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Book Preview and Giveaway – Frantic by Brent Bradley

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FRANTICBy Brent Bradley Techno Thriller/ Conspiracy ThrillerPublisher: BCS PublishingPublication Date: March 7, 2025 *** SYNOPSIS *** A delusional prison patient warns Dr. Brian Heiser, Marriage and Family Therapist, of enormous impending disaster. Dr. Heiser and his best friend, a lauded Forensic Psychologist, find themselves entangled in a 72-hour deadly race to stop an AI bill […]

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Book Review- Perfectly Imperfect by Cathy Miller

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Perfectly ImperfectCathy Miller Publisher ‏ : ‎ Old Lady Biz PublishingPublication date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2025MemoirLanguage ‏ : ‎ EnglishPrint length ‏ : ‎ 97 pagesISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8993352909 *** SYNOPSIS *** Does your bias bully hammer at your soul?Cathy Miller thought of herself as a positive person. But then life challenges

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Friday Reads: Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult

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Change of HeartJodi PicoultAstria PublishingReprintISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416565604 *** SYNOPSIS *** One moment June Nealon is happily looking forward to years of love and laughter with her family. The next, she is facing a future as empty as her heart as she waits for a miracle. For Shay Bourne, life has no more surprises, and

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Horrible, Scary Times

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Last weekend I was gut-punched by the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. That day, like any mother anywhere, I thought of his parents and their terrible grief. Grief is certainly their’s first. I freely acknowledge that. But there is a grief that many of us are feeling as well. If grief was a circle,

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Darling Children’s Book

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MADDIE ~ A LITTLE GHOST WITH A SECRETBy Cindy J. Vanous Illustrated by Steven StewartChildren’s Age 6-8Pages: 28Publication Date: September 25, 2025 *** SYNOPSIS *** In the enchanting ghost town of Terlingua, Texas, Maddie isn’t your typical ghost. She’s a friendly spirit on a heartfelt quest to discover her own special superpower just like the

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Parade of Secrets by Kimberly Fish -Review and Giveaway

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PARADE OF SECRETSA Lane Hayes MysteryBy Kimberly Fish Historical Mystery / Female SleuthPublisher: Fish Tales PublishingPublication Date: October 31, 2025Pages: 341 *** SYNOPSIS *** Layers of history, suspense, and emotion. March, 1948. Lane Mercer Hayes, and her husband, Zeke, have that post-war life that everyone envies. His winning record as a prosecutor and a scratch

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Happy Halloween

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A friend sent me this image, then I went to the Halloween Lovers Facebook page and saw so many other delightful pictures about this holiday celebrated in many countries in the world. Click on the link in the caption if you’d like to see more cute images, but do come back to read the essay

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Book Review: Annie’s Day by Apple Gidley

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So happy to share information about this novel that releases on November 15, 2025. The author provided an ARC so I was able to read it for review. Historical fiction, especially stories set during WWI and WWII, is always of great interest to me, and I’m so pleased to have had the opportunity to read

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Friday Thoughts

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This is actually not so funny. Federal agents from ICE and Border Patrol with no experience at crowd control or the proper use of pepper spray and pepper bullets are creating more problems than they are solving. And it’s their indiscriminate use of force that is escalating violence. Not saying that protestors are not wrong

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Kids do Nothing for our Self Esteem

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The following is an excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. The book is a collection of the humor columns I used to write for the Plano Star Courier, a suburb of Dallas. A number of readers had suggested I put them together in a book, and a number of years later

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