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Pandora’s Lockbox: A Wild and Wacky Real Estate Memoir (affiliate link)
She signed up to sell homes for the rich and famous.
She didn’t realize they’d be mobsters, murderers, and mad hatters.
Nico Griffith buried her sadness under a gritty work ethic. Stunned when her husband of two decades requested a divorce for Mother’s Day, the nearly broke and newly single woman shook off the shock and dove into the heartless job market. Finding a fit for her maverick personality in the wacky world of real estate, she never imagined she’d become a sympathetic ear for clients to confess their deeds of love… and murder.
Changing names to protect the guilty, Nico Griffith has crafted a laugh-out-loud memoir that contains surprising insights into the tough grind of professional real estate. And as this true-life dark comedy unfolds, you’ll delight in the stream of absurdities while cheering for the hapless star and her agent sisterhood known as the Fab Five.
Firefly Junction Box Set (Books 1-3) (affiliate link)
With her social life and writing career in tatters at the ripe old age of thirty-five, Sunni Taylor decides to pack up her things and join her sisters, Lana and Emily, in the small town of Firefly Junction. Hoping to open a bed and breakfast, Sunni sets herself the task of refurbishing the rundown Cider Ridge Inn, a two-hundred-year-old house with a sordid past. In the meantime, she’s stuck writing dull human interest stories for the Junction Times. But when Sunni decides to bend the rules on her first newspaper assignment, she soon finds herself in her favorite place—right in the center of a murder investigation. Now if she can just steer clear of the cocky, irritating and far too appealing local detective, Brady “Jax” Jackson.
It isn’t long before Sunni discovers that avoiding Jax is a piece of cake compared to staying clear of the equally cocky, irritating and far too appealing two-hundred-year-old ghost haunting the halls of the Cider Ridge Inn.
The Lawyer (affiliate link)
When the cameras start flashing, and the red carpet rolls out, Michael Gresham is the lawyer who prefers to make his entry through the alley door. The kind of guy who would rather get it right than make it rich.
Meet Michael Gresham. The lawyer you want when the police come knocking, a never-say-quit criminal lawyer with a brother who won’t stay on his meds, and a client who appears for a deposition handcuffed to a streetwalker.
When the murder of a judge’s wife focuses on the judge, Michael takes on the case that could cost him his license and life. Watch from your front-row seat as Michael walks into this courtroom drama, a huge underdog with his client, a judge once feared and now jeered.
The Agatha Christie Collection (affiliate link)
This collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret Adversary
The Murder on the Links
The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
The Adventure of the “Western Star”
The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
The Mystery of the Hunter’s Lodge
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
The Case of the Missing Will
The Chocolate Box
The Veiled Lady
The Lost Mine
The Affair at the Victory Ball
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
The King of Clubs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Plymouth Express
The Submarine Plans
The Market Basing Mystery
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Complete Talba Wallis Series: Vol. 1-4 (affiliate link)
Wild Bread: Sourdough Reinvented (affiliate link)
The owner of the historic Barron Flour Mill completely reinvents the concept of healthier-for-you, naturally fermented sourdough.
Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work and sour-tasting, artisan-style-only loaves. In Wild Bread, MaryJane Butters’ quick and easy 1-minute 2x/day technique demonstrates the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured—everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat—for a whopping 295 recipes and 475 photographs.
Using her step-by-step method, every style of bread imaginable, including gluten-free, will loft with wild abandon without the purchase of a single packet of not-so-healthy, store-bought yeast. In nutritionally superior wild-yeast bread, fermentation triggers the release of vital nutrients and breaks down carbohydrates. In MaryJane’s world, there’s no such thing as too much bread because once you convert to slow-rise wild-bread making, that bagel you’ve been thinking about is more like a vitamin pill than a source of “carb-loaded” guilt.
Distorted (affiliate link)
Mallory Baldwin is a survivor. A former victim of human trafficking, she’s been given a second chance, yet not a night goes by that she doesn’t remember being a slave to weapons dealer Dante Torres. Despite being afraid of the dark and wary of strangers, Mallory is trying to rebuild her life by turning her tragedy into redemption.
To former Navy SEAL Tennyson Walker, Mallory seems nothing like the shattered woman he rescued two years ago, and he can’t help but be inspired by her strength and resilience. So when a stalker suddenly makes Mallory vulnerable once again, Tennyson steps up as her bodyguard to keep her safe.
Mallory and Tennyson’s mutual attraction can’t be ignored, but neither can Mallory’s suspicion that Tennyson is keeping a terrible secret about her past. As the nightmare closes in, it’s not only Mallory and Tennyson’s love that comes under fire but their very lives as well. Will their faith sustain them? Or will the darkness win once and for all?
Cooking with Fire: From Roasting on a Spit to Baking in a Tannur, Rediscovered Techniques and Recipes That Capture the Flavors of Wood-Fired Cooking (affiliate link)
The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus (affiliate link)
City of Flickering Light (affiliate link)
It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry.
At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth—iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating—and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn’t come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life.
Healthy Dish of the Day: 365 Recipes for every day of the year (affiliate link)
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