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Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter takes on the case of her life–and her client’s.
Michael Jameson is a successful, forty-something, African American husband and father. And he’s just been charged with a 25-year-old cold case murder, a gang-related drug deal gone horribly wrong. Talon agrees to take the case, but the one question she needs answered is the one question Michael refuses to answer: Did he do it?
Michael insists it doesn’t matter. He’s not the same person he was twenty-five years ago. He’s built a new life in the intervening years, and nothing that happens now will bring the victim back. Instead, he poses a far more provocative question: Would the legal system reach back that far to take away everything built up by a successful White man?
Howards End & A Room with a View (paid link)
\A Room with a View – When Lucy Honeychurch embarks on a journey of a lifetime to Italy, little does she know that she would fall for the reckless man George, with whom she and co-traveller had exchanged the room with in Florence. In spite of her self-denial about her growing attraction to George Lucy knows in her heart that she cannot marry another man, let alone Cecil Vyse, who is not only downright obnoxious but also overbearing.
The Secret Adversary (paid link)
In 1919 London, demobilised soldier Tommy Beresford meets war volunteer Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley, both out of work and money. They form “The Young Adventurers, Ltd”, planning to hire themselves out with “no unreasonable offer refused.” They are overheard by Mr Whittington who follows Tuppence to offer her a position. He is shocked when she gives her name as “Jane Finn”. Whittington sends her away with some money, then disappears without a trace. They advertise for information regarding Jane Finn.
The advertisement yields two immediate replies. They first meet with Mr Carter, whom Tommy recognises as a leader in British intelligence from his war service. Mr Carter tells of Jane Finn aboard the RMS Lusitania when it sank in 1915.
Driving straight out of trouble and into paradise!
Harriet’s crazily successful business idea is under serious threat, and the danger seems to be coming from inside her own family. She whisks her sisterand her friends away to an exotic location to try and work out whose side they are on. It’s time to start damage limitation.
When the girls arrive at the glorious villa owned by Harriet’s maverick business partner Nikki, they find a gorgeous band and their sexy lead singer Max staying next door, out to entice their new neighbours into all kinds of trouble.
Dieters often resort to eating in small portions to maintain their healthy figure. They also try to trick their minds into thinking that the meal made them full. Unfortunately, the trick fails them most of the time. They end up craving for more food that has more calories and unhealthy ingredients.
This is where the advantage of eating Pho and other Vietnamese noodles becomes evident. Vietnamese Pho is healthy, hydrating, nutritious, and filling. Many now enjoy this dish even when they are on a diet. It is also one of the few low-calorie broths that can be prepared in advance.
The Stranded in Provence Mysteries, Books 1-3 (paid link)
So now forget solving crimes with DNA or accessing massive criminal databases. Likewise forget worrying about international terrorism, because that’s now gone too. But you can also forget spending hours on your smartphone, tablet, computer or even TV set.
On the other hand, the bistros are all still open, the produce and cheese markets still run every morning, bicycles dominate the wide avenues instead of cars, and for a budding amateur sleuth and now permanent ex-pat, any murders she stumbles across will have to be solved the old-fashioned way—with brain power and shoe leather.
Far From Over (paid link)
Gemma Garvey”s marriage has been over for ages. Gemma ended it and chose to be a single mother rather than continue the pretence that her marriage to work-obsessed David Hennessy was working. So why is she so upset when he marries bimbo Orla O”Neill? Is it that Orla”s thin and gorgeous whilst Gemma, at thirty-five, feels more like fifty-five? Or that David”s starting a new life whilst she”s facing middle age alone?
For Orla, being wife no. 2 isn”t all she”s imagined, always aware of how Gemma coped with a house, family and job while she can”t even cook dinner without setting the kitchen alight. To David, who has loved them both, there isn”t a problem. But actually the trouble”s just begun…
I don’t believe in Prince Charming, but when I met a handsome stranger on a rooftop his words intrigued me and his dares left nothing but temptation.
Then I learned the truth.
His name is Bryce Sexton. Media mogul, workaholic and a heart of stone. He’s broody AF and yet every woman in San Francisco wants him.
So why won’t he leave me alone?
Wherever I go, he’s there, trying to force his way into my world. What he doesn’t know is I already have a man in my life. A tiny redhead who loves Legos and Superheroes.
Myrren’s Gift: The Quickening Book One (paid link)
Destined by blood to command the Morgravian army, Wyl Thirsk assumes his awesome responsibility while barely a teenager when his father meets an early death — a duty that calls him to the royal palace of Stoneheart and into the company of the crown prince Celimus. Already a spiteful and cruel despot who delights in the suffering of others, Celimus forces his virtuous new general to bear witness to his depraved “entertainments.” But a kindness to a condemned witch in her final agonizing hours earns young Thirsk a miraculous bequest, at the same time inflaming the wrath of his liege lord.
With dread war looming in the north, Wyl must obey the treacherous dictates of Celimus and embark on a suicidal journey to the court of an ancient enemy — armed with a strange and awesome secret that could prove both boon and curse.
The Jazz Files (Poppy Denby Investigates Book 1) (paid link)
Aunt Bee and her friends have stirred up a cookbook that brings home all the flavor of “The Andy Griffith Show’s” Mayberry. Inside, you’ll find 300 recipes from your favorite characters – and their favorite local eateries.
From good old-fashioned, down-home cooking to some of Mayberry’s more unusual meals, you’ll discover favorite Mayberry-style dishes for all occasions, inspired by Aunt Bee’s unsurpassed talents in the kitchen and her special love for her family and friends. You’ll learn how to make:
Betty’s Breakfast Grits Casserole
Crooner’s Shrimp Creole.
Barney’s Hot Plate Chili
Helen’s Honor Rolls
Aunt Bee’s Fried Chicken
Opie’s Carrot-Top Cake
Thelma Lou’s Very Chocolate Cheesecake
And so much more!
Fen: Stories (paid link)
Featuring exclusive commentary from country superstars and chapter-length interviews with today’s biggest hit-writers on Music Row, this book chronicles the stories behind smash hits such as:
Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind”
Tim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying,” “Southern Voice,” and “Real Good Man”
George Jones’s “Tennessee Whiskey”
Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” and “Cowboy Casanova”
Brooks & Dunn’s “Ain’t Nothing ’Bout You”
Lady Antebellum’s “We Owned the Night” and “Just a Kiss”
Brad Paisley’s “Mud on the Tires,” “We Danced,” and “I’m Still a Guy”
Luke Bryan’s “Play It Again,” “Crash My Party,” and “That’s My Kind of Night”
The Oak Ridge Boys’s “American Made”
… and many more …
Memoirs (paid link)
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