Tag: Mystery

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    Humor, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Mystery, Time Travel, Contemporary Fiction, Paranormal… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book of Failures: A funny memoir of missteps, inadequacies and faux pas Over 100 5-Star Reviews!

    If you have ever failed at love, finances, been fired, not fit in, self-diagnosed yourself with disorders and conditions and/or said "I really need to get my s*** together," this is the book for you.

    You will appreciate your own dysfunction a little more as you take a journey through Amy Lyle’s debacles including: I Was Not Talking To You, where Amy mistakes a handsome man waving at her as a potential suitor but in reality he was only trying to inform her that her coat belt was dragging on the freeway and In The Neighborhood, where members of a cult moving in concurred with a suspicious decline in the cat population. You will relish the chapters entitled Calls From Sharon, where Amy’s best friend rants about her kids not getting a fair shot because public schools are ‘so political,’ her OBGYN reported that her vagina was ‘too clean’ and why the most eligible bachelor from 1982 had married a whore. Enjoy I’m Going to Kill You, where Amy compares her lack of sleep from her husband’s snoring to the tactics CIA agents use to extract secrets from POW’s. 

    Finally, you will feel 20-32% better about your own life after reading Getting Divorced Sucks, where 911 was called after Amy had an adverse reaction from taking Xanax.

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    Steelheart (Reckoners Book 1) Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics.

    But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will.

    Nobody fights the Epics… nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

    And David wants in. He wants Steelheart – the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David’s father. For years, like the Reckoners, David’s been studying, and planning – and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.

    He’s seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.

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    Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House “Because history is more art than science, it is remembered now only as it was chronicled then; this unfortunately is not always as it actually happened.”

    Following his election as the 37th President of the United States in November 1968, Richard Nixon chose H. R. “Bob” Haldeman to be his Chief of Staff.

    After the announcement, Haldeman was encouraged by a close friend, and presidential scholar, to faithfully record each day’s events, and his thoughts regarding them.

    Deeming it worth the commitment, the result of his endeavour is nothing short of extraordinary.

    Alongside power struggles and tragedies are recorded triumphs and hope, from the inroads made with China and Russia to the Vietnam peace talks.

    But it is Watergate that traditionally defines the era, and as the 1972 election passed with Nixon’s re-election the entries show how its hold on the political arena became unshakeable.

    Although we know the story’s end, Haldeman’s reveal of how events unfolded from inside the White House — and the processes involved — is no less gripping.

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    End of Days (ARKANE Book 9) A marble tablet found in the ruins of Babylon warns of the resurrection of a banished serpent in the final days.

    A sarcophagus discovered in the deepest ocean is locked by seven seals scattered throughout the ancient world.

    As the Brotherhood of the Serpent race to find the seals before a rare lunar eclipse over the heart of Jerusalem, ARKANE agents Morgan Sierra and Jake Timber battle to find them first.

    But this time, evil threatens to destroy all that Morgan loves and she must wrestle an apocalyptic foe as well as fighting to conquer her own fears.

    In a fast-paced adventure from the ruins of Iraq to the snake-handling churches of the Appalachian Mountains, from archaeological digs in Israel to the tombs of Egypt, Morgan and Jake must find the seven seals and stop the resurrection of an evil as old as mankind. An evil that will usher in the End of Days.

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    My Heart Remembers (My Heart Remembers Book #1) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    United by blood, divided by time, will three orphan train siblings ever find one another again?

    Orphaned in a tenement fire, three Irish immigrant children are sent to Missouri to be adopted. Despite eight year old Maelle’s desperate attempts to keep her siblings together, each child is taken by a different family. Yet Maelle vows that she will never stop searching for her brother and sister… and that they will be together one day in the future.

    Seventeen years later, Maelle is still searching. But the years have washed away her hope… and her memories. What are Mattie and Molly doing now? Where has life taken them? Will she ever see her brother and sister again?

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    Finding Fraser Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    “Jamie Fraser would be Deeply Gratified at having inspired such a charmingly funny, poignant story—and so am I.”—Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series

    Escape to Scotland with the delightful new novel that readers have fallen in love with—inspired by Diana Gabaldon’s #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series.
     
    On the cusp of thirty, Emma Sheridan is desperately in need of a change. After a string of failed relationships, she can admit that no man has ever lived up to her idea of perfection: the Scottish fictional star of romantic fantasies the world over—James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
     
    Her ideal man might be ripped from the pages of a book, but Emma hopes that by making one life-altering decision she might be able to turn fiction into fact. After selling all her worldly possessions, Emma takes off for Scotland with nothing but her burgeoning travel blog to confide in.
     
    But as she scours the country’s rolling green hills and crumbling castles, Emma discovers that in searching for her own Jamie Fraser, she just might find herself.

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    Killer Green Tomatoes (A Farm-to-Fork Mystery Book 2) The time seems ripe for success as Angie Turner opens her farm-to-table restaurant in her Idaho hometown—until her new tomato supplier is accused of murder and Angie has to pick the real killer…
     
    To Angie, nothing tastes more like summer than her Nona’s fried green tomatoes. Eager to add the recipe to the menu at the County Seat, she’s found the perfect produce supplier—her sous chef Estebe’s cousin, Javier. Just one problem: ladies’ man Javier’s current hot tomato Heather has turned up dead, and he’s the prime suspect. Somehow, between managing her restaurant and navigating a romantic triangle between Estebe and Ian, the owner/manager of the farmer’s market, Angie needs to produce evidence to clear Javier—before this green tomato farmer gets fried…

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    The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman: A Time Travel Adventure (The Downstream Diaries Book 1) Meet Joseph Bridgeman, a reclusive insomniac with a weakness for ‘The Beatles’ on vinyl and a constant headache. When his annoying accountant suggests hypnotherapy might help him sleep, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time-travel and things get a little complicated.

    With the help of Vinny, a local record shop owner, Mark, his old school friend, and Alexia Finch, his hypno-time-travel guru, Joe sets out to change the course of his life. He needs to get back to 1992, the year his world fell apart, the year that Amy, his sister, went missing. The only problem (apart from his clothes disappearing) is that the further back he goes the less time he gets to stay there.

    Can Joe master his new-found gift before time catches up with him?

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    Wreath, a Girl (A Wreath Willis Novel Book 1) An encouraging and exciting read about how a teen and a disappointed widow change each other’s lives.

    Wreath Willis is finishing high school by day… and living alone in a junkyard by night. After the death of her mother, she’s on the run from a bad man named Big Fun, and she’s got a crush on a guy in town.

    Then there’s Faye, a lonely widow who doesn’t know what to do with the business she must run after her husband’s death…and doesn’t want the hardware-store owner next doc to interfere. When Wreath drops into Faye’s "fine furnishings" store to buy a used bike, circumstances are about to change…and how!

    Should Wreath keep running? Or has she found a home? Can Faye open her heart and start a new chapter of life?

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    The Devil's Pride (Wild Beasts Series Book 1) They haunt. They take. And they devour… Their souls become Shadows. Darkness. Death.

    Alexia Maria Garda-Martinez was born a monster. Red hair. Red eyes. Pale skin. And nowhere to call home. But after years of foster care and state homes, she has finally found a family, a promising career, and a life she loves in Monetville, New York.

    Devon Waters found more than he bargained for when he ran from his hometown of Montville fifteen years ago. Now that he’s reunited with his twin brother, a detective in the local police department, Devon doesn’t plan on running again.

    When a brutal, ritualistic murder happens right in their little college town, Devon and Alexia are pulled into a war between good and evil that has them both questioning who they really are. And with the Skröm closing in, Alexia is forced to fight the darkness lurking inside her.

    It’s a battle she can’t win alone.

    Alexia and Devon must join forces to stop the darkness at all costs, or risk succumbing to the shadows waiting to devour them both.

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  • Tuesday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

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

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    Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less In these accelerated times, our decisive and businesslike ways of thinking are unprepared for ambiguity, paradox, and sleeping on it." We assume that the quick-thinking "hare brain" will beat out the slower Intuition of the "tortoise mind." However, now research in cognitive science is changing this understanding of the human mind. It suggests that patience and confusion–rather than rigor and certainty–are the essential precursors of wisdom.

    With a compelling argument that the mind works best when we trust our unconscious, or "undermind," psychologist Guy Claxton makes an appeal that we be less analytical and let our creativity have free rein. He also encourages reevaluation of society’s obsession with results-oriented thinking and problem-solving under pressure. Packed with Interesting anecdotes, a dozen puzzles to test your reasoning, and the latest related research, Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind is an Illuminating, uplifting, stimulating read that focuses on a new kind of well-being and cognition.

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    Baltimore Blues: The First Tess Monaghan Novel Until her paper, the Baltimore Star, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately – from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she’s willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent – including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl “Rock” Paxton.

    In a city where someone is murdered almost everyday, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer’s notoriety – and his noontime trysts with Rock’s fiancee – make the case front page news…and points to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend’s innocence couls prove costly to Tess – and add her name to that infamous ever-growing list.

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    Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones.

    The things we want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work—are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds—the length of a deep breath—allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. Four Seconds reveals:

    • Why listening—not arguing—is the best strategy for changing someone’s mind
    • Why setting goals can actually harm performance
    • How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower
    • How taking responsibility for someone else’s failure can actually help your team

    Practical and insightful, Four Seconds provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.

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    The Hunt for Red October (A Jack Ryan Novel Book 1)
    Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
     
    Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on—and there’s only one man who can find her…
     
    Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers—a game that could end in all-out war.

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    The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Oral/Visual History This is the book fans have been waiting for since Mother’s Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik first hit the charts: The first (and only!) official Red Hot Chili Peppers story—an oral and visual autobiography from one of the world’s greatest rock groups.

    Together, Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante, Flea, and Chad Smith tell the 61-million-album selling band’s rollercoaster story, with anecdotes of their concert tours and creative collaborations, memories of surprise successes and dark battles with drug addiction, revelations about their personalities and feelings, and admissions about their lives outside the band.

    With hundreds of photographs, poster images, ticket stubs, and other RHCP memorabilia, this is a must-have for any die-hard fan.

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    Double Whammy (Skink Book 1) Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    “Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.

    R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida—and a lot that’s rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she’s in bed with her new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the “double whammy” is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder.

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    Scone Cold Killer (All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery) For Florida diner owner Gia Morelli, there’s no such thing as too much breakfast—unless it kills you…
     
    When Gia Morelli’s marriage falls apart, she knows it’s time to get out of New York. Her husband was a scam artist who swindled half the millionaires in town, and she doesn’t want to be there when they decide to take revenge. On the spur of the moment, she follows her best friend to a small town in Central Florida, where she braves snakes, bears, and giant spiders to open a cheery little diner called the All-Day Breakfast Café.

    Owning a restaurant has been her lifelong dream, but it turns into a nightmare the morning she opens her dumpster and finds her ex-husband crammed inside. As the suspect du jour, Gia will have to scramble fast to prove her innocence before a killer orders another cup of murder…

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    Cold Tuscan Stone (Rick Montoya Italian Mysteries Book 1) Rick Montoya has moved from New Mexico to Rome, embracing the life of a translator. He’s settling in to la dolce vita when a school friend who is now senior in the Italian Art Squad recruits Rick for an unofficial undercover role. Armed with a list of galleries, suspects, and an expense account, Rick would arrive in Tuscany posing as a buyer for a Santa Fe gallery and flush out burial urn traffickers.

    But before sunset on Rick’s first day in Volterra, a gallery employee dies in a brutal fall from a high cliff.

    The local Commissario and his team consider Rick an amateur, and worse, a foreigner. And now they suspect him in the dead man’s murder. While the Volterra squad pursues its leads, Rick continues to interview his list: a museum director, a top gallery owner, a low-profile import/export businessman and his enterprising color-coordinated assistant, and a sensuous heiress with a private art specialty and clientele.

    When Rick’s girlfriend Erica arrives from Rome to visit him, she rekindles a friendship with an alluring, maybe dangerous, acquaintance. Has Rick’s role made him the target of both cops and criminals?

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    Forsaken Kingdom (The Last Prince Book 1) At his kingdom’s darkest hour, the lost heir returns. A pity he can’t remember who he is…

    To save his people and the forbidden magic they’re sworn to defend, Wardin Rath surrenders his birthright and his past. For seven years he’s held at the court of his deadliest enemy, oblivious to all he’s lost. Until one day, the spell that stole his memories begins to crack.

    On the heels of a harrowing escape, Wardin’s quest for answers leads him to the last magistery, where he studied magic as a boy. But he’ll find no safe haven there—or anywhere. Plagued by threats and suspicion, hunted relentlessly by the king who will stop at nothing to crush him, Wardin is soon battling for his life, his home, and the survival of magic itself.

    And this time, the enemy will take no prisoners.

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    A Letter From America It is the late 60’s in Tullamore, County Offaly, and life is full of exciting possibilities for Fiona Tracey, as she prepares to leave Ireland to work for a wealthy family in New York.

    Fiona’s parents have the local shop and bar, and her younger sisters are already leading independent lives. Bridget is at a convent school preparing to be a nun and Angela has led a life of her own since she was hospitalised up in Dublin for years with childhood polio.

    Then, sudden tragedy forces Fiona to postpone her departure for New York. As her mother sinks into illness and depression, her responsibilities mount. When help is offered by her aunt and cousin, Fiona is mystified by her mother’s animosity towards them.

    As summer approaches, an American architect, Michael O’Sullivan, takes a room above the bar. Within a short time Fiona finds herself involved in an unexpected and passionate affair.

    Then, as a surprising incident threatens Bridget’s vocation, Angela uncovers information which explodes old family secrets.

    Before Fiona can embark on an independent life again, perhaps in New York, she must find a new understanding of her family – and of herself.

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    The Cuckoo's CallingThe Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

    ⭐ Over 13,000 5-Star Reviews ⭐

    The Cuckoo’s Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

    A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.

    After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

    Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

    You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.

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