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Just The Pits (Hetta Coffey Series, Book 5) (affiliate link)
Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it!
As a self-employed engineering consultant with a penchant for oddball—read: shady—projects, Hetta Coffey has a history of inviting trouble. But now that she’s been hired for a legitimate mining project in Mexico’s Baja, it looks like smooth sailing ahead…until she discovers that people and pesos are disappearing faster than you can say, “This job is the pits!”
And Hetta Coffey as sleuth? Goodness knows she’s nosy enough, but her detective skills leave a lot to be desired. Luckily for her she gets help from her best friend, Jan, and a mysterious Velveeta thief.
Catch-22 (affiliate link)
An ordinary life. An extra-ordinary vendetta.
From the outside, Lauren’s life looks idyllic, yet beneath the surface there are cracks in her marriage.
When an old schoolfriend returns home, Lauren doesn’t know whether to avoid her or befriend her. Her husband thinks she should give Bettina a chance; her best friend thinks she has a hidden agenda. A sexy schoolteacher proves an unlikely ally, even if he is an extra threat to her marriage.
Slowly Lauren’s life begins to unravel: a car crash and poison-pen letters are just the beginning.
Someone is out to ruin her. But who?
Irresistible: A (Cloverleigh Farms Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
I’m a full-time single dad to three daughters and CFO at Cloverleigh Farms.
I don’t have time to fall in love—I’m too busy trying to run a business, keep the red socks out of the white laundry, and get the damn pillowcases on without owing a dollar to the swear jar.
Sure, Frannie Sawyer is beautiful and sweet, but she’s twenty-seven, the boss’s daughter, and my new part-time nanny—which means she’s completely off-limits. It’s bad enough I can’t stop fantasizing about her, what kind of jerk would I be if I acted on the impulse to kiss her?
(Exactly the kind of jerk you’re thinking.)
Actually, I’m worse than that—because I didn’t stop with a kiss, and now I can’t stay away. She makes me feel like myself again. She reminds me what it’s like to want something just for me. She’s everything I ever needed, but nothing I ever imagined.
Love Restored (Gallagher Brothers Book 1) (affiliate link)
The rules were simple. Finish rebuilding the project house and keep his hands off the woman who owns it.
Graham Gallagher knows tragedy and heartbreak but he’s spent these past years burying the pain deep down where it belongs. He has a life he’s learning to love. A job where he can make good change. And brothers that keep him sane.
What he doesn’t need is a hot-tempered client who gets on his last nerve.
Too bad the two of them can’t keep their hands off each other.
Blake Brennen is a single mom who doesn’t have time for growly, bearded men. Only circumstances keep them together far more than either one of them wants.
One night of temptation leads to another and they both know they need to walk away. But when the worst happens and their worlds collide, they won’t have a choice but to lean on each other.
Or risk losing it all anyway.
Kill Me Twice (Roberts and Bradley Mysteries series 1) (affiliate link)
A HERO IS MISSING… A BODY IS FOUND ON THE BEACH… AND A DESPERATE FRIEND BEGS DETECTIVE EVA ROBERTS TO SAVE HER LIFE
Shortly after getting hired by a former school friend Private Investigator Eva Roberts becomes embroiled in the beach murder case. Eva’s friend is in deep trouble. Her husband is violent and may soon kill her. But in all respects, nothing is as it seems
The beach murders appear to have nothing in common. But the truth goes deep into the heart of a crime threatening to tear the town apart.
The private detectives must follow the clues to track down a killer… and Eva must save her friend before it’s too late.
Mystery, danger, and intrigue lure Roberts and Bradley into a deadly case of dark crime and even more sinister motives.
The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World’s Fastest Stealth Jet (affiliate link)
The ultimate guide to the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all fifty models in the SR-71 program.
At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed of sound—so fast that no other aircraft could catch it. Above 80,000 feet, its pilots had to wear full-pressure flight suits similar to what was used aboard the space shuttle.
Developed by the renowned Lockheed Skunk Works, the SR-71 was an awesome aircraft in every respect. It was withdrawn from use in 1998, when it was superseded by satellite technology. Twelve of the thirty-two aircraft were destroyed in accidents, but none were ever lost to enemy action.
Throughout its thirty-four-year career, the SR-71 was the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational manned aircraft. It set world records for altitude and speed: an absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet and an absolute speed record of 2,193.2 miles per hour.
The Girl and the Bombardier: A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France (affiliate link)
Susan Tate Ankeny’s father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father’s story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago.
While piecing together her father’s wartime experience, Ankeny discovered a remarkable hero. Godelieve Van Laere was just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century.
The result is a fascinating and dramatic World War II tale enhanced by personal interviews with participants.
Eye contact can land you a job. It can get you a date. It can deepen your connections with the people you love. It can make or break business relationships. It can help win a fight. It can win over an audience.
Simply put, eye contact is one of the most powerful tools in human face-to-face interaction. The Power of Eye Contact is your concise guide to harnessing the potent force of eye contact. Master this force and you will notice three things:
You meet more people
Your connections deepen with family, friends, and business prospects
You look, feel, and act more confident
The Power of Eye Contact is your invaluable tool to enhance your relationships in every part of your life.
The Longest Way Home (affiliate link)
Joseph, fifteen and separated from his family in the land known as Getfen, awakens to an attack on the Great House in which he is visiting. Narrowly escaping with his life but still pursued by enemies who wish to see him killed, Joseph must journey across a dark, unfamiliar world on his quest to return to his home of Helikis and his father. He has thousands of miles to travel and much to learn about this perilous alien world in transition—and about himself.
“What the greatly changed Joseph might find at the end of his journey, and how he might react, are questions that I came to care deeply about.” —The New York Times Book Review
“The Longest Way Home recalls, in a lot of ways, the old-time frontier adventures, not the ones with the cowboys and the Indians, but the ones where people have to learn to survive in the wilderness or along the prairie. [Joseph’s] adventures in survival are exciting, and the travels along this world are a pleasant escape.” —SF Site
The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Game Forever (affiliate link)
The time when fashion was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by the elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, and licensing to image making and financing. Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers, the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute couture that sent Isaac Mizrahi’s business spiraling.
“The End of Fashion rips into the seamy underbelly of a world where marketing is king, and often the emperor has no clothes.” —Vanity Fair
La Vie Rustic: Cooking & Living in the French Style (affiliate link)
The James Beard Award–winning author celebrates the traditions of French country living with evocative essays and simple, seasonal recipes.
Following an approach to daily cooking that’s rooted firmly in the French tradition, author Georgeanne Brennan crafts recipes driven by the seasons and the outdoors. Paired with lovely lifestyle photography, this inspiring cookbook weaves together her personal experience, stories, and tips about how to create a sustainable life—one that celebrates the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends—no matter where you reside.
Inside you’ll find delectable dishes that combine ingredients from forest, field, sea, and stream in casual meals for friends and family like green garlic and new potato soup, homecured olives, chestnut and pork stew, foie gras terrine, chicken liver pâté, beef braised in red wine and bone marrow, frozen meringues and fruit cream, snail stuffed mushroom, wild mushroom soup, Crème Brûlée with Black Truffles, lavender pepper goat cheese, and more.
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