Deadly Proof: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery

 Mystery > Amateur Sleuths
Author: M. Louisa Locke

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Deadly Proof: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery

It’s the summer of 1880, and once again the lovely and inquisitive businesswoman, Annie Fuller, is helping San Francisco lawyer and beau, Nate Dawson, with a troublesome case. Nate’s client, a female typesetter accused of murdering her boss, refuses to help in her own defense. Complicating matters, Nate’s sister Laura insists on getting involved in the potentially dangerous investigation, while Laura’s friend Seth Timmons, troubled Civil War veteran, finds himself a witness for the prosecution. Will Nate be able to win his first big case? Will Laura and Seth find some way of becoming friends? And finally, will Annie and Nate’s upcoming nuptials be derailed by their attempts to track down a killer?

Murder She Typed (Senior Snoops Cozy Mystery Book 1)

 Mystery > Cozy
Author: Sylvia Selfman, Leigh Selfman

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Murder She Typed (Izzy Greene Cozy Mystery) (Senior Snoops Cozy Mystery Book 1)

Izzy Greene, a widow of a certain age, joins a writing group in an attempt to actually finish one of her stories.

She gets more than she bargained for, however, when her nemesis, sexy blonde bombshell, Sondra Sockerman disappears under suspicious circumstances. Izzy soon realizes she has a natural detecting ability when she and her friend, Flo, try to find the killer…who is now after them.

Ghosts – John Milton #4 (John Milton Series)

 Thrillers > Pulp
Author: Mark Dawson

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Ghosts - John Milton #4 (John Milton Series)

John Milton is a ghost. He was Number One. The most dangerous assassin in Group Fifteen, the black-ops organisation that solves problems when diplomacy has failed. Now Milton is Her Majesty’s most wanted fugitive – an anonymous loner with a deadly set of skills. So when he is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service.

Milton is blackmailed into finding his predecessor as Number One. But she’s a ghost, too, and just as dangerous as him. He finds himself in deep trouble, playing the Russians against the British in a desperate attempt to save the life of his oldest friend.

Good Baby, Bad Sleeper: Discover Your Child’s Sleep Personality to Finally Get the Sleep You Need

 Parenting > Babies & Toddlers
Author: Stephanie Hope Dodd

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Good Baby, Bad Sleeper: Discover Your Child's Sleep Personality  to Finally Get the Sleep You Need

Good Baby, Bad Sleeper takes you on a journey of recognizing the foundational emotional and energetic needs of your child, including their sleep personality, so you can finally create a customized sleeping plan that feels good and works.

Stephanie Hope Dodd’s Heart-Centered Sleep Solution approach answers the question, “Why won’t you go to sleep?”

This book shows you how to navigate through and beyond traditional sleep training methods in a way that resonates with attachment parenting styles. Better sleep results from understanding your child’s true needs and the reasons they either can’t fall asleep or don’t yet seem tired. By utilizing Heart-Centered Sleep Solutions that are in alignment with your particular parenting style, and by taking into consideration your child’s current developmental phase, sleep solutions for the entire family multiply.

Bluebells in the Mourning

 Historical Romance > Regency
Author: Karalynne Mackrory, Christina Boyd

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Bluebells in the Mourning

Is it true that. . . nothing can be lost that love cannot find?
Jane Austen’s beloved “Pride and Prejudice” is readapted in this Regency tale of love in the face of tragedy. Mr. Darcy is thwarted in his attempt to propose to Elizabeth Bennet at Hunsford when he encounters her minutes after she receives the sad news from Longbourn of her sister’s death. His gallantry and compassion as he escorts her back to Hertfordshire begins to unravel the many threads of her discontent with him. While her family heals from their loss, Darcy must search London for answers — answers that might bring justice but also might just mark the end of his own hopes with Elizabeth.

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Hint of Desire (The Desire Series Book 1)

 Historical Romance > Regency
Author: Lavinia Kent

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Hint of Desire (The Desire Series Book 1)

An Enigmatic Duke . . .

Arthur Alexander DeWolf, the eighth Duke of Westlake, lacks for nothing in life . . . except a woman who will stir his blood for longer than one night. Until fate steps in on his morning ride and he stumbles across Lily St. Aubin, Countess of Worthington.

A Desperate Young Woman . . .

It is on the worst day of her life that Lily meets the imperious duke. Helpless and unable to resist, she has no choice but to trust that this dangerously handsome man will protect her and newborn son. But, as trust begins to grow between them, danger lurks ever closer . . . danger that could destroy Lily. And their newfound love.

Death, Limes and Videotape: A Key West Culinary Cozy – Book 7

 Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: Summer Prescott

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Death, Limes and Videotape: A Key West Culinary Cozy - Book 7

Marilyn is excited that her shop is next in line to be reviewed by a prominent national blogger, but her enthusiasm wanes when the blogger tries to bribe her. If she agrees to provide him with free pie for a lifetime, he’ll give her a positive review. If not, he’ll trash her reputation and do all that he can to destroy her business. When the reviewer ends up missing, Marilyn is under suspicion after having engaged in a bitter online battle with the man.

The Possibility Dogs: What I Learned from Second-Chance Rescues About Service, Hope, and Healing

 Animal Care & Pets > Essays
Author: Susannah Charleson

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The Possibility Dogs: What I Learned from Second-Chance Rescues About Service, Hope, and Healing

“Reading The Possibility Dogs is like taking an amazing literary journey with a dear friend by your side. The characters you meet will enchant you, but the storyteller will capture your heart. If you love dogs, this is a can’t-miss book written by a kindred spirit.” —Jennifer Arnold, author of Through a Dog’s Eyes and In a Dog’s Heart

After a grisly search-and-rescue operation led to troubling consequences for author Susannah Charleson, she found that her relationship with Puzzle, her search dog, made a surprising contribution to her own healing. Inspired by that experience, Charleson learned to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, plucking them from shelters and training them to work with disabled human partners, to whom the dogs bring assistance, comfort, and hope.

Legacy: The Acclaimed Novel of Elizabeth, England’s Most Passionate Queen — and the Three Men Who Loved Her

 Historical Fiction > Biographical
Author: Susan Kay

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Legacy: The Acclaimed Novel of Elizabeth, England's Most Passionate Queen -- and the Three Men Who Loved Her

Beloved for its stunning storytelling, Legacy offers an exquisite portrait of the queen who defined an era. Tracing the unlikely path from her tragic childhood to her ruthless confrontations with Mary, Queen of Scots, and capturing in all its glory her brilliant reign as Europe’s most celebrated queen, Legacypeels back the layers from a mysterious monarch and satisfies the questions of history.

Winner of the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and the Betty Trask Award, Legacy gives us Elizabeth the woman: proud, passionate, and captivating in her intensity. She inspired men to love her with bewitching devotion, no matter what the cost, but the depth of her love for England required a sacrifice that would haunt her to the grave.

Life Lessons from The Hiding Place: Discovering the Heart of Corrie ten Boom

 Biographies & Memoirs > Religious
Author: Pam Rosewell Moore

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Life Lessons from The Hiding Place: Discovering the Heart of Corrie ten Boom

Become a person God can use.

Since The Hiding Place was first published in 1971, this story of courage, faith and survival has inspired and strengthened millions. But what makes Corrie ten Boom’s story so special? And why has it become one of the best-known Holocaust survivor stories in the world?

Pam Rosewell Moore invites you to get to know Corrie ten Boom better than ever before. As Corrie’s constant companion for the last seven years of her life, Pam offers a penetrating glimpse into how Corrie’s faith was formed and how she shared that faith with others before and after World War II.

In these pages you will find intriguing personal letters among the Ten Boom family members, stories of selfless service as the war ravaged Europe and Corrie’s reflections on a life lived in submission to God.

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

 Earth Sciences > Natural Disasters
Author: Sebastian Junger

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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Meteorologists called the storm that hit North America’s eastern seaboard in October 1991 a “perfect storm” because of the rare combination of factors that created it. For everyone else, it was perfect hell. In The Perfect Storm, author Sebastian Junger conjures for the reader the meteorological conditions that created the “storm of the century” and the impact the storm had on many of the people caught in it. Chief among these are the six crew members of the swordfish boat the Andrea Gail, all of whom were lost 500 miles from home beneath roiling seas and high waves. Working from published material, radio dialogues, eyewitness accounts, and the experiences of people who have survived similar events, Junger attempts to re-create the last moments of the Andrea Gail as well as the perilous high-seas rescues of other victims of the storm. Like a Greek drama, The Perfect Storm builds slowly and inexorably to its tragic climax.

Bar Tartine: Techniques and Recipes

 Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Culinary Arts & Techniques
Author: Nick Balla, Cortney Burns, Chad Robertson

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Bar Tartine: Techniques and Recipes

Here’s a cookbook destined to be talked-about this season, rich in techniques and recipes epitomizing the way we cook and eat now. Bar Tartine—co-founded by Tartine Bakery’s Chad Robertson and Elisabeth Prueitt—is obsessed over by locals and visitors, critics and chefs. It is a restaurant that defies categorization, but not description: Everything is made in-house and layered into extraordinarily flavorful food. Helmed by Nick Balla and Cortney Burns, it draws on time-honored processes (such as fermentation, curing, pickling), and a core that runs through the cuisines of Central Europe, Japan, and Scandinavia to deliver a range of dishes from soups to salads, to shared plates and sweets. With more than 150 photographs, this highly anticipated cookbook is a true original.

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Blur (Blur Trilogy Book 1)

 Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: Steven James

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Blur (Blur Trilogy Book 1)

The isolated town of Beldon, Wisconsin, is shocked when a high school freshman’s body is found in Lake Algonquin. Just like everyone in the community, sixteen-year-old Daniel Byers believes that Emily Jackson’s death was accidental. But at her funeral, when he has a terrifying vision of her, his world begins to rip apart at the seams.

Convinced that Emily’s appearance was more than just a mere hallucination, Daniel begins to look carefully into her death, even as he increasingly loses the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality.

What’s real? What’s not? Where does reality end and madness begin?

Fury (Blur Trilogy Book 2)

 Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: Steven James

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Fury (Blur Trilogy Book 2)

The disturbing visions that helped Daniel Byers solve a deadly mystery have finally quieted, and the sixteen-year-old basketball star is looking forward to things settling back to normal. But when his father mysteriously disappears, Daniel realizes that the key to finding his dad rests in deciphering his chilling hallucinations.

Soon, long-buried secrets begin to surface, revealing clues that could help him locate his father. But as the past collides with the present and reality begins to blur around him, Daniel faces a race against time to save his dad before it’s too late.

Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors

 Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
Author: Sarah Stodola

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Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors

Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature’s most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world’s most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process. Unlike how-to books that preach writing techniques or rules,Process puts the true methods of writers on display in their most captivating incarnation: within the context of the lives from which they sprang. Drawn from both existing material and original research and interviews, Stodola brings to light the fascinating, unique, and illuminating techniques behind these literary behemoths.

The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins

 Words, Language & Grammar > Etymology
Author: Phil Cousineau, Gregg Chadwick

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The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins

To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition. He then fills it in with a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes that show how the word is used, ending with a list of companion words. The words themselves range from commonplace — like biscuit, a twice-baked cake for Roman soldiers — to loanwords including chaparral, from the Basque shepherds who came to the American West; words from myths, such as hector; metamorphosis words, like silly,which evolved holy to goofy in a mere thousand years; and words well worthy of revival, such ascarrytale, a wandering storyteller.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

 History > World > Civilization & Culture
Author: Jared Diamond

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion –as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war –and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California’s Gold Medal.

Night of the Hunter: Companions Codex, I

  Fantasy > Epic
Author: R.A. Salvatore

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Night of the Hunter: Companions Codex, I

R.A. Salvatore’s New York Times best-selling saga continues as dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden returns to Gauntlgrym with old friends by his side once again, as they seek to rescue Bruenor’s loyal shield dwarf-turned-vampire. But not only do Drizzt and his allies face a perilous journey through the Underdark and the dangers of the undead that lie within, but they must cross through a colony of drow, who would like nothing better than to see Drizzt Do’Urden dead.

Her Perfect Revenge: A Laugh-Out-Loud Romantic Comedy

 Humor & Satire > Dark Comedy
Author: Anna Mara

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Her Perfect Revenge: A Laugh-Out-Loud Romantic Comedy

Are You Ready For A Romantic Comedy Like No Other…?

The Prank of a Lifetime… Teenager Christina Matteo is sweet, innocent, shy but nerdy – and the perfect target for a cruel joke played by class superhunk, Bill Havenwood. It leaves her devastated and changes the rest of her high school years for the worst.

The Revenge of a Lifetime… Years later, she bumps into the creep again and begins plotting her perfect revenge. She’s going to get him back. Bad. And when she’s through with him, he’ll wish he’d never messed with her in the first place!

The Mistake of a Lifetime… But her plan goes horribly wrong and she finds herself owing the slimeball $50,000. What’s a poor working girl to do?

Hot Blooded (A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya Novel Book 1)

 Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Lisa Jackson

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Hot Blooded (A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya Novel Book 1)

First One Dead Body. . .A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day’s work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two?

Then Another. . .

A second hooker’s corpse turns up. Samantha’s ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious claiming to be a woman from her past–a woman who’s been dead for years. With Detective Rick Bentz convinced that the serial killer prowling the shadowy streets of New Orleans is somebody close to Samantha, she doesn’t dare trust anyone. Especially not Ty Wheeler, her seductive new neighbor who seems to know more about her than a stranger should.

. . .And Another

It Happened at the Fair: A Novel

 Christian Fiction > Romance > Historical
Author: Deeanne Gist

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It Happened at the Fair: A Novel

Gambling everything—including the family farm—Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair’s Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading.

The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips. Like the newly invented Ferris wheel, he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor, and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep his feet on the ground, or will he be carried away?

Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

 History > United States > State & Local
Author: T. R. Fehrenbach

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Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

T.R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America’s most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.

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