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Lost in Lavender (Bennett Sisters Mysteries Book 13) (affiliate link)
Now on the dark side of 40, Elise Bennett is ripe for a midlife crisis. She went into the law because her four older sisters are all attorneys but she hates her job. The sisters have all found love. Elise broke up with a boyfriend she couldn’t marry. Nothing seems to work out for her.
How can she be happy? The constant pressure from her family to be a successful lawyer is crushing. Her ex is driving her nuts. She decides to escape to France where she books herself an exotic vacation. A farm stay in Provence at a lavender farm sounds ideal for thrashing out her future.
Unfortunately all the other guests at the picturesque family farm are twenty-year-old college students. And the work is menial and dull. There is Conor who drives the family tractor but even he rejects Elise. She feels like the world has turned on her. So when she meets a suave Frenchman at a village festival she falls for his charms.
Witched and Hitched in Seattle: The Case of the Spring Fling’s Missing Offspring (Book 1) (affiliate link)
It takes two to solve a murder right…
Stevie Cartwright-Winterbottom here! Witch and afterlife specialist, along with my reincarnated ghost-talking husband and ex-British spy, Crispin Alistair Winterbottom.
After solving one of our hardest cases yet (on our wedding day, no less), we’re back from our gloriously perfect, ghost-free Italian honeymoon, rested and ready to begin our lives together!
There’s just one problem… The long line of people outside our door (literally) who’ve come from parts near and far in Washington, hoping we’ll help them solve all their mystery needs.
After we caught a serial killer, and the ensuing circus of news coverage, turns out, we’re a little bit famous and everyone wants our help.
However, there’s one person waiting in that line with a very personal request.
Wine Country Wedding (Wedding Season Novel) (affiliate link)
Lilah Hale isn’t marriage material. She knew it three years ago, minutes before walking down the aisle, and she knows it now. When her family comes together in Southern California Wine Country, for her little brother’s wedding, she’s even more convinced she made the right choice to jilt her fiance at the altar.
Simon Stanley has been burned by marriage. A nasty divorce has left him bitter to the whole institution. He’s not thrilled about being the best man, but when he crosses paths with Lilah, he decides to play with fire.
Hooking up with her brother’s best friend wasn’t on the itinerary, but as long as no one finds out, what’s the harm?
Palpitations: Surviving The Zombie Apocalypse Road Trip (The Highway To Never After Book 1) (affiliate link)
Good girls get their immunisations.
Good girls die in the first five minutes of the zombie apocalypse
It’s a good thing that Charlotte’s only been pretending to be a good girl. Her naughty streak is either going to save her life, or get her devoured. And there are worse things going bump in the night, than the red-eyes. A suspenseful, sexy and sinful road-trip to the end of the world and back again. It”s science fiction meets horror meets comedy and a romp to end all romps!
GUNNER: Alton Rhode Mystery #5 (ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES) (affiliate link)
THE HITMAN IN MY KITCHEN WASN’T THERE TO SHOOT ME. HE WANTED MY HELP!
The hired killer, himself a proud veteran, felt betrayed when he unknowingly killed a Medal of Honor winner. He wants to settle the score. But there is a problem. The secretive assassin doesn’t know who gave the order for the hit. But he believes I can find out. He’s trusted me with his life in combat. After all, I was his old “skipper” — and he thought I could do the impossible.
Apocalypse: A Zombie Thriller (affiliate link)
The virus has arrived.
A deadly virus that destroys humanity.
A virus that replaces the living with creatures that crave human flesh.
As the human race dwindles, an unlikely group of young survivors battle against the odds to stay alive and avoid joining the ranks of the undead.
Follow Cassie as she desperately searches for her brother; Heidi as she tries to cope with the consequences of her actions; and Ginge as she takes on a new role of keeping everyone alive.
Lives will be lost.
The army of the dead will keep on growing.
Welcome to the apocalypse.
Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism (affiliate link)
Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show?
Why don’t people ever say what they mean?
And… Why is everyone chewing so loudly?
Comedian Pierre Novellie was on stage when a heckler suggested he was autistic. Usually, this disruption would be water off a duck’s back but two things made this heckler different: first, he was himself autistic. Second, he turned out to be absolutely right.
This random encounter led to a diagnosis of autism at the age of 31 that unravelled his world, explained his struggles and answered questions that had bothered him for his entire life.
At once a hilarious and insightful journey through autism and neurodivergence, an entertaining explainer for the uninitiated and observational comedy for the neurodiverse, this is the perfect read for anyone who has ever asked themselves: why can’t I just enjoy things?
Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics) (affiliate link)
This award-winning classic of WWII military history chronicles the Royal Air Force’s bombing campaign against Germany.
RAF Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. The struggle began meekly in 1939 with only a few aircraft—Whitleys, Hampdens, and Wellingtons—flying blindly through the night on their ill-conceived bombing runs. It ended six years later with 1,600 Lancasters, Halifaxes, and Mosquitoes, equipped with the best of British wartime technology, blazing whole German cities in a single night.
In Bomber Command, originally published to critical acclaim in the UK, famed British military historian Sir Max Hastings offers a captivating analysis of the strategy and decision-making behind one of World War II’s most violent episodes. With firsthand descriptions of the experiences of aircrew from 1939 to 1945—based on one hundred interviews with veterans—and a harrowing narrative of the experiences of Germans on the ground during the September 1944 bombing of Darmstadt, Bomber Command is widely recognized as a classic account of one of the bloodiest campaigns in World War II history.
Long Division: A Novel (affiliate link)
Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.
Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called…Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan.
The Patriot Oath (The Josh Kavanagh Thrillers) (affiliate link)
He fought for his country. Now he’s home and engaged in the deadliest of battles.
Josh Kavanagh eats and breathes loyalty. Wary of how he’ll fit in after a twenty-four-year absence, the Special Forces legend returns to his family’s Montana ranch on an undercover mission. And though he’s anxious to see the high school sweetheart he abandoned a lifetime ago, the dedicated Marine’s greatest concern is tracking down a dangerous neo-Nazi cell.
Juggling unresolved feelings for the woman he left behind, a sister expecting him to avenge her brutal rape, and keeping his own covert activities secret, Josh discovers the threat to the US is bigger than anyone previously thought. And when a member of his team goes MIA and the danger creeps perilously close to home, the talented military man fears he’ll lose everything he holds dear…
With a tangled web of corruption pulling deadly strings, can he blow a conspiracy apart without paying the ultimate price?
Mexico in Your Kitchen: Recipes That Celebrate Family, Community, Culture, and Tradition (affiliate link)
Mexico in Your Kitchen compiles over 95 traditional dishes enjoyed every day in Mexico, from those beloved all over the country to regional specialties. And now you can make these popular comfort foods for your family and friends.
Specialized for the home cook, Mexico in Your Kitchen includes a varied collection of easy-to-follow recipes filled with accessible and fresh ingredients. With an unintimidating approach to authentic Mexican cuisine, Mely includes dishes such as:
Chilaquiles
Sopes
Tacos al Pastor
Birria de Res (beef birria)
Mole Poblano
Coctel de Camarón (shrimp cocktail)
Espagueti Verde (creamy poblano spaghetti)
Veggie Tamales
Ensalada de Nopales (cactus paddle salad)
Queso Fundido
Rollo de Fresa (strawberry cream roll)
Conchas
Bolillos
Tepache
and much more!
David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of ’49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps (affiliate link)
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Halberstam, preeminent chronicler of the American experience, focuses his meticulous narrative gifts on some of Major League Baseball’s most iconic moments, training for the Olympics, and a remarkable profile of hoops legend Michael Jordan.
Summer of ’49: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Halberstam brings to stirring life the unforgettable season that cemented baseball as America’s pastime. A nation in transition is gripped by a pennant race for the ages: the Boston Red Sox, led by Ted Williams’s unearthly bat skills, versus the New York Yankees and Joe DiMaggio’s legendary heroics. Every hit on and off the field crackles across the page “in such an enjoyable, interesting, and informative manner that a reader needn’t be a baseball fan to appreciate the book” (Library Journal).
October 1964: The 1964 World Series pitted the established Yankees against the upstart St. Louis Cardinals in an epic, seven-game seesaw battle that seemed to reflect the tensions of a nation in turmoil. The barnburner included a cast of legends—Mantle, Maris, Ford, Gibson, Brock—and enough game-changing plays to last a lifetime. Halberstam captures every moment with “a fluidity of writing that make[s] the reading almost effortless. . . . Absorbing” (San Francisco Chronicle).
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