Apple Pie and Trouble (Sandy Bay Cozy Mystery Book 1)
Meghan Truman always had a dream to become a Hollywood actress. Hollywood decided she wasn’t good enough. She left Hollywood broken but with a burning desire to start afresh in the Pacific Northwest, pursuing her second dream – opening a bakery.
She never expected that the owner of a rival establishment would be found dead and all eyes would be focused on her as the prime suspect.
As the new girl in town with a new bakery store, she’s determined to clear her name and find the murderer; otherwise she’ll have to leave Sandy Bay penniless and pitiful and possibly the murderer’s next victim.
Maid in Hollywood
Maggie McDermit is a smart-mouthed, plus-sized Las Vegas hotel maid. She’s good at what she does but doesn’t make much money doing it. To supplement her income, she frequently blackmails her Las Vegas hotel guests for extra cash.
Jack Muldoon is a troubled Hollywood action movie star who is bored with his career and his life. He drinks too much and goes from girlfriend to girlfriend with no interest in getting married. While at a court-ordered rehab in Las Vegas, he escapes his vigilant bodyguard and goes on a bender, ending up on the floor where Maggie is working.
Inebriated, but delighted to be free from his handlers, Jack begs her to show him the town. Seeing an opportunity, she marries him.
The Price of Innocence
In the decade since their younger sister’s death, James and Ian Lawrence have drifted apart – James to pursue a steady but humdrum career as a CPA in Kansas City, Ian to go adventuring off to Leipzig, Germany, for his doctorate in economics. But when Ian mysteriously disappears while researching the economics of organized crime, James must take a leave of absence to look for him. Risking everything, he embarks on a perilous journey across Europe, digging deeply into the business affairs of some very private, very dangerous people. But in the search for Ian, he discovers a brewing revolution that will shock the world – and change what he sees as his own place in it.
Shadow Agenda: A Joe Brennan Spy Thriller
Watch out Jason Bourne and Mitch Rapp! Outcast spy Brennan is a deadly asset who wants out of the spy trade. When a long-rumored lost nuclear weapon comes back onto the illegal arms market, it forces America’s political hand and Brennan back into explosive action.
But a shadowy international cabal has other ideas, and international politicians are being targeted for assassination with military precision. Shadow Agenda is an espionage and spy thriller from the jungles of South America, to the south of France and through the streets of Paris and Washington, as Brennan races to prevent Armageddon. Brennan faces organized crime, political manipulation, and a cast of characters each with hidden motivations that could spell disaster.
Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die.
By studying inventions like these—the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed —we can learn how people imagine their way around “impossible” problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities.
Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
The exact methods of diet and training that make putting on 10 to 15 pounds of quality lean mass a breeze . . . and it only takes a few months.
Here are just a few of the things you’re going to discover in this book:
- The 10 biggest fat loss and muscle-building myths and mistakes that keep guys fat, weak, and frustrated.
- The 3 scientific laws of muscle growth and fat loss that literally force your body to get bigger, leaner, and stronger. You’ll be shocked at how easy it really is to build muscle and lose fat once you know what you’re doing.
- How to create flexible diet plans that help you transform your body composition eating the foods you love . . . and without ever feeling starved, deprived, or like you’re “on a diet.”
- A paint-by-numbers training system that will help you build a big, full chest . . . a wide, tapered back . . . thick, powerful legs . . . and strong, bulging arms . . . spending no more than 3 to 6 hours in the gym every week…doing challenging, fun workouts that you enjoy.
- A no-BS guide to supplements that will show you what works and what doesn’t, saving you hundreds if not thousands of dollars each year.
Genesis (First Colony Book 1)
A mission gone wrong. Innocent lives have been lost.
Escaping wrongful imprisonment wasn’t something Connor had in mind, but being put into stasis aboard Earth’s first interstellar colony ship was something he couldn’t have prepared for.
For three hundred thousand colonists, the new colony brings the promise of a fresh start…a second chance. Connor might be the wrong man for the colony, but he’s the right man to see that it survives what’s coming.
A new world with new challenges, but the mission has changed.
If you love military science fiction from the greats of the past and present, you’ll love Genesis – First Colony , a new military science fiction series.
Better Homes and Gardens Complete Canning Guide: Freezing, Preserving, Drying
This is the book for everyone who wants to preserve food—from novice to pro—with step-by-step explanations of techniques, ranging from the basics of canning to freezing, drying, fermenting, and pickling. Readers can preserve a range of produce including fruits, vegetables, herbs—anything in season can be “put by” to enjoy later. Included are techniques and recipes for jams and jellies, conserves and fruit butters, condiments, dried treats like fruit leathers and veggie chips, and freezer recipes. Also find recipes for pickles, sauerkraut, relishes, soups—even syrups. And when the tomatoes ripen all at once, check out a chapter on smart ways to preserve them.
Incredible–and True!–Fishing Stories
What’s almost as good as going fishing? Hearing, telling, and swapping great fish stories. Shaun Morey is a fisherman, a connoisseur of fish stories, and a journalist with a novelist’s eye (and vice versa) in this collection of over 100 incredible(and true!) fishing stories.
Here are Remarkable Catches—like the time Billy Sandifer caught a 1,000-pound tiger shark in the surf (he released it after nabbing a souvenir tooth). Grueling Battles—like Bob Ploeger’s record-breaking 37-hour fight with a Pacific salmon. Hilarious Feats of Bravery, like the exploits of Matt Watson, who leapt out of a helicopter to land on the back of a marlin. And, in what can only be considered poetic justice, Shocking Acts of Fish Aggression, like Mitchell Lee Franklin’s visit to the emergency room with a 5-pound catfish attached to his chest via an impaled dorsal fin.
Revival Fire
Fire blazes from heaven, and a stone altar erupts in flame. So begins a spiritual awakening, the kindling of a revival fire still burning today. Beginning with Elijah and God’s tremendous one-day revival of Israel, Wesley Duewel tells stories of revivals spanning the globe from America to China to Africa, all brought by obedience and heartfelt prayer.
He illustrates how God has used revival fire through the centuries to revive the church and reveal the glorious presence of the Holy Spirit.
The Real McCoys
Her name’s Moxie. Moxie McCoy.
Bold, opinionated, and haplessly self-confident, the world’s greatest fourth-grade detective faces her biggest challenge! When someone kidnaps beloved school mascot Eddie the Owl, Moxie is on the case—but she’s forced to fly solo now that her best friend (and crime-solving partner) has moved away.
Moxie must interview her classmates—both as potential new best friends and as possible suspects. She finds clues and points fingers but can’t save the owl on her own. Enter Moxie’s little brother, Milton. Quiet, cautious, and boring as a butter knife, he’s a good listener.
Can the Real McCoys form an unlikely alliance and solve the crime of the century?
Kebabs
It’s time to put a new spin on this classic backyard grilling staple with some advice from the experts in Kebabs. These grillers traveled the planet and found the best skewered meals it had to offer.
Everyone loves grilling up kebabs, but it’s easy to fall into the mushroom, pepper, chicken/beef rut. In Kebabs, Derrick Riches and Sabrina Baksh take this quick and easy grilling method for a brand new spin.
They traveled the backroads of the Barbecue Belt and studied street-food stalls where skewered, grilled foods are most famous, like Greece, Turkey and the Middle East, India, and even Japan (yakitori) and France (brochettes).
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