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Cigarette Boy and Other Stories

In her first-ever solo anthology, New York Times bestseller Rebecca Cantrell demonstrates her award-winning skill with four wonderful stories, including the prequel to her Hannah Vogel series where Ernst Vogel explores the shadowy world of Weimar-era Berlin on the cusp of the Nazi rise to power as he investigates the murder of a young cigarette boy at his cabaret.The collection also includes a journey through the wreckage of postwar Berlin in a search for hope, a fated meeting on a train to a concentration camp, and a supernatural warrior protecting a shtetl in wartime Czechoslovakia.
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Summer Holiday

BREAKFAST AT SOMMERPOOL'S by Nancy Campbell Allen:As Tessa Baker competes for the supervisor promotion at Sommerpool Department and Mercantile, she's faced with a ridiculous list of tasks to complete in order to "win" the job. Tessa would love to be the first female supervisor ever to work at the Sommerpool, but her competitor is cheating at every turn. Discouraged, Tessa agrees to let David Bellini, a family friend and Italian Conte who is new in town, help her. When she discovers that he's the new owner of Sommerpool's, but wants to evaluate the employees unobserved, Tessa has mixed feelings. She soon realizes that she's falling for David, but what chance does a working-class woman like her have with an Italian Conte? And would falling in love with the store's owner mean giving up her dreams of a groundbreaking career?HOWEVER LONG THE WAIT by Sarah M. Eden:Carina Herrick says goodbye to the man she hopes to marry, knowing their separation will be temporary....
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An Irish Girl

In 1845–49, the potato crop in Ireland failed and threw Tara O'Brien, the main character, and Ireland into terrifying fear, the crop being their main livelihood. Her mother's illness forces Tara to obtain a paying seamstress position in the north. She meets a British officer, Thomas Litchfield, who falls in love with her. She accepts his dinner invitations since she is close to starving but finally stops seeing him. He vows to love her until he dies. Her mother dies. Father Boyle, her mother's true but forbidden love, performs the burial rite. The British's actions and enmity towards the Irish peak. The famine keeps continuing another year, bringing starvation, disease, and fever. John McGuire, leader of the Irish rebellion, visits Monaghan, requesting volunteers to steal food from the British ships. He and Tara fall passionately in love and marry. The novel ends ironically with a twist concerning Tara, Thomas Litchfield, and John McGuire.
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Grandfather’s Gift - Guy Haley

When Mortarion, daemon primarch of the Death Guard Traitor Legion, awakes in a strange garden with no memory of who he is, he cannot know what delights await him in its rotting tranquility. Above all things, Papa Nurgle is a generous god. Read it becauseIt's a Horus Heresy tale involving Mortartion and Nurgle… a delicious (or maybe not so delicious) taste of things to come for the Lord of the Death Guard, perhaps?
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Love Me by Christmas

Ellie Washington lost her husband in a tragedy five years ago at Christmas. She wouldn’t have made it through her grief if not for her husband’s brother, Nick, who helped her pick up the pieces of her shattered life. And with every year, her feelings for Nick have grown. Now she realizes she might be in love with him, but that’s not fair, because Nick deserves a life that isn’t about his brother’s widow and son. Sharing his life with Ellie and her son has been the balm that soothed Nick’s soul after losing his brother. Now that friendship has turned into something deeper. Nick doesn’t want to upset the status quo, but someone has to make the first move, and it’s time they figure out if their feelings are real. Nick believes in what they have. He also believes in Christmas miracles, and he thinks they’re both long overdue for one.
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Blue Moon Saloon Box Set 2

Three gripping paranormal romances in another red-hot volume! Follow the characters you love and meet new heroes & heroines straight through to the series finale. Witness a fierce, loving bear/wolf pack emerge as a force to be reckoned with in the desert Southwest. Discover a rich world of startling revelations, ruthless enemies, and hot-blooded romances.
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Princess Dracula

All power comes at a price… Ruxandra learned everything she knows while growing up in a convent. Training to be the perfect nobleman’s wife, she relishes the prospect of a simple life. But everything changes when her father, Vlad Dracula, retrieves her on her eighteenth birthday. Securing her a marriage is the last thing he has in mind… After he performs a mysterious ritual over her, Ruxandra gains uncontrollable supernatural powers. Alone, terrified, and faced with an unknown future, she is left to forge a new life for herself. There’s only one thing she knows: if she doesn’t learn to control her unnatural instincts, she’ll destroy every last shred of her humanity. Princess Dracula is the first book in a dark fantasy horror series. If you like crisp writing, emotional gravitas, and intriguing retellings of classic tales, then you’ll love John Patrick Kennedy’s new twist on vampire lore.
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How to Marry a Billionaire

"Elise Sax will win your heart." –NYT bestselling author Jill Shalvis*Love sucks. Every time Beatrice Hammersmith falls for a guy, he breaks her heart and steals her appliances. It's no fun sleeping alone and waking up without a coffeemaker. Fed up, Beatrice hatches a plan with two other women to find true love and marry billionaires. First on their agenda is to capture the heart of hottie billionaire, Cole Stevens. Cole is handsome, brilliant, and he owns his own appliances. Operation Billionaire sends the three new friends (and one of their mothers and a passel of children) to Cole's ranch to make him fall in love with Beatrice. But their plans run into some trouble. It's not so easy to bag a billionaire. Will Beatrice find love with Cole? Will she marry the billionaire of her dreams? How to Marry a Billionaire is the first book in the hot and hilarious new trilogy by the author of the Matchmaker books.*This is a full-length novel, perfect for...
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