History is fascinating and I love to read or watch programs about it. But sometimes it is truly brutal and traumatizing. I just read the title of an article and now I can’t stop shaking my head and feeling absolutely awful. The article was about cannibalism in the middle ages. Well… so much for having lunch!
A Girl with a Knife: Hearts and Sails Book 1
by Alina Rubin
Genre: Medical | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
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Women could not be surgeons. She did it anyway.
After the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a cruel attack by her drunken father, Ella Parker decides that dishonesty is fine when it serves her needs. At a time when wealthy young ladies do little more than embroidery, Ella escapes her luxurious but lonely life, and meets an eccentric ship surgeon who — once she impresses him with her quick-thinking and empathy — allows her to assist him during a surgery.
Compelled by Ella’s intelligence and interest in medicine, the doctor prepares her for a medical career, but there’s a catch: in early 19th century England, women are not accepted into universities. To fulfil her dream of becoming a doctor, Ella must disguise herself as a young man with aspirations of becoming a doctor. After changing her look and name, Ella finds her footing as she performs dissections, conducts experiments, and cares for patients. She also tutors Oli, a kind but struggling fellow student, but she must take caution. Even in her loneliest moment, she cannot trust anyone or make friends.
As Ella continues to excel in her studies, brilliantly saving the life of a patient, she becomes a top contender for the apprenticeship with a famed professor. Dogged by fear of discovery, she must choose between truth and lies, and distinguish between real and false friends, before her pretense is uncovered.
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Pineapple Upside Drown Cake (Apple Orchard Cozy Mystery Book 18)
by Chelsea Thomas
Genre: Mystery
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The smell of a fire burning in the hearth; a red-faced child laughing in line at the coffee shop; two old friends gabbing as they chop apples for a homemade pie.
Pine Grove, NY is the kind of place city people go on vacation and decide to move to after three perfect days meeting friendly people, eating great food and relaxing in the quiet of nature.
But murder complicates matters.
And when a high-profile county employee turns up dead in the town’s pristine little pond, it’s up to local sleuths Teeny, Miss May and Chelsea to solve the crime. Teeny is a chihuahua in the body of a woman. Miss May is a retired prosecutor with a love for justice. And Chelsea is doing her best to keep up, get her life back on track, and maintain the happy in America’s happiest little town.
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Earth Last Sanctuary Box Set
by Christian Kallias
Genre: Science Fiction
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** NOW INCLUDES: Wings of Destiny, Way of the Warrior, Damocles Fall, Into The Abyss & Course Correction (shorter stories) **
I am Fury. Evil has followed me to Earth. I shall Protect this World until my Dying Breath.
When the Obsidian Empire obliterates the Star Alliance with the help of the Zarlacks, an old evil race long thought extinct, the universe is set ablaze.
The last survivors are forced to make a blind jump beyond the outer reach of the charted universe, to a world teeming with life: Earth.
The fleet’s arrival inadvertently alerts the enemies to the presence of sentient life in that part of space, resulting in a swift and devastating invasion of the blue marble. Under the guidance of the Olympian goddess of Love, Aphroditis, Lieutenant Chase Athanatos learns of his origins and must race against time in a daring attempt to save Earth, their Last Sanctuary.
With Earth now thrown at the center of the conflict, the newly formed Earth Alliance struggles to keep the enemy at bay. Desperately outnumbered, Chase and his friends must wage one battle after another while seeking new allies to survive. When it becomes clear that his Fury powers are awakening in him, Chase must face his inner demons and learn to control them or he could very well destroy the universe he has sworn to protect.
Can his Fury heritage and unwavering determination hold the key to change the course of everyone’s destiny?
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Texas Twosome (Romance Across State Lines Book 1)
by Debbie White
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Big city meets country in this opposites-attract sweet romance.
When Rebecca Parsons’s new assignment brings her to Steam, Texas, to cover the anniversary of an unsolved missing person’s story, she’s more than up to the task. What she wasn’t expecting was the handsome man in a uniform to occupy her mind so much, making it difficult to remember why she was there in the first place.
Kyle is carrying on the family tradition of law enforcement as the local sheriff. When he’s asked to show the reporter around, he’s happy to do it. They don’t get many out-of-town visitors, and something about this big-city girl intrigues him.
An unlikely pair, Becca and Kyle find themselves enthralled in a slow-burning connection neither of them could have predicted in a million years.
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Acacia: Secrets of an African Painting
by Paul Bondsfield
Genre: Historical Fiction
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All families have secrets, but some secrets are deadly. In this adventurous treasure hunt, two families’ secrets collide across generations and continents.
One family is from the Matabele people defending their very existence and the other from the colonial ‘intruders’ intent on domination of a wild land.
Rumours of a great treasure of diamonds, buried deep in the African bush has swirled around the Braughton clan for generations and an old painting holds clues to these secrets no one understands… although many have tried.
Loves, courage and loyalties are tested across a century of intrigue but James and Tara Braughton decide to solve the family riddle by travelling to southern Africa at a time of political change.
Clues left them by Great Aunt Nellie who recently died point them in the direction of the treasure. But they discover more secrets on their journey from comfortable southern England to an untamed and unpredictable southern Africa, where the world of Mlimo, the Matabele spiritual leader still reigns for some.
James & Tara are drawn into a dangerous chase, pitted against a proud enemy they neither know of nor comprehend.
They soon discover disturbing truths that could either change lives – or end them.
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The Tools of the Ghost: An Urban Fantasy Novel – Book One: In the Path of the Ghost
by Hemant Nayak
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Action & Adventure
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In a world where monstrous threats loom, the only defense is to bring your own monster.
FBI Special Agent Kiran Patel finds herself thrust into a nightmarish whirlpool when eleven children disappear in the boldest kidnapping in US history. The quest to find the kids leaves her partner and best friend in a body bag and Kiran without an ally in sight.
Kiran quickly realizes that the antagonist she faces isn’t your run-of-the-mill criminal. This diabolical puppeteer is a force far darker, far more sinister. Agent Patel’s lone ace? An elusive phantom known as the Ghost.. But there are two things she must never do: Never make him a promise, and don’t trust him for a second.
Heaven rejected him. Hell fears him. His crime is the only one God will never forgive. Yet as the sands of time trickle down and the lives of eleven children hang by a perilous thread, Kiran must fight fire with fire and unleash the Ghost.
Immerse yourself in this riveting urban fantasy saga that tackles deeply profound themes of justice, redemption, faith, and the darkness in the human soul. Packed with high-octane action and larger-than-life characters, The Tools of the Ghost is a tour de force certain to satiate of the Dresden Files and Rivers of London.
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