One thing I love about going to the lake is the lack of things that will eat my baby bassets. Specifically sharks. I hate sharks. All sharks. I know they are vital to the ecosystem or something, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them. I don’t go out hunting them down and putting their heads on my walls as trophies (that would smell nasty), but you will not find me wearing an I Heart Sharks t-shirt…ever. So the lake is a great place for me to sit, relax, and let my kids play in a kid eating free body of water…or so I thought. Just as I was settling down on the sandy shore of Lake Tahoe, I see his butt. YUP a huge fuzzy butt. It was then that another beach goer tells me that the big butt belongs to a black bear that just swam right by a few kids and came to shore. Seriously! The job of keeping my kids from being eaten by wild-life is REALLY HARD!

Death Of A Deputy: A Culinary Cozy Mystery With A Delicious Recipe (A Murder In Milburn Book 2)
by Nancy McGovern
4.3 Stars (58 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery | Women’s Fiction

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Nora Newberry’s dream life is not going according plan.

Her best friend and business partner, Raquel, has just been murdered. The one man she had thought she loved can now be seen moseying through town with a supermodel dangling off his arm. And the diner she and Raquel had planned on opening together may never feed its first customer.

At least she still has her friend, the town Sheriff, Sean…

So, when the Sheriff’s deputy is killed at the town’s annual Viking festival and everyone suspects Sean of murder, Nora realizes she must step in and prove him innocent. After all, she can’t handle losing him, too!

Find out if Nora has what it takes to clear Sean of murder in Death Of A Deputy, the second adventure in Nancy McGovern’s popular culinary cozy mystery series, “A Murder In Milburn”!

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True Blue Tucker
by Campbell Jefferys
4.6 Stars (4 Reviews)
Genre: Contemporary Fiction

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Two men go in search of the real Australia, and find it in a bar in Munich. But what will they do with it now they’ve found it?

Australia. What comes to mind when you see or hear this word? Guys in khaki shorts jumping into crocodile infested waters. Long, white sand beaches. Shrimps on barbecues. Athletes and actors. “Really? Mel Gibson is Australian?” Surfer boys and pin-up girls. Cuddly koalas that aren’t really bears. Come on. There has to be more to Australia than that.

There is. Much more. True Blue Tucker is the story of Darius and Humphrey, two friends who go looking for the real Australia, a journey that takes them to Australia’s north-west, Canada’s ski hills, London’s damp streets and Munich’s bars. Along the way, they learn about themselves, about their country and about what the world thinks of Australians. Ambitiously and misguidedly, they set about changing the stereotype, by opening an Aussie bar in Munich that tells the real history of Australia. It’s out with the inflatable crocodiles and in with information about stolen Aboriginal children; out with Paul Hogan and in with Pauline Hanson. And there’s convict stew on the menu, and not kangaroo burgers.

No other work of fiction tackles the topic of Australian identity, history and society quite like True Blue Tucker. What does it mean to be Australian? Read this book to find out.

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Daughter of the Goddess
by Rita Webb
4.5 Stars (46 Reviews)
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Fantasy | Mythology & Folk Tales

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The Heart.
The God of Love seeks a bride who is pure in heart and full of life — full of soul. Instead of a woman, he finds a child with laughter in her heart. Waiting for her to grow up, he befriends her, pretending to be nothing more than a blue-eyed boy with wild, tangled hair.

The Soul.
Left on the temple doorstep, a young girl turns the lives of the priestesses upside down… until one summer day before her eighteenth birthday, a traveling oracle tells her she is to marry a stranger in a foreign land.

The Nightmare.
An ancient demon — half-man, half-snake — wants to destroy anything the gods love. When she was a child, he haunted her dreams, but now he stalks her across the countryside. If he catches her, he’ll devour her.

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The Sea Is a Thief
by David Parmelee
4.8 Stars (10 Reviews)
Genre: Historical Fiction | Romance

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Set on the island of Chincoteague, Virginia during the Civil War, The Sea Is a Thief tells the story of a dangerous courtship between Sam Dreher, a young Union sailor serving on a gunship sent to protect the island, and Anna Daisey, a Chincoteague girl whose gifts as a wildlife artist are beginning to blossom. By the time a jealous rival exposes the clandestine romance, their love has grown so strong that they defy an approaching gale to steal one last day together. In the chaos wrought by the storm they are lost to each other.
As the long war rages, Anna clings to the hope of her lost sailor’s return, refining the artistic skills she has learned from her mentor, the island’s reclusive medicine woman. Sam, stranded behind Confederate lines and injured terribly, can survive only by stealth, courage, and a most fortunate encounter with the Underground Railroad.

A century and a half after it was fought, we have come to know the War Between the States as series of debates, campaigns, and battles won or lost. The Sea is a Thief offers a new perspective from the dusty lanes and muddy channels of an oystering island in Virginia, chronicling its effects on a captivating crew of hardy watermen, rogue hunters, moonshiners and merchants. At the center of the storm stand an unlikely young couple who desire only to love each other in peace.

Of course, the beloved wild ponies of Chincoteague play a central role.

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RavenShadow: An Adventure of the Spirit (American Dreamers)
by Win Blevins
4.8 Stars (31 Reviews)
Genre: United States | Action & Adventure

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Joseph Blue Crow discovers why he has spent his life in the shadow of the raven. And now, for the first time, he feels able to walk the good red road. He will dedicate his life to recording the personal stories of the descendants of the Lakota people who died at Wounded Knee. In the light of truth, he says, may all heal… Blue was born to carry the sacred ways of the Sioux. But instead he has walked the road of booze, women, and the blues. Now he finds himself on railroad tracks with a train roaring toward his car. Only his best friend’s words can save him: “You got to go on the mountain.”

Blue starts going into the sweat lodge, and then onto the mountain to cry for a vision in the old way. There he sees that he has always lived in the shadow of a raven’s wing, a dark past he has tried ignore.

The student is ready, and the teacher appears. Blue joins a group called the Big Foot Memorial Riders in a challenging journey, riding along the route of Chief Big Foot and his people to Wounded Knee, where the band met a terrible end exactly one hundred years ago.

At the site of the massacre the Riders perform a ceremony to honor the dead and release the spirits of the Lakota people from what happened there. And Blue receives an astonishing gift: A medicine man helps him travel back a century so that he can actually see and feel his ancestors fall under fire of the guns.

After this extraordinary experience, Blue is able to move forward in his life with peace and purpose.

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