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Author: Carter, Solomon
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Private Investigator Mysteries

A ONCE FAMOUS ARTIST LIVES IN CONSTANT FEAR OF ATTACK, RECEIVING REGULAR CODED THREATS WHEREVER HE GOES. DETECTIVES EVA ROBERTS AND DAN BRADLEY ARE HIRED TO CRACK THE EVIL CODE AND UNCOVER THE IDENTITY OF THE CULPRIT BEFORE THE ARTIST IS FINALLY KILLED.

But the private detectives face worse problems. Tough cases and past indiscretions have taken their toll – Eva and Dan have finally broken up. Dan is sleeping wherever he can find a bed, and the timing really couldn’t be worse – because his solo drugs case is finally reaching boiling point.

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Author: Leverone, Allan
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Espionage Thrillers

PARALLAX VIEW
The assignment is simple: deliver a top-secret communiqué from Moscow to the White House. But a shadowy and powerful group will stop at nothing to prevent that delivery, and soon Tracie Tanner is running for her life, determined to complete her mission while protecting an innocent civilian caught in the crossfire…

ALL ENEMIES
When U.S. Secretary of State J. Robert Humphries is kidnapped out of his own home, Tracie Tanner is tasked with tracking down the Soviet operatives holding him and recovering him safely.

There’s only one problem: Tracie isn’t convinced the KGB is the guilty party. Soon she’s risking her life and her career on a hunch that just might get her and Humphries killed and result in the start of World War Three…

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Author: Beckett, Lynlee North
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Special Occasion Cooking

Dress your cupcakes to impress!

Learn how to create dazzling do-it-yourself fondant toppers with cupcake connoisseur and party pro Lynlee North Beckett, creator of Lynlees.com.

Lynlee has compiled over 80 fun and festive cupcake toppers for any occasion or theme, and she breaks down each tutorial with step-by-step photos and instructions. In addition to each tutorial, you’ll learn:

–fondant basics
–decorative coloring & painting
–cutting tools & techniques
–cupcake-making tips & tricks

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Author: Chase, Samantha
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Holiday Romance

There are two things Bailey Walsh loves: Christmas and helping animals. Working for the Silver Bell Falls pet hospital should mean she’s living her dream. And she would be if it weren’t for Dr. Maguire, the pet hospital’s very own grinch, who’s acting anything but merry.

Gavin Maguire just wants to look after the animals in his care, not have to worry about putting up holiday decorations. But when you live in Silver Bell Falls the holiday season comes with high expectations—expectations he’s more than happy to ignore even if it costs him his assistant.

Just as Bailey is getting ready to leave the pet hospital without a backwards glance, she finds herself snowed in with Dr. Grinch. But somewhere between saving a litter of puppies and waiting for the storm to pass, they find more than just holiday spirit.

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Author: Anne, Alexis
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Contemporary Romance

A small island in Florida, three brothers, and one summer they never forgot…

I take people’s dreams and turn them into reality. As the most famous home renovator on television, I take broken piles of bricks and beams and turn them into forever homes.

That’s why it sucks so hard to see my dream and know that I can’t make it mine.

But now London Anderson, the girl I fell in love with and who has haunted me since high school, has just inherited her grandmother’s falling-down house. And no one’s better with broken dreams than me.

I swear it’s fate finally throwing us back together and I’m not going to waste this chance. I’m putting it all out there. I’ll get down and dirty, use all the tools I have, whatever it takes to convince her that our first love can be our forever love.

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Author: Rayner, Sarah
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Psychological Pathologies

Drawing on her own experience of anxiety disorder and recovery, Sarah Rayner shares her insights into this extremely common and often distressing condition with compassion and humour. She reveals the seven elements that commonly contribute to anxiety including adrenaline, negative thinking and fear of the future, and explains what causes worry and panic to become such a problem for many of us.

Illustrated by examples and photographs from the author’s own life and backed by an online support group, since its launch in 2014 this companion to mental good health has helped thousands of sufferers across the world. Now it’s been updated for 2020 to include an extra section on coping with self isolation and health anxiety in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, plus dozens of bite-size suggestions from readers and group members who share what’s worked for them.

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Author: Penn, J.F.
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Thrillers

INDIA. When a nun is burned alive on the sacred ghats of Varanasi and the stone she carried is stolen, an international hunt is triggered for the relics of the early church.

Morgan Sierra is forced into the search when her sister and niece are held hostage. She’s helped by Jake Timber from the mysterious ARKANE. Morgan must risk her own life to save her family, but will she ultimately be betrayed?

From ancient Christian sites in Spain, Italy and Israel to the far reaches of Iran and Tunisia, Morgan and Jake must track down the stones through the myths of the early church before the fires of evil are summoned again.

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Author: Cannell, Dorothy
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Traditional Detective Mysteries

In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton, who insists on bringing her family’s “ornamental hermit” to live on the estate.

Suddenly everyone wants to visit Mullings to glimpse this mysterious figure. Strange but harmless, thinks Florence Norris, the family’s longstanding housekeeper. But events take a sinister turn with the arrival of sudden, violent death—and suddenly the hermit doesn’t seem so harmless after all…

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Author: Orman, Suze
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Retirement Planning

Retirement today is more complex than ever before. It is most definitely not your par­ents’ retirement. You will have to make deci­sions that weren’t even part of the picture a generation ago. Without a clear-cut path to manage the money you’ve saved, you may feel like you’re all on your own.

Except you’re not—because Suze Orman has your back.

Suze is America’s most recognized per­sonal finance expert for a reason. She’s been dispensing actionable advice for years to people seeking financial security. Now, in The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+, she gives you the no-nonsense advice and practical tools you need to plan wisely for your retirement in today’s ever-changing landscape. You’ll find new rules for downsizing, spending wisely, delaying Social Security benefits, and more-starting where you are right now.

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Author: Jewett, Roger, Greenfield, Irving A
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Historical Thrillers

1945. 26-year-old Lieutenant Commander Jacob Miller is now on his second combat tour in the Western Pacific. He’s survived the Battle of Midway and been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. But now the war is grinding away at him. And another bloody battle is always just around the corner…

Commander Warren Troost is determined to prove himself worthy of his family’s outstanding naval legacy. He’s already earned a Navy Cross for his bravery at Pearl Harbor, but now he has to do all he can just to stay alive…

Submarine commander Tony Trapasso has been liberated from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. He’s been given leave, but he knows it won’t be long before the need to serve his country calls him back into the action…

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Author: Faye , Jennifer
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Holiday Fiction

Kate Taylor knows what she wants in life: to one day run her family’s candle business, which is at the heart of the close-knit community of Bayberry, Vermont. But the company isn’t doing well.

Wesley Adams is on the fast track to be an assistant vice president at his financial firm in Manhattan. Before the promotion is announced, he’s sent to this small town from his past to do an analysis of the candle company.

He doesn’t expect to bump into his childhood crush, Kate, and when he does, sparks fly. As he spends time in Bayberry, he falls for the town’s Christmas traditions—and for her. But he has a responsibility to submit an honest report. Will it extinguish Kate’s dreams…along with any chance they have for a future together?

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Author: Rector, John
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Crime Thrillers

Welcome to Beaumont Cove, a slowly decaying tourist town at the edge of the world, and the place where Maggie James’s worst fears for her estranged twin sister, Lilly, have come true.

Lilly is dead, and Maggie has arrived to identify her body.

Lilly’s husband, Mike, is in custody for her murder. With his long history of abuse, no one in town is surprised at the inevitable end to their stormy marriage, least of all Maggie. All she wants is to clean up her sister’s affairs, see Mike punished, and get out of Beaumont Cove.

With the help of the local sheriff, a retired private investigator, and a strange but friendly carnival psychic, Maggie begins to uncover the truth about what really happened to her sister. But the truth comes at a price, and soon Maggie finds herself walking a dark path toward the same deadly trap that killed Lilly.

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Author: Speck, Daniel
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Historical Romance
Milan, 2014. Julia, a young and brilliant German designer, is about to launch the fashion show that could bring the breakthrough success she has sacrificed so much to achieve. All her dreams for the future are on the brink of reality—until an unknown past comes to find her. A grandfather she never knew existed approaches her with an astonishing claim. Julia’s father, believed dead for decades, is still alive. As a great lie is revealed, Julia embarks on a journey to uncover the lost pieces of her past. It takes her on a tour through Italy—from Milan to Naples to Sicily, back three generations to an immigrant heritage that struggled to build new roots in Germany after the war, and to secrets that have remained hidden for sixty years.

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Author: Bladon, Deborah
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Contemporary Romance

I flew from my home in California to Manhattan to clean the slate.

I’m determined to bury my past once and for all.

There’s no way in hell I could have predicted what I would find in my Madison Avenue apartment.

I haven’t lived there in seven years. I handed the keys to the place to my best friend the day I left town.

Apparently, he gave an extra set to a gorgeous woman. I find her soaking wet and covered in a towel in my guest bathroom.

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