My First Murder: Mavis Davis Mystery No. 1 (Mavis Davis Mysteries)
Mavis Davis, a likable, new-to-the-job private investigator, not only has one of the wackiest office staffs in mystery fiction, but also goes about solving her first crime in her own, independent, highly interesting way.
When greasy-spoon cafe owner Carl Singleton shows up wanting to hire Mavis to solve the murder of one of his waitresses, Doris Jones, a woman with whom he has fallen in love, Mavis reluctantly takes the job especially when Carl confesses that all the other private investigators in Houston have turned him down. But, facts are facts, and Mavis has to face the fact that she has bills to pay that serving legal papers won’t cover.
SHADOW PACK: An Urban Fantasy Mystery (Michael Biörn Book 1)
When the werewolves, vampires or faes hiding among us misbehave, Michael Biörn gets involved. He’s one of them, but that’s not his darkest secret.
Cops are being targeted. Gunned down on the streets. Murdered in their homes.
What’s killing them? What walks away unscathed after shredding an armed officer and his two rottweilers?
Outclassed, Houston PD turns to shape-shifter Michael Biörn for help. After all, who’s better suited to hunt down a vicious predator than a larger and tougher beast?
Michael instantly identifies the killer as a werewolf. No big deal except that, much like teenage girls, werewolves move in packs.
Rocket Stocks: Learn to Profit from the Stock Market’s Biggest Winners
Learn a powerful trading strategy in just 15 minutes.
Then use it to make money for the rest of your life.
A Rocket Stock is a stock that goes straight up over a short period of time.
Rocket Stocks are the shortest path to wealth in the stock market. And yet many traders and investors miss out on them. Or trade them the wrong way, and get wiped out.
Have you ever wished that you could find the next Tesla or Apple?
Have you ever stood on the sidelines and watched a stock rocket higher? You were paralyzed for many days, afraid to buy. And then you finally bought the stock, only to watch it crash lower.
I used to do this too, until I figured out exactly when to buy and sell these stocks.
F*ck It: A Guide to Letting Go & Living Free
Charlo Greene presents her rules for life in her must-read memoir, F*ck It: A Guide to Letting Go & Living Free, from her childhood as one of seven first generation Nigerian-American siblings in Alaska to her fight to the top in the broadcasting industry and her historic achievement of legalizing cannabis in her home state.
Greene shamelessly puts her life on display, from her childhood traumas and family betrayals to her journey through sexual assault, depression and stripping her way through college, as well as the events leading up to the viral “F**k it, I quit,” moment that was viewed more than 100 million times worldwide.
Greene does all this with the threat of wrongful incarceration – for up to 54 years – looming overhead. F*ck It: A Guide to Letting Go & Living Free is sure to become readers’ go-to inspirational text for true living and paramount success in any industry.
Falling for the Governess: A Historical Regency Romance Book
Isabella Watts’ life of privilege is about to come crashing down.
Her wealthy lifestyle, as the daughter of the adventurous Baron Leinster, is swept away when her father is unexpectedly killed, leaving her with a debt she cannot possibly overcome.
Not only that, but her father has turned the estate over to the vile Mr. Smith, a man whose advances Isabella has already once refused and who is now out for revenge.
Fleeing from the repugnant Smith and his desire to humiliate her, Isabella finds work as the governess of a young ward at Wintercrest Manor.
The Green Princess Trilogy: Flower: Book 1
Kitrin always assumed her overprotective parents were just paranoid—until the trees started talking to her.
For sixteen years, Kitrin has longed for freedom from her parents’ secluded manor. However, one day her emotions trigger flowers to bloom, roots to grasp, and trees to bend. Unable to control her unexplained abilities, she finds an anchor in a young man with sad eyes and his own secrets. A man who sends sparks through her, but who might be tied to her destruction.
Palace outcast and nephew of the king, Prince Bryce lives under the shadow of his father’s execution for treason. To escape the toxic court, he takes comfort in the company of the kindhearted Kitrin. However, as the mysteries in both their pasts are revealed, he realizes the girl he loves is someone his family wants dead.
Never Too Late (A Henlit Novel Book 1)
Decades ago, a shotgun wedding locked Edith into a life with a husband she’s not sure she ever loved. At sixty-five, she feels like a ghost in her own life, wondering where all this came from: the scornful husband, the mercenary brood of grandchildren, her well-meaning but controlling daughter-in-law. Then one Christmas morning Edith wakes to find her husband dead, and the role she played for so long crumbling. Gray-haired, but by no means done with life, Edith has a chance to discover the woman she could have been.
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Book 1)
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes’s past.
Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she’s offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies.
The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in and Carrie feels responsible for having surged forward with the program despite pushback from her director. Driven by guilt, Carrie’s determined to discover who murdered the detective, convinced it’s the same man who killed Laura all those years ago.
Lady Bridget’s Diary: Keeping Up with the Cavendishes
Lord Darcy is the quintessential Englishman: wealthy, titled, impossibly proper, and horrified that a pack of Americans has inherited one of England’s most respected dukedoms. But his manners, his infamous self-restraint, and his better judgment fly out the window when he finds himself with the maddening American girl next door.
Lady Bridget Cavendish has grand—but thwarted—plans to become a Perfect Lady and take the haute ton by storm. In her diary, Bridget records her disastrous attempts to assimilate into London high society, her adoration of the handsome rogue next door, her disdain for the Dreadful Lord Darcy, and some truly scandalous secrets that could ruin them all.
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze
At its height, the Battle of Shanghai involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators—and often victims. It turned what had been a Japanese imperialist adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world.
In its sheer scale, the struggle for China’s largest city was a sinister forewarning of what was in store only a few years later in theaters around the world.
Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together
The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting
Here is the ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns! No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented in this guide focuses on the way a test garment fits the body. The fabric is manipulated to improve the fit, and then those specific changes are made to the pattern. The result: patterns that fit perfectly!
The Silent Songbird
Desperate to flee a political marriage to her cousin King Richard II’s closest advisor, Lord Shiveley—a man twice her age with shadowy motives—Evangeline runs away and joins a small band of servants journeying back to Glynval, their home village.
Pretending to be mute, she gets to know Westley le Wyse, their handsome young leader, who is intrigued by the beautiful servant girl. But when the truth comes out, it may shatter any hope that love could grow between them.
More than Evangeline’s future is at stake as she finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue that threatens England’s monarchy.
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Decks 6th edition
Be inspired by new design and follow the latest codes as you custom build the deck of your dreams!
Architecture, building codes, and design are not static; they change constantly. That’s why there’s a new edition of the bestselling Black & Decker: The Complete Guide to Decks, incorporating updates to national building codes, as well as new developments in building materials and design. Calling attention to composite deckboards and railings, as well as other PVC products made from recycled plastic, the new materials systems featured in this book are environmentally friendly, easy to work with, rot resistant, and very low maintenance.
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