Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions.<\/i><\/p>\n That’s the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister’s daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over the newly returned seventh Earl of Hawkesbury, she is not impressed. If a man won’t take his responsibilities seriously and help those who are supposed to be able to depend on him, he deserves no respect from her. In Lavinia’s pretty, gray eyes, Nicholas Stamford is just as arrogant and reckless as his brother–who stole the most important person in Livvie’s world.<\/p>\n Nicholas is weighed down by his own guilt and responsibility, by the pain his careless brother caused, and by the legacy of war he’s just left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n New Yorker Neil Sadler returns to his hometown of Mason, Ohio, where his small-town life had been rocked by the suspicious death of Helen Syfert, the mother of Neil\u2019s friend Mary. He reconnects with Mary. Their once-close relationship hadn\u2019t been strong enough to survive the tragedy that overtook Mary\u2019s family, yet what drove them apart years ago now seems to be drawing them back together. But Neil is struggling to recover from a more recent loss. Yet the mystery of Helen\u2019s death remains unsolved, and to bring closure will mean facing old truths\u2014hard truths\u2014and discovering some new ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Valentine Hart may have been named after the holiday of love, but she sure hadn’t felt any of it in her life thus far.<\/p>\n Bo Montgomery had found great love once, but let the opinion’s of his family stop him from getting what he truly wanted.<\/p>\n A Valentine’s Day curse (or miracle) finds Val off the beaten path and directly into harm’s way and into Bo’s strong arms. The arms of a big man who sees in Val his second chance. If only he can convince her to stay after only three days of unbridled passion…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Los Angeles: 2063<\/p>\n David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles. He could do no wrong, until what seemed like an easy case got out of control, and left his wife dead among the abandoned ruins of old LA.<\/p>\n After four years of self-imposed retirement, David suddenly finds himself back on the job, struggling to unravel a crime far worse than murder. This time, he\u2019s not the hunter. As he\u2019s about to discover, the past isn\u2019t finished with him yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n On the field, soccer star James Blake is pure poetry. Off the field? He\u2019s pure trouble. When his fondness for fast women and bar brawls lands him a suspension from the game, he\u2019s prepared to take his punishment like a man. But since when does a suspension come with a live-in nanny?<\/p>\n TV baking maven Belinda West is the epitome of home-made hospitality, on-screen and off. The personal is the professional when you\u2019re selling the good life, after all. But when her wedding day implodes in front of a live studio audience, Bel\u2019s career goes into a death spiral. She\u2019ll do anything to save it, even take charge of soccer\u2019s most famous bad boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A series of chilling attacks are threatening the normalcy of Leona’s hometown. A vital clue to the mystery of who and why is standing directly in front of her. Why can’t she see it? Olivia Kingsley didn\u2019t expect to fall in love and receive a secret marriage proposal two weeks into her first Season. However, one dance with Allen Wimpleton, heir to a viscountcy, and her fate is sealed. Or so she thinks until her eccentric and ailing father, unaware of Allen\u2019s proposal, announces he\u2019s moving the family to the Caribbean for a year. Unaware of her father\u2019s ill health, Allen demands she choose\u2014him or her father.<\/p>\n Heartbroken at his callousness, but thankful he\u2019s revealed his true nature before she married him, Olivia turns her back on their love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now- reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.<\/p>\n When Lincoln comes across Beth’s and Jennifer’s messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can’t help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency kit, and disappear off the grid if necessary. He has also honed his \u201cpositive awareness\u201d\u2014a heightened sense of his surroundings that allows him to spot suspicious and potentially dangerous behavior\u2014on the street, in a taxi, at the airport, when dining out, or in any other situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today\u2019s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM\u2019s devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it\u2019s the assuring touch from the FSM\u2019s \u201cnoodly appendage.\u201d Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church\u2019s flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A down-home, feel-good debut Southern romance, From Scratch<\/i> explores one woman\u2019s journey back home to Dallas, Texas, where her family is cooking up a plan that doesn\u2019t quite suit her tastes\u2026<\/p>\n Thirty-year-old Lillie Turner grew up with maple syrup stuck to her skin and bacon grease splattered on her clothes, courtesy of working in the family diner. Thank goodness she escaped all that when she moved to Chicago five years ago. Now a successful strategy consultant and newly engaged to a man who complements her like biscuits and gravy, she has everything she wants.<\/p>\n When an urgent phone call about her father\u2019s health pulls Lillie back to Dallas, she soon learns it was a ruse to bring her home so she can run the diner she\u2019d rather avoid and compete in the Upper Crust, an annual baking competition, with no option to withdraw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term “cyberpunk,” for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer<\/i>‘s virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson’s gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n PR executive Sophia Giambelli loves her job and has never worried about competition. For three generations, her family\u2019s wines have been world-renowned for their quality. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli. Tereza, the matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family\u2019s winery\u2014and Sophia will be assuming a new role.<\/p>\n As a savvy businesswoman, Sophia knows she must be prepared for anything…but she isn\u2019t prepared for Tyler MacMillan. They\u2019ve been ordered to work together very closely, to facilitate the merger. Sophia must teach Ty the finer points of marketing\u2014and Ty, in turn, shows her how to get down and dirty, to use the sun, rain, and earth to coax the sweetest grapes from the vineyard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n For thousands of years, pirates have terrorized the ocean voyager and the coastal inhabitant, plundered ship and shore, and wrought havoc on the lives and livelihoods of rich and poor alike. Around these desperate men has grown a body of myths and legends, fascinating tales that today strongly influence our notions of pirates and piracy. Most of these myths derive from the pirates of the “Golden Age,\u201d from roughly 1655 to 1725. This was the age of the Spanish Main, of Henry Morgan and Blackbeard, of Bartholomew Sharp and Bartholomew Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in a washed-out California town for a London winter of drinking and abandon. Twenty years later, she is a San Francisco lighting designer and happily married mother of three who has put her reckless youth behind her. Then a photo from that distant winter in Europe arrives inexplicably in her mailbox, and an old obsession is awakened.<\/p>\n Past and present collide, Annie\u2019s marriage falters, and her son takes a car ride that ends with his life hanging in the balance. Now Annie must confront her own transgressions and fight for her family by untangling the mysteries of the turbulent winter that drew an invisible map of her future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The typewritten note under his windshield seems like just a sick joke. But in less than twenty-four hours, Billy Wiles, an ordinary, hardworking guy, is about to see his life take on the speed of a nightmare. Because a young blond schoolteacher is<\/i> murdered\u2014and now Billy has another note. And another deadline. This time he knows it\u2019s no joke. He\u2019s racing a killer faster than evil itself. And Billy must accept his terrifying challenge: The choice is yours.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n … See the rest of today’s Book Picks here on page 2<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/i>Page 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [wp_ad_camp_3]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [wp_ad_camp_2] The Elusive Miss Ellison (Regency Brides: A Legacy of Grace) \u00a0Historical Fiction > Regency Author: Carolyn Miller FREE Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions. That’s the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister’s daughter Lavinia Ellison. 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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Rescue: A Valentine’s Novella<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nTaste for Trouble: Blake Brothers #1 (The Blake Brothers Trilogy)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nCover Your Tracks, Leona Leitman (The Five Outrageous Elements Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nWhat is she missing? A lawyer who is usually busy covering her own tracks against sabotage, Leona suddenly risks her life to defend a client who begs her to stop a massive corporation from stealing his design. A design that could upset the balance of power worldwide. An invention that could actually make a difference, save lives.
\nBut soon after she begins her search for evidence, Leona wakes up at the scene of a murder. In her pyjamas. Not remembering anything of the attack. She suspects she was not the target, but why not?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA Kiss for Miss Kingsley (A Waltz with a Rogue Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nAttachments: A Novel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nSpy Secrets That Can Save Your Life: A Former CIA Officer Reveals Safety and Survival Techniques<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nWhen Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life.<\/p>\nThe Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nFrom Scratch (The Blue Plate Series)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nNeuromancer (Ace Science Fiction)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTwenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer<\/i> didn’t just explode onto the science fiction scene\u2014it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.<\/p>\nThe Villa<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nA Small Indiscretion: A Novel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nVelocity: A Novel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nIf you don\u2019t take this note to the police . . . I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. . . . If you do . . . I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours.<\/i><\/p>\n