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August Origins (Mackenzie August, Book 1) (affiliate link)
A homicide detective
hunts a ritualistic killer
inside a city high school.
Mackenzie August’s new life doesn’t suit him. When he quit the LAPD to open a private cop shop, he expected to settle naturally into a quieter lifestyle, hiring out to law firms, home by dinner. Now, however, the feisty detective is bored and missing the action of a hot homicide investigation.
Sheriff Stackhouse comes knocking at the right time.
Three teenage girls have been murdered in the past twelve months, victims of a brutal rite-of-passage ceremony. Clues indicate the killer has ties to the inner city school, but the police can’t catch him. They need a man on the inside. They need Mackenzie, an outsider, to go undercover and find the killer.
An impossible task, Mackenzie would be a bull in a china shop. But if anyone can pull it off…
The Nerd and the Neighbor (Oak Creek Book 1) (affiliate link)
He can solve the mysteries of the universe, but can he unlock the secrets of her heart?
As a celebrated astronaut, I’ve unraveled the enigmas of the cosmos. But the puzzle of what makes relationships work? That’s always eluded me. I’m more comfortable studying life’s building blocks than navigating the perplexing world of human emotions. After a scandal at my job, I return to my small hometown a disgraced outcast. But then I meet Abigail Baker.
My captivating new neighbor is everything I’m not – warm, emotionally attuned, and able to charm an entire town with her vibrant spirit. With her quick wit and generous heart, she sees right through my gruff exterior to the wounded man beneath. The more time we spend together, the more I begin to hope that maybe I’m not a lost cause.
But I’ve never been good at love, and when ghosts from my past threaten our budding connection, I’ll have to prove to Abigail, and myself, that I’m willing to change and open my heart. Is it too late for this science nerd to learn the equations of love and become the partner she deserves?
Fair City Blues (Jack Dillon Dublin Tales Book 5) (affiliate link)
Spade Work (Jack Dillon Dublin Tales Book 6) (affiliate link)
A random Dublin shooting?
Two American’s murdered in the back of a taxi. It appears random…until US Marshal Jack Dillon recognizes one of the victims.
An Ace of Spades in the victims mouth?
Someone’s seen too many movies. At least that’s the thinking until the card appears in another victim, and another, and another one after that, and…
Fortunately they have a suspect…
But then there’s another murder he couldn’t have possibly done. Somethings awfully wrong and it’s up to US Marshal Jack Dillon to find out what’s happening, and fast!
Blood Upon The Snow (DCI Cieran Black Book 1) (affiliate link)
DCI Cieran Black is being punished. He just doesn’t know why.
So when he is sent to the snow-covered Highlands to solve a girl’s murder in a small village where everyone knows everyone, he knows it’s because the simple case wasn’t worth sending in anyone more worthy.
But when the body is discovered to have been mutilated, the case takes a turn, and now Black and his team of misfits must put their heads together to solve this case against all odds. And out in the middle of nowhere, with a group no one has faith in and very limited resources, they must pull out all the stops.
Before more blood gets spilled.
Dog trainer Grace connects with Alex, a handsome yet troubled veteran, when he comes into her store looking for help with his new rescue dog, Scout.
As Grace assists Alex in training Scout to be his psychiatric service dog, the two start falling for each other.
But Alex’s PTSD causes strains on their budding relationship. Can Scout take the lead in bringing them back together?
This uplifting novella blends romance and the unbreakable human-canine bond.
Red Hill (affiliate link)
When the world ends, can love survive?
For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone means fighting for tomorrow is an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can’t remember what it’s like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda’s biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals.
When reports of a widespread, deadly “outbreak” begin to surface, these ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances and suddenly their fates are intertwined. Recognizing they can’t outrun the danger, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda desperately seek shelter at the same secluded ranch, Red Hill. Emotions run high while old and new relationships are tested in the face of a terrifying enemy—an enemy who no longer remembers what it’s like to be human.
The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook: 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings, and More (affiliate link)
Frost Line (affiliate link)
Lenna is Strength, a manifestation of the Tarot card, and powerful beyond reckoning. But when she’s pulled into the human realm and tasked with protecting a young boy, everything is thrown into chaos. Lenna’s not supposed to be here, interacting with mortals. She’s definitely not supposed to be drawn to the sexy mercenary sent to retrieve her by any means necessary . . .
As a Hunter for magical beings, Caine’s duty is simple: return this compelling, impossibly attractive woman and secure the long lost Tarot deck that made travel between worlds possible. Instead he’s drawn into Lenna’s dangerous rescue mission and blindsided by his growing feelings. But there is more than one enemy to contend with. And as the clock runs out, failure means not just the loss of an innocent life and the woman Caine has come to love, but the destruction of Lenna’s entire world.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (affiliate link)
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Quantum Memory Power: Learn to Improve Your Memory (affiliate link)
UNLEASH YOUR MEMORY POWER!
Dominic O’Brien is the record breaking 8-time World Memory Champion and the current Senior World Champion. In the record books for memorizing 54 decks of playing cards after a single sighting of each card, Dominic can easily memorize a sequence of 2000 numbers in less than an hour. Still appearing regularly on television this champion is willing to share with you his ultimate tools for developing the perfect memory. Let him teach you how to harness and unleash your memory power so you will have unlimited capacity and be able to remember names, faces, numbers, birthdays, dates, appointments, speeches, or any sequence of numbers you want.
Quantum Memory Power provides practical applications and exercises to test and strengthen your abilities. By engaging your imagination and creative powers you will gain speed, accuracy and poise in the development of your own quantum memory powers.
Hidden Charges (affiliate link)
The setting is The Yankee Green—an enormous shopping center and entertainment mall located in a suburb of Boston. A self-sufficient, environmentally controlled, electronically secure indoor city, The Yankee Green has tens of thousands of people pass through its five pavilions every day. The children play in the indoor amusement park; young professionals work out in the state-of-the-art health club and jog on the atrium’s overhead running track; the elderly walk the promenades, sit on benches, chat under the fountains and in the manicured gardens.
But in the labyrinth of service halls that are weaved into the superstructure lurks a demon, a madman with a grudge who plans to hold five thousand people hostage with hidden explosives . . .
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