Why is it I always feel bad when I have to get rid of a tree? Okay..I didn’t feel all that bad when I got rid of the plum tree in the front yard. It was half dead and ugly, but it was still kinda sad. Now the tree we planted about 5 years ago split in half and it is coming out now as well. What is it about trees that make me feel like I am intruding on something bigger than me? I worry the other trees are judging me.

Strike the Match (The Teacup Novellas – Book Two)
Diane Moody
4.4 Stars (116 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Religion & Spirituality | Romance

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Strike the Match – The Teacup Novellas Book Two

The last place twenty-four year old Keri McMillan wants to be is back home in Waterford Bay, Oregon. But after two years at prestigious New York University pursuing a degree in journalism, her bank account is drained. Keri is determined to move home for one year – and one year only— to make some serious money working for her dad’s log cabin company, but her goals all go up in smoke when the company’s new showcase home burns to the ground.

Six months ago, Grant Dawson bought the Waterford Weekly, a small newspaper in his father’s hometown. Burned out as a reporter for the L.A. Times and tired of all the inherent politics, he welcomed the slower pace of this Oregon coastal town and the more relaxed lifestyle producing a weekly paper. He enjoys being close to his dad again, a quiet man who captains a whale-sightseeing boat.

Grant is surprised at his unexpected interest in Keri, the niece of columnist Luby Sanders. He thinks Luby is a hoot and can’t help but adore her. But she’s also playing matchmaker, trying to interest him in her niece. When Keri shows up at a log cabin fire in the middle of the night, she’s not the geeky college kid he expected. But he’s not about to fall victim to Luby’s orchestrations.

Even if her niece is beautiful.

And vulnerable.

And apparently in need of a job.

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Window
T.M. Franklin
4.6 Stars (26 Reviews)
Genre: Short Stories | Romance | Teen & Young Adult

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Chloe Blake has a unique gift, an odd connection to her house that results in glimpses of the past, present, and future via the picture window in her living room. Unfortunately, it’s a gift that sometimes proves to be more of a curse. Especially when she tries to help out Ethan Reynolds, the gorgeous boy who lives across the street – an endeavor that, for some reason, always seems to backfire.

Or leave her covered in mud.

But the house is convinced Ethan’s life is in danger and Chloe’s the only one who can save him. The problem is, he thinks she’s more than a little crazy.

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Henry Wood: Time and Again (Henry Wood Detective series)
Brian Meeks
4.5 Stars (19 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Fans of Dashiell Hammett, who long for days of Bogart and Becall, will appreciate Henry Wood’s sleuthing.

1955, Manhattan, and Henry has just gotten the call. Mickey is dead. His long time mentor and friend, run down outside their favorite bar, The Dublin Rogue. It looks like a simple hit and run, but keen eyes notice there is only one empty parking spot on the street, and the pile of cigarette butts in the gutter tells a different tale. Somebody was waiting, but who?

A novel in black and white, it harkens back to the days before Google, cell phones, and computer data bases. Henry must use cunning to uncover the truth, because everyone connected to the case has an agenda. There is much sleuthing and just the slightest hint of science fiction hiding in the closet of Henry’s basement. All of it, though, is there to give him a chance to uncover the answers.

Take a journey back in time and see Manhattan as it was when the Yankees always seemed to win, and Brooklyn had Ebbets Field and the Dodger. There is history, intrigue and hints at romance that will keep you turning page after page until it is time to flip off the light.

If you like a mystery, then Time & Again is for you.

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Letters of Long Ago
Agnes Just Reid
4.7 Stars (6 Reviews)
Genre: History

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One of her most embarrassing times was the day she set out to drown the children. The dust cloud kicked up by–she was certain–Nez Perce warriors, turned out to be the signature of her husband’s horse’s hooves. When he found his family on the banks of the Blackfoot River, preparing for an eternal swim, Nels was understandably upset.

Most women of her era would have kept this episode of paranoia to themselves. They most certainly would have kept it from their children. Because Emma candidly shared her stories with her daughter, we now have a better understanding of what life was like in Idaho Territory, not just on the windswept plains, but in the heart of a woman.

Divorced from a scoundrel who she, never-the-less, still loved and with an infant boy to raise, Emma’s situation seemed hopeless. Then along came a young Dane named Nels. He did not offer much: living in a hole in a river bank with a buffalo robe for a door. Still, it seemed a chance worth taking.

And so their story began with a marriage of convenience, if not desperation. Emma followed her new husband to a secluded valley along the Blackfoot River in 1870 where she would raise sons and bury daughters. Nels would go on to be a leading figure in Idaho, a canal builder, a banker and a farmer. Emma would be a mother to four boys and, at last, one girl. She would be the star witness in a sensational trial about a religious war that echoes eerily today in incidents like Waco and Jonestown. Mostly she was a proud, brave woman who survived lonely, heartbreaking years before civilization crept into the West.

Emma told her story to daughter Agnes, who set it down as a series of letters, each of which Emma approved as it came out of the typewriter. The resulting book was first published in 1923. It was on the press the day Emma died.

Letters of Long ago is a haunting, often heart-breaking book you will not soon forget.

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A Tale of Four Birds and Their Quest for Food and Happiness
Gramps Doodlebug
3.7 Stars (23 Reviews)
Genre: Children’s eBooks

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Four birds gather together in search of food. They sing here and there begging for food, but no one seems to care about them. That is, until a rich man gives them sage advice on where they can find food. Are they going to find it together or will they go their separate ways?

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