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After being engaged to Gator Price for a year, Lacey Flowers finally decides to set a wedding date. But where is her mother? The only scrap found on the kitchen floor carries the words “…sorry, Love Mom.” Her dog Luna has eaten the rest. Since the death of her father, Lacey has felt responsible for Cordelia. Not only is she Lacey’s mom, they’ve become close friends.Her missing mother sends Lacey on a journey that unlocks secrets and provides a surprising new perspective. Her brother’s offer of help is a comfort. The two hit the road, picking up clues as they read their mother’s diary. Can these insights from the recently found book reunite their family?
End Game (Calm Act Book 1) (affiliate link)
Super-storms. Government surveillance and breakdown.
Tech whisperer Dee Baker seeks safety.Because the climate science was almost right. It was already too late. Weather disasters spin out of control. Food prices skyrocket. Refugees spill everywhere, including Americans fleeing the dust bowl, floods, and hurricanes.Congress has a plan, the Calm Act. Its public face is martial law. The secret measures are worse.
Dee’s job provides her classified access to the truth. They promise her an ark berth, secure in a sealed biosphere. But she doesn’t trust them to deliver. She’s also dating Adam, a fun ark-itect, and Zack, who plans to organize the community and take a stand outside the arks.
Or has she been running from life?
Boarding a flight to Europe is the last thing recently divorced Trudy Asp wants to be doing. Not only is she terrified of flying, but she’s already got a mountain of problems at home.
Her bakery business is floundering, she’s living with her martini-swilling mother, and her knees are failing her. On top of all that, she’s just discovered her ex-husband is engaged to her dental hygienist.
But everything can wait, because getting to the bottom of her only daughter’s shock wedding announcement to a boy she’s just met in Croatia is more important.
With her friends along for support, Trudy is determined to reconnect with her daughter no matter what it takes. Half a world away, she starts to see her problems in a new light.
Push Not the River (The Poland Trilogy Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Mistletoe Switch (Yuletide Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the merriest town on earth, my plot to win back my ex has run into a serious problem.
The plan is simple. All I have to do is stalk my ex-fiancé, ‘accidentally’ bump into him in this Christmas-obsessed town he’s moved to, and – bam! – he’ll regret dumping me and beg me to take him back.
Problem number 1: He’s got a girlfriend. A sweet, adorable woman.
New plan: Find someone to lure my ex’s girlfriend away so I can step in and win him back.
Problem number 2: The gorgeous, grumpy man I’ve just asked to distract the girlfriend is storming over to my ex with a murderous expression.
It’s possible I didn’t do enough research before I enacted this plan.
Marcus Off Duty: The Recipes I Cook at Home (affiliate link)
Unwind with 150 relaxed, multicultural dishes from the award-winning celebrity chef and New York Times–bestselling author!
Born in Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, and trained in European kitchens, Marcus Samuelsson is a world citizen turned American culinary icon—the youngest chef ever to receive three stars from the New York Times, a five-time James Beard Award recipient, a winner of Top Chef Masters, and a judge on Chopped. He was even chosen to cook President Obama’s first state dinner.
In Marcus Off-Duty, the chef former president Bill Clinton says “has reinvigorated and reimagined what it means to be American” serves up the dishes he makes at his Harlem home for his wife and friends. The recipes blend a rainbow of the flavors he has experienced in his travels: Ethiopian, Swedish, Mexican, Caribbean, Italian, and Southern soul.
True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News (affiliate link)
A former CIA analyst unveils the true history of fake news and gives readers tips on how to avoid falling victim to it in this highly designed informative YA nonfiction title.
“Fake news” is a term you’ve probably heard a lot in the last few years, but it’s not a new phenomenon. From the ancient Egyptians to the French Revolution to Jack the Ripper and the founding fathers, fake news has been around as long as human civilization. But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up on the idea of finding the truth.
In True or False, former CIA analyst Cindy Otis will take readers through the history and impact of misinformation over the centuries, sharing stories from the past and insights that readers today can gain from them. Then, she shares lessons learned in over a decade working for the CIA, including actionable tips on how to spot fake news, how to make sense of the information we receive each day, and, perhaps most importantly, how to understand and see past our own information biases, so that we can think critically about important issues and put events happening around us into context.
The Ambition: A Novel (affiliate link)
Merge and Disciple: Two Short Novels (From Crosstown to Oblivion) (affiliate link)
Like the Wind (affiliate link)
A life in pieces. A hundred-year-old journal. And a chance for love to be reborn.
Olivia Ward arrived in Bethlehem Springs alone—with no job, no home, and no money—after her manipulative ex-husband used his power and wealth to destroy everything. Six years later, the peaceful life she rebuilt is once again turned upside down when she learns that her fifteen-year-old daughter, Emma, will be coming to live with her. The reunion should be a dream come true, but years of deception have driven a wedge between them. And Emma seems more interested in an old diary she discovered than reconciliation with her mother.
His Convenient Curvy Bride: A Marriage Of Convenience (affiliate link)
When desperation leads to a marriage of convenience, love becomes the ultimate complication.
When a life-changing medication becomes available, I’m ready to do anything to ensure my brother can have it. Including selling my V-Card to the highest bidder at The Club. My boss overhears my conversation with the club owner and proposes a marriage of convenience: organize his home, host dinners for VIP clients and provide marital duties in exchange for a lifetime of the best paid medical care for my brother.
Gabriel Cross doesn’t want messy complications like love or children in his life. And that’s fine by me. Just looking at him makes my pulse race but there is no way a bubbly girl like me could ever fall for a grump like him, right?
Wrong. I do fall in love with the scarred silver fox. As if this weren’t enough, I get pregnant, going against a contractual clause. When my husband finds out, will I be able to keep my baby and brother safe?
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