HOW TO BE A TEXAN: THE MANUAL by Andrea Valdez Illustrated by Abi Daniel Genre: Texas Customs / Social Life / Humor Publisher: University of Texas Press Date of Publication: May 3, 2016 # of pages: 208, 58 B&W Illustrations Scroll down for Giveaway! Â There are certain things every Texan should know how […]
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Synopsis Actress Veronica Walsh receives an unwelcome present when she returns to her Adirondack hometown after her soap opera’s cancellation. Hours after arriving, Veronica’s life imitates art when she finds her neighbor’s body. She assumes the role of sleuth, fingering suspects in the powerful businesswoman’s death— the retail tenant threatened with eviction, the mall developer […]
Title: Restless Author: Michelle Bellon Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 204 Genre: Contemporary Romance Synopsis You grow up. You get married. You have a family. At least, that’s what Malea Winters believes she’s supposed to do. So why is it that every time she comes close to finding that happily ever after, she runs? When she […]
Passion, Poison, & Puppy Dogs A Danger Cove Pet Sitter Mystery Sally S. Smith & Jean Steffens Gemma Halliday Publishing ISBN: 9781943587469 Synopsis —In this dog eat dog world, it’s people you have to keep your eye on. When Lizzie Jones, pet sitter extraordinaire, is asked to watch over her best friend’s two spoiled dogs at […]
VIOLATED (BRANDON FISHER FBI SERIES) by Carolyn Arnold Published by: Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc. ISBN (e-book): 978-1-988064-71-0 ISBN (print): 978-1-988064-70-3 Synopsis Sometimes the past should stay there… The murder is one of the most heinous FBI agent and profiler Brandon Fisher has ever seen. But that’s not why he and two members of the […]
Title: NOT QUITE SO STORIES Author: David S. Atkinson Publisher: Literary Wanderlus LLC Pages: 166 Genre: Absurdist Literary Fiction Synopsis The center of Not Quite So Stories is the idea that life is inherently absurd and all people can do is figure out how they will live in the face of that fact. The […]
Title: Rivals of Fortune & The Impetuous Heiress Author: Jane Ashford Pubdate: May 3rd, 2016 ISBN: 9781492631514 Two classic Regency romances from beloved bestselling author Jane Ashford RIVALS OF FORTUNE — Joanna Rowntree thought she would die of a broken heart when her one true love married another—until not one but two fascinating newcomers appear […]
Synopsis Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. […]
Title: Outlaw Cowboy Author: Nicole Helm Series: Big Sky Cowboys, #2 Pubdate: May 3rd, 2016 ISBN: 9781492621270 Synopsis BIG SKY TROUBLE Ever since his father’s accident, Caleb Shaw vowed he’d mend his wild ways, and he means to keep his word. He’s a changed man. A better man. And he knows he should want absolutely […]
Title: The Last Maharajan Author: Susan Wingate Publisher: Roberts Press Pages: 152 Genre: Romantic Thriller/Women’s Fiction Synopsis With her mother dying and her marriage falling apart, Euly Winger returns to her birth place in order to uncover a dark secret about her parent’s divorce. Something that has haunted their family since Euly was a young […]