Sweet Masterpiece: A Sweet’s Sweets Bakery Mystery (Samantha Sweet Mysteries Book 1)

Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: Connie Shelton
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Sweet Masterpiece: A Sweet’s Sweets Bakery Mystery (Samantha Sweet Mysteries Book 1)

When she’s not baking her delectable pastries Samantha Sweet breaks into houses for a living, and that almost certainly leads to trouble. When she finds an unmarked grave on a property in a remote spot in Taos County, New Mexico, Sam calls in the authorities. A small mural painted inside a closet in the abandoned house provides clues and Sam is caught up in an investigation alongside the good-looking Deputy Beau Cardwell. A fortune in artwork, a bogus will, and a wooden box that seems to give Sam powers she never dreamed she possessed–it all adds up to a dynamic paranormal romantic mystery.

Then, there is all that chocolate! Sam’s real goal in life is to use her elegant baking skills to open her own pastry shop, Sweet’s Sweets. She’s gaining quite the reputation as a baker with a magical touch, but a few obstacles stand in her way.

The Earl of Brass (The Ingenious Mechanical Devices Book 1)

Science Fiction > Steampunk
Author: Kara Jorgensen
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The Earl of Brass (The Ingenious Mechanical Devices Book 1)

Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London’s aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, but the craftsman isn’t quite what he expected.
Fenice Brothers Prosthetics is in trouble. Hadley’s brother is dead, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and finish what he started. When clients begin turning her away, she fears she will fail until she crosses paths with the enigmatic Lord Sorrell. In exchange for a new arm, he offers her a chance at adventure in the deserts of Palestine.

Danger’s Halo: (Holly Danger Book 1)

Science Fiction > Dystopian
Author: Amanda Carlson
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Danger's Halo: (Holly Danger Book 1)

153 years in the future, Earth doesn’t look much like it used to.

Holly Danger’s current assignment, gleaned from a set of foggy instructions and a handful of coin stuffed into a slot, is to pick up a street kid who’s about to terminate himself off a cliff. And, as a rule, she doesn’t turn down currency. Her job as a salvager keeps her fed and clothed above the norm, which isn’t saying much.

The norm in this city is a scrape-by existence in a post-apocalyptic world, where the rain never stops, food is always scarce, and the elite have deserted the ranks in search of something better. Picking up this urchin won’t take much time, even if he’s located outside city limits. Her craft is fast, her weapons deadly, and her tech has been optimized as well as it can be for a climate clogged with iron dust.

Writing on the Wall (Survival Series Book 1)

Romance > Science Fiction & Dystopian
Author: Tracey Ward
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Writing on the Wall (Survival Series Book 1)

It’s been nearly a decade since the world ended. Since Joss watched her parents die at the hands of a nightmare, a nightmare that stalks her even now, all these years later. That’s the problem with the Risen – they refuse to die.

But Joss is a survivor. A loner living in the post-apocalyptic streets of Seattle. It’s a world dictated by Risen and the looming threat of the Colonists, a group of fellow survivors living comfortably in their compounds and patrolling the wild, looking to “save” the orphans of the end.

Orphans like Joss.
Like Ryan.

Better World (Fractured Era Legacy Episodes Book 1)

Science Fiction > Military > Space Fleet
Author: Autumn Kalquist
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Better World (Fractured Era Legacy Episodes Book 1)

Three hundred years ago, Earth suffered a mass extinction event, and the last humans fled to the stars in search of a new home. In the darkness, they fought to survive. Now the fleet decays, and their hope of finding a better world is fading.

Aboard the London, the Kerrigan family rules with an iron fist. Maeve Vasquez slaves away in the blistering metalworks, stalked by tragedy and chained by tradition. She’ll do anything to escape… no matter the cost.

Brutal conspiracies and devastating betrayals threaten to fracture the fleet. And the colonists have forgotten the most important lesson their ancestors swore to remember: It only took one wrong choice to destroy life on Earth.

The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel

Fantasy > Magical Realism
Author: Ruth Hogan
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The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel

Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects—the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidently left behind—and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile all the lost things with their owners. As the end nears, he bequeaths his secret life’s mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and and all its lost treasures, including an irritable ghost.

The Adrian’s Undead Diary Omnibus: Volume One

Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: Chris Philbrook
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The Adrian's Undead Diary Omnibus: Volume One

Beheading a zombie isn’t easy in a world where you’re more afraid of the living than the dead. Adrian Ring’s simple life is thrown into chaos when the world is ripped apart by a plague of undead and legions of desperate survivors. Retreating to Auburn Lake Preparatory Academy, Adrian attempts to rescue friends and family on the way while dancing around his impending insanity over who and what he left behind, and evading maniac survivors. He saves his cat Otis, but shoots his mom. Pretty successful, all things considered. Of course, his sanity takes a hit as a result. Real, flawed, and raw, Dark Recollections is the first part of Adrian’s own story of how he survived after “That Day.”

The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

Teacher Resources > Homeschooling
Author: Sarah Mackenzie
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The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids

Connecting deeply with our kids can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven lives. Reading aloud offers us a chance to be fully present with our children. It also increases our kids’ academic success, inspires compassion, and fortifies them with the inner strength they need to face life’s challenges. As Sarah Mackenzie has found with her own six children, reading aloud long after kids are able to read to themselves can deepen relationships in a powerful way.

Founder of the immensely popular Read-Aloud Revival podcast, Sarah knows first-hand how reading can change a child’s life.

Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides > Writing Skills
Author: Natalie Goldberg
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Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft

Any writer may find himself or herself with an abundance of raw material, but it takes patience and care to turn this material into finished stories, essays, poems, novels, and memoirs. Referencing her own experiences both as a writer and as a student of Zen, Natalie provides insight into the struggles and demands of turning ideas into concrete form.
Her guidance addresses ways to overcome writer’s block, deal with the fear of criticism and rejection, get the most from working with an editor, and improve one’s writing by reading accomplished authors. She communicates this with her characteristic humor and compassion, and a deep respect for writing as an act of celebration.

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Natural Resources > Fisheries & Aquaculture
Author: Paul Greenberg
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace.

Four Fish offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.

Worst Fears Realized (Stone Barrington Book 5)

Mystery > Private Investigators
Author: Stuart Woods
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Worst Fears Realized (Stone Barrington Book 5)

Not a man to dwell on the past, Stone Barrington has no choice but to rattle old skeletons when the people closest to him start dying, and he has little to go on but the suspicion that the killer might be someone he once knew. The trip down memory lane isn’t all bad though, for it reunites Stone with his ex-partner, Dino Bacchetti, now head of detectives in the nineteenth precinct.

Trying to find a brilliant killer in a sea of old faces is difficult enough without Stone’s former love, Arrington, now Mrs. Vance Calder, resurfacing too—especially when she sets off her own fireworks coming nose to nose with his latest flame, a Mafia princess as beautiful as she is dangerous.

The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield

History > Military > Special Forces
Author: Kris Paronto
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The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield

Former Army Ranger Kris Paronto, a survivor of the 2012 Benghazi siege that was subject of the book and movie 13 Hours, provides powerful, motivational tools for surviving and thriving to bring readers discipline, motivation, success, and peace to life.

Thousands of people have heard Kris “Tanto” Paronto speak about his experiences in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. But before he was a security contractor, Tanto was a US Army Ranger from 2nd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment. Rangers are trained to lead by being pushed to their physical and mental limits so that they can perform against impossible odds in punishing situations. In THE RANGER WAY, Tanto shares stories from his training experiences that played a role in his team’s heroic response in Benghazi.

The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

Military & Wars > Afghan & Iraq Wars
Author: Jason Redman, John Bruning
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

Decorated US Navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where he commanded mobility and assault forces. He conducted over forty capture/kill missions with his men in Iraq, locating more than 120 al-Qaida insurgents. But his journey was not without supreme challenges—both emotional and physical. Redman is brutally honest about his struggles to learn how to be an effective leader, yet that effort pales beside the story of his critical wounding in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander.

Yoga for Pain Relief: A New Approach to an Ancient Practice

Diseases & Physical Ailments > Pain Management
Author: Lee Albert NMT, Peggy Cappy
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Yoga for Pain Relief: A New Approach to an Ancient Practice

Do you suffer from painful muscular conditions that hold you back – on and off the mat? Yoga for Pain Relief shows you how to identify the specific muscle imbalances that cause YOUR pain and create a safe yoga practice to rebalance YOUR body.

  • •Understand how your current yoga practice and lifestyle may be creating pain.
  • •Learn how to practice yoga safely and achieve superior results.
  • •Design your own practice to align your neuromuscular system and achieve a pain-free body.
  • •Learn to use three tools – asana practice, pranayama, and meditation – for powerful benefits.
  • •Take charge of your own path to health and well-being.

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