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The Cocky Thief (Stolen Hearts Book 1)

 Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Mallory Crowe
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The Cocky Thief (Stolen Hearts Book 1)

He’ll take the shirt off your back…

Austin Miles can get into any building, safe or vault in the world if he wanted to, but when a former cop obsessed with revenge threatens his most important asset, his reputation, he finds himself accepting a job that even the best would balk at. The only silver lining as he’s putting his life on the line is the sexy, mysterious Jennifer Murray. Somehow when he’s flirting with her the threat of death doesn’t seem quite so bad.

Jennifer Murray thought she was going to her eccentric’s mother’s wedding. The only thing that made the ordeal bearable was the tall dark and handsome man across the hall from her.

Crescent City Connection: Skip Langdon #7

 Mystery > Police Procedurals
Author: Julie Smith
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Crescent City Connection: An Action-Packed New Orleans Mystery; Skip Langdon #7 (The Skip Langdon Series)

Sure, New Orleans is known for corruption, but suddenly the good guys get a break—an honest police chief. And then someone guns him down. When a terrifying organization called The Jury takes out the cop-killer, Detective Skip Langdon’s on the case. But no one cares! After all, the guy was a cop-killer.

Skip cares really a lot—because she suspects The Jury’s the brainchild of her old nemesis, self-described preacher Errol Jacomine. And because other lives are at stake—those of Jacomine’s granddaughter Lovelace and his younger son Isaac. Eager to add Lovelace to his maniacal fold, Jacomine has Lovelace kidnapped, but she escapes and flees to the bohemian home of her Uncle Isaac, an artist and true eccentric known as The White Monk. Isaac’s taken a vow of silence, but uncle and niece manage to communicate and form a bond that could save both their lives. And Langdon comes up with a plan so clever even the FBI can’t shout her down.

STRINGS OF GLASS (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #4)

 Mystery > Hard-Boiled
Author: Emily Kimelman
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STRINGS OF GLASS (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #4)

Justice with a Vengeance

Trouble finds Rye when she stops the attempted rape and murder of Anita, a reporter working on a story of corruption and child trafficking. The atrocities Anita describes send Sydney and Blue on a quest that takes them across India after a dangerous and, up until now, untouchable, figure.

Reflection (A Whitney Steel Novel Book 1)

 Thrillers & Suspense > Medical
Author: Kim Cresswell
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Reflection (A Whitney Steel Novel Book 1)

Florida investigative reporter, Whitney Steel, has lived in the shadow of her legendary father long enough. To prove herself she needs to find the “Big” story.
She found it. Now it may kill her.
After receiving a lead pointing to the world’s first cloned human, now a small child, Whitney vows to unravel the truth. However, sifting through the facts proves to have dangerous results, including death threats and murder.
When she’s nearly killed, but is saved by undercover FBI Special Agent, Blake Neely, he refuses to let her get in the way of his own objective–at least not right away.
Caught in a lethal game between a billionaire obsessed with genetic perfection, his hit man’s thirst for retribution, and a Colombian drug lord fresh out of prison determined to make Blake pay for his twin brother’s death over a decade ago…
Can they save an innocent child before it’s too late?

Summer of Change: Small Town Holiday Romance (The Springs Book 1)

 Romance > Contemporary
Author: Elena Aitken
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Summer of Change: Small Town Holiday Romance (The Springs Book 1)

With the Springs resort set to open in mere weeks, Trent Harrison needs to stay focused and see to every detail. The last thing he needs is a complication, even one that comes in the form of sexy bar owner, Samantha Burke.

Samantha loves her quiet close-knit community of Cedar Springs, just the way it is. The addition of a fancy new resort as well as its arrogant owner, and the change they’re both sure to bring, is certainly not welcome.

With Trent pushing his way into her town, and her life, Samantha’s resistance to him wavers in the face of the passion and heat they share. Change is inevitable, but can either of them drop their guard long enough to accept it when there’s so much on the line?

Whole Lotta Trouble (a humorous romantic mystery)

  Mystery > Women Sleuths
Author: Stephanie Bond
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Whole Lotta Trouble (a humorous romantic mystery)

WHOLE LOTTA TROUBLE is a laugh-out-loud romantic mystery!

Sometimes the best laid plans go sideways . . .Three female mystery book editors in Manhattan have personal and professional problems galore–which intersect with one bad-boy agent. When they set out to humiliate their problematic playboy, their plans go horribly awry. The women suddenly realize that when it comes to friendship, flirtation and felony, they’re in a WHOLE LOTTA TROUBLE!

Foundation

 Science Fiction > Classics
Author: Isaac Asimov
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Foundation

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future–to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire–both scientists and scholars–and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.

But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind’s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun–or fight them and be destroyed.

Left: A Novel

 Thrillers > Psychological
Author: Tamar Ossowski
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Left: A Novel

Therese Wolley works as a secretary, shops for groceries on Saturdays, and takes care of her two daughters, Matilda and Franny—the common routines of a single mother. She doesn’t dwell on the fact that her girls are fatherless. Therese’s own father abandoned her before she was born, and she did just fine without him. And in turn, she has promised her daughters that everything will be fine for them, too—even as one wakes from nightmares, and the other is prone to whispers under her breath.

Everything will be fine, Therese repeats, and Matilda and Franny believe.

Then one morning an obituary in the newspaper changes everything. Therese knows what she has to do. She can’t delay the heartbreaking decision that she has planned for—and feared.

Stranger in a Strange Land (Remembering Tomorrow)

 Science Fiction > First Contact
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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Stranger in a Strange Land (Remembering Tomorrow)

Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth’s cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.

The Wildwater Walking Club: Book 1 of The Wildwater Walking Club series

 Fiction > Humor & Satire
Author: Claire Cook
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The Wildwater Walking Club: Book 1 of The Wildwater Walking Club series

After losing her boyfriend and her job in one fell swoop, Noreen has no idea what her next step is. So she puts on a new pair of sneakers and a seriously outdated pair of exercise pants, and walks. Before long she’s joined by two neighbors as lost as she is and figures out time flies and fitness is actually fun when you’re walking with friends. Throw in a road trip to Seattle for a lavender festival, a career-coaching group that looks like a bad sequel to The Breakfast Club, some terrific romantic comedy twists and turns, a quirky multigenerational cast of supporting characters, and the result is a tribute to female friendship that will inspire you to pick up the phone and call all your old friends–or maybe even start your own walking group.

The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

 Thrillers > Psychological
Author: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
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The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.
She is an astute young Housekeeper—with a ten-year-old son—who is hired to care for the Professor.
And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son.

Southern Peach Pie and A Dead Guy (Poppy Peters Mysteries Book 1)

 Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: A. Gardner
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Southern Peach Pie and A Dead Guy (Poppy Peters Mysteries Book 1)

After an injury derails Poppy Peters’ ballet career, she gathers the courage to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and attend Calle Pastry Academy in a small-town Georgia. Poppy has her work cut out for her not only fitting in with her charming (and not-so-charming ) Southern classmates but also proving her worth to her teachers after her first publicly humiliating attempt a making the school’s famous peach pie. But Poppy’s pastry problems go from bad to worse when she’s suddenly accused of stealing expensive black truffles, and her attempt to clear her name goes awry…resulting in her finding a dead body instead! If Poppy’s going to survive this culinary experience, she’ll need to find the missing truffles and track down a killer, all while honing her baking skills to compete in the school’s dessert competition for a coveted pastry internship in Paris.

La Americana: A Memoir

  Biographies & Memoirs > Travelers & Explorers
Author: Melanie Bowden Simón
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La Americana: A Memoir

La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simón, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown’s Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with a Cuban man named Luis and dive headlong into a culture defined by beauty, humor, and grace within the unnerving realities of communism.

In this memoir, Simón details her fascination with Cuban culture as she grapples with the death of her mother. She also covers the struggle to get in and out of Cuba at a time when the country is labeled a pariah state. Yet over and over again, Simón manages to overcome international barriers and language and cultural obstacles?all in the name of her love for Luis.

This book makes a great read for those with an interest in Cuban history, a zest for romance, or a passion for travel.

Urban Shaman (The Walker Papers Book 1)

 Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: C.E. Murphy
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Urban Shaman (The Walker Papers Book 1)

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.

No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.

And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body—but she’s just come across her second in three days.

It’s been a bitch of a week.

The Trouble with Honor (The Cabot Sisters Book 1)

 Historical Romance > Regency
Author: Julia London
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The Trouble with Honor (The Cabot Sisters Book 1)

Fans of Julie Garwood and Lisa Kleypas won’t want to miss the first book in this sizzling series by New York Times bestselling author Julia London! Read the gripping historical romance that reviewers are calling “brilliantly executed and boldly sensual.”

Desperate times call for daring measures as Honor Cabot, the eldest stepdaughter of the wealthy Earl of Beckington, awaits her family’s ruin. Upon the earl’s death she and her sisters stand to lose the luxury of their grand home?and their place on the pedestal of society?to their stepbrother and his social-climbing fiancée. Forced to act quickly, Honor makes a devil’s bargain with the only rogue in London who can seduce her stepbrother’s fiancée out of the Cabots’ lives for good.

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