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Author: Black, M.P.
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Italian-American Cozy Mystery

When Bernie Smyth trades her Hollywood fame for witness protection in a small Italian-American town in New Jersey, she doesn’t expect to play the role of her career: prime murder suspect.

Bernie co-starred in America’s favorite TV detective series, Silver & Gold. But after testifying against the show’s leading man, she abandons her career to hide out in Carmine, New Jersey, a small town with a rich Italian-American heritage. She gets a job at the crummy Cafe Roma and vows to keep a low profile.

But when Bernie stumbles on her boss with a knife in his back, Chief of Police Diana Tedesco believes she’s found the killer.

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Author: Wesson, Rachel
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Historical Fiction

Devastating events in Ireland tore apart her family…

Her abusive uncle threatens her life…

Her only escape is to the west…

To get there she must marry a stranger…

Options are limited for Irish beauty, Katie O’Callaghan.

After disaster hits her family, she arrives in America with her younger sister Ellen.

Her uncle, rather than provide shelter, provides misery and abuse.

Forced to head west, she refuses to leave Ellen behind, risking a kidnapping charge on top of everything.

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Author: Stamford, Maria
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Cozy Mystery

When Laura Sutton answers her mother’s phone and finds out she’s inherited property on a remote island, she knows it could be the solution to all her problems. Currently camped out on an airbed in her mother’s sitting room and with very little cash to her name, Laura has no intention of moving to the island—she’ll visit to get the property ready for sale, then come home.

When Laura arrives on the island and finds out it’s not a derelict house she’s inherited, but a hotel, she can’t believe her luck… until she finds a dead body in one of the guest rooms.

Laura isn’t interested in trying to solve the murder. She may be a true crime fan, but this is a little too close to home and she’s a bookkeeper, not a detective.

Van Man: American Dreams (affiliate link)

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Author: Desellem, Marc
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Dystopian Science Fiction

Blond hair. Pale green eyes. Megawatt smile. Young soccer prodigy Timothy Blankenship is on the cusp of signing an eight-figure contract with the San Francisco Hopefuls. He’s living the classic American Dream. But Timothy soon realizes there’s more at play than just a sport- Corporate power-brokers and politicians are pulling all the strings.

At the same time, a secret cadre of scientists are getting closer to a strange and powerful breakthrough that will change the world. For good? Or for evil?

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Author: Murphy, Clodagh
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Feel-good Romance

The show must go on … But is the show over before it’s even begun?

Aoife and her sisters know exactly what to do when they inherit their Great-aunt Detta’s theatre on Halfpenny Lane:

  • Restore the dilapidated building to its former glory.
  • Perform together on its stage to packed houses and rapturous applause.
  • Live happily ever after.

Until they go to the reading of Detta’s will and discover she’s left a share in the theatre to her godson Jonathan, who wants to sell up and cash out.

Now they need him to buy into their vision of stardust and magic – or find the money to buy him out.

And as they fight to save the theatre, Aoife also finds herself battling a very inconvenient encore of her teenage crush on Jonathan …

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Author: Barton, Bridget
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Historical Regency Romance

The Duke’s Secret Letter

Anna Stuart has long accepted her solitude, burdened by the unfounded blame of her brother and aunt, who convinced her that some inherent flaw marred her prospects. However, when Maximilian Montagu, a charismatic, yet older Duke enters her life, a spark of hope rekindles. As Maximilian finds love in Anna’s face, their connection deepens, but internal insecurities and external threats loom ominously. Could their extraordinary bond endure the trials and adversaries that threatened to dismantle their dreams, or will their hopes turn into ashes in the end?

Home Made Winter (affiliate link)

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Author: van Boven, Yvette
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Comfort Food Cooking
Warm up your winter with recipes for apple cider, cardamom and orange scones, Irish potato soup, and much more.

Dutch chef Yvette van Boven’s Home Made series of cookbooks feature delicious recipes, beautiful photos, step-by-step instruction, and her own hand-drawn artwork. Now she presents Home Made Winter, a heartfelt, humorous, and passionate collection of dishes inspired by her childhood in Ireland and her frequent sojourns in France.

This is a cookbook that will warm your heart, with chapters on Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch; Pies and Sweet Things for Tea Time; Beverages; To Start; Main Courses; and Dessert, focusing on simple recipes for classic dishes such as apple cider, BBQ pulled pork, ricotta cheesecake, and more. Step-by-step, she explains how to make butter, beef sausage, and baileys—and also features her favorite winter holiday recipes.

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Author: Eames, Andrew
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Travel Writing
With her marriage to her first husband over, Agatha Christie decided to take a much needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-known details of this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad–a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928–becomes intertwined with Agatha’s, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel.

Zeroville: A Novel (affiliate link)

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Author: Erickson, Steve
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Humorous Literary Fiction
Zeroville centers on the story of Vikar, a young architecture student so enthralled with the movies that his friends call him “cinéautistic.” With an intensely religious childhood behind him, and tattoos of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift on his head, he arrives in Hollywood—where he’s mistaken for a member of the Manson family and eventually scores a job as a film editor. Vikar discovers the frames of a secret film within the reels of every movie ever made, and sets about splicing them together—a task that takes on frightening theological dimensions.
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Author: Hubert, Margaret
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Crafts & Hobbies
This comprehensive book provides a reference for all methods, including Tunisian, filet, intermeshing, broomstick lace, Bruges lace, and freeform crochet. It includes step-by-step instructions for all the basic stitches and swatches of hundreds of stitch patterns with complete instructions. Also provided are instructions and patterns for fifty projects for garments, accessories, and décor items.

Best of all, it includes more than four hundred color photos—to make learning and following along as easy as possible!

Principles of Emotion (affiliate link)

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Author: Read, Sara
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Domestic Life Fiction
Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life’s work—a proof of a problem so impenetrable it’s nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants to get their hands on what she alone possesses—especially her own mathematician father.

Having grown up a prodigy in a field plagued by sexism and plagiarism, Meg opts for a public presentation so there will be no doubt of her authorship. But a panic attack obliterates her plans. In defeat, she goes home and locks away the only manuscript of her proof.

Then chance sends her the unlikeliest of allies: Isaac Wells—carpenter, high school dropout, in trouble with the law.

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Author: Estleman, Loren D.
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Crime Thriller
 In Edsel, it has only been two decades since Connie Minor was on top, but it feels like centuries. Once a journalist, Minor spent Prohibition with his finger on gangland’s pulse, a confidant of every rumrunner, boss, and triggerman in Detroit. But as the gangsters fell, Minor went with them, replaced by a generation of reporters more interested in the Nazi Party than the inner workings of the Purple Gang. Now it’s the 1950s, and after years writing mindless ad copy, Minor fears that his brain may be permanently atrophied—that is, until an exciting new job drops on his desk. Minor is hired to sell Ford’s most original creation, the Edsel, meant to take America by storm. But the job quickly reintroduces him to some ugly old Detroit faces. When he uncovers a conspiracy, his reporter’s instincts kick in. It’s been years since Minor gabbed with mobsters, but it’s never too late for an old newspaperman to get whacked.

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