My youngest basset saw some nifty used toys in a comic book shop window and just had to go in and take a look. We had a few extra minutes and it was nice to be able to say we have time. A luxury that I don’t always get. The young man working in the store was very kind and friendly and showed him how a few of the items worked. My son was mesmerized! I think the young store clerk was also looking for a reason to play with some of the toys, so it was a win win situation. Looking around the store though made me a little uneasy. A lot of the “Classic” toys they had were from my childhood. My toys are classics! Ugh… way to feel old.
The Templar’s Apprentice (The Outremer Chronicles Book 1)
Peter Tolladay
Genre: Action & Adventure | Historical Fiction
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Outremer, the distant lands. The troubadours sing of its mystical loveliness and tell tales of love and honour woven around the constant battles between Christendom and Islam.
For Honfroy, a young squire in the service of the Knights Templar, the reality is less poetic and far grimmer. The Kingdom of Jerusalem tenaciously holds onto the ribbon of land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea. Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, has united his warring factions. He is now determined to wipe the stain of the first crusade from the honour of Islam and regain the Holy City of Jerusalem.
When Saladin’s army invades, Honfroy is catapulted into a world of treachery and deceit, where his life is in danger from both Moslem and Christian alike.
From the blood-stained sands of the Holy Land to the intrigue of the court in Jerusalem, Honfroy grapples with his meteoric rise in fortune. His friendship with the new king, Baudoin, comes increasingly under threat from the political wiles of his mentor, Odo the Templar Grand Master, and the king’s mother, Agnes of Courtenay.
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The Unhappy Medium
T. J. Brown
Genre: Humor & Entertainment | Fantasy
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When even the laws of physics let you down, the absurd, the ludicrous and the frankly impossible may be all you have left.
Dr Newton Barlow has everything a theoretical physicist could ask for – a glittering career both in the lab and on television, a beautiful wife, and best of all, the opportunity to promote his rock-solid certainty that supernatural and religious beliefs are nothing but complete and utter hokum.
But Barlow is about to take a tumble. Mired in accusations of fraud, incompetence and malpractice, Newton is cast out from the scientific establishment and ejected from the family home. With his life in tatters, he descends into a wine-sodden wilderness.
Then, after three lost years, Barlow is suddenly approached by his old mentor and fellow sceptic Dr Sixsmith with an extraordinary proposition, an offer that Newton simply cannot refuse. There’s just one small problem:
Dr Sixsmith is dead.
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The Memory Songbook
Douglas Glenn Clark
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Drama & Plays
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Love ends only when it is forgotten.
On the verge of new success, singer-songwriter Frank Gosnell is called home to assist his ailing mother.As her mind continues to deteriorate, Frank loses confidence in his music and the life he chose.
Frank is forced to rethink the value of his path when he discovers a lost manuscript about one magical, mind-bending day in the Summer of Love.Only then, after accepting his past, can Frank summon the will to confront his future.
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Peril in the Park (Jamie Quinn Mystery Book 3)
Barbara Venkataraman
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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There’s big trouble in the park system. Someone is making life difficult for Jamie Quinn’s boyfriend, Kip Simons, the new director of Broward County parks. Was it the angry supervisor passed over for promotion? The disgruntled employee Kip recently fired? Or someone with a bigger ax to grind? If Jamie can’t figure it out soon, she may be looking for a new boyfriend because there’s a dead guy in the park and Kip has gone missing! With the help of her favorite P.I., Duke Broussard, Jamie must race the clock to find Kip before it’s too late.
A preview of the next Jamie Quinn Mystery, “Engaged in Danger,” can be found at the end of the book.
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Erra’s Throne: Column One (Erra’s Throne, Tablet One Book 1)
James Carmichael
Genre: Children’s eBooks | Fantasy
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It all started when Emmy Kim murdered her Raid Leader, which sounds pretty bad if you don’t know it happened in a video game. Now, she’s been booted from the elite raiding guild it took her months to get into. Somebody YouTubed a clip of the whole thing, making Emmy and Fehns, her beloved level 80 Ranger, internet-meme laughingstocks. Meanwhile, her parents are cracking down, dragging her out of video-game fantasy worlds and into college-friendly extracurriculars in the so-called “real” one.
Nah, Sophomore year isn’t starting well at all.
And that’s before an ancient Babylonian god starts trying to kill the whole world and Emmy realizes that she and Fehns, together, are all that stand in its way.
Erra’s Throne is a novel in five parts about a kid who has to save humanity by being really, really good at video games. It’s also about family, loyalty, high school, and Kit Kats.
Game on.
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