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Somebody smoked the wrong pig!Willow, Steve, and Embry team up to win the city's annual Barbecue Competition. Camping out isn't all it's cracked up to be. As Willow is coercing her 40 something year old body to make the trek to the bathroom for her morning rituals, she finds herself a witness to the local bad boy twirling on a rotisserie.She vows she won't get involved. Yeah, like that happens. Her gut tells her the young man arrested is not the right guy. It's not long before she's being serenaded by an opera wannabe, mistaken for a homeless person, and being chased by Mexicans toting guns, all in the name of justice.

A Family's history lives and dies according to the dedication of it's storyteller. author Lillian Laird Duff is one such historian and with the encouragement and help of her daughter Linda Duff Niemeir, the stories of this sharecropper's daughter will spark in readers the desire to keep their own family histories alive. Sharecropping in North Louisiana is the true story of the hardships Lillian's family faced during the Great Depression and World War I I. The word-pictures Lillian paints are vivid and will bring to life for readers a time when people were forced to get by with what they had. It will also leave readers hungry for a home-cooked meal, as Lillian recalls food preparation on the farm with such richness and delight that you can almost smell the smoked pork and taste the homemade ice cream and butter. Join Linda in listening to her mother's stories once more.

A little boy who sees himself as a bull learns how to see himself as a boy again. Whether at home, at the playground, with friends or with family, the attributes of a bull are very different from a boy. This interactive coloring and activities book is one of three offerings associated with the Children's book, You're a Boy, Not a Bull. Author Darlene Shortridge took an experience in her son's childhood and his tendency to ball up his fists at his side and snort when he was angry and turned it into a teaching experience for parents, teachers, counselors, and various other authority figures in a child's life. When he was little she commonly used the phrase, Jeremiah, You're a Boy, Not a Bull! The coloring book includes the full text from the children's book and can be used to further cement the idea that You're a Boy, Not a Bull.

Willow's Packin' Heat! Willow Crier's got a gun and the whole town will hear her bang. During a monthly potluck at the gun club, a local war hero, Clancy, ends up fried to a crisp. Armed with binoculars and cast Iron, Willow uncovers hidden secrets long ago buried. While searching for the murderer, Willow is also searching for the perfect fried chicken recipe. A painful surgery earns her sympathy, and maybe a few kisses, from Steve, but it doesn't keep her off her feet for long. Instead she dives right into the case, pulling a fellow gun club member into an impromptu mud wrestling contest. Embry's engagement and Steve's investigative nature is delving up a past Willow isn't eager to remember. She manages to slip away from the memories to solve the case, and a romantic evening on the ferris wheel certainly helps to keep her distracted.

A northerner by birth, Willow moves south when she inherits her grandfather's ice cream shop. From the slow southern dialect to the crazy drivers, Willow finds herself at odds with what most call "southern charm." She becomes obsessed with cook-offs and bake-offs, wanting those trophies for her mantle. With the chili cook-off just around the corner, Willow manages to provoke one of the judges to a fit of road rage. When that judge ends up face down, dead, in a bowl of Willow's chili, police chief Grice looks to the newest town resident as his number one suspect. Willow must find out who wanted Ms. Delonda Posey dead before the good citizens of Turtle, OK run her Yankee bottom out of town.

Willow Crier is at it again! As chairwoman for Turtle's annual Ice Cream Festival, she is unable to enter the town's sponsored ice cream making contest. So, she does what any good cook-off addict does, she talks her daughter into entering. As the festival is just getting heated up, the towns local writer in residence turns up frozen, sitting on a bucket of Pistachio Goodness in the walk-in freezer. After being accused of being a "peeping" Tom, breaking and entering, and impersonating a police officer, Willow does her darndest to find the elusive killer plaguing her town. Getting into the town's good graces wasn't easy and she sure wants to stay there!

Guaranteed: clean, quirky, and fun!*Clover takes a BITE out of crime!Willow finds herself in scalding hot water when Clover is accused of biting her ex. Her patience takes a turn for the worse when Alex, Willow

When a New York power couple visits Willow's coffee shop and orders low-fat milk lattes, 2 shots of espresso, no foam, extra hot, with three packets of Splenda stirred well she decides she's not that desperate to lose weight! As far as she's concerned, they can take their New York accent, their New York cawhfee, their superior attitude, and go back to the Big Apple. Until, that is, Mr. New York's found dead bobbin' for an apple in the middle of Molly's café. In-between chasing would be bad guys...or gals, Willow tries every trick in the book to lose weight. From wraps to jogging to no carbs, she ends up confused and ornery, snapping at everyone who crosses her path-nothing that a dish of Molly's peach cobbler won't cure. If only murders could be solved so easily!

When Mac MacDonald retired from the Chicago Police Department, Millie knew it was time to go after her dream of owning a bed and breakfast. Moving 300 miles north to the quaint town of Brother Bay, Wisconsin, Millie finally owned that Victorian showpiece and Mac finally had the time to write that crime novel he'd dreamt up.Unfortunately, there were two problems with the perfect retirement plan. One, the place was haunted, or so they say, and two, a real dead body makes the ghost stories too much of a reality.The newly opened B&B has taken a trip into the past as a copy-cat murder stirs up the memories of an almost forgotten mystery.Mac and Millie team up to solve the mystery with a little help from Sheriff Twiggs. Can a ghost murder someone? Or was this the work of a much more sinister, living, breathing, villain?

WHAT A GREAT DAY IT HAS BEEN,ALL THINGS I HAVE DONE AND SEEN.PLAYING WITH BENNY AND TED,BUT NOW IT IS TIME FOR BED.SO GOODNIGHT MR MOON.It is time for bed and your little one is feeling very sleepy. Mr Moon is outside, peering in through the window. With a yawn, snuggle down into your comfy covers and get ready to go to sleep. Goodnight Mr Moon is a charming bedtime story with its rhyming wording and full of the beautiful, hand drawn illustrations from Wendy Trinder, this story will sure put your little ones to a peaceful and dreamful sleep.

When Little Feather goes on his vision quest in a deep canyon to find his new name, his sense of adventure leads him to find a lot more. What will Little Feather s new name be? Will he make it out of the canyon?Reta's love of children has been the motivation for not only Little Feather but for other stories as well.As a retired educator, her desire is still to be a p0sitive influence and advocate for kids. She and husband, Terry, enjoy country life on a ranch in southern Oklahoma where adventure abounds.

Eli loves Christmas. Even though he has been given many toys and games, he is not happy. He wants more. As he gets into bed the feelings he has bother him...until he has a most interesting dream. It seemed to be more than a dream. It was a revolution!Eli loves Christmas. Even though he has been given many toys and games, he is not happy. He wants more. As he gets into bed the feelings he has bother him...until he has a most interesting dream. It seemed to be more than a dream. It was a revolution!

When an ordinary little girl becomes a princess and when the smallest of all hummingbirds becomes the Magnificent, a fairy tale is in the making. Join author Dorothea Condry-Paulk as she delights young readers' imaginations while teaching valuable character lessons in The Legend of Princess Lisa and Jeremy Hummingbird. Dorothea Condry-Paulk received a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1974. Published in the play, the short story, feature articles and poetry, Paulk has pursued writing fiction, wheat farming and farmland management since retiring from teaching and nursing careers in 2004.