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In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid.
No electricity. No cars or phones. The country is plunged into instant chaos.
But for Hannah Sheridan, it’s the best day of her life. For the last five years, she’s been the captive of a sadistic psychopath–until the EMP releases the lock of her prison.
Battered but not broken, she emerges from her underground cell into a hostile winter wilderness with nothing but the clothes on her back and her determination to survive.
Reclusive Special Forces soldier Liam Coleman is headed nowhere fast. He believed he was prepared for any disaster. Then everything he cared about was taken from him in a matter of seconds.
I admit it was me who shouted, “Looking good, hot stuff!” at Mr. Richmond this morning, but I didn’t mean it like that.
Honest, I was paying him a compliment! That’s kind of what I do: I’m a proud, small-town Floridian, and Manhattan is craving some Florida sunshine—nothing like a sincere compliment to turn those New York frowns upside down!
Grayson Richmond needs some positivity.
Have you seen how grumpy he is?
Disgustingly wealthy and unfairly hot, the man wears an arrogant snarl almost as well as he wears a suit.
Drool!
The word tyrant doesn’t do him justice, though, when he has me dragged into his office to be reprimanded.
Just FYI, the exact wrong thing to do in that situation is to tell him you’re the one who’s been leaving notes of positive affirmation in his underwear drawer.
A Cupcakes-and-Crime Caper
Cupcake-loving croupier and part-time private investigator Tiffany Black has a strange new case. What happened to Monica Galgavan? Why did she go missing twenty-five years ago, and is she still alive?
Is Tiffany’s client correct in thinking that Monica wouldn’t just leave on her own – and if so, is the person behind Monica’s disappearance willing to strike again?
Meanwhile, Tiffany meets a strange woman named Rosie, who insists on helping Tiff out with her investigations.
“Winters will have you giggling into your book!”
What secret is Rosie hiding, and why are strange men following her?
What if the cure was deadlier than the disease?
Dr. Emma Steele thrives under pressure—she has to. As an ER doc, she juggles life and death every shift. Still, nothing prepared her for the evil menacing her hospital. When a string of dead floods the ER, victims of a wave of overdoses, Emma realizes that someone weaponized the drugs meant to save lives.
As the bodies pile up and the ER falls into chaos, Emma’s own world crumbles from personal demons—her moody daughter, her fickle ex, and her mentor’s gruesome death. Yet nothing matches the threat of a ruthless killer hiding in plain sight.
With her life and her career on the line, Emma plunges into a deadly game of cat and mouse. As she digs through layers of corruption and deceit, she’s stunned to discover the danger looming closer than she ever imagined.
You think it’s safe to walk alone at night. It’s not.
You think the only threat is other humans. It’s not.
Monsters are real. Demons are real. Vampires are real.
And I’m about to become one of them.
My name is Arianna Spero. I was an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life, until my mother lapsed into a coma. Now, I am her only hope. She made a deal with the devil, and on my 18th birthday he came to collect. But there’s a way to save her. There’s something the princes of hell want more than my mother.
What happens when an arrogant clan-chief, who faces down his enemies without flinching, is terrified of loving his wife? A marriage of convenience turns into a battle of wills in Medieval Scotland.
Beth Munro needs a husband. On the cusp of spinsterhood, she’s had a run of ill-fortune—one that has earned her the moniker ‘The Cursed Bride’. But when a proposal arrives from the Mackay clan-chief, Beth believes her luck has finally changed.
Niel Mackay needs a wife. He doesn’t care about the rumors that follow his bride-to-be. After nearly a decade in prison, he’s focused on two things: gaining vengeance against his enemies and ensuring his bloodline survives.
Love isn’t part of the arrangement.
Following a thorough introduction to smoking, including types of smokers, how to turn your existing grill into a smoker, barbecue tools, best meat cuts for smoking, and answers to the most common questions about smoking, you’ll learn how to make crave-worthy things like:
Pork Ribs, Beef Ribs, Pork Shoulder, and Burnt Ends
Matt’s grandmother’s amazing recipe for Smoked Oxtails
Southern-style classics, like Hot Link, Smoked Catfish, and Smoked Jambalaya
Texas-style Beef Brisket, in Matt’s unique style
Easy-to-make sides, such as Smoked Pit Beans, Cornbread, Hoe Cakes, Collards, and Candied Yams
Crowd-pleaser desserts, from Banana Pudding to Peach Cobbler to Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Misarana: Classic dishes reimagined with the flavours of India (affiliate link)
From mid-week meals to slow Sundays, MISARANA is full of recipes for all kinds of budgets and schedules, brought to life with vibrancy, panache and spice (we’re talking Delhi street-style bread omelette, Keralan mussels, Burnt aubergine cakes with lime pickle and Chicken Pista Walla pie).
You’ll learn to view Indian flavors as a vital foundation of home cooking, stimulating your senses and expanding your repertoire with endless variations of exciting, everyday food.
Recipes include:
Tandoori butter trout with ginger and lime greens
Goan vindaloo pulled pork buns with apple fennel slaw
Punjabi spinach and goats cheese tart
Puducherry bouillabaisse
Kolkata tacos
Lamb rogan chops
New Delhi baked cheesecake
Spiced chai chocolate mousse with poached prunes
How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention (affiliate link)
The first-ever comprehensive book devoted to helping educators use nature journaling as an inspiring teaching tool to engage young people with wild places.
In their workshops, John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren are often asked the how-tos of teaching nature journaling: how to manage student groups in the outdoors, teach drawing skills (especially from those who profess to have none), connect journaling to educational standards, and incorporate journaling into longer lessons. This book, expanding on the philosophy and methods of The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling puts together curriculum plans, advice, and in-the-field experience so that educators of all stripes can leap into journaling with their students. The approaches are designed to work in a range of ecosystems and settings, and are suitable for classroom teachers, outdoor educators, camp counselors, and homeschooling parents.
Bare Naked in Public (affiliate link)
Sometimes you have to risk baring it all.
Christine Amoroso did everything right to achieve the perfect life. Falling for a sandy-haired surfer and landing pregnant at seventeen, she knew the “ right” thing to do. She could have it all, even if in the “ wrong” order: beautiful children, a good marriage, and approval from those around her. Until it all fell apart.
Ever the overachiever, she continued to take on too much, finishing college with two kids in tow. But as her responsibility grew, so did her resentment. A stressed-out young mom, an inattentive husband, and the attention of another man made the perfect recipe for disaster. Hard work and responsible decisions had not guaranteed a happy life or lasting love. She had failed, and now she floundered as she tried to find a fresh start. She turned inward for answers rather than seeking external validation.
Sometimes you have to risk baring it all.
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook (affiliate link)
A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert—with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb—achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to his mountains of daily reviews, Ebert also left behind a legacy of lyrical long-form writing. And with Two Weeks in the Midday Sun, we get a glimpse not only into Ebert the man, but also behind the scenes of one of the most glamorous and peculiar of cinematic rituals: the Cannes Film Festival.
More about people than movies, this book is an intimate, quirky, and witty account of the parade of personalities attending the 1987 festival—Ebert’s twelfth, and the fortieth anniversary of the event. A wonderful raconteur with an excellent sense of pacing, Ebert presents lighthearted ruminations on his daily routine and computer troubles alongside more serious reflection on directors such as Fellini and Coppola, screenwriters like Charles Bukowski, actors such as Isabella Rossellini and John Malkovich, the very American press agent and social maverick Billy “Silver Dollar” Baxter, and the stylishly plunging necklines of yore.
The Lady Confesses (The Copeland Sisters) (affiliate link)
Disguised as an elderly woman, a young beauty yearns to reveal herself to sexy rake in this Regency romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.
Having run away from home to avoid an unwanted betrothal, Lady Elizabeth Copeland must keep her disguise as an elderly lady’s companion at all times.
Even when she’s called upon to nurse the lady’s nephew—who rather infuriatingly happens to be the most incredible-looking man she’s ever seen. . . .
Elizabeth yearns to break out of Betsy’s drab dresses to reveal that she’s of the same blue blood as the rakish Nathaniel. But she must not! Unless Nathaniel gets under her guard, and elicits a confession. . . .
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