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The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly

Historical Fiction
Author: Kate Braithwaite
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The Girl Puzzle: A Story of Nellie Bly

Her published story is well known. But did she tell the whole truth about her ten days in the madhouse?Down to her last dime and offered the chance of a job of a lifetime at The New York World, twenty-three-year old Elizabeth Cochrane agrees to get herself admitted to Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum and report on conditions from the inside. But what happened to her poor friend, Tilly Mayard? Was there more to her high praise of Dr Frank Ingram than everyone knew?

Thirty years later, Elizabeth, known as Nellie Bly, is no longer a celebrated trailblazer and the toast of Newspaper Row.

29 (Twenty-Nine) (Twenty Nine Book 1)

Science Fiction & Dystopian Romance
Author: Nancy Pennick
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29 (Twenty-Nine) (Twenty Nine Book 1)

29 … It’s not just a number.
Allie Sanders finds the love of her life when the mysterious loner Lucas Montgomery walks into her English class. She is determined to find out what is behind his secretive nature. And so is her older brother, Doug, who is in the military. Learning more about him and falling for this mystery man, Allie knows she should walk away, but her heart refuses to let him go.
Find out the mystery behind the number 29 when reading this young adult sci-fi romance.

The Myth of the Garage

Business Technology Innovation
Author: Chip Heath
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The Myth of the Garage

From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage … and other minor surprises, a collection of the authors’ best columns for Fast Company magazine. There are 16 pieces in all, plus a previously unpublished piece entitled ‘The Future Fails Again’.
In Myth, the Heath brothers tackle some of the most (and least) important issues in the modern business world:

Jane Doe: Scarlett (The Jane Doe Books)

Political Thrillers & Suspense
Author: Kris Calvert
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Jane Doe: Scarlett (The Jane Doe Books)

Left as a newborn to die in a dumpster, she has no name.

Tossed from state run orphanages to a string of foster homes, she has no family.

Growing up hard, fast and street smart, she’s accomplished in hand to hand combat and accurate with a gun. With no money for college, she enlisted in the US Marine Corps out of high school and was quickly plucked from her unit when her sharp shooting and intellectual skills outshined her male counterparts.

With no known past, she is deemed a perfect fit to a task force Washington denies exists. A selective assassin for the United States government, Jane Doe tracks known terrorists on domestic soil.

No Simple Death: a gripping crime mystery (The Dublin Murder Mysteries Book 1)

Psychological Fiction
Author: Valerie Keogh
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No Simple Death: a gripping crime mystery (The Dublin Murder Mysteries Book 1)

When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a Dublin graveyard, suspicion immediately falls on a local woman, Edel Johnson, whose husband disappeared some months before. But then she disappears.

Evidence leads West to a small village in Cornwall, but when he checks in to an Inn, he finds Edel has arrived before him. Her explanation seems to make sense but as West begins to think his suspicions of her are unfounded, she disappears again.

Is she guilty? West, fighting an unsuitable attraction, doesn’t want to believe it. But the case against her is growing. Back in Dublin, his team uncover evidence of blackmail and illegal drugs involving Edel’s missing husband. When another man is murdered, she, once again, comes under suspicion.

As Deep as the Ocean (Blue Penguin Bay Book 1)

Romantic Comedy
Author: Serenity Woods
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As Deep as the Ocean (Blue Penguin Bay Book 1)

It was just a contract, a way to access the money tied up in her inheritance. It didn’t mean anything.

She knew she mustn’t think about Mac’s broad shoulders. About the intriguing tattoo that curled around his arm, how his muscular body gleamed when he worked in the warm sunshine, or how his ocean-blue eyes heated her from the inside out.

She mustn’t think about the stolen kiss, the way he’d slipped his arm around her waist to pull her against him. The soft touch of his lips on hers.

“It’ll be strictly business,” he repeated.

Yeah, right.

Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Humorous Fiction
Author: Rita Mae Brown
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Tail Gait: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia—a time for old friends to gather and bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town’s leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg “Ginger” McConnell and several members of UVA’s celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens to put all their lives in jeopardy.

When Professor McConnell is found murdered on the golf course the next day—gunned down in broad daylight by an unseen killer—no one can fathom a motive, let alone find a suspect. Just as Harry and her furry cohorts begin nosing into the case, however, a homeless UVA alum confesses to the crime.

Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 1)

Dark Fantasy Horror
Author: Fritz Leiber
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Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 1)

First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase “sword and sorcery” and helped birth an entire genre.

In “Induction,” in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother’s enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated “The Snow Women.” Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in “The Unholy Grail.”

Duff Bakes: Think and Bake Like a Pro at Home

Baking
Author: Duff Goldman
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Duff Bakes: Think and Bake Like a Pro at Home

Duff Goldman may dazzle fans with his breathtaking cake decorating, but behind the rigged-up gravity-defying cakes and fancy fondant is a true pastry chef who understands the fundamentals of making incredibly delicious baked goods at home.

In Duff Bakes, he truly gives home bakers the down-to-earth essentials they need for creating mouthwatering favorites. Inside you’ll find the perfect muffin recipe to eat straight while waiting for your morning bus, an easy pizza dough recipe for a quick weeknight dinner, and cookie recipes for every occasion.

Crystal Clear

Romance Short Reads
Author: Beverly Jenkins
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Crystal Clear

A safe, stable life should be the everything that teenaged Crystal ever wanted; but though she knows she should count her blessings, part of her wants to scream at all the rules! She loves her new life and family…but she misses her friends and being free.

People say you can never go back home, but Crystal thinks they’re wrong, and heads back to Dallas, to see what she left behind. But on the way, Crystal learns some home truths about the real meaning of home. Sometimes a journey backwards moves you forward…

Egg Shop: The Cookbook

Breakfast Cooking
Author: Nick Korbee
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Egg Shop: The Cookbook

For first-time restaurateurs Demetri Makoulis and Sarah Schneider and chef/partner Nick Korbee, eggs aren’t just an easy, protein-packed breakfast go-to, but an extraordinary complement to New York’s wealth of local produce and artisanal meats, grains, and cheeses. With Egg Shop anyone can create their delicious Egg Shop experience at home—whether it’s a quiet breakfast for one or a boozy brunch for twenty.

Inside you’ll find proper egg-cooking techniques as well as instructions on incorporating eggs into super-delicious dishes from the health-conscious to the decadent, using fresh, delicious ingredients: homemade seeded rye bread, the best-quality bacon, and the perfect melting cheese. After mastering the most common and useful egg cooking methods (scrambled, poached, fried) Nick Korbee teaches you how to unlock egg superpowers.

The Complete McAuslan

Historical Biographical Fiction
Author: George MacDonald Fraser
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The Complete McAuslan

George MacDonald Fraser’s hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division’s answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment, through the pages of McAuslan in the Rough. The final volume, The Sheikh and the Dustbin, pursues the career of the great incompetent as he shambles across North African and Scotland, swinging his right arm in time with his right leg and tripping over his untied laces.

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