I have a three day weekend hangover. Not an alcohol or cake hangover, but a hangover from having three days off, and now I am pretty sure I am too ” Sick” to do anything today. Maybe after three day weekends it should be customary to wear only sweats, and absolutely no meetings are permitted. You are allowed to take an extra hour for lunch to tell your co-workers about your weekend and show any pictures you may have taken. We went to Clear Lake State Park this weekend, as some of you may know, and the lake was gorgeous! All that rain I was complaining about filled the lake up higher than I have seen it in 15 years. Which is great and all, but I am still done with the rain. I am very happy to say that I did not find any lake monsters or sharks. That always makes for a great trip. I know my fear of sharks is ridiculous, but try and tell my brain that. It will not listen to reason. Enjoy your Tuesday everyone. At least it’s not Monday.
The Case of the Attic Door: A Mini Mystery Series (The Adventures of Finn and Annie Book 1)
by Christopher Greyson
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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A man mysteriously murdered in his house. Nothing stolen, and no apparent suspects. It seems like an open and shut case, but is it?
In this heartwarming short story by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Christopher Greyson, join Finn and Annie as they work together to solve The Case of the Attic Door!
Finnian Church is trying to piece his life back together. After losing his leg while in the Army, he is starting a new career as an insurance investigator. Joining him is newly hired videographer, Annie Summers — a woman who lost her hearing but is trying to make it as a single mother of two. The world might see them as broken and battered souls, but as they come together to solve mysteries, they discover that they make a great team. Join this unlikely duo as they investigate their way through murder, arson, theft, embezzlement, and maybe even love, seeking to distinguish between truth and lies, scammers and victims.
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Betrayal’s Price (In Deception’s Shadow Book 1)
by Lisa Blackwood
Genre: Fantasy
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Enemies by nature. Companions by choice.
Warrior-Scout Ashayna Stonemantle has no awareness of her fate until her sentient magic manipulates her into seeking out one of the enemy — Sorntar, Crown Prince of the Phoenix. If she dare trust the word of an enemy prince who is also an avian shape-shifting mage, their souls and futures are eternally linked.
When their willful magic awakens early and forces them into an unbreakable bond, Ashayna and Sorntar are accused of being corrupted by an ancient evil. To prove their innocence, they must work together to discover what happened in the past to pit bondmate against bondmate. As the search for the truth draws them closer together, Ashayna realizes she has growing feelings for Sorntar. But before she can tell him, his tainted power enslaves him.
Faced with an impossible decision, Ashayna chooses to fight for Sorntar’s soul even at the risk of her own.
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Highlander’s Secret Nun: A Medieval Scottish Historical Highland Romance Book
by Alisa Adams
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Historical Fiction | Romance | Classics
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A postulant monk. A mysterious nun. A secret that can unite them or tear them apart.
Handsome and dark Gregor Carmichael, son of a laird, has decided to become a monk after being dispirited by his unstable love life. While he is travelling through the Highlands toward his monastic shelter with Father Columba, an itinerant priest, memories of his past love life and new temptations keep making him question his decision.
When they visit a monastery, fate tests him by throwing an enigmatic nun at his path. She clearly doesn’t belong there. She is young, stunning and lively. She looks like she is running away from something, just like he is.
A well-kept secret is unveiled, that will shake the very foundations of the life they knew. Friends and foes will try to pull them back to the reality they thought they escaped from or, even worse, pull them apart.
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Coffee, Kids, and a Kidnapping: a Christian cozy mystery (A Charlotte Ritter Mystery Book 1)
by Alyssa Helton
Genre: Mystery
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Charlotte Ritter is more than just a survivor. She’s a highly caffeinated go-getter who is busy raising three teenage kids on her own while juggling a full time job at a family law practice. Charlotte has always dealt with things one day and one cup of coffee at a time. It’s not always easy, especially with a highly autistic child and a new, snarky paralegal that was recently hired at the firm, but she manages. That is until the day her average but hectic life gets turned upside down when her boss asks her to do research for an adoption case. Charlotte’s talent for connecting dots that most people don’t see, leads her to believe there may have been an abduction that no one even knows about. Has she gone off the deep end or is she right and two people’s lives may be at stake? The only person who believes her is her close friend and co-worker Cole. The deeper they look for the truth, the worse things seem to get as Charlotte’s tenacity leads them down a dangerous path.
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To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter
by Vladimir Bukovsky, Michael Scammell
Genre: History | Biographies & Memoirs
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A major document in the literature of human rights, this now-legendary memoir, by one of the most prominent of the Soviet-era Russian dissidents, was a world-wide bestseller when first published in 1978.
At the age of 20, as punishment for his political protests, Vladimir Bukovsky was falsely declared insane and committed to a psychiatric hospital — standard practice for communism’s critics in 1963. But the quack doctors and brutal guards who kept him captive didn’t realize: Bukovsky wasn’t locked up with them. They were locked up with Bukovsky.
In this compelling, beautifully-crafted memoir, Bukovsky details with equal parts burning outrage and bitter humor the cruel theater of life for Soviet prisoners of conscience. But he also recounts how he found his inner truth and strength, and built a fortress around it — the imaginary castle of the title — in which he could remain safe from the daily assaults on his body and mind.
Bukovsky refused to break under the pressure of 12 years’ incarceration in a series of psychiatric hospitals, labor camps, and some of the Soviet Union’s worst prisons. More than that, though, he turned the tables on his captors and oppressors — the USSR under Brezhnev — with a series of rebellions, pranks, and persistent goading that ultimately led Soviet officials to trade him for a high-ranking Communist prisoner in the West, as a means of getting Vladimir Bukovsky out of the country at last.
In To Build a Castle, Bukovsky offers powerful firsthand testimony to the importance of personal integrity and perseverance under seemingly boundless, endless oppression and abuse. Over nearly forty years, Bukovsky’s story has inspired dissidents, prisoners, and those trapped by circumstance: Even in chains, you can be free.
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