My 12 year old basset decided she wanted to play this morning at 4:30. She was snuffeling about, and when I called her name to go back to bed, she ran to the carpet and got into play stance. I wish I could ask her what she was thinking, but she knew darn well what I was thinking when i snapped at her to go back to bed. I’m just slightly grumpy at 4:30 in the morning.
The Blue Hour (Merci Rayborn Novels)
T. Jefferson Parker
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Tim Hess is a semi-retired homicide cop staring at his own death sentence – lung cancer. Time is running out. Thrice divorced and childless, Hess is the classic loner cop – so he’s happy to accept the difficult job offered to him: find and stop a serial killer who’s been abducting beautiful young women in Orange County.
His new partner, and boss, is the brash, ambitious Merci Rayborn. She’s unpopular and unloved by her fellow cops, but she’s also relentless, smart and principled. Hess, challenged by the investigation and by his own disease, isn’t happy about taking orders from Merci, and he certainly isn’t planning for her to fall in love with him…
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Bridge Ices Before Road
S. Rose
Genre: Coming of Age
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The year is 1970. In a blue-collar suburb of Boston, two eleven year-old Catholic girls struggle to come of age in a culture still very much dominated by men. They watch in dismay as their fathers and priests determine the lives of the women around them. Loyalty to family and church is paramount; women and children suffer in silence rather than expose the men who do them harm. Frances Orillio is an adopted, only child; she is self-critical, anxious, and vulnerable. Maddy Malone is one of six children, and grew up in a rough housing project scrapping with the boys. Although they are strikingly different in temperament, they forge an enduring friendship on the path to becoming strong, independent women. Together they battle the tangled jungle of ignorance, racism, and homophobia that goes hand in hand with the culturally entrenched discrimination against women. Like the treacherous roads in a New England winter, the way is fraught with hidden dangers. Family secrets and lies are like the invisible black ice on a bridge: if you don’t watch out for the signs, it can be deadly.
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The Reckoning (A Jess Williams Novel)
Robert J. Thomas
Genre: Action & Adventure | Westerns
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Don’t let the prologue of this book fool you; this is a western novel.
The Reckoning is the first in the series of Jess Williams western novels written by Robert J. Thomas. Jess Williams is an ordinary young boy with a loving family growing up in Black Creek, Kansas. That all changes when he comes home and finds his entire family brutally murdered.
Forced to become a man overnight, he vows to avenge his family’s savage deaths. He begins to practice with his Pa’s Colt .45 and then a stroke of destiny arrives when he discovers a new pistol and holster that mysteriously appears. Jess practices with it relentlessly until he becomes so quick that he is unbeatable on the draw.
He leaves home transformed from a boy to a highly skilled shootist with no reason to live except to hunt down and kill each of the three men responsible for the murders of his family. As he begins his journey, he does so with a pistol and holster that no one has ever seen before–and won’t again for almost one-hundred years.
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Riding off the Edge of the Map
David Bryen
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Riding off the Edge of the Map is a true account of the author and two fellow motorcyclists on an adventure-tour into Mexico’s rugged and stunning Copper Canyon. They follow an errant map until they have traveled so far into danger that returning is deemed more precarious than continuing. Struggling with nearly impassible roads, injury, terror, and broken equipment, the three men were eventually forced to independently find their way back to civilization from the most remote part of the Canyon. The quest begins in the heart of Central Mexico’s Sierra Madre Mountains and traces their journey up the Pacific Coast and into the largest canyon system in North America, 1700 feet deeper and four times the size of Arizona’s Grand Canyon.
Bryen, a career psychotherapist and motorcycle safety instructor, integrates his lifelong zeal for motorcycle riding and his passionate commitment to the life of the soul, and weaves the events into an odyssey that pulls the reader into an exterior and interior exploration of what it takes to venture into the heart of the Canyon. The trip required a crash course in new motorcycling riding skills, adjusting to rural customs and new language in a foreign culture, settling the stress-created conflicts among the riders, and finding the courage to face and deal with personal limitations. Eventually stripped of everything familiar where old maps, old rules, and old understandings no longer applied, this life-changing journey becomes an examination into fundamental questions of how to ride and how to live. The book describes being caught between the allure of beauty and the repulsion of terror, and explores how to access the deeper powers that become available to us when life seems most challenging. The author turns this motorcycle adventure tour into an opportunity to contemplate the longings, the fears, and the misapplied maps that govern our lives.
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The Drink and Dream Teahouse
Justin Hill
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | United States
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From a spellbinding storyteller comes a highly original, amusing novel that transports us to the small Chinese town of Shaoyang, where villagers are struggling to keep up with a China that has transformed radically not only since 1949 but since 1989 and the turbulent days of the protests of Tiananmen Square.
Touching, funny and memorable this story highlights the challenges of life and love and living in the rapidly changing modern world through a vivid cast of characters: from Madame Fan, who sings opera from her balcony each morning and is trying to marry off her young daughter Peach, to teh successful businessman Da Shan, who comes home to a town he no longer recognizes.
Beautiful, memorable, and tender: The Drink and Dream Teahouse is a vivid portrait of modern China.
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