Literally Dead (A Pepper Brooks Cozy Mystery Book 1)

 Mystery > Cozy > Crafts & Hobbies
Author: Eryn Scott
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Literally Dead (A Pepper Brooks Cozy Mystery Book 1)

To solve or not to solve?

When a visiting professor is found dead, English major Pepper Brooks is caught in the middle of the investigation. Literally. While the detectives focus on crime scene forensics, Pepper can’t ignore the Shakespearian clues left by the killer.

With the help of a handsome library clerk, a dog named Hamburger, and The Bard himself, this unlikely sleuth might just close the book on this case.

An American Cage: A prison-break psychological thriller

 Mystery > Police Procedurals
Author: Ted Galdi
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An American Cage: A prison-break psychological thriller

Three inmates break out of a maximum-security prison in Texas, one of them Danny Marsh, a suburban man in his twenties who landed in jail because of a crime he never intended to commit.

An American Cage, a “tale of convicts on the run that convincingly examines their psychological states” (Kirkus Reviews), follows Danny and his two escape partners over a twenty-four-hour period as they struggle to cross Texas to freedom in Mexico. On this dangerous adventure, Danny has to evade the rabid Texas authorities, and even worse, the schemes of one of his closest allies, who isn’t who he seems.

Portland Storm: The First Period (Portland Storm Boxed Sets Book 1)

  Romance > Sports
Author: Catherine Gayle
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Portland Storm: The First Period (Portland Storm Boxed Sets Book 1)

A boxed set of three novels and a novella in the Portland Storm hockey romance series by USA Today bestselling author Catherine Gayle.

Portland Storm captain Eric “Zee” Zellinger knows how to get the job done, but leading his once elite team to victory is fast becoming a losing battle. He can’t lose focus now—not with his career on the line. But when his best friend’s little sister makes him an offer he can’t refuse, Eric could lose the drive the team relies on from their captain.

Incarcerated: Letters from Inmate 92510 (Katie and Logan)

  Contemporary Fiction > Romance
Author: Inger Iversen
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Incarcerated: Letters from Inmate 92510 (Katie and Logan)

We all wear two masks. One to hide from the world. The other to hide from ourselves.

From Inger Iversen, the first book in a best-selling BWWM romance duology that reaches across the great divide between prejudice and love.

Katie Andreasson’s home office, where she writes best-selling novels, is her refuge from criticism that her private education, her success—even the way she speaks—betrays her own race. With her mother’s death, grief and increasing isolation inspire her to create Capshaw Penitentiary’s pen pal program. Even secretly participate, though her adopted father—the prison warden—would never approve.

Scorpion: A Covert Ops Novel (Avery Book 1)

  Thrillers > Espionage
Author: Ross Sidor
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Scorpion: A Covert Ops Novel (Avery Book 1)

The CIA employs contractors recruited from elite military units for work in high risk environments and deniable operations. The most skilled and lethal of these operatives are known as scorpions.

One scorpion is a former Airborne Ranger and disgruntled ex-CIA paramilitary officer named Avery.

When a high ranking CIA officer is abducted by terrorists in Tajikistan, Avery is tasked with securing the hostage’s release before dozens of classified operations and agents are compromised.

The Sweetest Seduction (The Kelly Brothers Book 1)

 Romance > Contemporary
Author: Crista McHugh
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The Sweetest Seduction (The Kelly Brothers Book 1)

Lia Mantovani has created one of the hottest restaurants on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, but all that could disappear if she loses her lease with Kelly Properties. Having had her dreams ripped away from her before, she’ll do everything in her power to keep her restaurant. Her fate hangs on the whims of the frustratingly handsome Adam Kelly.

Adam has spent years trying to convince world famous chef Amadeus Schlittler to open a restaurant in Chicago, but he wants the prime location held by Lia. Business has always come first… until sparks fly when Adam meets her. When things get hot outside the kitchen, though, they’re both in danger of getting burned.

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Charleston: A Novel

 Contemporary Fiction > Literary
Author: Margaret Bradham Thornton
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Charleston: A Novel

A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal question: can we ever truly go home again?

When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now almost a decade later, she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, her childhood love, at a wedding in the English countryside.

A Reader’s Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

 Fiction > History & Criticism > Reference
Author: Tom Nissley
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A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.
At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader’s Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, “Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance?” Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter’s enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King’s Carrie.

Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

 Mystery > Traditional Detectives
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
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Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” (Wall Street Journal).

It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square—a place of many memories—she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service.

The Forest Feast: Simple Vegetarian Recipes from My Cabin in the Woods

 Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Vegan & Vegetarian
Author: Erin Gleeson
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The Forest Feast: Simple Vegetarian Recipes from My Cabin in the Woods

Erin Gleeson made her dream a reality when she left New York City and moved into a tiny cabin in a California forest in order to be closer to nature. The natural beauty of her surroundings and the abundance of local produce serve as the inspiration for The Forest Feast, based on her popular blog. Most of the book’s 100 wholly vegetarian recipes call for only three or four ingredients and require very few steps, resulting in dishes that are fresh, wholesome, delicious, and stunning. Among the delightful recipes are eggplant tacos with brie and cilantro, rosemary shortbread, and blackberry negroni.

A Fine Summer’s Day: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

 Mystery > Historical
Author: Charles Todd
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A Fine Summer's Day: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers into Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge’s past—to his perplexing final case before the outbreak of World War I.

On a fine summer’s day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo. An Inspector at Scotland Yard, he is planning to propose to the woman whom he deeply loves, despite intimations from friends and family that she may not be the wisest choice.

Sea of Rust: A Novel

 Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic
Author: C. Robert Cargill
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Sea of Rust: A Novel

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic “robot western” from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.

It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them.

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