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Murder at Elk Ridge (Book 1) (affiliate link)

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Author: Shillolo, Anne
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Murder Mystery

Hilary Casgrain just moved halfway across the country for a fresh start. She’s desperate to trade the shootings, corruption, and gangs of the city for small-town law enforcement. And she’s convinced that a steady diet of nothing more serious than drunken tourists and fender benders is just what she needs to get her life back on track.

But a serial killer spoils Hilary’s dreams of a low-key career change.

Her arrival in Elk Ridge goes further downhill when she meets the sergeant at her new posting. It’s her nemesis, George ‘Goat’ Rundle. Goat’s odd sense of humor grates on Hilary’s last nerve, but he’s deadly serious about protecting his team. Hilary fears she’s doomed to be the ultimate outsider. Even worse, the sight of Goat Rundle is a grim reminder of the worst moment of her life. And she still holds him responsible.

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Author: Faricy, MIke
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Noir Crime
Dev Haskell attends the funeral of a childhood friend and meets her adult children. Her son works for the DEA. Dev investigates a murder and comes across a rather mysterious individual named Boris Bacon. What little information he can find is not encouraging. It turns out the DEA is also investigating Bacon. Dev searches former addresses, which does nothing to improve his assessment of Bacon. Eventually he meets a woman who had a brief affair with Bacon and is frightened that he may return and force his way into her home. Ever the gentleman, Dev offers her his guest room until Bacon is arrested. She accepts and in the process brings another woman into the picture who has Bacon moving into the unit across the hall from her. Suddenly Dev has two House Guests and some serious pressure to help the DEA find Boris Bacon and get him off the street.
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Author: Pilkington, Paul
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Traditional Detective Mysteries

A missing girl…

Natalie Long is missing. About to board a high speed train from London’s Paddington station, she has vanished without a trace.

A dedicated, determined detective…

For Detective Chief Inspector Paul Cullen of the British Transport Police, the case is personal. Natalie is good friends with his daughter, Amy, who is certain Natalie is in great danger.

A life on the line…

DCI Cullen vows to find her. But can he uncover the truth, before it is too late?

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Author: Blake, K.B.
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Amateur Sleuth Mysteries

Dream career—gone. Temp jobs—mind-numbingly dull. Until she finds the body.

After Scarlett Chase is fired from her dream job, she is stuck working temp jobs while she figures out what to do with her life.

Her current job of the week might be the most boring of them all until a flash of lightning during a spring storm plunges the entire office building into darkness.

When the lights come back on, Scarlett finds Willow Dawn, the eccentric soul healer from upstairs, lying dead behind the dumpster out back. Too bad handsome construction worker Austin Howard is standing over the body holding what could either be a tool of the trade or the murder weapon.

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Author: Fernsby, April
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Cozy Mystery

Karis Booth uses her psychic powers to solve murders that are connected to the café she runs with her sister.

This box set contains the following 8 stories:

A Deadly Delivery

A local delivery woman who supplies bread to the café is murdered, and Karis won’t rest until she uncovers the killer – no matter how many people she upsets in the process.

A Fatal Wedding

Karis meets a bride-to-be but is alarmed when she receives a premonition about a murder in the bride’s family. Will she be able to stop the murder in time?

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Author: Best, Morgana
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Paranormal Cozy Mystery

Amelia Spelled is having one of those days.

Her boyfriend dumps her, her boss fires her, and she’s evicted from her rental thanks to one too many cooking mishaps. Then a mysterious letter is slipped under her door.

Now she’s off to a remote Australian town, where a strange house and the revelation that her ancestors were witches await. But if Amelia thinks she’ll have time to process these developments, she’s dead wrong. There’s a murder, and she’s the main suspect.

Can Amelia cook up a way to solve the crime? And what does the dashing man lurking in the shadows want?

DIY Camper and RV Reno: Restoring and Designing Vintage, Retro, and Classic Trailers and RVs with Nailgun Nelly (affiliate link)

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Author: Payne, Janelle
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Auto & RV Travel

Choose and restore a classic RV or camper with expert guidance every step of the way—then hit the road in style!

Join popular creator Janelle Payne (a.k.a. Nailgun Nelly) for a journey through everything camper and RV. Whether you’re considering a truly vintage home on wheels or a more contemporary (but not new) ride, this book’s buying guide helps with the pros and cons of different options and goes over all the red flags to look for. You’ll learn about the major systems and how to handle everything from simple repairs to electrical issues, plumbing, propane, and even water damage or roof resealing. However, the real fun starts as you find your style and explore the techniques and projects to make that camper or RV yours.

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Author: Thornton, Janis
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Biographies of Serial Killers

A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators’ mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after.

True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song “Frankie and Johnny” already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun.

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Author: Harrison, Scott
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Healthy Cooking

Let Scott Harrison, founder of The Six Pack Revolution, guide you on your journey to a healthier body and mind – no calorie counters or weighing scales in sight, just visible results in 75 days.

Scott’s life-changing program The Six Pack Revolution has helped a community of tens of thousands of people across 57 countries gain confidence and achieve the best shape of their lives.

Make It Happen takes this program and puts it in a book, with tailored recipes and meal planning, fitness challenges that are fun and empowering, and transformative mindset coaching.

– 75 vegan-friendly recipes that are simple to follow, packed with flavor, and fine-tuned for optimum nutrition
– meal planning 101 to help plot your daily routine of 6 carefully timed and nutrient-rich meals and snacks
– a series of daily workouts and weekly active challenges that anyone can do at home and adaptable to everyone’s level of fitness, building into a full fitness program that can increase in challenge
– inspiring tips and tricks to tackle your fears, embrace change, and achieve a positive mindset – train the mind and the body will follow
– all backed by easy-to-understand body science and nutritional know-how

What Is a Dog? (affiliate link)

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Author: Coppinger, Raymond, Coppinger, Lorna
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Biological Science of Dogs & Wolves

Of the world’s dogs, fewer than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are four times as many dogs who are their own masters—neighborhood dogs, dump dogs, mountain dogs. They are dogs, not companions, and these dogs, like pigeons or squirrels, are highly adapted scavengers who have evolved to fit particular niches in the vicinity of humans.

This book present an eye-opening analysis of the evolution and adaptations of these unleashed dogs and what they can reveal about the species as a whole. Exploring the natural history of these animals, canine behavior experts Raymond and Lorna Coppingers explain how the village dogs of Vietnam, India, Africa, and Mexico are strikingly similar. These feral dogs, argue the Coppingers, are in fact the truly archetypal dogs, nearly uniform in size and shape and incredibly self-sufficient. Drawing on nearly five decades of research, they show how dogs actually domesticated themselves in order to become such efficient scavengers of human refuse.

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Author: Pepin, Jacques
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Cooking with Kids

The James Beard Award-winning grand master has a new apprentice in the kitchen: his granddaughter. Jacques Pépin is one of the nation’s most famous cooking teachers, renowned for his knife skills. Ever since she was very young, his granddaughter, Shorey, has loved helping him in the kitchen. Now, Jacques gives his charismatic pupil a short course on preparing food that is plain, but elegant, and more than anything, fun.

In the process, he proves himself as inspiring to her as he is to the country’s greatest chefs. Curly hot dogs, spinach with croutons, sushi salmon cakes, skillet bread and homemade butter, raspberry cake: These recipes will become irresistible new classics for kids. Along the way, Jacques imparts lessons in kitchen etiquette, from how to set a table to how to fold a napkin properly—even how to load a dishwasher. And perhaps the most important lesson of all: that the best meals are the ones shared at home with family.

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Author: Martin, Clancy
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Emotions & Mental Health

A provocative and unsettling look at the nature of love and deception

Is it possible to love well without lying? At least since Socrates’s discourse on love in Plato’s Symposium, philosophers have argued that love can lead us to the truth—about ourselves and the ones we love. But in the practical experience of erotic love—and perhaps especially in marriage—we find that love and lies often work hand in hand, and that it may be difficult to sustain long-term romantic love without deception, both of oneself and of others.
Drawing on contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, his own personal experience, and such famed and diverse writers on love as Shakespeare, Stendhal, Proust, Adrienne Rich, and Raymond Carver, Clancy Martin—himself divorced twice and married three times—explores how love, truthfulness, and deception work together in contemporary life and society.

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