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    The Seaside Cocktail Campervan: Escape with the most uplifting, cosy romance for 2022! (The Cosy Campervan Series, Book 1) Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Bringing love, laughter and friendship from coast to coast. Next stop: seaside, sunshine and romance!

    When Lucy isn’t in her cosy cottage by the sea, she’s winding through the Northumberland coast with her loveable Dachsund Daisy, cooking up a storm at the local village celebrations. Inspired by her Italian Poppa, Lucy’s chasing a new dream with her pizza van business. And at one particular party she meets Jack, the brooding but gorgeous owner of the Cocktail Campervan.

    Wary of repeating mistakes of the past, Lucy and Jack keep it strictly business. But as the summer drifts by in a swirl of garden parties, fun and fizz, and as the cocktail campervan creates the community they so desperately need, romance starts to blossom – one stop at a time…

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    Live Long And... What I Learned Along the Way Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age.

    "I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived to 100, I couldn’t die as long as I was booked." And Shatner is always booked.

    Still, a brief health scare in 2016 forced him to take stock. After mulling over the lessons he’s learned, the places he’s been, and all the miracles and strange occurrences he’s witnessed over the course of an enduring career in Hollywood and on the stage, he arrived at one simple rule for living a long and good life: don’t die.

    It’s the only one-size-fits-all advice, Shatner argues in Live Long and..What I Learned Along the Way, because everyone has a unique life—but, to help us all out, he’s more than willing to share stories from his unique life.

    With a combination of pithy humor and thoughtful vulnerability, Shatner lays out his journey from childhood to peak stardom and all the bumps in the road. (Sometimes the literal road, as in the case of his 2,400-mile motorcycle trip across the country with a bike that didn’t function.)

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    Funny Business: A Single Dad, Enemies to Lovers Romantic Comedy (The Brodie Brothers Book 1) Over 1,300 5-Star Reviews!

    A single dad, a model, and a comedian walk into a bar. They’re all Owen Brodie… It’s only funny if you aren’t the hilarious struggling comedian who has been hired to be his son’s nanny for the stand-up tour.

    Dear Ms. Hogan,

    I’m emailing to offer you the job as my son’s nanny because Sam had a temper tantrum when I told him I can’t hire you to come on my stand-up tour with us. “She heckled me at a club a few years ago,” I wanted to say. “She is the sassy little turd who trolls me on Twitter,” I could have told him. “She’s an even bigger pain in the butt when we’re face-to-face,” I thought to myself. What I would never tell him is—things could get complicated. For reasons.

    Let me know if you want the job.

    With great reluctance,
    Owen

    Dear Mr. Brodie,

    Thank you for your email. Please inform Sam that I like him very much and would love to be his nanny and accompany him on your terrible joke of a stand-up tour.

    I can assure you—things will not get complicated. For many, many reasons.

    Primarily because Owen Brodie isn’t funny, and he can suck it.

    Out of financial desperation and a fondness for your son,
    Frankie

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    Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel Over 35,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from “a superb craftsman of suspense” (Entertainment Weekly).

    Jack Reacher hits the pavement and sticks out his thumb. He plans to follow the sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What’s one extra day? He takes the detour.

    At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians had been on their way to New York City to sell a treasure. Now they’re stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. The owners seem almost too friendly. It’s a strange place, but it’s all there is.

    The next morning, in the city clerk’s office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He’s told no one named Reacher ever lived in town. He’s always known his father left and never returned, but now Reacher wonders, Was he ever there in the first place?

    As Reacher explores his father’s life, and as the Canadians face lethal dangers, strands of different stories begin to merge. Then Reacher makes a shocking discovery: The present can be tough, but the past can be tense… and deadly.

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    Jackal: A Novel Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she’s not the first—and she may not be the last…

    Liz Rocher is coming home… reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward, passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she can handle whatever awaits her. But on the night of the wedding, somewhere between dancing and dessert, the newlyweds’ daughter, Caroline, disappears—and the only thing left behind is a piece of white fabric covered in blood.

    As a frantic search begins, with the police combing the trees for Caroline, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern: A summer night. A missing girl. A party in the woods. She’s seen this before. Keisha Woodson, the only other Black girl in Liz’s high school, walked into the woods with a mysterious man and was later found with her chest cavity ripped open and her heart removed. Liz shudders at the thought that it could have been her, and now, with Caroline missing, it can’t be a coincidence. As Liz starts to dig through the town’s history, she uncovers a horrifying secret about the place she once called home. Children have been going missing in these woods for years. All of them Black. All of them girls.

    With the evil in the forest creeping closer, Liz knows what she must do: find Caroline, or be entirely consumed by the darkness.

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    Everyday Mexican Instant Pot Cookbook: Regional Classics Made Fast and Simple Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    The Everyday Mexican Instant Pot Cookbook is the definitive Instant Pot cookbook for real Mexican home cooking made fast and simple.

    The Instant Pot is not your abuelita’s pressure cooker. In the first official Instant Pot cookbook for Mexican cuisine, The Everyday Mexican Instant Pot Cookbook captures the classic flavor of Mexican food with the speed and simplicity of your Instant Pot for everyday meals from the heart of Mexico.

    This Mexican cookbook showcases a rich variety of regional cuisine, with over 80 recipes that include everything from Roasted Poblano Pepper Tamales to Beef Shank Barbacoa to Mexican Bread Pudding. To enhance the convenience of cooking with your Instant Pot, each recipe in this Mexican cookbook features easy-to-find ingredients and simple, step-by-step instructions to make flavorful Mexican dishes at home.

    Bring the fiesta to your table in an instant with the most comprehensive collection of authentic Mexican recipes.

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    Maggie Finds Her Muse: A Novel A sparkling romantic comedy starring a bestselling author who goes to Paris to overcome writer’s block and rediscovers family, independence, and love along the way.

    All Maggie Bliss needs to do is write. Forty-eight years old and newly single (again!), she ventures to Paris in a last-ditch effort to finish her manuscript. With a marvelous apartment at her fingertips and an elegant housekeeper to meet her every need, a finished book—and her dream of finally taking her career over the top—is surely within her grasp. After all, how could she find anything except inspiration in Paris, with its sophistication, food, and romance in the air?

    But the clock is running out, and between her charming ex-husband arriving in France for vacation and a handsome Frenchman appearing one morning in her bathtub, Maggie’s previously undisturbed peace goes by the wayside. Charming and heartfelt, Dee Ernst’s Maggie Finds Her Muse is a delightful and feel-good novel about finding love, confidence, and inspiration in all the best places.

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    Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge…

    Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can’t seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.

    Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton’s son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane’s started to see her son’s father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.

    Diane’s search to reconnect with her son and Jackie’s search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "KING CITY". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures…if they can ever find it.

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    Protected by the Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    After her brother’s tragic death, Rosalie finds herself completely alone, with no family and no prospects. So, when a duke shows up on her doorstep and offers to be her guardian in her brother’s stead, she can’t help but accept.

    Duke Andrew returned from war a broken man. There is little that can touch his heart, one of them being his old friend’s death. Honor drove him to do right by his sister, by ensuring she makes an advantageous match. But it’s not honor that drives him to sabotage each and every of those matches…

    With nowhere to call home, it’s almost impossible for Rosalie to feel at ease in the duke’s home. Especially when his overbearing mother can’t stand the sight of her. And as she meets one potential match after the other, the duke realizes he would do anything to make her his own…

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    The Ambitious Card: A Fun & Funny Mystery! (The Eli Marks Mysteries Book 1) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Psychics are being murdered and magician Eli Marks is the top suspect.

    His greatest trick? Not becoming the next victim.

    The life of a magician isn’t all kiddie shows and card tricks. Sometimes it’s murder.

    Psychics are being murdered and Eli can’t escape suspicion. Then things get really complicated when romance blooms with a beautiful psychic. Eli discovers she’s the next target for murder and he’s scheduled to die with her.

    Now Eli must use every trick he knows to reveal the true killer… before they become the next victims.

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    Promise Kept (Harland Creek Series Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Lying on her job application wasn’t the best way to kick off her fresh start in a small town, but Heather Smith is out of options.

    She desperately needs the job, or she will soon be without a place to live. Even so, Heather truly likes Elizabeth Harland, the old woman who hired her as her caregiver, and is eager to work hard and prove she’s right for the task.

    Now, if she could just figure out why a local farmer keeps casting suspicious glares her way…

    Sure, Grayson McCade has his hands full with his farm. That doesn’t change the fact that he considers the residents of Harland Creek family, and he takes time to look out for them all. The second he learns a newcomer has been hired to care for Elizabeth, he worries the kind-hearted old woman is being scammed.

    Acting on what he believes to be the best of intentions, he sets out to uncover the truth about Heather’s past. Will the secrets revealed tarnish Heather’s new start before it even begins? Or will Grayson help make Harland Creek the home her heart longs for?

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    Faerie Blood (The Changeling Chronicles Book 1) Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    I’m Ivy Lane, and if I never see another faerie again, it’ll be too soon.

    Twenty years after the faeries came and destroyed the world as we knew it, I use my specialist skills to keep rogue faeries in line and ensure humans and their magically gifted neighbours can coexist (relatively) peacefully.

    Nobody knows those skills came from the darkest corner of Faerie itself.

    When a human child disappears, replaced with a faerie changeling, I have to choose between taking the safe road or exposing my own history with the faeries to the seductively dangerous head of the Mage Lords. He’s the exact kind of distraction I don’t need, but it’s work with him or lose my chance to save the victims. It’ll take all my skills to catch the kidnappers and stop Faerie’s dark denizens overrunning the city — but if the faerie lords find out about the magic I stole last time I went into their realm, running won’t save me this time…

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    All Is Bright: A Christmas Romance Over 1,100 5-Star Reviews!

    Return to Hope’s Crossing this Christmas in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne’s latest heartwarming story of matchmaking at the holidays!

    Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father’s firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he’s determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason’s new home in Hope’s Crossing is her best work yet, and she won’t let her grumpy client prevent her from showcasing her work personally.

    With Sage’s gift for taking broken things and making them better, the matchmaking talent of the quirky locals and a generous sprinkling of Christmas cheer, Mason doesn’t stand a chance against the power of this magical holiday season.

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    Bijou Roy: A Novel Bijou Roy’s life in Washington, D.C. is not thrilling but it is steady.

    When she loses her father to a long illness, she travels to India to scatter his remains in the river that runs through his native city. With the weight of her grief still fresh, she leaves a career and relationship in limbo only to be thrust into unfamiliar territory.

    Never having fully understood why her parents severed their ties to India, she is drawn to Naveen, the son of her father’s closest comrade. Naveen holds over Bijou intimate details of their fathers’ past and their political involvements. Quickly, she is embroiled in the mysteries of love, grief, and family histories, questioning what happens next when the customs of neither an original nor an adopted culture provide comfort.

    In her quest for answers, Bijou sees how each generation must wrestle—often at great risk—with the one who came before, and, perhaps above all, comes to learn how to replace sorrow with hope.

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    Eragon: Book I (The Inheritance Cycle 1) Over 10,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A new adventure hatches in Book One of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times bestselling series has sold over 40 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.

    When fifteen-year-old Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

    Overnight his simple life is shattered, and, gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire.

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    Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    The humorist asked his readers to share their least favorite tunes and chronicles the hilarious responses.

    When funnyman Dave Barry asked readers about their least favorite tunes, he thought he was penning just another installment of his weekly syndicated humor column. But the witty writer was flabbergasted by the response when over 10,000 readers voted. “I have never written a column that got a bigger response than the one announcing the Bad Song Survey,” Barry wrote.

    Based on the results of the survey, Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs is a compilation of some of the worst songs ever written. Dave Barry fans will relish his quirky take. Music buffs too will appreciate this humorous stroll through the world’s worst lyrics. The only thing wrong with this book is that readers will find themselves unable to stop mentally singing the greatest hits of Gary Puckett.

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    Love Blooms: A Firefighter Small Town Romance (The Bell Family of Bluestar Island Book 1) Over 1,200 5-Star Reviews!

    He’s an injured firefighter. She bakes the most delightful treats. When their worlds collide will the baker help heal the firefighter with a mix of blueberry muffins and her caring way?

    The elegant baker, Hannah Bell, has always lived on Bluestar Island with her family. While still grieving for her father, who died in a fire, she focuses all of her energy on making her dream come true—opening her very own bakery. But when a broken water pipe washes away her carefully laid plans, she’s on the verge of losing everything.

    New York firefighter Ethan Walker’s life is in a tailspin after he’s injured on-the-job. When an urgent call detours him to Bluestar Island, he agrees to help his lovable but meddlesome great-aunt. But organizing the island’s Spring Fling proves a lot harder than he originally imagined. He needs help…and fast.

    Under the magic of Bluestar Island’s sea breeze and warm sunshine, Hannah and Ethan must not only face their immediate obstacles but also their own turning points in life. Will they have to do that alone? With a leap of faith and a dash of romance, they might just find the perfect mix to make their dreams come true.

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    The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld Book 41) Over 10,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Fantasy grandmaster Sir Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel, and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching.

    Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.

    As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.

    There will be a reckoning…

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    The Burning Girls: A Novel Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances in this explosive and unsettling thriller from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.

    A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed—then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church.

    Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping for a fresh start. Instead, Jack finds a town rife with conspiracies and secrets, and is greeted with a strange welcome package: an exorcism kit and a note that warns, “But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known.”

    The more Jack and daughter, Flo, explore the town and get to know its strange denizens, the deeper they are drawn into the age-old rifts, mysteries, and suspicions. And when Flo begins to see specters of girls ablaze, it becomes apparent there are ghosts here that refuse to be laid to rest.

    Uncovering the truth can be deadly in a village with a bloody past, where everyone has something to hide and no one trusts an outsider.

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    Delicious Bundt Cakes: More Than 100 New Recipes for Timeless Favorites Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Bake stunning, scrumptious Bundt cakes with exciting flavors without spending hours in the kitchen!

    Roxanne Wyss and Kathy Moore unlock the secret of the Bundt cake, which yields a scrumptious, impressive dessert with only a single pan. Whether you prefer geometric patterns or elegant swirls, there are an endless variety of Bundt pans with dozens of new designs being produced, all of which yield picture perfect cakes with minimal effort. The Bundt’s unique ringed shape prevents soggy, underdone centers, making it the ideal cake for a new baker.

    Delicious Bundt Cakes features over 100 recipes and color photos throughout, along with all the hints and tips you’ll need to make a spectacular Bundt cake every time. Each recipe specifies the exact size of Bundt pan needed so you will never have an overflowing disaster or an undersized Bundt. The book includes recipes made completely from scratch, as well as recipes based on boxed cake mixes so you can have a delicious Bundt in even less time.

    In addition to traditional Bundt cakes, there are also recipes for filled cakes, like the Chocolate Peanut Butter Tunnel Bundt Cake with a soft peanut butter filling, and coffee and pound cakes, like the classic Banana Walnut Bundt Coffee Cake.

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    Mother of the Bride Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery Book 29) Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime—especially because she’s about to watch her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marry the handsome, successful man of her dreams…

    But while navigating the vast countryside estate owned by her impenetrably wealthy in-laws-to-be, the jet-lagged mother of the bride has a creeping feeling that Elizabeth’s fairytale nuptials to Jean-Luc Schoen-Rene are destined to become a nightmare.

    Maternal instincts are validated the moment a body is pulled from a centuries-old moat on the property. A young woman has dropped dead under mysterious circumstances—possibly at the hands of someone at the chateau—and unflattering rumors about the Schoen-Rene line and their inner circle flow like champagne. Then there’s the matter of Elizabeth’s hunky ex beau showing up on the scene as she prepares to walk down the aisle.

    With tensions building, personalities clashing, and real dangers emerging at the chateau, Lucy is determined to protect her family, together for the first time in years, and expose the one responsible. She’ll have to locate the culprit among a list of worldly jilted lovers and potential criminal masterminds, or Elizabeth’s trip down the aisle could end in tragedy…

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    Snow Country (Vintage International) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.

    Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them.

    Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata’s exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.

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    The Broken Soul (Sloane & Maddie, Peril Awaits Book 3) When the party of a lifetime becomes a party to the death, the lines become blurred. Friends become enemies. Drugs become weapons. And that’s just the beginning…

    Retired medical examiner Maddie LaFoe is in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras with her best friend and private investigator, Sloane Monroe. When Sloane leaves to get them fresh drinks, Maddie witnesses what appears to be a body being dumped in an alleyway.

    Maddie darts through the street festivities to investigate… only to become a victim herself.

    Minutes later, Sloane returns. Maddie is nowhere in sight, and no one seems to know where she’s gone.

    This time the investigation is personal, and Sloane will stop at nothing to find her friend.

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    Love, Lies and Lavender: A Sweet, Small-Town Romance (Blueberry Point Romance Book 1) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Hilary Larkin knows one thing: spending a week at an idyllic lakeshore inn in the Minnesota Northwoods is the last place she wants to be.

    But refusing her sister-in-law’s help when the woman offered to pay for the small farms conference is out of the question. The only bright spot of the dreaded week is the handsome lavender farmer distracting Hilary from the crushing reality of trying to keep her late husband’s inn-keeping dream alive.

    Dane Porter locked up his heart after his ex-wife betrayed him. Even literally colliding with the beautiful and intriguing woman at this conference can’t make him forget that trusting another woman will only lead to heartbreak. But amidst the conference gardening workshops and lectures about raising alpacas, Hilary makes him wish he could finally let go of the past.

    When Hilary’s meddling sister-in-law arrives unexpectedly at the inn, Hilary and Dane are forced to confront their pain—and hopes—for the future. Will a family confrontation help them find happiness or ruin their opportunity for a second chance at love?

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    Whispering Pines: A Novel (Celia's Gifts Book 1) Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    A shocking job loss will force Renee to remember the beauty of new beginnings.

    Summers at Whispering Pines defined Renee’s childhood. Days meant swimming and sun, nights meant ghost stories and campfires. Best of all, Whispering Pines meant time with Celia, her favorite aunt. Through the years, Celia would remain Renee’s most steadfast confidant, but trips to Whispering Pines would fade to memories. Raising kids alone and a demanding career consumed Renee’s life.

    Now Celia is gone and Renee’s career is in shambles. Promising herself she’ll look for a new job in January, Renee is determined to make the most of her unexpected time off. But when mysterious events begin to swirl around her kids, her worries compound.

    A spontaneous trip, meant to lessen the growing pressures and soothe Renee’s battered pride, could turn out to be so much more when she finds herself alone on a moonlit beach, half-a-world away, with a handsome stranger.

    How can Renee keep her family safe as she works to rebuild their lives? Does she dare take another chance at love?

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    One of Us Is Dead Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Opulence. Sex. Betrayal… Sometimes friendship can be deadly.

    Meet the women of Buckhead—a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships.

    Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she’s been unceremoniously dumped by Bryce, her politician husband. When Bryce replaces her with a much younger woman, Shannon sets out to take revenge.

    Crystal has stepped into Shannon’s old shoes. A young, innocent Texan girl, she simply has no idea what she’s up against.

    Olivia has waited years to take Shannon’s crown as the unofficial queen of Buckhead. Finally, her moment has come. But to take her rightful place, she will need to use every backstabbing, manipulative, underhand trick in the book…

    Jenny owns Glow, the most exclusive salon in town. Jenny knows all her clients’ secrets and darkest desires. But will she ever tell?

    Who amongst these women will be clever enough to survive Buckhead—and who will wind up dead? They say that friendships can be complex, but no one said it could ever be this deadly.

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    Raylan: A Novel (Raylan Givens Book 3) Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    With more than forty novels to his credit and still going strong, the legendary Elmore Leonard has well earned the title, “America’s greatest crime writer” (Newsweek). And U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Pronto, Riding the Rap, Fire in the Hole) is one of Leonard’s most popular creations, thanks in part to the phenomenal success of the hit TV series Justified.

    Leonard’s Raylan shines a spotlight once again on the dedicated, if somewhat trigger-happy lawman, this time in his familiar but not particularly cozy milieu of Harlan County, Kentucky, where the drug dealing Crowe brothers are branching out into the human body parts business.

    Suspenseful, darkly wry and riveting, and crackling with Leonard’s trademark electric dialogue, Raylan is prime Grand Master Leonard as you have always loved him and always will.

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    Below the Line: A Hollywood Crime Novel Former Detroit homicide detective Edwin Blake broke into show business as a script consultant on cop movies. Now living in Los Angeles five years later, Blake is suffering from clinical depression, is no longer in demand in film and TV – and money is short.

    But things look up when Blake gets a call from wealthy, oddball producer, Jason “JP” Perry, telling him he wants to hire him for a future cable TV series. But there’s a catch. First he wants Blake to locate the missing ex-wife of a “friend of a friend” from Chicago. Blake will be working for free on a promise – a typical Hollywood hustle. But Blake’s not the only one on the case. Hired gun Warren Poole has also been contracted to find the woman.

    When a corrupt Hollywood producer, an ex-cop with a conscience, and a career criminal without one all have the same quarry, trouble is bound to ensue. And it does, with remarkably satisfying results, thanks to Blake’s girlfriend, Carla, a former roller derby queen who has turned more than her own life around. Filled with rich characters both easy to love and hate, Below the Line skewers Hollywood in a deliciously fresh way…

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    This Baby Business A single dad, a nanny, a baby, and a fake engagement…it’s all baby business!

    When the hot single dad next door asks me to babysit one morning in a pinch, I figure I can help him out temporarily. I’m supposed to be the resident baby expert at RockYourBaby, after all…

    Unfortunately, behind the computer monitor, my entire life is one big, fat lie. It’s my late mother who was the baby whisperer and I’m simply trying to keep her online baby business afloat until we can sell it to the highest bidder.

    But soon Levi is struggling to keep custody when Grace’s maternal grandparents arrive in town. When I get the bright idea that they might be happy to know Levi and I are engaged, I have no idea what I’ve started. Now Levi is upset, the grandparents are happy, and Grace might be teething.

    Who knew this baby business was so complicated…

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    The Godfather: 50th Anniversary Edition Over 18,000 5-Star Reviews!

    The Godfather—the classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon.

    With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.

    A number-one New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo’s epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that has been often imitated, but never matched. A tale of family and society, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it reveals the dark passions of human nature played out against a backdrop of the American dream.

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    Runaway Groomsman Over 9,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Hollywood screenwriter Sawyer Walsh knows a good love story when he sees it. But when it comes to real life romance, he’s a mess.

    That’s how he finds himself standing at the altar…as his ex-girlfriend ties the knot with his very famous best friend. The pressure, the resentment, the media coverage—it’s all too much—and before he knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s making a run for it, leaving a shocked congregation and flashing cameras in his wake.

    Needing to lie low amid the media fallout, Sawyer lands in the charming town of Canoodle, California, where he crosses paths with Fallon Long, who runs the Canoodle Cove Cabins, a family-owned business and Sawyer’s new short-term residence. Overwhelmed with renovations and her long list of responsibilities, Fallon is struggling to make ends meet while attempting to bring the cabins back to their original glory. So when Sawyer arrives, she is grateful for the income, but immediately writes him off as just another vapid Hollywood hack, until he begins to prove her wrong at every turn.

    As Fallon comes closer to saving the family business, an undeniable bond forms between her and the handsome screenwriter. But the pressures of her family obligations and Sawyer’s notoriety might prove to be too much for anyone to handle. Could Canoodle be the setting for a new romance—or is true love just a Hollywood cliché?

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    All Systems Red (Kindle Single): The Murderbot Diaries
    ⭐ Reader Recommended ⭐
    Over 23,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.

    "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

    In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

    But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern…

    On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.

    But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

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    White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Over 2,900 5-Star Reviews!

    In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.

    Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.

    We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

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    Mediterranean Diet: 70 Easy, Healthy Recipes (Good Food Guaranteed Book 19) From America’s most trusted test kitchen, heart-healthy recipes harnessing the whole food power of Mediterranean cuisine—includes photos.

    Lemony Hummus. Greek Style Tilapia. Roasted Baby Vine Tomato Grilled Chicken. You can have satisfying food and be heart-healthy, too! Using the guidelines of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, Good Housekeeping offers mouthwatering and nutritious recipes made with hearty grains and beans, lean proteins, beneficial fats, and delicious fruits and vegetables.

    With a primer on how to eat the Mediterranean way, and tips and tricks from the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping Mediterranean Diet will become your go-to cookbook for healthy living.

    Recipes include: Lemon-Cilantro Eggplant Dip, Roasted Red Pepper Dip, Quinoa Stuffed Portobellos, Chicken Souvlaki, Mediterranean Hummus Egg Smash, Cayenne Grilled Eggplant with Fresh Tomato Salad, Zesty Lemon-Herb Baked Flounder and more!

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    The Reluctant Coroner (Fenway Stevenson Mysteries Book 1) Over 4,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Blood is thicker than oil–until murder is involved.

    Fenway Stevenson doesn’t want to return to the coastal town where her estranged father is practically king. But the death of her mother draws her back home–and the murder of the county coroner draws her into a deepening conspiracy…

    As the body count rises and all signs seem to point toward her father’s oil company, will Fenway uncover the truth before family bonds become deadly?

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    Love Me Never: A small town romance (Apple Rock Falls - Small Town Romance) When you get engaged to the man you hate…

    Lucas King throws punches at men and one-night-stands at women. Two attributes in a man, Evelyn Buchanan hates.

    He may be ripped, he may be rich and god knows we all know about the boxing fame, but frankly he’s just in the way at a desperate time in Evelyn’s life. The hotel she inherited is falling down. Customers won’t pay when the roof leaks, she can’t get the roof fixed without paying customers.

    Lucas has his own problems. His reason for coming back to Apple Rock Falls needs to stay secret. But when every unattached girl in town is chasing him, along with most of the married moms, keeping in the shadows is hard.

    What Lucas needs is a fake fiancé to put off the would-be suitors. What Evelyn needs is good publicity to attract the clients–like an engagement to a famous boxer.

    But don’t for one moment think she has any intention of getting carried off by that tattooed beefcake…

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    A Little Wilder: A Steamy Small-Town Romantic Comedy (Wilder Adventures Book 4) What happened in Vegas, definitely didn’t stay in Vegas…

    Gabe’s the oldest. Brody’s the bad boy. Clark’s the strong, silent warrior. Amanda’s the girl. And Easton—well, Easton’s the panty melter.

    I’m Kane.

    Don’t get me wrong. It’s not a bad job. But usually, I’m not the one people are talking about.

    That’s about to change. Because the woman I had a smoking hot one-night stand with in Vegas? The one I should have stayed far, far away from, since women like her are my kryptonite?

    She’s the same woman my brother just hired to redesign his fancy new glamping RVs.

    I haven’t seen her since Vegas, but the instant I lay eyes on her, I can tell my quiet role as the boy-next-door brother is about to change.

    She’s pregnant. And it’s mine…

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