A volatile hostage situation at a foster home reaches a bitter end: shots are fired, some die, some live to tell a sordid tale. In the midst of the anguish and confusion is one child who will bear the scars of this unbelievable turmoil.<\/p>\n As a special investigator for Child Protective Services, Ivy Nash lives by one rule: she\u2019ll do anything to fight for the wellbeing of children. Anything. Something that was never done for her. As a \u201csystem\u201d kid, she spent time in seventeen foster homes.<\/p>\n Very quickly, the facts of the case are blurred\u2026accusations of sibling abuse, connections to drugs. Nothing lines up, and authorities want it all to go away. Their target? A ten-year-old boy. Unrelenting in her pursuit to find the truth, Ivy and her new friend Cristina uncover alarming new information to pinpoint who is at the root of the crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you download Wheat Belly: Your Wheat Free Guide To Weight Loss, Energy And Total Health<\/i>, you\u2019ll learn how eliminating wheat (and other grains that contain gluten) from your diet can revolutionize your health. You\u2019ll also discover how to manage the amount of carbs you consume to lose weight and balance your blood sugar!In Wheat Belly: Your Wheat Free Guide To Weight Loss, Energy And Total Health<\/i>, you\u2019ll find out how to avoid common mistakes as you embrace your new, healthy lifestyle. This book help offers a special Two-Day Challenge to get you started \u2013 and offers many delicious recipes you can try today!<\/p>\n When former Marine, Connor Ortega, was ordered into the offices of Crest Security Agency on a Saturday morning, he didn’t expect the latest case to hit so close to home. A submissive has been murdered in a particularly vicious manner and to bring her killer to justice, he must go undercover. Not hard to do considering he’s already part of the BDSM lifestyle.<\/p>\n Lauren Bailey, a local vendor of bejeweled erotic implements, lives vicariously through her clients due to her fear of bondage. When Connor’s dominant side can’t resist trying to ease her anxieties, she accepts his proposal and agrees to his one stipulation…keep things casual.<\/p>\n When the killer sets his sights on Lauren, Connor is forced to rethink their relationship. He has the training it takes to catch a murderer, but does he have the courage to escape his inner demons and capture Lauren’s heart?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast. No one knows how Faye\u2019s great-great-grandmother Cally, a newly freed slave barely out of her teens, came to own Joyeuse in the aftermath of the Civil War. No one knows how her descendants hung onto it through Reconstruction, world wars, the Depression, and Jim Crow, but Faye has inherited the island plantation\u2014and the family tenacity. When the property taxes rise beyond her means, she sets out to save Joyeuse by digging for artifacts on her property and the surrounding National Wildlife Refuge and selling them on the black market. A tiny bit of that dead glory would pay a year\u2019s taxes. A big valuable chunk of the past would save her home forever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Wren<\/p>\n My life is a series of tragedies. When the most recent forces me to move in with my aunt, the headmistress of my new school, Tennerson Girls Academy, I\u2019m sure things can\u2019t possibly get worse. I can handle the snotty girls who look down their nose at me. I can even handle being the new girl.<\/p>\n The one thing I can\u2019t handle? More heartbreak.<\/p>\n Dalton<\/p>\n Life is short. I know that better than anyone.<\/p>\n So when a position at an elite academy opens, I jump at the opportunity to take the job of my dreams. It\u2019s not without it\u2019s challenges–thirty girls throwing themselves at me at every opportunity wasn\u2019t quite the curriculum I had in mind. But I\u2019m determined to make a difference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n An adoption agency owner who is obsessed with Cleo suggests an unorthodox arrangement. One date with Cleo and he\u2019ll place Sylvia and her husband at the top of the adoption list.<\/p>\n After a pregnant high school student is found murdered, the investigation leads Seattle Detective Peter Ball to the illegal adoption. The deception he uncovers threatens to destroy both Sylvia and Cleo. SOME MISTAKES COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU Ghost Ahead<\/i> is a suspense-packed supernatural thriller full of twists and turns from the author of Don’t Look Inside<\/i> and Leave This Place.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The year is 1820. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, returns to London to wed his fianc\u00e9e. But instead of settling down to fame and glory, he finds himself penniless in a country where high unemployment and social unrest rage, and where men\u2014innocent or guilty\u2014are hanged for the merest of crimes.<\/p>\n When he’s offered a job as private investigator to re-open the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn’t commit, Sandman readily accepts\u2014as much for the money as for a chance to see justice done in a country gone to ruins.<\/p>\n Soon, however, he’s mired in a grisly murder plot that keeps thickening. Sandman makes his way through gentlemen’s clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions, and fashionable painters’ studios determined to rescue the innocent young man from the rope. But someone doesn’t want the truth revealed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The heart and soul of classic bread baking, from master baker Peter Reinhart From whole-wheat, sourdough, and rye to pita, focaccia, and naan, this classic cookbook from expert baker Peter Reinhart shows you how to produce phenomenal bread. Reinhart details each step in the process, giving you the knowledge and confidence to create countless versions of your own. Not merely a book of bread recipes, this book is an in-depth dive into the world of bread baking, filled with highly tested formulas to take your bread game to the next level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In The Country Cooking of Ireland<\/em>, internationally acclaimed food and travel writer Colman Andrews brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland. Fast emerging as one of the world’s hottest culinary destinations, Ireland is a country of artisanal bakers, farmers, cheese makers, and butteries, where farm-to-table dining has been practiced for centuries. Meticulously researched and reported, this sumptuous cookbook includes 250 recipes and more than 100 photographs of the pubs, the people, and the emerald Irish countryside taken by award-winning photographer Christopher Hirsheimer. Rich with stories of the food and people who make Ireland a wonderful place to eat, and laced with charming snippets of song, folklore, and poetry, The Country Cooking of Ireland<\/em> ushers in a new understanding of Irish food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A sexy Beauty and the Beast romance from contemporary romance author Julia Gabriel<\/p>\n A scarred and lonely billionaire hiding from his past …<\/p>\n Jared Connor lost his innocence at the age of ten when his father poured gasoline around the family home and left his two young sons to die in the flames. Now an adult, he’s carefully crafted a pretend life where he can hide his scars and his death row father behind the disguise of a caretaker’s pickup truck and a pair of gardening shears. But when a beautiful woman with scars of her own barges into his quiet, solitary life, Jared finds it increasingly difficult to hide from what he really wants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Elaine Ambrose boldly writes her latest kiss-my-attitude book as a sassy sequel to Midlife Cabernet. Ambrose shares her festive life experiences and career-crushing anecdotes as she explains how to remain relevant after age 50, why grown children make great travel companions, and how to balance midlife without falling over. Ambrose notes that her feminine mystique sprung a leak after years of competing as a funny female in a serious male job market. Now the hard work is done, and she invites midlife women to join her for Happy Hour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n When Ella’s sister decides to reunite with their estranged mother, Ella goes along for the ride\u2014it’s always been the two Preston girls against the world. But Sanctuary Island, a tiny refuge for wild horses tucked off the Atlantic coast, is more inviting than she ever imagined. And it holds more than one last opportunity to repair their broken family\u2014if Ella can open her carefully guarded heart, there is also the chance for new beginnings.<\/p>\n Grady Wilkes is a handyman who can fix anything\u2026except the scars of his own past. When he accepts the task of showing Ella the simple beauties of the island that healed him, he discovers a deep sense of comfort he thought he’d lost. But now he must convince the woman who never intended to stay that on Sanctuary Island, anything is possible\u2014forgiving past mistakes, rediscovering the simple joys of life, and maybe even falling in love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Shy, reclusive Frankie and her best friend Lou obsess over Thomas G. Longley, as they reverently refer to him, for their entire first two years of medical school. So when he publicly humiliates her at the student bar she is devastated.<\/p>\n Ten years later, Frankie has to work in the testosterone driven environment of Cardiology before she can start her palliative care training and, to her dismay, Tom is her boss.<\/p>\n Thankfully the subject of her long-term crush doesn’t seem to remember her and, given her ability to blend into the background, she\u2019s not really surprised. What does surprise her is how cruel he is. Sure he squished her self esteem like a bug at Uni, but the Tom she spent many a pointless lunch break or library session covertly watching seemed easy going and quick to smile; not an uptight, overly critical bully.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This book includes 150 recipes for creating delicious salads and dressings using organic, locally grown ingredients. 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Captured Innocence (CSA Case Files Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nBestselling author Tess Thompson delivers a captivating and suspenseful tale of the possibilities that await us in life and in love\u2014if we can find the courage to get off the sidelines. A toast to friendship, motherhood, mended hearts and new beginnings, \u201cCaramel and Magnolias\u201d reminds us it\u2019s never too late to reawaken the heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGhost Ahead<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTortured by his decision to leave the scene of a fatal hit and run, Garth’s guilty conscience causes him to see ghostly apparitions of the victim. But when cars identical to his own start crashing at the scene of the accident, Garth discovers that the ghost is real — and it’s hunting him down, hell-bent on revenge…<\/p>\nGallows Thief: A Novel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nBroken Heart Syndrome<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nSalad Days: Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season<\/a><\/h3>\n
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