vanished.: A Novel

Romantic Suspense
Author: N. V. Baker
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vanished.: A Novel

Late August 1978, and Cassie Robinette arrives in Kabul with her backpack and camera. Weary from weeks of cheap bus rides across Asia, she hopes to stay a while. But her plans change after two other travelers persuade her to join them on their drive across Afghanistan. Ten days later in Iran, she sends her last postcard.

Twenty-nine years have passed when her erstwhile pen-pal Jack Hunter discovers her old letters. They rekindle a love he had thought lost, and revive a question that had long haunted him: What had he done; why had Cassie stopped writing?
When Jack tries to unravel the mystery, he makes a disturbing discovery. Sometime in September 1978, Cassie vanished.

Bradley Farm: …a legacy of love! (Bradley Farm Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Military Romance
Author: Mary Jane Forbes
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Bradley Farm: ...a legacy of love! (Bradley Farm Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Jane dreams of marrying her high school sweetheart and raising a brood of kids on his beloved family farm. Despite her parents’ disapproval and her boyfriend’s draft card, she exchanges hurried vows before he ships off to Vietnam. Back on the farm, Jane must fight her own battle with a mother-in-law who frowns on her big city upbringing.

Determined to prove she’s cut out for country living, the fiery redhead rolls up her sleeves to explore every inch of the family business. Beneath creaking floorboards and layers of dust, she unearths ghostly secrets… and a rising mountain of debt that threatens to tear her dreams for the future apart. To save the homestead, she schemes up a plan to bring the old farm into the modern age and out of the hands of the collectors.

Breaking the Cycle (Rocking Racers Book 1)

Sports Fiction
Author: Megan Lowe, Claire Smith
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Breaking the Cycle (Rocking Racers Book 1)

The Ryans have always had exceptionally bad luck in love. Reed Ryan avoided it by never falling in love, but meeting Bria Adams threatens all the boundaries he’s put in place.

With a rival racing team at his door and his family’s ‘curse’ always in the background, Reed knows he must overcome his fears in order to protect the woman who’s found a place in his heart.

Will Bria succumb to the misfortune that seems to befall the women in love with the Ryan men? Or will she be the one to finally break the cycle?

Abominable

Science Fiction Adventure
Author: Alan Nayes
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Abominable

A mysterious unidentifiable object is discovered buried deep in an isolated glacier in Alaska’s rugged Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is composed of materials unknown to science and the mystery only deepens when the large unidentified object is determined to be twenty-eight thousand years old. Who left it there so many thousands of years ago? Why?
Dr. Shelby Hollister, a specialist in primatology, is consulted when bones dug from the ice alongside the object are found to belong to an unknown species of prehistoric primate.
The story explodes in magnitude when the object begins a physical transformation revealing what is inside—a perfectly preserved giant ape!

Wood Pellet Smoker and Grill Cookbook for Beginners

Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Author: Rager Jones
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Wood Pellet Smoker and Grill Cookbook for Beginners: The Complete Wood Pellet Smoker Cookbook for Smoking and Grill (Pellet Smoker Cookbook)

Have you been using a Wood Pellet Smoker-Grill?

What’s the best way to infuse your barbecue fixings with that quintessential, smoky flavor? 

From this cookbook you will learn:
  • Beef
  • Fish and Seafood
  • Pork
  • Chicken
  • Ham
  • Lamb
  • Turkey
  • Game
  • Vegetables

All By My Selfie

Time Travel Romances
Author: Jo Noelle
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All By My Selfie

While on vacation at McLeod Castle in Scotland, Gwen Mackenzie has nightly dreams of an ancient warrior bound by a curse. During the day, she sees Niall, nicknamed #ScottishBoyfriend. She clicks a few selfies with him in the background. Oh, and can that man rock a kilt! As she gets to know him, she realizes that Niall is the warrior from her dreams, cursed to live as a ghost for the past five hundred years, to see life around him but never see, taste, or feel any of it—except Gwen.

Cats’ Eyes (Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Cozy Animal Mysteries
Author: Mollie Hunt
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Cats' Eyes (Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)

Lynley Cannon is the crazy cat lady, but she’s not quite crazy yet, though a bizarre connection to a bumbled heist and a double homicide has got her wondering in this 1st Crazy Cat Lady cozy mystery.

Retiree Lynley Cannon adores her Old Portland home with her clowder of rescue cats, but when elderly Fluffs drags in a dusky brown beach agate that turns out to be a priceless chocolate diamond, things change fast. The uncut stone, one of a pair called the Cats’ Eyes, has been stolen from its wealthy owner, but how it ended up a cat toy, even the robbers cannot guess. Threatened by kidnapping, theft, and murder, Lynley is determined to maintain her serenity, even if it means finding the crooks herself.

Love Over Lattes (Desert Monsoon Series Book 1)

Multicultural & Interracial Romance
Author: Diana A. Hicks
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Love Over Lattes (Desert Monsoon Series Book 1)

Single mom Valentina wants to provide a good life for her son, starting with the perfect home. When the deal on her dream house falls through, rather than move back in with her parents and disappoint them and her son once again, she accepts the help of the intimidating-as-hell stranger she’s admired from her coffee shop seat for the last six months. She’s afraid to fall for the wrong guy again, so she makes Cole promise to keep their relationship strictly professional.

Following his failed marriage, Cole can’t find a reason to care about anything or anyone. Saving his company from his ex-wife is the only thing that has kept him afloat for the past six months. As loneliness sets in and he begins to lose the fight over his company, Valentina becomes his lifeline.

Explicitly Yours: The Complete Series

Women’s Romance
Author: Jessica Hawkins
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Explicitly Yours: The Complete Series

Lola Winters doesn’t think she can escape her life as a waitress—until she receives a shocking proposition from a handsome stranger.
Wealthy businessman Beau Olivier is willing to do anything to have Lola for a night. His conditions are explicit: from sunset to sunrise, Lola must submit all of herself to him—body, mind, and soul. But what if Beau doesn’t want to say goodbye in the morning?
A red-hot collection that includes four full-length books: Possession, Domination, Provocation, and Obsession.

The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

Biographies & Memoirs of Authors
Author: Michael Mewshaw
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The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such classics as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self-lacerating humor.

Michael Mewshaw’s The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young—when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an international bestseller. Family snapshots beautifully illustrate that time. Shortly before his forty-ninth birthday, Conroy telephoned Mewshaw to ask a terrible favor. With great reluctance, Mewshaw did as he was asked—and never saw Pat Conroy again.

Mechanical Failure (Epic Failure Trilogy Book 1)

Space Marine Science Fiction
Author: Joe Zieja
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Mechanical Failure (Epic Failure Trilogy Book 1)

A smooth-talking ex-sergeant, accustomed to an easygoing peacetime military, unexpectedly rejoins the fleet and finds soldiers preparing for the strangest thing—war.

The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since…well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That’s the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler.

But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard.

Raw-Vitalize: The Easy, 21-Day Raw Food Recharge

Raw Cooking
Author: Mimi Kirk, Mia Kirk White
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Raw-Vitalize: The Easy, 21-Day Raw Food Recharge

Catch the wave of health and good living with this easy and delicious 21-day raw food plan. Mimi Kirk and her daughter, Mia Kirk White, developed the plan when they decided to team up and remind themselves of the benefits of eating all raw, all the time.

They needed a plan that would work with their busy schedules, with meals that would fit into a set menu, but still allow them to mix and match foods. These recipes are so good, you’ll make them again and again. Raw-Vitalize includes shopping lists, make-ahead prep ideas, and tips for eating on the go.

Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

Women’s Christian Living
Author: Lara Casey
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Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

Women often feel like they have to have it all together in order to live a meaningful life. Instead they feel inadequate, overwhelmed, and exhausted as they to figure out how to do it all. Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey offers sound and grace-filled advice: “We can’t do it all, and do it well. But, we can choose to cultivate what matters.”

Welcome to the journey of getting messy in the rich soil of possibility—embracing imperfect, grace-filled progress to grow a life of joy.

Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide, Cultivate offers wisdom from God’s Word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her garden. Woven throughout is her personal story that helps release readers from the pressure to achieve and gives them freedom to move from planning to planting a meaningful legacy.

The Only Harmless Great Thing

Alternate History Science Fiction
Author: Brooke Bolander
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The Only Harmless Great Thing

The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.

In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.

These are the facts.

Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and injustice crying out to be righted. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling histories of cruelty both grand and petty in search of meaning and justice.

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