Who invented leggings and why would they do that to me? Yup, I’m still working on the leggings issue.
PERFECT ( A Christmas Romance)
Autumn Jordon
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Romance
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A heart-warming romantic comedy set in the fictional small town of Black Moose, Vermont where everyone knows your name. And, if they don’t, they soon will. Come, meet the town folk of Black Moose, take a ride out to Mini-Moose Point, and feel the love in the air.
Fans’ favorite lines:
From Darcy: “No. I’m from the South, remember? We get snow when we’ve done something to upset God, which we don’t do very often.”
Advice to Dylan: “Everyone has time for love, sweetheart. They might not think so, but when love finds them, everything else becomes secondary.
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The Fourth Marker
L. William Gibbons
Genre: Fantasy
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With a supernatural undercurrent, The Fourth Marker is the story of an elderly man, Gabriel Townsend, whose spirit is being crushed between the metaphoric anvil of his pragmatic views and the falling hammer of his wife’s pending death. The story revolves around a family, the Townsends, whose heritage is partly Native American.
The United States’ Indian Removal Act of 1830, which resulted in the Trail of Tears episode in American history, required all indigenous people, with few exceptions, to leave their tribal lands in the southeast and east, along the eastern seaboard. Some Lenape (Delaware) tribal members on the Delmarva Peninsula as well as other areas in the east, defied the government and remained on their ancestral lands, hiding from authorities in the Great Pocomoke Forest, outlying islands, and swamps on the southern peninsula.
A conscious decision to “hide in plain sight” or not, they eventually intermarried and bred with local whites, African-Americans, and mulattoes. Many families whose ties to Delmarva date back a hundred years or more share a heritage with those aboriginal people; however,the prejudice and racial bias of a bygone era caused many to ignore – even deny – their lineage.
In the story, while a child on the family farm during the Great Depression, Gabe Townsend rejected legends of his Native American ancestors and ignored miraculous cures of family members. Gabe’s half-breed grandfather, Noopah, tried to teach him tribal legends and the old ways, explaining that, after most Indians had been killed or driven from their lands by the Army and settlers, tribal eldersreturned to their lands in spirit form after their deaths.They dwelled at a sacred hill on the family’s land and protected their descendants from early death and white man’s diseases.
During those years, three family members were cured of life-threatening diseases, but Gabe’s mother blindly credited their recoveries to the nascent field of modern medicine. After each recovery, a person of evil character and not of tribal blood disappeared, followed by the mysterious appearance of a wood marker on the sacred tribal hill. Yet, despite those events and Noopah’s words, Gabe adhered to his mother’s intractable views.
Now facing the loss of his wife, he relives his childhood memories, guided by the spirit of his grandfather from beyond – well beyond – the grave. Finally understanding the truth of long ago, he decides to beg the tribal spirits to take his life in exchange for his wife’s, aware that a fourth marker would signify his own life – and death.
As Gabe’s father noted, “some understand only what they see; others see only what they understand.” The Fourth Marker highlights this most human of vices against the backdrop of Native American legends with ample helpings of farm life during the Great Depression.
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A Killing in Kensington (A Patrick Shea Mystery)
Mary Lydon Simonsen
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Detective Sergeant Patrick Shea of London’s Metropolitan Police and his new partner, Detective Chief Inspector Tommy Boyle, have been handed a high-profile murder case. In the penthouse of Kensington Tower, playboy Clifton Trentmore lay dead with his head bashed in, and the investigation reveals a man who was loathed by both sexes. With too few clues and too many suspects, Shea and Boyle must determine who hated Trentmore enough to kill him. But as Patrick digs deeper, he finds his suspects have secrets of their own.
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A Light in the Cane Fields
Enrico Antiporda
Genre: Coming of Age | Historical Fiction
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Top Semi finalist, 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Book Review from Publishers Weekly
“This coming-of-age story chronicling a Filipino boy’s wrenching passage from son of privilege to guerilla fighter is a stylistic tour-de-force. From its first lines, the saga of Jando Flores seizes readers with the same chilling intensity as the cold water that wraps around Jando’s chest as he hides in a river to escape a gang of pillaging cutthroats. While such murderous militias dispossess cane farmers in the Central Plains of the Philippines, the NPA (a brutal leftist insurgency) combats the government troops of Ferdinand Marcos and the ruthless sugar barons who steal the poor farmers’ land. Jando, whose family owns a plantation, is forced into the NPA, but he remains a sensitive soul, brimming with empathy for his fellow countrymen-even as he watches others, like his beloved uncle, morph into fierce, sadistic killers.
Incandescent descriptions radiate from the pages of this book. When a wounded Jando wakes, after narrowly escaping a death squad, he sees “marmalade light slicing through the fronds, weaving orange and black tiger stripes.”Mountain bandits, sugar warlords, Peace Corps volunteers, dignitaries, and revolutionaries all jostle beneath “mango-colored” skies in this riveting epic of loss and transformation, but it is a masterful and delicate choreography.”
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The Search for South Pole Santa: A Christmas Adventure
JingleBelle Jackson
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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The population alarm has gone off at the North Pole alerting the world that there will soon be too many children for Santa to serve! The search begins for a second Santa, South Pole Santa. Many people apply, but only six are selected to compete – including a teenage girl attending school far away on a remote tropical island. Cassandra Penelope Clausmonetsiamlydelaterra. . . wants the job, despite the odds against her and everything that goes wrong!
Can Sandra’s dream come true? Can she become South Pole Santa ? The polar opposite of Santa? And who, or what, is trying so hard to keep her from it?
This holiday family book is full of mayhem, magic, mystery, bad guys, dark caves and a good dose of elves. Not just for the Christmas lovers amongst us, anyone who enjoys a fun adventure where kindness reigns in the end, will enjoy this timely new holiday choice.
Oh, Oh, Oh!
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