Shanghai Star: An alternative history techno thriller

Technothrillers
Author: William H. Lovejoy
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Shanghai Star: An alternative history techno thriller

From the ruthless power centres of Beijing to China’s remote, dust-choked cities…from a stunning act of sabotage within the Defence Ministry to the chilling agenda of a lone killer…the dream of a new century has become a sizzling fuse–in a nation ready to explode.

Until, that is, an American company called Megatronics, headed by maverick entrepreneur and Gulf War hero Douglas Grant, launches a high-stakes game of capitalist daring that could unite – or divide -East and West forever.

THE CASE OF THE CARAMELIZED CORPSE

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Cindy Sample
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THE CASE OF THE CARAMELIZED CORPSE

A very short story from five-time LEFTY Award Finalist for Best Humorous Mystery

To Detective Shelly Reynolds, autumn means trees bursting with bright color and the local apple farm bakeries bursting with delectable pastries. Not to mention her favorite treat of all – fresh caramel apples.
But after viewing the sticky remains of the caramel-coated corpse of Hans Alder, the owner of Happy Apple Farm, Shelly isn’t sure she’ll ever eat a caramel apple again.
Enjoy this short story which takes place in the California Gold Country as a team of detectives works to discover a cunning killer.

Southern Cooking for Thanksgiving: 10 Thanksgiving Sides, Thanksgiving Desserts, & More

Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Holidays
Author: Prime Publishing
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Southern Cooking for Thanksgiving: 10 Thanksgiving Sides, Thanksgiving Desserts, & More

Thanksgiving is always a special occasion, but this year make it extra-special by downloading Southern Cooking for Thanksgiving: 10 Thanksgiving Sides, Thanksgiving Desserts, & More. These easy recipes will be the perfect complement to your Thanksgiving turkey.

In this collection, you will find sensational Thanksgiving side dishes, easy dinner roll recipes, and decadent Thanksgiving desserts.

Check out some of these easy Thanksgiving recipes:

•Southern Cornbread Dressing and Gravy
•Garlic Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes
•Classic 5-Ingredient Corn Casserole
•Quick Southern Green Beans
•Sinfully Good Southern Pecan Pie

Christmas Super Value Pack – 600 Christmas Recipes – Dinners, Desserts, Pies, Candy and Cookies

Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Holidays
Author: Pamela Kazmierczak
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Christmas Super Value Pack – 600 Christmas Recipes – Dinners, Desserts, Pies, Candy and Cookies For The Holiday Season (The Ultimate Christmas Recipes and Recipes For Christmas Collection Book 16)

Are you looking for New and Delicious Christmas Recipes?

This cookbook has a wide variety of choices if you are looking for Christmas or Holiday Recipes. There are 600 recipes inside, including Christmas Dinner Recipes, Christmas Dessert Recipes, Christmas Pie Recipes, Christmas Candy Recipes and a wide Assortment of Christmas Cookie Recipes.

Inside this book you will find the best Christmas Recipes to make at home.

The type of recipes you will find inside Christmas Super Value Pack – 600 Christmas Recipes – Dinners, Desserts, Pies, Candy and Cookies For The Holiday Season are seasonal, traditional and unique Holiday recipes.

Dead Apocalypse: Necrose Series Book One

Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: Tim Moon
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Dead Apocalypse: Necrose Series Book One

You don’t expect the zombie apocalypse when you’re on vacation.

The Necrose-7A virus is spreading. It catches up to Ben Chase on his way to Kona, Hawaii for an adventurous trip with his friend Ty. Unwilling to acknowledge the reality of the horrors they witness, they nevertheless find themselves surrounded by flesh-eating monsters – zombies.

The infection spreads virtually unchecked, forcing them into a daring fight for survival. When Ben is faced with a critical decision that places the fate of his friends in his hands, what he must do to save them is unthinkable.

Dead Apocalypse will leave your skin crawling as you follow Ben’s desperate attempt to survive the doomed island paradise.

If You’d Just Listened to Me in the First Place…: Barbara Venkataraman

Humor & Entertainment
Author: Barbara Venkataraman
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If You'd Just Listened to Me in the First Place...: Barbara Venkataraman

“Nagging just sounds so negative, and I am not a negative person. Truth is, I’m the kind of person you’d ask for directions if you were lost, or tell your life story to while waiting in line at the grocery store, which has happened on more than one occasion, believe me.”

Sure, Ella Boudreaux is great at nagging–in fact, she’s the best—but where has it gotten her?

Nowhere, that’s where.

She can’t hold onto a job and she can’t find her true calling, but she knows it’s out there. Could a handsome stranger help her find her destiny? Or maybe he was her destiny…

Foreign Affairs: A Novel

Literary Fiction > Satire
Author: Alison Lurie
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Foreign Affairs: A Novel

In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never have viewed as a potential romantic partner. In a Western-cut suit and a rawhide tie, he is a sanitary engineer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a group tour. He’s the very opposite of her type, but before Vinnie knows it, she’s spending more and more time with him.

The Biscuit Witch (The MacBrides series Book 1)

Women’s Fiction > Sagas
Author: Deborah Smith
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The Biscuit Witch (The MacBrides series Book 1)

Biscuit witches, Mama called them. She’d heard the term as a girl. She’d inherited that talent. My mother could cast spells on total strangers simply by setting a plate of her biscuits in front of them. –Tal MacBride

Welcome back to the Crossroads Cove where new loves, old feuds, and poignant mysteries will challenge siblings Tal, Gabby, and Gus MacBride to fight for the home they lost and to discover just how important their family once was, and still is, to the proud people of the Appalachian highlands.

Tallulah MacBride hasn’t been back to North Carolina since their parents’ tragic deaths, twenty years ago. But now, Tal heads to cousin Delta Whittlespoon’s famous Crossroads Café in the mountains above Asheville, hoping to find a safe hiding place for her young daughter, Eve.

Barbara Marr Mysteries Boxed Set

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Karen Cantwell
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Barbara Marr Mysteries Boxed Set (Barbara Marr Murder Mysteries)

First four novels in the bestselling Barbara Marr Murder Mystery Series: Take the Monkeys and Run, Citizen Insane, Silenced by the Yams, and Saturday Night Cleaver. Enjoy the antics of danger-prone soccer mom, Barbara Marr from the first time she finds monkeys swinging in the trees of her not-so-quiet suburban town of Rustic Woods.

Looking for some big laughs? Need some serious giggle in your day? Look no further. Barbara Marr is here!

The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society

History > France
Author: Mary S. Lovell
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The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society

The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.

At the heart of dynamic group was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful art deco Château and brought together the likes of Noel Coward, the Aga Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and two very saucy courtesans, Doris Castlerosse and Daisy Fellowes, who set out to be dangerous distractions to Winston Churchill as he worked on his journalism and biographies during his ‘wilderness years’ in the thirties.

Half-Blood Blues: A Novel

Literary Fiction > African American
Author: Esi Edugyan
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Half-Blood Blues: A Novel

Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none other than Louis Armstrong, is arrested in a Paris café. He is never heard from again. He was twenty years old, a German citizen. And he was black.

Berlin, 1952. Falk is a jazz legend. Hot Time Swingers band members Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones, both African Americans from Baltimore, have appeared in a documentary about Falk. When they are invited to attend the film’s premier, Sid’s role in Falk’s fate will be questioned and the two old musicians set off on a surprising and strange journey.

Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Reading Edition)

Music > History & Criticism
Author: Nick Mason, Philip Dodd
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Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Reading Edition)

The definitive history of Pink Floyd by founding member Nick Mason, this reading edition brings up-to-date the band’s incredible story as told uniquely from the inside out. Including the complete text of the original in an easy-toread format, a new chapter covering the passing of Rick Wright and the release of the group’s final album, and 80 pages of images from Mason’s archives plus new photos, Inside Out is a masterly rock memoir and an eye opener for both veteran fans and those just discovering the group.

The Various Haunts of Men: A Simon Serrailler Mystery (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels (Paperback))

Mystery > Police Procedurals
Author: Susan Hill
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The Various Haunts of Men: A Simon Serrailler Mystery (Simon Serrailler Crime Novels (Paperback))

As the story begins, a lonely woman vanishes while out on her morning run. Then a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk. An old man disappears too. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she runs the risk of getting too invested–too involved–in the action. Alongside the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrallier, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome. Written with intelligence, compassion, and a knowing eye–in the tradition of the fabulous mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James–The Various Haunts of Men is an enthralling journey into the heart of a wonderfully developed town, and into the very mind of a killer.

The Dove

Romance > Westerns
Author: Carolyn Brown
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The Dove

Katy Lynn Logan had two friends: Andy, her father’s best friend through his whole life who’d been her surrogate father/uncle/mother/best friend since the day of her birth. And then there was Joshua Carter, the love of her heart and her soul mate. Or so she thought until that day when she buried her father; the same day Joshua broke her heart and tore her soul apart. Seven years later Joshua returns to find his preacher father had been right. Katy Lynn Logan had turned out exactly like her immoral mother and drunk father. She ran a saloon on the banks of the Red River called The Soiled Dove. He can scarcely believe the beautiful piano player is his Katy, but then, seven years changes everyone. Katy can’t believe her eyes when she finds Joshua sitting on a bar stool in The Dove, but the real shock comes a few days later when she finds him preaching in her church in Spanish Fort, Texas.

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