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Polar Bear Dawn (Bernadette Callahan Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Detective Callahan knows she’s right. But her superiors are intent on silencing her before she can prove murders in Canada and Alaska are connected. Will she stand her ground or be fired from the force?
As the media and police fight over the optics of the murders, Callahan’s instincts tell her there’s something more involved. The detective she reaches out to in Alaska is being pressured to wrap up his case in a tidy murder/suicide. She feels pressure from their bosses to come to conclusions that aren’t right. Will she bend under the orders of her superiors, or follow her convictions?
Callahan discovers a series of unlikely suspects. A Chemistry Professor with a grudge against big oil, a Mexican low life gangster and Wall Street Executives. How are they connected?
Sprinkles and Sea Serpents (Sugar Shack Witch Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
They say you can’t go home again … oh, if only that were true.
Thanks to a series of unfortunate events—and one backstabbing frenemy—home is exactly where I’m headed. Back to Winterspell, the small community in Eastern Washington, where magic runs rampant and humans are outlawed. Faster than you can say hocus pocus I’m unpacking my bags and settling into the guest room of my parents’ house, trying to ignore the creeping sensation that I’ll never break free again.
The one thing Winterspell has going for it is the sweets shop in the center of town, a bakery filled with magical creations designed to enchant the tastebuds and charm even the pickiest of connoisseurs. Luckily for me, I get the friends and family discount since my parents own the famous Sugar Shack. If I want room and board I have to frost cupcakes and sling macaroons with the rest of the fam.
Cyprus Kiss (Ash Carter Near East Crime-Thriller Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Secret Life of a Debutante (Determined Debutantes Book 1) (affiliate link)
Eloisa Holt is not the type of woman to wander London on her own. In fact, she’s not even the type of woman to consider such a thing. After all, her governesses hailed her as a paragon of everything proper. But when a nude painting of her mother scandalizes the ton, Eloisa must stop more paintings from being displayed. This debutante is desperate.
Lord Cornelius Chichester knows the first rule of being a best friend:
Don’t fall in love with your best friend’s sister.
Unfortunately, that rule becomes difficult to follow when he discovers Eloisa by herself at an indecent hour.
Coming Home to Dream Valley (affiliate link)
When Sammy Jo heads to Dream Valley to marry eligible bachelor Marcus Hudson, on the surface, it appears she has everything.
Previously unlucky in love and desperate for a new beginning, she is hopeful for a gorgeous new life.
But this is no ordinary match made in heaven and when Sammy learns the reason behind the proposal, she has a very difficult decision to make.
If she marries the man she loves, she could destroy Dream Valley and if she walks away, it will be nursing a broken heart.
Becoming His (affiliate link)
On her own since her parents died when she was fourteen. Sophia isn’t used to being around other shifters. In fact, the one time she did run into a pack, she met her mate – and he rejected her.
Sophia’s fended for herself all these years, and now, in Michigan, she’s desperate to create a new life for herself. The only problem? It seems her mate has found her, and this time, he isn’t letting her go.
Masen Black is the Alpha wolf of the Northern Territories. He’s accustomed to getting everything he wants – until Sophia. Walking away from his mate when she was just a teenager nearly destroyed him. Now that she’s back, he’ll do everything in his power to possess her. To own her. To make her his Luna.
The one thing Masen doesn’t count on – Sophia not bending to his will.
The Last of the Stanfields (affiliate link)
A Drinking Life: A Memoir (affiliate link)
In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker.
Babel-17 (affiliate link)
At twenty-six, Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies. Almost telepathically perceptive, she has written poems that capture the mood of mankind after two decades of savage war. Since the invasion, Earth has endured famine, plague, and cannibalism—but its greatest catastrophe will be Babel-17.
Sabotage threatens to undermine the war effort, and the military calls in Rydra. Random attacks lay waste to warships, weapons factories, and munitions dumps, and all are tied together by strings of sound, broadcast over the radio before and after each accident. In that gibberish Rydra recognizes a coherent message, with all of the beauty, persuasive power, and order that only language possesses. To save humanity, she will master this strange tongue. But the more she learns, the more she is tempted to join the other side . . .
The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the “Unsinkable” Ship—Titanic (affiliate link)
Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember was a landmark work that recounted the harrowing events of April 14, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, a book that inspired a classic movie of the same name. In The Night Lives On, Lord takes the exploration further, revealing information about the ship’s last hours that emerged in the decades that followed, and separating myths from facts.Was the ship really christened before setting sail on its maiden voyage? What song did the band play as water spilled over the bow? How did the ship’s wireless operators fail so badly, and why did the nearby Californian, just ten miles away when the Titanic struck the iceberg, not come to the rescue? Lord answers these questions and more, in a gripping investigation of the night when approximately 1,500 victims were lost to the sea.
Cruel Death (affiliate link)
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