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Heart of a Runaway Girl (Mabel Davison Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Mabel Davison is a hard-working woman who tells jokes and tops up coffees with a smile while running a little diner and motel in the small mountain town of Blue River. Recently separated from her husband, she’s looking to create a safe home for her kids and orphaned niece.
But this seemingly sleepy, friendly town is anything but.
One night, a teen girl, who breezed through Mabel’s diner, is discovered murdered by State police at a local sawmill. Sheriff Dan Gibson looks no further than the teen’s black boyfriend, Winston Washington, a known drug dealer. But Mabel fears Dan’s only trying to keep the peace in a town rife with racism, and her big heart won’t let that stand.
As she starts digging, the Sheriff warns her to stop, too afraid to catch the attention of a local drug lord, Karl Larson, who rules this land with an iron hand.
Unexpected Love at Silver Ridge (Silver Ridge Resort Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
She’s running from her past, and I might be destroying my family’s future.
Everyone sees me as the town’s golden boy, but little do they know, I’m about to crack under the pressure. Our family business is about to go under and it’s taking everything I have to save it.
But then, I see Wells Bryant. New in town, radiating a stay away from me vibe as the new owner of the Silverton Inn, and heartbreakingly gorgeous. My plate is completely full running the ski resort, but man, making time for her is all I can think about. And miraculously, somehow, she decides she wants me to.
She’s running from her past, and I’m struggling to make sure my business—my family—has a future. Can I possibly have love and success at the same time?
The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
Meet Charlie Kingsley. Also known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She’s back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.
Enjoy the first three full-length books of The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries:
The Murder Before Christmas: A dead husband. A pregnant wife. A poisoned Christmas gift. Can Charlie discover the grinch who stole Christmas?
Ice Cold Murder: What do you get when you combine an estranged family, a blizzard, a haunted house … and murder? The world’s WORST family gathering. Ever.
Murder Next Door: Everyone knows vampires don’t exist. Which means the house sitter living next to Mildred, one of Charlie’s customers, can’t possibly be a vampire. Right?
Love in 3D (affiliate link)
What’s not to love about:
Friends-to-lovers
Fake-dating
A quirky cast of characters
She needs a fake boyfriend to take to her sister’s wedding.
He needs a fake girlfriend to get his mother off his case.
As a licensed mental health professional, Xavier knows pretending to date someone is ridiculous. But it’s all he can come up with to protect his heart from the one woman capable of breaking it. Meeting Justine has shown him that he can be friends with a woman without involving sex. Except the temptation to be more than friends with her is killing him.
Justine is trying to grow a backbone around her family, her boss, and her ex. But it’s exhausting. Getting her new friend and neighbor, Xavier, to be her plus-one to her sister’s wedding might give her a little breathing room to figure out her life. Until she finds herself falling for a man who’s kind, thoughtful, and ah-may-zzzzing between the sheets.
The Blackmail Flour Trail (Slice of Paradise Book 3) (affiliate link)
How exciting! Faith, Laura & Grandma Bessie have made it to the final round of the Cupcake-Baking Contest! They’ve met, and beaten, some interesting folks along the way and now they’re so close to winning the $50,000 prize they can taste it!
But things are about to take a nasty turn.
When their competitor for the final round is found murdered, not only does it look like the contest will have to be cancelled, but the police immediately suspect Faith & her team of being involved. After all, there is a lot of money at stake. Plus, there’s the topic of evidence…evidence that seems to point right at Faith.
Can Faith help clear her own name of murder? Can she help find the real murderer? And will all the hard work she’s put into winning the contest be for nothing?
Deja Brew (The Magic Bean Book 1) (affiliate link)
Accidentally summoning a talking dog was not how Louise “Lou” Danvers wanted to end her first day in her new town. Moving a thousand miles after inheriting an apartment in her Mom’s hometown was one thing. Finding out that she comes from a family of witches was another. Surprise? Still reeling from the new information, Lou finds herself at odds with the owner of the local coffee shop. No big deal, right? Until the owner shows up dead, right outside Lou’s front door.
Now the prime suspect, Lou’s got to hurry and solve the murder before she’s tried in the court of public opinion. When the victim turns out to have ties to a drug ring, the whole case gets more complicated. Especially when the same drugs are found in Lou’s new apartment. Then the victim’s will is read, and Lou inherits the coffee shop from the same person she’s accused of killing.
Between the talking dog, her new magic lessons, gaining a family, and the ridiculously handsome, single-father ex-cop who seems to pop up wherever she goes, Lou’s got more than enough to keep her busy.
Yanked (Mia and Lucas): A Frenched Novella (affiliate link)
I never expected any of this.
Getting dumped.
Going to Paris alone.
Falling for Lucas (he was so not on my list!).
We’ve done the long-distance-love thing for eight months now, and I’m ready for more. But after I discover what he’s been hiding, will he stay on my list? Or should I cross him off for good?
Wayne of Gotham: A Novel (affiliate link)
Beyond the Grave: The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children (and Others) (affiliate link)
This expert, one-of-a-kind handbook shows you how to
ensure that your inheritance instructions will be carried out the way you want them to be;
protect your children’s inheritance from creditors, ex-spouses, addictions, tax troubles, mismanagement, squandering, and other risks of loss;
prevent family conflict that can arise when parents die and children divide the “family money”;
leave more money to your children and grandchildren, and less to the IRS;
avoid creating inheritance problems in your family with “cautionary tales” of inheritance planning gone bad;
understand why you still have to deal with estate tax issues even if your net worth falls below the new death-tax-exemption.
The Minutemen and Their World (affiliate link)
The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The “shot heard round the world” catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town—future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne—soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life.
In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.
Free-Motion Meandering: A Beginners Guide to Machine Quilting (affiliate link)
From cannibals to conspiracy theories to the origin stories of candy, a compendium of thousands of fun facts to read behind closed doors!
Our readers asked for it, and here it is: Uncle John’s first collection of his greatest short facts and quick reading material. Open up to any page of Extraordinary Book of Facts and you might find a list of, say, obscure words (“exocannibals” eat enemies; “indocannibals” eat friends). Flip to another page and there’s a whole bunch of facts about how long things take (a yak’s gestation period: 258 days). On another page: kid facts (the average four-year-old laughs 400 times per day; grownups, about fifteen).
Get smarter and laugh a lot more with this amazing collection that features thousands of great facts, plus word origins, myth-conceptions, conspiracy theories, and much, much more. Arranged for simple and speedy reference, this book is the perfect companion for trivia buffs and knowledge junkies everywhere!
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