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From Green to Blue (The Nostrils Book 1)
Jonathan Cox
FREE
Humorous Biographical Fiction
Orphaned at 18, naïve and solitary Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends, and a regular income. 👮 He’s posted to a station in London’s tough East End, where his experienced instructor, WPC Dawn Matthews, barely conceals her contempt for her hapless new charge as she puppy-walks him through the job.
Cox served with the Met for over thirty years, and it shows—this is an insider’s account of how London was policed a generation ago, capturing the atmosphere and attitudes of the 1980s force. 🇬🇧 The journey is regularly amusing, frequently sad, and occasionally bizarre, with the kind of details only someone who lived it could provide.
The book has held UK No. 1 Best Seller status in five Amazon categories, including Police Procedurals and Humorous Fiction. 📚 First in “The Blue Trilogy.”
Here’s what you’re getting: authentic cop humor from someone who was actually there, wrapped in a coming-of-age story about finding your people in unlikely places. 🚔 If you’ve ever wondering what it was really like on the beat in Thatcher-era London, this is your window in.
Janet Dawson
FREE
Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Oakland PI Jeri Howard doesn’t usually make house calls, but when her ex-husband’s daughter Vicki is on the line, she makes an exception. 📞 Vicki, an undergrad at UC Berkeley, is terrified—her shared house has become the target of escalating threats from an unknown antagonist, starting with hostile phone calls and progressing to vandalism and stalking.
The situation turns personal when Jeri picks up the house phone and hears the stalker’s chilling voice herself. Meanwhile, a hateful flyer circulates around the law school targeting students of color and women—and it’s uncannily similar to the caller’s words. 🎯 But with so many potential targets under one roof, Jeri can’t pinpoint who’s in the crosshairs. Rachel volunteers at an abortion clinic. Ben is an African-American student on scholarship. Marisol helps victims of domestic abuse. And Vicki and Emily have already been harassed by a sexist chemistry student.
When someone throws a pipe bomb through the students’ window, the case explodes—literally. 💥 Dawson draws on her own journalism background to craft a tightly plotted mystery that tackles hate crimes, campus politics, and the question of who becomes a target and why.
Here’s what you’re getting: a crackling procedural that feels ripped from headlines, anchored by a smart, tenacious PI who takes things personally when family is involved. 🔍 Sixth in a series that rewards longtime readers but works perfectly as a standalone.
Janet Dawson
FREE
Hard-Boiled Mysteries
The morgue is the last place Oakland PI Jeri Howard wants to be—especially when the body she’s there to identify might be her kid brother. 💔 Brian has been missing four days, and the corpse was found on a burned-out boat at a marina with a dicey reputation, along with Brian’s MedicAlert bracelet.
The trail is getting cold. Jeri’s family draws together in crisis—her divorced parents seeking comfort from each other, her aunt a source of strength—but her sister-in-law Sheila’s reaction has Jeri wondering what the hell is going on. 🚨 Deep cracks have appeared in Brian’s marriage. Sheila is angry about his sudden job change, about their move from a pleasant house in Sonoma to a small rental in Petaluma. And she has suspicions about Brian’s friendship with a free-spirited potter who calls herself Willow.
Jeri goes looking for answers, tracking down Brian’s friends, colleagues, and Willow herself. 🔎 Is her brother involved in a murder, or is he a victim?
Here’s what you’re getting: the most personal case of the series, where Jeri’s professional skills collide with family loyalty and dread. 🖤 Dawson makes the emotional stakes as compelling as the mystery itself.
Kathryn Dodson
FREE
Crime Thriller
Jessica Watts knows three things: tequila burns, memories haunt, and the border keeps its secrets. 🥃 When a Mexican tycoon hires the amateur investigator to find his missing daughter, she should say no. She doesn’t. Now she’s in too deep to back out—and too close to the truth to survive.
As Jessica searches for the missing woman, she peels back layers of lies and deceit, uncovering a sinister web of corruption that stretches from dusty border towns to the heart of Central America. 🌵 With each clue, the stakes grow higher, and the line between allies and enemies blurs.
Hunted by dangerous thugs and her own demons, Jessica must outwit ruthless adversaries while confronting the ghosts that haunt her. 🔥 Dodson delivers an R-rated mystery with a thriller edge—gritty, suspense-packed, and relentless.
Here’s what you’re getting: a female sleuth who’s messy, determined, and in way over her head, navigating a world where everyone has something to hide. 💀 Perfect for fans of Lisa Regan, Robert Dugoni, and T.R. Ragan.
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
FREE
Writing Reference
This brief book has shaped more writers than any other guide in the English language. ✍️ Strunk’s original 1918 rules—terse, dogmatic, and unforgettable—combined with White’s 1959 revisions and commentary created something that transcends its era: a book about writing that is itself beautifully written.
The principles are deceptively simple. Omit needless words. Use the active voice. Place emphatic words at the end of a sentence. 📝 But beneath these rules lies a philosophy: that clear writing reflects clear thinking, and that precision is a form of respect for your reader.
White’s additions soften Strunk’s severity while preserving his conviction. The result is authoritative without being stuffy, practical without being mechanical. 📚 Every writer—student, professional, hobbyist—will find sentences they want to argue with and advice they’ll never forget.
Here’s what you’re getting: the single most influential writing guide ever published, still earning its reputation a century later. 🎯 If you write anything—emails, reports, novels, texts—this belongs on your shelf.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories
David Foster Wallace
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Humorous Literary Fiction
David Foster Wallace was one of the most innovative and influential writers of his generation, and this collection showcases why. Through unconventional forms—fake interviews, fragmented narratives, obsessive footnotes—he dissects the ways men rationalize, manipulate, and deceive, both others and themselves. 🎭
The title pieces present a series of powerful mock interviews where unseen questioners draw out men’s disturbing confessions about women and relationships. “The Depressed Person” offers an almost unbearably precise rendering of anxiety and self-absorption. “Adult World” traces a newlywed’s spiraling uncertainty about intimacy with dark humor and surprising tenderness. 📖
Wallace’s prose demands attention—sentences that loop back on themselves, digressions that become the point, comedy that curdles into discomfort. It’s challenging, often uncomfortable, and occasionally exhausting in the best way. For readers who want fiction that makes them work, that rewards close attention with genuine insight into human self-deception, this collection delivers. 🧠
What you’re getting: a concentrated dose of one of American literature’s most singular voices at his most experimental and incisive. Whether you’re a longtime DFW devotee or curious what the fuss is about, this is the real thing.
Julia Kelly
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Historical World War II Fiction
This dual-timeline novel braids together two women’s stories across decades—one in present-day England uncovering wartime secrets, one in 1941 London defending the city against the Blitz. 📚
Cara Hargraves works for an antiques dealer, more comfortable with the past than her own present. When she discovers an unfinished diary and a photograph of a young woman in uniform, she becomes obsessed with finding the author. What she uncovers will reshape her understanding of her own family history. 🔍
In 1941, nineteen-year-old Louise Keene feels suffocated by her Cornish village and the wealthy suitor her mother has chosen for her. Meeting RAF pilot Paul Bolton changes everything—and when his unit deploys without warning, Louise joins the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service, becoming one of the gunner girls who defended London during the deadliest nights of the Blitz. She survives on the promise that she and Paul will reunite when the war ends. But when her letters come back unopened, she learns that wartime romance carries darker possibilities than she’d imagined. 💔
Kelly excels at bringing the sensory details of wartime London to life—the searchlights, the deafening anti-aircraft guns, the camaraderie forged under fire. 🌙
What drew me in: the gunner girls themselves—young women operating anti-aircraft weapons during the Blitz is a piece of WWII history that deserves more attention. For readers who loved The Nightingale or Lilac Girls, this is another powerful story of women’s courage and resilience.
Sir David Attenborough
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Earth Sciences
At 93, David Attenborough has witnessed more of the natural world than almost anyone alive—and watched more of it disappear. This book is his testimony: a clear-eyed account of planetary decline and a surprisingly hopeful roadmap for what we can still save. 🌍
Attenborough structures the narrative around key moments in his life, each paired with stark data about global wilderness, carbon levels, and species loss. The young naturalist who filmed in untouched rainforests now confronts what those same places have become. It’s not preachy—it’s precise, which makes it more devastating. 📊
But this isn’t a book designed to leave you hopeless. The final sections lay out concrete steps for stabilizing the planet: rewilding, shifting to sustainable energy, changing how we produce food, and reducing population growth through education and healthcare access. Attenborough argues these aren’t sacrifices but opportunities to create a world more abundant than the one we’re losing. 🌱
What makes this essential: it’s both witness statement and action plan from someone who’s earned the authority to deliver both. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science & Technology, this is the rare environmental book that leaves you informed and energized rather than paralyzed.
Sharon Sala
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Romantic Suspense
DC journalist January DeLena sees a pattern the police have missed—homeless men are being murdered by someone who calls himself “The Sinner.” When she brings her evidence to homicide detective Benjamin North, she gets more than a professional ally. The attraction between them is immediate and impossible to ignore. 🔥
As January and Ben work together to stop the killer, their investigation deepens alongside their relationship. But January is hiding something—a secret that puts her directly in the crosshairs of a man who believes he’s doing holy work. 🕵️
Sala balances the romance and suspense threads with skill, building tension on both fronts as the story races toward its climax. The killer’s POV chapters are genuinely unsettling, and the chemistry between January and Ben feels earned rather than obligatory. 💕
Here’s what you’re getting: a thriller that doesn’t skimp on the romance and a romance that doesn’t skimp on the danger. For readers who want real stakes with their love stories, The Chosen delivers on both counts.
Judith McNaught
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Contemporary Romance
Katie Connelly has built a careful life—successful career, elegant apartment, relationships that stay safely superficial. She’s buried her painful past so deep she’s almost forgotten what’s missing. Then she meets Ramon Galverra, and everything she thought she wanted stops making sense. 💫
Ramon is proud, passionate, and utterly different from the men Katie usually dates. He’s also secretive about his past and his plans for the future. What begins as an intense weekend connection forces Katie to confront whether she’s willing to risk real vulnerability for real love—or whether the safety she’s constructed is actually a prison. 🔐
McNaught writes emotional stakes as vividly as physical attraction. Katie’s fear of surrender isn’t just romantic reluctance; it’s rooted in genuine trauma that makes her hesitation feel earned. Ramon walks the line between commanding and controlling in ways that will either sweep you up or give you pause, depending on your tolerance for alpha heroes. 🌹
What makes this a classic: McNaught at her most emotionally intense, with a hero who demands everything and a heroine who has to decide if she’s brave enough to give it. For fans of Julie Garwood and Lisa Kleypas who like their romance dramatic and unapologetic.
Kristen Ashley
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Contemporary Romance
Anya Gage has learned not to expect much from life. She works hard, keeps her head down, and doesn’t dream about white picket fences. Then she wanders into the wrong bedroom at a party and meets Knight Sebring. 🖤
Knight knows exactly who he is and what he wants—and he’s never wanted anything like Anya. She’s sweet and genuine, everything he’s not. He tries to walk away, to leave her to the normal life she deserves. But when she shows up at his nightclub and finds herself in trouble, Knight stops fighting it. He’s going to take care of her whether she likes it or not. 🌙
What follows is Knight systematically dismantling Anya’s low expectations and teaching her that good things don’t just happen to other people. But Knight’s past is dark, and the life he leads isn’t the kind that comes with picket fences. He’s betting that when Anya sees who he really is, she’ll run. 💔
Ashley writes alpha heroes who are genuinely commanding—not just bossy but competent, protective, and unapologetically intense. 🔥
Here’s what you’re getting: the first in the Unfinished Heroes series, and it sets the template for Ashley’s signature blend of sweetness and heat. If commanding heroes are your thing, Knight delivers in abundance.
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