After I finished Tough Mudder, I thought I deserved a few desserts and took a break from running. Okay, by “Take a Break” I really mean I wouldn’t run even if a bear was chancing me. I might run if the bear was trying to take my cake though. Unfortunately the leggings incident has got me thinking I should “Take a Break” from desserts. My timing is perfect with Thanksgiving just around the corner. Can you say Tofurky? If I did that I might need to run from the angry dinner guests.

The Woman in the Photograph
Mani Feniger
4.5 Stars (56 Reviews)
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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What if a secret photograph and a property stolen by the Nazis unlocked the door to your mother’s buried past and to a family history you knew nothing about?

Mani Feniger steered a deliberate course away from her mother’s German-Jewish roots. But with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, she found herself swept up in a flood of startling revelations from her mother’s earlier life. As she pored through old photographs and documents, she began to ask questions about secrets and omissions. The answers she found both shocked and inspired her, and would irrevocably transform her view of her mother, herself, and the meaning of family legacy.

From Berkeley, California to New York City, to Leipzig, Germany, this compelling memoir takes you across continents and lifetimes.

“The Woman in the Photograph” will make you wonder about the men and women in your own photographs and how your life has been shaped by events you know little about.

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On the Nickel (A Cleopatra Jones Mystery)
Maggie Toussaint
4.3 Stars (43 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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Mama’s strange behavior jolts accountant Cleopatra Jones from her whirl of late summer activities with her daughters, her pregnant Saint Bernard, and her new boyfriend. When Cleo overhears the heated argument between Mama and her church-lady rival, Erica Hodges, she realizes Mama is out of control. Erica files a police report about Mama’s threats, which adds to Cleo’s growing unease.

Two days later, Erica is dead, the victim of a hit and run at the church. Though Erica’s reputation for arrogance, bossiness, and rudeness is well-deserved, she is descended from the town’s founder, and the mayor pressures the police to obtain justice for the town’s leading citizen.

To Cleo’s horror, there’s a person-sized dent in Mama’s gray Olds. Mama denies killing Erica but refuses to account for her whereabouts that night. Mama’s secrets are maddening, but are they deadly?

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Unchained Memories
Maria Imbalzano
5.0 Stars (10 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Romance

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As a rising medical malpractice attorney, Charlotte Taylor believes in standing up for the injured, giving them a voice, and advocating for their rights. She couldn’t do it for her mother, so she does it for others, even if it means losing the love of her life.

Dr. Clayton Montgomery believes in working hard and playing even harder, until he reconnects with Charlotte. Barely noticing her crush when he tutored her ten years ago, Clay has a chance to make up for lost time when the beautiful lawyer comes back into town…until he discovers her chosen career path.

Now, philosophical differences soon become a reality and Charlotte is faced with the choice of representing a client against the hospital and against Clay. Will Charlotte give up her career and her tribute to her mother for a second chance with the man who got away?

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Divinity: The Gathering: Book One
Susan Reid
4.7 Stars (6 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy

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“No one knows WHEN the world will end but how do you go on, when you’ve seen HOW it will end? If the dark ones don’t kill me first…I’ll tell everyone.”— Starling Marie Roberts.

College Sophomore Starling Roberts is afraid of the dark because she has known this all her life.

The shadow beings are real and she can see them.

Plagued with nightmares of the invasion of Earth by the Dark fallen and ultimately Morning Star isn’t an easy burden to carry, especially when the darkness is after you for the very thing that makes each one of us stand apart from them…our Divinity.

Starling is rare and unique. Her past obstacles and devastation’s have wilted her own beliefs, leaving her to begin questioning her own purpose and faith. But that begins to change when the dark shadows begin attacking her mentally…and physically.

Starling has been chosen, one of hundreds of thousands. But her rare divinity has placed her on the top most wanted list by the dark fallen and she has become the target of a planned catastrophic and deadly event gathered, controlled and led by Morning Star himself.

Star’s only hope to remain alive and sane—Cam`ael, a renegade, dark fallen Incubus who lusts for her and Drakael—an Angel determined to keep her from him.

This is her Chronicle, pulled and put together from her own personal journals now known as The Book of Starling. Combined with the journals of Cam`ael; Former Chief Angel of all Powers in his own words and at his own personal request.

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Philomena
Mark R. Guiney
4.9 Stars (10 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Children’s eBooks

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The shipmasters of Cor Nova rule the sky.With only the wind, gravity, and the white vapor that lifts their wooden ships sunward, they soar through the skies in search of fortune and adventure. But, a storm is gathering on the horizon, one that threatens to bring the freedom of all the people of the beautiful nation under attack.

For hundreds of years, the Sovereigns have ruled Cor Nova with justice, but a strange madness has invaded the mind of the Sovereign Philocrates, turning the once-peaceful nation into an oppressive dictatorship.Masked soldiers stalk the streets of her cities, undesirables disappear without a trace, and the nights are lit with towering piles of burning books.

Through a mysterious rebel organization known only as the Bookkeepers, Basil, a youth with a gift for medicine, learns that he alone can save Cor Nova from Philocrates.

With the help of young merchant shipmaster Cyprian Fields, his trustworthy (and decidedly colorful) crew, and a battered merchant freighter named Philomena, Basil sets out on an adventure that will change his world forever.As the people of Cor Nova turn to him as the last hope in a dark night, Basil discovers that the only way to overcome great evil is to tap into the power that lies within.

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