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Atlanta is struck by a terrorist attack that kills thousands while at the same time cartoonist Finn Darby is in a car accident. His recovery is marked by blurting out things in a different voice. It seems the impossible has happened and Finn’s grandfather, who died two years ago, has come back and entered Finn’s body…
Check out what folks in Topeka and Shawnee County are reading this summer – and perhaps discover a book you’ll just have to read. Below you’ll find book reviews from our customers – both kiddos and grownups. With 5 weeks left in Summer Reading, your review could get featured. Keep reading and reviewing via summerfest.tscpl.org. [...]
Just discovered us? Start reading with chapter 1 please! Kevin: Hello? Where are you, Kate? Do you think I want to hang out at McD’s alone? Kevin: This is not the time to be late! We have too much work to talk about. Kate: I can’t make it. Kevin: What? What’s up? Please elaborate. Kate: [...]
“It’s not traditional art, it’s not fine art and I don’t try and tell anyone that it is.” –Bob Ross The Happy Painter “If I ran home, I got to watch Bob Ross!” –Jason Talbot Co-founder, Artists for Humanity Bob Ross was a fixture on public television for years. His show The Joy of Painting [...]
Pilot and flight instructor Cordell Logan is down on his luck with his last student quitting and bills piling up, and it seems that things couldn’t get any worse until his ex-wife Savannah contacts him and wants his help. Her husband, Arlo, was murdered, but Cordell isn’t too distraught since Arlo was Cordell’s friend who broke up Cordell’s marriage.
Cordell has no intention of getting involved with the murder investigation though Savannah is convinced that the murder has something to do with Cordell’s and Arlo’s past…
Just discovered us? Start reading with chapter 1 please! Picking up trash wasn’t very difficult, he thought, at least not compared to the juggling act at the office he’d face after he finally served his sent- er, volunteer community service time. What that Sanchez woman was doing for her penance he didn’t know. Maybe she’d [...]
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Catherine was once outgoing and carefree, but after she met her boyfriend, Lee, everything changed. Lee was good looking and charming and seemed like the ideal boyfriend but after a few months there were signs that something was wrong as the violence and control escalated into a final ordeal of torture.
Move ahead three years later, Lee is in prison and Catherine is trapped in her own apartment for hours on end because of her fear and obsessions. In spite of her difficulties, Catherine has begun to move on with her life, and then she finds out that Lee…
Welcome to the new blog from the staff of Gatekeeper Hobbies. This blog will cover a variety of topics from the pop culture world including comic book collecting and anime. Just like big, blockbuster movies, summertime brings a number of exciting things to the world of comic books! Two of the big events this year are “Avengers vs. [...]
Just discovered us? Start reading with chapter 1 please! Kevin leaned back and stretched his back. He had been staring at the computer for too long. Everything was starting to blur together. He couldn’t stop what he was working on. Even though he had to be at the site of the volunteer clean-up early in [...]
Over the years Harold and his wife, Maureen, have grown apart almost to the point of forgetting when they met and fell in love. Now in Harold’s retirement, their lives have taken on a mundane routine of two people living together but emotionally apart when suddenly Harold receives a letter from Queenie who is dying in a hospice over six hundred miles away. Breaking with common sense and in a spur of the moment decision Harold takes off and decides to walk the hundreds of miles to see Queenie before she dies because he has come to believe that as long as he walks Queenie will live.
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