With all the fires that have been burning in California and the anniversary of the deadly & devastating fires that happened right here in my county last October, it would be very easy to become very anxious and depressed. Fortunately for me this has not been the case. Quite the opposite actually. As some of you might remember, I mentioned that I started volunteering (now an actually employee) for a non-profit that provides nutritious, and very delicious meals weekly for the victims of the fire. Every week we have 75 families pick up four meals for their family that are made by some of the best chefs in Sonoma county. I see chefs happily volunteering their time to cook each week, volunteers taking time out of their week to help, and I work for a boss who isn’t afraid to clean huge pots and pans. I’m talking HUGE! Scary big! All of this has actually made me a much more positive and happy person. Yesterday I helped serve hors d’oeuvres for two hours in high heels ( I didn’t think that one out. I wanted to look fancy) for an open house meant to bring relief organizations together with fire victims. The blisters I have on my feet are quite impressive and I couldn’t have been happier.

Super Quick Mysteries, Volume 1
by Andrew Stanek
4.1 Stars (59 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Mystery

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Chuck is a lazybones who works at a sandwich shop. Andy is a reporter who can’t quite seem to please his editor. Both have a knack for finding and solving mysteries, and there are plenty in the city of Lesser Redmond! Thirty super quick mysteries you can solve yourself!

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The 18th Shadow: Box Set
by Jon Lee Grafton
4.8 Stars (11 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science Fiction | Action & Adventure

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Updated as a second edition and available in digital format only, this box set comprises the first three episodes in The 18th Shadow Series by author Jon Lee Grafton; Dawn of the Courtezan – Phase 01, Voices in the Stream – Phase 02, and Absorption – Phase 03.

The Graphene Prairie – 2082. The North American Union comprises all of Mexico, Canada and the antique United States. 93% of citizens live with a nano computer consensually embedded in their skull. Alcohol is banned, cannabis is mainstream. Holograms fill our eyes, drones float above the city hovstreets and the Office of the Architect watches everything and everyone. Everyone, that is, except for a particular group of shiners, hand-picked outlaws protected by canine war cyborgs and a charismatic and mysterious telepath named Daxane Julius Abner. Mr. Abner has a purpose. That purpose is freedom. He and his shiners make America’s black market vodka. And they are the only heroes left.

Tara Dean had a gift. She used it to escape. The vile memory of the behavioral modification hospital was only fifteen kilometers behind her as the EMP projectile detonated and her stolen 2079 Mustang flipped off the hovroad floating 199 kph. Halfway through the first mid-air rotation, charges exploded along crumple junctions in the silver hovcar’s roof and the polyaluminum cabin blew free. Ejected into the sky, away from the disintegrating Ford, Tara Dean’s unconscious body was enveloped in an emergency collision sphere. Clear of the wreckage, her shrouded form bounced into a ditch and was immediately surrounded by the pack of waiting Coyotes. The animals began to savage the sphere’s elastiframe fabric with their dulled teeth. They had come for a reason. These were the Coyotes of cyborg legend, the vanished products of Darkpool Laboratories, drawn at long last from the darkness by the unique scent of her blood. Welcome to the Dawn of the Courtezan.

William Angevine was a quiet man, some would say a hard man. He was a hunter, born for this life. As the THOR class incursion cyborg stepped from the shadows cast by the vodka still’s fractionating columns, the air in the warehouse chilled. He saw the massive creature’s blue vidorbs first, then it moved further into the light. The cranial fuselage was aerodynamic, smooth, based on the skull structure of a dire wolf. The skull and chassis itself were made of reinforced, unpolished titanalum the color of slate. The beast was designed to inspire terror on a battlefield. Yet William Angevine felt no terror. A human tether, he alone could hear the cyborg’s thoughts. They called to him, like Voices in the Stream.

October 16, 2082. On this day in history, The War of the Dolphin began. Joan, a Maui Hector’s dolphin, floated to the surface of the aquarium and placed her head between the electroencephalogram terminals, aligning her consciousness with a quantum supercomputer as she pushed terabytes of dark code across the holostream, searching for the Israeli. The fusion core brightened momentarily from the power draw as contact was made. “It begins today,” the dolphin said. The Israeli’s voice responded slowly, deep and resonant, its inhuman timbre filling the aquarium chamber, “Are you afraid to die, dolphin?” “No,” replied Joan flatly. “There is no death. You of all should know this. In the end, there is only Absorption.”

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Brighter than Gold (Rogues Go West Book 1)
by Cynthia Wright
4.2 Stars (163 Reviews)
Genre: Romance

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In 1864 Columbia, California, the gold rush is over. Spirited Katie MacKenzie helps her father run a saloon and writes articles for the local newspaper about the Griffin, a Robin Hood-style highwayman who robs the unscrupulous mine owners and gives back to the townspeople.
But, when roguish Jack Adams, an adventurer with a dark secret, rides into the sleepy Sierra town one summer day, it changes everything.
A powerful attraction smolders and burns between Jack and Katie despite their efforts to resist, but when a tragic death occurs during one of the Griffin’s stagecoach robberies, Katie is haunted by thoughts of revenge.
Can Jack reconcile his life in Columbia with his surprising true identity in San Francisco… and will this couple find their way to happiness in spite of the dangerous secrets that separate them? Journey back to Civil War-era California with Jack, Katie, and historical characters like Samuel Clemens for a sensual & adventurous romance that will keep you turning the pages to the very end!

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The Paranormal 13 (13 free books featuring witches, vampires, werewolves, mermaids, psychics, Loki, time travel and more!): Now with a bonus 14th novel!
by Multiple Authors
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Genre: Romance

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Picking Daisy (New England Inspirations Book 3)
by Valerie Howard, Alex McGilvery
4.9 Stars (40 Reviews)
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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Elise Gilpatrick never thought she would be a parent, especially not like this. After agreeing to take 15-year-old DJ as a temporary foster placement straight from the police station, she feels like she’s in over her head. But, as she learns on the job, and with a little help from her coworker, Elise realizes that she and DJ need to lean on each other, and on the God who pieced them together. Their rocky journey will only prove that it’s never too late to find the love of a family.
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Editorial Review: “I had the privilege of working on this book with Valerie. On the surface, it is a story of a woman who takes in a foster child. They both learn a lot about themselves and each other. It may not be a romance, but it is a love story.
Below the surface, Picking Daisy shows the reality of the system where children bounce from home to home at the mercy of adults who do their best, but are all too human. The emotional scars from going through any long-term foster care may never heal. The day a child ages out of the system is, at the same time, the anticipated day of freedom, and the terrifying day when they are pushed into the world without support.
Deeper yet, the story is one of redemption, of loving past the brokenness in our lives. It’s about second, and third chances, of a refusal to give up on hope, and learning when we are in the darkest of places, we are not alone.
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