Deirdra Eden

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Thor's Well

Make sure to take time to see this amazing natural water feature on your Oregon trip.

No Ordinary Thursday by Anoop Judge

Lena Sharma is a successful San Francisco restaurateur. An immigrant, she’s cultivated an image of conservatism and tradition in her close-knit Indian community. But when Lena's carefully constructed world begins to crumble, her ties to her daughter, Maya, and son, Sameer—raised in thoroughly m…

Raising Jess: A Story of Hope by Vickie Rubin

Raising Jess: A Story of Hope is the powerful story of one family’s survival when faced with adversity. Written with compassion, honesty, and humor, it tells of a family changed forever by the birth of a child with a rare chromosome deletion and their courageous decision to choose hope. Facing the …

When Love Wags a Tail by Carmen Leal

Our four-legged friends have huge hearts. Experience the joy of this collection of true-life stories of humans and the amazing dogs who saved them. Carmen Leal never dreamed tragedy could bring positive change. Suffering a traumatic brain injury after a car wreck, the marketing pro struggled to fin…

Thelma a Métis Girl Who Was Born in a Storm by Julie Coulter Bellon

Thelma a Métis Girl Who Was Born in a Storm A beautiful introduction to Métis culture and traditions . . . Thelma's favorite time of day is after dinner when her family gathers around the fireplace to be together and hear her father's stories. The story she loves best is the one about the nig…

The Year I was Almost Prom Queen by Stacy Lynn Carroll

No one ever notices Emma, and that’s just the way she likes it. So when she gets nominated as Prom Queen, she thinks it must be someone’s idea of a sick joke. But it all becomes real when she needs to find a date for the dance. After an embarrassing ad is placed online, several boys prom-pose to he…

Tweaks by Terry Deighton

Having a genetically enhanced ability sounds great—until it happens. Henry Johnson has a best friend, a crush, a life-long enemy, and no idea his life is a science project. In sixth-grade, average may mean boring, but at least it also means avoiding freakdom. Henry is all kinds of average, but then …

Finding Fran by Nancy Christie

Once a best-selling romance novelist, 55-year-old Fran Carter is now dealing with a slow but steady drop in book sales and a major case of writer’s block, complicated by the knowledge that her lover, a professional photographer, has been on the wrong side of the camera (so to speak) with his models…

Random Acts of Murder, Murphy's Law Mysteries by Terry Deighton

Widowed, broke, and unemployed, Diane Murphy takes the oddest of jobs performing random acts of kindness in her small town of Fairwood, Washington. The job comes with unusual conditions. She can’t tell anyone she’s being paid for her service, and her employer insists on remaining anonymous. Helping …

Dancing Between the Raindrops by Lisa Braxton

Book Summary Dancing Between the Raindrops: A Daughter’s Reflections on Love and Loss, is a powerful meditation on grief, a deeply personal mosaic of a daughter’s remembrances of beautiful, challenging and heartbreaking moments of life with her family. It speaks to anyone who has lost a loved one an…

Who Saved Who by Roslyn Cohn

Book Summary Growing up in beautiful Bohemian 1970s Marin County, the daughter of a funny pawnbroker-jeweler with vision who knew the streets and a warm, independent Mom turned Naturalist-Animal Rights Activist, Roz is an award-winning actress who spent 20 years in NYC, where she worked on stages fr…

Waiting for Elephants by Jaleta Clegg

What if? This is how Jaleta Clegg looks at the world, and her mind is constantly churning through ideas. Waiting for Elephants is a collection of 34 stories and poems. Inside, you’ll find twisted and reimagined fairy tales, stories of derring-do and adventure in the far reaches of the galaxy, stran…

Song Child by D.M. Andrews

HER SONG WILL TOUCH MANY, AND SOME IT WILL CHANGE FOREVER. Lost to both history and legend is the knowledge of when the Crown of Flames last blossomed in the world, but the merchant Vladan will see it blossom again and witness the unfolding destiny of its mysterious custodian, the young girl Devana. Vla…