Tag: Historical Fiction

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    Mystery, Historical Romance, Science Fiction, War, Cookbooks, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Classics, Fantasy, Romantic Comedy… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Arsenic and Adobo (A Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that might just be killer…

    When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked with saving her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.

    With the cops treating her like she’s the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila’s left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block…

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    Marianne's Marriage of Convenience A woman intends to put business over pleasure in this charming historical romance.

    “I want you to marry me.”

    A wedding in Smoke River, Oregon…

    Marianne Collingwood has inherited a business, the perfect escape from her life of drudgery. There’s one condition: to claim the business, she must be married! Her coworker, handsome Lance Burnside, will have to be the groom—this marriage of convenience will help them both.

    Only once it’s too late does she consider the question of the marriage bed they must share…

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    Imago Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity — before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.

    Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race — the Oankali — who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis’ greatest skill lies in the species’ ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code.

    Now, for the first time in the humans’ relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more.

    Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what’s left of humankind — or become the biggest threat to their survival.

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    Semper Fi (The Corps series Book 1) Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Brotherhood of War saga brings to life the men of the Marine Corps in this intense first book of a thrilling military series.

    From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America’s first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, this elite group of courageous, honorable men steel themselves for battle, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice…

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    How to Cook Everything: Summer: 20 Fresh, Seasonal Recipes and 32 Variations Summer cooking, simplified—with a recipe collection from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

    Summer cooking is a breeze with this inspiring collection of easy recipes from Mark Bittman, author of the award-winning How to Cook Everything. This quick reference is the perfect companion for a weekend getaway, a stroll through the farmers’ market, a casual outdoor party, and planning simple everyday meals.

    How to Cook Everything Summer includes 20 of Bittman’s favorite seasonal recipes—plus 32 variations—designed to help you eat well on even the laziest days, all with hints for ways to improvise with new foods and flavors.

    From garden-fresh salads, chilled soups, and picnic-portable sandwiches to mouthwatering ideas for the grill, quickly prepared fish and shellfish, and luscious fruit desserts, you’ll find all you need to enjoy the most delicious summer ever.

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    The Watchmaker of Dachau: An absolutely heartbreaking World War 2 historical novel Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    An unforgettable novel of human kindness, inspired by an incredible true story.

    January 1945, Dachau, Germany. As the train rattles through the bright, snowy Bavarian countryside, the still beauty outside the window hides the terrible scenes inside the train, where men and women are packed together, cold and terrified. Jewish watchmaker Isaac Schüller can’t understand how he came to be here, and is certain he won’t be leaving alive.

    When the prisoners arrive at Dachau concentration camp, Isaac is unexpectedly pulled from the crowd and installed in the nearby household of Senior Officer Becher and his young, pretty, spoiled wife. With his talent for watchmaking, Isaac can be of use to Becher, but he knows his life is only worth something here as long as Becher needs his skills.

    Anna Reznick waits table and washes linens for the Bechers, who dine and socialise and carry on as if they don’t constantly have death all around them. When she meets Isaac she knows she’s found a true friend, and maybe more. But Dachau is a dangerous place where you can never take love for granted, and when Isaac discovers a heartbreaking secret hidden in the depths of Becher’s workshop, it will put Anna and Issac in terrible danger…

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    Backyard Medicine For All: A Guide to Home-Grown Herbal Remedies There is a wealth of plants growing abundantly all over roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard; this coincides perfectly with alternative medicine and natural healing reaching into every facet of our lives.

    These plants have numerous medicinal uses that people have largely forgotten. Once valued and widely used, they’ve fallen out of fashion over time as they were bypassed by commercial medicine.

    A companion to the team’s previous book, Backyard Medicine for All will focus largely on medicinal plants that grow by roads or paths in the countryside or in the city. These nearby but often overlooked ecosystems are significant wild plant communities! This new book is packed with practical information on how to use fifty forgotten plants to cure all sorts of common ailments.

    Make your own herbal medicines to cure complaints from hayfever to headaches to insomnia. Clear, easy instructions and stunning photographs will guide you to leave the armchair and go out to utilize backyard medicine yourself!

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    Men Without Women Over 450 5-Star Reviews!

    From a Nobel Prize laureate and “a master craftsman” of short fiction, comes this collection of some of his most famous stories.

    This collection features fourteen stories that revolve around themes of love, war, and the experiences of men dealing with various challenges and relationships. Hemingway’s prose style is characterized by its simplicity, directness, and powerful portrayal of human emotions and experiences.

    Each story in Men Without Women offers a glimpse into the lives of different male characters and their interactions with women, highlighting the complexities of masculinity and the impact of women’s presence or absence in their lives. The book’s stories are often set in various locations, reflecting Hemingway’s experiences as a journalist and traveler.

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    The School for Good and Evil: Now a Netflix Originals Movie Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one. Start here to follow Sophie, Agatha, and everyone at school from the beginning!

    With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil.

    The two girls soon find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School for Good, thrust among handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.

    But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are?

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    Falling to Centerpieces: A Romantic Comedy (Don't Ruin Katie's Wedding) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    The plan: best friends Clio and Nicole take a fun road trip across Michigan to deliver the centerpieces to their friend Katie’s wedding, giving the groom’s cousin, August, a ride for the big day.

    Nicole planned everything, from borrowing her mom’s minivan, to hotel accommodations, and the perfect amount of sight-seeing along the way.

    The reality: Nicole is having emergency surgery, Clio overslept, her car is way smaller than a minivan, and August turns out to be super hot.

    The centerpieces? Enormous. The itinerary? Blurry at best. The chemistry with August? Unexpected, and very intriguing…

    This is a road trip they’ll never forget.

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    The Soul Thief (The Horizon Chronicles Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Alexa has a very big problem. She’s dead.

    Worse, instead of meeting her maker, she’s pulled into the world of the Guardian Angel Legion—a secret band of angels dedicated to protect mortal souls from demons. But Alexa’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she’s sent back to the mortal world to investigate a series of murders and missing souls and is attacked by a demon.

    But are demons responsible for the killings? Or is it something else? An ancient, evil shadow grows over the world, and with it a force more terrible and destructive than the world has ever seen. Can Alexa find a way to stop it or will it doom the mortal world forever?

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    Lemon Yellow Lies: Hadley Home Design Cozy Mysteries Book 1 Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Interior designer Hadley Sutton has an eye for style, an ear for gossip, and a nose for trouble.

    Darlington Hills, Virginia is a little slice of southern heaven, and there’s no place Hadley would rather be after a painful breakup with her locally famous boyfriend, whose face is plastered on every street corner in New Orleans. Fleeing the big city, she travels to Darlington Hills for a job interview, family time with her favorite aunt, and a break from the sad reality of her now-single, party-of-one status.

    But when Hadley serendipitously snags a last-minute interior design gig and her client’s fiancée goes missing, she feels more than a little responsible for the woman’s disappearance. Driven by a guilty conscience, Hadley searches for answers while trying to stay focused on her ultimate goal of acing the interview and landing her dream job. Turns out that isn’t so easy, with distractions like the dimpled Officer Appley and the mounting danger that has befallen the idyllic small town…

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  • Book of the Day: When We Left Cuba

    When We Left CubaWhen We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

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    Over 3,500 5-Star Reviews!

    In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.

    Beautiful. Daring. Deadly.

    The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro’s inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost.

    As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash of Cuban American politics and the perils of a forbidden affair with a powerful man driven by ambitions of his own. When the ever-changing tides of history threaten everything she has fought for, she must make a choice between her past and future—but the wrong move could cost Beatriz everything—not just the island she loves, but also the man who has stolen her heart…

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    Contemporary Fiction, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Romance, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romantic Comedy… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Barefoot Summer Over 11,000 5-Star Reviews!

    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown returns with a heartbreakingly hilarious novel about three women who had nothing in common, except their husband.

    Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. Leaving three widows behind is just plain despicable. Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her not-so-dearly departed husband was a con man, but she’s shocked that Conrad racked up two more wives without divorcing her first. The only remnant of their miserable marriage she plans to keep is their lakeside cabin in Bootleg, Texas. Unfortunately, she’s not the only woman with that idea.

    Fiery, strong-willed Jamie wishes Conrad were still alive—so she could kill the scoundrel herself. But for their daughter’s sake, she needs that property. As does Amanda—twenty-eight, pregnant, and still weeping over the loss of her true love. On a broiling July day, all three arrive in Bootleg…with a dogged detective right behind who’s convinced that at least one of them conspired to commit murder. One momentous summer filled with revelations, quirky neighbors, and barefoot evenings on the porch offers three women the chance to make the journey from enemies to friends, and claim a bright, new beginning.

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    Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, chef and widower Simon Fortier knows how he plans to face the storm – riding it out inside his long-time home in the city’s Treme neighborhood, just as he has through so many storms before…

    But when the levees break and the city is torn apart, Simon disappears. His son, Julian, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, rushes home to a New Orleans he left years before to search for his father.

    As Julian crisscrosses the city, fearing the worst, he reconnects with Sylvia, Simon’s companion of many years; Parmenter, his father’s erstwhile business partner and one of the most successful restaurateurs in New Orleans; and Velmyra, the woman Julian left behind when he moved to New York. Julian’s search for Simon deepens as he finds himself drawn into the troubled history of Silver Creek, the extravagantly beautiful piece of land where his father grew up, and closer once again to Velmyra.

    As he tries to come to grips with his father’s likely fate, Julian slowly gains a deeper, richer understanding of his father and the city he loved so much, while unraveling the mysteries of Silver Creek.

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    Healthy and Hearty Salads: Substantial Main Courses for Every Season Filling salads for every season and every taste!

    Salads are often considered an appetizer or a summertime meal. When the weather is too hot, lightly tossed greens with seasonal fruits and veggies are perfect for cooling the body and filling the stomach. But with rich, filling ingredients and heartier flavors, salads can be served as main courses even in spring, autumn, and winter.

    Healthy and Hearty Salads offers one hundred healthy and delicious recipes for green salads, whole-grain salads, and dressings. All are made with seasonal ingredients for fresh and cost-effective meals.

    Recipes include:

    • Grilled asparagus with mozzarella
    • Warm root vegetables with ham and gorgonzola
    • Roast beef and bean salad with tapenade
    • Halloumi potatoes with lamb kebabs
    • Apple chicken salad
    • Quinoa and oven-baked salmon salad
    • And many more

    Take advantage of the season’s most wonderful ingredients, such as fresh berries, asparagus, wild mushrooms, melon, and fish. Each dish is easy to prepare and is perfect to serve as an entrée or as an accompaniment to other dishes. Be inspired by the time of year and craft fresh, delicious salads!

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    Guided Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to Card Meanings, Spreads, and Intuitive Exercises for Seamless Readings Over 4,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Your essential guide to reading tarot cards seamlessly–with confidence and ease.

    Each of us holds gifts deep within and, with tarot, we have the power to unlock those gifts and make transformative discoveries. For beginner tarot readers, learning the cards–all 78 of them–and understanding how to use spreads may seem daunting.

    Tarot expert Stefanie Caponi explains that interpreting the cards is a blend of knowing the card meanings, listening to your heart, and trusting your intuition. In her book, Guided Tarot, she offers easy exercises to nurture and grow your intuition, not only to understand the cards’ universal meanings, but to channel your own meanings.

    This comprehensive guide also shows you how to attune your energy to the deck for more accurate readings. Soon you’ll be confident in doing readings for yourself and even your friends.

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    A Month in Provence: A BRAND NEW escapist feel-good romance from TOP 10 BESTSELLER Gillian Harvey for summer 2023 Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Interior designer Nicky always used to know how to make the best of things. Ever since she lost her husband though, things haven’t been easy…

    She’s had to raise her two daughters alone and she’s so proud to see them all grown up, and she knows that’s down to her. But she can’t help but feel like she doesn’t know what to do with her life now.

    Then her best friend begs her to help out. Jenny is a TV exec and her new renovation show is in peril. Only Nicky can help.

    The catch – Nicky needs to fly to Provence… tomorrow. To renovate a tumbledown B&B. Jenny doesn’t mention the fact that the grumpy B&B owner Robert seems to need a makeover too. Or that the budget is next to nothing.

    Will Nicky be able to turn the B&B’s fortunes around, save her best friend’s job, and maybe even find some happiness for herself, under the blazing hot French sun this summer?

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    The Couple Across The Street: A BRAND NEW page-turning psychological thriller from Anita Waller, author of The Family at No 12, for summer 2023 Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    A darkness settles on this supposedly quiet street…

    When Clare becomes a widow, her response is something that shocks her – relief. All she wants to do is move on and figure out how to continue her life, alone, no matter the guilt that brings.

    So when Vic, her closest friend, comes to her, showing the signs of trouble in her own marriage, she is more than supportive in helping her leave Rob.

    But Vic doesn’t get the chance to do that. Because as they go over to Vic’s house to collect her things, they find a body. Rob’s.

    It appears someone else had an axe to grind. But for Clare, already reeling from secrets from her own late husband’s dark past, she’s about to find out this murder isn’t as straightforward as it may appear…

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    Max's Sandwich Book: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Perfection Between Two Slices of Bread Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Max’s Sandwich Book is the ultimate guide to creating perfection between two slices of bread.

    Max Halley owns Britain’s most amazing sandwich shop. After working in some of the country’s best restaurants, he realised that the sandwich, humanity’s greatest invention, was due a renaissance. So Max decided to open his own place and reinvent the sandwich forever.

    Inside this book you will find:

    • Award-winning creations from his shop
    • Inspired variations on classic sandwiches
    • Brilliant, delicious ways to use your leftovers
    • Sandwiches for breakfast, dinner, and dessert
    • And more than 100 recipes for making your own ingenious creations at home.

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    A Soldier's Wife: A Tender Irish Love Story and Family Saga (The Devereux Family Trilogy Book 1) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Ellen, romantic and naive, falls in love with James, an Irishman serving in the British Army…

    He is posted to India and this, for her, is a dream come true. After seven years of heartache and joy, and a lifestyle which is leisurely and luxurious, they return to Ireland and James is demobbed.

    They settle with their three young children in Dublin, a city rife with political and civil unrest, and beset with terrible poverty. When World War I is declared, James re-enlists. Ellen is left to bring up her children alone, in a city which views the wives of British soldiers with suspicion.

    If James survives and returns, it will be to a different Ireland, one which has lived through the 1916 Rising and its aftermath, where anti- British sentiment grows stronger every day.

    Ellen longs for James but worries. Will there be a place for them in this new Ireland?

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    The New Teacher: A small town female sleuth cozy mystery (The Sheridan County Mysteries Book 1) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Elizabeth Blau upended her life in the city to move to the Middle of Nowhere and start over.

    She reconnects with her estranged brother and begins her new life. First, Elizabeth lands a great job, then a date, and her luck seems to change for the better. But when the man’s body is found mangled in a ravine, the murder rocks the small town as fault descends upon the Blau Family.

    Frustrated with the pace of local law enforcement, Elizabeth investigates loose threads among the ranchers. But when she starts to dig into the past, she gets a warning: folks don’t like outsiders poking around, and someone is on a mission to scare her out of town.

    With friends becoming enemies in a landscape forged for hiding true intentions, Elizabeth must unravel the accumulating evidence to name the murderer. After one attempt on her life, if she can’t organize the proof in time, she will be the next target.

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    The Snowman Killer (Alaska Cozy Mystery Book 1) Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    A new small town. A new cozy life. And a new beginning.

    Sarah Garland, a retired homicide detective who’s gone through a painful divorce, seems to have found her peace at last, as a coffeeshop owner, in the sleepy (and freezing) small town of Snow Falls, Alaska. What she didn’t expect, was for her past life to catch up with her. Or, for her new life as a mystery writer to inspire a deadly killer to target her.

    Yet, when the killer leaves a frightening clue-a creepy snowman, donning a leather jacket and eating a peppermint candy cane, left in front of her cabin-Sarah begins to suspect Conrad Spencer, the new detective in town, who is pursuing a murderer of his own. Soon, it becomes obvious that the sleuths would have to join forces, in order to catch the killer.

    Sarah and Conrad must put their tragic pasts behind them and find out who’s after her…before the trail becomes frozen.

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    Trip Me Up: An Opposites-Attract Road-Trip Standalone Romantic Comedy (Synergy Office Romance Book 3) A farmboy and a techie meet up on tour. They couldn’t be more different. But together, they’re hotter than an overclocked computer chip.

    I didn’t mean to bring my dog to my mother’s stuffy fundraiser. Okay, I might have needed the excuse to get back to my artificial intelligence research, but I never meant for Bilbo Baggins to escape. And I really didn’t count on a sexy lumberjack rescuing my lactose-intolerant dog from the Gorgonzola.

    Then one thing led to another, and Bilbo and I are on the lumberjack’s – Niall’s – book tour, pretending to have written the novel that my research project spat out by mistake. The only thing that’s not pretend is how our clothes fly off every night. Nope, that’s all too real.

    And even though I insisted on a no-strings fling, the smolder in those hazel eyes means he wants more. Now he’s calling me his muse, and it’s too late to tell him my secret.

    Because the whole world knows.

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    First, Murder (An Alex Quinn Suspense Thriller—Book One) Interpol agent Alex Quinn, 29, born to Italian-Turkish parents, is a multi-lingual genius.

    With an advanced degree in Criminal Psychology from a university in France and a PHD from a Germany university, Alex was recruited by Interpol at the age of 25—their youngest recruit—because of her encyclopedic knowledge of serial killers.

    But when a serial killer strikes in Venice, amidst the glittery costumes and sinister masks, Alex may, for the first time, find herself in over her head—and may just end up the target herself…

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