Hubby is getting socks for Christmas. I have asked him a thousand times what he wants and he tells me he has no idea. I wonder if he will be inspired to give me a list next year after he opens 12 presents this year all containing one pair of socks. I bought him a 12 pack of socks. Plain, white, tube socks.
A Cheyenne Christmas (The Sweet Cheyenne Quartet Book 1)
Caroline Lee
Genre: Romance
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Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, December, 1875
Ash Barker and his brother had just about built their ranch into a success when he busted his arm trying to tame a particularly nasty mustang. Now they’re headed into Cheyenne’s harsh winter with fewer hands, and a very real danger of failure. They need someone else–anyone else–out there with them, to make it through this season.
Molly Murray’s dream of owning her own bakery went up in flames with the Great Chicago Fire. She’s been supporting her younger sisters for the last four years, and it seems like the Cheyenne wilderness might be her last chance to give them all a real home. But no one will hire her, until she meets the intimidatingly masculine, incredibly handsome, and very desperate Ash Barker.
Can their unique families blend in time to celebrate their first real Cheyenne Christmas?
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Let My Soul Fly
Lance A. Cooper
Genre: African American | Historical Fiction | United States
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Mary Anne lived as an enslaved girl with her family on a Mississippi plantation until a fateful day in late spring. When she and her best friend raced, laughing, down the lane, they had no way to know about the danger that lay around the bend: ruthless traders seeking to steal slaves. Caught by the traders, the girls are pulled into a system of human transport and sale that challenges them in ways they never expected. From the slave markets of New Orleans, to a perilous ship passage, to life away from their families on a Texas plantation, Mary Anne and Lizzie find new sources of strength within themselves and from other members of the slave community.
LET MY SOUL FLY is a novel inspired by actual events experienced by enslaved Americans, as told to Works Progress Administration interviewers during the 1930s. The book is designed to be accessible to children, but is complex enough to satisfy the adult fan of historical fiction. The novel includes an appendix of detailed chapter notes that put Mary Anne and Lizzie’s experiences into historical context, as well as chapter-by-chapter discussion questions for classes or reading groups.
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The Wachuga Project
Douglas E. Wolfert
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Contemporary Fiction
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Jeremy Barnard appears to be a normal kid. He’s good looking, well-mannered, from an affluent family, has even earned valedictorian of his class. A perfect recipe for success. Then why is his life one, big, epic fail? Because every time he tries to speak, a complete and utter mess comes out. School life is hell, with Jeremy’s Neanderthal peers mocking him at every turn. To make matters worse, his father affords him little relief at home. Francis cringes with disgust every time his son ‘st..st..stutters’, cursing thepowers above for burdening him with such a defective little boy.
Jeremy longs for a normal life. He’d give anything for the ability to socialize at a party, or tell his high school crush, Samantha, that she’s beautiful… give everything to earn his father’s respect and no longer be a laughing stock. But is Jeremy willing to give his soul?
Little does Jeremy know, his salvation lies in Calvin Ortiz, a hot-headed, maniacal thug who stumbles upon something extraordinary while hiking with his brother in the jungles of Costa Rica – a plant… a beautiful, vibrant green plant teeming with delicate, fuzzy flowers that look good enough to eat. And that’s exactly what Calvin does. His knees buckle from the God-like metamorphosis that overtakes him. This is better than any drug he’s ever tried, and Calvin’s gold tooth glints in the sun as visions of dollar signs dance in his head. But this stuff’s too good to sling on his local street corner. Nah, the black market won’t do. The Wachuga, as he names it, deserves more respect than that. In a moment of stoned clarity, Calvin contacts the one person he knows with enough connections to turn his discovery into some serious bank.
And with that one phone call, The Wachuga Project is born, and Jeremy’s life, for good or ill, will never be the same. Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for…
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Mayhem (Nick Hunter Series Book 2)
Paul Henke
Genre: Action & Adventure | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Israel faces imminent destruction. A series of kidnaps, bombings and senseless murders have left her isolated from her allies and threatened by her enemies. Unknown to all but a few, the situation has been orchestrated by a multi-millionaire Zionist. His vision of a Greater Israel will be carved from the charred ruins of the Middle East.
Against him is The International Force Against terrorism – TIFAT – with our indomitable hero Nick Hunter in the forefront of the fight.
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Mama Played for the King
Sharon Poppen
Genre: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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Scottish soldier Robert Stewart and Charlotte Roussard, a French young woman, meet shortly before the start of the Second World War.A gifted piano prodigy, Charlotte is attending the Paris Conservatory of Music. It was love at first sight for him. After a brief courtship, they cross her parents, marry and move to Canada.
During Robert’s employment on the Alcan Highway during the war, Charlotte bears him two sons and a daughter. At war’s end, Robert hires on with a railroad and moves his family to San Luis Obispo, CA.Depressed by the weather, the responsibility of marriage and motherhood, Charlotte begins to lose touch with reality. Upon the death of her mother, Charlotte’s father asks that his daughter return to France to care for him.Against Robert’s protests, Charlotte returns to France while Robert remains at his job in California.
Their decisions thrust their children into a life of insecurity, unacceptance and anger at their absent father. Phillip, the oldest child, becomes the man of the family as his mother slowly slips into a land of make believe. Is Phillip up to task?
When his grandfather passes away, Charlotte is institutionalized leaving fourteen year old Phillip to deal with a disinherited uncle, a self-righteous church and an exploitive bureaucracy that separates the children by farming them out as menial workers. Upset at the separation, Phillip’s anger toward his father grows deeper each day.
Does the father ever learn of his wife’s mental collapse, that his children have been separated and placed in the service of strangers? Does Phillip mange to reunite with his siblings? At what cost?
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Christmas at Harmony Hill: A Shaker Story
Ann H. Gabhart
Genre: Holidays | Religion & Spirituality
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It is 1864 and the nation is still torn apart by civil war when Heather Worth discovers she is with child. She has been working as a laundress with her husband’s army unit, but when the army gets orders to march south to Tennessee, Gideon insists Heather go home to have their child under safer conditions. Heather agrees, but returns home to another kind of devastation–deaths in the family and a father who refuses to forgive her for marrying a Yankee. With nowhere else to turn, Heather seeks refuge at the Shaker village of Harmony Hill, where her great aunt Sophrena lives. There, after many peaceful years at Harmony Hill, Sophrena is having doubts about her Shaker path. Both women are in need of love and forgiveness–whether given or received. With Christmas coming, can the miracle of new life fill their hearts with unexpected joy?
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