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Bad Mother’s Diary: a feel good romantic comedy: LIMITED PROMOTION

Parenting & Family Humor
Author: Suzy K Quinn
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Bad Mother's Diary: a feel good romantic comedy: LIMITED PROMOTION

When I became a single mother, it felt like my world had ended. Dreams of rose-covered cottages, rolling pins and two parents living with their own biological child were well and truly shattered.
But life goes on. And I am determined not to be broken by an irresponsible man who can’t step up to fatherhood.
Nick has left me holding the baby. But I WILL find love again. Time to get up, show up, never give up.

OPTIONS TRADING FOR BEGINNERS

Trading Investing Strategies
Author: David Parker
FREE

OPTIONS TRADING FOR BEGINNERS: Crash Course For Beginners To Make Money Online From Home With Options In 7 Days. How To Become A Profitable Investor And Create Passive Income

Do you think you should start trading but you don’t know how? Do you want to learn to trade quickly? Are you afraid of losing money with trading? Keep reading!
Just like in every trade, options trading features a list of risks and rewards. Getting into this, therefore, requires you to understand the risks at play and whether or not they are worth the rewards you expect to gain from it. When you know the odds, based on your analysis of the market, and you believe the trade will go in your favor, you can make a move.
While the fundamentals of options trading run through all forms of options trading, you have to understand how each financial instrument and factors work. Stock options trading has been popular in recent times. But you can also trade options through index, futures, currencies, and commodities. The key is to master one financial instrument and move on to the next one.

Tea & Croakies (Enchanting Inquiries Book 1)

Women Sleuths
Author: Sam Cheever
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Tea & Croakies (Enchanting Inquiries Book 1)

I knew when I woke up with a migraine that things were going to get interesting. As a magical artifact wrangler, it’s not an unusual way to start my day. But I had no idea how bad it was going to get.

Until I found a frog sitting in my teacup.

Even that, I could explain to myself if I had to. After all, I have a creative mind. But when the frog started talking to me, yeah, I was pretty sure I’d taken the wrong kind of pill that morning for my headache.

If only I’d realized then what I know now. The talking frog was just the beginning of my problems. And quite a beginning it was!

Pastrami Murder (Darling Deli Series Book 1)

Cozy Mystery
Author: Patti Benning
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Pastrami Murder (The Darling Deli Series Book 1)

Ever notice that the best dishes…
Are made by one smart cookie?
Deli owner, Moira Darling didn’t get as far as she did by going with the flow. The smart and sassy amateur sleuth runs a successful shop and will do whatever it takes to protect it.
Her world is turned upside-down, however, when a cross-town rival is found murdered.
You’ll find a delicious mix of personalities as a handsome and clever detective joins forces with Moira and her young daughter to get to the bottom of the mess in which the daring deli owner finds herself.

Hyde and Seek (Hyde Series Book 1)

Contemporary Romance
Author: Layla Frost
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Hyde and Seek (Hyde Series Book 1)

Piper Skye is rock ‘n’ roll. She’s party all night, sleep all day. She’s get wild and be free.

Or she would be if she had the time.

And the energy.

And not being so awkward would probably help, too.

As the owner of a thriving dessert business, Piper spends her days at school and her nights elbow deep in batter and frosting. She’s confident her hard work and sacrifice will pay off as long as she stays focused and sticks to the plan.

Jake Hyde is a workaholic with a jaded outlook on life. Surrounding himself with employees he considers his brothers, he long ago made the decision that his custom garage would be his focus.

Christmas at the Lakeside Resort: The Lakeside Resort Series Book 1

Holiday Fiction
Author: Susan Schild
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Christmas at the Lakeside Resort: The Lakeside Resort Series Book 1

Forty-two year old Jenny Beckett is dreading the holidays. Her fiancé has just called off their Christmas wedding, and she’s been evicted from her darling chicken coop cottage. When her estranged father dies and leaves her eight rustic guest cabins on Heron Lake, Jenny seizes the chance to make a new life. She packs up her dogs, her miniature horse and her beat up Airstream trailer and moves to the lake.

Short on time and money, Jenny and her contractor, widower Luke, work feverishly to renovate the cabins in time for the festive holiday event she’s promised her very first guests. When an unexpected blizzard snows them in and jeopardizes the resort’s opening, Jenny and Luke work to save the event and, along the way, find true love… and the magic of Christmas.

Social Media Monsters: Killers Who Target Victims on the Internet. Netflix You (TV Series)

Forensic Psychology
Author: RJ Parker Ph.D., JJ Slate
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Social Media Monsters: Killers Who Target Victims on the Internet. Netflix You (TV Series)

Who is really on the other end of that Facebook friend request, or behind that dating profile, or posting that item for sale on Craigslist? How can you be safe if you plan to meet up with a stranger you met online? What precautions should you take? Facebook, Craigslist, MySpace, chat rooms, dating sites—it does not matter where you are online; killers are lurking in the shadows. They visit suicide chat rooms, search for escorts on Craigslist, and create fake social media profiles to fool and gain the trust of their victims. Someone you have been talking to for months, or even years, could be a completely different person from what you envisioned.

Let There Be Love (The Sled Dog Series Book 1)

Mystery Romance
Author: Melissa Storm
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Let There Be Love (The Sled Dog Series Book 1)

Lauren Dalton’s world shattered the day her father died. Now she’s willing to move four-thousand miles away from the only home she’s ever known in hopes of discovering the truth about his hidden past.

Shane Ramsey’s reputation says all anyone needs to know. He’s an amazing racer, but a terrible person. When an injury leaves him unable to work his dogs, he must swallow his pride and accept help for the sake of his team.

Will Shane open his home and his heart to the young woman who already shares his greatest love? Will Lauren find her place—and the truth about her family’s past—in helping the cantankerous Shane?

The Great Christmas Knit-Off: A Novel (Tindledale)

Holiday Romance
Author: Alexandra Brown
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The Great Christmas Knit-Off: A Novel (Tindledale)

In the tradition of Trisha Ashley and Jenny Colgan, this first book in a new series by Alexandra Brown—author of the popular Cupcakes at Carrington’s series—tells the hilarious, heartwarming story of a jilted bride who anticipates a lonely Christmas but instead finds herself in the tiny village of Tindledale, where the residents share her obsession with knitting.

When life unravels, it’s time to knit…

Sybil has always taken comfort in her passion for knitting, creating beautiful knits stitch by stitch. But her world suddenly unravels when her fiancé ditches her for her identical twin sister at her Star Wars-themed wedding, leaving her sporting a Princess Leia do. Then things go from bad to worse when an incident at work jeopardizes her job.

 

Christmas at Lilac Cottage: A perfect romance to curl up by the fire with (White Cliff Bay Book 1)

Holiday Romance
Author: Holly Martin
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Christmas at Lilac Cottage: A perfect romance to curl up by the fire with (White Cliff Bay Book 1)

Welcome to the charming seaside town of White Cliff Bay, where Christmas is magical and love is in the air…

Penny Meadows loves her home – a cosy cottage decorated with pretty twinkling fairy lights and stunning views over the town of White Cliff Bay. She also loves her job as an ice-carver, creating breathtaking sculptures. Yet her personal life seems frozen.

When Henry and daughter Daisy arrive at the cottage to rent the annex, Penny is determined to make them feel welcome. But while Daisy is friendly, Henry seems guarded.

As Penny gets to know Henry, she realises there is more to him than meets the eye. And the connection between them is too strong to ignore …

Run to Ground (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit Book 1)

Amateur Sleuth Mysteries
Author: Katie Ruggle
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Run to Ground (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit Book 1)

He lost his mentor. He lost his K9 partner. He almost lost his will to live.
But when a ruthless killer targets a woman on the run, Theo and his new K9 companion will do whatever it takes to survive—and save the woman neither can live without.

Grieving the death of his partner, Theo Bosco has no room in his life for distractions. Though his instincts scream that he should avoid Juliet ‘Jules’ Jackson, he can’t seem to stay away. It doesn’t help that Theo’s new K9 companion has fallen head over paws with Jules’s rambunctious family.

Or that when he’s with her, Theo finally knows peace.

When Jules rescued her siblings, whisking them away to the safety of the beautifully rugged Colorado Rockies, she never expected to catch the eye—or the heart—of a cop.

Sweet Middle East: Classic Recipes, from Baklava to Fig Ice Cream

Middle Eastern Cooking
Author: Anissa Helou, Linda Pugliese
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Sweet Middle East: Classic Recipes, from Baklava to Fig Ice Cream

The seductive flavors of the Middle East have won over food lovers around the world, but the sweets of the region have remained largely unknown to Western palates—until now. Sweet Middle East, by doyenne of Middle Eastern cooking Anissa Helou, presents 70 classic desserts fragrant with spices, honey, dates, and nuts, and steeped in tradition. One bite of Anissa’s authentic cookies, cakes, custards, puddings, and more reveals why these enchanting desserts deserve to be shared beyond their native lands.

Black River: A Novel

Biographical Literary Fiction
Author: S. M. Hulse
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Black River: A Novel

Wes Carver returns to his hometown—Black River, Montana—with two things: his wife’s ashes and a letter from the parole board. The convict who once held him hostage during a prison riot is up for release.

For years, Wes earned his living as a correction officer and found his joy playing the fiddle. But the uprising shook Wes’s faith and robbed him of his music; now he must decide if his attacker should walk free.

With “lovely rhythms, spare language, tenderness, and flashes of rage,” S. M. Hulse shows us the heart and darkness of an American town, and one man’s struggle to find forgiveness in the wake of evil (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Lock Me In: An absolutely gripping new psychological crime thriller with an ending you won’t see coming!

Crime Fiction
Author: Kate Simants
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Lock Me In: An absolutely gripping new psychological crime thriller with an ending you won't see coming!

Whatever you do, don’t open the door…

By day, Ellie Power has a normal life. She has a stable home, a loving boyfriend, a future.

But at night, she suffers from a sleep disorder. She becomes angry, unpredictable, violent. Her mother locks Ellie in her bedroom every night, to keep them both safe.

Then one morning, Ellie wakes up, horrified to find the lock on her bedroom door smashed from the inside. She is covered in injuries, unable to remember anything about the night before.

And her boyfriend Matt is nowhere to be found…

Sworn to Protect (Rescue Ops Book 1)

Military Romance
Author: Diana Gardin
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Sworn to Protect (Rescue Ops Book 1)

Rayne Alexander. A face I never thought I’d see again, and one I never could forget. Nine years ago, she left town–and me–without a backward glance. But now she’s back, with a haunted look in her eyes and a feisty attitude that didn’t exist when we were teenagers. Seeing this grown-up–and sexy–Rayne is something I wasn’t prepared for… and it’s bringing up feelings I’d thought I’d buried years ago.
Although I want to demand answers from Rayne, working on black ops at Night Eagle Security has taught me that it’s sometimes better to keep my mouth shut. So when I catch her hiding a photo of a little boy, I’m curious. When I see her jump as her phone rings, I’m concerned. But the second I notice a car following her home, I know she’s hiding something.

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