Chapter Book Truman The Dog

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My Furry Foster Family series, #1 Author: Debbi Michiko FlorenceIllustrator: Melanie DemmerPublisher: Picture Window Books (August 1, 2019) Genre: Chapter Book Paperback: 72 pages Description “T” is for Truman, tricks, and TROUBLE! Truman the black lab might be an older rescue dog, but he’s still got enough mischief beneath his collar to keep eight-year-old Kaita Takano and her animal-fostering family on their toes from morning till night. Chewed through and through, the playfully illustrated, Kaita-narratedRead More →

Ellison Cooper 2nd book

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The Race Is On To Locate A Serial Killer Description In Ellison Cooper’s suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who’s turned up the heat on a cold case… Senior Special Agent Sayer Altair studies the minds of psychopaths. But even she didn’t expect to uncover a killer within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Rooting him out and exposing internal corruption got her a bullet wound and six monthsRead More →

Book Cover by C.H. Armstrong

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A Story That Will Be Hard To Forget   Author: C.H. ArmstrongPublisher: Central Avenue Publishing (February 5, 2019) Genre: YA Family & Relationships Paperback: 320 pages   Description Being a homeless teen is harder. Keeping it a secret is even harder. Seventeen-year-old Abby Lunde and her family are living on the streets. They had a normal life back in Omaha but, thanks to her mother’s awful mistake, they had to leave what little they had behind forRead More →

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a LARGE decision must be made   Author/Illustrator: Vanessa WestgatePublisher: Clavis (June 25, 2019) Genre: Picture Book Hardcover: 32 pages Description Laugh out loud – and learn! “If you want to catch an elephant, first you must find out where elephants live . . .”So begins this tale of a boy and his quest for a pet elephant.But maybe catching an elephant isn’t as simple as it sounds . . . A delightful and compassionateRead More →

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Fun Activities For Kids   Author: Fiona Hayes Publisher: QEB Publishing (June 18, 2019) Genre: Nonfiction / STEAM Series: Crafty Makes Hardcover: 160 pages   Description Keep crafty children of all ages entertained and inspired for hours with Fiona Hayes’ 100 Things to Recycle and Make. Everyday materials are transformed into all kinds of stunning and practical projects, from toy animals and vehicles to dressing-up props, decorations, games, and even fun storage solutions. Bringing together theRead More →

Book by Author Paul Doiron

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Mike Bowditch series, #10 Publisher’s Synopsis In this thrilling entry in Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron’s bestselling series, a deadly attack on one of Maine’s last wild wolves leads Game Warden Mike Bowditch to an even bigger criminal conspiracy. While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate aRead More →

James Patterson Mystery The Cornwalls

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She Has Forty-Eight Hours To Save Her Family   Author:  James Patterson with Brendan DuBoisPublisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 25, 2019) Genre: Mysteries / ThrillersSeries: Amy Cornwall Series, #1 Book Excerpt Hardcover: 352 pages   Description Captain Amy Cornwall’s family is missing. She’ll do whatever it takes to bring them home.  In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chillingRead More →

The Golden Acorn by Kathy Hudson cover art

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The Rules Have Changed For This Winning Squirrel   Author/Illustrator: Katy Hudson Publisher: Capstone (July 01, 2019) Genre: Picture Books Reading Level: Prek – 1 Hardcover: 32 pages Description Whoosh! Squirrel takes off at full speed through the autumn leaves. But pump the brakes, because this year The Golden Nut Hunt race is a team event. Squirrel reluctantly enlists her friends and is not impressed. Will Squirrel’s competitive spirit take over or will she learnRead More →

Sandie Jones Book Cover

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Her First Mistake Could Be Her Last   Author:  Sandie Jones Publisher: Minotaur Books (June 11, 2019) Genre: Mysteries / Thrillers Book Excerpt Hardcover: 304 pages Kindle: 288 pages   Description From Sandie Jones, the author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller The Other Woman, comes an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. THE WIFE: For Alice,Read More →

Front Cover of Karen Rose Book

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Sacramento Series, Book 1   Author:  Karen RosePublisher: Berkley (February 12, 2019) Genre: Mystery/Romance Hardcover: 624 pages Kindle: 623 pages Description Introducing the first novel in the pulse-pounding Sacramento series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose. There is a serial killer on the loose, preying on vulnerable women. The only identifiable mark the killer leaves are letters—sometimes one, sometimes two—all carved into the torsos of his victims.  Together they spell “Sydney.” When he grabs Daisy Dawson,Read More →

T.J. Brearton's Novel Cover

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– Plenty Of Twists To Keep You Guessing –   Author:  T. J. BreartonPublisher: Joffe Books Publication Date: May 14, 2019 Genre: Mystery/Thriller Paperback: 282 pages Kindle: 243 pages Description WHAT IF YOUR HUSBAND DISAPPEARED AND THE POLICE THOUGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE KILLED HIM?  Jane Gable returns from her shift at the hospital one night to find her two children asleep in bed and her husband gone, his phone and wallet left behind. John has long been aRead More →

Book Cover Dark Site

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– A Sam Dryden Series, Book 3 –   Author:  Patrick LeePublisher: Minotaur Books (May 28, 2019) Genre: Mystery/Thriller Hardcover: 400 pages Kindle: 359 pages Description From the author of Runner, Sam Dryden comes under attack from unknown forces as an unremembered episode from his past threatens more than just his life. On an otherwise normal morning, former Special Forces operative Sam Dryden is the target of an unsuccessful attempted abduction. Using his attacker’s cellphone, he learnsRead More →

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Debut Thriller   Author:  Jessica Barry Publisher: Harper; First Edition first Printing edition (January 8, 2019) Genre: Mystery/Thriller Hardcover: 368 pages Kindle: 356 pages   Description: They say your daughter is dead. You know they’re wrong. When her fiancé’s private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, everyone assumes Allison Carpenter is dead. But Maggie, Allison’s mother back home in Owl Creek, Maine, refuses to believe them. Maggie knows her daughter – or she used to, anyway.Read More →

Cover of David Barclay Moore's book, The Stars Beneath Our Feet

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A Middle-Grade Debut Novel You Won’t Want To Put Down Author: David Barclay Moore Hardcover: 304 Knopf Books for Young Readers (September 19, 2017) Paperback: 304 Yearling; Reprint edition (January 8, 2019) Ages: 10 – 13 This story is an amazing glimpse into the life of Wallace “Lolly” Rachpaul, an angry boy who is attempting to work through the death of his older brother. What makes this even more difficult is that he is livingRead More →

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A Novel That Will Open Your Mind To New Thoughts   Author: Erica Bauermeister Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (May 21, 2019) Hardcover: 320 pages Kindle: 310 pages Thanks for visiting and I hope you mark your calendar for May 21. That’s when you can scurry out and pick up a copy of the book you’ve been hearing about! We are now midway into Erica’s blog tour and if you’d like to know more about TheRead More →

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McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thriller Book 4 Author: Robert Bailey Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (April 23, 2019) Paperback: 416 pages Kindle: 404 pages Synopsis: His last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves. Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he’d bring “a reckoning” on Tom and every one the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, heRead More →

book by author Megan Goldin

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Just When You Think Things Can’t Get Worse . . . Synopsis For those who are claustrophobic, the setting of The Escape Room won’t be too hard to imagine. While the story flashes from present to past, it opens with a prologue regarding Miguel, a security guard who works the night shift at a construction site. The site is a luxury office tower in the final stages of construction. When Miguel thinks he hears aRead More →

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    Author:  Sara Lövestam Publisher:  St. Martin’s Press (August 27, 2019) Hardback: 288 Kindle: 288 pages   When a six year old girl disappears and calling the police isn’t an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. She finds a cryptic ad online for a private investigator: “Need help, but can’t contact the police?” Kouplan responds to a young woman who is looking for PI help in locating her six-year-oldRead More →

Theodore Roosevelt story book

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by James Sage     Author: James Sage Illustrator: Lisk Feng Publisher: Kids Can Press  (May 7, 2019) Pages: 40 Ages:  4 – 7     This book is based on a little fact and a little fiction. As the story goes, President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt went on a hunting trip in 1902, while there he refused to shoot a baby bear. “I’d never be able to look my children in the eyes again!” Later, whenRead More →

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If You Like Romance, Give This Series A Try Synopsis From Amazon An alpha among the wolves of Wall Street, Kennedy Dawson rose to the top of the pack by striking the right contracts at the right times. But there’s one deal that’s been giving him a run for his money – a pact to never again let his assistant, Kate, get under his skin. She may be smart, gorgeous, and sharp as a whip,Read More →