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Rocky Mountain Heat (Six Pack Ranch Book 1)

Western Romance
Author: Vivian Arend
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Rocky Mountain Heat (Six Pack Ranch Book 1)

Responsible oldest of six brothers, Blake Coleman knows his desire for the sweet girl-next-door is wrong. While Jaxi has grown into a western-hat-wearing blonde with slim legs that go on forever, the responsible thing to do is keep his hands off.

Jaxi has other plans for Blake’s hands, and his heart. She’s more than ready to convince him they’d be perfect together, but he can’t seem to see past the big “don’t touch” sign that’s apparently hanging around her neck.

When Jaxi ends up living on the Six Pack ranch right under Blake’s nose, the undeniable heat between them slides off simmer and up to barn-burning levels. When a couple of Blake’s younger brothers decide Jaxi’s brand of trouble is worth getting tangled up with, Blake’s going to have to let go the reins and fight for what he really wants—her heart, forever.

Hush: A Christmas Romance

Holiday Romance
Author: Dakota Davies
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Hush: A Christmas Romance

After a disastrous divorce, Elise Mallory has a job she loves and a young son she adores. When a playground injury requires the valley’s hottest surgeon to operate on Jaden, Elise must confront feelings she no longer trusts.

Dr. Benjamin Parker thinks the sleepy mountain town in the farthest corner of the state is a perfect place to lick his wounds after a wrongful accusation during his residency nearly ended his career. But when sexy Elise Mallory shows up in his exam room with her injured son, his dormant desire awakens, putting Ben between a rock and a very hard place.

When the one woman who could reveal his past arrives to torment him, Ben realizes he must fight for a future with Elise and her son, even though it could destroy him forever.

Starship Sakira (Delphi in Space Book 1)

Space Exploration Science
Author: Bob Blanton, Momir Borocki, Ann Clark
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Starship Sakira (Delphi in Space Book 1)

What would you do if you found a spaceship? Would you call the government, would you pretend you never saw it, or would you keep it a secret? What would you do with it? Use it to gallivant around the galaxy, conquer Earth, get filthy rich, or try to improve life on Earth? Read along and find out how Marc works to convert Earth into a spacefaring world capable of defending itself and of being united as it meets the other civilizations in the galaxy. He and his brother start planning their next steps, but the one they don’t know how to prepare for is the arrival of Marc’s twelve-year-old daughter. She comes to spend the summer with her father. She’s very smart and extremely curious.

Pasta, Pinot & Murder: A Food & Wine Cozy Mystery (Willa Friday Food & Wine Mystery Book 1)

Women Sleuths
Author: Jamie Lee Scott
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Pasta, Pinot & Murder: A Food & Wine Cozy Mystery (Willa Friday Food & Wine Mystery Book 1)

Love food? Enjoy a nice glass of wine? How about a murder mystery?

Food blogger Willa Friday is excited to start training her new assistant to make recipes and style food. And she’s excited that her blog, A Dish in Thyme, is finally making enough money to hire an assistant. But she has other obligations too, like the food photography for the annual Whine & Roses Benefit poster.

Dreading her meeting, Willa gets a surprise when she arrives and the vineyard owner is dead.
With her (ex)mother-in-law as the prime suspect, Willa reluctantly gets involved in the investigation. In the process, she learns of the many secrets the vineyard owners of Pear, California are hiding, which puts her directly in the killer’s line of fire.

Sick, Sicker, Sickest (A Chloe Daniels Mystery) (The Chloe Daniels Mysteries Book 1)

Horror Suspense
Author: Deidra D. S. Green
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Sick, Sicker, Sickest (A Chloe Daniels Mystery) (The Chloe Daniels Mysteries Book 1)

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The question really should be, who’s afraid of Anna Black!

If you’re a fan of Monster, then you’ll be a fan of Anna’s!

Hush little baby, don’t say a word…

For years, Anna Black was the only child and the apple of her parents’ eyes. When baby sister, Angel, comes along, Anna’s life is quickly turned upside down. Anna will stop at nothing to win back her parents’ affection. When her tactics lose their efficacy, Anna’s desperate cries for help morph into something more sinister.

The Poison in All of Us (Emmie and Dessa Mysteries Book 1)

Historical Mysteries
Author: Connie B. Dowell
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The Poison in All of Us (Emmie and Dessa Mysteries Book 1)

A poisoned suffragist. A midnight stalker. Is someone targeting outspoken women?

In December 1918, Emmie and her least favorite classmate, Dessa, were supposed to be enjoying the holidays, but their small town Georgia world is rocked when they find Miss Letty’s murdered body. But that’s not all…

Somebody’s prowling around at midnight. Following Dessa.

And antisuffrage activists are getting louder and more aggressive.

Emmie and Dessa can’t stand each other, but can they learn to work together and catch the killer before more women die?

Fiddlers: A Novel (87th Precinct Mysteries Book 55)

Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Author: Ed McBain
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Fiddlers: A Novel (87th Precinct Mysteries Book 55)

A blind violinist taking a smoke break. A cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen. A college professor trudging home from class. A priest contemplating retirement in the rectory garden. An old woman walking her dog. These are the seemingly random targets, all shot twice in the face. But most serial killers don’t use guns. Most serial killers don’t strike five times in two weeks. And most serial killers’ victims have something more in common than just being over fifty years of age.

Now it falls to Det. Steve Carella and his colleagues in the 87th Precinct to find a connection that will crack this case—before another body is found.

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

Science Fiction & Fantasy Literary Criticism
Author: John Garth
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation.

Flames of Love (Love in Bloom: The Remingtons)

Women’s Sagas
Author: Melissa Foster
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Flames of Love (Love in Bloom: The Remingtons)

As one of New York’s Finest, firefighter Cash Ryder is always prepared. When a woman’s car skids off the side of a mountain during a snowstorm, he’s there to rescue her. Cash is totally focused on the woman’s well-being, but within minutes of getting her to safety, he realizes that he’s nowhere near prepared for the heat that rolls off of sensual, smart-mouthed, and stubborn Siena Remington.

As a model, Siena Remington has dated some of the wealthiest, most handsome men in the industry, and she’s made peace with the idea that most men are just looking for eye candy and they wouldn’t know how to romance a woman to save their lives. When she’s rescued by a tall, handsome stranger, she thinks that maybe, just maybe, she’s found her own real-life romantic fairy tale–until he opens his mouth and everything that comes out is gruff, ornery, and aggravatingly sexy.

The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future

Genetic Disorders & Diseases
Author: Joselin Linder
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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future

When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered a deadly blockage in her liver. Struggling to find  an explanation for her unusual condition, Joselin compared the medical chart of her father—who had died from a mysterious disease, ten years prior—with that of an uncle who had died under similarly strange circumstances. Delving further into the past, she discovered that her great-grandmother had displayed symptoms similar to hers before her death. Clearly, this was more than a fluke.

Setting out to build a more complete picture of the illness that haunted her family, Joselin approached Dr. Christine Seidman, the head of a group of world-class genetic researchers at Harvard Medical School, for help. Dr. Seidman had been working on her family’s case for twenty years and had finally confirmed that fourteen of Joselin’s relatives carried something called a private mutation—meaning that they were the first known people to experience the baffling symptoms of a brand new genetic mutation.

Secrets of Nanreath Hall: A Novel

Historical Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Alix Rickloff
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Secrets of Nanreath Hall: A Novel

Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive parents Graham and Prue Handley have been killed in an air raid. She desperately needs their advice as she’s been assigned to the military hospital that has set up camp inside her biological mother’s childhood home—Nanreath Hall. Anna was just six-years-old when her mother, Lady Katherine Trenowyth, died. All she has left are vague memories that tease her with clues she can’t unravel. Anna’s assignment to Nanreath Hall could be the chance for her to finally become acquainted with the family she’s never known—and to unbury the truth and secrets surrounding her past.

Dragon Springs Road: A Novel

Asian American Literature
Author: Janie Chang
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Dragon Springs Road: A Novel

In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong—Eurasian—and faces a lifetime of contempt from both Chinese and Europeans. Without her mother’s protection, she can survive only if the estate’s new owners, the Yang family, agree to take her in.

Jialing finds allies in Anjuin, the eldest Yang daughter, and Fox, an animal spirit who has lived in the haunted courtyard for centuries. But Jialing’s life as the Yangs’ bondservant changes unexpectedly when she befriends a young English girl who then mysteriously vanishes.

Always hopeful of finding her long-lost mother, Jialing grows into womanhood during the tumultuous early years of the Chinese republic, guided by Fox and by her own strength of spirit, away from the shadows of her past.

The Eleventh Hour (Secret of the Rose Book 1)

Christian Historical Fiction
Author: Michael Phillips
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The Eleventh Hour (Secret of the Rose Book 1)

In 1930s pre-war Prussia, Baron von Dortmann lives an idyllic life with his daughter Sabina. A devoted gardener and father, the Baron teaches his daughter powerful lessons about life, creation, and Gods love during treasured walks in the estates beautiful gardens. But Sabina is growing up, and the Baron’s beloved Prussia is changing. Now a beautiful young woman, Sabina has caught the eye of a handsome young American, Matthew. Meanwhile, a cloud is gathering on the horizon as the Nazis seize power in neighboring Germany. As he strives to protect his family and follow his own moral compass, Baron von Dortmann will face heart-wrenching decisions, with only Gods guidance to light the way.

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