It is that time. The time of year I take over the kitchen for two solid days baking Christmas cookies. I bake the same ones every year. The same cookies my mother baked when I was growing up, and would pass out to friends and family. I could make it so much easier on myself and make only one kind of cookie, and my friends would be fine with that. But no, I make it harder than it needs to be and bake about 5 or 6 different kinds. I am still not finished with my coffee, so I can’t tell you exactly how many different kinds. Even though it’s a lot of work, I just couldn’t choose one cookie to bake. They are all important to me… and quite tasty. Plus the variety looks so cute and festive on the plate. I usually save the baking for the weekend, but I think this year I will bake on Thursday and Friday, so when we pass them out I can enjoy the short visit with my friends and not feel rushed to get back home. It seems I am out of sugar. I gave it all to my sweet bees.
Yukon Yuletide (River’s End Ranch Book 34)
by Caroline Lee
Genre: Romance | Literature & Fiction | Holidays
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This year, Christmas is coming by dog sled!
Nine months ago, Mack Holmes’ dreams of another Iditarod win–and a legacy which would insure his kennels’ success–drowned under a frozen river with half of his team. The pain of learning to walk again with a prosthetic leg was nothing compared to the weight of the guilt that’s been eating him since the accident, and he’s hidden himself in a secluded mountain cabin at River’s End Ranch.
Marybeth Weston is a catastrophic insurance adjuster with Catastrophic Anxiety, who is frighteningly close to a breakdown when she returns to her family’s ranch for a holiday break. Learning a champion musher is playing recluse in her family’s mountains, she leaps at the chance to deliver supplies to him… little realizing a blizzard would trap her in the primitive cabin with Scowly McGrinch himself.
But maybe this slower pace of life–returning to the Christmases of yesteryear–is exactly what Marybeth needs to calm her troubled soul. And maybe Mack is finally going to realize he can’t keep hiding from his future forever…
*Snort*
And maybe reindeer can fly.
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Starship Waking: Archangel Project. Book 4
by C. Gockel
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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On an icy, barren world, a starship dreams of doom… ?
Throughout the galaxy, the reclusive alien race known as The One are incapacitated by terror.
On the planet Luddeccea, wolf-human hybrid Volka harbors a terrible secret… a secret that must explain her nightmares.?
Trapped on a luxurious asteroid, pleasure ‘bot 6T9 struggles to find purpose–until he receives a message from an Unidentified Caller.
The worlds of The One, Volka, and 6T9 are about to collide.
The galaxy will be shaken to its core.
The starship is waking.
Starship Waking is a standalone adventure in the Archangel Project universe.
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Southern Peach Pie and A Dead Guy (Poppy Peters Mysteries Book 1)
by A. Gardner
Genre: Mystery | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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From USA Today bestselling author A. Gardner comes a deliciously dangerous new series…
After an injury derails Poppy Peters’ ballet career, she gathers the courage to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and attend Calle Pastry Academy in a small-town Georgia. Poppy has her work cut out for her not only fitting in with her charming (and not-so-charming ) Southern classmates but also proving her worth to her teachers after her first publicly humiliating attempt a making the school’s famous peach pie. But Poppy’s pastry problems go from bad to worse when she’s suddenly accused of stealing expensive black truffles, and her attempt to clear her name goes awry… resulting in her finding a dead body instead! If Poppy’s going to survive this culinary experience, she’ll need to find the missing truffles and track down a killer, all while honing her baking skills to compete in the school’s dessert competition for a coveted pastry internship in Paris. Can Poppy prove she’s one tough cookie? Or is her life about to crumble?
**Recipes Included**
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The Beginning: A hilarious coming-of-age satire (Jessica Christ Book 1)
by H. Claire Taylor
Genre: Humor & Satire | Literature & Fiction | Humor & Entertainment
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A reluctant messiah. A power-hungry preacher. The hilarious battle for hearts and minds is only beginning… Jessica McCloud knows firsthand that it’s impossible to fit in when you’re God’s only begotten daughter. While the girl possesses the power to smite and a direct line to the Almighty, she’d give it all up for a few more friends… or a reliable set of God-proof earplugs.
Misunderstood and socially outcast, the messiah-in-the-making forms a bond with the only other person who knows her Father personally: a charismatic preacher who played heavenly messenger during her nativity. But the more time she spends with him, the less about his past adds up. And why does he always grill her with questions about feral pigs?After a close shave with a pervy demon, a soul-crushing betrayal, and a ritualistic public shaming, she suspects she’s heading for the same grisly finale as her half-brother two millennia before. Is Jessica’s eternal fate sealed or can a little teen rebellion forge a new destiny?The Beginning is the first book in the Jessica Christ series of hilarious satire novels. If you can appreciate female humor and enjoy a touch of blasphemy, unforgettable characters, and subversive smackdowns of polite society, then you’ll love H. Claire Taylor’s fresh take on feminism, religion, and politics.Buy The Beginning to have your comedy prayers answered today!
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More Than a Sex Surrogate: A Unique Memoir About Intimacy, Secrets and The Way We Love
by Seraphina Arden
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting
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A quick glimpse into the therapy room of a professional surrogate partner
Lilly, a woman in her late forties, lives a double life. In one of them, known to everyone, she teaches design in high school and leads an ordinary life, raising her two children. In the other one, hidden from people’s eyes, she is a professional surrogate who helps men solve their sexual problems.
For the first time, she shares her insights on this complicated, thorough and lengthy therapeutic process, from the first coffee she has with her patient until she has full sexual intercourse, up to the ending of this unique relationship.
Through the personal story of David, one of the patients, she provides a rare glimpse into the various stages, presented through true stories straight from her intriguing therapy room.
Every patient has a story, and each one of them suffers from different problems, but they all have one common denominator — they are incapable of intimacy with a woman, and Lilly’s job is to help set them free.
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