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Cold Comfort: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery (Detective Barry Gilbert Mysteries)

 Mystery > Hard-Boiled
Author: Scott Mackay

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Cold Comfort: A Detective Barry Gilbert Mystery (Detective Barry Gilbert Mysteries)

In the midst of a record-cold winter, the stepdaughter of a government official is found dead on a snow-swept pier at the harbor. Overworked and underpaid Detective Barry Gilbert is called to investigate. The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force is already beset by political maneuverings that threaten their jobs, and the sensitive nature of this case may increase that risk to the point where detectives from Gilbert’s own squad are chopped. All of this is before the victim’s autopsy reveals a seemingly unsolvable enigma: the victim froze to death first and was shot later, after she was already dead.

Murder at Cookie Lane: A Cookie Lane Cozy Mystery – Book 1

 Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: Susan Gillard, Karen Sullivan

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Murder at Cookie Lane: A Cookie Lane Cozy Mystery - Book 1

When Charleston South Carolina Native Cat Kelley hears that her benefactor and oldest friend, Beth Walters, has died under ‘mysterious circumstances’ she’s distraught.

That sorrow turns into outrage when Detective Jack Bradshaw turns up in her famed cookie store, Cat’s Cookies, and reveals that the Walters family has pinned the blame on her.

What’s a Southern Belle to do?

Now, Cat must follow her gut and the trail of cookie crumbs to clear her name and keep her head above the water. Armed with her craving-inducing cookies, her impulsive nature and her cute cat, Oreo, for company Catherine sets out to solve the crime.

Eden’s Promise, a post-apocalyptic novel

 Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: MJ Fredrick

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Eden's Promise, a post-apocalyptic novel

The world has gone to hell after a terrorist attack sends the world back to nineteenth century technology. But on an island off the coast of Oregon, Eden McKay’s small town is safe and sound. But when Eden’s ill mother wants to see her other daughter before she dies, Eden must leave the safety of her home to find the sister she hasn’t seen in four years.

The only one to help her is Aaron Jenkins, the Navy SEAL who’s just made his way to the island after months of fighting his way across the mainland. After what he’s seen on the mainland, all he wants is the peace of his family’s home. He doesn’t want responsibility for himself, much less another person. But he can’t let Eden go on her own. She’s determined, but she’ll never survive on her own.

Hamelin’s Child

 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: DJ Bennett

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Hamelin's Child

Michael Redford died on his seventeenth birthday – the night Eddie picked him up off the street, shot him full of heroin and assaulted him.

Now he’s Mikey and he works for Joss. With streaked blond hair and a cute smile, he sleeps by day and services clients at night. Sometimes he remembers his old life, but with what he’s become now, he knows there is no return to his comfortable middle-class background.

Then he makes a friend in Lee. A child of the streets, Lee demands more from friendship than Mikey is prepared to give. But the police are closing in on them now and Mikey’s not sure anymore who he really is – streetwise Mikey or plain Michael Redford.

Cake Contest Murder (Ouna Bay Cozy Mysteries Series Book 3)

 Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: Deany Ray

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Cake Contest Murder (Ouna Bay Cozy Mysteries Series Book 3)

Everybody in Ouna Bay looks forward to the annual town fair and the cake contest. It’s that time of the year when they can enjoy throwing rings around a bottle while eating snow cones and catching up with friends.

But nothing will be the same this year!

Ouna Bay is rocked when the most hatred woman in town drops dead smack dab in the middle of the cake contest.

Once again, it’s up to Becky and Rosalie to find the killer, save the Blue Bay Café and bring back sanity into town.

Sydney: A Wedding Planner Romance (Entangle Me Book 1)

 Romantic Comedy
Author: Maggie Way, Tracy Vincent

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Sydney: A Wedding Planner Romance (Entangle Me Book 1)

A jilted girl…
A wicked boy…
A forbidden kiss…
A happily ever after?

Lacey Ryan’s perfect life was well underway, until her fiancé blindsides her with a betrayal so deep it changes everything. Now her life’s gone to hell, and the only way out may be at the hands of the last person she’d have expected to come to her rescue, Tristan Keys—the deliciously sexy player she’s fantasized about her entire life.

Sure he’s arrogant, cocksure, and frustratingly handsome, but he’s also offering exactly what she needs, a fresh start planning destination weddings. First class flights, the chance to see the world, and maybe a little harmless flirtation while she’s at it. Yes, it’s just what she needs.

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

 Historical Fiction
Author: ZZ Packer

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart. In the title story (published in the New Yorker‘s summer 2000 Debut Fiction issue), a Yale freshman is sent to a psychotherapist who tries to get her–black, bright, motherless, possibly lesbian–to stop “pretending,” when she is sure that “pretending” is what got her this far. “Speaking in Tongues” describes the adventures of an Alabama church girl of 14 who takes a bus to Atlanta to try to find the mother who gave her up.

The Whisperers: Simply Irresistible: A Three Book Box Set

 Romance > Westerns
Author: Ciana Stone, Syneca Featherstone

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The Whisperers: Simply Irresistible: A Three Book Box Set

A three book set. The Nash family has a legacy – no females are ever born into the family and all of the men are Whisperers. And their ability to charm doesn’t stop with horses. No, indeed, women are drawn to them like the proverbial bee to honey. They’re simply irresistible.

There’s just one catch. There’s a curse on the family, one that makes a Nash man’s chance at happily ever after slim to none.
At least until now. Join Jed, Jake and Jesse as they discover that there are things in this world stronger than curses, and that despite the fact that they are not looking for love, love just might find them.

The Five Red Herrings (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 7)

 Mystery > British Detectives
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

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The Five Red Herrings (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 7)

The majestic landscape of the Scottish coast has attracted artists and fishermen for centuries. In the idyllic village of Kirkcudbright, every resident and visitor has 2 things in common: They either fish or paint (or do both), and they all hate Sandy Campbell. Though a fair painter, he is a rotten human being, and cannot enter a pub without raising the blood pressure of everybody there. No one weeps when he dies.

Campbell’s body is found at the bottom of a steep hill, and his easel stands at the top, suggesting that he took a tumble while painting. But something about the death doesn’t sit right with gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. No one in Kirkcudbright liked Campbell, and 6 hated him enough to become suspects; 5 are innocent, and the other is the perpetrator of the most ingenious murder Lord Peter has ever encountered.

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Isabeau, A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer (The Isabella Books Book 1)

 Historical Fiction > British
Author: N. Gemini Sasson

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Isabeau, A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer (The Isabella Books Book 1)

The story of Queen Isabella, who sought revenge on her husband Edward II, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, who masterminded the invasion that accomplished it.

The marriage of Isabella of France and Edward II of England in 1308 is a union meant to secure lasting peace. For years, Isabella is a loyal wife, who repeatedly salvages her husband’s kingship, even as she endures his neglect. When she finally speaks out against Edward’s favorite, Lord Hugh Despenser, her income, lands and children are taken from her. In an age when women are not supposed to openly defy their husbands, Isabella vows to get her children back and have her revenge on Despenser — no matter what the cost.

Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations box set Book 1)

 Fantasy > Epic
Author: Michael J. Sullivan

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Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations box set Book 1)

There’s no ancient evil to defeat or orphan destined for greatness, just unlikely heroes and classic adventure. Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, are running for their lives when they’re framed for the murder of the king. Trapped in a conspiracy that goes beyond the overthrow of a tiny kingdom, their only hope is unraveling an ancient mystery before it’s too late.

This is the first book in the original series, The Riyria Revelations, from best-selling author Michael J. Sullivan. It takes place twelve years after the events of The Riyria Chronicles and the two series can be read in either chronological order or order of publication, although the author suggests reading in publication order.

Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss

 Baseball > History
Author: Marty Appel

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Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss

Is there a sports team more synonymous with winning than the New York Yankees? The team of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, Ford, Mantle, Jackson, Mattingly? Of Torre, Jeter, and Rivera? Of forty American League pennants, twenty-seven World Championships, and nearly forty Hall of Famers?

Like so many great American institutions, the Yankees began humbly, on the muddy, uneven grass of Hilltop Park. Eighteen years later the little second-class franchise won its first pennant. Today, the Yankees are worth more than a billion dollars.

It’s been nearly seventy years since Frank Graham wrote the last narrative history of the Yankees. Marty Appel, the Yankees’ PR director during the 1970s, now illuminates the team in its hundred-plus years of glory: clever, maneuvering owners; rowdy, talented players; great stories behind the great stories.

The Texicans

  Historical Fiction
Author: Jinx Schwartz

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The Texicans

An epic tale of Texas inspired by the author’s own Texan roots, The Texicans is a saga of a frontier family’s courage in the face of tumultous historical events.

The Stockman family immigrate to Spanish Texas in 1806, only to find themselves inexorably drawn into the bitter conflict between Mexico and Spain. Joining forces with a dashing young Royalist deserter, Miguel Gonzales, they join in the battle to free Mexico and Texas from Spanish rule.

Rewarded as heroes of Mexico these Texicans find themselves vilified by the hoards of North Americans pouring across Texas’s unprotected border.

Noah’s Wife

 Romance > Historical > Ancient World
Author: T.K. Thorne

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Noah's Wife

Noah’s Wife transports readers to an ancient time and place, while delving into issues that affect our contemporary lives–family relationships, autism, religious freedom, kidnapping and cultural change. A biblical novel that is not “Christian Fiction,” T.K. Thorne’s version weaves myth, history, and archeological findings with her vivid imagination, wisdom and humor into an epic tale you will not forget. Told from the unique perspective of a young girl with what is now called Aspergers, this is the story of Noah’s completely unknown wife, Na’amah.

Na’amah wishes only to be a shepherdess on her beloved hills in ancient Turkey– a desire shattered by the hatred of her powerful brother and the love of two men.

 

 

A Gentle Rain

 Women’s Fiction > Romance
Author: Deborah Smith, Deborah Smith

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A Gentle Rain

Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky, she’s never fit in with the stogy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents’ rainforest preserve in Brazil, she has a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now her beloved parents have died in a plane crash, and Kara’s learned a stunning truth. She was adopted. Her birth parents are Mac and Lily Tolbert. They live and work on a backwoods cattle ranch in northern Florida. Ranch owner Ben Thocco is running out of time and money. He’s going to need a miracle in order to save the ranch and care for the likable crew of unusual hands he employs, including Kara’s parents and his own fragile brother Joey. Kara, using a fake identity on the advice of her lawyer, gets a job at Ben’s ranch in Fountain Springs, Florida, where her adventures include entering an unpredictable mare in a local horse show.

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