Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a run down farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind. Her boys have grown and she has finally divorced her bullying husband. This is her time now.<\/p>\n Whilst making her new home habitable, Juliet discovers she needs a sturdy helping hand with the unruly and neglected garden. Unwilling to share her newfound independence with anyone, but unable to do all the work by herself, she reluctantly enlists casual labour.<\/p>\n Aaman has travelled to Greece from Pakistan illegally. Desperate to find a way out of poverty, his challenge is to find work and raise money for the harvester his village urgently need to survive.<\/p>\n What he imagined would be a heroic journey in reality is fraught with danger and corruption. Aaman finds himself in Greece, and with each passing day loses a little more of himself as he survives his new life as an immigrant worker; illegal, displaced, unwanted and with no value. Hungry and stranded, how will he ever make it back home to Pakistan?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fresh from a Jane Austen tour in England, Maddie Cooper returns home to Texas, determined to bring a touch of “Austen to Austin.” She dreams of opening an authentic English tea room and, like Austen’s Emma, put into practice her self-proclaimed gift as a matchmaker. But an airport mishap with a cranky Englishman gets her off on the wrong foot (quite literally), especially when he moves into the university guest house across the street.<\/p>\n Can Maddie find a love for her unapproachable new neighbor, or has she finally met her match?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Archeologist Taryn St. Giles has spent her life mining the ruins of the elves who vanished from the Four Kingdoms a thousand years ago. But when her patrons begin disappearing too\u2014and then turning up dead\u2014she finds herself unemployed, restless, and desperate. So she goes looking for other missing things: as a bounty hunter. Leah Bryant lives a quiet life helping others. When her future mother-in-law, Geraldine, threatens her causes, she’s left confused by the hypocrisy and befuddled by a stranger who roars into town on a Harley.<\/p>\n Dean Davis never wanted to return to his hometown. But when his father dies, he knows he must return and faced his mother, Geraldine, and his ugly past. When Leah discovers the stranger is the brother of her fianc\u00e9 that she’d been told was dead, she’s drawn to him and furious about the deception. Both are bowled over by an intense attraction to one another. The magnetic pull draws them into a passionate embrace within minutes of meeting.<\/p>\n Leah’s controlled life and Dean’s emotional barriers both shatter and force them to examine their lives. Leah must choose between her safe engagement to Dean’s estranged brother, Jacob, and a dangerously passionate affair with Dean. And Dean must confront the demon from his childhood, his mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Bertrand Court<\/i> is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life’s bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences.<\/p>\n Michelle Brafman is the author of the novel Washing the Dead<\/i>. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Slate<\/i>, Tablet<\/i>, the Washington Post<\/i>, Lilith<\/i>, the the minnesota review<\/i>, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program and lives with her family in Glen Echo, Maryland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Most days, Elea couldn\u2019t care less about being a witch, even if she does have special powers over spirit and bone. Why bother with incantations when you\u2019re a farm girl? Elea only uses her Necromancer magic to speed up chores and scare off suitors.<\/p>\n Everything changes when the evil Necromancer Tsar curses Elea. Now, she only has five years left before she burns as a ghost, tortured for all eternity. They say there\u2019s nothing she can do, but Elea disagrees. Embracing her Necromancer ability, Elea trains as a magical assassin. Her goal? Kill the Tsar before his curse kills her. After years of preparation, Elea\u2019s finally ready to strike.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when everything goes horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Summer. Montana, 1985. When seven-year-old Ryan Novak suddenly disappears from his home in a small rural town, Detective Newton picks up the case. Convinced that the boy\u2019s grandfather – school janitor and former woodsman Bill O\u2019Donnell – knows what happened to the boy, Newton\u2019s growing obsession with his only suspect begins to take its toll.<\/p>\n Winter. Montana, 2010. Twenty-five years later and, in the final days of Newton\u2019s tarnished career, Bill O\u2019Donnell is found murdered. Newton\u2019s successor, a city-toughened young Texan detective named Ward, is the lead investigator. As Newton readies himself for retirement, Ward draws him back into the mystery he couldn\u2019t solve. Can they find the old man\u2019s killer and finally uncover the truth about what really happened to Ryan?<\/p>\n The silence is about to be shattered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n If these walls could talk…they’d scream murder.<\/p>\n Alex Jordan is the owner of Finials and Facades Renovation and Restoration Services, making her able to pursue her love of restoring Victorian-style homes in the town of Danger Cove. But her recent acquisition of the stately Marlton House has led to a showdown with town real estate mogul, and now she has needs to restore the old house and flip it for a profit as quickly as possible. But Alex gets more than she bargained for when a Hawaiian shirt-clad tourist with a bullet in his head turns up in the home’s bathtub. Pairing up with the unlikely partner of the town florist, George Fontaine, Alex vows to solve the murder before her flip flops<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Francesca “Franki” Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas\u2014until an unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn’t cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica’s detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki’s hopes for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf. When she’s not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, but most of her time is spent dodging date offers from a string of “good Italian boys”\u2014make that not-so-good aging Italian men\u2014that her meddlesome Sicilian grandma has recruited as marriage candidates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have time to meditate!\u201d<\/p>\n Rebekah \u201cBex\u201d Borucki has heard this a lot. A certified yoga and meditation teacher, she\u2019s taught hundreds of thousands of people how to create simple yet powerful meditation practices. In fact, as she\u2019ll show you in this book, in as little as 4 minutes<\/i>, you can change your life.<\/p>\n After years of suffering from anxiety and depression, both as a child and as an adult, Bex took control of her mental and physical health by establishing a rigorous fitness and yoga routine that quickly evolved into her own regular, homegrown 4-minute daily meditation practice. Bex\u2019s 4-minute meditations combine mantras, affirmations, breathing and bodywork techniques, and they\u2019re designed so that even the busiest people can fit them into their lives.<\/p>\n In this book, Bex guides you through 27 different meditation practices, and shares personal stories that demonstrate how meditation has helped her overcome various challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n National-bestselling author Alan Jacobson returns with a story as fresh as the headlines, a novel\u2014his best in years\u2014that moves him into the thriller writer elite<\/p>\n Hard Target<\/i> by Alan Jacobson is a ticking time bomb that will keep you clinging to the edge of your seat . . . and turning the pages.<\/p>\n An explosion pulverizes the president-elect\u2019s helicopter on election night. It soon becomes clear that the group behind the assassination attempt possesses far greater reach than the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has yet encountered\u2014and a plot so deeply interwoven in the country\u2019s fabric that it threatens to upend America\u2019s political system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Nicole Curtis is the tough, soulful, charismatic dynamo who for the past twenty years has worked tirelessly to restore historical houses, often revitalizing neighborhoods in the process. And also, in the process, drawing millions of fans to her television show, Rehab Addict,<\/i> where they follow each step of the hard work and singular vision that transform the seemingly lost cause of a run-down building into a beautifully restored home. But there is so much more to this self-taught expert and working mom. With hersignature irresistible honesty and energy, Curtis writes about a project that every reader will find compelling: how she rehabbed herself. Better Than New <\/i>reveals what\u2019s not seen on TV\u2014Curtis\u2019s personal battles and her personal triumphs, her complicated relationships, her life as a single mother, the story of how she got started remodeling houses, and the consuming ins and outs of producing a megahit television show while keeping up with two kids, two rescue dogs, and countless tasks on her home renovation punch lists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Welcome to Appleseed Creek, the heart of Ohio\u2019s Amish Country, where life is not as serene as it seems.<\/p>\n While her Cleveland friends relocated to Southern California and Italy, 24-year-old computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek to direct technology services at a nearby college. Her first acquaintance is Becky, an ex-Amish teenager looking for a new home.<\/p>\n While driving Chloe\u2019s car, Becky collides with a buggy, killing an Amish elder. 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\nTracking her first fugitive\u2014the distractingly handsome and strangely charming Alric\u2014she unearths a dangerous underworld of warring crime lords, demonic squirrels, and a long-lost elven artifact capable of unleashing a hell on earth.
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\nA murdered coach and a missing counselor has thrown the school into a foreign curriculum of anger, fear, and suspicion. English teacher Emily Taylor is determined to prove that her missing friend is not a murderer. But if she\u2019s not, then who is? And where could her friend be? Against the advice of fellow math teacher and former crush Tad, Emily and her best friend Gabby dig into the dead coach’s pasts. But someone doesn\u2019t want Emily unearthing their secrets and is determined to see that she gets a failing grade in the sleuthing department. Soon, Emily finds herself scrambling for a new lesson plan to solve the murder…before the killer sets his own deadline!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIncurable Me: Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nDr. Stoller maintains that the best evidence in medical research is not incorporated into clinical practice unless the medical cartel has the potential to make large amounts of money promoting the results of the research. Stoller takes his provocative argument a step further, maintaining that if specific research conflicts with a powerful entity\u2019s financial interests, the likely result will be an effort to suppress or distort the results. Stoller cites numerous examples, including corporate influence on GMO labeling and public health.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMidshipman’s Hope (The Seafort Saga Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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