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Skeleton Run (affiliate link)
Twenty years ago, four teenage boys left a baby behind in a crushed car after they caused the tragic accident that took the mother’s life. Ever since, they’ve guarded the secret that would’ve ruined their lives and destroyed their future careers. But when one of them succumbs to illness, a blackmailer makes contact, and the survivors realize that, somehow, someone else knows. Now, everything that matters to them is at stake.
Las Vegas billionaire Wendell Logan is pursuing the role of political kingmaker, and he’s selected his unsuspecting king: Alan Granger, governor of Pennsylvania. Granger confesses his closet skeleton to Logan, but the tycoon has invested too much time and money into Granger’s future presidential campaign to let him and his old friends endanger Logan’s power play.
It’s time to run.
Here is a Preview of the 20 Minutes Recipes You Will Learn:
Beans & Guacamole Salad
Sweet Tuna Bean Salad
Bean Salad Martinique
Green Mango Salad
Peppery Bean Salad
Italian Cannellini Salad
Quick Dumplings
Italian Herbs Dumplings
Spicy Fruit and Chicken Salad
4-Ingredient Fruit Salad
Honey Pine Nut Salad
Joey’s Fruit Salad
Red Pepper Turkey Press
American Breakfast Sandwich
Topped Turkey Sandwiches
Tahini Sandwich
6-Minute Windy City Sandwich
Weeknight Ground Beef Sandwiches
Cheesy French Toast Sandwiches
Pepperjack Sourdoughs
Honey Peanut Butter Sandwich
Much, much more!
Cancun: Bad Boys on the Beach (affiliate link)
Spire and Stone (The Ghost Walker Saga Book 1) (affiliate link)
A warrior afraid of blood.
A castoff with everything to prove.
Viggo has embraced his future as a bodyguard, but an outcast partner and a cruel master remind him that chains, however respected, are still heavy. When a deadly blunder leaves him at the mercy of his gambling-addicted lord, his only chance to redeem himself and save his partner lies in the brutal underworld of Ivra’s fight houses.
The Guitarist’s Girlfriend (affiliate link)
Warriors of the Forgotten Way: The Samurai Cowboys – Book One (affiliate link)
In 1865, the American Civil War comes to an end, and the United States enters the Reconstruction era of postwar rebuilding and industrial development.
In 1868, Japan establishes a more modern, centralized government, and the feudal era, during which dozens of independent states had been at war with one another for hundreds of years, also comes to an end. The samurai class, without masters to serve or battles to fight, is abolished a few years later.
The transcontinental railroad is completed in 1869, connecting the United States from coast to coast. This starts a race between companies to extend miles of track across open land and introduces immigrants and their culture from Asia and the Pacific.
Friends of Dorothy (affiliate link)
Dish of the Day: 365 Favorite Recipes for Every Day of the Year (affiliate link)
Cook seasonally with this year’s-worth of recipes for soups, salads, desserts, and one pot, vegetable, and healthy dishes.
From the bestselling Williams Sonoma Of The Day series, comes a compilation of 365 favorite recipes, ranging from soups, salads, desserts, and one pot, vegetable, and healthy dishes. Find inspiration for cooking any day of the year in this indispensable collection. This colorful, calendar-style cookbook offers ideas to match any season, occasion, or mood. Organized by date, this book can be used as a guide to eating seasonally throughout the year. Stunning photographs and a colorful graphic design add visual appeal to the enticing cookbook.
The Fearless Baker: Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro (affiliate link)
When people see Erin McDowell frost a perfect layer cake, weave a lattice pie crust, or pull a rich loaf of brioche from the oven, they often act as though she’s performed culinary magic. “I’m not a baker,” they tell her. But in fact, expert baking is not at all unattainable, nor is it as inflexible as most people assume. The key to freedom is to understand the principles behind how ingredients interact and how classic methods work. Once these concepts are mastered, favorite recipes can be altered and personalized almost endlessly.
With the assurance born out of years of experience, McDowell shares insider tips and techniques that make desserts taste as good as they look. With recipes from flourless cocoa cookies and strawberry-filled popovers (easy), through apple cider pie and black-bottom crème brûlée (medium), to a statuesque layer cake crowned with caramelized popcorn (difficult), and “Why It Works,” “Pro Tip,” and make-ahead sidebars with each recipe, this exciting, carefully curated collection is a treat for beginning and experienced bakers alike.
Casting Off (The Cazalet Chronicles) (affiliate link)
The war is over, but for the Cazalets—and England—the challenges continue. Against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the family soldiers on in the wake of disappointment, heartbreak, and tragedy.
Returning home after five long years, Rupert Cazalet struggles to adapt to civilian life back in England. And his wife, Zoe, harbors a guilty secret. Young wife and mother Louise Cazalet, trapped in a loveless marriage to a famous portrait painter, searches for a way out. Cazalet cousins Polly and Clary must face life in a new world, their hopes and ideals changed forever by the ravages of war. And Rachel’s self-sacrificing nature could cost her her relationship with Margot Sidney. But the family comes together again as three generations of Cazalets struggle to hold onto Home Place, the beloved Sussex estate that has been their refuge and their heart.
Red Lightning (The Thunder and Lightning Series) (affiliate link)
It doesn’t matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland’s father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels—like the one Ray’s father manages—overrun with gravity-dependent tourists from Earth. Ray is over the Red Planet.
Soon he gets his own chance at interplanetary adventure, when an unknown object hits Earth and causes a massive tsunami. Ray heads back to Florida to help family and friends who’ve survived the devastation—and soon learns the so-called natural disaster could have unnatural consequences . . .
“It is both overwhelming and affirming to imagine, in the midst of their darkest hours, and in the middle of a country and a war that willfully misperceived them as enemy aliens, that the future, for Itaru and Shizuko Ina, was not only possible, but would deliver redemption in the form of the intimate, inexhaustible attention of a daughter.” —Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall
In 1942 newlyweds Itaru and Shizuko Ina were settling into married life when the United States government upended their world. They were forcibly removed from their home and incarcerated in wartime American concentration camps solely on account of their Japanese ancestry. When the Inas, under duress, renounced their American citizenship, the War Department branded them enemy aliens and scattered their family across the U.S. interior. Born to Itaru and Shizuko during their imprisonment, psychotherapist and activist Satsuki Ina weaves their story together in this moving mosaic. Through diary entries, photographs, clandestine letters, and heart-wrenching haiku, she reveals how this intrepid young couple navigated life, love, loss, and loyalty tests in the welter of World War II-era hysteria.
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