Hmmph! I have not yet taken the back to school pictures of my baby bassets. I am still seeing a few posts on social media from other parents of their kids, so I don’t think I am too late. I will do it today. I promise! I feel really bad about this. You know what makes it worse? The fact that I will have my Halloween decorations up a good month early, but I can’t get it together to take one picture of my boys standing by the front door with their backpacks on. You just know when I will finally take the picture and post it on Facebook, the comments will read, “Nice picture. Are those pumpkins and witches in the background? Are you sure this is first week of school pictures??” UGH!!!
A Lie Worth Living (The Grace Miller Series Book 1)
by Simon King
Genre: Mystery | Thrillers | Suspense
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Some secrets are meant for keeping. Even if it means murder.
After finding a hidden diary linked to a thirty-year-old disappearance, Grace stumbles across a terrifying secret this town has been desperate to protect. Behind the smile of her newly adopted island home, sits a community bathed in lies and it’s not long before she’s caught in the middle of a deadly mystery.
When the diary opens her eyes to the heartbreaking truth about a long-forgotten tragedy, Grace uncovers a revelation with the power to crumble the town’s very foundation. Secrets are meant for keeping and some will go to any lengths to defend them. Will this seventeen-year-old find a way of proving murder, or will the island protect its secret and silence her forever?
A Lie Worth Living is filled with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very end, a literary roller-coaster of emotions that come from finding buried secrets. If you love nail-biting suspense, then journey to an island where nothing is as it seems, and prepare for an ending you won’t see coming.
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The American Girl (The Maureen Ritter Series Book 1)
by Eoin Dempsey
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Can one woman’s inspirational story inspire hope in her granddaughter’s lost soul?
New York, 2006.
Amy Sullivan’s life is a mess. Fired from her dream job at a prestigious newspaper, she gets a call from her 90-year-old grandmother in the South of France. Maureen Ritter flies to America, the land of her birth, ostensibly to visit her ailing sister, but soon she begins to share with Amy what she’s hidden for more than 60 years — the story of her war.
France, 1940.
The impending German invasion threatens the idyllic existence Maureen and the Jewish refugees living with her enjoy in the French countryside. On a trip to Paris to arrange visas for them to escape, Maureen meets Christophe, a handsome would-be suitor who seems to have something to hide. When he tells her of some Jewish children about to be caught in the eye of the Nazi Blitzkrieg in Belgium, they assemble a team to rescue them before they are swallowed up by the invading Wehrmacht.
But when the Nazis occupy northern France, the need to evacuate the Jewish orphans in her personal care becomes apparent. With the help of the resistance and a new network designed to extricate Allied servicemen from France, she will begin a dangerous and arduous journey to save the lives of those she loves most, no matter what the cost to herself might be.
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Always Room for Cupcakes (Delilah Horton Book 1)
by Bethany Lopez
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Romance | Mystery | Foreign Languages
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One day I was be-bopping along jamming to the music in my head while wondering if my thighs could handle grabbing a cupcake on the way home. The next thing I knew, my entire world crashed and burned.
I used to wake up at night in a sweat, crying because I’d dreamt my husband was cheating on me, or he hated me, and resented our kids. He’d always hold me close and tell me it was all just a dream, that he loved me and our family and he’d never let us go.
He was a liar.
Now I spend my days taking photos of scum just like him, trying to be a champion for others who are being taken advantage of by the losers in our town, and my nights being a single mom to my beautiful twins.
I’ve got great friends who always have my back and a sexy, mysterious motorcycle man who keeps showing up when I need him. Things are finally starting to look up. And one thing’s for sure… There’s always room for cupcakes.
WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS FOUL LANGUAGE, SEX, SOME VIOLENCE, AND SHENANIGANS. IF NONE OF THAT BOTHERS YOU, GRAB A CUPCAKE AND READ ON!
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FRESH START AT GREENGRASS CAMPSITE (LYNNE & CHRISTOPHER GUMBLETON Book 8)
by Lynne and Christopher Gumbleton
Genre: Foreign Languages | Humor & Entertainment | Romance
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Mac had it all – a single, care free life, living on the shores of Southampton Water in his own detached property. Ok, so it was just a rusty old Winnebago affectionately known as Minnie Winnie, but it was the first home Mac has actually owned and he loved it.
A perfect existence – nights out with best friends Roger and Malik at The Wicked Parrot – sea swimming every day – and his artist’s studio in the magnificent Beauham Grange Arts Centre just a stroll down the lane. And the bad time in Mac’s life was firmly in the past – something he didn’t allow to disturb his equilibrium.
Everything changed the day The Guzzle Monster driven by Ms Spangles Toot thundered down the narrow campsite lane knocking Mac off of his trusted “Honey Honda” motorbike. The enormous RV was now parked so close to Minnie Winnie he could reach out and stir his neighbour’s tea. Mac’s equilibrium was kicked out the window. His life was about to be turned upside down.
A roller coaster of love, discovery and adventure. A journey filled with humour, drama and the occasional tear that would change Mac, and everything he thought he knew about himself, forever…
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An Urn for the Worse: An uplifting coming of middle-age story
by Tim Armstrong-Taylor, Bryony Sutherland
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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An Urn for the Worse – An uplifting coming-of-middle-age story
A sudden death, a bucket list, a missing urn, a failing marriage, a make-or-break business deal, an irritating old uncle on a motorbike and a psychopath who refuses to die. How bad can one man’s midlife crisis get?
Exhausted entrepreneur Nick Swift is on the verge of financial success or ruin when his father inconveniently dies, leaving him with a bucket list to complete on his behalf.
Accompanied by his uncle, vlogging sensation Karmic Keith, and watched by thousands of his followers, Nick is coerced into completing the bucket list in the midst of desperately negotiating an eleventh-hour deal to save his business. All this whilst carrying the urn containing the ashes he must scatter on his late father’s looming birthday. An urn that Nick would never have believed his life would come to depend upon. If only he hadn’t lost it…
A laugh-out-loud funny, clever and moving page-turner, ‘An Urn for the Worse’ is perfect for fans of Richard Osman, Tony Parsons and Jonas Jonasson.
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A Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Recipes
by Philip Wik
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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A Prairie Cookbook has recipes that were used to satisfy the hunger of pioneering families in the Midwestern United States.
I must frame your expectations before you read this book. These aren’t Old Country recipes. They’re recipes from the Midwest from the turn of the last century. You’ll find better recipes on how to make ox-tail soup, for example, on the internet and from other books, complete with full-spread glossy color illustrations. If you read this book for culinary how-to instructions or the art of gourmet, you’ll be missing the point. Rather, my goal is to open a window into a vanishing world through the doorway of taste. This book provides another dimension to understanding the lives of our ancestors. These recipes are as simple and as unpolished as those who worked the land. And yet they invoke an atmosphere that other histories may not fully capture. They become a kind of a time portal into the past. Crushed tomato leaves are an example for me. Their smell magically transports me back to my grandmother’s tomato garden when I was five years old. For you, it might be the smell of a holiday dinner or freshly baked cookies.
Despite the hardships they faced, the people of the plains had high aspirations and ideals. In 1918, my grandmother Emma’s husband Nicholas died during the Spanish flu pandemic that raged at the time. And yet she saw all eleven of her children go to college before and during the Great Depression.
These memoirs help provide the context in which these meals were lovingly prepared, for children, grandparents, and field hands, and for holidays, weddings, funerals, and for daily life. Both these recipes and the memoirs give us a glimpse of an important time in the history of our nation and give us insight into the simple but strong character of the homesteaders of the Midwest.
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