Once again I had given in to my continuing midlife crisis and signed up for another Tough Mudder event. Ten miles, 20 obstacles, enough pain to make you run crying to your mom. I have two under my belt, so I wasn’t too worried about what they had planned. I had done it before, and I was sure I could do it again. The list and videos of the obstacles were released a few days ago. I am so dead. I am seriously considering giving up my midlife crisis. It’s been fun, we laughed, we cried, and am sure I have done some irreparable damage, but I am done. The only problem is I already paid the non-refundable entry fee, so before I get to be done I have to be tortured. I better start running from that clown in my neighborhood.
Taking the Fall: A Cozy Mystery (Brenna Battle Book 1)
Laney Monday
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction
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Olympian Brenna Battle once had the fire. Now, she’s just burned out—and burned by love. She’s ready to retire from competitive judo and pursue a new dream in a new town, with her biggest supporter, her recently divorced little sister, Blythe. But on their first day in town, Blythe falls for local sleaze-bag reporter, Ellison Baxter, and their small-town welcome is stained by Baxter’s murder. The weapon—Blythe Battle’s hair brush.
In this fast-paced, fun cozy mystery, Brenna, the proud new owner of the building that formerly housed Bonney Bay’s lone recreational opportunity for kids, Little Swans Ballet, is ready to turn tutu-clad powder-puffs into little warriors by opening a judo school for kids in its place. But now she must clear her sister’s name and save her new dream from ending even more disastrously than her Olympic hopes. Brenna must deal with one crazy member of the local police force, who’s determined to see the sisters pay—and another cop, whose deep brown eyes just might drive Brenna crazy—in a way her battered heart just can’t take.
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Wings of a Dream
Anne Mateer
Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Historical Fiction | Religion & Spirituality
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Rebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family’s farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promises adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he’s the man she’s meant to marry.
While she waits for the end of the Great War and Arthur’s return, her mother’s sister falls ill. Rebekah seizes the opportunity to travel to Texas to care for Aunt Adabelle, sure that her glamorous and exciting life is about to start.
But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything. Faced with her aunt’s sickness, Arthur’s indecisiveness, and four children who have no one else to care for them, Rebekah discovers she must choose between her desire to escape the type of life she’s always led and the unexpected love that just might change the dream of her heart.
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America’s Secret Hauntings (Most Haunted Places Series Book 1)
Sarah Ashley
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
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Do you think you have heard about the most haunted places in America?
Over the past five years, the interest in the paranormal has decidedly come to the forefront. People flock to locations who wish to have experiences of their own and delve into the exciting, quizzical and frightening world of those who have passed on.
When speaking about haunted places there are more than a few that are surely recognizable to most people. However, for the avid ghost teller or hunter these long told tales have almost lost their ebullience and the romance is long gone.
Discovering new haunts are like diamonds in the rough. Unchartered ghost stories and research are the crème de la crème for anyone who devours such tales.
In this book, author and ghost hunter Sarah Ashley will take you on a new adventure of mysterious happenings, strange sights, horrific details of torture and torment and share with you some truly startling evidence from some of the most haunted, yet less glamorized locations across the United States.
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Unfit: A Novel
Lara Torgesen
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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Chrissy Rollings has a mountain of troubles to overcome, one that would crush most other girls her age.
She was born in a small North Carolina town in 1952, into a poor but happy and loving family that always managed to scrape by each month… until the night her father died in a car crash, plunging the family into poverty.Chrissy’s mother is forced to take low-paying jobs to supplement her meager welfare checks, leaving Chrissy to raise her five siblings. But even these sacrifices are not enough.
North Carolina was among the states to practice eugenics — forcing sterilization procedures on thousands of people deemed “unfit” to reproduce.When Chrissy’s mother was faced with the choice of having 14-year-old Chrissy sterilized or losing her welfare check, she makes the only choice she feels she can and signs the consent form. That act of survival sets into motion a series of events that shape the course of Chrissy’s life forever.
Despite knowing in her heart that she did not deserve to be sterilized, that she was not in fact “unfit,” Chrissy struggles for the rest of her life with feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem, and a belief that she doesn’t deserve to have anything good happen to her.
Little by little, though, Chrissy claws her way past every obstacle, slowly building a new family of friends and eventually finding her soul mate, with whom she is reborn. With their support, she becomes a woman who is strong, loving, intelligent, and anything but unfit.
Her gripping story is an inspiration for anyone who started life with little hope for the future, those who faced problems that felt insurmountable, or just anyone who ever felt “unfit.”
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Forecast
Chris Keith
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Science Fiction
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When the bombs are dropped on Europe, Brad Sutcliffe and his crew of four are 132,000 feet above the continent carrying out weather experiments on board FABLE-1, the world’s largest helium balloon.
Stranded in the stratosphere with their oxygen running out and the world on fire beneath them, the crew makes the terrifying decision to abandon their balloon at the edge of space and return to what they can only speculate is the aftereffect of a nuclear exchange.
Having survived the bombs and the death-defying parachute jump, they now face the gravity of surviving the aftermath, eventually finding refuge in the White Room, where they face their biggest test – surviving each other.
From the moment they set foot back on land, they face the most grueling, most challenging moment of their lives, when the terror and complexity of survival test the human spirit and the strength of individuals comes to the fore.
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