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The Indistinguishable Con (affiliate link)
When one pathetic man’s greatest thrill in life was policing his school’s halls, something was bound to change.
Strait-laced Richard Simon is forced to abandon his mediocre life as a high school principal when he and his sarcastic brother, Chris, unintentionally reveal to the world their father, Walter, is not only a brilliant artist, but a cunning con-artist too. Now all three men are on the run from the FBI. This amusing story unfolds when the two estranged brothers decide to reunite for a day to help their sick father get his affairs in order. Overwhelmed by their father’s cluttered home and mountain of art supplies, they mistakenly donate a painting worth millions to Goodwill.
The Hope Cove series: Books 1-3 (The Hope Cove Boxset Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
The summer that changed everything…
Lizzie Beaumont has it all: a great career, a wealthy fiancé, and the wedding of her dreams just months away. But when her fiancé puts work before her again, she sets off for a week in the picturesque town of Hope Cove. She’s hoping for time away from the chaos to find herself.
Instead, she finds Max.
When the gorgeous guy next door asks her for decorating help, Lizzie finds herself all too eager to please. The week she expected to drag suddenly flies by, and before she knows it, she has to return to her other life. The life with the impending marriage and the fiancé she loves.
Carrot Cake and Concern (Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery Book 26) (affiliate link)
There’s a body at the allotment…
After years on a waitlist, Julia South Brown’s husband, Barker, has finally got his hands on the keys to his own allotment. And just in time for spring. Despite knowing little about gardening, the whole family lends their hands to create a thriving vegetable patch they can all reap the rewards from for years to come, but things take a turn with the discovery of a shallow grave among the carrots. With planting schedules and fertiliser quickly becoming the least of their worries, can Julia and her family bring peace back to Peridale’s glorious spring?
Sweet Attractions (Love Happens Book 1) (affiliate link)
She lives in her mother’s shadow. He’s a bad boy who’s beaten the odds. Can they put aside their pasts to save them town and ignite their passion?
Attorney Lydia Mason yearns to be known as more than the mayor’s daughter. So when her tiny municipality falls on tough times, she vows to step up and come to the rescue. Serendipity strikes when the money arrives in the form of a former classmate turned millionaire.
Ethan Young wasn’t born into wealth; he had to earn it. But despite leaving his judgmental community behind and becoming a real estate mogul, one glimpse of his old flame floods him with his only pleasant memories of high school. And now that he’s back with all the riches he’ll ever need, he’s torn between helping the stunning woman and facing the familiar barrage of spiteful rejection of his blue-collar roots.
Dying Breath (Jack Daniels Book 12) (affiliate link)
THREE HORRIFIC CRIMES. MULTIPLE TWISTED KILLERS.
His name is Phineas Troutt. He’s a problem solver.
Her name is Jack Daniels. She’s a homicide cop.
And then there’s Harry McGlade, private eye.
Phin is trying to find a lost girl.
Jack is on the trail of a serial killer.
Harry is looking for a runaway.
Little do they know, they’re all on the same case…
They call themselves The Club. A group of rich, privileged twenty-somethings who like to indulge in things that money can’t buy. Things like kidnapping, torture, and murder.
They think they can get away with it.
They’re wrong.
Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust (affiliate link)
Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary.
Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don’t agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it’s going, how it’s going to get there, and who needs to do what—is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation—which is exactly what Kahane provides in this groundbreaking and timely book.
The Right to Remain Single: A Novella (affiliate link)
Faced with the ghastly suitors her father approves, Thomasina Warren decides to lose her virginity so that no respectable man will have her. Who better to ruin her than handsome, charming James Blakely? But James is an honorable man and refuses point-blank. Humiliated, she resorts to outright refusal to wed, with the help of a ghost who scares her suitors away. But four years later, her father has arranged her marriage to a stodgy gentlemen whose only condition is that the ghost must be banished forever.
James Blakely never forgot the lovely girl who asked him to ruin her, and when he offers to get rid of the ghost, he thinks he’ll be doing a good deed. Instead, he is faced with the hostile Thomasina, her cowardly suitor, pigheaded father, lecherous cousin, an exorcist monk, and a ghost who warns of danger and deadly peril—and a few short days in which to convince Thomasina that with the right man, she might just want to marry after all.
Cry of the Hunter (The Martin Fallon Novels Book 1) (affiliate link)
Martin Fallon is a legend. After joining the IRA he shot up the ranks in the fight against the Brits in Northern Ireland with his tactical brilliance and devotion. Then, after a daring escape from prison, he simply disappeared. And that’s the way he wants it to stay. After years of hiding from the world in his books and the bottle, he thinks he’s out.
He’s wrong.
The IRA wants him to break Patrick Rogan, a high-ranking Ulster rebel, out of prison. Fallon reluctantly agrees, and soon finds himself swept back into the Troubles. But in his absence, the IRA has changed. Gone are those who wanted freedom, replaced by those like Rogan—bloodthirsty psychopaths who want nothing but power. And now Fallon must bring his own legend to life in order to bring them down.
“Lies” Mystery Thriller Series, Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
A seemingly innocent date gone tragically wrong plunges Del Honeycutt into a web of murder, lies, greed, and a hidden fortune dating back to a crime committed 85 years earlier by his great-grandfather.
Accompanied by Sabrina, the sister of Del’s brutally murdered date, a violent journey of discovery and fear begins. Pursued by vicious killers intent on eliminating anyone with knowledge of the 85-year-old crime, their only hope of survival is to find the reason behind the original crime and why, decades later, someone is still willing to kill to keep it hidden.
But Sabrina is concealing a monstrous lie of her own. Is she who she says she is?
America’s Test Kitchen Pancakes and Waffles (affiliate link)
When William the Conqueror died in 1087, he left the throne of England to William Rufus . . . his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of 400 years of bloody disputes as the English monarchy’s line of hereditary succession was bent, twisted and finally broken when the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, fell at Bosworth in 1485.
The Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet dynasties were renowned for their internecine strife, and in Lost Heirs we will unearth the hidden stories of fratricidal brothers, usurping cousins and murderous uncles; the many kings—and the occasional queen—who should have been but never were. History is written by the winners, but every game of thrones has its losers too, and their fascinating stories bring richness and depth to what is a colorful period of history.
The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained in More Than 100 Essential Recipes (affiliate link)
The Flavor Equation demonstrates how to convert approachable spices, herbs, and commonplace pantry items into tasty, simple dishes.
In this groundbreaking book, Nik Sharma, scientist, food blogger, and author of the buzz-generating cookbook Season, guides home cooks on an exploration of flavor in more than 100 recipes.
• Provides inspiration and knowledge to both home cooks and seasoned chefs
• An in-depth exploration into the science of taste
• Features Nik Sharma’s evocative, trademark photography style
The Flavor Equation is an accessible guide to elevating elemental ingredients to make delicious dishes that hit all the right notes, every time.
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