Amy Metz's Blog: A Blue Million Books, page 19
January 27, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: TOM LUTZ
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A provocative, globe-trotting, time-shifting novel about the seductions of—and resistance to—toxic masculinity.
"Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess, or something like it, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years."
Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a...
January 23, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: LYNN STEIGLEDER
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Aon, a solid core planet made from the priceless and most dense element in the galaxy (caladium) is under silent attack. Plans are made by off-worlders to dissolve the unbreakable core using crude oil obtained from 19th century earth. Once the oil is refined the byproduct, gasoline will soften the caladium, allowing it to be collected. It is soon discovered the core is made from living beings created from caladium itself. The off-worlders employ a band of corrupt inhabitant’s...
January 21, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: KELLY BRAKENHOFF
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Will Dead Week kill Cassandra's career?
VP of Student Affairs Cassandra Sato has a desk full of problems and it's not even Thanksgiving break.
Cassandra's new boss talks to her dead husband. Cassandra's mentor thinks he's a superhero in a senior citizen's body. And Cassandra, recently moved from Hawai'i, can't crack the code of what to wear during November in Nebraska.
Cassandra faces end of semester pranks, stray dogs, winter storms, and viral news stories in her fight for...
January 16, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: CHARLOTTE STUART
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When single mom and recent widow Cameron Chandler takes a much-needed job at Penny-wise Investigations, a detective agency conveniently located in a suburban shopping mall, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Her first case is to locate a runaway girl, something her predecessor had been pursuing before he disappeared. Following in his footsteps, the trail leads to a survivalist camp on a remote island in northern Puget Sound. Armed with only a Swiss Army Knife and her...
January 14, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: BARBARA SILKSTONE
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New release — Book 5 — Cold Cream Murders series.
Someone dear to Olive is found dead—toes up and barefooted—in Digby’s Bees lavender field. Olive and Lizzy team up with WonderDog to find the killer. Digby’s hives are home to the wondrous Soprano bees. The little buzzers are the source of the secret ingredient that powers their Nonna’s Cold Cream—a fountain of youth in a jar.
Finding the killer turns out to be more of a challenge as the gals protect Digby’s bees from a determined...
January 12, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: ELIZABETH PENNEY
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Welcome to the first in the Apron Shop mystery series by Elizabeth Penney, set in the quaint village of Blueberry Cove, Maine where an expert seamstress turned amateur sleuth is getting measured for murder . . .
Iris Buckley is sew ready for a change. After the death of her beloved grandfather, Iris decides to stay in her Maine hometown to help out her widowed grandmother, Anne—and bring her online hand-made apron designs to real-time retail life. Her and Anne’s shop, Ruffles...
January 11, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: HEATHER WEIDNER
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Private investigator, Delanie Fitzgerald, and her computer hacker partner, Duncan Reynolds, are back for more sleuthing in Glitter, Glam and Contraband. In this fast-paced mystery, the Falcon Investigations team is hired to find out who is stealing from the talent at a local drag show. Delanie gets more than she bargains for and a few makeup tips in the process. Meanwhile, a mysterious sound in the ceiling of her office vexes Delanie. She uses her sleuthing skills to track down...
January 9, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: J.C. KENNEY
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Murder hits the stacks when literary agent Allie Cobb investigates a fatality in the local library . . .
Allie Cobb returns home from a book conference armed with hugs for her cat and her boyfriend, and dreams of a long, hot bath. She’s also getting ready to take the plunge by hiring an intern for her expanding literary agency. But it’s one for the books when Allie finds the town’s librarian—and her longtime role model—seconds away from death on the library floor....
January 7, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: TONY DiGEROLAMO
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The Pineys: Book 1: My Cousin, The Piney
From the creator of the Jersey Devil comic book comes a story about four cousins cursed by their ancestors, brought together by destiny and trying to keep South Jersey from going to Hell.In 1732, Mother Leeds gave birth to the infamous Jersey Devil, which has roamed the Pine Barrens ever since.
Or so the story goes . . .
The truth is, Mother Leeds was a witch and opened the portals to Hell unleashing hundreds of devils into woods....
January 5, 2020
FEATURED AUTHOR: SHELLIE BOWDOIN
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Does God really care about your weight? He cares a lot, but not in the way you might think.
Galatians 5:11 says, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free."
Actually, God is not concerned with how much you weigh. Author, Shellie Bowdoin discovered that even when her thoughts and attention were consumed by her outer appearance, God was primarily interested in the condition of her heart. She found that God was most concerned when the "weight" of her weight robbed her from...
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