The good news is my baby basset wasn’t eaten by a dolphin yesterday. The better news is they are even more enchanting creatures than I could have ever hoped to meet, and the whole family had a blast hanging out with them. I had only bought a ticket to swim with the dolphins for my oldest basset, and it was still up for debate on who would be able to go in with him and watch. Thankfully the park employee was so kind as to let all the family members of the participants watch. After a 30 minute presentation in a classroom we all made our way to the pool the dolphins were in (it was massive BTW, with several different pools the dolphins could go to with many toys for them to play with). While the participants interacted with the dolphins, swimming and doing hand signals to get them to chirp and splash people, a mamma dolphin and her 3 year old baby were just a few feet behind us trying to get our attention. Perhaps hoping to get a few treats. It was very hard to ignore them, SO CUTE! The experience was fantastic for the whole family and I still can’t get the smile off my son’s face.
IN Doubt (An Ivy Nash Thriller, Book 3) (Redemption Thriller Series 9)
by John W. Mefford
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Thrillers | Crime Fiction | Mystery
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What does the face of evil look like?
Ivy has a calling. Protect those who can’t protect themselves.
An adorable little girl. A shamed woman stashed away in a mental institution. Even her dear friend. But what force can stop an egomaniac hell-bent on revenge?
A monster returns and lives are shattered. The suspicion of guilt shrouds everyone.
With her world caving in around her, can Ivy ever stop looking over her shoulder?
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Dancing Tides (A Pelican Pointe Novel Book 3)
by Vickie McKeehan
Genre: Romance
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From darkness comes light… and a second chance.
For marine biologist Keegan Fanning, the grief of losing her grandparents is too painful to bear. As if battling her own demons is not enough, she discovers that saving a total stranger from committing suicide forges an unlikely bond that will bring them together in ways they could never imagine — a bond of trust and love that is quickly put to the test at the hand of a psychotic killer who has them in his sights.
“The third book in the award winning Pelican Pointe Series
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Athenian Steel (The Hellennium Book 1)
by P.K. Lentz
Genre: Fantasy | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science Fiction
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A savage war is fated to drag on for a generation. One living weapon could change it all. But she is not easily wielded by any mortal man. Joined in tumultuous alliance, a Greek general and a renegade traveler in time seek to reshape an ancient world of blood and brutality. They will challenge each other, enemy armies, and Fate itself. Who or what will break first?
In 425 BCE, the Athenian general Demosthenes comes into possession of a weapon from the stars. He fears to wield it against his city’s bitter enemy Sparta, but he knows that he must, lest it be wielded by others. He knows, too, that it seeks to wield and possess him, for this weapon is human, or something like it, and as complex as the wider universe from which she fell. She is Thalassia. She is doom and madness. She has come for reasons all her own, and she did not come alone.
ATHENIAN STEEL is bloody, twisted mayhem in the ancient world and Book I in a centuries-spanning epic that will appeal to readers of Gene Wolfe, David Gemmell, David Drake, Harry Turtledove, & other classic SF/Fantasy authors of the 1970?s to 1990?s. Fans of Bernard Cornwell, Giles Kristian, Simon Scarrow and similar will also find plenty to enjoy if they don’t mind touches of cosmic SF, dark humor, and sex in their military historical fiction. Join Demosthenes and Thalassia as they blaze a trail of slaughter and ruin down the centuries in The Hellennium.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This series depicts the ancient world in a frank and explicit manner, including graphic scenes of sexuality and violence. Foul language abounds.
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The Second Thanksgiving
by Douglas Lloyd McIntosh
Genre: Historical Fiction | Religion & Spirituality | Religious & Inspirational Fiction
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Has Almighty God intervened in American history?
Many great Americans have thought so, including President Abraham Lincoln as he signs the proclamation creating Thanksgiving as a permanent national holiday for the United States of America. “You must know and remember this,” Lincoln puts the matter bluntly. “Our nation began with a miracle.”
The amazing facts are little remembered today. After their first Thanksgiving celebration in 1621, the Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth Plantation experienced an unmitigated series of disasters that left almost nothing to celebrate. Their third year in the new land nearly ended in the complete destruction of Plymouth. Ultimately the colony managed to survive only as the result of what the Pilgrims saw as one of the most astounding instances of divine intervention in human history outside the pages of the Bible, an event so awe-inspiring that it turned the fortunes of Plymouth completely and permanently around.
This historically accurate novel tells the story of that terrible ordeal and its culminating miracle through the eyes of real people, Francis and Hester Cooke and their children, as they and the other people of Plymouth struggle against discord, danger, despair, hunger, exhaustion and outright terror — along with all the accompanying doubts assailing their strong Christian faith.
These various conflicts play out over 1623, one of the most dramatic years in American colonial history. The great Wampanoag chieftain Massasoit Ousamequin, who has kept the peace, falls ill to the point of death. The Pilgrims learn that two hostile braves of the local Massachusett Tribe are attempting to foment a war to exterminate all the white newcomers. Should these troublemakers be stopped, even if by a murderous preemptive strike?
What happens afterward, when nature itself seems to turn against all the inhabitants of the land, with the fingers of blame pointed squarely at the people of Plymouth by enraged Native Americans? What happens when the situation becomes so ominous, so deadly, so far beyond human solution, that the Pilgrims have nowhere to turn except to God and the power of prayer?
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(2017 Holiday Book Festival Grand Prize Winner!) Off the Hook: A Christmas Ornament Adventure
by John Arvai III
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Children’s eBooks | Holidays
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Have you ever wondered why there are ornaments on your tree? Or why there is a star on top of your tree?
Now those questions have answers!
Set in a world where a Christmas tree’s star is actually a secret transmitter used by Santa Claus to identify all the active Christmas homes throughout the world, Off the Hook follows two groups of ornaments from opposite sides of their tree who must learn to work together to find their missing star before Santa passes their family’s house by!
Written in the style of Disney storytelling (think “Toy Story on a tree”), Off the Hook is an exciting holiday adventure for the entire family to enjoy! Rejoice in this original Christmas tale as you dash through the thirty-four full page illustrations, unwrap the delightful cast of characters, and feast on the playful humor! Off the Hook will leave your stockings stuffed with a lesson on teamwork and your hearts filled with the spirit of Christmas!
Add a little adventure to your holiday book collection this year with the multi-award winning, Off the Hook: A Christmas Ornament Adventure!
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