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Miss Riddell’s Cozy Mystery Adventures – A 10 Book Boxset by P.C. James

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Miss Riddell’s Cozy Mystery Adventures – A 10 Book Boxset by P.C. James

A Yorkshire Christmas, a Manchester mobster, and a Galapagos cruise. Will her determined detecting help her set them all to rights?

Boxset: Over 2,200 pages of clues, conundrums, and canny investigating!

Northern England. Miss Pauline Riddell can’t abide injustice. So when she gets tangled up in a suspicious homicide, she sets her sharp mind to unraveling the messy murder. And after unmasking the killer, the eagle-eyed accountant realizes she has a flair for investigation that could change her entire life.

This collection contains all ten volumes in the Miss Riddell series, with adventures spanning from 1953 to 1988. While away the hours immersed in delightfully deft prose, vivid historical details, and humorous-yet-believable plots.

Can this daring damsel track down a priceless relic? Will her sensible sobriety help her unearth a lost fortune? Does a phantom prankster stand a chance against her well-honed wits?

Miss Riddell’s Cozy Mystery Adventures is the complete set of the intriguing Miss Riddell Cozy Mystery series. If you like watching characters grow, quirky casts, and a dash of globe-trotting, then you’ll love P.C. James’s shrewd sleuthing.

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Argument Hacks: Tips on How to Communicate with your Partner Effectively During a Fight by Gracie O’Devin

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Argument Hacks: Tips on How to Communicate with your Partner Effectively During a Fight by Gracie O'Devin

No two people are alike enough that they never have a disagreement. So why not learn how to make arguing something that you are good at? Why not become so good at arguing that it feels productive? Argument Hacks is a simple guide that will teach you how to have a good, healthy argument. It is a real thing and the hope is that you and your partner can keep fighting without making it a painful, daily occurrence in your life. Argument Hacks will help you follow some guidelines that are not too painful so that you can open lines of communication and grow closer to the person you spend the most time with in the world.
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Reparation by Lee Maguire

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Reparation by Lee Maguire

Renowned psychologist Dr. Bryce Davison is still reeling from his own recent trauma, plagued by doubt about his professional and personal capabilities. Despite his trepidation, he plunges in to help the cops when he finds out that a local surgeon has been murdered and castrated. But it doesn’t take long for him to make the connection between this homicide and another victim found horribly disfigured…

Now the body count has risen to three as a second consultant joins the investigation, and Bryce begins to study the victims closely in order to uncover any clues which may lead them closer to apprehending this brutal murderer. His evidence seems to indicate diabolical motives, so he must hurry against time if he is to save an already terrified population from succumbing to similar fates.

Can he decipher this perplexing psychosis before the killer administers any more fatal incisions?

Reparation is the third book of Lee Maguire’s Broken Minds psychological thriller series and will leave readers breathless with its unforgettable characters, spine-tingling plot twists and shocking revelations. If you are looking for a taut crime drama then you won’t be disappointed!

Grab your copy of Reparation now and explore a homicidal mind before it’s too late!

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Orc Wars

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Bigger, stronger, and faster than men, orcs united last winter to exterminate humanity with huge armies of direwolves. No man stops the slaughter, so a precocious princess sets aside her throne to ally the kingdoms of men, elf, dwarf, trolls, and giants. Soaring on her eagle, she must defeat not just orc armies, but traitors in her mist. Orcs are exterminating humanity and the biggest thing standing in their way is a little girl with deadly skills.

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Death in Enmity by SR Garrae

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Death in Enmity by SR Garrae

The sixth novel in the Casey and Carval series.
Actions have consequences – and revenge digs two graves.
A vicious drive-by shooting kills two men and an unborn baby. Will it incite a violent gang war? Casey and her misfit team, working with the Feds, must develop a dangerous plan to catch the killers and intercept a massive drug delivery. But can Casey repress her grief and guilt over her father’s death until she finds justice for the innocent victims?
Meanwhile, Casey’s vindictive co-workers are taking revenge for her professional brilliance and unwanted starring role in Murder on Manhattan, Carval’s blockbuster photographic exhibition. Their malevolent harassment intensifies the agony of her loss. But though their vengeful actions may have dug two graves, Casey won’t allow them to bury her in either of them.
Killers or co-workers – everyone in Casey’s sights is about to discover that actions always have consequences.

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Grim Knights (The Grim Chronicles Book 1) by D.R. Martin

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Grim Knights (The Grim Chronicles Book 1) by D.R. Martin

A magical epic adventure intended for young adult fans of Narnia, Mistmantle, and Redwall, with a touch of Hogwarts meets Band of Brothers. Book one introduces Howl, the boy wizard, on a knight’s quest to save his mountain home from war. Aided by talking animals and elemental magic, he enlists brave allies from the land of men and dwarfs. Together, they find love and friendship, while facing fiery dragons and fighting heroic battles on land, sea, and air. The story is told from various animal perspectives, and presents themes of family, friendship, laughter, and shared struggles in wartime. The book pays tribute to the sacrifice of military families and includes chapter illustrations to celebrate pivotal characters and scenes. Your feedback is always vital to improve the series. All reviews are welcome and appreciated.

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Demon Found

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About Demon Found:

One sassy heroine. Three arrogant bad-boys. If she follows her heart, they’re all doomed.

Lorelei can look after herself. She always has. She mustn’t trust anyone. But what if the only way to survive Fates Academy is to break that sacred rule?

Between temperamental new powers, murder, and a heart wrenching betrayal, everything is stacking up against her. There’s no choice left. She needs people on her side, and quickly.

Nothing at Fates Academy is quite what it seems, not even Lorelei. Alongside her new powers, burn red-hot desires. Desires that could ruin everything. How can she choose between the men in her life when loving even one of them would curse them all, forever?

Demon Found is the first book in the slow-burn paranormal academy series Fates Academy. If you like spunky heroines, drool-worthy supernatural bad boys, and life or death stakes then you’ll love Zana Wilder’s sizzling story.

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Daughter of Song

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While volunteering at a women’s prison, Doug stumbles upon Panna Krom’s story. A gut-wrenching tragedy that would send him on a meandering near-impossible mission to try to correct an appalling injustice.

Panna, the 17-year-old daughter of a Cambodian refugee family, went from hiding an unwanted pregnancy to being charged in a highly-publicized murder case. That ultimately earned her an 18-year sentence.

With no legal credentials, Doug exposes a broken criminal justice system which had ignored crucial facts and discovered other surprising prison sentences for crimes identical to Panna’s.

Daughter of Song is a gripping account of a bold attempt to right an irreparable wrong while spanning dangerous treks through the Khmer Rouge-controlled jungles of Cambodia and the suffering of wasted years behind bars.

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That’s How The Cookie Crumbles: A Little-Pinch-of-Murder Cozy Mystery by Miranda Rose Barker

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That’s How The Cookie Crumbles: A Little-Pinch-of-Murder Cozy Mystery by Miranda Rose Barker

In A Town Where Everyone Knows Everyone, A Small Secret Can Lead to Fatal Consequences…

That’s How the Cookie Crumbles: A Little-Pinch-of-Murder Cozy Mystery

Lydia is the happy owner of a small but thriving bakery, and today is one of those busy days for her and Callie, her assistant. Lydia is also excited to test out a new recipe for a new tasty tart and wants to offer her friend Penelope a chance to give her feedback.

Penelope is a vigorous older lady who lives by herself on the outskirts of town. She’s a slightly eccentric, but friendly figure around the small town where they live. And she is also extremely caring about people she gets to know..

“My friendship with Penelope was fairly new, but we’d gotten pretty close over the past few months. she was just fun and easy to talk to, and our dogs got along marvelously.

I grabbed the tart and opened the door for my dog Pyrus. “Come on, boy!” he jumped from his seat and followed me to the front door. I knocked, waiting for Penelope to answer.

After a few seconds and no answer, I knocked again, but I got the same response.

I looked down at Pyrus who seemed just as confused as I was…”

Lydia wasn’t prepared for the events that would unfold that day.

Could they solve the puzzle before it’s too late? What will become of Penelope’s canine pal Clover?

This is the latest book from Miranda Rose Barker in the engaging Little-Pinch-of-Murder Cozy Mystery series. If you are a fan of bakery cozy mysteries about intrepid women who bake by day and turn into amateur sleuths the rest of the time, this story will grab your interest from start-to-finish.

Come join Lydia and her loyal dog Pyrus on this journey!

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Once Upon A Subway

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About Once Upon A Subway:

“Once Upon A Subway” lays bare the heartache of loving the broken. Former sweethearts Harper and Wyatt, now on separate paths, reunite on a subway ride, almost two years after their fiery relationship crumbled.

The past and present blur as Harper and Wyatt relive their passionate, yet stormy, love story, overshadowed by Wyatt’s unresolved demons and battle with alcoholism. Sparks fly, old love flares, and two souls battle with their lingering feelings for one another.

This intense romantic drama explores love, loss, and the healing power within, resonating with anyone who’s ever loved someone deeply scarred.

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Before I Wake by Mary Ellen Johnson

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About Before I Wake by Mary Ellen Johnson:

Historical novelist Magdalena Moore is haunted by the black-haired, black-eyed knight she first encountered during a past life regression. Across a lifetime, Magdalena searches for the truth about Ranulf Navarre and his wife, the meek, complaint Lady Jane.
At Tintagel Castle, Magdalena is miraculously transported to thirteenth-century England, where she is Lady Jane, and Lord Navarre is her husband. But Ranulf is not the man of her imagination.
Why is Ranulf so cold and Janey so erratic? What secrets are they hiding? When England plunges into civil war, Ranulf backs the wrong side. Knowing he is destined to die in battle, Magdalena tries desperately to cheat fate, save Ranulf, and finally find happiness. But when her secrets are laid bare—or more specifically Lady Jane’s secrets—Magdalena fears Ranulf can never forgive her. And if he cannot, will they be forced to replay their doomed love yet again?

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For the Love of Brigid

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About For the Love of Brigid:

Discover an ancient legend, powerful magic, and heartwarming romance in the gentle hills of western Ireland.

Tongue-tied around men, the only place shy librarian Brigid Cleary finds love is in the books she reads. Certainly not in the novel she’s writing—as appealing as a dusty desert. Then a famous mystery writer enters her life to research an Irish legend related to her family. As their easy conversation grows, Brigid develops feelings. There’s just one large problem—he’s engaged.

With two failed books behind him, Andrew Connally is desperate for success. The Irish legend has to pull him through. When Brigid invites him to Ireland for a family celebration, in exchange for his help with writing, he jumps at the chance. But surprises emerge in this enchanted land. The flames of attraction climb, and the legend pulls them both on a powerful journey.

As the secrets of the legend come to light, Brigid and Andrew discover an unexpected path to love and the dreams they both desire.

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The Ericksen Connection

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The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, a former Navy SEAL Team-Six officer, resigns his commission the week after he left Afghanistan. Over the next several years, he worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD. Ericksen has been executive vice president of EyeD4 Systems in Wilsonville, Oregon, for the past three years.
In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist aided by Russian arms dealers who desperately needs a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems, to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on cities in Nevada and Texas.
When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him with Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?

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American Blasphemer by John Matthew Gillen

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About American Blasphemer by John Matthew Gillen:

Would you dance with the Devil in New York City?
Even if she wanted to kill you?

A wild, intimate, literary novel written in the tradition of Denis Johnson, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter S. Thompson, each chapter of American Blasphemer delivers new characters and unforgettable experiences – a knife fight with a sex addict, a psychedelic family Christmas, a Cathedral burning in Manhattan, a midnight visit to Elvis’s grave, and more.

This debaucherous but heartfelt tale culminates in a showdown with a tattooed witch who tries to get the writer to join her coven after meeting him at a rock concert in Times Square.

★★★★★ “Love this new book. Refreshing to read, long on the memory. Images that stick with you. Emotion that cuts through. Fabulous.” -CharlieGo, reviewer.

★★★★★ “The writing is excellent. Vivid. Wild. Honest. Gillen could write the user manual for a printer and make it hard to put down.” -Twitchard, reviewer.

★★★★★ “Incredible plot. Well written. Original, yet relatable. This is my new favorite book.” -Cody DeWees, reviewer.

★★★★★ “If I were still teaching lit, I would add this book to the optional reading list.” -Kindle Reviewer

★★★★★ “This unabashedly honest romp with heartbreak will satisfy readers who are looking for a story of self-discovery under psychedelic circumstances…This delightfully lecherous debut is a masterful exercise in debauchery, understanding religious interpretations, and coping with heartbreak.” – BookLife Review

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Struggling with God & Origins: A Personal Story by Denis Lamoureux

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Struggling with God & Origins: A Personal Story by Denis Lamoureux

This is a story about struggling with God. As a freshman college student, Denis Lamoureux lost his boyhood Christian faith because of evolution. With no spiritual foundation, he made medical school his idol and eventually became an immoral atheist. Yet by God’s grace, and in an answer to his mother’s prayers, Denis read the Gospel of John and fell in love with the Prince of Peace while serving in the military as a United Nations peacekeeper on the island of Cyprus.

This is also a story about struggling with origins. Like most evangelical Christians, Lamoureux was a stanch young earth creationist. But the Lord had a plan for his life and led him to complete a PhD in theology and a PhD in biology. To his surprise, Lamoureux discovered that the Creator evolved intelligently designed living creatures that declare the glory of God. Through miraculous signs and wonders, the Lord Jesus called Dr. Lamoureux to be a college professor and to proclaim a peaceful relationship between his evangelical Christian faith and the modern evolutionary sciences.

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Grayer than Grey by Bob Keaton

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Grayer than Grey by Bob Keaton

Haunted by his past and his need to control his demons, Scott never lets anyone get close. He’s never been in love or even spent the night with a girl after having sex. Then he meets Abby, and it’s like she casts a spell over him. A spell he can’t break, and maybe doesn’t want to. To buy time to decide, he takes a job in another state as an entertainment writer for a newspaper. Despite the excitement of interviewing celebrities and jetting off to New York and Hollywood, he can’t stop thinking about Abby. Can he conquer his demons and have a successful relationship with Abby?

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Puma’s Pride by K.L. Barstow

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Puma’s Pride by K.L. Barstow

Puma

You know what you get when you play ball professionally? Everything. Money. Women. Fame. Know what you get after a stupid mistake destroys your career? For me, I became the President of the Demon Dawgs Las Vegas Chapter. Which means I now have even more money, more women and a whole lot of infamy. So what happens when the woman you want only sees you as a player? Well, you try to prove to her you’re not. Easier said than done when a woman from your past shows up with your child in tow. A child you knew nothing about.

Alisa

Puma can have anyone he wants. For some reason, he seems to think he wants me. But I have too many reasons not to go there. Foremost is my little girl, Elina. She doesn’t need the heartbreak if, and when, he tires of monogamy. But the bigger reason is the man who killed my husband. Because I know he’ll kill Puma if given the chance, and that would destroy me.

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Jigsaw Puzzle in a Vortex (A Collection of Memiors) by Aurora M. Lewis

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Jigsaw Puzzle in a Vortex (A Collection of Memiors) by Aurora M. Lewis

Jigsaw Puzzle in a Vortex is a memoir in essays and poems depicting the life thus far
of Aurora M. Lewis, covering subjects such as family, friends, sexual harassment, rape, racism,
and physical and mental health. All these pieces were written between 2008 to 2022. In telling
her truth and sharing her stories, Aurora M. Lewis’s mission is in inspiring others, regardless of
race or gender (but particularly Black women), to know they are not alone as they struggle
through the complexities, tragedies, and joys of life.

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