I think my pumpkin spice candle is making me crave sweets all the time. I can’t stop eating cookies when I burn that silly candle. So do I stop? No..then I would have to take the trash out sooner.
The Slow Train To Rishikesh
Sharan Kumar Arunachalam
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Mystery
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With hints of Kipling and ancient Hindustan as a backdrop, The Slow Train to Rishikesh is a riveting tale of love and greed, set against the corruption of modern day India.
When Hiresh, a thirty-something investigator for the Central Bureau of Investigation is ordered to abandon his vacation in Rishikesh and go investigate a minor poisoning incident in the city of Indore, he soon finds this minor incident has blown up into a full scale catastrophe, with shoddily run factories, hundreds of people dead from pesticide poisoning and corporate malfeasance everywhere he turns. As Hiresh has seen hundreds of times before, unchecked capitalism and systematic payoffs have combined with greed and negligence to place profits above the well-being of everyday citizens. Worse still, Hiresh’s investigation quickly leads him to a shocking conclusion. This poisoning incident appears to have been the result of a deliberate act. But why? And by whom? Hinted at but never fully revealed until later in the story, Hiresh has a dark secret in his past, a history that inexorably leads him back to just this sort of industrial accident. It is on the journey from Rishikesh to New Delhi, and from New Delhi to Indore that Hiresh finds himself in the company of an idealistic young Brit named Chelsea, who works for Human Rights Watch and has been assigned by them to report on the same incident. Initially butting heads, these two disparate personalities from differing cultures are soon allies in an effort to thwart a cover up which leads to the very highest positions of power in India. Along the way, we meet Uday, the suave, ever smiling but duplicitous government Minister who swears his only interest is in helping Hiresh to uncover the truth, and Muktananda, a charlatan religious leader who is forever championing the interests of the downtrodden, when in fact he has made a fortune by investing in the very companies by which the downtrodden are oppressed. A host of other bureaucrats join in, bickering and stumbling over themselves in an effort to catch Hiresh and Chelsea before the secrets they have learned see the light of day. The Slow Train to Rishikesh is a spellbinding journey through the underbelly of Indian society, where deals are struck to save reputations, the public is deluded by a false sense of justice and the next industrial disaster is always waiting around the next corner. But this story is really about Hiresh and Chelsea, two young idealists who vow to go on fighting the good fight, even if the entrenched powers are forever trying to stack the deck against them.
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2 Months ‘Til Mrs. (2 ‘Til Series)
Heather Muzik
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Humor & Satire | Women’s Fiction
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2 Months ‘Til Mrs. is the second book in the 2 ‘Til series. Cat is at it again — overreacting, overthinking, and overindulging… The New Year is here and for Catherine Hemmings that means one thing — the year she met Joel “Fynn” Trager is over. Long-distance love with her Minnesota man has had her living out of a suitcase for months, never knowing for sure what time it is on either end. Now thirty-five is breathing down her neck and she is tired of living in limbo… In just 2 short months she’ll be another year older… Can Cat make it down the aisle under the wire? It’s a race against time and the laws of wedding physics, and she is going to need all the help she can get… especially as she begins to realize that love just might be blind to reality. Is Catherine really ready to give up NYC for good? To take on a ready-made family? To say I do? Will she follow her head or her heart?
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Hidden in the Darkness (Western)
John Warren Self
Genre: Westerns
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Tom Furner drifted through southwest Texas that included range land at the beginning of the Chisholm Trail of the nineteenth century. He was hung with three cattle rustlers for guilt by association. Years after his death, Larry Parham was ruthless, and the most powerful cattleman and controlled the cattle town. However, this one night it was different. It was late at night when the body was removed and buried. None of the townspeople were watching the streets as if they expected something to happen. However, someone was watching. Larry Parham did not count on the saddle tramps and drifters that might be hidden in the darkness. Brad Gilmore was born to push herds of cattle up the Chisholm Trail to the railroad stockyards of Dodge City as an ordinary trail boss. He also grew up with the outlaw turned lawman Daniel Ashley: born into slavery, his family escaped it. The two of them befriended Texas cattleman, Larry Parham, until they learned that he was a ruthless ranch swindler.
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In the Name of Love: Stories about Revenge, Redemption, and Rebirth
Laurie Boris
Genre: Short Stories | Literary Fiction
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A lonely neighbor tries to melt a widow’s reluctant heart. Bullying brothers threaten to spoil a young girl’s Halloween. Left at the altar once, a woman takes a gamble on a second chance. These are just a few in a collection of thirty short and shorter stories about growing up, growing older, moving out, moving on, revenge, redemption, and love in all its shades of bittersweet pain and joy.
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Crepes – the “all-you-need-to-know” complete guide to making crepes
Carme Sevenster
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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To all the “cooks” out there who don’t like spending hours in the kitchen but on occasion would like to look like a pro – this is the book for you. It is not a cookbook it is a little cheat book (so to speak). This book is written for the simplistic beginner to medium level cook. It is a simple how to guide with easy ideas for those lazy Sunday mornings. The focus of the book is split 50/50 between the method of making crepes and a few delicious ideas for sweet and savory fillings. The book is filled with beautiful inspiring images. I’m not into complicated, high level recipes; if I want something like that I go to a restaurant, where I can enjoy the fruits of somebody else’s hard labor. After reading this book I want you to be able to open your fridge take out some left-over food from the evening before and do something interesting with it. I guarantee after reading this book you will be able to make crepes like a pro and hopefully your imagination will be awaken just enough so you can do something weird and wonderful and complete unique with a simple crepe. Remember, apart from soup and breakfast cereals, almost anything can be rolled up in a crepe.
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