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Truth or Justice (A Max & Robin Kane Book 1) (affiliate link)
Where There’s a Will (Will Peters Book 1) (affiliate link)
A dog walker discovers the body of a young homeless man in Hunsbury Hill Country Park. It carries a message: ‘your move’.
Part-time grave digger and cab driver Will Peters knows just what it’s like living on the streets and vows the young man’s death will not be brushed aside during the mayor’s re-election campaign. Forging a relationship with local detectives, Will gets creative and acquires information any way he can. With the help of ex-con Birdie Fox and elderly hard-nosed trade unionist Stanley Kipper, Will sets about bringing the killer to justice.
But as the case unfolds, and the death toll rises, the police uncover corruption on a massive scale, and it appears the murders are far more personal than anyone could have possibly imagined.
The Full Delilah’s Dogs Mystery Series Collection (affiliate link)
Her hot dogs are to die for… but someone in this seaside town already has!
When food truck owner Delilah Frank rolls into picturesque Seaside Harbor, Maine with her Jack Russell terrier Pickle, she’s expecting a week of serving gourmet hot dogs at the local seafood festival. What she gets instead is a piping hot serving of murder!
After restaurant owner Gordon Pike is found dead at the top of the town’s historic lighthouse, suspicion quickly falls on newcomer Delilah. With her food truck business at stake and the local police chief eyeing her as a convenient suspect, Delilah must clear her name before she becomes the next victim.
Armed with her culinary creativity (and a special “Murdered by Mustard” hot dog that becomes the talk of the festival), Delilah and her four-legged sidekick begin sniffing out clues. But as they dig deeper, they uncover simmering tensions beneath Seaside Harbor’s charming facade—blackmail, embezzlement, and long-buried secrets that someone would kill to keep hidden.
Who Murdered Mr. Malone? (Garden Girls Book 1) (affiliate link)
Nothing exciting ever happens in the small town of Belhaven. Nothing that is, until a body was found in the woods behind the local elementary school.
With the entire town in an uproar, “Garden Girl” Gloria Rutherford makes it her personal mission to find the killer or killers and solve the mystery with some help from her friends.
With a little amateur detective work, Gloria is able to uncover enough clues that point right to the murderer. She’s about to discover, however, things aren’t always as clear cut as they would appear.
Wronged (The Cuvier Women Trilogy Book 1) (affiliate link)
Scandal, Bigamy and Murder
Marian Cuvier’s world unravels when she discovers her husband’s shocking murder. The detective’s revelation that she is one of three Cuvier widows suspected of the crime adds a sinister layer to the already devastating truth.
As Louis Fournet, Jean’s business partner, grapples with the desire to sell Cuvier Shipping, Marian, fueled by determination, insists on stepping into her late husband’s shoes. Louis finds himself drawn to the enigmatic widow, despite knowing the complications she brings to his plans.
In a web of intrigue and passion, Louis uses his influence to negotiate a deal behind Marian’s back. Now, torn between his ambitions and the captivating widow, he must make a fateful choice. Will Marian overcome her shattered trust and learn to love again, or will Louis’s ruthless pursuit of success break not only her heart but also her dreams for the future?
Escaping a life of controlling parents, a demeaning boyfriend, and lackluster career, an unexpected gift gives Bella the opportunity to move to California and launch a business of her own.
She finally has it all: a beautiful apartment near the beach, her dream job, and Jack, the newly available yet complicated business owner next door.
Things are finally looking up when she learns her business is in jeopardy.
Will passion, grit and determination be enough to save her happily ever after?
This contemporary romance will take you on a journey of friendship, love, heartache, and triumph.
The Tried & True Cookbook (affiliate link)
The quick-and-easy cookbook for busy families, featuring over 150 simple, everyday recipes
Life is busy, right? And the last thing you need when life gets in the way is complicated, time-consuming recipes that make it impossible to get dinner on the table. What you need is a cookbook that makes it easy to create simple, comforting meals, using everyday ingredients you already have in your kitchen. In The Tried & True Cookbook, Alyssa Rivers—also known as “The Recipe Critic” to her over 12 million loyal Facebook followers—gives you comforting recipes that are practical, family friendly, and easy to make, often using appliances like the air fryer, slow cooker, and Instant Pot to help busy people make delicious meals. From weekday dinners that will satisfy even the pickiest eaters, to amazing appetizers, sides, salads, and desserts, there’s something for everyone. Many of the meals can be made in 30 minutes or less, and Alyssa adds her simple, practical touch to every recipe she makes. Most importantly, every recipe has been tested by the toughest critics she knows: her friends and family, so you know they must be delicious!
Who Do You Love: A Novel (affiliate link)
Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenial heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she’s intrigued by the boy who shows up alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy’s taken back to a doctor and Rachel’s sent back to her bed, they think they’ll never see each other again.
Yet, over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel will meet again and again—linked by chance, history, and the memory of the first time they met, a night that changed both of their lives.
A sweeping, warmhearted, and intimate tale, Who Do You Love is an extraordinary novel about the passage of time, the way people change and change each other, and how the measure of a life is who you love.
All the Birds in the Sky (affiliate link)
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself apart. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia, a brilliant witch and Laurence, an engineering “wunderkind”) may just be in love with each other.
As the battle between magic and science wages in San Francisco against the backdrop of international chaos, Laurence and Patricia are forced to choose sides. But their choices will determine the fate of the planet and all mankind.
Bad Feminist: Essays (affiliate link)
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation
In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.
Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better, coming from one of our most interesting and important cultural critics.
Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Novel (affiliate link)
It’s 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone’s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade—easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he’s never going to forget.
Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!
Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the astonishing true story of Rudolf Vrba, the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world of a truth too few were willing to hear.
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba became one of the very first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and make his way to freedom—among only a tiny handful who ever pulled off that near-impossible feat. He did it to reveal the truth of the death camp to the world—and to warn the last Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. Against all odds, Vrba and his fellow escapee, Fred Wetzler, climbed mountains, crossed rivers, and narrowly missed German bullets until they had smuggled out the first full account of Auschwitz the world had ever seen—a forensically detailed report that eventually reached Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the Pope.
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