Total Victim Theory

 International Mystery & Crime
Author: Ian Ballard

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Total Victim Theory

Six months have passed since a faded, black ledger mysteriously appeared on FBI Agent Jake Radley’s doorstep. Puzzling over the document’s sinister entries, Jake pieces together a story of mass murder near the Texas-Mexico border two decades before. If Jake’s theory is correct, the names listed on the ledger’s final page are the victims of a previously unknown serial killer. Leads are scarce until a gruesome new crime scene, deep in the Mexican desert, shows a chilling connection to the border deaths of long ago. . .

Rationality Zero: The Paean of Sundered Dreams Book 1

 Science Fiction > Colonization
Author: JM Guillen, Cherie Guillen

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Rationality Zero: The Paean of Sundered Dreams Book 1

Michael Bishop is an Asset of the Facility, a job that comes with many strange perks. He is a man who never gets ill, who never pays taxes. He is effortlessly fit, enjoys a lavish lifestyle, and has as many romantic partners as he could desire.

That is, when he is not on assignment.

When activated, Michael becomes Asset 108, a cyber-enhanced human who stands against the strange darkness that lurks at the edge of our world. Armed with equipment that most would find impossible to comprehend, he is sent on missions both strange and deadly. Each dossier pits him against Irrational creatures, beings with the power to unravel sanity or possibly reality itself. It’s never a simple job.

This job, however, is more complex than most. Mysterious unknown targets are fracturing reality, somewhere in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The Facility has no other Assets in the area, and their telemetry is spotty at best. Without knowing what to expect, Bishop is activated, assigned to a cadre, and sent to the middle of nowhere.

SEAL It With A Kiss

 Romance > Military
Author: Rogenna Brewer

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SEAL It With A Kiss

To become the first female SEAL she’ll have to match wits with the best…

Lt Tabitha Chapel is determined to join the Teams. She’s not about to let a little thing like gender get in her way. She’ll use every wile–feminine or otherwise–and her considerable strength of will to win this battle of the sexes. But the limits of her determination are tested by the only Navy SEAL capable of commanding her heart.

Cmdr Marc Miller is equally determined to keep her out of his program. As the newly appointed CO of BUD/S, he’s been tasked with cleaning up SEAL Training. He doesn’t need a red-hot redhead compounding the problem. For him, Hell Week begins when one well-connected junior officer walks into his office.

Descendant: The Protector (The Descendant Series Book 1)

 Science Fiction > Dystopian
Author: Daniel W. Koch

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Descendant: The Protector (The Descendant Series Book 1)

Jason Hook has spent eighteen years of his life growing up in a world plagued by monsters. The extinction of the human race seems inevitable. When Jason and his family are forced to move from their home in California to a small town in New York, he finds that some of the creatures are actually trying to save his life. For reasons he is only just beginning to discover, there is something about him that the creatures find very interesting. Jason is at the apex of a world at war where he must choose between life, death, and the possibility of becoming one of the creatures he has sworn to hate. But in becoming a creature, Jason might just have a chance to save humanity.

Forbidden Hunger (Lee County Wolves Series) Book #1

 Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: Teresa Gabelman

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Forbidden Hunger (Lee County Wolves Series) Book #1

A shifter without a pack, Janna Lawson goes in search of the man who her mother died trying to protect.

What she finds is Garrett Foster, a man who has the power to decide her fate and causes a hunger inside her that is forbidden to them both.

Killer Road Trip (Sweet Southern Sleuths Short Stories Book 5)

 Mystery > Cozy > Animals
Author: Hope Callaghan

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Killer Road Trip: Cozy Mysteries Women Sleuths Series (Sweet Southern Sleuths Short Stories Book 5)

An amateur sleuth, her eccentric uncle, and a road trip that turns deadly.

While still in Las Vegas, Loretta Sweet and (Uncle) Ichabod McCoy decide to do a little sightseeing and pay a visit to the Hoover Dam via a guided bus tour.

The trip is wrought with mishaps, starting with the bus breaking down. The driver is able to fix the bus and the passengers climb aboard for the final leg of the trip.

Uncle Ichabod and Loretta, who are the last to board, discover they are unable to sit together and Loretta ends up next to a passenger who is quiet, and for good reason…he’s dead.

Loretta, once again, finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Will her final destination be the local jail?

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Sora’s Quest (The Cat’s Eye Chronicles Book 1)

 Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
Author: T. L. Shreffler, Linda Jay

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Sora's Quest (The Cat's Eye Chronicles Book 1)

Sora Fallcrest always dreamed of adventure, but as a member of the nobility, she learned the ways of a Lady instead. Now seventeen, she is expected to choose a husband and marry. She plots to run away, but just as she is stepping out the door, she runs into a mysterious man–and is kidnapped.

Abducted from her manor, Sora is plunged into a world of magical races, arcane jewelry and forgotten lore. She finds herself at the mercy of a dangerous assassin, haunted by an even darker past. She yearns for freedom, but he won’t let her go–not when her Cat’s Eye necklace is the only thing that can save his life.

Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death: A Mrs. Kaplan Mystery

 Mystery > Cozy
Author: Mark Reutlinger

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Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death: A Mrs. Kaplan Mystery

Move over, Miss Marple—Mark Reutlinger’s charming cozy debut, the short novel Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death, introduces readers to the unforgettable amateur sleuth Rose Kaplan and her loyal sidekick, Ida.

Everyone knows that Rose Kaplan makes the best matzoh ball soup around—she’s a regular matzoh ball maven—so it’s no surprise at the Julius and Rebecca Cohen Home for Jewish Seniors when, once again, Mrs. K wins the honor of preparing the beloved dish for the Home’s seder on the first night of Passover.

But when Bertha Finkelstein is discovered facedown in her bowl of soup, her death puts a bit of a pall on the rest of the seder. And things go really meshugge when it comes out that Bertha choked on a diamond earring earlier stolen from resident Daisy Goldfarb.

The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

 Biographies & Memoirs > True Crime
Author: Edward Ball

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The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media.

2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas

 Women’s Fiction > Humor
Author: Marie-Helene Bertino

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2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn’t realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day—and night—of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at school, Madeleine doggedly searches for Philadelphia’s legendary jazz club The Cat’s Pajamas, where she’s determined to make her on-stage debut. On the same day, her fifth grade teacher Sarina Greene, who’s just moved back to Philly after a divorce, is nervously looking forward to a dinner party that will reunite her with an old high school crush, afraid to hope that sparks might fly again.

Falling Hard: A Falling Fast Novel

 Romance > Contemporary
Author: Tina Wainscott

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Falling Hard: A Falling Fast Novel

There’s no one Pax Sullivan wants to run into less than Gemma Thornton. Back in high school, she revved his heart more than street racing. But she picked his clean-cut brother over him—only to accuse Blake of an unforgivable crime. Eventually the charges were dropped and Gemma left town, but the hard feelings lingered . . . along with Pax’s gnawing “what-ifs.” Seven years later, just as he quits the police force to open a racetrack, Gemma’s back—and their chemistry is more combustible than ever.

If it were up to her, Gemma would never lay eyes on another Sullivan. She hates them, and they hate her—even Pax, who just so happens to be fixing up her father’s B&B. But the more time she spends with the lean, hard-bodied ex-cop at the inn and on the track, the more Gemma sees that Pax is nothing like his brother. Despite their anguished history, she’s tempted to take their relationship into high gear . . . if she can face the past and risk her heart.

The Reluctant Countess

 Historical Romance > Regency
Author: Wendy Vella

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The Reluctant Countess

Regal, poised, and elegant, Sophie, Countess of Monmouth, is everything that a highborn lady should be. But Sophie is hiding a past that is far from royal. When Patrick, Earl of Coulter, realizes that her story doesn’t add up, he resolves to find out the truth of what Sophie and her sister-in-law are concealing. Although Sophie has every reason to avoid him, the handsome and charismatic Patrick awakens something wicked deep within her soul . . . a powerful need that Sophie must stifle in order to protect her place in society.

Despite Sophie’s humble background, the raven-haired beauty has won Patrick’s heart. But what Sophie needs now is an ally. Viscount Myles Dumbly, the disgruntled former heir of Monmouth, is determined to expose Sophie as a fraud to recapture his lost inheritance. Soon Patrick is drawn into a fight for both their lives.

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Callie’s Cowboy: A Loveswept Classic Romance

 Romance > Contemporary
Author: Karen Leabo

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Callie's Cowboy: A Loveswept Classic Romance
His soul was at home in the West—whether riding a bull at a rodeo or working the family ranch—but his heart belonged to her. Though Sam Sanger had always planned on sharing his life with Callie Calloway, he understood, even in high school, that loving this woman might mean letting her go. He lost her when she chose college, refusing to walk a day in his boots.

It was just a carnival fortuneteller’s silly prediction—that Callie was destined to marry Sam. Still, Callie pulled away, afraid of sacrificing her own dreams. Ten years later, having become the editor of the local newspaper, she’s finally ready to wonder: Was she wrong about Sam? When tragedy strikes, Callie and Sam are thrown together again, alarmed by the force of a first love that still burns with hurt feelings and unrequited desire.

Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

  Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
Author: Lisa Cron

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Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Wired for Story reveals these cognitive secrets–and it’s a game-changer for anyone who has ever set pen to paper.

The vast majority of writing advice focuses on “writing well” as if it were the same as telling a great story. This is exactly where many aspiring writers fail–they strive for beautiful metaphors, authentic dialogue, and interesting characters, losing sight of the one thing that every engaging story must do: ignite the brain’s hardwired desire to learn what happens next. When writers tap into the evolutionary purpose of story and electrify our curiosity, it triggers a delicious dopamine rush that tells us to pay attention. Without it, even the most perfect prose won’t hold anyone’s interest.

The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook: A Home Manual

 Alternative Medicine > Herbal Remedies
Author: James Green, Ajana

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The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual

THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER’¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style, Green emphasizes the point that herbal medicine-making is fundamental to every culture on the planet and is accessible to everyone. So, first head into the garden and learn to harvest your own herbs, and then head into your kitchen and whip up a batch of raspberry cough syrup, or perhaps a soothing elixir to erase the daily stresses of modern life.

The Golden Barbarian (Sedikhan Book 1)

 Historical Romance
Author: Iris Johansen

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The Golden Barbarian (Sedikhan Book 1)

A timeless novel of love and adventure set among the hot sands of an endless desert, here is the scintillating story of a fearless princess and a barbarian sheikh.

The First Cut: A Novel (Nan Vining Mysteries)

  Mystery > Police Procedurals
Author: Dianne Emley

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The First Cut: A Novel (Nan Vining Mysteries)

For two minutes she was dead.

The assailant was vicious, the attack brutal—and it left her lifeless . . . until her pulse fluttered and she jolted awake. Now, a year later, detective Nan Vining is still questioning her strength, her safety, even her sanity: Can she ever again be the cop—and mother—she was before? And will her attacker someday return to finish the job, before she can track him down herself?

Shaky but determined, Vining rejoins the Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder case that strikes close to home: A slain policewoman has been discovered beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, her body bruised, her throat slit. Even as Vining struggles to recover her standing within the department, she can’t help but feel profoundly drawn to the murdered officer, Frankie Lynde—and she is deeply troubled by the baffling otherworldly visions that haunt her waking hours.

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