When a hairstylist finds the dead body of a girl in a small Southern town, she\u2019s thrown into a world of secrets and lies.<\/p>\n Savannah Jefferies is used to good gossip. Owner of the Teasen & Pleasen Hair Salon in the heart of Louisiana, she\u2019s used to big hair, Southern style, and tall tales of the latest town scandal. But her quiet life is turned on its head when Savannah finds an upstanding member of the community murdered outside her salon in cold blood. Savannah investigates, only to find that her pleasant, cute town is just a fa\u00e7ade, and that there\u2019s more deception than truth in the lives of its residents. As the case intensifies, Savannah finds herself dealing with a bad blowout, a man who might lose a limb, and a woman scorned, leading to a firefight the village of Knockemstiff will never forget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Elite combat veteran Jesse Yates is used to things being simple: find the enemy and kill him. But when his country opts out of the fight, Yates opts out of the military. Now he just wants to be a regular guy and fit back into society. But he\u2019s not a regular guy, and this is America, 2016, overregulated and stressed out, where every act seems to involve a risky set of consequences.<\/p>\n Jesse needs a job after quickly washing out as a trucker, and Palm Court Detectives can provide the two things he wants more than anything right now\u2014a chance for the occasional thrill and a close-knit team like the ones he always had in the military.<\/p>\n Yates could have picked a better first assignment than driving an 18-wheeler again to draw out hijackers, but he\u2019s not the kind of guy who questions his marching orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The debut Kaitlin Hall high-tech crime novel from Silicon Valley insider and legal expert R.S. Vaisbort.<\/p>\n Murder by Numbers is a fun and fast-paced detective novel set in boom-to-bust Silicon Valley circa 2001, where multi-millionaires cling desperately to their fortunes, CEOs pray that their startups stay funded, and techies hope to hold onto their jobs. Opportunities for financial gain \u2013 both legal and illegal \u2013 remain a high stakes game. And no one knows this better than Kaitlin Hall, a beautiful and brilliant rookie detective in the High Tech Crimes Detail of the San Jose Police Department.<\/p>\n Kaitlin\u2019s unauthorized investigation of the fatal car crash of a young systems administrator quickly leads newbie Detective Hall into dangerous, uncharted territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Detective Bobbie Gentry was psyched when she was offered the opportunity to work with the FBI on a special task force in the search for a heinous serial killer known as the Storyteller. What she didn’t expect was for the serial killer to follow her home on Christmas Eve…<\/p>\n The Storyteller couldn’t resist Bobbie no matter the risk. He murdered her husband and would have murdered her child but the little boy got away. Now Bobbie’s fight for survival might just be more than he bargained for…<\/p>\n One of them must die.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ocean Siliker has come back to Harkness, New Brunswick in defeat, after failing to set New York on fire with her playwriting. The first item on her agenda? Climbing White Crow Cliff, where her best friend Lacey Douglas died six years ago. If she conquers the mountain, perhaps she can rediscover her courage. But the only thing she finds herself is\u2026lost.<\/p>\n Family obligations have left Titus Standish stuck in Harkness. While his younger siblings went off into the world, he stayed, working the farm and running the local search and rescue. He was there when Lacey fell to her death and blames himself. He dreads the day another mission takes him up there again. But when Ocean\u2019s mother calls, concerned that her daughter is wandering the mountain, he leaps into action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Miramont Castle, built in 1897 and mysteriously abandoned three years later, is home to many secrets. Only one person knows the truth: Adrienne Beauvier, granddaughter of the Comte de Challembelles and cousin to the man who built the castle.<\/p>\n Clairvoyant from the time she could talk, Adrienne\u2019s visions show her the secrets of those around her. When her visions begin to reveal dark mysteries of her own aristocratic French family, Adrienne is confronted by her formidable Aunt Marie, who is determined to keep the young woman silent at any cost. Marie wrenches Adrienne from her home in France and takes her to America, to Miramont Castle, where she keeps the girl isolated and imprisoned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Americans have at last discovered Mexico’s passion for exciting food. We’ve fallen in love with the great Mexican combination of rich, earthy flavors and casual, festive dining. But we don’t begin to imagine how sumptuous and varied the cooking of Mexico really is.<\/p>\n After ten years of loving exploration, Rick Bayless, together with his wife, Deann, gave us Authentic Mexican<\/em>, this now classic, easy-to-use compendium of our southern neighbor’s cooking.<\/p>\n This all-embracing cookbook offers the full range of dishes, from poultry, meat, fish, rice, beans, and vegetables to eggs, snacks made of corn masa<\/em>, tacos, turnovers, enchiladas and their relatives, tamales<\/em>, and moles<\/em>, ending with desserts, sweets, and beverages. There are irresistible finger foods such as Yucatecan marinated shrimp tacos and crispy cheese-filled masa<\/em> turnovers; spicy corn chowder and chorizo<\/em> sausage with melted cheese will start off a special dinner; you will find mole poblano<\/em>, charcoal-grilled pork in red-chile adobo, and marinated fish steamed in banana leaves for those times when you want to celebrate; and exotic ice creams, caramel custards, and pies to top off any meal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems \u2013 marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as the many other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses.<\/p>\n Fortunately, when things look the darkest \u2013 a mysterious man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up. An elderly man with white hair, of indiscriminate age and race, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and leather flip flops carrying a battered old suitcase, Jones is a unique soul. Communicating what he calls \u201ca little perspective,\u201d Jones explains that he has been given a gift of noticing things that others miss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n On June 28, 1914, in the dusty Balkan town of Sarajevo, an assassin fired two shots. In the next five minutes, as the stout middle-aged Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife bled to death, a dynasty?and with it, a whole way of life?began to topple.<\/p>\n In the ages before World War I, four dynasties?the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov?dominated much of civilization. Outwardly different, they were at bottom somewhat alike: opulent, grandiose, suffocating in tradition, ostentatiously gilded on the surface and rotting at the core. Worse still, they were tragically out of step with the forces shaping the modern world.<\/p>\n The Fall of the Dynasties<\/i> covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when these four ruling houses crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and obliterating old boundaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Like her mother before her, Leonie of Bosewood carries Faerie blood in her veins, a secret she harbors to protect her own life. For although the people of eleventh-century England believe in magic, their ignorance and fear have made being different a very dangerous prospect. Caught between the human and Faerie worlds, yet belonging in neither, Leonie must guard her heart\u2026no matter how strong the temptations.<\/p>\n As the king\u2019s emissary, Philippe le Peregrine has watched Leonie mature from gangly girl to alluring woman. With each encounter, his attraction grows, but he knows a match between them can never be. For Philippe hides his own secret, one that has condemned him to a life of lonely celibacy for fear of harming the woman he loves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Katherine Barclift had it all: the perfect job, the perfect car, and what she thought was the perfect marriage. But when her entire world collapses in one stomach-churning instant, she hits the road and keeps driving until that so-called \u201cperfect life\u201d is just a dot in her rearview mirror.<\/p>\n A chance encounter leads her to make a pit stop in Boot Creek, a drowsy little North Carolina town where she can call herself Katy, soak up the peace and quiet\u2026and drink in the bluer-than-blue eyes of Derek Hansen, a local doctor still wrestling with his own painful past. Both Katy and Derek are wary about giving romance another shot, but they can\u2019t deny the intense attraction between them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric’s entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Someone is torturing and killing high-stakes players in the horse-racing world; all signs point to an animal activist gone rogue. But San Diego CSI Holly Jennings knows better. She\u2019s seen enough violence in her time to know the difference between a killer bent on revenge and a killer seeking sheer destruction.<\/p>\n To stop him, Holly must venture beyond the gleaming facade of jockey silks and Derby hats into the seedy underbelly of the racing world, where ambition and greed trump ethics and fair play, and people will do anything\u2014even kill\u2014to win. But just when she thinks the killer is within her reach, a ghost from the past returns to threaten it all: her case, her job\u2026and her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It’s a barren wasteland, the dead center of nowhere, and the last place Dana Vanover wants to be. 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<\/a><\/p>\nMurder By Numbers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Blackest Crimson (Shades of Death)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nA Fall from Yesterday: A Hearts of Harkness Romance (The Standish Clan Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMiramont’s Ghost<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nAuthentic Mexican: Regional Cooking from the Heart of Mexico<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nEvery Fifteen Minutes<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nBlood and Roses (Holly Jennings Thriller)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Salt Maiden<\/a><\/h3>\n
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