So it has been about a month now that I have been on a diet. Dieting has become a bit of a hobby for me, and I usually test out all sorts of different kinds to see which one works the fastest. Not the best, just the fastest. I prefer the magic genie approach, but my searches on eBay have come up empty so far. No worries though, I have not given up, and when I do find the magic genie I will share. So as I was saying… it’s been a month of eating right and exercising and the bad news is… it works. I would like to think that magic would work, but diet and exercise seems to be the real answer. Cutting out the alcohol and sugar is the key. This of course has angered me. I cut out sugar and I have become a bit of a Grumpy Gus. Last night we all went out for an anniversary dinner and when I saw a beautiful piece of cake delivered to another person’s table I was furious. I sat quietly and had a temper tantrum in my head. It was a doozy I assure you. I went home and did another search for magic genies.
Blood Line: What if your family was the last left alive? (The Blood Line Trilogy Book 1)
by Michael Green
Genre: Science Fiction | Suspense | Teen & Young Adult
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When a devastating, Super-SARS pandemic strikes, members of the Chatfield family, scattered around the globe, discover they possess a crucial gene that gives them immunity. Knowing that for their ultimate survival they must increase their gene pool, two members of the New Zealand branch of the family embark on a perilous journey in a small yacht. The community they find in England is a very different one, based on the rule of fear. Not only does it look impossible to take anyone back to New Zealand, but it may also be impossible for them to escape themselves… A dazzling debut, sharp, gripping and plausibly scary.
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The Elusive Miss Ellison (Regency Brides: A Legacy of Grace)
by Carolyn Miller
Genre: Historical Fiction | Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Romance | Religion & Spirituality
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Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions.
That’s the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister’s daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over the newly returned seventh Earl of Hawkesbury, she is not impressed. If a man won’t take his responsibilities seriously and help those who are supposed to be able to depend on him, he deserves no respect from her. In Lavinia’s pretty, gray eyes, Nicholas Stamford is just as arrogant and reckless as his brother–who stole the most important person in Livvie’s world.
Nicholas is weighed down by his own guilt and responsibility, by the pain his careless brother caused, and by the legacy of war he’s just left. This quick visit home to St. Hampton Heath will be just long enough to ease a small part of that burden. Asking him to bother with the lives of the villagers when there’s already a bailiff on the job is simply too much to expect.
That is, until the hoydenish, intelligent, and very opinionated Miss Ellison challenges him to see past his pain and pride. With her angelic voice in his head, he may even be beginning to care. But his isn’t the only heart that needs to change.
These two lonely hearts may each have something the other needs. But with society’s opposition, ancestral obligations, and a shocking family secret, there may be too many obstacles in their way.
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Death and Daiquiris: A Tiki Mystery (The McCreadie Mysteries Book 2)
by Andrew Culver
Genre: Mystery
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In book two of Andrew Culver’s McCreadie Mysteries, tiki fanatic Aristotle McCreadie finds himself housesitting in Palm Springs with his girlfriend. While soaking up drinks at the famous Luau restaurant, Aristotle investigates the death of a beloved bartender who perished mysteriously in the desert. This wasn’t just any bartender – he was a tiki legend who took a famous daiquiri recipe to the grave with him. And now Aristotle is expected to find out who committed the crime.
In the merciless desert heat, Aristotle starts to realize this murder may be a little over his head. His investigation reveals some big, deep secrets involving national security, and some amazing new tiki drinks. But which is more important? While Aristotle struggles to stay focused on his priorities, he realizes he’s being followed. Which is fine with Aristotle – but he needs that lost daiquiri recipe. And when there is a good cocktail at stake, he will get his answers.
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Fire Canyon
by Blaze Eastwood
Genre: Action & Adventure | Suspense
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A group of paleontologists go to a mysterious island in search of dinosaur fossils. The island is even rumored to have actual living dinosaurs, as well. Although the group is skeptical, they decide to make the island their next expedition. Not only are they surprised to find living dinosaurs on the remote island, they also discover something even more shocking.
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Bewildering Cares
by Winifred Peck
Genre: Literary Fiction
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‘It’s a storm in a tea-cup, of course, but then we happen to live in a tea-cup!’
So begins Camilla Lacely’s charming, witty diary of life as a vicar’s wife in a mid-sized town outside of Manchester in the anxious, early days of World War II. The ‘everything and nothing’ that happens include a controversy swirling around the curate’s pacifist sermon (through which, alas, Camilla napped, making it difficult for her to discuss with outraged parishioners), servant problems, anxieties about Camilla’s son off training with his regiment, the day-to-day worries of friends, and a potential romance in the town… or are there two romances?
Readers of Bewildering Cares might well be reminded of the likes of E.M. Delafield or Angela Thirkell, but Peck offers her own distinct take — sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching — on the ironies and heartbreaks (not to mention the storms in teacups) of domestic life, community, faith and life during wartime. This new edition includes an introduction by social historian Elizabeth Crawford.
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