I am feeling pretty darn good about myself today. I have bought two Christmas gifts. Yes, I know that is a bad word right now, but when you see the perfect gift for someone and you hear the angels singing, you grab it. The big issue for me is going to be keeping it as a Christmas gift. I get so excited about the perfect gift that I often can’t wait until the actual day and then I give it to the person on a Tuesday. Not this year. I can control myself. Patience…deep breaths.
Nervous System (The System Series Book 1)
Andrea Ring
(10 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction
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At six months old, Thomas speaks in sentences. At one year old, he figures out how to stop his runny nose by shutting down his secretion glands. At two, he can tell when a cold is coming and head it off with the exact dose necessary of vitamin C. At three, he startles his parents with the memory of his birth. At four, Thomas discovers Crichton and Cornwell, and asks for medical texts for his birthday. At five, Thomas regulates his autonomic nervous system when he is anxious or frightened. He puts himself into a stupor several times before he figures out the proper balance for his body. At six, he discovers he can heal wounds by producing platelets and deliberately growing new skin cells. He calls up adrenaline and floods his body with it to win a race. He grows his hair back when his mom insists on a dreaded buzz cut that makes his ears stand out like flags waving in a breeze. But being able to control his entire body can’t help Thomas with everything. It can’t help his mom, who dies in a car crash two days before his dad is redeployed in the Navy. It can’t help him connect with his grandma, who he’s met twice in his life and comes to stay with him after the accident. It can’t help him make friends. Though he has the intellect of a man, Thomas has the yearnings of a six-year-old boy to bring his mother back to life. He has the power, but it’s trapped inside his own body. NERVOUS SYSTEM is a novel about how far we will go to get what we want, and just because we can, doesn’t always mean we should.
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NOTHING BUNDT MURDER: COZY MYSTERIES TO DIE FOR (A Rosie Kale Culinary Cozy Mystery Book 1)
Leigh Selfman
(55 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery
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While trying to heal her broken heart, journalist Rosie Kale moves into her Grandma’s beach-side guest house and takes a job at the hot new Bundt Baby Bakery. But when she and her boss cater a ritzy bridal shower, murder is on the dessert menu and the Bundt cake is blamed. Rosie tries to find the real killer before she becomes the next victim. But her senior sleuth ‘helpers,’ Nana and Birdie, are more interested in getting her married off than in the murder case. Unfortunately their prime romantic prospect–handsome real estate mogul Casey Baron–is also her prime murder suspect. “Nothing Bundt Murder” is a fun, clean, cozy mystery with cats, cupcakes and a dash of romance.
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A Field of Innocence
Jack Estes
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Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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Jack Estes volunteered to fight a war in a faraway country he couldn’t even locate on a map. He was a kid, eighteen years old. Married, broke, flunking out of college-and about to become a father. The Marines seemed like a good way out. He figured the Nam couldn’t be any worse than home. He was wrong. Publishers Weekly says “Chilling… It tells how a youngster from Portland, Oregon matured in the crucible of combat… The reader is given a sense of what it’s like to fight an unseen enemy who might appear anytime, anywhere and start shooting from ambush.”
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Wicked Good
Joanne Lewis
(44 Reviews)
Genre: Parenting & Relationships | Coming of Age | Family Life | Literary Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
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As her son Rory turns 16, Archer anticipates his breakdown. Her fears are confirmed when she receives a call that Rory is drunk at school. His behaviors escalate and lead him to his biological mother. As Archer joins Rory on his journey toward self-knowledge, she learns that neither she nor Rory need to be victims of his dual mental health diagnosis of bipolar disorder and Asperger’s syndrome. Archer and Rory live in a small town in Maine. Rory has been a difficult child since he was adopted by Archer and her now ex-husband, Wayne. Archer’s life had been hijacked by Rory’s needs while Wayne chose to leave the relationship and Maine for several years. Archer has felt victimized by Rory’s disabilities and blames them for her inability to date, to pursue her career and other interests. Rory acts several years younger than his chronological age. He is charming, sensitive to everyone except his mother, stubborn and literal. When he gets it in his head to meet his biological mother, nothing can stop him. He even gets on the highway from Maine to Massachusetts on a riding lawn mower going five miles per hour. When Archer decides to accompany him on his journey, it becomes her journey as well.
Wicked Good is full of rich characters with whom you will cry, hope, laugh, and cheer. Rory is a character not seen in other novels, every action and thought a contradiction. For example, he is concerned about the safety of the squirrels in his garage yet brutal in his quest toward self-identity and independence. Rory’s discoveries about his birth parents and himself leaves him and Archer hopeful in their knowledge that no matter where life takes them, they will always have unconditional love for the other.
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Mud Kitchen in a Day: How to quickly get your kids outside, playing in the dirt, & enjoying creative play.
Jason Runkel Sperling
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Genre: Parenting & Relationships
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Looking for that perfect summer distraction to get the kids out into the backyard? Learn how to set up a simple and inexpensive children’s mud kitchen in a day, allowing your children or grandchildren endless hours of plain and dirty backyard fun. Follow one father’s entertaining and informative attempt to get his children outside, offline, and into the mud. Author Jason Runkel Sperling takes us inside his experience creating a backyard mud kitchen for his two small children. Full of humor, parenting insight, and in-depth research, Sperling’s account will inspire you to create your own mud kitchen in a day, maximizing family fun, bonding, and creativity. This easy-to-follow guide is appropriate for parents of any skill level and backyards of any size. Forgoing complex design, Sperling’s mud kitchen guide focuses on the essential components of a mud kitchen using simple resources, allowing just about anyone to create a stellar children’s mud kitchen in only one day.
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