Last night the Book Basset family delivered some of my cookies to our friends and wished them a happy holiday. The kids were in their pajamas (it was about an hour before their bedtime). I remember doing this with my sister and my mom when I was a kid. I have baked some of the same cookies my mom used to bake, even though they are a real pain in the tushy. I loved it then so I bake them now. I hope my baby bassets will pass this tradition on to their baby bassets.
Blood Warrior (The Alexa Montgomery Saga)
H. D. Gordon
(103 Reviews)
Genre: Romance | Fantasy
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When her home is attacked by murderous vampires, 17-year-old Alexa is forced to leave her mother for dead in order to save her sister. She soon learns that she is the last known member of an elite race of supernatural Warriors, and is thrust into a world full of vampires and werewolves who all seem to regard her as some sort of savior. Meanwhile, Alexa battles a monster within herself that seeks to gain control; a monster that seeks blood.
The hidden city she finds herself in appears perfect, but Alexa’s instincts tell her that all is not right within its walls. When she is asked to attend a school of fighters, whose exams consist of gladiator-style competitions, she must decide who she can trust among the smiling faces. And, when she meets Kayden, a vampire she feels undeniably drawn to, she must decide if she can trust herself.
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Realms of Gold: Ritual to Romance ((Romance Novel))
Terry Stanfill
(36 Reviews)
Genre: History | Historical Fiction
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Realms of Gold: Ritual to Romance is sheer alchemy. Terry Stanfill cleverly masterminds dialing back the time machine in magical, potent ways to reveal a vast fabric of history seamlessly reaching into the depths of the Celtic past. Under her pen, the past revived informs the present in the form of a star-crossed love ignited by a compelling quest, from Puglia to Burgundy, with the famed Vix krater at its vortex. The novel is a masterful tapestry of human aspirations and enterprises, of science and intuition, revealing the author’s profound understanding of the past and her visionary re-crafting of it that leads to the story’s romantic—and historically surprising–revelation. Historian, archaeologist, and antiquarian extraordinaire, Stanfill’s latest novel powerfully evokes living legends from their newly discovered historical sites. –Erik T. Haskell, professor of French Studies & Humanities, Scripps College, Claremont University Center
Terry Stanfill has wonderfully crafted Realms of Gold into a research-oriented mystery romance. A page-turner hard to put down.–Georgianna Erskine, Pasadena, California
Few of us know South Italy as Terry Stanfill does; and her love of this wonderful land shines through every page of her quietly astonishing novel. What a story she tells–threading its way through mythology, ancient history and archaeology in Italy and France and England. Almost a romance, almost a thriller yet not quite either, it possesses a unique character of its own. I loved it. –John Julius Norwich, author of A History of the Normans in South Italy and Sicily
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Deadly Reunion (A Grace Holliday Cozy Mystery, Book 2)
Elisabeth Crabtree
(30 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Women’s Fiction | Contemporary Fiction
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When Grace Holliday received her high school reunion invitation promising a killer reunion, she didn’t think they meant literally.
Grace Holliday has come back home to Rabbit Falls, Colorado. Regrettably, not as successful or as wealthy as she had intended when she left her small town ten years before. Fired from her job, evicted, and having to move back in with her parents was not how she pictured her life turning out, and the last thing she wants to do is attend her ten year high school reunion. Unfortunately, her twin sister, Hope, has other ideas.
Hope drags Grace back to their old school determined to settle an old score. Despite the best efforts of the planning committee things quickly go from bad to deadly, and before the night is through, one of Grace’s classmates will be murdered.
All Grace wants to do is put the horrible night behind her, go home, and scour the want ads. Unfortunately, the only job available is the only one she doesn’t want: figuring out who killed the Reunion Queen.
A humorous cozy mystery, approximately 313 pages in length.
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Ole Man on the Porch: The Trooper
Bryan Gregory
(26 Reviews)
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Typical cop stories or blood and guts? … No way!Bryan Gregory takes the reader much further than that in Ole Man on the Porch: The Trooper.Feelings are seldom expressed or addressed publicly by the law enforcement community, but with a refreshing and easy-to-read prose, he takes his audience on an emotional roller coaster of his career encounters that is seldom seen.
Although he includes a gracious plenty of comical episodes enhanced by cartoonist Levi Powell (also a retired North Carolina State Highway Patrol member), Gregory pulls no punches with himself or with others.Without hesitation, he admits his weaknesses.Without malice, he shows us ours too.He speaks to issues that we’ve become complacent with and largely ignored.From experience and the refuge of retirement he can do that.He can be straight forward.He can be daring.He does, and in Ole Man on the Porch … He is.
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Mom of the Year
Denise Pischinger
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Genre: Humor & Entertainment | Arts & Photography | Contemporary Fiction | Drama & Plays | Parenting & Relationships
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An over-the-top fun yet poignant story about mother-daughter relationships and the world of school volunteerism. You’ll laugh, cry and phone a friend about Mom of the Year–the debut title from the new genre of fiction, Script Lit, featuring eBook novellas adapted from Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays.
Janie Parker rules the school at Parkside Elementary, though she’s not even a student. She’s a volunteer room mother, tirelessly pouring her blood, sweat and tears into every perfect detail of every party and project for her daughter’s class. And she does it all for…GASP…the glory. Her over-the-top antics alienate her daughter, Kelsey, who is nothing like her mother.
So when Janie’s husband, Greg, announces the family must relocate to Houston in the middle of the school year, Kelsey sees the opportunity to start over. Janie, however, sees the end of her legacy as the most fabulous, glorified volunteer in the history of public schools. As if that isn’t horrifying enough, the family’s move to Houston forces Janie to live in the same town as her own mother, Helen, whom she despises.
When they arrive at Kelsey’s new school, Bear Branch Elementary, Janie discovers some silver lining – their new school district annually crowns a “Mom of the Year.” Janie soon meets her match in Lanette Middleton, the class room mother and reigning Mom of the Year. Lanette makes it clear there is no room for Janie at Bear Branch. After one too many insults, Janie fights back…and the competition is ON!
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