him.
Nobody mourns when old Mathew is discovered dead in his chair at the local pub. Indeed, it seems likely that he would have been swiftly forgotten – were it not for the eagle eyes of an apparently bumbling doctor, who makes an astonishing discovery.
Mathew Scaife was murdered; quickly and quietly and in a room full of people.
How could this be?
It is up to Inspector Guy Northeast to find out who killed Mathew and why. Returning reluctantly to the area, he quickly works out that the prime suspect is Crescy Hardwick.
Which is something Guy finds difficult to come to terms with, for a host of reasons… not all of them professional, or even logical.
As Guy establishes the ingenious method used to kill Scaife, and as the case against Crescy mounts, Inspector Northeast must determine whether that case is based in fact, or whether something more complicated is going on…
Many people disliked Mathew Scaife. But who would be willing to risk the gallows to kill him? And why?
As Guy investigates the people around him, he discovers that some of them differ greatly from the image they present to the world. The question is, is Crescy among those individuals?
And if so, could she be a murderess, or has somebody else been guilty all along?
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At the Mountains of Madness
by H. P. Lovecraft
Genre: Science Fiction
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This classic mind-shattering tale, which “ranks high among the horror stories of the English language,” plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos (Time).
In the uncharted wastes of Antarctica, an exploration party from Miskatonic University encounters a gory sight when they discover their advance team’s camp has been destroyed and its members slaughtered. There is no evidence of what happened except a series of burial mounds, six of which contain dead specimens of unknown species. Eight similar tombs are empty, but they haven’t been broken into — they’ve been broken out of.
What began as a search for knowledge soon becomes a terrifying confrontation with the true nature of the world and the universe in all its stark blackness and unyielding oblivion. For mankind is not — and never has been — the bright light of creation. It’s all a mistake, an insignificant stain of existence, forgotten by an unwitting and indifferent creator… until now.
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That Time I Died: A Novel
by Naomi Peled Schneider
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Teen & Young Adult
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When healthy, athletic, 18-year-old Yair finds himself bedridden in a hospital room and is informed that he is paralyzed from the neck down and may never walk again, his whole life shatters around him. While his family and friends believe it to be the result of a terrible accident, could the truth reveal a premeditated act?
Alone, confined to his bed, Yair finds refuge in the most unexpected place. Soon, the only thing keeping him going is the one-on-one conversations he begins having with God.
When Yair fails to wake up from his last surgery, he is left suspended between two worlds – our world and the beyond. With time running short, he realizes his death is quickly approaching.
When powerful secrets from his past are revealed, Yair knows that the choice to embark on a race against time – and death – is up to him.
That Time I Died is an inspiring coming-of-age story for young adults about the strength of spirit, learning from our mistakes, and the power of faith.
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