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A Perfect Alibi (Sam Arbichaut Book 1) (affiliate link)
The job looked like the same old story. Husband thinks wife is cheating, husband hires private investigator… Until someone ends up dead.
As a former police detective turned PI, Sam Arbichaut has seen it all. Having moved from Florida to Portland, Oregon for a new start in life, he spends his days fighting middle-age spread and investigating whatever civilians pay him for.
When his latest job takes a homicidal turn, Sam soon figures out this case is anything but the usual… and finding out what the real story is might just cost him everything.
The Green Ember (Green Ember Book 1) (affiliate link)
BBQ, Bikers, and Murder (Hawg Heaven Book 1) (affiliate link)
One folded flag… …and the man she vowed to spend her life with was gone. Could she survive as a single mom? Her husband was supposed to come back, but now Rossalyn must rebuild and raise their son alone.
Leaving their old life behind, she takes 13-year old Ryan cross-country to the small town where she grew up. On the road trip home, she makes a discovery. An old building on Main Street catches her eye and sparks an idea. There’s just something about it. Rossie knew immediately that it would be a perfectly charming place for a business…but what kind?
When Ryan brought home a library book on bacon, her course was set. She had to open a BBQ and bacon café, and call it Hawg Heaven. Her late husband would have loved it.
Things are not quite as sweet as they seem in the small town, however.
Pink Lady (Jack Daniels Book 23) (affiliate link)
THE PAST NEVER DIES…
When Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels still worked for Homicide in the Chicago Police Department, she had an adversary who became the most evil, and most formidable, villain she’d ever met.
Alex Kork. A serial killer of extraordinary brilliance and cruelty.
Jack was 100% sure that Alex was gone forever.
But you can never be 100% sure about anything. Life is full of surprises.
Death is also full of surprises.
And death is coming.
Bridal Bootcamp (affiliate link)
My Best Friend, the Billionaire (The Billionaire Kings Book 1) (affiliate link)
Never fall in love with your best friend…
I met Hal on the first day of high school.
I also fell in love with Hal on the first day of high school.
But although we were good friends from the start, I knew he’d never be mine.
He’s gorgeous, confident, sexy, and he’s also incredibly rich.
I’m scarred – physically and emotionally – quiet, and my family has always been poor. The two of us are poles apart.
So I’ve trained myself not to think of him in that way.
Not to think of kissing him, undressing him slowly.
Of sliding beneath the bedclothes. Of having his hands on my skin.
I don’t think of it at all.
I can’t. Because Hal never stays with a girl for long, and if he were to have me, then leave me, my heart would break into a million pieces, and I’d never be able to put it together again.
But then he tells me he’s fallen in love with someone. I try to guess who, and he just smiles.
82 Days on Okinawa: One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle (affiliate link)
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. The men were there to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater.
The first American officer ashore was then-Major Art Shaw (1920-2020), a unit commander in the U.S. Army’s 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three months, Shaw and his men served near the front lines of the Pacific’s costliest battle, their artillery proving decisive against a phantom enemy who had entrenched itself in the rugged island.
Over eighty-two days, the Allies fought the Japanese army in a campaign that would claim more than 150,000 lives. When the final calculations were made, the Deadeyes were estimated to have killed 37,763 of the enemy. The 361st Field Artillery Battalion had played a crucial role in the victory.
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless — people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn’t care to again — but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.
Savior (Omega Sector: Critical Response Book 1) (affiliate link)
He has to shut down a dangerous terrorist group or lose everything—including the woman who has become their latest target.
Omega Sector: Critical Response agent Derek Waterman is hunting some very bad men. After weeks of chasing cold leads, he has found the evidence that could expose the architects behind a lethal terrorist bombing. But before Derek can start busting bad guys, he needs help from Dr. Molly Humphries, Omega’s lead forensic scientist.
Molly works hard to retrieve the data—and overcome her debilitating crush on the super agent, while Derek carefully suppresses his mutual smoldering attraction to her, sure that his dark past will drive Molly away. But when Molly’s kidnapped, Derek will stop at nothing to save her. Even his enemies will do everything to keep him from doing so.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (affiliate link)
Indiana. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call “Milk Sickness.”
“My baby boy…” she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, “henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose…” Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
We Can’t Be Friends (Close To You) (affiliate link)
Callum Sullivan is the definition of all smiles: cool, calm, and collected.
Leaving London for the Chicago opening of Hayes Hotels, Callum is desperate to continue being the person everyone expects him to be—a beloved son and brother, the chief finance officer of his best friend’s hotel empire—except when it comes to love. He’s sworn off it till his mother gives him an ultimatum.
Chloe Henry is the opposite: messy, loud, and overprotective.
Nine years ago, Chloe’s life changed, and not for the better. Leaving home for Chicago, she rooted herself into a picture-perfect life—an impressive job, great friends, and the cutest dog. Years later, that life is cracking.
Stumbling into each other’s life is merely on the foundation of being friends of friends. Or so they thought. As an undeniable friendship and attraction strikes between the two, they find themselves both in need when Chloe’s apartment floods. Callum takes her in on one condition, be his fake girlfriend.
Uncle John’s Fully Loaded: 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader (affiliate link)
“Fully Loaded” is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins, forgotten history, fun wordplay, and everything else that millions of loyal fans have come to expect from the world’s best-selling bathroom reading series.
As always, it’s divided by length: quickies for the reader on the go, medium-sized articles for those with a few minutes to spare, and extra-long pieces for those truly leg-numbing experiences. Here are just a few of the hundreds of topics loaded into this edition of America’s favorite source of fascinating information:
* Forgotten Firsts * Dumb Crooks: Stoner Edition * Bizarre Japanese Video Games * The Kamikaze Instruction Manual * Our Lady of the Little Green Men * The Worst Fire in American History * The World’s Worst Business Decision * The New Year’s Eve Opossum Drop * Do Blondes Really Have More Fun? * Failed Doomsday Predictions * When Toilets Explode * and much, much more!
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