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Butterface (The Hartigans Book 1) (affiliate link)
It’s true. I’m not what most people would call “pretty” and, well, high school was rough. Fast forward ten years and life is good…
Until a bunch of jerks think it’s hilarious to put the “butterface” (AKA me) on a wedding Kiss Cam with the hottest guy ever—and that old humiliation hits hard.
I recognize him immediately. The sexiest cop in Waterbury and totally out of my league.
But then he kisses me. And we totally forget the room, the crowd, everything.
Then he tells everyone we’ve been dating for months.
Fast Food (Junk Food USA: “Paying” For What You Eat Book 1) (affiliate link)
Do you find you or your family eating mostly at fast food restaurants? Have you ever wondered why a salad costs more than a hamburger? What is the price you actually pay in terms of your health?
The U.S. Government is aiding the obesity epidemic taking place in the US through their farm subsidy program. In comparing the typical American fast food diet versus the Mediterranean Diet (which has been proven to decrease heart disease and cancer) the book offers solutions to escape the fast food merry-go-round, leading you and your family to better health.
Bailey Devlin is convinced the stork was drunk the day he dropped her in her mother’s lap. Mom is blond and beautiful; Bailey redheaded and gawky. Mom’s heart longs for her missing-in-action husband; Bailey’s for a man she can count on. Now mom is off looking for her one true love, while Bailey is about to realize her dream and become a lawyer. Yet, as the bar exam looms, there is mischief afoot in the heavens. According to her horoscope, the man who will change her life is coming to her door. The man who shows up isn’t even close to one she has dreamed of, but Bailey is about to find out the hard way that he is the man she needs.
Love, Lies & Consequences (affiliate link)
“I can’t marry you…” A sentiment and decision intended to set her life on the right course had the opposite effect.
Raegan was all set to live a life free of sexual impurities and she thought she had that area of her life under control until she met Rico, who challenged her character. Raegan had come to believe that Rico could be the one until Caleb, her college love, comes back into her life, causing her to question everything she knew about Rico. However, it may be a little too late. Raegan was in too deep. She begins to make a series of choices that lead to consequences she wasn’t prepared to face.
Will her choices ruin her second chance with Caleb?
Bloodlines (Guardian of Empire City Book 1) (affiliate link)
Welcome to Empire City, where magic and technology co-exist, and humanity endures behind walls of stone and spell-forged steel. A place where danger lurks around every street corner, and anything is possible.
When former hotshot homicide detective Tom “Doc” Holliday is recruited to join Special Crimes, he trades in his boring desk job for a second chance to do what he does best: hunt down killers.
And his first case doesn’t disappoint—a murdered woman with a bogus past, her body drained of blood, and two eyewitnesses wasted on the designer drug goldjoy claiming a vampire did it. Armed with a fickle clairvoyance and saddled with a team whose past is as checkered as his own, Holliday embarks upon an investigation through a dystopian landscape filled with bio-engineered vampires, interdimensional shadow parasites, and the magical masterminds behind it all.
The Sleep Habit: Simple, Natural, and Healthy Steps to Sleep Like a Baby in Just 3 Days (affiliate link)
✓ Are your evening routines and bedroom optimized to get the best sleep?
Cancer-survivor, school principal, behavior specialist, teacher, mother, wife . . . these are a few of the roles author Stephanie Ewing fills each day. Have you spent time thinking about the number of roles you have in this beautiful, messy, complicated life? It’s no wonder we have sleep problems!
The research on sleep is pretty clear. For most of us, there are a core set of behaviors that work cohesively to provide our bodies the necessary biological, physiological and psychological ingredients for sleep. As an individual, it is up to us to know the behaviors, and practice them in conjunction with one another to find our personalized sleep recipe.
What the Duke Desires (The Duke’s Men Book 1) (affiliate link)
My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies) (affiliate link)
In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind YA fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.
At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane gets to be Queen of England.
Like that could go wrong.
Outside Looking In: A Novel (affiliate link)
In this stirring and insightful novel, T.C. Boyle takes us back to the 1960s and to the early days of a drug whose effects have reverberated widely throughout our culture: LSD.
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug’s possibilities such that their “research” becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration of mind expansion, group dynamics, and communal living.
Guilt by Association (Rachel Knight Book 1) (affiliate link)
Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight is a tenacious, wise-cracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city’s most elite division. When her colleague, Jake, is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toughest case: the assault of a young woman from a prominent family.
But she can’t stop herself from digging deeper into Jake’s death, a decision that exposes a world of power and violence and will have her risking her reputation — and her life — to find the truth.
It’s not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can’t believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne, the eccentric 101-year-old sea captain who will take him to a lighthouse on a salty piece of land that will change his life forever.
From a lovely sunset sail in Punta Margarita to a wild spring-break foam party in San Pedro, Tully encounters an assortment of treasure hunters, rock stars, sailors, seaplane pilots, pirates, and even a ghost or two.
Once & Future (affiliate link)
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (The Frost Files Book 1) (affiliate link)
Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she’s got telekinetic powers — a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she’s normal for once.
But then a body turns up at the site of her last job — murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She’s got 24 hours to clear her name – and it’s not just her life at stake. If she can’t unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that’s on the brink of exploding . .
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