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Shadow Game (Ryan Cage—Book 1) (affiliate link)
When extreme hostage situations require a rapid response, the FBI has one man to call: Agent Ryan Cage.
While his partner, Dr. Emily Stanton, uses her brilliance to negotiate, Ryan must act fast and put his life on the line.
When terrorists seize control of a bustling subway, Ryan must navigate a chaotic situation, where ordinary citizens are pawns, and the terrorists are bent on total destruction.
With each second ticking toward potential disaster, can the pair defuse the situation in time?
Living in his motorhome, Walker is tasked with finding the daughter of the Mafia boss he befriended in Key West. She went missing while digging crystals in the mountains of Arkansas and to aid in his search, Walker reluctantly agrees to take along a mystery woman who supposedly has a psychic gift. She’s smart, sexy, and single and the question is, does she have more on her quirky mind than finding the bosses daughter? Ride along as Walker, the mystery woman, and Mango Bob the cat travel cross country in Walker’s motorhome, trying to avoid the trouble that seems to show up around every curve in the twisty mountain roads.
Beneath the Frost (Sienna Dusk — Book 1) (affiliate link)
Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries: Cats, snark, & a plague of niceness (Gobbelino London, PI Book 1) (affiliate link)
Find a missing book. That was the job the woman in the Doc Martens gave us.
Easy money, right?
Only now it seems she’s actually an ancient, powerful sorcerer, and the book is a Book of Power that doesn’t want to be found.
It wants to tear reality apart at the seams, and it’ll use anyone it can to do it.
So now we’ve got one spectacularly displeased sorcerer, a hungry, still-missing book, a dentist with bad hygiene, and a neighbourhood having some reality issues to deal with.
Plus about a day before the book turns our world – and us – inside out.
Escaping Northern Virginia, Talon and his small group of survivors are now confronted with the challenge of rescuing the rest of their group. With the country in complete chaos, the choices they make will determine their next steps. With enemies closing in, Talon must decide to stay and fight to help out his friends or should he just walk away and head to his family. Choices always have consequences.
Kiss And Make Up (Serenity’s Standalones Book 1) (affiliate link)
Stuntman Eli Black has one rule: don’t date girls on set…
It’s been a year since makeup artist Tabby Rogers’s life was turned upside-down. Now she’s back on track. In a month, she’ll be in the UK for the career opportunity of a lifetime. One she absolutely cannot let pass her by. Until she leaves, all she has to do is fill in on a movie shoot in New Zealand and keep out of trouble. And trouble looks a lot like a devilishly hot stuntman…
Eli Black has one rule: don’t date girls on set. His only goal is to get to Hollywood and fulfill a promise he made to his dying brother. Unfortunately, Tabby sends Eli’s temperature soaring through the stratosphere. Surely – just for the month – they can enjoy a hot little fling before they go their separate ways? All they have to do is not fall in love…
McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland (affiliate link)
Despite the many exotic places Peter McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother’s homeland. In McCarthy’s Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling through spectacular landscapes, but at all times obeying the rule, “never pass a bar that has your name on it,” he encounters McCarthy’s bars up and down the land, meeting fascinating people before pleading to be let out at four o’clock in the morning.
Through adventures with English hippies who have colonized a desolate mountain; roots-seeking, buffet-devouring American tourists; priests for whom the word “father” has a loaded meaning; enthusiastic Germans who “here since many years holidays are making;” and his fellow barefoot pilgrims on an island called Purgatory, Peter pursues the secrets of Ireland’s global popularity and his own confused Irish-Anglo identity.
How to use the principles of Pixar-style storytelling to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes.
Pixar movies have transfixed viewers around the world and stirred a hunger in creative and corporate realms to adopt new and more impactful ways of telling stories. Former Pixar and The Simpsons animator and story artist Matthew Luhn translates his two and half decades of storytelling techniques and concepts to the CEOs, advertisers, marketers, and creatives in the business world and beyond. A combination of Luhn’s personal stories and storytelling insights, The Best Story Wins retells the “Hero’s Journey” story building methods through the lens of the Pixar films to help business minds embrace the power of storytelling for themselves!
The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions (affiliate link)
Since ancient times humans have felt intuitively that emotions and health are linked, and recently there has been much popular speculation about this notion. But until now, without compelling evidence, it has been impossible to say for sure that such a connection really exists and especially how it works.
Now, that evidence has been discovered.
In this beautifully written book, Dr. Esther Sternberg, whose discoveries were pivotal in helping to solve this mystery, provides firsthand accounts of the breakthrough experiments that revealed the physical mechanisms—the nerves, cells, and hormones—used by the brain and immune system to communicate with each other. She describes just how stress can make us more susceptible to all types of illnesses, and how the immune system can alter our moods.
WeightWatchers: What to Cook Now: 300 Recipes for Every Kitchen (affiliate link)
Whether you’re a seasoned cook or just starting out in the kitchen, “What’s for dinner?” is a question to tackle every day. Weight Watchers What To Cook Now offers more than three hundred delicious answers, with great ideas for speedy weeknight dinners, weekend big-batch meals, easy foundation recipes, breakfasts and lunches, and more. Making smart use of ingredients with concentrated flavors and must-have kitchen tools and techniques for a healthy diet, you can pack maximum flavor and satisfaction into everything you make, including:
- – Smoky Sweet Potato, Canadian Bacon, and Corn Hash
- – Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad with Dijon Dressing
- – Italian Sausage and Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms
- – Grilled Shrimp with Mango-Ginger Dipping Sauce
- – Merlot-Braised Beef Roast and Vegetables
- – Red Curry Beef, Napa Cabbage, and Noodle Salad
- – Shrimp, Chorizo, and Rice Stew
- – Moroccan-Spiced Beef
- – Italian Stuffed Artichokes
- – Chocolate-Chip Layer Cake with Ricotta Frosting, and much more!
Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation (affiliate link)
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
With buoyant wit and erudition, Comma Sense reveals the power and importance of each mark of punctuation. Lederer and Shore demonstrate what each has in common with a great American icon: the underrated yet powerful period with Seabiscuit; the jazzy semicolon with Duke Ellington; even the rebel apostrophe with famed outlaw Jesse James. When you’ve finished Comma Sense, you’ll not only have mastered everything you need to know about punctuation, you’ll have had fun doing so.
Midnight Cowboy: A Novel (affiliate link)
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