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Cop of the Year (Bayview Heights Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’s a cop who dreads working with teenagers. She’s a high school teacher of at-risk students and cops are her worst nightmare.
The last thing by-the-book Captain Mitch Lansing wants to do is work in a high school classroom to improve relationships between at-risk kids and the police department. Life’s been cruel to him, and his past still haunts him.
Unorthodox teacher Cassie Smith, herself an at-risk student in high school, has fought hard for her success as a teacher. She escaped a dysfunctional mother and worked her way through college and is happy with her job and cadre of friends.
Until Mitch crashes into her life and starts to work with her kids. Though she’s not looking for romance, her world goes off kilter. So does Mitch’s. It’s the kids who begin this healing process.
The Fargenstropple Case (affiliate link)
What Monty Python’s Flying Circus might have done with Agatha Christie’s lost manuscript…
Invisible burglars who take nothing, but frighten the cat at meal times? This is hardly a case worthy of newly-promoted Chief Inspector Morgan. But when valuable jewels go missing and an attempt is made on Blandthorpe Fargenstropple’s life, Morgan jumps into action with keen interest.
With a quirky cast of characters, witty banter, a little romance, and plenty of ridiculous mishaps, this cozy mystery will challenge your ability to read in any sort of dignified manner–so grab a tray of tea and crumpets and plan to laugh out loud.
One for the Money (Hughes Book 1) (affiliate link)
Finn Hughes knows about secrets. His family is as wealthy as the Rockefellers. And as powerful as the Kennedys. He runs the billion-dollar corporation. No one knows that he has a ticking time clock on his ability to lead.
Eva Morelli is the oldest daughter. The responsible one. The caring one. The one who doesn’t have time for her own interests.
Especially not her interest in the charismatic, mysterious Finn Hughes.
A fake relationship is the answer to both their problems.
It will keep the swarming society mothers from throwing their daughters at him.
And it will keep Eva’s mother from bothering her about marriage.
Then the fake relationship starts to feel real.
Mrs Caldicot’s Knickerbocker Glory (affiliate link)
Leadership today is outmoded and ill-suited to activate and engage the most diverse work-force in history.
This is why leaders capable of inspiring, engaging, aligning, coaching, and coaxing out individual and team brilliance are more in need than ever before.
Hence the reason for this manifesto.
Paradoxically, the answer does not lie in systems but in humanity.
The more technology pervades our lives, the greater our need for clarity, courage, caring, culture, and talent cultivation—all things that machines cannot create for us.
We cannot wait for C-suite executives to respond appropriately to this crisis of employee engagement.
We—the managers responsible for the people who create value for our companies—must do this for ourselves, and our people.
The Expert Witness: Jill Rhodes Book One (affiliate link)
She’s a psychologist. He’s a cop. Theirs is a dangerous, chilling murder investigation…
In the corridors of the mind, lie grim truths more perilous than any crime scene. Enter the world of Dr. Jill Rhodes, a psychologist whose tranquil practice is interrupted by the desperate plea of an attorney client. She’s never before explored the criminal mind, yet she is immediately drawn into a case that could redefine her life’s work. Shaun, a special needs teen, stands accused of a gruesome murder, that of beautiful, teenage Katie, his best friend, and the only light in his dark world.
Detective Nick Webb’s case is closed, until Dr. Rhodes steps in with unsettling revelations. Her insights force the case wide open, casting a light on truths that were previously overstepped. Together, Webb and Rhodes plunge into Shaun’s world, only to discover a pattern as disturbing as the boy’s presumed guilt. Jill’s probing mind soon unravels Katie’s life of secrets, filled with threats that point to a sinister narrative.
The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need: The Way Smart Money Invests Today (affiliate link)
Investment professional Larry E. Swedroe describes the crucial difference between “active” and “passive” mutual funds, and tells you how you can win the investment game through long-term investments in such indexes as the S&P 500 instead of through the active buying and selling of stocks.
A revised and updated edition of an investment classic, The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need remains clear, understandable, and effective. This edition contains a new chapter comparing index funds, ETFs, and passive asset class funds, an expanded section on portfolio care and maintenance, the addition of Swedroe’s 15 Rules of Prudent Investing, and much more.
In clear language, Swedroe shows how the newer index mutual funds out-earn, out-perform, and out-compound the older funds, and how to select a balance “passive” portfolio for the long hail that will repay you many times over.
The Secret Ingredient Cookbook: 125 Family-Friendly Recipes with Surprisingly Tasty Twists (affiliate link)
125 family-friendly recipes based on the author’s popular Just a Taste food site, with each recipe featuring a totally unexpected ingredient
Kelly Senyei, founder of the food site Just a Taste, has garnered millions of fans with a delicious hook–every one of her recipes has a secret ingredient, something totally unexpected that takes a dish from common to extraordinary. Some of the 125 tried-and-tested recipes are surprisingly simple, like her Vanilla Bean Drop Doughnuts made with Greek yogurt, or the Sweet and Tangy Baked Chicken Wings made with blackberry jam. Other recipes are nothing short of genius, such as the Kale Panzanella made with croissants, the Healthy White Chicken Chili made with hummus, or the Crispy Slow Cooker Carnitas made with cocoa powder. And just because the secret ingredients are surprising doesn’t mean they’re expensive or hard to find, either. Kelly is a busy mother of two, and she made sure every ingredient can be found in any supermarket. Her family-friendly recipes cover every occasion, from crowd-pleasing snacks and 30-minute entrées to make-ahead sides and holiday-worthy desserts.
Shadow House: The Gathering (affiliate link)
Five tweens enter a mysterious house and are held hostage by ghosts in this middle grade horror story.
Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they’re hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don’t know this at first. They each think they’ve been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there’s nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing—and nobody—can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear. And the way out? That’s disappeared, too . . . Enter Shadow House . . . if you dare.
Unbreak My Heart: A Memoir (affiliate link)
The bestselling solo R&B artist finally opens up about her rocky past and her path to redemption
While Toni Braxton may appear to be living a charmed life, hers is in fact a tumultuous story: a tale of personal triumph after a public unraveling. In her heartfelt memoir, the six-time Grammy Award-winning singer and star of WE tv’s hit reality series Braxton Family Values is unapologetically honest in revealing the intimate details of her journey.
Toni and the entire Braxton clan have become America’s favorite musical family, but what fans may not know is the intense guilt Toni once felt when she accepted a recording deal that excluded her sisters. That decision would haunt Toni for years to come, tainting the enormous fame she experienced as a popular female vocalist at the top of the charts. Despite her early accomplishments, Toni’s world crumbled when she was forced to file for bankruptcy twice and was left all alone to pick up the pieces.
Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic Who Became a Saint (affiliate link)
Since her execution at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. She was a teenager of astonishing common sense and a national heroine who led men in to battle as a courageous warrior. Yet she was also abandoned by the king whose coronation she secured, betrayed by her countrymen, and sold to the enemy.
In this meticulously researched biography, Donald Spoto captures her astonishing life and the times in which she lived. Neither wife nor nun, queen nor noblewoman, philosopher nor stateswoman, Joan of Arc demonstrates that everyone who follows their heart has the power to change history.
For a decade, award–winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’s pursuit of the presidency. Chozick’s front-row seat, initially covering Clinton’s imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to “The Hillary Beat” ahead of the 2016 election, set off a nearly ten-years-long journey in which her twenties and thirties became—both personally and professionally – intrinsically intertwined to Clinton’s presidential ambitions.
Chozick’s clear-eyed perspective—from her seat on the Hillary bus and reporting from inside the campaign’s headquarters, to her run-ins with Donald J. Trump and her globetrotting with Bill Clinton—provide fresh insights into the story we thought we all knew, with the kind of inside details that repeatedly surprise and enlighten.
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