This Time You Lose
By Chris Stralyn / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
“I found myself emotionally involved with the characters because of how well they were developed in the story.”
Lisa Kaamp operates a small childcare business out of her home in Nogeksum, Michigan. Highly respected and known for going the extra mile for her daycare kids, she thinks she’s handled every daycare emergency possible. But nothing prepares her for the horror she now faces.
Lisa finds herself bound and gagged, four strange men in her home, and the daycare children held hostage in the next room. Terrorized by her captors as the authorities work to meet the ransom deadline, she tries negotiating with the men for the release of the children, but soon realizes they have no intention of letting anyone go.
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Breaking Twig
By Deborah Epperson / Genre: Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars
“I couldn’t put down the book once I started reading it.”
Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, Breaking Twig is a coming-of-age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.
Not even Twig’s vivid imagination, keen wit, and dark sense of humor is enough to help her survive the escalating assaults of Helen and a new stepbrother, but help comes from an unexpected source–Frank, her stepfather. Sometimes, having one person who loves and believes in you is all a girl needs to keep hope alive.
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Alchemy
By Mike Wood / Genre: Action & Adventure / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars
“This is one book that I enjoyed from start to finished. “
The summer of 1984 was a golden time in America. From California, where gymnast Mary Lou Retton was winning Olympic gold, to Cape Cod, where explorer Barry Clifford was discovering pirate gold, the nation seemed obsessed with the precious metal. But for 15-year old Al, that obsession hits a little too close to home when he finds a code-filled notebook belonging to his missing father that may contain the ancient formula for turning lead to gold. Convinced that his father’s sudden disappearance is connected to his secret experiments in alchemy, Al sets out to find the truth. He enlists the help of Cammie, a beautiful girl staying for the summer while her marine biologist father tracks a wayward manatee, and together they begin unraveling the mystery. But the closer they get to an answer, the closer they grow to each other, and as the end of summer draws nearer, Al wonders if they can break the code without breaking his heart.
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The Lighter Side of Large
By Becky Siame / Genre: Humor, Romance / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
“It was easy to read, very entertaining and funny.”
What happens when Bella, an overweight single mother, finds out her ex-husband is getting married to her gorgeous sister in nine months?
She orders a double mocacchino and plots her revenge.
Isabella “Bella” White plans to lose weight, get a career, and find the perfect man in time for the wedding. But proving there’s more to her than fat is a heavyweight task. When she’s kicked out of a clothing store because of her size, her crusade against weight discrimination creates problems for the new man in her life who’s got skinny issues. And what is up with her ex, who still carries a spark for her?
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The Butterfly Legacy
By Dr. Kathleen Marie Rice / Genre: Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars
“Poignant, Intriguing, Moving”
July 1952 is teenaged Raleigh Buchanan’s last vacation on Country Pond, New Hampshire, where for the previous two summers he and an Irish boy had traded notes. Feeling the familiar rush of intrigue, Raleigh removes the kid’s latest note from behind the ceramic half-moon tacked above the cottage door. The note contains a riddle half-written in Gaelic. Mystified and irritated, he puts the note away with other childish things – soon to be forgotten.
Twenty-six years will pass before Raleigh, now a Boston police detective, realizes that the note holds clues he needs to solve a murder; and that it contains the key to his true heritage, which began with star-crossed lovers a century before he was born.
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A Gift of Thought
By Sarah Wynde / Genre: Fantasy, Romance / Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
“I really enjoyed the action and humor – they were both well written.”
For Dillon Latimer, meeting his long-lost mother comes too late. It’s been five years since the drug overdose that killed him. Still, a little thing like death isn’t going to get in Dillon’s way when he decides his mom’s life needs improving. Unfortunately, it’s not easy for ghosts to influence the material world, especially when every choice his mother makes brings her deeper and deeper into danger.
Sylvie Blair ran away for reasons that seemed right at the time but she’s never let go of the past. When it comes back to haunt her—literally—she’s forced to face her regrets, even as she tries to decide whether to believe her high school sweetheart’s crazy stories about ghosts and drug cartels.
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