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   Publication Date:  September 3 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   Saga/Mystery Narrators:  George Blagden Publisher:  Macmillan Audio                 Length:  9 hours 27 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis This is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective.... William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister, Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of ...

Code Red N.R. Walker Publication date: June 24th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance The brighter the spotlight, the darker the shadow. Maddox Kershaw is the main vocalist of the world’s biggest boy band. He’s at the top of every music chart, every award show, every social media platform, and every sexiest-man-alive list. He’s the bad boy, the enigma, the man everyone on the planet wants a piece of. He’s also burned out and exhausted, isolated and lonely. Not in a good headspace at the start of a tour. Roscoe Hall is Maddox’s personal manager. His job is high-flying, high-demand, high-profile, and he loves it. Maddox has consumed his entire life for the past four years. Roscoe knows him. He sees the real Maddox no one else gets to see. He’s also in love with him. When the tour and stress become too much, when the world begins to close in, Roscoe becomes Maddox’s lifeline. But as Maddox knows already, and as Roscoe is about to learn, the brighter the spotlight...

  Publication Date:  May 18, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Philosophy, security Narrators:  Sebastian Junger Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio                 Length:  3 hours 6 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily. We value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In this intricately crafted and thought-provoking book, Sebastian Junger examines the tension that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. For much of a year, Junger and three friends - a conflict photographer a...

Publication Date:  June 29, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Fiction/cozy Mystery Publisher:  Light Message Publishing                   Length:  290 pages Buy:  Paperback Synopsis When Blanche “Bang” Murninghan visits an exhibit of ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico City, she sees that all is not ancient. One of the mummies has a pink hair clip embedded in its hay-like do, and the texture of the skin is not quite right. Blanche, a part-time journalist, starts to dig for some answers and gets tangled in the mystery of the mummy at the Palacio Nacional. Her cousin and traveling companion, Haasi Hakla, aids and abets—and puts the reins on Blanche. All the while, the two eat and drink their way across the city, following one hunch after another with a cast of colorful characters that inc...

The Shadow Queen K. Rea (The Wolfrik Trilogy, #2) Publication date: July 22nd 2021 Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy A SMOLDERING COURT. A DIVIDED PEOPLE. A WARNING FROM THE GODDESS. With the Court of Shadows in ruins, Evelyn Wolfrik has one goal – to rebuild. After an encounter with the God of the Forest himself and a summons from the Court of Light, Evelyn’s future seems anything but certain. Leaving the forests, her pack, and fledgling Court behind, Evelyn travels to the white mountains of the Court of Light. Deep in the mountains, navigating not only a frigid court but also challenges and trials she never could have foreseen, she risks losing more than just her crown. Add to Goodreads / Pre-order Author Bio: K. Rea is a part-time romance writer and full-time mom. When she isn't writing or playing with her daughter, she's reading and crafting. She lives with her husband and family in Florida. Website / Goodreads / Facebook Page ...

Publication Date:  June 18, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Noir Crime Publisher:  Little Brown & Co                   Length:  385 pages Buy:  Paperback  | Kindle  Synopsis The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone. Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna returns to the podcast. Other people's problems are much better than one's own -- a sunken yacht, a murdered family, a hint of international conspiracy. But this case actual...

Publication Date:  February 20, 2018 Format:  Hardcover Genre:  Memoir Publisher:  Random House Length:  336 pages Buy:  Hardcover   |  Kindle   Synopsis Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled t...

You Are Cordially Invited Jay Hogan Publication date: June 17th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance There’s a wedding in the air at Auckland Med, but Reuben wonders if they’ll survive the stress long enough to say, ‘I do’. Cam is directing the entire operation with his combat eyeliner in place, whilst the wedding party is doing its best to ignore him. The pressure is mounting and the cracks are beginning to show. There’s a bachelor party to survive. The paparazzi to outrun. A wedding outfit to confirm. A rugby game to win. A jerk of a father to cope with. A stunning opportunity to consider. A relationship to untangle. And a shocking event that could derail everything. With the universe conspiring against them, Reuben and Cam will have to summon every scrap of belief they have in each other to make it to their vows. Goodreads / Amazon — Author Bio: I​ am a New Zealand author writing in m/m romance, and romantic suspense. I have traveled extensively and...

Publication Date:  January 12, 2021 Format:  Kindle  Genre:  Mystery Publisher:  Berkley Publishing Group Length:  302 pages Buy:  Kindle   |  Audiobook  Synopsis 1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall, a rambling manor in the isolated East Anglian fens. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming, and Beth becomes fast friends with their daughter, Nina. At times, Beth even feels like she's truly part of the family...until they ask her to help them with a harmless game—and nothing is ever the same. 2019. Sadie Langton is an actress struggling to make ends meet when she lands a well-paying gig to pretend to be a guest at a weekend party. She is sent a suitcase o...

Avenger BJ Wane (Doms of Mountain Bend, #2) Publication date: June 13th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance One year of post-doctorate research separates me from the career that will get me the heck out of Rhode Island and away from my obtrusive parents. I expected Dr. Greyson Bedford, a sexy British professor from Oxford University, to upend life on campus, but I didn’t expect him to do the same with my heart. Despite his persistence, I keep to myself, but when a migraine strikes at work and I have no one else to turn to, he gives me something unexpected: a connection I haven’t felt in years. His touch opens a conduit to my past and the accident that almost robbed me of my dreams. I swore I’d never let anything get in my way again, especially a brash heartthrob who will return to England at the end of the school year. I had a plan. Not the best laid plan, but one semester with him changes everything. Limey Bastard is a standalone story inspired by Vi Keeland and Pe...

Publication Date:  June 8, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller Narrators:  Lorna Bennett Publisher:  Dreamscape Media                 Length:  11 hours 20 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery - stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The Red Wolf, as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over 20 years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his innocence. The police have had ...

Broken Cowboy Jamie Schulz (The Montana Men, #1) Publication date: June 7th 2021 Genres: Adult, Romance, Western Two lives cross in a fateful roadside encounter. When ranch life turns deadly, will their unexpected love survive? Addie Malory is struggling to improve the rundown farm she bought. And though she knows she can’t do it alone, she won’t tolerate men who think they can just take advantage of a single woman. Worried all her hard work will amount to nothing, both her hopes and her heart lift when she hires a hunky capable ranch hand. Cade Brody’s past has left him broken. Drifting between rodeos after a shocking betrayal, he’s grateful to the pretty farm girl and her offer of a job. But after thugs vandalize the property and harass his gorgeous new boss, he puts aside his wounded heart as his protective instincts ignite. With Addie’s dream in danger under a barrage of financially damaging attacks, she wrestles with the risk of her red-hot feelings for her rugged emplo...

Publication Date:  September 5, 2017 Format:  Paperback  Genre:  Fantasy Fiction Publisher:  Schribner Length:  305 pages Buy:  Kindle   | Audiobook  Synopsis Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager. His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant confli...

Publication Date:  April 5, 2016 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Fiction Narrators:  Edoardo Ballerini Publisher:  Macmillan Audio                 Length:  9 hours 57 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city's Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects), a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time, she decides to paint it. ...

Capturing the Texas Rancher’s Heart Debra Holt (The Tremaynes of Texas, #1) Published by: Tule Publishing Publication date: June 3rd 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance She thought she’d protected her heart… After a tumultuous childhood, nurse Jamie Westmoreland craves the comfort of predictability. She loves her quiet life in a small Texas ranching town and finally feels in control until a handsome rancher becomes her newest patient. He challenges her at every turn, but Jamie is too stubborn to admit she enjoys their sparring, and that he makes her heart race. But when his charming little cowboy son starts following her around, her long-neglected heart opens. Thomas Tremayne , the eldest son of a well-respected local ranching family, is both mom and dad to his young son and has no plans to change. When a ranch injury requires an in-house expert, the nurse who called him out on his attitude is sent to help him heal. She’s even harder to resist on his ranch than she was...

In A Mirror Emily Bourne (In It Together, #1) Publication date: November 12th 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult Can a social outcast prove to her cheerleader sister she’s not the enemy and save her family? Anxiety riddled Brittany is setting her sights on popularity. She doesn’t give a crap about her sister’s desire to bond, because landing a boyfriend will fill the void in her heart. When a chance encounter with her gorgeous crush sends her sweating, the jittery voice inside her head threatens to derail whatever he found attractive about her. When soaring up the social ladder, insecurities force her blabbermouth into action. Will Brittany reveal her greatest fear to the people she needs to impress the most? That she is a total freakin loser! Emotional mess Charli can’t deal with her parents’ divorce. If it wasn’t for the support of her loving boyfriend, she would drown in loneliness. When a party launches her sister into popularity, Charli is desperate to pull...