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    Contemporary Fiction, Nonfiction, Fantasy, Romance, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Historical Romance… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Scarlet Feather Over 3,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Two friends struggle to balance their personal and professional lives in this charming novel from acclaimed author Maeve Binchy.

    They met in cooking school and became fast friends with a common dream. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin by storm with their newly formed catering company, aptly dubbed "Scarlet Feather." Not everyone, however, shares their optimism. Cathy’s mother-in-law disapproves of both Cathy and her new "hobby," while Cathy’s husband, Neil, pays no mind to anything–except his work as a civil rights lawyer. And then there’s Tom’s family, who expect him to follow in his father’s footsteps, and an ambitious girlfriend who’s struggling with career dreams of her own.

    Between friends and families, ups and downs, heartaches and joys, Cathy and Tom are about to embark on the most maddening-and exhilarating-year of their lives…

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    Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting Over 1,800 5-Star Reviews!

    A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of Still Alice.

    Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can’t for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you’re over forty, you’re probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren’t designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make, or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn’t mean it’s broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human.

    In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. You’ll learn whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds (like a passcode) while others can last a lifetime (your wedding day). You’ll come to appreciate the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer’s (that you own a car). And you’ll see how memory is profoundly impacted by meaning, emotion, sleep, stress, and context.

    Once you understand the language of memory and how it functions, its incredible strengths and maddening weaknesses, its natural vulnerabilities and potential superpowers, you can both vastly improve your ability to remember and feel less rattled when you inevitably forget.

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    Gods of Jade and Shadow Over 3,500 5-Star Reviews!

    The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

    The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.

    Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true.

    In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.

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    The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    First, she taught you the value of your highly sensitive nature in her bestselling classic The Highly Sensitive Person. Now, Dr. Elaine Aron is back to teach you how to utilize your sensitivity to tackle a new challenge: Parenthood.

    Parenting is the most valuable and rewarding job in the world, and also one of the most challenging. This is especially true for highly sensitive people. Highly sensitive parents are unusually attuned to their children. They think deeply about every issue affecting their kids and have strong emotions, both positive and negative, in response. For highly sensitive people, parenting offers unique stresses—but the good news is that sensitivity can also be a parent’s most valuable asset, leading to increased personal joy and a closer, happier relationship with their child.

    Dr. Elaine Aron has written an indispensable guide for these parents. Drawing on extensive research and her own experience, she helps highly sensitive parents identify and address the implications of their heightened sensitivity, offering:

    • A self-examination test to help parents identify their level of sensitivity
    • Tools to cope with overstimulation
    • Advice on dealing with the negative feelings that can surround parenting
    • Ways to manage the increased social stimulation and interaction that comes with having a child
    • Techniques to deal with shyness around other parents
    • Insight into the five big problems that face highly sensitive parents in relationships—and how to work through them

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    Stranded with the Rancher (Texas Cattleman's Club: After the Storm, Book 1) Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    High drama leads to intense desire when a tornado forces rival neighbors to stay close in this contemporary Western romance series debut.

    Enemies forced together just might become lovers in USA Today bestselling author Janice Maynard’s Texas Cattleman’s Club: After the Storm tale.

    For billionaire horse breeder Drew Farrell, the day starts with the usual argument with ornery neighbor, produce farmer Beth Andrews. But within minutes, he and the irritating beauty are huddled together in a storm cellar praying for their lives. They call a truce… and seal it with an unexpected kiss.

    They emerge to a scene of utter devastation. Their passion to rebuild is rivaled only by the very personal passion they’ve just discovered… until Beth’s past catches up with her, and a very different type of storm erupts.

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    Time's Arrow (Vintage International) Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Martin Amis finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction.

    Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves “out of blackest sleep” to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America.

    As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.

    From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel’s inevitable logic. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly’s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor’s most ambitious project yet—the final solution.

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    The Shepherd's Hut: A Novel Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    In The Shepherd’s Hut, Tim Winton crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who flees from the scene of his father’s violent death and strikes out for the vast wilds of Western Australia.

    All he carries with him is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the harsh saltlands alone is a savage business. And once he discovers he’s not alone out there, all Jaxie’s plans go awry. He meets a fellow exile, the ruined priest Fintan MacGillis, a man he’s never certain he can trust, but on whom his life will soon depend.

    The Shepherd’s Hut is a thrilling tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, at once brutal and lyrical, from one of our finest storytellers.

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    The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns Book 1) Over 1,300 5-Star Reviews!

    Set in an alternate nineteenth century, muskets and magic are weapons to be feared in the first “spectacular epic” (Fantasy Book Critic) in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series.

    Captain Marcus d’Ivoire, commander of one of the Vordanai empire’s colonial garrisons, was serving out his days in a sleepy, remote outpost—until a rebellion left him in charge of a demoralized force clinging to a small fortress at the edge of the desert.

    To flee from her past, Winter Ihernglass masqueraded as a man and enlisted as a ranker in the Vordanai Colonials, hoping only to avoid notice. But when chance sees her promoted to command, she must lead her men into battle against impossible odds.

    Their fate depends on Colonel Janus bet Vhalnich. Under his command, Marcus and Winter feel the tide turning and their allegiance being tested. For Janus’s ambitions extend beyond the battlefield and into the realm of the supernatural—a realm with the power to reshape the known world and change the lives of everyone in its path.

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    The Pumpkin Spice Café: TikTok Made Me Buy It (Dream Harbor, Book 1) Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.

    Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her.

    Will Jeanie’s happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won’t fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes…

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    The Hawk Laird (Celtic Hearts Book 1) When a haunting prophecy leads to revenge, will the truth lead to love?

    From the moment Isobel of Aberlady sees the stranger emerge from the shadows to spirit her away from a besieged Scottish castle, she knows it is at the cost of her freedom—and his.

    Renowned for her visions, the lovely, isolated Isobel has been protected until the Scottish rebel takes her hostage for his own ends. Outlawed and unjustly accused of betraying his leader, falconer Sir James Lindsay needs his good name restored—and Lady Isobel, whose prophecy caused his undoing, is his only weapon.

    Intending to exchange the valuable lady for another hostage, James takes Isobel deep into his forest lair. He does not count on finding an abandoned goshawk who needs his help—nor does he expect to fall in love with the beautiful prophetess. Amid treachery and hope, passion and betrayal, their love becomes the one shining light, a source of retribution, renewal, and finally destiny foretold—and forever…

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    A Thousand Flying Things (A Bridge Between Shores Book 1) A love lost. A soul restored. A decade of secrets and separation.

    It takes a child to lead them home.

    American Dianna Calloway is committed to educating children in the thick of war-ravaged 1990s Southern Sudan. Hampered by disease, a corrupt government and a fierce tribal leader who is harboring a mysterious young boy, Dianna’s passionate calling to help others in a dangerous country is only complicated by the chance meeting of a long-lost love, Qasim. Faced with the choice to protect a child or reconnect with the man she still holds dear, Dianna must make the most difficult decision of her life. Or must she?

    Dianna and Qasim can’t be more different. He’s a worldly Lebanese Muslim in his 40s, from a political family, and she’s a 30-something white Christian American. They’ve been challenged by geography, culture, trust, career, and the passing of time. Now there’s a young boy who’s stolen Dianna’s heart. She’ll do anything to get him a visa out of S. Sudan. But when her mother becomes ill, she leaves Africa physically, but her heart remains there, as if it alone can protect the man who loves her and the boy who needs her. What choice does she have now?

    Dianna’s alone in Africa, and nothing is as it seems. It may be that no one needs love more than Dianna. But a young boy is about to show her the way back home…

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    Creepy Crawly: A page-turning British detective crime thriller with twists (Jake Sawyer Crime Thrillers Book 1) Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    A killer who won’t forgive. A detective who can’t forget.

    Haunted by his mother’s brutal murder, detective Inspector Jake Sawyer returns to his rural hometown to investigate a series of gruesome killings. As the body count rises and the killer’s twisted methods come to light, Sawyer must confront his own demons while racing against time to unravel the shocking truth behind the murders.

    With his sanity and safety on the line, Sawyer pushes himself to the brink to end the killings and save an innocent life.

    An edge-of-your-seat page-turner that will keep you guessing to the very end.

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    Coconut Cowboy: A Novel (Serge Storms Series Book 19) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Channeling his inner Easy Rider, Serge Storms saddles up for his most epic, lethal, and hilarious road trip ever as he revvs off to find the lost American Dream… starting in the Florida Panhandle.

    Obsessed with the iconic Sixties classic Easy Rider, encyclopedic Floridaphile, lovable serial killer, and movie buff extraordinaire Serge A. Storms devises his wildest plan yet: finish the journey begun by his freewheeling heroes, Captain America and Billy, tragically cut short by some shotgun-wielding rednecks.

    Setting a course for the Florida panhandle, Captain Serge—with Coleman literally riding shotgun—mounts his classic motorcycle and hits the highway in search of the real America: the apple-pie-eating, freedom-swilling moms and pops of Main Street USA.

    But the America he finds in the rural burgs dotting the neck of the peninsula is a little bit different… and a whole lot weirder than anything Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper encountered. In a state where criminal politicians are more common than gators, Serge and Coleman discover one particular speed-trap locale so aggressively inept at corruption that investigators are baffled where to start.

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    The Dollhouse: A Novel Over 4,600 5-Star Reviews!

    Enter the lush world of 1950s New York City, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors live side by side in the glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success.

    When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren’t: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn’t belong—a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she’s introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as addictive as the heroin that’s used there, the startling sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance.

    Over half a century later, the Barbizon’s gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten. But rumors of Darby’s involvement in a deadly skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the building as surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman’s rent-controlled apartment. It’s a combination too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby’s upstairs neighbor, to resist—not to mention the perfect distraction from her own imploding personal life. Yet as Rose’s obsession deepens, the ethics of her investigation become increasingly murky, and neither woman will remain unchanged when the shocking truth is finally revealed.

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    Cathedral Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    St. Patrick’s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life.

    Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act the seizure of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal.

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    How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi Book 1) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself.

    "Takes the old saying ‘If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,’ to the next level. A sarcastic, action-packed, intrigue-filled (mis)adventure. One of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time."–Matt Dinniman, author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time.

    This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side…

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    Dead Firefly (Loon Lake Book 18) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    "My wife and Gordon Maxwell tried to kill me this morning."

    Doc Osborne is startled by the unexpected words tumbling out of the mouth of his friend and fellow AA member Chuck Pelletier, the recently remarried lead accountant for a planned luxury fly-fishing lodge preserve under construction in the area.

    Alarmed, Doc tries to alert Police Chief Lew Ferris, but she is tied up with law enforcement teams across the state. They’re searching for thieves who have been cutting down and stealing hundreds of thousands of precious birch trees from public and private property across northern Wisconsin.

    But it’s too late. Pelletier is found dead not two hours later. Doc is shocked, saddened, and determined to get to the bottom of the murder.

    With one man dead, evidence of lakeshore properties being stolen from elderly owners, and an attempted sexual assault, short-handed Chief Ferris deputizes Doc and his skilled tracker neighbor to help with the investigation. Then, just as they seem to be getting somewhere, things grow even more complicated.

    Just another summer in Loon Lake…

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    Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

    Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes. He soon learned that many were dead or dying – among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless glacier at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search for them had been called off.

    As time passed and Nando’s thoughts turned increasingly to his father, who he knew must be consumed with grief, Nando resolved that he must get home or die trying. He would challenge the Andes, even though he was certain the effort would kill him, telling himself that even if he failed he would die that much closer to his father. It was a desperate decision, but it was also his only chance.

    So Nando, an ordinary young man with no disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snow-capped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to find help…

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    Whispers Over 1,800 5-Star Reviews!

    Set in a small town on the Oregon coast, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson’s chilling novel explores a family’s twisted legacy of lies and murder…

    Even a man as powerful as Dutch Holland can’t keep a scandal buried forever. That’s why he’s summoned his children home to Oregon before announcing his run for governor. Sixteen years ago, his rival’s son, Harley Taggert, drowned in the murky waters of Lake Arrowhead. Dutch needs to know if his three daughters played a part—before the press begins digging into the tragedy. But instead of helping with damage control, the Holland sisters’ return is the catalyst for shocking new revelations.

    Claire Holland has never breathed a word about what happened that night. While Tessa was the wild child and Miranda smart and studious, Claire was romantic. She’d fallen in love with Harley, even became engaged to him. But complications abounded, including local bad boy Kane Moran. Now Claire learns that an investigative journalist is back in town too, planning to write a book about Harley’s death. Soon rumors swirl of betrayal and jealousy. Another body is unearthed. And a sadistic killer prepares to tie up every loose end at last…

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    Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship (Goop Press) Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with the help of the renowned family therapist and author of The New Rules of Marriage.

    Not much is harder than figuring out how to love your partner in all their messy humanness—and there’s also not much that’s more important.

    At a time when toxic individualism is rending our society at every level, bestselling author and renowned marriage counselor Terrence Real sees how it poisons intimate relationships in his therapy practice, where he works with couples on the brink of disaster. The good news: Warmer, closer, more passionate relationships are possible if you have the right tools.

    In his transformative new book Us, Real brilliantly observes how our winner-takes-all culture infiltrates families with devastating results: repetitive fights that go nowhere, or a distant relationship in which partners end up living “alone together.” With deft insight, humor, and charm, Real guides you to transform your relationship into one that’s based on compassion, collaboration, and closeness.

    Us is a groundbreaking guide to a new science-backed skillset—one that will allow you to get past your knee-jerk reactions and tap into your wiser, more collaborative self. With a novelist’s flair, Real shares the stories of couples whose relationships have been saved by these skills and pans out to the culture that reinforces our dysfunction. If you and your partner are backed into separate corners of “you” and “me,” this book will show the way back to “us.” With Us, your true relationship can begin.

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    Murder by the Letter (The Lettering Detective Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) Greetings from Monchac, Louisiana. Home to fifty-seven souls and the world’s only floating stationery store!

    When Mila Breaux’s LA dreams go up in smoke, she’ll move her cozy lettering shop down to bayou country, and pile her pens and paper onto her late uncle’s houseboat.

    But the discovery of human bones just feet from her new store will rock the foundations of the sleepy swamp town. It will be up to Mila and a quirky band of characters to get to the bottom of things before it is too late!

    Interesting locals include her new best friend, a Cajun girl who claims to speak to animals; her Auntie Roma, the best cook in all the south; and Xavier Ordoyn, a handsome but severely lax game warden. Among them, Mila will find a new home, a new pet kitty, and a new life as she dredges the swamps for the truth!

    If you’re a fan of cozy mysteries involving cute crafts, kittens, Cajun cooking, and a cast of uniquely drawn characters, you will love Murder by the Letter!

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    The Professor: A Student / Teacher, Ex-Boyfriend's Father, Secret Society Romance (Tanglewood University Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren, delivers the sizzling first book in a brand new trilogy, The Professor, a forbidden, student/professor, ex-boyfriend’s dad romance.

    It was supposed to be one night with a handsome stranger. I never thought I would see him again. Until the first day of class.

    He’s my new professor… And my ex-boyfriend’s father.

    He has a world of secrets in his eyes and the weight of the world on his shoulders. I should stay away from him, but the more I try, the more consumed he gets.

    His possessiveness is rivaled only by his secretive nature. He knows everything about me, but mystery surrounds him. Shadows threaten the entire university…and our forbidden love.

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    Murder at the Highland Castle: An utterly addictive and gripping historical cozy mystery (A Miss Underhay Mystery Book 14) A majestic castle by a Scottish loch, a glass of whisky by a roaring fire, stockings hung by the chimney… and a body? It’s a midwinter murder for Kitty Underhay!

    Winter, 1935. Lightly dusted with snow and nestled on the edge of a sweeping Scottish loch, Finnglach Castle looks positively magical. Kitty Underhay, her husband Matt and their beloved dog Bertie are delighted to be celebrating the new year with a Hogmanay party, but just after midnight, a shot rings out across the grounds…

    Their host, Lord Barlas, is dead, murdered in the snow. The killer’s footprints have vanished and the gun is missing. With the snow-covered castle completely cut off, and a killer in their midst, Kitty and Matt need to work fast to find the culprit before someone else ends up dead.

    As the weather worsens, the guests begin discussing dark Highland stories about evil spirits. But with an anxious daughter, a new wife set to inherit a fortune and a suspicious spiritual adviser, Kitty is sure the killer is close at hand. Can she, Matt and Bertie sniff out the treacherous culprit in time for haggis and whisky or will they find themselves skating on dangerously thin ice?

    Don’t miss this incredibly charming cozy page-turner! If you love TE Kinsey, Agatha Christie or Lee Strauss, you’ll fall head over heels for this totally unputdownable historical mystery.

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    Culture Shock (The Gunn Files Book 1) Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Aliens are among us. Austin, Texas just got a whole lot weirder.

    When down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn snags his next job, he’s just happy to get the gig.

    The target he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his debts won’t pay themselves.

    He should’ve been more selective. When Gunn finds his mark, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all. Gunn faces off against a tentacled creature out of Ridley Scott’s worst nightmare—a mind-reading offworlder wearing his skip’s skin like a onesie.

    And that’s just the first day.

    Gunn’s world turns upside down as he gets swept up in the hunt for an escaped alien convict.

    Amidst the chaos, an otherworldly puppeteer pulls hidden strings, implicating a shadowy organization with designs on Earth that are as cryptic as they are deadly…

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    The Sheriff's Baby Bargain (Angel Point Book 1) Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    She’s just what the doctor ordered… but never knew he needed.

    U.S. Marshal-turned-Sheriff Taylor James can trace her family back to the original thirteen Marshals appointed by George Washington. She’s good at her job, but once they find out she’s the local law, she can’t get even one of her dates to stay past the appetizers. Her plan? Convince good friend and hot neighbor Dr. Gabriel Adams to give her dating lessons since his dance card is always full.

    A survivor of childhood leukemia with no guarantee his remission will last, Gabe lives by two rules: Don’t get emotionally involved and don’t let his well organized life spiral out of control. When he’s given a baby, with his name on her birth certificate, he needs Taylor’s help. But dangling dating lessons in exchange? If that will get the dedicated sheriff to lend a helping hand, could it be a bargain worth making?

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    Romance, Thriller, Nonfiction, Romantic Suspense, Historical Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy, Classics… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    A Dish Best Served Hot: A Novel (Vega Family Love Stories Book 2) Santiago "Saint" Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola León, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she’ll never forgive, will everything he’s built come crumbling down?

    Years ago, Saint walked away from the girl he loved to fulfill his duty. Now he’s struggling to build bridges between his drifting family, take on more responsibilities at his uncle’s construction company, figure out why his daughter refuses to talk at school and curtail his mischievous abuelo’s escalating pranks. Then she walks back into his life.

    Social justice advocate Lola León has returned to Humboldt Park for two reasons: to help care for her dear abuelo and to serve the community center she loved, particularly the shelter for unhoused LGBTQIA+ youths. When she finds out that the Vegas are responsible for endangering both, she is more than ready to go to war—even if the boy she never forgot is standing at the front of the battlefield.

    Neither of them expects to become allies in saving the shelter, helping Saint’s daughter or ending the decades-long feud between their grandfathers. They definitely don’t expect all of their old feelings to come rushing back. As Saint and Lola enter combat, they can’t help but wonder where the other’s true allegiance lies, and whether they’ll win these battles only to lose each other.

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    Stalking the Angel: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel Over 3,500 5-Star Reviews!

    Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye… he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.

    The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the bestlooking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable—something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.

    Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he’d learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooks—and what he didn’t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did. Together their search begins in L.A.’s Little Tokyo and the nest of notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder, sexual obsession, and a stunning double-whammy ending. For Elvis Cole, it’s just another day’s work.

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    Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    Evidence of the Afterlife shares the firsthand accounts of people who have died and lived to tell about it.

    Through their work at the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long and his wife, Jody, have gathered thousands of accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) from all over the world. In addition to sharing the personal narrative of their experiences, visitors to the website are asked to fill out a one hundred-item questionnaire designed to isolate specific elements of the experience and to flag counterfeit accounts.

    The website has become the largest NDE research database in the world, containing over 1,600 NDE accounts. The people whose stories are captured in the database span all age groups, races, and religious affiliations and come from all over the world, yet the similarities in their stories are as awe-inspiring as they are revealing. Using this treasure trove of data, Dr. Long explains how medical evidence fails to explain these reports and why there is only one plausible explanation–that people have survived death and traveled to another dimension.

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    All the Queen's Men (CIA Spies Series Book 2) Over 1,700 5-Star Reviews!

    Linda Howard seamlessly melds thrilling sensuality with heart-pounding dramatic tension — and brings back the elusive hero of her smash hit novel Kill and Tell — in this powerful New York Times bestseller.

    John Medina, the CIA’s legendary Black Ops specialist, works in the shadows of the government’s deadliest missions. And no one knows the dangers of getting close to him better than does communications expert Niema Burdock. Five years ago, Niema and her husband, Dallas, worked with Medina on an explosive mission that trapped Dallas in the crossfire — fatally. Although she has slowly healed from her terrible loss, Niema never planned to see Medina again. But now John Medina needs her…

    A French arms dealer is supplying international terrorist units, and only Niema can plant the undetectable bugs needed to crack the deadly ring. Against her better instincts, Niema infiltrates the dealer’s glamorous world by going undercover. But when their careful strategy begins to crack, Niema and John take flight in a strange land — and find their partnership sparking with an erotically charged electricity. In a world of deception, John Medina has once again set Niema on a free fall into danger and desire.

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    The Takeover (The Miles High Club Book 2) Over 45,000 5-Star Reviews!

    In bestselling author T L Swan’s second hot installment to the Miles High Club series, he’s sexy, rich, and her mortal enemy. Hate never felt so good.

    I first met Tristan Miles at a meeting where he was trying to take over my late husband’s company.

    He was powerful, arrogant, and infuriatingly gorgeous, and I hated him with every cell in my body. In the shock of the century, he called me three days later and asked me on a date.

    I would rather die than date a man like him—though I do have to admit it was good for the ego. Turning him down was the highlight of my year.

    Six months later, he was the guest speaker at a conference I attended in France. Still arrogant and infuriating—but this time, surprisingly charming and witty.

    When he looked at me, I got butterflies. But I can’t go there. He’s just a player in a hot suit, and I’m just a widow with three unruly sons.

    I just need this conference to be over.

    Because everybody knows that Tristan Miles always gets what he wants…and what he wants is me.

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    House on Endless Waters: A Novel Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    In the tradition of The Invisible Bridge and The Weight of Ink, a vibrant, page-turning family mystery about a writer who discovers the truth about his mother’s wartime years in Amsterdam, unearthing a shocking secret that becomes the subject of his magnum opus.

    Renowned author Yoel Blum reluctantly agrees to visit his birthplace of Amsterdam to promote his books, despite promising his late mother that he would never return to that city. While touring the Jewish Historical Museum with his wife, Yoel stumbles upon footage portraying prewar Dutch Jewry and is astonished to see the youthful face of his beloved mother staring back at him, posing with his father, his older sister…and an infant he doesn’t recognize.

    This unsettling discovery launches him into a fervent search for the truth, shining a light on Amsterdam’s dark wartime history—the underground networks that hid Jewish children away from danger and those who betrayed their own for the sake of survival. The deeper into the past Yoel digs up, the better he understands his mother’s silence, and the more urgent the question that has unconsciously haunted him for a lifetime becomes—Who am I?.

    Part family mystery, part wartime drama, House on Endless Waters is “a rewarding meditation on survival” and a “deeply immersive achievement that brings to life stories that must never be forgotten” (USA TODAY).

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    They Are the Hunters Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    The family that slays together, stays together.

    The Hunters appear to be the textbook definition of a perfect family leading a charmed life. When the enigmatic Olivia West befriends teenage daughter Eliza, Olivia becomes one of the family—an “honorary Hunter.”

    Here’s what they don’t know about Olivia: she’s planning a murder. And whether they like it or not, every member of this family is going to become an accomplice.

    And here’s what Olivia doesn’t know about the Hunters: they’ll do just about anything to protect their reputation.

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    Between Two Trailers: A Memoir A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home.

    Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

    Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy. In North Carolina, Dana becomes torn between her gritty midwestern past and her newfound desire to be a polite southern girl, struggling to reconcile her shame with an ache to figure out who she is, and where she belongs.

    But the past is never far behind. After persevering through childhood and eventually graduating from Duke University, Dana imagines that her hidden Indiana life is finally behind her, only to realize that running from her upbringing has kept her from making peace with the people and places that shaped her. Ultimately, Dana finds that though love for family is universally complicated, there is no shame in survival, and for those who want it, there is always a path home.

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    The Highland Fling Over 14,000 5-Star Reviews!

    In this steamy tale by USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn, an American searching for her purpose escapes to a Scottish town but finds more questions than answers when she meets a brooding yet handsome handyman.

    Freshly fired from her third job in a row, Bonnie St. James has lost her way. So when she and her best friend stumble upon a “help wanted” post to run a coffee shop in the Scottish Highlands, they apply on a whim. Who knows? Maybe traveling to a new place is just what she needs to figure out her next move.

    When the friends arrive in the tiny idyllic town of Corsekelly, they instantly fall for the gorgeous Highland landscape and friendly townspeople. But Bonnie finds a less-than-warm welcome in Rowan MacGregor, the rugged local handyman. Busy wrestling his own demons, Rowan’s in no mood to deal with the quirky American—even if she is a bonny lass.

    As Bonnie and Rowan’s paths inevitably cross, insults—and sparks—fly. Can the pair build on their similarities to help each other find purpose and direction…and maybe romance too? Or will their passionate tempers fling them apart?

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    That Time I Kissed My Beachfront Boss: A Sweet Romantic Comedy (Abieville Love Stories Book 3) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    My dream job just got snapped up by the one man who rejected me…

    That’s right. I’m an unemployed twenty-something stuck sleeping on my grandmother’s old futon while Hudson Blaine, the guy who shot me down, gets to manage The Beachfront Inn

    Talk about life being unfair.

    I’m about to flee town with what’s left of my pride when Mr. Rejection begs me to stay. Apparently, he needs my help resuscitating the inn’s reputation before the grand reopening.

    But I’m not sure I can bear Hudson being my new boss, or survive sharing an office with him and his wife-me-up eyes.

    So I tell myself it’s just for one month. One month to prove myself and what I’m capable of…

    Or go down on the shores of The Beachfront Inn in a blaze of humiliation.

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    Lord of Winter (Fae of Darkness Series Book 1) Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Fae law is clear—Never use magic in the mortal realm. Except that’s what I do for a living, and for paying off my student debt…

    I just couldn’t leave it on Aunt Miriam’s tired, battered shoulders, not to mention that love spells pay well. And it all worked out just fine—until it didn’t, and the Lord of Winter tracked me down.

    Lysander Nightfrost is a ruthless fae king enforcing millennia old law. I should run for the hills when he appears, but my feet keep rooted in the ground. I can’t stop staring at his sharp warrior features, his hair like liquid gold, his ice-blue eyes sending chills all through me. He’s here to punish me. But when he learns who I really am, the tides turn.

    I am what the fire king Xerxes has been searching for since the day my father died, which makes me a powerful weapon in Lysander’s hands. One of the ways he can use me is trade me over in exchange for something he wants from Xerxes. I’m trapped, stripped of choices, but not of my will. If I go down, I’ll take Lysander’s ice-cold heart with me. It’s a tough game, but I will either melt it, or drown it at the bottom of the ocean.

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    White Nights Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    Step into the evocative world of White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s exquisite story of love, dreams, and human connection.

    A fleeting encounter, a lifetime of longing.

    Set against the ethereal backdrop of St. Petersburg’s luminous white nights, this moving novella captures the tender emotions of a lonely dreamer who finds solace in an unexpected friendship with a mysterious young woman.

    In just a few brief nights, their lives intertwine, bringing moments of joy, hope, and bittersweet reflection. White Nights explores the delicate beauty of fleeting relationships and the universal longing for love and companionship. Dostoevsky’s mastery of emotional depth and poetic storytelling makes this novella a timeless classic that continues to captivate readers.

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    Love's Promise (First Street Church Romances Book 2) Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    She’s trying to learn to love herself. He already thinks she’s perfect…

    When a small-town waitress’s doctor suggests weight loss surgery, she’s terrified of facing both the risks and recovery. Then again, fairytales don’t happen for fat girls–or at least they never have for her.

    In this heartfelt inspirational romance from a New York Times bestselling author, Jeffrey and Kristina Rose must embark on journeys deep within their own hearts to discover what–and who–they really want in life. Could revealing his newly discovered feelings post-op make her doubt his sincerity and ruin the special friendship they’ve both come to depend upon?

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