This morning I feel like I was hit by a Mack truck. I am really starting to question how I planned this trip. Yesterday was a long hard day. We left Florence, Oregon 7:50 am because we knew it was going to be a lot of driving and there were a few places we wanted to visit along the way. As you can see we survived the cliffs along the coast. The fear I had for that portion of the drive took about 7 years off my life. After that, the drive was rather pleasant. Our first stop was The Connie Hansen Garden Conservatory. About an an hour and forty five minutes up highway 101. Beautiful little garden. It was so delightful to walk through the winding paths that had secret little hidden gardens. It was great that I could take my pups through it as well. Then it was back in the motorhome for the hour long trek to the Tillamook Cheese factory. I can see why they say this is a must see place. The self guided tour was fun. Seeing how the cheese is made and packaged was very interesting. Not sure how the employees feel about being watched all the time. My favorite part was the free cheese. At the end of the tour we picked up a few stickers, and ice cream to have for lunch. Then we hit the road again for the last two hours of the journey. We were supposed to stop in Cannon Beach and see the Goonies house, but it was way too crowded, so we decided to make our way to the next campsite. We arrived around 3:30. I’m not gonna lie. I think it was at this point we all kinda broke.
Flawed (A Casey Bolt FBI Suspense Thriller—Book Two)
by Molly Black
Genre: Thrillers | Mystery
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FBI special agent Casey Bolt, with her rare neurological condition, is able to see and feel patterns other can’t. When a renowned textile artist is found murdered on the remote San Juan islands, the only clue is a cryptic message woven into fabric, and Casey must tap her special skill to follow the trail and hunt down a diabolical killer — before he strikes again.
FLAWED is book #2 of a long anticipated new series by critically-acclaimed and #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Molly Black, whose books have received over 2,000 five-star reviews and ratings.
Casey, grappling with synesthesia, has the rare ability to perceive senses in multiple ways, enabling her to view crime scenes, and track down clues, in ways others cannot. Her talent has made her indispensable to the FBI, but while her renown in the FBI grows, Casey remains tormented by the case that haunts her the most: her mother’s brutal, unsolved murder from fifteen years ago.
As Casey strives to uncover the secrets of the past, she must rely on every instinct and insight to make it out of the field alive. But can her own senses lead her astray?
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The Blessings of Christmas: Four sweet inspirational holiday novellas
by Barbara Lohr
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Short Stories
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A fantastic feel-good holiday box set of four sweet novellas to warm your heart this holiday season. The four short reads prove that Christmas Blessings of true joy are found through sharing and caring. The sweet stories have best friends and families, second chance sweethearts and much wanted babies, small towns and a snowy suburb, all blessed with love where it’s least expected… when they carry hope in their hearts.
Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes
The widow is at her wit’s end this Christmas until her brother-in-law trades his Harley for a homecoming, helping Sarah with her bakery and his rambunctious nephews.
The Christmas Baby Bundle
Having a baby doesn’t come easy, at least not for Amanda and Connor Kirkpatrick. Can Christmas and family support restore their hope in the future? Heartwarming sweet novella of Christmas wishes and baby dreams.
Christmas with Dr. Darling
Victoria Pomeroy has always been on the receiving end of Christmas. This year her search for holiday spirit lands her in the Sweetwater Creek urgent care center. Handsome Dr. Derek Darling quickly becomes her Christmas challenge. But he’s not interested until she loses her privileged attitude in his volunteer clinic. Could she finally win his heart?
Her Christmas Wish
A husband and family. That’s all librarian Josie’s ever wanted, and best friend Malcolm is the man she’s carried in her heart for years. Now he’s come home to Sweetwater Creek engaged to someone else. Can her Christmas Wish come true?
Come home this holiday with stories filled with the Blessings of Christmas when unfailing love surmounts life’s challenges and childhood dreams come true. The “characters you’ll want to meet” are waiting on the very first page of this clean and wholesome collection!
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Uncle and Ants: A Silicon Valley Mystery (Book 1)
by Marc Jedel
Genre: Mystery | Humor & Satire
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Mysterious attacks. Mischievous nieces. Can a clueless uncle catch a killer without losing his job — or his life?
The stakes are high when tech-savvy criminals and an amateur sleuth collide. After Marty Golden’s sister is hospitalized, clues lead him to tangle with gangsters, a cantankerous school secretary, and a perplexing woman he can’t help but fall for. With nothing but an eye for detail and powers of self-delusion, can Marty catch the killer before he gets unplugged?
Too bad this quirky, fashion-backward uncle isn’t exactly hero material. Left in charge of his two precocious nieces, glitches in his investigation seem like a piece of cake compared to dinner-prep and bedtime stories with his two pre-teen nieces.
Uncle and Ants is the first novel in a refreshingly modern mystery series set in Silicon Valley. If you’re looking for a clever, humorous mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end, then you’ll love this twisty novel.
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Kelegeen
by Eileen O’Finlan
Genre: Historical Fiction
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On an evening in 1846 engaged couple Meg O’Connor and Rory Quinn join in an exuberant moondance. Observing is the parish priest, Father Brian O’Malley. The moondance brings bittersweet memories of Siobhan, the long-dead love of his youth, with whom he still feels a spiritual connection. Within days of the dance, the villagers of Kelegeen awake to find their potato crops destroyed by blight. They’ve been through famine before. But this is an Gorta Mór, a monster the likes of which Ireland has never seen. At first Meg and Rory devise ways to help provide for their families, Meg through her sewing, Rory with his wood carving. But when tragedy and a costly mistake end those means of survival they turn to more dangerous ventures. Father O’Malley reluctantly teams up with an English doctor, Martin Parker, to alleviate Kelegeen’s suffering.
When Meg learns of ships carrying Irish passengers to a new life in America she is determined to go and bring Rory and their families after her. It will take all her strength and courage along with the help of her beloved priest and the English doctor to make the plan succeed.
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The Woodsman (The Jackson Clay & Bear Beauchamp Series Book 1)
by B.C. Lienesch
Genre: Thrillers | Mystery
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Jackson Clay used to be many things. An Army Ranger. A loving husband. A doting father. But that was a lifetime ago. Now, in the wake of unspeakable tragedy, he’s simply the missing’s last hope.
When quiet high schooler Sara Beth Parker disappears in the night from her home in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, Detective Angela Cole is assigned the case. A black woman in a department full of white men, she’s made a career for herself working harder and being better than the badges beside her. But when leads begin to dry up and her own peers start to question whether Parker was taken or simply ran away, Cole feels herself being pushed to the edge. And when an old colleague introduces her to Jackson, she’ll break her own rules and place any hope of finding Sara Beth in his hands.
Determined to breathe life into a case that has quickly gone cold, Jackson begins to unravel a tangled web of secrets and lies that put him in the crosshairs of a sociopathic killer and his heavily-armed cult – a group that may be responsible for much, much more than just Sara Beth’s disappearance. But enemies also have enemies, and when Jackson gains the help of a charismatic boor named Bear, together they’ll take the fight to the cult, determined to bring Sara Beth home.
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