Hollywood Homicide, the eighth book in the funny, crazy, wild lives of Detective Kate Sexton and her canine partner, Bernie, opens with Kate\u2019s career taking a new turn when she\u2019s assigned to LAPD\u2019s new homicide unit, Section One. Kate soon realizes that Section One cases are the highest profile and most difficult homicides in the department. After teaming with her new partner, Ted Grady, Kate responds to a horrific crime scene where she finds the body of Hollywood Starlet, Scarlett Endicott.<\/p>\n All signs point to a Hollywood fixer, Pearce Landon, having been at work trying to clean the crime scene before leaving in a hurry when the police were called. Kate isn\u2019t convinced of Landon\u2019s involvement and sets out to find Scarlett\u2019s real killer, at the same time the fixer tries to prove his own innocence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The pursuit of her dream job takes Janie Adams to tiny Rose Quartz, New Mexico, to produce a TV feature on the town\u2019s annual Valentine\u2019s Day festival. Rose Quartz is famous for two things: its successful marriages and its namesake mines that yield the mystical Love Stone, reputed to keep lovers true.<\/p>\n But her simple assignment gets out of hand when she meets rancher Mason Hart. Owner of the town\u2019s last operating rose quartz mine, Mason is annoyingly brash, hotter than hell, and\u2014thanks to a ludicrously antiquated family tradition\u2014in a real bind: If he doesn\u2019t marry before his 30th birthday, in just two weeks’ time, he\u2019ll lose the family ranch and mine forever.<\/p>\n As a mysterious legend surfaces and Rose Quartz begins working its magic, Janie shocks everyone\u2014especially herself\u2014with an impulsive dive into a marriage of convenience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Five pages. A letter holding a secret buried for more than five years. A secret neither of them wanted to know. Will the truth tear them apart… again?<\/i><\/p>\n Five years after their messy breakup, Houston and Rory are forced to work together opening up a new wine bar. Despite their tragic past, they find themselves once again drawn to each other, unable to deny their potent attraction.<\/p>\n But the secret of the letter hangs like a guillotine over their heads. And soon, Houston finds himself in the same position he was in five years ago, choosing between the truth and the only woman he\u2019s ever loved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A train roars over the rails, carrying passengers on a trip that will change their lives. Among the many people aboard the 97 Silver Meteor are Andie Crystal, a lonely young woman hiding from her youth as a reality TV star; Matthew Scofield, a widower trying to manage his responsibilities to his two young children; and Janette Turlington, a middle-aged mother running from a situation that has destroyed the peace in her home and marriage. These three form a makeshift family on an Amtrak tour through the Southern seaboard, a journey that just might heal their wounded hearts and restore them to the people to whom they matter most . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n London 1558. An orphan from a far-off land is renamed \u201cNoah Ames,\u201d and given every advantage the English Crown can bestow.<\/p>\n London 1592. Now an experienced barrister, Noah witnesses what appears to be a botched robbery outside the Rose Theater, a crime he soon suspects to be part of a plot against Queen Elizabeth herself. Steadfast in his loyalty to the Queen, Noah must use every bit of his knowledge and skill to lure her most disloyal subject onto the only battlefield where Noah has the advantage … a court of law \u2013 though in doing so he risks public exposure of his darkest secret, a secret so shocking that its revelation could cost him everything: the love of the only woman who can offer him happiness, his livelihood … even his life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland while her parents are just yards away.<\/p>\n Three days later the distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron’s office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has stolen his daughter. And why.<\/p>\n Against his better judgment Charlie gets involved in the case and when more bodies are discovered the awful truth dawns: there is a serial killer whose work has gone undetected for decades.<\/p>\n Is baby Lily the latest victim of a madman?<\/p>\n For Charlie it\u2019s too late, he can\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Did you know the time spent on food preparation and cooking is an indicator of your diet quality and healthy eating? Studies have shown: \u201cGreater amount of time spent on food preparation was associated with indicators of higher diet quality, including significantly more frequent intake of vegetables, salads, fruits, and fruit juices. Spending less than 1 hour\/day on food preparation was associated with significantly more money spent on food away from home and more frequent use of fast food restaurants compared to those who spent more time on food preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n But you can overcome these barriers\u2026 The Instant Pot technology allows you to prepare and cook healthier meals while saving up to 70 percent of the time it takes<\/u> to make the same meal using regular cookers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Carly Holbrook and Brian Westbury are weeks away from their high school graduation. The young couple plans to marry before they head to college, and their future seems bright with promise. Everything changes one spring night when their six closest friends, including Brian’s younger brother, are killed in a fiery car accident that Carly and Brian witness. The trauma leaves Carly unable to speak, and Brian is forced to make unimaginable decisions about a future that once seemed so certain. With Carly incapable of going forward with their plans, Brian leaves home?and Carly?for good. Fifteen years later, disturbing new clues indicate the accident that wrecked so many lives wasn’t an accident at all, bringing Brian home to face a past?\u2014and a love\u2014?he’s never forgotten.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning author of the classic The Guns of August, <\/i>turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n In The First Salute,<\/i> one of America\u2019s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies of both these nations made the triumph of independence possible. She sheds new light on the key role played by the contending navies, paints a magnificent portrait of George Washington, and recounts in riveting detail the decisive campaign of the war at Yorktown. By turns lyrical and gripping, The First Salute<\/i> is an exhilarating account of the birth of a nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The author of A Year in the Merde<\/i> and Talk to the Snail<\/i> offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller.<\/p>\n Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately\u2014after years of humorously chronicling the vast cultural gap between the two countries\u2014author Stephen Clarke is perfectly positioned to investigate the historical origins of their occasionally hostile and perpetually entertaining pas de deux.<\/p>\n Clarke sets the record straight, documenting how French braggarts and cheats have stolen credit rightfully due their neighbors across the Channel while blaming their own numerous gaffes and failures on those same innocent Brits for the past thousand years.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The real chicken-and-egg problem: What to do with eggs once they\u2019re in your kitchen?<\/p>\n If you are looking for a fresh, nutritious, and creative approach to the almighty egg, The Egg Cookbook is for you. With The Egg Cookbook you\u2019ll get more than 110 unique recipes that let the egg shine\u2014from savory to sweet, and from breakfast to dinner. The Egg Cookbook is also your guide to the amazing culture surrounding the world\u2019s most versatile ingredient, with a useful primer on raising chickens and understanding egg types, so you can take your egg appreciation (and savings) to the next level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Spinster Miss Eleanor Lockhart is suddenly homeless and employment is her only option. Ruined after succumbing to a scoundrel\u2019s excessive charm nearly a decade ago, she\u2019s lucky to obtain a position as a paid companion and committed to behaving with the utmost propriety. She definitely shouldn\u2019t be in the arms of a man capable of utterly destroying what little remains of her reputation…<\/p>\n Titus St. John, Duke of Kendal, is known as the Forbidden Duke, a mysterious, intimidating figure who enters Society just once each year at his stepmother\u2019s ball. A decade ago, he was a devil-may-care rake until his idle roguery brought about the ruin of Eleanor Lockhart\u2014and his resulting self-imposed isolation. Now she\u2019s back, and she needs his help. But by \u201csaving\u201d her, he may just ruin her life all over again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You don\u2019t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That\u2019s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist<\/i> is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.<\/p>\n When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist<\/i>, the book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Fans of William Gibson, Jonathan Letham, and Richard K. Morgan will enjoy Strictly Analog by Richard Levesque.<\/p>\n What\u2019s a private detective to do in a future where nothing is private any more?<\/p>\n For Ted Lomax, the answer is to find clients who need their info kept off the grid, and that\u2019s what Ted has done for years, skirting the high tech that runs the new California and living on the fringes of society. But when his daughter is accused of murdering her boyfriend\u2013an agent in the Secret Police\u2013Ted has to dig himself out of the hole he\u2019s been in for years in order to save her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n There’s no rest for Paris’s top criminal investigation division, La Crim’. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky\u2014a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love story\u2014races against the clock to solve the murders as they get closer and closer to his inner circle. Will he resist the pressure? The story grabs you by the throat and doesn\u2019t let go until the last page, leading you behind the scenes with the French police and into the coroner\u2019s office. It has the suspense of Seven, with CSI-like details. 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