Usually I try to put down my phone at least thirty minutes before I turn the lights off to go to sleep and ignore any beeps and chirps my phone makes. Last night however I did not ignore the text alert and grabbed my phone to read it, just in case. It was a text from the city messaging system, and it read, “Fourth suspect in the home invasion/murder case was picked up today.” Umm… Great, awesome job guys. Could you possibly tell me if this was the fourth out of four people? Info like that is kinda important right before I go to sleep. Would be nice to know if I need to sleep with one eye open. They actually caught the guy in the afternoon, and I understand that they need to get all their info right and stuff before they go sending out mass texts. That text would have been appreciated more around dinnertime. Would have made for interesting conversation over pork chops. As it was though, I did not sleep well last night.
Limoncello Yellow (Franki Amato Mysteries Book 1)
by Traci Andrighetti
Genre: Romance | Mystery
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From USA Today bestselling Traci Andrighetti comes a tale of murder, mayhem, and meddling Sicilian grandmas…
Francesca “Franki” Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas — until an unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn’t cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica’s detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki’s hopes for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf. When she’s not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, but most of her time is spent dodging date offers from a string of “good Italian boys” — make that not-so-good aging Italian men — that her meddlesome Sicilian grandma has recruited as marriage candidates. As Mardi Gras approaches and the mystery of the murdered shop girl gets more complicated, Franki must decipher the odd ramblings of a Voodoo priestess to solve both the murder and the mystery of her own love life.
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Faery Born (Book One in the War Faery Trilogy)
by Donna Joy Usher
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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It’s been thirteen years since the Dark Years ended. Thirteen years since the mad War Faery responsible was imprisoned in stone. Now, with goblin attacks on the rise it seems Galanta, the Goblin Queen, is intent on returning the land to chaos and terror.
Isadora Scrumpleton is trying not to think about the Dark Years. She’s just been chosen by her ‘familiar’, found out she’s half faery, and discovered she’s dating the second-in-line to the Faery Throne. That’s enough for one teenage witch to handle. But when goblins attack her village, Izzy is forced into action, ultimately joining the elite Border Guard and attracting the attention of Galanta, the Goblin Queen.
As Galanta weaves a web of deceit, Izzy struggles to control her powers. Will she be able to stop the Goblin Queen in time, or will the world be plunged into a dark new reality?
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Jane of Lantern Hill: classic
by L. M. Montgomery
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Once, when Jane had been sitting in the Cadillac, one dark, dingy morning in a snowy world, waiting for Frank to take her to St. Agatha’s, as he did every day, she had heard two women, who were standing on the street-corner, talking about it. “Did you ever see such a dead house?” said the younger. “It looks as if it had been dead for ages.” “That house died thirty years ago, when Robert Kennedy died,” said the older woman. “Before that it was a lively place. Nobody in Toronto entertained more. Robert Kennedy liked social life. He was a very handsome, friendly man. People could never understand how he came to marry Mrs. James Anderson… a widow with three children. She was Victoria Moore to begin with, you know, old Colonel Moore’s daughter… a very aristocratic family. But she was pretty as a picture then and was she crazy about him! My dear, she worshipped him. People said she was never willing to let him out of her sight for a moment. And they said she hadn’t cared for her first husband at all. Robert Kennedy died when they had been married about fifteen years… died just after his first baby was born, I’ve heard.” “Does she live all alone in that castle?” “Oh, no. Her two daughters live with her. One of them is a widow or something… and there’s a granddaughter, I believe. They say old Mrs. Kennedy is a terrible tyrant, but the younger daughter… the widow… is gay enough and goes to everything you see reported in Saturday Evening. Very pretty… and can she dress! She was the Kennedy one and took after her father. She must hate having all her fine friends coming to Gay Street. It’s worse than dead… it’s decayed. But I can remember when Gay Street was one of the most fashionable residential streets in town. Look at it now.”
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An Unforgettable Vacation: A Tropical Island Adventure full of hassle-free Travel Tips
by Juliana Meade
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Imagine a family who travels to an island for a holiday. They are given a comprehensive travel guide of things to do, and what not to do in order to ensure they have hassle-free and stress-free memories.
Auntie Sylvan visits the island each year and knows all the ins and outs of the whole place. She wants her cousins to experience a wonderful time and to return again and again for family fun.
Upon her arrival on the Caribbean island, she focuses on keeping them busy meeting friends, and visiting places, and doing all sorts of activities to keep them happy and amused.
But when one of the cousins longtime friends, Dee, arrives, Sylvan’s world is turned upside down…
Or is it?
Because for years she had been grappling with the idea of returning to reside there on the island permanently. She is more or less forced to return to the buried town she had promised never to visit again. When she falls in love with the island all over again, she realizes that no matter what, this is where she wants to spend the rest of her life!
Read on to find how Sylvan finally finds romance and experiences the joy of living, which had eluded her for many years… So what are you waiting for? Let’s get this adventure started.
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Antarctic Tears: Determination, adversity, and the pursuit of a dream at the bottom of the world
by Aaron Linsdau
Genre: Sports | Travel
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Emotions run high in this true polar adventure. It’s a story of triumph, harrowing danger, and outright adventure. In 2012, Aaron Linsdau left his entire life behind.
Gone was the engineering career. He told his family and girlfriend that he wanted to pursue a dream to do something no other American had ever accomplished. He wanted to be the first to ski from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back without aid or support. Alone.
The journey to the South Pole covers over 700 miles through the most forbidding frozen terrain on the planet. The temperature is always below zero and gale force winds routinely roar across the ice. The polar plateau is devoid of life. There are no plants, animals, or insects. Antarctica provides no shelter, no protection, and is unforgiving of any mistake.
But before the expedition was to start, there was much to do. Linsdau trekked 100 miles across the Greenland tundra. He skied across Yellowstone in the winter, camping in -45 degree temperatures. Towing tires up mountains and eating 4000 calories a day was preparation for Antarctica.
Previous expeditions have lost tents, helplessly watching them blow over the horizon. Many explorers have quit or been rescued. What began as a brave adventure into the unknown turned into a battle for survival.
Linsdau takes the reader to Antarctica. They experience incredible storms, skiing blind through whiteouts, crossing invisible crevasses, and skirting disaster. The book shows what happened every day of the expedition.
The air is cold enough to freeze water in seconds and cause frostbite in minutes. Only outer space is less hospitable. Driven by passion, he sacrifices nearly everything to make his dream come true. This is a story about personal discovery, testing the limits of human endurance, total dedication to achieving a goal, and never giving up even when both body and equipment fail.
There were many surprises during Aaron Linsdau’s expedition to the South Pole… Antarctic Tears is also available as an audiobook in a 9CD box set or as MP3 files on a USB thumb drive.
Linsdau speaks about this extraordinary experience to audiences world-wide.
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