I am so embarrassed. Today my mother in law and I are going to get pedicures. I rarely ever get one, so it’s a treat for me. The problem is my feet look like they belong to a goblin. Usually they are normal looking, but this past week I have been helping my neighbor pull shingles off the roof of his house. As you all know that is VERY dirty work. At the end of each day I was covered in black dust, and even though I was wearing tight shoes and socks, the dirt got deep into my shoes. My feet are black. I tried scrubbing them, but I still have goblin feet. I AM A MONSTER!!! I am definitely tipping extra for this project. GROSS!!!
THEN SHE WAS DEAD (Totally Gripping Psychological Thrillers)
by JANE ADAMS
Genre: Crime Fiction | Psychological Thrillers
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First he lost her. Then she was dead.
‘The discovery of the bruised and battered corpse of English policewoman Moira Grainger results in an unlikely pairing of the two men involved with her — ex-husband Colin Grainger and colleague and lover Detective Inspector John Moore — now searching for the murderer of the woman they both love… The interaction between Moira’s ex and her current lover is jaw-clenchingly realistic, and each of them is a carefully fleshed-out character, painfully believable. Dark and edgy, this is a riveting good read. RECOMMENDED.’ I Love A Mystery
Discover an electrifying crime thriller that will keep you turning the pages all night long.
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Dragons Don’t Eat Meat: A Dark & Humorous Urban Fantasy (Valkyrie Bestiary Book 1)
by Kim McDougall
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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One lost baby dragon. One fae pest controller. And a city on the brink of civil war.
Kyra Greene is a sucker for a vulnerable critter. The exiled Valkyrie turned pest controller shares her chaotic home with a banshee roommate, a pygmy kraken, and a basilisk who thinks he’s a turkey. But when she rescues a baby dragon that swallowed a dangerous artifact, she’s stuck working with a mysterious gargoyle who kissed her a year ago and then ghosted.
With a rogue fae prince after the relic stuck in the dragon’s belly, Kyra and her irritating companion venture into the magical and lawless Inbetween to find the dragon’s elders. And as attraction brews and enemies converge, she fears they might not make it out alive without triggering a supernatural civil war.
Can she reunite the lost dragon with his thunder and save her quirky family of magic creatures? Or will Montreal fall to chaos and monsters?
Dragons Don’t Eat Meat is the laugh-out-loud first book in the now complete Valkyrie Bestiary urban fantasy series. If you like feisty female leads, smart snark, found-family fantasy, and romance that’s just right, then you’ll love Kim McDougall’s action-packed adventure.
Dive into a world of magic and fantastic beasts — buy Dragons Don’t Eat Meat today and start your adventure!
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Curby
by Adrian Del Valle
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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It’s not every day that a newborn baby is stuffed inside a cardboard box, folded up and left in the gutter. Nick Santinelli steers a huge New York City street sweeper around a corner and sees the box lying just ahead. He gets out and picks it up, both surprised and shocked at what he finds inside. He brings the sleeping baby home and only blocks from his route. “Sandy!” he calls out, as soon as he enters the living room.
His girlfriend’s hair is still wet from a shower and she’s sitting on the couch drying it. “What are you doing home, Hon?”
“Oh, nothing important… just a baby I found in the street.”
She instantly stops drying her hair, holding the still pose and replaying what she just heard inside her mind, or what she thought she just heard. No, that could not have been what he said. She turns to him with a questioning look.
“What did you just say?”
Sandy, his longtime girlfriend, decides they should not report anything and raise the baby themselves. She’s dying of terminal cancer and wants this one chance to be a mother. After she passes away, Nick finds a Nanny who he believes he can trust. When the nanny steps out to buy cigarettes after leaving the now three year old to take his afternoon nap, Curby walks out of the apartment and becomes lost in the Brooklyn streets. Without a birth certificate, Nick can’t prove the boy is his. He battles the court and the assigned city caretakers from Children’s Services for custody of Curby where a surprise awaits everyone.
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The Naturalist (The Hapgoods of Bramleigh Book 1)
by Christina Dudley
Genre: Regency Romance | Literature & Fiction
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She’s hiding in plain sight. He’s disappointed his parents. Will their love grow into a tangled scandal or a beautiful blossom?
Somerset, England, 1808. Alice Hapgood is obsessed with studying flora and fauna. With upper-class standards taking a dim view of a lady dirtying her hands, the science-minded woman wears boys’ clothing to pursue her passion. And when an assistant position for a handsome member of the Royal Society crops up, she impulsively dons her disguise and risks ruin.
Joseph Tierney has no desire to join the clergy. Going against his family’s wishes to become a researcher of the natural world, he takes on a bright young man to help with his latest assignment. And while the brilliant scientist is frustrated that the locals only see him as a candidate for marriage, he grows closer and closer with his enthusiastic aide.
As the work under her charming mentor unexpectedly sparks her feminine side, Alice longs to open up to him as her true self. But Joseph suddenly finds himself caught in a jealous triangle not of his making that threatens his career, standing, and freedom.
Will this unlikely team’s greatest discovery be happily ever after?
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No Rescue for the Traitor: A Historical Western Adventure Book (Grit and Glory on the Frontier)
by Derek Levine
Genre: Western | Literature & Fiction
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Life is good for Benedict Aritza… He owns a butcher shop with his best friend, he is the town’s favorite, ladies always smile his way and he’s even put forward as a potential future mayor. His perfect little life is disrupted though when Curley, his business partner, goes missing while on a buffalo-hunting expedition. Benedict is not the kind of man to give up on his friend. He’s determined to find him and bring him home safe. There’s another problem, however; Curley’s sister is dead set on coming along to search for her brother. Benedict admired Hallie’s feisty personality, even though she’d always been out of bounds for him. Now, in close quarters as they go on the dangerous hunt together, can he resist the soft spot he’s always had for her?
Hallie lost her parents suddenly a few years back. Since then, she’s been very protective of her brother, the only family she has left. When Curley goes missing, there is no way she will let this pass without a fight. When she discovers to her horror that the vicious Pablo Javier gang is behind this, she knows there’s no time to waste and that she should act immediately. If she has to put up with Benedict for a few days in order to save her brother… so be it. Yet, Hallie has always liked Benedict, more than she’d care to admit. Can she put her pride aside and convince Benedict that she is the competent and skillful comrade that should join him on this perilous quest?
As Benedict and Hallie embark on their journey together, they’ll soon find that their quest was never what they thought it would be. What started as a rescue mission ends up becoming an escape plan to save their own lives. With shots fired, and a gang that even has corrupt sheriffs on their side, will Benedict and Hallie manage to help each other out? How will they ever manage to survive when they realize that they’re not the ones on the hunt after all, but those being hunted?
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Crime and Croissants: Book 2 of the Stranded in Provence Mysteries
by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
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Care for a Little Murder with that Sweet Roll? Jules Hooker is doing her best to adjust to the new normal of a world without electricity, electronics, cars or the chance to return home. Stranded in the charming but provincial village of Chabanel wasn’t terrible until Jules discovers Aix-en-Provence and decides that the big city lights — even when they’ve gone out in the apocalypse — are much preferable to the countryside. Of course with a big city comes big city crimes and when a fellow American is accused of murdering a popular pastry chef in Aix, Jules knows she has to help. Unfortunately tracking a dangerous killer when you don’t know the language — or the French people themselves — soon has Jules bumbling into one dangerous situation after another. All the wonderful pastries aside, will this be lights out for Jules too?
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