I am always highly motivated with a brilliant idea when my body is out of commission. I’m not sure if it was the shot I got yesterday or the fact that I scrubbed every inch of flooring in my house, but my body is telling me I won’t get much further than the couch. This is quite disappointing because there are quite a few things I want to get done today. Even the back of my left knee is telling me not to move. MY KNEE? I didn’t even know I had a back to my knee. I am super restless which is making everything ache even more, but I can’t help it. One good thing coming out of this is hubby is giving me lots of sympathy. This could translate into a nice sandwich. I love a good sandwich… WITH CHIPS!!!
Shield-Maiden: Winternights Gambit: A Shadows of Valhalla Prequel (The Shadows of Valhalla)
by Melanie Karsak
Genre: Fantasy | Historical Fiction
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An heir to ashes.
A princess without a throne.
Ervie, the daughter of the warrior-shaman Jarl Mjord and the völva Lady Blomma, was born to rule two jarldoms and wield a magical bloodline reaching to Asgard itself. But the Norns have not been kind. Her father dead, now all she has is a famous name and a lingering sense of what might have been. But this Winternights blót, the ?sir will conspire to set the Reindeer Princess on her path toward destiny.
Fans of Viking tales will relish The Shadows of Valhalla series. This sweeping Viking historical fantasy retells the story of the second heroine named Hervor — called Ervie by those who know her well — the inspiring shield-maiden from the Norse Hervarar Saga.
Readers of the Road to Valhalla series will love this bridge prequel novella between Hervor’s tale in the Road to Valhalla series and that of the shield-maiden Ervie.
*Please note: Winternights Gambit is a 13k word novella prequel to the Shadows of Valhalla series.
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Healing Hearts (The O’Connors Book 2)
by Jax Burrows
Genre: Medical
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A small town family romance
Two people trying to escape from their past.
A young boy who needs a mother.
Can the attraction neither are able to ignore, become the love they both so desperately need?
Dr Zoe Angelos moves to Leytonsfield to take up the post of GP in Dr Dan O’Connor’s medical practice. She left Manchester for a new life in the quiet Cheshire town to escape painful memories. Zoe quickly realises that some memories are not so easy to leave behind. Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Riordan O’Connor, is dedicated to his work and his nine year old son, Tom. He has no time for romantic love. Until, that is, he meets his father’s new locum GP. Can Riordan and Zoe help each other to shake off the tenacious grip of the past, and give love a chance?
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Death No Stranger: A British detective crime thriller (A Holt and Fiske Crime Thriller Book 1)
by Regan Barry
Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery | Literature & Fiction
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Terror stalks the quiet streets of Cambridge.
When a family solicitor is viciously stabbed to death in his own home, the respectable citizens of Cambridge are shocked to the core. Crimes of this brutality are unheard of in the sleepy university town.
For DI Shauna Holt, it’s as though she brought trouble with her. Newly transferred from London’s Metropolitan Police Service, the burnt-out, jaded detective was hoping for a quieter life, but her experience makes her the ideal candidate to lead the investigation.
Partnered with a cocky young detective sergeant, her first task is to find the victim’s missing spouse. What she encounters is a prickly middle-aged psychiatrist, who is far too personally invested, and her adult daughter with a troubled history.
The mystery deepens and tensions rise as the three women’s lives intertwine. The closer Shauna gets to the killer the more her past rears its ugly head, until solving the case becomes a matter of survival.
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Fate of Dragons: Dragons Rising Book One: An Epic Fantasy
by Alisha Klapheke
Genre: Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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Dragons Rising is an epic fantasy series with a slow-burn romance that will thrill fans of Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass and Elise Kova’s Air Awakens!
The world will drown beneath the waves… only the last mage can stop it.
Vahly, the last mage, is the world’s biggest disappointment. Raised by the dragons, she was born to become the magical Earth Queen, the only one who can stop the Sea Queen’s mad plan to drown everything in existence.
But there’s one problem: Vahly possesses no magic whatsoever.
The oceans begin to rise, limiting the dragons’ hunting grounds and fouling their water supply, endangering their very home. Vahly can’t let the dragons she calls family die under the Sea Queen’s magic, so as a last hope, she journeys to a legendary arcane library in search of answers.
When she discovers an ancient scroll about a ritual conducted deep in the homeland of the elves, she gathers her dragon allies to find the king of that great, forest-dwelling race.
Before she reaches that kingdom, she finds a handsome elven royal cloaked in dark magic, twisted and powerful. Arcturus. His memory has holes he can’t explain, and when they learn his king is in league with the Sea Queen, Vahly and Arcturus must band together to defeat the elven king and to gain access to the secrets of Vahly’s unique magic before the ocean swallows the dragons’ homeland.
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Farm Girl Country Cooking: Hearty Meals for the Active Family
by Karen Jones Gowen
Genre: Cookbooks, Food & Wine
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Although preparing regular family meals can be difficult, it is worth every effort. Dinner provides an opportunity to gather and refresh while spending time together around the table enjoying a meal.
Karen Jones Gowen has collected and tested the book’s 100 recipes of main dishes, sides and desserts from years of experience cooking for a large family. Whether you’re feeding a family on a budget or need ideas on menu planning, this cookbook is the perfect companion for the busy, working cook.
Hearty home-cooking using basic ingredients, plenty of fresh vegetables (and don’t forget the bacon) you will return to these recipes again and again when planning dinners for your family or entertaining for company.
Note to Kindle readers: The ebook version contains links between recipes, to assist you in finding the sides that go with each main dish. It does not, however, contain the full color photographs that are in the print version.
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Out of the Bronx: A Memoir
by Irene Sardanis
Genre: Parenting & Relationships
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Irene Sardanis was born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s in which fear and peril hovered. Her mother had come to New York for an arranged marriage. Her father drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women — and then, when Irene was eleven, abandoned her family altogether. Faced with their mother’s violent outbursts in the wake of this betrayal, Irene’s older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, hostage to her mother’s rage and despair. When she finally escaped her mother as a young adult, she married a neighbor, also Greek, who controlled and dominated her just like her mother always had.
But Irene wasn’t ready to let her story end there. With therapy, she eventually found the courage to leave her husband and pursue her own dreams. Out of the Bronx is her story of coming to terms with the mother and past that terrified and paralyzed her for far too long — and of how she went on to create a new life free of those fears.
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Murder in the Maple: A Candle Shop Cozy Mystery (Wicked Wick Mysteries #2)
by Elizabeth Thomas, Leslie Thwaits, Melrose McFadden
Genre: Mystery
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A sledgehammer, a corpse, and a maple-scented mystery… Renovations at the old Fall Haven Maple Factory are right on target until an overenthusiastic giant dog reveals a secret long hidden in the historic walls: a body!
The local sheriff is too busy investigating a string of fires to be of much help on this one. As the fires pop up closer and closer to the center of town, Fall Haven residents become more spooked. So amateur sleuths Leigh Hill and Paloma Finch step out of their comfort zone at the Wicked Wick candle shop and into the sticky situation. With their eclectic team of helpers, they must dig into the factory’s not-so-perfect past to determine who the victim was and who did the dirty deed, before the old maple factory or their beloved candle shop go up in smoke.
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