Tag: Historical Fiction

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    Up Island Harbor (An Up Island Novel Book 1) She’s coming back to the home she didn’t know she had…

    The quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha’s Vineyard that tourists don’t always see. Maddie Clarke’s late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy’s cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenureship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything…

    It turns out Grandma Nancy didn’t die long ago, as Maddie believed. In fact, Nancy just passed away at 89—and left Maddie her gray-shingled cottage. Maddie intends her visit to Martha’s Vineyard to be a brief one, just long enough to settle the estate and sell the cottage. But on arriving in Menemsha, she finds far more than memories…

    There are other family secrets waiting to be uncovered, and a Native American heritage Maddie knew nothing about. Most surprising of all, there is the glimmer of a very different future—a chance to connect with her people and find herself, and perhaps find love, on this beautiful, celebrated island…

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    Where There's Smoke In this psychological thriller from the author of The Chemistry of Death, a woman’s journey to motherhood leads her into deadly territory.

    Successful, single, and fiercely independent, Kate Powell has always taken charge of her own life. But lately she’s felt that something is missing. She wants a child—and she’s determined to have one on her own terms. Artificial insemination seems like the best option, but Kate doesn’t want to go through life not knowing who her child’s father is.

    After putting out an ad to find a suitable father, Kate finds the perfect candidate: Alex Turner seems to be the answer to all of Kate’s problems. But she’s about to learn that appearances can be deceiving. Soon Kate’s life is out of her hands… and dangerously out of control…

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    6 Killer Bodies (A Body Movers Novel) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Carlotta Wren’s world is crumbling beneath her well-shod feet. One of her closest friends has been arrested as the Charmed Killer, but Carlotta refuses to believe it.

    And to prove her friend’s innocence, Carlotta goes against her boyfriend Peter’s wishes and resumes her after-hours body-moving duties.

    And then… Peter pressures her for an answer to his proposal. Her troubled brother Wesley goes missing. And the madman stalking the city strikes again, this time a little too close to home…

    But when Carlotta finds herself in the clutches of the Charmed Killer, is she destined for her own body bag?

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    Woman in Black Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    A housekeeper’s daughter and a daughter of privilege find their fortunes reversed in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Diary.

    The caretaker’s cottage is the only home fifteen-year-old Abigail Armstrong has ever known. She and her mother, Rosalie, work for the well-to-do Meriwhethers. Lila Meriwhether is Abigail’s best friend, and Abigail has fallen in love with Lila’s twin brother, Vaughn. But one day the unthinkable happens: The employers who’d always treated them like family accuse Rosalie of stealing a diamond necklace and banish her and Abigail. A quarter of a century will pass before Abigail sees Lila or Vaughn again.

    Twenty-five years later, Lila is leading a charmed life as the Park Avenue wife of a powerful businessman. But a scandal leaves her and her son nearly bankrupt. Abigail, the owner of a celebrated homemaking empire, is meanwhile coping with the fallout from a fire in her Mexico factory. In a capricious twist of fate, Lila is forced to take a job as Abigail’s housekeeper. But it is Vaughn, now a documentary filmmaker, who will shake up Abigail’s world and force her to confront the girl she used to be.

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    Love Welcome Serve: Recipes that Gather and Give Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Feel the magical joy of hospitality squeeze your heart as you serve up a delicious helping of home-cooked goodness!

    These crowd-pleasing comfort food recipes will be a hit at your dinner table whether it’s a busy weeknight or a slow Sunday afternoon.

    Living in the South for more than twenty years as a pastor’s wife confirmed Amy Hannon’s long-held belief that when you cook for people, they feel cared for. There’s just something unique and magical about serving people a homecooked meal. Love Welcome Serve will equip you to open your home and your heart and connect with family and friends over delicious food.

    This beautiful cookbook offers easy-to-prepare, crowd-pleasing, comfort recipes, such as:

    • Roast Beef Cobbler
    • Green Chile and Lime Steak Fajitas
    • Toasted Coconut and Bacon Popcorn
    • Comfort Chicken Pot Pie
    • 30-Minute Spinach-Artichoke Penne
    • Loaded Southern Guacamole
    • Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Pie
    • Euna Mae’s “Peach” Fried Pies

    In Love Welcome Serve you will be equipped to live out lifegiving hospitality right in your own kitchen. It’s time to change the world one pot pie at a time!

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    Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (Vampire Chronicles Book 13) Over 2,900 5-Star Reviews!

    In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be.

    Lestat takes us from his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana, with its lingering fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the Pacific’s untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg and the court of the Empress Catherine. He speaks of his fierce battle of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary ancient vampire Maharet, avowed enemy of Queen Akasha, who refuses to live in harmony at court and who threatens all Lestat has dreamt of…

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    Mystic Summer: A Novel (The Perfect Beach Read) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    A chance run-in with a college boyfriend puts a young woman’s picture-perfect life in perspective in this warm-hearted and lyrical novel.

    Since finishing graduate school, Maggie Griffin has worked hard to build an enviable life in Boston. She’s an elementary school teacher in a tony Boston suburb, a devoted sister, and a loving aunt. With her childhood best friend’s wedding quickly approaching and her own relationship blossoming, this is the summer she has been waiting for.

    But when Maggie’s career is suddenly in jeopardy, her life begins to unravel. Stricken, Maggie returns home to seaside Mystic, Connecticut, where she expects to find comfort in family and familiarity. Instead, she runs into Cameron Wilder, a young man from her past who has also returned home, and whose life has taken a turn that puts Maggie’s city struggles in harsh perspective. When tragedy strikes for Cameron, Maggie is faced with big decisions as she weighs what matters most and strives to stay true to the person she’s become.

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    Palm Beach, Finland Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Things don’t go entirely to plan when undercover ace detective Jan Nyman is sent to the “hottest beach in Finland” to investigate a suspicious death. Fargo meets Baywatch in a mesmerizing, poignant dark-comedy thriller by the King of Helsinki Noir.

    Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village – the ‘hottest beach in Finland’. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means necessary.

    With a nod to Fargo and dark noir, Palm Beach, Finland is both a gripping thriller and a black comedy about lust for money, fleeing dreams and people struggling at turning points in their lives – chasing their fantasies regardless of reason.

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    Devotion: A Memoir Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers.

    Was this all life was — a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean?

    Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Shapiro had no personal sense of faith, despite repeated attempts to create a connection to something greater. Feeling as if she was plunging headlong into what Carl Jung termed “the afternoon of life,” she wrestled with self-doubt and a searing disquietude that would awaken her in the middle of the night. Set adrift by loss – her father’s early death; the life-threatening illness of her infant son; her troubled relationship with her mother – she had become edgy and uncertain.

    At the heart of this anxiety, she realized, was a challenge: What did she believe? Spurred on by the big questions her young son began to raise, Shapiro embarked upon a surprisingly joyful quest to find meaning in a constantly changing world. The result is Devotion: a literary excavation to the core of a life.

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    A Light in the Window: A completely gripping WW2 historical novel with a heartbreaking twist (Margarete's Journey Book 1) Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Berlin, 1941: Margarete Rosenbaum is working as a housemaid for a senior Nazi officer when his house is bombed, leaving her the only survivor. But when she’s mistaken for his daughter in the aftermath of the blast, Margarete knows she can make a bid for freedom…

    Issued with temporary papers—and with the freedom of not being seen as Jewish—a few hours are all she needs to escape to relative safety. That is, until her former employer’s son, SS officer Wilhelm Huber, tracks her down.

    But strangely he doesn’t reveal her true identity right away. Instead he insists she comes and lives with him in Paris, and seems determined to keep her hidden. His only condition: she must continue to pretend to be his sister. Because whoever would suspect a Nazi girl of secretly being a Jew?

    His plan seems impossible, and Margarete is terrified they might be found out, not to mention worried about what Wilhelm might want in return. But as the Nazis start rounding up Jews in Paris and the Résistance steps up its activities, putting everyone who opposes the regime in peril, she realizes staying hidden in plain sight may be her only chance of survival…

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    Dair Devil: A Georgian Historical Romance (Roxton Family Saga Book 3) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    A mismatch made in heaven…

    War hero and heir to an earldom, Dair Fitzstuart enjoys the life of a reckless rogue. Rory Talbot, on the other hand, is a wallflower. She lives a quiet life cultivating pineapples.

    Dair and Rory’s paths will surely never cross. Until one night they do, and everything turns upside down…

    Romance. Drama. Family secrets… Never a dull moment for the 18th Century’s first family.

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    Ice Crown (The Elements of Kamdaria) Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    The competition could save her life. But only if she wins…

    Talise can manipulate the elements with ease. Water, air, earth, and fire all bend to her will. As a citizen of the Storm—a crime-laden land where death is the only constant—her only chance for a better life is to become Master Shaper.

    A competition for the position takes place at the end of her training years. If she wins, she would live in the palace, work for the emperor, and escape her inevitable death in the Storm. But she’s not the only one with a chance to win.

    Aaden is another talented student. As a citizen of the Crown, he was born with unlimited privilege and resources. When someone from the Crown wants to win, they do. End of story. And his shaping is unlike anything Talise has ever seen.

    Complicating matters, Talise’s loved one in the Storm gives her reason to abandon the competition altogether, forcing her to make an impossible choice.

    Torn between duty and freedom, she must learn that clinging to the past, might destroy her future.

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    The Wish Three men. Two timelines. One wish.

    Haunted by her choices, including marrying an abusive con man, thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth has been unable to speak for two years. She is further devastated when she learns an old boyfriend has died. Nothing in her life is right.

    That night, Elizabeth wishes for a mulligan. When she wakes, to her surprise, it is no longer 2022, but 2017. Though thrilled to have a chance to fix mistakes, the past is not perfect. She has a stalker and is still voiceless. Just like before, her boyfriend slips into a mysterious coma, so she enlists his brother Christopher’s aid to determine the cause. In their investigation, he becomes her staunchest ally and her unexpected soulmate.

    Elizabeth’s stalker threatens her happiness, as do those who wish secrets to remain buried. If she can’t reclaim her voice, her former boyfriend will fade away in a coma and her stalker may claim her life.

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    Dead Fall: A Thriller (The Scot Harvath Series Book 22) Over 8,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Lethal operative Scot Harvath is dispatched to avenge the killing of American citizens abroad in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor’s new pulse-pounding thriller.

    In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield.

    With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war.

    Simultaneously, a team of Russian soldiers has been dispatched by the Kremlin to loot truckloads of art and priceless cultural treasures hidden away in a host of churches, museums, and private homes.

    When multiple American aid workers are killed, America’s top spy, Scot Harvath, is sent in to settle the score. But in a country so vast, will Harvath be able to find the men in question and, more importantly, will he be able to stop them before they can kill again?

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    Counterfeit: A Reese's Book Club Pick Over 3,500 5-Star Reviews!

    For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise—an incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime, and friendship from the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners.

    Money can’t buy happiness… but it can buy a decent fake.

    Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point.

    Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances. Now, twenty years later, Winnie is looking to reconnect with her old friend. But the shy, awkward girl Ava once knew has been replaced with a confident woman of the world, dripping in luxury goods, including a coveted Birkin in classic orange. The secret to her success? Winnie has developed an ingenious counterfeit scheme that involves importing near-exact replicas of luxury handbags and now she needs someone with a U.S. passport to help manage her business—someone who’d never be suspected of wrongdoing, someone like Ava.

    But when their spectacular success is threatened and Winnie vanishes once again, Ava is left to face the consequences…

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    The Widow Over 10,000 5-Star Reviews!

    For fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife.

    When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen…

    But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore.

    There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.

    Now there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage.

    The truth—that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…

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    The Bookstore Sisters: A Short Story (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories) Over 25,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.

    Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again.

    But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island. What she finds there may forever alter her path—and change everything she thought she knew about her family, her home, and herself.

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    Vanilla Bean Vengeance: A cozy murder mystery packed with twists (Claire's Candles Cozy Mystery Book 1) Over 1,700 5-Star Reviews!

    Claire Harris loves nothing more than crafting homemade candles. She has always dreamed of one day opening a quaint candle shop in her home village of Northash, but at thirty-five, she still can’t afford to take the risk. Stuck in a dead-end job at the local candle factory, and back living with her parents, Claire knows her life needs a shakeup.

    The last place she expected change to come from was the factory itself, but when the owner is shockingly pushed to her death, Claire’s life is flipped upside down. She isn’t the only person in the village depending on the factory, so when the murder plunges the business’s future into uncertainty, Claire feels compelled to solve the crime.

    With the help of her retired-detective father and closest friends, Claire uncovers a tangled web of conspiracies, cover-ups, secrets, and lies, but can she uncover the truth before her candle shop dream slips through her fingers forever?

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    The Sister Under The Stairs: A totally addictive psychological thriller with a shocking twist (Gripping Psychological Thrillers) Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    My twin sister disappeared twelve years ago.

    Jess went missing on our way home from school. We were sixteen. Dad’s golden rule was Never walk home alone. But I was in a hurry and she was flirting with boys. She just vanished. No word. No sightings. Nothing. My family destroyed.

    I blame myself. And I won’t ever give up looking for her.

    Each year, on the anniversary of Jess’s disappearance, a bunch of flowers is delivered to our home, along with a note. Two words: I’m sorry.

    It’s the only clue we’ve ever had as to what happened. Until the day I get a text: I found her.

    And in my desperation to know the truth, I’m walking into a carefully-laid trap. The truth about what happened to my twin is even worse than I could ever have imagined…

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    Where Waters Meet Over 2,700 5-Star Reviews!

    A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother’s secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselling author of A Single Swallow.

    There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller’s mother, Rain, didn’t live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix’s life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain’s unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation.

    Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother’s suitcase—a memory box Rain had brought from home. Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative bottle holding a crystallized powder. Her auntie Mei tells her these missing pieces of her mother’s early life can only be explained when they meet, and so, clutching her mother’s ashes, Phoenix boards a plane for China. What at first seems like a daughter’s quest to uncover a mother’s secrets becomes a startling journey of self-discovery.

    Told across decades and continents, Zhang Ling’s exquisite novel is a tale of extraordinary courage and survival. It illuminates the resilience of humanity, the brutalities of life, the secrets we keep and those we share, and the driving forces it takes to survive.

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    The Trouble with a Small Town Cowboy (Texas Matchmakers At It Again Book 1) Love happens at its own pace and for Izzy and Luc, they’ve got singing angels helping the Matchmakin’ Posse—it’s literally a match made from heaven…

    It’s been eight years since hairstylist Lacy Brown drove into town in her ancient pink Cadillac and set the town on the map. Now, she’s hired a new stylist, Izzy Cranberry, who is happy to be in the town that’s made history with its everlasting “Wives Wanted Campaign” that is still running even now.

    Styling is all she’s here for…and maybe a laugh or two from the legendary matchmakers who sit in her styling chair and think they have her on their target board.

    Horse trainer Luc Asher has taken a job in the town he’s heard a lot about but has no plan to be one of the “matches”. He’s a loner, with good reason, and as far from looking for love as a man can get.

    Making him the perfect target…at least that’s what Esther Mae, Norma Sue, and Adela, the town matchmakers, believe the moment he strides into Sam’s Diner looking as handsome and alone as a man shouldn’t be.

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    RedHanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    What is it about killers, cult leaders, cannibals, cults, and criminals that capture our imaginations even as they terrify and disturb us?

    How do we responsibly consume these kinds of stories as entertainment, and more importantly, what can we learn from them? RedHanded rejects the narrative of killers as monsters and that a victim "was in the wrong place at the wrong time," and instead tells the stories we want to hear in a way that challenges perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, culture, and even our politics.

    After meeting at a party in London where they both discovered they listened to the same murder podcasts, Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala drunkenly promised to one day start their own true crime podcast together and the rest is history.

    With candor, humor, interviews with experts, research on real-life cases, and an unflinching dissection of what makes a killer tick, Bala and Maguire take us through the societal, behavioral, and cultural phenomena that make victims — and their murderers — our collective responsibility and to find out once and for all: what makes a killer tick?

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    The King's Weapon: A Slow-burn Romantic Fantasy (Of Fire and Lies Book 1) Kallie’s next assignment from her father, the king of Ardentol: Choose a suitor, capture his heart, then take his throne…

    Although the Great War that split Vaneria into seven kingdoms ended one hundred years ago, its shadow looms over the people. Due to her unique gift from the gods, Kallie has become her father’s errand girl and his key to uniting the kingdoms once again.

    For years, she has trained her body, her mind, and her ability to manipulate people, but she wishes to be more. To have more control over her life and more power. The success of this assignment will finally prove that she is capable of just that.

    However, the mission quickly goes awry when an enemy kingdom captures Kallie on her way to her chosen suitor’s palace. As her captors drag her across Vaneria, she must face the truth that there might be more to her story than she once thought. And while she may be a master of manipulation, she is not immune to it.

    Now Kallie must decide: is she the one doing the manipulating or is someone else manipulating her?

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    Music Man: A Rock Star/Curvy Girl Romantic Comedy (Romance in Rehoboth Book 1) Love and fame can come at any age. But be careful what you wish for…

    Even at 40, plus-size writer Claire is infatuated with her own personal rock star. Is it the beard? The flannel? The guitar? Claire isn’t sure, but Jack is simply irresistible. It’s no wonder she pushes him to audition for a local singing contest. You’re never too old to chase your dreams, right?

    Music was Jack’s first love. When life got in the way of him making it big as a singer/songwriter, he settled for teaching music–including giving piano lessons to a stunning curvy redhead named Claire. He’s fallen head over heels for her–just in time for his big break to finally arrive. But do you ever really give up on your first love?

    Music Man is part of the Romance in Rehoboth series. If you like your romcoms sweet, funny, and semi-clean, if you enjoy a small town setting, and you have a penchant for strong, curvy, and somewhat snarky heroines, you’re gonna want to move to Rehoboth Beach by the time you’re done reading. Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, that is. It’s a real place, and Delaware has great beaches. Who knew? Trust me, I’m just as surprised as you are!

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    The Housekeeper's Daughter (The Woodicombe House Sagas Book 1) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    A story of family, secrets and love set in the beautiful Devonshire countryside at Woodicombe House.

    Kate Bratton dreams of more. It’s 1914, and her life is mapped out ahead of her: continue working as a maid in the beautiful Woodicombe House, settle down with Luke the gardener and, of course, start a family.

    Desperate to run away in search of adventure, Kate’s plans are curtailed by the arrival of the Russell family at Woodicombe House. Tasked with becoming a ladies-maid for their daughter, Naomi, Kate gets a glimpse of the other side of life. Little does she know that all families have secrets, no matter their standing.

    Will Kate return to the safety of her life before the Russell’s departure? Or will the handsome Ned Russell turn her head?

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    Historical Romance, Thriller, Literary Fiction, Dystopian, Romantic Comedy, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Romance… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Art of the Chase (The Bostwicks of Trillium Bay Book 1) From a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author comes a Gilded Age series, The Bostwicks of Trillium Bay.

    Above the glistening waters of Trillium Bay, the majestic Imperial Hotel awaits its first guests. It’s the summer of 1888, and names like Carnegie, Astor, Pullman, and Bostwick line the premier resort’s registry as society’s elite gather on its grandiose front porch to see – and be seen.

    But Chase Bostwick isn’t interested in being seen. As the second son of a wealthy financier, he’s only interested in work – in Chicago – so being tasked by his father to chaperone his wearisome mother and boisterous little sister during their Michigan summer holiday is Chase’s personal purgatory masquerading as paradise – for never was a man more ill-suited to leisure.

    Emerson McKenna isn’t interested in being seen, either – but she does want her artistic talents to be noticed. As the illegitimate daughter of a renown portraitist more infamous for his romantic dalliances than for his work, Emerson has schemed her way into a position at the hotel teaching doe-eyed debutantes to paint. She says her goal is to commission enough portraits from the resort’s wealthy patrons to finance her dreams of studying in Paris.

    But Chase has his suspicions…

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    One Wrong Word: A Novel Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    One wrong word can ruin your life. And no one knows that better than savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward. Problem is, she’s now forced to handle a shocking crisis of her own…

    Unfairly accused of having an affair with a powerful client, Arden’s life and dreams are about to crash and burn. Then, Arden is given an ultimatum. She has just two weeks to save her career and her reputation.

    Is Cordelia Bannister the answer to her prayers?

    Cordelia needs Arden’s help for her husband Ned, a Boston real estate mogul. Though he was recently acquitted in a fatal drunk driving accident, his reputation is ruined, and the fallout is devastating not only to the Bannisters’ lives, but the lives of their two adorable children.

    Arden devotes her skill and determination—and maybe her final days on the job—to helping this shattered family, but soon, revelations begin to emerge about what really happened the night of the accident. And then—another car crash throws Ned back into the spotlight.

    Gossip. Lies. Rumors. Words like that can hurt you. And Arden knows the reality. Sometimes one wrong word can kill.

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    Tasting Sunlight Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    An extraordinary bond develops between an angry teenage runaway and a middle-aged woman running a large farm on her own, as they work the land and slowly heal.

    Teenager Sally has just run away from a clinic where she to be treated for anorexia. She’s furious with everything and everyone and wants to be left in peace.

    Liss is in her forties, living alone on a large farm that she runs single-handedly. She has little contact with the outside world and no need for other people.

    From their first meeting, Sally realises that Liss isn’t like other adults; she expects nothing of Sally and simply accepts who she is, offering her a bed for the night with no questions asked.

    That night becomes weeks and then months, as an unlikely friendship develops and these two damaged women slowly open up – connecting to each other, reconnecting with themselves, and facing the darkness in their pasts through their shared work on the land.

    Achingly beautiful, profound, invigorating and uplifting, Tasting Sunlight is a story of friendship across generations, of love and acceptance, of the power of nature to heal and transform, and the goodness that surrounds us, if only we take time to see it…

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    Shades of Grey: A Novel Over 1,800 5-Star Reviews!

    The New York Times bestseller hailed as “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” from the author of Red Side Story.

    Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the backwater village of East Carmine, his carefully cultivated plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended.

    Eddie must contend with lethal swans, sneaky Yellows, inviolable rules, an enforced marriage to the hideous Violet deMauve, and a risky friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of his world is as much an illusion as color itself. Will Eddie be able to tread the fine line between total conformity — accepting the path, partner, and career delineated by his hue —and his instinctive curiosity that is bound to get him into trouble?

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    Conquest: A fake fiancée romantic comedy (The Four Groomsmen of the Wedpocalypse Book 1) Over 1,900 5-Star Reviews!

    Amelia Darcy has absolutely no interest in pretending to be engaged to Leo St. James. He’s too arrogant, too charming, and altogether too handsome for a spreadsheet-loving she-grump like her.

    And the thought of accompanying Leo to his company retreat while pretending to be in love with him in front of all his colleagues? No way.

    Then Leo offers her a trade… He’ll help her break out of her shell—and make sure she finally finds a boyfriend of her own—if she’ll just play along with his scheme.

    Four days. One fake engagement. Daily lessons in seduction delivered by an undeniable expert.

    What could go wrong?

    Well. The lessons could get practical, for one. A priceless ring could go missing from the boss’s fiancée’s finger. And Leo’s and Amelia’s lies could be exposed in the ensuing chaos.

    But worst of all… Amelia could discover what Leo’s hiding beneath his dazzling smile and dizzying touch.

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    Mrs. Dalloway: The Original 1925 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Virginia Woolf Classics) Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf’s best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more.

    Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner party to be held that evening. As she goes about her day, her mind wanders to the people who will be attending her party and her relationship with them. Her husband, Richard Dalloway; Peter Walsh, a man she might have married instead; Sally Seton, a woman with whom she shared a forbidden kiss; Septimus Warren Smith, a man slowly sinking into madness.

    The narrative focus shifts back and forth from Mrs. Dalloway to the characters who will be attending her dinner party in a groundbreaking stream of consciousness.

    The dinner party, like the novel, is a success.

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    The Dog Stars Over 4,800 5-Star Reviews!

    In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning," Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows.

    His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men…the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

    Hig’s wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.

    But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

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    Downtown Owl: A Novel Now a major film! New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s top cultural critics Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small-town life.

    Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don’t have cable. They don’t really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that’s not nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it’s perfect.

    Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. A history teacher, she gets free booze and falls in love with a self-loathing bison farmer. Widower and local conversationalist Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. They all know each other completely, except that they’ve never met. But when a deadly blizzard—based on an actual storm that occurred in 1984—hits the area, their lives are derailed in unexpected and powerful ways.

    An unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where local mythology and violent reality are pretty much the same thing, Downtown Owl is “a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between the funny and the profound” (Publishers Weekly).

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    The Goddess Effect: A Novel Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    All she wants is to be her best self. Is she ready? Absolutely. Does she know what to expect? Absolutely not.

    Anita is over her life in New York: her dead-end job, tiny studio apartment, self-obsessed friends, and overbearing mom. So she moves west to Los Angeles in search of a new career, enlightenment, and that nebulous target…wellness.

    She discovers an elite workout class called the Goddess Effect, run by a lifestyle guru named Venus who’s the very definition of #goals. One look at her Lululemon-clad acolytes sweating out their demons while dripping with confidence and Anita’s all in. When one of the class regulars takes Anita under her wing, Anita’s sure she’s found her people.

    But Anita’s not so smitten that she doesn’t wonder about a few things: an inexplicable invitation to a Goddess Effect retreat, a strange tradition of secret sharing, and whispers about “enhancements” that only Venus can provide. Anita is awakening to a terrifying epiphany: the Goddess Effect isn’t quite what it seems, and it may turn her world—and that of everyone around her—upside down.

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    Dead Before Dinner (A Maddie Swallows Mystery Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Green chile has never been more dangerous…

    Psychologist Maddie Swallows’ decision to return to New Mexico seemed like a good idea at the time, considering the divorce and her two teenagers she’d dragged along for the ride.

    But that was before the New Year’s Eve party she was guilt-tripped into attending. Before a member of the town council wound up dead and everyone at the party became a suspect. And before she was forced to unravel the secrets of her former hometown in order to clear her name.

    Of course, with the help of two precocious teenagers and one meddling mother, the real murderer doesn’t stand a chance.

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    Who All Die: An Imperial Assassins Novella (The Imperial Assassin) A devastating disease threatens the might of Rome…

    Marcus Oclatinius Adventus, later Spymaster to Emperor Caracalla, was once but a mere soldier, fighting for the Empire against the Parthians.

    Upon their journey back home, the men slowly but surely begin to weaken, hounded by some strange and deathly sickness.

    As the Parthians close in, and Oclatinius’ legion gets weaker and weaker by the day, he must show the cunning and strength that would define his later years, in order to escape alive.

    A scintillating novella in the Imperial Assassin series, ideal for fans of Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell.

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    Puppy Love: A Redwood Ridge Romance Book 1 Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    This playboy has met his match, and she’s organized…

    After a passionless marriage under the scrutiny of high society, Avery Stowe is taking back her life. All she wants is a little privacy and a quiet place to raise her autistic daughter, Hailey. Redwood Ridge, Oregon, seems to offer all the right ingredients. Except for the problem of the local sexy veterinarian. The last thing she needs in her life is to fall for his irresistible allure, even if he is a nice guy who keeps doing her favors. But the well-meaning patrons of her new hometown have other ideas, and it appears playing Cupid is one of them.

    Cade O’Grady has never met a woman he couldn’t handle, but when Avery Stowe walks into his office late one night cradling an injured puppy, he’s struck stupid. Which might explain her total lack of interest in him. But now that she’s working for his family’s clinic, he doesn’t have to lust from a distance.

    He might just have a chance at convincing Avery–and her too-guarded heart–that falling for the right man isn’t a mistake…

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