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Guiding Emily: A Tale of Love, Loss, and Courage (affiliate link)
Emily Main had it all: a high-powered career with a leading technology giant and a handsome fiancé bounding up the corporate ladder. Their island wedding and honeymoon were idyllic-until a tragic accident causes her retinas to detach.Her well-ordered life is shattered as all treatments are unsuccessful and she slips into blindness. How will those around her cope with her tragedy? Can she rebuild her life in this most unwelcome, new normal?Meanwhile, a black lab puppy named Garth fulfills his destiny to become that most esteemed of all creatures: a guide dog.Guiding Emily is a heartwarming tale of love, loss, and courage as Garth and Emily make their way to each other.
How to Start a Successful Airbnb Business: Quit Your Day Job and Earn Full-time Income (affiliate link)
The secret to earning a six-figure income without having to work your butt off.
When you think about living your dream life, what comes to mind?
Does it include spending most of your waking hours in front of a computer, answering emails from your demanding boss and only living it up on weekends?
Or does it consist of owning your own time, pursuing things you’re passionate about, and still earning more than enough to indulge in your favorite activities?
Unless you’re certifiably insane, you definitely answered the latter. Who wouldn’t want to get away from the drudgery of employee life and become the boss of their own life?
This is easier said than done, though.
Mira James Bundle, Books 1-4 (affiliate link)
The day Mira James’ family secret became public, the shame crushed her. She fled the small town where everyone knew her business and reinvented herself in the big city, building a life short on friends but long on emotional safety. When she walks in on her bass-playing boyfriend tuning another woman’s instrument, though, the life she’s carefully crafted comes crashing down. She’s that abandoned girl all over again, fleeing to a tiny town very much like the one she’d escaped.
There, she’s shocked to discover a wonderful job as a librarian, great friends, and Johnny, the kind, uber-sexy gardener who seems fated to be her one true love. It’s too bad about the clock ticking on her stay.
A Sinister Slice of Murder (Whispering Pines Mystery Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
A Haunted Inn … a Ghostly Séance …
and a Tea Room full of scrumptious delicacies!
Jessie Delacroix leaves the hustle and hassle of a new career as an assistant investigator for a law firm in Savannah to return to her roots in the small tourist town of Whispering Pines. The 25-year-old dynamo is not prepared for the ghosts who await her there in the haunted Bed & Breakfast and Tea Room that she inherited and now must operate.
Not only does she find the spirits of those she loved long ago, but a sinister murder occurs just one day after her arrival. Is this a sign of malicious spirits…or foul play of another sort? The police are stumped, so it’s up to Jessie, and her little beagle, Arthur, to uncover the surprising answer – with a little help from her supernatural Granny and a mystical pawnbroker.
Goddesses Fart Too: A modern guide to spiritual enlightenment for increased happiness, patience, and inner peace (affiliate link)
Have you ever looked at perfectly put-together, organized women and felt totally inadequate? Like somehow you’ll never match up?
Do you ever feel like your days pass you by and you’re not living up to your full potential? Are you desperate to find more time for you so you can be better in all areas of your life?
Here’s a secret:
You CAN have all you desire. You can have more time and live your life with more intention. You can BE the woman you’ve always wanted to be.
In fact, you already are her – you just need to find her.
In this book, international yoga teacher and coach Crystal Gray gives a framework for working through your insecurities and fears. Get the tools you need to step into your goddess power and remember who you are and why you are here.
The Last Beekeeper: Vespling Book 1 (affiliate link)
Sometimes your safe place… is not.
When murder strikes a remote community, a reclusive beekeeper uncovers a horrifying secret that could destroy humanity.
Jim Parker, a honeybee expert, has retreated to a small island in Lake Michigan with his teenage daughter after a terrible family tragedy. He longs to hide from an increasingly dangerous world.
In the midst of a Global Bee Crisis, bees everywhere are dying and the food supply teeters on the brink of collapse. Pollination now relies on powerful mega-corporations known as Beelords.
But this island is not the haven Jim once thought.
Deadly Pretender: The Double Life of David Miller (affiliate link)
David Miller had a dream job and a beautiful family. But one perfect life wasn’t enough. So he pretended to be an attorney, then a CIA agent. And he secretly married another woman. He juggled it all quite well—until the day his two wives found out about each other. Miller groped for ways to hold on to his finances and reputation. But when he tried using a gun to silence his second wife, his carefully constructed facade of power and wealth exploded.
In Deadly Pretender, New York Times–bestselling author Karen Kingsbury dives into the tangled world of deceit, greed, and lust to reveal what drove a seemingly upright citizen to live a double life, and then, to commit the unthinkable.
Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, No. 8) (affiliate link)
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two Boxed Set (affiliate link)
A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals are all most pleasant diversions. In these Golden Age whodunits, “Lord Peter can hardly be spared from the ranks of the great detectives of the printed page” (The New York Times).
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: On Armistice Day, a wealthy general dies in his club, surrounded by fellow veterans—while across town his sister also dies suspiciously, throwing a half-million-pound inheritance into turmoil. Now club member Lord Peter Wimsey must fight an uphill battle to solve the case.
The Wedding Photo (affiliate link)
Wedding photographer Jenna Eldridge has never looked at her best friend Charlie, as anything more than that–a friend. Until she sees his expression in a picture she took–and suddenly wonders if there might be something more there?
Charlie is a cop, like her father was, and when he died on the job, she swore she’d never date a cop. And she and Charlie are such good friends, she wouldn’t want to risk losing their friendship. But when they agree to a pretend relationship, to discourage a girl in his office, it starts to feel real. A little too real.
Lab Girl (affiliate link)
McNally’s Caper (The Archy McNally Series Book 4) (affiliate link)
Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir (affiliate link)
Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and her mother works as his receptionist. Jourdan offers to fill in for her mother until she gets better. But days turn into weeks as she trades her suits for scrubs and finds herself following hazmat regulations for cleaning up bodily fluids; maintaining composure when confronted with a splinter the size of a steak knife; and tending to the loquacious Miss Hiawatha, whose daily doctor visits are never billed. Most important, though, she comes to understand what her caring and patient father means to her close-knit community.
With great humor and great tenderness, Heart in the Right Place shows that some of our biggest heroes are the ones living right beside us.
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