It’s cookie baking time. These are the cookies that I bake with my baby bassets, that I don’t hand out to my friends and family. I gotta be honest. If people give me cookies or treats and they tell me their kid helped make them…. I thank them, but there is no why in heckadoodle I will eat them. I have seen what my kids do when they bake, and the secret ingredient isn’t love. Just saying. Don’t get me wrong. Not all kids are germy and booger filled, but the odds are pretty high that at least one time during the baking they snuck something in. And you just try to tell me as parents or caregivers that after you have mixed just about all the ingredients together and your sweet little child sneezes right at the bowl, you are going to throw that whole batch out? My friends can rest easy, those batches I save for just the kids to eat and then I turn the TV on and make a new batch by myself for my friends. I even tell my friends that no kids were used in the baking of these cookies and I mean it.
Bias Cut
Morgan Richter
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Mystery
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Burned out and bitter after a string of disappointments, Nicola Strozyk takes a short-term gig assisting Laurie Sparks, the design world’s reigning enfant terrible. Barely in his twenties, Laurie has built himself an empire that encompasses a chic Manhattan boutique and a role on an obnoxious reality series. Part worldly sophisticate and part cheerful scatterbrain, Laurie is beautiful and extravagant; at nearly twice his age, Nicola is jaded and resolutely unglamorous. As Laurie’s burgeoning fame threatens to overwhelm him, Nicola finds herself struggling to keep him on solid ground. When Laurie becomes obsessed with tracking down the designer of a mysterious coat, he drags Nicola along on a champagne-fueled quest that takes them from the New York catwalks to glittery Hollywood parties and swanky suites in Paris hotels. What begins as a lark takes an ominous turn when they uncover a decades-old mystery involving the murders of two young models. Along the way, the odd-couple camaraderie between Nicola and Laurie evolves into a fierce bond, which is put to the test when she must protect him from a pair of deadly threats: a mercurial fellow designer hell-bent on burying a dark secret, and an obsessive killer who has fixed his sights on Laurie.
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The Cleansing (Earth Haven Book 1)
Sam Kates
Genre: Science Fiction
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Apocalypse unleashed, the Cleansing begins. Relentless. Survival, uncertain. Seven billion people inhabit this world, unaware our destruction is at hand. Death arrives unheralded — swift and nearly certain — not from meteors or nuclear holocaust or global warming, but from a source no one even knows exists. The architects of doom have moved among us, hidden in plain sight, waiting for the signal to trigger our extinction. Blindsided, humanity falls. A handful of survivors, bewildered and grief-stricken, must face the new reality, and quickly. For while the Cleansing threatens our existence, it is only the beginning…
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Dragonhammer: Volume I
Conner McCall
Genre: Action & Adventure | Fantasy
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Kadmus Armstrong lives in a small town at the northeastern tip of the Wolfpack Mountains, happily waning his days away with his father in the forge that they share. As members of the clan of Gilgal, they don’t really have to worry about the war that has been sitting on their front lawn since High King Tharantus was murdered. It’s not their men that are dying, their crops that are burning, or really their problem. So Kadmus enjoys visiting his elder brother, hunting with his younger brother, and simply bringing his blacksmith’s hammer crashing down on a white-hot piece of metal. But what if it does become their problem? Kadmus is forced to answer this question in the dead of night when suddenly his father hands him a sword and yells something about a bandit raid. Within minutes, however, it becomes harshly obvious that this is no mere bandit raid. Being a blacksmith by trade, and hardly one for getting out of his box, Kadmus chooses to wield the weapon with which he is most experienced: a hammer. Thus begins the epic journey, twisted with love and blood, of Kadmus Armstrong, Trollslayer, Shipwrecker, Forger of Fire. They say there is one that cannot be defeated. One that can withstand any blow and return it without remorse. One who burns across the battlefield as a beast of old. He is the one, they say, who fights like a dragon. Dragonhammer.
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Paint the Hills Red
Ron Schwab
Genre: Westerns | Action & Adventure
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Greed. Land. Lawlessness. These ingredients do not portend a peaceful life in Nebraska’s Pine Ridge country for Dan McClure. Dan’s not afraid to fire a gun, but after a lifetime of fighting, he would rather wield a paintbrush. When he’s thrust into the middle of a range war, however, he has but two options… and Dan’s not one to run away from a fight. Set in 1880s Nebraska, Paint the Hills Red is a story of men — and women — who won’t back down… even when it looks as though they should.
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The Rudolph Challenge (Flea’s Five Christmases Book 2)
Kevin George
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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The next year Flea spends in the human world is the longest of his life. Memories of his life at the North Pole are always on his mind, memories of his friends, of the magical world, of the evil ice demon that attacked him… He’s moved to Florida with Miss Mabel, who is more paranoid than ever. But the warm weather and sunshine does not last long – cold temperatures and snow seem to follow him wherever he goes… as do red-eyed snowmen… His second year at the North Pole brings new adventures with his friends, new lessons at elf school, new prophecies from Red-Robe, new dangers from the South Pole and new answers – as well as new questions – about his real family… From competing in the ‘Snow Wars’ to meeting new reindeer to dealing with a potential traitor at the North Pole, Flea will be lucky if he survives to see the end of another Christmas building season…
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