It has become quite clear to me that I was meant to raise boys. Last night was the final performance of my oldest baby basset’s school play. The boys were waiting in one room, and the girls in the other. I was thankfully put in charge of the boys. Those boys were insane. They were flying around the room, jumping on tables and running across the ceiling, and I am pretty sure someone bit someone, but none of it phased me at all. I put out each fire one at a time and no blood was shed. Success! At one point I peeked into the girls room to see if the drama teacher needed anything and found the girls were high energy, but behaving quite nicely, and not one girl was doing sprints on the ceiling. But I did see something that scared me right back into the boys room. Makeup! One girl looked at me as if she was about to ask me to put on some glitter blush and I ran back out before she could even make full eye contact. I know my limits. It will start with makeup and quickly escalate to hair. The last thing I need is to make a little girl cry before her big performance.
Louisiana Bigshot: A Humorous New Orleans Mystery; Talba Wallis #2 (The Talba Wallis PI Series)
Julie Smith
Genre: Mystery | United States | African American
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A POET, A BARONESS, A COMPUTER GENIUS, PLUS TWO DETECTIVES… AND THEY’RE ONLY TWO PEOPLE… Meet the hottest detective duo in New Orleans–she’s Queen Latifah. He’s Danny DeVito. Or they would be if this were a movie–in print, they’re Talba Wallis and Eddie Valentino. Talba’s got the beauty, the brains, the computer savvy, the poetic soul,the youth, the right demographic, and the sass. Eddie’s got the detective agency. Also a short fuse and yes, wisdom. Not only do they make it work, they’ve got chemistry. And they need every skill and ounce of courage they can summon in this intricate tale of a decades-old conspiracy only now coming home to roost, with the murder of Talba’s friend Babalu Maya. Babalu is actually Clayton Robineau, daughter of the local banker in a small Louisiana town that bears her name, a town buried under the weight of its own malevolent past. Something terrible happened to Clayton as a child, but it was far from the usual “something terrible”. As Talba and Eddie investigate, they find it was an injury — both pscyhic and physical–so bizarre, so shameful and damning that almost anyone in town would kill to cover it up. Or so it seems to the New Orleans duo as they dodge bullets and what passes for the law in this malignant enclave, fetid with the rot of its corruption, yet determined to keep its sordid skeletons buried. Never did Faulkner’s words ring so true as in Clayton, Louisiana: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
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A Love by Any Measure
Killian McRae
Genre: Historical Fiction | Teen & Young Adult | Romance
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August Grayson has secretly dreamt of the girl living on his family’s Irish estate since childhoods spent together in Killarney. Now a proper Lord of the British Empire, he knows there’s no place for Maeve in his world. Still, if only…
Maeve O’Connor has nothing but her good name, which proves just enough to win a proposal to a good, Irish lad – for whom she feels nothing. Until the wedding, however, she’s in dire straits. Rent on the cottage she and her father share is due, but there simply isn’t the money to pay. Driven to desperation, Maeve hopes Lord Grayson, her childhood-chum-turned-dashing-English-rogue, will prove lenient when she comes seeking clemency. The temptation presented proves too much, and August offers Maeve a compromise: should she permit him twice as long on each succeeding visit to do whatever he wishes in pursuit of his pleasure, he will consider her rent paid. Starting with a mere five seconds, pulses soon out race the ticking clock, as August’s desires become Maeve’s own. Passion blinds them to the challenges closing in on both the Irish and English fronts, threatening to destroy them both. Working to bridge that which divides them, tempting fate with each stolen kiss, and torn between desire and obligation, Maeve and August must strive to overcome all and find a love by any measure.
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Shepherd Avenue
Charlie Carillo
Genre: Coming of Age | Humor & Satire
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First published in 1986. Named one of the Best Books of that year by the American Library Association. After his mother’s death, a shy 10-year-old boy from the suburbs must find a place for himself with his grandmother’s boisterous Italian-American family in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood in the summer of 1961. “Shepherd Avenue… has terrific force” – The New York Times
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Little Man, and the Dixon County War
Stan R. Mitchell
Genre: Crime Fiction | Westerns
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Paul Zachary shouldn’t have accepted that badge. And he certainly shouldn’t have shot down a famous gunfighter in front of a crowd of onlookers at Belleville’s busiest saloon. But now that the smell of gunpowder has faded and the blood has been scrubbed off the floor, Zachary is something he never wanted to be: a damned hero. He’s been written up in newspapers, named “Little Man,”and has more trouble on his hands than any 27-year-old man should. However, the trouble of being a big-time hero and having a target on his back pales in comparison to what happens next: An evil cattle baron named McConnell sets his sights on Zachary… McConnell is the most powerful man in the West and he completely controls Dixon County, a godforsaken stretch of country known by the locals as “Devil’s County.” This is McConnell’s world, and he owns most of the land and all of the law. McConnell can’t have a new hero giving people hope in a land conditioned to lawlessness, so he dispatches a brutal gang to kill Zachary’s best friend from the war and abduct his wife. Zachary pursues the gang, but fails to catch them before they arrive in Dixon County. And Zachary knows that McConnell has bribed or buried every man who’s ever stood up to him. He tries at first to go it alone, but quickly realizes if he’s going to take on almost a hundred gunhands and rescue the wife of his murdered friend, he’s going to need to bring along three of the best gunfighters the West has ever seen. Keeping these temperamental men together, while dodging traps, ambushes, and double-crosses at every turn, would prove a herculean task for a man twice Zachary’s age, but the young deputy is no pushover. He learned to fight, and fight hard, from being the youngest in a tough line of men who’ve never missed a war. And, Zachary just survived three long, hard years in a ragtag, Rebel cavalry troop charged with raiding Northern towns. The young lawman owes his friend his life, and he won’t stop until he saves the woman or dies trying.
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Crafts For Kids (3rd Edition): 99 Fun Packed Projects For Kids Of All Ages! (Kids Crafts)
Kitty Moore
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home | Children’s eBooks
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Kids Crafts: Want 99 FUN Kids Crafts That Will Keep Your Kids Busy For HOURS?
From the Best Selling Arts & Crafts writer, Kitty Moore, comes Crafts For Kids: 99 Fun Packed Projects For Kids Of All Ages! This book will help your kids keep busy while expanding their creativity. It is also Kitty’s 3rd edition – filled with NEW & UPDATED crafts! If you are struggling to get things done because your kids are keeping you busy… If you are sick of your kids only watching TV and playing video games… Or if you like the idea of receiving a full list of ready-to-go kids crafts that allow their imaginations to run wild… THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU! This book provides you with a step-by-step guide for children to create their own arts and crafts items! Some of the kids crafts you will receive in this book include: Portable Pop-Up Dolls House Finger Painted Hyacinth Blossoms Easy ‘Stained’ Glass Windows Blossoming Branches Personalized Painted Mugs Beautiful Bunting Confetti Tape Finger Print Key Rings Sweet Dreams Personalized Pillow Case Put Your Art on Candles Sugar Scrub Pampering Set Bath Bomb! Key Wind Chime Eggshell Seed Bombs My Crafty Canvas Bag Pirate Cork Boats Pop Art Masterpiece Homemade Play Dough Potato Print Gift Paper Floating Angel Wax Paper Wonder Super Self Powered Tug Boat Unsinkable Snowman Non-slip Mouse Pad Slime In No Time! Stepping Stone Fun Party Piñata Colorful Ice Tower Rustic Photo Frame.
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