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    Romance, Thriller, Biographies & Memoirs, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Mystery… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Bachelor Auction (The Bachelors of Arizona Book 1) Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Cinderella never had to deal with this crap.

    Jane isn’t entirely sure that Cinderella got such a raw deal. Sure, she had a rough start, but didn’t she eventually land a prince and a happily-ever-after? Meanwhile, Jane is busy waiting on her demanding, entitled sisters, running her cleaning business, and… yep, not a prince in sight. Until a party and a broken shoe incident leave Jane wondering if princes—or at least, a certain deliciously hunky billionaire –maybe do exist.

    Except Brock Wellington isn’t anyone’s dream guy. Hell, a prince would never agree to be auctioned off in marriage to the highest bidder. Or act like an arrogant jerk—even if it was just a favßade. Now, as Brock is waiting for the auction chopping block, he figures it’s karmic retribution that he’s tempted by a sexy, sassy woman he can’t have. But while they can’t have a fairy-tale ending, maybe they can indulge in a little bit of fantasy…

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    The Driver: A Thriller From the creator of the TV show Bones comes a smart and funny debut thriller.

    Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He’s spent the past twenty-eight hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a celebrity skateboard mogul who isn’t going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago: Troubletroubletrouble. Skellig has heard these warnings before—he’s an Army Special Forces sergeant whose limo company is staffed by a ragtag band of wounded veterans, including his Afghan interpreter—and he knows to listen carefully.

    Skellig runs inside just in time to save Avila from two gunmen but too late for one of Avila’s bodyguards—and wakes up hours later in the hospital, the only person of interest in custody for the murder. Complicating matters further is the appearance of Detective Delilah Groopman of the LAPD, gorgeous and brash, for whom Skellig has always held a candle. As for Avila? He’s willing to help clear Skellig’s name under one peculiar condition: that Skellig become Avila’s personal chauffeur. A cushy gig for any driver, except for the fact that someone is clearly trying to kill Avila, and Skellig is literally the only person sitting between Avila and a bullet to the head.

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    Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Will You Love Me tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.

    Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy’s mother couldn’t cope, but it wasn’t until Lucy reached eight years old that she was finally taken into permanent foster care.

    By the time Lucy is brought to live with Cathy she is eleven years old and severely distressed after being moved from one foster home to another. Withdrawn, refusing to eat and three years behind in her schooling, it is thought that the damage Lucy has suffered is irreversible.

    But Cathy and her two children bond with Lucy quickly, and break through to Lucy in a way no-one else has been able to, finally showing her the loving home she never believed existed. Cathy and Lucy believe they were always destined to be mother and daughter – it just took them a little while to find each other.

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    Chaos Erupts: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller (Outlaws of the Midwest Book 1) After years of combat, Miles Arrington, a daring American rebel, mounts a courageous revolt to free his town from the occupation of a foreign threat after a strategic attack wipes out the west and east coast.

    With millions dead, the country in darkness, and the 12 states of the Midwest in conflict, Miles, joins forces with a former survival expert to start a revolution that will save their home.

    Chaos Erupts is book one in Outlaws of the Midwest, a gripping EMP apocalyptic thriller following survivors as they fight to stay alive. This action-packed EMP disaster series will keep you turning pages long into the night.

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    Who Asked You? Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author…“Remember Getting to Happy, Waiting to Exhale, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back? Well, you won’t likely forget Terry McMillan’s Who Asked You? either” (Raleigh News & Observer).

    When Who Asked You? begins, Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. BJ already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams—all the while holding down a job delivering room service at a hotel.

    Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison; Quentin, the family success, can’t be bothered to lend a hand; and taking care of two lively grandsons is the last thing BJ thinks she needs. But who asked her?

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    Baby Doll "What a compulsive read! A brilliant first novel that kept me transfixed and entertained until the very last page." — Tess Gerritsen

    You’ve been held captive in one room.

    You’ve been mentally and physically abused every day since you were sixteen years old.

    Then one night you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked.

    For the first time in eight years you’re free. This is what happens next…

    Escape was just the beginning.

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    Before the Crown: The most page-turning and romantic historical novel of the year perfect for fans of Netflix’s THE CROWN! Windsor Castle, 1943.

    As war rages across the world, Princess Elizabeth comes face to face with the dashing naval officer she first met in London nine years before.

    One of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, Philip represents everything she has always been taught to avoid. Instability. Audacity. Adventure.

    But when the king learns of their relationship, the suitability of the foreign prince is questioned by all at court.

    He is the risk she has never been allowed to take. The risk not even the shadow of the crown will stop her from taking…

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    The King's Favorite (Daughters of Avalon Book 1) Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    Fearing her "gifts" will be used to defeat her sister Matilda, Elspeth Pendragon escapes the Black Mountain priory that has sheltered her and her four sisters since King Henry’s death, only to find herself indebted to, of all men, a Scotsman, whose loyalties are in question…

    Left to face the wrath of a new sovereign, Malcom Scott is forced to swear fealty to Stephen of Blois to keep the castle he won by slaying his own grandfather. But having done that, he’s pitted himself against Scotland, and even his own father. But even as Malcom realizes there’s no turning back, the late King’s favorite illegitimate daughter may offer him more than he ever bargained for.

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    Midnight Ice: A Madison Night Mad for Mod Mystery (Madison Night Mystery Book 0) When Doris Day-loving, mid-century modern interior decorator Madison Night crosses the country to Carmel-by-the-Sea to distance herself from a recent breakup, she learns it’s harder to escape her past than she thought.

    FBI agents, threatening thugs, a luggage mix-up, and Southwest design come together in an unexpected intersection involving a shipment of rare diamonds.

    Now it’s not only who she knows but what she knows that either gives Madison an edge… or leaves her on ice.

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    Secondhand Secrets (Miss Main Street Book 1): A Small Town Story of Friendship and Romance Darcy’s escaping a glitzy life in Los Angeles to run her grandma’s shop in the sleepy town of Wimber, Texas. But every small town has secrets, and Darcy’s about to discover a few she’d forgotten. Like the boy she left behind, with her first kiss still on his lips.

    Owning a business isn’t as easy as it seems. But a group of friendly women who meet to talk shop might offer the keys Darcy needs to succeed.
    Darcy is determined to push forward, despite the obstacles that cross her path. And maybe love is still waiting on the other side of the shop’s battered old door.

    If you love small-town sweet romance, you will love the Miss Main Street series!

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    Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove Book 1) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    What’s the market price on a decent guy these days?

    Maggie Beaumont’s luck is about to change. Sure, she’s known for her bad romantic choices—her former boyfriend broke up with her by bringing his new girlfriend home for a visit. And then there was the crush she had on a gorgeous young Irishman, who turned out to be Father Tim, the parish’s new priest.

    But romantic salvation has arrived in the form of handsome, if surly, fisherman Malone. It turns out there’s a heart of gold underneath his barnacle-clad exterior. Will this catch of the day turn into the dish of a lifetime?

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    Hawk Quest Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    The year is 1072. The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks.

    On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched battlefields, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time.

    The scale is huge. The journey is incredible. The history is real. This is Hawk Quest.

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    Blessing in Disguise: A Novel Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle McAvoy meets Putnam Armstrong, wealthy, gentle, older, and secluded from the world. Isabelle’s relationship with Putnam, and her time at his château on the Normandy coast, are the stuff of dreams. But it turns real when she becomes pregnant, for she knows that marriage is out of the question.

    When Isabelle returns to New York, she enters a new relationship that she hopes will be more stable and traditional. But she soon realizes she has made a terrible mistake and again finds herself a single mother.

    With two young daughters and no husband, Isabelle finally and unexpectedly finds happiness and a love that gives her a third child, a baby as happy as her beloved father. And yet, once again, life brings dramatic changes.

    The three girls grow up to be very different women, and Isabelle’s relationship with each of them is unique. While raising her girls alone, Isabelle also begins building a career as a successful art consultant. Then one final turn of fate brings a past secret to light, bonds mother and daughters closer, and turns a challenge into a blessing.

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    Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest… and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:

    • Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength
    • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers
    • Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
    • The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
    • How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man

    By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.

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    Sunshine on Silver Lake: Includes a bonus novella (Sweetwater Springs Book 5) Welcome back to Sweetwater Springs, North Carolina for a heartwarming second-chance romance between a quirky café owner and a handsome park ranger.

    With summer just around the corner, Emma St. James is eagerly planning a 5K run at Sweetwater Springs National Park. But first she needs the help of one charming, rugged, and handsome park ranger. Her brief high school romance with Jack Hershey may have ended in heartbreak, but Emma can’t deny that he still gives her butterflies. So when Jack responds to her request with an all-too-tempting plea to pretend to be his girlfriend for the summer, how can she say no?

    Jack would do anything for his sister — even pretend to give up his bachelor life to care for his nephew. Passing his days with his high school sweetheart guarantees one long, hot summer — but only because every moment together leaves him wanting a real relationship. He can’t imagine spending another season without Emma by his side. Can he convince her to give their love a second chance before the summer draws to a close?

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    Incoming: A Covert-Ops Suspense Action Novel (Zeb Carter Thrillers Book 7) Old enemies don’t die. They become more wily.

    When faced with an audacious attack on America, Zeb Carter does the unthinkable.
    He offers himself as bait.

    Zeb Carter had stopped the greatest terrorist act against his country.

    However the ring leader behind its attack, a deadly intelligence chief, was still out there.

    That enemy has an audacious plan to ruin the US and destroy the world order.

    Zeb Carter and his team are determined to stop him… However they’ll have to offer themselves as bait.

    In a hostile country and in a city that has been turned into a giant prison just for them.

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    Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort The Wars of the Roses were not just fought by men on the battlefield. There were daughters, wives, mistresses, mothers and queens whose lives and influences helped shape the most dramatic of English conflicts.

    This book traces the women’s stories on the Lancastrian side, from the children of Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, through the turbulent 15th century to the advent of Margaret Beaufort’s son in 1509, and establishment of the Tudor dynasty. From Katherine Swynford and Catherine of Valois’s secret liaisons to the love lives of Mary de Bohun and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, to the Queenship of Joan of Navarre and Margaret of Anjou, Red Roses explores how these extraordinary women survived in extraordinary times.

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    A Date With Death (Conjuring A Coroner Book 0)

    Whoever said blood is thicker than water hasn’t met the Harrington family.

    New York royalty, the Harrington family are old money with magic coursing through their entitled veins, and the only thing the Harringtons care less about than each other…is the law.

    When Lester dies unexpectedly, his considerable estate is set to pass to his surviving heirs. But the coroner, Kasey Chase, has ruled Lester’s death a homicide, sparking a family feud that sees the Harrington heirs turn on each other in a lethal struggle where the only prize for second place is death.

    With unlimited resources and a callous disregard for human life, the Harrington’s have to be stopped before the city pays the price for their petty war. Caught in the middle, Kasey is left fighting for her life. Fortunately, she’s been hiding a secret of her own.

    Kasey is a witch.

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    Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: A Crash of Fate Izzy and Jules were best friends until Izzy’s family abruptly left Batuu when she was six. But now she’s back, and Jules, the boy who never left, is unsure what to make of her.

    While on the run from vengeful smugglers and an angry pirate, Jules and Izzy will come to terms with who they are, and what they mean to each other…

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    She Wore Mourning (Zachary Goldman Mysteries Book 1) A dead child… A mother deep in mourning.

    Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.

    Declan’s death has been ruled an accident, but his grandmother thinks there is more to it. She fears Declan’s mother will not be able to find peace until Zachary can give them an answer once and for all.

    But as Zachary digs into the circumstances surrounding Declan’s death, he finds that all is not as it seems… and somebody doesn’t want him to find the truth.

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    All I Want (An Animal Magnetism Novel Book 7) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Fall for the small town where the sky is the limit when it comes to love in this Animal Magnetism novel from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis.

    Pilot-for-hire Zoe Stone is happy to call Sunshine, Idaho, her home base. But her quiet life is thrown for a loop when her brother’s friend Parker comes to stay with her for a week. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent is a handsome flirt with a gift for getting under her skin. And the situation only escalates when Parker hires her to fly him around the area while he collects evidence on a suspected smuggler.

    Now she has to live and work with the guy. But when they’re in the air, she sees another side of him. He’s driven, focused, and sharp. And while he enjoys giving commentary on her blind dates, she quickly realizes with a shock that it’s Parker who gets her engines going…

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    A Killer's Alibi (Philadelphia Legal) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    When crime lord Jimmy Nunzio is caught, knife in hand, over the body of his daughter’s lover and his own archenemy, he turns to Mick McFarland to take up his defense. Usually the courtroom puppeteer, McFarland quickly finds himself at the end of Nunzio’s strings. Struggling to find grounds for a not-guilty verdict on behalf of a well-known killer, Mick is hamstrung by Nunzio’s refusal to tell him what really happened.

    On the other side of the law, Mick’s wife, Piper, is working to free Darlene Dowd, a young woman sentenced to life in prison for her sexually abusive father’s violent death. But the jury that convicted Darlene heard only part of the truth, and Piper will do anything to reveal the rest and prove Darlene’s innocence.

    As Mick finds himself in the middle of a mob war, Piper delves deeper into Darlene’s past. Both will discover dark secrets that link these fathers and daughters–some that protect, some that destroy, and some that can’t stay hidden forever. No matter the risk.

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    Postcards From a Stranger Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    A secret lies buried at the heart of her family—but it can’t stay hidden forever.

    When Cara stumbles across a stash of old postcards in the attic, their contents make her question everything she thought she knew.

    The story she pieces together is confusing and unsettling, and appears to have been patched over with lies. But who can tell her the truth? With her father sinking into Alzheimer’s and her brother reluctant to help, it seems Cara will never find the answers to her questions. One thing is clear, though: someone knows more than they’re letting on.

    Torn between loyalty to her family and dread of what she might find, Cara digs into the early years of her parents’ troubled marriage, hunting down long-lost relatives who might help unravel the mystery. But the picture that begins to emerge is not at all the one she’d expected—because as she soon discovers, lies have a habit of multiplying…

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    The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme Book 1) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics—until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits.

    With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City’s past—and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won’t stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.

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    Love Offline: A fun, feel-good romantic comedy: Looking For Romance In Real Life Emily’s Struggling To Find Romance Online. Will Ditching The Dating Apps Lead To True Love?

    Online dating isn’t working for introvert Emily. Although she’s comfortable swiping right at home in her PJs, the idea of going out to meet a guy in person fills her with dread.

    So when her best friend challenges her to ditch the apps, attend a load of awkward singles’ events and find love in real life, Emily wants to run for the hills.

    Then she meets Josh. He’s handsome, kind and funny, but Emily’s had her heart crushed before and knows he’s hiding something…

    Is Josh too good to be true? Can Emily learn to trust again and if she does, will it lead to love or more heartache?

    Love Offline is a fun, sexy, entertaining story about friendship, stepping outside of your comfort zone and falling in love the old-fashioned way.

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    Spy Games In a world of lies, one man wants the truth.

    Journalist Philip Mangan is trying to stay out of trouble in East Africa, his reputation and his life in tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm.

    Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong night, a key British Intelligence source is murdered minutes after meeting spy Trish Patterson. From Washington, D.C. to the hallowed halls of Oxford University and dusty African streets, a sinister power is stirring, one which will use Mangan and Patterson as pawns — if they survive.

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    Johnny Carson Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    “Here’s Johnny!” Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show dominated the American consciousness.

    Henry Bushkin was Carson’s best friend and lawyer during that period, and his book is a tautly rendered and remarkably nuanced portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. Bushkin explains why Carson, a voracious (and very talented) womanizer, felt he always had to be married; why he couldn’t visit his son in the hospital and wouldn’t attend his mother’s funeral; and much more.

    Johnny Carson is by turns shocking, poignant, and uproarious — written with a novelist’s eye for detail, a screenwriter’s ear for dialogue, and a knack for comic timing that Carson himself would relish.

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    From Garden To Grave (The Leafy Hollow Mysteries Book 1) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Murder. It’s a perennial problem.

    Verity Hawkes is a shut-in. After two years bunkered in her apartment, the only thing that gets her out is the disappearance of her beloved but eccentric aunt. As she takes over her aunt’s landscaping shop, she’ll need to go from hoarder to horticulturist in a hurry…

    Her new home of Leafy Hollow is quaint, except for her most obnoxious client. When a series of freak accidents kills the customer, all signs point to Verity as the killer.

    The hunt for answers is on, and Verity must question a tipsy carpenter, a bacon-peddling vegan restaurateur, and her dreamy landscaping competitor to keep her new life afloat. Failure to find the truth could put her back in a confined space for much more than two years…

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    Leap (Breakthrough Book 2) One of mankind’s greatest legends has been discovered. Something every generation has searched for… but not what anyone was expecting.

    With sweating hands, Alison Shaw stared nervously into the giant seawater tank. One year ago, she and her team of marine biologists had stunned the world with an incredible breakthrough. Now they were about to do it again. And this time, they were ready.

    But an ocean away, something strange was unfolding…

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    The Color of a Silver Lining (The Color of Heaven Series Book 13) It’s been three years since Emma Cochran endured the worst possible tragedy—the sudden, unexpected death of her four-year-old son. The emotional trauma tore her marriage apart, but now her divorce is final and she wants to begin again. She’s found happiness at last with her fiancé, Luke, who is eager to start a family with her.

    On the other side of the country, single mother Bev Hutchinson watches helplessly as her five-year-old daughter Louise drowns in a high-profile boating accident. Miraculously, Louise is brought back to life by first-responders, then claims she went to heaven. The news causes a media frenzy surrounding the little girl, and Bev does everything she can to shield herself and her daughter from the relentless swarming of the press.

    Lives collide when Emma becomes obsessed with the story of the child, thousands of miles away, who drowned and went to heaven. She wants to connect with the mother, but Emma’s fiancé is against the idea because he wants her to let go of her grief and move on.

    But sometimes, moving on isn’t the right choice when miracles are leading you back to your past—toward something, or someone, who was your destiny all along.

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