My new favorite quote, “If loving cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” DARN SKIPPY!!!
Give Me Chocolate: A Kelly Clark Mystery Book One
by Annie Hansen
Genre: Romance | Mystery
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Give Me Chocolate, the first in the Kelly Clark Series, from mystery author, Annie Hansen!
In the quaint river town of Geneva, Illinois, Kelly Clark flees California and returns to her hometown to re-start her life after a horrific divorce from an abusive husband. She accepts her sister’s generous offer to live in the apartment above Chocolate Love, her sister’s specialty dessert shop in the Historic District of Geneva.
Kelly’s life starts to turn around when she reconnects with an old flame. Just when it looks like she’s getting her life back on track, she stumbles over a dead body. The suspicious death sends her hopes for a better future plummeting. Has her violent past and the danger she faced in California followed her home to Geneva?
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The Chocolate Garden (Dare River Book 2)
by Ava Miles
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Romance | Contemporary Fiction
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International Bestselling Author Ava Miles shares a heartwarming and emotional novel about the magic of love and second chances amidst a chocolate garden.
Visionary gardener Tammy Hollins is making a new life for herself and her children after a tragic marriage. Plants she understands, but men… well, they’re of the weed variety. She’s started her own landscaping business, catering to her country music rock star brother’s friends. Her first client is sexy, soulful, Alpha hero material, and the one man who tantalizes her and scares her to death.
John Parker McGuiness is a man of many talents, working as a songwriter and lawyer for country music’s biggest stars. He’s drawn to Tammy like no other and hires her as his landscaper, wanting to show her they’re made for each other. When Tammy learns he’s a professed chocoholic, she fashions a magical garden for him–a chocolate garden.
As the garden comes to life, their love for each other grows. When tragedy strikes Tammy’s home, John Parker is willing to move mountains to protect her and her children. Tammy struggles to guard her newfound independence as they use the magic of the chocolate garden to help her children feel safe again. But when secrets from Tammy’s past resurface, can their love and passion survive the memories haunting her?
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Ditch Lane Diaries: One Volume Collection
by D.F. Jones
Genre: Metaphysical | Fantasy | Mythology & Folk Tales
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The Ditch Lane Diaries Collection, includes Ruby’s Choice, Anna’s Way, and Sandy’s Story. A prophetic dreamer, a divine healer, and a soul reader on life’s discovery of love, friendships, and destiny.
The Ditch Lane Diaries follows three childhood friends from college to adulthood. An afternoon adventure uncovers a hidden room and mysterious stones in Campbell Ridge cave unlocking their supernatural powers.
The prophetic dreamer, Ruby’s Choice is a coming of age tale of firsts including the angst of falling in love. Ruby’s Choice lays the groundwork for the storyline and introduces the main characters in the collection with a splash of paranormal. One choice can change everything.
Anna’s Way is the second installment of The Ditch Lane Diaries. Anna is a healer who must decide between the love of her life or her divine calling. However, Anna learns quickly that true love doesn’t come in a nice and neat package. She’s in love with Jerry, but things change when Anna goes away to medical school.
In Anna’s Way, the Ditch Lane Diaries characters evolve with adult problems. Anna meets her guardian angel, Ralph, who teaches her how to use her gift to help others without drawing attention from demons. Anna’s friendships and the promise of true love binding them together while facing supernatural battles against the master of all evil, Luc.
The clairvoyant, Sandy’s Story is the last book of the Ditch Lane Diaries. This fast-paced, gripping thriller keeps the reader on edge, and the pages turning. Investigative reporter, Sandy Cothran follows a murder lead on Music Row which uncovers Luc’s Testament along with a string of related crimes.
Sandy’s guardian angel, Baldric is sworn to protect her but finds himself falling in love with Sandy breaking all the rules of heaven and places her in grave danger because Luc is waiting in the wings on his given moment to pounce.
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A Soccer Hooligan in America
by Carl-Michal Krawczyk
Genre: Historical Fiction
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A Greyhound bus ride through America and a subsequent stay in New Orleans compels Victor Stavski to reconsider everything he has stood for as a fanatical England supporter.
With the Union Jack caped over his bull-neck shoulders and the Cross of St. George emblazoned down his back, Stavski and his mates tried initially to get the passengers riled up with some pre-match chanting for the upcoming England v. USA match.
To his surprise, the Americans on board the bus and those he met in the cities along the way had no partisan interest in international soccer and, if anything, they began to chant for England.
The Americans love England.
But Victor Stavski discovers during this American odyssey that his real love is not for England after all, but for America and that it began with the music and TV images coming out of America that he experienced as a child.
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A Prairie Cookbook: Memories and Recipes
by Philip Wik
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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In Our Story, I describe the immigration of my ancestors from Sweden to South Dakota in the late 19th century. A Prairie Cookbook expands on that narrative. Dozens of recipes copied from cards and scraps of paper that date from those days were used to satisfy the hunger of pioneering families in the Midwestern United States.
I wish to frame your expectations before you read this book. These aren’t recipes from the Old Country. They’re recipes from the Midwest from the turn of the last century. You’ll find better recipes on how to make ox-tail soup, for example, on the internet and in other books. If you read this book for culinary how to instructions, you’re missing the point. Rather, my goal is to open a window into a vanishing world. This book provides another dimension to understanding the life of our ancestors. These recipes are as simple and as unpolished as those who worked the land. And yet they invoke an atmosphere that memoirs may not fully capture.
I’ve also include in this book photographs and memoirs written by those from those days, primarily in the first two decades of the 20th century.
Despite the hardships they faced, the people of the plains had high ambitions and ideals. In 1918, my grandmother Emma’s husband died. And yet she saw eleven of her children go to college before and during the Great Depression. Many of her children went on to become educators and some got advanced degrees. Emma’s children also had strong literary skills, some of whom went on to write articles and books. Emma’s children also bore the middle names of writers and poets, an indication of the importance that education had to that family. My father’s middle name, for example was Tennyson, perhaps also because he was the tenth in the family.
These memoirs help provide the context and greater insight in which these meals were lovingly prepared, for children, grandparents, and field hands, and for holidays, weddings, funerals, and daily life. Both these recipes and the memoirs paint a picture of an important time in the history of our nation and give us insight into the character of the homesteaders of the Midwest.
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