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Detective Comics (1937-) #27 (Detective Comics (1937-2011))

 Comics & Graphic Novels > Superheroes
Author: Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Paul Gustavson, Fred Guardineer, Joe Shuster, Homer Fleming, Russell Cole, Sven Elven, Lee O’Mealia, Tommy Hickey, Jim Chambers, Charles Biro

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Detective Comics (1937-) #27 (Detective Comics (1937-2011))

The very first appearance of the Bat-Man in the six-page story “The Case of the Criminal Syndicate!”

This issue also features the first appearances of Commissioner Gordon and the revelation of the Bat-Man’s secret identity as Bruce Wayne.

30 Pieces of Silver (The Betrayed Series Book 1)

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Carolyn McCray

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30 Pieces of Silver: An Extremely Controversial Historical Thriller (The Betrayed Series Book 1)

Please do NOT purchase this book if you were at all disturbed by DaVinci’s revelations. However if you like your fiction to challenge historical events, read on…

“Carolyn McCray’s 30 PIECES OF SILVER proves that Dan Brown’s crown is up for grabs. Part minefield and all roller-coaster ride, here is a story as controversial as it is thriller. Hunker down for a long night because once you start this book you won’t be putting it down.”
James Rollins, NY Times bestseller of DEVIL COLONY

“From the opening explosion at the base of the Eiffel Tower uncovering atrove of skeletons to the final scenes throughout Italy, the storyinvolves a search for the remains of Jesus. Rebecca
Monroe is “saved” from the clutches of a snake by Sgt. Brandt and his special ops team
deep in the Ecuadorian jungle… This begins a roller coaster ride that isintertwined with an equally interesting tale of Jesus and Judas andtheir travels and trials.”

Risking the World

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Dorian Paul

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Risking the World

Kidnapped in Morocco to help weaponize a killer TB, American scientist Claire Ashe says flat out ‘No,’ an answer that triggers a chain of shattering events. For starters it pits her against David Ruskin, an arms dealer, and Varat, the mastermind behind the plot. She doesn’t know David’s a British intelligence officer sent to unravel Varat’s plans or that he’s secretly intent on personal vengeance against Varat. When David’s forced to flee with Claire, his mission a failure on every count because he intervened in her near rape, things get more than a little complicated. Soon death, betrayal, and career suicide become part of a shared reality that puts their already frayed trust in each other to the test.

So Unexpected (Ty & Sara Book 1)

 Women’s Fiction > Romance
Author: Amanda Wilhelm

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So Unexpected (Ty & Sara Book 1)

Sara wasn’t looking to meet someone when she booked her family’s vacation. She just wanted to give her kids, and herself, a decent Christmas. Away from home. Away from the painful memories of what they had before her husband died.

Ty hopped a flight out of LA after another fight with his on again, off again girlfriend. All he wanted was a break, then he was more than happy to go back to his routine of working construction during the week and playing with his band on weekends.

They both knew when they met there was something between them, even if they weren’t sure what. When they said goodbye at the airport New Year’s Eve and headed for their respective homes, three thousand miles apart, Sara was sure it was the end. She didn’t see any other options. Ty, however, was determined to find one.

Broken Angels

 Mystery > Women Sleuths
Author: Russell Heath

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Broken Angels

She stares at her mother’s clumsy lettering on the envelope. Nine years. Nine years since she stepped over her mother’s drunken body and into a cold Alaska night running south, lost to her mother forever.

How did she find me? She hesitates, not wanting to open the envelope, knowing the letter inside will drag her home; back into the bleakness of a life with no exit.

Kris Gabriel, twenty-four, Alaska Native, and fierce like a wolverine, returns to Alaska—to find her mother murdered; shot in the face by the double-barreled blast of a shotgun. Angry her mother is pushed around even in death, guilty she abandoned her in life, Kris only knows to fight. Relentlessly, she tracks a trail of pain, of lost love, of lives ripped apart by the frozen north’s unyielding law of survival, never suspecting it’s not what her mother would have wanted.

Baking is Murder (Bee’s Bakehouse Mysteries Book 1)

 Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: Kathy Cranston

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Baking is Murder (A Bee's Bakehouse Cozy Mystery) (Bee's Bakehouse Mysteries Book 1)

Newly redundant and recently divorced, there’s never been a better time for Jessie Henderson to pack up her life in the city and move to Springdale, the small town where she spent childhood summers with her Aunt Bee.

Luckily for Jessie, Springdale is every bit as quirky and idyllic as she remembers, and Bee’s baking is just as mouth-watering.

Then the unthinkable happens and there’s a murder on the outskirts of town. Worse still, Jessie’s new friend is the prime suspect. The cops think the case is cut-and-dry, but Jessie’s gut tells her there’s more going on than meets the eye. Can she get to the bottom of it?

Baking is Murder is the first book in the Bee’s Bakehouse Cozy Mystery series. Each book is a standalone mystery.

What’s a Cook to Do?: An Illustrated Guide to 484 Essential Tips, Techniques, and Tricks

 Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Culinary Arts & Techniques
Author: James Peterson

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What's a Cook to Do?: An Illustrated Guide to 484 Essential Tips, Techniques, and Tricks

From America’s favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook.

Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us.

Learn how to zest a lemon, make the perfect hamburger, bread a chicken breast, make (truly hot) coffee in a French press, make magic with a Microplane. It’s all here: how to season a castiron pan, bake a perfect pie, keep shells from sticking to hardcooked eggs. How to carve a turkey, roast a chicken, and chop, slice, beat, broil, braise, or boil any ingredient you’re likely to encounter. Information on seasoning, saucing, and determining doneness (by internal temperatures, timings, touch, and sight) guarantee that you’ve eaten your last bland and overcooked meal.

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Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

 History > Military > World War II
Author: Bruce Lee

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Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

Marching Orders tells the story of how the American military’s breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes during World War II led to the defeat of Nazi Germany and hastened the end of the devastating conflict. With unprecedented access to over one million pages of US Army documents and thousands of pages of top-secret messages dispatched to Tokyo from the Japanese embassy in Berlin, author Bruce Lee offers a series of fascinating revelations about pivotal moments in the war.

Challenging conventional wisdom, Marching Orders demonstrates how an American invasion of Japan would have resulted in massive casualties for both forces. Lee presents a thrilling day-by-day chronicle of the difficult choices faced by the American military brain trust and how, aware of Japan’s adamant refusal to surrender, the United States made the fateful decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Halfway Human

 Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author: Carolyn Ives Gilman

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Halfway Human

Tedla is a ‘bland,’ an asexual class of people that exist only to serve their fellow beings.

Val is an expert on alien cultures but has never seen a bland before.

They come together after Tedla is found light-years away from its home planet—alone, isolated and suicidal. Val’s mission is to help Tedla recover. But the more she learns about the beautiful alien being, the more she discovers about the torment Tedla and its kind suffer on their planet.

Little does the rest of the universe know of the hidden world of the blands, a world that hides shocking secrets and unspeakable crimes.

Halfway Human is a mesmerizing look at an intricately created alien world which is strange and distant, yet hauntingly familiar.

The Wren (Wings of the West Book 1)

 Romance > Westerns
Author: Kristy McCaffrey

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The Wren (Wings of the West Book 1)

Ten years have passed since Molly Hart’s ranch was attacked, her folks murdered and she was abducted. Now, at nineteen, she’s finally returning home to North Texas after spending the remainder of her childhood with a tribe of Kwahadi Comanche. What she finds is a deserted home coated with dust and the passage of time, the chilling discovery of her own gravesite, and the presence of a man she thought never to see again.

Matt Ryan is pushed by a restless wind to the broken-down remains of the Hart ranch. Recently recovered from an imprisonment that nearly ended his life, the drive for truth and fairness has all but abandoned him. For ten years he faithfully served the U.S. Army and the Texas Rangers, seeking justice for the brutal murder of a little girl, only to find closure and healing beyond his grasp. Returning to the place where it all began, he’s stunned to encounter a woman with the same blue eyes as the child he can’t put out of his mind.

Tarnsman of Gor (Gorean Saga Book 1)

 Action & Adventure > Fantasy
Author: John Norman

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Tarnsman of Gor (Gorean Saga Book 1)

Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he finds himself transported to the planet of Gor, also known as Counter Earth, where everything is dramatically different from anything he has ever experienced. It emerges that Tarl is to be trained as a Tarnsman, one of the most honored positions in the rigid, caste-bound Gorean society. He is disciplined by the best teachers and warriors that Gor has to offer . . . but to what end?

Code Breakers: Beta

 Technothrillers
Author: Colin F. Barnes

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Code Breakers: Beta

Being human is no longer enough.

The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she’s missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it’s too late.

When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands—if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows.

Malice In Wonderland (Dulcie O’Neil Book 5)

 Horror > Occult
Author: H.P. Mallory

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Malice In Wonderland (Dulcie O'Neil Book 5)

A broken relationship, tarnished with lies and deceit,
A father who wants her dead,
And a shocking surprise that could rock the very foundation of everything she believes in…

Fairy and law enforcement agent, Dulcie O’Neil, has to face the fact that her father, the Head of the Netherworld, is also Public Enemy Number One.

In joining a group of rebels who would see her father dethroned, Dulcie will realize just what it means to go against her own blood. Throw in her tattered relationship with Knight Vander and the shock of a lifetime and Dulcie’s life just went from bad to worse.

Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

 Church History
Author: Eleanor Herman

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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope

Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Catholic Church in Mistress of the Vatican, a scintillating biography of a powerful yet little-known woman whose remarkable story is ripe with secrets, sex, passion, and ambition.

For almost four centuries this astonishing story of a woman’s absolute power over the Vatican has been successfully buried—until now.

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