The Buzz Kill (A Honeybee Cozy Mystery Book 1)

Cozy Culinary Mystery
Author: Katherine Hayton
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The Buzz Kill (A Honeybee Cozy Mystery Book 1)

When a man is found dead near middle-aged beekeeper Alice Townsend’s beehives, it sets the town abuzz!

When Alice installs eight hives in Christchurch’s red zone, she expects her bees will pollinate the bounty of fruit trees in the area. Instead, just one day later, a dead body is found nearby covered in stings. Now the police believe a killer used her bees as their murder weapon.

Desperate to keep her hives safe from destruction, Alice sets out to solve the murder. Between an argumentative wife, a neighbor embroiled in a property dispute, and a workplace stalker, she’s soon busy as a bee finding suspects.

As if having a potential murder conviction hanging over her hives wasn’t enough of a worry, Alice’s aging dog Chester is feeling under the weather. Trouble just seems to make a beeline to her door.

If Ever: A Love Story

Romantic Comedy
Author: Angie Stanton
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If Ever: A Love Story

From the glitz of Hollywood to the lights of New York City, the best is yet to come…. if you let it.

Fiercely independent, Chelsea Barnes has caught the opportunity of a lifetime in LA on a reality dance show where she meets a flirty British Broadway star, Thomas Evan Oliver.

Despite their distance, he pursues her in a romantic cross-country courtship. Their sexy whirlwind love affair blossoms in New York as she navigates the big city and his life on the stage. Perhaps happily ever after is a possibility after all.

Downward Cycle (Catalyst Book 1)

Dystopian Science Fiction
Author: JK Franks
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Downward Cycle (Catalyst Book 1)

The super solar-storm wasn’t supposed to hit Earth—the odds were against it. And yet with barely a warning it did, and everything changed. In a remote oceanfront town, life begins to spiral downward after the storm causes a global electrical blackout. As planes begin falling from the sky, Scott Montgomery watches helplessly as pandemonium consumes the world around him. But the loss of electrical power is just the first of the problems facing the survivors in the chaos that follows.

Social order crumbles as a steadily growing number of people realize that there are no longer any consequences for their actions. Soon Scott discovers the truth: Not just about the extent of damage to the world’s infrastructure, but also the draconian plans one group has for regaining control and ensuring their own vision for the new world .

Deathworld: Sci-Fi Novel

Alien Invasion Science Fiction
Author: Harry Harrison
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Deathworld: Sci-Fi Novel

Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government’s desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him, he decides to accompany Kerk to Pyrrus, despite being warned that it is the deadliest world ever colonized by humans.

Leah Nash Mysteries, Books 1-2

Mystery Anthologies
Author: Susan Hunter
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Leah Nash Mysteries, Books 1-2

There’s No Place Like Home—For Murder.

Reporter Leah Nash can’t resist a good story, especially not one that ends in murder. Books 1 and 2 in the Leah Nash Mysteries series are both fast-paced mysteries full of twists, turns and plenty of surprises. Leah is a strong female lead with enough flaws to make her human, and enough smarts to find the answers to these two complex, well-plotted murder mysteries.

Dangerous Habits

Reporter Leah Nash returns to her Wisconsin hometown after 10 years away—unfortunately, not in triumph. When she goes out on a limb—her natural habitat—and connects the drowning death of a young nun with a shocking scandal, the story she uncovers could be her comeback—or her last byline.

The Saltwater Marathon

Paranormal Suspense
Author: Jonathan Chateau
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The Saltwater Marathon

Bryan Combs made a terrible mistake. He cheated on his wife, Sirena, and fell for the seductive charms of his boss, Carmela. The adultery proved too great for Sirena to handle, so she hopped in her car and drove it into the ocean.

Her body was never recovered.

Overwhelmed with grief and guilt, Bryan buries himself at work, opting for late night shifts at the mall, often drinking himself to sleep in the back office of his once beloved job.

However, everything changes the morning they show up.

Strangers appear at his office door screaming and pleading for him to open the door because they are being pursued and desperately need somewhere to hide.

The Good Lord Bird

African American Historical Fiction
Author: James McBride
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The Good Lord Bird

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town—with Brown, who believes he’s a girl.

Over the ensuing months, Henry—whom Brown nicknames Little Onion—conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859—one of the great catalysts for the Civil War.

China Dolls: A Novel

Historical Asian Fiction
Author: Lisa See
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China Dolls: A Novel

It’s 1938 in San Francisco: a world’s fair is preparing to open on Treasure Island, a war is brewing overseas, and the city is alive with possibilities. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. Grace Lee, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest with nothing but heartache, talent, and a pair of dancing shoes. Helen Fong lives with her extended family in Chinatown, where her traditional parents insist that she guard her reputation like a piece of jade. The stunning Ruby Tom challenges the boundaries of convention at every turn with her defiant attitude and no-holds-barred ambition.

Alone: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel (Detective D.D. Warren Book 1)

Conspiracy Thrillers
Author: Lisa Gardner
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Alone: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel (Detective D.D. Warren Book 1)

Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.

Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.

The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius

Parodies > Internet Culture
Author: David Thorne
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The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius

From the notorious Internet troublemaker who brought the world the explosively popular “Next Time I’ll Spend the Money on Drugs Instead”, in which he attempted to pay his chiropractor with a picture he drew of a spider; “Please Design a Logo for Me. With Pie Charts. For Free,” which has been described as one of the most passed-on viral e-mails of all time; and, most recently, the staggeringly popular “Missing Missy”, which has appeared everywhere from The Guardian to Jezebel to Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish, comes this profoundly funny collection of irreverent Internet mischief and comedy.

Featuring all of Thorne’s viral success, including “Missing Missy”, The Internet Is a Playground culls together every article, as well as enough new material, available only in these pages, to keep you laughing-and, indeed, crying-until Thorne’s next stroke-of-genius prank. Or hilarious hoax.

Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries ofElephants and People

Biological Science of Mammals
Author: Mark Owens, Delia Owens
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries ofElephants and People

In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, villagers, and — in the end — themselves. The award-winning zoologists and pioneering conservationists describe their work in the remote and ruggedly beautiful Luangwa Valley, in northeastern Zambia. There they studied the mysteries of the elephant population’s recovery after poaching, discovering remarkable similarities between humans and elephants. A young elephant named Gift provided the clue to help them crack the animals’ secret of survival. A stirring portrait of life in Africa, Secrets of the Savanna is a remarkable record of the Owenses’s unique passions.

HE IS WATCHING YOU an absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist

Heist Thrillers
Author: CHARLIE GALLAGHER
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HE IS WATCHING YOU an absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist

A young woman’s body is left in a metal container in a remote location. The killer is careful to position her under a camera that links to his smartphone. He likes to look back at his work.

HE IS WATCHING HER.

BUT SHE ISN’T DEAD.

So he will return to finish the job. He can barely contain his excitement at the thought of getting to do it all over again. But he must be careful. He cannot rush. Rushing makes you careless.

Detective Maddie Ives is new to the area. She is handed a missing person report: a young woman with a drink problem who’s been reported missing fifteen times. It looks like a waste of time. But DS Ives has a bad feeling about the woman’s disappearance.

The Shadow Writer

Author: Eliza Maxwell
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The Shadow Writer

Aspiring author Graye Templeton will do anything to escape the horrific childhood crime that haunts her. After a life lived in shadows, she’s accepted a new job as protégé to Laura West, influential book blogger and wife of an acclaimed novelist. Laura’s connections could make Graye’s publishing dreams a reality. But there’s more to Laura than meets the eye.

Behind the veneer of a charmed life, Laura’s marriage is collapsing. Her once-lauded husband is descending into alcoholism and ruin and bringing Laura nearer to the edge.

As the two women form a bond that seems meant to be, long-buried secrets claw their way into the present, and the line between friendship and obsession begins to blur, forcing each to decide where her loyalties lie. Running from the past is a dangerous game, and the loser could end up dead.

Spellslinger

Humorous Fantasy
Author: Sebastien de Castell
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Spellslinger

Kellen is moments away from facing his first duel and proving his worth as a spellcaster. There’s just one problem: his magic is fading.
Facing exile unless he can pass the mage trials, Kellen is willing to risk everything – even his own life – in search of a way to restore his magic. But when the enigmatic Ferius Parfax arrives in town, she challenges him to take a different path.
One of the elusive Argosi, Ferius is a traveller who lives by her wits and the cards she carries. Daring, unpredictable, and wielding magic Kellen has never seen before, she may be his only hope.
The first novel in a compelling six-book series, bursting with tricks, humor, and a whole new way to look at magic.

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