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Author: Freethy, Barbara
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Clean & Wholesome Romance

News reporter Andrea Blain is supposed to cover the news, not make it. But whenever she is on the trail of a big story, things just…happen. Andrea is given one last chance to prove herself with the cover story on sexy billionaire heartbreaker, Alexander Donovan.

The wealthy philanthropist appears to be living the American dream, but Andrea is determined to uncover the real story. But when Alex’s secrets are revealed, Andrea will have to choose between climbing the ladder of success or falling in love…

Last Words (affiliate link)

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Author: Reyes, Marie
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Serial Killer Thriller

A deathbed confession. A promise. Time is running out.

As a volunteer at her local hospice, Nina spends much of her time comforting those whose time is running out.

On his deathbed, her favorite resident, Bryan, confesses to accidentally killing someone in a hit-and-run when he was a teenager.

Nina promises to go to his hometown to tell the victim’s parents what happened to her all those years ago.

Unruly daughter in tow, Nina travels to the small town of Harpersville and discovers there may be more to the story than Bryan let on.

Will Nina be able to put things right before Bryan passes, or will her revelation stir up trouble within the small community as even darker secrets come to light?

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Author: Chase, Anne, Chase, Nora
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Cozy Animal Mystery

Why is there a dead body in my basement?!?

I’m having quite a year — painfully divorced, laid off from my job, desperately missing my daughter who’s just started college — when word comes that my beloved Aunt Emily has died.

After rushing back to my New England hometown of Eagle Cove for the funeral, I find out my aunt has willed me her long-shuttered cafe.

My oh-so-sensible plan is to fix up the cafe and sell it — but then I unearth that darned body in the basement. And now evidence is pointing to my aunt as the culprit!

No way am I letting a mummified corpse hurt my aunt’s good name. Aided and abetted by a misfit gang of unlikely allies, I’m digging deep into the past to find the truth.

My mom wants me to back off. The town sheriff is worried about my safety. And for all I know, they could be right.

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Author: Tucker, K.A.
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Contemporary Romance

Scarlet Reed has returned to Polson Falls, convinced that twelve years away is long enough to shed her humiliating childhood identity as the town harlot’s daughter. With a teaching job secured and an adorable fixer-upper to call home, things in her life are finally looking up.

That is, until she finds out that Shane Beckett lives next door.

Shane Beckett, the handsome and charismatic high school star quarterback who smashed her heart. The lying, cheating player who was supposed to be long gone, living the pro football dream and fooling women into thinking he’s Prince Charming. Shane Beckett, who is as attractive as ever and flashing his dimples at her as if he has done no wrong.

No One I Knew (affiliate link)

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Author: McDine, A J
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Psychological Thrillers

Her daughter’s missing. A tragic accident… or something much worse?

When Cleo Cooper’s daughter vanishes during a family barbecue, her perfect life begins to unravel.

Everyone thinks three-year-old Immy drowned in the river at the bottom of the garden.

Everyone except Cleo. Because all her instincts tell her someone took her daughter. Someone she knew.

With time running out, Cleo sets out to uncover the truth. But the deeper she probes, the more she realises everyone has a secret to hide. Especially her husband.

And as Cleo unpicks the lies, she discovers her carefully constructed life was just an illusion.

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Author: Tarr, Fiona
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Australian Small Town Crime Mystery

Bringing secrets to light can be dangerous…. keeping them buried might prove deadly.

Dawn Grave is a career detective who’s holding on to a dark past – one that destroys relationships and wreaks havoc on her personal life.

For more than twenty years, she’s tried to forget the horrors of her youth – while her sister has spent all that time digging for answers. Now a cryptic text message threatens to throw it all back into the light.

Dawn attempts to call her sister, but when Lisa can’t be reached, she knows something terrible has happened. But finding Lisa means returning to the remote tropical town in northern Australia where her nightmares all began.

Dawn is out of her jurisdiction, but nothing is going to stop her investigating her sister’s disappearance. When Lisa’s car is found abandoned and a body is retrieved from the water, she’s afraid her past has come back to haunt her.

Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk (affiliate link)

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Author: Walsh, Bill
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Grammar Reference
These are interesting times for word nerds. We ate, shot and left, bonding over a joke about a panda and some rants about greengrocers who abuse apostrophes. We can go on Facebook and vow to judge people when they use poor grammar. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Elements of Style inspired sentimental reveries. Grammar Girl’s tally of Twitter followers is well into six digits. We can’t get enough of a parody of the Associated Press Stylebook, of all things, or a collection of “unnecessary” quotation marks.
Could you care less? Does bad grammar or usage “literally” make your head explode? Test your need for this new book with these sentences:
“Katrina misplaced many residents of New Orleans from their homes.”
“Sherry finally graduated college this year.”
“An armed gunman held up a convenience store on Broadway yesterday afternoon.”
Pat yourself on the back if you found issues in every one of these sentences, but remember: There is a world out there beyond the stylebooks, beyond Strunk and White, beyond Lynne Truss and Failblogs.

The Martian Child (affiliate link)

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Author: Gerrold, David
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LGBTQ+ Humorous Fiction

A gay man adopts a troubled boy who insists he’s a Martian in this charming and heartwarming autobiographical novel.

When science fiction author David Gerrold decides he wants to adopt a son, he thinks he’s prepared for fatherhood. But eight-year-old Dennis turns out to be more than he expected—a lot more.

Abandoned as a baby in a seedy motel by his addict parents, Dennis suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome. Since then, he’s been shuffled between eight different foster homes in less than eight years—and was severely abused in at least two of them.

Prone to violent emotional outbursts, Dennis was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, put on Ritalin, and then Disipramine. His case history identified him as “hard to plac””—a euphemism for “unadoptable.”

But for David Gerrold it was love at first sight . . .

Twisted Shadows (affiliate link)

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Author: Potter, Patricia
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Romantic Suspense

In Patricia Potter’s high-octane romantic thriller, a young woman discovers she is not only the daughter of a notorious crime boss but a person of interest to a steely FBI agent

Clutching her babies, a mother flees through the streets of Boston, desperate to escape the monster she married. Thirty-four years later, two men enter Samantha Carroll’s Colorado art gallery, and her safe, secure world explodes. Now Sam is en route back to Boston to meet her twin brother, Nick, and Paul Merritta, the crime boss whose blood runs through her veins. Merritta is dying, and he wants to clear up some unfinished business with his daughter.

Nathan McLean won’t rest until he brings down Merritta and his entire family. For the determined FBI agent, it’s also personal—payback for what Merritta did to his own loved ones. But there’s a wild card in the stacked deck—Samantha Carroll. Now Sam’s on the FBI’s radar, and she’s falling for the one man who could destroy her newfound family. But Nathan isn’t the only danger. There’s someone else out there too—someone who wants her dead.

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Author: Saunders, Tim
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Military Strategy History

This WWII military study examines the combat experiences of three Allied divisions charged with spearheading the invasion of Normandy.

To lead the charge into France after the Normandy landings, General Montgomery brought three veteran desert formations back from the Mediterranean. They were the 50th Infantry and 7th Armored divisions, plus 4th Armored Brigade. Their task beyond the beaches was to push south to Villers Bocage with armor on the evening of D-Day in order to disrupt German counter-attacks on the beachhead.

Difficulties on 50th Division’s beaches allowed time for German reinforcements to arrive in Normandy. As a result, 4th Armored Brigade was firmly blocked just south of Point 103 after an advance of less than five miles. A major counter-attack by Panzer Lehr failed, as did a renewed British attempt, this time by the vaunted 7th Armored Division, which was halted at Tilly sur Seulles. From here the fighting became a progressively attritional struggle in the hedgerows of the Bocage country south of Bayeux.

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Author: Wallace, Lorraine
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Comfort Food Cooking

An expert on making meals for the family, including her husband, Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday, Lorraine Wallace presents her third scrumptious cookbook, following Mr. Sunday’s Soups and Mr. Sunday’s Saturday Night Chicken, both New York Times bestsellers.

Filled with recipes that are sure to bring everyone together on any occasion, from weeknight meals to holidays to game day, this cookbook includes heartwarming favorites like Beef Stew with Winter Root Vegetables and Mom’s Chicken and Rice Casserole as well as reinvented classics like Lobster Pot Pie and Chicken Cordon Bleu Pinwheels. She also includes delicious vegetarian and gluten-free options.

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Author: Erdmann, Terry J., Block, Paula M.
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Antique & Collectible Non-Sports Cards

A visual compilation of all 88 trading cards for Star Trek fans and collectors of TV memorabilia!

Since Star Trek first aired on television in 1966, the series has had an incredible influence on pop culture. In 1976, with the show’s rising popularity in syndication, the Topps Company released a series of collectible trading cards featuring full-color images from the classic television series created by Gene Roddenberry, as well as synopses and stats on the cast and crew of the Starship Enterprise.

Sure to please both die-hard fans and new generations, this first-ever collection includes the fronts and backs of all 88 cards, plus images of 22 rare and hard-to-find stickers (which were originally sold one per pack) as well as text and commentary by Star Trek insiders Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann.

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