Dead Girls Don’t Blog (Murder Blog Mysteries Book 1)

 Mystery > Women Sleuths
Author: Pamela Frost Dennis

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Dead Girls Don't Blog (Murder Blog Mysteries Book 1)

What would you do if the man who murdered your friend were eligible for parole?

As Katy McKenna struggles to rebuild the successful career she suspended to chase her cheating exe’s dreams, her life suddenly takes a dramatic turn when she stumbles upon a newspaper story about the upcoming parole hearing for the man who raped, kidnapped, and murdered her high school friend, sixteen years ago.

Fearing he could soon be set free to prey on other innocent young girls, Katy sets out to make sure this doesn’t happen, not realizing she might not survive to blog about it.

The Color of Love (The Color of Heaven Series Book 6)

 Fiction > Sagas
Author: Julianne MacLean

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The Color of Love (The Color of Heaven Series Book 6)

Carla Matthews is a single mother struggling to make ends meet and give her daughter Kaleigh a decent upbringing. When Kaleigh’s absent father Seth—a famous alpine climber who never wanted to be tied down—begs for a second chance at fatherhood, Carla is hesitant because she doesn’t want to pin her hopes on a man who is always seeking another mountain to scale. A man who was never willing to stay put in one place and raise a family. But when Seth’s plane goes missing after a crash landing in the harsh Canadian wilderness, Carla must wait for news… Is he dead or alive? Will the wreckage ever be found?

One year later, after having given up all hope, Carla receives a phone call that shocks her to her core. A man has been found, half-dead, floating on an iceberg in the North Atlantic, uttering her name. Is this Seth?

Dump Dinner Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or Less: Quick & Easy Mouthwatering One-Pot Meals Even Kids Will Love

 Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Quick & Easy
Author: Debbie Davidson

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Dump Dinner Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or Less: Quick & Easy Mouthwatering One-Pot Meals Even Kids Will Love

The Dump Dinner Recipes Ready In 30 Minutes is designed especially for busy people, so you can finally kiss goodbye to spending hours slaving in the kitchen. Simply follow the step-by-step instructions you will find inside, “dump” the ingredients into a pot and turn up the heat… Then voila! Within the next 30 minutes, you now have a healthy and flavor-packed meal that will become your next family favorite.

Unlike other dump dinner cookbooks, the recipes you will find inside uses only ingredients easily found at regular grocery stores and they do NOT require special cooking equipments (No crock pots required).

Moreover, there are a variety of recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts you can choose from — all of which are so mouthwatering even children with picky taste buds will come to crave. They also come with calories and sodium count so you can track their intake if you like.

Heart Of Marley

 Fiction > Coming of Age
Author: T.K. Leigh, Kim Young

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Heart Of Marley

To the moon and back… From the stars to the ocean… That was Marley and Cameron Bowen’s secret code.

Twins born just five minutes apart, they have the perfect life… Until tragedy strikes just weeks after their eighth birthday and their father is killed by a drunk driver. Having trouble coping with the loss of her soul mate, their mother tries to find comfort in drugs and alcohol… And an abusive man with a penchant for underage girls. No longer able to stand listening to his sister’s screams and cries every night for nearly three years, Cam takes matters into his own hands and they’re finally able to escape the nightmare.

They’re finally able to start over…

But the nightmare still haunts Marley.

Killer Christmas (Holiday Series Book 1)

 Romance > Mystery & Suspense
Author: Harper Lin, Allison Marie

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Killer Christmas (Holiday Series Book 1) (An Emma Wild Mystery with Recipes)

After breaking up with hunky movie star Nick Doyle, superstar singer Emma Wild returns to her hometown for Christmas to get away from it all. In Hartfield, a small town in Ontario, Canada, she gets caught up in a murder case after a fan’s drink is poisoned at the Chocoholic Cafe, owned by Emma’s sister Mirabelle.

Who is the killer and was the drink originally intended for Emma? To add to the chaos, Sterling Matthews is the detective on the case. He’d shattered her heart nine years ago and inspired all her hit singles, but now they must work together to find the murderer before the murderer finds Emma.

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A Noble Pair of Brothers (The Underwood Mysteries Book 1)

 Mystery > Traditional Detectives
Author: Suzanne Downes

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A Noble Pair of Brothers (The Underwood Mysteries Book 1)

An historical murder mystery set in the 1820’s. When C. H. Underwood arrives in the village of Bracken Tor in the spring of 1820, he intends only to visit his brother, the vicar, and take a long rest from his work as a Classics tutor at Cambridge University.

However, almost as soon as he arrives he finds himself intrigued by an unsolved murder, committed the year before.
The headless corpse of a young woman was found in woods belonging to the local landowner and Magistrate, Sir Henry Wynter.
Underwood finds the notion that the body lies in a grave marked “Unknown” to be abhorrent. He decides to use his free time to discover the identity of the victim – and if possible bring her killer to justice.

A Trifle Dead (Cafe La Femme Mysteries Book 1)

 Mystery > Cozy > Culinary
Author: Livia Day, Alisa Krasnostein

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A Trifle Dead (Cafe La Femme Mysteries Book 1)

A TRIFLE DEAD is a culinary crime novel – delicious food, good coffee, cute frocks and okay, the occasional gruesome murder.
Shortlisted for Best Debut Book, Davitt Awards for Australian Women’s Crime Writing.

BOOK DESCRIPTION: Tabitha Darling has always had a dab hand for pastry and a knack for getting into trouble. Which was fine when she was a tearaway teen, but not so useful now she’s trying to run a hipster urban cafe, invent the perfect trendy dessert, and stop feeding the many (oh so unfashionable) policemen in her life.

When a dead muso is found in the flat upstairs, Tabitha does her best (honestly) not to interfere with the investigation, despite the cute Scottish blogger who keeps angling for her help. Her superpower is gossip, not solving murder mysteries, and those are totally not the same thing, right?

Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir

 Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Melissa Cistaro

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Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir

One summer, Melissa Cistaro’s mother drove off without explanation Devastated, Melissa and her brothers were left to pick up the pieces, always tormented by the thought: Why did their mother abandon them?

Thirty-five years later, with children of her own, Melissa finds herself in Olympia, Washington, as her mother is dying. After decades of hiding her painful memories, she has just days to find out what happened that summer and confront the fear she could do the same to her kids. But Melissa never expects to stumble across a cache of letters her mother wrote to her but never sent, which could hold the answers she seeks.

Harley Quinn Vol. 1: Hot in the City (The New 52) (Harley Quinn (The New 52) Boxset)

 Comics & Graphic Novels > Superheroes
Author: Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner

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Harley Quinn Vol. 1: Hot in the City (The New 52) (Harley Quinn (The New 52) Boxset)

Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains … and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad Hardin and a slew of comics’ best artists including Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Tony S. Daniel, Paul Pope, Walter Simonson and Art Baltazar!

Collects HARLEY QUINN #0-8.

Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52) (Batman Volume)

 Comics & Graphic Novels > Superheroes
Author: SCOTT SNYDER, Greg Capullo, Greg Capullo

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Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls (The New 52) (Batman Volume)

Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight as with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics—The New 52!

After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he’s sworn to protect. Could the Court of Owls, once thought to be nothing more than an urban legend, be behind the crime and corruption? Or is Bruce Wayne losing his grip on sanity and falling prey to the pressures of his war on crime?

Collects issues #1-7 of Batman.

The Confessions of Nat Turner

 Literary Fiction > Biographical > Classics
Author: William Styron

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The Confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia that led to the deaths of almost sixty men, women, and children. Published at the height of the civil rights movement, the novel draws upon the historical Nat Turner’s confession to his attorney, made as he awaited execution in a Virginia jail. This powerful narrative, steeped in the brutal and tragic history of American slavery, reveals a Turner who is neither a hero nor a demon, but rather a man driven to exact vengeance for the centuries of injustice inflicted upon his people.
Nat Turner is a galvanizing portrayal of the crushing institution of slavery, and Styron’s deeply layered characterization is a stunning rendering of one man’s violent struggle against oppression.

Gentleman’s Agreement

 Literature & Fiction > Classics
Author: Laura Z. Hobson

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Gentleman's Agreement

A landmark novel that ranked #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for five months straight, Gentleman’s Agreement speaks to the pervasive nature of prejudice after World War II—an issue just as relevant today as when the book was first published.
Journalist Philip Green has just moved to New York City from California when the Third Reich falls. To mark this moment in history, his editor at Smith’s Weekly Magazine assigns Phil a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. In order to experience anti-Semitism firsthand, Phil, a Christian, decides to pose as a Jew. What he discovers about the rampant bigotry in America will change him forever.

Anastasia Krupnik

 Children’s Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life
Author: Lois Lowry, Diane DeGroat

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Anastasia Krupnik

Anastasia’s tenth year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.

Ages 8-12. The first and best book in the very popular series describes the ups and downs of a precocious ten-year-old girl. Anastasia loves keeping lists of important information in her green notebook; when she discovers that her mother is pregnant, she instantly adds two new items to her “things I hate” list: “My parents” and “babies.” But as the year passes, Anastasia finds that the items on her lists keep moving around; by the time her baby brother is born, the only thing left to hate is liver.

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel

 Biographies & Memoirs > Historical
Author: John Guy

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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel

Becket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and vividly rendered as it is in John Guy’s hands. The son of middle-class Norman parents, Becket rose against all odds to become the second most powerful man in England. As King Henry II’s chancellor, Becket charmed potentates and popes, tamed overmighty barons, and even personally led knights into battle. After his royal patron elevated him to archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, however, Becket clashed with the King. Forced to choose between fealty to the crown and the values of his faith, he repeatedly challenged Henry’s authority to bring the church to heel. Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between the two men, separates truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casts doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends.

Sushi at Home: A Mat-to-Table Sushi Cookbook

 Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Author: Rockridge Press

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Sushi at Home: A Mat-to-Table Sushi Cookbook

Let your love of sushi inspire you to prepare and enjoy it in your home. This beautiful guide and cookbook opens a window to everything that’s so fascinating—and intimidating—about sushi, while laying out easy-to-follow tips and techniques to help sushi lovers become confident sushi chefs. In Japan, sushi is often made by home cooks and served as a casual family meal. Sushi at Home honors the spirit of authentic, homemade sushi by walking you through the entire process, including:

• information on shopping for essential (but not extensive) sushi equipment
• recommendations for where to find core ingredients
• advice on how to select the freshest fish for sushi
• preparations for the perfect sushi rice using white or brown rice
• step-by-step illustrations for slicing fish, rolling maki, forming rice balls, shaping nigiri, and more
• 80 authentic, popular, and creative sushi recipes

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

 Religion & Spirituality > Atheism
Author: Christopher Hitchens

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and
reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

 Literary Fiction > Classics
Author: Zora Neale Hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike Book 1)

 Mystery > Private Investigators
Author: Robert Galbraith

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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike Book 1)

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

The Lovely Bones

 Thrillers > Psychological
Author: Alice Sebold

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The Lovely Bones

On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon (“like the fish”) is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer–the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.Alice Sebold’s haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where “life is a perpetual yesterday” and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie’s resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her “simplest dreams,” where “there were no teachers…. We never had to go inside except for art class…. The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue.”

Batman: The Long Halloween

 Comics & Graphic Novels > Superheroes
Author: Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale

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Batman: The Long Halloween

Taking place during Batman’s early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman’s deadly enemy, Two-Face.

This edition includes original 13-issue series as well as four additional story pages cut from the original series, which are presented fully colored and restored to their place in the story.  Also featured are sketches and an introduction by the director and writer of The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan and David Goyer.

Return to Me (The Restoration Chronicles Book #1)

 Christian Fiction > Historical
Author: Lynn Austin

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Return to Me (The Restoration Chronicles Book #1)

After decades of exile, the prophesies are coming true–King Cyrus has declared the Jews may return to Jerusalem. Iddo, a priest, is sure this is a sign of God’s renewed favor. For too long they’ve remained in Babylon, and many, including Iddo’s sons, are losing the faith that sets them apart. And so only a few choose to leave everything to return–return to their home and their God.

Nothing about their journey to the Promised Land is easy. As hardships mount, even the faithful, like Iddo’s beloved wife, Dinah, question the sacrifice of following God’s leading. Zechariah, Iddo’s oldest grandson, feels torn between his grandfather’s ancient beliefs and the family they left behind. But one life-changing encounter with the Holy One gives him insight that will change Zechariah–and history–forever.

Rule of the Bone: A Novel

 Contemporary Fiction > Literary
Author: Russell Banks

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Rule of the Bone: A Novel

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name “Bone.”

He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.

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