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"This cozy mystery will reel readers in for a rollicking ride..." -BookLife ReviewsHeart, humor, and just a hint of homicide. Welcome to Lily Rock.After a bad breakup and a string of dead-end temp jobs, Olivia Greer needs a change. So when a friend invites her to visit Lily Rock, a charming mountain town where everyone knows everyone—and the most influential public servant is a labradoodle—she packs up her car and heads for higher ground.Olivia’s getaway turns chaotic fast after she’s...

The Battle of Adrianople is over. Emperor Valens is dead. With Emperor Theodosius now ruling the East, the Roman Empire teeters on the edge of collapse. As rebellion spreads across its provinces, a ruthless decree orders the hunt and extermination of every barbarian living within Rome's borders. Returning from war with a hand pierced by a Roman spear tipped in gold, Ahediel seeks refuge in a secluded mountain settlement, where he is nursed back to health by Dalia the Healer....

DAUGHTER DAYS spans Julia Wendell’s entire career as a poet writing poems to and about her daughter. Poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X. With this scope, forty years of writing poems for her daughter are telescoped in this compilation of new and selected poems.

Make Everyday Meals Simpler While Managing Both Diabetes and Kidney Concerns When you’re living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease, deciding what to eat can feel confusing—especially when recommendations for blood sugar, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, carbohydrates, and protein seem to compete with one another. Renal Diabetic Diet Cookbook for Seniors brings these considerations together in one practical, senior-friendly guide. Created for older adults, caregivers, and families, this cookbook offers 110 approachable recipes made with familiar ingredients and clear, easy-to-follow instructions....

'A muscular, suspenseful crime thriller about consequence and the long shadow of obligation.' BestThrillers.comMichael Kramer, an eighteen-year-old talented martial artist, is blamed for the accidental death of his best friend James Basset.Sentenced to five years for involuntary manslaughter, Michael is forced to navigate a prison system where race dictates every opportunity and every threat.In this harsh world, trusting someone like Ijal, a drug mogul from a different background, is a risk. Yet when Ijal intervenes to stop a violent attack,...

Every rule says hands off my curvy little office manager. Until her manuscript lands in my inbox… And I read every filthy fantasy she's ever had. About me. She thinks I called her in to fire her. She has no idea what I really want. Because behind these designer suits and this billion-dollar empire, I'm not the man she wrote. I'm worse. I run this city from the shadows. I give orders that end careers—and lives. I have no business...

Book 2 of the USA TODAY BESTSELLING Death by Chocolate Series.Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front.Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she'll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead.Suddenly everybody wants Lindsay's house. Is there oil under the basement, plans to bring the railroad through, pirate treasure...

In You Are Worthy Regardless: Reclaiming Your Value in a World That Tells You to Earn It, Janice Jensen helps you uncover the beliefs that keep you trapped in self-doubt, comparison, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the exhausting need to prove yourself. Through deeply personal stories of insecurity, grief, rejection, painful relationships, rebuilding, and growth, Janice shows you that feeling unworthy is not the same as being unworthy—and that rejection, failure, criticism, or someone else’s inability to see your value does not...

They built a cage of fear and called it salvation. Adrian Ward wrote the code to burn it down.Adrian survived a childhood defined by the terrifying, conditional dogma of religious fanatics. Retreating into the cold, reliable sanctuary of mathematics and computer science, the MIT prodigy has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just translated the Ars Goetia—humanity’s forbidden ancient occult text. He has engineered its sacred mathematics into a sentient digital architecture known as A.V.A.Through the code, Adrian unearths a reality-shattering...

My ex cheated on me with my best friend. His father made me forget they both exist. I went to collect my things and leave the past behind. Instead, I crashed my car in a snowstorm and ended up snowed in with a man who made me feel more in one night than my ex did in two years. Then I learned his name. Anton Sokolov. My ex's father. Bratva boss. Twice my age. And not the kind of man...