I just can’t cook. People try to give me simple recipes, and I always make the ugly versions of them. There are a few dishes I can make pretty darn well, but those take a few hours. I don’t usually have a few hours to cook, so I make those dishes only a few times a year. With my oldest basset playing football now five days a week, and hubby as the assistant coach, I need to have dinner ready for them by the time they get home at 8pm. Horrible time to eat dinner, and a horrible time to eat a horrible dinner. Hubby decided to help by ordering one of the subscription meal services where you get all the ingredients for five meals along with simple recipes to follow. Last night I tried to make the first dish, and it sounded wonderful! Pesto Burgers and Cottage fries. Easy enough, right? No…not for me. I have never in my life made a burger. The directions said to cook the burger for three minutes on each side. I did that. But it looked raw, so I cooked it for an additional 20 minutes on each side. After the 40 total minutes, I still wasn’t sure it was cooked, so I left it in the skillet, covered, with the heat turned off. Turns out I wasn’t supposed to use ALL the ground beef they sent in the package. Oh.. that makes sense. Did I mention that I also wasn’t a good judge of portions?
Framed: A Charlie Hardwick Thriller (Hardwick #1)
by Tom Meitner
Genre: Mystery | Thrillers
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He sends killers to prison. Not too long ago, he was one of them.
Charlie Hardwick just got out of prison for murdering his partner – because he never did it. With a new lease on life, Charlie could do whatever he wanted again. But when offered a multimillion-dollar settlement, he turned it down… to return to the police force.
Now a detective, Charlie solves murders every day – from sadistic serial killers taunting the police with photographs to local politicians sacrificed for their own rhetoric. Yet he’s obsessed with his partner’s death. Who really did it? Who framed him for it? And why?
Caught between his new duties as a homicide detective and his urge to dive into the conspiracy that cost him 16 years of his life, Charlie will be forced to go behind the backs of his superiors – and his new partner – if he wants to figure out how he wound up in jail in the first place.
Will Charlie be able to solve other murders and unravel his own conspiracy at the same time? Or will his illegal investigation be uncovered and cost him his job?
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The Ones Who Got Away
by Roni Loren
Genre: Romance
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It’s been twelve years since tragedy struck the senior class of Long Acre High School. Only a few students survived that fateful night — a group the media dubbed The Ones Who Got Away.
Liv Arias thought she’d never return to Long Acre — until a documentary brings her and the other survivors back home. Suddenly her old flame, Finn Dorsey, is closer than ever, and their attraction is still white-hot. When a searing kiss reignites their passion, Liv realizes this rough-around-the-edges cop might be exactly what she needs…
Liv’s words cut off as Finn got closer. The man approaching was nothing like the boy she’d known. The bulky football muscles had streamlined into a harder, leaner package and the look in his deep green eyes held no trace of boyish innocence.
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The Watanabe Name
by Sakura Nobeyama
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Sagas | Mystery
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“… flawlessly well-written mystery with a captivating plot that offers a dark perspective on family unity.” -IndieReader
Japanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the secrets surrounding his father’s murder for many years. When a detective calls in 2002 hoping to solve the case with new information, Kenji takes immediate action to keep the truth from becoming public.
In 1967, Kenji’s father, a former general in the Imperial Japanese Army, had more than his fair share of enemies. When a burglar stole his war sword and left a threatening note, it became clear that someone held a nasty grudge. And when the general was found murdered with Kenji holding the same sword over his dead body, Kenji became the prime suspect.
Kenji learned who killed his father and knew why, but no one was ever arrested. In 2002, the statute of limitations has already run out. No charges can be brought regardless of the new evidence. Yet, Kenji would rather die than reveal the secret.
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The Orb of Chaos Vol.1: No Rest for the Wicked
by M. Ray Allen
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Fantasy | Action & Adventure
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Soliere Forrester has a plan, and that plan is to get rich… he just doesn’t know how he’s going to do that just yet. His latest scheme involves him and his best friend, Oather, venturing down into the dangerous ruins of Tyric Nor; where it is said there are riches beyond your dreams and death around every corner. His plan gets derailed when he bumps into an old friend, Serieve, who manages to get them swept away through a magic portal to another realm. Suddenly, they are caught up in the middle of plot by the evil King Nicholas to assemble an ancient unholy artifact, The Orb of Chaos, that will enable him to destroy the world.
Now, they must work with the other unfortunate souls who have been stranded there –an eccentric old wizard, an elf, a priest and a woman named Andrea–to stop Nicholas before he destroys everything they hold dear.
Sol knew he should have stayed in bed that morning, but alas, there’s just No Rest for the Wicked.
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Less Beaten Paths of America: Unique Town Names
by David C Kravetz
Genre: Travel
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Have you ever wondered how places like Intercourse, Pennsylvania or Hell, Michigan got their names? So did David Kravetz. As he traveled across America’s back roads, David visited these strangely named places, like Uncertain, Success, Nice, Santa Claus and Boring to present a firsthand look at dozens of small towns with unique and often funny names.
While some travel books may mention these towns, the authors rarely, if ever visited them. That’s what makes “Less Beaten Paths of America” more than just a travelogue. David has been to all of the places in this book, talked with the residents, ate the food, and writes of these places with the affection of a devoted family member, keeping one eye on the road, and the other on the details that make us unique.
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