Horses can’t tell tales-or can they? Horses for sale! It’s a horse auction and cow pony, Gunpowder, is thrust onto the auction block for sale to the highest bidder. And his biggest fear is that bratty kid with brand new spurs! But when the auction ends, and the dust settles, Gunpowder finds himself flung headlong into the biggest adventure of his life…
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It is truly a perfect book for children to enjoy. I loved the plot of this book, where animals are able to talk and communicate with each other. Gunpowder was sold to another family for their young son. He was very scared of not being close to home and worried that the young boy would not treat him well. At the end of trying to go back home, he finds out his owner is in a home and sold all his property and came to realize that all he wanted was right there all this time, family, love, and friendship. The illustrations throughout the book made the story come to life. Truly touching story for the whole family.
For more than 50 years, Mr. Met, the original Major League Baseball mascot, has thrilled New Yorkers and New York Mets fans alike. Take a walk through history with “We’ll Call You Mr. Met!” and learn Mr. Met’s life story, from the early days at the Polo Grounds, to Shea Stadium and the “Miracle Mets,” all the way to Citi Field, where new Mets memories are made every season.
“We’ll Call You Mr. Met!” is a brand new baseball book, officially licensed by Major League Baseball, and makes a great gift for kids and adults of all ages!
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Won this book from Goodreads. It is such an adorable book. Love the illustrations and the fun facts at the end of the book. It was a great book to read to children to learn the history of how the Mets came about.
Brassy, sassy southern babe Laurel London is back!
Once again, the entire Laurel London crew is in action, including Trixie Turner, and trying to figure out who is the mastermind behind the Glitz and Glam casino heist.
The heist king blackmails Laurel into believing Laurel’s long time best friend, Derek Smitherman, will be on the other end of the vigilante gun if she doesn’t help in stealing the money using her history of petty crime.
Cursed with a disastrous new task of putting her amateur sleuth skills to work and an increasing sense that it’s really time to get a new job, Laurel spirals and tumbles through CHECKERED THIEF with all the wisecracks and pace her fans have come to expect.
My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Another amazing book written by Tonya. This book really was a great ending to a good series. I enjoyed this book to the very end. I am a little sad I don’t get to read any more books about Laurel, but I enjoy this book the most. Love the whole casino heist in small town Walnut Grove, Kentucky. Tonya knows how to write a book with laughs, love, and family support. As I read, I got the feeling that I am in Kentucky in a small town where everyone knows me hanging out with the characters. Truly will miss Laurel, who does her detective work even though she is getting herself in danger.
Author Biography
Beloved cozy mystery author Tonya Kappes is bringing her charming world to the screen!
The Hallmark Channel is thrilled to announce a television series in development based on Tonya’s wildly popular 40-book series, A Camper & Criminals Mystery.
A celebrated Amazon All-Star and USA Today bestselling author, Tonya has written over 180 southern cozy mysteries filled with heart, humor, and unforgettable small-town characters. Her novels, known for their southern charm and rich emotional storytelling, have been praised by readers and critics alike, earning her a coveted spot as a Woman’s World Book Club Pick six times.
Writing full-time from her camper, Tonya crafts worlds where mystery, friendship, and a little mischief collide — and now, her stories will come to life for cozy mystery lovers everywhere.
J is an accidental wedding singer. Unlike most wedding singers, he writes an original song for every couple—his way of finding out about the small, strange things that brought them together and the hopeful, vulnerable feelings they’re experiencing.
J’s own love life is in a state of flux. His girlfriend is off to New York for work, and as her life grows bigger and busier without him in it, he finds it harder to stick to a happy tune. He doesn’t know whether to encourage the soon-to-be-wed couples or warn them.
When complications hit and love is tested, is there any way to sing through all the noise?
Combining David Levithan’s deeply observant storytelling and Jens Lekman’s inventive and touching original songs, Songs for Other People’s Weddings is a tender, honest novel that tracks love through all its chord changes, never forgetting that the best songs contain the bitter and the sweet, the despair of losing it all and the euphoria of being found.
Author Biography
David Levithan (born 1972) is an American children’s book editor and award-winning author. He published his first YA book, Boy Meets Boy, in 2003. Levithan is also the founding editor of PUSH, a Young Adult imprint of Scholastic Press.
Salento, Italy, June 1934: A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanello, a tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets off: The man, Carlo, a child of the South, is happy to be back home after a long time away; the woman, Anna—his wife—is a stranger from the North. Carlo’s brother is there to meet them, and he and everyone else can’t help but notice that Anna is as beautiful as a Greek statue.
But Anna is not like the other wives. She doesn’t gossip or attend church. She reads books no one else has ever heard of. She even wears pants, just like a man, and thinks a woman should have rights just like a man.
There aren’t many options for a woman with Anna’s sensibilities, so when she learns that the post office is hiring, she leaps at the opportunity. A female letter carrier? It is unthinkable. But Anna soon becomes the invisible thread connecting the town as she delivers letters between clandestine lovers, families waiting to hear news of loved ones away at war, even helping those who can’t read.
But for some in Lizzanello, letters come too little and too late. The seamstress, who was Carlo’s first love, can’t help but look at Anna as having taken her rightful place. Carlo’s niece has put herself in a loveless marriage after an impetuous act of jealousy. And Carlo and his brother find themselves trying to cover up a recently unearthed surprise that could shatter all of their lives.
The Letter Carrier taps into the universal feeling of connection—and what happens when that connection perhaps comes at the wrong time.
My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 stars
A love triangle with consequences. A story about a family with hidden secrets that will cause heartache in the wake of the truth. As much as you try to keep a secret, sometimes those secrets will come and haunt you.
I loved that the main character, Anna, was a strong-willed woman ahead of her time. She wasn’t afraid of pushing boundaries and didn’t let her husband dictate her life. She didn’t care if someone was not happy with the decisions she made or how outspoken she was. She was intelligent and a giver of hope. She brought change to this small town in Italy. She eagerly took the opportunity to apply for a job typically held by men. Despite many people opposing her decision, she overcame all the negativities. Anna was the key to holding her family and the small town together in peace.
Anna’s husband, Carlo, was outgoing and a dreamer, but his romance with Carmela clouded his judgment. When he discovered the secret that Carmela was keeping, he chose to keep it to himself, hoping to carry on with his life without his family finding out. However, Carlo didn’t anticipate that a forbidden romance would develop between Carmela’s son and Carlo’s niece. His arrogance caused the heartbreak of two people he cared for. I was disappointed that Anna never discovered Carlo’s indiscretion and the secrets he kept.
Antonio is Carlo’s older brother. He protected his brother, even after knowing about the secret Carlo and Carmela held. He had many opportunities to tell the truth, especially after learning about the relationship between his daughter, Lorenza, and Daniele. My heart broke with how Antonio and Anna’s friendship ended. They bonded over books and were supportive of each other. Antonio was in love with Anna, and he did everything he could to stop himself from making the wrong decision. I would have hoped that he would have told Anna the secret when everything fell apart with Lorenza.
This story reminds readers to be honest when a parent has an indiscretion, and a child is born. You never know if someone in your family might fall in love with a relative.
Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a team leader, platoon commander, troop commander, and task unit commander. Over his twenty years in Naval Special Warfare, he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counterinsurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a special operations task unit in the most Iranian influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of US Forces. Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List, True Believer, Savage Son, The Devil’s Hand, In the Blood, Only the Dead, Red Sky Mourning, and Targeted: Beirut. His debut novel, The Terminal List, was adapted into the #1 Prime Video series starring Chris Pratt. He is also the host of the top-rated Danger Close podcast. Follow Jack on Instagram, X, and Facebook @JackCarrUSA.
About the Book:
From the “hottest author on the thriller scene today” (The Real Book Spy), #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr brings the worlds of special operations and CIA paramilitary units into direct collision in the jungles of Vietnam with his explosive new thriller introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece, a man torn between the blurred lines and allegiances of the military and the increasingly murky world of intelligence. This is how it all began…
1968. A time of division. A time of civil unrest. A time of war.
Just before the Tet Offensive, before President Johnson announces he will not run for reelection, before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, as riots and protests rage across the nation, a spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea.
The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong.
As a KGB “illegal” elicits information from a high-ranking NSA official, and teams of special operators infiltrating into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam disappear without a trace, an ambitious Soviet advisor launches an ingenious plan that could forever alter the world balance of power.
Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.
From the Kremlin to the White House, from the streets of Saigon to the rugged A Shau Valley, along the paths of Ho Chi Minh Trail and into the secret war in Laos, Navy SEAL Tom Reece has an official mission assigned by Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, but it’s his unofficial mission that might get him killed.
From “master novelist” (Ballistic) Jack Carr comes a fast-paced and brutally realistic thriller, one that will make you question all you thought you knew about Vietnam, pressing “emotional buttons that other writers wouldn’t dare explore” (The Real Book Spy).
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Author Biography
Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts.
Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. Everything I Never Told You was also the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the ALA’s Alex Award. It has been translated into over thirty languages and is being adapted for the screen.
Her second novel, Little Fires Everywhere (2017) was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Next bestseller, and Amazon’s Best Fiction Book of 2017. It was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications, the winner of the Ohioana Award and the Goodreads Readers Choice Award 2017 in Fiction, and spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Little Fires Everywhere has been published abroad in more than 30 languages and has been adapted as a limited series on Hulu, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.
Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, will be published on October 4, 2022.
Celeste grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio. She graduated from Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan (now the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan). Her fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and many other publications, and she is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors.
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