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    The Moon Gate: The mesmerising story of a hidden house and a lost family secret in WW2 Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime mystery…

    1939: On the eve of war, young English heiress Grace Grey travels from London to the wilderness of Tasmania. Coaxed out of her shell by the attentions of her Irish neighbour, Daniel – Grace finally learns to live. But when Australian forces are called to the frontline, and Daniel with them, he leaves behind a devastating secret which will forever bind them together.

    1975: Artist Willow Hawkins, and her new husband, Ben, can’t believe their luck when an anonymous benefactor leaves them a house on the remote Tasmanian coast. Confused and delighted, they set out to unmask Towerhurst’s previous owner – unwittingly altering the course of their lives.

    2004: Libby Andrews has always been sheltered from the truth behind her father Ben’s death. When she travels to London and discovers a faded photograph, a long-buried memory is unlocked, and she begins to follow an investigation that Ben could never complete… But will she realise that some secrets are best left buried?

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    The Peripheral (The Jackpot Trilogy Book 1) Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future…

    Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go.

    Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.

    Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He’s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game’s not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.

    Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.

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    His Heir, Her Secret (Highland Heroes Book 2595) In this romance by a USA Today bestselling author, a North Carolina woman’s Highland fling returns to her life—and she’s got a surprise for him.

    For two glorious weeks, Cate Everett shared the bed of Brody Stewart, a man she’d just met and never expected to see again. Fast forward four months, and the seductive Scotsman is back in town… with the solution to Cate’s baby-to-be dilemma. But if she becomes Brody’s bride, will she be living a loveless sham? Or will he throw his heart into the bargain?

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    What's Gaby Cooking: Everyday California Food (What's Gaby Cooking? Book 1) Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    What’s Gaby Cooking: Everyday California Food is “a celebration of the way we eat here in Southern California, reflecting the region’s diversity, the abundance of fresh, vibrant produce, and the fact that we’re always tinkering with our diets” (LA Times).

    Here is the go-to guide for bringing the West Coast vibe to your kitchen, with 125 fresh, market-driven recipes from everyone’s favorite California food blogger, Gaby Dalkin.

    In What’s Gaby Cooking, Gaby shares her favorite simple and fresh recipes and offers a glimpse into what it’s like to “go coastal.” It’s about always having something tasty to eat, thanks to handy and delicious pantry staples (avocado oil! quinoa! limes! dark chocolate!), as well as an arsenal of easy and healthy recipes, like:

    • Chimichurri Cauliflower Rice Bowl with Grilled Fish
    • Taco Skillet Bake
    • Street Corn Pizza
    • Black Rice and Roasted Mushroom Bowl
    • Chicken Larb Bowl with Coconut Rice
    • Caramelized Onion, Leek, and Red Pepper Crustless Quiche
    • Pulled Pork Pizza with Cabbage Slaw
    • Pesto Lasagna Bolognese
    • And over 100 more!

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    Darkfever: Fever Series Book 1 Over 4,000 5-Star Reviews!

    MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.

    When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae…

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    The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury Mysteries Book 3) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady’s mansion.

    But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route to a slightly disreputable pub, the Anodyne Necklace. There, drinks all around loosened enough tongues to link a London mugging with the Littlebourne murder and a treasure map that would chart the way to yet another chilling crime.

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    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Book 1)
    Over 20,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The #1 New York Times Best Seller is now a major motion picture 🎬 from visionary director Tim Burton, starring Eva Green and Samuel L. Jackson.

    As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow – impossible though it seems – they may still be alive.

    

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

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    The Last Policeman: A Novel (Last Policeman Trilogy Book 1) Over 1,400 5-Star Reviews!

    What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?

    Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact.

    The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares.

    The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?

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    Elusive Salvation (Star Trek: The Original Series) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    The Arctic Circle, 1845: Escaping the tyranny under which their people have lived for generations, aliens from a distant planet crash land on Earth’s inhospitable frozen wastes. Surviving the harsh conditions will pose a challenge, but over time the aliens will migrate to more populated areas, with decades passing as they work to conceal their presence from their former oppressors, who continue to hunt them at any cost.

    San Francisco, 2283: When a mysterious craft is detected entering the solar system, Admiral James Kirk is dispatched by Starfleet to confront the vessel. He meets with an emissary from the Iramahl, a previously unknown alien race who have come in search of their brothers and sisters thought to have gone missing in this area of space centuries earlier. Having recently thrown off the last chains of subjugation by another species, the Ptaen, they now believe their lost people hold the key to saving their entire race from eventual extinction…

    New York, 1970: Roberta Lincoln, young protégé of the mysterious agent Gary Seven, is shocked when she receives the oddest request for help—from the future…

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    The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Story of Love and Second Chances Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Every day, Albert Entwistle makes his way through the streets of his small English town, delivering letters and parcels and returning greetings with a quick wave and a “how do?” Everyone on his route knows Albert, or thinks they do—a man of quiet routines, content to live alone with his cat, Gracie.

    Three months before his sixty-fifth birthday, Albert receives a letter from the Royal Mail thanking him for decades of service and stating that he is being forced into retirement. At once, Albert’s simple life unravels. Without the work that fills his days, what will he do? He has no friends, family, or hobbies—just a past he never speaks of, and a lost love that fills him with regret. And so, rather than continue his lonely existence, Albert forms a brave plan to start truly living, to be honest about who he is… and to find George, the man with whom he spent one perfect spring and summer long ago.

    One painful yet exhilarating step at a time, Albert begins searching for George and revealing his story to those around him. As he does, something extraordinary happens. Albert finds unlikely allies, new friends, and the courage to help others—even as he seeks the happiness he’s always denied himself…

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    Ivy & Bone: A Hades and Persephone Romance A dangerous deal with the devil gives one witch more than she bargained for…

    Prue is an earth witch, blessed with power from the Triple Goddess. Still mourning the loss of her twin sister, Prue summons the devil himself from the Underworld, intent on bringing her sister back from the dead. But when she meets him—a handsome man named Cyrus—he is more deadly and alluring than she anticipated. Prue tricks him into binding his blood with hers, granting her access to his powers over the dead.

    But the bond also unlocks the gates to the Underworld, unleashing the spirits within.

    Now Cyrus is bound to her in more ways than one.

    Desperate to close the gates and save the mortal realm from unholy destruction, Prue and Cyrus must work together to undo their bargain. But against her better judgment, Prue is enthralled by his seductive nature, and she finds herself falling for the devil himself.

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    Make Me Lose: a small-town enemies-to-lovers romance (Bayshore Book 1) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Grayson and Hazel aren’t just rivals. They were destined to hate each other since the day they were born.

    Grayson Daly couldn’t wait to break free of high school and prove his worth to his overly critical father, plus show his arch-rival Hazel how little he needed her. Ten years later, he’s well into earning seven figures and enjoying his status as one of New York’s most-desired bachelors. But when his beloved Grammy Ethel passes, leaving him one of her Bayshore homes, he hurries back to sell it. However, there’s only one realtor in town…

    Hazel Matheson has the picture-perfect small-town life. She’s the queen realtor in Bayshore, with a Pinterest-worthy home and wardrobe to match. If she could just find the handsome powerhouse soul mate of her dreams, life would be complete. But when her rival-turned-lover-turned-enemy Grayson Daly waltzes back into town, his ego bigger than a skyscraper and needing a favor, she has a new project—making sure she doesn’t give him what he wants.

    Grayson’s plan is an easy sell of the house and a speedy return to his beloved big city. Hazel’s plan is to stay the hell away from Grayson and get on with her manhunt. But the harder they fight, the brighter the sparks, until neither one can decide if surrendering to love counts as winning or losing. Maybe, just this once, they can both come out on top.

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    Vanishing Point: A Warner & Lopez prequel novel UFOs are all in the imagination. Aren’t they?

    In 2014, Ethan Warner finds himself on the hook for a homicide near Kankakee, Illinois. Although unarmed at the time, witnesses swear they saw him shoot and kill a bail runner on a dark night on a bridge just outside the town. Jailed and facing twenty to life, Ethan’s only hope is that his partner, Nicola Lopez, can solve the crime before he’s sent down.

    Lopez traces clues to the tiny town of Cairo, Illinois, and a secretive cult rumored to be hiding in the backwoods. But before she can crack the case Ethan is bailed by a mysterious woman desperate for his help. Her conditions are simple; rescue her son from the Cairo cult, or she’ll rescind the bail and Ethan’s back inside.

    His hand forced, Ethan skips bail and heads south. With the police and Sheriffs on his tail, it’s a race against time to figure out why Ethan was framed for homicide. But the forests of Cairo hide a secret that’s beyond human comprehension, and nothing Ethan and Nicola have seen yet can prepare them for it…

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    Mermaid Beach: the perfect beach read (A Moonlight Harbor Novel Book 7) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Bonnie Brinks and her all-woman band, The Mermaids, are the pride of Moonlight Harbor. They’re the house band at The Drunken Sailor, and that’s just the right amount of fame for Bonnie.

    A lifetime ago, she went to Nashville to make it big, but she returned home with a broken heart and broken dreams. Now she’s got a comfortable life and a brilliant daughter, Avril, who plays for The Mermaids alongside Bonnie and Bonnie’s mother, Loretta.

    Avril has big dreams of her own. Her life in Moonlight Harbor is good—she loves singing and playing guitar with The Mermaids, and she has the sweetest, most loyal boyfriend a girl could ask for—but it all feels so…small. She can’t help wondering if there’s something more out there for her. And she doesn’t understand why her mom won’t support her going to Nashville to find out.

    Meanwhile, Bonnie threw in the towel on her love life long ago, but Loretta sure hasn’t. She’s determined to be swept off her feet, and she wants the same for her daughter. When the hunky new owner of The Drunken Sailor turns the tables on the band and Avril announces she’s leaving Moonlight Harbor, Bonnie’s comfortable life seems to be drifting away. Will these three generations of Mermaids find their happy endings on the Washington coast? Or will the change in the winds leave them all shipwrecked?

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    The Pain Hunter (The Broken Doll Book 1) Over 1,900 5-Star Reviews!

    A violent jailbreak bleeds into a street fair in Wisconsin. In the wake of the carnage, a getaway van barrels down a rural highway. Inside are two men with a tenuous bond: an obsession with pain.

    One is Paul Offenbach, a sadistic crime boss with a life-threatening bullet wound. The other is his hostage, Dr. Stuart Collier, now faced with a harrowing ethical quandary. Mile by mile, as a calculated battle of wills and wits plays out, the killer plots his next move. So does the doctor, sworn to do no harm but desperate to escape.

    From internationally bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver comes The Pain Hunter, part of The Broken Doll collection, a series of interconnected short stories about killers and prey, justice and revenge, that can be read or listened to in a single breathless experience.

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    Pearl in the Mist (Landry Book 2) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Fate has whisked Ruby away from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou but her new riches bring more treachery than happiness in this unputdownable and darkly evocative novel.

    Even a year removed from living in the bayou, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of her family’s New Orleans mansion. She rejoices in the love of the father she had never known, even as true happiness remains as elusive as swamp mist. Her stepmother sneers at her backwater upbringing, and while discovering she has a twin sister should be a cause for joy, Gisselle has greeted Ruby with nothing but a bitter heart.

    When Ruby’s father chooses an idyllic boarding school for his daughters’ senior years, a fresh start with Gisselle seems possible. But Ruby’s kind isn’t welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress plots with her stepmother to make life miserable. Worse, with her twin on a mission to break every school rule, Ruby is left to suffer the humiliating punishments. So when a terrible tragedy leaves Ruby alone in a world that never really wanted her, only her Cajun strength can give her daring escape plan any hope of success. The weather on the bayou was nothing compared to the storm about to tear through her family.

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    Sweet Liar (The Montgomery/Taggert Family Book 6) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    It was her father’s dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who’d disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was, in big, dirty New York City…her parents were dead, her divorce was final, and she was all alone…

    Michael Taggert was Samantha’s landlord, and he was easily the most beautiful man she’d ever seen. He was charming, too – his zest for life was so contagious that in his presence Sam bloomed like a flower after the rain. Yet Mike could only get so far with her – when he tried to get closer, it was like running into a brick wall.

    But Mike wouldn’t give up. As they probed her grandmother’s past, he was slowly uncovering the joy and affection Samantha had buried long ago – and leading them closer to the dangerous truth about a bloody spring night in 1928, and a seductive blues singer named Maxie…

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    The Arrangement (Arrangement Novels Book 1) Over 9,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The arrangement was just meant to fix their marriage. No one was supposed to get hurt. But when the rules of this open marriage are broken, the consequences are sinister…

    Ainsley Greenburg is a fixer. It’s what she prides herself on. So, when she realizes her marriage is at its breaking point, she makes a decision to repair it, no matter the cost.

    Approaching her husband to propose the arrangement is supposed to be the hard part, but Peter agrees to the salacious plan almost immediately.

    The rules are simple:

    • They will each date someone new once a week.
    • They will never discuss what happens on the dates.

    Soon, though, the rules are broken, turning terrible mistakes into unspeakable consequences.

    When the only person they can count on to keep their darkest secret is each other, new questions and deceits surface. Can they truly trust the person they share a life with, or will the vicious lies that have mounted over the years destroy everything they’ve built?

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    The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Book 17) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Billionaire Genoa Greeves believes the LAPD should finally solve the fifteen-year-old execution-style murder of her favorite teacher, Bennett Little… Especially now that Hollywood music producer Primo Ekerling has been slain in an eerily similar manner: shot and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz.

    Lieutenant Peter Decker resents having to commit valuable manpower to a cold case simply because a rich woman says, "Jump!" But when a primary investigator in the Little case, now retired, suspiciously commits suicide hours after he and Decker talk, the detective realizes something evil’s connecting the dots in two murders separated by a decade and a half. Wife Rina Lazarus offers a cool, rational outlook, as always, despite her growing concern for her husband’s welfare—as past and present collide with a vengeance, catapulting Decker ever closer to the edge of an infinite dark abyss.

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    The Memory Library: A brand new, must-read novel of family, friendship and the power of storytelling to leave you feeling hopeful and inspired in 2024 Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.

    Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work.

    But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.

    Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew.

    She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow. All you have to do is turn the page…

    Journey through the pages of this heartwarming novel, where hope, friendship and second chances are written in the margins.

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    For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders below is a girl in a green bathing suit, prancing along the shore.

    When he wakes, the girl in green is a woman dressed in furs, and the sun-drenched shore has been replaced by snowcapped mountains. The woman, Diana, rescues Perry from the bitter cold and takes him to her home to rest and recuperate. Later they debate the cause of the accident, for Diana is unfamiliar with the concept of a tire blowout and Perry cannot comprehend snowfall in mid-July. Then Diana shares with him a vital piece of information: the date is now January 7, the year 2086.

    When his shock subsides, Perry begins an exhaustive study of global evolution over the past 150 years. He learns, among other things, that a United Europe was formed; the military draft was completely reconceived; banks became publicly owned and operated; and in the year 2003, two helicopters destroyed Manhattan in a galvanizing act of war.

    But education brings with it inescapable truths…

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    A Forest Of Vanity And Valour (The Levanthria Series Book 1) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    An aggressive debt collector banished from the kingdom. Now his life depends on his ability to help the less fortunate…

    Vireo Reinhold relishes collecting his monarch’s proper dues. Working hard to prolong and fund the king’s never-ending war, the self-centered official revels in the perks of luxury that come with his unorthodox role. But his world upends when he unearths an ancient spellbook that promises to unlock a shadowy, forgotten magic.

    Embroiled in a secret affair with a fellow noble’s wife, Vireo is mortified when he’s forced to commit an unthinkable act. Driven into exile, no longer able to coerce the vulnerable, and with the powerful tome in his enemy’s hands, the fallen agent’s only shot at survival hangs on his skills at saving others.

    Can Vireo redeem himself as the people’s champion before they all fall to a sinister fate?

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    Final Call: An unputdownable must-read psychological crime thriller Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    They thought it was a simple flight home. The pilot had other plans…

    A moment of calm
    Heading home after a conference, the senior leadership of a global corporation relax on their private jet ahead of their Christmas break.

    A flash of fear
    But their peace is shattered when they realise their jet isn’t taking them home. Instead, it’s heading east—out over the Atlantic Ocean.

    A journey of terror
    And things go from bad to worse when their pilot tells them she is going to crash into the ocean if one of them doesn’t confess to murder…

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    Bulger On Trial: Boston's Most Notorious Gangster And The Pursuit Of Justice Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    The trial of James “Whitey” Bulger this summer was supposed to bring an end to one of the greatest scandals in the history of the FBI, but it dredged up a toxic swamp instead.

    Horrific crimes, depraved witnesses and sordid accounts of FBI agents who gave their allegiance to the mob boss emerged from the muck as families of 19 murder victims endured the presentation of broken skulls and jaws along with photos from the morgue.

    At center stage was the defendant, who had been listed and protected by the FBI as a secret informant. He claimed the government had given him a free pass, but prosecutors fought to keep the trial away from questions of who made Bulger what he became and how. In an extraordinary measure of their outrage, the families of the victims cheered Bulger’s own attorneys as they savaged the government’s “cover-up” and the deals prosecutors had given to Bulger’s former associates to win testimony.

    In the first book to explore the trial in a larger context, WBUR investigative reporter David Boeri weaves his daily trial dispatches into the complete backstory of Bulger’s ruthless ascent to power, the men and the agency who made that possible, and the families of victims who were victimized again and again by the government’s protection of the killer.

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    The Sleuth Sisters (The Sleuth Sisters Mystery Book 1) Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    Middle-aged sisters Faye and Barb decide to open a detective agency in Allport, their small town in northern Lower Michigan. They agree that Retta, their baby sister, will NOT be included, since she tends to take over any organization she’s part of. Sweetly but firmly, Retta will tell you what you should do, could do, and will do.

    The agency does not take off, and Faye reconsiders the decision to leave Retta out, since as the widow of a slain state trooper, she’s got contacts all over Michigan. Retta’s only too willing to "help" and immediately begins second-guessing their decisions, which leads to sparks between her and Barb.

    The sisters finally get a decent case: finding a man who apparently murdered his wife years ago and has been on the run ever since. As they try to investigate what happened, they’re opposed at every turn. Local cops doubt the "lady detectives" and most of the town is convinced Neil Brown killed his wife and brother-in-law in a fit of anger. The murder victims’ father has no doubt Brown is guilty, and he’s furious that anyone might take a different view.

    Still, someone wants to keep the sisters from finding Brown and digging into what really happened the day he left Allport…

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    Archives, Artists, and Alibis (A Mountainberg Cozy Mystery Book 1) In the charming town of Mountainberg, Georgia, Charlie Bennet isn’t just the beloved owner of the local bookstore; she’s about to become an amateur sleuth in the town’s most puzzling murder case.

    During the cherished Midwinter Festival and Hot Cocoa Championship, Charlie finds herself smack-dab in the middle of a twisty murder mystery, with her faithful companion, Sherlock the cat, by her side. Before long, the town buzzes with intrigue and doubt that threatens to unravel the festive spirit. When suspicion falls on Charlie’s adored aunt, her determination to protect her family plunges her into a labyrinth of century-old secrets. With every step, Charlie reveals a town as intricate and multi-layered as the mystery itself.

    Can Charlie, with her unique blend of tenacity and warmth, piece together a puzzle that’s as complex as it is compelling? Will her quest to clear her aunt’s name expose truths better left buried?

    Archives, Artists, and Alibis isn’t just a light-hearted whodunit; it’s an ode to the quirky charms of small-town life, where some secrets are too entangled to stay hidden.

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    All of You, Always (Walker Beach Small Town Romance Book 1) Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Going undercover is Bella’s only hope.

    Her mission? Convince Ben to sell his inn, and she’ll get the information needed to locate the family she’s never known.

    It should be simple. After all, he’s behind on his mortgage, and a recent earthquake has rocked the town—and his finances. His beachfront property is ripe for the picking. But the big-city executive didn’t count on Ben being so stubborn. So rooted in family and tradition and everything that small-town America stands for.

    She also didn’t count on him being so attractive and wounded and… good.

    And she can’t help falling for him. But will Bella’s secret destroy their blossoming love?

    You’ll adore this sweet small-town romance, because everyone enjoys a story of love, redemption, and finding a place to belong.

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    When Cardinals Appear: Second Chance Small Town Romance (The Love Birds Book 1) She has a promise to keep. But when her plans are thrown into a tailspin, will a persistent red bird show her how to let her dreams take flight?

    Lanie McAllister is ready to move on. Wrestling with her mom’s death, the young woman just wants to settle the estate and soar off for good to her boyfriend in California—far away from painful memories. But she suspects the lucky cardinal she keeps seeing is trying to send a message when a flat tire puts her back in the path of the man who broke her heart.

    With fate constantly throwing the man her mother always hated in her way, Lanie can’t seem to shake the wounds of the past. And when her current love makes a serious misstep and she discovers her ex harbors a secret, she starts to rethink what will make her truly happy.

    Questioning her vow to her mother to never look back, is the cardinal a clue Lanie’s true happiness is hiding in plain sight?

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    Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel
    Over 12,000 5-Star Reviews!
    #1 New York Times Bestseller

    Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret.

    Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts.

    These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesn’t want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Poletti’s bookkeeper and knows all his boss’s dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Poletti’s list of people to put six feet under.

    Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day’s work for Stephanie Plum.

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    Reckoning: An FBI Thriller Over 8,000 5-Star Reviews!

    When she was twelve years old, Kirra Mandarian’s parents were murdered and she barely escaped with her life. Fourteen years later Kirra is a commonwealth attorney back home in Porte Franklin, Virginia, and her goal is to find out who killed her parents and why.

    Kirra assumes the identity of E.N.—Eliot Ness—and gathers proof to bring down the man she believes was behind her parents’ deaths. She quickly learns that big-time criminals are very dangerous indeed and realizes she needs Dillon Savich’s help. Savich brings in Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith to work with Lieutenant Jeter Thorpe, the young detective who’d saved Kirra years before.

    Emma Hunt, a piano prodigy and the granddaughter of powerful crime boss Mason Lord, was only six years old when she was abducted. Then, she was saved by her adoptive father, San Francisco federal judge Ramsey Hunt. Now a twelve-year-old with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, she narrowly saves herself from a would-be kidnapper at Davies Hall in San Francisco.

    Worried for her safety, Emma’s entire family joins her for her next performance, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Sherlock and officers from METRO are assigned to protect her, but things don’t turn out as planned…

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    Robin Over 2,700 5-Star Reviews!

    From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations – all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed.

    But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’s comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher King; Aladdin; and Mrs. Doubtfire, where he showcased his limitless gift for improvisation to bring to life a wide range of characters. And in Good Will Hunting he gave an intense and controlled performance that revealed the true range of his talent.

    Itzkoff also shows how Williams struggled mightily with addiction and depression – topics he discussed openly while performing and during interviews – and with a debilitating condition at the end of his life that affected him in ways his fans never knew.

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    The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes (Last Chance Scoundrels Book 1) Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    When Kieran Ransome’s latest antics result in a massive scandal, his father issues an ultimatum: find a respectable wife or inherit nothing. But as one of London’s most inveterate scoundrels, Kieran doesn’t know any ladies who fit the bill. Or does he?

    Celeste Kilburn is a society darling, beloved by influential members of the ton. But keeping a spotless reputation leaves little room for adventure and she longs to escape her gilded cage, especially with her impending engagement to a stuffy earl. When Kieran—her older brother’s best friend and an irresistibly attractive rogue—begs for her help, Celeste makes a deal: she’ll introduce him to the right social circles if he’ll show her the scandalous side of London.

    In between proper teas and garden parties, Kieran escorts Celeste—disguised as “Salome”—to rowdy gaming hells, wild fêtes, and sensual art salons. As they spend more time together, their initial attraction builds to a desperate desire that neither can ignore. But when someone discovers their midnight exploits, Celeste’s freedom and reputation are endangered, and Kieran must save the woman he loves… respectable or not.

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    The Mist Over 4,000 5-Star Reviews!

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a dense, mysterious mist as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction.

    In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends…David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town.

    As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind.

    The Mist explores the horror in both the enemy you know—and the one you can only imagine.

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    The Secret of the Lost Diary: A Novel True love only comes twice in a lifetime…

    “Jane, my love. I cannot bear the thought that you didn’t know what was coming and that you trusted me so completely, but I knew that if I had stayed another minute, I never would have been able to do what I had to do. I wouldn’t have been able to leave. Please forgive me for betraying you. When I gave you up – when I gave up on our love – I knew that I would never love again.
    Yours forever,
    Cricket.”

    Emma Jones longs for a way out. While she is working as a caregiver for the elderly Mrs. Baum, between her ward’s sullen demeanor and the clockwork routine of her household, every day feels the same. Until a parcel carrying the wrong address arrives at their doorstep one day, holding a faded, sealed diary. Compelled, Emma opens the diary and immerses herself in its incredible story – a choice that will change the course of her life, and the lives of those closest to her, forever.

    The only thing that Cricket still has of Ginger is her nickname. Everything else was lost – buried, just like the dreams they used to share. Desperate, she begins to write. First to herself, then to Ginger, not knowing that her diary will change her future – in more ways than she can imagine.

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    Liberty: A Jake Grafton Novel (Jake Grafton Series Book 10) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Liberty, all action and suspense from the very first page, poses the unanswerable question: How far should civilization go to defend itself from its mortal enemies?

    On a quiet park bench in Manhattan–just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center–spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin’s message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America’s population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust.

    As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don’t all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president’s ear.

    With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops…

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    Driven to Murder: A page-turning cozy crime murder mystery from Debbie Young for 2024 (A Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery Book 9) Change is coming to Wendlebury Barrow – and not everyone is happy about it…

    When the local bus company announces it will be stopping its route through their quaint Cotswold village, the people of Wendlebury Barrow are up in arms. Not least Sophie Sayers, whose driving lessons with her boyfriend Hector get off to a bumpy start.

    But the locals’ peaceful protests against the decision turn deadly when a body is discovered on the Number 27. No one can work out how a passenger met their demise, let alone how the driver didn’t notice. While the police wait for the post mortem results, Sophie immediately suspects foul play, and launches her own investigation.

    Can she solve the murder before another passenger is hurt?

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    The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel Over 3,300 5-Star Reviews!

    Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends—the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill.

    By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband, and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman—a woman desperately longing for true love and connection.

    Enter Truman Capote. This diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality explodes onto the scene, setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan’s elite, along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe’s powerful circle. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls “True Heart,” Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. But once a storyteller, always a storyteller—even when the stories aren’t his to tell…

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    Travels with Geoffrey : If It CAN Go Wrong, It Will (Never a Dull Moment) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    This light and lively travel memoir chronicles a lifetime of humorous and hair-raising travel misadventures. Join this family for a fun romp through life as they encounter more than their fair share of strife and scrapes around the globe.

    They stumble through Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia and Oman, flinging sausages and car parts, evading jails, abduction and wild creatures. Will they continue to survive the perils, despite their satnav’s suicidal tendencies and Geoffrey’s dubious driving?

    Travels with Geoffrey is an engaging travel narrative full of madcap adventures and is perfect for fans of Beth Haslam, Marjory McGinn and Tony James Slater.

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    The Winter Girls: A totally gripping crime thriller (Agent Tori Hunter Book 2) Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    When seventeen-year-old Savannah Devenish vanishes from her family’s remote vacation cabin in Minnesota, FBI Agent Tori Hunter races along treacherous icy roads to be first on the scene. Savannah’s parents are frantic with worry for their beautiful, carefree girl. Haunted by memories of her own missing sister, Tori vows to do whatever it takes to reunite this family.

    When the police uncover that Savannah’s father Jacob was having an affair, they suspect his involvement, but Tori is convinced his despair is genuine. Her close relationship with the chief detective means the team won’t listen, so Tori strikes off alone, persuading Savannah’s distraught best friends to share their secrets. It seems this ‘good girl’ was sneaking out to parties to meet up with a mysterious man…

    Then another teenager is snatched from the street, snowy footprints and a discarded hot chocolate cup the last trace of her. The girls are the same age, strikingly pale and blonde. Is a twisted collector stealing them away? And what chance is there that they are being kept alive?

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    The Wedding Agreement : A fake relationship/marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers romance. (The English Gent Romances Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Noah Soames needed to get married, only there was one small problem – he didn’t have a suitable contender to be his wife. Until a few glasses of red wine later, and I’d volunteered for the position…

    He was charming, wealthy and panty-melting gorgeous, which meant that this small favour should be no problem. Shouldn’t it?

    A twelve-month deal and we’d separate as friends, nothing messy, no tangled emotions and definitely no difficult divorce settlements. I could find out if married life was better than my single, career-focused one, and see if I was really missing out, and at the same time put an end to the horrendous blind dates my friends kept setting me up on. It’s the perfect solution. Isn’t it?

    It should be. Until my heart gets involved, and I have to decide whether it’s time to re-negotiate the terms of our agreement.

    But will Noah sign on the dotted line?

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