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Taming (To Tame a Shifter Book 1) (affiliate link)
I can only run from my past for so long. Eventually my Demons always find me.
Unfortunately, that Demon has hired three insufferable dragon shifters to bring me back to him.
I just have to hide my secrets a little longer. I just have to pretend to help these assholes find the person they’re looking for without letting them know the truth.
They’re on the hunt for a dangerous Mage.
Just wait until they find out the Mage they’re hunting is actually me …
Ordained Irreverence (Elmo Jenkins Book One – Special Edition) (affiliate link)
What will Elmo Jenkins do next?
Fresh out of seminary he’s hammered by the question, “What now?”
Landing a job at a large church, he bumbles his way through learning to baptize and bury, visit and marry the locals.
There’s:
· Mystery (a hundred-year-old riddle to be solved)
· Romance (with a church secretary, of course)
· Friends (loads of unforgettable church characters)
· Inspiration
Elmo’s story pulls back the sacred curtain and allows the reader to examine the inner workings of a mega-church with all its warts and wonders.
Ride along and watch as Elmo’s cynicism slowly transforms into hope.
Access to Power (affiliate link)
And the clock is ticking.
Three weeks before a crucial senatorial election, Frank’s business partner is gunned down execution-style in their D.C. office. Police are quick to call it a case of robbery gone bad, but Frank Miles, known for his ruthless manipulation of the media, suspects something far more sinister.
And after a former political opponent is brutally assassinated—after the U.S. Attorney names Frank his chief suspect in each of the savage murders—Frank knows that someone hidden in the shadows is pulling all the strings.
As Frank digs deeper, he’s chased through an unforgiving labyrinth of deceit and vengeance that stretches to the highest echelons of power. And with the U.S. Attorney and Metro Police in full pursuit, Frank finds himself on a harrowing journey into the heart of darkness.
They Call Me Crazy (A Cass Adams Novel Book 1) (affiliate link)
Cass Adams is crazy, and everyone in Deacon, Kansas, knows it. But when her good-for-nothing husband, Roland, goes missing, no one suspects that Cass buried him in their unfinished koi pond. Too bad he doesn’t stay there for long. Cass gets arrested on the banks of the Spring River for dumping his corpse after heavy rain partially unearths it.
The police chief wants a quick verdict—he’s running for sheriff and has no time for crazy talk. But like Roland’s corpse, secrets start to surface, and they bring more to light than anybody expected. Everyone in Cass’s life thinks they know her—her psychic grandmother, her promiscuous ex-best friend, her worm-farming brother-in-law, and maybe even her local ghost. But after years of separate silences, no one knows the whole truth. Except Roland. And he’s not talking.
Coma Girl: part 1 (Kindle Single) (affiliate link)
Murder Al Dente (Southern Pasta Shop Book 1) (affiliate link)
Pretty please with spaghetti on top?
Andy Buckland has always dreamed of being a chef. But after a live studio audience is stricken with food poisoning during her debut cooking show, she finds herself blacklisted in the culinary community. The only job open to her is working in her family’s southern pasta shop, and, to make matters worse, her first assignment is serving baked ziti to her former lover and his spoiled bride-to-be at their engagement party! But a broken heart and a bruised ego are the least of Andy’s troubles when she discovers a dead body at the party with the words “welcome home” written in flour next to it. Is it a warning? A threat? Or a frame-up job? Andy is determined to find out. With the help of her over-the-top Italian family, Andy will prove that she has what it takes to not only cook the best dish in town but also catch a killer, too!
PERILS IN PROVENCE (book 1) (affiliate link)
A dangerous past life. A new mysterious boss. An old chateau with some very suspicious characters. Jennifer was happy working as a baker at the Ravenwood Inn, but when fate comes calling in the form of Gable Landon, she’s ready to jump at the new career he offers. Soon she’s globetrotting from Oregon to Bruges, then on to Provence to assess a rundown property her boss might want to buy. The charm of southern France and its food and landscape is almost intoxicating, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s made a new friend, a French bulldog named Orly. What Jennifer hadn’t expected, though, was stone cold murder.
How We Disappeared: A Novel (affiliate link)
A twenty-first–century twelve-year-old seeks the truth behind his grandmother’s trauma in this moving novel of family, love, memory, and the toll of war.
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only two survivors and one tiny child.
In a neighboring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is strapped into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel where she is forced into sexual slavery as a “comfort woman.” After sixty years of silence, what she saw and experienced still haunts her.
In the year 2000, twelve-year-old Kevin is sitting beside his ailing grandmother when he overhears a mumbled confession. He sets out to discover the truth, wherever it might lead, setting in motion a chain of events he never could have foreseen.
Painting Water in Watercolour (30 Minute Artist) (affiliate link)
Essential painting skills conveyed through quick, lively studies
Expert art tuition from a renowned artist, for beginners, the busy artist, or those wanting to loosen up their painting style
Numerous quick exercises and ten step-by-step demonstrations in a handy, affordable ebook format
McNally’s Dilemma (The Archy McNally Series Book 8) (affiliate link)
Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy (affiliate link)
For over a century, we’ve accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm? What if cancer isn’t a disease of damaged DNA, but rather of defective metabolism as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction? What if that startling truth could revolutionize our understanding of other diseases too–and show us a radical new path to optimal health?
In this groundbreaking guide, the first of its kind, New York Times best-selling author and leading natural-health practitioner Joseph Mercola explains how nearly all disease is caused by defective metabolic processes. Then he reveals what’s really causing your metabolism to go haywire: damage and dysfunction in the mitochondria, thousands of which are at work in nearly every cell in your body, generating 90 percent of the energy you need to stay alive and well. When mitochondria become damaged in large numbers, it is impossible to stay healthy.
Never Gonna Happen (affiliate link)
Emily Wilkinson has lost everything. Literally. In a hair-straightener fire. Oh, and her boyfriend (and boss) has announced he’s going back to his wife. So, she needs a new job, a new plan, and somewhere to live that isn’t her childhood bedroom.
Charles Hunter is looking for a live-in PA to help run Bowford Manor and Emily thinks she’s the perfect fit. Well, she’s spent ten years propping up demanding men, so she can definitely handle some tricky characters – like Charles’s eldest son and heir, who’s got plans for the estate that might raise a few eyebrows.
No one’s mentioned Jamie though. The stable hand – and youngest Hunter. Dashing, of course, but totally unsuitable. And Emily’s not about to make that mistake again.
Definitely not. No, really.
Three classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity.
An army base at Pearl Harbor. The jungles of Guadalcanal. A veterans hospital on the home front. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones’s World War II Trilogy stands as one of the most significant achievements in war literature. This compilation includes:
From Here to Eternity
Pearl Harbor, 1941. A challenging young private is transferred to a unit where the commander is determined to make his life hell. This edition includes scenes and dialogue censored for the novel’s original publication. A true classic, From Here to Eternity was made into an Academy Award–winning film and a television mini-series, as well as adapted for the stage.
The Thin Red Line
The invasion of Guadalcanal ignites a six-month battle for two thousand square miles of jungle and sand. But the soldiers of Charlie Company are not of the heroic mold. The unit’s captain is too intelligent and sensitive for the job, his first sergeant is half mad, and the enlisted men begin the campaign gripped by cowardice. This searing portrait of jungle combat has been adapted twice for feature films.
The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention (affiliate link)
The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in these four memoirs.
Set against the lush backdrop of Crosswicks, Madeleine L’Engle’s family farmhouse in rural Connecticut, this series of memoirs reveals the complexity behind the beloved author whose works have long been cherished by children and adults alike.
A Circle of Quiet: In a deeply personal account, L’Engle shares her journey to find balance between her career as an author and her responsibilities as a wife, mother, teacher, and Christian.
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother: Four generations of family have gathered at Crosswicks to care for L’Engle’s ninety-year-old mother, whose health is rapidly declining and whose once astute mind is slipping into senility. L’Engle takes an unflinching look at diminishment and death, all the while celebrating the wonder of life and the bonds between mothers and daughters.
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