Last night my youngest Basset, who is in first grade, was working on his common core math homework. After an hour and a half of solid work he was a little over half way done. He still had a regular sheet of math homework to do and a little bit of writing left as well. I was proud of him for not complaining and he was working so hard on it, but I had to stop him. This seemed just too much and I told him that he was done with it. He finished the other assignments in just a few minutes and ran off to play. I am not sure if I made the right decision yesterday or not, but this was one of those times I pulled the mom card out and used it.

Rae of Hope (The Chronicles of Kerrigan Book 1)
WJ May
4.5 Stars (166 Reviews)
Genre: Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult

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How hard do you have to shake the family tree to find the truth about the past?

Fifteen year-old Rae Kerrigan never really knew her family’s history. Her mother and father died when she was young and it is only when she accepts a scholarship to the prestigious Guilder Boarding School in England that a mysterious family secret is revealed.

Will the sins of the father be the sins of the daughter?

As Rae struggles with new friends, a new school and a star-struck forbidden love, she must also face the ultimate challenge: receive a tattoo on her sixteenth birthday with specific powers that may bind her to an unspeakable darkness. It’s up to Rae to undo the dark evil in her family’s past and have a ray of hope for her future.

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The Case of the Not-So-Fair Trader (A Richard Sherlock Whodunit Book 1)
Jim Stevens
4.3 Stars (312 Reviews)
Genre: Humor & Entertainment | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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A despicable stock trader is found buried under an avalanche of his own garden rocks, causing fired-from-the force- Richard Sherlock to be yanked off the bowling alley and whisked to the crime scene by his pampered protegee Tiffany Richmond. He must prove murder and stop payment of the twelve-million-dollar Richmond Insurance policy.

Nothing makes sense. Crime scene is a mess. There is no money trail. There are too many motives from too many suspects who have too many alibis.Worst of all Sherlock’s bad back is acting up, his ex-wife wants more money and the murder investigation is putting a serious dent in his parenting schedule of his two daughters.

Richard Sherlock hates his job, and may be a reluctant dick, but he is better at finding the WHO in WHODUNIT than anyone else.

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Plain Living: The Diary Part One (A Lines from Lancaster County Saga Book 1)
Rachel Bauer
4.5 Stars (94 Reviews)
Genre: Religion & Spirituality | Romance | Religious & Inspirational Fiction

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Nineteen-year-old Sadie Zook works in her father’s furniture store in their home town of Ephrata, PA.Witty, devout, and supremely competent, Sadie is keeping a secret.Sadie occupies the little spare time she can find with her secret passion — writing and illustrating her simple and insightful stories about her life in pastoral Lancaster County.While Sadie’s writing is mostly thoughtful and even devotional, Sadie’s wit shows in some of her tales from her father’s store — sharp delineations of “Englisher” customers whose ignorance of those who choose to live plain lives reveals Sadie’s keen talent for description, dialogue, and character development.

When twenty-one-year-old Abram Byler discovers Sadie’s secret stash of writing, he conceals it, reads it, and is initially horrified and chastises Sadie.As he continues to read, though, he discovers that beneath the clever wit, there is a sweet, nurturing soul revealed in the tender depictions of Sadie’s youngest sisters learning to churn butter. As Abram and Sadie become closer, Abram realizes that sometimes humility means using the talents God bestows.

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THE BLUE MESSIAH’S SCRIBE
J.I. Wells
5.0 Stars (29 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

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What happens when a naive young writer white lies her way into her first “real” assignment for a world-renowned Italian filmmaker who is world-renowned-known all right – as the most infamous director of “erotic” film… ?

When Chloe Bloom learns that the small inheritance her late parents left her has disappeared, her hope of grad school disappears. In a poor job market over-saturated with English majors, she is grateful for the only job available, that of being a secretary at a talent agency in New York where one afternoon, visiting, up-and-coming agent Eric Gideon hones in on her like a guided missile.

After transferring to Los Angeles, Chloe casts aside her reservations about the imperious Eric.Drawn to the sense of stability and privilege in which he has grown up – and she has not – she settles in with him.Shortly after, when he purchases a new house he insists Chloe quit her job at the agency so she can “entertain” in tandem with his overbearing mother Contessa.

Desperate to prove herself, desiring more than anything to write and maintain her independence, Chloe is ecstatic when Vanessa, a trendy English girl from the agency, tells her of a writing assignment available with one Francesco Biasini.

As Chloe’s increasingly troubled relationship with Eric detonates, however, it is the eccentric, erudite, controversial film director Francesco and his bizarre entourage – amongst them his strange, gorgeous, histrionic Austrian mistress Christianne and their beloved mule-sized dog Eros – who offer Chloe a curious yet tangible sanctuary.

Emotionally honest without sentimentalism, poignant, provocative yet filled with fierce wit, The Blue Messiah’s Scribe” is ultimately about finding family where one might least expect to do so and how the wounded human spirit can flourish, eventually finding its own sense of meaning in the most unexpected of places…

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Why Kimba Saved the World (Cats in the Mirror Book 1)
Meg Dendler
4.5 Stars (53 Reviews)
Genre: Children’s eBooks

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This first book in the middle grade chapter book series Cats in the Mirror has been honored with a Mom’s Choice Award and a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.

How can a young cat pick between everything she has ever wanted and everyone she has ever loved? Kimba lives the care-free life of a much loved house cat, but what she really wants is freedom and the wild life for which she was born. Then she learns a secret that changes everything, including her destiny. Will she join this mysterious cat conspiracy?Kimba must choose between the freedom she craves and the human family she loves.If you enjoy books about cats and animal books for kids ages 9-12, “Why Kimba Saved The World” is just for you. This children’s ebook is followed by the sequel, “Vacation Hiro.” Both are middle grade chapter books.

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