“Sue Ellen joined in with tales about growing up in Utopia, which made us all shake our heads and laugh. The town’s name might summon images of the ideal life, but the place itself sounded very much like every other small town in Texas, a mix of the good, the bad and the simply weird.”
In Bittersweet
Despair has gotten the best of former investigative reporter Tom Sagan. Just before he takes action he is interrupted and is cast into a journey started hundreds of years ago by a rather famous sailor. Is this enough to keep him going; to try to get back his new life? Never very far from danger as he attempts to figure out the pieces of a puzzle left by an ancestor as he hops across continents in search of “treasure” in The Columbus Affair .
“Come, he said to the others. ‘Let us pray that the secret of this day will long stay hidden.”
“The PJs’ rescue missions were most often ODA teams, CIA, Special Forces, SEALS, direct action commandos, or any covert operative engaged in recon and intel, counterterrorism, or unconventional warfare. When these black operatives found themselves in sudden need of rescue from a blown cover, unexpected resistance, wounds, dangerous weather, even fatigue, they called for the PJs.”
“We are the last of our kind, a colony of human beings from the early twenty-first century. We live in the mountains of what was once Idaho, in a town called Wayward Pines. Our coordinates are 44 degrees, 13 minutes, 0 seconds North, and 114 degrees, 56 minutes, 16 seconds West. Is anybody out there?”
In Blake Crouch’s second novel in the Wayward Pines series, Wayward, 
Imagine waking up in an unknown place; you are obviously seriously hurt or at least had be recently. You are not sure who you are, but you find yourself in an idyllic small town. You are hungry but you have no money, no wallet, no identification and your head screams from the headache growing inside. As your memory comes fittingly back you start to retrace your steps and are met with what seems like passive aggressive uncooperativeness bordering on hostility. In Pines, Secret Service Agent Ethan Burke has come to Wayward Pines in search of two colleagues who have gone missing. They were last heard from in this small town in Idaho.
“Seaside used to be home. Now? It held just about every bad memory it could. Because everywhere I walked. I saw my parents and every time I closed my eyes, I woke up thinking they were still alive. Only to realize within a few seconds that it wasn’t just a bad dream – they were dead.”
This is the PERFECT way to hit the Clintons…make fun of them;
Hillary probably stole the red stapler too.
Perhaps the first, most important thing to know about Little Beach Street Bakery 
Ceony Twill returns as perhaps The Master Magician 
