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It was 1969. Barlow Adams, age 20, was a recently discharged veteran. He was driving late at night on a lonely stretch of highway in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. He stopped to render assistance to a motorist with a flat tire. What he stepped into was a vicious attempted rape. He rescued the victim, which catapulted him into an appointment as a deputy sheriff.Along the way he encounters an enchanting woman who will change his life forever. In addition, he will be confronted by a gang of outlaw bikers who are obsessed with killing him while he is still learning the ropes of becoming a lawman.This is the story of a young man in the 1960's, an era which has long been forgotten except for those who lived it.

Tara Richards is unhappy with her job as a rehabilitation nurse and disenchanted with her marriage, but lacks the courage to make a major life change. When her best friend Lisa disappears, Tara's life is thrown into turmoil. Has Lisa jeopardized her sobriety by going on a drinking binge or is she hiding the news that she may be pregnant from her partner Ryan, who has a history of battering, and it's not his baby? Lisa is her rock, her confidant, her reality check. Tara can't live without her. Despite the near paralysis of bad hair days and her dread of turning forty, Tara joins a massive search to look for her friend in conjunction with the police, her colorful women's collective, Lisa's old-world Italian parents, and a twenty-four-year-old man Tara finds particularly captivating. Review of Finding Lisa; Gripping, compelling and a darn good read.Finding Lisa by Sigrid Macdonald comes highly recommended by Chick Lit Café.One evening Tara is having a conversation with her best friend Lisa, the next morning Lisa is missing and the search begins. In the two weeks that follow, Tara will go through a lifetime of emotions. What's happened to Lisa? The shocking truth is not revealed until the very end and it will have you sat on the end of your chair.Review of Finding LisaBy Diane C. Donovan of Midwest Book ReviewTara is leading an unhappy but safe life, stuck in a career and marriage she doesn't like, until her best friend vanishes. Finding Lisa is about having everything, losing something important, and re-evaluating life, love, and purpose as a result.It stands out from other stories of disappearance and searching because of its focus on a variety of themes beyond the event itself. These include women's connections and friendships, the kinds of shared interactions that keep such connections alive, and underlying issues of spousal abuse, midlife changes, and new possibilities.The first step to making meaningful changes is to confront evidence that one's values, perceptions, and patterns are no longer serving their purpose. As long as Lisa is part of her life, Tara isn't compelled to take this step or make these realizations; but Lisa's disappearance prompts a cascade of grief, self-examination, and determination in ways than one, and this in turn fosters new experiences and choices.Set against the backdrop of Canadian culture, Finding Lisa follows Tara's journey as she learns to trust strangers, runs into danger and even possible romance, and navigates strange new worlds in which her usual responses need revision. Her shortcomings and failures are reassessed as her search leads to not only dead ends, but a passage of time that gives her the feeling that Lisa is being left behind as life moves forward without her.As she faces questions about whether Lisa lost her sobriety and whether her boyfriend Ryan was involved, Tara confronts her own life decisions. Ultimately, Finding Lisa is about Tara finding herself, her place in the world, and her own willingness to accept pat answers and appearances that defy easy explanations.The emotionally charged conclusion that takes an unexpected twist will delight readers who anticipated a very different ending from Tara's thought processes, making Finding Lisa a delightful study in surprises that holds the power to thoroughly engross right up to its stormy conclusion.

Stacey is forced to make a decision that no mother should ever have to make. She walks away from her home, her husband and three beloved children intending to be away seven months. Nothing prepares her for what happens to keep her away for seven years. When she returns, she is torn between two lives.While She Was Gone is a fast paced novel that takes the reader on a journey with Stacey Martin. The story starts in Ottawa then moves to Sudbury and district. The reader follows Stacey as she encounters life changing occurrences, local folk lore, a major environmental disaster and takes you on an emotional rollercoaster. The reader will meet colourful characters and visit unusual places. The book can bring the reader to tears, anger and laughter.

Michigan City Blue by Jeff LovellWhen a bullying thug accosts professional musician Carson Coughlin, threatening him to stay away from a woman, he has no idea that the woman is a person with whom he fell in love with years ago. The two people, crushed emotionally by failed marriages, soon meet and learn that they can build a life together. Lauren, a genius at organization, hires Carson to put together a band to play at a new community center, and, as the center comes together, they face violent retribution from her ex-husband.Her ex-husband, Richard, faces grim retribution from a crime syndicate, to whom he owes a gambling debt far beyond his ability. After threats, he kidnaps Lauren aboard a tramp steamer, intending to hold her for ransom. A former Navy officer, Lauren manages a daring escape.Next, Richard kidnaps one of her grandchildren, who Carson manages to rescue from the trunk of a car.Richard turns to vandalism, hiring criminals to destroy the Center with Arson. The arsonists are apprehended but are unable to help the police locate Richard.Lauren's daughter and granddaughter are soon victimized, but they learn that they have a long-hidden ability which allows them to escape. Meanwhile, Lauren opens the Center, which is a huge success, and Carson's band is warmly received by the community. After another failed extortion attempt, Richard attempts to kidnap Lauren, but a wild chase into the Dunes National Lakeshore Park results in Richard being trapped in a natural sinkhole in the Dunes.Richard, bitter and vengeful, is sent to prison in the west.Many years later, Lauren dies, and her granddaughter becomes a skilled performer. The book ends as Carson, sits waiting to perform at the Center named for his wife and commemorating her gifts and love for the Community. As Carson sits in his office practicing for his next performance, his wife comes to call him to another life at her side.

Immortal Destiny is the third of a trilogy of books on immortality. In The Light of Eden (2008) Raley invites the reader to a spiritual and intellectual feast featuring the mystery and reality of personhood and culminating in a new theory of human life. A radically new theory of life calls for a radically new theology, the main concepts and implications of which Raley explores In The Unknown God (2011). In it he argues for an expanded understanding of God, delves into theories of time, and offers fascinating perspectives of the Hereafter. The first two volumes of the trilogy set the stage for Raley's carefully reasoned but bold conclusions in Immortal Destiny. Summoning the discoveries of contemporary science, theology, and philosophy, Raley explores the dual modes of time and human life as creation, bodily reality, and survival. Raley peppers the pages of all his writings with rich perceptions and sidelong glances at many dimensions of truth.

A disputed election has divided the nation, and a handful of senior government officials have conspired to have the North Koreans assassinate the President of the United States. Believing the assassination attempt to be only days away, Theresa Deer, Director of the Special Section, a small unit whose existence is known by only a few in the U.S. government, is tasked to interdict the man intent on providing the North Koreans vital information about the president's itinerary for his visit to South Korea. While Deer succeeds in her mission, she is severely injured and finds herself being hunted the North Korean assassins. Clint Smith is sent to Korea to help Deer get back to the U.S. and finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the North Koreans. With no one in the U.S. government to turn to for help, and the South Koreans now also looking for them, Clint approaches a wealthy American widow living in Busan for assistance. Not knowing whether she'll help or not, Clint discovers that he has approached the one person in the city who will bring him face to face to the North Koreans and the endgame.

Cherokee Treasure by Jeff LovellJanice O'Neill, beautiful but immature, tries to abandon her husband and two daughters in the mid-1980s. Jilted by a criminal lover, she takes jobs which begin to show her skills in a variety of areas. When she fends off a bullying nasty attack from a customer at the shop where she works. He pursues her across the US and into Brazil, where she meets and falls in love with Chris. the man who will become her husband. Together they fight their way in the past against Simpkins, the villain, finally leaving him in a Hell of his own making.When I was a little boy, a great deal of television dealt with cowboys, and a great deal of that portrayed Indians as vicious killers. One movie had the lead character talking about the Oglala Sioux: "They're the throat cutters." But some of the most heroic and brilliant generals in our country's history were Native Americans: Crazy Horse, for example. Sitting Bull. Red Cloud, to name only a few. As a child, I was too young to have a sense of justice, I suppose, but I knew that it was wrong for the White Man to take the lands which were not theirs. It was wrong to slaughter the buffalo, as well, though the species seems to be making progress to repopulate now. Maybe I will succeed and give the land back to the Indians.