Thrill Girl

Mysteries
Author: Jack Curran
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Thrill Girl

He’s a newspaper guy trying to forget. She’s a gorgeous murderer trying to remember… It’s a tense summer in the City of Angels. A killer is on the loose. She’s blonde, she’s beautiful, and she murders bad guys. On three different occasions, she thwarted a mugging in progress, saving the innocent, dispatching the guilty, and fading away like a whisper in the rain. She never waits around for thanks. Apparently she doesn’t want any.
Who is this woman?
Jack Curran, star reporter, is determined to find out. He’s a good citizen. A war hero. A journalist who wants to write fiction, which he plans to once he files an exclusive on Thrill Girl’s identity. When Thrill Girl strikes a fourth time, adding two more to her body count while saving a pretty shop girl, his investigation leads him to socialite Alana Maxwell. She’s blonde. She’s beautiful.
Does she murder bad guys?
Despite his publisher’s warning to beware her very connected and powerful step-brother, Jack goes to ask her, face to face. But Alana Maxwell doesn’t care that a newspaperman is tracking her like a hound with a snout full of fox. She has only one thing on her mind, saving her younger brother’s life. It’s something she’ll do anything to accomplish. Anything.

Dash Diet Cookbook: 150 Everyday Dash Recipes for Everyone

Dieting Low Sodium
Author: Jennifer Evans
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Dash Diet Cookbook: 150 Everyday Dash Recipes for Everyone

DASH diet cookbook with all the recipes you need to achieve your weight loss goals!

DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is a lifelong approach to healthy eating that’s designed to help treat or prevent high blood pressure, osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. This diet encourages you to reduce the sodium in your diet and eat a variety of foods rich in nutrients that help lower blood pressure, such as potassium, calcium and magnesium.

DASH diet is an easy and effective way to lose weight and improve your health. With our DASH cookbook you will enjoy all the benefits of DASH diet in just two weeks!

You will find everything you need to start the DASH diet inside this cookbook – recipes for breakfast and desserts, meat and poultry, snacks and sides, lunch and dinner. All our recipes are kitchen-tested, easy to cook and made with common ingredients.

Miss Adventure (In Love in the Limelight Book 1)

Humorous Fiction
Author: Geralyn Corcillo
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Miss Adventure (In Love in the Limelight Book 1)

After she survives a freak fast food accident, skittish city girl Lisa Flyte becomes a national joke in the tabloids. So she decides it’s high time she get herself a backbone and stop letting life plow right over her. But how is she supposed to get tough after a lifetime of watching from the couch?

Jack Hawkins, that’s how. The adrenaline junkie from her MBA class needs someone to test his new line of idiot-proof beginner gear, and clueless urbanite Lisa might just be perfect. They strike a deal. The two of them survive (barely!) their bumbling adventures in the wild. But will they survive each other?

The award-winning Miss Adventure is the first romantic comedy in the In Love in the Limelight series, where all the books are stand-alone reads, each with its own heroine and hero. It’s the Limelight of zany Los Angeles, where the different stories criss cross, and where the paparazzi just might sink in its glittery talons at the most inopportune and down-to-earth moments.

BECKONED, Part 1: From London with Love

Coming of Age Fiction
Author: Aviva Vaughn
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BECKONED, Part 1: From London with Love

FIRE AND ICE. They met as MBA students in Barcelona. Angela, the spitfire exchange student from Los Angeles, putting herself through business school. Soren, the brooding real estate heir from Denmark, living in the shadow of his family. She shot into his world like a comet, beckoning him with her fiery passion, but slipped through his fingers, leaving him cold and hollow; unspoken words of love frozen on his lips.

Now they are in London and Soren has only one night to win her over, or risk living forever in the shadow of what might have been. BECKONED: slow burn, second-chance romance inspired by food, travel, and Jane Austen.

Voodoo Butterfly (Voodoo Butterfly Series Book 1)

Women’s Literary Fiction
Author: Camille Faye
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Voodoo Butterfly (Voodoo Butterfly Series Book 1)

When twenty-five-year old Sophie Nouveau inherits her grandmother’s voodoo shop she knows nothing about voodoo. Or her family’s history of Mind Changers, who have the power to change evil people to good. To complicate matters, someone doesn’t want Sophie in New Orleans and sends a series of death threats to scare her away from her new enchanted life.

Tipped off by her grandmother’s ghost, Sophie realizes her mind-changing spell’s been missing one magic ingredient: true love. If Sophie cannot experience transformative love, she cannot make her spell work, and she will be powerless to fight back when confronted by the one who wants her dead.

Periodic Fasting: Repair your DNA, Grow Younger, and Learn to Appreciate your Food

Health, Fitness & Dieting
Author: Cristian Vlad Zot, Richard David Feinman
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Periodic Fasting: Repair your DNA, Grow Younger, and Learn to Appreciate your Food

In a modern world where it’s considered normal to consume 3 meals and additional snacks everyday (otherwise you will get sick), fasting can be considered an outrageous and even dangerous practice.

One of the biggest fears of fasting is the fear hunger, the false hunger that most people are afraid of while depleting their glycogen stores (the body sugar storage).

Fasting has often been associated with religious customs. It is time to define a line between the two.

In Periodic Fasting, I embark on a timeless journey from the very beginning of life on Earth, through early human societies, through the middle Ages and into modern days to explore the concepts and practices of prolonged fasting and intermittent fasting (IF).

Where’s the Next Shelter? (Green Giant Travels Book 1)

Hiking & Walking Travel
Author: Gary Sizer
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Where's the Next Shelter? (Green Giant Travels Book 1)

Where’s the Next Shelter? is the true story of three travelers on the Appalachian Trail, a two thousand mile hike that stretches from Georgia to Maine, told from the perspective of Gary Sizer, a seasoned backpacker and former Marine who quickly finds himself humbled by the endeavor. He teams up with Megan, a sassy college grad whose indomitable spirit eclipses her lack of experience, and Lemmy, a cartoonist from overseas whose off-kilter commentary on the wonders and frustrations of the trail keeps everyone laughing.

Sprawling through the woods and towns of the Appalachian mountains, the trail carries the trio through real and fanciful ups and downs ranging from hilarious to perilous. Much more than an orderly account of mountain tops and meals, it is an adventure about friends figuring things out as they go. It’s about screw-ups and solutions, awe and inspiration.

If you long for the horizon, or to sleep under the stars, then come along for the hike of a lifetime. All you have to do is take the first step.

Ask Him Why

Coming of Age Fiction
Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde
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Ask Him Why

Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can’t believe that his hero doesn’t have very good reasons.

Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge, Joseph disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover he has a past far darker than either of them could imagine. But even as they learn more about their brother, important questions remain unanswered—why did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family? Joseph’s refusal to speak ignites a fire in young Aubrey that results in a disastrous, and public, act of rebellion.

This Dog for Hire (The Rachel Alexander And Dash Mysteries Series Book 1)

Private Investigator Mysteries
Author: Carol Lea Benjamin
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This Dog for Hire (The Rachel Alexander And Dash Mysteries Series Book 1)

Divorced dog trainer–turned–private-eye Rachel Alexander and her canine assistant Dash—short for Dashiell—are hired by a man named Dennis Keaton to investigate the hit-and-run death of his friend and neighbor Clifford Cole, whose body was found on an isolated Christopher Street pier. The police are treating the gay painter’s suspicious death as a hate crime, but Dennis insists Cliff hadn’t cruised the waterfront in months. Plus, Magritte, Cliff’s champion basenji—a competitor in the upcoming Westminster Dog Show—may have been a witness to the crime and is now missing.

The search for answers takes Rachel and Dash from the SoHo art scene to the most famous dog show in America. Now Rachel is in the sights of a killer hunting her across a treacherous urban landscape. There’s no one she can trust—especially not of the two-legged variety.

The Mother: A Novel

Historical Asian Fiction
Author: Pearl S. Buck
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The Mother: A Novel

Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck’s finest novels centers on an unnamed peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China. Without warning, her restless husband abandons her. Shamed by the experience, she is left to work the land, raise their three children on her own, and care for her aging mother-in-law. To save face with her neighbors, she pretends her husband is traveling, and sends letters to herself signed in his name. Surrounded by poverty, despair, and a growing web of lies meant to protect the family, her children grow up and enter society with only the support of their mother’s unbreakable will.
An unforgettable story of one woman’s strength and a remarkable fable about the role of mothers, this novel is a powerful achievement by a master of twentieth-century fiction.

Challenger: An American Tragedy: The Inside Story from Launch Control

Expeditions & Discoveries World History
Author: Hugh Harris
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Challenger: An American Tragedy: The Inside Story from Launch Control

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Seventy-three seconds after launch, the fiery breach of a solid motor joint caused a rupture of the propellant tanks, and a stunned nation watched as flames engulfed the craft, killing all seven crew members on board. It was Hugh Harris, “the voice of launch control,” whom audiences across the country heard counting down to lift-off on that fateful day.

With over fifty years of experience with NASA’s missions, Harris presents the story of the Challenger tragedy as only an insider can. With by-the-second accounts of the spacecraft’s launch and a comprehensive overview of the ensuing investigation, Harris gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the devastating accident that grounded the shuttle fleet for over two years.

The Essential Cuisines of Mexico

Gourmet Cooking
Author: Diana Kennedy
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The Essential Cuisines of Mexico

More than twenty-five years ago, when Diana Kennedy first published The Cuisines of Mexico, knowledge and appreciation of authentic Mexican cooking were in their infancy. But change was in the air. Home cooks were turning to Julia Child for an introduction to French cuisine and to Marcella Hazan for the tastes of Italy. Through Diana Kennedy, they discovered a delicious and highly developed culinary tradition they barely knew existed and she became recognized as the authority on Mexican food.

Whether you turn to this book for the final word on tamales, recipes for tasty antojitos to serve with drinks, or superb tacos, you’ll find there’s no better teacher of Mexican food. How enviable to attempt Calzones del Diablo (yes, the Devil’s Pants) for the first time, and what a pleasure to succumb to Diana’s passion for Mexican food!

The Memory Watcher

Women’s Literary Fiction
Author: Minka Kent
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The Memory Watcher

Press, tap, refresh…

When Autumn Carpenter stumbles upon the social media account of the family who adopted her infant daughter years ago, she finds herself instantly drawn into their picture-perfect existence.

From behind a computer screen, Autumn watches Grace’s every memory, from birthdays to holidays to bedtime snuggles. But what starts as an innocent fascination soon spirals into an addictive obsession that comes to a screeching halt the day the McMullen family closes their Instaface account without so much as a warning.

Frantic and desperate to reconnect with her daughter, Autumn applies for a nanny position with the McMullens, manipulating herself into Grace’s life under false pretenses. And it’s only then that Autumn discovers pictures lie, the perfect family doesn’t exist, and beautiful people? They have the ugliest secrets.

The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln

Assassination Thrillers
Author: G.J.A. O’Toole, Michael Croft
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The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln

In 1868, Pinkerton Detective Nicholas Cosgrove is tasked with tracking down John Wilkes Booth, a man who should be three years in his grave. Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, was also a skilled actor and master of disguise, and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton suspects he may still be at large. But Cosgrove unearths more than just the corpse of a man who is decidedly not Booth. The conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln was much larger, and far more dangerous than anyone suspects.

Now, more than a century later, Cosgrove’s report on his harrowing investigation has fallen into the hands of private eye Michael Croft. Charged with verifying Cosgrove’s hair-raising tale—as well as its explosive implications—Croft presents the manuscript here with his own annotations.

With meticulous research into official records as well as the forgotten memoirs of eyewitnesses, former CIA agent G. J. A. O’Toole has crafted a highly original novel—both a gripping historical thriller and a shockingly plausible solution to some of the most enthralling mysteries surrounding Lincoln’s assassination.

Catch of the Day (Gideon’s Cove Book 1)

Romantic Comedy
Author: Kristan Higgins
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Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove Book 1)

What’s the market price on a decent guy these days?

Maggie Beaumont’s luck is about to change. Sure, she’s known for her bad romantic choices—her former boyfriend broke up with her by bringing his new girlfriend home for a visit. And then there was the crush she had on a gorgeous young Irishman, who turned out to be Father Tim, the parish’s new priest.

But romantic salvation has arrived in the form of handsome, if surly, fisherman Malone. It turns out there’s a heart of gold underneath his barnacle-clad exterior. Will this catch of the day turn into the dish of a lifetime?

WEIRD: Because Normal Isn’t Working

Christian Spiritual Growth
Author: Craig Groeschel
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WEIRD: Because Normal Isn’t Working

Normal people are stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted. Many of their relationships are, at best, strained and, in most cases, just surviving. Even though we live in one of the most prosperous places on earth, normal is still living paycheck to paycheck and never getting ahead.

Lust and frequent “casual” sex are far more common than purity and a healthy married sex life. And when it comes to God, the many believe, but few practice the teachings of Scripture in their everyday lives.

Simply put, normal isn’t working. In this six-session, video-based study, Groeschel’s WEIRD views will help you break free from the norm to lead a radically abnormal (and endlessly more fulfilling) life.

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