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Sing Your Heart Out (Sinful Serenade) (affiliate link)
Still a virgin at 21, Meg Smart walks a straight and narrow path. She aces her classes, excels at her part time job, and carefully avoids trouble–no drinks, no drugs, and especially, no boyfriends.
Rock star Miles Webb doesn’t do “boyfriend.” He skips over intimacy and love in favor of easy distraction–a beautiful woman under him, screaming his name.
Meg is drawn to the pain in his gorgeous, tortured voice. But the man she hears on the radio is nothing like the player she meets at a mutual friend’s house party. When she walks in on one of his trysts, she’s embarrassed enough to die. His merciless teasing leaves her blushed and frustrated, but she’s intrigued by his wit, his confidence, his casual offer to give her a night she’ll never forget.
A Zen For Murder (Moosamuck Island Book 1) (affiliate link)
Tourist season is about to start, and murder is the last thing on the minds of the locals in Mooseamuck Island, Maine … but that’s about to change.
When local psychic Zoila Rivers is found dead at the zen garden, retired police consultants Dominic Benedetti and Claire Watkins are forced to team up to catch the killer. Too bad Claire and Dom don’t always see eye to eye.
But with an island full of locals who all have secrets, Claire and Dom have to put aside their differences in order to solve the case before the police arrest the wrong person and a killer goes free.
Will Claire and Dom figure out whose secret was worth killing for in time to stop the killer from claiming another victim?
A DIRTY DEATH (West Country Book 1) (affiliate link)
Early one morning, Lilah Beardon finds her father drowned on his own farm. The police assume his death was a tragic accident.
But Lilah isn’t convinced. She knew her father better than anyone, and a clumsy accident doesn’t seem likely.
Everyone else in this pretty village hated the crabby old farmer: from his neglected wife Miranda, to the parish vicar . . . but is one of the villagers a cold-blooded killer?
Working alongside the handsome but bumbling Detective Constable Den Cooper, Lilah is determined to uncover the truth.
And then another body is discovered . . . Will Lilah be able to crack the case before she becomes the killer’s next target?
Jackets, Jack-O-Lantern, & Justice (A Camper & Criminals Book 22) (affiliate link)
Let me be the first person to welcome you to Normal, Kentucky located in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest. I’m Mae West the owner of Happy Trails Campground.
Fall at the campground is my favorite time of the year. The bursts of orange, yellow, green, and red pop on the falling leaves, creating a colorful path along the trails for all of my guests at my campground is a real life picture that could never be captured by a camera.
Days are warm and at night you need a light sweater to enjoy the campfire or snuggle up in a cozy blanket.
The campground is full and the campers are excited to participate in Normal’s annual Pumpkin Carving Contest.
Death on the Danube: A New Year’s Murder in Budapest (affiliate link)
Who knew a New Year’s trip to Budapest could be so deadly? The tour must go on – even with a killer in their midst…
Recent divorcee Lana Hansen needs a break. Her luck has run sour for going on a decade, ever since she got fired from her favorite job as an investigative reporter. When her fresh start in Seattle doesn’t work out as planned, Lana ends up unemployed and penniless on Christmas Eve.
Dotty Thompson, her landlord and the owner of Wanderlust Tours, is also in a tight spot after one of her tour guides ends up in the hospital, leaving her a guide short on Christmas Day. When Dotty offers her a job leading the tour group through Budapest, Hungary, Lana jumps at the chance. It’s the perfect way to ring in the new year and pay her rent!
A Taste of Christmas (affiliate link)
Enjoy a taste of Christmas with a sparkling collection of festive winter tales and a heartwarming romance novel from the ‘Queen of Christmas – author of hit holiday romcoms Something From Tiffany’s, A Gift to Remember and A Little Christmas Charm!
Choc-full of twinkling romantic reads, some of which are also set for adaptation, including one airing now on Apple TV as the holiday movie, ‘Christmas on the Rocks.’
‘Doesn’t get much better than this sweet and romantic page-turner’ (Closer)
Three Classic Novels: Tobacco Road, God’s Little Acre, and Place Called Estherville (affiliate link)
Three powerful novels of racism, lust, and poverty in the rural South by a controversial national bestselling author.
Bigotry, poverty, social injustice, and sexual squalor in the Deep South—hallmarks of one of the most daring and phenomenally popular bestselling novelists of the twentieth-century. Here, in one volume, are three of his best-known works. “None of [his] characters would be caught dead in a novel by John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, or Eudora Welty” (The Daily Beast).
Tobacco Road: The Great Depression compromises the morals of a poor farming family in Georgia. This classic, a Modern Library 100 Best Novels selection, was adapted for the stage in 1933 and made into a 1941 film directed by John Ford.
The Complete Photo Guide to Knitting (affiliate link)
Inside this essential knitting guide, you will find expanded basics for all knitting techniques, from cast-on to bind-off and every step in between. Learn to knit row by row and in the round; understand knitting jargon and how to follow a pattern; learn all the methods for increasing and decreasing stitches, seaming, and adding details like pockets and zippers. With twenty new stitch patterns, this section expands to 220 in all, arranged in style categories for easy reference.
Projects at the end of each section give you opportunities to try some of the new techniques you’ve learned while making knitted items you can use or gift to others. Margaret Hubert will guide you through special knitting topics like cables, intarsia, entrelac, Fair Isle knitting, and lace knitting. With the updated information and all new projects, even if you have the first edition you are sure to want the second edition to complete your collection.
Boba: Classic, Fun, Refreshing – Bubble Teas to Make at Home (affiliate link)
No matter if you call it boba or bubble tea, this addictive drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s has taken the world by storm, with shops popping up on every corner and lines out all their doors.
Boba covers all the basics, from brewing tea and making your own tapioca balls (aka boba) to handcrafting sweeteners, syrups, toppings, and more with all-natural ingredients and no corn syrup. Each recipe includes a tantalizing photo and instructions for customizing to your preferred level of sweetness.
Learn how to make:
- Milk Teas (lactose-free Thai, black milk, and green milk teas)
- Fruit Teas (strawberry, mango, watermelon, kiwi, pineapple, pomelo, and cucumber teas)
- Specialty Drinks (with special ingredients including coconut milk, almond butter, taro root, and ice cream)
Recipes include:
- Pomelo Slushie (green or black tea with Pomelo Jam and Simple Syrup)
- Lady Bug (black tea with Strawberry Syrup and Watermelon Syrup)
- Area 51 (green tea with Cucumber Syrup and Kiwi Syrup)
- Mint Tea Lemon Mojito (mint tea with Lemon Syrup, Simple Syrup, and mint leaves)
Point, Click, Quilt!: Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art (affiliate link)
Fiber artist and designer Susan Brubaker Knapp teaches quilters how to compose and shoot dynamic digital photos from a quilter’s perspective. With fun, creative workshop-like exercises in art quilting, you’ll learn how to turn those photos into small art quilts, both realistic and abstract, combining traditional fabrics with innovative materials. Every quilter can succeed with Susan’s achievable designs and accessible techniques.
- 16 artful appliqué projects inspired by digital photographs
- Learn how to shoot better photos and turn them into art quilt designs
- Boost your creativity with new tools and techniques
- Use unique materials to achieve your vision, including Tyvek, foils, paints, and more
London, 1582: Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey, a talented and well-educated woman of independent means, is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen. With her talent in languages and knowledge of ciphers and codes, she will be integral to the spymaster as an intelligence gatherer, being able to get close to Lady Mary just at the time when she is being courted by Russia’s Ivan the Terrible.
But there are some nobles at court who will do anything they can to thwart such an alliance, and Rosamond soon realizes the extent of the danger, when a prominent official is murdered and then an attempt is made on both her and Lady Mary’s lives. In her quest to protect her ward—and her estranged husband—Rosamond must put herself in mortal peril . . .
Coffee Art: Creative Coffee Designs for the Home Barista (affiliate link)
From free pouring to etching, stencilling and more complicated designs for the black belt barista, you’ll have fun emulating innovative designs such as The Swan, The Unicorn, and frothy 3-D babyccino animals. The book even includes 9 stencil patterns for you to trace and try.
Starting with basic skills and patterns, readers will learn how to create the crema (the froth that acts as a canvas in the coffee cup) and how to produce the hearts, rosettas and tulips that will be used as the basis to form more complicated artworks.
Dhan Tamang is a world-renowned latte artist particularly known for his use of colour, and now you too can create impressive multicoloured designs following Dhan’s step-by-step instructions.
By the end of this book you will be able to create fabulous designs to delight family members and dinner party guests alike.
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