Ella Carmichael was a young girl doing what all young girls do when she was targeted by an internet predator. Her life was brutally ended because she was to trusting in the world and gave out too much private information that let a murderer know what she was doing during the day. After her death, her sister Krista vows to find and stop this killer herself, no matter what it takes. Two more young girls are attacked and one killed within hours of each other. Krista and Ryan are determined to find this person before he can finish what he started by killing Megan, the one who got away. His next target after that is Krista herself.

This book is very absorbing and hard to put down.

RED PYRAMID by Rick Riordan (YA)

After their mother’s death six years ago, Carter Kane has been traveling the globe with his father, Egyptologist, Julius Kane. Sadie Kane has spent the past six years living with her grandparents. Carter longs to live Sadie’s life, while Sadie longs to live Carter’s. When they are brought together at Christmas time, their father summons a mysterious figure and suddenly disappears. The kids must embark on a dangerous journey to save their father. The first in the Kane Chronicles series.

THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER by Stephenie Meyer (YA)

First introduced in Eclipse, this is the riveting story of Bree Tanner. Bree can barely remember her life before she became a vampire; what she doesn’t know is that her life as an immortal is quickly running out. Bree makes friends with another newborn known as Diego. What they discover will make them question their knowledge of vampires and their loyalties to their creator, Bella Swan.

Reviewed by Tena Edyvean

We now have four more Emma Lord mysteries by Mary Daheim: Alpine Hero, Alpine Kindred, Alpine Legacy, and Alpine Menace.

If you haven't read these you are in for a treat. In Alpine Hero, Emma finds an unidentified body in a Salon. The woman turns out to be the sister-in-law of the girlfriend of Sheriff Dodge. It looks like a good story for Emma who is the editor of the Advocate. And when another woman disappears and stranger shows up in town will Emma get the scoop on it?

The 11th in the series, Alpine Kindred, Emma can't seem to get a word out of Einar Rassmussen Jr's relatives after he had been stabbed to death or out of Sheriff Dodge. Why was the local bigwig killed, and why won't anyone give some clue to his death? Does the Swedish au pair know anything and where does the discovery of gold nuggets at a construction site fit in to it all?

Someone has set Emma up for murder in Alpine Legacy. It first appears that rival Crystal Bird of Crystal Clear has committed suicide until Sheriff Dodge determines it is murder. The quaint town of Alpine is sure that Emma has had something to do with it. Emma must find out who did it and prove her innocence.

Emma and Vida set out to clear Emma's cousin, Ronnie, of murder. A cousin she hasn't seen in 25 years. In, Alpine Menace, Ronnie is accused of strangling his girlfriend, Carol Stokes, and all he can remember is that he was drinking. To top it off some neighbors heard them arguing not long before her death. Will Emma and Vida find the real murderer and clear the indifferent Ronnie of murder?

Reviewed by Tena Edyvean

Gardening in Wyoming by John Cretti is a helpful guide for each month of the year. There are sections on: Annuals, perennials, bulbs, lawns, roses, shrubs, trees, vines, and water gardens. Each one has a month to month planning, planting, care, fertilizing, watering and any problems that might be noted in general and for some particular plants. There is an extensive index where you may find the care for a particular plant. The introduction gives you general tips on building soil, watering, pruning, and there is a hardiness zone map which divides the state up more precisely. In the appendix you'll find John's home remedies for many plant problems.