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The Inn at Dolphin Bay (Dolphin Bay Novel Book 1) (affiliate link)
A scandalous affair. An old man with an attitude problem. A family inn crumbling to the ground.
Will she ever survive the summer?
Tana Martin was living her best life… until suddenly, she wasn’t.
When she catches her husband with a woman half her age, her friend suggests that she needs a little “you time” – meaning swimsuits, Mai Tais, and golden-sand beaches, not a cantankerous old man who needs a caretaker and a family inn that has fallen into a state of disrepair.
She should be celebrating her silver wedding anniversary. Instead, she’s gearing up for the worst summer of her life.
The Housewife Assassin’s Handbook (Housewife Assassin Book 1) (affiliate link)
Every desperate housewife wants an alias. Donna Stone has one – and it happens to be government-sanctioned.
But Donna earned it the hard way: Her husband was killed the day she delivered their third child.
To avenge her husband’s murder, Donna leads a secret life as an assassin.
But espionage makes for strange bedfellows, and brings new meaning to that old adage, “Honey, I’m home….”
Standstill (Jake Tanner Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the oppressive London summer heat, the unthinkable happens: a terror attack strikes the outskirts of the city.
Three airport-bound trains are brought to a standstill. Thousands are held hostage, trapped inside their carriages, with hours to spare until the explosives onboard detonate.
To save them, DC Jake Tanner must find the courage to stand up to one of the darkest evils he’s ever encountered.
But first, he must play a part in their twisted games.
And the rules are simple: follow them, and no one gets hurt. Break them, and the consequences will be fatal.
Dreams (Dreams Trilogy Book 1) (affiliate link)
The mind has a heart of its own.
Aurora’s life is perfectly mundane. She has a job she hates, an ex that ran her out of her hometown, and the highlight of her week is Monday breakfast with her best friend. That changes when Aurora starts dreaming of a woman. A woman who Aurora falls head over heels for. She knows the romance that develops between them isn’t real, but the dreams make life so much better that she hurries to bed every night…until she discovers that her dream woman isn’t imaginary. Her name is Leela and she is in a coma.
Aurora must risk everything—her job, apartment, friends, and her sanity—to save Leela, a woman she’s only ever met in her mind. But in order to help, Aurora must convince Leela’s neurologist and parents that she and Leela have a bond that transcends the physical plane.
Annihilation! (Outcast Starship Book 1) (affiliate link)
When Eli Bryce stumbles upon a plot to attack Earth, he shrugs it off. He’s not in the Earth-saving business.
Two decades after he was banished from his homeworld for a disaster that still haunts him, Eli and his crew of misfits struggle to survive on the outskirts of the galaxy.
But when Eli, goaded by his estranged daughter, rescues a near-dead castaway with an impossible secret, everything changes.
Eli might have no choice but to get back into the Earth-saving business.
Worse, he might have to grow a conscience.
Come As You Are: A Gen X Romance (Bluebird Basin Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’ll win her heart one mixtape at a time.
Ashley Cooke will do just about anything to save her struggling ski hill. When she hires the men from a local sober living home for the season to cut costs, even she thinks she’s gone too far. With her credit cards maxed, her cheating ex-husband intent on buying the mountain out from under her, and record-breaking snow in the forecast, she can’t afford to be distracted by the six-foot-tall bearded and tattooed sober living home owner moving onto her mountain.
Recovering addict and ex-grunge rocker Matthew Madigan has devoted every minute of the last decade to the men residing at his sober living home. When he meets tightly wound and adorably flustered Ashley, desires he’s put on the back burner for years start to simmer.
Beaches: A Novel (affiliate link)
The Breakfast Bible: 100+ Favorite Recipes to Start the Day (affiliate link)
Start your morning off right with this collection of over one hundred amazing breakfast and brunch recipes.
When the first decision of your day is what to have for breakfast, the easy recipes and inspired ideas provided in The Breakfast Bible will make your choice an effortless one. With more than one hundred recipes covering every part of the morning meal—from eggs and bacon to fruits and grains, breads and pastries, healthful bowls, griddle cakes, morning beverages, and more—there are plenty of options to wake up your day.
Featuring a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary breakfast recipes, easy-to-customize options for morning favorites, simple tips and techniques, and gluten-free alternatives, The Breakfast Bible has everything you need to prepare the most important meal of the day.
On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, “We’re heading into nut country today.” That day’s events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who hated Kennedy and everything he stood for, led by a powerful group of ultraconservatives who would eventually remake the Republican party in their own image.
In Nut Country, Edward H. Miller tells the story of that transformation, showing how a group of influential far-right businessmen, religious leaders, and political operatives developed a potent mix of hardline anticommunism, biblical literalism, and racism to generate a violent populism—and widespread power. Though those figures were seen as extreme in Texas and elsewhere, mainstream Republicans nonetheless found themselves forced to make alliances, or tack to the right on topics like segregation.
On Fragile Waves (affiliate link)
The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award winning author, traces one girl’s migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home.
Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia.
As the family journeys from Pakistan to Indonesia to Nauru, heading toward a hope of home, they must rely on fragile and temporary shelters, strangers both mercenary and kind, and friends who vanish as quickly as they’re found.
Under a Spitfire Sky (affiliate link)
It’s 1944, and Florence is a talented engineer in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, patching up planes to make sure that the brave Spitfire pilots of Cottisbourne airbase return safely day after day.
When she befriends the new squadron leader – shy, handsome Siegfried – it seems that romance might blossom under the war-torn skies. But Florence is nursing a broken heart and a terrible secret, which might destroy her one chance of happiness…
Meanwhile, a new plane is being developed that could turn the tide of the war, but Florence fears there is traitor is in their midst, putting Siegfried – and the whole country – in terrible danger. Can Florence save her Spitfire boys, and her own heart?
Steel Resolve (Cardwell Ranch: Montana Legacy Book 1) (affiliate link)
Sometimes you can go home againIt’s just not always safe…
Mary Cardwell Savage never meant to send that letter to her ex, Chase Steele. How could she know her words would bring the gorgeous cowboy back to Big Sky, Montana—with an unstable and dangerous stalker following close behind? Now Chase wants to prove that their love deserves a second chance. And this time, nothing will keep him from his heart’s desire…not even a killer.
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