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Author: Workman, P.D.
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Amateur Sleuth Mysteries

Erin Price moves to Bald Eagle Falls, a place where everyone knows everyone as well as everyone else’s business, taking over the store left to her by her aunt to start up a gluten-free bakery. The grand opening is marred by just one thing, the death of her business rival, Angela Plaint. It appears that Angela was poisoned by one of Erin’s cupcakes, making her a prime suspect.

Equipped with cupcakes, her desire for the truth, and new bakery assistant Vicky’s help, Erin goes head-to-head against Detective Terry Piper to solve the murder. Rumors of treasure hunting, drug dealing, and a missing boy swirl around Bald Eagle Falls as Erin tries to sort the clues from the red herrings and find the killer before the killer can take care of her.

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Author: Chance, Jennifer
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Fantasy Romance

All my endless daydreams aside, I’m the responsible one of our crew of best friends. So when I take off from my caretaker role for just two short weeks, all I’m hoping for is enough vacation memories to hold me over ‘til my own dreams can come true.

Then we get to the beautiful kingdom of Oûros, overflowing with Greek mythology on the shores of the Aegean Sea—and my imagination goes into overdrive.

I ask the gods for one little favor…just a little daydream…

Things happen way too fast after that.

Out of nowhere, the smoking hot, unreasonably sexy prince of this fairy tale country nearly knocks me flat on the beach, pulls me into his arms, and kisses me breathless. The paparazzi go wild, my friends are swept up into royal politics, and I plunge into a society that isn’t quite what it seems. A society that makes me wonder if all that Greek mythology isn’t so make-believe after all, and desperate to know what my passionate prince is hiding behind his gorgeous, haunted eyes.

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Author: Kennedy, J. Robert
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Psychological Thrillers

Would you help, would you run, or would you just watch?

When a young woman is brutally assaulted by two men on the subway, her cries for help fall on the deaf ears of onlookers
too terrified to get involved, her misery ended with the crushing stomp of a steel-toed boot. A cell phone video of her vicious murder, callously released on the Internet, its popularity a testament to today’s depraved society, serves as a trigger, pulled a year later, for a killer.

Emailed a video documenting the final moments of a woman’s life, entertainment reporter Aynslee Kai, rather than ask why the killer chose her to tell the story, decides to capitalize on the opportunity to further her career. Assigned to the case is Hayden Eldridge, a detective left to learn the ropes by a disgraced partner, and as videos continue to follow victims, he discovers they were all witnesses to the vicious subway murder a year earlier, proving sometimes just watching is fatal.

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Author: Forbes, M.R.
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Space Opera Science Fiction

The war is over. Earth is lost. Running is the only option.
It may already be too late.

Caleb is a former Marine Raider and commander of the Vultures, a search and rescue team that’s spent the last two years pulling high-value targets out of alien-ravaged cities and shipping them off-world.

When his new orders call for him to join forty-thousand survivors aboard the last starship out, he thinks his days of fighting are over. The Deliverance represents a fresh start and a chance to leave the war behind for good.

Except the war won’t be as easy to escape as he thought.

And the colonists will need Caleb more than he ever imagined…

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Author: WARD, RACHEL
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Cozy Murder Mystery

Book 1: THE MISSING CHECKOUT GIRL MYSTERY
The little town of Kingsleigh is a place where nothing ever happens. Until . . . a young woman is attacked in on her way home. Then one of the women on the till at Costsave doesn’t turn up for work. Checkout girl Bea Jordan is determined to get to the bottom of things. And the only person who will help is Ant Thompson, the new guy. But he doesn’t seem like he’ll be any help at all . . .

Book 2: THE MISSING PETS MYSTERY
The New Year dawns but all is not well in the little town of Kingsleigh. Three cats have gone missing in a week. Then the body of a man is found on the Bristol bypass. The post-mortem confirms the death was not an accident. Bea wants to help find the missing moggies, but with a potential murderer on the prowl, has she bitten off more than she can chew?

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Author: Cooper, Doug J.
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Space Exploration Science Fiction
Criss lives in a special kind of prison. He can see and hear everything around the world, yet a mesh restrains his reach, forcing his cooperation. His creator, Dr. Jessica Tallette, believes his special abilities offer great promise for humanity. But she fears the consequences of freeing him, because Criss, a sentient artificial intelligence with the intellect of a thousand humans, is too powerful to control. Tallette’s world is upended when the Kardish, a race of alien traders, announce that they want Criss for themselves, expressing their desires with ominous undertones. She turns to the Union of Nations for help, and they task Sid, a special agent, with leading the response. Sid believes that Criss is Earth’s greatest weapon and asks him to confront the Kardish. But can the AI be trusted? And what is humanity’s role if an interstellar battle among titans starts to rage?

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Author: Goldsborough, Robert
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Traditional Detective Mysteries

Murder in E Minor

Nero Wolfe is tempted out of a peaceful retirement in his Manhattan brownstone by his desire to find out who murdered a New York Symphony Orchestra conductor who once saved his life in the mountains of Montenegro . . .

Death on Deadline

Newspaperman Lon Cohen used to pass Nero Wolfe information in return for the odd exclusive scoop, but now the New York Gazette is ailing and a Scottish magnate is circling like a vulture. When the Gazette’s chief shareholder turns up dead, Wolfe will step into the crossfire of a tabloid war.

The Bloodied Ivy

An academic so conservative he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant—until the morning he’s found dead at the bottom of one of Prescott’s famously beautiful ravines. It’s time for Wolfe to go back to school . . .

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Author: Hailey, Arthur
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Action Thriller

Anchorman Crawford Sloane, a respected reporter who made his name as a Vietnam War correspondent, thrives on the unpredictability of life in the newsroom. Whether he’s covering the imminent crash of an airliner in distress, terror in South America, or riots in Eastern Europe, or dealing with the cold-blooded politics of one of America’s premier news organizations, he never loses his cool.

With terrorism dominating the evening news, Sloane takes precautions because he knows that as the face of American democracy, he’s a prime target for radicals. But when terrorists kidnap his family, he’s no longer reporting the news; he’s living it. Unwilling to rely on the help of ruthless network executives or the intrepid reporter who was once a rival for the affections of his wife, Sloane sets out to track down the kidnappers himself—and he soon learns that pure terror can lie behind the headlines.

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Author: Miller, Emily Wise
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Professional Cooking

The much-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Top Chef: The Cookbook is here! Drawing from the first five seasons of the show, Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook features 75 of the best recipes—from Spike’s Pizza alla Greek to Stephanie’s Bittersweet Chocolate Cake—culled from the Top Chef Quickfire Challenges.

Everything the home chef needs to assemble an impressive meal and channel the energy of the Quickfire kitchen is collected here, including advice on hosting a Quickfire Cocktail Party and staging your own Quickfire Challenges at home. Best of all, this book is spilling over with sidebar material, including tips for home chefs, interviews with contestants, fabulous photos, and fun trivia related to the chefs, dishes, and ingredients that make Top Chef a favorite.

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Author: Ball, Philip
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Consciousness & Thought Philosophy

Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?

Sciences from zoology to astrobiology, computer science to neuroscience, are seeking to understand minds in their own distinct disciplinary realms. Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and where to find them—including in plants, aliens, and God—Philip Ball pulls the pieces together to explore what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe. In so doing, he offers for the first time a unified way of thinking about what minds are and what they can do, by locating them in what he calls the “space of possible minds.” By identifying and mapping out properties of mind without prioritizing the human, Ball sheds new light on a host of fascinating questions: What moral rights should we afford animals, and can we understand their thoughts?

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Author: Major, Michelle
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Western & Frontier Romance

An unthinkable mistake…Might be their good fortune!

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare come true when two babies are mistakenly switched at birth! Single mom Esme Fortune already loves the infant she brought home from the hospital, but she can’t possibly deny her own flesh and blood. And even if businessman Ryan Hayes never expected to be parenting a baby alone, he certainly doesn’t want to give up his son. Their unconventional solution: Why not join forces—and raise the kids together? The pair’s unbreakable love for their children brokers an unlikely partnership…and as an undeniable respect and attraction grows, perhaps so much more.

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Author: Swift, Earl
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Aeronautics & Astronautics

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles in to this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind’s travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander.

A few feet away sat the machine that made the achievement possible: an electric go-cart that folded like a business letter, weighed less than eighty pounds in the moon’s reduced gravity, and muscled its way up mountains, around craters, and over undulating plains on America’s last three ventures to the lunar surface.

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